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Happy Tau Day, everyone! It's hard to believe it's already been six years since The Tau Manifesto launched and the real battle against pi's supremacy began.
I don't keep careful statistics, but I can confidently state that awareness of tau is enormously widespread. As an active member of the Caltech alumni community, for example, I frequently meet Caltech undergraduates, and they've virtually always heard of Tau Day.
Similarly, I've found in the programmer community that a fair fraction have heard of tau. In my own little corner of tech, every so often someone will freak out upon realizing that the author of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial and The Tau Manifesto are the same person. Indeed, today I hope to blow more than a few such minds, because I've just launched the new edition of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial book—on Tau Day!
One cool thing is seeing people wearing the Official Tau Shirt, which as usual is available for a limited time (sales expire tomorrow). For example, my mother reported seeing one on an elementary school student in Orange County, California, last year. And just a couple of weeks ago I was driving through downtown Los Angeles when I saw a woman wearing a Tau Shirt. I recognized her as my friend Carol Hoffstedt, so I rolled down the window and said, "Hey, Carol! You win!" I mean, what are the odds!?
As in previous years, people continue to amaze me with the incredible variety of creative projects inspired by tau. For example, an alert tauist passed along this remarkable Tau Day Sonnet, written for Tau Day last year:
As a big fan of the sonnet form myself, I can hardly imagine a better Tau Day present than this. Well, maybe beer (see below).
A second tauist, this one at MIT, told me about a "Tau Day Hack" involving "Tau on the Cow" (don't ask me exactly what it means!):
I'm glad to see MIT picking up the tau ball and running with it—and challenge my fellow Techers at Caltech to do the same. (Hint, hint!)
Finally, the ever-enthusiastic Joseph Lindenberg passed along this fantastic bit of tau culture found in a most unexpected place: a specialty beer from Hawkshead Brewery called Key Lime Tau!
The [Key Lime Tau] beer, originally a collaboration brew with Crooked Stave (USA), is our take on a key lime pie. It was brewed on both sides of the Atlantic, hence two 'pies' and is 6.28% in strength.
6.28% in strength! How can you not love that?!
Alas, it looks like Key Lime Tau beer is pretty hard to come by, and I haven't yet procured any for myself, but for next year I'll do my best to fulfill the promise implicit in this lovely poster, and drink Hawkshead Key Lime Tau on International Tau Day!
Until next year—Happy Tau Day!
Michael Hartl
Founder, Tau Day
Author, The Tau Manifesto
Happy Tau Day 2015! Interest in the true circle constant (τ = C/r = 6.283185…) and The Tau Manifesto continued unabated this year, highlighted by a surge of attention on the "Pi [Half Tau] Day of the Century" (3/14/15). (Tau will have its revenge on 6/28/31—party at my place!) As one of the leaders of the "opposition", I was invited to the Pi Day festivities at the Exploratorium in San Francisco—the organization that originally created Pi Day—but I was on vacation in Barcelona at the time and was unable to attend. (I know, rough life!) That the invitation was proffered in the first place is an excellent sign, though, as it serves as proof that even the Paladins of Pi recognize tau as a legitimate rival.
Here are some of the highlights since last year's Tau Day:
I gave a well-received 15-minute talk at the BIL Conference (Los Angeles regional). BIL was founded as a sort of counter-conference to TED, and it was my pleasure to have the opportunity to prepare a condensed version of the original Tau Talk suitable for a general audience.
Inspired by feedback from the BIL talk, I've updated The Tau Manifesto with some new material, including added emphasis on an important observation: while there are infinitely many two-dimensional shapes with constant diameter, there is only one (the circle) with constant radius.
In case you missed it, tau/2 at Google evaluates to 3.14159… This got a big ovation at the BIL Conference talk!
In advance of Half Tau Day, Taylor University hosted the Indiana Mathematical Association of America Spring Section meeting, which featured the Great Tau/Pi Debate of 2015. Check it out, and decide for yourself who makes the better argument!
Robin Whitty continued to use tau freely in on his site Theorem of the Day. In fact, he's concluded that tau is now well-known enough among his readers that it doesn't require additional explanation, writing that "Four out of the last 10 theorems I've posted at theoremoftheday.org have featured tau and I've now given up adding (=2pi) on the assumption that everyone should know by now!"
Joseph Thiebes has created some tau-inspired merchandise at Tau Stuff, featuring several different tau pendant designs.
To improve his trigonometry course, mathematics teacher Phil Smith modified a couple of open-source math textbooks to use tau, and has posted the results online at Tau for Trigonometry. Thanks, Phil!
Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo from Fathom Information Design reports on the success of a second "tau fiesta" called ¡FiesTau!, which involved the "whole office playing Taupardy!, our own Jeopardy-inspired Tau quiz game written in Processing [a programming language that supports tau]." They've even released the source of Taupardy!, so now anyone can play! Fathom Information Design is also the maker of Peep in Tau, an app that lets you search for a number of your choice in the digits of tau.
Joseph Lindenberg shares an analogy he's found useful in explaining tau to the uninitiated:
Using tau instead of pi makes math clearer, and thus easier to understand.
Using pi is like having a weird car whose odometer and speedometer display half-miles and half-miles-per-hour, while all the road signs show miles and miles-per-hour.
(The road signs of math are naturally in units of tau.)
So you constantly have to convert between what your car says and what the road signs say. 55 mile-per-hour speed limit? Make sure your speedometer needle doesn't go over 110. But instead of nice round numbers like 55, imagine the sign says 68.7 miles-per-hour. So your speedometer needle shouldn't go above… how much? Your trip odometer reads 35.7. So you've traveled… how many miles?
Sometimes you must multiply by 2. Sometimes you must divide by 2. And before doing either, you must always stop and decide which to do in this particular case. If you're driving in heavy traffic, or bad weather, or you're lost, you don't want that distraction. The same is true if you're lost while trying to learn trigonometry.
Thanks for all the support! For me, that makes for a very happy Tau Day.
Michael Hartl
Founder, Tau Day
Author, The Tau Manifesto
Happy Tau Day, everyone! This was a huge year for $\tau$, with continued adoption in programming languages and classrooms, appearances in a couple of prominent webcomics (xkcd & SMBC), and a big endorsement from Google. I also received an amazing parable about pi and tau from a precocious high-school student—seriously, give it a read.
Here's a list of some of the highlights since Tau Day 2013:
$\tau$ made an appearance in an installment of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, which proposes "pau" ($1.5\pi$) as a compromise between pi and tau. Be sure to hover over the image to see the bonus joke: "Conveniently approximated as $e+2$, Pau is commonly known as the Devil's Ratio (because in the octal expansion, '666' appears four times in the first 200 digits while no other run of 3+ digits appears more than once)." (UPDATE: An alert reader points to a discussion at explain xkcd that casts some doubt on one of the claims made in the bonus joke.)
$\tau$ made an appearance in an installment of the wildly popular webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (SMBC), which features a proud father bragging that his two-year-old child correctly calculated the "pi–tau constant" (i.e., 2). Be sure to click the big red button to see the bonus panel, in which the pi–tau constant appears as the comically obfuscated expression $K_{\pi\mathrm{-}\tau} = \sqrt{\left(e^{\ln (\tau/\pi)}\right)^2}$.
Google's online calculator added support for $\tau$. For example, watch as Google correctly evaluates sin(τ/8).
Mathbreakers, a 3-D math exploration game, incorporated tau into its game world for teaching radian angle measure. Check out the Rainbow Radians demo video and the Mathbreakers Kickstarter campaign.
The Modula-2 programming language, originally developed by Niklaus Wirth and currently being revised by Benjamin Kowarsch and Rick Sutcliffe, now includes tau in its standard library.
The piClock iPhone & iPad app, which finds the current time inside the digits of mathematical constants, has added a "now with tau" badge and invites you to "double your pi-leasure and take a turn with tau."
An 18-year-old high-school student from Oxfordshire, England, wrote a clever parody of $\pi$, published here with his permission: A Parable by Oliver Sayeed.
David Taylor of prooffreader.com published the über-nerdy and awesomely numerological post "Pi vs. tau: Ultimate Smackdown". (Spoiler alert: tau wins.)
Scientific American published the excellent article "Why Tau Trumps Pi" by Randyn Charles Bartholomew. The URL still reveals the original title, "Let's Use Tau—It's Easier Than Pi," and I can't believe I didn't think of the tagline "Tau is easier than pi" myself. Brilliant!
I've been gratified by the continued enthusiasm for $\tau$ since the launch of The Tau Manifesto in 2010. I especially appreciate the support of Robert Palais, Joseph Lindenberg, Peter Harremoës, Robin Whitty, Vi Hart, and all the tauists who've reached out about $\tau$ in the past four years. Here's to another great year ahead for $\tau$!
—Michael Hartl, Tau Day 2014
It's been a big year for $\tau$. When I launched The Tau Manifesto back on Tau Day 2010, I hoped that $\tau$ might strike a chord, but its popularity has exceeded my wildest expectations—due in large part to the efforts of the many ardent tauists who picked up $\tau$ and ran with it. Now three years on, activity surrounding both the constant and the notation continues apace. In honor of Tau Day 2013, I've listed below some of the highlights from the last year. Enjoy, and Happy Tau Day!
Michael Hartl
Founder, Tau Day
Author, The Tau Manifesto
Note: I'd like to thank Joseph Lindenberg, Robert Palais, Robin Whitty, and Peter Harremoës for their help in compiling this list.


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Not certain why you reference this thread at least not page two the first post the op writes I can understand the connection to my thread here. Also I am not really Fearful I am just feeling this "awareness" that gives me concern for us.
I put it there because I have an very uneasy feeling as well.
Been having a lot of weird sleep patters and vivid dreams.
Then I read that thread I posted and it mentioned about the "Cease fire" hapenning just before some real terrible SHTF.
Just a thought.
k well I read the thread I do know I have wanted to move out of US for a number of years (at least away from the New Madrid Fault) but will not as my family all live here, not that there is a "safe" place as anything can happen anywhere....I just wish the desception would end, people are all raving and talking about Black Friday and all the shopping deals I feel it is just SO not important and a waste of money to go blow on too many presents not that I do not love to give gifts it just seems like there are more important things to be doing.
Exactly thank you. Who cares about shopping I am so sick of this fast-paced North American lifestyle. People are so brainwashed what about all of the innocent people being killed every day I want to talk to them and pray for them.
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The constitutional power to make war: domestic legal issues raised by Australia's action in Iraq
Sampford, Charles & Palmer, Margret (2009) The constitutional power to make war: domestic legal issues raised by Australia's action in Iraq. Griffith Law Review: A Journal of Social and Critical Legal Studies, 18(2), pp. 350-384.
The legal power to declare war has traditionally been a part of a prerogative to be exercised solely on advice that passed from the King to the Governor-General no later than 1942. In 2003, the Governor- General was not involved in the decision by the Prime Minister and Cabinet to commit Australian troops to the invasion of Iraq. The authors explore the alternative legal means by which Australia can go to war - means the government in fact used in 2003 - and the constitutional basis of those means. While the prerogative power can be regulated and/or devolved by legislation, and just possibly by practice, there does not seem to be a sound legal basis to assert that the power has been devolved to any other person. It appears that in 2003 the Defence Minister used his legal powers under the Defence Act 1903 (Cth) (as amended in 1975) to give instructions to the service head(s). A powerful argument could be made that the relevant sections of the Defence Act were not intended to be used for the decision to go to war, and that such instructions are for peacetime or in bello decisions. If so, the power to make war remains within the prerogative to be exercised on advice. Interviews with the then Governor-General indicate that Prime Minister Howard had planned to take the matter to the Federal Executive Council 'for noting', but did not do so after the Governor-General sought the views of the then Attorney-General about relevant issues of international law. The exchange raises many issues, but those of interest concern the kinds of questions the Governor-General could and should ask about proposed international action and whether they in any way mirror the assurances that are uncontroversially required for domestic action. In 2003, the Governor-General's scrutiny was the only independent scrutiny available because the legality of the decision to go to war was not a matter that could be determined in the High Court, and the federal government had taken action in March 2002 that effectively prevented the matter coming before the International Court of Justice
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If all else fails, what is your all time favorite go to pump up jam?
It changes every couple games but right now it's One Moment (Romain G vs Nick Svenson Bootleg) by Swedish House Mafia vs. Tim Mason
Who are your five favorite artists of all time?
Hank Williams Jr., Avicii, Young Jeezy, Wiz Khalifa, and Swedish House Mafia
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Is there an artist or band that mimics your style of play or is your counterpart in the music world?
Tough question. I don't score a whole lot of unassisted goals and usually my teammates are the ones doing all the work so I can be left open. I think the musical version of making something look/sound better than it is would be anything that is 'auto-tuned', so I'll go with that.
If one song could come on when you entered a room what would it be?
"I Am a Real American" by Rick Derringer. Walk out song for both Hulk Hogan and Kenny Powers in Eastbound and Down.
If you could mash up 3 songs into one what would you choose?
I'm not sure how it would sound but I think the idea of One by Swedish House Mafia, Levels by Avicii, and In The Air (Axwell Remix) by TV Rock feat. Rudy could be legit.
What songs are popular right now in the locker room? Who claims to be the team DJ? More importantly, who actually is the team DJ?
Calling Lose My Mind (Full Vocal Mix) by Sebastian Ingrosso & Alesso
Years by Alesso feat. Swedish House Mafia
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Pills (Go Buck Bootleg) by Gucci Mane
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Marcus Holman is definitely the team DJ. Tyler "Dr Beats" Morton would probably argue with that. He is a habitual music changer in social settings.
Who has the worst taste in music taste on the team?
I've heard freshman Derek Henson rocking out to some pretty interesting 90s punk rock… To each their own I guess.
Chattanooga, Tennessee's own Troy Kemp Jr. has got musical tastes similar to mine so I'll go with him for best taste. Well known for his highlight tape on YouTube and his ability to dangle on the sticks in Fifa (gamertag: SlapjaX). Also check out his fake twitter account when you get a chance it's @StuffTroyJrSays
What are a few songs that headline your team's warm up mix? Who is left in charge with the monumental decision of what goes on the warm up mix?
Marcus Holman is in charge of it and he asks for help from his better half and fellow Gilman Greyhound, Davey Emala. He pretends to ask me for my input but I don't think he actually ever listens to what I'm saying. The opening three on the warm up this year are Gotta Have It by Kanye & Jay Z, Lunar Levels by David Guetta/Avicii, and Another Day in Paradise (Big Room Club Mix) by Massmann vs. Ippytraxx feat. FAB. There's some classic rock somewhere in there too.
Usually each year a team develops an "anthem" that seems to get played after big wins or in times of need. What is your team's "anthem" right now?
Don't know if I can pick just one so here are three: Look Like Money by Gorilla Zoe, I'm Fitted by Chip the Ripper, and Loca People by Sak Noel (downloaded/discovered from BGB). Guaranteed to hear all of those in the locker room after a victory.
What is the best live show you have ever attended? If you could attend any show or music event what would it be?
Over the past year, I had the opportunity to see Axwell perform in Dallas (with Marcus Holman), went to Electric Zoo in NYC (with Kieran McDonald, Tyler Morton, Billy Bitter and Matt Holman), and then headed to Avicii in DC (with half the team). It's hard to pick one of these over the others because all three were awesome. Continuing the trend, Ultra Music Festival seems like the place to be so hopefully I can make it down there in the future.
How or where do you find new music?
Home sharing on iTunes used to be about as far as I had to go to find new music. Former housemate and teammate Billy Bitter downloaded a ton of music everyday so I used to be able to just pick it up out of his iTunes library. Since he graduated I have to do the work myself now, so I visit two music blogs/websites: Sound Above the Seal and BGB. Dartmouth lacrosse alum Rhett Miller is a close friend and former high school teammate so I've been fortunate enough to know about Big Green Beats for a few years now.
College students love new music. College students also are incredibly lazy. Big Green Beats is your one stop to sample all the newest music while putting off all of your other responsibilities just a little bit longer. Our dedicated team has years of musical experience and Ph.Ds in crushing the Internet music scene. We do the work searching around so you can live the life of leisure and beats. Our team is networked across the country so that we feel the local pulse at all universities, ensuring that no regional hit is missed.
The BigGreenBeats team started small, using the website to share music between close friends and had no aspiration of spreading our reach across the country and slowly infiltrating countries around the world. After expanding our reach, we have begun to focus more on up and coming artists, remixes, mashups and everything in between.
All of the members of the BGB team are current or former DI lacrosse players and after years of listening to locker room music and countless warm-up CDs, we figured 'why not share with the lacrosse community what we hear and have heard on a daily basis for the past few years of our lives?' Hopefully, you enjoy hearing from some of the biggest names in lacrosse about what type of music they listen to and how it's influenced their lacrosse lives.


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Teen Council - January
USU Extension - Washington County
Monday, January 12, 2015 from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (MST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
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Come join us for Washington County's 4-H Leadership Teen Council meeting
Monday, January 12, 2014
4:00 - 5:30
4-H Makerspace
USU Washington County Extension Office
475 S. Donlee Drive
St. George, UT 84770
Prep for Winter Retreat
Leadership and Team Building Activities
and of course great food, fun, and friends!
The 4-H Teen Council is open to all 4-H members in High School who have a desire to improve their leadership skills, to make a difference in their community, and who are willing to work together to build self esteem, foster an environment of acceptance and promote positive life skills.
When & Where
USU Extension - Washington County Office
475 S Donlee Dr
St George,
Monday, January 12, 2015 from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (MST)
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Chevrolet Volt Sales Dip in November
Chevrolet's answer to the electric car problem, the Volt, faltered in sales last month, dropping to roughly half the volume seen in September and October.
It's an issue GM executive Don Johnson downplayed during a conference call, saying last month's shortcomings were because of supply problems and not poor demand. In fact, he said dealers are clamoring for increased supply. On top of that, November sales year over year actually rose 33 percent.
Still, it's hard to see that as positive, especially in the long term when Chevrolet is facing a growing army of competing cars. There weren't many viable alternatives when the Volt went on sale in 2011, but that didn't last long. Other automakers were quick to offer plug-in hybrids and now customers can pick cars like the Prius Plug-In or the Ford C-Max Energi.
SEE ALSO: 2013 Ford C-MAX Energi Review
Chevrolet aimed to have sold 45,000 Volts by the end of the year, which means actual sales will ring in somewhere around half the brand's target. Once again, that's a gain over 2011. Chevrolet has also dealt with shutting down the plant where it builds the Volt twice this year, hampering production.
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Grass has been confirmed as the surface for the Davis Cup final against Spain at Rod Laver Arena in November, as has Tennis Australia's nomination of more conventional 11am start times for both days of singles competition.
While television dictated that the recent semi-final defeat of Switzerland was geared around 3pm sessions, with the second match starting not before 6.30pm, Australia has submitted a proposal to the London-based International Tennis Federation for matches to begin at 11am on Friday and Sunday, and at 2pm for Saturday's doubles rubber.
Rights-holder Channel Seven was given greater programming flexibility by the postponement of the Australian Open golf until December to avoid a clash with the tennis, although any push for later starts would necessarily have been complicated by the grasscourt preference of John Fitzgerald's team, and the slippery dew-related dangers of playing outdoors at night.
"If Channel Seven had utopia, that's what they'd want, but they know because it's grass, we need those earlier times and the players wanted those earlier times," Tennis Australia's events manager, Fenton Coull, said yesterday. The ITF may change the schedule by an hour at most, and even that is unlikely, while approval for the portable turf will be a similar formality.
Australian officials are confident the court will have benefited from the two years that have passed since its only previous use, in the disastrous 2001 final against France, when the eight-month-old court was criticised for providing a patchy, uneven and shifting surface.
"The advantage now is that the court's two years older and more mature, and in much better condition," said Coull, who had just returned from an inspection. "Last time, we had to mix and match a few of the modules, especially ones that were worn even when we got them here, but this time, the court will just go straight down, exactly the same way it's sitting at Seymour."
The turf pallets will be transported on two or three semi-trailers shuttling to and from the StrathAyr nursery, before being laid at Melbourne Park from November 17-19, ahead of the final from November 28-30.
With the Spanish generally favouring clay, the fast surface is expected to work to the advantage of Wimbledon finalist Mark Philippoussis, who broke a two-year title drought by defeating Jiri Novak in Sunday's Shanghai final, thus improving his chances of a debut appearance at the eight-man Tennis Masters Cup in Houston, a fortnight before the Davis Cup final.
Philippoussis has risen two places to ninth in the ATP Champions Race, one spot and 20 points ahead of compatriot Lleyton Hewitt, but 48 points in arrears of eighth-placed David Nalbandian.
The five confirmed qualifiers are grand slam winners Andy Roddick, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Roger Federer and Andre Agassi, along with Argentine Guillermo Coria. Rainer Schuettler and Spanish Davis Cup player Carlos Moya are sixth and seventh.
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Tool Truck Information?
Recently I bought a Ryobi Nailer/Stapler combo from a tool truck that you see in different towns. They usually bring a couple of semi's and are set up in a legion hall or something. When I got it home, I saw that it didn't have the latch that holds the nails/staples in. I contacted the company, which they said they would get a new nailer sent out to me. The last email I have is dated 9/17. I emailed them back last weekend, and have heard nothing yet. Does anyone have any other information or a phone number of who to get ahold of? I know this is not a lot of information to go off of, but it's all I have. The original email I sent was to firstname.lastname@example.com . Guess I'll always remember to make sure all the parts are there before I take it home.
a lot of those guys deal in closeouts, refurbs, and store returns. good luck. i hope they come through for you, but i wouldn't get my hopes up either
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A "homeless" beggar who commutes 220 miles from his flat to rake in money from people in Mayfair today appeared to defend his actions as "earning a living".
Damien Preston-Booth, who has been dubbed "Supertramp", claims benefits, recently went on holidays to Ibiza, Monaco and Paris, and uses a mobile card reader to take payments.
Today the 37-year-old was accused of conning passers-by by pretending to be homeless, and was said to have made £4,500 over the New Year alone.
But he appeared to dismiss the criticism, liking a message sent by a friend on Facebook which read: "Everybody has to earn a living damo ... Good luck to ya. There's no judgment here pal."
He also told how Simon Cowell had once given him £20.
Mr Preston-Booth commutes to London from his £300-a-month flat in Preston for a few days each week, typically sleeping in the doorway of Lebanese restaurant the Mamounia Lounge, or a hotel if the weather is bad. He is said to have targeted wealthy people at restaurants and bars for five years, with acquaintances calling it "a little business".
Emil Staykov, 45, the Mamounia's chief porter, said: "That guy is really arrogant. He asks our customers for money as they go in and then sleeps in the doorway.
"I have called the police on him loads of times and have been tempted just to throw him out myself. I knew he had money, he always had two phones.
He was horrible to the restaurant staff but would then be all smiles and jokes with the customers so they gave him money. That is a guy I do not like.
"He has not slept here for the last week or so probably because of the weather. We do not want him back."
Preston-Booth is said to take around five or six holidays a year, with pictures online showing himself enjoying in different tourist locations.
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A homeless man, who gave his name as Angus, said: "He is one of the most confident beggars around Mayfair. He is a well known face and is very good at getting people to part with money."
Confronted about his lifestyle, he told The Sun he used a chip and pin with his "regulars" and had "nothing to hide".
He admitted begging, which is illegal and carries a maximum £1,000 fine, and coming down to London after getting his flat in October.
He said: "I do it to buy things for the flat - not like smackheads who spend it on drugs and beers."
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One Year Ago Today: Pirates Bolster Bullpen
I've talked a few times the last few days about how the July 31st trade deadline doesn't represent the final opportunity to add talent for the 2011 season. I focused on the waiver trading period the other day, but what about waivers themselves? That's a way that the Pirates have plugged holes on their team in the past, and it could be an option this year if the right players become available. As an example of how teams can add talent via waivers, let's take a look at two moves that happened one year ago today.
A year ago today the Pirates were in a much different situation than they are currently in now. Their season was over with two months remaining. Not "over" as in "they're on a losing streak, and dropped to a game below .500, and now everyone is jumping off the bandwagon" over...
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Story Arcs and Double Rainbows August 2, 2015Posted by bobv451 in e-books, sci-fi, science fiction, sense of wonder, serial fiction, writing.
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..and even a pot of gold at the end of a series. Serial fiction can be like a mass murderer or a serial killer. The author's choice comes in which style to follow.
Mass murderers are indiscriminate and go for a big number in a particular setting. In its way, an open-ended series is like this, especially if written by many authors. I'd put the Jake Logan series in this category (for which I wrote around 130 titles). Each story used the same main character but no title referred to any of the others, details found in them or situations. If poor Slocum lost the love of his life in #131, title #132 made no mention of how it affected him–or that he even had a love of his life, much less lost her. Each title stood on its own, but the readers came back for a main character with familiar behavior and attitude. The trappings are the same but the situation changes along with the personnel.
Serial killers (and fiction) are more interesting in that a single MO is used, only every title hones the technique and drives toward a goal. Nothing indiscriminate. There is a story thread running through every book contributing to an overall story, while each book has its own problem to solve. That is, each should stand alone but contributes to the overall story. A trilogy is an obvious case with a big story being dealt with and each book pushing along the story. What happens in each preceding book is used and built on in subsequent ones.
Such a serial story can be done with a more open-ended scheme that is still not a "mass killer" book. These are more difficult to write since each book has to be interesting to a new reader who hasn't read earlier background stories but still intrigues those who have been along for the entire ride. The story never really has to end (think of that soap opera) but can if the story arc is satisfied.
I'm trying to get an open-ended series going (under the pen name Dana Fox). The eXtraodinary Bureau follows an FBI agent tasked with investigating possibly paranormal but likely highly technological crimes. Each story stands on its own but the story arc is not only his career advancement but his relationship with a feisty, independent woman caught between world wars where societal mores are changing dramatically. Ralph and Marla work together in Casefile 1, The Burning Man Anomaly but are on the outs in Casefile 2 being written now, The Aztec Automaton. The third title will have them together again. The story arc is their relationship; each title is an adventure that tests and strains and strengthens them.
Follow the arc and find a pot of gold. And you can even sign up for my mailing list with eXBureau info and a lot more.
Riding Off Into the Sunset October 26, 2014Posted by bobv451 in business, e-books, New Mexico, VIPub, westerns, Wild West, writing.
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If a song can be said to have an impact on my life, it might be Dylan's "The Times They Are A'Changin'". I have always liked the line about getting out of the way if you can't lend a hand. Looking at publishing this way has kept everything in perspective for me over a long writing career.
Ebooks changed the publishing world. Dead tree books will always be around but I found out Friday that there will be a lot fewer from a Big 5 publisher in the future. My editor of quite a few westerns (including Sonora Noose and The Great West Detective Agency) was gone. Along with her apparently went the entire Berkley line of westerns. Earlier this year they had gunned down all their monthly series. With this lynching, I'd say upward of 100 books won't be published next year. The times are, indeed, changing.
This opens the door for a slew of indie presses to fill the vacuum. And for VIPub (Vertically Integrated Publishing, where the author writes, edits, produces and markets the book–every aspect of traditional publishing all in the author's grip). Check out Western Fictioneers, Western Trail Blazer, Rough Edges Press, and more riding down the trail every day.
At the Lincoln County Cowboy Symposium I gave a talk on how the weird western has saved traditional westerns at least twice before. We may be looking at it happening a third time. The times are a' changin'. And we have to move along or get plowed under. For one, I see this and am doing what I can to stay in the saddle.
One benefit of speaking at the LCCS is meeting a lot of great people. Here's a picture of me with a very nice lady, 2014 >Mrs NM Kori Zwaagstra.
(Those are some of my books in the center!)
The Great West Detective Agency October 5, 2014Posted by bobv451 in e-books, history, outlaws, westerns, Wild West.
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October 7. Write it down. Check it out…the release of The Great West Detective Agency by "Jackson Lowry," of course. It has been a long trip getting here, or so it seems. Time travels in crazy spurts and long stretches like silly putty being pulled endlessly. The wait is over now and the book, both print and ebook, is available.
GWDA is my attempt at combining some elements of the traditional western and some humor a la Maverick with a mystery thrown in. I don't think mysteries have to be murder mysteries necessarily. There are plenty of gunfights and bodies littering the pages, but this is a "Maltese Falcon" type of story with the ultimate discovery, amid political infighting and double-crosses, popping up at the end to wrap up a lot of subplots.
And it all starts with a gambler being hired to find a lovely lady's poor little puppy dog.
This is the kind of story I enjoy reading. Something trivial snowballs into full-scale mayhem. GWDA has Russian revolutionaries, filibusterers, the possibility of Colorado seceding from the Union, millions in hidden treasure–and it all begins with Amanda Baldridge having her puppy stolen.
One thing about novels I've enjoyed is speculating on the backgrounds of characters. I've addressed that here with 4 Lives (in both print and ebook), a four story background on characters that play important roles in the story. In addition, the GWDA's first chapter is included as a taste of the book itself. This is a good way to ease into the world of ne'er-do-well gambler Lucas Stanton and how he came to be the reluctant owner of the GWDA.
It was great fun to write. I hope you'll find it as much fun to read.
What They Read (Kids) May 11, 2014Posted by bobv451 in business, e-books, education, ideas, iPad, sense of wonder, VIPub, web & computers, writing.
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Discoverability is an important part of any author's excursion through the profession. How do you get eyes on your work? A study on what kids in K-12 read makes for fascinating reading, especially when you dig down into it and find the youngest grades are more amenable to ebooks than other groups. I'd always said ereaders would never become commonplace until the earliest grades read using them. It has happened.
The report What Kids Are Reading is downloadable as a pdf and takes a while to go through.
Here are some of my takeaways.
Many of these books are assigned by teachers and, to my way of thinking, aren't of much use to us as writers of VIPub original fiction. A student reading To Kill A Mockingbird as a class assignment is less important than finding that Hunger Games has found itself a high ranking over the past few years or that the younger students read Dav Pilkey. Those are hardly revelations but give direction to our hunt to garner new readers. One trend that seems obvious to me in the younger readers (pre 6th grade) is the number of "outcast" stories. The kids want stories in the little tailor vein, Heinlein's ordinary person who overcomes great peril to triumph as an individual. Superheroes are ok (are we being force fed them?) but the kids read stories about solitary heroes and heroines, probably because they see themselves that way (a fight between Katniss Everdeen and Percy Jackson?). No super powers, just outcast and subpar and wanting to do great things. Stories of accomplishment seem to rate higher than those of ordering the kids to have self-esteem. SF looks important in this extracurricular reading.
As long as I have been in science fiction fandom, there has been the semi-joke about the golden age of sf being 12. This report bears that out when you look at the number of words read by each grade group (page 55). The sixth graders read the most. You might make the argument later grades are reading more challenging books and are therefore reading less due to the time it takes to wade through. Maybe so, but if you want to capture an audience and keep it, find what appeals to a 6th grader. By that age they have access to an ereader, are becoming autonomous and developing their tastes in reading, and probably have more money to spend on their epurchases than the authors writing the stories.
Mostly, I need to sift through this report and find what is being read for pleasure, then figure out how to capture some of the market.
Confirmation Bias May 4, 2014Posted by bobv451 in Uncategorized.
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One of the hats I wear at this time of year is working on the editorial staff of a four-play of great fantasy football magazines. One of them won best fantasy football magazine of the 2013 (beating out such also-rans as Sports Illustrated and Rotowire <g>). One article that just passed through my computer this year takes the usual fantasy selection process to a new level by discussing confirmation bias.
This started me thinking about how confirmation bias enters into fiction writing overall. In a nutshell this is (subconsciously) looking for information that supports your own beliefs.
Everyone filters what they choose to read simply because there isn't time enough to read everything. If I write a book a month and you can read it in a day, you have 29 or 30 days free–but there are hundreds of authors also publishing a book to take up that schedule. Read 3 a day–there are more than that being published. And I'm just talking f&sf. Throw in mysteries and westerns and romance and nf and all the rest, you'd have to read faster than the speed of light. So of course you need to pick and choose (call it discriminate, if you will). You read space opera with a touch of other sf? You still have to figure out how to best spend your time. Favorite author? This is music to my ears if my name is on that mental list because it means I write what you like.
Here is where confirmation bias can be both good and bad. It's good that you read for enjoyment what entertains you. It's stupid to force yourself through a book that isn't delivering the groceries. All you have in life is time and you must make the most of it. The same goes for being a writer. I pick and choose what interests me to write. Confirmation bias supports my choices since I need look at only the bits and pieces that reinforce my foolish belief I can sell what I write. Would something outside the box (I am beginning to hate this cliche) be better? Maybe, but not if it doesn't spark my interest. I love reading about physics and my bias is in that direction. That's not to say civil engineering wouldn't add to my store of info, but mostly I don't care about asphalt roads or designing parking lots or see how a story about them would be fun to write. I would rather find another article on the Alcubierre warp drive.
Confirmation bias supports my beliefs in fiction reading and writing. Making decisions that involve life and death situations certainly require examining your beliefs to be sure they aren't doing great harm or are just not right. What if the accepted mass of the electron was wrong, maybe just by a tad? Such "absolutely known" numbers need to be verified and are never "accepted science" in real science.
Playing In My Own Sandbox (part 2) April 13, 2014Posted by bobv451 in business, e-books, Free, ideas, VIPub, westerns, Wild West, writing.
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Nothing is certain but change. That's the way of life, but not necessarily so in series. If you intend to do a limited series, say a trilogy, your protagonist can have a character arc where all kinds of flaws are corrected or augmented by the end of the series. The protagonist usually grows as a person and responds to the vicissitudes of the plot thrown at him/her. This makes for a satisfying conclusion but presents a problem if the series stretches to more titles.
Readers get invested in the character. Watching one grow and change is fine if the series ends in a predetermined number of titles. If the series has multiple entries, this isn't such a good idea. A reader coming into the series after 5 or 6 titles (or 50 or 60) can fall in love with that character, go back to read earlier titles and find the character doesn't measure up. End of interest. Ebooks have the advantage of always being in print so a reader can scrounge up the first book and ride the wave through all the titles and enjoy the character development. But in a print series, this isn't an easy thing. Print books go OP (out of print) in a few weeks.
Some many-authored long-running series like the Jake Logan books insist that the main character (in this case, John Slocum) never change from the traits listed in the series bible. Authors don't have to deal with changes or details a book or a hundred books earlier. But what's an author to do with a static protagonist?
The answer comes in the secondary characters. They can change (or even die). The protagonist carries the plot and everyone around can learn and grow or devolve. End of book, satisfying character changes, but not in the protagonist who moves on, as is, to begin a new adventure.
I am trying something a bit different in a western series starting in October. The protagonist in The Great West Detective Agency is a gambler and something of a wastrel whose liking for the ladies always gets him in trouble. It's a print series so Lucas Stanton's not going to change much, but I hit upon the idea of publishing short stories using secondary characters to augment the plot. What are the histories behind the characters in the book? The dance hall girl or the bartender? The sidekick or the femme fatale? The curious "source of all information" or the hellfire and brimstone preacher or the sweet young thing who entices Stanton into a new mystery? This volume (the first will be called 4 Lives) will be an ebook and maybe PoD. But it gives a chance for the behind the scenes look at the characters and how they got to where they are in the book, leaving the protagonist free to push the plot.
If you want a free copy of 4 Lives when it is ready in a month or so to see what I'm doing, drop me a line via my website at http://www.cenotaphroad.com and mention it. Be sure to tell me what your preferred format is.
Playing In My Own Sandbox (part 1) April 6, 2014Posted by bobv451 in business, fantasy, writing.
Tags: edgard rice burroughs, series, structured series, writing
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Prior bloggy installments dealt with different ways of working with someone else's property. I have done quite a few trilogies and short run series (the longest is the Swords of Raemllyn at nine titles) and decided to meander about with some ways I have developed them.
Most trilogies are structured similarly. There is one overarching plot that has to be resolved by the end of book 3. But each book has to stand on its own for a variety of reasons. In the legacy publishing days, it might be a year between books in a trilogy (Stephen Donaldson's first Thomas Covenant trilogy was a groundbreaker–all three books were published simultaneously). In the publishing world this is an eternity. The second book will hit the stands and the first book might not be in print any more, or if it came out in hardcover, there was a boost with paperback publication concurrent with book 2 (in hc). If book 1 came out in mass market, finding it will be difficult. That third book stands the best chance of being the worst seller, both through interest attrition and inability to muster an audience since the first two titles are out of print. (I'll get into e-books and how great they are for series in another installment)
Making each title a standalone helps keep the series interest high. A reader coming in on book 3 might know how the major plot is resolved but won't be disappointed picking up the first two since those are different books, different plots but with the overarching plot being developed.
I do a synopsis for everything I wrote (even short stories). Doing one for the main plot and then a separate one for each book in the set helps keep action high and avoid the "marking time" complaint so common about #2 books in a trilogy. (That complaint will always be there, no matter what, because too many readers think it is the smart thing to say–it might be true, but planning keeps it from happening).
The classic plot structure for a trilogy was used by Edgar Rice Burroughs in his first Barsoom books, A Princess of Mars, Gods of Mars, Warlord of Mars. A great value both for entertainment and to see how a longer series is done can be found here. This is where I learned how to do it.
Playing In Someone Else's Sandbox (Part 6)(collaborations) March 23, 2014Posted by bobv451 in e-books, fantasy, VIPub, web & computers, writing.
Tags: Chris Achilleos, collaboration, fantasy, genre series, Geo W Proctor, Matthew Stover, writing
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This isn't strictly about playing in someone else's sandbox as much as learning to share your toys. For someone who doesn't like doing collaborations it seems I have done quite a few. 16? About that. Mostly I go with the dictum: coauthoring is where you do twice the work for half the money.
An early collab was with Victor Milan in the 6-title series War of Powers. This one had a strange journey going from Playboy books to Ace/Berkley, but the best of the covers were in the twin omnibus New English Library volumes–the covers were by Chris Achilleos and rank with the best on any heroic fantasy book, any time, ever. The migration came about as Playboy dropped out of genre publishing but sales were so good Berkley nee Ace continued them.
I was doing the Cenotaph Road series for Ace when the first 3 Swords of Raemllyn books with Geo. Proctor were sold there. Geo and I talked over where we wanted to go, I did the synopsis, we rewrote it, I did the first draft since I wrote faster, Geo did a rewrite and then I did a final rewrite with him doing the page proofs. The process went quite well and we were able to talk endlessly about it. Geo lived in Texas, I was in NM. We both had Apple ][e computers and bought super hi-speed modems (4800 baud!) We swapped work via the modem, though a book took as long as 20 minutes to transfer, whereupon we would talk for another 2 hours about how techno savvy we were and how we saved so much money on postage. No matter that the phone bills were higher!
The first 3 Raemllyn books did so well, we sold 3 more. Ace balked at a final 3, but those sold to New English Library and never saw American dead tree publication. Unlike the lovely NEL covers for the War of Powers omnibus volumes, I thought these were all subpar. But they did ok in sales and the third omnibus with book #9 in it completed the series we had started ten years earlier.
Working with Geo was trying, especially when our ideas diverged, but the books came out a great fusion of his characters and my plots. And somehow we remained best friends throughout and after.
My other collaboration came with Matt Stover under not so ideal conditions (see the earlier blog about God of War 1), through no fault on either of our parts. His medical problems aside, it went well enough but the merging wasn't as seamless as with Geo and the Raemllyn books.
Alas, Geo died before the Raemllyn ebooks were put up. It would have been fun doing more titles, with some of the old characters but new situations. We had an sf collaboration in the works, Forge of the Stars, but this isn't a project that will go anywhere now. Time and science have left it behind. And without Geo, it wouldn't be the same.
Do I recommend a newer writer collaborate? No. Do your own stuff. Do I recommend 2 authors at similar places in their careers to collaborate? Maybe. For fun. Then get to your own stuff. Always focus on doing your own work. (Remember, a collaboration is doing twice the work for half the money.)
Playing In Someone Else's Sandbox (Part 5)(mosaic series) March 16, 2014Posted by bobv451 in e-books, ideas, outlaws, westerns, Wild West, writing.
Tags: Bill Crider, Cheryl Pierson, Frank Roderus, Jacquie Rogers, James Reasoner, LJ Martin, LJ Washburn, Meg Mims, Robert Randisi, series, Troy D. Smith, westerns, writing
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Imagine a stained glass window, only every piece is cut and installed by a different artist. That's the way a mosaic novel is done. Each author writes a chapter or two in an overarching plot, then the pieces are strung together like a pearl necklace. (A single author can also do a mosaic novel, loosely interconnected short stories telling a greater story. My favorites in this technique include Edward Bryant's Cinnabar and Joe Landsale's The Magic Wagon.)
But that loose congregation of stories isn't exactly what happens in the Western Fictioneers' series, Wolf Creek. Editor Troy Smith, a Spur Award winner, comes up with a plot and then each author takes his own special character and stirs it up in a chapter or two to advance the story.
Each novel stands on its own but the entire series progresses well in developing not only the town of Wolf Creek, Kansas, but also the major characters. That each book stands on its own allows change in the characters but readers choosing "out of sequence" won't be too shocked by differences. My character is a lowlife named Wilson "Wil" Marsh, the town photographer always on the outlook for the quick (and shady) buck. He takes blue pictures of the town's most prominent women because he knows their secrets. He sells lurid photos of dead outlaws and slain Indians to magazines back East hungry for such notoriety. And he even manages to get photos of bank robbers, not to use as evidence in court but to blackmail them. He's not a nice guy, but he drops money in the poor box at a church he hates and has some empathy for the downtrodden. Why is slowly coming out as I work in my miniature stories within the mosaic novels.
To date I've done chapters about Wil in The Quick and the Dying
and Kiowa Vengeance with a new story about a Sand Creek-like massacre on tap. And yes, Wil has a new way to profit off his photographs not involving blackmail but still fraudulent as hell.
What is strange about this for me, at least, is that my Jackson Lowry pen name, has a pen name (Ford Fargo). Others taking part include some of the finest writers working today in the western field. Frank Roderus, Robert Randisi, James Reasoner, Matthew Mayo, LJ Washburn, Cheryl Pierson, Jory Sherman, Meg Mims, Bill Crider, LJ Martin, Jacquie Rogers and a whole lot more.
What you get in every book is a spectrum of top writers and a complete novel-length plot. And an exciting read.


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15th July 2007 - 2nd Fashion shoot with Glen Earnshaw.
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7th July 2009 - Latex wear shoot with Wayne Henry
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19th Aug 2009 - Location shoot with Michelle Joyce
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Quality and fit of suit is GREAT, however, it does run 2 sizes smaller than you would normally wear. Based on prior comments I did order it that way and it fits perfect. Pants and cuffs will need to be hemmed.Husband is all excited about wearing it next yr to holiday parties and church on Xmas Day !!
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I got this for a Christmas party I will be attending on Christmas Eve. I am a little heavier set guy so I ordered the 2nd larges size available because I am a 40 inch waist... I saw on the size chart that it said 43" for the size 50 under the size chart category... I received the suit in today. The jacket fit good... except I could not button it... so that runs small.. I put the pants on and could only get the zipper up halfway... and then I could not even close the button or the hook... I was so depressed once I could not fit into this.. I guess I would say if you are on the heavier side it may be challenging to get this on... At least it is motivating me to keep going to the gym as I have been and one day I will wear this suit!!!!


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Jose Reyes On Staying HealthyJanuary 21, 2011
In the SportsRevTV video below, Jose Reyes talks about how important it is for him to stay healthy throughout the entire 2011 season. Yesterday Reyes was answering Mets fan questions on Twitter. Check out one of his best responses over at the Patrick Flood Blog.
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i think i saw this car at h20 this year?
i think i saw this car at h20 this year?
No I wish I could have gone to H20. This is a down south car though, so I did make it to SoWo.
Did you leave those rubber patches on the road too?
Good stuff man, can't wait to see more
Its very possible I had something to do with the rubber on the road.
So when I start the car cold and drive it I get around 13.2 volts for the first few miles. Once its up to temperature I am only getting 12.8 volts.
Is there any test I can do to see if the alternator is going out?
Thanks. most people dont notice it.
started on my manifold. Got the first runner mocked up. Its the easiest one. the others will be much curvier.
colors are all over the place, but i'm likin' it.
reshaping the control arms to clear the wheels?
edit: the gerund, dammit!
ROTL neo vintage
Ill be building new control arms at some point with different attachment points to the subframe to change the geometry more.
tublar chromoly control arms.
Picked up a gti rear beam with the built in sway bar. Ill be stiffining it up some more.
Loving all the new tricks and progress
VW's the older the better
http://www.4everkustoms.com/ <=THE BEST
Here it the first of the beam modifications. Now just to weld it in.
Anyone run solid bushings in the beams instead of the rubber deals? If I can figure out whats going on with them Id like to make some. And I dont mean the little red poly inserts. Im talking a full out replacement for the entire piece.
Well it looks as though bushings are a bad idea in the beam. Hmm maybe Ill have to make some with some spherical bearings.
to start. i LOVE this thread, i'm in school now training to become a machinist and this thread is so inspirational! keep up the great work!
and about the bushings, i dunno how well it would really work to have solid ones, i remember when someone posted a video of the original 1985 introduction of the mk2 and they explained that the bushings were designed to help corning by letting the beam kinda move and go with the front.
i'll try and find and mark the vid.
love this thing! get a front valence and its sex! the front looks angry!
If you don't get that, the alternator is faulty.
If that voltage is good, then measure across these points:
- Between the + wire and the + post on battery.
- Between alternator body and - post on battery.
Both should be less than 0.05V (
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at startup, after jumping it, its getting 14.02 at the alternator and 13.85 at the battery.
after idling for 15 minutes the engine is up to 210* f. and im getting 13.68 at the alternator and 13.31 at the battery.
this shows that my in dash voltmeter is pretty accurate. so after a 20 minute drive it should be making around 12.5 at the battery which Im guessing is around 12.9 at the alternator.
All this is with lights and accesories turned off.
.16 between the alternator + and + post. .058 between alternator housing and - post.
.051 between - post and main ground at tranny bell housing. .01 between alt. casing and maing ground at bell housing.
I have found a crimp connector in the main + wire between the atl and battery + post. It didnt seem to have much effect on the voltage drop though.
Ill either shorten it to get rid of it or solder and shrinkwrap it.
From those numpers above it would lead me to believe there is a fault in the positive side wiring, but it confuses me why it would put out less and less power the farther I drove. Maybe the wires getting hot increases resistance?
13.53 at alt after long drive. 12.98 at battery. Im going to replace the alt. + lead to the battery and see what happens. Its causing the most voltage drop.
also had a little mishap on the drive.
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I am speaking to you as a 64 year old who left home at 17 and never went back.
I hope your adventure is a good as mine. I hope you go all the places you ever wanted, learn to do all sorts of work, be tolerant of other people, and follow through with your plans even though they will not very often work out the way you thought they would.
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I have been to 49 states and 18 foreign countries. I have fought in a war, been assigned to both the Colombian and Filipino navies, piloted a hydrofoil, flown sailplanes, sailed yachts, and built houses.
I have a radio-telephone license with shipboard radar endorsement, a ham radio license, pilots license, residential home builders license, home inspection license and commercial truck drivers license.
I am a certified automobile mechanic.
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There is a long journey available to you, young man (and you women out there, too). It will not always be fun and often not easy. You will want to go home.
And most do go home. They give up on their dream of reinventing themselves and hacking their own way through the world's jungle. They go back to what is familiar and safe and even though none of them has told me, I sense that they end up dissatisfied with the product that is themselves.
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I am a 20 year old from Vancouver, British Columbia. I have taken a break from the normal routine of life and am traveling the world for 12 - 16 months. I have been going since May and am now in Italy hoping to find someone looking for a hard working crew member!
I completed the CYA (Canadian Yachting Association) Basic Cruising Standard last October aboard a 38' sloop. Since then I have been craving to go back to sea!
I would love to work aboard your vessel. I am a social and hard working young man. I am not able to contribute financially, but will do whatever work that is asked of me. I can likely make my way to most places in the Mediterranean to meet up with you. I am able to start as soon as August 25.
If you are interested or have any questions at all, feel free to email me at justinraine at gmail dot com.
Justin Raine
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Great board for Beginners - Advancers
By King Norman
from Latvia
About Me Intermediate
Comments about Liquid Force Rogue Grind Wakeboard 2012:
Really good Intermediate board. So easey switch when you are learning. After obstacle jump maybe not the softest landing But really stable.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Good board
By Chris the boater
from TN
Good all around board.
outstanding board
By steven reeves
from Dallas texas
Love this board! Very durable and longlasting! Great behind the boat and poping off the wake, also great at the cable park hiting rails and ramps! Uts an all around amazing board and I'm so glad I bought it!
Board is great
By Big C
from Reno nv
About Me Beginner
This board is great,
Great Board
By ironman
from College Station, TX
I really liked the board. I joined my college wakeboarding club and its a great board to learn on... However after riding for about 2 months now i quickly grew out of it and im now in need of a more advanced board. I was confused and thought it was a on the lower end of an advanced board, but really its the higher end of a beg. board.
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