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September 11, 2013
Dear People,
Well, it�s September 11 again. �That means, this year, the 40th anniversary of the US-backed coup in Chile that ended the life of democratically-elected president Salvador Allende and put General Pinochet in power for the next 17 years. �Forty years, but not too late for the family of tortured singer Victor Jara to file suit against the former military officer they believe to have killed him.
And we approach another infamous anniversary on November 22 - the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. I want you to know about Project Unspeakable: projectunspeakable.com. �Inspired by James Douglass� remarkable book: JFK and the Unspeakable, Project Unspeakable envisions simultaneous dramatic readings or full performances of a theatrical work about the role of Thomas Merton�s �Unspeakable� in the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy.� Anyone who has read Douglass� book cannot help but question the official version of not only JFK�s assassination, but of most official presentations of national policy in the last 50 years.
Speaking of which, it�s the 12th anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks that brought �us �the War on Terror, including the Patriot Act, the Homeland Security Act, the war on Afghanistan, the war on Iraq, Guantanamo, the legitimization of torture, abridgement of civil liberties, �indefinite detention without charges or trial, military expansion, �domestic surveillance, spying on Muslims and environmental activists...
Twelve years. �That equals the duration of the entire Nazi period from Hitler�s election in 1933 to Germany�s defeat in 1945. �When it ended it ended (except for the novels, dramas, movies about Nazis still being generated over here). �With no way to pretend it hadn�t happened, Germany was forced to contend with it publicly, and German citizens, by and large, to face the extent to which they were duped or chose to comply.� Facing what they had succumbed to, they have become suspicious of authority�indeed they are the most anti-authoritarian people I know.� See how they responded to Fukushima: while most Americans still want to trust government and industry experts (�it�s not so bad, we�re not in danger, no need to monitor the fall-out�etc. etc.�), a hundred thousand Germans immediately took to the streets in Berlin and forced their Chancellor to stop, on the spot, all reliance on nuclear energy.
As I said to my colleagues in Germany in June, �It is easier for me to trust a people who know they have produced a Hitler, than to trust a people who believe they never could.� �I fear the dangerous innocence of my country-people , and wish for them what many Germans have learned: how to face the dark. ��I�m concerned that, until we dare to at least question the official story on 9/11, we�ll become more and more obedient and passive, like the child of an alcoholic, fearful of parental rage, acquiescent to infantilizing procedures at airports and the like.
So let me tell you about my times in Germany this June and the adventures that followed in Scotland and England, all of them focused on the Work That Reconnects (WTR).
A team of colleagues I�ve worked with over the years, some for a quarter century, had organized a series of events ranging �in duration from three to six days, and in size from fifty to a hundred participants. �The first took place in Bavaria for veterans of the WTR. �The second, for all comers, was in north central Germany � by high meadows under the towering rocks of the Helfensteine. �The third and last was in East Germany at the ecovillage of Sieben Linden.
On our last morning at Klosterwald we rose early to walk out over the fields to the queen of the old monastery grounds: a mighty 500-year old linden tree. �Then the fifty of us, barely able to encircle her with arms outstretched, danced our final Elm Dance together.
After that full-packed month it might seem like too much, at my ripe age, to fly on to Scotland and England for three more weeks of the WTR. �But to be welcomed again to Findhorn Foundation felt like coming home�home to memories spanning 27 years, to gardens with more beauty than the memories could hold, and to treasured friends all set to go for the events at hand: �A six-day intensive for a hundred people from many countries, and a two-day for fifty from local communities.
Among the treasured friends was Chris Johnstone, �co-author with me of Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We�re in Without Going Crazy. �Chris and I first met in Findhorn 24 years ago and he�s been immersed in the work ever since�first in his home town of Bristol and recently from his and his Scottish wife Kirstie�s new base in the village of Dyke eight miles from Findhorn. �After our four years of intense, long-distance collaboration on the book, it felt good to be working side by side facilitating not only the Findhorn events, but those that followed in London and Oxfordshire. ��My assistant Anne brought her own gifts to the mix, a blessing that was especially appreciated because I lost my voice to a chest cold for a good half of the first week. ��During my days in bed Anne and Chris ran the show so deftly and creatively that (a) I rested with utter ease , and (b) participants benefited from experiencing different forms and styles of leadership.
A day on the train �brought us to London, where I stayed at the Gaia Foundation founded and presided over by my dear, brilliant friends Liz Hoskin and Ed Posey. �They drew a large crowd to hear Chris and me, and served as a base when I sallied forth the next day to give a workshop at the Guardian newspaper.
Here I am on the last day of all. �The final chapter of my journey took place at Hardwick House, an estate on the Thames an hour west of London, where a lively crew of activists, mostly in their twenties and thirties, pitched their tents for five days of the Work That Reconnects (WTR). �This event was the genius of Irene Nolte and Kim Bizzarri, and made possible by the generosity of Sir Julian Rose and his adult children, Miriam and Lawrence. The family is committed to the estate being used for progressive political projects of a grassroots nature, and preferably with a strong ecological focus. Participants came from across England and from as far as Rumania, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, they are a pretty seasoned lot, engaged in all three dimensions of the Great Turning.
For example: �Involved in the first dimension (Holding Actions), here �are quite a few veterans of Climate Camps to block extraction and use of fossil fuels, as well as of Occupy London and human rights campaigns. �As to the second dimension (Alternative Structures), �a good number �are organizers of Transition Towns as well as sustainable food production through permaculture, seed banks, ecovillages, gardens on supermarket rooftops, and squatted farms. �Representing the third dimension (Shift in Consciousness) are teachers of body-mind wellness practices �and deep ecology, as well as those use art, theatre, and ritual to �awaken people to the Great Turning.
Among us at Hardwick are a number of facilitators and trainers in the WTR, including key organizers for their respective countries: Claire Carre (founder of Roseaux Dansants) for France, Helena ter Ellen and Gauthier Chapelle of Belgium (founders of Terr�Eveille), and Gabi Bott (a �major networker for Germany and a leader in its Holon-Trainings).
The whole scene was rather magical: mornings together in the grandeur of a huge and ancient manor, and after lazy hours �to enjoy the river, �afternoons on the soft, shady �grass of an old apple orchard. ��The rare and unbroken sunny weather was part of the magic, too�as was my discovery that this very place was Toad Hall, its river bank �the scene of Ratty�s and Mole�s adventures, and that Kenneth Graham, author of our beloved Wind in the Willows, had lived nearby.
As I flew out from Heathrow I stopped at the ecovillage that a couple of my Hardwick friends had originally organized as a protest camp to stop �a proposed new runway. It�s verdant now, flourishing with gardens and greenhouses, and the small town it sought to protect is still standing and vital.
So too may our countless nonviolent actions to avert bombing Syria be heard in the halls of power, and may our prayers move us one step closer to a world that is verdant with peace. Fr. John Dear reminds us, �If we are to survive, all our institutions, structures, and nations will have to become nonviolent, and each one of us is needed to help bring about this global transformation.� Let's make it happen.


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Roald Hoffmann
The art of making porcelain was a Chinese technology known and
valued in the West, yet Europe tried—and failed—to
emulate this secret for hundreds of years. Porcelain was eventually
made in Saxony in 1709, in a successful piece of applied chemical
research by the "collaboration" of three men of strikingly
different character. One of these, Johann Friedrich Böttger,
was an alchemist who, in his life and work, illustrated the scant
separation of alchemy and chemistry during that time. Let me tell
their story.
My Precious
Merchants first brought Chinese porcelain to Europe overland. And
travelers told stories of how it was made. So Marco Polo wrote:
[In the city of Tin-gui …] cups or bowls and dishes
of porcelain-ware are manufactured. The process was explained to be
as follows. They collect a certain kind of earth, as it were, from a
mine, and laying it in a great heap, suffer it to be exposed to the
wind, the rain, and the sun, for thirty or forty years, during which
time it is never disturbed. By this it becomes refined and fit for
being wrought into the vessels above mentioned. Such colours as may
be thought proper are then laid on, and the ware is afterwards baked
in ovens or furnaces.
The manufacture of ceramics was well developed in medieval and
Renaissance Europe. Yet all attempts to replicate porcelain failed,
leaving a legacy of ceramics that imitated the whiteness (or
celadon-like coloration), or the hardness, or the translucency of
true porcelain. But never all qualities together.
Seventeenth-century merchants fanned the ardor for porcelain through
the East India trade that brought Asian wares to Europe. As a
result, if one could wait three years, one could have any pattern
made in fine porcelain. I have seen a Swedish plate in which the
European designer's words of instruction were faithfully replicated
in classic, cobalt-blue underglaze—the potters in China had
treated the instructions as the pattern.
The Right Stuff
Porcelain is a ceramic material. Once it was simple to define
ceramics as inorganic, refractory, porous, brittle, and insulating.
All parts of this definition have frayed at the edges: It's
fun to open a ceramics text, see the authors struggle for a
definition at the outset—and then take it all back. There are
ceramic superconductors, and brittle is not the word for the stuff
of turbine blades. Does one need a definition? Yes: It may be
essential for good science, as in the defining moments of
thermodynamics. No: It may be merely a refuge for people who want
their world clean and neat, this not that. A way the world refuses
to be.
Perhaps transformation by heat, if not fire, remains the defining
essence of ceramics. The chemical and physical changes in the kiln
are certainly complex. Porcelain is a high-temperature–fired
ceramic with recognizable, if fuzzily defined, properties of
whiteness, hardness and resonance—that ringing tone when
struck. Its traditional components varied, as there was not one
Chinese porcelain but many: Longquan Celadon, Jingdezhen-ware, the
products of the Dehua kilns. But the fine, white clay called kaolin
was essential. Other fusible materials were added: the mineral
sericite (a type of mica called petuntse) by the Chinese, alabaster
by the Böttger workshop. The bulk of kaolin is kaolinite, a
layered, hydrated aluminosilicate with the nominal formula
·2H2O. Heating expels water, then
some silica, which may form its high-temperature form, cristobalite.
The remainder of the aluminosilicate exists as mullite,
·2SiO2. The special qualities of
porcelain derive from the development of fine needle-like crystals
of mullite, cemented by glassy silica.
The sequence of transformation on firing porcelain is more
complicated than this summary. Yet, as in so many things in this
world, complexity (or is it our partial understanding?) is
absolutely no barrier to reproducibility, whether the porcelain is a
fine Chinese export or one's toilet bowl.
The Alchemical Fire
The first of the three men whose talents joined in the development
of European porcelain was Augustus the Strong, the Elector of Saxony
and King of Poland, who was besotted by Chinese porcelain. Serving
him was Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus, an aristocratic natural
philosopher and polymath with a practical bent. He wrote on
mathematics, but also learned how to make soft-paste porcelain in
France and built giant burning-lenses that reached the highest
temperatures yet observed.
The third man was Johann Friedrich Böttger, a young alchemist
in the classical vein, who believed in the central philosophy of
alchemy (and chemistry), that of essential transformation. He was
also a very good, practiced chemist, familiar with metallurgical
techniques and the arts of pharmacy. To be an alchemist at this time
was a precarious profession, a calling that required great political
skill. To gain patronage, one had to promise gold or medical cures.
To keep it, one had to practice, with refinement and skill, the art
of eternal, creative procrastination: always assuring more, always
asking for more. No wonder alchemists were always on the move! As in
the story of the goose that laid golden eggs—were the
alchemist to succeed, his patron would not want to lose such an
economic force—Augustus imprisoned Böttger in the
Saxonian capital of Dresden. The incarceration was, in part,
punishment for the failure to produce gold, in part, security of the
supply, should Böttger succeed.
At stake was not just Augustus's displeasure. Figure 3 is a
reproduction of a broadside, a contemporary account of what happened
to a Neapolitan alchemist, Count Domenico Emanuele Cajetano, who was
found cheating. He was hanged. Augustus's mien—you can
see why he was called "the Strong"—is captured in a
statuette of the King, made in Böttger's lifetime from a
marvelous red stoneware the alchemist labored to perfect.
Tschirnhaus convinced Augustus to put Böttger to the task of
making "white gold," or porcelain. It took only two years
to do so, when so many other attempts had failed, because of a
felicitous conjunction of materials and people. First, there were
nearby deposits of kaolin that were known to Tschirnhaus. This
Saxonian clay lacked the traces of potash mica that lent plasticity
to its Chinese counterpart and allowed Eastern potters to experiment
with more curvaceous forms. Still, this clay and no other was the
essence of porcelain. Next, Böttger could build kilns, in them
"the gehennical fire," that could reach the requisite high
temperatures. And finally, talent to decorate the porcelain existed
among the artists at Augustus's Dresden court. Figure 4 shows
a Meissen vase that imitates Japanese Arita porcelain
(left); in time unique decorative modes and figurines
(right) were elaborated.
But most of all, the success of the project was due to the careful
experimentation of the alchemist-turned-industrial-chemist. Set on
his way by Tschirnhaus (who died in 1708), Böttger first made
true, white porcelain in 1709 at the age of 27. In 1710 the
porcelain manufactory moved 15 miles down the Elbe River to the city
of Meissen and became known by that name. By 1713 it was an economic success.
Crystals of Porphyry and Borax
The story of this rediscovery of porcelain, Böttger's
story, is told beautifully in Janet Gleeson's 1998 book
Arcanum. She cites an emotional poem that Böttger
wrote to Augustus late in 1709:
The King will yearn for golden fruit,Which the weak
hand yet cannot present.It puts but crystals of porphyry and
boraxBefore the King's throne in place of such
sacrifices.Yes, the hand extends even the heart, in vessels of
This rings true. Böttger was caught. I sense from the poem that
he would have liked to get out of the alchemist's bind and rest on
his great practical synthesis, the making of the translucent
"white gold." But he was not allowed to do so. Although
the porcelain was of immense value and eventually contributed to the
King's coffers, it took time to establish a market for it.
Meanwhile Augustus did not give up his dream for gold, and
Böttger remained a prisoner. Time and again he was pressed to
make good on his promises of making gold, and he finally staged a
"successful" transmutation in 1713. Böttger was freed
in the end, even ennobled. But he was ill and exhausted. He died in
1719, the year porcelain was first made outside of Meissen. It's not
easy to keep an industrial secret.
Did it take an alchemist to make porcelain? Could a chemist of the
time have done it? The question assumes a distinction between
alchemy and chemistry that I believe did not exist in Böttger's
day. People transformed matter—in metallurgy, in the making of
medicines and cosmetics, in cooking, in dyeing fabrics—before
there were ever chemists. And these wonderful protochemistries, as I
like to call them, are one of many crafty threads into modern chemistry.
Another is alchemy, a unique cultural experiment, which adopted
chemical change (as we now know it) as a symbol, a kind of logo, for
its philosophy of transformation. Why chemistry? Because chemical
transformation was at the same time familiar and
spectacular. Imagine fire, or the smelting of ore. Imagine a
brightly colored vat of indigo dye reduced by fermented urine to a
muddy liquid, then resurrected in its blue glory by exposure to the air!
So the philosophy of change took on a chemical face. And then, I
imagine, was co-opted by it. Alchemists became chemists. A strict
distinction between the protochemists of the time and alchemists is
an ex post facto simplification of a world of overlaps,
which are beautifully exemplified by Böttger during his short
life. In their convincing arguments for a lack of separation,
historians William R. Newman of Indiana University and Lawrence M.
Principe of Johns Hopkins suggest that the bridging word
"chymistry" best describes alchemy and chemistry in the period.
I like the word. And yet, and yet, even as I imagine Böttger
keeping careful laboratory notes of his formulae and protocols, I
wonder if it could have been done without the underlying alchemical
imperative. One could make stoneware and glass, use them in everyday
life. But anyone who has held a fine Song or Koryo vessel in
one's hands, rotated it, followed the fine crackle, I think
feels that porcelain is something more. It is sublime. To aspire to
transform mere clay into that refined essence that catches light and
begs to be held as no other ceramic does—that vision takes
more than laboratory skill. The synthesis (I have to call it that)
of porcelain demands faith in the possibility of transformation and
a conviction that nature can be improved.
I think it took an alchemist. And the knowledgeable naturalist
Tschirnhausen. And the forceful tyrant Augustus the Strong (no,
please, there's no lesson here for contemporary granting agencies)
to make this sublime, applied research work out.
A final comment on alchemy: In the 1968 translation of his
remarkable book Forgerons et Alchemistes, Mircea Eliade
traced the tripartite relationship between metallurgy, alchemy and
religion. In conclusion, he writes:
We must not believe that the triumph of experimental
science reduced to nought the dreams and ideals of the alchemist. On
the contrary, the ideology of the new epoch, crystallized around the
myth of infinite progress and boosted by the experimental sciences
and the progress of industrialization which dominated and inspired
the whole of the nineteenth century, takes up and carries
forward—despite its radical secularization—the
millennary [sic] dreams of the alchemist. It is in the specific
dogma of the nineteenth century, according to which man's true
mission is to improve upon Nature and become her master, that we
must look for the authentic continuation of the alchemist's
You can sense that Eliade will go on to disapprove, not of the
alchemist's dream, but of modern, industrial society's twisted
reincarnation of that dream. Even as I worry about the hubris
implicit in the ceaseless flaunting of our transformative power, I
don't disdain our present state as much as Mircea Eliade. But I do
think he is essentially right about chemistry: Modern chemists,
screaming to high heaven that they have nothing to do with alchemy,
have fulfilled the alchemist's dream—transmuting sickness into
health and, with superb ingenuity, changing mud (the raw materials
of organic synthesis) into gold (what pharmaceutical companies sell).
I am grateful to Camille Moore for help in research on this
topic, and to Louise Spence and Pamela Vandiver for their comments.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/meissen-chymistry/1
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|I wouldn't worry too much about the playing, I had one that could care less about other playmates, loved being close to me, turned out to be the best dog imaginable. Then again, some dogs just take a while longer to interact with others and sometime do funny things like butt biting- they are all different, just like children! Enjoy the puppiness now, it passes pretty quickly! Bob
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and this teenage male husky that lives a couple blocks up, he stares at her and she lets him, still haven't figured out what that's all about.
|LOL young herder overlord. Venus never really played with the other dogs in her puppy class. Some of them she liked to socialize with but play, no, that was beneath the goddess. As an older puppy, she didn't really like other dogs staring at her. Which progressed into ;hey are you looking at ME?' At 14 months now, we've worked hard on her ignoring other dogs. She really doesn't like them except for her housemate Otto and this teenage male husky that lives a couple blocks up, he stares at her and she lets him, still haven't figured out what that's all about.
He always goes for the butt
During play time during puppy socialization class my puppy (almost 10 weeks old) seems to just watch and sometimes play. I don't mind him watching the other puppies because they come up to him and just try to play with him but he just sit there (not hide) until they pounce away. The other puppies pounce away and my pup chases their butt and bites it, then comes back to me and sits down like nothing happened. Then he waits again. If the other puppy catches mine in the act, they play for a little bit then he comes back to me and watches some more. He is the smallest puppy there and the other dogs are littermates (except a new dog that started tonight) and they tend to play rough.
The trainer has us then do some very basic obedience. He'll follow every command, he'll do fantastically. Tonight the trainer made a comment on how my puppy really seems to catch on fast and how he seems to really enjoy it. He does really like it, he will do just about anything for a treat or belly rub. The class was exceptionally hyper tonight by puppy standards and all the puppies got a toy when they got unruly except mine. Mine just sits and listens while watching the trainer demonstrate what to do, almost too calmly.
I'm not super concerned on the obedience portion but the play portion bothers me. Shouldn't he want to play instead of stay by me? I mean, I'm glad he likes me but I want him to be a puppy too.
What sort of gesture is butt biting? I never had a dog bite other dog's butts.
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GOP candidates for sheriff step up campaigning
July 16, 2010
If you go
What: Debate between candidates Nick Bosick and Garrett Wiggins
When: 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday
Where: Moonhill Schoolhouse on Routt County Road 129 in North Routt County
Learn more
On Facebook, both Republican Routt County sheriff candidates have fan pages. Visit the page for Garrett Wiggins and Nick Bosick.
The two will debate from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday at the Moonhill Schoolhouse on Routt County Road 129 in North Routt County, and again Wednesday on Steamboat TV18.
Primary information
The Aug. 10 primary is an all-mail election. Registered Republican voters, even if they are marked inactive, will receive a ballot from the Routt County Clerk and Recorder's Office. According to the Clerk and Recorder's website, ballots will be mailed starting today.
Steamboat Springs — Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct the date of the candidates debate. It is 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday at Moonhill Schoolhouse.
Primary information
The Aug. 10 primary is an all-mail election. Registered Republican voters, even if they are marked inactive, will receive a ballot from the Routt County Clerk and Recorder's Office. According to the Clerk and Recorder's website, ballots will be mailed starting today.
Campaign signs are sprouting beside the roads in rural Routt County, right alongside the summer wildflowers. It's campaign season again, and two Republicans are stepping up their efforts to win the primary for Routt County Sheriff's Office.
Nick Bosick and Garrett Wiggins have started traveling across the county to meet voters and make their case about why their experience makes them better suited for the job. The winner of the Aug. 10 all-mail primary will face incumbent Democrat Gary Wall in the general election in November.
The first debate between the candidates, both employees of the Steamboat Springs Police Department, will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday at the Moonhill Schoolhouse on Routt County Road 129 in North Routt County, at a meeting organized by B.J. and Chuck Vale. The candidates will again meet Wednesday for a debate hosted by Steamboat TV18. That show will be broadcast later on the station and posted to http://www.steamboatpilot.com.
The timetable for the broadcast hasn't been finalized.
Wiggins, the commander of the All Crimes Enforcement Team, and Bosick, detective with the Police Department, have similar experience, and in some cases, similar ideologies.
"Nick and I haven't gotten together to talk about our philosophies, but I think our philosophies are probably pretty similar," Wiggins said.
In separate interviews, the candidates said they would like to expand the reach of the Routt County Sheriff's Office farther into the county, instead of focusing on Steamboat.
Bosick said he would like to see the deputies outside of Steamboat's city limits more often because Steamboat has its own police force, and residents in other parts of the county are asking for more service.
"When their majority of time is spent within the city limits of Steamboat, that is not what they need to be doing," he said.
Bosick said he would like to establish substations for deputies across the county where they would spend a certain percentage of their time. He said that by creating agreements with agencies such as the North Routt Fire Protection District and the town of Yampa, deputies could have remote offices with regular hours for residents to contact them.
"I think that's going to serve the purpose a lot more than everybody responding from Steamboat and hanging out waiting for a call," he said.
Wiggins said he, too, would like to reach out to the rural communities in Routt County.
"I think it's vital we have an open line of communication with our community and we have some type of way to accept or talk about input … and any programs they want or any advice," Wiggins said.
He said he would like to create a website that would allow for either signed or anonymous comments from the public for the Sheriff's Office to review.
When asked about the major differences from their opponent, Wiggins and Bosick said their experience puts them in the lead.
"I have about 10 years more experience in law enforcement than he has, and I've worked in other areas of our nation" that have higher crime rates, Wiggins said.
Bosick asks voters to direct their questions to him.
"That is one of the probably biggest questions people ask me when I start talking to them, and for the most part, I try to respond to that by saying, 'Sit down and talk with me and ask me what I've accomplished in my career and what my vision is for the Sheriff's Office, and do the same with Garrett," Bosick said. "Even though we both work for the same agency, there are a lot of differences in what we've accomplished and what we've done in our law enforcement careers."
Bosick was a patrol sergeant with the Police Department, and he said he oversaw about eight officers during that time.
Wiggins said his current staff is small — he oversees a handful of officers with ACET — but when he was working as a manager with Swisher International, he oversaw a staff of 55 to 70 people. Swisher makes cigars and other tobacco products.
Winning support
Bosick petitioned his way on to the ballot after he failed to get the required number of votes at the Republican Assembly in April. Bosick said that even though he won just 12 percent of the votes at the assembly to Wiggins' 72 percent, he thinks he can pick up people who might not be the core of the party.
"I do believe the Republican Party, the independents and a significant number of Democrats, are supporting me," he said.
Although only Republicans can vote in the primary, Wiggins said he's not expecting a landslide either.
"I think the primary is going to be a lot closer than that," Wiggins said.


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Bruce trial starts
The trial of Bradley Bruce, 40, started Tuesday morning.
Gadsden participates in Torch Run
Several hundred students and law enforcement officers participated in this year's Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics held last Wednesday morning in Quincy.
Barber convicted by feds
Kenneth L. Barber, 62, of Tallahassee, was convicted by a federal jury in Tallahassee last week of wire fraud'
'African Queen' to ply the Apalachicola
George Floyd, the principal investor in the Chattahoochee Landing, and director of the Apalachicola Maritime Museum, spoke last week at the Quincy Rotary Club.
Community leader Bill Miller dies
William (Bill) Marvin Miller, 85, of Havana, FL, passed away Sunday, April 14, 2013 at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital.
EGHS track teams headed to Regionals
Members of the East Gadsden High School track team put in a serious practice Monday afternoon, April 15. The boys and girls track teams are preparing to go to the Regional Meet at Bolles High School.
Dustin Watson signs scholarship
Dustin Watson was one of three athletes at Liberty County High School who signed with Huntingdon College last week.
56 golfers enjoy Jack & Jill tourney
The 8th Annual Jack & Jill Golf Tournament was held Friday, April 12, at the Havana Golf and Country Club.
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Well water with pH of 4.1 and almost 0 KH and GH
I noticed when I do my water changes my pH drops almost a full point. My tank runs between 5.10 and 5.75 pH. The water out of my tap is 4.1 according to my probe. I am keeping one GBR, three oto's, a couple of ghost shrimp, and an assasin snail to combat the unknown number of MTS's. I have a flame sword surrounded by HC with eco complete in a 14 gallon biocube with 6500k bulbs, uv sterilizer, pressurized CO2- all controlled with a neptune apex lite. I am regularly fertilizing with Seachem Flourish line of N, P, K, and Comprehensive. I am using the Apex Lite pH probe to control CO2, however my drop checker never turns fully green. I have the pH control set to turn off the CO2 when it gets below 5.10 pH. At night the highest the pH gets is 5.75 (CO2 and lights off). Fish and shrimp seem to be doing fine, plants pearl well but seem to be slow growing. Is the low pH stunting my growth, or should i allow my pH to go lower than 5.10 to achieve higher CO2 levels? Should I add to my hardness/ buffer for a higher pH? What is the best way to do this without constantly chasing my tail.
with 0 kh and gh a little buffer would go a long way
many shrimp keepers would likely love to be in ur position!!
kh to at least 1-2 is ok. for most plants 2-4 range is perfect
gh 3-5 is perfect
also ph will need to drop a little more for a green drop checker. the ideal floating around is a 1.0 ph drop for a green DC
I've been doing water changes premixing 1/2 teaspoon each of Seachem equilibrium, Alkaline Buffer, and Acid Buffer in a 5 gallon carboy and aerating overnight to thoroughly mix. This gives me a pH of 6.7, KH of 3 degrees, and GH of 2 degrees for my makeup water. Changing about 5 gallons a day on 14 gallon tank. German Blue Ram seems to be more vibrant and better appetite ( could just be the daily water change), but HC, and Flame Sword are instantaneously growing at a much faster rate. Is it normal for well water to be so acidic and devoid of KH and GH- I would have thought the complete opposite. I live in Maryland about a hundred yards from the Chesapeake Bay and my soil is pretty sandy is that has any effect. Just curious if anyone has any insight. Thanks.
I should have mentioned, I now have my controller to have a lower limit of 5.5 pH and lights out it goes up to 6.1. CO2 now runs long enough to turn drop checker green at a reasonable pH.
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by armygirl, Jun 30, 2008.
Is Sharpe a sleeper or a napper?
Narcoleptics have messed up sleep-wake cycles. According to this page from the NIH, I think this makes Sharpe a napper. One article I read described it as the feeling you get when you have missed an entire night of sleep, and you start spontaneously drifting off even as you struggle to stay alert.
I'm starting to see a pattern... Wallace x 2 Flip x 2 Walter x 2 Kwame x 2 (GPS ankle bracelet sold separately)
Sleeper pick of the draft.
Napping sucks. September though May its all I ever do, balancing classes and a full-time job.
Only seen a couple of videos on his game. Very natural, very smooth. The least of my concerns is his physical condition. It is easily manageable and no doubt science will unfold, if not a complete recovery aspect, then an aggressive counterpoint. The worst direction for this young man is D-League. He needs personal training and set routines on weak points. This is a tough route for roadies. Nonetheless, it has to be done. The first month will present invisible barriers for playing time. He will have to spend 5 plus hours on the hardwood....everyday, regardless of physical location for the rest of the year. He will have to survive and most rookies will reel at this schedule. This is called aspects of character-building. The main kicker is this: he must play at least 3-7 minutes at every home game. It is the only aspect that can carry him through the country of old men. The secondary aspect is the fan base. Folks, the only excitement coming from the residual accomplishments of the current team makeup is the anticipation of some new possibilities. Barring the additions of someone like AI, your DNA has to be produced born whole from the womb. The modified transfer from JMax (off the bench) to Sharpe is now set in place. The Palace will demand and enthusiastically accept no less. People now need, more than ever: new possibilities. Setting aside the above main-secondary approaches, is the aspect of the other. Undetermined future moves (or none at all) still have to address the vacuum of leadership on this team. This certainly begs-the-question: surface PR fluff does not equate toward actions that give 100 per cent of less quality... regardless of victory or defeat. What this team needs is a teacher. Anyone in their twenties, in most likelihood, will not be a teacher. Even rarer will be the current clones of 6-8; 230; vertical leap of 42 inches; left-right hand dunk; and lack of shyness from 30 feet. Shoes, jerseys and Euros will become, hopefully, representative artifacts. _______________________________ Ladies, and gentleman. For your viewing pleasure: please take a quick glance away from the vertical pinnacle's of the hardwood trees. As the eye moves downward, it rest upon the forest floor. Shaded from the sun's rays and moisture drops leap-frogged from the canopy above; is a little known species of plant life. We are about to embark on a journey from the stilts of bleachers down-under, to the field of medicinal cures. Meet an unlikely candidate, called Allen Iverson, who is about to ...
What are you in school for? Great point. Err, counterpoint.
Is anybody here really high on Sharpe? It just seems like we have so little data on him + he's a bit of a project/ turnaround story + we have so many young guys ahead of him who will probably get PT before him.
Really high? Nah. I'm not down on the guy by any means, but he's a clean slate to me; i knew nothing of this guy until we picked him. Clinical psychology; i'm in it for the long haul
I guess what I'm getting at is that it seems like nobody here has much of an opinion on him. For our top draft pick, this is very unusual.
I'm the president of the Walter Sharpe fan club. Any guy who can take a bullet, stay awake, and make it to the NBA is pretty cool in my opinion. I mean, Darth Tater can't even walk in heels and chew gum at the same time.
Are there any pictures of this........Is there any film.....
That's what happens when you're in the same draft class as Trent Plainsted.
That's Plaisted, you fool! All of you jokers are going to eat your words someday!!!!!!
No doubt, right after I move to Milan.........
Sheed made this headband for Sharpe:
I would have put a tiny pillow on the side of it.
Maybe just go with the classic ZZZZZZZ
sheed forgot that MC as head coach also deserves a rookie headband...
He just messed his desk up as an alternative form of hazing.
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I am a fairly new to teaching and do not have a lot of experience. However, this evening I was called into school to give a lesson at very short notice. During a listening exercise I made a mistake of telling the class (3 students) the wrong answer to a question, even though it was obvious what it was. I had been looking at the wrong answer key and did not realise until the lesson was over. The group is usually taken by the owner of the school.
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I find no reason whatsoever that a private company couldn't do it for less with better service.
I would really like to have a serious discussion as to why the federal government needs to be managing the delivery of mail.
require twenty yeas of service for retirement regardless of age.
probably not the door to door daily service we are used to.
They've cut the hours way back now, but our local post office has excellent service and a very helpful person (the only one in the place). It probably makes a difference when everyone in town knows you and you know everyone in town... Big city post offices, on the other hand, do tend to be impersonal and inefficient....


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Dolphriend is code for dolphin done wrong.
Someone want to explain why the dolphin's back comes to a point? Poor design.
Harui wrote:The angle of the face makes it look more like a beluga. :/
I agree. The face + lack of a dorsal fin = beluga.
So, nobody has ever heard of river dolphins? They have much smaller dorsal fin than their marine relatives.
looks like a beluga to me :x
Did you know that dolphins are just hoopy sharks?
Boo to the forum for killing my Glee quote. Anyway, first thing that came to mind when I saw this shirt. If it looked like a dolphin, I might actually buy it.
Ha ha
Looks like a perfect T shirt for a gift shop at myrtle beach.
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I guess this 'dolphin' isn't going to be one of those saying "so long and thanks for all the fish."
This 'dolphin' seems to like just where it is now.
And I actually thought this was a seal for a moment. But of course, seals can't be that artistic. And it didn't have whiskers. Like this one doesn't have a dorsal fin.
thethatcher wrote:the dolphin is missing his dorsal fin... I'm not convinced this is actually a dolphin.
The Amazon River Dolphin does have a small dorsal fin like the one seen on the shirt.
So you should all stop complaining about the dorsal fin.
zekecatz wrote:Many of the sales seem to be in landlocked Kansas - where they wouldn't know what a dolphin looks like anyway.
This cracks me up. I'm in Kansas and I am ordering the shirt for my sisters girlfriend. ;)
would like the shirt if it wasn't for modern day rainbow association
smileman66 wrote:The Amazon River Dolphin does have a small dorsal fin like the one seen on the shirt.
So you should all stop complaining about the dorsal fin.
That's no dolphin... it's some sort of manbearfish.
spilzer wrote:Okay, I know it's supposed to be a dolphin based on the title, but I can't help seeing a tusk-less narwhal.
Darn memes invading my subconscious..
This is just flipping ugly.
When I saw the title I thought this would be the long-awaited Dolph Lundgren shirt I've always dreamed of. My disappointment is tangible.
Ooh! I finally get it! Wow, that took me a while. I kept wondering what a Dolphriend was, then I finally said the word outloud... "Dol-friend". I get it. Clever.
Somewhere, under the rainbow....
This is in the top 10 lamest woot shirts ever.
My shirt ...IS A DOLPHRIEND!
Can someone explain the porpoise of this shirt?
(sorry, I'm shooting for the worst joke of the day award)
this shirt reminds me that I have unfinished video to edit.
Same here...
I think this animal is the offspring of this so-called "river" dolphin and Mr. Limpet.
All it took was a few herring martinis...
glave wrote:Seems like designs have been lacking in comparison to other tee sites lately. I KNOW the actual shirts have.
Last one I got was incredibly thin, and so long it seemed like it was almost meant to be a nightgown. I immediately relegated it to be an 'around the house only' shirt.
Yes.I'd pay 5 bucks more for better material.
Yes! It has been scientifically proven that dolphins fart rainbows.
Who the hell draws a dolphin without a dorsal fin? Is there some sick dolphin mutilation inside joke I don't get here, or does someone need some animal anatomy classes here before they try to sell a shirt?
That's a Rastafarian rainbow and something more important than a dorsal fin is absent. That dolphin is missing it's dreadlocks.
bpamperin wrote:This cracks me up. I'm in Kansas and I am ordering the shirt for my sisters girlfriend. ;)
Is she hot? Either way I am going to imagine she is Kansas hot and doesn't like to be constrained by undergarments.
Love this! We almost never see any dolphins on Woot. Same goes for giraffes (hint hint).
Spiritgreen wrote:Can someone explain the porpoise of this shirt?
(sorry, I'm shooting for the worst joke of the day award)
wa wa waaaaaa
drunkenalien wrote:Ha ha
Looks like a perfect T shirt for a gift shop at myrtle beach.
Google maps
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ASDFJKL;! Yay Myrtle Beach, SC! :D
Although, I prefer Edisto. Much less crowded. More chance of actually SEEING a dolphin in the ocean. And lots of sharks teeth to find :]
So, I love dolphins...however, this is not the kind of dolphin I think of when I hear the word dolphin. Then when river dolphins were mentioned, I looked them up and found that most of them have really long snouts. Then I found what is sometimes called the Irrawaddy River dolphin, which is not a river dolphin at all; it is an oceanic dolphin that lives near river mouths.
Anywho, this dolphin has a very short snout and a very small dorsal fin, and sort of looks like what is on this shirt design.
However, I'm not a fan of this shirt. Sorry!
If one has to go into obscure river dolphin explanations about a shirt, it's probably a pretty poor design.... jus sayin....
More like a beluga whale, if you ask me. Note the melon shape, the mouth shape, and especially the bump on its back where the dorsal fin should be.
I practically grew up at Sea World, in case you're wondering.
CapSea wrote:I did have an idea for a shirt similar to this once, except in addition to the cute smiling animal and rainbow, I wanted a really big "Expletive You" underneath.
yeah, you just hit the nail right on the head
This will go over great in my homosexual manatee club!!!
Is there a joke I'm not getting here or something? Nobody just 'forgets' to put a dorsal fin on a dolphin. What's the punch line?
tomcall wrote:Doesn't really look like a dolphriend. Looks more like a manaquaintance.
I think it looks more like a baby beluga myslef...
Where is the dorsal fin? As much as I like dolphins and rainbow tee shirts... I think I'll get beat up wearing this shirt. I hope the artist does well though.
jacroe wrote:This is Woot saying, Yeah we really don't have anything good to put up there today. This'll do.
Enough of the kiddie shirts already.
The first thing I thought was, where is it's dorsal fin? I guess I don't really "get" the shirt.
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Time to celebrate for me. I am a man of few words, especially in a not exciting period on a personal level (economic crisis, not a lot of work, bla bla bla), so I'd like to share with you some achievements in these 5 years.
My first sale: 0.60$ 11/22/2007
My best seller: 320 sales, 931$ (online since 07/25/2011)
My best series, Robico Icons Series: 30 illustrations, 827 sales in total
My favourite subject: kids
That's all. Thank you. DT, admins, fellow travellers.
Best, Rob :-)
This is the motivation.
Another brilliant idea of our esteemed Prime Minister...
Yesterday I celebrated my 5000th sale!!
When I joined here in september 2007 I had not a photos archive to upload and I didn't know anything about vectorial graphic. I started from scratch. I learned day by day here and by myself.
So, the little "moral" of the story is: everyone can pursue his dream, just believe.
I'd like to thank DT team and buyers, but also all the contributors.
If you want, you can find me on Facebook.
See you soon, Rob.
Christmas is approaching. For this holiday I realized many illustrations, but today I want to show you my personal interpretation of an Advent Calendar.
When I was a little child I liked it very very much, so I hope that someone else will feel those same feelings, day after day, from the first of December till the Eve.
Merry Christmas!!
Bye, Rob.
Today I celebrate my DT-Day. ;-)
One year ago I started this amusing adventure, let me share my stats with you for a brief assessment: 281 uploads (not so much, I know...) and 694 sales. There is no point denying that I'm very satisfied...
I'd like to thank DT, buyers and all this great community.
These are some of my latest illustrations:
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Bussana Vecchia (Old Bussana) is a small ghost town in Liguria (Italy), not so far from the Italian-French border. It was built (IX sec.) on the top of a hill to be easily defended by Saracens. Like many other villages in the area it experienced periods of ups and downs, without ever becoming famous for a particular reason.
The reason why today is known is linked to the tremendous earthquake occured on February 23, 1887: at 6:21 AM a twenty second earth tremor caused destruction and deaths (at least 2000 people).
As a consequence of this tragedy, local authorities decided to rebuild the village, called Bussana Nuova (New Bussana), in a new site, a couple of kilometers downstream.
After the WW2, immigrants and displaced persons coming from Southern Italy started illegally settling the Old town. Despite...
Sometimes I happen to read posts on the Message Boards talking about subscriptions and the disappointment of seeing your own image sold at only 0.30$ or 0.36$. I always consider every sale with satisfaction, like a personal success – my picture was chosen among 3.000.000 of images online! From this point of view it doesn't matter if it's a "normal" sale or a subscription.
I sold many images via subscription and I want to point out the usefulness of these sales with an example.
This illustration is online from 23rd of November 2007. It became level 2 the 14th of April 2008 thanks to subscriptions too. From then I sold it 7 times:
16th of April 1.20$
17th of April 1.20$
23rd of April 3.00$
25th of April 1.80$
29th of April 1.80$
6th of May 0.36$
Hi everybody!
I'm here on DT from six months (joined september 23, 2007) and I'd like to share my stats with you for a first assessment.
October 2007 – 11 new files – A.R. 19% – 0 sales
November 2007 – 56 new files – A.R. 94.9% – 1 sale
December 2007 – 17 new files – A.R. 68 % – 99 sales
January 2008 – 25 new files – A.R. 73.5% – 36 sales
February 2008 – 25 new files – A.R. 92.6% – 66 sales
March 2008 – 34 new files – A.R. 100% – 64 sales
This was my first sale:
And these are my first level 5 images (current Assignment):
So... I'm very glad and I hope to have many more sales in future... ;-)
What about you?
Bye, Rob.
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Here I am with the second part of the blog dedicated to the freeware and open source software called Inkscape. It's very easy to use, but if you know some simple tricks, you'll be able to draw with it in a faster way.
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Do you know Inkscape? It's a freeware and open source software you can download from internet. It's a very beautiful software that you can use to draw nice illustrations.
I've drawn all my illustrations with it and I think it's a very useful instrument for vector designs.
I want to advise you to use some keyboards that can help you in your works. I often use them and I think they help you to draw more quickly and without lose your concentration.
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F5 (or e)Ellipse/Arc
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Tubbing my malibu
Thanks folks,I know exactly what you mean,I don't like the looks of the tires being too far inside the wheel wells.Ive just finished reading several articles on back halving g body's.With all the available wheel and tire options,wouldn't the rear end width be a determining factor in the overall width in between frame rails???Im thinking if I locate my frame rails close enough together my wheel and tire combo is almost limitless??????But I'm old so I could very well be not thinking about it right lol.Thanks for everyone's input its been very useful!!
Yes, tire/wheel size will determine axle width. Plus frame clearance also. Unless you plan to start reworking the frame rails you really need to be sure the axle width is enough to handle whatever backsapcing the wheels you like will handle, plus clearances.
I'd do the sheetmetal tubbing first. Then once it's done you can get measurements from the existing axle to see what space you have from inner wheelwell edge to outter edge. After that you can measure the hub face to see what you have for outside and backspace on the car.
Once you know the figures you can determine what wheel/tire will work. Most tire companies will give you tread width, but they also have sidewall width or cross section. That will be the true test of what clears, as it's the widest portion of the tire. I like to leave an inch inside, and about 1/2"-1" outside depnding on what side deflection your rear suspension might have. My panhard bar keeps my axle pretty solid, but normal deflection is less than 1/2", so I like 3/4" clearance to the tire for a little room.
Tubbing my Malibu
I will also be cutting down the rear end myself and sending the axles off to be splined.We have a very large swap meet coming up in February and there is usually a massive amount of tires and wheels to choose from.Im hoping this year will be no different and am able to find what I'm looking for.In the mean time I'm going to start removing existing tubs and floor and trunk panels,I'm not sure my trunk hinges will be in the way but if I have to I can move them and pin the deck lid.Just getting anxious to start in it.Thanks everyone!!
I guess I forgot to mention I am a carpenter,business owner by trade, so I got a head start on using a tape measure and a couple son in laws that know absolutely everything from scientific engineering to having their wives figured out so I should be in good hands so I'm hoping ill just be sitting in the corner drooling on myself while they figure out how to open the trunk!!lol!!!
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Picked up some 31/14.50/15's over the weekend.I got the interior removed and got the divider out behind the back seat.Im thinking of removing the trunk hinges and doing a pin on trunk????My next question is where to cut the floor out??Im assuming right at the area where the trans tunnel ends in front of backseat????I want to get frame rails cut off but I need to know how much floor to remove.Thanks guys!!!
I never cut any more than abosolutely neccessary! You can always cut more, but it's tougher to put some back! Do some measuring for tire/wheel clearance and then figure out if the frame rails need to move, and if so how much. Once you see how much they need to move you can measure from the inner existing edge and see what needs trimming. If the frame needs to be relocated in, make the cut in the trunk into the inside edge of the frame. That way the wheelwell wont be an issue for any reason.
If you want to leave your hinges just cut the down support loose from the inner wheelwell, and leave it hang while you tub. Once you've tubbed the wheelwell you can then make up metal to reattach the support for the hinges back to the new tub.
Sometimes it's easier to cut off the rear frame rails first. Then narrow them outside the car and build up your backhalf. Then you can move it under the car and jack it up to see what obstructions you have and address the wheelwells then. After cutting away the sheetmetal you can raise the frame into position, weld it in and do any gussetting. Then you can start rebuilding the new tubs where they need to be with the modified frame.
Good advice.Ill cut out the frame tomorrow.I built a heavy duty table and plan on building my rails on it.Ive built hundreds of motors,and build custom homes for a living and project managed a 5 million dollar hospital addition,but this is by far the most intimidating job I've done yet lol.Im assuming I will cut the frame toward the front of the car beyond the mounting points for rear end bracing where it connects to frame right where frame turns?If that makes sense
I would usually cut the frame before it rises for the rear axle clearance. Where to cut depends on where various body mounts are. I would also tack in a metal brace between the frame rails on the portion that will stay with the body so the frame wont move. Doesn't have to be anything huge, and some 1.2"-2" angle tacked in will keep things located so they don't spring when you cut behind to remove the back half.
Then once the back frame is removed I would build a crossmember to span the frame rails, and weld it in permanently. After that the brace can be removed. This crossmember will be what you attach your narrowed frame back half to when it's done.
This is a picture of my buddy's old '37 Plymouth coupe's frame where he back halfed it for monster tires and wheels. You can see how they built a crossmember, then narrowed the rails and reattched them. The body is still off, so I can get some other pictures if you need any further looks:
If you're going to keep the car lower, then you'll need a offset in the crossmember to give driveline clearance. His car is a gasser style, so no offset needed in the center for driveline clearance.
If you are using an existing axle, then you need to start from its dimensions and figure out the wheel width, offset and diameter first, then buy tires that fit those wheels.
Once you have the actual tires and wheels you will be using, put them under the car and then mock up the body to get your ride height and rake figured out. Yes, you need to cut sheet metal to do this step.
Only after all that is established can you start to install your suspension.
The thing is... Depending on if your useing a 4 link or what ever,, You need to know what your going to have in front of the rear end because this will say where your crossmember will be, then work back from the crossmember,, You can tie the crossmember into the front part of the frame,, Then set you 4 link or what ever your useing off it, Make the frame kick up's, tie back into your body in the back by the body mounts,
Really hard to give a step by step on the web,, But the car will need to be set up at ride height so you can figure everything out...
Once you have the tires under the car in place,, You can take your measurement from inside rim to inside rim.. This will be your over all measurement for the rearend,,(minus the thickness of your two hubs..)
Where people get into trouble is not setting the wheels being use under the car (IN PLACE) before starting anything.. By doing it this way the tires will end up where they need to be.. Doing a bunch of figuring without doing it this way will have your tires sitting somewheres under the car,, Might end up not being where they should be.. It's really easy to do,, When it's done the right way..Do what it takes to have the wheels right.. Are you will be sorry later when it's to late..
Tubbing my malibu
Thanks for the great info and pics.I picked up a set of 31/14.50/15's that I will be using.I guess my main question is wher to cut the floor at in front of where the back seat was located.Everyrhing Ive seen it was cut right where the. Trans tunnel ends ate the bav seat.Is this correct??That should give me plenty of space to instal crossmember.I am going with a 4 link set up btw.Thanks guys.Sorry if the questions seem like no brainers but I don't want to fabricate more sheet metal than neccassary.
Tubbing my malibu
Hey all!I began to start cutting the sheet metal out for my tub job.I guess I didn't realize the support bars for the rear end were bolted to the sheet metal in the floor board in front of the back seat.So the sheet metal has to be cut back to where the frame is parallel with each other before it curves underneath and rises for the shock and spring mounts?????ive got a sheet metal brake so I can fabricate a new driveshaft tunnel if I have to.Am I correct in this way of thinking???Thanks guys!!
Here's a Mustang I did..Might give you some ideas..The four bar came right off that crossmember..
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On Saturday I attended a remarkable event in Whakatane, a town on the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand's North Island. I was a guest of the Ngāti Awa people, and the event was the opening of Mātaatua Wharenui (meeting house), a wonderful structure that was originally built in 1875 by the iwi (tribe) despite the devastating effects of colonisation and land confiscations.
Mātaatua Wharenui back home in Whakatane, New Zealand.Image: Patrick GreeneSource: Museum Victoria
Unfortunately, the building was soon lost to the people who built it as it was dismantled to be taken to be displayed in Sydney and then, in 1880, as part of the New Zealand display at the Melbourne International Exhibition. That was my connection with the event, as Museum Victoria is the guardian of the Royal Exhibition Building constructed for the 1880 exhibition. Charlotte Smith (Senior Curator in MV's History and Technology Department) carried out some research at the request of the Ngāti Awa which revealed that only the carved wooden panels were displayed rather than the complete structure.
The interior walls of Mātaatua Wharenui have intricate woven panels and carvings. They were restored by Ngāti Awa craftspeople.Image: Patrick GreeneSource: Museum Victoria
After Melbourne, Mātaatua was taken to England where it was displayed, and remained for several decades. It then went to the Otago Museum, and in 1996, under the Treaty of Waitangi, it was returned to the Ngāti Awa. A team of craftspeople — carvers and weavers — have worked for 15 years to restore the building that had become seriously decayed on its travels.
I was present for the pohiri (general welcome), a series of speeches and songs in which the Ngāti Awa welcomed their guests, who, group by group, responded. As well as other iwi, there were delegations from Hawaii and the Cook Islands. It was a great privilege to part of the ceremony and to witness the oratory that is a treasured part of Maori (and Polynesian) culture, a world away from the sound bites that constitute so much current discourse. The restoration of the building is a triumph: it has been beautifully carried out and the building will stand as a testament to survival of a people and their culture.
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - North Carolina swept Wake Forest 3-0 (25-19, 25-16, 25-21) for the second time this season, improving to 19-4 (10-3) after a 2-0 weekend. Freshman Paige Neuenfeldt led UNC with 14 kills, four blocks and an ace.
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The Tar Heels kept up their momentum through set two, winning 25-16 for a 2-0 match lead with a strong .355 team attack. Neuenfeldt led UNC with four kills and an ace, and Taner added five digs. Harms had another six assists, and Adkins and sophomore Chaniel Nelson each added a block for Carolina.
Freshman Victoria McPherson helped UNC take set three 25-21 with four kills and two blocks. Neuenfeldt added three kills and two more blocks, and Harms had five assists and five digs. Junior Kayla Berringer, Adkins, McGee and Nelson each had a block, and freshman Jordyn Schnabl added four assists in the final set.
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Shows the output shaft little snap ring, and details about getting that ring to rotate by bending the anti clunk spring.
|It don't matter if that anti clunk spring gets bent all to crap......cause I'm gonna replace it with a case saver anyway.......z
Rear oil port for removing reverse clutch
It's at the very back towards the rear on the bottom where all the channels are. It's one of 2 far as I can tell.....I'll try it tomorrow and post a pic where it is. You blow air in there to force that piston out.....z
Get a good book.
Get Session's book at Amazon.....used ones are pretty cheap........z
Making the bottom channel area Flat.
You know those T squares with the Sliding deal with a bubble in it and a thumb screw.....Well, that bar is about 1/8" thick and STRAIGHT.......and sharp.....So I had a high spot on those channels......and I just scraped that bar across it and shaved off a little aluminum......and actually made it pretty straight.....lol........z
I know I'm gonna catch some flack for that one........LMAO........z
Gasket removal tip
Go buy yourself a scalpel with a box of #11 blades. This is an awesome tool anyway, but it's just the thing to scrape off the gasket if it's a ROYAL PAIN like mine was. Made by TransTec.....make a note. Most of it came out, but there were LOTS of places where it was almost welded to the channels.
When you use this, use 2 hands so you have lots of control. Cause you really don't wanna screw up those channels......it's ALUMINUM..lol...and that scalpel blade is Surgical STEEL.......
Also, scrape that blade on a flat piece of the bottom BACKWARDS every once in awhile.....to kind of dull it a little bit.......and flip it over and use the other side too.....It's surgical steel, but it will get some burrs from use.......so you can scrape it backwards on a wide flat piece (like where the pan sits) to get those gone..........sounds a lot more complicated explaining it than it is once you get going.........z
Valve Body Pins/Pistons
These pins were a royal pain. The ones in the blind holes anyway. They ARE just dropped in there, and will come out with a little effort.
Play around with pushing the front of those valves and at the same time banging the valve body on a piece of wood to try to get them to drop out. If they come out enough for you to grab them with a pair of little forceps, you are good to go.......Also pay close attention which valves go in which holes. They should have some marks on the front.....if not I suggest you make some. And put them in baggies after you get them out too.....And MARK the baggies with your sharpie.
I had one valve body that was HARD to get out....it was the 3rd one from the left....(with the channels up). I used a little screw driver that was bent on the end to CAREFULLY push on the piston through the channels. Once it was out enough to expose a lip, it was a lot easier to get it out......There was a burr where the pin was and that what caused it to be so tight......z
This is the order you should do this.....or at least the order I'm gonna be doing it, since I'm in the middle of this deal.
1. Use zip lock sandwich bags to keep your parts in. Label the less obvious ones with a sharpie.
2. Take PICTURES as you're doing this job. LOTS of them.
3. Take out each main assembly, like the pump, the clutch packs/assemblies, until you get them All out....and you have an empty case. i.e. don't get sidetracked taking stuff apart until you need to.
4. Then work your way back wards starting with that reverse clutch etc.
Anybody got a pic of that air passage you gotta blow in to get the reverse piston out?......lol
T-350 Transmission Rebuild Tips and Pics.
OK...gonna try to summarize all the different problems questions, MIS Information etc.....and will post pics of a complete rebuild.
1. There are only 2 tools that you absolutely need to buy, or make.
A. When you get all the way into the back of the transmission where the reverse clutch lives, you need a tool to compress it so you can get a snap ring out. There's pics of it on the web, but you can make one also using a piece of all thread, a U shaped piece that fits over the clutch spring housing, and a flat piece of thick bar stock that will go on the back of the transmission. The all thread goes through the hole.......(by this time you already have the output shaft removed). You put nuts on both ends, and tighten the one on the flat bar to compress that thing. And you can also use that tool to do the other clutch packs.
2. The other 2 tricky parts are removing the output shaft little tiny hidden snap ring at the end of that output shaft. It's hard to see, and even harder to get out. SO, invest in a pair of external snap ring pliers. These should have a SMALL front end, and it should be BENT, so you can use it to get behind these snap rings. These will also come in handy when you remove the larger snap ring on the reverse clutch above.
Having said all that......I WAS able to remove that tiny snap ring using a couple of dental type picks. One of the picks had a multi bent front end on it that made this possible.
I also removed the rear clutch snap ring using a couple of thin screwdrivers......one of which I had bent the front of to make it angled.
OH....and one other thing........Does anybody have a picture of WHERE that 'rear oil port' is that you have to blow compressed air in to remove the reverse piston mentioned above.
And finally.....when you get to the part where you remove that BIG internal snap ring that goes around the inside of the case.......and you can SEE the anti clunk spring.........well.....at that point Sessions says to just wack the output shaft HARD with a rubber/plastic/wood mallet, or even slam the whole case down to where the output shaft hits on a piece of wood or something.
Well.....this is wrong....lol......because in my case the whole assembly had rotated so that there was no way it was coming out of there.....and the anti clunk spring was KEEPING it rotated......it was a mystery on how to get that out, but I found a method.
If that anti clunk spring is on the top left side, grab the right end of it TIGHT with some small vise grips and BEND that sucker out and down.....that makes it loose enough to rotate that assembly to where you get it CLOSE to where it will line up with the lugs and come out.......THEN you wack the output shaft hard and it will pop out...........z
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