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On 10/3/2011 10:34 PM, Stefan Salanski wrote:
> All these solutions are very interesting, and they all work, but I
> believe the simplest solution is actually a built in function,
> specifically: IntegerExponent[].
> IntegerExponent[n,b] returns the highest power of b which divides n,
> which for b=10, is the number of trailing zeroes of n.
why yes, all you need is one esoteric function.
Proof that it is esoteric? All the previous posters (me too) were
unaware of it. And presumably all the people who read the question and
did not post anything ...
The first example in the documentation illustrates exactly this usage.


text: FERMANAGH, Northern Ireland, June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Northern Ireland's world famous whiskey, Bushmills, was the toast of world leaders at the G8 Summit meeting at the Lough Erne Resort in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, on 17 and 18 June. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130619/NY34979) Bottles of the award winning whiskey were presented to the heads of state, including Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin, and the key delegates travelling with them. Bushmills Irish Whiskey was chosen by the UK Government among gifts that represent the best of the Northern Ireland's produce. The Old Bushmills Distillery on Northern Ireland's picturesque north coast exports 95% of its production, with main markets including North America, Great Britain and France. Bushmills Master Distiller, Colum Egan selected one of the distillery's finest reserves - Bushmills 12 Year Old Single Malt Irish Whiskey – for the commemorative gift presented by UK Prime Minister David Cameron to the world leaders and delegates. Colum Egan said: " Bushmills may be a small village, but we are no stranger to the global stage – we've received hundreds of international awards for our whiskey. But I have to say this is one of our finest moments. As Master Distiller I'm very proud that our hand-made whiskey is being given global recognition as among the best of Northern Ireland's produce, especially coming in the same week as we are welcoming 500 international visitors to our distillery's music festival." Bushmills Irish Whiskey also partnered with the Northern Ireland Tourist Board at the G8 summit to provide media from around the world with a series of tutored tastings of its handcrafted range including some of its seven award-winning whiskies: Bushmills, Black Bush™, Bushmills 10 Year Old Single Malt, Bushmills 16 Year Old Single Malt, Bushmills 21 Year Old Single Malt, Bushmills 1608 and Bushmills Irish Honey Spirit Drink. Diageo PLC (DGE:London) acquired the Old Bushmills Distillery in 2005 and has invested £45m since then, trebling production. Around 5m litres of whiskey will be distilled this year. The distillery employs 106 people in all areas of production including distilling, blending, maturation and bottling, all of which take place on the one site. The distillery's visitors' centre is one of Northern Ireland's leading tourist destinations, attracting around 120,000 visitors a year. NOTES TO EDITORS:

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Leasing has its own language. To successfully navigate the process, it helps to be familiar with the following terms:
Acquisition fee. Covers expenses such as obtaining a credit report and verifying insurance coverage.
Adjusted (or net) capitalized cost. The total amount upon which the lease payments are based, including the cost of the vehicle, minus any down payment, and any fees or other charges not paid up front.
Base monthly payment. The portion that covers depreciation, any amortized amounts, and finance charges. Monthly sales/use taxes and other fees are added to determine the monthly payment.
Capitalized cost reduction. The same as a down payment when buying a vehicle with a loan.
Closed-end lease. A typical lease, where the consumer does not owe a difference if the actual value of the car at the end of the agreement is less than the residual value that was set at the beginning.
Depreciation. This is charged to cover the vehicle's projected decline in value during the lease term. It's calculated as the difference between the net capitalized cost and the vehicle's residual value.
Disposition fee (disposal fee). A fee charged to defray the cost of preparing and selling the vehicle at the end of the lease.
Early termination. Ending the lease before the scheduled termination date, whether voluntarily or involuntarily. In most cases, you must pay an early-termination charge.
Excess mileage charge. A fee, usually 10 to 25 cents per mile, for mileage in excess of the maximum specified in the agreement.
Excessive wear and tear charge. Charged to cover wear and tear on a leased vehicle beyond what is considered normal. It usually covers both interior and exterior damage.
GAP coverage (Guaranteed Auto Protection). This makes up the difference if your car is stolen or destroyed, and you owe more money on the lease than your insurance company will reimburse. One type of coverage is a waiver by the lessor of the GAP amount if the vehicle is stolen or totaled. The other is a contract by a third party to cover the GAP amount.
Gross capitalized cost. The vehicle price on which the lease is based. Negotiate it.
Lessee. The party to whom the vehicle is leased, i.e., you. The lessee is required to make payments and meet any other obligations in the agreement.
Lessor. A person or organization that leases, offers to lease, or arranges for the lease of a vehicle.
Mileage allowance (or limitation). The fixed mileage limit for the lease term. This can be negotiated, but you may have to pay an excess mileage charge. You can pay for extra miles up front, but you won't get your money back if you don't use them.
Money factor (or lease factor). A number, often given as a decimal, used by some lessors to determine the rent (interest) charge portion of your monthly payment.
Purchase option. Your right to buy the vehicle dur--ing or at the end of the lease, according to terms in the agreement.
Residual value. The vehicle's estimated projected value at the end of the lease. It's set at the beginning of the lease and used in calculating your base monthly payment. The residual value is deducted from the adjusted capitalized cost to determine the depreciation. The vehicle's actual value at the end of the term may be higher or lower.
Sales/use taxes. States differ in which amounts are taxed and when the taxes are assessed. In a lease, sales/use taxes may be assessed on (1) the base monthly payment, (2) any capitalized cost reduction, or (3) in a few states, the adjusted capitalized cost. In most states, the sales/use tax on the base monthly payment is paid monthly.
Security deposit. An amount that can be used by the lessor in case you default or at the end of the lease to offset any money you owe.
Subvention. This is a program or plan in which certain vehicles or items are subsidized by the manufacturer, such as for a slow-selling vehicle.
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Scallop and Watermelon Kebabs
This is a light, refreshing, and healthy alternatives to the normal kebabs you can grill.
- 12 sea scallops
- 4 cups boiling vegetable or chicken broth
- 24 1 inch X 1 inch watermelon cubes
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 1 tablespoon fresh minced ginger
Cut the scallops into halves across the diameter to create half-moon shapes. Place them in a heatproof casserole dish in a single layer. Pour the boiling clear broth over the scallops and let them cook for 5 minutes. Drain and cool the scallops. On each skewer alternate 1 half-moon scallop, then 2 watermelon cubes, then another half-moon scallop. Mix together the soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic and ginger and brush the kebabs as they are grilled over a medium hot grill for about 90 seconds per side turning once. Serve warm.
Makes 12 servings.


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[Television] Nickelodeon shares 25 years of animation with fans #SDCC
The Happy Happy! Joy Joy!: 25 Years of Nickelodeon Original Animation panel took place today at the San Diego Comic Con, and top creators were on hand to reflect on their favorite animated programs.
[SDCC'16] Nickelodeon brings classic '90s programs to Comic-Con
PRESS RELEASE: Nickelodeon and The Splat–the network's programming block dedicated to Nick's legendary library of hits from the '90s and 2000s–are blasting open the vaults for a slime-tastic, immersive experience at Comic-Con International: San Diego 2016 that's bound to be All That, and more. Headquartered at its 1,800 square-foot booth (#4113) on the convention floor, Nickelodeon will pay tribute to some of its most memorable shows and popular characters with activations, games, panels, talent signings and interactive design elements featuring: Legends of the Hidden Temple, Hey Arnold!, Rugrats, Double Dare, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, CatDog, Rocko's Modern Life, and Invader Zim,
[Podcast] Nickelodeon launches Nickelodeon Animation Podcast
PRESS RELEASE: In celebration of Nickelodeon's 25 years of animation, the network is talking cartoons with its first-ever podcast, Nickelodeon Animation Podcast, launching today on iTunes, SoundCloud, YouTube and nickanimationpodcast.com.
[Animation] Nickelodeon and CSU Fullerton present Happy Happy Joy Joy art exhibit
PRESS RELEASE: Nickelodeon and California State University, Fullerton's Begovich Gallery present "Happy Happy Joy Joy: 25 Years of Creator-Driven Animation," an exhibit that goes behind the scenes and into the minds of the creators who ushered in a new era of groundbreaking animation on TV, beginning in 1991 with the launch of Doug, Rugrats, The Ren & Stimpy Show, and continuing on with landmark hits like Rocko's Modern Life, Hey Arnold!, SpongeBob SquarePants and more. The public retrospective exhibition will be open from April 16 through May 22 at Begovich Gallery located on the Fullerton campus. Admission is free.
[Television] Nickelodeon greenlights Bunsen is a Beast!
Nickelodeon has given the greenlight to Bunsen is a Beast by ordering 20 episodes of the animated series.
[Animation] Hey Arnold! Movie in Development
In an interview with Variety, Nickelodeon announced that it is currently in the development stages for a television movie based on their popular 90s cartoon Hey Arnold! The movie is set to pick up directly where the television series left off and provide answers to series-long mysteries such as: where are Arnold's parents? Hey Arnold! creator Chris Viscardi was recently promoted to the position of Vice President of Content Development for Franchise Development, leading one to speculate that Hey Arnold! may only be the first of many popular series destined for revival in the coming years. President of Content Development and Production at
[Television] Jon Hamm to guest star on SpongeBob Squarepants
With his Emmy win now firmly secured, Jon Hamm is expanding to the world of animation voice over work and will appear on an upcoming episode of SpongeBob Squarepants.
[Television] Nickelodeon debuts Miraculous Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir in December
There aren't enough animated superhero tales on television, and even fewer that feature a female hero as the lead. Nickelodeon debuts Ladybug and Cat Noir in December that features to junior high students tasked with saving Paris.
[Business] James Stephenson named Senior Vice President, Animation and Games at Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon has named James Stephenson to the newly created position of Senior Vice President, Animation and Games, adding animation production and development to his current responsibilities of digital content creation. Stephenson will be based at Nickelodeon's animation studio in Burbank, Calif., reporting to Russell Hicks, President, Content Development and Production, Nickelodeon Group.
[SDCC'15] Nickelodeon announces Comic-Con plans
Press Release Nickelodeon heads to Comic-Con International: San Diego 2015 to showcase its rich content through an innovative booth design, fan activations, talent-driven panels and more.
[Television] Welcome to the Wayne greenlit for television
Press Release Nickelodeon, the number-one entertainment brand for kids, announced today it has ordered 20 episodes of the comedy-adventure series, Welcome to the Wayne, marking its first digital short-form series to be greenlit for television. Along with the pick-up, Nickelodeon will create a companion app, "The Wayne," allowing users to gain a deeper, hands-on experience into the series. Welcome to the Wayne, which originally launched as a series for the Emmy Award-winning Nick App and Nick.com last year, follows the adventures of two ten-year-old boys exploring the crazy, unpredictable world of their New York City apartment building, The Wayne. The
[Toys] SpongeBob SquarePants Minimates on the way
Press Release Following the successful launch of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collection, Diamond Select Toys announced today the expansion of its Nickelodeon partnership with the release of a brand-new SpongeBob SquarePants Minimates line. The collection will include SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, Mr. Krabs, Sandy, Grandpa Redbeard, Perch Perkins and Plankton designed as 2-inch-tall mini-figures with multiple points of articulation and interchangeable parts and accessories.
Watch a special hour-long premiere of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles only on Nick.com and the Nick App
Press Release Now through March 15, Turtle fans can watch the special one-hour premiere Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, "Battle for New York" exclusively on Nick.com and the Nick App ahead of its on-air debut Sunday, March 15, at 11:00 a.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon. During the episode, Leo doesn't trust Slash when he emerges leading a team called the "Mighty Mutanimals." While the Mighty Mutanimals lay siege to the Techno Cosmic Research Institute, the Turtles must brave the bizarre world of Dimension X to save the enslaved people of New York.
Nickelodeon announces $25,000 scholarship for young animators
Press Release Nickelodeon has partnered with Get Schooled, a national non-profit co-founded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Viacom, to award one skilled and innovative animator with a $25,000 scholarship by creating an original animated short. This partnership marks the first-ever animation scholarship program between the two organizations, which will help elevate and support the brightest up and coming animators by giving an opportunity to submit their story.


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Part of Poetry Westchester! , bringing free writing workshops, poetry readings and talks to community libraries throughout Westchester--a county rich in literary history, from Edgar Allan Poe to Washington Irving.
Funded by the Westchester Library System (through the Westchester County Board of Legislators).
The world-renowned translators act "as latter-day Virgils" guiding us through Dante's dark wood in this reading and discussion of their recent translations, which have been hailed as "a touchstone for generations to come."
Bobbi Katz (author of Trailblazers: Poems of Exploration and editor of the award-winning Pocket Poems) will show us how to fit elephants, ships and anything else that tickles our fancies into our pockets as she reads her favorite poems. She'll also prepare us for the city-wide initiative Poem in Your Pocket Day with an interactive poetry writing session.
Poets House and the Children's Museum of the Arts invite you and your children to wile away the first Friday afternoon of each month at CMA's open studios, featuring a veritable musical chairs of Arts & Crafts stations and a poet-in-residence to lead ekphrastic poetry exercises and other word excursions.
E. E. Cummings accomplished the rarest of balancing acts: He managed to be both a deeply committed experimentalist and a very popular poet. How does a writer manage to be an innovator, pushing the boundaries of poetic form and content and still connect so powerfully with readers with his serious play? We'll look at the range of Cummings' achievement—his memorable and sensuous love poems, his fierce political satires, his compassionate anatomies of the human situation.
Four poetic innovators explore representations of race, sexual identity and class in the revolutionary literature of the Harlem Renaissance poets—including Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes, Anne Spencer and Richard Bruce Nugent—and later generations of writers inspired by their work. Moderated by New York Public Library's Schomburg Center curator Steven J. Fullwood.
Funded in part by the New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities
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Rail bosses today warned of years of daily disruption for commuters as they set out the timetable for the £700m rebuilding of London Bridge station.
Network Rail said that work on London Bridge will be the biggest station redevelopment in the capital in a generation and will run from May next year until 2018.
The five-year project will create a new concourse the size of the pitch at Wembley; three more through platforms and boost passenger capacity from 50million to 75million per year.
Rail bosses aim to keep the station open throughout by staggering the platform closures.
Southern rail services from Brighton will be the first line affected as their three dedicated platforms are shut for a year for lengthening work and over that period they will be forced to share station capacity with other services.
Other details of how the works will affect passengers are:
*December 2014 Thameslink route services to and from central London are diverted away from London Bridge via Herne Hill until 2018 but plans are being discussed to maintain an off-peak service to the station from Brighton.
*2015 Charing Cross services are unable to call at London Bridge due to the start of redevelopment work on platforms 4, 5 & 6. All terminating platforms (9-15) are complete.
*2016 Platforms 4,5,6,7 & 8 are complete at London Bridge and Charing Cross services are able to resume calling at the station. Cannon Street services are unable to call at London Bridge due to the start of redevelopment work on platforms 1,2 & 3.The new street level concourse opens at London Bridge providing direct access to St Thomas' Street.
*End 2017 Platforms 1, 2 & 3 are complete at London Bridge. Bringing these into use enables Cannon Street services to resume calling at the station shortly afterwards.
*2018 Completion of work to track,signalling and major bridges around London bridge station.
Network Rail is planning to create a new concourse it says will be larger than the pitch at Wembley Stadium. The work will also include new entrances at Tooley Street and St Thomas Street..
As part of the redevelopment Network Rail has also announced Balfour Beatty will carry out the £50m track remodelling work at the station. The work involves design, installation and testing of the track
Although the new concourse will be underneath the tracks and platforms, it will benefit from natural light. It will also be designed with capacity for around two thirds more passengers than use the station today.
The reconfigured track layout will see an increase in through platforms from six to nine and a reduction in terminating platforms from nine to six.
Work is already under way to improve London Bridge with the Shard and The Place developments funding a new bus station and upper concourse for the railway station to be completed next year.
Robin Gisby, managing director of Network Operations at Network Rail, said:
"This will be the most ambitious redevelopment of any London station in a generation and one of the most technically demanding projects ever undertaken on our railway. its success will be defined by the passengers who use the station. The benefits will be massive, but we need their help and support to make it happen."
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A color illustrated set of word walls for Dolch nouns that begin with letters s-w. Common Core: Language: L.1.1, L.K.1
Interactive Notebook activity that contains six sections on apostrophes use in contractions and possesive nouns. Other sections include practice apostrophe use and writing skills.
Interactive Notebook activity that contains six sections on capitalization. One section reviews the rules of capitalization use in beginnings, proper names and titles and gives examples. Other activities enable students to practice capitalization, identify correct use and practice writing skills.
This video introduces the concept of pronouns and how they are used in everyday English. Many examples are given. Common Core: Literacy: L.1.1d, L.3.1a
A video introduction to forming regular and irregular plural nouns with many examples. Common Core: Literacy: L.K.1c, L.2.1b, L.3.1b
This packet contains 4 activity sheets, a crossword puzzle and a word search to reinforce irregular past tense verbs. Suitable for 2nd through 5th grades.


text: X Factor 2014: First picture of new judges together Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole, Mel B and Louis Walsh settle in as this year's judges on the reality show Comments Written By Emma Daly 11:10 AM, 18 June 2014 Cheryl Cole and Simon Cowell are side by side once more as The X Factor Twitter account releases its first picture of the four judges together. Cowell is settled into his usual seat on the far right (for viewers), with Cheryl to his right (our left). Louis returns for the 11th time to the seat on the far left (anything else wouldn't be right, eh?), while Mel B takes up the fourth and final spot (our left of Cheryl, her right – and if all these lefts and rights are confusing you as much as they are us, just look at the picture). The shot of the judges is from the in-room auditions in Manchester, where this year's show kicked off. Cole and Cowell have been keen to suggest their feud over former X Factor shows is over. And while rumours have suggested Cole didn't want to be on the panel with Walsh, her recent Twitter picture of them posing together backstage suggests otherwise. Cheryl, Louis and @OfficialMelB at day two of the Manchester auditions #XFactor pic.twitter.com/pBmkBwAtA0 — Cheryl Cole (@CherylColeUK) June 17, 2014 Is it going to be a series of feuds or friendships? Water slinging or water works? Give them a few more days and a few more bonkers auditions and we might start to get an idea... X Factor returns to ITV later this year. Like this? Share it. Facebook Twitter Google Tumblr Pinterest Blogger Reddit VKontakt Print Email


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now thats somthing to be proud of!!
well done!
who cares how long it takes just as long as your satisfied with the end result!
hell i think im at a year with one of my rommy builds!but its something ill say i am proud of!
Romy G, side-folder. Nothing special, aside that it's my first... and it has a history of being the longest build EVER.... afaik.
This all started Jan '08... I decided I'd sell my dust-collecting Imbel FAL kit (if anyone has an Imbel FAL kit with "42" on the butt, pm me!) for a more n00b-friendly build for my first time... Also, some oddball (odd for an FAL forum) called "7.62x39" (why it was odd), said Gunco is a great place to hang out, if you need info on AK building... Hence, Jan '08.
I traded a guy an FAL kit for a Romy G kit with side-folder... Immediately, I attacked it with a dremel, a drill, and a biiig f-riendly hammer... As you'll remember, I was the one who tried to drop a lowrider Isuzu pickup on my barrel pin, in hopes of busting it loose... X)
Anyway, it was around March when I finally got everything ready... Selected a screw-build method, just to see if I can cheat and add some tear-down-ableness... It was setting against my door frame. I felt like moving furniture, somehow it fell just right, and knocked a computer monitor (CRT) over onto it, turning it into a banana-shaped AK...
I was SOOOO PIIIISSSSSSEEEDDDD!!!! D:< ALL that work, all that weight lost hammering my cheap receiver press to shit... GONE. :|
I did get it straightened out later, but I wasn't going to trust my life to a receiver with more curves than Laguna Seca Raceway... So, I chucked the receiver and kept the heat-treated rails. I bought another one, tried to get it through the jig, but I only single-nutted the carriage bolts, and the flat walked, creating a very unusable U-shaped chunk of sheet metal...
So, I disassembled it, stuck the screws in the trunnions and through the trigger guard, and tossed it all into a box...
Last year around this time, I got another flat and built another jig; this time, I made it a bit longer so I could put extra bolts in the ends of each piece... I successfully bent the flat, and swiftly spot-treated everything and then some, using old lawnmower oil as a quenching medium... I also screwed with refinishing the wood on the foregrip, since I took and shaved it all down to be a bit more comfortable.
I was about to get a spot welder from AK-Builder and finish the damn thing that year, but something came up, and the AK project got shoved into the back of the safe...
But this year, I was bound and yawning determined to get this mug finished... Come hell or high-water (snow, in this case), I was getting it done... Took it to work Xmas Eve Day, waited until after work, tacked the rails in with the MIG as my absolute-best. Came home, shaved the mag stabilizers down to -47 size, got everything feeling right, cleaned it, blued it, sorta-koted over that, and re-re-re-re-re-re-reassembled...
And here she is... Three years in the making, ladies and gentlemen, I give you:
Yes, yes, just your every-day Romy G... except this one took THREE @$#^$$ING YEARS!!!!
Now, to reminisce...
Winter '08:
Ahh, Demill... Fond memories!
Playing with Ergonomics.
Grasshopper jig (Very Poor Man's Bend Jig Lol), number one. It was destroyed trying to bend the botched receiver. Note: Grasshopper jig NEEDS bolts at the tips...
First one: dead and gone.
Getting things back onto a receiver... First mock-up.
Mocked up...
Winter 2009:
finished fore grip, new receiver...
And since all the pics I have from Winter '09 are of the same thing just different angles, I'll save you the time of scrolling and me the time of posting, since it is almost 2:30am here... :|
Winter almost-2010:
Can't really see any of the welds, but the rails ARE IN!
Sorta-koted... Gonna see if that over blue will age gracefully, or terribly...
So there it is... 3 years worth of dust collecting...
Next year, I plan on test-firing it...
(I got the rails in and fitted and trimmed Thursday, and it's been blizzarding since Friday, just now kinda stopping snowing...) :\
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Ask questions first; Distance? Windage? Elevation?
""...when you capture spoils from the enemy, they must be used as rewards, so that all your men may have a keen desire to fight, each on his own account""
- Sun Tzu
"A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a State."
- Zhuang Zi
now thats somthing to be proud of!!
well done!
who cares how long it takes just as long as your satisfied with the end result!
hell i think im at a year with one of my rommy builds!but its something ill say i am proud of!
Keep the change-I just want my Country back!!!
Next year I plan on test firing it.
O.K. K. You did a great job on that. Looks great.
"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781
I bought 4 kits in the second half of 07 but havent really started on them.Probation for driving while impaired keep me from buying the recivers until April of 08.I hopeing to finish them this winter/spring once I get a steady income comeing in.I hear my disability has been approved but SS has not contacted me yet.
SOON-We already lost the war. You are the resistance.
Using your vehicle to press the barrel pin out, thats one I've never seen before.
I wondered what that first picture was all about? What year barrel press/vehicle is that? Did it work? If it did that might be the all time "I don't want to buy any tools" idea ever.
Glad you got it together, and it looks nice. Don't worry about the time frame, not everyone has a lot of free time.I don't remember who it was, but there was someone that used there house (house trailer, you know a single wide/double wide style prefab) and a jack to press a flat into a jig, heard the house moved before it starting bending and the wife bitched him out.Using your vehicle to press the barrel pin out, thats one I've never seen before.
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem" Ronald Reagan
It's a 1990 Isuzu Pickup, lowered... It's a 2-ton hydraulic (floor jack) press... Not enough to bust the pin loose. :\
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It works! I hit all the snow I was aiming at, and got the very first brass spit out of it. It was still a bit tight-acting, but I imagine that'll go away with a few more mags put through it...
Didn't really mess around with aiming, but it seemed pretty straight. But, that's for another time. It's still sorta blizzardy and really cold here...
Got a good thick brass mark on the receiver, and all the brass I recovered is dented on the side, just under the shoulder... The ejector rail tip was leaving marks on the rim of the steel cartridges too!
Ordered a bayonet, sling, broken shell extractor, blank firing device, and gas port reamer a few days ago, so it should be getting shipped maybe tomorrow...
Apex has East German, Bulgy 74, and Egyptian kits for quite reasonable.... Which one next!?
That is, unless, someone has a Romy/Bulgy RPK kit they wouldn't mind getting rid of for a decent price...
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Ask questions first; Distance? Windage? Elevation?
""...when you capture spoils from the enemy, they must be used as rewards, so that all your men may have a keen desire to fight, each on his own account""
- Sun Tzu
"A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a State."
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The Rodina was the Soviet Union's first automatic wristwatch. It was produced at the First Moscow Watch Factory from 1956 through the early 1960s. Depending on who you are talking to, the 22-jewel movement is designated 2415A or yH-9M (41yH)
Over about 15 years a huge quantity of these watches were produced, including export versions, with several different dial designs. Eventually this movement was replaced by sleeker calibers such as the 29-jewel 2415 and 29-jewel 2416.
I had long heard rumors that a solid gold version of the Rodina had been made in extrememly small quantities, but I had never actually seen one... That is until a good friend located one for me in Belarus. I can tell you from personal experience that it is much rarer than the solid gold Pobeda and Zvesdas from about the same time.
Here it is. You can visit my website to see additional photos. Look for record number 1334.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- UAB's Cole Helms ripped a bases-loaded, game-winning single into left field in the bottom of the 11th inning to lift the Blazers to a 6-5 victory over Florida A&M on a frigid Tuesday night at Young Memorial Field. UAB (5-3) took a 5-3 lead into the top of the ninth, but the Rattlers (0-16) scored twice in that inning to force extra frames.
Dan Stucky started the game-winning rally in the bottom of the 11th when he was hit by a pitch leading off. Zac Ward followed with a sharp single to left field, and both runners advanced to second and third when Florida A&M pitcher Terrence Dorsey balked. After an intentional walk to Nathan McCorkle loaded the bases, Helms came through with a sinking line drive into left field which dropped in front of FAMU's David James for a walk-off RBI single.
Eric Roberts was outstanding in relief for the Blazers, pitching 3.0 innings and allowing just two hits while striking out five to pick up his first victory of the season. UAB used five pitchers in the game who combined to strike out 15 Florida A&M batters. Helms led the Blazers offensively, going 3-for-6 with two runs batted in.
Leading 2-1 after one inning of play, a two-out single through the left side of the infield courtesy of Stucky in the bottom of the second, scored Donny Muth who had walked and stolen second base.
Trailing by two runs, the Rattlers loaded the bases with two outs in the top of the seventh. Brian Braxton led off with a single, then UAB's Jeff Brown retired the next two batters, but an error by Ward at third base kept the inning alive. After Kevin Clethen singled, James beat out a ground ball which deflected off the top of Brown's glove on the mound and allowed two runs to score, tying the game at three.
The Rattlers put the tying run in scoring position in the top of the ninth inning. Michael Sweatt came through with a leadoff single, then moved to third when pinch hitter David Hampton doubled to left off UAB reliever Brandon Flaherty. With two on and no outs, the Blazers brought in Roberts who allowed an RBI single to Kevin Clethen, cutting UAB's lead to one run. Florida A&M went on to tie the game when a wilid throw from UAB catcher Muth trying to cut down a runner at second base got away from shortstop Ryan Metcalf and allowed pinch runner Edmond Bushnell to come around and tie the score at 5-5.
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Enjoying your job as a Webmaster or as a SEO leader? Of course you are. Up to now, being productive and efficient has been fairly easy. In fact, the recipe was simple: order content, upload, and then repeat with no real review of quality or style. It worked for a while and it put food on a lot of tables. But Matt Cutts, a software engineer and the head of the webspam team at Google has just released Penguin 2.0 and he says it is going to have quite an impact on SEO, and specifically the content that websites publish.
How much of an impact became clear when he delved into the issue in a recent blog post. He stated that Penguin 2.0 affects 2.3% of English-US enquiries on the search engine. Penguin 2.0 has the most impact on languages that have the most spam. English, simply put, produces the most spam.
This latest update of the algorithm (the formula that Google use to identify good content, basically) is designed to wipe out spam, especially the 'black hat' spam that has turned much of the Internet into a wasteland of poor quality, lead-grabbing content. The update is, of course, a good thing, but this doesn't mean it is an easy thing to work with. The previous update was simply a data management exercise. This thing is big, real big.
Matt Cutts, the much-revered engineer, has suggested that the new Penguin is game changing, and has even gone so far as to state (in his blog) that the previous iteration of Google was all about the home page that websites had. The new one looks at various aspects of a site. This obviously has huge consequences for webmasters that have used spam techniques to drive traffic through poor quality content. Cutt's agenda is clear. He recently commented 'It's gonna have a pretty big impact on web spam' on This week in Google."
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So how do you deal with all of this? Well, it will come as no surprise to the majority of webmasters and marketing specialist out there that your content has to be completely, utterly unique from this point on. If you've been chugging away paying 'writers' to create blog posts for you that read only slightly better than the average phone book, and have75% keyword 'usage', then you can kiss goodbye to any kind of ranking.
However, if you know that your content has to be unique, relevant and of the highest quality, welcome to the party. Google has recognized that the Internet is becoming saturated with spam, and it has with Penguin 2.0 decided that you have to include high quality content that is original. It is as simple as that.
As important as it is to have fresh content that rocks Google's world, you also need to make sure that you select a submission process that is ethical if the content is to reach it's peak. This means taking the time to work carefully with press release submission services to find the best fit for your needs as a company. After you have arranged for the authoring of your content, you need to arrange high quality submission of articles. This means taking your press release, for example, and ensuring it is subject to professional press release submission services that know where to put it and how to disseminate it. Add to this some sensible social sharing and you have a chance to beat the Penguin. Keep your content high quality and disseminate it wisely, and you still have a chance of ranking highly on Google.
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Strategic Planning
We believe successful real estate is about people: where they live; how they get to work; what they do when they get there; how they relate — in their work environment — to their partners, peers, and clients; and whether the workspace is efficient and effective at meeting the organization's objectives.
Our approach to real estate planning is to build consensus amongst the stakeholders and help define a unified vision.
Strategic planning is the foundation on which Savills Studley's integrated teams build your real estate project. Our strategic consultants work with your executive team to lay the framework for finding the solution that fulfils your business goals and objectives and reflects your brand. As highly skilled and professionally trained negotiators, we believe that real estate success is first established in the strategic planning process. And this is where attention to details is of paramount importance.
With a clear understanding of you, your mission, your brand, and your interactions with people in the workplace, Savills Studley creates solutions that completely satisfy your objectives for the optimal workspace.
Our strategic real estate process is straightforward and comprised of three basic steps:
- Evaluating your current situation
- Identifying future real estate requirements
- Creating a strategic plan that produces an optimal outcome
Our strategic planning process saves you time and money by protecting your interests throughout the project and alleviates the stress so commonly experienced by tenants during the real estate process.
Step 1: Evaluate Current Situation
Does your real estate plan align with your business plan?
Evaluating your current situation helps us move your business forward by determining what is working for you and what is not in terms of:
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- Whether it makes more sense to stay, expand, consolidate or relocate; buy or lease.
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The next step is to define your business drivers in light of your future plans and prospects and your industry long term--not just for now or the next one, two, three or five years. These drivers will resonate loudly in all decisions with respect to your real estate project. Our proprietary tools identify the business drivers that directly affect your real estate, weight each driver and match them with relevant communities and specific markets. Weighting criteria includes:
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A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz and insured for $US1 million ($1.3 million) is missing from a museum in Minnesota.
Police Chief Leigh Serfling said the slippers were stolen at the weekend.
Someone entered the Children's Discovery Museum in Grand Rapids through a window and broke into the small display case holding the slippers.
"There's not a whole lot of evidence," Serfling said. "We're hoping that someone in the community has seen something."
Children's Discovery Museum director John Kelsch said the slippers belonged to a Los Angeles man who loaned them to the museum for several weeks.
The children's museum houses the Judy Garland museum, which displayed the same pair of slippers last year.
Garland was born in Grand Rapids in 1922.
"The slippers are a major attraction at our museum," Kelsch said.
Four pairs of ruby slippers worn by Garland in the movie are known to exist, including one pair on display at the Smithsonian Institution.
Christie's auction house sold another pair for $US666,000 in 2000.
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Facebook's Very Few MBA MillionairesLouis Lavelle
MBAs, for all their talk of entrepreneurship and the like, are really quite conventional—for as long as anyone can remember, well more than half of every class at top business schools has ended up in the same two industries: financial services and consulting. The few exceptions to that rule are just that: exceptions.
So it should come as little surprise that relatively few of the Facebook millionaires have the degree. While a generation of MBA graduates were dutifully interviewing with McKinsey and Goldman Sachs, the Facebook millionaires were busy getting themselves in on the ground floor of Zuckerberg & Co. If an MBA teaches you anything, you'd think it would be how to recognize the next big thing when it comes along. But that's not what happened with Facebook. Yes, there's a boatload of luck involved—not everyone can be Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard roommate—but still.
Who are the Facebook millionaires with MBAs? Let's start with who isn't. Dustin Moskovitz, Zuckerberg's roommate and one of the original founders, studied economics at Harvard. Ditto for Eduardo Saverin, the fellow founder who recently gave up his U.S. citizenship and stands to save a ton of money on taxes as a result. Peter Thiel, one of the company's early angel investors, has a JD from Stanford.
According to the website whoownsfacebook.com, there are seven MBAs on the list, with most earning their degrees at the institution where Facebook was born. The size of their Facebook stakes is based on an $85 billion valuation for the company, with shares trading at $34. But that's a little out of date. The company has since boosted its share price to as high as $38 a share, for a $104 billion valuation.
Here are the Facebook MBA millionaires:
Sheryl Sandberg: Facebook's chief operating officer since 2008, Sandberg has a 0.1 percent stake in the company, valued at $86 million. But when her 40 million shares of restricted stock vest, her stake will be worth $1.8 billion, more than the 2011 gross domestic product of Belize. She's a 1995 graduate of Harvard Business School and will give the school's Class Day address on May 23.
Jim Breyer: A partner in the venture capital firm Accel Partners, Breyer was an early-stage angel investor in Facebook. His 0.6 percent stake is valued at $510 million. Like Sandberg he has an MBA from Harvard, and he worked for McKinsey, Apple, and Hewlett-Packard before getting into the VC business.
Mark Pincus: The co-founder of online social game maker Zynga and a serial entrepreneur, Pincus was an early angel investor in Facebook, where his stake is now valued at $425 million. His MBA is from Harvard.
Alexander Samwer: One of three German-born brothers, entrepreneurs all, who acquired a combined stake in Facebook valued at $85 million. In addition to Facebook, the brothers have made sizable investments in a number of companies, including, oddly enough, the German Facebook clone StudiVZ. Alexander's MBA is from Harvard.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss: The Winklevoss twins, along with Divya Narendra, went mano a mano with Zuckerberg at Harvard, claiming he stole their idea after he was hired to write code for a new social networking site for students called HarvardConnection. As part of the settlement of their lawsuit against Zuckerberg, they reportedly received $10 million in Facebook stock. Assuming it was split evenly, each of the twins has a stake valued at $18.7 million. They both got their MBAs from Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.
Divya Narendra: The newest Facebook MBA millionaire, Narendra has the distinction of being the person who approached Zuckerberg for help on HarvardConnection. Whoownsfacebook.com assumes he got his stake the way the Winklevoss duo did—as part of the legal settlement. If so, his stake is also worth $18.7 million. He's getting his MBA next month from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management as part of a joint JD-MBA program.
There may be other MBA Facebook millionaires with stakes too small to surface in regulatory filings, or people with an indirect stake in the company who have MBAs (partners in VC firms that hold shares of Facebook, for example). But for now, that's it: three VCs, three sworn enemies, and one top executive.
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Helen Rosetta Henry DeMetro, 80, of Indiana, formerly of West Milford, N.J., went to be with our Lord on Friday, April 11, 2014.
A private family gathering was held at the home of her sister, Patricia Woods.
Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
The family and friends would like to thank the VNA for all of their love and support. Memorial contributions may be made to VNA Hospice, 850 Hospital Road, Suite 3000, Indiana, PA 15701.
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I would respond quietly without caps or colours that they are wrong even when they are right...
So as not to startle the timid lil' creatures.
Okay...I would hide and tremble waiting for them to disappear...
I will know what to do when such will happen....
Though very exciting, it is not a very 'fun' experience, until you get somewhat over the fear. Then, it's like a rollercoaster ride! Scary as shit, but you'll know you'll get through it OK!
I can only imagine...you KNOW...
So tell me...no not now
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Because it would mean that they have watched terrible suffering for 1000´s of years and not helped us.
But I would still say, please help us.
Because when a child dies every 3:rd second we can not afford pride.
you are right,maybe they should have stopped us every time we slaughtered an animal for meat or took some fish out of a lake or river
we have to take our own course in life....
if the earth wasnt so populated,would there be a child die every 3 seconds?
what if they knew that killing a soul was the real crime and a person or body was kinda like the avatar movie,ya mess that one up and you can get a new one,at the expense of forgetting everything else you learned in the previous life
You do not seem to comprehend the ENORMOUS suffering going on every single second.
Would you say to a child that has seen her mother raped and father murdered, hey its kind of like that avatar movie?
its ok ,you dont get it....
the world has to have suffering and pain
how else would we know good from bad?
imagine what a boring place it would be after a few years of nothing but good and happy stuff going on...
makes you almost think that might be why satan and his followers left or wanted to get out of heaven....boredom
imagine yourself so far out into space,that when you look back to earth, you cant tell it apart from the rest of the stars in space...thats how insignificant we are
of course you would want to comfort that child and tell them whatever lie you can to make them feel better....but are YOU a child?
you should know better,and if you dont,its time to wake up to the real world we live in....
I think there is quite a difference between "nothing but good and happy stuff going on" and 1000´s of children dying every day.
Do we need 100´s of child rapes every 24hours to know good from bad?


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31 Years Old, One Child and a Very Much Needed Breast Augmentation! - Bellevue, WA
I knew at a very early age that I wanted a breast...
I knew at a very early age that I wanted a breast augmentation seeing as good ol mother nature forgot to check off the boobs box when she sent me through puberty. Finally this year, the stars aligned and I was able to get my surgery! I went from a 32a to a 34c and couldn't be happier, I can't wait to see the final result after my waiting period is over :)
one week post op!
Well I am one week post op and feeling pretty good considering lol. I had a really tight chest wall which made placing the implants a bit more complicated and therefore more painful for me :( ive been looped up on muscle relaxants and pain pills all week so sleep has come fairly easy except at night. I am now counting down the Days until I can start to wear a real bra which shows off the beautiful work. I must admit I did buy one victoria's secret bra and had to try it on. I was to excited to not lol sometimes I wish I had gone bigger but than I realize how un natural I would look and that was not what I was going for. So in the end I am happy. :)
feeling regretful today....
I am beginning to wish I had been able to go bigger. But I know with my chest wall it would have ended up looking like torpedoes or bowling balls. Still, I wish all that money I paid could have given me my dream boobs...
Still not feeling entirely excited about my results.
Welp, I am 12 days post op, not as sore getting more defined cleavage but still not as excited about the final results as I thought I would be. Post partum depression type thing ya think? who knows. NO one responds to my posts anyway so I don't know if anyone else feels this way. Seem like the ones who go way big get all the attention. weird how that works. I will post more pics in hopes of someone reassuring me that I did not make a huge freaking mistake...
My before pic. The only one I could find for now.
Here is the way the girls looked pre op. Silly and childish in my opinion!
14 Days Post op today!!
Holy cow has time flown by! It seems like I waited forever for the day to come ( oh wait I did, 14 years) lol and now recovery is just flying by! I have received some very encouraging feedback and I can not express how wonderful that makes me feel so thank you to you all!! I am feeling a bit better especially when I get to take this surgical bra off lol. Still getting pings of pain on the tops but all nipple sensation I alive and well. When I look down at my chest that's when I feel down, it seems to look the same, but when I look to the side and front I can see the fullness and it feels better. I just have to keep reminding myself that they will be constantly changing for months and not to stress to much over it :) I rewarded myself with 4 new bras the other day that I cant wear yet... lol but I bought them anyway. I figure if I end up dropping and fitting into them differently it wont be a big deal they fit well now and I can tell there is still room in them for droppage and fluffage lol I posted some pics I took the other day so you can all see the difference now. :)
steri strips removed today...
OK so I had my steri strips removed today and I am terrified At how the incisions look!!!! My doc said they will eventually be invisible and I have faith in him, but OMG! WHY ARE THEY SO PUCKERED!!?? I am putting Emu oil on the incision sites now and still have to wear this surgical bra which I hate but I understand... luckily all my scars from previous injury induced surgeries have healed well and blend in with my pale skin, I just Really hope that these scars do the same. :(
Almost 3 weeks post op tomorrow!
I am feeling pretty good lately, a lot less muscle pain and I can use my arms when getting up from a chair without crying lol Sleeping on my side is still a bit uncomfortable and I the incisions are healing well I think. I still don't like the puckering but that will go away over time. I had my first glass of wine last week after 4 weeks! Oh my does pink Moscato taste good lol! I decided to re upload some of my photos that I previously took off after discussing it with my bf I think he understands why I need this site since I have no one else to talk to about this, no one else I can show my progress to and no one else to whine to if I am having an off week lol. There are still those times I wish I could have gone bigger, but when I try things on like old Halloween costumes that look awesome now and looked silly then, I feel better! Anyway, figured I'd post another update since its been a bit, I hope you are all well :)
4 weeks post OP
Well another week has gone by and I am still having my moments of regret about having spent so much money and getting so little out of it. I feel like I am dropping weird too... Maybe I am just being too self critical. At 5'5" 130 lbs my 235cc moderate gel implants just seem too small still :( I hate feeling this way since I know I look substantially better than I did 5 weeks ago, and my sister told me I look fabulous and my bust size finally matches my hip size. I always said I was twiggy on the top and Beyoncé on the bottom lol. My breasts are getting softer but in exchange they seem to not be as full as I was last week, which is really disappointing. Maybe someone else can tell me if I am just seeing things or if I am in fact dropping weird.
Just a quick update
So I am 5 weeks post op and feeling reasonably good. My birthday came and went with out much excitement. I spent the day with my son at his dentist appointment and then went to lunch and had Ice cream. I don't think I will post any photos this week seeing as not much has changed in a week other than I feel like I have lost quite a bit of the fullness I really loved, but I know that was the swelling and I shouldn't be focused on that. I am having some pain on the left side in the outer pectoral muscle. I think I am sleeping too much on my left side... I'm not sure. I have my 6 week po appointment next Wednesday so hopefully my doc can let me know if all is good there. I am seriously hating these surgical bras now... since the swelling went away they don't fit as tight as before so they feel loose and cumbersome. I wish I could just wear a non padded sports bra or something but he was very strict on the fact that I have to wear this one for 3 freakin months...
They have softened up considerably but still don't really move as well I had thought they would at 5 weeks. Maybe that is just because of how tight my muscles were to start so they are still trying to stretch to mold to the implant... all guessing here. Anywho, I hope everyone is having a great week and healing is going well for you all and for those who have yet to undergo surgery, Good Luck!!!
They have softened up considerably but still don't really move as well I had thought they would at 5 weeks. Maybe that is just because of how tight my muscles were to start so they are still trying to stretch to mold to the implant... all guessing here. Anywho, I hope everyone is having a great week and healing is going well for you all and for those who have yet to undergo surgery, Good Luck!!!
6 weeks post op today :)
6 weeks! Wow has time flown by! ok, so I am feeling better regarding my size now seeing as I know I really don't and wont have the resources to do it again and go bigger. Maybe someday, but for now, I can live with a 2 cup increase in size :) I still have some tenderness on the outside near my armpits, but not too bad, the scars have smoothed out and are just red now and after seeing my many other scars heal up, I know that in about a year they will be nearly invisible. I have my 6 week post op appointment on Wednesday, so I am anxious to hear what he has to say about my progress. Hopefully he will let me out of this silly surgical bra finally! I doubt it, he was pretty insistent on the 3 months. I would really like to just wear an unpadded demi bra, I have one I bought from VS that is really comfortable that I will wear once in a while for a couple hours just to put something less constricting on, but... I doubt he will give me the ok lol. Oh well. If it keeps everything in place and lets me heal without complications then I guess I will live for another 6 weeks. I posted some pics that show how I am sitting now, the one pic in the tank is in the unpadded demi bra. I am still small, but not nearly as small as I was and now I feel like I am much more proportionate than I was! Talk to you all later!!
before and after photos
I had my 6 week post op appointment today and my doc says I am healing very nicely! He also said my scars look good and will eventually be basically invisible :) He took some photos today so I got to see a side by side and all I gotta say is WOW! Whenever I start feeling down about not going bigger I will just look back at this picture and I will feel better seeing as the difference is pretty big!
Dr. Rand was amazing. His staff and nurses were wonderful and the facility was warm and welcoming. My only complaint was that their online ad for out of town clients was a bit misleading. It said hotel and limo accommodations and specialized nursing care would be provided. What they failed to mention was that this was all out of pocket if I wanted it. So it ended up being a bit of a hassle to get there and spend the extra money on a hotel and taxi. That is my one and only complaint. The surgery and how I was treated was well beyond my expectations and I can't wait to see him on my next follow up!
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After reading the article "Sliplining success: hit or myth" (page 125 of the Spring 2005 Manual) and analyzing the possibilities, I noticed an error in the "Maintaining flow capacity by sliplining" section and felt this conclusion could be misleading. The statement, "we derive a Q1/Q2 value of 1.15" is incorrect; the value of Q1/Q2 is 0.87. The resultant conclusion is the same but this should have been written Q2= 1.15 × Q1.
The logic in the conclusion, as I see this, could have disastrous consequences if a pipe system is not analyzed completely. Essentially this conclusion completely disregards the energy of a pipe system and only focuses on the flow volume. This is especially important when talking about stormwater flows were understanding the energy of a system is often more important than flow. When considering replacement of a damaged pipe, the peak design flow is usually known and will not vary. Increasing flow is not the issue. By replacing the pipe with a smaller diameter the area decreases and the velocity for this peak flow must increase (Q=VA). If the velocity increases too much you have the potential to blow a manhole lid, erode an outlet designed for a much smaller velocity, or create a backwater effect with flooding upstream. I see this as a safety problem to consider that would far out way any benefits associated with costs.
To summarize, the main reason this conclusion seemed misleading is because it is very possible that a maintenance worker could implement this type of repair based on the statements in this article to save time and money without consulting an engineer, or without consideration to the engineering that was involved in the original design of an entire system.
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It was with great interest that I read the article "Good culverts gone bad" (March 2005, page 38) and the resultant letters to the editor authored by Rich Gottwald, president of the Plastic Pipe Institute, and Dan Edwards, chief engineer, NCSPA. In reading the two letters it is clear that current thinking remains firmly entrenched in the concept of maximizing design service life. In this context, "design service life" is readily replaced with "maintenance-free service life." However, one can argue that there is very little reliability in the determination of design service life. Methodologies used to determine the expected service life of any of the major drainage pipe types have large variability.
The environmental conditions these pipes are exposed to, as well as backfill materials, backfill compactive effort, and maintenance activities all play a part in the service life that can be expected. It is dangerous to expect any buried structure to reach 50, 75, or 100 years in service without routine inspection and maintenance. The propagation of such long service lives, by both owners and manufacturers, for these buried pipes only exacerbated the problem. The argument can be made that there needs to be a paradigm shift from "maintenance-free service life" to proper asset management, including inspection and maintenance of these pipes.
I have complete confidence that both HDPE and CSP pipes can be successfully installed and easily reach 100 years in service with routine maintenance. Without such maintenance, regardless of what the research suggests, I have very little confidence in making the 100-year claim.
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But even you play the best games, you still have to know the proper strategy. If you play craps but make the sucker bets, or make lots of bets at once, you might as well be playing a slot machine. And with blackjack, you need to know whether to hit, stand, split, or double down on each hand, not to mention how to identify the best games. (For the strategy, you can see my blackjack strategy table, or buy a similar one at any Vegas gift shop for $1.50.)
The difference between playing smart and playing on a whim is staggering. Play craps, blackjack, or baccarat for $5/hand with proper strategy and you'll lose only around $8/hr. on average. On a $0.25 slot machine you'll lose $36 and have a much lower chance of winning overall. Heck, even a nickel slot machine loses twice as much per hour as one of the $5 table games I recommend.
Moral of the story: If you're going to play,
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A betting system is a specific plan of how much to bet, based on whether previous rounds were wins or losses, to increase your chances of winning in the short term. No betting system works in the long term, which is another way of saying that no betting system can overcome the house edge. The fact that you're more likely to win in the short term is balanced by the fact that when you do lose, you'll lose big bigger than if you hadn't used a betting system.
Here are two examples. The Martingale Betting System has you double your bet after a loss. Say you bet $5 and lose. Next time you bet $10. If you lose you bet $20. If you lose you bet $40. At the end of the sequence when you finally win, you'll show a $5 profit. The main problem with this system is that if you lose a bunch of bets in a row you won't be able to afford to make the next bet. The other problem is that even if you could, the casino will limit how much you can wager.
A less dangerous system is to increase your bet by 50% every time you win. Say you bet $8. If you win then you'll increase your bet by half that ($4), so next time you'll bet $12. If you win that then you'll add $6, so you'll bet $18. If you win that then you add $9 so you're betting $27. Whenever you lose you start over with $8. This is safer than the Martingale because you bet more when you're winning, not when you're losing.Another system is to bet half, one-third, or one-fourth of your remaining chips on each hand. That gives you a much greater chance of reaching a large goal (such as to double the amount you started with) vs. flat-betting (which means to bet the same amount on each round).
Betting systems are fun, but they never tilt the odds in your favor. In fact they don't even decrease the odds. They do make it more likely that you'll win in the short term, with the tradeoff being that when you do lose, your loss will be large. For more, see my separate article on betting systems.
If you're playing roulette and red has just come up ten times in a row, should you bet on red or black for the next spin? The answer is that it doesn't matter. Each result is equally likely. Past results do not influence future results. Many a gambler's downfall has been the mistaken belief that you can discern any kind of pattern in the results. It simply doesn't work that way. If it did, the casinos would not be standing. But in reality, the casinos are happy to encourage people's delusions by providing pads of paper for them to keep track of previous spins, and they even have a marquee at the table which shows the results of the last several spins. The casinos have no fear in providing this because they know there's absolutely no benefit to you in having that information. This is not a gray area, and it's not something that the experts disagree on: Every single mathematician on the planet will tell you the exact same thing, that each spin is absolutely random. For more, see my separate article on the gambler's fallacy.
If you want to gamble $1000 or less, then just carry it. A money belt is a good idea. If it would devastate you to lose that sum to a pickpocket or other random mishap you shouldn't be gambling that amount anyway.
For larger amounts, you have two options:
- Get a cashier's check from the bank and bring it to the casino's cashier ("the cage").
- Apply for a line of credit at the casino.
For cashier's checks, be sure to fax a copy of the check to the cage at least a day before you arrive. You'll want to give them time to verify that it's good. If you arrive in the evening, they won't be able to verify the check with your bank until the bank opens in the morning. Note that if you're staying in the hotel, you can deposit that money at the cage so you don't have to carry it around with you all the time.
For a line of credit, call the casino and apply ahead of time. If approved, then when you sit down at the tables or the machines you can ask for a "marker", which is a draw on your line of credit. If you're in the red at the end of your trip (and you probably will be), the casino generally gives you 30 days to send them a check to settle up.
Using a debit card tied to your checking account in an ATM is okay, but your bank probably limits the amount you can withdraw per day to $500 to $1000, and the casino ATM will charge you at least $4 on top of what your bank charges you.
What you absolutely should not do is to get a cash advance on your credit card, whether with a live teller or with a machine. First off, they'll start charging you interest from the millisecond they give you the cash, and most credit cards charge 20% per month or more. And if you get the advance from one of the machines in the casino, they'll tack on a whopping fee of their own, a minimum of 2% of the total. Ouch.
Just sit down at the table and lay your cash down. It has to be cash, they don't take credit cards at the table. If you have a line of credit as mentioned above, then you can ask for a marker, and they'll give you chips as a loan. You don't have to draw your full line of credit, of course. If you have $10k of credit, you can draw a $1k marker, for example. The dealer handles cash, but if you're drawing a marker then you'll need to ask one of the people roaming around in suits to handle the marker for you.
After you've laid your cash down you might have to wait while the dealer finishes dealing the current hand. After that, she'll count out your money, and count out some chips, and slide them over to you. The denominations are $5 (red), $25 (green), $100 (black), $500 (purple), and $1000 (yellow). She may ask you "How do you want that?", meaning do you want all green chips, all red chips, or a mix? Dealers don't make change, so 100% of any money you put on the table will be changed into chips. Of course, you don't have to bet all of them, and you can turn your chips into cash when you're done playing.
When you're done playing you'll "color up", which is to turn your chips into higher denominations so you have fewer chips to carry to the cashier. Just push your chips towards the dealer and say, "Color up, please." She'll change your chips and give you the larger denominations. If you're not going to gamble any more then walk your chips over to the cashier (the "cage") to cash them in. You can't cash your chips in at the table.
All the games use the same chips, except roulette. With roulette each player uses a different color, so it's easy to see who bet on what. You can buy roulette chips with regular chips or with cash.
Studies show that men gamble more for the adrenaline rush, or to bolster their masculinity, while women gamble more to be part of an escapist fantasy, or to be sociable. (Journal of Gambling Studies, Electronic Journal of Gambling Issues, NZ Herald)
And of course, some people gamble because of a compulsive addiction that is not easy to control. The good news there is that it's definitely possible for individuals who gamble compulsively to stop. (Kansas City Star) Related to this, certain prescription drugs encourage gambling behavior, especially those used to treat Parkinson's Disease. A friend of mine with not much gambling history suddenly became a compulsive gambler after he started taking medicine for Parkinson's. It sent his life into a downward spiral, but the good news is that once he realized the connection to the meds, he switched to different medication and now has been completely gambling-free.
One of the more interesting findings from psychological research is that we're more interested in something when the rewards are inconsistent. If a test animal gets a reward every time it presses a lever, it quickly loses interest in the lever. But if it only sometimes gets a reward and sometimes doesn't, then suddenly the lever becomes fascinating. Slot machines have tapped into that concept perfectly: They give inconsistent rewards, and keep us trying to chase the next win. (Live Science 2005)
Here's something that's crazy to me: When someone wins a huge jackpot, say $1 million or more, what do they do next? Many people go right back to playing slots! I don't mean the next day or the next week, but just minutes later, like the person who won $2.9 million on the Wizard of Oz slot in December 2010. (LV Review-Journal) What exactly is the point? What do they hope to get out of continuing to play? In my mind, when you hit a jumbo jackpot, you won. You beat the house. You achieved that ultra-rare event. Congratulations. You can stop playing now, because there's nothing more to gain by continuing. Yet many jackpot winners keep going. That smells like compulsion to me.Here's my rule of thumb: If you're smiling when you're playing, then it's entertainment. If you're not smiling, then you're not really having fun, and ought to consider quitting, or at least taking a break.
It depends on how you define it. Yes, both gambling and investing means putting your capital at risk for the chance of getting more capital. (And I've certainly lost more money in the stock market than I ever have at the casino!) The reason we don't usually consider investing to be gambling is that with most forms of investing you'll probably win, while in the casino you'll probably lose. InvestorGuide has a good article about investing vs. gambling.
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