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Designing a Gomes i/v stage for tda1541a
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Bare with me, I am a beginner.... and I am trying to design a Gomes (supertotempole) i/v stage for a tda1541a dac. I am messing around in LTSpice, and am rather disappointed with the THD figures (2.12% !).
This is the circuit I am using, how can I improve the performance and/or simulation? (is my simulation wrong, or is the circuit wrong?)
Thanks :D
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Mmmh !
But at wich output level ?
5.2 Vpp
Doesnt LTspice normalize THD figure to 1V ?
Edit: yes, i think it does... When going to FFT, it mentions "Fourier components are normalized to correspond to the time domain RMS amplitude"
Why exactly a Gomes stage ?
Without any kind of feedback or servo circuits (like a css) you will of course get high distortion. It is really not complicated.
In terms of math I think nobody here can tell you how to improve the circuit you posted. Even it looks simple, it is yet to complicated. You just have to do more simulating. I hope you know John Broskie's issue about the gomes configuration: Gomez Vs XPP Amplifier
LTSpice shows both Fourier and normalized in the same table, so no problems with that. But there are other faults in the Spice setup that makes the THD figures go wrong.
But whats the use of making a Gomez? Don´t think it will come anything good out of that.
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With an acceptable working point fior the poor tubes and correct commands there there should be very low THD.
If you want to do a FFT .tran 0 200m 60m 1u might be a good place to start.
As for the reason why to use this stage, a very successful commercial player (AMR CD-77) uses this topology, and it's designer T. Loesch (active on this forum) has been promoting the circuit for some time here. :)
I thought why not try it for myself, but of course I would like to get optimum performance before I decide to build it.
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Here's a simple iv stage, if you dont mind transformers. The output level is a little low, but still not so low most preamps can't handle it. My pre is a moderate gain type, and using the volume potentiometer on it's high setting is only a good thing (less potentiometer in the signal).
Sorry this isn't tube, but cant resist...
Why on earth a transformer there? What would you gain? If there is DC on the DAC output it will be completely useless as the Lundahl core will saturate. With a 22ohm I/U resistor and 1541, output will be just a few multiples of 10mV. So a 1:1 on a current DAC you can live without. A 1:1 to with primary CT will work great on a balanced voltage DAC though.
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One can go onto any number of gun carry websites and can be almost assured of running across posters arguing the merits and follies of carrying openly or concealed. Generally, those who open carry are more open minded and accepting of concealed carriers than the other way around. And that is probably due to the fact that most who open carry also conceal carry when they deem it to be in their interests at a given time and place. So why is there such animosity shown towards OC'ers by CC'ers? Why do they name call and degrade those who, other that the fact that their sidearm is visible, are no different than those who choose to hide their piece? Why do we have this sort of division, this fracture in our ranks when we should know better and certainly should know that we are only feeding the anti's with fodder they can use against us.
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For several years I have professed that we need to stop this incessant arguing and in-fighting and fully support both modes of carry, regardless of whether or not we refuse to practice one or the other. We are all in this together and we had better see that sooner than later because the forces at work to remove our most fundamental right of freedom would like nothing better than to see us further tear ourselves into splinters over something so silly as arguing about how one goes about armed.
So for those of you who do fully support both modes of carry, I say thank you, God bless you, and I am within your ranks. To those who wish to continue to denigrate OC'ers as one step up from knuckle dragging slack jaws, please take a look at yourself in a mirror. You are the problem and are not on the side of freedom.
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Exercise helps smokers to quit smoking, to remain smoke-free and to reduce the risk of deathApril 20, 2012
Exercise may help smokers to quit and remain smokefree, according to new data presented today at the World Congress of Cardiology. Moreover, exercise increases life expectancy in smokers and non-smokers alike.
The study of 434,190 people who went through medical examination program at a private fee-paying company between 1996 and 2008 in Taiwan revealed that active smokers (those engaged in at least moderate activity) were 55 per cent more likely to quit smoking that those that were inactive. Furthermore, these active smokers were 43 per cent less likely to relapse than smokers that were inactive.
Physical activity among these subjects was also shown to increase life expectancy, even among smokers. Smokers that participated in physical activity had an increased life expectancy of 3.7 years and a reduction in all-cause mortality of 23 per cent - equivalent to levels achieved by ex-smokers with low activity levels. The results also demonstrated that active ex-smokers increased their life expectancy by 5.6 years and reduced their all-cause mortality by 43 per cent - equivalent to the levels seen in inactive non-smokers.
"Exercise can help smokers to quit and quitting smoking has been shown to significantly reduce the risk of developing CVD and that must be the goal of all smokers," said Dr. C.P. Wen, National Health Research Institute, Taiwan. "If smokers can continue to exercise, not only they can increase the quit rate, but also they can reduce their mortality for all cause and for CVD in the long run."
The prospective study of 434,190 individuals in Taiwan was conducted over a period of 12 years. Leisure time physical activity of each individual was grouped into 1) Inactive, 2) Low active (15 minute/day), and 3) Active (30 minute/day).
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Raman spectroscopy of basic copper(II) and some complex copper(II) sulfate minerals: Implications for hydrogen bonding
Frost, Ray L., Williams, Peter, Martens, Wayde N., Leverett, Peter, & Kloprogge, J. Theo (2004) Raman spectroscopy of basic copper(II) and some complex copper(II) sulfate minerals: Implications for hydrogen bonding. American Mineralogist, 89(7), pp. 1130-1137.
Raman spectroscopy has been applied to the study of basic Cu sulfates including antlerite, brochiantite, posnjakite, langite, and wroewolfeite and selected complex Cu sulfate minerals. Published X-ray diffraction data were used to estimate possible hydrogen bond distances for the basic Cu sulfate minerals. A Libowitzky empirical expression was used to predict hydroxyl-stretching frequencies and agreement with the observed values was excellent. This type of study was then extended to complex basic Cu sulfates: cyanotrichite, devilline, glaucocerinite, serpierite, and ktenasite. The position of the hydroxyl-stretching vibration was used to estimate the hydrogen bond distances between the OH and the SO4 units. The variation in bandwidth of the OH-stretching bands provided an estimate of the variation in these hydrogen bond distances. By plotting the hydrogen bond O...O distance as a function of the position of the SO4 symmetric stretching vibration, the position of the SO4 symmetric stretching band was found to be dependent upon the hydrogen bond distance for both the basic Cu sulfates and the complex Cu sulfates.
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Do you have a nagging headache that just doesn't seem to go away? A migraine that haunts you? Does this all hinder your day to day living?
Massage Therapy can help get you the relief you need. In our busy lives, we take for granted the resources that are available to us. We become dependent on over the counter products and prescription drugs that treat the symptoms and don't get to the root of the problem . With massage we can get to the root of the problem, get you the relief you need.
In my experience, I have seen a number of people over the years that can't get rid of a persistent headache. I will assess the clients symptoms, asking if there has been an injury, finding out where the headache or migraine starts at, and when it is full blown where it ends up at. Most times it starts at the base of the skull and ends up behind the eyes. In my practice I use a technique called Trigger Point Therapy.
So you might ask, "What is Trigger Point Therapy?"
Some people refer to it as deep tissue massage. A Trigger Point can develop in a muscle when there's been an injury, the muscle has been overworked or from compensation. Trigger Point Therapy is finding the trigger point that is causing the referral of pain or other sensations.
With headaches and migraines, there are 3 different areas that the referral could be coming from. These muscles are:
- Sternocleidomastoid (SCM) located in the anterior neck
- Trapezius located in shoulder and upper back area
- Capitus and Cervicis muscle groups located in the posterior neck
How does Trigger Point Therapy help?
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I began to think this was just going to be part of my life, living with pain and discomfort. When I could feel the onset of a migraine coming on, and if I took something at the right time, it could catch the migraine in time, but if I didn't, I would have a full blown migraine in no time.
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Joey Barton has raised plenty of eyebrows in the world of football over the last few days - and not only by engineering a move away from Newcastle United by cleverly taunting the club's owners until they decided to cut him loose on a free transfer.
But it's his liberal use of highbrow quotes on his Twitter feed that have been the most surprising element of the affair for many.
People have struggled to reconcile Barton's obvious intelligence and thoughtfulness with a ferocious and violent temper that once saw him stub out a cigar in a trainee's eye, hospitalise a team-mate with a sickening training ground attack, and landed him several months in prison after a conviction for assault.
Barton's hitherto unsuspected penchant for reflection is far from unknown in the world of sport, however, and his thoughtful words have inspired us to name our top 10 sporting philosophers of all time.
Bill Shankly
legendary Liverpool manager (pictured, top right) took a club which lay at the bottom of the old
Second Division and turned them into the best club in English football, winning
three league titles, two FA Cups and a UEFA Cup.
The Scot
mixed his managerial nous with a fine line in wit and wisdom, however,
dispensing endless verbal gems - including perhaps the most famous quote in
football history.
quotes: "Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am
very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more
important than that."
Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains."
idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had
that idea he would have conquered the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be
untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone
would have to submit and give in."
all, I would like to be remembered as a man who was selfless, who strove and
worried so that others could share the glory, and who built up a family of
people who could hold their heads up high and say 'We're Liverpool'."
"For a
player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared to run
through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side."
Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength."
Eric Cantona
The fiery
French superstar became famous at Leeds and a household name at Manchester
United. But it was his extraordinary philosophical introspections allied to his
often brutal physical nature which made him a legend - a never more so than in
his famous interview following a notorious kung fu kick on a Crystal Palace fan
in 1995. He's still at it to this day, hitting headlines just days ago by
comparing leaving Manchester United to coming off a drug habit.
quotes: "When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think
that sardines will be thrown into the sea."
his first training session in heaven, George Best, from his favourite right
wing, turned the head of God who was filling in at left-back. I would love him
to save me a place in his team - George Best that is, not God."
you are a heroin addict and you've gone through the agonies of withdrawal, you
don't go back and start hanging out with your dealer. It was, as I say, like
quitting a Class A drug. Psychiatrists have demonstrated that the body of a
retired professional footballer can replicate the kind of symptoms that you get
with abrupt opiate withdrawal. And that's why I've avoided going back."
Yogi Berra
Genius or
imbecile? Nobody ever really knew whether the iconic New York Yankees star was
the cleverest man in sport or a borderline idiot as he dispensed gems of
homespun wisdom. We're voting for genius, though: Berra's insights have a
strange quality of seeming hilariously silly at first before revealing more and
more depth with each re-reading.
quotes: "It ain't over til it's over."
you come to a fork in the road, take it."
can observe a lot just by watching."
like deja vu all over again."
future ain't what it used to be."
Muhammad Ali
As good a
boxer as Ali was, any objective analysis has to show that his reputation as "The
Greatest" relied just as much on his flair for self-promotion, verbal
dexterity and pithy insights as his boxing prowess. Not that there is any
disgrace in that considering that his career overlapped two other all-time
greats in Joe Frazier and George Foreman.
Sample quotes:
"Floats like a butterfly, sting like a bee, his hands can't hit what his
eyes can't see."
aren't made in gyms, champions are made from something they have deep inside
them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they
have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the
will must be stronger than the skill."
not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick
the round."
done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed
lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a
stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick."
Sid Waddell
In some
senses it seems wrong to include a commentator in this list, especially one
more famous for covering darts matches. But when that man is Sid Waddell, the
Bard of Darts, you have to make an exception as his .
quotes: "When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because
there were no more worlds to conquer... Bristow's only 27."
not just an underdog, he's an underpuppy."
your heart out Isaac Newton, that was an apple falling!"
couldn't have more excitement if Elvis walked in and asked for a chip
Brian Clough
The man who
turned Nottingham Forest into champions of Europe two years running had an ego
as big as his ability - but it was his startlingly direct manner and no-nonsense
wisdom which made him a household name even among those who know nothing about football.
quotes: "I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was
in the top one."
players disagree with me we talk about it for 20 minutes and then we decide I
was right."
lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by
people who barely know how to win at dominoes."
God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there."
Albert Camus
The French-Algerian
philosopher and novelist was not just a man of letters: he was an outstanding
goalkeeper who won two North African Cups and two North African Champions Cups with
Racing Universitaire d'Alger while still a teenage. Sadly for the world of
sport, his footballing career was curtailed when he contracted tuberculosis
aged 17 - though he never lost his lifelong love of the beautiful game and even
credited it with teaching him life's most important lessons.
quotes: " I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends
it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me
just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can
understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me - that I understand.
And these two certainties - my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the
impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle - I
also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without
lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the
limits of my conditions?"
is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"
great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are
often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door."
there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of
life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of
this life."
many years during which I saw many things, what I know most surely about
morality and the duty of man I owe to sport."
Chris Eubank
The British
boxing legend, a former middleweight and super middleweight world champion,
became famous when his unforgettable clashes against fighters such as Nigel
Benn and Michael Watson caught the public's imagination. But the flamboyant and
eccentric star has continued to garner column inches thanks to his habit of
driving around in the cab of an articulated lorry and dressing from head-to-toe
in Bertie Wooster-style clothing - not to mention dispensing nuggets of
characteristically eccentric wisdom."
quotes: "There's nothing more common than wasted potential."
being born to parents who were accountants was probably my biggest mistake."
used to nick suits for a living, now I pay a grand for them."
is like a girlfriend. When you leave a girlfriend, you don't want her back
because you left her and you did your time with her. "
Walter Hagen
The golfing
great won 11 Major championships, putting him third on the - and it would have
been more had he not largely retired from tournament golf while still at his
peak in order to concentrate on the more lucrative exhibition matches.
quote: "I never wanted to be a millionaire, just to live like one."
hurry, don't worry, you're only here for a short visit, so be sure to smell the
flowers along the way."
is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this
one remembers who came in second."
Shaquille O'Neil
We wrap up
the list with the 7'1" American basketball legend, a four-times NBA
champion, who is one of the few athletes who really lives up to the phrase
"larger than life" in every sense: physically, with his incredible
talent, and with the lavish lifestyle that defined 'bling' before the term was
even coined.
quotes: "I don't let earthlings motivate me. I only let factors motivate
me. The only thing that motivates me is, when I'm done playing, I want people
to say, 'He's the Baddest mother ******* to ever play the game.'"
"I don't
believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is
people assume you've changed because now you have money."
"The day I stopped worrying about
stats is the day I started winning."
am the number one ninja and I have killed all the Shoguns in front of me."
would like to be referred to as 'The Big Aristotle'."


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Despite the fact that America has been locked into the Iraq conflict for over 7 years, it's still difficult to get an accurate or honest understanding of the popular sentiments involved with the war (at least from the perspective of Iraq's citizens). Do they want us there? How did they feel when they came? Have we overstayed our welcome? Did they see the same problems that George W. Bush saw when he pressed for the invasion? Heavy Metal in Baghdad follows Acrassicauda, a Heavy Metal band in its formative stages, through both pre and post-war
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NASA And The Search For Better And More-Distant Rocks
Today I'm gonna tell you about the Feddle Gummint and space ships. Then you'll understand everything, and never need to read stuff again.
It's a service of this column.
Used to be we didn't have space ships, or NASA. Didn't need'em. You could sit on a rail fence, listen to Elvis, drink a RC Cola and eat Moon Pies. You didn't need a space ship to do it. You just needed a warm afternoon.
Then in 1957 Russia put Sputnik in orbit. Sputnik was a clunky dingus that sailed round and round like it knew where it was going and said, "Beep beep beep." It was a threat to national security. Anybody with good sense knew we couldn't let the Russians say "Beep beep beep" at us. We might turn into robot comminest slaves.
'Bout that time, President Kennedy was low in the polls. He looked at the Moon, and guessed it was like San Juan Hill, only shinier, and hollered, "Cha-a-aaa-aaaa-ahhh-jj!" because he was from Boston and hadn't learned English yet. He said we had to get to the Moon before the Russians did.
He didn't say why.
Actually, most folk didn't mind if the Russians went to the Moon. All of'em. Besides, the Moon was made of rocks. We had plenty already. I was only ten, and I knew where lots were, right there in Limestone County, Alabama. I'da sold them to the gummint for a quarter each.
Pretty soon we poured whole trainloads of money into building great big squatty-looking rockets. My father, a mathematician, had his salary double. Before long everybody in the family had shoes. Finally America built the Saturn V, a gy-normous rocket that looked like the Holland Tunnel stood on end, I guess in case we wanted to put aircraft carriers in orbit. Before long so many astronauts were swirling around that we had traffic congestion and then in 1969 Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon. And thought:
"What the hell am I doing here?"
It was a good question. Another question was: What next?
Now, the first rule of gummint work is that, if Uncle Sucker pays you to solve a problem, you have to avoid solving it like the seven-year itch, because then you're out of a job. It's why Washington can't do anything right.
Trouble was, NASA had solved its problem. We had told it to go to the Moon. Unwisely, it did. Now the world's foremost engineering outfit, squashed full to the bilges with superb alpha-geek engineers, who could get rocks from almost anywhere, and who now had progeny and mortgages -- faced starvation. Secondary economic effects loomed. If NASA went down, so would the pocket-protector industry. It could have caused another Depression.
Aeronautical designers in the South started slipping away from work to buy big vats and copper tubing. There was always a market for moonshine.
Then some genius hollered, "Whooooo-eeee! Let's build a spaceship!"
The idea made no sense. Why go into space? There was nothing there. That's how you knew it was space. The notion was crazier than a duffel bag full of monkeys, but it sounded adventurous and needed mathematicians.
Especially, it needed mathematicians.
Money just sprayed into what came to be called the Space Shuttle, which made it sound like a cross-town bus: Stolid, dependable, practical, like Fed-Ex. If they'd called it Naked Grab At Funds, the public might have noticed.
Now, sure, there was a lot of hooha about how a space ship would answer the riddle of life, cure cancer, and get rid of crabgrass. NASA always says this. Ever notice that, when a space probe sets off to crash on Saturn or somewhere equally depressing, the press handout always starts, "NASA, in an effort to better understand weather on earth, launched a funny-looking dingus with little prongy things all over it . . . ."
Anyone with the brains of a tent caterpillar, which fortunately turns out to be about three people, would ask, "Wait. You want to understand weather on earth, so you study . . . Saturn. Yes. I see. I reckon when you want to talk to your brother in Orlando, you call your mother-in-law in Chattanooga. Makes perfect sense. Airtight."
The Space Shuttle, like the planetary probes, faced the problem that there really wasn't much to do up there. For a while NASA talked about how we were going to have factories in space to make ball bearings. They didn't believe it: When it costs $20-30K per pound to put stuff in orbit, you have to have a pretty lively markup to make a profit. Congress bought the idea, though. That's what counted.
Now, the trick to achieving funding immortality is, first, to get the country used to paying. In politics, the customary is indistinguishable from the reasonable. Next, you slowly let your boondoggle fade from the papers, so everybody forgets about it. The Shuttle was big news for about three launches. Then it was back with truss ads and inner-city murders.
For a while, life was all ham hocks and home fries. Salaries flowed. Research funds overflowed. Then the Shuttle began to get old. It used Sixties technology. If you found the thing in a Neanderthal cave, amid gnawed bones and old teeth, it would look about right. NASA needed a new Brass Ring to chase.
Enter the Space Station.
Most folk needed a Space Station like they needed a rabid raccoon or doughnuts with mustard on them. People had lived whole lives without a space station, and it hadn't hurt them any. Mostly it would just spin like a hamster wheel and cost money. But engineers still needed jobs. So we set to work on it. To improve efficiency, we got the Russians to build some of it. That always helps efficiency.
So now the thing is going up, in chunks and fragments, and nobody cares. Ask the average joe whether we even have a Space Station.
"Er . . . ah . . . heh."
What's it for?
"Well, it's, ah, up there. If it is."
Next -- this is being plotted -- we'll be told we need to send men to Mars. Unexpectedly, this will cost a bunch of money and require lots of mathematicians. It will, however, teach us about weather on Earth.
Know what Mars has? Rocks. Pink ones, like half of Arizona. I'd still sell'em to the gummint for a quarter each.


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i'm still around for now. i deleted my siggy b/c it technically breaks the rule about cursing. i deleted my avi b/c i'm still contemplating leaving, and i don't want my face to still be on the sitewhen i leave.
it's not about the gifs (although i find it odd that gifs are being removed from ppl's posts). and i personally never thought that poster should be banned. i just thought rcw should have been left alone, since the person she was reacting to was left alone.
i honestly didn't really care that much about the thing w/ rcw, but the way it was handled afterward just rubbed me the wrong way. i think the straw that broke the camel's back was when the trayvon thread got locked, and when that thread on the 2 board was locked (it's been unlocked).
at this point, even if i wasn't still annoyed about the situation, i'd still leave b/c it seems like everyone else has left and it's hella boring around here now. but hey, it might liven back up around here next week. meh.
i, for one, am waiting to check out the forum on that site sienna mentioned. if i like it, imma tell y'all where you can find me. if not. you'll see me around somwhere.


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Submitted to: Journal of Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
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Publication Acceptance Date: 11/12/2003
Publication Date: 4/23/2004
Citation: Connell, C.L., Nord, M., Lofton, K., Rehner, T., Yadrick, K. 2004. Cognitive testing and scaling analysis of food security survey module for children [abstract]. Journal of Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. 18(4):A488. Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: Cognitive interviewing methods were used to adapt questions from the U.S. Food Security Survey Module for administration to children/teens. Individual concurrent probing techniques were used to assess understanding of the items with 20 African American adolescents (10 Males, 10 Females, ages 11-13). Item wording and response sets were revised, and small groups of boys (n=5) and girls (n=14) were asked to complete the nine-item survey. Retrospective probing techniques were used to assess comprehension of items and response sets. Eight items were then piloted in a school safety/health survey in three Mississippi school districts. Surveys were administered by trained interviewers in a group setting to children in grades 5, 7, 9, and 11. Scaling analysis of the 343 complete surveys using statistical methods based on the Rasch measurement model indicated that the module measures primarily a single underlying phenomenon (food insecurity) with sufficient reliability to be a useful tool. The measurable range of food insecurity was about six times the size of the estimated measurement error, indicating that the scale could identify three categories of food security with reasonable reliability. Overall fit of the response data to the Rasch model was similar for boys (n=138) and girls (n=176) and for younger (age 8-12, n=189) and older (age 13-18, n=153) children. Support: ERS/USDA cooperative agreement #43-3AEM-2-80033.


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The Changing Nature of the Maine Woods is both a fascinating introduction to the forests of Maine and a detailed but accessible narrative of the dynamism of these ecosystems. This is natural history with a long view, starting with an overview of the state's geological history, the reemergence of the forest after glacial retreat, and the surprising changes right up to European arrival. The authors create a vivid picture of Maine forests just before the impact of Euro-Americans and trace the profound transformations since settlement.
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Still basking in the glory of their big win, Melissa Rycroft and Tony Dovolani showed up at "Good Morning America" in New York City today (November 28).
The former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader and her hunky dance partner both looked overjoyed as they encountered fans, showing off their championship trophies from "Dancing With the Stars" last night.
Following the announcement, Dovolani proclaimed, "This is unbelievable! I can't thank you enough for the support. I felt all your support. Today is an incredible day. It's my wife and my anniversary today -- 13 years! -- and it's the 100th anniversary of independence for Albanians today, so it's an incredible, incredible moment, and I thank you all. For me, for my family, for everyone. This is so great. It's unbelievable!"
Rycroft added, "I can't even sum up what's happened to my life in the past four years. It is unbelievable. Everything has been unexpected and I've just kind of learned to go with the flow and take everything with a grain of salt. . . I've been blessed with a lot of really good things in my life and I want to take advantage of it and always know when to smile. Things are good right now! I have no complaints and I feel very blessed. I've gotten married, I've had a baby, and now this moment is third best in my life!"
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Three years ago China had planned to lay 13,000 kilometres of high-speed railway by 2020, which would be more than the rest of the world combined.
Then the global financial crisis intruded and Beijing brought that 2020 deadline forward by eight years, while redefining ''high speed'' to mostly mean faster than 350 km/h, rather than 250.
China's bullet train project is as ambitious and potentially nation-changing as the 19th century railways that opened up the US. Already it has created millions of jobs, pushing up wages for the country's long-struggling workers, and sucked in tens of millions of tonnes of Australian iron ore to produce the high-tensile steel for tunnels, bridges and track.
One of the 42 new lines, on which construction began in 2008, will begin zipping passengers over 1300 kilometres and across 244 highly-engineered bridges between Beijing and Shanghai in just four hours from next year. Another is already taking passengers 114kilometres from Beijing to Tianjin in less than 30 minutes.
The World Bank describes China's leap as "the biggest single planned program of passenger rail investment there has ever been in one country". And, unlike in many countries, it says fast rail in China has been well-planned and makes economic sense. Last month the country's long distance trains carried 160 million passengers, 18 million more than the previous July.
China's provincial backwater cities are being dragged into the world economy. Rail space is opening up for freight, taking the burden off the roads and, with any luck, reducing the regularity of events like the four-week old, 100kilometre traffic jam of coal trucks that is now stuck north-west of Beijing.
Lu Xiwei, the general manager of China Railway Vehicles Co, is working around the clock to put rolling stock on all that new track.
"I never have even one day's rest a year," says Mr Lu at his sprawling factory headquarters in Changchun, yet another booming city of 5 million people in the country's far north. "In 365 days I can guarantee I work 364."
Downer EDI's $3.8 billion contract (via a separate finance vehicle) to supply and maintain 78 double-decker, eight-carriage Waratah trains to Sydney's RailCorp was seven times bigger than any train order that the listed engineering firm had previously handled. Downer subcontracted the 624 train car shells and undercarriage "bogies" to China Railway because it could not justify building a huge workshop for what may be a one-off contract.
China Railway erected a purpose-built 9000 square metre factory in just seven months. That, says an awestruck manager, "is the time it would take in Australia to get building approvals". And yet that 360 metre long facility is one small dot on the map of China Railway's sprawling train building empire.
At the signing in 2006 - after the NSW Labor government had spent 13 years promising and unpromising a 14kilometre rail link from Parramatta to Epping - the Waratah trains were a huge political matter for NSW and a prestigious contract for China Railway. No Chinese train company had ever won an export contract to the developed world before. Only last month Australia's ambassador in Beijing, Geoff Raby, told the Communist Party secretary of Jilin province that the world would be watching how China performed.
Mr Lu, the general manager at China Railway, says he values the Australian project experience and it remains a priority. But the money involved would seem to barely justify such status.
Mr Lu reveals he will receive just $150 million from Downer for building the stainless steel car bodies and undercarriages, given that higher value components are imported from elsewhere. That's $240,000 for each Australian carriage compared with the $4.7 million Mr Lu receives for each finished bullet train carriage.
"For 5 billion [$7.1 billion] I have to build 1500 high speed cars in three years , by 2013," Mr Lu says. "And that's not all, there will be more."
Mr Lu has built a huge factory complex to house his bullet trains on the outskirts of Changchun. Here, it quickly becomes clear that Australian concerns about China's train-building competence are wide of the mark.
Liu Lihui, who manages the bullet train aluminium fabrication plant, wears plastic shower caps on the soles of his shoes to keep the polished concrete sufficiently pristine for train carriages to glide around on air-cushioned platforms. These hoverlifts reduce the need for roof-hanging cranes, he says, which reduces the number of roof-supporting pillars, which maximises the space available. Nevertheless, despite making the most of the space he has, once he has doubled production to two cars a day he will then build another two identical workshops, each 180 metres wide and 1.6kilometres long.
"High speed rail is the top priority of the Ministry of Rail and this reflects the priorities of the people and the state," Liu says. "All of us at China Railway devote ourselves."
China Railway Vehicles is technically owned by another arm of the state but it is the Ministry of Railways that makes its executives jump. The ministry exemplifies China's unrivalled political capacity to marshal resources and march the country towards a common objective to get extraordinary things done. It is the only line ministry that gives itself the power to issue its own government bonds, even though it has no trouble persuading state-owned banks to lend to projects.
"High speed and mass transport trains are good for the environment, save a lot of energy and promote industry," Lu says. "It's very easy to get money from the banks."
The ministry employs 2.5 million people, and has its own police force and courts, with People's Liberation Army officers stationed at every bureau. Power and money are channelled throughout the railway empire and beyond through invisible patronage networks. Last year the ministry successfully killed efforts by the top leadership to dilute its power within an integrated "super-ministry" of transport.
But the flipside of all that concentrated power to produce and control hardware is recurrent glitches with the software.
China's new trains are exceedingly comfortable, they all tend to depart and arrive on time and passenger utilisation rates are among the highest in the world. But, for an ordinary person, obtaining a ticket can be a nightmare. At peak periods like Chinese New Year - when 200 million migrant workers and family members struggle to get home - tickets mysteriously disappear inside the Ministry of Railways and reappear in the hands of scalpers outside the ticketing offices.
The Minister of Railways, Liu Zhijun, has personally championed the visionary high-speed rail network and has proven himself a prodigious fund-raiser and defender of his own bureaucratic interests. Less well known is the fact that Liu rose up through the Wuhan rail bureaucracy together with a brother, Liu Zhijun.
Liu Zhijun was promoted to minister in 2003. Then in 2006 his brother, Liu Zhixiang, was jailed for arranging a knife murder. Police raided his home and confiscated the equivalent of $5 million in cash, relating to a ticket-scalping racket.
In Changchun it is clear the railway ministry deems building bullet trains for China to be a national priority in a way that catering for Sydney's long-suffering commuters is not.
Downer EDI never expected to have to train so many tradespeople - steel welding, laying rubber flooring, mixing graffiti-proof paint and installing vandal-proof windows - only to find some of those workers vanish from the workshop to other corners of the China Railway empire.
Mr Lu, the China Railway general manager, denies that staff trained for the Australian project are being siphoned off to the bullet train plant - although a Downer executive standing next to him pre-empted that answer by vigorously shaking his head - but he concedes that the sheer scale of expansion is a challenge.
"You have enough labour but that doesn't mean you have enough skilled labour," Mr Lu says. "Wages are rising 10 per cent a year; that's a very heavy burden."
The competition for finite labour and management focus causes tension between the Australian and Chinese parties.
Downer EDI is accustomed to having a set number of workers on each job, partly to manage worker fatigue. But workers at China Railway typically start at 8am and finish at 10pm and are paid according to what they produce.
"In China we don't think how many people are working on a task, we think finish the task," Lu says.
The Waratah trains are already running eight months late and costs are blowing out. The troubles have already cost Downer three chief executives, two chairmen and a $190 million write-down.
That $190 million breaks down into three roughly equal parts: rising wages and unforseen engineering costs, rising materials costs (caused by runaway Chinese demand) and late penalties issued by RailCorp. RailCorp's 19,000 engineering inquiries have not helped.
The 78 Waratah trains for Sydney seem jammed between RailCorp in NSW and its enormous cousin in China, the Ministry of Railways. The two companies, Downer EDI and China Railways, are learning to be flexible, which often means leaving formal notices and contractual details on the shelf.
Peter Reichler, the group ventures chief executive for Downer, is confident that Sydney commuters will be travelling on the first Chinese-made trains by the end of this year and, "on the balance of probabilities", the last train will be on the line on time in 2013.
"It's like the United Nations of rail here," he says, referring to China Railway's multitude of domestic and global contracts and technology joint ventures.
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Muamba continues to show early signs of recovery in hospital, with the player telling Dr. Tobin he feels "fine".
Dr. Tobin visited Muamba on Tuesday evening, and on Wednesday spoke positively of his communication with the 23-year-old, who suffered a mid-game cardiac arrest at White Hart Lane on Saturday.
"I'm glad to say that the early signs of recovery have continued," Dr. Tobin said.
"I went to see Fabrice last night. I went in and he said: 'Hi, doc.' I asked him how he was and he said: 'Fine.'
"I explained to him what had happened. That's the sort of level of communication I have had with Fabrice."
The doctor admitted he broke down in tears in the corridor as the reality of the situation dawned upon him.
He explained that medics tried unsuccessfully to revive Muamba for 48 minutes before he arrived at the London Chest Hospital and that it then took another half an hour before Muamba's heart started beating again, after receiving a total of 15 shocks.
"In effect, he was dead in that time," said Tobin.
Dr. Andrew Deaner, a Tottenham-supporting cardiologist, leapt from his seat in the crowd and rushed on to the field to help Muamba.
Dr. Deaner, who is a consultant cardiologist at the London Chest Hospital, said he also been in contact with Muamba since he regained consciousness.
"If you're going to use the term miraculous, I guess it could be used here," he said.
"I whispered into his ear: 'What's your name?' He told me, and I replied: 'I understand you're a very good footballer.' He said: 'I try.'"
Dr. Deaner said he, too, had tears in his eyes after seeing Muamba's sense of humour returning so soon. He recalled how he had been watching the match with his brother when he saw the midfielder collapse.
He said to his sibling: "They're doing CPR. I should go and help."
"Something sort of told me I should go down," he said. "The adrenaline starts pumping when you see a cardiac arrest."
He added: "Looking back, it wouldn't have been surprising if the guys there … said: 'Go away, we don't need anybody else.'"
But Dr. Deaner was full of praise for how things were carried out.
"If you were going to make a film to teach people how to run a complex arrest, this would have been the arrest to film because everything went as it should," he said. "
"One thing after another just went right. He's made a remarkable recovery so far. We don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but as things stand, I think his life is not in danger at this time. His neurological function is looking very good but it is early days."


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Q2 motion-controlled internet radio
It's only rock and roll...
The USB-computer link is how you set-up or change the four choices of stations (or podcasts) out of the tens of thousands available from around the globe. Despite the mass of stations on tap, the makers claim that "in practice nearly everyone sticks to their favourite two or three." And in that lies the key to Q2's simplicity.
Stations are configured from software on a Mac or PC - no Linux support, as yet
Its accompanying software, which runs on Windows or Mac computers, enables you to browse by categories such as country of origin and genre, or text search. A feature it lacks so far is to bookmark interesting stations or podcasts so you can easily rotate your presets from a favourites list, rather than a huge index of everything.
The only time I really missed a display was for stations that run a 'now playing' tracklisting, though if you have a smartphone handy you could use Soundhound or Shazam.
The computer app is also where you specify what wireless network to connect to, plus any security password. After this the Q2 will store the WLAN settings.
There's nothing stopping you from switching to other networks but you'd need a computer to set-up the radio if you've not used it there before – the radio itself remembers logins for up to five networks. So even if you take the Q2 to a hotspot, you probably won't be able to use the radio without a computer handy, though a netbook would do it.
Given that almost every analogue or digital station also streams a MWA or MP3 version over the net, a radio like this is a good alternative to DAB, as long as you're in range of a network. The radio worked all around my house and to the end of the garden but reception of course depends on the router, its position and any signal interference.


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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) _ Rhode Island's governor says he is shocked and saddened that two people were killed and at least 80 injured in explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
Gov. Lincoln Chafee said Monday he does not know of any Rhode Islanders injured in the blasts. He says the state is sending thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families and "all our neighbors in Massachusetts.''
Chafee says officials with the state Emergency Management Agency, Rhode Island National Guard and state police are in contact with their counterparts in Massachusetts and have offered their support.
A RIEMA spokeswoman says the agency is ready and available if help is needed.
The explosions took place several hours after the marathon winners finished the race.


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The family of a pensioner who died after being attacked by her daughter's five dogs told today of their anguish.
Widow Gloria Knowles, 71, was set upon after going to feed the animals in Beverley Mason's back garden next door to her Morden home.
Emergency services were called by neighbours who heard her scream for help on Tuesday — but were unable to save her after she suffered multiple injuries and a heart attack.
Mrs Knowles lived with her granddaughter, mother of one Jasmine-Jade, 22, who said: "We're grieving right now." Her boyfriend said: "It's such a shock. We still don't know what happened.
We keep going over it." Several bouquets from the family lay outside the home of Mrs Mason — Jasmine-Jade's mother — which remained cordoned off by police along with Mrs Knowles's semi.
A card on one read: "To my dearly loved nan, a tribute of love, to someone so dear, so close to my heart." Mrs Knowles is thought to have been mauled by the two Bordeaux bulldogs, two American bulldogs and a mongrel.
Neighbours say the family are agonising over whether or not the dogs should now be put down.
One, Nazir Hussein, said: "Keeping the dogs would always remind them of what the pets did to their mum. But they love those animals and losing them would be very upsetting."
The dogs have been seized by police and are being kept in Met kennels.
Any decision on their future rests on the outcome of a police investigation. If no one is charged there is a possibility they could be handed back to the family. None of the dogs is classified as a dangerous breed.
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Goof (Continuity): In this episode, it is implied that Dorothy got pregnant in a Studebaker (Sophia says, "Don't forget the accident you had in that car...calls me grandma."), but in "Mary Has a Little Lamb", Dorothy says it was a Nash.
Sophia: (Interrupts the conversation between Rose and Abby) Excuse me Abby, I would like to inject some candor here. I would also like to inject a tranquilizer dart into your backside, but my dart gun was confiscated after the incident with the trick-or-treaters. In my defense, it was dark and I was unaware of this Ninja Turtle craze.
Dorothy: Ma, did you eat all this candy?!?!?
Sophia: I was looking for the prize.
Dorothy: Prizes are in Cracker Jacks!
Sophia: Boy, you forget something new every day.
Sophia: So what was with the lip lock you had on him the other night?
Blanche: Ooooh, what's this?
Dorothy: Oh, it was nothing. I just gave him a little kiss.
Sophia: Trust me, that was no little kiss. It was more like a dental checkup! Your whole head was practically in his mouth!
Rose: Blanche, I need to talk to you.
Blanche: Oh, okay.
Rose: It's about a friend of mine. I think she's completely taking advantage of me. It's as if she doesn't care at all about my feelings just because she's a lot younger than I am.
Blanche: Fine, keep your damned earrings! (throws them on the table)
Rose: Oh, no, no, Blanche, it's not you. It's Abby.
Blanche: Oh, right. (takes earrings back and smiles) I was thrown off by the whole "she's a lot younger" part!
Dorothy: What's so funny?
Blanche: Oh, Marmaduke. Look at how he drives that car. Ha ha ha! I love my comics. Every day, Marmaduke and Apt. 3G.
Dorothy: I haven't read Apt. 3G since... 1961.
Blanche: Oh, well let me catch you up. It is later the same day...
Blanche: Rose, I refuse to believe you have ever read a scientific journal!
Rose: Believe what you want! See if I care! Hypersexual bitch.
(the girls are talking about a roleplay of Stan and Dorothy's new relationship)
Sophia: I'm not playing Dorothy, although playing a sap on stilts would be a cakewalk. No offense, Pussycat.
Dorothy: None taken, you cankerous little prune.
The title of this episode is a take-off of the phrase "born again."
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"It's hard to say how something so
Can speak to us in such a pointed way,"
He remarked, his voice and gesture so pure
That I didn't even know what to say.
"It could be how the colors set the mood,"
I offered, though the piece had not moved me,
He chewed on his thumb; slowly he nodded,
And I looked hard for what he seemed to see.
"Or maybe it's the way the shapes combine
To form the bigger picture that they make."
He gave no explanation, nor to mine
Did he respond; mine had been a mistake.
Outside, I smiled when wind blew off his hat.
He frowned, not seeing I saw art in that.


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I have talked before about sewing windlace as opposed to gluing it. Here are some pictures of some black vinyl with simulated perforations sewn into windlace using 1/2" rubber sponge rod and sewn with a 3/4" welt foot. I also have a 5/8" welt foot that I use when making fabric covered windlace. This whole process took about 1/2 hour, and that included cutting out the fabric, changing the welt foot, and doing the sewing for 24 feet of windlace. That sure beats gluing it by a mile, and you can see it makes perfect windlace.
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Nice! I always stitch my windlace, too. Much better than just glue. :thumbup:
I have a question for you, Dan - you knew that I would...
I noticed in your picture of the sewn windlace that you only stitched it once - just one pass through the machine. Is that all it needs? Do you move outward 1/4 inch and sew it again to give the seam some strength, or is that not needed for windlace?
You are right, I only sewed it once. Actually, sewing it again would be counterproductive, since you need to make relief cuts as you go around the corners of the door jambs, and those should be made as close to the original stitch line as possible. I used polyester #92 thread, which is the best to stand up to UV rays, and unless you cut into the thread when you're making your relief cuts, it should last a lifetime in a car.
BTW, I love it when you and Alan ask questions. You guys always ask something that everyone can benefit from.
Unfortunately, with my '54 Chevy pickup, the windlace is a rubber affair with a special shape that slides into a channel around the door. The rubber is too thick to sew ... so I'm either going to have to glue something onto it (I don't like the idea of that) or leave it as black rubber and just try to dress it up with Armorall and see if that cuts the butter for me or not.
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Cultural diversity and educational inclusivity: International students' use of online information
Hughes, Hilary E. & Bruce, Christine S. (2006) Cultural diversity and educational inclusivity: International students' use of online information. International Journal of Learning, 12(9), pp. 33-40.
The complex nature of Australian higher education is intensified by the increasing cultural diversity of its student population and the escalating use of ICTs (information communication technologies) in teaching and learning (Boezerooy 2002; Harman 2004). This is a dynamic environment, responsive to technological advances and educational internationalisation, in which educators seek to reconcile the common goal of equitable outcomes with myriad differences in learner attributes and needs. Corresponding trends in curriculum design foster an independent, flexible and critical approach to learning, the development of both generic attributes and discipline-specific knowledge, and the incorporation of information literacy into the learning process.
This paper reports findings of the first part of an investigation into international students' use of online information. It presents a snapshot of the learners' experience, and discusses the role of information literacy education in this dynamic educational setting. The experiences of a group of students from nine different countries are analysed to illustrate aspects of cultural and linguistic diversity and their possible influences on study-related online information use. Key outcomes of this phase of the investigation are discussed, including the need to explore the potential of an inclusive information literacy response to enhance the online information use and learning outcomes of all students in a culturally diverse educational context.
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My G23 with the CT laser fits perfectly in my Blackhawk SERPA holster. No problem at all.
Just one day of wearing it around the house, practice-drawing every once in a while, and I've had NO problems making the draw, since.
My decision to go for the SERPA system was more oriented towards just keeping the thing IN the holster during "awkward" situations, not so much to keep a "BG" from taking it. Since, I've learned that a well-designed and well-built leather holster will keep the gun in place on it's own, far better than I first thought.
Retention drills are important, but the LEO that's stuck with open carry will more likely be putting that training to use than I will. I've my own version of the retention drill to keep the weapon in my hands. But the main thought is, they can't grab what they don't see. (I know, anything can happen, but the perfect retention system that also allows a "quick" draw hasn't been invented, IMHO.)
As for the "loose fit," there is an adjustment to tighten/loosen screw, just below the trigger guard area. The little booklet that came with the holster tells you how to set it up to suit your taste.
I really like my Blackhawk carbon fiber holster! But I do have a Laredo Defender and gun belt on order from K&D. Part of it is for "ego," part for the appreciation of good leather craftsmanship, and a side-order of "tradition," as well.
If I find myself headed "out in the bush," I'll probably go with the Blackhawk. But for day-to-day carry, I'm looking forward to that Laredo Defender.
Try tightening up that adjustment screw, a half-turn at a time. You'll probably find the fit improving, just don't over-do it.


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I've got a Full Size Ka-bar (similar to the Ka-bar USMC fighting knife), and I've been thinking about a way to carry it for everyday use. My Weapons Carry License allows me to carry it (not just a handgun - and since the blade is over 5 inches, a license is required).
I know, its a little ridiculous, and I can already see the comments that y'all might post. Things like, "Why carry something so big?" or "Just carry a tactical folder" or "Just get the TDI!". My answer to any of those is, "I have this one - and I want to carry it just because!"
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Sorry, My experience with high performance motorcycles show ME (anyway) that smooth rotors do not mean squat.
The grooves in the rotors match the grooves in the brake pads perfectly, and the brakes. grooves or not work just as well.
Same thing for replacing pads, no need to do ANYTHING to a grooved rotor. The brake pads will set to the rotors in a hundred miles.
Some 'experts' excoriate me for this comment, who cares. I know what actually works. I guess mechanics just like the extra money they make on 'fixing' rotors. The ONLY needed thing is rotors should be replaced once they are below the minumum thickness or if they have cracks
Then avoid tire shine like the evil plague it is. Get ANY of that on your brake rotors and the stuff will get into the pads.. If you use a LOT of tire shine, you will basically ruin the pads.
So use tire shine very sparingly, and never spray it directly on tires. Spray it on a cloth to rub on tires, so no overspray get on the rotors.
Then if your brakes are 'dirty' a few high speed stops will clean off the pads.
My favorite activity was to run my SVT up to 130 (on a track) or so and hit the brakes hard. Usually the first time the brakes would start to fade due to gassing stuff off the pads.. After a few runs the fade would disappear. Then my brakes would just work well for months. All the crap had been burned off the pads. Even freeway speeds (with no one else around to endanger) and hit the brakes hard and hold them, slowing from 70 to 30 or so will heat up the brakes and clean off the crud. As I wrote, ususally the first time the brakes will fade fast. that is natural as the gas off the oil and dirt is created. a few times and the brakes will respond much better.. for months/year.
This is 48 years of driving experience.
I'll be sure to avoid the tire shine stuff!
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Ashley Olsen Shops with her Man in Beverly Hills
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Enjoying a leisurely weekend with her man, Ashley Olsen shopped at Maison Martin Margiela in Beverly Hills on Saturday (May 11).
The "Full House" star sported a black blouse, matching jeans, and black flats as she chatted with her smiling mystery beau.
Though Ashley may have just picked up a mate, her twin sister Mary-Kate has been dating her much older boyfriend since 2012.
Half-brother to the former President of France, Olivier Sarkozy is seventeen years older than his pint-sized mogul lady.
Enjoy the pictures of Ashley Olsen shopping with her boyfriend in Beverly Hills, CA (May 11).
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