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Welcome, I'm over here in brevard county. I definitely recommend getting the ceramic tint for heat rejection in Florida, you will be cooking the battery in parking lots in July without it. I installed formula one tint on mine, definitely helps.
Welcome, I'm over here in brevard county. I definitely recommend getting the ceramic tint for heat rejection in Florida, you will be cooking the battery in parking lots in July without it. I installed formula one tint on mine, definitely helps.
As Mark mentioned, it was his post that nudged me to look around, then I was hooked.
I have been told a few times by Stringray if I get a referral, they would take care of me, like a dinner out or something, but I always decline the offer. I'm probably in the minority but when I make recommendations, in anything, I only feel its morally neutral if I have nothing to gain from the transaction.
Stingray is one of the best dealers I have used in my entire life of buying cars, and they are solidly behind the Volt and making great deals. If someone buys a Volt, that's enough for me to know the cause for electrification and the person have benefited.
Enjoy your Volt and now its your turn to get another one sold
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DonC: Thanks! I don't know how much more it can grow on me, though. I'm already the workplace EV promoter. I was so excited to realize that I could actually get a reasonable deal on one that I haven't come down a week later! (Nor have I gotten much sleep after spending even more time reading on these forums). It is still surreal driving to work on electrons.
flmark: Thanks Grandpa, haha! I just sent him a PM, so hopefully it'll work out for him. I'm glad for the chain of recommendations on Stingray -- I didn't know you could even get below MSRP because I hadn't kept up with selling prices since back when it first came out. That plus the 0% APR is what sealed the deal (plus a good price on trade and low dealer fees). So thanks for your part in helping me get my electric wonder!
saghost: I will definitely look into it some more. I guess everybody has gotten pretty comfortable with it to be willing to sign up. A family member has actually already hooked into the CAN bus to read some raw data out of the ODB ports; he plans to get me into a research program he works on to track data on my usage, so I may still be contributing data to the EV community in either case... We'll see how it works out.
Flemingljr: Thanks for the welcome! I will probably see you on the road in Brevard. What color is your Volt? My tinting installation is scheduled for tomorrow, and I will be getting the Llumar brand. I think it is metallic rather than ceramic, but I will ask about it when I go; I believe several options will be available within that branding. Llumar has worked well on my wife's car for many Florida years so far.
Hi Henry! Thanks again. I've told everybody at my work all the specifics of my purchase, and I'm hoping a few will consider an EV that maybe wouldn't have considered one before.
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Welcome aboard from another new Volt owner (3/31). Your love for the Volt will only grow. I'm a log time Corvette owner and I have never been more enthused and satisfied with a car. I've owned BMW's, Jaguars and 7 Corvette's.
This car amazes me every time I press the start button and silently glide through traffic. Then I notice all the attention this car generates and you soon come to relize how special this car is and the visceral reaction it garners.
The American public gets it and I so glad you have joined the growing army of Volt owners and game changers.
Cheers and welcome to the family.
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BAZINGA! Thanks, Tom. I really am amazed at the reaction to the car... I think it is equal parts curiosity and amazement (with a dash of ridicule depending on what they thought they knew about the car beforehand -- but I showed those few the light).
I like the idea of this vanguard of Volt owners, and other early EV adopters, as game changers -- we are putting our money where our mouth is and showing others that we really can stop driving all over the place with dino juice one day, and reap all of the multifaceted benefits of such a future. (There I go dreaming again).
Thanks again, Tom, and thanks for your service in the USAF!
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I thought about it, and finally did decide to sign up for Volt Stats. The service is just too cool to pass up! Here's a link to my page:
I've brought my lifetime mpg up to over 72, much better than the 52 it has when I bought it (test drives must've practically all been on gas). I even created a little sub-group for those in my area called Space Coast Volts. No additional members yet, but I hope the other Volt owners in my area will eventually see it. We need to push for charging stations around here, because there are practically none -- only Leaf/Volt dealer stations.
And like many others here on the forums, I am between a rock and hard place with SPX trying to get a free Coulomb charger, but not willing to pay SPX's $1400+ asking price for installation (I guess most people here went through all this a while ago, because it doesn't garner as much discussion anymore -- I'm thinking of nicknaming myself threadkiller ).
I also made a slight change to my commute which is drastically helping my EV performance -- I used to always get right on the highway for 11 miles, then drive reasonable speed roads the rest of the way. I would leave the highway only 12 miles into my commute, but with over 4 kWh used! I could just barely get to work on battery. But since I can't charge at work yet, I decided to try taking the 5-minute-longer, more direct local roads. Wow, what a difference! I never break 60 mph on this route, and I can get to work with nearly half my battery remaining! In the few days since I started this, my daily mpg has gone from the 80's to the 180's to 200's.
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I hate it
I don't hate Star Wars.
That guy is a n00b
Man if there is EVER a case of someone NOT getting it then this guy takes the prize.
I wont bore you here with my oppinions about how wrong he is other then to say hopefully since 2005 has read enough replies to his story to have a change of oppinion.
Amusing might be stretch for me to see.....Sad is more like it what I read.
oh.. that's not true at all, I loved the NJO series!
even though I haven't finished the Unifying Force... yet. I just started, hehe.
I found myself agreeing with a lot of it. Not to the point of hate, I don't even think the author truly means it that strong. It's just comedy. I laughed.
I read the entire NJO series while in Iraq. I loved every book! What a great series.
LOL, hes no Star Wars fan, hes just a utreekov (fool, idiot) try'n to tic people off, and i think he accomplished that very well. LOL, i sometimes love people like that, they make life interesting, I wonder how much hate mail he go over that one, lol.
I agree with ya'll mostly. While Georgey boy may not make the most popular of decisions, they usualy seem to turn out ok in the end. The NJO stuff wasnt too bad, i dont know why people dont like it (other than the same ol' tired argument points of 'THEY KILLED CHEWIE and ANAKIN!" and the whole host of others). Now the Dark Nest stuff... wasnt all that great
Yeah, I'd read that one before.
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I received Stitckerman's bending jig Friday, so I spent yesterday afternoon bending up 7 flats.
6 Tapco's and 1 FAC I've had hanging around for a while. All 7 came out perfect.
Stickermans jig does a fabulous job bending these flats, however setting them up is a royal pain in the kiester.
Setting them up by measuring is very time consuming and frustrating (have you ever tried to move something .002?)
On top of that, once you finally have it perfect, it changes when you tighten the plate.
After doing the first 3 by measurement, I decided to drill the jig to use locating pins.
After carefully locating a flat, I drilled the jig center piece for pins, what a relief, the last 4 went very quickly, and were right on the money.
Bending 7 flats, does not make me an expert on the subject, but I have a couple of observations as a guy whose been there, done that.
After seeing how much force is required to start the initial bend, I'm very leary of DPH's new jig base design,
His die looks very robust, even more so than stickermans, (although his works perfectly) but the base concerns me.
I would be afraid that the angle iron would tend to splay after a few bends, it appears to be only 1/4" stock, and with those huge notches on either end, there is nothing to hold the two sides parallel.
I don't know this as fact, it's pure speculation on my part.
Judging by how hard I worked my press, I would say it takes at least a couple of tons of pressure to start the bend.
I do like their full height center section, and that it's threaded instead of having to fumble with nuts.
I'm not sure why stickerman does not have locating pins on the jig itself. There are a couple of undersized pin holes on the bottom plate to get you in the ballpark, but man, it's a big freakin park when you're working in thousandths.
I know both of these are new products, and will certainly be refined as time and experience go on, both are proven performers.
But as they sit right now, I would say the ultimate bender would be DPH's die in stickermans base.


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Picture of a sleigh to color, and handwriting lines to write a letter to Santa.
A winter-themed booklet, including four pages for students to color and write a few sentences describing each picture.
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China experts working for the Rand Corporation have uncovered an amazing amount of public information appearing in Chinese military journals and textbooks about a potential war between the United States and Communist China. In one scenario, Taiwan makes moves to declare its independence, and while American authorities ponder their reaction, Chinese missliles attack US military bases in Japan and South Korea while long-range warheads destroy American satellites in order to cause disruption of communications. In this story, a passive America pulls back from action and seeks to resolve problems with China via negotiations. Roger Cliff, a former Defense Department strategist, told the Air Force Times, "these aren't war plans. This is the military talking to itself. It's not designed for foreigners or even China's general public."
According to experts like Cliff, China's military is viewing any future conflict as being rather of short duration and concludes with both sides standing down from full-scale nuclear war. Chinese military leaders believe in a surprise attack to catch the enemy off guard and make them lean towards ending fighting. At the core of Chinese military plans is leaving the enemy "blind," "deaf" and "paralyzed" due to destruction of communication.
One can asume American military leaders are also war gaming plans to hit China before they attack or what to do if caught off guard by a surprise attack. All military organizations plan and plot. The essential problem is their plans frequently are predicated on the assumption the enemy is rational. We have a president who acted irrational in launching an attack on Iraq without sufficient ground forces, with no plan as to what would happen if there was a victory and with limited knowledge of how the enemy thinks. Rational people must always plan on the assumptiont they will encounter irrational enemies.


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GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) – In Sunday night's gut-wrenching 75-71 loss for the Green Bay women's basketball team, the Phoenix seniors shined once again. One senior – Jenny Gilbertson (Wabasha, Minn.) – shined brighter than she ever had in her career.
In the opening half, Gilbertson came off the bench with Green Bay leading 8-4. The first time Gilbertson touched the ball, she swished a three-pointer from the left wing.
After halftime, Gilbertson was tremendous as Green Bay rallied from a large deficit. She made a jumper right after she checked in after LSU had built a 17-point lead.
The Phoenix was still trailing by 13 points with 6:41 to play when Gilbertson made back-to-back three-pointers to start a 9-0 spurt capped by a triple from classmate Sarah Eichler (Grafton, Wis.) that cut the lead to four with 5:06 remaining.
With the Lady Tigers lead back up to 10 points with three minutes to play, Gilbertson scored in the paint to begin a 10-3 run as Green Bay cut the margin to three with 49 seconds left.
Gilbertson finished the game with a career-high 15 points on 6-of-10 shooting from the field. The senior, who transferred to Green Bay after her freshman season at Kansas State, scored 12 of her 15 points after halftime. Gilbertson tied her career high with three makes from long range and also added six rebounds.
Including her 15 points and trio of three-pointers on Sunday, Gilbertson scored 296 points and made 45 three-pointers in her three seasons in a Phoenix uniform.
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Keaten LaBrel wrote:Flathead lake is frozen? I kind of find that hard to believe considering it didn't freeze much at all last year and fall mack days just wrapped up last weekend. Maybe some of the bays had/have a little ice but I'm sure most of the lake is wide open (nighttime lows have been in the mid-30's). It def hasn't been frozen for two weeks, last week I hunted tuesday and it was 60 degrees. In regards to ninepipes, yes there is a small amount of ice covering the lake with open slots here and there....tons of birds still using it. As for the river, it very rarely jams up with ice because of it's outflow from the lake (tailwaters keep pretty consistent temps and flows). There are a ton of birds trading back and forth off the river and that will continue all season I'm sure. There are plenty of opportunities around that area right now and in the near future. Scouting the areas will be your best bet for finding birds.
rockclimber616 wrote:Ninepipes is good to go. was there sat and sun lots of open water still...I dont know where theses boys are hunting but its been quiet warm lately. Ill be out there tomorrow am, I'll send a report.
PTROOFER FTFOWLER wrote:rockclimber616 wrote:Ninepipes is good to go. was there sat and sun lots of open water still...I dont know where theses boys are hunting but its been quiet warm lately. Ill be out there tomorrow am, I'll send a report.
Ya rockclimber I saw the same thing, what a bunch of idiots saying stuff is froze. Ill be there tomorrow morning also. If you see a beat up winnebago with obama/biden2012 painted on the side that will be me. Ill be grilling up some merganser poppers from the birds I shot this morning so stop by, grab some poppers and a cup of earl grey tea and we can laugh at these internet morons before heading out.
Oh, I don't have any decoy's or a dog so is it ok if I hop in with you? I sprung for a new call at walmart tonight so I will prove to be extremely helpfull to you as I don't like to impose without bringing something to the party. Cost me $28 but I think it will pay for itself in no time.
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Ill have my carstens canvasback with the mud motor hooked up to the winney. Bought it from this wierd dude last year and have used it three times, should work perfect. And on second thought I might stick with a iced double mocha douchebag latte from Mcdonalds (no offense intended Hutch).
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'If there is one area MacArthur might want to focus on, it's defence. His plus-minus rating of -27 is the only sore spot on his current WHL resumé, but he points out it's not exactly telling of his entire season. "First half I was -25, second half I was minus two, so we turned it around in the second half," he said. "I want to round off my game, offensively and defensively so I can be a two-way player in the NHL one day. I'm a long ways away yet, but I'll just keep working hard, go year by year like he (Hartnell) did and maybe something will turn out for me."'
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The kitchen is well equipped in the great Italian culinary tradition. The apartment offers various facilities: dish washer, kettle, oven, microwave, toaster, air conditioner, hairdryer, iron, ironing board, heating and vacuum cleaner.
From the apartment, the closest vaporetto stop (waterbuse stop) is Rialto. You can easily reach Ca' Giulia from the railway station alike Piazzale Roma. It takes 2 minutes to the well-known Rialto-bridge and all its shops, and 5 to the wonderful Piazza San Marco. It is 10 metres away from the foundation Querini Stampalia and only 200 metres from Salizzada San Lio which is known as the shopping street and located between Rialto and San Marco. Here you can admire wonderful shops and buy souvenirs. 500 metres farther away is a Venetian calle (street) called "Mercerie" which owes its fame to shops such as Gucci, D&G, Valentino and many others. On the doorstep of the apartment, there are also plenty of restaurants where you can have meat, fish or pizza. If you like, you can also eat in the flat.
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Very nice apartment, functional and practical, very well located in Venice. It feels like home. Ideal for families.
Très joli appartement, fonctionnel et pratique, très bien situé dans venise. On se sent comme à la maison. Idéal pour familles.
Nice apartment in a good location, close to the water taxi stop. Wi-Fi nice touch
Housing large, clean and especially VERY WELL LOCATED! rare in Venice. quiet apartment, close to all amenities and the center of everything (Rialto market, Ghetto, St. Mark ...) I RECOMMEND. Sylvain-France
Logement grand, propre et surtout TRES BIEN SITUE !!! rare à Venise. appartement très calme, proche tous commerces et au centre de tout (Rialto, marché, Guetto, saint Marc...) JE RECOMMANDE. Sylvain -France
Nice and central location. Perfect for 4 or less people
The apartment is in a great location, near the Stazione Santa Lucia, so do not go with all the luggage through Venice. The apartment is super nice in a quiet alley, and yet it is only 1-2 minutes among the tourists. The apartment is located on the ground floor and is directly surrounded by a canal. Unfortunately, the heating did not work, and we had cold (but were rare in the apartment and so it did not bother). The house is very loud, but as I said in the holiday anyway you spend only a short time in the apartment. Otherwise, the flat was clean and cozy.
Die Wohnung ist super gelegen, in der Nähe der Stazione Santa Lucia, so muss man nicht mit dem ganzen Gepäck durch Venedig gehen. Die Wohnung liegt super schön in einer ruhigen Gasse, und dennoch ist man in 1-2 Minuten unter den Touristen. Das Apartment befindet sich im Parterre und ist direkt von einem Kanal umgeben. Leider ging die Heizung nicht, und wir hatten kalt (waren jedoch selten in der Wohnung und daher störte es nicht). Das Haus ist sehr ringhörig, aber wie gesagt im Urlaub verbringt man sowieso nur kurze Zeit in der Wohnung. Ansonsten war die Wohnung sauber und gemütlich.
The apartment is very nice and clean, the location is great. I recommend it.
L'appartamento è molto carino e pulito, la posizione è ottima. Lo consiglio.
Ladies and gentlemen. I hereby would like to send you my review of the flat four Mori. The apartment is furnished modern renovated good but very dark. Two points we could not fault specific. The apartment is very moldy. When opening the door a one mold odor meets the very uncomfortable. The cabinets are difficult to use because of the smell. Also, the kitchen is very bad. Lacks pots and other kitchen utensils. On the wall in the bedroom, a large gray spot was about 50 × 80 cm. We had the mold with a vacuum cleaner sucking away.
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren. Ich möchte Ihnen hiermit meine Bewertung über die Wohnung vier Mori schicken. Die Wohnung ist modern eingerichtete gut renoviert allerdings sehr dunkel. Zwei Punkte haben wir konkret zu bemängeln. Die Wohnung ist Sehr schimmelig . Beim Öffnen der Tür kommt einem ein Schimmelgeruch entgegen der sehr unangenehm ist. Die Schränke sind nicht zu benutzen wegen des Geruchs. Außerdem ist die Küche sehr schlecht ausgestattet .es fehlen Töpfe und sonstige Küchenutensilien. An der Wand im Schlafzimmer war ein großer Schimmelfleck circa 50 × 80 cm groß. Den Schimmel mussten wir mit dem Staubsauger weg saugen.
nice apartment ... as shown in the pictures!
nette Wohnung ... genauso wie auf den Bildern gezeigt!
Great apartment, brand new, modern and very clean. Fully equipped, washing machine to dry hair, through the vacuum cleaner and towels. A little bit away in a quiet environment away from the lively but only 5 minutes walk from St Mark's Square and Rialto 10.
Super appartement, tout neuf, moderne et très propre.
Parfaitement équipé, de la machine à laver au sèche cheveux, en passant par l'aspirateur et les serviettes de toilette.
Un peu peu à l'écart dans une impasse au calme des quartiers animés mais seulement à 5 minutes à pied de la place St Marc et 10 du Rialto.
Very nice location and arrangements to get into the apartment were great. It was a little small for 6 ppl. Apartment was very clean but there was an odor form the shower that was a bit of a problem and hopefully can be fixed for future renters.
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Looks good but it's another waiting game. We may be playing this game in 2017.
I really wish a decent game would originate from NA/EU.
I look forward to the fact we might be getting another game with Mabinogi style crafting. Which is to say, a mini-game which determines the quality of the item you're crafting, even the possibility that it comes forward with special effects :I
Looks pretty amazing to be honest. I can't run it with my current equipment but by the time it comes in NA I will probably have a new one, lol.
Why the Western don't make anything like this at all ?
This leaves elder scrolls online in the dust :P .
compared it as an MMO in general not the way they play :P , and this will be free to play as well
There's no confirmation on the business model of the game yet, since Pearl Abyss has stated that it's up to the western publisher how their monetization works in the west. Though I do see it being F2P. Let's just hope the cash shop takes the same trend a lot of the better MMOs have been taking these days.
This is something I am wondering as well... why is Asia spewing out so many high quality sandbox(-ish) MMOs while west has a few indie ones in the making? I thought asians didn't mind playing themepark games and west was getting sick of them, so why is it like this?
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Not sure. How do development costs in Korea compare to NA/EU?
Do not.... I MEAN DO NOT let Webzen get their hands on this... PLEASE.
Please be pay2play ;-; I'd rather be pitching 15 a month for good content pushing on a consistent basis.


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Re: Static Electrikitty
HUGE thanks to everyone in the pre-derby thread for all your help!!
Re: a simple question of weight ratios
Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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Re: The Force of Attraction
The Force of Attraction
Five colors!
Some detail here:
This is a Monty Python joke, yes?
Re: Splitting an Atom
"Splitting an Atom"
That neutron on the left is kind of a jerkface.
6 colors on black with halftones. Enlargements below to show halftones. Thanks for checking it out!
walmazan wrote:The Force of Attraction
Five colors!
Some detail here:
awesome shirt walmazan, lovin the art style/picture as usual, though I have to say, seeing as how I already have four royal blue shirts, I think I may have to pass on this just for the color alone. Oh well. GMV though ;)
Re: Retro Physics
Retro Physics.
This is only my second derby entry ever. Any criticism you may have is welcome. I need to learn the ropes. Thanks for taking a look!
Re: Grumble
Tasty flower . ..
Stupid Physics . . .
I like it, but strictly speaking, the swallows are missing actual swallow tails.
Similar shirt exists, and is currently being sold on this very site.
Re: The Physics of Crossing the Road
The Physics of Crossing the Road
I want to give up my earthly possessions and become Walmazan's apprentice....(bows down in worship)
Needless to say, GMV!!!!
Re: butterfly effect
physics as driving force behind tecnology and transformation (metamorphosis)
~Electronics is part of physics~
Re: Prism Jism
To quote Gary Busey, "I'm pretty sure rainbows are just prism jism." It's so wrong but I'm so giggling.
Re: obviously youre dense
Please take the time to vote for Version 2.
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haikuginger wrote:I like it, but strictly speaking, the swallows are missing actual swallow tails.
These are South African swallows.
Re: The Subatomic Emotional State of a Creative Block
This is how I felt all the way to my neutrons last night.
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I'm fairly certain that ocean waves are formed by their love of surfing.
hahaha! so awesome! +1
Re: Defying Gravity - Modern
Obviously physics has a LOT to do with gravity. No explanation needed there! This shirt shows the desire to defy gravity in the modern age. This design was a set I did with "Defynig Gravity - Prehistoric."
Re: Double Slit Laser Barbecue
Totally awesome. If this doesn't print, you need to get it on CafePress for the sole purpose of letting me buy one.
For those who are going... whaaaa? The monkey and the hunter is a classic physics problem where the hunter tries to shoot the monkey out of a tree while the monkey drops out of the tree right when he shoots.
That's no monkey and I think the hunter made a sorta kinda small mistake.
Re: A Positive Attraction
My design is supposed to be two positively charged particles in love with one another but the nature of physics is not letting them be together (since likes attract in real life but repel in terms of electricity). The lines around the protons represent the electric field lines used to envision the electric field at any given point in space around the protons and oddly enough create the shape of a heart to emphasize their love. Although there is no "+" sign due to the no text rule this week, the arrows pointing away from the particles conveys enough information that these are indeed two of the same positively charged atoms. Thanks for looking and don't hesitate to vote!
Re: Classic Monkey and Hunter... Problem.
Awesome! Some of your best work.
This is fabulously done.
Re: Escaping gravity
This is fantastic! Your flow of motion from the top of the balloon down to the hand is just great. Excellent work!
artulo wrote:These are South African swallows.
Oh, yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European swallow. That's my point.
Re: Planetary Revolution
This is really cool! But on the sun snail, are those very fine gradients? It looks like it goes from light in the middle to a bit darker around the edges... :/ I hope it's just a trick of my eyes. I wouldn't want to have it rejected because of too-fine gradients. Voted anyway! ^_^
I love how the clouds look.
Re: Step back or I'll end the world
no text this derby.
Here's my physics entry. For those familiar with E&M, the double slit experiment shows the wave nature of light by creating an interference pattern of alternating light and dark bands as a result of shining a laser through two narrow slits.
It may also be used for cooking meat. Maybe. If you have a really ginormous laser. And a good steak. And your adviser is out of town.
kylemittskus wrote: Similar shirt exists, and is currently being sold on this very site.
I see what you're saying, sort of. It's a physics derby, and I used a symbol that says "Physics". It happens to be an atom, but I can't imagine atoms are now off limits because there is already a shirt with a stylistically different atom on it.
I was just trying to make a retro style shirt with a physics symbol.
Awesome! voted!
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you are so freaking clever! I bet you'd be a blast to hang out with.
Re: Electric Spark Cat
Jacob's Ladders are neat.
glad you chose navy. +1
Re: Every Action Reaction
The uppers and downers of physics.
Please vote!
Re: Strong Attractive Force
ahaha! This is cute! But can you do something about the box around the design on the tee mock-up?
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Gervinho will look to follow the shining example of Robert Pires as he embarks upon his second season with Arsenal.
It's 12 years since Pires joined Arsenal from Marseille but his exploits are hard to forget. After taking time to adapt to the physical nature of the Premier League, the former France international ended his second campaign in London as Footballer of the Year after Arsène Wenger's side won the Double.
Gervinho showed plenty of promise in his own debut campaign - making 37 appearances - but like Pires he needed a while to acclimatise to a quicker, more muscular style of football. Now the Ivory Coast international wants to follow in Pires' footsteps by raising his game and winning trophies.
"You should always look at these examples from the past," Gervinho told Arsenal Player. "Robert is a fantastic player, very experienced, and I saw this for myself [when Pires was] training here.
"I really hope to emulate Robert Pires in my second season, hopefully do even better, but I hope to carve out my own niche of course.
"I hope to push on personally, also to progress with the team and to showcase my qualities. I've learnt lots of things, coming to a new club, being new to the Premier League. I've learnt to adapt on the pitch and, when I think back, also in front of goal.
"I really feel that I've come on a lot, I feel really good in training and I'm ready for my second season."
Gervinho emerged with credit from Arsenal's 0-0 draw with Sunderland after showing his willingness to take on defenders. He knows he is no longer an unknown quantity to top-flight opponents but remains confident he can step up to a new level.
"I'm fully aware of that and I'll have to give even more and raise the bar even higher after my first season here," said Gervinho. "I'm up for the challenge, I've got lots of confidence in my own ability and I know I've got to keep up my standards.
"I may have to change the way I play, mix up my game a bit, but as I said, I've learnt and can take a lot from my first season. I'll relish the challenge and I really want to show the Club and the fans [what I can do] this year."
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|If you are running a Holley try going down to a lower number power valve (say from 8.5 to 6.5). Vacuum conditions could be causing it to open slightly when you don't need it, this will make a big difference in fuel economy. Other carbs have similar adjustments you can make to them to change the power valve opening, you didn't say what you had.
|Larry, I had a 455 Trans Am that had the same problem. It was well built and ran great, but got 7-10mpg. It wasn't a show car but it was nice, what I found out was after I replaced the fuel tank and added a few in line filters before the initial fuel filter in the engine bay it got much better gas mialage, from 7-10 to 12-16mpg. By having cleaner fuel and airorating it more often it got way better gas mialage. That car was like a fish in a fish bowl, if you didn't keep the water clean enough and enough oxygen in the water the fish will die. Not a mechanic but its worth a try.
|Hi larry, any chance of getting some more specs go get an accurate idea of what you've got. Cam specs, carb cfm rating, intake, compression ? I also think the street avenger has adjustable vacuum secondaries. Any of this info might give someone ideas.
|If in reality you are putting out 400hp it should be a stout performer. I'm not sure where the problem is but I would check the basics first. Timing,more concerned with total than initial,also when it is all in. When you find the problem your mileage and performance will show a large increase.
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I've built and have been running a 64 Chev full size street machine. Car is totally debugged and runs great except... this thing drinks gas like it's going out of style. Some basic specs- 400 SB that is very well built but not running a lot of horsepower (Maybe 400-425), TH350 with 2800 converter, 3.55 gears, AC, etc. This is NOT a fire breathing dragon. Have a brand new Street Avenger carb on it as well.
I don't expect this thing to sip gas like a VW, but I've got friend running 700+ HP who get better mileage. I know 400SB's are not economy motors but 5-7 MPG is NUTS!
Open to any and all suggestions.
Let me add some more detailed specs as to the motor. 400SB 10:1 compression. Trick Flow heads with roller rockers. Edelbrock Performer cam and manifold. Holley Street Avenger 670CFM, headers. Moroso 9 quart pan and high volume pump. Accel ignition and distributor. This car is a total frame off and is literally a new automobile. Runs like Jack the Bear but drinks like WC Fields!
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I've been reading this forum for years as I own an '03 Passat W8. Up until two weeks ago, this car ran like a top.
I had heard about torque converter and cam adjuster issues on this forum, but, never had experienced it in the 95K miles I've owned this car (got it new).
After a routine oil change (religiously kept to the maintenance schedule), a CEL code popped up that was translated to a Torque Converter service for ~$2.8K. Always one to hold cars unless it is financially no longer viable, I decided after consultation with the service manager and the mechanic to do this service.
Upon pulling into their garage, the car began a slight vibration (just slight) and another CEL code popped up, but, I did not have a reader available to see what the code was (dealer had cleared the previous one). I asked the dealer to check the code and consult with me once they reported to me what that code was. They never did.
After 5 days, I received a call that the car is ready, but, the CEL code that popped up was translated to a cam adjuster issue and would cost another $6.5K-$7K to fix. Feeling "bad", they decided not to charge me for the torque converter service and I limped home. They car now vibrates 10x as hard and spews black smoke.
I was told that the cats will fail once they fill up with carbon, so, this car is a total loss. So, I decided to take them to court.
Last Friday, I got a call from the dealer (service mgr) and they said that they are going to ask VW corporate to fix the car completely (for free) so that I can at least become a "semi-satisfied" customer. I said "We'll see".
My question to those of you in the forum is the following:
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mountainman wrote:I agree with your points.
However, maybe you should add a forth check to the proclamation. Dark geese are never legal at Pena. There are five counties closed to the regular dark goose season and only three of them are open to the MRGV hunt in January. Bernalillo and Sandoval are always closed for dark geese, and the other counties open on January 1st, not December 31st. This information is found on pages 19 and 21 of the proclamation. People will always make mistakes, but as you said, "Ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law."
StevenL wrote:No need for the serenade, AJ. If you think the situation at PB is bad during waterfowl season, you have never been there during the summer when fishing is ON and duck hunting is OFF. Leftover blinds from last season are still there -3 of them anyway- and with so much covetous talk about ownership through building, also rights to use if occupied before builder arrives, what somebody is going do if somebody does this or that, etc., etc., etc. Have you taken time to also notice random piles of empty shot shell hulls so neatly arranged in one spot or many others from the north end of PB to the south end, that it is obvious whoever does it is proud to leave their nameless calling card as evidence of their uncaring presence and performance? On Saturday last week, a friend and I were angling for Pike on the east side of the Rio mid-way between the north beach and the phone cable at PB where the water is too deep and too fast for placement of decoys; let alone a hunter who cares about what may happen to his dog. We had arrived near 7 that morning and had only begun to string our rigs when many shots up-river echoed through the basin. Not more than 10 minutes later there was a scattered procession of 3 dead ducks floating past our stand on the bank – too far from reach with our net to retrieve and quick enough in the current to elude our cast with large lures. A short while later, we were fishing beneath the phone cable and heard voices down river. They were approaching our position at or about the same time we could here the folks north getting ready to leave. Two young men wearing boots, blue jeans, and heavy jackets but no waders, emerged form the brush on our side of the river and seemed surprised by our quiet presence. They were armed with shotguns and each man was carrying a brace of ducks ranging in species as Mallard drakes and hens, American Wigeon drakes and hens, and one drake Golden Eye. So, without waders and the absence of a dog, it was obvious to me these young men were jump shooters who had probably lost more ducks that morning than they were able to collect, and young sons of local resident adults no doubt.
In late October, I went to PB one evening to hunt duck my first time ever. I say, "first time", because I've never had the desire to be any place where a bunch of dumb-asses with big-bore guns might get a tad more than excited if I were to point out the most minor indiscretions they so regularly commit but I have had the inconvenience to witness more times than I care to make account of. The NMDGF Field Officer, whose district includes that of PB is a darn good man. And I could not, would not say so if I did not have prior experiences of interaction with the man.
Over four years past, most of my outdoor experience at PB has been during summer months when the water is warm and small groups of illegal Mexican men use cast nets and seine nets to illegally catch and keep game fish of every species the Rio Grande holds. I've reported it, I've photographed it, and I've filmed it. But to no avail with even the biggest law dogs of NMDGF. The Cast Iron Ranger can kiss my honkey ass. You would think an area so small as PB (but a bad reputation indeed) has earned more attention than the occasional call to Operation Game Thief.
civillobo wrote:I have never seen someone walk up on my decoy spread. That would freak me out, and I would be dumbfounded if they shot at birds while they were there. That is waaaay out of line. I hope I never see that happen, crazy stuff.
ajmorell wrote:mountainman wrote:I agree with your points.
However, maybe you should add a forth check to the proclamation. Dark geese are never legal at Pena. There are five counties closed to the regular dark goose season and only three of them are open to the MRGV hunt in January. Bernalillo and Sandoval are always closed for dark geese, and the other counties open on January 1st, not December 31st. This information is found on pages 19 and 21 of the proclamation. People will always make mistakes, but as you said, "Ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law."
Mountainman, that's good information to know. Looking at the RIB it is definitely not clear regarding that though. Can you point me to where you found that information? Here is what I was referring to:
Verbatim from the RIB:
Dark Goose Oct. 15- 4 daily, 8 in possession.
(Canada and Jan. 29, '12
white-fronted goose)
Sandoval, Bernalillo, Valencia, Socorro and Sierra counties are
closed to dark goose hunting during the regular season. See
page 20 for MRGV Dark Goose Season.
Middle Rio Grande Valley
Dark Goose Hunt
Middle Rio Grande Valley dark goose hunters are no longer
required to have an MRGV dark goose permit.
Dates Bag/Season
Dec. 31-Jan. 22, '12 2 per day / 2 per season
http://www.wildlife.state.nm.us/publica ... IB_Web.pdf
randy marci wrote:all this talk of ducks floating down the river remind me of the recent talk on here of shooting 40 ducks but only recovering 10 due to the current. maybe 2 and 2 be 4.
duckahlr wrote:If you had such an issue with these guys, why sit there and watch. Go say something to them. All of the negative postings on these sites are gonna do nothing but get these public hunting areas shut down. Handle your business.. You've got to figure the LAW is on these sites as much as anyone. They can't be everywhere, time to police ourselves and try to educated/help others. There are alot of slobs in this state, lets not let the few ruin it for all. I know alot of kids that are being brought up the right way and this is the stuff that will end their hunting future. Do your Damage. Enjoy the weather!!!
mountainman wrote:Andy,
Your original post regarding canada geese was completely accurate. For the past several seasons Bernalillo and Sandoval counties did not allow dark goose hunting. I was holding the proclamation in my hand as I typed my reply last night to insure its accuracy. However, I accidentally grabbed the 2010-2011 reg. book instead of the current book. It's seems the rules have changed and I didn't notice. I good lesson for me to double check that I am reading the appropriate book.
I apologize for my misleading post.
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The history of the Holocaust has been detailed in thousands of books, memoirs and films that make clear to any normal human that Nazi Germany was guilty of an unspeakable horror in its murderous campaign against innocent people. As one who helped found a Holocaust Museum, there was ongoing discussion concerning the need to make part of its content, the story of what happened to gays, Romas and millions of others who were murdered by German forces. No Holocaust Center ever attempts to present a version of the Holocaust in which only Jews are victims. Archbishop Dadeus Grings from Porto Alegre in southern Brazil only added to the problems of Pope Benedict by becoming the second Catholic bishop to create a Holocaust issue for the Church where none should exist. The bishop said: "The Jews talk about six million people killed. But, how many Catholics were victims of the Holocaust?" He went on to add: "Jews say they were the main victims of the Holocaust, the biggest victims were the gypsies, because they were exterminated."
It insults those who died in the Holocaust or anyone who died as a result of German action to get into the "numbers game" as to who "suffered the most." How does one measure "suffering?" This is a ridiculous discussion. Over thirty million Russians died, Jews as well as Christians. Millions of Catholics died as did Protestants and atheists. The only way to respond to the ignorance of this Catholic bishop is –silence. Pope Benedict has spoken eloquently about the Holocaust and it insults the Catholic Church and those who have worked for reconciliation to allow this ignorant man from Brazil to assume his comments have any worth or any standing in his church.


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Hi Folks - I have an alternative form of the set Hermite polynomials I'd
like to use. They are defined differently than the mathematica function
HermiteH. Unfortunately, the recursive generating function takes way
too long. I can generate a list of these functions using the different
order derrivatives of the gaussian PDF (that's how they're defined):
{1, -x, -1 + x^2, -x(-3 + x^2) .... }
But I don't seem to be able to assign each function to H[x_,i_]:=
where i is the index from 0 to the number of functions in the list.
Any ideas??
Thanks in advance.
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IPCC Gets It Backwards, Drought Causes Warming
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has consistently predicted expanding world wide drought as one of the horrors of global warming. New research suggests that things may not be quite as arid as they predicted. According to scientists, a commonly used technique for estimating drought severity may actually overestimate the effects of dry spells. Revisiting historical data for the period 1980-2008, a new assessment technique found that the global area stricken by drought grew by approximately 0.08% per year—less than one-seventh (14%) the increase previously reported. Moreover, researchers found that drought causes higher temperatures, not the other way around. Once again, the horrendous effects of anthropogenic global warming have been found to be over hyped by the self-serving savants of the IPCC.
The IPCC has predicted a wide range of calamities linked to rising global temperatures deriving from human activity. Melting icecaps, rising ocean levels, increased storm activity in some areas and drought in others. These horror stories for the uneducated masses have been swallowed hook, line and sinker by the vacuous intellects of Hollywood, the press and politicians, who's watchword is "never waste a good disaster." We have recently witnessed the rush of scientific ignoramuses proclaiming the results of Hurricane Sandy as nature's just revenge for human indiscretions.
Drought is one of the horrors of global warming according to the IPCC.
Among the scourges predicted to wreak havoc on mankind is drought. The 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report's (AR4) concluded that the area affected by droughts was "likely" to have increased in many regions since the 1970s and, indeed, previous studies have suggested that droughts have increased over the past 60 years. Until recently, researchers have measured dry spells using the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI). The PDSI was developed originally as an agricultural monitoring tool in the United States in the 1960s and since then it has become widely used for monitoring and increasingly in studies of climate change. It is one component of the US National Drought Monitor, recently in the news regarding widespread severe drought in the Southern and Midwestern states.
But researchers have long known that the simplicity that make the PDSI so popular is also its greatest weakness. In a new study, "Little change in global drought over the past 60 years," published in the journal Nature, Justin Sheffield, Eric F. Wood and Michael L. Roderick take a closer look at measuring drought and what is really happening to global climate. From the article's abstract:
Drought is expected to increase in frequency and severity in the future as a result of climate change, mainly as a consequence of decreases in regional precipitation but also because of increasing evaporation driven by global warming. Previous assessments of historic changes in drought over the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries indicate that this may already be happening globally. ...
Here we show that the previously reported increase in global drought is overestimated because the PDSI uses a simplified model of potential evaporation that responds only to changes in temperature and thus responds incorrectly to global warming in recent decades. More realistic calculations, based on the underlying physical principles that take into account changes in available energy, humidity and wind speed, suggest that there has been little change in drought over the past 60 years.
The PDSI measures the balance between precipitation in a region and the loss of soil moisture. This is done either by direct evaporation or via plants that suck water out of the soil and then lose it to the atmosphere through transpiration. The method, which typically estimates the potential for evaporation using only the temperature and latitude at a site, is popular largely because it is easy to use. "[PDSI] is simple, but it's relatively crude," notes lead author Justin Sheffield, a hydrologist at Princeton University.
Researchers have long known that evaporation also depends on factors such as wind speed, relative humidity, and the amount of sunlight reaching the ground at various wavelengths, factors not explicitly included in PDSI estimates. In a News & Views article in the same issue of Nature, Sonia I. Seneviratne, from the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, provides some additional perspective and background information: "Soil-moisture drought, which is of most relevance to agriculture, is induced by a deficit in the land water balance and is caused by lack of precipitation and/or excess evapotranspiration. Evapotranspiration refers to the moisture loss from soils, either through plant transpiration (water extracted by the plants and lost through the leaves' stomata) or by direct evaporation from moist surfaces (such as bare soils, lakes, rivers, or water stored on top of leaves)."
Drivers of Drought. Source S. Seneviratne/Nature.
In the illustration above, red arrows indicate factors that contribute to drought, and blue arrows show factors that counteract it. Unfortunately, global databases of those parameters haven't been easy to come by, according to Sheffield et al. Using satellite data gathered in recent decades, Sheffield and his colleagues reconstructed climate history and estimated those parameters as far back as 1948. The researchers then reassessed trends in drought severity between 1948 and 2008.
One of the shortcomings of the PDSI is its treatment of potential evaporation (PE, the evaporative demand of the atmosphere), which is calculated from temperature data by using the empirical Thornthwaite equation. Though estimating PE from temperature is fairly effective under many circumstances it fails to yield good results when looking for climate trends.
"When used in the PDSI model, which derives soil moisture from the balance between precipitation, evaporation and runoff, the increase in PE drives an increase in drought globally in addition to the impact of any changes in precipitation," the authors state. "However, numerous studies based on observations and detailed physical modelling have shown regional declines in evaporative demand over past decades as a result of various combinations of declining radiation, vapour-pressure deficit and/or wind speed, despite generally increasing regional temperatures."
The researchers, looking to resolve the discrepancies mentioned above, computed the PDSI using two different PE calculations: the Thornthwaite algorithm and a physically based estimate based on the currently accepted Penman–Monteith equation (PM). Using their accumulated global meteorological data set the researchers calculated the PDSI over time and compared the two methods, the results of which are shown below.
PDSI_Th (blue line) and PDSI_PM (red line) and area under drought.
Plotting the global averaged time series of PDSI using the two PE methods a, clearly shows the decreasing trend in the PDSI using Thornthwaite (PDSI_Th in blue) since the 1970s but not for the PDSI using Penman–Monteith (PDSI_PM in red). The uncertainty due to precipitation and net radiation, shown by the shading around the curves, was estimated using four different global precipitation data sets and two different net radiation data sets. Panel b, shows area in drought (PDSI <−3.0) for the PDSI_Th (blue line) and PDSI_PM (red line).
"The results show that previous calculations of the increase in global drought are overestimated," the authors succinctly conclude, thought they posit that uncertainty due to the data on precipitation and net radiation as estimated from the standard deviation of PDSI trends remains. Another way to visualize the differences in the two methods of calculation are shown in the figure below, also taken from the Nature article.
Trends in the PDSI and PE.
Shown above are, on the left, annual average PDSI_Th (a) and the PDSI_PM (c), and their difference (e) for 1950–2008. On the right, annual average PE from the Thornthwaite equation (b) and the PM equations (d), and their difference (f) for the same time span. Statistically significant trends at the 95% level are indicated by hatching. As can be seen, the traditional PDSI_Th method overestimates the pervasiveness of drought expansion. From this evidence the authors conclude that drought is not increasing as predicted by the IPCC AR4 report.
The spatial distribution of trends in the PDSI_Th shows drying across much of the global land, particularly over Africa and eastern Asia. In contrast, the PDSI_PM shows a mixture of drying and wetting that combines to give a smaller trend globally. The equivalent trends in the PE_Th are increasing everywhere (98% of land area), as expected given the global increase in temperature, but are a mixture of increases (58% of land area) and decreases (42%) for the PE_PM. The two methods disagree in the sign of the trends across much of northern South America, Central America, eastern North America, eastern sub-Saharan Africa, western Russia, southern and southeast Asia, and Australia.
This report clearly contradicts other, older estimates of the spread of drought conditions around the world, but those reports were based on the older, flawed technique. The revised technique for assessing drought severity "gives a much better match to reality," according to Sonia Seneviratne, in the article cited earlier. But it is not just the spread of drought that is impacted by these new data—temperatures are also tied to evaporation. Here are some of the authors' closing remarks:
Several regional studies have suggested that higher temperatures than normal were the cause for increased drought in recent years through increased evaporation. Yet there is evidence that the direct impact of temperature on drying may actually be a misinterpretation of feedbacks between the land and the atmosphere. It is more plausible that evaporation actually decreases during drought because of less precipitation, and that drought drives increases in temperatures because there is less evaporative cooling and thus a higher sensible heat flux warming the air. Short-term temperature anomalies are likely to be a response to drought, rather than a factor in forcing drought. Of concern is if the perceived influence of warming on drought as quantified by empirical approaches is extrapolated into the future and predictions of the impacts of climate change are likely to be overestimated.
And there we have it, another sign of the eco-apocholypse has been debunked. Those willing to do a little research of their own will find that the 2012 US drought was not outside historical climatic norms nor even anything special in historical terms. And those hot summer months, far from being a sign of global warming, were in part caused by the lack of evaporation—global warming did not cause the drought, the drought helped cause the hotter than normal temperatures. As more and better science is performed, the circumstantial case for catastrophic human caused global warming is running out of evidence. Perhaps it is time for the eco-catastrophists to come up with a new threat to frighten the people of the world.
Be safe, enjoy the interglacial and stay skeptical.
The Black Swan
In Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book, The Black Swan, he says that "in spite of the empirical record we continue to project into the future as if we were good at it." There is a lesson in there for those who try to predict the future of climate change and the affect it will have. He also touches on the unwarranted hysteria over things like "superstorm" Sandy. The infrequent bad storm or natural disaster are what he calls "black swans," events that are improbable but not impossible or even unheard of. Yet, when such events happen, people are shocked. Maybe this book should be required reading for all news announcers and at the IPCC.
More Black Swans
For an interesting discussion of "black swans" and other topics pertaining to the scientific method see "Cherry Picking, Black Swans and Falsifiability." The discussion that follows the article is also worth reading, demonstrating that Resilient Earth readers are smart, skeptical people (for the most part).


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Both men played under former Spurs boss Harry Redknapp at White Hart Lane and will stay at Loftus Road for the rest of the 2013-14 campaign as the Hoops plot an instant return to the Premier League.
Left-back Assou-Ekotto, who is currently on international duty with Cameroon, told the club's official website: "It is fantastic to be linking up with Harry again.
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"I know the way Harry likes his sides to play, and it is a style that suits me which is why I am excited about this opportunity.
"QPR have made a great start and I can't wait to help them build on that during my time here."
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Jolie Hunt Joins AOL as Chief Marketing & Communications Officer
Jul 17, 2012
We're excited to announce that Jolie Hunt has joined AOL as Chief Marketing and Communications Officer. In this newly created role, Hunt will oversee our global communications strategy; social media; corporate social responsibility and cause related initiatives; and corporate events. She will also be responsible for AOL's global brand development, partnerships and consumer marketing initiatives.
Hunt was previously Senior Vice President, Global Head of Brand and Public Relations at Thomson Reuters, responsible for brand, advertising, PR and digital social media for the company's news and financial services businesses. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Hunt was the Global Director of Corporate and Business Affairs at IBM, and from 2002 to 2006, she served as Director of Public Relations for the Financial Times.
Earlier this year, Hunt won an honorable mention for the PRWeek award 'PR Professional of the Year', and in 2011, Hunt was named 'In-House Professional of the Year' by the Public Relations Consultants Association. She joined the board of PopTech in 2010, and was appointed to the Civilian Public Affairs Council for West Point Military Academy in 2008. Hunt is active in the industry, and holds committee and board positions for The Wisemen, Arthur W Page Society and The Seminar. Hunt has penned the 'Gal With a Suitcase' column for The Daily Beast, which is also syndicated by Reuters, since 2009.
Hunt earned a B.S. from Boston University's College of Communication, and completed a Global Leadership Program from Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and Spain's IE Business School in 2010.
Learn more about Jolie by reading the full press release here.