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Davis Point, Friendship, ca.1920
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Fisherman tending to his dory, Friendship, ca. 1910
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Friendship Harbor and the steamboat landing, ca. 1910
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Jameson & Wotton Wharf, Friendship
Since 1897, the Jameson & Wotton Wharf in Friendship has been an important addition to the community on Muscongus Bay. The wharf, which is accessible at all tides, was a steamboat stop for many years, as well as important to the lobster business.
George W. Hinckley and Needy Boys and Girls
George W. Hinckley wanted to help needy boys. The farm, school and home he ran for nearly sixty nears near Fairfield stressed home, religion, education, discipline, industry, and recreation.
2009 marked the bicentennials of the births of Abraham Lincoln and his first vice president, Hannibal Hamlin of Maine. To observe the anniversary, Paris Hill, where Hamlin was born and raised, honored the native statesman and recalled both his early life in the community and the mark he made on Maine and the nation.
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea
The history of a town on the northern bank of the St. George River, as told by representatives from Thomaston Historical Society, Thomaston Public Library, Montpelier: the General Henry Knox Museum, and students from Georges Valley High School. Architecture, General Knox, the Civil War, the Great Depression, and the state prison are some of the topics covered.


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Discussion in 'The Trash Can' started by TanithandBenFan, Oct 18, 2013.
Finley might be Marina's dog. I'm not sure.
I really like that promo shot too, shsocu!
Unless Marina got a new dog...Marina has some adorable pets but none of them look like Finley in this pic from a while ago (in the good old days when Marina and Igor were together).
I can't believe there are only 74 days left.
That's a great promo shot!!
If you're interested in what Aussie Willy had to say about why D&W won Worlds over V&M, in the Ubers Keep Out thread, here's what she had to say.
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gkelly post 149 was also thought provoking
Yahoo Quick Hits Quiz http://screen.yahoo.com/meryl-davis-charlie-white-trivia-195246925.html
What a sweet, heartwarming video, love it!
And Finley is such a cutie pie!
Re: R/T. It's probably the worst POTO FD I've ever seen. It's completely flat and bland, with no emotion whatsoever, no convincing storytelling or character portrayal, no power that the music requires and a copy of both D/W's AND D/V's FDs (while I can see many similarities to Meryl and Charlie, couldn't help but notice that in the Point of No Return/All I Ask of You part, they placed the lift and the twizzles in exactly the same musical moments as D/V did years ago). Now I know it was two Olympics ago, but come on, people still remember D/V's POTO.
I actually like R/T but this FD is just bad. And such a huge dress similarity is not gonna help them avoid comparisons to D/W either.
Hmm, good point. What is the Shibs' dog's name again? I know I've seen Finley before. I remember a picture with Charlie holding a dog that looked like a stuffed animal at Arctic Edge, in the locker room, one summer. I think that may have been Finley, but I can't find that picture anymore.
There are a lot of Team Canton dogs!
Meryl and Charlie at least got a mention on the NBC broadcast today. They were the "puffs Olympic moment" and there was a fluff piece on them. Glad to see their existence was acknowledged!
They said Finley is a puppy, so he probably wasn't alive for that pic, and would definitely fit under "new" dog.
For some reason I thought Evan Bates had a puppy like Finley
That's it! That must be the puppy from the old photo.
He is adorable!
Yes, there are quite a few dogs in Canton. The Shibs have Maltese dogs, Lily and Po.
Rink needs a cat. I mean dogs are sort of cute, but cats will amuse you at the end of the day.
^ No way! Cats can be really annoying. Dog are waaaay better! and they get attached to people much more than cats. Actually dogs are kida like one-year-olds - understand you all right, simply not capable of responding verbally Sorry, totally a dog person here
. Sorry. I just love my cat so much, and actually he is very attached to me, although he is quite indifferent towards most of the other family members. He can be a bit annoying sometimes when he wants to eat and/or the food is not to his liking (which is quite often), or if he wants to play when I am not in the mood. But most of the time he is just so affectionate and absolutely endearing and/or truly amusing with his frolicking and other doings. Our other cat who died from old age and health problems at the beginning of this year (it was a she) was very much different - she loved no one in particular, but was quite affectionate towards everyone if only that person cared to caress and fondle her. Then she purred like a tractor . She was just a bit sly, as she had quite a hard life until she was ten years old. But she was not picky in any way (like my other cat who has been pampered and indulged for all of his life), and she could be really funny too. Obviously, we loved her very much.
Sorry once again. I know that this was totally off-topic, but I just felt like reacting to mia-joy's post.
Meryl is on Charlie's left this time.
If only there were a thread on this board for discussing cats and dogs.
On topic: Meryl and Charlie seem to be clearly in the dog camp of the great dog vs. cat question.
Real nice. Keep it classy.
Ashley Wagner's kitten playing with her skate laces was too cute. I love tiger cats. My mother has one now that was a stray who adopted the family. She still likes to spend most of her time outside, running around, climbing trees, and killing anything that crosses her path. When she was younger she also used to terrorize my mom's mini-schnauzer. They're both older and more mellow now.
I love dogs and cats equally, for very different reasons.
What a great way to pass the time until the GPF.
Not only that, but they can deal with any mice that get into the building. Rink cat, I think that's the way to go.
true! and this was before the latest Q&A with the kids
maybe they knew it was coming
Meryl and Charlie, the Shibs, and John and Caydee talk about lifts.
Both of those vids were posted earlier, so that's why there isn't really a response.
Don't you mean, Get out the Puffs?
"She's the best ice skater I've ever seen in my whole life!" - So cute.
Just adding my vote for cats, although I love doggies, too.
I guess no one is perfect after all.
CBC coverage of SA FD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMPWMSaCC4s
Is anyone else torn between wanting the comfort of seeing Meryl and Charlie perfect their FD and SD choreography wise before the Olympics and wanting to see that little extra surprise, that little something something they've held back for the last performance? I know their energy will be up and the performance will be magnified, but still.
*I mean something little, like the bells and spiral changes in ND, not anything major to step sequences or lifts that would throw them off.

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Uh, luck. New drums actually do nothing to cure squeak. The initial RMS of the finish may help slightly but that is worn off in one hour of use. There is no specific 'machining' done on drums to make them not squeak.
Focus rear drums squeak because of the thin backing plate and the way the shoes anchor down. Brake dust makes it worse, dry lube points where shoe touches plate make it worse. Fix either of those and problem goes away for a while. Actual problem is that the right angle end of shoe material digs into the drum to lock and twist until drum motion snaps it back loose to repeat again. The high frequency of it makes the squeak. A function of semi-metallic shoes, metal on metal always tries to squeak. If you knock off the right angle corner of shoe to not dig in anymore the shoe cannot dig in to make vibration. Works on any and all shoes I've used on Focus and takes maybe two minutes to do with shoes out of vehicle. I've got two sets of the loudest squeakers you ever heard on two cars and they haven't squeaked once since I fixed them using exact same brake shoes/worn drums, that was long ago............
Well any auto shop has a press that I am sure will press out the old and press in the new bearing for a price. However, I recommend you guys change the whole drum. When you buy the drums, it already has a new bearing pressed in. It's just easier, take of the 30mm nut, remove the drum and install a new one. Don't cheap out on the drum though, as the cheapo ones have a terrible bearing pressed that fail in 10k. Happened to me twice, so I went with a better drum and no problems.
This is important. When you change the drum and install a new one, while you are tightening you should spin the drum counter-clockwise about 10 revolutions every so often while tightening. This will ensure that the bearing in the drum is sitted correctly while you are tightening the nut. The torque on the rear nut is 174 lbs/ft, so please use a torque wrench, rent one if you don't have one. At the very least, use a breaker bar because you don't want that wheel flying off later.
I did my the rear breaks on my car with new shoes and hardware, but the breaks were still squeeking. So I've changed the drum and that solved the problem. The drum must be machined at least, if you don't want to replace it, so it won't squeek.
The 2 rivets normally hold the backing plate on.
But they just make it easier to put things together and aren't really needed.
The 4 bolts will hold everything together, you just have the fun of lining everything up.........
|Thanks, We removed the bolts to change the brakes as per our chilton book. The book didn't say anything about the back plate coming off though. It just scared us. It was on there for hours and then fell off suddenly. We're going to bolt it back on and then do the wheel bearing. Quick question though, I've heard the pullers that you rent from the auto store doesn't work to pull the bearing? Is that correct? and if so where can I have it pressed? Thanks Again
Well, by removing the four bolts, you actually do remove the breaking plate/spindle assembly. The drum is attached to that plate with a 30mm nut. So just put the whole drum with the spindle back on and use those four bolts to attach it back.
If you are replacing the rear bearings, you have to unbolt the drum using that 30 mm retaining nut. You should have done it this way if you were going to replace the wheel bearing.
Also, pictures would help to better understand what you are talking about.
If you youtube on how to change the rear breaks on these cars, majority of the people remove the drum of the spindle by taking out that 30mm nut only and not removing the plate (four bolts). This is easier, however the nut can only be reused 2-3 times before it should be replaced.
|I've checked the diagram on the fordparts.com site and it looks like it might have been 2 rivets? Does that sound right? And if so what can we do now? Thanks
Help!!! I think I broke it!
My husband is changing our rear brakes and wheel bearings. He removed the drum by unbolting the four bolts on the rear of the braking plate. He removed the old shoes, put the new ones in and when he tried to put the drum back on the braking plate fell off. Did we break it? we can't find and bolt or holes where it was attached? Thanks
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More than six years after the military began combat operations in the Middle East, the Army is still failing to provide its soldiers in the 10th Mountain division with adequate mental health service at Fort Drum, according to a report issues Wednesday. The report by the Veterans for America cited problems with understaffing, reliance on questionnnaires to identify soldiers in need of treatment and a previaling attitude at the company level that regards mental health issues in an atmosphere more attuned to secrecy, shame and doubt. Some soldiers "in fact wait up to two months before a single appointment can be scheduled. In short, access to care for our returning warriors at Fort Drum is woefully inadequate," claims the study entitled, "Fort Drum: A Great Burden, Inadequate Assistance."
Senator Hillary Clinton denounced the policy at Fort Drum and, undoubtedly, there will be other complaints. General Oates, who is in charge of the division, indicates there are problems and wants to look into the situation. Since 2001, the division has been in combat nearly 40 months, but the men and women are given inadequate "dwell time" back home as they continually go back to fighting.
Despite our knowledge concerning mental health issues for those engaged in extensive combat, the two most common ways in which soldiers get access to treatment is via self-reporting or self-referral. The warrior too often fears admitting fears and anxieties and thus problems lie dormant and fester until the individual becomes emotionally ill. Asking soldiers to fill out a questionnaire doesn't take time, but it doesn't identify problems. There is need for more extensive one-on-one consultation. This costs more in the short run, but saves people and society in the long run.


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that looks better than mine...i was thinkin of getting somethin done to the seat. my fat ass gets sore after hrs on the road. nice job.....big john
how long was the turn around time?
Was that done on top of a stock seat?
Got some pics of various work he has done???


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Nature of 9/11 as a "rupture." Invited writing for the Special Issue: Commemorating the Tenth Anniversary of Sept. 11. The Asian American Literary Review, Volume 2, Issue, 1.5 (2011).
Llera, D., Saleem, R., Roffman, E., and Dass-Brailsford, P. (2009). Teaching to Transform: Multicultural Competence and Classroom Practice. Asian Journal of Counseling, Special Issue: Teaching Issues in Counseling Psychology, A Journal of the Hong Kong Professional Counseling Association. Vol. 16, No. 1. Conferences/PresentationsCo-Presenter (2013). Feminist responses to Islamophobia and Gendered Politics. American Psychological Society for the psychology of Women and Association, American Psychological Association Convention. Honolulu, HI.Co-Presenter (2013). Multiculturalism and Social Justice in Counselor Education: An Integrative Approach Across the Curriculum. Winter Roundtable for Multicultural Psychology and Education, Columbia University, New York City, NY.Co-Presenter (2013). International feminist responses to Islamophobia, Nationalism and Gendered politics. Annual Conference of The Association for Women in Psychology, Salt Lake City, UT.Awards/Affiliations/AppointmentsLesley University Junior Faculty Fellowship AwardChair, South and West Asian Women's Issues Task Force for American Psychological Association's Division 35: Society for the Psychology of Women.
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|ZETEC Performance (2000-2004) The place to chat about any 2.0L Zetec engine performance, tuning and exhaust related upgrades.
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|Yeah, fans were the first thing I did. I learned that with my 4-2-1 install. The usual trouble bolt is the far left ( from the front ). I think on my OBX, it was a top middle one. I put the stock one back on in no time at all. Like I posted above, I'll have my son help. I always forget to take pics, that would explain my troubles.
|Installing these types of headers is always easier when the motor is out of the vehicle. TerryB did you take out the fans when you tried to get to the bolts on the stock manifold? I found I had a lot more room to work when the fan was removed. I had plenty of room to work once I removed the whole front end also lol. The one that is on the farthest right side underneath the power steering pump was the one I had the most trouble with.
Thanks! I really like the car so far.
As far as getting your OBX installed, I've read that getting the bolts started on focus headers can be a bit difficult but not impossible. I'd start a thread, ask for some pointers and reattempt installing them.
I'd highly recommend installing a high flow cat or ORP.
|I think it was behind one of the primaries. I couldn't get any leverage to get one of the bolts started, and couldn't get a wrench near it either. The previous owner definitely got it done. I can see the marks on the flange from the bolts he used. Nice MGB ! My friend had a black on black back in the early '80's. And my brother had a MG Midget in the '70's. I've always liked them.
I mocked it up to my cylinder head when I got it and didn't seem to run into any problems. Did you just have issues getting around the primary tubes?
My build is different than others on this forum since I'm building my engine and installing it in my MGB. I'll have pretty easy access to everything in the engine compartment. http://www.focusfanatics.com/forum/engine-transmission-swap/302371-zetec-powered-mgb-build-thread.html
|Did you do the install yet ? I have an OBX shorty and I had a heck of a time trying to get to all the header bolts. I gave up. I do have a large assortment of tools. I tried evrything I had. I think it was some of the top bolts I had a problem with.
Mac Shorty Header Comparison
I decided to use a Mac shorty header on my build because it's very simple for my application and I should be able to see some gains when it's paired with a 2.25" exhaust (and no catalytic converter). I couldn't find any decent photos of it online so I decided to take some myself. This post isn't a rave review to over-glorify the Mac header but to simply compare an aftermarket shorty to the stock header. You can probably find similar specifications and quality on many other aftermarket headers and that's why I think this comparison is worthwhile for those who are interested in upgrading.
I was able to find a Mac header for an affordable price on eBay (Slightly more expensive than Pacesetter or OBX). It included a copper gasket and was finished with a polished ceramic coating. When I first pulled it out of the box, the ceramic coating looked a little hazy (probably due to some left over residue from the coating process) but some mothers aluminum polish was able to quickly clean it up to a better shine.
As you can see from the photos, the Mac header is a bit larger than the stock manifold. The Mac header's primaries have a 1.65" inner diameter while the stock is about 1.4" (It's been a while since I've measured the stock manifold so correct me if I'm wrong). The Mac header's welds appear to be good on the flanges, as well as the slip fits on the primaries.
The collector size on the Mac header has an inner diameter of 2.5", which is larger than the stock header by .25". The inner weld on the Mac is also not as profound as the stock header which may help with exhaust flow.
The difference in the collector probably helps with flow the most. Ditching the clam shell style of the stock header is probably the biggest improvement for flow.
Overall, It looks like it will be a good performer. I hope this helps people who are interested in upgrading.
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This accompanied today's Saturday Essay in The Wall Street Journal. While my name is on the photograph, this was really a collaborative effort and credit must be given to Lucy Gilmour and Keith Webb at the WSJ. I was having trouble finding pictures of the 3 Musketeers so Lucy headed over to The Strand and found the best book. She sent iPhone pictures to Keith who then sent them to me. The book was perfect so Lucy bought it, photographed it and sent me high-res files via Dropbox (the best sharing tool ever). From there I did some of the fastest Photoshop work of my life (with 3 minutes to spare before final deadline)!
Too bad I couldn't find a copy of the paper today. I think a total of 10 copies are distributed in my area!!!
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Exhibition 11.10.2013 - 12. 1. 2014
This autumn the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek is presenting an exhibition of work by one of the most significant figures in modern Danish sculpture, Anita Jørgensen. INTERSTICES has been created especially for the Glyptotek, whose collection of antiquities constitutes the setting for an intense dialogue between, on the one hand, modern sculpture and installation art and, on the other, ancient masterpieces covering two millennia.
Anita Jørgensen has been given a free hand to shape her dialogue between the museum's space and the sculptures. She has chosen Rooms 10, 11 and 12 the two long galleries and the mausoleum behind the Central Hall. Here the artist has created a new arrangement of the ancient sculptures together with 15 of her own works.
Directly beneath the dome of the Winter garden Anita Jørgensen has incorporated the title of the exhibition in yet another work in red neon.
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.Calm bees are good in migrative beekeepingThat is my main job in beekeeping. I pick up best pastures and move hives even twice during 2 moth yield season. It is very nice to take hive in the morning and move it out. When I take off tranport cover mesh, bees do not rush on me. It takes 2 hours and they start to forage.Once upon a time were cedaces when I had German Black Crossings. I call them "Black Devils". Englishmen call them "National Bee". They have everything National with big letter.It was in beekeeping book that after treatment hives are angry 3 days. When you compare to two hours, the dirrefence is big.
le without gear. they become less capable of defending the hive from pests and may even weaken them to a point that they subcome to some new disease and pests. my personal opinionjohn


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Aussies shine in Hollywood
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The Australian success story in Hollywood can be traced to Tasmanian Errol Flynn who achieved fame in the golden Age of Cinema for his swashbuckling characters.
Film reviewer Mark Naglazas has some theories on why Aussies are doing so well. "Firstly, we tend to notice them more. There are plenty of British actors (Robert Pattinson, Tom Hiddelston) and Canadian actors (Ryan Gosling, Seth Rogen, every second comedian) who do well in Hollywood. However, our stars have certainly soared higher than our English-speaking counterparts.
Secondly, our actors seem to straddle the English-speaking world, as comfortable in the guise of a more cultivated British types as they are taking on the raw-boned American persona. Our actors are outside both cultures and seem to dip in and out with ease. Thirdly, our actors are highly trained when they arrive in Hollywood. While so many young Americans arrive in Los Angeles with pretty faces and a bagful of dreams our guys have spent years in drama schools, on stage or in television series."
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I see no one has been on this sub forum for a while, so I guess I will start a new one. I am living in Ogden and have just started my firearms collection. I currently have one Polish P64 in 9x18, two Taurus semi-autos ; a 24/7 Pro DS is .40SW and a PT92AF. I also own one Springfield model 87 tube fed .22LR semi-auto
I moved here from that wonderful nation of Kalifornia and have certainly not regretted that decision for one minute. I really enjoy being back in the real USA where gun owners are not hated. I have pretty much to this point confined my shooting to the indoor range at Impact Guns but am always looking for outdoor areas where I can go to enjoy a day without being bothered. Any suggestions, I would be grateful.


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Discussion in 'Ride Reports - Epic Rides' started by AntiHero, Jul 13, 2012.
Awesome stuff man - what a chance of a lifetime to experience that!
MOTHER FUCKER this is an awesome thread. I read the first part of this thread around December and now just read the rest. What an amazing story.
Can't wait to read about the riding the R.
And then it was my turn (that's my bike on the end):
I've posted my review of the R several pages back, but now that it's chronological, here it is again:
When I first saw the specs of the R motor during the press launch PowerPoint (the only PowerPoint I've probably ever paid attention to in my life), the differences in weight between the S and the R flywheel and connecting rods were listed in grams. Being a retarded American who has to google "gram to ounce conversion" every time a metric unit of weight is encountered, I dismissed the figures as being measurable by sensitive scales only. One bit of data that I did understand very well was this:
Pole position for the 1199R at Phillip Island: 1:30.795.
Phillip Island Lap Record (set by Hayden on a MotoGP bike): 1:30.059.
Granted, MotoGP hasn't been to the track since the repave, so the record will fall, but the fact a largely undeveloped (for WSB) 1199R, based on a production bike with a base price of $30k, came so close to a MotoGP bike record makes you realize how glorious the Panigale is.
The first hardware details you notice about the R that sets it apart from its more plebeian siblings: aluminum blanks instead of mirrors, a larger, crystal clear, lightly smoked windscreen hiding a tiny GPS sensor under its nose, a full sewer-pipe-diameter Termi System and all sorts of carbon bits. Graphic/design highlights include the "Ducati Corse" graphic on the fairings, which tastefully breaks up the rather expansive demonic red surfaces on either side, the exposed aluminum tank and the perfectly textured new seat cover that grips on the track as well as it looks in the paddock. I'll admit that the heat shield looks rather obtuse in pictures, but it's fairly innocuous in person. The lack of rim stripes also gives the bike a more dedicated, singularly purposed appearance, but unfortunately the stark white 'spider leg' decals on the nose and fairing detracted from the elegance and simplicity of the rest of the bike. Why sexy and purposeful solid white number plate-graphics were reduced to peripheral traces deducts points from the allure and impact the R versions in the past have had. (The brushed aluminum tank is a nice consolation, though.)
Blindfolded, you'd never know the difference between the R and any other Panigale variant. That is, until you gave the throttle a blip. Those grams that threw me off as being academic during the presentation actually equate to almost 3 lbs less rotating mass, which remarkably changes the responsiveness of the engine. Whereas the base engine builds revs with brutal, explosive, mechanical fervor, the R motor responds with an synaptic, hyper, explosive fluidity.
While sitting on pit row waiting for green-flag-permission to enter the track, I got to enjoy the unapologetic, snarling sounds the engine makes exhaling through the revised Termi exhausts as the journalists launched onto CotA (with no speed limit in the pits). As I hurtled off the line the exhaust note thundered off the pit wall like a THX-optimized version of a solid-fuel space-shuttle launch from afar. The alacrity of the engine, combined with the new gearing made the R feel significantly lighter than the S or Base versions even under partial throttle.
That Ducati doesn't claim any additional HP over the base is the first indication that they might just be sandbagging and have made more changes than they're admitting. Two weeks prior I'd been on the track with my 41T S, so the violent forces associated with full throttle acceleration out of corners and onto the straits were fresh in my mind. The R, despite the standard HP claims, is noticeably more powerful. Granted, my S did dyno lower than the average Panigale, and some of the increased forward momentum could have been a result of the increased rate at which the R's Superquadro motor revs, but seat-of-the pants is what thrills, and there was no mistaking that the R motor is all R. So much so that the front tire just skims the pavement under full throttle at 150+, causing a 'weave' in your line.
The timing required to keep a standard Panigale surging forward through the gears uninterrupted, save for quick stab on the quickshifter, was hopelessly inadequate for the R. Despite an additional 500rpm redline, I hit the limiter before even thinking "shift" several times during the first session. Normally towards the end of the tach stratosphere you can feel a motor begin to struggle. It's that moment when the engine nears its operating limits and the mechanical precision distorts into aural and tactile mechanical disorganization, causing a simultaneous dip in power. You can feel the change on the Panigale around 10,250 rpm, which cues a snikt on the shift lever. On the R, this second law of mechano-thermo-dynamics-type dissolution near redline simply never happens. In a hypothetical study that I made up just now to prove my point, 10/10 motorcyclists, when asked to estimate at what RPM the R motor was at, underestimated the RPM by 3000-4000 revolutions. And when told that the engine was actually spinning at 12,000, 9/10 people estimated that the redline surely would have to be 15-16,000 rpm, based on how smooth it was. (The other 1 person dropped out due to 'health' reasons. We referred to him after that point as "orgasm man." Ever hit a false neutral while giving your bike full throttle? That's about how fast the R motor revs when driven in anger.
Similar to my thinking the engine was spinning at far less RPMs than it was, my sensitivity to lean-angle demanded some serious adjustment, too. Flicking the bike (and I do mean flicking, it felt so light) into a corner I found my knee would slap the pavement far before I expected. The engineers had indicated the adj swingarm pivot was set at 0 deg., confounding me to wonder why the bike transitioned from side to side so fluidly. (Wasn't until later that day listening to a conversation between Kevin Duke and the Pirelli rep, that the Supercorsa SPs were a brand new compound, explaining at least part of the mystery.) The rest of the changes I'll chalk up to the track surface and the overall bad-ass-ness of the 1199.
During the past several months living with the Superquadro, I found it impossible to imagine how Ducati could improve on the Panigale. That they did so soon after launch shows you just how fanatical the engineering team is. The end-result of all the subtle changes made the R feel like it was two versions beyond the standard models. The change in engine characteristics that would definitely be noticeable on the street become more profound on the track--and the extra range of adjustment to the swingarm will make exponential differences on the WSB circuit. The R clearly pushes Ducati forward in the moto-arms-race and provides mere mortals the opportunity to experience World Superbike levels of performance without requiring WSB-like abilities (or budgets).
The Good:
Motor, motor, motor.
Seat material is so good I will be swapping out for one soon
On/off throttle less abrupt
Slipper clutch works more effectively than mine
Gear selection not as critical as on the base models
The Bad:
Having to recalibrate up-shift points
Shorter throttle pull with a rising rate would help when trying to unleash the wrath of Satan while trying to hold on (that last 10% of the throttle required an awkward wrist extension)
Full-throttle front end wander at 150+ speeds (how much steering can you do when the front wheel is barely skimming the pavement?)
Stock pegs still don't inspire confidence, but Sidi boots make up for a lot of the deficiency.
Graphics don't leave you in awe
Hmm, seems like they missed one detail...
"Breakpoint" should be "brakepoint."
This is about all I'm good for. :)
Pretty f'in clever, actually. The Ducati guys were facing a serious potential disadvantage compared to Honda (3 days @ COTA) and Yamaha (2 days @ COTA) due to their private testing. Getting 30 or so laps on the hottest Panigale, while not being a MotoGP bike, helps to offset the deficit. Even the smallest of advantage gained is still an advantage.
Try expressing interest in Moto Guzzi.
When I first received 'my' bike, I wasn't exactly nervous, but neither was I Hindu Cow calm. All these guys are fast and smooth. And they all had a session to familiarize themselves with CotA.
One of the most common mistakes guys make on the track is worrying about what is behind them. If half of your mental focus is devoted to what's in your non-existent mirrors, only half is left for what's in front of you. Though we weren't racing, there wasn't a guy onsite without octane in his blood. Though I'm no different, this wasn't my bike and I was not going to do anything stupid. Priority number 1 was: restrain warfare personality. No competing.
Even in pit lane, my impression of the track was that it was resurfaced using razor blades. I've never been on a smoother or more communicative surface. I also wasn't used to having tires that had been warmed, so even though the bike felt wickedly planted, I didn't trust 'em the first lap.
Turn one: the approach, even out of the pits, is uphill. Left turn, 1st gear, apex as the track flattens and drops downhill. Snake left to prepare for sweeping right, on the throttle up and under a footbridge after which the track just disappears. I rolled off the throttle, then saw a huge expanse of red/white/blue. It was stunning and unlike anything I'd seen at a track before. The track surface is painted? A moment of momentary confusion.
We tend to think that our mind follows black asphalt, but more likely I think most of us use borders to determine which direction the road goes. On the track, especially an unfamiliar one, side-reference points, such as grandstands, barriers, gator strips, sand/gravel, walls are typically what guide us through the course when memory can't. Coming up to turn three the whole track just opens wide up, with nothing but some crazy colors in front. Only problem is the track goes left and I was heading straight at speed. If they analyzed braking data for all the bikes I believe my braking maneuver recorded the highest amount of G forces....I stayed on track, but three turns in I'd made a mistake. It wouldn't have caused any issues, as it's just painted pavement, meant for running off safely. But I don't like mistakes and I'm sure Ducati doesn't appreciate them either.
That would be the last dumbshit move of the day. I picked up the layout of the track midway through the first session, but spent most of my energy trying to figure out the proper lines. Normally it's pretty easy if you do your research. Any track that's been around long enough has plenty of videos and turn-by-turn PDFs. Being so new, I was on my own. And CotA is by no means a simple track to figure out. With its share of blind, increasing radius and decreasing radius turns, turns with odd entry points and turns that require 'backward-planning' lines, it's more challenging than any other track I've been to. L
Still, a good session. Had a blast, loved the bike, loved the track, felt like I was the luckiest guy alive.
I returned to the paddock and just sat there soaking it all in. Prior to getting out on the track I was in a "look but don't touch" state. Then after the ride (not sure if the first was to be my last session or not) I entered the "touch, but don't taste" state....ARRGGHHH!!! A very real example of the process by which satisfaction of desire increases desire.
But happy, still. Very happy.
I hope you caught the motoGP race there this weekend (on TV). You shouldn't feel bad blowing a turn, or trying to figure out a good line...looked to me like even the best of the best had a hard time with it. I think a couple guys blew the same turn you did
Hell for Leather did an interesting review of COTA. Wes writes about the corners with the painted runoffs and how difficult they are.
Roadracingworld mag did a write up of your day there also. Few pages long. No pics of you shredding the track.
Very interesting perspectives on the track. I read Lorenzo's take on CotA and I wish I could find where I'd read it, because it was a great description of how challenging the track is. Fortunately, I wasn't doing a time attack and in the second and third sessions I focused on being smooth and having fun.
Though I never really felt comfortable with the track, the R just got more and more brilliant. It did whatever I wanted it to, whenever I wanted it to. "Video game" motorcycle is not an exaggeration. The journos had been talking about how you could brake as hard as you wanted to right to the apex....and with the bike responding to every input (nay--thought!) and I began exploring braking later and later at shallower and shallower lean angles down to the point where I could feel the front end 'creeping' sideways at/near full lean. Pretty cool. So much traction, so much feedback. Sublime. Totally sublime.
The film crew Ducati hired are the ones responsible for that GoPro. They were also out with a slo mo cam (like the one used for that Casey Stoner video) and, of course, all their other gear, getting shots of me missing apexes and being passed. Final edit should be done soon.
In between sessions 2 and 3 Ducati came and asked me if I could do an 'interview' with Nicky Hayden. Sure....but what the hell do I say? "Just talk about your trip." Sounds good. I peeled off my leathers, then I think I drank a bottle of water and took a leak. I might have sat staring into space while eating one of the delicious snacks they had in the paddock and I could have possibly taken some pictures of my toes. Then, as I went to find Gabe, the head camera honcho, he finds me. "Hey we're waiting." Shit, we're doing this NOW? I went outside to find they'd set up in front of a paddock door, and from Hayden's expression I think they'd been waiting for longer than convention typically allows. As we talked about what the hell we should talk about, No. 69 takes over and says, "I got it" and starts asking me questions. Content problem solved.
and the story just keeps getting better
The interview by Haden will be good.
Got a time line on that for us?
I have been following this ride report from the beginning and as guys were jocking how awesome AntiHero's pictures/philosophies/stories are I was thinking "quit sweating AntiHero and just enjoy the adventure". I was flat out wrong. This RR is truly special and I am impressed, truly inspiring stuff Anti. I am one of those guys that is too "responsible" to go and do something like this....and my PO wouldn't let me leave the state that long anyway.....I do make time to take my bikes out and ride them like I stole them, even slow down enough to grab a pic once in awhile. Thanks for sharing...
Really Enjoying The Ride Report! Only On Page 15, But It is Making Me Giddy For My Own Road Trip This Fall.Safe Travels IF You Are Still On The Road.
Congrats Dennis.
I don't think I have ever seen a thread attract so many new ADV members as yours.
No shit.
Really like to see your interview. Was it on Roadracing World?
As others have said, quite a fabulous report and viewpoint on life. Having lived through some life changing experiences certainly helps. I think giving people hope and truly showing that anything is possible and your points about sweat equity are right on the money. My few college years were about partying and getting laid. Never graduated. Didn't have the right mindset and as others have said, we might not be cut out for it. However, I never gave up working hard at doing work and doing the best I could. You do your bosses work BEFORE you ever get paid for it, there is no 'entitlement'. So today I actually have a job thats a global role most people would consider to be pretty far up the ladder and am sure in a small class of people to achieve this in the professional world today with no degree. Sure I still have self doubts and that self defeating type of voice in my head but I do my best to beat it back and your points are so valid- the only limits are those we set on ourselves.
Having said that, I purposely went to a shop today to look at Ducatis and sit on a Panigale. She is one hot (I love red!!) seductive beauty. Well, its very impressive that you did what you did on that bike, I doubt I really could make it more than a couple of hours (buldging disc L5,6). Hats off to you!!! Having said that, I definitely want a Duc at some point but more like a Multistrada to share the stable with my KTMs.
Basically your right on and people have read this thread for all things it does say about life and attitude and living!!!
I think one of the things you point out and I have found out- I always wonder what is on the other side of the horizon. Truth is, its another horizon and another and another. Which is; its all about the journey and not the destination. You came back changed but it didn't change what is.
Terrific and thanks!!! Right on brother !!!
Dennis, Your RR continues and is finding new lives to touch. Ride free brother


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|i have a regular cambered board and i don't catch any edges. in fact, i haven't caught a single one since i bought it last year. and i ride at mountain creek and anyone who's been there knows how busy it gets. to be honest, i was really surprised by this. i ride the Rome Anthem. i don't know, i've only ridden 2 boards in my 14 or 15 years of riding. my previous board was an '00 Forum Jeremy Jones which has regular camber and that thing caught edges like nobodies business. it'd catch an edge on a freshly groomed trail that nobody rode on yet lol. maybe technology has changed that much over the years or that and boards like the anthem are just built better because they're designed to be ridden fast.
you can butter, but let me tell you it is a stiff board to butter on. if you are looking for a playful board, I would look elsewhere.
A beginner can definitely learn on this board...it isn't a full camber board, so you will not be catching many edges.
I ride a 155 @ 165 lbs, and chose the 155 for stability on bombing the groomers.
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Here's a video on the machete - @ the 1:10 mark, I try to flex and butter the board, and you can see how much it flexes. Can you butter, yes, are there better boards for buttering, yes.
My thoughts on this board, a great, damp board for charging, jumps, pop, and switch riding. All around I love this board, but also looking for a playful board this season.
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|machete with the cartels are a good price
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I think this is a good time to look for new boards. I am also a newbie, learning with my kids. I picked a new (2013 model) Ride Manic for $150 and I've been pretty happy with it. It has a flat bottom with rocker on the ends and I can do blues with it comfortably. I've even caught air coming of a mini-half pipe From what I've read, the Manic may be a better choice than the Machete for a beginner, the Machete is stiffer I believe.
For bindings I went with Salomon The Boss, they were also on sale ($80, I think it was) and it seems to make sense to me to get a softer/park oriented binding as a b3ginner. My logic is that such a binding will be more forgiving than an expert level, superstiff binding meant for hard charging.
If you don't have boots, I'd buy boots first. No matter the board you won't have fun if your feet aren't happy.
Just started, want to stop renting, which board to get - Process, Machete, Raygun?
I'm a complete beginner starting snowboard lessons with my son. I'm 5'11" and 190 lb. Have been a couple times and want to stop renting so looking at used boards and have narrowed my options to these :
Will probably not be used for park.
1) 2011 Burton Process v-rocker 155. Burton Mission EST bindings. $150
Should be easy to ride and learn on, but will this be too short?
2) 2012 Ride Machete 161, Burton Custom reflex bindings. $250
Maybe tougher to learn on due to stiffness.
Or should I just get something new. Found a 2014 K2 Raygun 156 or 159 without bindings for $250. Its a well reviewed board, but I'll be spending a little more than I want to.
Whatever I get will probably not be used for park or powder.
Thoughts? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
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SAN DIEGO, California — On Jan. 26, 2011, a pair of U.S. Marines put Alan Gourgue in handcuffs and a restraint belt and hauled him across the country to face trial as a deserter. Gourgue was distraught and completely confused; he had been honorably discharged in 2006 and finished his reserve obligation four months earlier.
Gourgue's ordeal provides a glimpse into a rarely seen, slow-moving, stiflingly bureaucratic world of military desertions, where one administrative mistake can result in a catch-22 that Joseph Heller couldn't have invented.
In the military, there are two types of unauthorized absence: Desertion and a lesser charge that is clled Absent without Leave (AWOL) in the Army and Air Force and Unauthorized absence (UA) in the Navy and Marines. The key difference between them is that AWOL/UA is a misdemeanor, while desertion is a felony that assumes the missing soldier abandoned the service with the intent never to return. To employ a school analogy: AWOL/UA is like cutting classes, while desertion is dropping out altogether. If a soldier is gone for more than 30 days, the charge is automatically converted to deserter status, according to Victor Hansen, a professor specializing in military law at New England Law, Boston. It's like a teacher striking a missing kid from the rolls after a few absent weeks to make room for another student.
Once a soldier is classified as a deserter, the soldier's name is added to a national crime database. Then the Marines wait.
"Typically, they turn themselves in or they get picked up for something else by local law enforcement," Marines spokespersons Capt. Gregory Wolf says. "We don't have thousands of guys looking [for deserters] … People have information that they put out there. They kind of do themselves in or they come to their senses."
This passive system of deserter capture has been pretty successful for the Marines. According to data provided by Wolf, the Marine Corps has recorded 7,323 desertions since 2005, with the number peaking in 2008 with 1,491 deserters. Over the same period, 7,072 deserters have returned or been caught. As of June 12, the Marines had 584 open desertion cases on the books, some dating back to World War II.
But the system didn't work out so well for Gourgue, who was neither UA nor a deserter. Yet he languished in custody for more than a month before he was released with an apology for the mistake and a ticket home.
Gourgue thinks he deserves more, including an explanation and compensation for the job he lost due to what he believes was at best negligence, at worst a civil rights abuse, on the part of the Marine Corps.
As outlined in a federal lawsuit against the Department of the Navy (.pdf), Gourgue's tale reads like a screenplay treatment for one of the "Worst Day Ever" slapstick comedies, the kind where everything that can go wrong does go wrong, spectacularly, and the protagonist is left crying out, "Really?" and "C'mon!" and "Throw a dog a bone!" The big difference: For Gourgue, it was the worst month ever and neither he, nor his seven-months-pregnant wife and two sons thought it was very funny.
Wolf declined to comment on his case on behalf of the Marines, citing privacy and legal issues. To Hansen, a retired JAG who serves as vice president of the National Institute of Military Justice, Gourgue's story is certainly outrageous, but also sadly plausible.
"One of the challenges of the military is it's not a nimble organization," Hansen says. "It doesn't turn on a dime, it doesn't address very well individual needs and individual circumstances. If the facts as they're alleged in the complaint are in fact true, then the military screwed up, no question about it."
In 2002, Gourgue was a directionless, recent high-school graduate living in Miami. His 26-year-old brother, the only father figure in his life, was joining the Marines, so Gourgue signed up too. He made corporal and was assigned to logistics at Camp Pendleton in north San Diego County, where he managed broken vehicles for one of the military's largest motor pools. He married, started a family and realized toward the end of his fourth year that he couldn't balance being a father and an active duty Marine. To avoid a divorce, he made arrangements to finish the second half of his obligation as an inactive reserve.
Gourgue readily admits he couldn't get away from the Marines fast enough, but desertion? No, sir. And he has the paperwork to prove it.
The day the Marines handed him his honorable discharge (a copy of which was provided to Danger Room), Gourgue hauled ass across the country to Miami, where his wife was going into labor with their second child. He arrived just in time to sleep through the birth after 36 hours awake on the road.
That was 2006. Over the next few years, Gourgue moved his family to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to stay employed. For the most part he succeeded, even as the economy tanked and the unemployment rate for veterans his age rose from 5.3 percent to more than 12 percent. By January 2011, Gourgue's obligation had expired and things were looking up. He'd saved his marriage and his wife was pregnant with their third child. The company that moved him to Louisiana had gone under, but after an eight-month job hunt, he was able to find work at the front desk of a three-star hotel in South Baton Rouge.
But, somewhere in the tar pit of the military bureaucracy, a cock-up with his name on it was bubbling to the surface.
Gourgue was picking up a friend in New Orleans to bring back to Baton Rouge when he was pulled over and cited for driving too slow and an insufficiently visible license plate. (Gourgue says his 1998 Acura Integra rides a little low and the road was a minefield of potholes.) The next thing Gourgue knew, he was handcuffed for the first time in his life. He spent the night in a holding cell at Orleans Parish Prison. The following morning, the guards explained he had a warrant out for an authorized absence and formally booked him in with the rest of the prison population.
"That's when it all kind of settled in and that's really where I was a nervous wreck, because I was never in that position before," Gourgue says, recalling the cold of his cell and the other inmates' yelling. "I've only seen it on TV, so kind of being in the reality of it all was a little overwhelming."
Gourgue's experience with the two Marine chasers who picked him up four days later also bore very little resemblance to anything he might have seen on television. Military chasers, the soldiers assigned to escort service members accused of breaking the law, don't get a lot of attention outside the occasional obscure comedy film. In the 1973 film The Last Detail, Jack Nicholson played half a chaser team who showed a young soldier, played by Randy Quaid, one last good time before handing him over to the brig. In 1994, Dennis Hopper directed the far-fetched comedy, Chasers, in which a vampish AWOL ensign leads two naval officers on a wild road trip.
There was no partying or hijinks on Gourgue's trip to San Diego — just commercial air travel and an exceptionally awkward layover in Denver. He was ordered not to speak to anyone but them, not to look any direction but forward.
"Just walking through the airport was like a walk of shame," Gourgue says. "It was so embarrassing because I looked like a hardened criminal walking through the airport. The gentleman to the left of me, he was in a full suit. The senior corporal to the right of me, she was in a full suit. Each of them had their hands around my biceps, walking me through the airport. That was possibly the longest walk I think I've ever had in my life.
Back on the home front, Gourgue's wife had just learned how to put credit on his prison phone account when he was already on his way again. Gourgue's mother had to fly in from Miami to help his wife put the pieces together and take care of the kids. His wife went to pick up his paycheck only to learn that it would be Gourgue's last.
He was fired for deserting his job.
In San Diego, Gourgue was housed at Camp Pendleton. He learned that he was suspected of deserting a reserve unit in 2008 and could face a court-martial. Gourgue knew that was a mistake, since his papers show that he had not only been discharged honorably but that his reserve obligation had ended in 2010. It would take the Marines weeks to reach the same conclusion.
In the meantime, Gourgue was given a meal card and tasked with picking up cigarette butts, cleaning empty barracks and other random tours around base. Back in New Orleans, the state suspended his driver's license and issued him a $340 fine after he failed to make the traffic court appearance for the slow-driving citation.
On Feb. 23, 2011 — a month and a day from Gourgue's initial arrest — Marine staff told him that his detention was based on an administrative error and they had no evidence against him. Gourgue was released the next morning with an apology from a lieutenant colonel and a plane ticket back to Louisiana.
Military defense lawyer Col. Jane Siegel (Ret.) speculates that the mistake could have been something as simple as a name misspelling or transposed digits in a Social Security number.
"It would not be the first time, nor will it be the last time that the left hand and right hand don't know what's going on," Siegel says.
Once home, Gourgue's unemployment claim was rejected because the hotel had cause to fire him. His wife gave birth days later, and had to go back to work six weeks later. Gourgue won benefits on appeal, but it was little consolation.
"When I got back home, I just wasn't in the right state of mind," says Gourgue, who has returned to San Diego to go to school. "It was a relief being home but everything took a toll on me…. I just kind of felt like less than a man because my wife was the one busting her butt to bring in the paychecks and I just felt like I couldn't contribute to my family. It was just a hard time, a really, really hard time that I went through afterward trying to adjust back to my normal life."
Here's another paradox: If Gourgue had really been a deserter, he automatically would have started collecting pay again the moment he was back in custody. However, the military can't compensate someone who's not in the Marines anymore. That means Gourgue hasn't been paid for his labor while at Camp Pendleton.
"That, to me, is a financial, administrative nightmare," Hansen says. "You can just imagine everybody trying to dig through the regulations to figure out how to answer this question and the regulations are going to say nothing about it and everybody's going to scratch their heads and go, 'I don't know what we can do for this guy.'"
Siegel is a bit more optimistic about Gourgue's chances and is surprised the Marines haven't already settled.
"I don't understand how the military could deny the claim," she says. "I get that it's a pro forma, knee-jerk response, but it wouldn't be the advice I'd give as the commandant's adviser. I would've told him to sit down at the table with the guy to see what could be worked out."
In addition to winning compensation, Gourgue hopes his lawsuit will uncover what that error was and why it took them so long to fix it. His attorney, William Halsey, says the debacle indicates Marines lack a quality control mechanism when it comes to desertion data. (In March 2011, due to budget cuts, the U.S. Department of Defense told the military branches they no longer needed to file quarterly desertion reports.)
Despite the government's seemingly obvious mistakes, Hansen thinks Gourgue's going to have a tough time proving his case. Government agencies enjoy a certain amount of immunity to negligence claims, he says, and Gourgue's arguments rely largely on civil-rights laws. Here, Hansen says, it sounds more like incompetence than malice or racism.
"This is kind of a reflection, frankly, of the administrative state in which we live," Hansen says. "While, sure, there's a presumption of innocence, the reality is, in a big organization like the military, there's just not the resources to continue to check these things. When a guy like this gets apprehended, the burden does shift to him to prove he's not AWOL, he's not a deserter, that's legally out of the military and it has no grab on him. When he's sitting in jail and doesn't have access to his paperwork, that can be hard to do."Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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I've submitted my ESB Boba for 501st clearance and been rejected 'cause I don't have any wires on my right gauntlet.
I've looked through the gallery and seen a couple of pics with the guantlet at an angle and a hint of three wires.
Does any have, or can anyone point me to some pics of the right guantlet which show these wires, apparently they're meant be part of the flame thrower.


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Hey Gang,
I'm really in need of a decent ESB flame thrower, Ideally i'd love one of them machined aluminium ones, but in the meantime a good resin one would do. The one i have at the momen is giving me just too much trouble, seems the resin that the main body is made from hasn't been mixed too well, so keeps on 'sweating' out oily stuff, so when i paint it, the damn paint wont dry, grrr!
Any help greatly appreciated!!!


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Click for "Microbes After Hours" videos
Kristopher writes:
Dear TWIV,
As a developmental biologist and post-doc, I greatly enjoy your show which gives me both information and distraction from pipetting small volumes from one tube to another in the lab. Recently, my lab enjoyment was cut short by a week by a long bout of viral gastroenteritis with a trip to the hospital - an annual to bi-annual experience that I thought I would miss this year (D'oh). I think Vincent mentioned that there was going to an episode on the norovirus - I hope it is still on the to do list. I would like to learn more about "name of my pain," the description stomach flu doesn't do it justice... Seriously though, I always dread this disease and sure others do - although it is not responsible for large numbers of deaths, it causes a lot of suffering and a large percentage of the population always comes down with it.
Keep up the great work,
University of Michigan
Alexander writes:
Dear Hosts,
I have been listening to your show and truly treasure every episode; thank you. I've learned more from your show, and the resulting wikipedia safaris that it has inspired, than I have in college science classes.
Forgive the following sycophantic sentence, but it seems to me that people in your field are doing some of the best work to help our fellow man. With that in mind, a goal of mine is to assist in whatever small way I can while at the same time carving out a modest career; you see, I am 29 years old and have never completed college (I pay my own way, but this means I have been paying for a long time). My question is thus: is it too late to realistically pursue this path and be an asset to the field, or are my energies better directed elsewhere? College must be completed either way if I am ever to climb the ladder, so why not direct my efforts and funds towards something that has the possibility of contributing towards real good in this world?
Because of the recovering economy (hopefully this will continue!), I have found myself in a financial position whereupon I can finally seriously finish college within less than 2 years. I do have an interest in microbiology (obviously, since I listen to Twiv, twip, and twim), but I fear that this is a field one must get into right out of high school, not at 29; what are your thoughts on this? I gave up on Med School long ago due to financial obligation to my family, my ever-increasing age, and my own lack of funds, but if I could be an asset to ongoing research even at my age that might be even better. I respect your opinions, and would like to hear them if you would be so kind as give me your time.
As I'm sure time for letters on your podcast is precious and there are other, more worthy, questions to be showcased (as evidenced by the caliber of previous letters read), if you could at least give me a reply via email with your council, I would greatly appreciate it. I have been told that I am better off doing something else, but this would be the first time I consulted with someone in the actual field.
As an aside, when is Twip going to go weekly? It doesn't seem like there is much of a danger of running out of parasites to enlighten us about; is it mostly an issue of time? That would be completely understandable, but alas.
I greatly appreciate you all for providing these podcasts for us; it helps get a laborer though his day.
Thank you for your time,
Phoenix, AZ
Geoffrey writes:
In regards to your question of whether or not bacteriophages infect humans in episode 112. I may be a little late but here is my view: it depends on your definition of human as an organism.
As a person learning about permaculture and trying to start a permaculture-based farm, I have to constantly think about the features of my land from geology to microbes to plants to insects to livestock to how to construct and power my buildings and tools. I may not be very good at it yet but I try to think both on the organismal and meta-organismal level knowing that many of my organisms will not function well (or at all) if they don't have the support of the meta-organism. Examples of this are nitrogen-fixing plants, parasite loads in livestock (an humans), multiple fish species in ponds to make proper use of food resources, trees and shrubs to shade other plants that don't like much direct sun, etc.
Thus, my answer is that bacteriophage probably don't infect the human organism but they do infect the human meta-organism (which comprises the human and a plethora of dynamic micro-organisms). Here, however, is where it gets tricky. If the human meta-organism picks up a strain of bacteriophage that affects one of the semi-symbiotic bacteria inhabiting the human (such as lacto-bacilli in the human gut), then a support symbiote could be wiped out temporarily. This could, in turn, produce a down-turn in human biological functioning which I would interpret as "being sick". Thus a bacteriophage infection could make a human sick without actually infecting the host human organism. I know that I suffer from periodic changes in gastro-intestinal functioning that do not seem to correlate well with my food intake. Could these be due to changes in GI-tract bacteriomes? I certainly feel sick when it happens. As studies of the human bacteriome and virome proceed, it will be interesting to see how our understanding of these interactions develop.
I would also add that viruses, being the tricky little things that they are, have a lot of resources of which we are still unaware. I would not be at all surprised to find out that, in the vast operations of the human meta-organism, there aren't some bacteriophages that either reside in or are stored by human and bacterial cells as another layer of bacterial defense. Certainly, we have seen that some hymenoptera (especially parasitic wasps) have incorporated viruses into their gene structure which they then replicate and incorporate into their egg coverings. These viruses, then, "hide" the eggs from the host caterpillar's immune system. There are other instances where bacteria and algae are accumulated (sometimes even maternally transmitted) and utilized by host organisms in a symbiotic relationship. I see no reason to assume that such a situation hasn't arisen where some cells and micro-organisms "host"specific viruses and control their replication and dispersion. As such, what is the term for such a residence and even possible replication? Infection isn't necessarily the right word or is it? How would such a situation be differentiated from, for instance, quiescent HIV infection?
Come to think of it, viral symbiosis, its implications, and biological applications would make a great episode or three for TWIV.
Keep up the good work.
Chris writes:
Hi TWiV Team:
I'm a medical and graduate student interest in virology and love the podcast.
The Editor-in-Chief of Virology Journal has just retracted an article and apologized effusively on the journal's home page. I wondered what sort of paper would warrant that sort of mea culpa. Then, I read it. Here's the link to the .PDF
...and the apology: http://www.virologyj.com/content/7/1/169/comments#424680
Best line in the article: "One final consideration that one might have is whether the illness was inflicted by a demon or devil."


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More bubkes
The "flattening of sea level since 2006" that Pielke refers to is beside the point and deceptive for several reasons (note too that Anthony Watts has extended this even further to declare that sea level from 2006 to present is actually "flat"!). First of all, trends over such a short sub-interval of a few years vary greatly due to short-term natural variations, and one could get any result one likes by cherry-picking a suitable interval (as Pielke and Lomborg both have). The absurdity of this approach is see by picking an even more recent trend, say starting in June 2007, which gives 5.3+/-2.2 mm/yr! Secondly, this short-term trend (1.6 +/- 0.9 mm/yr) is not even robust across data sets – the French analysis shown above has a trend since the beginning of 2006 of 2.9 mm/year, very similar to the long-term trend. Third, the image Pielke links to shows the data without the inverted barometer correction – the brief marked peak in late 2005, which makes the visual trend (always a poor choice of statistical methodology) almost flat since then, disappears when this effect is accounted for. This means the 2005 peak was simply due to air pressure fluctuations and has nothing to do with climatic ocean volume changes. The trend from 2006 in the data with the inverse barometer adjustment is 2.1 +/- 0.8 mm/yr.
2. Ocean heat content. The Synthesis Report states:
Current estimates indicate that ocean warming is about 50% greater than had been previously reported by the IPCC.
This is a conclusion of a revised analysis of ocean heat content data by Domingues et al., Nature 2008, and it applies to the period 1961-2003 also analysed in the IPCC report. Pielke claims this is "NOT TRUE" and counters with the claim: "There has been no statistically significant warming of the upper ocean since 2003." But again this is not relevant to the point the Synthesis Report actually makes and again, Pielke is referring to a 5-year period which is too short to obtain statistically robust trends in the presence of short-term variability and data accuracy problems (the interannual variability for instance differs greatly between different ocean heat content data sets):
For good reasons, the Synthesis Report discusses a time span that is sufficiently long to allow meaningful comparisons. But in any case, the trend in from 2003 to 2008 in the Levitus data (the Domingues et al data does not extend past 2003), is still positive but with an uncertainty (both in the trend calculation and systematically) that makes it impossible to state whether there has been a significant change.
3. Arctic Sea Ice. The Synthesis Report states:
One of the most dramatic developments since the last IPCC Report is the rapid reduction in the area of Arctic sea ice in summer. In 2007, the minimum area covered decreased by about 2 million square kilometres as compared to previous years. In 2008, the decrease was almost as dramatic.
This decline is clearly faster than expected by models, as the following graph indicates.
Pielke's claim that this is "NOT TRUE" is merely based on the statement that "since 2008, the anomalies have actually decreased."
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Here's another article for the baseball uniform aficionados among us. The sleeveless jersey is very much a Cincinnati Reds thing. The Reds wore them from the mid-50s until 1966, and then were the first team to return them to the field in 1993. Several teams have worn them over the years, but no organization has utilized them to the extent that the Reds have.
We've had several uniform threads here over the years, but I'd like to direct this one specifically toward the sleeveless jerseys. Do you like them or not? Are you tired of the Reds not having sleeves?
I hated them when they came back in 1993, but they have grown on me a lot since then, especially as they have become more mainstream. But that being said, I really would like to see the Reds return to traditional sleeved jerseys for both home and road, perhaps using the sleeveless as an occasional Sunday alternate or something.
Also, what are your thoughts on the article itself? Do you agree with what he says?
A Vested Interest in Sleeveless Jerseys
by Dave Murray
There's a dangerous trend afoot in baseball. Some teams have crossed the line into abuse, and we need rules to keep them in check.
I'm talking, of course, about vests.
Vests aren't exactly new. The Cubs wore them between 1940 and 1942, but they gained popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. It must have been some kind of Ohio thing, because the Reds wore them for a decade starting in 1956, the Indians between 1963 and 1969. The Kansas City Athletics also wore vests in 1962 and got loose with the gold and green look a year later, packing them up for the move to Oakland and finally quitting in 1971.
The pullover polyester era mandated sleeves. After all, do you really want to see skin-tight, buttonless, powder blue vests with those horrid beltless pajama pants? Astros rainbow vests, anyone? Yikes.
Credit the Marlins, an expansion team that broke many rules with its uniforms, for bringing back vests as an alternate when they unveiled their uniforms in 1992. I proudly wore one to the team's first game in 1993. The Reds also reintroduced vests in 1993, along with white, pinstripe caps. The vests lasted, the white caps didn't.
Now there are nine teams wearing vests, 9.5 if you count the White Sox and their faux vests. As with all things uniform, they can be divided these into the good, the bad and the "Good Lord, Man, What Were You Thinking?"
You know about the Gray Flannel Test, the index used to measure a uniform's worthiness. I'm going to add a set of criteria for those who choose to shun sleeves.
1.) If vests are worn as an alternate, the design must be different from the team's basic jersey. Nothing screams lame like taking a perfectly good jersey and lopping the sleeves off just so you can parade something new in the gift shop. This is called recycling, and it should be left to pop bottles.
2.) Vests are better if there is an element to one side, rather than stretched across the buttons. This is not a hard and fast rule, but I'm starting to lean that way.
Before we start, I must say I like vests, when done properly. They're a nod to tradition, and they look cool.
There are three teams that use vests for their basic uniforms:
Pittsburgh Pirates
Classic. A proper use of the vest, harking back to Maz sending the Yankees packing and Roberto Clemente's heyday. These are some of the best uniforms in baseball. Adding pinstripes for a vested alternate was unnecessary.
Cincinnati Reds
Another first-rate use of vests, when the team wears the red undershirt. Just a pet peeve of mine. I like to see the teams with colors in their names wear that color and not black. Don't get me started on the Blue Jays.
Kansas City Royals
As much as I like vests, the Royals had classic uniforms that were basically unmessed with since their debut. When you've reached the inner circle, you don't dive into the gimmick pool. The Tigers and Cardinals have classic uniforms, and you don't want them lopping off their sleeves for the heck of it.
Alternates fall into two categories: Those who violate the rule and slice the sleeves off their regular jerseys and those who come up with a new design.
The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays are three teams recycling jerseys like AC/DC recycles riffs. They're fine but don't offer anything more than the basic jersey.
In the case of the Angels, this isn't surprising because the road uniform is basically a gray version of the home uniform. The batting-practice jersey looks better. In fact, if they took the Big A with the halo from the BP jersey and used it on the vest, I'd be saluting. It would bring back memories of my short trip to L.A. last year, when I got to drive my Ford rental car under the Big A scoreboard on my way to the Richard Nixon Library.
As for the Diamondbacks, if they're going to use their own Big A for their vest, they should bring back the "Diamondbacks" they wore for a while on the sleeved version.
And the Devil Rays just have been a disaster since birth. The green jersey would have been a better vest instead if it were just a sleeved alternate.
Others who try something different:
Cleveland Indians
Your feeling on this vest will rest entirely on how comfortable you are with Chief Wahoo, who is all red and grinning over the left breast. I used to be OK with him, but I've since fallen into the Wahoo-is-offensive camp. But what's the alternative? Not that "I" thing that looks like a "J" the team wears on its alternate cap. Back to the drawing board.
Texas Rangers
This is growing on me, but slowly. I used to think they were horrible. Now we just peacefully co-exist. The team blows up the T from the cap. I'm still not sold on the piping around the arm holes
Colorado Rockies
This is bad. We're talking avert-your-eyes, hide-the-women-and-children bad. It's a black vest with Colorado spelled out across the front like on the road jerseys. But there's white, or silver, I can't tell, with double piping only along the arm holes. And they wear this atrocity with purple undershirts, unless they're wearing them with black undershirts, which looks even worse. The Rockies are one of a handful of teams legally allowed to wear black under the Gray Flannel Test - Giants, Pirates and Orioles are the others - but these look like clown suits. They also have a more traditional vest, a white, pinstriped version with the interlocking CR logo from the cap. That should have been enough.
Just Say 'No' to Faux
The Chicago White Sox used to have vests. Recycled from the home uniform to be sure, but they were real vests. Then along came the nasty Disney Angels uniforms with the blue sleeves, followed by the Blue Jays with the blue sleeves, pretending to be vests but not making the full commitment. The Sox have continued with this ruse, trotting out vest-like jerseys with attached black sleeves.
Vests that should be
I'm not saying every team needs to adopt a vest. But because this trend is showing no sign of letting up, I'm going to step in and offer suggestions. Lest there be confusion, these are all alternates.
Milwaukee Brewers
People are clamoring for the return of the ball-in-glove MB logo. Here's a way for the Brewers to have their crappy uniforms and appease the fans, too. How about a vest with the ball-in-glove, but instead of bright blue and yellow they can use the navy blue and gold of the current uniform?
St. Louis Cardinals
Only the criminally insane would tamper with the birds-on-bat design pretty much at the center of the inner circle. But I really like the logo on the team's alternate cap. How about that on a white vest? It's only an alternate, so there might not be a riot under the arch.
Oakland Athletics
This is a no-brainer. Resurrect the A's design the team wore as vests in the 1960s. Heck, go all the way and make them gold.
San Diego Padres
The Padres look horrible anyway, so we can be radical here. How about a navy vest with the Swinging Friar logo over the breast?
Florida Marlins
The team has an alternate with the F logo from the cap. Lop off the sleeves and they have a fine vest.
Baltimore Orioles
How about the Laughing Bird logo they wore on the caps in the glory days? They could wear it with the lame O's caps they have, so there aren't conflicting, realistic vs. cartoonish birds on the uniform.
Chicago White Sox
Drop the faux vests and the recycling. I always have loved the winged-sock logo the team used in the 1950s. I don't think it's ever been on a uniform. Heck, even the sock in the black diamond logo on the road jersey would work.
Boston Red Sox
A tasteful logo of the World Series trophy - worn only in games against the Yankees. Look, you can't rub it in enough for my taste.


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Jon Hamm lets his Hammbone fly while
David Beckham shows off his.
Everyone is at the airport. Jason Schwartzman arriving in LA.
Kirsten Dunst was leaving.
Kim Kardashian says she cut this dress herself. Uh huh.
Keira Knightley covers up her bones.
Kellan Lutz is back from Sundance and was on the same flight as
Krysten Ritter.
Keri Russell on lunch while on the set of her show.


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Nice!!! I just let her buy what she wants most of the time. That opens me up for my own purchases.
Looking forward to hear about the Walther and FN.
The Walther P99C AS came in Wednesday around 3 pm and the pawn shop called me right when I got off the phone about my cdnn order with the FN5.7 and Taraus 17 HMR with 12 inch barrel. I now know what it's like being a deer caught in headlight. I headed to pick up the Walther (I'll talk about each new gun under their topics) which is 30 mins in the other direction from the pawn shop so I called my son to find out again when they closed and he told him 5 sharp and I thought they said 5:30 sharp. Long story short, we got up early and picked the other two up around 9:30 and drove over five hours to buy the 5.7X28 ammo. I talked to a person who sell's only to Police type agentces and retire officers. He is saving me a case which he will sell me for 20 a box of 50. 1.75 cheaper than the one's I bought today. By the time we hit the ranger we were to tired so we just tested them and plan on being st the range all day Friday.
Found the perfect way to make your gun money hidden from the wife. Every time I make a purchase I ask fo up to 80 dollars cash back. I have the green stuff well hidden so there is no way she can find them on my credit cards or checking account. All she can do is get upset about the high price out there. Dang I should write a book "1001 way to grow your gun collect with her finding out.
Nice!!! I just let her buy what she wants most of the time. That opens me up for my own purchases.
Looking forward to hear about the Walther and FN.
Nice collection, and thanks for the advice on hidden gun money.


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Senators moved Monday to limit what they worry increasingly could become "Big Brother" type tracking of where residents travel and when.
They voted 28-0 to pass SB196, and sent it to the House. It would allow governments to keep for only nine months data collected by license plate readers used by the police and the State Tax Commission.
"Big Brother is collecting information on you," said Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, the bill's sponsor.
He said such machines can read and store data on about 500 license plates in five minutes in parking lots which has helped police in Utah to recover about 1,300 stolen cars a year. They can also read license plates on cars passing at high speed in the dark because of infrared technology.
If the data is stored over time from many locations, he said it could allow tracking movement of motorists over time.
"It's creepy," Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Eagle Mountain, said in earlier debate.
The bill also would require a court order for access to the data from people outside of law enforcement.
Police had wanted to keep data for longer periods, saying it could help solve cold cases by showing if a suspect was near a crime scene. But the American Civil Liberties Union wanted it kept for essentially only a day to prevent any long-term tracking.
Weiler's bill comes after a firestorm last summer created by a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration request to put readers on freeways in southwestern Utah to record the license-plate numbers of all vehicles there to help catch drug runners, as it does in drug corridors in Texas and California.
Public outcry led DEA to withdraw the request. But lawmakers learned that numerous police agencies already are using mobile license-plate readers leading to Weiler's bill.


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We all know that a full backup of your system is important, but wouldn't it be nice if there was a simple utility you could use to synchronize and back up just a few folders? Would you like a utility that allows you to easily pick a folder and then select a destination? How about a program that will automatically figure out what's missing, what's new and whats changed and move the files for you? FreeFileSync is that tool.
The setup process is a fairly simple one with one catch. Start by clicking here [1] to download FreeFileSync and run the installation program. During the installation you may be prompted to a install free toolbar such as Amazon Browswer bar. Free software like this often earns money by including toolbars or software offers during the installation process.You can easily uncheck the boxes and then click "install" to skip it.
Once installed, open FreeFileSync and click "browse" on the left side menu (marked #1 on screenshot below). Select a folder you want to sync and press "OK." Click "browse" on the right side menu (marked #2 on screenshot below) and select a folder you want to sync to and press "OK." You can press the + symbol on the left hand side to add a folder to sync. In my example I've selected to sync my documents folder to my flash drive. I plugged in letter G.
To configure the synchronization, click the green gear next to the "Synchronize" button. You'll have the following options:
- Two Way Sync: Compare both locations and rename files if there are duplicates with different creation dates. This is good if you're using both your synced folder and sync target folder to save data and don't know which has the newest versions.
- Mirror: This is great to make an exact "copy" of the information in the left folder to the right folder. The left folder always has priority, so anything in the left folder will overwrite anything in the right folder.
- Update: Copies only new or updated files to the right folder.
- Customize: The sky's the limit, click it to see how impressive the rules can get.
The default options for errors are a pop-up a box that asks you what to do and to place deleted files in the recycle bin. Both are good options to leave on.
Once you're done picking your options, click the "Synchronize" button. A final confirmation pop-up will show you the files changed on each side, the total data and the type of sync. Click "start" to begin.
A synchronization window will open and show you the progress, copy speed, files and time remaining. You can pause and cancel the sync if needed. You will be prompted once it's complete. The speed of the sync is going to be limited to how quickly your backup device can copy the data. If you're using a USB flash drive, make sure to use a fast one. USB 3.0 flash drives in a USB 3.0 port run many times faster then a USB 2.0 drive.
My opinion of this free utility could not be much higher. It perfectly copies and syncs folders and allows a lot of customization. You can even save jobs by going to "Program" menu and "Saving as Batch Job." I would definitely recommend downloading this great utility. You can read more about FreeFileSync by clicking here [2].