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Location: Marymoor Park - Redmond, WA
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 to Friday, August 9, 2013
Camp Cost: $369.00
Join the close to 90 players, that attended last year, for our 10th Annual Seattle Summer Baseball Camp. This camp is designed to provide the players with pro instruction in all aspects of the game. Players will spend up to 20 hours practicing drills and playing in games while receiving verbal assessment of their skills throughout the week. Our daily formats are written by directors with years of Professional baseball backgrounds and mirror a Spring Training type day. Huge reps and teaching all day long with live games mixed in.
Campers will have the opportunity to receive instruction from some of the top coaches from the region.
America's Baseball Camps are known nationally for a "non-standing around" approach meaning players get the maximum amount of work in daily and have a blast doing it. Eat, live and breathe the game with us while we train daily at the Marymoor Park turf fields in Redmond, just several miles east of Seattle.
Additional Options
Professional Pitching Mechanics or Swing Video Analysis
Players will be evaluated personally with Video Analysis software and have the chance to have their swing and/or their pitching mechanics broken down by a Professional Instructor. Professional Instructors will provide an evaluation of feedback, changes and recommend drills to help fix or improve your swing and/or your pitching mechanics.
Check out our One Day Hitting Camp!
We will be conducting an extensive Hitting Camp on August 5th from 2:00pm-6:00pm. This camp will cover every aspect of hitting and is a great way to "kick off" the week.
All options are available on the Registration Page.
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Location, Dates and Times
Camp will be conducted at:
Marymoor Park
6046 West Lake Sammamish Pkwy NE
Redmond, WA 98052
Ball Fields #1 and #2 - turf fields (no metal cleats allowed)
2012 Staff members included the following Instructors:
Jordon Twohig: Assistant Coach University of Washington
Tanner Swanson: Assistant Coach University of Washington
Ben Boulware: Former Pro Player Chicago White Sox Organization
Dave Smart: Infield Director National Infield Camps
Chris Tamminen: Current Head Baseball Coach Skyline High School
Ryan Smart: Hitting & Infield Instructor Rock Creek Training Center
Justin Gabriel: Pitching/Hitting - Current UW undergraduate Assistant Coach
Brian Wolfe: OF/Hitting/Pitching if necessary. Current UW player.
Kainoa Correa: Infield Coach & Rec Coordinator for Univ of Puget Sound
Brady McGuire: Catching/Hitting - Former Husky player and current student at Bellevue College
Nate Santiago: Infield/Hitting/Base running - Current Assistant Coach at Pierce College
Taylor Smart: Current player for University of Tennessee
Camp hours:
August 5th: Optional Hitting Camp 2:00pm - 6:00pm
August 6th: 9:00am - 2:30pm
August 7th: 9:00am - 2:30pm
August 8th: 9:00am - 2:30pm
August 9th: 9:00am - 2:00pm
All Campers should check in at the main baseball diamond at Marymoor Park by 8:30am on the morning of the 5th (hitting campers check in at Marymoor Park by 1:30pm on the 6th).
Daily Schedule Breakdown
Typical Day at Camp
09:00am: Roll call
09:10am: Break into groups/teams
09:20am: Warm up/Stretch
09:40am: Throwing
10:00am: Station work... (Infield, Outfield, Hitting, Pitching, Catching, Baserunning)
12:00pm: Lunch
12:30pm: Games
02:15pm: Review
02:30pm: End
As a player you will be evaluated by a professional eye and receive hands on, intense baseball training. Our goal as a staff is to provide you with the tools to better your game, increase your knowledge, skill and confidence and assist in getting you to the next level of play and beyond.
This is what you can expect to work on while at camp:
Stance, Balance, Mechanics, Situational Hitting & Swing Path for hitting
Mental preparation and Hitting Philosophy
Hand-eye coordination drills for all aspects of the game
Opposite field hitting (staying inside the baseball)
Hitting with two strikes - Hitting Off-speed pitches
Situational hitting including Bunting
Base Running with Leads, Steals, etc.
Infield play-corner play & middle infield play
Infield mechanics, huge reps, tweaks, turns, feeds
Outfield play - including throwing from the outfield
Outfield play- routes, positions, jumps, footwork
Pitchers throw during daily scrimmages
Pitching - balance, delivery, pitches, grips & more
Pitching mechanics with fixes all weeklong
Catcher Skills - receiving, blocking, throwing & more
Daily scrimmage games to put all together!
Note: All players will also have the option to train in multiple positions and specific areas of their choice.
What to bring
Remember to label all equipment, equipment bags and belongings with your name and contact info
Baseball Pants
Baseball T-shirts or jerseys
Baseball socks and sliding (compression) shorts
Baseball bat and batting gloves
Helmet (if you have one)
Baseball glove (mitt for catchers)
Catchers gear (catchers only)
Long sleeve shirts or pullover jacket
Water bottle
Additional items to bring
IMPORTANT! Photo copy of the front and back of your health insurance card
Signed Health & Release forms
Calling Card or Cell Phone
Sun Block & SPF Lip Balm (Chapstick)
Meals / Snacks
We will provide lunch at the fields each day for all campers.
Local Areas of Interest
Seattle summers are among the best in the country and attract visitors from far and wide who come to see the famous Space Needle and Pike Place Market. You'll find fantastic dining, art and northwest culture at every turn. If you are a fan of spectator sports, you can always find an event within the city. Catch the Seattle Mariners this season at Safeco Field -- rain or shine! or Seattle's newest professional team, the Seattle Sounders FC, at Qwest Field -- the official home turf for the Seattle Seahawks.
Things to do and see:
· Pike Place Market
· Seattle Center (home of the Space Needle)
· Olympic Sculpture Park
· Seattle Art Museum
· Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour
· Woodland Park Zoo
Contact Information
For all emergencies dial 800-222-8152 and an America's Baseball Camps staff member will give you any assistance needed.
About Us
This is an America's Baseball Camps (ABC) Experience. ABC was started by Ben Boulware, a former professional player in the Chicago White Sox Organization, in 1997. In its 14 years of existence, ABC has grown from a 10-location day camp company to one of the largest baseball instruction companies in the world. ABC now has over 400 locations in 29 states and 4 countries and is continuing to grow each year. We offer coaches clinics and a variety of camps from day camps, overnight camps to weeklong camps in destinations coast to coast. We are dedicated to taking your game to the next level so no matter what your need is or where you are, we've got the camp for you!
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When Cody Creamer stepped on the mound to pitch this summer, he could often look in the crowd and spot a coach from Eastern Kentucky University in attendance.
It showed Creamer the Colonels' coaching staff was interested in him and he rewarded them Friday in the John Hardin High School library by signing a national letter of intent to continue his baseball career with the Colonels.
"I'd heard from Western (Kentucky) and Eastern," Creamer said. "Eastern saw me pitch this summer. I think every time I pitched they were there. It showed me they really wanted me. I went there for a visit. Coach (Jason) Stein and (assistant) Coach (Jerry) Edwards talked to me and I think I fit in well there. I think it best suits me for my future in baseball."
Creamer, the hard-throwing right-hander, picked Eastern Kentucky over Western Kentucky, Wright State, which is located in Dayton, Ohio, and John L. Logan, a junior college in Illinois.
"I'm really excited," Creamer said. "All the hard work I put into baseball paid off. I want to thank my parents for all they did and Coach (Joe) Newton and his staff at The Players' Dugout for all their help over the years. I'm just thankful."
Creamer's parents, T.J. and Kim, were at his side when he signed the letter and were glad Creamer picked a school close to home. They said they will be traveling to games when Creamer is on the mound.
"It's a fulfilling day for Cody," T.J. said. "I'm really happy for Cody because he's put in the work on the field. It all started with a traveling team Corky (Morse) had when Cody was 10. We've been going ever since. We're blessed to have a facility like The Players Dugout and Coach Newton works hard for the players in this area with showcases and his contacts.
"As a father, you're still a fan, so with him being only a hundred miles away, I'm looking forward to seeing him pitch," he added. "The thing Eastern is trying to do is keep the local talent in Kentucky. They're trying to get players in Kentucky, which is something they haven't always done."
Kim echoed her husband's sentiments.
"I'm so proud of him," Kim said. "I just can't believe he's about ready to go off to college."
Creamer began playing baseball at age 2 with his father and started T-ball two years later. Once he joined a travel team at 10, Creamer has been playing every summer with teams from Hardin County or Louisville.
Creamer has been a fixture on the varsity roster since he was an eighth-grader and he's been in the rotation since his freshman season. When he's not pitching, Creamer plays first or third base or is the team's designated hitter.
But Eastern Kentucky was attracted to what Creamer has done on the mound. Creamer hit 91 miles per hour during this summer and he's usually between 87-89 mph with his fastball.
Creamer, who was 6-5 as a junior, said he's glad this decision is behind him so he can turn his entire focus to the upcoming season.
"This takes a lot of pressure off my back," Creamer said. "I need to be a captain on the field, taking control on the field. I just want to do my best and help this team get past district. I'm glad I got this over with. It's a huge relief."
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Jekyll Island Club Hotel
Jekyll Island, GA 31527
912-635-2600 | 855-535-9547
The Jekyll Island Club Hotel is a truly landmark experience shaped and nurtured by more than 100 years of devotion to service. Here, on an unhurried island off Georgia's colonial coast, awaits a world of compelling contrasts and perfect balances: old and new.
Nestled on a barrier island off the Georgia coast, the Club opened in 1888 as a hunting retreat for America's wealthy elite. Here, millionaires wintered until the onset of World War II, and the property was abandoned. A restoration in 1986 revealed the club's original beauty and elegance.
You choose the tempo and textures of the Jekyll Island Club Hotel experience. Select from accommodations in five distinctively different settings; enjoy an array of dining venues; and delight in superb recreation from croquet on the resort grounds to horseback rides on the beach, and from championship golf to charter fishing. At the Jekyll Island Club Hotel, there is only one true definition of a landmark experience: Yours.
Info & Amenities
Hours of Operation
Sunday: All Day
Monday: All Day
Tuesday: All Day
Wednesday: All Day
Thursday: All Day
Friday: All Day
Saturday: All Day
Golf on Site
Average Nightly Rate
$201+, Call for Rates
AAA Rating: 3
Facility Amenities
Bar/Lounge, Bus / Motorcoach Parking on Site, Complimentary Local Shuttle, Complimentary Parking, Concierge Service, Exercise Room/Fitness Center, Free Local Calls, Free Parking, Full-Service Restaurant, Golf Nearby, Meeting Space Available, Outdoor Pool, Parking on Site, Party Facilities, Public Restrooms, Restaurant on Site, Spa on Site, Valet Parking
General Information
Connecting Rooms, Deposit Required, Family-friendly, Handicapped Accessible (Limited) , Maps/Brochures/Guides, Miles from Convention Center, Wedding & Honeymoon
Group Amenities
Group-friendly, Maximum Room Block, Motorcoach-friendly
Internet Connectivity
Free Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi in Public Space, Wi-Fi In-Room
Near Interstate Highway
Payment Options
American Express, Discover, Mastercard, Visa
Room Amenities
Fireplaces, Hair Dryer, In-Room Coffee Maker, In-Room Safe, Iron/Ironing Board, Refrigerator, Room Service
Room Information
Number of ADA-compliant Rooms: 5
Number of Doubles: 44
Number of Non-smoking Rooms: 157
Number of Rooms (Total): 157
Number of Singles: 10
Number of Suites: 35
Room Type
1-Bedroom Units
Setting & Style
Beach & Coastal, Historic & Charming, Luxurious & Elegant, Pastoral Setting, Romantic
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Golf Packages
Packages starting at $255 per person per night
Valid : 01/05/2017 - 01/05/2018
At the turn of the century, Jekyll Island Club members built one of Georgia's first golf courses. Today, Jekyll Island golf features Georgia's largest public golf resort with 63 holes of beautiful, challenging golf and year round play in natural settings. PROMO CODE: Birdie*Please note: Upgrades available at additional fee per night. All packages are per night. Additional adults are $106.75 each. All taxes and gratuities on package features included. Resort fee and State Hotel-Motel fee extra. Subject to availability. Certain restrictions apply. Surcharge on meals apply on holidays and Sunday Brunch.
Bed and Breakfast Package at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel
Packages starting at $215 per 2 people
Valid : 01/05/2017 - 01/05/2018
Start off every morning of your Jekyll Island vacation with a sumptuous feast! Rise and shine to freshly baked pastries, an ice-cold glass of Florida orange juice, eggs, pancakes or waffles done to perfection – accompanied by a cup of rich, mellow coffee. Package includes: traditional Victorian accommodations with queen, king, or two double beds; and breakfast buffet in the Grand Dining Room.Upgrades available at additional fee per night. This package is per person, per night, double occupancy. Additional adults after two are $40 each. Taxes and resort fee extra. Subject to availability. Certain restrictions apply. Add dinner for just $61, all inclusive.
http://www.jekyllclub.com/?NCK=gaws PROMO CODE: Bed
Club Cuisine at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel
Packages starting at $799 per 2 people
Valid : 01/05/2017 - 01/05/2018
Experience the best in fine dining at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel! With our Jekyll Island Club restaurant package you will indulge in delectable dishes all prepared by our top chefs.*Package is available Sunday-Thursday nights and is based on double occupancy. Additional nights are available at the regular deluxe traditional rate. Resort fee extra. Reservations are requested for dinners. Surcharge on meals apply on holidays. Taxes included.
Club Cuisine Package Includes:
Deluxe Traditional accommodations with a sun porch or balcony for two nights
Dinner for 2 each evening, in the Grand Dining Room or at the Courtyard at Crane, both with a bottle of JICH signature wine
Breakfast Buffet each morning
Hotel gift upon arrival (champagne, fruit and cheese plate and logo'd champagne glasses)
All taxes and gratuities on package features PROMO CODE: Cuisine
Heritage Tour at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel
Packages starting at $519 per 2 people
Valid : 01/05/2017 - 01/05/2018
Experience the rich history of Jekyll Island! Book our historic vacation package and tour the downtown district, visit the Georgia Sea Turtle Center, and then cap off the day with a cherished island tradition – afternoon tea in the Riverview Lounge.Available Sunday-Thursday nights only. Based on Double Occupancy. Hotel Tours offered Monday-Thursday. Upgrades available for additional charge. Subject to availability. Resort fee extra. Certain restrictions apply.
Jekyll Island Heritage Tour Package Includes:
Traditional Accommodations with Queen, King, or two Double Beds for two nights
Hotel History Tour
Tour of the Historic District by tram or one of the Lighthouse Trolley Tours
Admission to the Georgia Sea Turtle Center
Afternoon tea one day in the Riverview Lounge (4:00 – 5:00pm)
Breakfast Buffet in the Grand Dining Room each morning
All taxes and gratuities on package features PROMO CODE: Heritage
Romantic Getaways
Packages starting at $799 per 2 people
Valid : 01/05/2017 - 01/05/2018
Sneak away to this unspoiled barrier island for a romantic Georgia getaway. Enjoy the tranquility and natural beauty that captivated the Rockefeller and Vanderbilt families more than a century ago. Celebrate your honeymoon, anniversary or spontaneous couples getaway at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel and experience the tradition of hospitality and service for which this Victorian hotel is famous. PROMO CODE: GetPackages rates vary from packages to include Romantic Getaways, Honeymoons and Anniversaries.
Family Beach Getaway
Packages starting at $559 per 4 people
Valid : 01/05/2017 - 01/05/2018
Bring the family! Getaway to Jekyll Island's family resort in Georgia, where the weather is sunny, the beach stretches for miles, and life is good. Start the day with the breakfast buffet and then head for Summer Waves Water Park, the ocean beach, or the Georgia Sea Turtle Center.*Available Sunday-Thursday nights only. Based on two adults and two children. Deluxe and Suite upgrades available for an additional fee. Subject to availability. Surcharge on meals apply on holidays and Sunday Brunch. Certain restrictions apply. Taxes Included. Resort fee and State Hotel-Motel fee extra. Extra children are $35 per night and adults $55 per night.
When it comes to family vacations in Georgia, there's so much to do on Jekyll Island! Enjoy golf, tennis, kayaking, dolphin cruises, trail riding and more.
Meeting Rooms
Name Dimensions Ceiling Ht Sq. Feet Banquet Cap. Theater Cap. Classroom Cap. U-Shaped Cap. Exhibit Cap. Conference Cap. Reception Cap. The Morgan Center - 44 4900.0 300 400 250 - - - 500 Ballroom - 18 2025.0 130 200 110 54 - 54 250 Pulitzer - 12 480.0 22 - - 14 - 14 60 Federal Reserve - 12 480.0 30 36 20 24 - 24 60


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A little over a month ago, I noted the shift in our spacefaring strategy towards privatizing space exploration and exploitation, a strategy pushed, astonishingly enough, by President Barack H. Obama:
I'm just now picking my jaw up from the floor: Barack H. Obama has just decided to privatize — space exploration?….
It's a little odd that such a lover of big-government Obamunism and nationalization of private resources would suddenly go all capitalist over the space program; I worry that this will just turn out to be more empty rhetoric. But entrepeneurs can use even empty rhetoric to fly below the radar and actually bring about some of the dreams that Obama has woven, perhaps unintentionally and against the president's own better judgment. Certainly there is no lack of players champing at the leash to jump into a newly revitalized private space-launch industry….
Republicans should seize this idea to show they're not just the "party of No," as Obama loves to claim. Here's a chance to champion science, space research, and private enterprise and entrepeneurship, all while showing some bipartisan flair! The GOP would have to be utter morons to let this fish loose.
Oh, wait…
I'm glad I tossed in that final cynical jab at the GOP (which may come to mean "grand obsolete party"); it makes me look less like a Pollyanna, sunny-side up nitwit. For just as we all suspected, the Republicans are so locked into the top-down "command science" that they join their Democratic colleagues in trashing the very idea of private manned space launches:
"As with all great human achievements, our commitment to space must be renewed and encouraged or we will surely be surpassed by other nations who are presently challenging our leadership in space," Democratic and Republican members of the U.S. Congress from Florida wrote to Obama last week."
Here is the new plan, as enunciated by the running-dog capitalist in chief:
Obama, in his Feb. 1 budget proposal, planned to increase NASA's overall funding to $19 billion in 2011 with an emphasis on science and less spent on space exploration.
He would cancel the Constellation program's Orion spacecraft and Ares rockets, after $9 billion and five years of tests. Constellation is aimed at returning astronauts to the moon in the 2020s to clear the way for a Mars mission.
Instead, Obama would spend $6 billion a year for five years to support commercial spacecraft development and pursue new technologies to explore the solar system in what the White House called "a more effective and affordable way."
The Florida Republicans shake in their boots, terrified that private enterprise will surely lead to massive job losses (possibly even within the state legislature). But is it now Republican dogma that public spending creates more jobs than the free market?
It's not just know-nothing congressmen in the Reptile State pushing the bright red panic button about private aerospace development. Here comes President George W. Bush's NASA administrator, "explaining" — in the sense of "mocking the very idea" — why we must allow government to monopolize spaceflight:
Various members of the far-flung U.S. space community have been troubled by the change, such as former NASA administrator Michael Griffin, who struggled to get more funding for Constellation from the previous administration of President George W. Bush and believes Obama should stick with it.
"There's a larger issue here," Griffin said. "Does the United States want to have a real space program? Do we actually think we can have a robust, exciting, world-leading space program by hiring private enterprise to furnish it?"
Why yes, Dr. Griffin; many of us do support exactly that weird idea: In a capitalist state — or even whatever hemi-demi-quasi-capitalist state we currently inhabit — it's always best to try the market first… and only haul out the big-government guns later, if a screaming emergency arises.
The bureaucratization of space exploration is one of the most disheartening aspects of contemporary society: Here we sit, verging on the sixtieth anniversary of Robert A. Heinlein's classic, "the Man Who Sold the Moon" (1951); and our "leaders" at NASA still scoff at the preposterous thought that private rocket ships, free-market space colonization, and entrepeneurial expansion to the stars can actually work… maybe even better than Michael Griffin ordering his civil servants to innovate, on schedule.
My God. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. And so far, that's where it bloody well ends, too.
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Preston man arrested after allegedly crashing tribal security vehicle
Mohegan - Police arrested a Preston man Sunday night after he allegedly stole a Mohegan Sun Tribal security vehicle and crashed it into another car.
Herman Dillon, 25, of 15 Lake of Isles Road, Preston, was charged with speeding, driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and first-degree larceny.
Police said Dillon stole the vehicle and then rear-ended a car near the Winter Garage parking area at Mohegan Sun casino. Three people in the car were treated at the William W. Backus Hospital and released. The incident happened around 9:15 p.m.
Dillon posted a $500 bond and is scheduled to appear in Norwich Superior Court on Jan. 13.


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Has your brother had a hard time finding .357 Sig ammo? I can't find it locally. I don't have one but one of my co-workers does so I'm always scouting for ammo for him.
The .357 Sig is one heck of a round, but It's still not that common. Some find the recoil to too harsh, I don't think it's that bad, but what it is is SUPER LOUD. I'm not going to debate which caliber is more effective as I fall into the camp that thinks if you put the bullet where it needs to go, there isn't much difference between the major service calibers. Where the Sig round does excel is when going through cars to address a target inside the passenger compartment. I just posted this link in another thread and you can see some of the data regarding the .357 Sig and others.
If you plan on buying your brothers, I'd say go for it, if you don't like it you can put a .40 barrel in it and call it a day.


text: Official site: http://www.starsonice.com U.S. cast: http://www.starsonice.com/the-skaters.html The first show has kicked off in Fort Myers, Florida. Here's Jason Brown's selfie with Polina Edmunds before the show: http://pic.twitter.com/n2jhYeIpcL On ice shot of the U.S. SOI full-time cast in Florida, tweeted by @starsonice on April 2nd: http://pic.twitter.com/6tGmdIR9yj (Davis/White, Abbott, Wagner, Gold, Nagasu, Czisny, Bradley, Farris, Navarro/Bommentre) NBC is scheduled to air a 1-hour broadcast on Sunday, April 13 from 3-4 pm Eastern. ETA 2 publicity articles in local media that are are Meryl Davis-focused: Orlando (FL) Sentinel: Meryl Davis a star on the ice and off Pennlive.com ahead of the Hershey (PA) show: Meryl Davis on 'Dancing with the Stars,' 'Stars on Ice,' Princess Jasmine and more U.S. main cast group photo posted on Stars on Ice's Facebook fan page: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bkan4pwIUAELuvf.jpg:large


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The number of children with members of their family in the armed forces who now seek outpatient mental health assistance has doubled since the ill fated Bush invasion of Iraq. Nearly two million children who had at least one parent in the military asked for mental health assistance during the past year. In 2003, about one million of these children were asking for mental health but now the number has doubled. There is some evidence the number increased alongside the famous "surge" of troops fighting in Iraq. We are a nation which compels members of the military to have a third or fourth deployment in combat zones so it is no surprise their children will be undergoing stress. Patricia Barron of the National Military Family Association says there is evidence children are taking more medication and displaying signs of anxiety and depression.
President Obama is sending thousands of troops into Afghanistan where the fighting will be dangerous and for some soldiers it will be still another deployment away from family. Isn't it about time the president bit the bullet and requested Congress to reintroduce the draft in order to equalize the burden of defending freedom within their entire nation?


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CHANDIGARH: The arrival of MLAs at Government Multi-Specialty Hospital (GMSH), Sector 16, following a ruckus in the Punjab Assembly led to inconvenience to patients. Injured AAP MLAs Sarabjit Kaur Manuke and Manjit Singh were accompanied by party leaders HS Phoolka, Kanwar Sandhu and Aman Arora, along with Akali MLAs Sukhbir Badal and Bikram Majithia to the hospital.
The average debt of a farmer stands at Rs 8 lakh per family in Punjab, which has started a cycle of suicides — farmers being unable to repay the loans, take their own lives.
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Waterborne paint are becoming very common. Although this technology is quite old, the push to reduce VOC's and hazardous waste has the chemists scrambling to produce better products.
The East and West coasts have seen alot of this already. That also includes specific regulations on application equipment. I have been testing waterborne almost 5 years for two of the big boys in the states with pretty good luck. The major problems with waterborne are booth setup, application equipment and climate.
Booth setup is pretty basic... with waterborne, you don't need to worry so much about heat as you do with air movement over the panels. Application equipment is simple. CLIMATE is the killer..... If you have a shop that requires you to move the vehicle outside to get it to a different part of the shop for finish work.., you could have a mess on your hands.... Here in Minnesota it gets pretty
(BBrrrrrrrrrrrr) cold in the winter. The cold affects everyone that touches it........The freight hauler, the jobber and the re-finisher.
When it freezes it never seems to be the same.
As for the quality of the finish... Its nice. I receive new factory painted parts to abuse by repairing defects like dents and scratches to test repairability and I can tell you the colors are so much more brilliant and clean looking and the finish is very flat and durable (so far)............WOW CAN I RAMBLE ON........SORRY....
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From what I have seen on my late model GM cars, the paint seems durable, but time will tell. I had one experience with a water based paint while painting a radio control airplane. This was a true cross linked water based paint, not a latex paint. I did not like it worth a flip, both from the application and finished product.
Water-Borne Paint Finishes
For Auto Manufactures such as Daimler/Chrysler Corporation, General Motors and BMW, the advantages for moving to water borne finishes are aimed at reducing VOC emissions during application, waterborne coatings also reduce risk of fire, are easier to clean up (creating less hazardous residues) and result in reduced worker exposure to organic vapors.
I saw this and started wondering how in the world you would know what finish you had?
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A 9 mm being the weakest but sharp recoil.
40 S&W will be bigger and "sharper recoil"
45ACP will be more of a push back not sharp at all
You can't assume that a bigger handgun will soak up the recoil, because the recoil spring may be bigger/small. Also revolvers tend to have a little more recoil. Some guns are better, for the spring reason I stated above. Example the HK USP 45 will have a smaller recoil than the HK USP Compact 45 because of the recoil system in the full size version


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I think I understand what needs to happen to the barrel ends of both my .17HM2 and .22lr rifles so that they accept a threaded "can".
What happens since my .17 Marlin has a bull barrel? What happens when I dont want to use the can(I cant imagine when that would happen, but...)?
Will the threads be protected with a "cap"?


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Ouch! So sorry to hear that. Glad the yard is being nice!
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So Med, what ever happened to the engine and transmission? Was it toast from all you did? (hope not!!!)
The previous owner installed a used prop-shaft that was too short. He had some kind of steel "coupler" fabricated at an auto shop and installed it to take up the space. Needless to say the hunk of rusted metal wasn't true to <3,000inch. Consequently no amount of alignment would help.
Once we started taking it apart we found that it had worn oval shaped holes where the bolts were attached to the transmission. It also had worn my packing gland into something other than a circle.
In order to try and survive from a financial perspective the yard has been kind enough to let me do as much work as possible even though it's not a do-it-yourself yard. Yesterday I cut the propshaft in half to facilitate removal. That was fun.
When she's all done she'll have a new (everything) and a drip-less packing. Should be good when it's done, except for the bill.... So far (fingers crossed) no damage from the penetrating oil on the tranny.
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So Med, what ever happened to the engine and transmission? Was it toast from all you did? (hope not!!!)
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"The only way I find to get a proper metric is to "
Actually, I bought a couple of little tools last year that I keep kicking myself in the ass for not having boughts a thousand years ago. Thread pitch tools.
Anywhere from $5-20 each, available in metric, english, and beware if there's no label because there are Whitworth as well.
It looks like a little fold-up set of allen keys or feeler gauges, like a little pocket knife. Except each "blade" has a set of teeth cut into one or booth edges, each in a different thread and pitch. So if you hold a bolt against the blades and "1/4x20" matches up, or "8mmx1.5" matches up, whatever it is, it really is.
On the higher priced side of things, they also are sold like a "necklace" where the pearls are different sized nuts. Again, whatever nut fits, that's your thread. (And vice versa, strings of bolts to check your nuts.)
The Home Despot and other places have been kind enough to put "size finders" like that one the hardware shelf, but it is so cheap and easy to just buy the damned things and have them in the tool box. I think Vermont American is one of the inexpensive brands, just an inch long and that's good enough.
Which of course still doesn't help with generic imported junk metal parts that were made on worn out dies for the lowest price.
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driz, some of the big ox stores have taken to hiding a "tool chest" on the shelves, with metric and stainless hardware jumbled up in it. Once you crack the code and go pearl diving, sometimes there is genuine good hardware in there.
And then there's Ace Hardware, that has little trays of all sorts of good hardware if you ask them where the adult section is.
Oh boy pearl diving in the metric/us mixed mess, pleeeeeaaasssse. If there is one thing I detest more than metric it's a mix of the vermin. The only way I find to get a proper metric is to take the old one right in my hand to the store, ughhhh. That is just one of the reasons I try to avoid American cars. Metric sucks but they almost exclusively use 12 10 `13 14 17, with little else mainly so they are fairly easy to decipher standing on your head. US cars are splattered with a closely matched mix of everything under the sun. Add some rust and who knows what they are till you round off the bolt.. It's a good thing that boats are simpler for all our sakes. I heard that Mercury is now making their outboards in compatible bolts meaning 13mm / 1/2 14/mm 9/16. Too bad no one else does. Nothing like good old Coarse or fine threads, so simple.
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I blasted the remaining two with PB and waited about 5 minutes. The one unbroken screw came right out with a quick blast of the impact driver despite having almost no grip left to it. I put my Knipex pliers on the broken one and was able to get it out. On the left side I simply sprayed with PB, waited five minutes, and both set screws backed right out with no damage to the heads..... These of course were not "scientifically rusted" on and had been naturally rusted, by real Maine winters...
If your experience is the same as mine we typically find that of several fasteners that are rusted tight often only one or two are really stuck.
If you would for next few projects use pb for half the fasteners and the homemade mix for the other half then the possibility of accidentally getting the easy one every time would be statistically reduced.
The fact that pb blaster worked on the same fastener after the acetone-oil treatment is evidence that pb works better but their is still the possibility that another AO treatment would have worked just as well.
Then again you may just want to get your work done and not amuse us.
Just a thought.
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Welcome to the cult of true believers, MedSailor. If you would step this way, to the rear, we have some saffron robes you may be interested in. You get a 10% discount on future reorders if you agree to wear the saffron robes.
Amazing stuff, isn't it?
driz, some of the big ox stores have taken to hiding a "tool chest" on the shelves, with metric and stainless hardware jumbled up in it. Once you crack the code and go pearl diving, sometimes there is genuine good hardware in there.
And then there's Ace Hardware, that has little trays of all sorts of good hardware if you ask them where the adult section is.
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I too use a lot of PB. I like the long range of the stream, its accuracy and the way the foam sticks onto the object. Most any of these will work given time and the right technique.
I like to start when I can a week in advance. If possible to reach and in do so take a dremel wire wheel, I love those little 1" wire wheels especially for cleaning electrical posts / terminals . They work good on small nuts too but a 4" grinder with wire wheel does better if there is room. Knock the loose stuff off and get the rust swollen bolt head back to size then give it a shot. Give it a shot every day or so whatever along the way and also some sharp raps with a hammer or punch if you can reach it. Keep the penetrant on there doing this. When the day arrives put a good quality socket, and I still much prefer 6 points, and breaker bar and rap it a few times. It should give and often a good wrench will work better as the breaker bar and its connection tend to suck up some of your raps. It should move, if it doesn't try tightening it a tad. If it tightens a tad you're home free. Some more juice and back and forth wiggling will free it, just don't get too mean with it right off.
Another trick I use if I can is to leave the offending nut / bolt head sitting in a puddle. of oil. Try mastic or even tape, anything to keep the oil sitting there in quantity if you can. Mastic comes in rolls of small ribbons ( they used to use it to seal between car door panels, fenders ect so auto body supply stores have it) and a roll will last a lifetime. Surrounding the nut in a puddle of oil really helps if you can manage it. Even a dam of duct tape under a horizontal mounted bolt keeps some in place.
Whatever you do when it's out if the bolts are nasty/ pitted try if you can to replace with new. Just make sure you get properly rated ones and not hardware store bin nuts and bolts. If you have to use a torch an old timers book says you HAVE to use coffee. Cherry the offending nut up then use the secret ingredient, coffee. It has an ingredient in it that keeps you from getting carried away and banging on it when still hot. It's called TIME. By the time you go made the coffee and drank it it will have cooled enough to beat on without damaging anything.
A can of "Never SEIZE" lasts for years, use it where ever you can / should because the next guy (probably you) will thank you for it
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For the record, I take back EVERYTHING bad I said about Kroll oil. The stuff is magic! The smell (which does smell like simple green to me) does disappear in a day or few, depending on how much you use.
I was in the yard yesterday beating on some rusted together parts with a sledge. They were winning. I decided (since the can was within reach) that it was worth a try. SECONDS LATER the rusted parts were yielding to the mighty blows of the sledge. Absolutely brilliant!
Also, other parts that were rusted together, that the yard quoted me TEN HOURS to get apart (and another mechanic walked away from) came apart with little resistance after two applications of the magic oil.
Now as long as it hasn't eaten my rear seal to my transmission, I'll be happy.
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Well Ship! On the advice of my mechanic I sprayed it liberally all over the engine and transmission.
Now what should I do? Is there something even more toxic I can use to fix the problem? i.e. the two wrongs making a right theory? Should I just mop it all up and hope for the best?
Why is it every time I hire an "expert" for my boat something bad happens....
Also, I will be taking my propeller shaft out in a month come haulout. Is the transmission seal easier to replace with the shaft out?
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I attended Trend Forum 2012 last week in Bonn, effectively an analyst day where Deutsche Telekom presented its innovation strategy. There was no focus on overall group strategy. Still, innovation matters greatly as part of the repositioning efforts of telcos. As the role of telcos in the value chain is weakening, largely due to increasing competition by over-the-top providers (OTTPs), telcos need to differentiate themselves increasingly via service provision and their ability to innovate quickly and prolifically. Failure to do so will cement their status as transport utilities for OTTPs.
Deutsche Telekom's Core Beliefs focus on: a) building its platform business by partnering with software firms; b) leveraging the cloud by providing high QoS and secure connectivity; and c) leverage differentiating terminals through device management and customer experience provision. These Core Beliefs form the basis for pursuing its focus growth segments in digital media distribution, cloud storage, cross-device digital advertising, classified marketplaces, and mobile payment in addition to the core telco business. These targets match up well against our evaluation of best cloud markets for telcos.
A defining characteristic of next-generation network (NGN) infrastructure and the move towards cloud-based business models is openness. As a consequence, OTTPs increasingly deal directly with end customers across the network. Relationships between telcos and other members of value chain become more complex. Emerging cloud services by telcos need to become network agnostic to deliver cross-network solutions and ensure cloud interoperability. Deutsche Telekom has made significant progress in the recent past to adapt its strategy to these new telco realities.


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Answers to Common Questions about Dependency Status and Financial Aid
Mark Kantrowitz
November 14, 2011
Will my daughter's chances for receiving financial aid be higher if we don't claim her on our taxes? Household income is about $85,000 and she did not qualify for financial aid through the FAFSA. She is in a community college and is 20 years old. She recently moved out of our home but we are paying her college tuition. She has not received any scholarships. — Danielle V.
It does not matter whether you claim your daughter on your income tax returns or not; it will not affect her eligibility for federal student aid. The IRS and the US Department of Education use different definitions of dependency. The IRS definition is based on support. The US Department of Education definition is based on the student's age, marital status and other qualitative factors. Unless your daughter gets married, has dependents other than a spouse or joins the military, she will continue to be considered a dependent student for federal student aid purposes until she becomes 24 years old.
Don't forget to claim the Hope Scholarship tax credit (also known as the American Opportunity tax credit) on your federal income tax return based on amounts you paid for her tuition, fees and course materials.
I recently moved away from home. I'm working a part time job and am enrolled in college as a full time student. My mother is not really supporting me on going to school and our relationship isn't good. I moved out of her home and receive no help from her or my father. I'm living with a friend now and pay rent. When I apply next year for financial aid do I file as dependent or independent? — Andrew A.
Ask the financial aid administrator at your college for a dependency override. Bring copies of letters from social workers, clergy and other people familiar with your situation.
Colleges cannot grant a dependency override merely because the parents refuse to contribute to the student's college costs or to complete the FAFSA or verification. The student's self-sufficiency also isn't sufficient grounds for a dependency override.
But sometimes there are circumstances underlying the parental refusal to help that can support a request for dependency override. For example, colleges can grant a dependency override if there is a hostile or abusive family environment that would make it unsafe for the student to have further contact with his parents.
If a student doesn't qualify for a dependency override, but the parents have cut off all financial support and refuse to complete the FAFSA, the most a college financial aid administrator can do is allow the student to borrow from the unsubsidized Stafford loan program.
I am currently a college freshman. I am 18 years of age and I moved out of my home in June. I currently pay rent among my other car, phone and living expenses. I rent a room from a family in my city, work 30 hours a week and have 5 classes on my schedule. Is there ANY financial aid or help I can get from anywhere? I've been told that its not possible and I find it rather upsetting that a self-supporting 18 year old student cannot get financial aid when they need it most, considering their other financial responsibilities. — Madison B.
A student's financial self-sufficiency is not enough for the student to qualify for a dependency override. Until you reach age 24, you are considered to be a dependent student and your parents must complete the FAFSA. If you have a good relationship with your parents, ask them to complete the FAFSA. Tell them that it does not obligate them to pay for your college education, but will enable you to get financial aid such as student loans and grants.
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posted at 6:13 pm on September 16, 2009 by Dafydd ab Hugh
On Thursday last, September 10th, the day after President Barack H. Obama's grand ObamaCare speech to a session of joint congressmen — or whatever that was — I made a bold prediction:
John Hinderaker at Power Line helpfully reports that before President Barack H. Obama's grand address on ObamaCare, the Rasmussen tally stood at 44% of likely voters supporting, 53% opposing….
He makes no predictions, but I'm not gunshy; I say No, Obama's speech last night did not move the meter; we won't see any jump outside the statistical margin of error….
The people have awakened to the fact that there's no "there" there in ObamaCare, and there never was; the drums of August proved that. There are no new arguments or facts under the sun that will help push it; the more people learn about it, the more they hate it; and the president himself has flat run out of charisma-gas.
It's still possible the Democrats will manage a jam-down (though I increasingly think they never will); but if they do, it will not be due to popular demand.
Barack Obama's final, desperate, make-or-break play to stir a populist uprising in favor of ObamaCare has failed. The numbers will not move significantly towards ObamaCare because of this or any future speech.
Well, the numbers are in. It is now exactly a week since the Obamacle spake from on high to the assembled cardinals and bishops — also broadcast as an extraordinary dispensation to the huddled masses, yearning to breath the government option. During that se'en-night, what happened anent popular support for the
plot scheme conspiracy proposal?
Well, on those rare occasions where it's necessary, I'm always big enough to admit I was wrong. I predicted that Obama would not significantly "move the meter" on Rasmussen, but in fact he did; he moved it quite a bit, actually, much more than I thought he could.
As of the Rasmussen release of the 10th, you'll recall — with all polling conducted before the speech aired — ObamaCare was supported by 44% of likely voters, with 53% opposing; thus it was losing by 9 points.
Yesterday's release, Tuesday September 15th, shows 42% supporting with 55% opposed, with ObamaCare losing in the poll by 13 points. That's a jump of 4 points, or 44% over the previous gap.
During the interim, support crept up to as high as 51% four days after the speech, with forty six percent opposed; at that momentary peak, ObamaCare was winning by 4 points. But support utterly collapsed in the very next day's release, to 45% support, 52% opposition, with ObamaCare losing by 7 points. That spread worsened in yesterday's release to its current position.
As of now, I'd say my prediction was quite accurate: I of course meant that the speech wouldn't move the meter towards support of ObamaCare (I assume everyone understood that). That it seems to have significantly increased opposition instead (or failed to prevent the increase) is just a bonus.
But it's not just those "right-wing racists" at Rasmussen, who are doubtless straddling the pockets of Rupert Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC, 92%), and the entire Fox News Channel (which must be a very uncomfortable straddle spread). Checking the Gallup poll released today, we see no significant movement at all in the unforced opinion, compared to the same poll conducted Aug 31st – September 2nd; and what insignificant movement it shows is, in fact, against ObamaCare.
Bottom line: The Obamic encyclical did absolutely nothing to move the meter towards ObamaCare. POTUS (and TOTUS) utterly failed.
Under the circumstances, I hereby repudiate all my previous begging and pleading for Barack Obama to just shut up about health-care reform (and to shut up shuttin' up, too). Instead, I now encourage him to continue on his "speech a day keeps ObamaCare away" tour. Please be my guest, Mr. President; and… bon appétit!
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Maintaining the target for entrained air in fresh concrete is like walking on a tightrope over a canyon on a windy day. You have the goal to arrive at the other side. And you know the path you have to take. But it's a difficult task keeping all the variables in balance, and the consequences of failure are bad no matter which side you fall on.
Monitoring entrained air is an operational problem common to all producers. Almost all exposed concrete in moderate and cold climates is specified to have entrained air. Concrete with entrained air is far more durable in freeze-thaw conditions.
There's little disagreement about how much air should be entrained. Specifiers and producers look to Table 1.1 in ACI 201-1 for guidance. The document outlines the recommended air content for frost-resistant concrete. In general, most specifiers request 6% of total volume to be air bubbles.
Maintaining procedures to meet this target is the balancing act. If air volume falls short of the specification significantly, deterioration may be faster, leading to bad concrete and expensive replacement. On the flip side, since entrained air lowers strength, too much air can affect final compressive strength.
Each percentage point of air reduces concrete strength by an estimated 5%. So air content elevated by only two percentage points can cut the strength of a 4000 psi mix by 400 psi. This could cause the sample to miss the strength specification.
Controlling air content is more than an admixture dosing issue. Field conditions, ambient temperature changes, and delivery times can make it difficult to consistently hit the target.
A QC program that executes tight control of air content helps build customers' confidence in their suppliers. As more project engineers and managers turn to performance specifications, producers will need to demonstrate that they can predict and control critical properties like air volume.
Fortunately, help is on the way. First, the admixture industry is responding by offering more stable air entraining admixtures (AEAs). Second, many suppliers of supplementary cements, often the causes of some variances, are adopting tighter production techniques to provide a more consistent mix ingredient.
The problem
Monitoring air content is costly and time-consuming, says Terry Murphy of Meyer Material Co. in Illinois. "If my air content didn't vary, I could eliminate half of my QC department's workload," he says. QC managers across the country echo this.
Several factors affect fresh concrete's air content. A technical bulletin from admixture supplier W.R. Grace (TB0200) lists 27 items that influence the air entrained in a mix. What's even more challenging is while a QC technician may know that a particular factor will tend to raise or lower the air content, the technician does not know the amount of change.


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Star Wars: Jango Fett Helmet Prop - Rubies - HotMovieProps.com
Anyone aware of the fiberglass Jango done by rubies?
Star Wars: Jango Fett Helmet Prop - Rubies - HotMovieProps.com
Anyone aware of the fiberglass Jango done by rubies?
I didn't know they made one that expensive. Hmm.
It looks pretty good, probably undersize though
Maybe its just the pics but the colors look way off.
You could get a pro paint job on an Asok, BKBT, Bobamaker, or Fettpride for less than that too.
at least thats my 2cents
You could get something 99% accurate for less than what rubies charges on their fiberglass helmets
These were made in a limited number, they dont look that bad in real life, there basicly the same as therubies 1 piece Jango but made from fiberglass, though they dont look as bad as the vynil they seem to look closs enough to have solid linage, though Ive never found out the source they got there original from very possible it was scanned from a real one or a cast that was modifed,
they also did an FG Vader and an FG clone trooper
Yeah, I knew about the vader and clone- but I can never find anything on the jango. I searched google and found almost nothing on it
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Hyman touted flawed study on "liberal academia," compared pie-throwers to violent demonstrators
On May 1, Sinclair Broadcast Group commentator Mark Hyman cited a recent study on "liberal academia" as evidence that colleges and universities have grown increasingly liberal and are biased against hiring conservative professors. The following day, Hyman continued to attack "liberal academia" by claiming that it breeds intolerance and violence on college campuses and displaying images of rioters being arrested while discussing incidents in which conservative speakers on campuses have been hit with pies and salad dressing. But the study's findings are based on seriously flawed methodology, and the study's authors explicitly indicated that their findings were not proof of anti-conservative bias in university hiring practices.
On the May 1 edition [1] of "The Point," Hyman cited the findings of a March 29 study [2] titled "Politics and Professional Advancement Among College Faculty" in asserting that "college faculty is even more liberal than previously thought." In fact, the study's methodology in demonstrating "a sharp shift to the left" on campuses was fundamentally flawed, as it compared two data sets (from 1984 and 1999) compiled through very different surveys and from different respondent pools. As Media Matters for America noted [3]:
On the question of ideological orientation, the study's comparison of the 1984 and 1999 surveys violates a fundamental principle of survey research. As decades of research have shown, altering questions in even subtle ways can produce dramatically different results. [Researchers Stanley] Rothman, [S. Robert] Lichter, and [Neil] Nevitte base their conclusion that "a sharp shift to the left has taken place among college faculty in recent years" on questions asked in two entirely different ways in the two studies, one asking respondents to place themselves on a ten-point scale, and one asking them to select from a list of descriptions.
Hyman went on to claim that "[c]olleges, especially the elite schools, discriminate against those professors who refuse to adhere to a rigid liberal orthodoxy. Conservative professors just don't get hired." This claim echoed the statements of study co-author Lichter, who was quoted in news reports declaring that "this is the first study that statistically proves bias [against conservatives] in the hiring and promotion of faculty members." But the study itself refutes both Hyman's and Lichter's statements. The authors, Lichter among them, wrote that their "results do not definitively prove that ideology accounts for differences in professional standing," adding that "[o]ur findings on the more controversial issue of discrimination against conservative faculty should be regarded as more preliminary."
Furthermore, notwithstanding what its authors claim, the study does not even show, much less "prove," that conservatives suffer discrimination in university hiring and promotion. Few would doubt that liberals outnumber conservatives among university faculty. But justifying claims about hiring and promotion would require data on the number of conservatives and liberals who applied for various positions or came up for tenure review. Despite Lichter's and Hyman's comments, the study's authors present no such data.
On the May 2 edition [4] of "The Point," Hyman returned to the subject of "liberal academia" and again referenced the flawed study to allege that violence is a symptom of "radical liberal thought" on college campuses. As evidence, Hyman cited recent incidents in which students have thrown food at conservative speakers. MSNBC political analyst and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan [5] was hit with salad dressing during a speech, while right-wing pundit Ann Coulter [6], Weekly Standard editor William Kristol [7], and right-wing commentator David Horowitz [8] all had pies thrown at them. After Hyman mentioned these incidents, however, Hyman showed video clips of police in full riot gear arresting demonstrators. As the clips played, Hyman equated pie-throwing with the riots:
It is not uncommon for students to peacefully protest against a speaker. But the rash of physical assaults has been on the upswing. All four victims are noted conservatives. No prominent liberals denounced the attacks. The problem is starting to spiral out of control when one side of the ideological divide loses the war of ideas and resorts to violence to try to maintain its monopoly. Liberals toss around the word "intolerance" when someone says something they disagree with. But they are accepting when one of their own resorts to violence in an attempt to silence someone they just don't like. It is time America rescue its colleges and universities from radical liberal thought.
Media Matters leads SinclairAction.com [9], a coalition of groups and individuals protesting Sinclair's continued misuse of public airwaves to broadcast one-sided, politically charged programming without a counterpoint.
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Cons - comfort, not very practical, hugely microphonic
I got this cable second-hand on the FS section here. It was a somewhat spontaneous purchase since I saw it listed and decided to just give it a try.
I rate it rather low here because it is very, very stiff and hard to manage. It stays tangled even though it wants to spring apart. I suppose this is because of the nature of the silver-over-copper wire, along with the teflon coating. It is not pliable or rubbery at all and therefore doesn't resist tangling despite its springiness. Also, it's highly microphonic. The stock TG!334 cable has been reported to be microphonic as well, but this is at least twice as severe, maybe more. Any bump on the cable transmits a large thump to the ears, so it's not very practical for up-and-about use. The Fitears are basically turned into a stationary use IEM with this cable. Another factor which exacerbates this is the omission of a chin slider, which would help counteract the cable's tendency to spring away from behind the ears. I purchased a cheap aftermarket clip on slider which is of great help.
The good part-- I won't get into debating the sonic benefits/non-benefits of cables on head/earphones, but I detect a noticeable broadening of the soundstage, and a bit of treble sparkle added to the sound. Perhaps the bass gets tauter too. Overall, it gives a bit of airiness and detail to the Fitear's sonic presentation. Quite a nice surprise. I normally harbor a bit of skepticism when it comes to how much ultimate difference a cable can make, and so had a pretty reserved if not doubting attitude about this cable. A while back I had a silver cable by another large designer/manufacturer for my customs, and I didn't hear much difference, so I was nicely surprised by these observations with the ALO SXC 24.
Whether or not it's worth the retail asking price of approaching $300 is up to a user's expectations for a cable. I don't think I'd spring for full retail, but at the lower second-hand price I am glad I purchased it. The sonic improvements I hear just add to the already great TG!334s.


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It would be awesome to see a full scale version of the suit. I like how its not all plastoid components etc.
I want to do this as a project for SDCC2012 (went this year, and I KNEW I had to get geared up for next year, plus I love Star Wars/Bioware) So I was thinking that I could use a set of clone armor to use a base. I think it's possible, but it would be weird to use two different types of materials (I was thinking I have the plastic base armor and then add on...with some material. I honestly dont know)
Look forward to seeing this in work!
Hey Freely, i'm looking forward to seeing how your project comes along, I also want to build one of these.
Yobbo that came out great, you got some mad skills to put that together from parts.
MatrixSkull, that looks awesome, I also plan on going the pepakura route. When you model for pepakura do you just model the basic shapes or will you be putting more detail into your file? I ask cause i've only ever modeled for animation and never for pep.
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holy crapballs yes!!!!! looking great
Laser, that helm has just become my second favorite helm next to dynamic1's ray park helm. Great job brother.
Wow, THAT is really awesome work! Nice job!


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The Canisius College men's soccer lost to host Western Michigan on Friday afternoon, 2-1. The loss drops the Griffs to 2-3-1 on the season, while the Broncos improve to 3-4-0.
"I didn't feel we played well as a team today and we're struggling to find any consistency in our game right now," said Canisius head coach Dermot McGrane. "We need to put today's game behind us so we can bounce back on Sunday and put in a good performance against Detroit."
The Griffs were put in an early deficit when the Broncos scored just 8:02 into the contest. Matheau Rogers dribbled through the Canisius defense and sent a curling ball into the back of the net for the 1-0 advantage.
Canisius fought its way back into the game and eventually squared the contest in the 63rd minute. Sophomore defender Alex De Carolis netted his team-best third goal of the season, scoring from the edge of the 18-yard with a hard shot.
The Broncos, however, reclaimed their lead in the 73rd minute when Cam Jensen tallied the game-winning goal off a rebound.
Both schools fired 14 shots in the contest and had eight corner kicks. Senior Ryan Arvin recorded three saves for the Griffs, while Chase Rau stopped six shots in the win.
Canisius continues its road trip in Michigan with a contest at Detroit on Sunday morning. The schools are set to kick off at 11 a.m.


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Associate Professor of New Testament
Year Started at PTS: 1994
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Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary / New Testament
M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School Year / Biblical Studies
B.A., Dartmouth College / History
Dr. Robert A.J. Gagnon joined the faculty at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in 1994. He received his bachelor's from Dartmouth College, his M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School, and his doctorate from Princeton Theological Seminary. His main fields of interest are Pauline theology and sexual issues in the Bible. He is the author of The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics (Abingdon, 2001), co-author (with Dan O. Via) of Homosexuality and the Bible: Two Views (Fortress, 2003), and author of a number of articles in scholarly journals including Journal of Biblical Literature, New Testament Studies, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Novum Testamentum, Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, and Horizons in Biblical Theology. He and his wife Carol have two daughters.
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If any help, the actual key in the cylinder faces almost straight down into its' slot. Key itself must move UP a slight amount while exerting a small amount of twist on the ignition key. I've lightly hammer tapped and used an engraving tool both to move the key enough to clear the slot.
The way they wear without any warning at all before won't turn on suggests that if you just take patience in hand, you can repeatedly attempt to turn it on, one time in there it can work but may take a hundred times. Do NOT use any force on key, that only makes key lock tighter in keyway to not come out.
I remember sitting outside work one night when mine quit, it took 45 minutes to hit it right..........
I don't mean pound--- tap lightly!!
And use Aero-kroil if possible.
|Pounding on the key as whynotthinkwhynot suggested is a good idea but you may want to make a dumb key first to avoid messing up your PATS key.
|Set it up on a push button start and be just remove the cylinder and be done with it
The ignition lock cylinder is a well known problem on this board.
Here's what I would do if I was in your situation:
First, purchase a new, improved style lock cylinder from your local Ford dealer, or an online Ford parts dealer. The difference between the 2 lock cylinders (so you don't purchase an old faulty lock cylinder on Ebay) is that the key hole is in the center of the lock cylinder on the improved version. The old, busted, style has the key hole off center of the lock cylinder- like the one in your car now. Once you change to the improved style, there will be no more ignition lock cylinder problems. Once you have your new lock cylinder, take it and your other key to a locksmith and have the new lock cylinder keyed to your key. This is important because Ford keys contain an RFID chip that is linked to your ECU. If you don't use that key, then you'll need a Ford dealer to reprogram a new key for your new lock, and that would cost USD$100 or so. Don't make that mistake. Now that you have a new lock cylinder ready to be installed- try the last resort before drilling. Remove the plastic surrounding the console so you can see the base of the lock cylinder. Spray some WD40 in the key hole, insert your key, tap on the end of the key with a screwdriver handle like the key was a nail and you were driving it into the console. Try to turn the key while you are doing this. I would try doing this for about 15 mins. If the key turns- you want the key in the ACC position or "Position I"- if I recall correctly, in order to remove the lock cylinder. Your new lock cylinder should come with directions. If it turns, then all you have to do is press in on the detent that pops out at the base of the lock cylinder and remove the old lock cylinder. Hopefully you can get your key out. Now install your new lock cylinder, replace the plastic, and you're good to go.
If you can't get the key to turn, you must drill out the old lock cylinder in order to remove it. This is why we beg people to replace the old lock cylinder before it locks up. Yes, damage to the steering column is possible if you are not careful and use too much force drilling the lock cylinder out. The shop you use will probably tell you this also, and they will not replace a steering column for free if they screw up. Your car is in jail until you pay what they say you have to pay. Here is how you can drill out the lock cylinder for yourself if you have a drill, are careful, and can follow directions.
Drilling out Lock cylinder after lock-up and replacing
I haven't use my tumblers since I replaced my ignition cylinder. It seemed like a PITA to set them. I just left them out. I'm not sure if that would solve the locked up ignition though. I have the updated version. You can replace the cylinder yourself.
Can I remove the ignition key Tumblers.
Can I remove the ignition key Tumblers and make the ignition key work. The key will not turn the ignition at this point. If I were to remove the ignition assembly and is there a way to simply remove the tumblers and be done with it. I have read on other postings that dealers want around $600++ to replace the assembly.
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Wayne Law Announces Recipients of Public Interest Law Fellowships, Strengthens Urban Mission in Detroit and Beyond
DETROIT (May 6, 2009) – Rita Subhedar, a second-year Wayne State University Law School student, is headed to Washington, D.C. this summer thanks to Wayne Law's newly established Public Interest Law Fellowships. And she's not the only one with her summer plans now in place.
Subhedar, Kimberly Adams, Eric Berg, Lara Chelian, David Deeg, Jason Dinsmore, Elisa Gomez, Laura Kubit, Aisa Villarosa and Erica Washington will be gaining practical legal experience through $6,000 Public Interest Law Fellowships that will allow them to work for a variety of agencies and clinics in Michigan and Washington, D.C.
"On behalf of Wayne Law, I would like to congratulate our first-ever Public Interest Law Fellowship recipients," said Wayne Law Dean Robert M. Ackerman. "These fellowships will provide remarkable opportunities for these students to gain practical experience in public interest law. They will also supply help for worthy organizations and assist folks in need of legal help at a time of economic difficulty."
He added, "We are thrilled to have found necessary funding for these fellowships in 2009 and hope to be in a position to continue funding the program in future years as well."
The fellowships were created by the Law School in an effort to allow students additional opportunities to gain practical experience before graduation, ease financial stresses and offer needed assistance to organizations providing legal services to underserved constituencies. Fellowship recipients, who will hold public interest jobs during the summer of 2009, were selected by a committee consisting of Wayne Law faculty and alumni.
Specific agencies/clinics where recipients will work include:
- Kimberly Adams - Salvation Army Booth Legal Aid Clinic, Detroit
- Eric Berg - Attorney General of Michigan Children/Youth Services Division, Detroit
- Lara Chelian - American Civil Liberties Union, Detroit/Lansing
- David Deeg - Worker Rights Consortium, Washington, D.C.
- Jason Dinsmore – Great Lakes Environmental Law Center / Wayne Law Environmental Law Clinic
- Elisa Gomez - State Appellate Defender, Detroit
- Laura Kubit - Lakeshore Legal Aid, Southfield
- Rita Subhedar - National Housing Law Project, Washington, D.C.
- Aisa Villarosa - Michigan Poverty Law
- Erica Washington - Catholic Charities Legal Services, Washington, D.C.
"This fellowship makes it possible for students like me to pursue a career in public interest law," Subhedar said. "With the National Housing Law Project, I will work on federal legislative analysis and advocacy related to the current foreclosure crisis. I am grateful to the Public Interest Law Fellowship Committee for giving me the opportunity to live and work in Washington, D.C. this summer."
For more information regarding Wayne Law's Public Interest Law Fellowships, please visit http://www.law.wayne.edu/finaid/pilf.php.
About Wayne Law
Wayne State University Law School as educated and served the Detroit metropolitan area since its inception as Detroit City Law School in 1927. Located at 471 West Palmer Street in Detroit's re-energized historic cultural center, the Law School remains committed to student success and features modern lecture and court facilities, multi-media and distance learning classrooms, a 250-seat auditorium, and the Arthur Neef Law Library, which houses one of the nation's 40 largest legal collections. Taught by an internationally recognized and expert faculty, Wayne Law students experience a high-quality legal education via a growing array of hands-on curricular offerings, five live-client clinics, and access to well over 100 internships with local and non-profit entities each year. Its 11,000 living alumni, who work in every state of the nation and more than a dozen foreign countries, are experts in their disciplines and include leading members of the local, national and international legal communities. For more information, visit www.law.wayne.edu.
Pictured above: Recipient Rita Subhedar and Wayne Law Dean Robert M. Ackerman


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Paraguay is among the poorest nations in South America and during the past 61 years the country has been ruled by wealthy landowners and the urban elite. The election of Fernando Lugo hopefully marks a birth of a new era in which poor people finally have someone in authority who represents their interests. The new president returned to the province where he worked for 11 years as a bishop and pledged to raise living standards by eradicating poverty and ending corruption. "This is where I learned to love the peasant, the indigenous people, and to admire the efforts to excel despite adverse conditions. He was accompanied by President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela who promised to send Paraguay over 400,000 barrels of oil to deal with fuel shortages.
The wealthy and powerful of Paraguay will not readily surrender power, and Lugo's association with Chavez is only bound to arouse their fury. Lugo is under tremendous pressure from both right and left wing elements of the political spectrum. The poor of Paraguay deserve a better life and it is vital for Lugo to move toward that goal without distractions created by Hugo Chavez who has worked to destroy opposition within Venezuela. If the elite of Paraguay fear Lugo will adopt such measures they will proceed with an overthrow of the Paraguay government.


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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 265, March 14, 2003
- Major Systemwide Upgrades at ARSC
- ARSC Viz Training Next Week
- Next ARSC Technology Watch
- Invitation to ARSC's 4th "Faculty Camp"
- Quick Tip
Major Systemwide Upgrades at ARSC
[ This is an ARSC press release, from Mar 11: ]
Supercomputing Center Celebrates 10th Anniversary With Significant Upgrades
Fairbanks, Alaska - The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) is gearing up for its 10th anniversary with significant upgrades to all of its systems. Using these new visualization, storage and computational resources, scientists will be able to move through a tsunami and experience its run-up, quickly store and retrieve massive amounts of data and run computations faster than ever before possible.
Visualization Upgrades In spring of 2003, ARSC staff will unveil the center's first fully-immersive virtual environment, a Mechdyne MD Flex* system. The three walls and single floor three-dimensional displays that make up the system allow scientists to virtually explore data without the constraints of traditional two-dimensional displays. This ARSC Discovery Lab is currently being configured in the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Rasmuson Library, located on the main UAF campus. It will be available to researchers, scientists and students at the university to explore virtual environments and conduct research in areas like computer-user interfaces, tsunami inundation and the aurora borealis, as well as to work in other forms of creative expression such as three-dimensional animation. The Discovery Lab will supplement existing visualization systems at ARSC including the virtual reality ImmersaDesk. UAF students will be able to explore the Discovery Lab through classes in virtual reality programming, which will be taught during upcoming semesters by ARSC/Computer Science faculty.
Storage Upgrades The center recently installed two Sun Fire* 6800 systems, each with eight, 900 MHz UltraSparc 3* processors and 10.5 terabytes (TB) of raw disk. The Sun systems will provide ready access to data on ARSC supercomputers, visualization resources and workstations and will ease the burden of working with the large data volumes that many computations produce.
These systems will be connected to the center's existing StorageTek* data silos, which have been upgraded to include 6 STK 9840B (20 gigabyte (GB) capacity, 19 megabyte (MB) per second transfer rate) and 4 STK 9940B (200 GB capacity, 30 MB per second transfer rate) tape drives for each Sun Fire*. The robotic tape silos store the massive volume of data generated by ARSC researchers. This more general solution will provide better access and retrieval and can be expanded to accommodate many different computational platforms and data sources.
"These drives will provide a significant boost in total transfer rate to and from the silos as well as a huge increase in capacity," said ARSC storage specialist Gene McGill.
Computational Upgrades In May, the center will install the first phase of a 128-processor high-efficiency Cray X1(TM) parallel vector system, which will be available to users later in the year. The system will be delivered with 512 GB of memory with an option to upgrade when higher density memory becomes available. The X1 will boast a peak performance of 1.6 trillion calculations per second (teraflops) and will eventually replace the center's current Cray T3E* and Cray SV1ex* systems.
The center will also be adding an integrated architecture IBM supercomputer system, composed of two IBM eServer p690 systems, each with 32 processors and 256 GB of memory and IBM eServer p655 systems with two GB of memory per processor. This system will be expanded with additional next generation IBM eServer p655 systems and integrated with IBM's next generation clustering technology to bring the overall peak theoretical performance of the supercomputer to five-teraflops. The last phase of the installation will be in the fall of 2003.
The Cray and the IBM systems will each provide unique hardware and software capabilities that will allow ARSC users to tackle complex problems in a variety of fields. Currently, researchers use ARSC resources to solve problems in bioinformatics, global climate change, space physics, ocean circulation, galactic formation, computational fluid dynamics and arctic engineering.
"ARSC continues to move forward in providing its users with the best possible resources with which to explore data and create new understanding," said ARSC director Frank Williams. "These tools will allow our researchers to continue finding solutions to the important questions of today and the future. We are anxious to launch into the next 10 years of computational science."
About ARSC The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, located on the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, supports computational research in science and engineering with emphasis on high latitudes and the Arctic. The center provides high performance computational, visualization, networking and data storage resources for researchers within the University of Alaska, other academic institutions, the Department of Defense and other government agencies. ARSC is a DoD Supercomputing Resource Center in the Department of Defense's High Performance Computing Modernization Program. For additional information about ARSC, go to:
ARSC Viz Training Next Week
Title: Introduction to Scientific Visualization Date: Weds., March 19th, 2pm Location: Butrovich 109/007 Instructors: Roger Edberg, Sergei Maurits
This class will take students through a series of hands-on exercises designed to illustrate essential concepts and tasks in data preparation, visualization basics, and use of several key scientific visualization software packages on ARSC SGI systems. Students will be encouraged to continue working with ARSC staff on visualization projects of their own interest after completion of the class.
For more info, and to register:
Next ARSC Technology Watch
Topic: Q+A on storage issues Date: March 26th, 12 noon Location: Globe Room, UAF Geophysical Institute
Discussion on any issue is invited, but we'll start with a focus on storage issues: how to share data between systems, visualize data sets, keeping track of all your results, etc.
For more info:
The Preliminary Program for CUG 2003 - "Flight to Insight" is available from the Cray User Group web site, http://www.cug.org. It can be viewed by selecting the upcoming conference link and then on "Preliminary Program".
The Program Committee, with the assistance of Cray Inc. has assembled a diverse array of detail-packed presentations for the Columbus CUG. A few items included in this exciting program are:
- a full day of tutorials,
- exciting keynote speakers,
- the latest information on Cray's new X1, and,
- most importantly, opportunities to consult with your colleagues and to engage the insights and expertise of representatives from Cray Inc.
While you are at the conference web site, you may go ahead and register for the conference...remember the deadline for the early bird rate is April 1st.
WOMPAT 2003: Workshop on OpenMP Applications and Tools June 26 - 27, 2003 Toronto, Ontario Canadahttp://www.eecg.toronto.edu/wompat2003
WOMPAT 2003 is latest in a series of OpenMP-related workshops, which have included the annual offerings of WOMPAT, EWOMP and WOMPEI. Additional information about these previous workshops can be found through the cOMPunity web site.
The Workshop on OpenMP Applications and Tools (WOMPAT 2003) will serve as a forum for users and developers of OpenMP to meet, share ideas and experiences, and to discuss the latest developments in OpenMP and its applications. WOMPAT 2003 is co-sponsored by the OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) and cOMPunity, a community of researchers and developers in academia and industry.
Updated info. can be found at:
Invitation to ARSC's 4th "Faculty Camp"
The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) is pleased to invite interested members of the UA community and their associates, as well as users from other research institutions, to attend the 2003 ARSC Faculty Camp. Building on the success of past Faculty Camps, this year's event aims to bring together a diverse group of researchers to learn about high performance computing and share research experiences. Past Faculty Camps have introduced many researchers to ARSC resources, and built strong links between attendees and ARSC staff. Dates for this years camp are August 4th-22nd.
Faculty Camp will combine a series of seminars presented by ARSC staff, UAF/ARSC Joint Faculty, and current users with independent/self-guided study and access to ARSC specialists. Seminar topics will depend on the needs of the selected attendees but will include the basics of programming high performance computers, visualization software and skills, and collaborative environments.
Individuals or groups wishing to attend are invited to register their interest by April 1st, and by May 1st to submit a short, ~250 word, description of the skills they would like to develop or of the project they intend to undertake. Please submit text in ASCII or pdf format. This description is important as it is the basis for ARSC to organize events and speakers for the Faculty Camp to match the attendees' needs. Successful applicants will be notified by May 9th. Those accepted for Faculty Camp are expected to participate full-time. UA researchers will be compensated at regular salary.
More details about ARSC Faculty Camp can be found at:
Applications and questions regarding Faculty Camp should be sent to Guy Robinson, firstname.lastname@example.com. Please feel free to circulate this announcement.
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