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Over the next little while I am going to take a look at the major NHL award nominations and toss in my thoughts on who is deserving and who is not. Let's start with the Norris Trophy.
The NHL has announced that the three finalists for the Norris Trophy are Zdeno Chara, Nicklas Lidstrom and Shea Weber. While all are good defensemen and all had good season, it is my opinion that of the three, only Zdeno Chara is deserving of a nomination. Before I get into who I think should have been nominated let me discuss why I don't believe Lidstrom or Weber should have been.
Nicklas Lidstrom – On the positive side, of all defensemen who played 1250 even strength 5v5 minutes Lidstrom had by far the toughest quality of competition. On average Lidstrom's opponents had the highest goals for per 20 minutes and the best goals for percentage. Lidstrom was call on to play big minutes against the oppositions best forwards. On the down side, he didn't perform well as he ended up 52nd of 62 in goals against per 20 minutes which resulted in a HARD+ defensive rating that was 46th of 62. In real stats, he had a -2 rating, the first time in his career he has been a minus player (previous low as +7 in 1992-93). So while Lidstrom produced offensively, his defensive game took a step back this season and as a result I cannot support him as a candidate for the Norris Trophy.
Shea Weber – Like Lidstrom, Weber played some tough minutes against quality competition (8th highest opposition goals for per 20 minutes and 13th highest opposition goals for percentage) but like Lidstrom, he didn't perform as well in those minutes as I would want from an Norris Trophy nominee as he was 26th in goals against per 20 minutes on a team with a stellar goalie. The result is a HARD+ rating of 0.955 and an overall HART+ rating of just 0.978 which really is a little lackluster and puts him well behind defense partner Ryan Suter. Weber's 4 year HARD+ rating is just .982 and his 4 year HART+ rating is just 0.957 so Weber might actually be one of the more over rated defensemen in the NHL.
I'll get to Chara in a bit but if I don't believe Lidstrom and Weber are deserving of being Norris Trophy finalists, who are the two others that I believe should be? The answer may surprise you.
Drew Doughty – Last season Drew Doughty was a Norris Trophy nominee but lost out to Duncan Keith but I believe he again should be a nominee. Doughty played against some of the toughest opposition of any NHL defenseman (10th in opposition goals for per 20 minutes and 6th in opposition goals for percentage) but he finished with a HARD+ rating of 1.005 (which is mediocre) but due to his stellar HARO+ rating of 1.265 finished the season with a HART+ rating of 1.135, well above that of Lidstrom and Weber. Even though Doughty's defensive ratings are middle of the pack his offensive production was good enough and his quality of competition tough enough that I think he is deserving of Norris trophy consideration, but I don't believe he should win.
Toni Lydman – I am sure many of you are asking yourselves what kind of drugs I am on to suggest that Lydman is deserving of Norris trophy consideration but hear me out before you jump to any conclusions. Next to Lidstrom he faced second toughest quality of competition as his opponents ranked second in goals for per 20 minutes and second in goals for percentage. When Lydman was on the ice his team produced goals at a rate of 1.028 goals per 20 minutes (good for 5th among defensemen with >1250 minutes) and had a goals against per 20 minutes of 0.675 which puts him 13th best and combined he had the 4th best goals for percentage by a defenseman. The end result is Lydman had the 5th best HARO+, 10th best HARD+ and 4th best HART+ among defensemen. He also led all NHL defensemen in short handed time on ice. In my opinion Lydman is a very deserving candidate for the Norris trophy this season.
What is interesting is this isn't new to Lydman. He has been a very good defenseman for quite a while now. Over the past 3 seasons of 59 defensemen with 3500 minutes of 5v5 even strength ice time, Lydman ranks 15th in HARO+, 10th in HARD+, and 8th in HART+. Lydman was probably one of the best free agent signings from last summer as the Ducks signed him to a very reasonable 3 year, $9M deal. He is definitely an under rated defenseman.
Zdeno Chara – In my opinion, Chara is most deserving of winning the Norris Trophy this past season. His opponents had the 9th highest goals for per 20 minutes and the 11th highest goals for percentage so he lined up against some pretty stiff competition. He ended the season with the lowest goals against while on the ice and the sixth highest goals for while on the ice resulting in by far the best goals for percentage by any defenseman. When Chara was on the ice in 5v5 even strength situations the Bruins scored a whopping 64.3% of the goals scored. The result is Chara had a HARO+ rating of 1.232, good for 9th among defensemen, and a HARD+ rating of 1.248, good for second among defensemen which gave him the best HART+ rating at 1.240.
To summarize, my vote for the best defensemen in the NHL this past season goes to Zdeno Chara with Toni Lydman in second and Drew Doughty in third and I'll toss out a trio of honorable mentions to Christian Ehrhoff who performed very well albeit against weaker competition, John Carlsson who had a stellar rookie season (I'll discuss him more when I discuss the Calder trophy candidates) and Alex Pietrangelo who is probably a defensemen to watch for as a Norris candidate in future seasons.


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I often found that though I meditate daily sometimes it becomes too much like a habit, something that I just do automatically and because of this my meditation seemed to lack purpose and I often found it frustrating sometimes.
I realised that probably the problem was that I didn't think too much about why I was doing meditation in the first place, and the reason that I was getting frustrated with the technique was because I had little faith in its effectiveness, so I devised the following little prayer to recite before I begin my meditation.
I practice in order to develop morality, concentration and wisdom,
I practice in order to abandon greed, hatred and delusion,
Though my senses may distract me, I have faith that this meditation will bring me beyond the hindrances if I pursue it with great effort,
May all beings be well, happy and free from suffering
I thought I would like to share it to see what you folks think.
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|hmm... upon looking at about 50 million pics it appears that the qtr panels are different between vert/ht's and sedans... the spot where the qtr hips up behind the door seems to be more pronounced on the vert/ht's and less so on the sedans. Several vendors show replacement qtrs being different or available for one but not the other. Hmm... looks like I might have to find a ht after all or a sedan that needs qtrs anyways...
|The windshield frame is totally different on a sedan, and the windshield glass is different also.
|I know that the sedan had a taller windshield than a hardtop... and therefore taller than a convertible too.
I'll apologize in advance for straying off-topic here.
The title "convertible from 2-door" brought back an old memory.
It was a late 70's Chrysler Cordoba (about 5 years old at the time, IIRC) that came into the bodyshop on the hook.
Somebody had chopped the roof off in a "DIY convertible" attempt.
The rear bumper was about 6 ft. off the ground, while the front fenders were paralell to the ground.
The doors wouldn't close (obviously) and were tied "almost shut" with a peice of yellow nylon rope.
One could only imagine the owner's reaction ...
This is a 4 dr sedan conversion, which is the same as a two door in every respect except the doors, the roof is even the same.
In one picture you can see where they welded the convertible windshield frame on. The doors are different from hardtop at the vent window top, but can be modified. The floor is the same except the rear floor pans, and the trunk floor is the same except for a couple of extra body mounts. The complete inner side wall from door to tail light is different, and there are extra supports and braces around the top henge area. The trunk henge area is a little different, but all of these panels are available to buy new.
The difference in the frame is an x member that is welded in and two flat pieces welded on the bottom of the frame rails, all of which is also available new. All the frames are the same except for body mount locations and the x member on the convertible. You can get everything new, or even a new assembled body.
If you order a catalog from CARS it will list everything you need to make the conversion. But after you do all the metal work, then there is a lot of stainless steel trim that is specific to the convertible and very expensive.
|why not try a hard top convertible as in like the new caddys or other high end cars i think that would be easier thin a rad top convertible by far and would look realy sweet
Chip Foose made one out of a 4dr hardtop on his show, they used 2dr quarter panels. I don't think they had a working top on it, could have been because of the time for TV.
Main structural consideration in making a convert out of a sedan is the top does provide for structure of the body..I cut the top off of a car once for a field beater and it sagged in the middle so badly after a while that the doors would not open and we had to jack it up in the middle to close them. Did not matter all that much at the time as we were kids having fun..
I kind of assumed the boot area would need to be larger in the verts because it needs to accommodate the top frame and mechanicals where there is normally just the little rear shelf.
Does anyone know what's different about the windshield/cowl/etc? I don't even care about the vin, I'm not trying to fool anyone. Like I said, just looking to build a decent cruiser.
I did some searching for the conversion kits, but was having trouble finding anything. Plus anything I came across mentioned the kits out there were only for 2/4dr hardtops so I lost interest. Plus when you do all your own fabricating, I don't really need a kit. Especially when the kits are $7-8k for a some sheetmetal
I love posts also, but they're quite a bit more common so I doubt the world will miss just one. Especially since I know of a couple with caved in roofs that have just been sitting like that for years and will probably never be otherwise fixed. I figure cutting one into a vert is still better than a post being left to die.
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|Google convertable conversions. I recall a co. in Texas sells a kit for the tri 5s .It ain't cheap as far as I recall. They sold kits to convert 4 doors into converts, All you need is the frame and cowel.
57 'vert
Header, cowl & windshield are also different between a post & a ragtop
Check windshield compatibility - I don't know for sure but maybe the windshield is unique to the ragtop
Yes, so far as I know fenders, trunk, quarters (at least the outside skins on the quarters) etc are the same for both, and yes chassis is VERY different, as are front & rear cowl bracing.
Some guys are getting stupid $$$$ for just a firewall, cowl & windshield header from a rusted pile of junk ragtop, so that a sedan can made into a ragtop and have the right stuff, including a correct firewall code tag.
I'm not an expert, but I do know that the hardtop and convertible had a shorter passenger area, thus a wider panel in front of the trunk to the rear window
That said....2 dr sedan 55-57s are very popular......shame to hack one up in my opinion
57 Chevy- convertible from 2dr post?
Yeah, I know. This again. I know this question/issue has been raised several times in the past, but it never seems like there is any kind of definitive answer as to how feasible it actually is or isn't. So I'll try to be as specific as possible with my goals and reasons for asking this in the first place.
Here's the thing- I already have several projects of my own, but have been kicking around the idea of building a 57 convertible cruiser for my parents as a retirement present. The primary constraint being I'm definitely not looking to make this a 50k+ build, and definitely not a concourse car, just a decent looking sunday cruiser. I've been looking for real vert for close to 3 yrs now with no real worthwhile candidates (either ridiculously overpriced or not much left beyond a pile of dust, and even those are usually overpriced). At this point I'd rather just get moving on something than waiting til the cows come home to find a real vert worth building. I have pretty extensive experience with fab/welding/body/collision/paint/etc, I've always done virtually all my own work, and have even done a few convertible conversions in the past, so unless the bodies are just completely different proportionally, I don't see what is so undoable about this.
And my reason for saying 2dr post is that these things are a dime a dozen, and i would never ruin an otherwise good hardtop, I would just keep it a hardtop. Same reason why I won't cut my 54 hardtop
So my main q is for the real hardcore fabricators here- just how far off is a real vert body from a post once you cut the roof and posts? Meaning- aside from chassis differences and body reinforcing/braces/etc, if you put a real vert body and a cut post body next to each other, are they basically identical? Meaning in terms of proportions- trunk length/etc? Like could you cut a 2dr post and fit a convertible top right on? What is the main hold up that make so many people say that it can't be done/too much of a hassle/not worth doing?
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I´ve seen these gauntlets on ebay. They look quite accurate but ive never seen them before. Does anyone knows who is the maker? Maybe a recast? :rolleyes
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I´ve seen these gauntlets on ebay. They look quite accurate but ive never seen them before. Does anyone knows who is the maker? Maybe a recast? :rolleyes
They look as though they could have been recasted off of MOW :jango Gauntlets!
Well he said he got them in a trade, but they do resemble MOWs gauntlets.
there are a few differences between these and MOW. I was actually talking to Cruzer on the phone about this very thing. There's a ridgeline that runs up and down and in line with the darts on the MOW right gauntlet and it's missing on these. I couldn't see the fine lines on the right gauntlet. Maybe these details get lost in copy process, don't know, I've never made anything like this.
Can they be these?:jango
Hmmmm? The creator of that thread only speaks of making the left gauntlet and he's also located in Europe. The auction shows both the Left & Right :jango gauntlets and the seller is located on the West Coast, Soooo, my hunch is, no.:confused
Yes you have the reason. Good observation ;)
I´m almost sure they are not MoW either. I have a pair of MoW and there are too much diferences beetwen them and MoW´s gauntlets.
Well perhaps these guant could be from an independant maker that we just dont know about. I'm sure that not every Fett prop maker visits the TDH or is known. Just my thought and logical guess.
You know....I believe these are my old version Jango gauntlets !?
A possible give-away for me is a small detail on the left gauntlet. Where the rocket would rest is a small level panel that matched the bottom of my rocket. I would use Nylon plugs to mount it into place.
Another detail are the under-cuts of the bottom sections where I would attach the velcro closures. The angle looks dead-on to my gauntlets !?
I can't say for sure...but I think these are mine :confused
I also never sold a set un-trimmed as seen in the photos. I guess it was bound to happen eventually :facepalm
Good eyes guys !
I was comparing my second pair of yours, MOW, with the auction pics late last night and they do have very similar and mostly identical angles, curvatures, and varying lengths and dimensions as yours...but I didn't want to say anything until I compared them closely. There are two details that are different that I can see, but the rest is dead on.
I had so hoped these weren't unauthorized copies of your work, but they do look so close!:(
I contacted the seller yesterday to get some info..Keep you informed on what I find out 8)
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Ops im sorry. Really didnt know that....
No problem. What I would do is post the pics. That way everybody can still see what you are talking about.
Opps as well here...Won't happen again :p
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TenshiB. Wher Are you located in GA. . I'm in middle Ga. (Gray, Jones Co.) So I can send calls that I get in your area to you . I try not to travel more that 1 county away from me. ( cost does not cover the Fee nowadays) John
The yellowjacket calls I've been getting lately have been for yj's in behind siding! I miss the 'ol hole-in-the-ground yj's when it comes to exterminating. The siding yj's are tricky. Most people around here don't want to allow cutouts...."I don't want my dang sheetrock cut!" p.s. Tenshi and I are brothers (twins, actually), and work in the same pest control company.


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Thank you, Mark, for your kind and generous words.
Friends one and all,
I am delighted to be back on the Wittenberg campus, particularly for the special purpose which brings us together tonight.
Let me begin by introducing members of the Koppenhaver family who are in attendance this evening:
- Allen's beloved wife and best friend, Jerry;
- Their daughter Karin Reed;
- Their son David; and
- Their daughter-in-law Lisa.
Jerry, would you and your family members please stand and let us recognize you.
It was my great good fortune fifty and one-half years ago to matriculate to Wittenberg. The College was then, as it is today, a special place, and the four years I spent on campus had a huge influence on my life. Next month my three closest friends from my days at Wittenberg will join me in the mountains of North Carolina to fly fish, drink good wines, laugh a lot and consider and discuss the human condition – much as we endlessly talked about and debated these matters and grew up together on this campus a half-century ago. Todd, John and Fred will come from Wisconsin, Vermont and Illinois. We have not been together since last year at this time on the same river; but, within twenty minutes after we assemble, our relationships and commitments to each other will mirror those we built on this campus fifty years ago.
No one at Wittenberg was more impactful on my life than was Allen Koppenhaver. Ironically, the student-teacher relationship which formed between us resulted from pure happenstance.
I came to Wittenberg as a seventeen-year-old farm boy, a graduate of a small rural high school in Eastern Ohio. My high school class had thirty-five students, and very few of us had an opportunity to attend college. I was blessed to have parents who aspired for their children to have educational opportunities that had been unavailable to them. When I arrived at Wittenberg, I had never written an essay exam. I was interested in math and science. I had had little exposure to the humanities. Indeed, I do not recall knowing what the humanities were. I was able to attend Wittenberg only because of a scholarship from General Motors; my academic focus was on mathematics and chemistry; and I was miffed that I was required to take liberal arts courses.
In 1961, as I began my sophomore year, I, along with all my classmates, was required to take a humanities literature course. The scheduling for my math course and chemistry labs was inflexible, and there was only one section of humanities literature that fit into my schedule. It was to be taught by a new professor, Allen Koppenhaver. That happenstance began a student-teacher relationship that changed my life – just as Allen's influence enriched the lives of so many other Wittenberg students.
Some professors bring out the best in their students by being hard taskmasters. I think of Will Hahn in mathematics and Paul Glasoe in chemistry. They set high standards for their students to meet. That was not Allen Koppenhaver's way. Allen equally challenged his students but in a different manner. He inspired students to set high standards for themselves – to be the best they could be not to satisfy him but rather to allow and teach them the fulfillment that comes from personal intellectual achievement and growth. He taught us to set high standards for ourselves not because others set them for us but because life is short and we all have a responsibility to develop and use our talents to make the world a better place. He inspired students to celebrate acquisition of knowledge and to revel in creation of good writing, whether simply to tell a story or to raise ages-old, unanswerable questions about the meaning of life.
Allen emphasized the importance of questions and the wisdom of understanding that not all questions have answers and that, indeed, life's most important questions have remained the same since the beginning of civilization.
Allen was a gentle but persistent nudge to assist us to be taskmasters of ourselves as we live in and contribute to a world in which the inhumanity of man towards his fellow man often seems limitless, inexplicable and timeless. Despite teaching about and sensitizing us to that inhumanity, Allen believed in and emphasized the overall goodness of mankind, the promise of a more just society and the prospect of social progress. He had an infectious curiosity and optimism about the human condition that I will always cherish.
Allen and Jerry often welcomed students into their home, even at odd hours of the night; and their immense capacity for caring about us was evident.
There was merriment in Allen's eyes and his soft, melodic voice; and, above all else, there was an incredibly appealing gentleness, playful and boyish nature in Allen's demeanor.
After my humanities literature course with Allen, I continued and completed my mathematics major, but I took all of the Koppenhaver courses I could fit into my schedule. Thanks to his influence and the impact of a liberal arts education, I became thoroughly confused about what my future academic pursuits should be. In my senior year on three consecutive weekends I took the graduate record exams in math and the humanities and then the law boards. With Allen as my counselor, I decided to attend law school and change vocational direction. In doing so, I reflected an enhanced interest in the broader world, the humanities and advancement of society.
Much of this development I attribute to the inspiration and encouragement that I received from Allen Koppenhaver. And in that journey and development I was not unique. I am representative of countless Wittenberg students and faculty members who were similarly impacted by Allen. He was a humanist, a superb teacher, an immensely caring, encouraging individual and a Renaissance man – a prototypical professor for a liberal arts college.
It therefore gives me immense pleasure to endow the Koppenhaver Lecture and to share with you at this time a video tribute to Dr. Allen Koppenhaver. It was prepared by Wittenberg with great love for Jerry and her family, and we are pleased to have it as a featured part of this special occasion tonight.


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April 26 District 2 Candidate Debate: Questions?
Original post made by [removed], another community, on Apr 10, 2012
In two weeks, attendees of Express Debates among Candace Andersen, Tomi van de Brooke and Sean White will need to have their questions ready on Public Safety, Government Communication, Environment (Planning) and Infrastructure, Traffic and Transportation, and Economic Development and Jobs Creation. Unless these important issues are prepared in questions, campaign supporters attending will attempt to reduce the debate to negative accusations and attacks on social issues.
Do your readers have their questions ready?
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a resident of San Ramon
on Apr 10, 2012 at 7:45 pm
Since Tomi van de Brooke has a close association with the Piepho Office, a conflict would not be comfortable with the public. She should bow out for the best interest of the county.
a resident of Danville
on Apr 11, 2012 at 7:32 am
Questions every voter should ask Danville mayor Candace Andersen who is running for supervisor of the county in this election:
(1)Where do you stand on the Summerhill development project?
(2) As a lawyer, you realize you can not legally put a P-1 zone on the land in this Summerhill development project, without putting it to a public vote, as noted in Measure S?
(3)What, if anything, as Mayor, have you done to stop this illegal devleopment of the Summerhill project?
(4) Why are you forcing the town citizens to hire an attorney and engage in full blown litigation against Danville's illegal allowance of this development?
(5) Why should anyone who is against this illegal development that will add huge traffic nightmares around Los Cerros and Green Valley Elementary and Monte Vista High vote for you for Supervisor?
(6)If you are allowing this illegal development in Danville as Mayor, why should we trust you to be our Supervisor to deal with other illegal developments that will occur in our County?
a resident of Walnut Creek
on Apr 14, 2012 at 5:01 pm
Questions every voter should ask Tomi Van de Brooke:
How do you maintain that you are a fiscal conservative when you just led the college board in giving the unions a handout by requiring all local business to sign a union agreement if they want to work at the college? They will have to hand over all of their employees to the union, take on the liability of the union unfunded pension plans, and incur double costs in benefits in order to work for the district. All of this at a well-studied cost increase of 15% to the district based on past PLA projects on schools.
Does it not seem a bit questionable that after you handed the construction unions their Christmas gift as Board Chair, that tens of thousands of dollars started flooding into your campaign coffers?
Exactly what does your stand on abortion have to do with County Supervisors?
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It will likely play a role in the advancement of game development for linux. But as already stated the usual hurdles are still there. I don't think Steam revolutionized anything for Mac OS yet but it was still a positive addition. Another foot forward and Apple is App store happy themselves at this point. Unified distribution networks are going to have an effect for the average user I would believe.
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I should mention though - since I only just remembered, the good news will come in the form of Indie developers. The Humble Indie Bundle released games with full Linux support, and this is probably where Steam will take the advantage. Not on big budget cinematics, but on small 3-15 man teams.The small devs are already making games for Linux; soon they will have a means to distribute globally without waiting to be included in the next Humble Bundle.
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But I think this will have some impact on the adherence to OpenGL; as Tharic-Nar points out, particularly on the indie industry, which is a whole lot more flexible regarding the tools they work with. Meanwhile, those triple-a studios that have migrated or created entirely new source code branches for their engines in OpenGL will get an added incentive to launch for Linux. Valve itself, for instance, as already created an OpenGL branch of their Source engine as part of their move to Mac OS X.
Meanwhile other studios have in the past displayed an interest in at least allowing the port of their titles to Linux. Id Software comes to mind, with their ports of the Doom series up to and including Doom 3 and the promise of a port of Rage.
Finally, many game engines have OpenGL branches, including such high profile engines as the Unreal Engine, or promising "newcomers" like Unity. They still lack official Linux support. But the OpenGL API is there and it's only a matter of time. Unity has been promised to have a Linux port, for instance.
I don't expect a rush of game developers to Linux, I agree. Not by any means. There's plenty of concerns, particularly on the area of end user support, when branching for Linux. There's also the question of the size of this market which may lead many publishers to feel uncomfortable with what can be a negative balance between earnings and associated costs. But Valve is a strong incentive. And indies may lead the move into a richer gaming Linux.
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An entity such as Valve wouldn't make the decision to move to Linux unless they believed it would be profitable in the long run. I think the handwriting is on the wall with Windows 8 moving toward the look and feel of Windows Phone 7, and the Mac OS moving toward the look and feel of iOS, and no PC version of Android available, that Linux will be left as the last power-user operating system standing as Windows and the Mac OS transition to very commoditized user experiences.
I also think this is a sign of good things to come for OpenGL as a product of SGI. When Silicon Graphics, Inc. was acquired by Rackable Systems (primarily a hardware maker), this left the future of OpenGL in doubt under the new SGI, Inc. regime, which is clearly more hardware-focused than software-focused in its expertise (with the jettisoning of IRIX support, among other things). With OpenGL as the dominant force in 3D graphics on the Linux platform, I expect this will encourage SGI to make OpenGL more of a community effort than it already was. This will mark the shift to a fundamentally different way for game developers to do business, as development of a proprietary version of OpenGL for each gaming studio's product wouldn't be a very successful model, so game developers and hardware makers who wish to see improvements to OpenGL will have to make those developments in the context of the community effort, with the overall goal of advancing the sales of their graphics accelerator products. This would be like ATI and NVIDIA working together to develop improvements to Microsoft's DirectX product to drive the creation of new features.
Gaming on Linux is faced with several chicken-or-egg questions, but this move by Valve seems well-contemplated since they need to create demand first for improved OpenGL functionality and video card drivers before the community of developers and hardware makers will respond. A key development in this area would be a fast method in software of translating DirectX calls to equivalent OpenGL calls in real-time, because while it wouldn't allow the same speed or image quality in OpenGL as in DirectX, it would make it possible for game developers to release Linux versions of their legacy projects quickly rather than investing large sums into porting products that have already had a good run on Windows.
That's how I see this effort going if Valve releases a Linux version of Steam. I've been thinking (ever since my Techgage days) that a subscription model for gaming software would be the method of choice for profitably bringing gaming to Linux, and it's now unfolding before our eyes, since it provides a way for developers to circumvent key provisions of the GPL that would otherwise force them to give away their intellectual property.
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If we want for OpenGL to become a real force of the game development industry -- as it concerns triple-A studios, especially -- I suspect OpenGL needs to become as tight as it can possibly be. A small Standards committee and the community standing on the side only contributing with code and ideas that may or may not be included in the next version, depending on the committee decisions.
Tell you one thing that needs to change. OpenGL standardization method needs to emulate closed source products. I don't mean making it closed source. But I mean OpenGL needs to stop being an API that waits for NVIDIA or AMD to come up with extensions in order to implement them on its standard. Like with DirectX, OpenGL needs to surround itself with a community of developers and impose its API on hardware vendors. NVIDIA and AMD will then implement the latest version of the standard on their chips.
This is what will ensure gaming studios the stability of their OpenGL games. Note that "insurance" is the operative word, here. Not just something we can treat with a passing motion of our hand, like the FOSS community usually does. There's a real need for OpenGL to be something more than a bunch of good intentions and non binding promises if anyone wants for it to become a de facto standard in the multi-billion dollar gaming industry.
Wine faces the same problem. Essentially, for real-time back-to-back translation of API calls, Microsoft would have to be deeply involved. And I suspect as Linux started to become a more credible 3D and gaming platform, the more protective Microsoft will become of DirectX.
Over the last two decades, the Linux community has decided to shroud itself around a political operating system. Even within the community there are different factions, each with their own doctrine. The matter of fact is that Linux never needed Valve to come in order for its user base to benefit from a global digital distribution gaming service. But that service never existed. It was never developed. It apparently needed a closed source commercial company to get people to talk about it.
What does this mean to certain hard sectors of the Linux community? Well, that for the first time in Linux history a closed source company provided to a segment of Linux user base that didn't have a solution designed for them so far. And, by the looks of it, a segment of the user base that may grow exponentially in the next few years. Meanwhile we aren't just talking about close source here. We are talking about DRM and a pure commercial endeavor right in the heart of Linux itself. If some people may be ok with this, make no mistake there will be some friction between softcore and hardcore sectors of the community.
You won't be seeing much of it happening right now. But wait until people start asking why isn't Valve a part of the main repository, or why is their favorite Linux distribution having problems installing or running Valve. Or why is that Valve doesn't support Steam on distribution X and distribution X doesn't provide Steam support. Not to mention that almost inevitable politicization of Steam by certain sectors of the Linux community, always so eager to fight the "evil closed source that will ruin the world".
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Springfield, Ohio – One of Wittenberg's most successful student organizations is making a comeback thanks to several ambitious business students who have revived the Wittenberg American Marketing Association (WAMA).
The students working to revitalize the organization hope WAMA provides students with opportunities to advance their careers, including marketing training provided by the American Marketing Association (AMA). The activities and projects planned by WAMA members will foster scientific study and research in the field of marketing, develop sound thinking in marketing theory and improve methods of marketing techniques.
"WAMA is a bridge between college and the real world for students of many different majors and interests related to marketing," said Miro Nguyen, class of 2015 from Hanoi, Viet Nam, the founder and newly elected president of the organization. "It has been a big help for students on campus in the past but died out in the mid-90s. Wittenberg's chapter was so successful that in the 1970s the AMA sent a speaker to campus free of charge knowing that the club would garner a large audience."
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Re: Boy killed by lightning in our anchorage, what would you do?
Lightning scares the hell out of me, but if I stayed ashore every time "scattered thunderstorms" are predicted around Cape Cod in the summer, I'd never sail. I have never been struck, so can't guarantee this works, but fastening one end of heavy-duty jumper cables to the inboard backing plate of my sloop's chain plates, and the other end to the keel bolts, would seem to provide a good temporary solution. (I've also grounded the mast to a keel bolt.)
Re: Boy killed by lightning in our anchorage, what would you do?
Lightning kills as it passes thru critical tissue, ie the heart and vital organs, fortunately because of its high frequency it is more likely to flash over the body, verses entering and exiting. Many time it's victims are burned at the skin level, their clothes shredded off and they survive.
Any electricity, even small amount can kill if it passes through and disrupts normal heart rhythm. Other tissue is cooked to the point of failure.
The best defense is to avoid, but if you can't avoid, there are things you can do to increase you chances of survival. The MOST beneficial thing would be to crouch, with you ankles touching and not hold with a hand hold. This makes you the lowest possible target, and by keeping you ankles together will allow the difference of potential to be confined to the feet and not travel through the legs. The current, if it is radiating will travel up a foot, cross at the contact point of the ankles, an exit the other foot. Remember, electricity is stupid....it's only goal is to get to ground, the best and easiest way it can.
Re: Boy killed by lightning in our anchorage, what would you do?
If you've ever read the publicly available papers on what "military grade hardened" electronics and systems are, you would understand why no one can afford to put them on a boat. Check out what is needed to "EM harden" a building, you'd have to build a submarine to do it to your boat.
Similarly, why not ground the rudder? Uh, because it is already "grounded" by being fully submerged in the water. Unless you want to run a cable down to an earth anchor grounding rod, that job is already done.
Lightning protection works frequently but never completely. Check out PolyPhaser and install one in your antenna line to protect your VHF. But it won't protect your antenna, antennas are sacrificial parts. If you want to protect the antenna, you submerge the boat before the storm. Honest, that's how it is done.
Re: Boy killed by lightning in our anchorage, what would you do?
Has anyone had the VHF antenna hit while having a properly installed lightning arrestor on the VHF antenna feed line? The ground of the lightning arrestor has to be connected to the mast ground with its own wire.
Of course if the EM field created is so strong that it destroys electronics which aren't plugged in then there isn't much you can do except get military grade hardened electronics.
And why not ground the rudder? You want to have 20,000v between your wheel and the throttle control which is hooked to the engine which could be hooked to the different mast ground?
Since I have some experience here I'll throw my two cents in. I was on a boat struck by lightning. Cruiser, connected to shore power, well grounded boat. Standing in companionway watching storm. There hadn't been lightning. Next thing I knew I was laying on the cabin sole. Not sure if I jumped or fell. Someone across the ICW in a house thought I was dead because I just stayed down below, they sent the Marina person down, thinking they were gonna find a body. It vaporized the VHF antenna on the mast, the SSB and VHF died, the little lightning thing on the mast was gone. Everything else was fine. Witnesses say it was a direct strike on the mast. All I know is it was the loudest thing I've ever heard. I'll take a well grounded boat any day over being anywhere else. Even though it's the tallest thing around and presents a good path to ground, it's a great place to be.
I'm an EE and I'll tell you we still know very little about lightning. We still can't even figure out which direction it goes or what really causes it, much less how to prevent it.
Shame about the death. I'd recommend staying in the boat and on the water.
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Re: Boy killed by lightning in our anchorage, what would you do?
Normal fuses provide no effective lightning protection. The little wire in the fuse vaporizes instantly and coats the inside of the glass with a thin layer of conductive metal.
Now if the potential from the strike is high enough, the now metal metal film resistor which used to be a fuse will explode from the pressure inside and when you open your little plastic fuse holder, you will find what looks like grey sand in there between the two little cups that were the ends of the fuse. Needless to say, what ever that fuse was supposed to protect is probably smoked too.
Re: Boy killed by lightning in our anchorage, what would you do?
hellosailor has a point about not needing a perfect faraday cage to get some protection, with a car providing another example. That said, the whole boat as an approximation to a faraday cage only applies if the boat is all metal. The overwhelming majority of recreational sailboats are plastic.
It is more likely that the typical sailor can only get the benefit of a faraday cage that is much smaller, like an oven or an aluminum foil wrap. It can be inconvenient to disconnect and remove your electronics to an oven, so the aluminum foil trick may be more practical, as long as the wiring is disconnected. I agree that just switching off a breaker does not guarantee protection, as I noted in my previous post. But I also noted my personal experience that completely disconnecting your electronics does not provide protection against the electromagnetic pulse from a lightning strike.
Re: Boy killed by lightning in our anchorage, what would you do?
sallard, overall I agree with you but note that you don't need a theoretically perfect faraday cage in order to have an effective one. Aircraft windows are about the same size as boat hatches, yet avionics pros will tell you that the aircraft basically IS a very effective faraday cage and they rarely take damage even when struck by lightning. The skin still conducts most of the charge on the OUTSIDE of the aircraft, the same way that AC power is largely conducted on the outside skin of a wire. I don't know the physics, I just have the Cliff notes.
Similarly, if your electronics were "protected" only by having the brealers thrown, that's no protection. The air gap in a breaker flashes over and fails at around 3000 amps discharge. The lighning is pushing way more current and voltage than a breaker is designed to protect against, you might as well say that a spark plug's air gap can "protect" against an ignition system's coil power. Of course, it doesn't.
While professional broadcasters DO use more effective lightning protecction devices (like PolyPhaser) and those devices work very effectively to protect towers and transmitters that never are unplugged, those folks also do go off the air due to lightning damage at times. Despite the best of protection and expert installation.
Bottom line, to protect electronics you do what radio operators have done for a very long time: You ground the antenna cable, outside of the radio room (i.e. above deck or at the mast) and the antenna and cable iteself are sacrificial items. Once the electronics are really isolated, they are safer. But that means unplugging everything every time you step off the boat, and then the connectors fail, or the job becomes a nuisance that just won't get done.
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Re: Boy killed by lightning in our anchorage, what would you do?
Not being deliberatively argumentative, but steel's point about a steel hull providing a faraday cage would be true if there weren't any holes in the steel larger than the openings in the mesh on your microwave window. Lightning is a very short-duration electrical event with correspondingly high frequency (e.g., radio frequency) components that will pass through your hatches, companionway, etc.
Also, surge protectors can't hurt, but are not likely to make much of a difference in a direct strike, which will not only electrify your wiring with a conducted, transient high voltage, but will also generate a radiated electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that can impress a high voltage across a circuit board--well above the breakdown voltage of any semiconductor.
How do I know that? I lost a wheel pilot control unit in an indirect strike. It was sitting on a shelf, not connected to anything. I lost all of my other electronics, too, including a VHF that had in-line littlefuses that looked like popped flash bulbs. That radio circuit was electrified, even though its circuit breaker and the master breaker were in the "off" position.
I also wouldn't ground your tiller/wheel, unless you don't want your mast to act as your primary lightning rod to keep the main discharge away from the cockpit. There's a reason that injuries from lightning strikes are less severe or less numerous statistically on sailboats compared to power boats. It's all about the height of the mast and the larger cone of protection on a sailboat!
I've already indicated in previous post that I have had 2 lightning events with my current sailboat. Your best defense is an insurance policy that does not depreciate your electronics (as does BoatUS, last time I checked).
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What about steel sailboat?? if your inside would they act as a giant faraday cage? and if your on the outside of the boat? would the electricity run through the hole boat or hit the mast, shroud and stays and then use the shortest path to water??
As for the wheel and tiller, they should be electrically connected to the ground that the mast uses. This ensures that everything is at the same potential and there isn't a different voltage at your mast, rigging and lifelines than there is on your wheel or tiller.
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CHAPEL HILL --- Seniors Waltiea Rolle and Tierra Ruffin-Pratt led the No. 15 North Carolina women's basketball to a 85-57 Senior Night victory over Boston College Thursday at Carmichael Arena.
Rolle topped the Tar Heels with 21 points while Ruffin-Pratt contributed 20, as UNC (26-4, 14-3 Atlantic Coast Conference) powered past the Eagles (10-18, 4-13 ACC) to clinch no worse than a share of second place in the ACC.
Rounding out Carolina's senior trio, forward Krista Gross finished the game with seven points and seven rebounds. The Tar Heels shot 46 percent on the night, controlling the tempo for nearly all of the game.
Brittany Rountree added 13 points, shooting 2 for 4 from the three-point line in the first half, while fellow sophomore Danielle Butts put up nine points. Xylina McDaniel led UNC in boards with nine, as the Tar Heels outrebounded the Eagles 46-29.
Carolina jumped out to a quick lead with four points underneath the basket. After a brief fight by the Eagles, who attacked initially from the perimeter, UNC went on a 27-6 run in the middle of the first half.
Ruffin-Pratt controlled the lane and scored 12 points in the first half alone, as UNC shot 45.2 percent before the break. Then the Tar Heels led the Eagles 40-21 and started the second half with two quick layups before again controlling the game with a quick pace.
Rolle sank her first career three-pointer with less than 10 minutes remaining in the game and notched three blocks in the effort.
The Tar Heels, who rank second in the NCAA in steals per game, once again used speed to their advantage and finished the game with 18 steals. UNC also capitalized on Boston College errors, scoring 30 points off turnovers.
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does how "damp" a snowboard is affect how it will ride in choppy powder? because when i ride in choppy powder my knees start really hurtining, will getting a damp board help with this?
snowboard damping refers to high speed vibrations not huge its like in tracked pow. A stiffer board will help smooth out choppy pow.
It's going to help absorb micro vibrations which go right to your feet and on upward into your knees. Sounds more like you're locking your knees up instead of bending with the force of the pow.
think of you riding at high speeds as a damped driven harmonic oscillator (can be solved by ordinary differential equations) this means that there is a force driving the oscillatory motion (vibrations) a damping constant (something resisting the driving force) and then theres the normal frequency associated with the system (the frequency that if you were to drive at the amplitude of the wave would just keep adding (think of spinning a jump rope the only way you can keep it going is by swinging your arm at the normal frequency of the jump rope system)) every system of a board / rider will have a damping term because there is something there resisting the driver, all a dampening system does is increase the damping coefficient. It turns out that the natural frequency of the system is dynamic (which means it changes with how you ride (basically because you and the board are not perfectly rigid you dont have a single normal frequency so will never experience vibrations building on your natural frequency)), but what increasing the damping constant does is just take more energy away from each oscillation which leaves you with a smoother ride. So a board with a damping system (larger damping coefficient) will damp more energy out of you riding through choppy pow but since the force's acting on you when you do charge through some tracked down pow are so large the difference between a board with a damping system and without will be unnoticeable.
to make riding though choppy pow less tiring you want a deck that is going transfer more of your momentum over the lump of pow rather than down into it. if you have a flexy board a larger component of your momentum will be directed downward for a longer period of time because your board will bend before it starts to "float" over the lump of pow. The longer your momentum tis directed not over the lump of powder the more momentum you lose which means more stress is put on your body (because of conservation of energy the energy from you not floating of the lump of pow will have to go some where and it turns out that it gets transferred into you via you obsorbing the impact). This all translates to you need a stiffer deck that will flex less when you come uppon some choppy pow.
thank you guys, big help!
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As great as it sounds using physics and big terms to explain something it all comes down to the body. If you're charging pow on a stiffer board, especially choppy pow whether it's heavy mashed potato style or even pushed around light stuff you get the whump factor. The nose hits it and bounces off it still sending vibrations upward into your body.
You need to use the knee flexation to absorb it. Think of it like riding moguls you don't go into it charging and expect the board to just hit the mogul and ping off it, you have to bend the knees and pump the bump keeping it going. Doesn't matter how stiff of a board you have with all the dampening agents in the world it's more knee motion than anything that's going to get you through choppy snow.
If you really want a board that's going to get you through it get something with either Pow Rocker or that is more powder specific with reverse camber. You're no longer fighting the loading and unloading of the camber and with the nose being elevated more it will help you to roll over the top of it.
Your knees are the best damping system there is, they have the ability to actively adapt to conditions and absorb crazy amounts of energy. I was assuming that who ever is riding has the common sense to understand that you have to use your body to absorb the larger impacts.
What I was trying to explain earlier is what I thought the question was asking, which is more or less how can I make riding choppy pow less tiring.
If you are riding moguls a stiffer deck will help too, because (same argument as before) when you land the divot of a mougle your energy will be transfered form going into the divot to the path of lest resistance (aka hopefully where you want to be going) quicker which means there is less time for the kinetic energy (energy of motion) to be transfered into you in the form of you absorbing the impact with your body, which intern translates to you having to absorb less energy which means you don't get as tired.
Also I asked google and flexation isn't a word.
Flexation isn't a recognized word doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It's a boot fitting term and riding term. You hear it a lot up here.
Also stiffer decks in moguls not going to do it, you want something shorter and more flexible to bend with it. If you've ever dropped a cornice into a mogul field you'll understand this added benefit.
ok so obviously there is a limit to how stiff you want a deck to ride something like moguls, and a shorter deck will ride them better because you can more easily power it to where yo u need it to be. but from personal experience my arbor draft rides moguls better than my k2 www (they are the same length) because its stiffer.
Also for a word to technically be an english word it has to be in the oxford english dictionary, so flexation isnt an "official" word.
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Ammo looked up at the lady and then dragged me about 5 foot till he was standing in front of her.
How do I break him from getting excited when people get excited and squeal at him?
Please, don't worry that much about scared people. Though it is programmed in our brain, only very small children could be genuinly scared and get a real shock due to their hight and eye level in comparison of that to the dog. A phobia of a canin revealing itself in strong emotions considered to be a mental disorder in modern adult human, I'd study it closely if I were of your profession:Cynophobia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, it couldn't possibly be of your concern. A person who is scared genuinly may:
1. Get stoned and numb,cry with silent tears, get pale;
2. Run across the street to the opposite side;
3. Run into any open door to hide;
5. Laugh with nervous laughter;start praying;
But they never cry loud. People who are at risk of meeting grizzly in the wild should know that they must cry as loud as they can, because naturally they wouldn't. In majority of cases this sort of fear is a sheer simulation: a girlfriend in presence of her boyfriend, a group of girls seeking to gain a feminine image, a righteous man or a moral old bag, with her hands akimbo - sometimes are crying that they are scared to death.
I think it's wonderful that Ammo loves to greet people that are showing interest in him. It's a nice quality in a TD.
But I agree that he should not be allowed to drag you to them, or act too excited.
If I were you I would be working on a "go say hi" command. Work first with people he knows that he does not get over excited about. Have him sit, tell him "go say hi" and when he gets to them, they give him a treat. Once he gets the treat, redirect him and walk away. This way he learned that you control his interactions. I would practice this a lot before taking in public.
We all know he us friendly, but if my elderly relative was on the receiving end of his exhuberance I would not be happy.
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I wish I could answer your concerns with a simple statement but I cant. It can get very confusing, convoluted, backwards and upside down to say the least.
First and foremost you must be in command at all times regardless of the condition. That goes without saying.
It is important to realize that there is a difference between an ordinary dog and a trained therapy dog. In general therapy dogs have been trained to be little ladies and gentlemen who believe that everything that might otherwise be a negative or aggressive act towards them is actually a friendly gesture!
A few examples:
Eye contact whenever they make eye contact in training and in everyday comings and goings they get a verbal and tactile reward as well as a possible food reward Hey this staring back & forth is cool, I get a treat every time!
Petting and touching petting on top of the head, touching ears, touching noses, touching tails; same thing, thats all good stuff
Walking into my space Thats cool I dont mind; come on in! Generally speaking if you are going to allow your dog to enter a persons space they have to be trained to approach that person in a VERY calm and collected manner.
Well Ive already blabbed on enough; it is impossible to cover all of the nuances of therapy training is a few paragraphs. I would be happy to answer any specific question that you might have, via a PM, as Im sure any of us who are involved in therapy work would do.
If you want your dog to be a therapy dog they need to obey you and not approach people unless you give them permission. They should also not be pulling on the leash or dragging you towards people, they should be walking with you under control as you approach.
Therapy dog organizations and the hospitals/facilities where therapy dogs volunteer expect your dog to be under control at all times. If random hospital employees or other patients saw your dog dragging you towards someone or pulling on the leash, this would look very bad. They don't know that your dog doesn't normally act like this, they don't know if that person wanted your dog to visit, etc...all they know is your dog is not under control and is approaching someone without permission. Most therapy dog organizations also cover these things in their testing so it is something you should have under control before you take the test. Many will require your dog to be heeling at your side as you approach people.
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I used to tell my darling TD to please try to read peoples' energy, and if they're giving off vibes that they don't like dogs, to try not to look at them and just walk past them I'm not sure if it worked or not.
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It would be nice to think that a Therapy Dog would instinctively know which people needs them most, and would draw you to them. But practically speaking, you need to have control of your dog at all times, and not pulling is part of it.
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|It would be nice to think that a Therapy Dog would instinctively know which people needs them most, and would draw you to them. But practically speaking, you need to have control of your dog at all times, and not pulling is part of it.
|No. In therapy work he might want to visit someone and that someone might be terrified of dogs and freak out. I don't know about anyone else, but when we go to the nursing home we walk slowly through the common area and he is right at my side, when someone approaches he automatically sits down, if they are in a chair he sits and puts his back to them so they aren't leaning or in his face,when I stop moving he sits down, and I watch around us to make sure he isn't getting rushed. As far as teaching those things I really didn't, he has had obedience classes and only had those for less then a month when he took the CGC and they recommended he get certified. He really just knows what to do, it comes naturally to him.
train him not to pull for any reason.
train him to heel on or off leash.
you could train him to heel on or off
leash on either side.
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I am painting up my MOW gauntlets for the first time.
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How many coats of paint should I use?
if it's sandable primer, hit it with 1 coat, check for imperfections. if there are some, fill them, sand, and re-prime. Once perfect, paint until the desired coverage is reached, it depends on the paint. Usually 2 -3 LIGHT coats is more than enough.
I already hit it with one coat primer.
When you say imperfections - would this be very tiny air bubbles (im guessing) from the mold/casting? What do you suggest I fill it with? (And they are pretty tiny)
the answer to everything... BONDO!!! spot and glazing bondo putty would be the best. Primer partially fills that up, but for larger imperfections, some sort of filler agent is needed. apply a little dab, let sit for about an hour, and sand it flush. hit that spot with more primer, check it, then begin laying down color.
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Senior attack Ashley Bruns (Ellicott City, Md.) tied a career and program single-game high eight goals as No. 3 Florida bested Vanderbilt, 21-10, in ALC action at Vanderbilt Soccer/Lacrosse Complex on Sunday afternoon.
UF (15-1, 3-1 ALC) tied a season-high 21 goals backed by Bruns who combined with five other teammates for multiple goals in the win. Senior attack Gabi Wiegand (Bay Shore, N.Y.) produced a hat trick while seniors Brittany Dashiell (Bel Air, Md.) and Kitty Cullen (Rockville, Md.) along with sophomores Nora Barry (Marcellus, N.Y.) and Nora Barry (Marcellus, N.Y.) all scored two goals apiece. In all, eight Gators scored in the win, helping their team to the second-largest goal total of the season. Florida scored a season-high 22 in a win over Stetson on March 19.
"Ashley played a really great game and was able to create some shots for us that kept us ahead in the first half," head coach Amanda O'Leary said. "Overall, I felt our offense stepped up when we needed it to."
Dashiell recorded a career-high seven draws as Florida recorded 15 in the contest while winning ground balls 28-16. She also recorded a game-high two assists while senior defenders Emily Dohony (Parkton, Md.) and Kayla Stolins (Glen Arm, Md.) each scooped up four ground balls.
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Bruns was extremely proficient on the afternoon, going 8-for-9 while also recording two ground balls and scored five of her goals in the first half. She previously scored eight goals against Siena last season where she also set the school record for points with 11.
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In 1963 there were 30 members. The congregation has been affiliated with the Conference of Mennonites in British Columbia (1961-64) and the Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference (1964-79). The language of worship is English.
The group was released from the B.C. Conference and merged with Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference in 1964. The congregation was originally known as Grassy Plains Mennonite, located at Tatalrose, BC. The congregation was released from the Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference in 1979 and ceased Mennonite affiliation.
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End of the trigger pull. I'm sorry my description is wrong, it fires but a paintball only fires every other trigger pull, my loader is a Dye rotor.
Where is the trigger activation point? Is the microswitch not activated until the very end of the trigger pull, or is it somewhere in the middle of pulling the trigger?
dry firing it cycles everytime.
Posted 15 January 2012 - 07:35 PM
Also, I'm assuming it only does this with the eyes on and paint in the gun?
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At first I had bolt stick issues but I cleaned and relubed with Dye Slick lube I didnt have any Dow33. It cycles everytime I pull the trigger meaning it fires but a paintball only comes out every other trigger pull. I have done everything from clean and lube the bolt, set the dwell to 12, cleaned and adjusted the regulator, removed and serviced the solenoid, cleaned the eyes (and made sure the eyes are working). I tried adjust the trigger but the 2 black adjustment screws wont move in or out im afraid I am going break the allen key, strip the set screw.
Could it be boltstick? Just make sure you have a good coating of dow33.
I am going to chrono the gun today at a local field and test again.
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Trigger adjustment shouldn't be a problem. Use the shorter end of the allen key, to put more leverage on it, they are locktited down.
Also, the Dye lube IS a version of Dow 33
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