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Steve Horn | May 8, 2012
By Steve Horn • Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - 16:06
Ever wonder why a blooming green energy industry has faced such harsh opposition? Now, as the old adage goes, "the cat's out of the bag."
The Guardian today revealed the network of fossil-funded groups coordinating the ongoing onslaught of attacks on renewable energy, particularly wind power. A memorandum passed to The Guardian from the Checks and Balances Project details the organizations and personnel acting as ringleaders to build an astroturf echo chamber of clean energy critics.
Guardian reporter Suzanne Goldenberg writes in "Conservative thinktanks step up attacks against Obama's clean energy strategy,"
"A number of rightwing organisations, including Americans for Prosperity, which is funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, are attacking Obama for his support for solar and wind power. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which also has financial links to the Kochs, has drafted bills to overturn state laws promoting wind energy."
A confidential memo seen by The Guardian and obtained by DeSmogBlog "advises using 'subversion' to build a national movement of wind farm protesters," explained Goldenberg.
That memo was crafted by John Droz, a Senior Fellow at the American Tradition Institute (ATI).*(see update below)* ATI was the right-wing think-tank behind the lawsuit to obtain University of Virginia climatologist Michael Mann's "ClimateGate" emails.
DeSmogBlog has covered ALEC's assault on renewable energy previously.
Other gold in the memo, as relayed by Goldenberg:
- "[A] national PR campaign aimed at causing 'subversion in message of industry so that it effectively because so bad that no one wants to admit in public they are for it.'"
- "[S]etting up 'dummy businesses' to buy anti-wind billboards, and creating a 'counter-intelligence branch' to track the wind energy industry.
- "[C]alls for spending $750,000 to create an organisation with paid staff and tax-exempt status dedicated to building public opposition to state and federal government policies encouraging the wind energy industry."
The memo was authored by John Droz Jr., an ATI Senior Felllow*. Droz runs the website "Wind Power Facts" and is a climate change denier, on the record saying,
Is Global Warming a scientifically resolved matter? No. There is some very convincing evidence (and scientists) that indicate that there is such a thing as Global Warming. But there are some very qualified scientists (with good evidence) that suggest just the opposite. More importantly, statements often appearing in the media like 'the majority of scientists' believe in Global Warming, are meaningless. First of all, no legitimate survey has ever been done, and secondly, science is not about the number of people who advocate a position.
Furthermore, Droz is registered as a speaker at this year's Heartland Institute (of DeSmogBlog's "Heartland Exposed" fame) "Denial-a-Palooza" event.
"These documents show for the first time that local Nimby anti-wind groups are co-ordinating and working with national fossil-fuel funded advocacy groups to wreck the wind industry," Gabe Elsner, Checks and Balances co-director told The Guardian.
The story as a whole is well worth the read. Stay tuned for more coverage on the topic by DeSmogBlog, as well.
[UPDATE May 10: The American Tradition Institute contacted DeSmog to distance itself from the memo, stating that ATI Senior Fellow John Droz was not representing the organization officially at the Feb 1-2 meeting.
David Schnare, Director of ATI's Environmental Law Center, told DeSmog via email:
"ATI did not commission the memo at issue. ATI did not endorse the memo. ATI did not attend, sponsor or support the meeting at which the memorandum was discussed. John Droz, acting on his own behalf, is the author of the memo."]
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 14, 15, and less meat and dairy.
What you are proposing is pure state controlled communism.
In fact trying to address specific industries targets and at the same time failing to anything at all is exactly what Stephen Harper is doing in Canada. He's clearly demonstrating that this idea doesn't work.
A proper thinking Right Wing Libertarian Republican would simply apply a carbon tax.
(Hansen discusses exactly this subject.)
Then you would allow capitalist market forces solve the issue. Period.
I don't like your communist streak Rosa. I don't like it at all.
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 14, 15, and
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 14, 15, and less meat and dairy"
Ok, so if you have enough sense to advocate those measures, why the opposition to wind? Where do you get your hostility towards it from? Ive only seen one link and that was to a PR firm.
How can you support wind? The evidence of beneficial effect is elusive at best and falls far short from justifying its negative impacts.
"How can you support
"How can you support wind?"
Because it is one of the methods of mitigating CO2. More R&D will mean more and more efficiencies and more power generated.
"The evidence of beneficial effect is elusive at best"
Like what? What evidence? There are islands around the world that are currently either entirely powered from wind or are on the way. They are still connected to the grid for when when the wind doesn't blow, but they are pumping back more into the grid than they need, so they end up with a credit.
I could go on.
Sooooooo, in your mind :
a) The stories are made up and they don't in fact exist?
b) The residents don't actually get any benefit from cheaper electricty, getting dividends from being shareholders, or having energy security?
c) You have shares in fossil fuels and don't want to see them go down?
"and falls far short from justifying its negative impacts."
Like what? Maybe you could write to the residents of one of these places and find out if the negatives outweigh the positives?
Rosa is a paid shill using standard denier tactics.
Rosa can not even explain why Wind generates 1/80 or less the CO2 emissions than coal.
Its really simple Rosa. Explain what the rest of the civilized work does not understand. To be real clear, I'm saying you can't offer any evidence because you don't have any.
Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, October 2006, postnote 268, Carbon Footprint of Electricity Generation.
Are you going to argue about dead bats and raptors? OK… But please include toxic radioactive tailings ponds for which we have no for seeable cure for as a result of Coal.
Here's what I found; Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, October 2006, postnote 268, Carbon Footprint of Electricity Generation.
Source: Desmogblog (http://s.tt/1bePV)
The Tar Sands are killing Humans, pushing caribou to extinction, and for a side show, killing wolves.
How many more humans do we need to poison to death for you to think its bad?
Not an island
Your citation of a couple of very special cases — small islands with small populations where the government has committed bottomless funds to make them showcases, and which are still connected to the larger grid — rather proves my point. Most people do not live in such places. Where is the evidence of benefit of large wind installations on the general grid? And I don't mean wind's generation of a percentage of the electricity, but how much less coal or whatever is burned (since backup of wind means that fossil fuels continue to be burned even when not used to generate electricity or that they are subject extra ramping and are thus used less efficiently than if the wind were not there).
There's no logic backing you up.
In fact you are changing the subject back to to what I said about you. You insist that pollution is free then compare one technology that does not pollute to a technology that does, and that leaves toxic tailings ponds.
Do you have links to any credible sources to back what you say? Anything at all? Or are you just trying to rely on standard climate change denier tactics and never ever ever prove anything?
And why do you think Britain does not understand electricity? It has the same population as Canada (more or less). Its equivalent to the most industrious states in the US. So why wouldn't they understand electricity?
Trick question of the day: What kind of engineer do you think I am that you can some how fool?
Offer facts, figures, links. I generally do look and try to understand.
" Your citation of a couple
" Your citation of a couple of very special cases"
Which is far more than what you have provided so far. Like I said, i could go on, but lets face it, you have got nothing to argue back with, just vested opinion.
"where the government has committed bottomless funds"
Do you think the original means of energy generation came at a cost of $0?
"which are still connected to the larger grid "
Which i already stated………that it returns a credit.
"rather proves my point."
To have a point, you would need more than opinion.
"Most people do not live in such places."
They are in places more like Texas right?
"And I don't mean wind's generation of a percentage of the electricity, but how much less coal or whatever is burned"
Those sorts of simpleton statements were probably made a couple years into replacing whale oil with fossil fuel oil. "How many whales have you really saved? Its been a couple of years now and the country is not running on fossil fuels and whales are still being killed".
Did someone tell you that somwehere there was a wind power switch, where once flicked, it would instantly install millions of wind generators across the globe at no cost and bypass all regulatory processes?
With still no evidence, I really wonder where this savage opposition to wind especially, is coming from? You must have read it somewhere, or someone convinced you,so care to point to what set you on this track of opposition to just wind?
Industrial-scale wind has been around for 30 years. It can certainly withstand a little scrutiny by this time. The test of its success in reducing carbon emissions is simply to compare how much fossil fuel is burned per unit of electricity consumed before and after wind installations.
Even in Denmark, fossil fuel use for electricity can not be shown to have been reduced by wind. That is a hard fact.
Industrial wind development is hardly a benign sideshow. It industrializes rural landscapes and opens up wild habitats. To sit smugly by because you're too scared to question is not acceptable. The burden of proof is on the wind industry, and they have never been able to show any meaningful benefit. The American Wind Energy Association now only argues for jobs, just like those advocating for the Keystone pipeline.
You mean, you want us to disprove your negative statements?
Like this? Selling electricity for profit.
If you want to drop off the energy grid, you use these things called batteries. Perhaps you've heard of them?
The UK has an astounding battery by the way. (I know.. you think them ignorant…) They hollowed out a mountain to pump it full of water in the non-peak hours, then drain it through some generators in peak hours. I bet they are really happy that they aren't burning coal to do that any more.
This hydro battery generates 440MW for 22 hours, and not a heck of a lot of CO2. I bet its well understood too, being 60 years old and all.
You don't understand how advanced the electrical grid really is. Lets pretend that we go with your unsubstantiated 'theories' that wind can't help. That is based on the conjecture that wind is intermittent and therefore coal\natural gas must remain on all the time. Correct?
Its not true.
If you think the wind grid won't be utterly plugged into the to weather system, you are wrong. The power grid has more than a few seconds of knowledge as to what the weather will be and what the grid will produce. (In Alberta wind is 220MW with 90% availability.)
So… yes they will shut off natural gas and coal plants as necessary.
As more and more wind comes on line in different locations you'll get more and more stable output. As one farm goes down and another comes on line.
Lastly you claim that wind needs to be reexamined for some odd reason. Why? Do you think that the utilities are investing in technology that doesn't work? Few businesses can do that and survive, yet these guys are thriving.
The theory that they are spending money because they got a discount is truly silly. You are saying that they blew a load of money on wind that doesn't work simply because it was on sale. And you base all of that on a simpleton understanding of the power grid.
Silly indeed
The question remains: How much less fossil fuel is burned per unit of electricity consumed, due to wind on the grid?
As for spending money on wind, it's taxpayer money they're spending, or the government forcing them to buy it, even at an inflated price. And as for understanding the grid, it's silly indeed to be lectured to by someone who thinks that he's getting only wind energy and that his neighbor on the same line is getting coal.
"The question remains: How
"The question remains: How much less fossil fuel is burned per unit of electricity consumed, due to wind on the grid?"
We are up for some evidence anytime you are ready Rosa. So far, its been a one way street.
You are being a bit special if you think that somehow, you can equate the total output of a country like Denmark in wind and therefore argue, why cannot a coal power station or two be shut down that supplies equal megawattage if wind is offsetting this?
It's spread all over the place, reducing bits here and there. Its not an instant transition.
"As for spending money on wind, it's taxpayer money"
Ahh gawd spare me, not another contadictory Libertarian rant about tax payers funds. You are probably so well conditioned to what industry wants you to think, that you no doubt have no problem with tax payers funds being used for subsidies for fossil fuel companies, or agrarian socialism, or tax payers paying 1 trillion a year in the US on military when the spending is 6 times greater than its nearest rival. You don't think just a bit of that money could be better used with renewables or heck i don't know, kept in the bank?
Rosa. You are lying.
Pure and simple. You have no evidence for your strange theories. Just conjecture and absolutely nothing to back it up. That is all you have managed to establish for a fact.
Now all of our governments are out to get us… Time to up you meds dude. Especially dear old fossil fuel mad driven Canada. (You are off your f'ing rocker if you think Harper is shoving that down Canada's throat.)
Time to up your meds.
Here's a great documentary on Wind discussing everything you are talking about.
10,000 times more birds die from window strikes per year than wind turbines.
What a joke you are! Next time you show up, bring some evidence or something.
Again Rosa, you give us
Again Rosa, you give us nothing to go by except for your opinion, which you seem to believe translates into fact, despite again, shock horror……no evidence.
"Even in Denmark, fossil fuel use for electricity can not be shown to have been reduced by wind. That is a hard fact."
Is there something that prevents you from posting a link with the slightest bit of evidence Rosa? Just a little bit? Wishful thinking and ideology doesn't count I'm afraid.
All I have to go by is …….facts.
Wind power provided 18.9% of electricity production and 24.1% of generation capacity in Denmark in 2008. L
Lets call it say 20%. Errr, doesn't that mean they are using 20% less fossil fuels if wind is generating 20% of their power?
Denmarks problem is their existing grid isn't currently geared to make use of much more than 20%. Its a similar story here in Australia with the massive solar uptake by houses and commercial properties. The grid here is like the water grid. Large pipes bring water from the dams which progressively get smaller until a normal residential neighborhood might have 100mm ( 4 Inch ) pipes and households having 15mm ( 1/2 Inch pipes). Solar power is being pushed back into the grid with all the excess that the grid is not designed to take large amounts being pushed back the other way.
Consequently, in Denmark, they are looking at exporting their excess that they currently cannot consume to the U.K.
They plan to have 50% usage in 8 years time.
"To sit smugly by because you're too scared to question is not acceptable. "
Rosa, Oilman & myself are providing evidence. You have provided nothing but opinion. Libertarian opinion no doubt. To shut your eyes to the facts & selectively seek out political opinion based on confirmation bias.
Not evidence
" 'Wind power provided 18.9% of electricity production and 24.1% of generation capacity in Denmark in 2008.'
"Lets call it say 20%. Errr, doesn't that mean they are using 20% less fossil fuels if wind is generating 20% of their power?"
No, it doesn't. Because fossil fuel plants continue to burn fuel while not generating electricity, and they burn it less efficiently when ramping to balance the variable wind generation. Denmark has to export most of its wind-generated electricity because the backup and balancing requirements are too great. They are now looking to the UK because the Scandinavian and especially the German grids can't take more, either.
So the question remains to compare fossil fuel use per unit of electricity consumed before and after wind on the grid.
I found some attempts to do this:
P.S. I mentioned taxpayer funds because "anoilman" pointed to utilities and energy companies' readiness to spend on wind. Please put aside your caricatures and read what I write.
P.P.S. This will probably be my last post, since we're going in circles with your refusal to look beyond the hype and assumptions about big wind.
I think I know what is confusing you.
(Assuming logic is involved.)
Here's two blogs that support your claim;
Check out the rebuttal from Michael Goggin of the American Wind Energy Association, on the JoeWheatley page;
"This appears to be a classic case of a lurking (or confounding) variable being used to misleadingly present correlation as causality; a comparable example is arguing that cigarette lighters cause lung disease since people who buy them tend to develop lung disease. In this case, the lurking variable that is the actual causal factor appears to be cold weather and its impact on heating demand, data that is available but that (for reasons we can only speculate) was not used in these correlational analyses."
"Cold temperatures drive heating demand, forcing Ireland's numerous fossil-fired combined heat and power (CHP) plants to fire up and run at a high level of heat production (and subsequently more emissions per megawatt-hour, MWh, of electricity, since CHP plants relative to the rest of the fleet are not optimized for electricity production, and CHP plants being run to produce maximum heat are not being operated in a way that is optimized for electricity production; moreover, it appears that the emissions associated with heat production are rolled into the data…"
So, what is happening is coal heating plants that are not used for electricity are firing up in cold weather and their emmissions are being included with electricity generation power plants. (Wind = cold if you live near cold water)
If you disconnect wind power from that grid, the emissions would of course increase dramatically, hugely immensely.
This also shows that you should not blindly look at numbers but actually study the factors involved in what is being looked at.
GingerLadySlipper replied on Permalink
Since Vermont has a civil union law, it's possible that "Rosa" is a she.
My guess is "Rosa" is a he who has lots of alter-egos and I wouldn't bet against he gets paid for posting.
Denier voting
Wow, come in this morning and all the denier posts have high votes and pro side have minus.
There, bumped you all back up. Except for fossil fuel PR spokeswoman Rosa ( its probably a guy, who knows). Wow, this post certainly raised the denial level to defcon 4 didn't it Rosa?
Nice hijacking attempt deniers!
Climate science and wind
Although it is obviously futile to try to reintroduce reason here, it nonetheless needs to be repeated that opposition to industrial wind power does not equal denial of climate science. Nor does it equal support of fossil and/or nuclear fuels.
Shouting down a caricature may be self-gratifying, but it belies a sore lack of persuasive argument.
Ian Forrester replied on Permalink
Who told you to say that?
Rosa complains:
"Although it is obviously futile to try to reintroduce reason here, it nonetheless needs to be repeated that opposition to industrial wind power does not equal denial of climate science. Nor does it equal support of fossil and/or nuclear fuels".
Only in the world of AGW deniers. We all know who is telling you to spread your disinformation. Are you really that stupid that you would think that we believe one word of what you write?
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
What a load of misinformation about wind turbines and integrating the resulting intermittently available power on the grid!
(1) Wind turbine genrators are induction machines, rather similar in design to the induction motor which runs your refrigerator compressor. Because of variable speed, between the induction generator and the transmission lines there is power electronics so that the resulting electricity is an constant frequency, either 50 Hz or 60 Hz depending upon the grid standard. [For example, Japan has both, Europe uses 50 Hz, North America uses 60 Hz.] The power electronics makes wind generators highly controlable; enough wind generators operating enhances gride stability at around the 1 second range when properly controlled as in Spain. Sourcer for some of this is in an IEA Wind Power Study
over 100 pages long.
(2) Since wind is variable the wind turbines absolutely require a balancing agent so that the total power provided by all the generators on the grid match, rather precisely, the instantaneous demand. When hydro is available the hydro resouce provides the best balancing agent. Otherwise, natgas burners are adequate while coal burners are terrible in that those units cannot ramp adequately except for certain placements of sufficient wind generators, a situation rarely met as it depends upon the geography. Even when natgas burners are used the extra ramping caused by the wind generators results in burning more natgas, indeed failing to completely burn the methane so releasing some to the atmosphere when ramping up quickly.
(3) In the USA from 2001 to 2011 the power produced by all sources of fossil fuel burners, including natgas burners, feel by close to 3.5%. In 2011 wind generators provided 3% of the power so there is a correlation between wind genration and declining fossil fuel usage. However, at the same time manufacturing declined in the USA and that may explain much of the drop as heavy industry, such as aluminum smelting and electric arc iron operations consume vast amounts of power.
(4) The amount of steel and concrete needed per unit of power for wind generators is many times greater than that required for nuclear power plants (NPPs). However, with the current production tax incentive, the LCOE for wind is less than the LCOE for NPPs.
(5) Direct environmental impacts of wind farms include stirring down warm air during inversions, heating the ground and promoting evaporation, raptor displacement and bat kills. Raptors avoid wind farms and fields a long way down wind as it is impossible to fly in the turbulent air; raptors often don't turn up even when the wind isn't blowing. With no predators the rodent population explodes with deleterious effects on the ecology of the avoided areas. [This from a anacdotal report; I have yet to see a proper scientific study.] Bats have no means of avoiding the turbines and worse, the turbulent air downwind can have sufficient pressure differences to rip the lungs out of the bats.
[Disclosure: I have three degrees in engineering.]
I only have one engineering degree.
I always wonder about losses through the power electronics. Switching power supplies aren't exactly efficient. 90% on a good day?
Anyways, what you are saying is that they don't need to fire up an extra coal plant and throw out the excess energy when they have a wind source that can take up the peak demand. Literally switch it in and out as needed.
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
Power electronics.
Its a rectifier and an inverter, either bipolar or thyristor. If thyristor then about 97% efficient.
One could switch wind turbines 'in and out' but ordinarily the power from wind is treated as must take or nearly so. In Germany, at least, there is an exception when it is necessary to fire up a thermal source with 4–7 hour startup time. That thermal generator then runs for at least its minimum economic time even if the wind has begun to pick up. In that case the wind turbines are curtained until the thermal source has run long enough.
Martin Vermeer replied on Permalink
David thanks
Koch Industries and the Environment
Among the groups that have been supported by the Koch brothers are the National Audubon Society and The Nature Conservancy, both of them unquestioning supporters of industrial wind.
"Among the groups that have
"Among the groups that have been supported by the Koch brothers are the National Audubon Society and The Nature Conservancy, both of them unquestioning supporters of industrial wind."
Ahh I see they have learned greenwashing techniques from Exxon and BP. Throw a few bucks the way of green groups or cleantech programs and then imply you are all supportive of cleantech, or that green groups are corrupt because they accept money from fossil fuel companies.
The difference you don't seem to understand is, while they attempt to appear as though they are supportive of green programs or alternate sources of energy, they invest millions in lobbying and propaganda to have them shut down.
At least they have millions of easily conned libertarians and right wing conservatives that lack the ability to see through the charade to ply their snake oil on. The rest of the progressives and conservatives seem to see through the lie Rosa.


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edit: it seems for 40$ more getting the 4wd is worth it
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The family; plus a Traxxas Rally VXL not pictured.
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How well do the skis work?
Wish I knew. Haven't had any damn snow! At least not since I bought the skis. And the way it looks, I doubt if we get any at all.
Crazy fun drifting the Rally though. Almost through my first set of tires already. Also, ran two 2c's in series.....big mistake. Fried the ESC and motor within the first 20 minutes out of the box. Replaced and having a blast with it now. Can't wait to get it into my new basement in a few weeks......800sq ft of unfinished wide open cement floor!
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Hey guys, here is my son's completed RC10 runner. Took this pic one day when we were outside snow bashing
I used to have an RC10 about 25 years ago...damn I miss that car and the times had racing/playing around
I'm amazed that even today with newer gear the car is still competitive with newer cars. I have two complete runners and three in progress
well the RC10 was the car that revolutionized the sceene. its what all off road buggies and trucks are based from today. there really hasn't been much change to the layout in 20 plus years.
Does anyone know where I can find scale ratchet straps? I want to strap my truck down in my hatch to take it places...
scroll down. if they don't have you don't need it.
Just got a Traxxas Rustler VXL. Holy Sh!t this thing is fast strait out of the box. So far the only damage has been from my pitbull chomping the body. Been thinking about going lipo adn the higher gear. It does about 40 right now.
And my buddy jumping his slash!
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Traxxas Bandit:
Full rpm suspension from stampede
Nitro carriers and bearings
Ti shock shafts and pins
Steel outdrives, and all gears
Upgraded servo
Aluminum skid plate (custom)
Stampede body / wheels tires
Vxl 3s system
Custom DT:
Brushless / lipo
Custom aluminum chassis
Custom body
Aluminum bits, etc
Associated rc18t
Mip diffs
Rpm suspension
brushless / lipo
custom bellcrank
truck body
road wheels / tires
Losi xxx-s
Full graphite conversion
Aluminum shocks
Peak racing 15x2
JConcepts bj4we
Full carbonfiber / titanium
Brushless 9t
Jr servo
Proline truggy body
Associated sc10
Full rpm towers, ball ends, suspention, bumpers, etc
Ti links
Vxl 3s brushless system
Sw3 chassis
Wheely king axles
272 traxxas trans
hitec servo
tube topper
Associated rc10 gold pan championship edition
All period correct
Stealth trans
Stealth esc with cap
Futaba servo
Monster truck:
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Bullet proof difs
Built trans
Jr servos
Balde mcx
Mia pro kit
Mod Swash plate
Rc Jetski
ABC hobby hull
Stampede / bandit rally car creation:
Stampede chassis
Bandit suspension, wheels, tires
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alu skids
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Kyosho optima mid
Blade SR
HPI wheely king
Xtm rage
Micro t scale truck
Losi strike
Losi mini crawler
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Bolink Eliminator
Associated pan car
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Revo 3.3 race
Hpi rush
Hpi mt
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From the 2012 VIAS drift competition put on by One10Drift.com
Group shot, but still missing a handful of cars.
Gassing up - wheels are custom dyed
Shutup and drive yo cah'!
Shutup and drive yo cah'!
Just built an SC-10, moving up from a slash. I like it a ton better.
SC-10 by GTIFreak, on Flickr
And here's the slash, a 4WD
Slash Sunset by GTIFreak, on Flickr
Plus I like to do a little crawling (Ok alot) with my AX-10
Axial AX-10 by GTIFreak, on Flickr
hey sean! not sure if you remember me...it's nes from the days of the peninsula meets.
awesome RCs you have there. i'm just getting into the hobby myself. i purchased a slash VXL less than a month ago and i'm having a blast with it. ...and an axial honcho is waiting for me at home to get set up (wanted the trail finder 2 but couldn't justify the cost). let me know when you do scaling/crawling, i might just want to tag along and learn a bit. it's another expensive hobby but it's still cheaper than modifying 1:1 vehicles.

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Introducing "Views" – A new way to contribute your 360° photo spheres to Google Maps
July 30th, 2013 | Published in Uncategorized
Wherever life's adventures may take us, our photos help us remember and share the places we care about. When photos are added to a map, whether they're from your camera or through Street View, they record unique experiences that collectively create the story of a place and what it looked like at a particular moment in time.
Today, we are launching a new community site called Views that makes it easy for people to publicly share their photos of places by contributing photo spheres to Google Maps (photo spheres are 360º panoramas that can be easily be created with your Android phone).
Below is a screenshot of the new Google Maps for desktop, showing a photo sphere that I shared one morning in Hawaii while my wife and I walked along the beach near our old neighborhood. The thumbnails at the bottom show our comprehensive photo coverage, with each image accurately placed on the map.
|A photo sphere in the new Google Maps. Can you feel the sand between your toes?
To upload 360º photo spheres, just sign into the Views site with your Google+ profile and click the blue camera button on the top right of the page. This will enable you to import your existing photo spheres from your Google+ photos. You can also upload 360º photo spheres to Views from the Gallery in Android by tapping "Share" and then selecting Google Maps.
Below you can see my Views page, which is filled with photo spheres and descriptions about my experiences in the places I've visited. I created these during my travels, including day trips and hikes around the San Francisco bay area, as well as far away adventures to Hawaii, Sydney, Beijing, and Paris. Sometimes I also share photo spheres around the Google campus in Mountain View. You can explore them all on this map.
|Screenshot of my Views page
So, when you're on your next adventure, don't forget your camera and your Android phone to create and share some photo spheres of places that inspire you... we can't wait to see them!


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Your low high side pressure might be due to the low ambient. There is just no heat to remove from the cabin and the condensor is extremely efficient at 65* ambient.
You might not have any problem at all. Just low temps.
edited= 65 to 35 is only 30* delta drop. The system should be capable of 35* delta at 90* ambient, and 30* ambient at 100*. More if you are humming down the highway. Today your system is just not having to do anything.
|you only use 80% of the r-12 capacity when you convert to 134a
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The compressor was new and I poured all the oil out of it. Was only about 2 oz in it. I poured in some new oil and hand rotated the compressor and poured the oil out. Did the same procedure a second time.
After I poured the oil out, in put 7 oz new Ester Oil in and capped compressor. After I got the compressor installed and all hoses attached, I again rotated compressor 10 revolutions and it felt fine.
I think your first suggestion may be true. There could be some trash partially blocking Orifice tube.
I am going to recover the 134a and check the Orifice.
I think the compressor is knocking when the low side pressure drops because of High head pressure. The 134a is stuck between the orifice tube and the compressor. My high side guage could be giving a bad pressure reading. I am going to check it with a different set of gauges.
Thanks for all the help. If you think of anything else, let me know.
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well at least its cold.Under lite heat load you can have a low high side .Mabey a diff. of 50lbs between low&high.Could you shocked comp with oil? Hope it helps
Didn't have a compressor crash, just wore out and started making noise. This is a former R-12 system I have just converted to a R-134A with this compressor.
Outside temp was 65 degrees. Temp at a/c vent was 35 degrees.
I guess I will just have to pull the orifice and take a look see.
Thanks .
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If you lunched a former comp something you should know;you MUST REPLACE CON. ON134A SYSTEMS.They have a con.design that holds junk,flushing won't get it.Been working ona/c all my working days.seen 134a con. cause comp to fail. As for presures keep low side above 15-20There is an adjust screw on many cycle switchs,look between spades.It don't matter what make of switch you have.two types r-12&134a won't mix, differen't threads.Some acul. have both.Whats air temp? that will change readings .So,pull orfice ,see if it dirty.Go from there.hope this helps
I used a new GM orifice tube and the short end goes in first, the long end is just inside the tubing. Just where you can grab it with needle nose pliers to remove it.
I made sure there was nothing in the system to plug it up by reverse flushing everything. (except the compressor).
I may have to pull it out and check it. There seems like something could be plugging the orifice because the low side pressure drops so much. But why is the high side pressure so low? I would think that if something was blocking anything in the system, the high side pressure would be off the gauge.
What is this Ford adjustable cycle switch?
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Did you use GM [white]?Is it backward.Aside from tha,yur hi side is way low.Onr trick on changeover is to put a older ford cycle switch r-12 ,these are adjustable.Then you can adjst cycle time-cycle off say15 to 20 psi.One other thing my be junk you could not get out pluging orfice..Concerding your presure I would check orfice anyhow.
A/C cycles, 3lbs installed
Maybe some of A/C guys knows what is going on.
Problem: Compressor cycles
Vehicle: 93 Chevrolet Caprice 305 engine R-4 compressor. system holds 3.12 lbs of R-12.
What has been done:
(Converted system to R-134a)
New (not rebuilt) R-4 Compressor
New Drier
New Orifice
New Hoses
All new O rings
Reverse flushed Condenser and Evaporator
Install procedure:
Removed all old equipment and put a/c flush in Evaporator and Condenser. (let sit while I got everything else ready to install)
Pour shipping oil out of new compressor.
Poured 4 oz of Ester oil in new compressor and rotated compressor 10 revolutions and poured oil out.
Poured 4 oz more of Ester oil in new compressor and rotated.
Poured out all the oil and put in 7oz of new Ester oil and capped compressor.
Flushed out Evaporator and Condenser with dry air line at 60 psi. Then allowed remainder of flush to evaporate out.
Connected new hoses with new O rings lubricated with clean Ester Oil.
Installed New Compressor, connected high and low side hoses.
Rotated compressor by hand (socket and rachet) for 10 revolutions.
Connected guages and pulled 27 inches of vacuum for 45 minutes and then disconnected vacuum.
Let the system set over night (19 hours) on the guages.
Next morning, still holding 27 inches of vacuum.
Rotated compressor a few turns and began installing first can of R134a. Engine not running at this point. After about 1/2 can 6.5 oz of 134a I started engine and turned on a/c to Max with high fan speed.
Just as the first 13 oz of 134a started to empty, the compressor started cycling.
At the end of 26 oz of R-134a the compressor continued to cycle.
Low side pressure would increase to approx 40 then the compressor would come on. When the low side decreased to 25 the compressor would shut down. On the high pressure guage the reading would hover at 50 lbs.
At the end of each cycle, as the guage would drop to 25 the compressor would start knocking and then shut down. Once the pressure on the low side would climb back to 40, the compressor would come on and run quiet. But again the low side would drop to 25 and start knocking again.
Now I have 3 cans (39 oz) of R-134a in the system and it still does the same thing. High side reads 50 lbs, low side goes as high as 40 and as low as 25.
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Awesome... I'm a sophomore.. I live at Avalon this year.... I'm trying to find a group of people that wanna play paintball since the people I went with are too busy to go now... I just need a job then I'm good to go lol
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Yes! I've been looking for a group as well, I hate going by myself. Wel, not hate, but definitely don't prefer it... However, that's a good way to get better so I've been goin just to gain experience. How is avalon?
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Avalon's pretty cool... Hey man shhot me a pm and we'll exchange numbers... That way we can go over to the fields some time
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New Hampshire Union Leader | July 21. 2013 8:39PM
Former marathoner Brian Smith, who broke his neck diving off a boat, will be in Manchester for a special race Aug. 18, exactly a year after his accident. His friends have organized a "Fun Run" as a show of support. (COURTESY)
Quadriplegic Brian Smith was asked to be a spinal cord injury mentor at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, where he worked alongside victims of the marathon bombing. COURTESY
A year after his diving accident, Brian Smith lives in Arlington, Mass., in a wheelchair accessible apartment. He will be in Manchester Aug. 18 for a "Fun Run" organized by his friends. COURTESY
Until last Aug. 18, when he took one last dive off the boat and broke his neck.
"It's a miracle," said Jette, that somehow Smith was able to make it to the side of the boat. But Smith didn't look good, so Jette asked: "Are you OK? Do you want some help?"
Organized by Kevin Comerford, a friend since high school at Trinity, the 2.7-mile walk/run around Derryfield Park, is a chance to support Smith and his continuing efforts to regain mobility.
"I'm moving my foot a little bit," he said. He has some feeling in his hands, too.
"Spaulding Rehab in Boston asked me to be a spinal cord injury mentor to patients at the hospital, which I gladly accepted," he said.
Daren Smith said his big brother was always a runner, trying to stay in shape. "That day ... of the injury, he ran up a big hill," said Daren Smith.
Questions about the event can be directed to Smith's brother, Cell: 781-760-1620 or email@example.com or to Kevin Comerford at 978-257-0623,
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I actually know a guy who likes it in jail. Gets to be a big shot, no responsibilities, television & food. They let him out and he immediately does something to get back in. What a looser.
Inmate won't use "get out of jail free" card
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A 59-year-old German man who has spent the last 34 years in jail has turned down offers to be let out, an official said Saturday.
"He rejected an offer to leave in 1992," Thomas Melzer, a spokesman for the Brandenburg state justice ministry, told Bild newspaper. "We can't do anything if someone sentenced to life in prison doesn't want to leave."
The man, identified only as Gerold H, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1972 when the area was part of communist East Germany.
German prisoners have no obligation to agree to leave jail before their sentences have been completed.
I actually know a guy who likes it in jail. Gets to be a big shot, no responsibilities, television & food. They let him out and he immediately does something to get back in. What a looser.
Ya, I have a nephew who is in and out of prison all the time. You know the saying, "Lead by example." He followed the example of his dad- my former brother-in-law.
One of my brothers has been in prison for a couple years now. He gets to go home everyday though. Guess they allow corrections officers to do that.
Hell, I've been in prison since Sept. 17th, 1990. My release date is in 2010. Yahoo!! Only four more years to go!
Fortunately, I get to go home every night and on weekends, unlike all the others here...
I use to do all the plumbing at a county jail in Iowa. Often we would be among the inmates and they would ask to help us. Ya right, like Im gonna give an inmate access to a screw driver or other escape tools and/or weapons. Theyd ask for cigarettes too. After we said no to all the requests theyd ask why not. Wed say, Because we get to go in and we get to go out, and we want to keep it that way.
- Good idea...
I go to the jail all the time w/ my job - Was in there for 2 hours this morning,actually...
Sometimes idiots try to sneak in drugs during visits and stuff... They usually get caught...


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Just got mine and haven't fired it yet.
I was wondering, since it is a rim-fire, is it safe to dry fire it. I assume it is not.
Just bought a Browning 1911 22 and I like everything about it except the trigger pull weight. It's really hard to make it fire because of the heavy trigger. Anyone else fired one? Any suggestions for a remedy?
Just got mine and haven't fired it yet.
I was wondering, since it is a rim-fire, is it safe to dry fire it. I assume it is not.
No you dont want to dry fire a rimfire without a dummy in the bbl. , it will eventually dimple the edge of the bbl and cause FTF and FTE issues.
As for the trigger give it time being new it may need time to smooth out the sear faces to ease up some.
If time doesnt seem to help ,later you can get the trigger worked on but all of my 1911's have gotten a lot better with some age and use
Hmmm....the trigger on my Browning 1911 .22 A1 is fine, not heavy at all. I bought 4 packs of the Pachmayer .22 snap caps from Amazon.com; they are 25 to a pack and you get about 10 dry fires per piece. I have used them in all my rimfires and they are pretty nice to have. I think they go for about 6 bucks a pack.
I have same problem with bad trigger pull, was wondering if anyone has had one fixed and could elaborate on that. thanks
picked up 1911_22 compact a week ago. went to range last night and shot about 150 rounds,just love it .i am used to shooting my 351c j-frame hammerless with a 12# trigger so this gun is a piece of cake to shoot and very accurate . just need to pick up a extra magazine when i can find one.
I have felt that the gun's trigger is terrible. I had a trigger job done and it made a big difference. That is what I would I did .
try MIDWAY that's where I bought mine.
Picked this one up a few weeks back. This package has finally come together upon the arrival of the holster from LOBOGUNLEATHER -- Text in photo has all the information. The 10 week wait for the holster was well worth it. Gave SPRESSER KNIFE WORKS time to fashion the Sambar stag stocks as well. On the trigger. A bit stiff at first, but seems to be smoothing out just fine. No, it isn't a target gun, but will get it done. Quite happy with this.


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I break my pistols in the way your friend breaks in his rifles. I find that when I'm done, a shooting session leaves far less residue in the barrel than it did before I broke it in. Others who know more than me say phooy! Just go out and shoot it like you stole it.
I don't know. The break in process makes me feel like the gun has been bonded to me and made special. There are other like it, but this one has had special care and is mine alone.


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By Richard Clarke
Arsène Wenger will only take players with "something special" in the final week of the transfer window.
The Arsenal manager has added quality this summer in the shape of Lukas Podolski, Santi Cazorla and Olivier Giroud. At Friday's press conference he spoke of his contentment with his current squad but, at the same time, he was open to additions before next Friday's deadline.
"My approach is that we have a very strong squad but if one or two opportunities arise we will take it," he said.
"We are still in the market in some positions. We have experienced players in midfield like Arteta, Cazorla and Rosicky plus some young very promising players like Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ramsey, Coquelin and one or two in between age-wise like Diaby, who is coming back.
"We will only take players who have something special. We believe we have a very strong team and if we find the special player, we will do it.
"There's always a lot going on in the last week - in and out. We have some players who can go out, but overall there is always something happening in the last week. I have a clear idea of what I want to do, if it happens, it happens."
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Hello there,
I just need clarification on the questions below.
1. I'm in the process of driving a car and I want to tell my friend sitting next to me that this happens with me for the first time:
a.) This is the first time I've driven a car.
b.) This is the first time I'm driving a car.
c.) I'm driving a car for the first time.
Is there a difference? Or all three are okay? Which sounds the most natural?
2. Which one would a native speaker prefer?
a.) How long haven't you seen your friend?
b.) How long has it been since you saw your friend?
c.) How long is it since you saw your friend?
Finally, I often here people say:
How long has it been since you've seen your friend?
Is it grammatically correct to put Present Perfect after 'since'?
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The Bush approach to making mistakes was most dramatically illustrated during the 2004 election when he was asked on TV about his mistakes. The president paused a moment and said he would have to do some thinking before being able to identify a mistake made during his administration. General David McKiernan, top American leader in Afghanistan, said international troops have made mistakes and killed innocent civilians in the course of operations, and for that, "I apologize." He went on to make clear, "apologies are not sufficient, so we do try to compensate families and communities where we've made mistakes. But, that's not sufficient either…. There's not enough money in the world to replace the loss of a family member." His comments came after the loss of more civilians due to action by American forces.
Any military operation anywhere in the world will entail mistakes, that is the nature of war. It is refreshing that American military leaders are now admitting mistakes. It shows the era of George Bush is over–at least we hope it is. McKiernan is right on one point, money does not replace a dead family member, but honesty and acknowledging of errors sends a message as to the meaning of democracy.


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UF helps assess how climate change affects Southeast
Published: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 7:45 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 7:45 p.m.
When we think of climate change, far-away problems may come to mind, for future generations to solve. But some scientists are starting to focus on seasonal climate change, so the concept resonates with how we are living now.
To learn more
To read the draft of the National Climate Assessment Report, go online to www.globalchange.gov. To the right side of the web page, click on "Draft Climate Assessment Report."
Talk on climate is Thursday
What: Lisa Goddard, director of international research for the Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, will speak on short-term climate change.
When: 3 p.m. Thursday
Where: Reitz Union, Room 282, UF campus
The Southeast Climate Consortium held a town hall meeting in Tampa on Tuesday to discuss its draft chapter, which is part of the National Climate Assessment Report for Congress and President Barack Obama.
Representatives of state and local agencies, law firms and groups like the Sierra Club made recommendations at the meeting that the consortium will consider in revising the report's chapter on the Southeast region of the U.S.
Dr. Jim Jones, a professor in the agricultural and biological engineering department at the University of Florida and one of the chapter's co-authors, said the consortium is helping water managers and farmers already with short-term solutions.
"If we knew that the next season is going to be wet, that changes the way we might want to grow crops or harvest forests and manage reservoirs and our public water supply," Jones said.
He added that climate change reports typically deal with what might occur in the next 50 or 100 years, but there is a need to focus on changes in the next 5-10 years.
Jones said he would also like to see a greater emphasis on local, as opposed to national decision-making, and the report should be tailored to reflect that.
"The message sent back to national climate assessment is that this type of thing needs to be packaged for regional and local use because that is where decisions are made," Jones said. "It would be pretty much up to us to set up meetings with different county governments and private sector businesses to get the word out to them."
The climate change report is done every four years as part of the Global Change Research Act, which was signed in 1990 during the George H.W. Bush administration. The current draft report should be published in 2014.
According to the draft report, the past decade has been the warmest on record in the U.S., much of it related to greenhouse gas emissions from burning coal, natural gas and oil for electricity and heat.
"The magnitude of climate change will depend on the amount of global emissions," the report said. It also said that oceanic waters will become warmer and more acidic, and both water quantity and quality will be compromised. The Southeast region in particular faces increased competition for water supplies.
Jayantha Obeysekera, a member of the national climate assessment advisory committee and the chief modeler for the South Florida Water Management District in West Palm Beach, said "the competition between rural agricultural areas and urban will increase," with water availability in urban areas especially strained as the population increases.
Rising sea levels also afflicts the Southeast.
"It has been rising for hundreds of years slowly, but now it's getting to the point where there are damages already taking its toll on water supplies and highways," Jones said, adding that the sea rose eight inches in the last century, escalating slightly in the past decade.
One example of adaptation, Jones said, is that U.S. Highway 64 is being raised four feet in North Carolina.
In Florida, the rising sea creates a risk for saltwater intrusion and flooding, and has already swallowed parts of Everglades National Park.
"In the short run, it's more important to double our efforts in the Everglades to counter sea level rise," Obeysekera said. "Some expensive solutions can wait another decade."
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What a great way to celebrate Bootsy's birthday! Congrats on the print, and Happy Birthday, BootsBoots!
This is extra special cause BootsBoots (the lovely Jamie) gets a print on her Birthday! She'll flip when she sees it!
One question: Does it come in cat sizes? It might be a good shirt to wear so that Mondays aren't so bad.
Shirt.woot induced snack attack happens again...always entertaining to see the BootsBoots spin, turning the ordinary (and extraordinary) into a disaster.
Truly, there is nothing sadder than biting into a cookie and realizing it's raisiny instead of chocolatey.
It's Boots' birthday?? Happy birthday!! :D
Congrats to all the winners of the Slogan Derby.
Wait, what? We did that one already? I'm confused...
And the Slogan Derby takes the hat trick! Woot woot slogans!
Congrats Boots! I was going to flip some chairs if one of yours didn't print this time.
what? no! raisins make everything BETTER.
Are you kidding???! I'm eating chocolate covered raisins right now....too good!...LOL!
It seems that people love text. All three entries are from the slogan derby!
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I didn't know about the perfect timing-- congrats on the print, and happy birthday, BootsBoots!
So warping true. Except for them California Raisins, those guys were pretty bad ass.
Thank you shirt.woot, now I want raisins.
It's funny because it's true.
AWESOME - in for one, no doubt. I hate raisins.
What's not appetizing about a snack that looks like mouse poop?
Wow, double congrats Bootsboots!
What about the California Raisins?
Lemme know how that Cali Raisins lawsuit goes, Bio writer. I'm eager to see what happens to "A Raisin in the Sun." t\That's right, I just went American Lit on you!
Congrats Boots! It turns out we share a birthday. Happy birthday!
We, the Hitchhikers is wrong with woot? Why are all these novices and suckish t-shirts winning?
This reminds me of another shirt I own.
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Seeing how I just made oatmeal raisin cookies, this is a food related shirt that I cannot support.
I don't even... I am disappointed. How did these three shirts beat out cosmic eagle? It'd be nice to see a purely artistic/non lulz shirt win sometime soon...
I actually like oatmeal raisin cookies. Raisins thus do not ruin everything.
It's only a matter of time before some one tries to market raisens as "dried grapes" like the way prunes are now being marketed as "dried plums."
Do you know how to tell the difference between a raisin cookie and a chocolate chip cookie?
...Neither do I.
yay for boots!! happy birthday! :-)
Wow, yes! Raisins! I consider it my duty to spread this most important message: Raisins Thhhhppppffft!
I just got home (from birthday celebrating) and this was the best surprise! Thanks for the birthday wishes. ...Raisins can suck it!
I remember when raisins were ruined by Michael Jackson.
It's pretty hard to defend something that has been shown to kill puppies.
I won't even bother trying.
lovemedusa wrote:Congrats Boots! It turns out we share a birthday. Happy birthday!
Backatchya, then!
BootsBoots wrote:Wow, yes! Raisins! I consider it my duty to spread this most important message: Raisins Thhhhppppffft!
I just got home (from birthday celebrating) and this was the best surprise! Thanks for the birthday wishes. ...Raisins can suck it!
Congrats & Happy Bday!
I don't like raisins ... worst thing is French Apple pie. Seriously, what a way to ruin the perfect American desert ... and the French did it.
I like raisins. And sultanas. And currants.
all 3 were from the same derby -_-
Actually, I think chocolate ruins everything...
Meme anyone?
When I first saw the word 'raisins'...I was actually hoping for a 'Hooters-esque' shirt, based on South Park's RAISINS restaurant! I would have loved that!
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What's so funny, frosty?
Santa wants a jigsaw puzzle of the Northern Lights
What's so funny, frosty?
Santa wants a jigsaw puzzle of the Northern Lights
lol...funny is what I see in the mirror
Santa wants to take frosty on a cruise except frosty doesn't swim! Gotta wear his life jacket. Oh, wait, frosty still has to stay on ice!
Santa wants a prime rib dinner
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
santa wants a turkey sandwich to munch at..
Santa wants olives and pickles on the side and then a piece of pumpkin pie with real whipped cream
santa wants a nice cold beer..
bigger chimneys
'I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!' Scrooge repeated, as he scrambled out of bed. 'The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. Oh, Jacob Marley! Heaven, and the Christmas Time be praised for this! I say it on my knees, old Jacob, on my knees!' (Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol)
santa wants all the boys and girls to be on the nice list...


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By Joe Brewin
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain says his Champions League strike against Olympiacos was his personal highlight of 2011.
The 18-year-old announced himself on the European stage when the Greek side visited Emirates Stadium in September with a goal that made him the competition's youngest ever English goalscorer.
Oxlade-Chamberlain has enjoyed a successful year on all fronts and the youngster does not want it to stop here.
"I'd probably say scoring my goal in the Champions League [was the highlight], that was a big moment for me," he told Arsenal Player.
"I have to say I have three, though. It's that one, signing for Arsenal and the last day at Southampton when we got promoted. That was one of the best experiences of my life.
"All I'm really focused on is getting into the Arsenal team; I just want to play, express myself and show what I can do. There's a lot more hard work for me to and I will keep working hard to do that.
"That's my only ambition at the moment, to push onto 2012 and look to finish the season strongly with the team. Hopefully we can carry on doing well in the league and keep improving to get higher up the table."
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21 st annual Ambulance Chase Oct. 11
Wayne State University Law School is pleased to announce that the 21 st annual Ambulance Chase Charity Run/Walk will be held on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 beginning at 5 p.m. in front of the Law School .
The Ambulance Chase consists of either a 2.2 mile run or a one mile "Warrior Walk" around the WSU campus, behind a real ambulance. The cost to participate is $20. Participants receive a t-shirt and are also invited to a post-run barbeque. The event is a way to raise funds for a worthy cause while poking fun at the stereotype of the "ambulance-chasing lawyer."
All profits from the 2006 run/walk will be donated to the Wayne County chapter of the Michigan Court Appointed Special Advocate Association (CASA). CASA volunteers assist abused and neglected children navigate through the child welfare system.
Each year the profits from the Chase are donated to a local charity. In 2005, 143 registered walkers and runners raised over $4,200 for Rise Sister Rise, a breast cancer support group.
The Chase is sponsored by the WSU Law School Student Bar Association Board of Governors. Each October, the American Bar Association chooses a worthy cause and encourages each ABA approved law school's students to support the cause in their local area.
Sponsorship opportunities for the Chase are still available, and there is still time to register for the Chase. To find out more, please contact Mary Kate Ellison, Chair of the Ambulance Chase committee, at email@example.com or at (248) 766-0620.


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|If a hole is painted, you push a clip thru it, it strips the paint off.....then silicone or whatever will not stop it. If you put silicone around it, the clip will displace the silicone also. I would be more concerned with a sealer trapping moisture and causing problems than not having any sealer at all. If you drill a hole and are down to bare metal, then a brush with a little epoxy prime will work. Holes have lasted for years without rusting. What causes the rust is moisture that gets trapped in conjunction with the bare metal. In years past, people did not really take care of cars like they do today. Weeks would go by with dust, dirt, mud, etc, getting caught in the moulding. Bare metal around holes was in contact with this, then rust would start by bubbling the paint first. Cars today from the factory are painted then assembled and holes do not have silicone or whatever to seal them (although there are not as many holes) and they don't rust if taken care of.
Good topic.
I aways wondered about this when I drill holes before I pop rivet plastic trim pieces on later cars.
Some of the rust holes that I have repared were old rivet holes that were not treated properly before applying the rivet. So I knew that I needed to treat the holes after redrilling a new hole after the repair. Will use the suggestions above on my next repair.
Thanks guys!
I wound up using 3M body caulking that was laying around the garage. It had a waxy consistency that shedded water . I just rolled up a good hunk and applied it at the hole before pushing the trim clips into it. It's worked great over the years with no rusting at all, and the vehicle's sat outside exposed to the elements for most of this time.....
Thanks for the replies, baddbob and Eddie.
To make something so simple in theory, a lot more complicated, a few more questions...
Is RTV silicone, the kind that smells like vinegar, bad for bare steel? Is the type that smells more like ammonia better?
What about for a trim piece that snaps into a hole. Hard to describe but I'm sure you guys have all seen something like it...a tab shaped like a sharp "V" (think of a spring steel bent into a "V" shape) that goes into a round hole. Is there any simple way to seal this aside from a lot of goop around it? I'm thinking not and I'm overanalyzing this.
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I always use RTV Black when I install screws into sheet metal. Just a little on the threads. It's like baddbob said, ya gotta seal it somehow. The RTV is no problemo to get apart later on, so it works for me.
I really don't know what's best to use; maybe that strip caulk for installing some windows and mirrors, etc, would be best. That stuff is still fresh years later when you take her apart, and still reusable. I use the 3M strip caulk. It "never" dries out; some of the OEM caulk was still serviceable after 20 years, and some of it had hardened into like a dry foam. I guess service life in my climate is 14-16 years.
|The screws will take the paint and primer off of the screw hole so you need to use a sealer. Strip caulk works handy for this, Windshield butyl will also work, seam sealer, pllumber's putty, heck-even roofing tar will do the job. A dab on each hole and some on the screw threads and it'll be fine.
Protecting screw holes or trim holes in body?
Quick question...on a freshly painted metal surface where you have trim that snaps into a hole (the paint in the hole will get scratched by the trim piece), or if you have to screw something directly to the body (something like an antenna mount), what is the best way to protect the metal so it doesn't rust out?
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Now is the time to view cloud in full as a business strategy for core processes.
Risk or opportunity? Stop experimenting with commodity cloud pilots and discover evolution with complete enterprise cloud.
The cloud in full
The Atos approach to cloud is unlike that of a vendor or a blue-sky consultant. We don't sell widgets, and we don't theorize about the future. As business technologists with a pure client focus, we are orchestrators who can put your entire cloud puzzle together. With the security discipline of digital identity thought leaders – and with the core process knowledge of business insiders – we make the cloud safe and straightforward to use. Strengthening the cloud with better service levels and more information integrity, we empower you to freely deploy cloud architectures at any point across your enterprise. Because it's not the cloud – it should be your cloud, adapted to your individual ecosystem. Techies tell you that cloud computing will change your business. We're helping business change cloud computing.
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Atos delivers a full-spectrum cloud strategy – from modeling and realisation to orchestrated performance of entire IaaS, PaaS and SaaS layers. We also deliver business process as a service, adapted for your exact market and environment. We transform what others call "the" cloud into your cloud – be it private, public, hybrid, community or any combination. Whatever the technical organisation, we make it a business model fit for deployment across your complete enterprise. Atos has already pioneered working models for highly complex scenarios such as media and healthcare – virtualising not just commodity services but core processes. Don't simply leverage on-demand delivery, use cloud to create your next business ecosystem.
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