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A tapered mast is much better than a straight one, either lighter at the same strength, or stronger at the same weight. Tere is a reason racers pay for them through the nose.
Which of the two advantages yours has you can easily guess if it is a raceboat.
What is your problem with the rod rigging? If it is good, leave it alone!
You can carry a replacement wire, no need to carry a replacement ROD.
One wire that's longer than the longest part of your rigging, and as strong as the strongest (i.e. most likely a second forestay) , plus two do-it-yourself end fittings, and you are set.
Thanks everyone for your excellent insight.
We have a dyneema/amsteel backstay on our fractional rig... we have a roachy main and use a whip to ensure the sail clears the backstay on light air gybes and tacks. (Wire would have been too heavy)
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I think the generally accepted spare replacement for standing rigging these days is a coil of Dyneema - such as Amsteel.
UV stable; coils nicely and fits in anywhere; stronger than steel; splices easily as it's single braid!
gadnagit, spare rod rigging is usually carried by taking a section of rod and coiling it into a large coil. Yes, it is flexible enough to do that, and then stow the coil someplace. Of course you can also temporarily rig a repair with some bulldog clamps and a length of cable, as long as you have a suitable spare for the end fitting.
My impression is that rod rigging will outlast cable in comparable uses. Inspecting it will call for a dye-check of the end fittings and reswaging them is often possible if there's enough extra length (i.e .in the turnbuckles) to allow for that.
But NavTec themselves seem to prefer not to respond to customer emails at all. I tend to look askance at any vendor who can't reply to emails these days, it is no different from throwing out letters or not answering the phone. NOT professional or businesslike conduct.
Maybe as synthetics become more common, they'll just go the way of buggy-whip makers.
Originally Posted by celenoglu View Post
the fractional will require more attenttion than the full. ractional rigs are much better for racing but the rig is much prone to failure therefore not recommended for shorthanded cruising.
Similarly with their comparatively smaller headsails and again with their ability to rapidly adapt without reefing as soon, fractional rigs make an ideal single handling rig, especially when they are designed to avoid overlapping headsails.
I also disagree that Fractional rigs require more attention but here I can also see why someone might say that. As a very broad generality, fractional rigs respond more to changes in backstay tension than masthead rigs and so the backstay is ideally adjusted as windsppeds go up and down. To some that may seem exotic or may seem like adding yet another thing to pay attention to.
But I see this a little differently. When I started sailing in the 1960's, yopu almost never made outhaul adjustments after the sail was up and flying. It was pretty much set and go. Boom vangs were seen as exotic. Today most cruisers would look at a boom vang as a safety item which should be aboard, and by and large, most knowlegeable sailors will adjust the outhaul to the conditions. It would be easy to argue that having a boom vang or adjusting the outhaul requires more attention, but to me these are tools which make sailing easier and at least with the vang, makes the boat a little more forgiving.
In practice neither rig is inherently less reliable or more prone to failure. The likelihood of short service life is much more dependent on the details of the design rather than the choice of rig.
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GREETINGS EARTHLINGS ; try to find out how old the rigging is and what is the service life of same have it all checked out by someone who knows that type of rigging then try and get it all worn out GO SAFE.
As mentioned above, with wire rope you are more likely to have clues that failure may be approaching. With wire, there can be isolated fatique resulting in a here one moment gone the other. As much as I like rod rigging for its lower stretch and predictable elongation characteristics, personnally I don't consider it as reliable as I would want for long-term distance cruising.
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Most excellent responses, I really appreciate the input. This forum is great.
Originally Posted by RichH View Post
The problem with long term and long distance cruising is metal fatigue, especially when the rig tension exceeds 30% ultimate tensile strength of the wire.
Tapered masts have the distinct advantage over 'telephone pole' masts in that they can be radically bowed to accommodate massive draft reduction in mainsail .... much better than reefing when beating in heavy winds, and much better than beating with a reefed main which doesnt dampen the roll period as well as does a 'full-up & board flat' main. Ditto, the same in 'light wind sailing' ... draft reduction to keep separation stalls from occurring; a flat main better keeps the airflow from becoming 'unattached'. A good 'bendy rig' can get the main as flat as a sheet of plywood.
The downside of the tapered mast is that you will be sailing a lot of the time with rig tension exceeding 30% UTS .... and that vastly accelerates fatigue of the wire and its connections. Also too, rod rigging, etc. isnt common and replacement components in probably most of the 'out of the way' and remote port in the world will be impossible.
Rx: The tapered mast is a much better choice for 'coastal' sailing in 'populated' places of the world, especially for FAST 'coastal' sailing in these places; however, if you intend sailing to the more remote places of the planet (where you will be 'entirely on your own') ... then the 'telephone pole' will be a more 'robust' and 'stronger' and 'longer lasting' choice.
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Is there enough difference in street performance between these 2 intakes to justify spending almost twice as much for an used air gap versus a non-air gap...
both are very good medium power manifolds.The difference between them is small
This pretty much sums it all up...
However, for a street driven car the standard RPM is a better choice, they heat up a lot faster.
If you plan to drive the vehicle in a cold climate, the air gap is even less of an advantage. It takes longer to warm up and the choke on the carb will be needed for a longer time. That can increase emissions, hurt mileage, and wear the cylinders and pistons/rings faster. This is slightly less of an issue if Vortec heads are being used; they do not have any heat cross over to warm the plenum anyway. But the splash from the lifter valley isn't able to help warm the intake on the air gap intake, so it's still gonna take longer to stabilize temps using the air gap on Vortec heads.
BTW, the air gap and non air gap RPM intakes are the same height.
Thanks for all the feedback. I will persue finding a standard performer rpm..
I run the Performer RPM with a 1/2" open spacer. My mechanics used to say that the spacer is better than the cut down divider because it adds plenum volume and is easily "reversable." I also blocked off the heat riser and made a "lifter valley splash shield" to keep the hot oil off the manifold's bottom.
It is also port matched and the interior walls and divider were hand "contoured" to remove casting flaws and bumps. I would bet that it now flows as much or more than the air gap.
Even more "blending" was performed after these pics were snapped. (I can get anal about such things.) It only takes some sandpaper and time.
I like the smoothing out you´ve done, I´ll be doing that to mine next time it´s apart.
I´m using a 2" spacer on my Airgap, runs just great, no issues with climate as it´s never that cold here where I live in Spain.
The Air-Gap is strictly a high RPM manifold, not that it delivers so much more power but rather without manifold warmth to vaporize the fuel as in the Performer/Performer RPM the Air Gap needs high port velocity to mechanically rip the fuel into a vapor state. So the Air Gap requires very rich mixtures in cool to cold weather when street driven as well as in wet humid weather has icing problems that jam the throttle butterflies and plug the intake as well as allowing breaking off ice chunks to enter the engine. The extra rich mixture alone greatly shortens engine life by washing away the upper cylinder lube.
The advertiser give you half the information you need to decide about these things, while it's true that a cold thus dense mixture packs more molecules into the cylinder, the fuel has to be vaporized and well mixed to burn. Inside a manifold there is a lot of mayhem and amazing amount for such a short distance but this is why port fuel injection is so superior in making power than a carb or TBI as this mayhem is eliminated. The finely vaporized fuel the carb or TBI puts into the airstream quickly comes out of suspension with the air and becomes streams of liquid running along the outside of every turn the mixture has to make. This stream if not remixed does not burn, it just gets pumped around the rings to enter the crankcase and gets tossed out the exhaust valve. That's lost power and lost money. The answer to this was to just richen the mixture till a good burnable mixture can be achieved to run on and just let the excess go as I describe. Modern heads put a lot of effort into wet flow in order to understand what combustion chamber shapes help re-mix the liquid flow with the air flow, this being the foundation of performance and mileage seen with the GM Vortec, Ford GT40, and Chrysler Magnum heads. This technology being driven from the EPA in its attempt to clean up the exhaust and improve mileage. The technology actually goes back to the work of Sir Harry Ricardo from the 1930's. Except for old man Henry Ford, this work was ignored by Detroit as they would not pay the royalties for these patented combustion chambers. The flat head used this technology for many years and Ford carried into the early Y Blocks, but when the wiz-kids took over they wouldn't pay the royalties so the heads got simpler and more fuel hungry. Chevy actually walked a real thin line on the new SBC for a lot of years with the double quench head, right on the edge of the Ricardo patents just short of a law suit. Everybody else took a path far away from the Ricardo chamber throughout the 1970s and 80s until finally emission and mileage mandates drove them into the Ricardo chamber. You see it coming at GM on the SBC with the L98 and the Swirl Port where double quench is reintroduced and the spark plug moves up to the valve tangent line so the burn has less distance to travel this is faster to complete. It comes in pretty fully with the LT1 and LT4 heads of the mid 90s where a bench extends from the spark plug to the exhaust valve side restoring the quench on that side while the intake feeds into a relief cut into the old quench pad on that side of the plug with sharp edges leading to the spark plug which is intended to remix the wet flow running on the long side port turn with the air flow that can and does turn in at a sharper angle than the wet flow. This is really needed with port injection above the valve but also does wonders for undoing fuel separation on conventional carb and TBI manifolds. The LT1/4 chamber shapes later in the 90's appear on the L31 Vortec and the aluminum Fastburn heads for conventionally cooled engines.
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Thats all great but what about the 'Tornado' devices that help "straighten out" the airflow, before it hits the floor of the plenum and makes a few 90* turns???
The guy on TV said they're great.
All kidding aside; Thats probably the best post in terms of the nuts and bolts of what a combustion chamber does and how it works in conjunction with the rest of the cylinder head and the intake manifold.
Carbs continue to make more power than port injection. This is because the fuel is introduced further upstream. The fuel then pulls the heat out of the air as it vaporizes in the manifold and this results in a cooler, denser mixture and more power.
Carbs make more power in a controlled environment but when it's 10 below and you need to get to work tbi is better than a carb and direct port is better than either one. Efi moters run better in changing weather, burn less fuel, pollute less, and last longer than carb motors. I've read car craft since I was 12, I'm now 53 those guys invariably do something during a dyno test that skews the results, large tube headers on a stock budget motor, vic jr on stock heads etc. It's not just them it's mags in general. Take them and this with a grain of salt.
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In the mean time re-read what I wrote, I didn't dispute the colder yields more power, I just put in the real world provisios that you gotta live with when you do this to a daily driver. Provisios that gets omitted in the advertising copy.
I've often considered that the hot rod manufactures like Edlebrock miss an opportunity selling manifolds like the Victor Jr. which really works well except during that time and place where there's real winters. Imagine a Victor Jr. choice that's has the valley closed around the runners so it can get warm and sold as a year around high performance street manifold. You reading this Vic Jr.?
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Is piracy biased? If so what implications can that have?
I know some people are loathe to discuss piracy as it's a topic that's been done to death, but I haven't seen this particular aspect of it discussed very much so I think it might be worth bringing up.
Usually when we talk about game/software piracy we speak of it as if it were more or less neutral to what is being pirated, but I would be surprised if that was actually the case.
People tend to have preferences and follow trends when it comes to their buying habits and so many other things, and I see no reason why the same wouldn't be true when it comes to piracy.
It's very likely that there are some types of games that people are more willing to pirate rather than buy than others, even if we don't really know which types of games those are. That could possibly give some types of games or genres an advantage over others that they wouldn't have otherwise.
Do games that, for whatever reason, are pirated less have an advantage? How significant can that advantage be?
I suppose that also brings up the question of how you'd even study such a thing. Anecdotes are very unreliable. Collecting data on piracy is already hard enough as it is, let alone something this specific.
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Coupled with the secondary effect of people pirating Crysis to see if it would even run at something approaching playable on their PC. And even if they did intend to buy it later if it did run... well that's a much harder conversion to make.
I would actually assume quick puzzle like games are pirated the most. The developers of World of Goo said there game had an 80% pirate rate or whatever and i could see a similar thing with other puzzle games like Bejeweled and other Pop Cap games. People think they will only play for 5 mins every so often so don't see the point to pay for it.
I think a more interesting thing would see if piracy has gone down since Steam sales, I mean I used to pirate a lot and now I get it cheap on Steam and find myself very addicted to getting cheap steam deals instead of pirating the games I want.
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I used to pirate a lot as well (pretty much exclusively, in fact), but Steam really is ridiculously convenient and since you have your games in one places and available for download and then there are sales, of course. But I would say that singleplayer AAA titles are pirated the most ,since they tend to be very high-profile and expensive, not to mention that a lot of people will probably pirate games to find out how they run like deano said. I did that with Metro LL, planning to buy it if it ran well. Aaaaand... it didn't run well enough for my taste :D
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I remember from reading the data that people pirate the stuff that is more popular, and the stuff that is more popular is the one with more marketing budget. So seems people pirate stuff based on the marketing budget.
It would not take much, probably, and see what is the top 20 seeded files... and end on a similar conclusion to mine.
Basically, people pirate shit. People don't pirate cool games, gems, they pirate the videogame equivalent of fast food. Is weird, but in a culture of gratis, people is not driven by quality, but the propaganda machine.I play mostly in the PS4, but I still love a good PC game
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The last game I aquired was Watch dogs. This was too see how it would perform on my pc and the fact that some people liked it, some didn't. I played an hour and that was good enough for me, I didn't like it at all so I uninstalled and deleted. I am not buying a £30 game that has no demo and with reports that it didn't run well on some systems.
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On it's own all that really tells us is that more popular games have more pirates, which makes sense because pirates can be thought of as a percentage of overall players and a larger player base means more pirates.
What we're looking for is whether players are is more liable to pirate instead of buy certain types/genres games in cases where they are already going to get the game either way, and for that we would need some way to control for the number of overall players.
For that we would need a rough estimate of the total number of pirates (seeding could possibly give us something like that) as well as sales figures as well, so we could see the ratio of pirates to buyers and get averages for different genres.
With that this actually starts to seem a bit more feasible than it initially seemed...
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The developers of World of Goo also released the game, then embargoed it because they signed an exclusivity deal on the Wii/with Nintendo. They always forget to mention that bit when talking about piracy... So yes, both us the consumers and them the developers are very bias in the discussions and causes. ;)
It's hard to consider really, what's a game with 100% piracy like? If people also buy it? Take media and movies for example. Movies can take in 100 or 200 billion and still be the highest pirated movies. Are those loosing out and being "stolen" from with piracy?
It's still wrong to take something without permission. But if we put up artificial barriers, when does it swap from "your stealing" to "I'm depriving you, tricking you, then bait and switching to make it count as theft"? I mean, I could tell someone a story, sing them a song and send them a postcard (with picture), then after claim I have an NDA/copyright/patent on it all and force them to sit on their hands?
So we need balance. Which is really hard when we get extreme actions from a few on both sides, tipping the boat and messing things up for those of us in the middle trying to work together with buying/making content...It is a technical difference, but's there none the less.
I used to pirate some PC games too. It was mainly high profile ones. I remember the first one I pirated was actually one I got one disc from a friend, which was the three CD Mafia actually. Oddly enough... turned out to be one of my favourite PC game ever, and still is. Was not the last game I pirated though. Maybe in total I pirated 50 to 100 PC games over the years? I haven't done so in many years now.
I'm not sure exactly when that changed. It wasn't exactly when I started using Steam (2010), but Steam was a factor for me definitely. With the sales I was comfortable buying at those prices, and over time that really helped. GOG has also been a factor. And a big factor was I was just tired dealing with pirating games. I didn't want to play every famous game under the sun anymore, can't be arsed to download questionable files anymore to get them to work, and I enjoy getting a legitimate copy. Before sometimes it was just hard for me to get a legitimate copy honestly for many reasons.
Now that it's easy to do, I don't have a problem paying or waiting for a price drop. And many of the games I did pirate in the past I ended up buying, almost all of them actually. Crysis, Devil May Cry 4, DOOM 3, Flight Simulator X, Flaming Cliffs 2, Raven Shield, Halo 1 PC (recently bought a new boxed version, very reasonable price and easy to get here), Half Life 2 series of games... bought them all now. Mafia I haven't been able to buy though, it's been taken off Steam unfortunately, and I don't think GOG has it available.
I think the larger audience that pirates games is a younger one that is basically just discovering they can in fact pirate games, and are abusing it like I did in the past, and aren't able to afford the games they want so immediately, and they got the time to play them after they pirate them too, though I'm just guessing. I'm sure someone has some reliable data on this topic.
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I agree it's not justified even still.
But it's kind of silly for me to even talk, because I did it for so long, so I basically got all the benefit of pirating. Mainly was a "no financial independence" sort of thing for me, but today now I won't tell anyone it's a good idea at all.
I feel like I am able to enjoy games much more now anyhow, I don't have to worry about will it work at all, does the online work, etc. Never pirated on consoles, which was an incredibly easy option especially during PS2 days, and I think it was a better choice. Kind of fun now to go back and find and buy the games I missed from back then too.
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Piracy generally follows the same popularity curve as sales - the more a game sells, the more it is pirated.
You have to understand tho - a lot of pirates are just magpies, they want to see and play and "own" everything. Back in the days of computer clubs and floppy copying, I worked with a guy who spent hours and hours every week copying and making games work (and no time playing the games because he wasn't really THAT interested)
Some people just like to "get shit for free" - this is why any attempt at putting a 'cost' on piracy is laughable.
Oh, I'd never suggest that pirates are draining the money from developers unless they are downloading multiple gig patches from the developer site.I am once again writing a blog, vaguely about playing games the wrong way
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Well honestly if you could steal bear,you would do it right.
22-07-2014, 11:33 PM #17if you had liked it, would you really have bought it there and then?
An apocryphal story. A open source convention not knowing what to do about drinks buying because individual paying is to slow. So they decided to do a tip basket after the night was through. Every year they have done this and every year they get more money then they spend on beer.
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I like taking pictures but I am not a camera expert.
I take photos either at special occasions such as weddings and parties - all low light and indoor, or on holiday usually outside in bright sunshine.
For indoor shots, I nearly always take photos of people who are moving, either walking down the isle or swaying due to drunkenness.
In the past year I've had a:
FujiFilm Finepix F500 (£109 refurbished Jan 2012):
+ Good wide angle lense,
+ Good zoom
+ Okay low light photos.
+ Good auto focus.
- Outside photos could have been better
- Too small to for shoulder strap, too large for pockets
- 2 broke within 12 months.
Nikon Coolpix L810 (£122.97 new Oct 2012)
+ Even better wide angle lens and even better long zoom.
- It took an average of 5 seconds to auto focus on all indoor photos, with many occasions when the camera failed to focus at all.
- All photos were blurred either badly or just at true size meaning there was no chance of getting a cropped photo from the original
Both cameras have been returned. So what should I have as my next camera:
The wish list is:
Very quick autofocus
Good quality photos
Large lense preferably 25mm equivalent or smaller and 12* + optical zoom.
Good quality photos.
I do not care at all if the camera is 8mp or 16mp. I would also prefer a small camera but that is unlikely. My backup cammeras are: Olympus Mju Mini or My Samsung Galaxy S3 work phone.
I am happy to purchase new, refurbished or second hand but my budget is upto £150. I am also willing to make small compromises.
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Natural History Facts About the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
Campephilus principalis — the ivory-billed woodpecker — is among the world's largest woodpeckers. Only the imperial woodpecker of Mexico, now thought by many to be extinct, was larger than the ivory-bill.
The ivory-billed woodpecker once ranged through swampy forests in the southeastern and lower Mississippi valley states: from North Carolina to Florida and west to eastern Texas and Arkansas, with some 1800s reports in Kentucky, Missouri and Oklahoma. John James Audubon reported ivory-bills as far north as the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers around 1825.
- Description of the ivory-billed woodpecker:
Averaging about 20 inches in length, C. principalis is frequently mistaken for the smaller but similarly marked pileated woodpecker. Ornithologists distinguish the two by the location of the white wing feathers: the full-width white patch in the ivory-bill's trailing wing feathers (when seen from above) folds to form a white "saddle" on its back when the bird is perched. Males have a prominent scarlet crest; the female's crest is black.
- The ivory-bill's communication and flight:
Ivory-bills communicate with a vocalization that ornithologists transcribe as "kent, kent, kent" and with the "BAM-bam" double-rap of their bills pounding on wood. Their swift, arrow-like flight through trees resembles that of the pintail duck, unlike the slower, swooping flight of the pileated woodpecker. Stiff wing feathers make the ivory-bill an especially loud flyer. People who saw the impressive ivory-bill in flight could be forgiven for shouting, "Lord God, what a bird!" — explaining why the ivory-bill is also known as the Lord God Bird.
- The "Ivory" Bill The "ivory" of the ivory-billed woodpecker is a keratin sheath over the bill of bone. The broad bill continues to grow from the ivory-bill's thick-boned skull throughout its life (potentially, up to 30 years) and is worn down by rigorous pounding on trees.
- Habits and habitat of the ivory-billed woodpecker:
Ivory-bills are believed to mate for life. They share the duties of incubating their china-white eggs and raising their young, which usually leave the parents' territory at the end of the season. A pair of ivory-bills is estimated to need six square miles of uncut forest, roughly 36 times as much territory as pileated woodpeckers require. Ivory-bills excavate trees to make nest holes (usually oval-shaped openings between four and six inches in size, extending 20 inches or more down into the tree, and 40 feet or higher above ground level).
- Food source of the ivory-billed woodpecker:
Beetle larvae are the primary food source for ivory-bills, which are often the first woodpeckers on dying trees searching for these larvae. When beetle larvae bore through the bark to feed on the sap wood beneath, ivory-bills use their elongated beaks to pry bark from the trees and expose the larvae.
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Thomas Vermaelen is well aware that Saturday's game against Tottenham means that little bit more than an average league fixture - and believes the Gunners can use it as a springboard for success.
Last season's 5-2 victory at Emirates Stadium is etched into Arsenal folklore and it sparked a fine run of form as Vermaelen and his team-mates made a late surge for a Champions League spot. The Arsenal captain is convinced that strength can be drawn from what happened last time around.
He told the Official Matchday Programme: "This isn't a normal game - it's a special one.
"Practically, we need to get three points on the board, but I think it would give both the fans and the team a massive boost if we won.
"Last season we came back from 2-0 down, working really hard for a memorable turnaround. We want to create the same impetus this time and it's a big opportunity to do so.
"If you look at the league table, we're not too far behind third and fourth places. Nothing is lost yet - a win against Spurs would be a big step."
Now in his fourth season at the Club, Vermaelen is no stranger to derby day. While he is a veteran of the famous rivalry between Ajax and Feyenoord, he believes that Spurs' visits provoke excitement on another scale.
"Ajax always had a big rivalry with Feyenoord, which was quite similar, but I think it's even more pronounced here," he said.
"The level is higher, and it just feels like a step up. This is more intense and you can feel that in the atmosphere in the stadium whenever we play Spurs. Without fail, it's unbelievable."
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If I told you that within the Chesapeake Bay watershed, there was a wilderness oasis, devoid of the drone of highway interstate traffic and the ever-present hum of electricity, where you can run your fingers along the rigid surface of billion year old exposed granite and relish in your escapism from modern development knowing you're surrounded by 80,000 acres of protected and never-to-be-destroyed-for-any-reason forests, would you believe me?
I wouldn't believe myself had I not touched the rocks with my own fingers, experienced the almost overpowering silence with my own ears and sighed in relief when I learned that the beauty I was completely encompassed by was actually safe. Really safe. Like I can bring my own children here someday and they will see with their eyes exactly what I saw through mine, safe. Of course, I'm speaking about Shenandoah National Park and the misty Blue Ridge Mountains of the great state of Virginia.
As I began my 35 mile trek along Skyline Drive, the signature route through the Shenandoahs, I travelled through a 700 foot tunnel in the belly of Mary's Rock Mountain where I was reminded by a quirky sign that, 'only 1,300,000,000 years ago this rock was still molten magma'. . . lest I forget, of course. I occasionally pass the wayward backpacker, no doubt following the 101 miles of the Appalachian Trail that transect the park, and I'm offered a casual wave and a glance that I can't help but interpret as, "You get it, too . . . this place is special". Although I'm visiting the park in the winter, I honestly feel a bit like a peeping tom but in the best way possible. With the trees having shed the last of the autumn leaves, I can see deep into the woods and eavesdrop on the inner workings of a forest from squirrels climbing tall knobby chestnut trees to white-tailed deer nuzzling through the fallen leaves in search of food.
At the tallest point of my journey, I pulled over at Thorofare Mountain Overlook which is approximately 3570 feet higher than my cubicle on the third floor of the Chesapeake Bay Program Office in Annapolis, MD (not that I'm measuring). It was here that I experienced the deepest silence of the journey. Sitting on a segment of a stone wall that runs almost the length of Skyline Drive built with hard work and sweat by the boys and men of the Civilian Conservation Corps early last century, my feet seemed to dangle on the edge of the world. To my right, vast, open farming segments nestled comfortably within the valley. To my left, row after row of misty near-ethereal Blue Mountains, each succeeding into a fainter shade of blue until the last mountain blends almost artistically into the horizon. Yeah, I get it. This place is special.
So, if I told you that within the Chesapeake Bay watershed, there was a place 75 miles from our nation's capital where the mountains are enchantingly blue, the silence is deafening, and you could experience true, unspoiled nature the way nature is intended to be, would you believe me? Well, I guess you'll just have to go and found out for yourself.
Despite increased restoration efforts throughout the watershed, the Chesapeake's health did not improve in 2008, according to the Bay Program's annual report, Bay Barometer: A Health and Restoration Assessment of the Chesapeake Bay and Watershed in 2008.
Due to its polluted waters, degraded habitats and low populations of key fish and shellfish species, the Bay's health averaged 38 percent. 100 percent represents a fully restored ecosystem.
Some statistics on the health of the Bay in 2008 include:
"While there are small successes in certain parts of the ecosystem and specific geographic areas, the sobering data in this report reflect only marginal shifts from last year's results," said Bay Program Director Jeffrey Lape.
Bay Barometer also reviews restoration efforts that took place across the Chesapeake's 64,000-square-mile watershed. As of 2008, Bay Program partners had put into place 61 percent of efforts needed for a restored Bay.
One restoration goal that was met in 2008 was land preservation. Bay Program partners have exceeded their goal to permanently protect from development 7.3 million acres of land – which is 20 percent of the combined watershed land area in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia.
"Preserving more than 7 million acres of land is a tremendous success for the partners of the Chesapeake Bay Program and the citizens of the region," said Virginia Gov. Timothy Kaine, chairman of the Chesapeake Executive Council.
Other restoration highlights from 2008 included:
One of the Bay's greatest challenges is population growth and development, which destroys forests, wetlands and other natural areas. The impacts of human activity are offsetting efforts to clean up the Bay.
Because of the influence of the Bay watershed's 17 million residents, Bay Barometer includes a section that shows seven simple actions people can take to help restore the Bay and its local waterways:
For more information about the data included in Bay Barometer, view a PDF of the full report or see additional details on each indicator in our Bay Barometer section.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson has named J. Charles Fox as senior advisor on the Chesapeake Bay and Anacostia River.
Fox has an extensive and distinguished career as a champion for the environment:
Fox's appointment is another signal that the EPA is renewing and deepening its mission to protect America's environment under President Obama. The decision to name Fox as a senior advisor continues the EPA's long-standing commitment to restoring the Bay and its rivers, such as the Anacostia.
"I look forward to working closely with Bay Program Director Jeff Lape and the talented and hard-working staff in Annapolis and EPA's regional office in Philadelphia, who share my deep dedication to the Chesapeake Bay," said Fox. "I also value the opportunity to work collaboratively with the Bay Program's many federal and state partners to make great progress in restoring our nation's largest estuary."
The South River Federation released its 2009 annual scorecard last night. The river received a score of 33, one point lower than last year. The federation scores the river on 10 key indicators, including nutrients, dissolved oxygen and the abundance of underwater life. Some of the individual scores include a dismal 1 for water clarity and zero for underwater grasses, and a more encouraging 7 for bacteria levels.
In the scorecard, South River Federation Executive Director Erik Michelsen gives people a few quick tips on how they can help improve the health of the South River:"Everyone living in the South River Watershed can do their own part by trying to keep the rain that falls on their property in their yard, upgrading septic systems to the best available technology, and minimizing or eliminating the use of fertilizers on their yards."
Want some more tips to help the South River and the entire Bay? Check out the Bay Program's comprehensive list of ways people can make a difference.
See a PDF of the full scorecard.
This is the second river report card to be released in recent weeks. The Magothy River released its annual Magothy River Index in February, and it also reflected a decrease in overall river health. Stay tuned for more river report cards in the coming weeks.


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AMES, Iowa – Cathann Kress, vice president for Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, was elected to the National 4-H Council's Board of Trustees during the board's annual meeting in November.
Jennifer Sirangelo, incoming CEO of the National 4-H Council, said, "I want to thank Dr. Kress for joining the National 4-H Council Board. Having served as a county 4-H educator in Iowa, state 4-H director in New York, national 4-H Director at USDA and now ISU Vice President for Extension and Outreach, her unique insight is immensely valuable at the council board table. I'm very excited to work together on initiatives to lead 4-H into the future."
"I'm deeply committed to 4-H and youth programs," Kress said. "My whole career has been about how we turn things over to the next generation better than we found it. My intention is to continue to strengthen 4-H programs, which offer safe, high quality and exceptional learning experiences to our young people. Taking the resources of our land-grant universities to our youngest citizens is vital to our nation's future."
Kress has been vice president for ISU Extension and Outreach since 2011. She earned her bachelor's degree in social work with psychology and sociology emphases from Iowa State University, her master's degree in education, counselor education/college student development from the University of Iowa, and her doctorate in education from the University of Iowa. She is a native of Sharon Center, Iowa.
The Iowa 4-H program is headquartered at Iowa State University and is available to youth through ISU Extension and Outreach offices in all Iowa counties.
4-H is the youth program of America's Cooperative Extension Service and is the nation's largest youth development organization, serving more than 6 million young people across the United States with programs in leadership, citizenship, communication and life skills. 4-H is supported by federal, state and county funding, private grants and donations, and fees.
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Just as a general tip for negotiations, don't be afraid to make an offer. It's your job to make a LOW offer, and it's the salesmans job to get you to pay as much as possible. The game ends when you've met somewhere in the middle. It's not "guess the price", it's "Do your research, determine a fair price, knock a few percentage points off of that and offer it!". Then let them counter, play the 'I've gotta ask my boss' game, etc. A lot of folks these days are afraid to offer something. They'll counter, don't worry!
Plus, you never know. My wife's motorcycle I got for a steal. We were looking used. Found one, but it wasn't in great shape. Dealer had a model-leftover 2011 (this was in 2012). So, brand new, but had been sitting on the floor a year. My offer? Sell me that brand new 2011 for the price they had this beat-up 2009 (looked better in the pics online) listed. Which was about half what they had on the sticker. They went back and forth a little bit but that's exactly what I paid when it was all said and done. Roughly HALF of the bikes MSRP (MSRP which was already reduced given it was no longer the current model year AND the 2013's were about to come out). They took it as a loss; but it had already been sitting for a year while they paid floor fees and interest on it! They were willing to take a hit just to get rid of it and I knew it. Now, when you shop like that, you don't get to be as picky. But, it is an excellent strategy. Work the lot, find out what cars they want to get rid of, and see how bad they want to get rid of it! And never ever ever just shop one dealer. It's amazing what kind of 'incentives' they suddenly remember when you tell them you might be back, but you have a few other places to check out first!
If it's the manual, you paid about sticker. Which, I guess, isn't a 'bad' price, but personally I'd never pay sticker. Someone somewhere will give you a deal.
If it's the auto, then you got the auto for the manual price; not a bad deal. Keep in mind these lower end cars have a thinner margin and it truly is harder to get anything off the price. Which, in reality, is okay. It's better than the alternative; the silly game that is dealers and manufacturers intentionally inflating the price because they are anticipating negotiations.
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No free lunch.
My guess is that the taxes have to be higher to get the money to pay the doctors and other health care workers and hospitals that provide "free" health care. We will soon be seeing how that works in the US. It's the old "No free lunch" rule.
I never pay sticker and I never let the dealer talk me into stuff. I shop around, and I go to the dealer just to buy. One tactic; if you need to ask the salesman/dealer something, make sure you research it as much as you can before hand. Then, don't make any decisions on the spot. Step away, grab a bite, tell them you'll be back; and make an informed decision (such as on the warranty). Those salespersons want you to make quick decisions so they can up their commission. And good for them. Nothing wrong with earning a living. They didn't do anything that you didn't consent to. It's YOUR responsibility to make informed decisions that are best for you; not theirs.
And don't pay sticker. When it's all said and done, the salesperson is going to have a price written down. After he's done wasting your time with that price; tell him what you'll pay. It doesn't matter how much you love the car, how much the dealer says 'it's worth it', or anything else. Now I'm not saying be mean; that's just silly. You just say, "I'm prepared to pay $XXX (A reasonable amount, mind you), and I want the car like this. Can we make a deal?". They'll counter, they'll go back and forth. You'll never know until you try!
My wifes motorcycle, for example, listed for $9,199 new. I found a model year leftover on the sales floor. They had it listed for $8,500. I offered them $5,500. They said no way, they'd lose money on that sale! I said, "I know you will; but you can't make any money on this bike, how much have you paid in floor fees for the last year? How long will you be paying them if it doesn't sell?". They still said no, I thanked them, and I walked outside. They followed me out and before you knew it I was riding that Honda home for my wife for $5,500 out the door, brand new. It CAN be done! Not always like that; not always 'half price', but there is absolutely, positively, no reason to pay what that sticker says. The dealer isn't going to tell you that because if you do; then they'll make more money. And that's not just incentives and rebates either! There are more they aren't telling you about, and they are EXPECTING you to negotiate the price. That's ESPECIALLY true of used and model-year-leftover cars. Used cars have a much thicker profit margin to work with, and model-leftover cars are already in the hole because of floor fees and depreciation; so they are more willing to deal because they want it off the floor so it doesn't keep costing them money. (In the case of Ford, they charge dealers 8% per month on STICKER after the first month. So on a $25,000 car... do the math! They've lost a buttload on a car that's been sitting on the lot for a year; they want it GONE).
Always look for cars that have been on the lot a little while. Sure, a car under that 30 day window they could make the most money on; but they are business people and they take risks. They are still gonna see if some sucker is gonna pay sticker; and they haven't even paid one months 'rent' on the car there. That's good money for a days work! A car that's been there a few months, they've paid thousands to keep and are already potentially in the hole (there's not a lot of margin on new cars, believe it or not), it may even be worth it for them to sell it as a wash just to quit paying the 8%!
Also know WHAT you're buying. A popular car with current incentives being marketed heavily in the most popular color is not going to be easy to deal on. If they can sell it for more; they will. Put yourself in their shoes. Say you put your old car on craigslist and on day 1 someone offers a couple thousand less. You'll probably say no, right? It's just the first day; someone might offer more. What about if it sits without any attention for months? You'll be begging for someone to come in and offer that same price again; and you're not even paying 'interest' on it! Some cars sell ABOVE sticker. My dealer had a Shelby GT500 in the showroom and they would only entertain offers 'well above sticker'. And they'll get it, someone is probably going to fly in hundreds of miles to buy that car. But that 2013 Focus that's been sitting on the lot with a manual transmission that nobody knows how to drive and the dealer is just begging to get rid of?
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That's a pretty good article, and I especially like the appr. mgmt companies being owned by banks.
I've told numerous friends and others to ignore what the appraisal is, because it's just a BS number for the banks. I've told them to determine what they will pay, with a little fudge room up or down and go with that, and don't allow emotions into the decision. It's just a house, and there's definitely more than one of them available.
A $500 ink pen is only worth that if somebody actually will pay that price.
Robinson said a buyer offered to pay $317,000, but the appraisal came in at $310,000 – the price at which another home in the neighborhood recently sold.
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In the case of Robinson's townhome, the appraiser could not be reached for comment, and it's unclear what adjustments might have been made. The townhome eventually sold, Robinson said, but for about $6,000 less than what she and the buyer initially agreed on.
So the house that the appraiser appraised at $310,000 sold for $311,000, and they are complaining about an appraiser whose accuracy is that good?
They're used to appraisers who ask, "What's this fucking shithouse supposed to be worth this afternoon?" Take the answer from the broker and write it down.
APOCALYPSEFUCK is Shostakovich says
They're used to appraisers who ask, "What's this fucking shithouse supposed to be worth this afternoon?" Take the answer from the broker and write it down.
Hehe - epic!
Who cares what the Realtards think. They would sell their own children for a commission.
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The front facade of the Brumby Estate on Old Young's Mill Road. The estate is going on the auction block next month.
Looking upwards in the home's Grand Hall.
Part of the home's living room. This room was copied from Brumby's grandmother's home in Atlanta.
Another view of the Grand Hall. Of the columns in this room, Brumby said, "the overall theme is that they need to look like they're real — load bearing — though they're not."
The basement hall of the house. Here, one might imagine monks or nuns processing through chanting on the way to chapel.
There have been whispers about the place for years.
"Have you heard about the castle on Young's Mill Road?" people will ask. Carloads of curious visitors have driven past it and wondered at the sight of crenellated towers and battlements barely visible above the long brick wall that surrounds the property.
Others have spoken of the "mean hermit" who lives there; a supposed Quasimodo-like character who lives alone in the mansion bristling at anyone who dares set foot on his property.
In fact, the exact opposite is true.
The house is wonderfully out of place. It's an idealized slice of the English countryside nestled among Georgia pines. Parts of the house bring to mind the refinement of Oscar Wilde or Noel Coward or Agatha Christie or P.G. Wodehouse with all their de rigeur "humour" — the British vehemently keep the "u" in the word — thrown in for good measure.
Here, one might expect the characters of Downton Abbey to enter the room momentarily with Dame Maggie Smith as the gloriously self-righteous Dowager Countess of Grantham slowly treading behind spitting her venomous wit like an adder.
It's very hard to imagine that this place exists in Troup County. But it does and it's now for sale.
Great architecture — like great art in general — is really meant to stir something deep inside the viewer or one who enters an aesthetically pleasing building. The strong elegance that this house exudes causes the viewer to straighten their posture and walk a bit more nobly. The architecture, like a proper but loving aunt, reassuringly reminds you to mind your manners.
Far from the mean-spirited ogre as he is portrayed in local rumors, the home's owner, M. Peck Brumby, is the epitome of the Southern gentleman. An Atlanta native and descended from some of that city's most prominent families, he's exceedingly charming and warm. The house reflects his mannered disposition and slightly irreverent sense of humor.
Mr. Brumby purchased the historic Young estate in 1994. According to Troup County Historian, Clark Johnson, the property has been occupied since 1834, just a few years after the city of LaGrange was chartered. The Young family purchased the property following the Civil War and constructed a grist mill on Beech Creek.
The mill was destroyed by fire, though the ruins still lay beside the creek near the house. The creek now feeds into West Point Lake while the Young house, a Tudor-style home built in the 1920's, remained. "It was very well-built," Brumby says.
He'd lived in the old Young house for about a year when he decided he needed new kitchen cabinets. "I should have taken the measurements down to Home Depot and said, 'build me some cabinets for this kitchen,'" he replies.
But one thing led to another. "I didn't have a back door, so I had to bring the groceries through the front door." Within a few years, the Young house had been renovated out of existence.
The Young house still exists within the walls of the new house and Brumby has left parts of the floor plan intact. As a small memorial to the house, one of the original fireplaces remains in the basement, though it sits some feet off the floor.
In the kitchen, the Young's old stove proudly sits in the corner. Though still in working condition, it has been replaced by a state of the art commercial range.
Hiring the architectural firm of Polites Cook, noted landscape architect, Spencer Tunnell, and local master builder Ben Parham, Brumby slowly turned the Young home into what is essentially an English country house. Parham describes the house as "an English castle with Medieval flavor and Tudor influences."
The ingenious designs incorporate many different stylistic influences from the Medieval battlements to the Tudor chimneys to the 18th century classically-influenced panelled living room to a Gothic Revival dark panelled library. One feels that the home's long history is told in its design.
Perhaps it was built as a fortified manor house in the Middle Ages and at some later point became a convent or abbey. During Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries, the property may have been seized, sacked and partially destroyed only to be presented to one the king's favorites. As centuries passed, various owners added their own twist to the home's style keeping it up to the present day.
At least that's certainly how one could imagine the history.
Besides the old Young home that remains within the walls, the house does have some actual antique features. The roof tiles date to the early 20th century and originally crowned the Grove Park Golf Club in Asheville, N.C. Brumby purchased the old clay roof tiles after they were removed during a renovation of the building. The tiles were likely manufactured by the Ludowici Roofing Tile Company in Ludowici, Ga.
The living room is a copy of Brumby's grandmother's living room designed by noted Georgia architect Neel Reid. Reid, of the Atlanta firm of Hentz, Reid and Adler also designed the local Callaway mansion, Hills Dales.
While retaining its antique charm, the house is equipped with all the modern amenities. The kitchen and butler's pantry are equipped with granite counter-tops, panelled refrigerators and handy pull-out spice racks and gadget racks next to the commercial range.
The basement of the house features a hot tub in the limestone floor, a steam room, dry sauna, gym and wine cellar. Brumby humorously describes it as "a typical middle Georgia basement." A pool in the back yard features a water jet which converts it to a fountain with the flip of a switch.
The more than 17 acres included with the home's sale also include a formal vegetable garden, multiple car garage and a small guest cottage.
While this marvelous estate has many good memories for Brumby, "the steps are beginning to be a problem," he says. Until the house is sold next month, he'll continue to climb the panelled stairs of one of the largest and most elegant homes in Troup County.
The auction will also include 7 separate lots in The Cloisters subdivision nearby.
The house will go on the auction block on Sunday, Sept. 22 at 3:30 p.m. An auction price was not released. Open houses will be held Sept. 6, 7, 13, 14, 20 and 21 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. The house will be open to viewing on Sept. 22 from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The house may also be viewed by appointment. For further information, visit the The Auction Way Company website, www.theauctionway.com


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I came across Dirkon - The Paper Camera via someone's blog. It is about a Czechoslovakian pinhole camera that can be made from paper. The name Dirkon is a play on Dirka the Czech word for pinhole and the -kon from Nikon. The site includes downloadable PDF files that provide the plans for building your own.
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I think that's the first time that the word "pinhole" has been mentioned on PhotographyBLOG!!!
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This could be interesting to try. I may well do it when the weather is better. If I do I'll scan and upload the results
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I just bought a new digital camera and just got my new gauntlets and wanted to show off a little costume progress. It will be finished by DCon...
I just bought a new digital camera and just got my new gauntlets and wanted to show off a little costume progress. It will be finished by DCon...
Fantastic, man. We all knew you could do it.
That is sweet man!
Looks grate man.
Looks very cool, coming along great
Are the gauntlets supposed to be so bright? Or will you be weathering them?
Sometimes I feel like I'm the National Advocate for Prop Weathering or something. Feels like I'm always dropping in somewhere going, "looks awesome, now beat the crap out of it!" or something similar.
It really does look great,
How's the rest coming along? The gun?
Yup very nice man. I'm with Journeyman. I'm soooo into wearthering. Wait till you see my Sandtrooper. heh heh.
Looks awesome Jodo. and weathered the heck out of it when you're done.
Needs more weathering.
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Really looks sweet!
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I have absolutely NO idea what I'm talking about....anybody seen my car-keys?
Wow dude, that looks INCREDIBLE!
Thanks everyone...
Believe it or not, thats a bad pic of the gauntlets. They are weathered and they do match all of the other orange on the costume, its just a bad pic. I`ll have to shoot some more for everyone.
I want to say thank you to everyone for all the encouragement you guys and gals have given me over the last couple of years!!! I will keep up the good work and more pics to come...I promise.
Did anyone mention it needs weatheringSeriously though, it looks great.
Awesome work. Can't wait to see it completed.
That looks absolutely fantastic!! Did you have a hard time getting the orange needed?
awesome craig!!!
i'm with seeker! beat that up! it will look killer!!!
Sweet, Jodo. It's about time. I know you've been working on that a long time. It's finaly paying off!! Looking good!
That looks great, what kind of helmet is that?
snap some shots of the gauntlets! they look cool as hell!
You should try and get it done by Wizards World Jodo.
Me, you, goat, and mr.fett and others with Mando style are gonna kick asse. It would be a cool scene at Wizards.
Good call, SEEKER! Yeah Jodo, Wizard World is usually a few weeks before Dragon Con, so that would be a great spot for a trial run before the 'big show' in Atlanta!!!
ok boy great work on that ... put more pics, closer pics
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Spectators watch on Thursday as a 30-feet tall fir tree is removed from its property on Indian Fern Drive. The tree was moved to Main Street in Nashua, and will serve as the city's official holiday tree. (Kimberly Houghton/Union Leader Correspondent)
"I really don't think it would make it through the winter, unfortunately," said Doug Elliott, explaining the small concolor tree planted about 20 years ago has grown tremendously fast.
"I can't wait to see it all lit up for the Christmas stroll," she said.
The tree was cut down on Thursday morning and moved — with a police escort — to Main Street aside the Hunt Memorial Building on Library Hill. In the next two weeks, city workers will decorate the 30-foot high tree with lights that will be lit during the holiday stroll event on Nov. 30.
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Ignasi Miquel says he is ready to fight for first-team opportunities now that Bacary Sagna and Kieran Gibbs are back in full training.
The Spanish defender has filled in at left back for Arsène Wenger's side in recent months in the absence of both Gibbs and Andre Santos.
But with Gibbs back in full training, and Sagna, Thomas Vermaelen and Francis Coquelin also able to cover at left back, Miquel knows the competition for a first-team place will be fierce.
"I know that I have had my chance because of injuries, and I am really happy [to have played]," he told Arsenal.com.
"The injured players were here at the start of the season and they will be back sooner or later, so I just have to fight for [my place] and make sure I am training as well as I can.
"[Gibbs and Sagna] have been part of the team for a long team and they are great players. Obviously with all the injuries that we have had, it is bad for us but [it has allowed] some players to show they are good enough to be in the first team.
"Now these players will have even more competition around them. They are big players for us, but we also have a lot of good players in the squad."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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In an exciting weekend of fourth and fifth round matches, Arsenal's exit at the hands of Blackburn was the big story.
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