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|I don't think you really want him to intimidate repairmen. If he does, then he's being encouraged to intimidate strangers that are invited inside. This could be anyone, including your extended family, or a new friend. I always crated my pup and only let him out after I knew for sure that this new person actually liked dogs. And of course - once my pup was quiet, lol. But this won't changed how people knocking at the door are received - it's just that once they're invited in, I think manners are in order.
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I bet your dog would have done the same thing if it was a priest in a nice suit....
A dog who is calm and quiet just watching someone is far more effective. You have to teach the dog 'it's okay I got this' and to settle when told. You're in control, not the dog.
By grabbing him and restraining him, you taught him it's right to be suspicious of workmen in the house. If you watch protection training videos, the dog is worked up into a state of agitation before he's released to bite.
If he is being territorial then he is claiming my 2 year old as his territory. After she was out of the room he was ok. He still watched the guys but there was no aggression in his behavior.
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You sure it's protective? My dog has seen a bunch of "iffy" looking people and doesn't bark and growl. I run a lot with my dog past midnight because I want to play during the day so I see my fair share of iffy people. What was your dog protecting you from? A repair person minding their own business?
I bet your dog would have done the same thing if it was a priest in a nice suit....
The dog sounds territorial if he only does it to people coming to the house. Territorial isn't a bad thing if you can control your dog. If you tell your dog to shut up and he doesn't listen then yeah its a bad thing.
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did you GSD become more protective? My boy Ammo is 18 months and it is like a switch has went off in him. He has become this protective don't screw with my family dog. He hasn't bit anyone or anything like that but he is quick to make sure strangers know not to mess with his family. Yesterday we had a couple of "iffy" looking repair men in our house. My husband had taken them down the hall to my little girl's room where she was napping in her crib. I had ahold of Ammo so he would sit still and he lost it. He was very upset that those guys were in with one of his kids. He barked and growled until my husband brought our daughter in the living room. He has also started becoming more aggressive sounding when people come to our door. Even if he knows the person he will let his presence be known.
I'm not complaining about him being more protective. I'm actually very happy with it, it has just surprised me. I guess I was expecting it to be more of a gradual thing. He literally changed over nite. I do praise him for his vocalness when strangers show up and he was very much praised for being so protective with the kids. I want him to intimidate people who come to our house, like repair men or salesmen.
Has anyone else had a dog change so quick with their protectiveness? What age did you notice your GSD become more protective of your family? How do I encourage his protectiveness without making him aggressive? I want to make sure he only goes for someone when there is a threat. So far he has seemed to be pretty good at judging when there is a real threat or when to just put on the show. With the repair men he sounded tough but never actually tried to bit or nip them.
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James Dolphus "Doc" Gailey
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My Gailey family line is one that is dear to my heart, because my mother's father was a sweet, caring, unassuming gentleman that I loved dearly. James Dolphus Gailey, otherwise known as Doc, helped raise me and my two younger sisters from the time I was ten years old and they were six and two. I have posted articles about my immediate Gailey family here, but have not dealt with Doc's ancestry. I have a thick file on the Gaileys from Habersham, Hall County, Georgia, and guess it is time I shared some of it with you.
A few weeks ago another Gailey descendant contacted me by email after seeing my post about the Brocks, more specifically my great-grandparents, James Newton Gailey and Eleanor Elizabeth Brock. James Newton, or "Jim" as the family called him, was a "distant cousin" to her "strain of the Gailey family that settled in Eastland and Erath County, Texas." The thing that caught her eye was how they "settled very close together, but they got there in different ways."
For many years my aunts and my mother who were all born in Parker County near Mineral Wells had told us that there was another "bunch" of Gaileys that they were kin to who lived nearby, close to the little town of Strawn. Their daddy, Doc, had told them about his cousins but they couldn't remember ever meeting them. My aunt Irene Gailey Stone died in 2006 without ever finding her distant cousins who lived just down the road, so to speak!
At the Gailey family reunion in Claremont, Georgia, in 2003 I sat down and talked to Beulah Gailey Whetchel about the Gaileys who had gone west and settled in Texas. Her uncle was my great-grandfather, James Newton, and he had come to Texas along with his oldest brother, George Thomas and their youngest brother, Marvin Fletcher. Beulah asked me if I knew what had happened to "that Gailey that just disappeared." I didn't and she couldn't recall his name.
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"I would imagine that my ancestor, Asahel "Asa" Lomax Gailey was one of those [Gaileys] that disappeared from the family back then. It appears that the Ebenezer Gailey (brother of Ezekiel) family moved at some point from Habersham County, Georgia, to Arkansas near the farm of another brother, Amzi Gailey. Asahel [Asa] apparently met his soon-to-be wife, as her family were migrating to Texas in 1856 or 1857, and he followed them here. They got married along the way, settled near Belton, Texas, and eventually gave birth to J. W. and two other siblings.
Asahel hadn't been in Texas long when the Civil War effort came calling. He fought in the war and was captured and taken to Chicago as a P.O.W. Apparently he was reported dead to his wife, Permelia, and his children by a "friend" of his that he fought with. This guy married Permelia and fathered a child - all before Asahel had a chance to return home. He did eventually return, found out what had happened and returned to Chicago where he was never heard from again. After that the family packed up and moved to then uninhabited Eastland County just south of Strawn. I have learned that Asahel started another family there in Chicago and all of their descendants ended up in Texas in later years. Crazy how that ended up. Texas must have been in the blood. One of Asahel's grandsons from his Chicago family settled in Dallas (not 60 miles from a boat-load of half first cousins he likely did not know existed.) I have never been able to find any living relatives from that "Chicago" line."Asahel's and J. W.'s descendant who wrote to me said that she had "pretty much narrowed the Gaileys down to two main focal areas. One is in Utah, a line of Gaileys that came over from England much later than ours. The other Gailey mecca is the Habersham County area in Georgia. It's almost safe to say that if you are a Gailey descendant in much of the United States, you are from one or the other families."
Asahel's grandfather, Joseph Gailey, was found in the 1800 census in Franklin County, Georgia, which is adjacent to Habersham and Hall counties where Asahel and my ancestor, Santafee Henderson Gailey were living in the mid-1800s. Habersham and Hall counties were formed from land ceded from the Cherokee Indians. They are not shown on this map, but are located just above and west of Franklin County in the north-east corner of the state. Joseph Gailey was among the 26 named early settlers of Georgia found in The Historical Collection of Georgia, by George White.


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My 2014 is stock except for a short throw. I installed the Stage 1 93 Octane map and took the car out for a quick spin.
Here are my 2 data logs (both 2nd and 3rd gear pulls). I'm not entirely sure how to be reading these, but one thing jumps out at me. At the end of my first pull there is a feedback knock registering -4.2. That concerns me a bit. There is no Feedback Knock or on the second pull, and neither register anything in Fine Knock Learn.
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I learned a great deal from my studies and now drive with a smile on my face and let everyone do as they may being it really isn't changing my life one single bit.
Yes my drive to work is 5.5 miles in a suburb in the SF bay area with about 12 stop lights. I understand it's different. But everything I have said works everywhere. My daughter lives 200 miles away, I just went there for a party yesterday and I use all the exact principles on that trip going 65 without a light as I do on my drive to work. The length, the speed, none of that matters. I watch the same thing happening out on the highway. I am in the middle lane going five miles an hour faster than the slow lane, I am PACING the cars in front of me, we are all going the exact same speed. The fast lane is going about 5 miles an hour faster than me. I am pacing them with them slightly pulling away....about five miles an hour faster. People are passing me going 10-15 mph faster than me only to hit the brakes as they slow to the speed the entire fast lane is going. They then dart over in front of me and gain a car length and dart back over in front of that car in the fast lane. They are totally and completely clueless to the fact that they aren't going any faster than the MASS.
Go out and drive in the slow lane next time, drive like you are being paid by the hour and watch what goes on, time the trip, see how different it is and you will find it is just a few minutes, while the entertainment you gain watching the people cutting in and out of traffic to gain thirty feet is well worth the few minutes.
Was not really aware that "part time" 4x4 was available with an auto trans.
(Not an option in the earlier years)
If it an add on "freewheeling" hub kit, it is pointless to have as you will be in
4-HI LOCK all the time----the differential in the transfer case will not allow the truck to move with the front "FREE" and in just 4-hi.
No free mileage to be had with everything still spinning and locked up.
Of course if you have a 2-hi indicator--the previous transfer case statement does not apply.
might look into getting gearing around 3.73----3.40ish
Not so bad as 4.10 for cruising, but much easier to get the truck moving in town.
Like I mentioned earlier----the truck I had got 10mpg under ANY condition.
Just would not get any better---but it had 4.10 gearing
getting weird or what....
Ok guy's maybe we should get back to what he really wanted, how do we get better fuel economy...hmm ok, roller rockers, electric fans instead of a mechanical fan, good gear ratio, properly inflated tires, maybe a better intake and proper size carb..like not a 750 on a small block, say also a properly setup choke on the carb, an exhaust system properly sized to the engine..no cork so at least 2 1/4 to 2 1/2" a better air filter,, what else guys come on instead of the grampa driving tricks for 10 posts.
I seem to recall that you only have about 2 miles to go----dunno how many lights, but I do know they are all over the place in the greater Bay Area.
I have about 30 miles to go and 3 of the 5 signals that I encounter are within a single mile of the hiway.
Ever been behind 2 semis having an elephant race on the freeway----stuck behind those morons for 8+ miles----happens to me all the time, and they are traveling @ 10 under----on the freeway. This is not even counting the countless idiots chatting on the cell in the left lane pacing the car on the right.
As a general rule---a traffic stack-up is usually caused by an accident or fire--I have no problems dealing with this and it does not even bother me.
Years ago when I was about 11, my aunt came up to Idaho for a visit.
She wanted to take us all out for dinner, but the only real decent places were in the next CITIES----about 30 miles north and south of us. My mom made the comment that they were way far at 30 miles, and my aunt replied
"Hell, that's just like going across town--no biggie". She still lives in Los Angeles.
Me---my closest gas station is 10 miles out---or actually in toward town.
Seldom have to worry about foul weather or roads. I don't even actually have to go "Into" town as my job is on the outskirts.
geography has a lot to do with how we drive our cars.
When I lived in Phoenix, I expected the freeway to only move at 25mph during the peak hours, and it is not much different now. It has on several occasions taken over 45min to an hour to get from my worksite to the hotel, less than 15 miles. This does not bother me at all.
You have 1 or 2 guys in front tying up traffic and it creates very unsafe conditions----Kinda like the Trooper that is traveling just under and stacking everyone up, but nobody wants to go by him. These people are all jockying for position and getting nowhere..
Me---If I get the opportunity----I'm blowing by him---safest place to be is in front and opening the gap.
Oh---and for what it is worth---the first half of my morning trip is state hiway posted 55mph, and I generally set the cruise at 57 (this section is a moneymaker for the state/county).
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this is a hot rod site or is it.. grandma's sunday drive..
look, if you want to do 25 in a 45 on a dry day.. that's your choice.. but when a car try's to pass let them go.. if you see a line of cars behind you, it might be time to either go the speed limit or move over and let the cars go.. I'll never blame anyone for driving slow in the rain(not a mist) or snow.. 9 times out of 10, these dopes are yapp'n on their phone.. or looking at the houses and landscapes.. sorry.. I leave plenty of time to get to work, but not enough time if I'm forced to do 20mph slower the whole way.. do the math Brian if it takes me 58 minutes to get to work, and that's at an avg speed of 55, how much longer is it at 35??
it isn't 30 seconds or "just a minute" most times they are driving 15-20 under because they've been drinking not because it's snowing, or raining..
It's as simple as that in a nut shell.
Back years ago I remember seeing a short film or public announcement or something about a guy stuck in a traffic jamb because of a crash. As he creeps past the crash he is mad because that jerk was to blame for his inconvenience. All the while the guy is shown covered with blood and they cover his face as they put him in the ambulance dead. It put things in perspective.
I have been working at it for a long time now, it's been a few years and I still am surprised by things when they hit me, like that motorcyclist at the light. He REALLY thinks he is going faster than me in my Rambler. He is all decked out in leather, and full face on a bike that would literally go up the quarter mile, turn around and get back to the light faster than I could run the quarter one way in the Rambler, LITERALLY. Yet he is not going any faster than me. It's wild to think about that, but it's the truth.
Get out on the highway, that's different. I have driven hundreds of miles averaging 90+ and I got there a lot faster than at the speed limit. But on a 15 mile drive, what good would it do me to go 90? We are talking a couple of minutes here, is that going to change my life to get where I am going a minute or two sooner? And that is a not the norm, our usual drive is a few miles and we are going 40, what difference would going 45 make? SECONDS, mere seconds! We have such a twisted image of time it isn't funny.
How long does it take to get up from the couch and get your shoes from the closet and put them on lacing them up ready to walk out the door? Ask this of people and they will give you crazy numbers like five minutes, even ten minutes! When it would take you about 30 seconds to do this!
Something funny on this subject hit me a few days ago on the way home from work. I was stopped at a light about five cars back and a motorcycle came thru between us up to the crosswalk. He waited just like me for the light to turn red and it hit me, he is doing that at every light and not getting where he is going any faster than this old dude in the Rambler "stuck" in traffic! LOL At the next light he is doing the same thing, and the next one and the next one and he is twenty seconds ahead of me when he pulls in his driveway! LOLOL
You can't go faster than the traffic or lights, you just can't!
I have driven thru 29 states, I have never driven anywhere that made me drive any different. In the east coast, that is where it was most different to me, but it was more about the roads themselves. Man, you have to be a navigational genius to drive in Connecticut or Rhode Island. Geez they dumbed it down by the time the highways were being built on the west coast.
Drivers in your area may be different, but it's how we see it what makes all the difference.
Try looking at other people, humans, fellow humans that are next to you at a light. Look at their faces, who are they? What are they doing? Make up a story, try to make it as different as your story. That man is single and going out on his first date with a woman who will become his wife. That woman has lost three babies to miscarriage and is going to her doctors appointment to hear if her baby is healthy this time. That man with the little boy in the back seat, he is driving him to school and then will go off to work as doing something you know nothing about. They have different lives but they deserve to be there just as us.
I can't express how much I have learned studying traffic as I have. It has been such an eye opener, I don't think a thing about it now as I drive where I use to feel just like most people, that car in front of me is keeping me from where I need to be! That is honestly how most people think, as I once did. I will say it again, "that car in front of me is keeping me from where I need to be"
It's fascinating but that is what people think, and I can't express more that I once thought the same way. Now as I drive I see it in other people, and I am fascinated with it every day. I am fascinated that I use to feel that way and that it is SOOOO obvious that it's not true, that car in front of me is NOT stopping me, the MASS of cars I am in, the MASS of cars that I am a part of is what is keeping me from getting where I want to be!
It is so insanely obvious to me now that the car I once passed in anger because he was HOLDING ME BACK is 20 seconds behind me when I get where I was going. It is so insanely obvious to me that the car that I once blew pass as I hit the yellow light and he stopped as it turned red was right beside me at the red light a few lights later. This is all so painfully obvious I just have a hard time grasping that I once drove like this. And I stare in wonder as I see the guy in another car do this very thing with me right beside him. This 59 Rambler is right beside the guy at the light that HAD to get past him three blocks ago!
Amazing it is just amazing.
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Like I said, me personally, I understand I am not the only one on the road and I can't tell every other person to drive to make me happy so I will choose to be happy with what I come across in my travels.
That's just how I choose to see things. I understand frustration, if I were you I would feel the same way.
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Winning combination of bacteria found to combat deadly marine pathogen
Research conducted at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) has delivered promising results in combating Vibrio owensii - a bacterium that is responsible for mass mortalities of cultured ornate spiny lobster larvae.
The high commercial value of the ornate spiny lobster (Panulirus ornatus) means it has the potential to be an important product of the Australian aquaculture industry. However, nutritional deficits and bacterial disease during the long larval phase of the species makes captive rearing difficult.
Scientists from AIMS and the University of New England (UNE) have been able to isolate a large number of bacterial cultures – or probiotic candidates – from wild lobster larvae and their natural prey items, and from the lobster aquaculture system at AIMS in Townsville. After successive tests, they found that a combination of two probiotic bacteria, referred to as PP05 and PP107, provided the most effective protection against the pathogen Vibrio owensii, enhancing survival of the larvae by as much as 80 per cent.
AIMS Research Scientist, Dr Lone Høj, who led the project, said "Our work has uncovered a winning combination of "good" bacteria that appear to dramatically improve larval survival. In a further study we looked at how and why these two bacteria were so effective when working together against Vibrio owensii."
UNE PhD student Evan Goulden said "This research highlights the value of identifying biocontrol agents that are able to intercept the infection cycle of a serious aquaculture pathogen, as such the study represents a milestone in proving the value of using probiotic mixes to prevent microbial diseases."
"Disease management is critical in food production systems and this is particularly true for seafood produced in aquaculture systems. The development of alternatives to the antibiotics currently used in such systems is becoming a national priority in countries around the world" says AIMS Principal Research Scientist, Dr Mike Hall.
'Identification of an Antagonistic Probiotic Combination Protecting Ornate Spiny Lobster (Panulirus ornatus) Larvae against Vibrio owensii Infection' is published in PLOS One: http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039667
'Probiont niche specialization contributes to additive protection against Vibrio owensii in spiny lobster larvae' is published in Environmental Microbiology Reports:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1758-2229.12007/abstract
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Post-Sandy seems an appropriate time for a TWIM devoted to mold since the storm generated many opportunities to deal with it? I'm also battling it in my ventilation ducts to the extent that we replaced all the supply lines beneath the house and some of the returns in the attic, and installed an electrostatic filter upstream from a HEPA-type filter, plus a UV light by the heating/cooling coils. Over the years I've inspected the ductwork for integrity and cleanliness and just didn't think we had conditions that allowed mold growth until we found 7 of 23 supply lines each of which that looked inside like they were spray-painted with black primer over a good many feet. Meanwhile outside we've been unable to prevent black mildew from growing in playing-card patches on treated wood coated with mildewicide-infused stain and exposed to sunlight about eight hours a day.
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Do you folks agree our best approach would be to napalm the house and replace it with a stainless steel cube, or wear environmental protection suits, or move to who-knows-where....? Of course the guys doing all the ventilation work used no respiration protection, but then they were all in their 20's and 30's versus our 70's.
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French architect Henri Patrick Devillers may soon find himself at the center of a Chinese murder trial. Devillers had been working in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, when he was arrested at China's request, The New York Times reports. The architect, who is friends with now-disgraced Communist party leader Bo Xilai and his wife, was being held in connection with the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood. Xilai's wife, Gu Kailai, is the main suspect in the case—and, allegedly, Devillers's lover.
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Stanford White had no reason to suspect a man might be lurking at Madison Square Garden—one of his own architectural achievements—waiting to do him harm.
It was June 25, 1906, and Harry Thaw had been following White, of the eminent firm McKim, Mead, and White, for some time when he decided to kill him—possibly for more than a year, says Mosette Broderick, an architectural historian and the director of urban design programs at New York University.
"Thaw wished he was a man-about-town the way Stanford was," Broderick says.
White and Evelyn Nesbitt—a young model who herself was a society figure—had an affair, which White cut short, much to the dismay of Nesbitt, who was one of the country's first pop-cultural celebrities. Shortly thereafter Thaw began to fixate on Nesbitt, obsessing over her the way he did with so many things associated with White. But Nesbitt rebuffed Thaw for years. Finally, after succumbing to the realization that White was truly no longer interested in her, Nesbitt gave into Thaw, settling for the wealthy suitor. The two married in 1905; Thaw began beating her soon afterward.
The son of a railroad and coal baron, Thaw came from money, but the New York elite status that White possessed evaded him. Thaw's volatile temper kept him on the outer rungs of those coveted social circles. His own father recognized the flaw at an early age, Broderick writes in her book Triumvirate, which chronicles the lives of McKim, Mead, and White.
Was Thaw crazy? Yes, Broderick says. They both were. But where Thaw was a sadist, White was merely a narcissist. "Stanford White was the clear role model for Thaw in his fast life in New York," Broderick writes. "White knew the chorus girls, had amusing pastimes, and seemed to be having a wonderful life." One thing Thaw couldn't see: White, who was 52, was extremely ill at the time of his murder.
White, along with his firm, designed the Astor, Tiffany, and Vanderbilt mansions. He penned the plans for the New York Herald Building and the Washington Square arch. And perhaps most importantly, he dreamt up the second Madison Square Garden—where he was shot three times in the chest.
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If it's a dog reactivity class or some other advance class then I'd understand. If I have to drive 2.5 hours for a puppy class I'd be pissed too! There is nothing a puppy class can teach you that advice on this board or YouTube can't.
There isn't much I'd drive 5 hours for. You have some serious dedication.
|Thanks for the advice! she does know we are traveling a long way and sent me some info, though it didn't specify what the first lesson is. I know what we do in between classes makes all the difference, so hopefully she does send us off with a few pointers. She didn't mention anything about a follow up or private lesson, though we are buying a Gold Membership which I assume means we can steal her for a time for additional advice lol hopefully. Good luck with your class!
my guy has his first class tonight actually. he's going to be joining a group late so he's getting a private lesson tonight to catch up. the trainer told me that the first lesson is usually paperwork and everyone getting to meet. this is at petco though, so if you're going to a private trainer it could be different. I would personally call ahead, explain you are driving a long time, and just check/ask that the first lesson is something a bit more than checking vaccines and saying hello.
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Hi, just curious as to what to expect from training classes, specifically your first one. Next weekend we are driving 2.5 hours to and from our closest trainer as our pup (and me) really needs it, though my partner isn't thrilled about it at all. He's pretty angry about it actually. I know it's only a one hour class, so I'm not expecting anything amazing, but I'd like to prepare my partner so he doesn't spit the dummy later about taking a five hour trip "for nothing" (as he'll no doubt say). We won't be able to go every weekend, as my partner works in mining and has to work some weekends, and since we live in the Outback he won't let me out on the roads alone.
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The larger injectors are fooling the computer into believing that the car is going farther on a given amount of fuel. It expects a certain flow rate (stock injectors) and calculates based on that. I've run into this myself when I was using 19lb injectors over the stock 16lb units. I was mystified by the discrepancy between actual and displayed mileage until last year when drewsdeville pointed out to me that the computer was not taking the un-metered fuel into account. ('un-metered' fuel being the difference between the flow rate of the stock units and that of the larger units.) Calculate the actual mileage using the odometer and you will be unpleasantly surprised!
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You just installed injectors that flow about 15% more fuel over time. The PCM doesn't know this - all of it's algorithms are static. Now dynamic fuel adjustments made by the PCM will be off by about the same percentage, as pulse width is being reduced to accommodate.
15% reduction from the false 28-31mpg's is 23.8-26.3mpg's - right where it's supposed to be.
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Well thanks for destroying my fantasy guys! Yeah, I thought the fuel gauge looked like it was dropping too fast for 29 mpg. Anyway, the car runs pretty good and is very responsive. The idle isn't perfectly smooth but maybe there is still some things I can do to improve it more. These are used, and very old injectors. Cleaning them might help. How about an adjustable fuel pressure regulator?
Really, the idle is acceptable to me. It's not that bad.
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An adjustable FPR probably isnt necessary. After all, the computer is compensating for the extra fuel flow. Lowering the fuel pressure can degrade the atomization of the fuel from the injectors.
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Buying known-good injectors would yield the best results. A couple of bottles of Lucas fuel system cleaner would probably be a big help too but injectors can fail for a variety of reasons and fuel cleaner only addresses gummed passages
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"We're going to hold three days of training at MCC with several different classes, such as First Aid, Hazwoper (hazardous materials refresher course), ergonomics, things like that," Kyler-West said. "OptiBlend has requested a Confined Spaces class, and we offer a young workers class as well. But one of the reasons I wanted to meet with this board is to find out if there is anything that you know of you'd like to see a class about. We don't want to just roll into town and say 'Here's our classes.' We want to find out what the community and its businesses want."
More than 500 people attended each of the first two SafetyFests in Helena and Missoula, according to the program's website. The seminar is designed for anyone interested in working safely, including business owners, contractors and those in service industries. It will provide a variety of topics, and will assist in implementation of effective safety and health programs.
"We want to make sure that businesses, especially small businesses who may not be able to afford to send their staff to training, have the opportunity to receive the training they need," Kyler-West said. "We are hoping to have the final agenda ready and registration open by the second weekend in April, because the classes do fill up fast. Whatever it is you need, let us know, we'll do our best to make it happen for you. Safety training is expensive, and it's really expensive when you add travel on to it. This is our chance to bring it to you, so you should get what you want or need."
SafetyFest MT is an educational outreach of the Montana Department of Labor and Industry in partnership with WorkSafeMT – a non-profit whose goal is to reduce Montana's high rate of workplace injuries and deaths. SafetyFest MT hopes to raise awareness of Montana's poor safety record, promote effective safety programs and provide free safety training.
Also on the agenda of Thursday's meeting were updates on the various local projects MCAEDC is involved with. Custer County Commissioner Keith Holmlund spoke about the Custer County Detention Center.
See "EDC," page 5
"I think Mike Stevenson (of Stevenson's Design) is pulling out his hair, but we're getting there," Holmlund said. "We're looking to have bids out by March 21, and we're still eyeing an April 25 target date for construction to begin."
MCAEDC Executive Director Mike Coryell also gave his monthly Director's Report.
"I've been meeting with commissioners and Julie Korkow on Tuesday mornings to assist with ongoing work with the RID1 Sewer Project, Valley Drive East Water Line Project, Detention Center Project, as well as other projects that need EDC assistance," Coryell said. "Funding is being worked out for the majority of these projects. We're just hammering out the details so we can get started as soon as possible."
Jack Regan then gave an update on the latest Leadership Miles City class.
"We held our February meeting out at the Town & Country Club," Regan said. "It was Retail Day, and it went really well. We had a nice cross-section of local businesses, and Mike talked about how MCAEDC partners with the banks. Chamber Executive Director John Laney led a panel discussion with four or five business people, and it was a really good day with good feedback."
The next meeting of the MCAEDC Board of Directors is scheduled for Thursday, April 3 at 7 a.m. at Stockman Center West.
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Hello everyone
I am think about starting sculpting for props but I don't know what kind of clay I should get that I can reuse and mould.
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I am think about starting sculpting for props but I don't know what kind of clay I should get that I can reuse and mould.
Help will be greatly appreciated :D
Well this is a tricky question to be answered. It really depends on what it is you're working with how steady your hands are, your tools, the project in its' self...
I personally use Chavant products - They're the best clays out there on the market, the auto makers use their clay for making full-size car and SUV concept applications, and it's the most commonly used clay in the movie biz right now. I, depending on the project will use a Y2Klay, J525, P40, CM70, CM50 or my new favorite, which I am using on the Iron Man, War Machine and Optimus Prime, is the NSP Hard.
The "NSP" means "Non-Sulfur Plasteline" and is great to work with, especially when it comes to your molds - there is nothing in the clay that can prevent the mold from setting up the properly in my experience. You do have to heat it up in a microwave or oven to make it pliable to get it in to the shape you want it, so keep that in mind.
Now, they have an NSP soft that doesn't need a whole lot of heating, if any that I know of, but if your hands aren't that steady, go with a harder clay. Nothing is worse than getting a detail correct and then you go work around it, and the clay moves because it's too soft LoL.
This is a definite question where I have to say, "Help us to help you," in that we'd need more info on your project to help you to the best of our ability for your project.
Hope that helps some what...
In truth, most people I've ever spoke to use Roma Plastecin/ Plastelina.
I personally can't understand why so many of you use that super-soft Klean-Clay. I used to work in
a bronze foundry and we all used to hate when an artist would bring in their sculptures to be molded and cast.
They were so soft and easily damaged that we had a hard time moving them around to make the molds.
That right there is one reason why I use a harder clay and Plasteline clay - it's awesome stuff just not for the sculptor but for people who run pieces...
Klean-clay is really only good for use in mold making. I always use it for dividing walls and such.
As far as sculpting goes, I would look up laguna's EM217 (aka WED clay). This stuff is HIGHLY used in the industry (Batman suits) and is absolutely perfect for prop sculpting. It is a special water-based clay that goes up very quickly. I don't even wet it because it doesn't need it. Just cover it in a bag, and it will keep for months. It also holds surface detail very well and only requires a little air from a hairdryer.
Hope this helps!
The last time they used a WED clay on a bat suit was a while ago - I know I heard reports of a cowl cracking on Batman Forever because and intern forgot to bag the clay - They then went to J525 or some other ridiculously hard clay. If this person is some who's new to sculpting, a wax or oil based clay might be better to learn with no??
Ya, an oil based clay is probably better to learn on, but it is EXTREMELY cheap to practice with WED. The stuff is cheaper than dirt...literally. I got 100lbs shipped to my local clay studio for under $40....My local studio was about 2 hours away, but I live in Iowa so we have little choice on specialty stores.
I can't speak for the Batman Forever incident, but I know from personal experience that WED is the way to go for large projects. I also heard that Cyberman's AMAZING Palpatine sculpt was done in WED. I have one of the castings, and I can tell you that the surface detail is some of the best I have ever seen.
I agree with Kwally89, WED is really easy to use and holds detail very well. I've used it on one bust and currently using it on a second. I had heard about it from Greg Nicotero about 10 years ago, but never tried it out until I also had heard that cyberman used it to sculpt Palpatine. I wish I had tried it years ago, it is great stuff!!!
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Anybody sailed on a Windjammer 34? There do not seem to be many of them around.
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I have a 1981 Tyana 37 Ketch for sale at $55,000. Needs some maintenance such as new engine hoses, freeing up steering cables, etc. as it has been sitting for 13 years in dry dorage. Proven sailor from Maine to Venezuela. Lived aboard ten years. Aries windvane self steering. AL
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Mike, I have a Tayana 37 pilothouse for sale.
Very sound but needs TLC 57K OBO.
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I gotta comment on this statement:
"In US navy studies of motion comfort, about half of the people in the studies preferred a slower roll through a wider angle, and the other half preferred a perhaps snappier motion through a narrower angle".
I''d like to see the boats those US Navy studies were taken on. I seriously doubt they were on small sailing craft anywhere near 32''or at sailboat speeds. If done on ships it makes sense...big slow rolls take 5-10 seconds on a ship and are less agreeable to the crew than quick short rolls.
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You asked for some recommended vessels. Here is my personal list. Many of these are doubled ended full keeled cruisers such as you are seeking. Almost all can be had any day of the week for less than $70k. (BTW Babas are the most overpriced 30 footer I have seen, that said, one sold in my marina for $8k in the last 6 months).
1. Windjammer 34 (wooden decks)
2. Dreadnaught 32
3. Rafiki 35, 37
4. Roughwater 33
5. Fantasia 35
6. Westsail 32
7. Baba 30
8. Tayana 37
9. Ingrid 38
10. Freya 39
11. Ohlson 38?
12. Southern Cross 31, 35, 39
13. Aries 32
14. Westsail 42
15. Spencer 35 Mk II
16. Cabo Rico 38
17. Oceanic 36
18. Young Sun 35/Windward 35
19. Hans Christian 34, 36, 38
20. Mariner Polaris 36
22. Mao Ta 36
23. Union 36
24. some CT''s (Ta Chiao)
25. Nan Tai 37
26. Explorer 45 aft cockpit
27. Shannon 37, 38 (normally rigged as ketches and may have centerboards
28. Alajuela 39 ( very narrow sterns)
29. Cape George 36 (wooden decks)
30. Fraser 36
31. Jason 35
32. Rival 38
33. Tashiba 31, 36
34. Kogen 38 (centerboards)
35. Bayfield 36
36. Ta Shing panda 38
37. True North 34
38. Lord Nelson
39. Bentley 38
40. Globe/Falcon 38
42. Pacific Seacraft Maria 32
It seems that the going price on late 70''s Tayana 37''s is about $45k which in my mind makes them about the best deal out there. You might also consider the Rafiki 37. It is laid out much like the Tayana, but can be had for about $10k less. With all these boats be very carefull of the teak decks. Almost all of them leak or will leak. You MUST get a competant surveyor to check the vessel out. If you have some good skills, you can usually talk about $10k off the price of a boat with saturated deck cores and then just dry them out yourself. ( you may want to avoid vessels with rotten cores though).
My own experience is that I bought a Rafiki 35 (saturated decks) for $7,500 last July. I bought a semi tractor and trailer and hauled her to a hot dry place. Deck cores should be dry in another month or so. I''ll then glass the decks and finish the rest of the refit (new plumbing and electrical, some minor cosmetic stuff)
David Braun
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And when I said ''My Westsail is like Mikes'' I was only referring to the basic layout. I should have said ''My Westsail is like Mikes but his is much prettier''
The Sannyasin is a salty, drop dead gorgeous WS32.
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Curious about why that might be the case, I dug up the specs on the C&C 32s and plugged them into my trusty boat calc spreadsheet that dumps out all sorts of useful metrics.
First thing I notice is that the displacement for the C&C 32 is roughly half that of the Westsail''s 19,500lbs. So, the sail area/displacement ratio comes out quite a bit higher for the C&C than the Westsail (16 versus 14, where 24 is a major racing boat, and 12 is an under-rigged heavy cruiser). No doubt, this is part of what goes into the handicapping calculations.
So, you''re right, I should have said "after 5 minutes, the Westsail should be able to keep pace with any other modern designs of similar lenght and displacement".
But, it was interesting to note that the max hull speed of the C&C 32''s 24.66 foot waterline is only 6.65 kts compared to the 7.28 kts for the Westsail''s 29.5 LWL.. so in the right conditions, the Westsail *should* be able to put one over on the C&C.
Other interesting stats, the C&Cs capsize screening formula result is 1.93 (anything under 2 is pretty stable) compared to the Westsail''s 1.64 (guess who''s going to be harder to knock down?)
According to Ted Brewer''s Motion Comfort Ratio, the C&C is 25.06 compared to the Westsail''s 40.1 higher values denote a more comfortable ride with most mid-level cruisers averaging in the mid thirties.
So, again, if racing in light wind is your thing, then you probably won''t be too happy with a Westsail, but, in all other areas, it looks like you''ll have a nicer ride <grin>
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As both Jeff_H & Mike (owner of the WS32 Sannyasin) know I just purchased a WS32 so view my response as someone with a bias toward these fine boats.
But maybe my ''decision tree'' of why I decided on a Westsail vs a different boat might help.
1. resale value - Westsails are holding their value extremely well (some say they''re even appreciating 3-5% per year). In the mid 70''s Westsails sold for roughly $50-60K. Today, 25-30 years later they''re selling for roughly (avg) $50-60K. You do the math.
2. ''Ergonomics'' - Even tho interior layouts were essentially the same I found other boats ''cramped'' feeling, lacking ''elbowroom'' & ample storage, with absolutely terrible engine access. One Westsail owner used the expression "lost on board" for things he couldn''t find, but knew he had. Obviously the roominess of the WS comes from its heavy displacement, full keeled hull. For me, as a liveaboard, comfort (roominess/storage/access, etc.) was more important than acceleration (as Mike says, it''s not hard to attain hull speed, it just takes longer than a more modern design). My Westsail is like Mikes (berth/settees to port & starboard) and I agree the centerline drop leaf dinette can get in the way at times moveing fore/aft in the cabin. However, I (personally) preferred this arrangement over the sbd setee/port dinette version as it seemed useable storage/space was less efficient and/or would be uncomfortable trying to sit athwartships when underway & heeled. YMMV
3. Seaworthiness - As a rusty singlehanded sailor I wanted a solid, forgiving boat that is safe & easy to sail. I prefer the high bulwarks to those dinky toerails (gives a safe feeling on deck), outboard chainplates (no ducking under stays when moving forward), Simple tiller steering, low cabintop profile, 1" thick hand layed solid fiberglass at keel (1/2" at deck/hull joint), etc..
4. Asthetics - As knowledgeable as Jeff is we pretty much disagree on everything except for one point: ''Beauty is in the eye of the beholder''. I prefer more classic lines and think the modern boats look like the inside of a refrigerator. As another Westsailor recently said "Life is too short to sail an ugly boat". One drawback to owning a Westsail is all the people that interrupt you at the dock to tell you what a great looking boat it is.
Finally, a slight correction to Jeff''s comments about the Ballast (according to Bud Tapin, ex-GM of Westsail and owner of Worldcrusier Yacht Company, whos sole purpose is to provide a single source for info, parts, etc. for Westsails).
"Concrete was never used to my knowledge in any of the Westsail 32''s, unless some home builder decided to use it, against the construction manual directions. Most of the kit boats went out with the ballast already installed, as the home builders did not have the equipment to handle the weight."
Otherwise, Westsails were ballasted with encapsulated lead/steel punchings or (as an option) lead/lead shot. Later (around ''75'') another option of a 3-piece block lead ballast was offered.
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A friend of mine in the US runs a Viking reanactment society that has a couple of reproduction Viking ships.
They are selling one of them in preperation for taking delivery of a new and bigger (and better researched) boat and we have been talking alot about the old Fradreca. She is of oak and pine and lapstrake contruction in the viking manner. 32feet LOA with 29feet waterline and 9 feet of beem. Has twelve oars and a crew of 16-18 with a slightly too small viking square sail.
A couple of years ago Attli was quite surprised to find that this viking boat was also considerably faster then a Westsail32 under full sail. They caught it, passed by it and arrived at the dock in time to lower sail, tie up and, and have half the unloading done before the Westail32 entered the channel.
This is all I know about them (having only seen the pictures he took), but it is an amusing story.
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