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Well, I am nearly done with this. All the green parts are finished being painted and weathered, unless someone points out some glaring errors. I just need to fix Rodann's shoulder/cod studs on. There are some FG ones already on the MLC collar piece, but having got the Rodann ones ages ago I thought it would be a shame not to use them. I have put snaps on the back of the armour to fix it to the vest (when I get round to sewing the other part of the snaps onto the vest, of course.
The yellow parts need weathering, darts gluing on the knees and snaps fixing on the back. Then I need to matt clear coat it to dull the gloss yellow.
The colours won't make sense to you US guys, as I'm in the UK, but for those in the UK, they are:
Base green: Humbrol Enamel (spray can) matt dark green
Base yellow: Tamiya Enamel (spray can) gloss Camel yellow
Damage yellow: Humbrol Acrylic (pot) Matt Trainer Yellow mixed with approx 25% Humbrol Acrylic (pot) satin white.
Damage silver: Tamiya acrylic (pot) Chrome silver
Clear coat: Humbrol enamel (spray can) matt varnish
Weathering on the green parts was a generous misting of Humbrol Enamel (spray can) matt black, followed by a misting of Humbrol Enamel (spray can) Matt olive green (which is great for ESB bucket dome and cheeks, BTW), followed by a misting of plasti-Kote grey primer (just because I had it lying around!). I then did a few random scratches before and after the mistings with a silver pen
The damage loosely follows a mixture of the Ref CD (MOM)and the visual dictionary, along with a few ad-libs due to mistakes or to cover the odd paint run in the base yellow (it's a great shade, but a pig of a paint to get to stick - you need really thin coats).
The armour was a dream to paint. No clean up or prep needed. It comes trimmed, sanded, gelcoated and primered. The dents are already in there and are pretty accurate, depending on which version you look at and whether you look at the VD or Ref CD, etc. All I did was cut out the chest LED holes. I also need to cut out JP harness slots and add the little covers on there once I know what harness I'll be using.
This is my first foray into painting and weathering and I am fiercely proud of it, but I would welcome constructive criticism. I don't intend to re-paint at the mo, but I'll note all comments in case I decide to re-paint later.
Many thanks first and foremost to Mardon (armour), Rodann (shoulder studs), VashDstampede (chest and shoulder decals) and the children of Kelsey Park Grammar school electronics club (Chest LED's). Thanks also to everyone for making this a community where I feel I can show this stuff off without fear of ridicule!. Thanks also to Brak's and Secoll for the on-line Ref CD whick was invaluable. Especially pic 99!
Oh, and just for your reference and perspective assistance, the floor tiles in the pics are 11 3/4" square.
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Very sweet!
1) What FSB/GB did you use?
2) What did you do to get the 24mm brake on there?
Well guys here is my Saiga conversion. Its a .223 that I converted back to a Century series rifle. At least its as close as I could get it, with out having to do an SBR. Let me know what you think.
Very sweet!
1) What FSB/GB did you use?
2) What did you do to get the 24mm brake on there?
The FSB/GB was from Mark Krebs. A friend of mine in St.Louis had a couple of them so we did some horse trading. He also turned the barrel extention for me to bring the barrel length to 16.25 inches and threaded the extension for the 24mm Bulgarian muzzle break. You will notice that the extention was turned with a rounded shoulder so that there would be a nice continuity from the 24mm break to the barrel extention. Its only purpose was to give her a nice clean profile with out the flat dead stop once the muzzle break was installed.
Another kind of cool feature of this converstion is that the original stock rifle came with a sping loaded manual BHO device located just behind the trigger on the right side of the rifle, I left this feature on the rifle, so as I said it is not a true 100% Century Rifle but it is pretty darn close. The report from this rifle when fired is suprising, espestially if you are standing next to me on the firing line. One guy said he could feel the shock wave of the rifle hit his chest one every shot. Another guy asked me if I was shooting a .308 carbine, because it was so loud...heheheheh....
Nice!!! I really like the way that barrel extention looks!!
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That is very clean. Superb!
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Thank you for the compliments! This was sort of a pet project, so I took my time with it. My wife liked it so much that she tried to steal it, just like she did with my, (past tense) her Bulgy 74 fixed stock that I built... This time however she was unsucsessful, lol, altho it did not stop her from putting 300 rounds down range with it. She even put my,(past tense) her Cobra collimator sight on it and put her through her paces. How can you complain about a woman who enjoys shooting her own AKs? (even if she is a little cleptomaniac, ammo burning nut, she'd have to be she married me..LOL).
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Thats exactly what I had planned for my .223 Saiga. I have been keeping an eye out for a gb/fsb, I will be using a krink flash hider instead of the 74 brake. Nice job on the conversion.
Your work is exceptional, what is the finish on the metal?

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One of the papers that has haunted me ever since I first read it in college is called "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information" (George A. Miller, 1956). It begins "My problem is that I have been persecuted by an integer" and proves that the number of objects an average human can hold in working memory is 7 ± 2.
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Note that I used 7-2=5 points above. Because who even remembers a 7 digit phone number these days.
(1)SPECjEnterprise2010 Oracle WebLogic Server 11g on a Oracle SPARC T3-4 server (64-core) and Oracle Database 11g on SPARCT3-2 server (32-core) , 9,456.28 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS vs. WebSphere Application Server V7 on IBM Power 750 Express (32-core) and DB2 9.7 on IBM BladeCenter PS702 Express (16-core), 7,172.93 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS.
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Public Help Sought To Name Oxen at Living History Farm
WASHINGTON, Texas – The staff at Barrington Living History Farm is seeking the public's help in naming twin Pineywoods bull calves born at Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site.
The deadline is Jan. 2 and the winner will get a Texas State Park Pass, donated by the Washington-on-the-Brazos State Park Association. A $60 value, the parks pass provides a year of free entry to more than 120 state parks and historic sites and discounts for camping, state park store merchandise, recreational equipment rentals and other perks.
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by roscoe36, Jun 24, 2010.
Thanks for the insight, Webz.
Thanks. I don't pretend to be a BB expert - I just play one on this board. The insights are appreciated. I suppose it's possible this is just a homer talking, but I'm glad we got him instead of Cousins, and not just because Monroe figures to be a great team guy and Cousins could be the next J.R. Rider. I think a team oriented guy who's very skilled like he is will help our offense be much more of a well oiled machine than a more black-hole low post stud like Cousins would. Cousins is more likely to be double teamed all the time, as he might become the best low post center in the game, and because Monroe is such a great passer -- (it's a very bad idea to double team super passers). But Monroe's passing ability will also lead to him getting more room to operate, and he's so skilled that I can see him being a great low post and elbow scoring threat in his own right. And you just can't ignore the possibility (probability???) that Cousins is a ticking time bomb on the court.
I don't see Monroe as the type of player who will force double teams via the post, he's not that type of player. What GM will do is allow the other guys on the court to, play their game. Stuckey, Gordon, CV all suffer from the lack spacing because we have guys like Ben Wallace and Kwame Brown on the floor. GM won't make the players around him better but he'll help them reach their level. I still believe that a GM/ALJeff - hi/lo post combo would be awesome, they'll learn to play defense.
Amazing what one little trade could do for this club.
But for the life of me I can not figure out the price tag on Jefferson, I can't figure out what they're trying to do.
It's well known that the Wolves have been shopping him hard, but sounds like they either have a unreasonable value placed on him or are happy to wait for the perfect trade. Sounds like typical Kahn stupid-thinking to me.
Or typical Joe Dumars........I'd give anything to find out what offers have came in for Rip and/or Tay that Joe has turned down.
I hear ya, bro. I'd LOVE to know that too. We've only heard some of the rumored deals (though where they is smoke there is usually fire).
Been a while for me getting on the board as I moved back from the UK to Australia (and there wasn't much to comment on last season), but just wanted to add my two cents and say I'm pretty happy with Monroe. Seems a team player who can help the wealth of scorers on the perimeter get theirs - and god knows from watching bits of last season, his passing will go a long way to helping some better ball movement on offence. Don't know why everyone is getting their backs up and talking him down before we've seen what he can do either. Wonder how many people though JJ was a dud pick last draft? As much as I don't like saying it either, the sooner we can move Hamilton the better. I think he was a negative impact on the team last season, we could get a decent front court piece and move forward with a younger team - possibly even moving Stuckey to the 2 like is so often suggested.
Welcome back, del!
Many forumites believed in Monroe right from the start. Good call!!
I don't think that I even made a post here, but I remember doing a lot of reading. I'm just not good at evaluating talent from college BB to the pros.........
Here's what I said about Monroe during his first summer league- "Greg Monroe- I have a condo in Georgetown and have spent most of the last two years living there. I've watched my fair share of G-Town games and I think I know his game pretty well. He's a deceptively athletic player with absolutely no ups. He's a one legged jumper. I'm not sure if he's got no ups because he is a one legged jumper, or if he's a one legged jumper because he has no ups. Probably the latter. His strength offensively right now is the high post, where his passing skills and handle can come into play. He can get past a lot of bigs when he puts the ball on the floor. His low-post game is somewhat underdeveloped because of the system that he ran at G-town, but he has has a knack for playing there and seems to enjoy it. Look for his low-post game to steadily improve for a couple of reasons. One, he'll get stronger. He already has a strength advantage against most fours, which will only get more pronounced as he moves from the low 250s into the low 260s. At 260 or so, he should be able to hold his position down there against all but biggest NBA centers. The big guys he can take out to the perimeter or high-post. Two, his lack of explosiveness will require his continued development of his footwork. He's not going to jump over somebody and dunk from the low block. He's going to need to get position with his feet and butt. You can see that he knows this. He'll never be a low-post wizard, but he should become a solid option there. His passing skills have been widely discussed. Defensively, he's very sound and should get better. He matches up very well with NBA fours, and should be fine against most NBA centers. The Dwight Howards, Kendrick Perkinses, and Andrew Bynums of the world will beat him up, but he can hang with most of them. He's a solid positional rebounder and has active hands. He'll never be a shot blocker or big time offensive rebounder due to his inability to play above the rim, but he should get some steals, tips, and the occasional block. He's a very underrated transition player. He's an outstanding outlet passer and he can really run the floor. I've compared Greg Monroe to Memhet Okur (Monroe is stronger, faster, and a better passer, less range), and have used the phrase "A bigger Chris Webber with a bum knee." I see Monroe as a possible 17-18 ppg 8-9 rpg 4-5 apg guy. A capable starter at either big spot on a championship team. He'll need to be paired with a shot blocker/offensive rebounder." I thought he might become a 18 point/ 9 rebound guy. We'll see if I underrated him. Outstanding pick.
Rascoe was very high on Monroe.
LaValgren didn't seem to be very enthusiastic about the Monroe pick.
I predicted that JD would draft this guy before the draft. I also figured he'd only be marginal.........
I agree with LaValgren. Dumars should have picked Cousins despite having already been selected by the Kings. I HATE YOU JD!!!
I saw some minor discussion on ESPN today about whether Monroe should be considered as a reserve on the all-star team. While it won't happen, that is pretty amazing that he is even on the border of being deserving of that. Here are some stats to think about and where he ranks on our team this year: 12 games in a row with double digit scoring and 23 out of 26 games this year. His single digit outputs were 4, 8, and 9 I believe. 18 games in a row with 7 or more rebounds and 25 out of 26! 13 double doubles (50% of the time) He basically averages a double double with 16.3 points, 9.9 rebs, 2.5 assists, 1.5 steals, and 0.5 blocks per game. 18 games in a row with at least 1 steal (and 33 steals in those 18 games- almost 2 per game). 8 games with 4 or more assists. Monroe leads the Pistons in steals by a mile with 38 and with about twice as many per game as Gordon, Knight, Stuckey, or Ben Wallace. Leads the Pistons in minutes, points per game, rebounds per game, steals per game, FG%, and he's our top assisting big man (but behind all the guards). 2nd on the team in FTA and FTA per game (behind Stuckey only)... and shooting 80%+! 1st on the Pistons in win shares and win shares per minute 1st in PER (Stuckey is 2nd and is about half of Monroe) 1st on the team in offensive rating 2nd on the team in defensive rating (barely behind Ben Wallace) #2 on the team in usage- which means that we force the ball through him a lot and he creates his own (probably through off rebs). 2nd youngest player on the team- 2 years younger than Daye. The only negatives: 11 assists and 21 turnovers in his last 5 games. Doesn't block many shots (Wallace, Dayes, Maxiell, Jerebko, and Macklin all block at a higher rate). Mitigating that is that he steals the ball WAY more than an NBA center should steal the ball... and he doesn't get into foul trouble. Let's compare to Tim Duncan (I'm adjusting Duncan's career 35 min per game average down to Monroe's 33 min average: Just to refresh, here is Monroe- 16.3 points, 9.9 rebs, 2.5 assists, 1.5 steals, and 0.5 blocks/ .518 FG% Here is Duncan (career- adj to 33 min per game to match) 18.9 points, 10.5 rebs, 2.9 assists, 0.6 steals, and 2.0 blocks/ .507 FG% Difference: -2.6 points, -0.6 rebs, -0.4 assists, +0.9 steals, and -1.5 blocks/ +.011 FG% Considering that Duncan was passing to players on Championship teams and played at a faster pace, I think this makes Monroe look really strong. Personally, I'd rather have a shot blocker than a guy who makes it up in steals, but at least he is making it up in some way. Also, I fully expect Monroe's assist numbers to climb for the next 5 seasons until he is considered the best passing big man in the league. Duncan lite is not that far off. And think about this- who would you rather have, Monroe or Amare Staudemire? Amare will probably make the all-star team and here is what he is averaging this year: 18.2 points, 8.1 rebs, 1.5 assists, 1.1 steals, and 0.8 blocks with .447 shooting. Monroe gets him in rebs, assists, steals, and shooting percentage while he's close in the other 2 categories. Amare is losing stats to Chandler no doubt, but he has no excuse for the poor shooting. Bigs who play poor D and shoot a low percentage are a recipe for underachieving. Here are a couple more questions (I haven't researched): When was the last time that the leading scorer on the Pistons was the center? When was the last time a center led a team in points, rebounds, and steals? Are there any players in the NBA today that average higher than Monroe in all 5 major stats? (steals is obviously the one that makes it possible that the answer is no). LeBron is short on rebounds.
Good stuff, TaShawn. In 1978, Bob Lanier led the Pistons by scoring 24.5 points per game. Eric Money was next at 18.6 ppg. I know Hakeem the Dream was good at getting steals. I'm not sure if this is the answer, but in 1995, Olajuwon led the Rockets with 27.8 points, 10.8 rebounds, and 1.8 steals per game.
Just had time to research a bit- There are 37 players in the NBA who average more points per game than Monroe (sadly, none are on the Pistons). There are 5 players in the NBA who average at least as many points and rebounds per game as Monroe (Love, Griffin, D. Howard, D. Lee, and Bynum). There is 1 player in the NBA who averages at least as many points, rebounds, and assists as Monroe (Blake Griffin). There is 1 player in the NBA who averages at least as many points, rebounds, assists, and blocks as Monroe (Blake Griffin). There are 0 players who average as many points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks as Monroe. Mr. Interior: There are only 3 players in the NBA who make more baskets "at the rim" per game than Monroe: Griffin James Howard In looking at adjusted PER (takes actual stats instead of estimated and adds in charge taking, etc), here are how the players rank in the NBA:Ginobili (West)Lebron (East)C. Paul (W)D. Rose (E)Kobe (W)Durrant (W)K. Love (W)Westbrook (W)D. Howard (E)K. Irving (E)P. Millsap (W)D. Wade (E)S. Curry (W)GREG MONROE (E)If you had to do it on stats alone, this is a pretty good one to use. If you used it, it would say that Greg Monroe could arguably be the starting power forward in the East for the all-star game. He's 6th in the East in adj PER and there is overlap in the guard department. PG: Rose SG: Irving/ Wade SF: Lebron PF: Monroe C: Howard I can't spin it any further...
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PHOTO RELEASE – An Evening at the Ballpark with Wayne Law took place on Aug. 3, 2010, with 225 attendees, including 140 attorneys from more than 60 Michigan law firms, and 65 Wayne Law rising second- and third-year law students. The event, hosted by the Wayne Law Career Services Office, was designed to kick-off the fall recruitment season and introduce Wayne Law students to the legal community. Students and attorneys mixed and mingled throughout the Detroit Tigers baseball game.
Highlights of the event included Max Winsten, son of I.W. Winsten, '79, throwing out the first pitch on behalf of the attorneys of Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP. On the field during pre-game festivities, Max and I.W. were joined by Wayne Law Dean Robert M. Ackerman and C. David Bargamian, '90, of Barris, Sott, Denn and Driker PLLC. An Evening at the Ballpark was sponsored by the law firms of Barris, Sott, Denn and Driker PLLC; Seyburn, Kahn, Ginn, Bess and Serlin PC; Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP; Varnum LLP; Potestivo and Associates; Dykema Gossett PLLC; and The Baskin Law Firm PC.
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CHAUX NEUVE, France (Jan. 12) – Bryan Fletcher (Steamboat Springs, CO) and Billy Demong (Vermontville, NY) battled for the lead throughout the team sprint but eventually settled for seventh Sunday in the FIS World Cup nordic combined team event in Chaux Neuve. The duo finished five seconds back from the Germany 2 team, who took the victory. Olympic selection continues for U.S. athletes next weekend at the Seefeld World Cup, with team nominations to be announced Jan. 22.
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red Harley
nice Bike Larry..your paint has obviously been pampered...here in Colorado...we are a mile high and paintwork wont hold up to the elements...the ultra-violets are very strong here..but ..you should be proud!!!!!...thanks for the pic and good nite to all...Ole Rich
|Heres a pic of my bike, I shot in lacquer in 1986, still shines up pretty good!
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hi guys...ole rich here again....Im not sure that it would really make a difference what type of paint you would use as long as you get plenty of it on the car,,,I put at least three coats of single stage color (most of these beauties are solid color) and then at least three coats of clear over that...with flash time..it will take me anywhere from six to eight hours to shoot a complete...we are very accute with temp and reducers as the day goes on cuz we cant cool the booth...but we give them about a week after the initial bake(@ 180 degrees for an hour )...then I start with 600 grit on a block and cut the whole car till it says " ouch" lo ..lthen I graduate down using a flat block each step with 1000...then 1500...then 2000...then 3000 on the da...by this time...the paint is pretty shiny and then I begin to polish...we achieve a glassy finish this way but sloooooow!!!!!but then again....we get usually 250000.00 and up for a complete restoration and it will average about two years to complete...anyway...i have seen both urethane and lacquer side by side and I think that the look is so close that only the very discerning eye could really tell the difference...for me...a good ole durable urethane finish is where I would put my money and effort...Im counting on a supreme glassy finish on my tigerrrrrrr..lol...by the way...it will be for sale in about a year...good price at only 85000.00!!!! sounds steep but wow!!! what a car...Ole rich
The nips are always real even with the fake ones so it dont really matter untill they're 30 yrs... older than that and fake are better ,they're all great but you can always tell real from fake.especially when they're laying down... at my age I like what I got..
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|So I feel obliged to comment as a female-loving 30 year old man. But seeing as this post could be easily searchable merely by my last name I'll withhold comment.
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|I love em ,and want a set of my own so I can play with em anytime I want.
By the way no offense to any of you guys with fake boobs.
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I just can't resist adding my 2 cents here. When I started doing paint and body I would not have thought about anything but lacquer. Just to put things in perspective, by then there was not much available accept acrylic lacquer. Nitrocellulose lacquer was already pretty much extinct by then.
A well done lacquer paint job is as pretty as anything you will ever do. With that said, I wouldn't paint my driver with lacquer if you gave me the paint. I do agree that the lacquer does not have the inherent grain that urethanes have but the lack of durability is just is not worth it. I painted the Ford in the picture below with lacquer and 4 years later it needed to be painted again. Much to the dismay of my friends I repainted it with catalyzed enamel. I then color sanded and buffed it. The car is still around as you see from the picture taken at the Local cruise a few weeks ago and looking pretty good..........It was painted in 1975!!!
The technology available to us today is so superior to what we had 50 years ago it is hard to believe.
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I think it's a lot like real and fake boobs, real is just better no matter if they aren't "perfect".
There is just something sexy about that lacquer. I did a lot of show quality (I mean REAL shows) lacquer jobs, 5 coats, cut flat, I am talking EVERY SINGLE SQUARE INCH of texture off, we are talking jambs too. Flawlessly sanding around every louver. Then 5 more coats and the same thing, then five more coats and the same thing then buff. Personally, I have never put them side by side to compare, I have only done one of those jobs since the bc/cc urethane came along and I honestly don't remember putting them side by side. But as I can't imagine the look being more exact, more beautiful than that lacquer done that way.
The last one I did was a repair of a car I had done years before, a 31 Model A that hit a telephone pole support cable. Anyway, I had to replace a few panels and I dug out the old lacquer (had a quart of the original paint) and shot the parts after not shooting lacquer for probably 5 years or so.
It was like going out with an old girl friend that you really liked. I still dig the stuff, and I don't believe you can really get that look with urethane. But again, I have never put them side by side. I do know that right as I finished we put it in the Grand National Roadster show and it won first place in it's class. The owner (a good friend) passed away from cancer within months.
|Speaking of the old lacquer (hand rubbed) paint jobs, which is what I started spraying way back. I have to disagree with the concept of their look can't be beat. First off the gloss of the urethanes can't compare to that of the lacquers, it is just much more shinier right off the bat. You have to rub and buff to get that gloss out of the lacquers, so if you can get that thane peel out totally and level it FLAT once you buff it has a gloss and depth to it NATURALLY that lacquer just never had. If you have ever seen this up close and personal, not talking about pics on the net either, you will know exactly what I mean. Anyone else agree, or disagree?
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What do you know DBM, you never been on no half arsed tv show.
Seems that there are big names building hi end cars for Pebble Beach and other top end car shows that are using primers and clears made by that guy in Georgia .
PPG makes a lot of great products, but SPI equals or tops those at a price much more compatible with my wallet
I aint been on none of them fancy tv shows either.
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Going to a paint store and asking them what is the best materials to use on a certain car thats being used a certain way is also a waste of time they know nothing but what the reps tell them and they are salesmen that will sell you whatever they can to get the most money out of you...Compare it to going to a used car lot and asking the saleman what kind of car should I drive...
You want to know what you want BEFORE you go...
Something I heard once and use all the time: If you only believe 50% of what your hear and 50% of what you read You'll be 100% clueless...
The reason lacquer paints will never die completely out is when done right there is simply no better LOOK than a perfectly straight ,rubbed out lacquer job.Unfortunely the only thing its good for are trailer queens that rarely get driven, it just dont hold up on anything else AND only a rare few are willing to do the work involved or spend the time it takes to painta minimum of 14 coats and all the sanding between coats it takes to get that look ,even if they could and did have the talent...Its been 25 yrs since my last lacquer job ...For the LOOK theres nothing better.
and PPG never did make a REALLY good clear as far as I'm concernd ,I used only ppg products for quite a few years but they're all a bunch of asshats these days...
SPI epoxy is far superior to the old DP40 epoxyI was so dedicated too and the newer epoxy PPG make isnt even come close...spi universal clear is better in every way than anything PPG has and its comparable to Glassurat ...If your using PPG products ,your doing way to much work to get it looking good enough to be a show winner...Do yourself a big favor try SPI and see for yourself but if your using PPG and have thier sign up you probably had to sign a contract saying you will use only PPG products so dont get caught ...PPG today is like a spoiled man child that inherited the business when dad died and dosent have a clue what to do and are running the company into the ground the only thing they have going for them is their fathers well earned reputation from hard work ....The best thing I ever did was drop PPG ...Theres a whole world of better products out there that arnt so over priced ....
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text: Yesterday a judge in Los Angeles sentenced Chris Brown to jail for a month or until Brown's trial in Washington D.C. has been completed. If Chris is found not guilty then Chris will get out of jail. If a jury in D.C. finds him guilty of criminal assault then a probation violating hearing will be held here in LA and brown could go to jail for four years. It won't happen, but it is on the table. Brown was given multiple chances to stay out of jail and all he had to do was go to a rehab facility and hang out there. Instead he got kicked out of one and was given a second chance and was warned at that facility multiple times but still didn't listen and was eventually kicked out. Apparently Brown acted in a threatening manner to some staff and had sex with at least one female staffer and more wanted to have sex with him. There is no early release for Brown. He is in there for a month. An actual month. Not a Hollywood month. Not a Lindsay Lohan month. An actual month of jail. I think it has been since the famous Paris Hilton early release scandal that there has been a month long sentence to jail of a celebrity in a situation like this.


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On Saturday 17 April, disabled Arsenal supporter Paul Smith completed a staggering 51 laps (32.6km) around the exterior of Emirates Stadium in a very commendable three hours and one minute, raising over £10,000 through sponsorship for Arsenal's Charity of the Season, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity.
51 year old Portsmouth resident Paul suffers with a brain injury, crush injuries to his hips and chest, as well as damage to his neck and shoulder following a road traffic accident back in 1991. He considered himself fortunate to have the opportunity to take part in this challenge on Saturday and he completed the distance in his wheelchair.
Speaking after the 51 laps were completed, Paul said: "The most painful thing about this experience has been seeing and hearing children suffering and doing nothing about it, but by raising over £10,000 today, people have done something to help relieve the suffering and they should be very proud of themselves."
Paul's wife Jane said: "Paul averaged three minutes 55 seconds per lap and never seemed to slow, in fact, it seemed as though he just got faster and faster with 15 laps to go. I want to thank all those who came down to support Paul today, and also those who have supported us since the beginning of Paul's training, especially RGK Wheelchairs who supplied Paul with a lightweight wheelchair for his challenge."
Joanna Wallis from the Corporate Partnerships team at Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity said: "We are so grateful to Paul for supporting our partnership with Arsenal FC and congratulate him on this amazing feat! Our thanks must also go to Arsenal Hampshire for their support of Paul and his fundraiser and to RGK for their kind donation of a wheelchair for the event. The fantastic amount of money Paul has raised will take us that much closer to our £500,000 target from the partnership with Arsenal and will also make such a difference to the very ill children and their families at the Hospital."
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Paul's event comes just over one month after the official 'Be a Gunner. Be a Runner.' event took place around Emirates Stadium which saw 300 runners from all over the UK complete ten laps around the Gunners' home, which raised over £40,000 for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Dr. Mark Bailey: Welcome to DTS Dialogue: Issues of God in Culture. I am your host, Dr. Mark Bailey, and I have the privilege of serving as president of Dallas Theological Seminary. Today we have the opportunity to discuss contemporary challenges to the biblical accounts of Jesus.
Now a question. Darrell, you have used extra-biblical materials to argue for Jewish belief in a physical resurrection. For those of us who are biblical Christians, for us the Bible is enough. At the same time, there is a whole realm of study beyond the Scriptures that are important for background to the Scriptures. Tell us some of that argumentation and that historical work that you have been working on.
Dr. Darrell Bock: Well, the key here is to appreciate two things. One is that not everyone shares the high regard of the Bible that we Christians have. And there really are two ways to deal with this.
One is to absolutely insist on the position that the Bible is the Word of God and you got to come to grips with it, because it's true. And that's the way we normally do our kind of apologetics work is what we call it.
But then the second way to do it is to engage in what I would consider to be kind of a genuine dialogue with someone, in which you say, "All right, I'm even going to think about your own presuppositions and try and make the case without insisting that you agree with where I'm coming from in the Bible. And I still think I can do that."
And so the beauty of this Jewish background is it shows that there is a belief in physical resurrection in Judaism. Now in fact, in the two centuries before the time of Christ there was a little bit of discussion among certain Jewish groups about what they thought about the afterlife. The Sadducees are known for not believing in a resurrection.
There are some texts in Jubilees that suggest that they had a Greek view of some aspects of resurrection: the idea that your soul goes up to heaven, but there isn't a physical dimension to it. But then there are texts like Second and Fourth Maccabees in which a physical part of the resurrection is very much a part of the story.
There is a very poignant story in Second Maccabees seven where seven sons are being executed one at a time in front of their mother for keeping the law, for refusing to violate the law and refusing to eat pigs. And as they go in turn, one at a time, when they come to brother number three in the list, he sticks out his tongue and he sticks out his hands and he basically says, "You can take these, because one day God will give them back to me."
Now that's a pretty clear picture of a physical resurrection and his willingness to face death because he believes in a physical resurrection for himself.
Well this is the view that fed into Pharisaism, which fed into Paul's view of resurrection, so that when he sees a resurrected Jesus, he gets a confirmation that this physical aspect of resurrection is what's going on. And he goes out and teaches and preaches it. And so this linkage between Christian faith and its roots in Judaism is often very, very helpful in thinking through some of the things that we see in the Bible -- and also in some cases refuting the idea that a concept, which can be conceived of in a variety of ways, can take on a different form than in some cases what the church has taught.
And when you appeal to this literature, you know, you don't have to go through the fights of, "Well, the reason you are citing that text is because you believe it is the Word of God and I don't believe that so I don't have to accept that testimony."
No, it's a straightforward historical argument that anyone working with historical texts about what people in the period believed would have to come to grips with.
Mark: Maccabees, Jubilees -- that comes out of what body of literature?
Darrell: That comes out of what's called the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, which is a collection of Jewish writings that never obtained any thought of being Old Testament Scripture but were still respected theological writings of their time.
Often when I teach this stuff in class -- and I'm talking about the Old Testament Apocrypha, the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha -- I say, "Now, how many of you -- and don't get sensitive here -- but how many of you if we were to take the writings of Dr. Walvoord or Dr. Chafer or Dr. Pentecost would say that you are reading Scripture?"
No hands go up. And I tell them if someone's hand goes up, I have someone else they can see. And I say, "Yet you read this material because you recognize that it has something to contribute to your theological understanding, and it's good theological reflection."
And I said, "That's how this ancient material worked. It isn't necessarily 100% true all the time, but it does give you very much an indication about what people were thinking at the time." It would be a little bit like trying to study any doctrine here on our campus and not read some of the faculty who were authors on those topics. The more exposure you had to them, the more you would understand what's going on here. And it's the same kind of thing in the first century with these writings.
Mark: Great. I just didn't want our listeners to go to the local bookstore, look on the best-seller list and say, "I can't find Jubilees!" [laughter] "I can't find Maccabees!" I just wanted to make sure they knew where those sources were.
Darrell: Well, you know the Maccabean works are in the Old Testament Apocrypha. Actually, I tell my students that some of this is worth reading, because some of what we know about the period feeding into the New Testament... most of what we know about it, we know about it through this kind of material.
For example, the Maccabean books are about the Maccabean war fought in 167 and 164 B.C. And we would not have Judaism -- and we would not have Judaism in part in the form in which we have it -- if it had not been for the success of that war.
Mark: And our interpretation of the New Testament is helped by an understanding of that history because the Feast of Dedication -- that's mentioned, you know, in the Gospel of John -- is rooted to that very war.
Darrell: Exactly right.
Mark: The deliverance that they felt, that came -- and hence the feast of Hanukkah in modern Jewish practice.
Darrell: Right.
Mark: So that historical aspect is there.
Darrell: Not to mention the whole relationship between Jews and Gentiles and why that's such a sensitive issue in the first century. If you understand that what Gentiles meant to many Jews in the centuries leading up to the time of Christ was an attempt to really eat away and deny everything that it was to be Jewish, you know including the desecration of the temple, the denial of the Sabbath, the challenge to be circumcised, you know, not caring about what food is eaten, that kind of thing.
All the compromise of what it meant to be Jewish. You would understand why people are nervous about a community in which Jews and Gentiles are brought together. And you would also understand how revolutionary the reconciliation is that Jesus brings between these ethnic groups.
You know I found myself when I was young reading the New Testament, saying, "Why is there all this stuff about Jews and Gentiles? That doesn't seem very relevant." Well, it was extremely relevant in the first century.
Mark: Go ahead Stephen.
Dr. Stephen Bramer: Just before you leave, your material from Jubilees and everything...
Darrell: Yeah.
Stephen: I think the point we want to make is that in the Old Testament there is resurrection, but the type of resurrection, whether it is a bodily resurrection, is not as clear.
Darrell: Exactly right.
Stephen: Certainly it is in the New Testament.
Darrell: Exactly right.
Stephen: And you're suggesting that this concept has been developing, so when we come to the New Testament, bodily resurrection is something that people can appreciate.
Darrell: Exactly.
Stephen: And expect.
Darrell: And in fact what I'm saying is -- very well said -- because again, in class what I often do is I will have people go to Daniel 12:1-2 and I'll say, "Read this. Now tell me what this tells you about resurrection."
And the bright students in the class go, "Well it tells you that there is a resurrection." And then our next question is, "Well, what else does it tell you about resurrection?" And the class goes silent because it doesn't tell you anything else about resurrection.
So then I say, "So how do we know that we are dealing with a bodily resurrection?" Well they'll come to the New Testament and they will look at the appearances and these kinds of clues. Yes. Now how do we get from A to B? OK.
And what you do is when you see in this intertestamental period these thoughts ,you understand that one of the things Jesus was commended for by the Pharisees in the New Testament was his defense of resurrection. All of a sudden you realize there is a point of contact there, and you can see it in this intervening material. So it's a bridge in some cases, conceptually.
Mark: Stephen, let me turn to you. You mentioned it earlier in our conversation, but another challenge in Christianity comes from the so-called Gnostic Gospels. As you understand these writings that came two, three, four centuries after the time of Christ, why are they called Gnostic and what have these contributed to modern-day discussions?
Stephen: You know, I think most of these documents have been discovered in Egypt. There are a couple of dozen, actually, of the Gnostic Gospels.
You know Gnosticism comes from the belief that there is a knowledge that a person needs to have in order to obtain salvation. There is some sort of secret knowledge. Gnosticism involved a dualism between the spirit and the body; that which was physical was evil. Yet you could obtain salvation by this secret knowledge.
And I think we see in the New Testament, especially in some of John's writings, a reaction to at least a proto-Gnosticism. It hasn't been fully developed yet, but he's already beginning to react that the physical body is not evil, and Christ was resurrected bodily, and that to know the Lord Jesus Christ is where our salvation is.
Sometimes this is called, I think, even Gnostic Christianity. It certainly is a breakaway from Christianity. There are a lot of things that are similar about Christianity, but they actually deny a number of the basic fundamentals, I believe, of Christianity as is developed even in the Old Testament: the creation of the world by God himself, the fact that God created man as a physical being that will be a complete redemption in the future.
And yet there seems to be the view that this Gnosticism was perhaps the correct Christianity, and they just lost out because they didn't win the war, or they didn't get there politically. But I think we need to take a look at this, and take a look at the material that is presented, and realize that it is not in keeping with the Old Testament.
It's not in keeping with some of the essential statements of the New Testament that seem to be foundational, ancient sayings. Philippians 2: this is an early Christian hymn and they conflict with that. So it's not that the Gnostics lost out because they didn't win the battle. They lost out, I believe, because they were a heretical sect. And yet, it's being emphasized these days that they give a great deal of background to the New Testament.
Mark: Darell, anything you want to add to that?
Darrell: Yeah, I think that Steve's done a great job of summarizing this that Gnosticism is about mystery. It's about the idea that God wasn't the creator but that there were underling gods who did the creation, at that creation was flawed. It was so flawed that it was irredeemable and therefore there wouldn't be a physical dimension to resurrection.
So all these elements contribute in. And then what we see, and this is interesting too because I think even with this area there is a way of arguing without insisting that person adopt our presuppositions.
And it is what Steve also was alluding to. That is that if you look at the doctrinal summaries that are encased within our New Testament -- or our hymns that are encased within our New Testament, or the rites and liturgy that is associated with the Lord's Supper and Baptism, these three key areas that would involve teaching, that involve singing, that involve the liturgy of what some people would call the sacraments...
Anyway, the point is that you put those three things together, all a part of the basic worship of the church, you can see this core theology that is being passed on. Because we are in a period in which the New Testament as an organized body of material can't be appealed to because it hasn't been written yet. So how do you pass on your theology before there is a New Testament?
You know the Bible church, the Bible church, the Bible of the Bible churches of the first century was the Old Testament. So how did you pass on the theology? Well you did it through these summaries. You did it through singing these hymns that had this content. You did it through what you said at the baptism and at the Lord's Supper. And that made key and clear what the core of the faith was.
And then you look at the Gnostic teaching and you put up against that and you see those things don't match up at all. In fact, this stuff, this Gnostic Christianity would never come out of the Judaism that fed into Christianity and explains what Christianity's background is.
Mark: And I think that historical thread is critical. Because alongside all of all of this attack, suspicion, question about historic Christianity and especially from the period of the Gnostic Gospels, paralleling this are some who believe that the deity of Jesus Christ was not established until after the time of Constantine and the Council of Nicea in the fourth century.
But as you mentioned Darell, as you go back to those statements, you can work your way back and then back forward all the way back to New Testament times. I mean how many years apart from Jesus do we have these early sayings? And it's not time enough for legend to develop.
Darrell: Mmm hmm.
Mark: And so there is historical verification and really without argument for the most part, even in the early literature that they were wrong in those statements.
Darrell: Yes, there are two issues here. The first is that if you look at the actual materials that we have, our earliest writings where we have the statements come from about the 50s. OK? That's within 20 years of the death of Christ, two decades. People are still alive who experienced this.
But that isn't all. If you look at these doctrinal summaries which allude to resurrection, what you've got to remember is that when Paul issues this statement, he says, "You know, I pass on what I also received." He's taking you back to the time of his own conversion. And the time of his own conversion was in the 30s, probably within a couple of years of Jesus' death.
What's interesting about that is that when Jesus appears to him and he says -- and Paul asks the question, you know, "Who are you?" -- and he informs him that he is the Lord. Paul has got to have enough theology in place for what he has heard to be able to process that experience. And that processing of that experience is matching the theology that he then went out to preach.
Well, that is pulling you all the way back to the 30s, all the way back to within a couple of years of the time of Jesus. And there is no time for legend to develop in that period, unless you're going to argue that the legend just kind of was an example of what we might call spontaneous combustion. So that takes you very far back. So that's one element of the equation that you're dealing with here.
The second part that is interesting is that when you start to line up this core that we are talking about, it doesn't have all the detail that Nicea does -- because Nicea is asking philosophical questions about that doctrine that were raised afterwards in some cases and then wording doctrine accordingly in the context Nicea emerged in. But you do see in place all the elements that exist that take you to Nicea. And that's really the point.
You know, the people on the other side are claiming "well really what we had was a variety of Christianities. Everybody was claiming a connection to Jesus and you had this form over here and then you had this other form. And no one has an inherent claim to be closer to Jesus and what he really taught."
Well, in fact we are saying that the traditional string that you can trace that feeds into what is called orthodoxy today goes right out of the very same decade of these events -- in contrast to what you can show for this alternate strand that doesn't start showing up for real until the second century.
Mark: And one of the ironies of this is -- well, to me -- is that Gnosticism wants to deny the humanity of Jesus.
Darrell: Mmm-hmm.
Mark: You know, the humanity of the Christ. And it's almost like you can't have this both ways. You know, if they are trying to deny the humanity of Christ, then there must have been the argument for the deity of Christ to which they are reacting, you know long before Nicea.
And so the question wasn't could he be divine, their question was could he be human. And Stephen, you mentioned that the whole philosophy of Gnosticism is that you can't intermix, you can't unite the physical with the spiritual, the physical being viewed as evil, the spiritual being viewed as good. But as early as the New Testament writings of Paul, that the fullness of God dwelt in Christ in bodily form.
Stephen: Absolutely.
Mark: And in Colossians, you've got a great argumentation that refutes the bifurcation of the humanity in the deity of Christ. It argues not only for his fullness, not only that he in essence is God dwelling in human flesh, but he had a real death. He shed real blood, and then followed that by resurrection, without which we obviously wouldn't have Christianity as we have it.
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mr p body you are a big help. i went back and checked it just says 76 turbo 400. the next line talks about the sway bars and compares them to a t/a. i must not have been paying good attention. thanks on the cam numbers as well. i also noticed that intake is a torquer ii where i said it was a torquer.
i didn't think that those could have been 293 gears turning rpm's like that.
i want to get rid of the dakota digital dash. will the rally gauges screw straight in even though this came with the idiot light gauges? where would be a reputable source for those kinds of parts?
just went to edelbrock's site. it says that intake is for 3500 to 7500 rpm. i thought i read that it was lower rpm than that. is that really a good match for a big block?
it's also a single plane manifold. that's more of a track design, isn't it?
i've used performers or performer rpm's on all my fords.
i'm not looking to go 150 mph. if i want to do that i'll buy a vette or something that sits a 1/2 inch off the ground.
i'm really curious to see what's inside of this thing. again, i know squat about pontiac engines, so maybe that intake is a better fit than i think. i guess it depends on how it matched the cam and i don't know what that is yet.
sorry about rambling, just thinking that i would have built the engine to start making power before 3500 rpm.
Edelbrock's "ratings" for RPM ranges are "suggested", not "in stone". This is particularly true with smaller market engines like the Pontiac. T-2 is the intake of choice for anything over 450 CID with "performance" in mind. We use it exclusively for street engines with ported heads and a "big" cam. The open plenum "softens" the low-end grunt of the bigger Pontiacs, to the point where you can get a semblance of traction. Unlike small blocks, when we say "low-end", we're not talking light-throttle drivability. That NEVER goes away... What we mean is on the "launch" at a dragstrip. Pontiacs are famous for big "wheelies" and blowing the tires off. Neither wheelies nor smoke get you "down the track" as quickly as possible.
When it comes to comparing the Pontiac to any of the Ford or Chevy offerings, there's not much "apples to apples". The 454 can make the torque, but at the cost of high-end power. 460 can, too. The big Ford is a little more "forgiving" where getting low-end AND high-end, than the BBC. Comparing the Pontiac to small blocks, of either "brand" is a mistake. The Pontiac makes the kind of power big blocks make, especially the torque numbers. In short, what you already "know" about engines generally does not "apply". Of course, the fundementals are all the same, but the Pontiac has a unique approach to power. The ability to make massive power at low engine speed is what made GTO the "king" of muscle cars and TransAm the "king" of road cars in their respective eras. It also means a very different "mindset" is required for proper gearing, shifting, tires, etc.
Mr P is right again. That sound you are hearing is probably spark knock/ping. that can flatten the upper rod bearings real fast and very easy.
The compression is too high for pump gas with flat tops and 64 heads on a 455. The dish works, and depending on where in Alabama you are could be the only solution other than switching to bigger chamber heads like a 5C or 6X. Some places in your state have E85 which with a carb change you could run, but the availability sucks down there. E85 can make some serious power and handle over 13:1 easily, so its a fun option if you can find it. Its everywhere in some states, hard to find in others, Alabama happens to be the latter.
I found that the Ford FE like the 390 and 428 are close to a Pontiac as far as where and how they make power. The Olds is the only other engine even remotely like a Pontiac, and then only the 400/425/455. The 403 and 350 are like the small Pontiacs, but they have a much shorter stroke so they run differently. If you try to do the same things as a 350 sbc or any small Ford to a Pontiac, you are going to have a slow car that gets terrible mileage.
The Torker II works pretty well on a 455, and the Performer RPM wont fit under your hood easily, if I remember right. I know it wont fit a 70-81 Firebird without hood mods, but they will fit a 64-72 GTO easy enough. The only problem I ever had with my T-2 was loading up while driving around town with an 850 Holley on it. My low compression 72 455 HO didnt like it much, but it did fit under the Formula hood on that car.
that may be what happened here. on guy built it for the strip and the next guy tried to make a driver out of it and maybe did something stupid and spun a bearing.
so, the thought is that the low end is already so strong on this engine that it actually needs to be tamed to get a good launch and with the mods i'm seeing so far it actually keeps making power at higher rpm's?
from listening i didn't think the cam was all that big but from what i understand roller cams idle smoother that flat tappets, is that right? i've never used anything but flat tappet cams. i really just like street cars and even then i never street race. i haven't lit the tires up on anything on the street since i was a kid. maybe on a country road every now and then but that's it.
even with the knock it doesn't seem to be pinging on 93 octane. the torino had close to 11:1 c/r it pinged but i put hardened exhaust seats and guides in it and played with the timing and it ran like a champ on 93 after that.
thumpin, i'm pretty sure the performer rpm won't work but i think the performer sits as low as the t ii. i'm going to leave it alone. if i understood him right it makes sense to kind of shift where the power is being made. i'm taking mr p's word as gospel for now. he's had answers i haven't bee able to find anywhere else so far.
That is a good idea, he definitely has the right advice for what works. I was just giving you some info on other parts so you know not to waste your time and money on them. I dont have a first gen, so I can only go by what intake other people say fits without a scoop, and wild ***** guesses. I try to avoid the guesses.
jim, would a set of '71 h.o. heads solve my c/r issues as easily as dishing the pistons?
looks like the 66 castings had d ports. those were the 325 hp heads in 71. any thoughts on the performance of those?
If you want to do a head swap to lower the CR, you want 6X-4, 5C from a 400, 96, or 7K3. The 7K3 will need manifolds or adapters because the end exhaust bolt holes are not there and there is no material to drill. They are big valve heads with guide plates. The 96 is from a 1971 400 and they are big valve low compression heads. The others have a 1.66" exhaust valve, which really doesnt hurt much on the street.
If you dont mind getting some work done to the heads, you can use certain 350 heads. The 1971 vintage 350 head, I think the casting number is 46 or 47, have the right size chambers for just over 9:1 on a 455, but they are small valve heads, some have screw in studs some dont. You can have them ported, bigger valves installed and screw in studs installed if they dont have them. They will work just like any other D port head that has been ported.
Also other heads that have pressed in studs but will work are 15 heads, they were the low performance 455 head in 1970. All of these are D port heads, and while round port heads will work great, even the HO heads they are more expensive and require more expensive headers or manifolds.
You want around a 90cc chamber, give or take a little depending on deck height, to run pump gas. I had some machine shop ported 5C heads on a 455 and it ran very well on 87 octane, no ping at all, and it had a 224-230 cam in it with a Qjet. 13.50s @105 with 2.93 gears, stock converter in a 4100lb car with traction issues isnt too bad for a low compression engine.
Those 64 heads will work great on a 400, puts the compression right around 9.5 with a zero deck.
Otherwise, pull the engine down and install dished pistons. To me a head swap is easier, and a fuel change is easier still, if you can find it.
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30 over crank is 20 under. tops of rod bearings are bad. Jim pretty much called it. detonation. i'm probably going to sell it and might put a 350 back in it and start restoring the car to what it actually is. a 69 firebird 350.
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