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"I thank my friend, the Ranking Member, Mr. Engel from New York, and I thank Mr. Royce, the Chairman of the Committee, for bringing this bill to the Floor and working in a bipartisan fashion to affect an objective that I strongly support. I thank both of them for their work.
"The ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine is unacceptable and a gross violation of international law. I agree with President Obama that Russia is acting from a position of weakness, however. Strong nations do not invade and annex territory from their smaller neighbors by force. And strong nations do not suppress the free expression of ideas and the voices of dissent within their own society. Those are the hallmarks not of a great nation but of an insecure bully. Great nations are those that stand together to reaffirm the principles of liberty and international order. Great nations are those that commit to peaceful diplomacy while protecting free and open debate among our citizens.
"The American people continue to stand with the people of Ukraine, Mr. Speaker, because we believe they have a right to join the nations of the world that are free and able to shape their own future. That is why, through this bill, we pledge our support as the new government in Kiev works to stabilize its economy, provide security to its citizens, and ensure that all Ukrainians are afforded the opportunities that come with vibrant, democratic institutions and basic freedoms. That is what this bill offers the people of Ukraine.
"What it offers President Putin and his associates is an opportunity to end their misguided, unjustified, and illegal incursion into Ukraine's internal affairs. Because it affords them a choice, Mr. Speaker: adhere to international law and end their aggression or face increasingly punitive sanction that will further isolate Russia from the global community.
"The one item missing from this otherwise strong bill, unfortunately, is ratification of IMF quota reform. I hope the House will take action on that piece soon. However, this is a good bill. We ought to support this bill.
"We ought to pass this bill and send Mr. Putin a clear message that the United States Congress and the nation we represent will not stand for Russia's actions and that we are ready to help Ukraine reach for the future it so richly deserves."


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If my car's engine is off for at least 6-7 hours I get this strange puff of blue-ish smoke when I sart the engine. It goes away after a few seconds, although not without having caused an intense cloud of smoke that is frankly quite embarrassing..
This issue started after I got an oil change in December 2009. During the same visit to my mechanic (who specializes in Porsche) they changed my air-oil separator as ''preventative maintenance''...
Last month I let my mechanic have a look at my car for a few weeks (was on vacation) to try and figure out exactly why smoke was coming out of the exhaust on startup. The only thing he did was replace the air-oil separator but it has not solved the problem as today my car puffed a bit of smoke after I left work. (car was sitting for 10 hours)
I read somewhere that sometimes over-filling an engine with oil can cause this problem.
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I just bought my first Jeep. It's a 2013 JKU Freedom Edition in True Blue. I just put 33's on it today. Other than that I've done nothing extra yet.
I'm brand new to the Jeep community. Former Kia Forte owner...go ahead...get your laughter under control. :rofl:
So, I decided on a Jeep after my husband and I wrecked in his 2010 JK a couple of weeks ago. We were in northern California visiting family when a deer jumped out and we hit that doing about 50mph. Not a second after the deer was off the bumper a drunk driver in a car hit us at 60mph, no brakes, plowed us off the road, into a spin, down a drop off on 2 tires and back down. We were both pretty banged up but came out alive and we even drove the Jeep a few miles back to my Dad's house after we disassembled the drunken idiot's front end from underneath the rear axle and wheels.
After seeing how well his Jeep did in the accident and thinking about what our bodies would have endured had we driven my Kia, if we survived, I decided to get a Jeep.
Funny thing is my husband and I are already debating over who gets what for parts. LOL!
I hope to gain lots of knowledge and advice on how to do some upgrades from people here. So, thanks in advance for any help you can all share with us!
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Welcome, Lena, to the forum! Glad to hear of your new acquisition! Sounds great! Glad you and your husband fared well in the accident. You're right about how well a Jeep can hold up in an accident. My story is nothing like yours but I was rear-ended while stopped by a driver who never hit the brakes as she went under my rear bumper. No real injuries to me or the vehicle. Again, welcome!
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Thanks for the warm Jeep welcome everyone! :-)
Holy crap!! And welcome!! Sounds like you're both lucky to be here. Hope you love your Jeep.
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Our research focuses on the design, construction, and application of advanced technologies for structural mass spectrometry, in particular, for studies in structural proteomics, systems biology, and biophysics. To identify and structurally characterize biomolecules from complex samples, we perform rapid (µs-ms) two-dimensional gas-phase separations using ion mobility-mass spectrometry (IM-MS) techniques. IM-MS provides separations on the basis of apparent surface area (ion-neutral collision cross section) and mass-to-charge (m/z), respectively. Biomolecular structural information is interpreted by comparing experimentally obtained collision cross-sections in the context of those obtained via molecular dynamics simulations.
Figure 1. (A) An illustration of the conformation space separation of different classes of biomolecules. Note that the indicated trends in the correlation function of collision cross section and m/z for particular molecular classes are for qualitative illustration purposes. Structural motifs (secondary structural elements, intramolecular solvation of post-translational modifications, etc.) give rise to deviation from the average correlation function within a particular molecular class.
In the analysis of complex biological materials, IM-MS provides a significant advantage over contemporary MS in that the regions in which signals appear in 2D conformation-space correspond with specific molecular class, i.e. the correlation of collision cross section with m/z varies as nucleotides/carbohydrates < peptides/ proteins < lipids/surfactants (Figure 1). Deviations from where a particular signal is predicted to occur can provide additional information including: (i) identification of sights of post-translational modification, (ii) characterization of secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structural motifs, and (iii) rapid screening for analyte-ligand binding interactions. The separation of analytes on the basis of molecular class provides significant advantages as a proteomics tool, because signals arising from concomitant, non-peptidic, materials are readily separated from the peptides of interest. For example, Figure 2 shows a representative IM-MS plot of conformation-space for an HPLC fraction of an E. Coli whole-cell lysate. Signals arising from surfactant contaminant in the sample preparation are resolved from peptides on the basis of structure and can thus be eliminated when searching peptide m/z signals against proteomic and genomic databases for high-confidence level protein identification.
Figure 2. A 3D plot of IM-MS conformation space for a representative E. Coli whole-cell lysate fraction measured by HPLC-MALDI-IM-TOFMS. Two distinct trends of correlated arrival time distribution (which is the observable measured and subsequently transformed to collision-cross section) vs. m/z are obtained corresponding to non-peptidic concomitant species and tryptic peptides, respectively.
Importantly, IM-MS can provide detailed structural information for conformational sub-populations of the same analyte (Figure 3), i.e. the relative abundances of different biomolecular conformations can be readily determined. By measuring the change in relative abundance of specific structural conformations as a function of IM separation temperature, thermodynamic and kinetic parameters can also be determined for structural sub-populations, or for structural transitions, respectively (i.e. via van't Hoff or Arrhenius plots). Note that this procedure can also be used to quantify the thermodynamic consequences of stepwise addition of solvent, or small molecules, on the prevailing molecular structure.
Figure 3. Experimental IM-MS conformation-space for a model peptide exhibiting two distinct structural sub-populations. Structures obtained by molecular dynamics simulations indicate helical and compact structures consistent with these results.
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- Investigation of the prevailing influences of post-translational modifications (e.g. glycosylation, phosphorylation, ubiquination, sumoylation, etc.) on protein secondary and tertiary structure?
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- Combining microfluidic separation strategies with IM-MS for fundamental biomolecular characterization in systems biology.
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Chief Works Officer Geoffrey Vaughn yesterday warned that the local construction sector will continue to suffer delays and poor quality work unless the lack of qualified professionals, driven by continued student failures in Mathematics and Science is addressed.
"There is an ominous shortfall of professionals [and] sub professionals," Vaughn said yesterday at a University of Guyana and the Public Works Ministry engineering conference, at the Guyana International Conference Centre, where he noted that quality is closely related to training and development.
Calling human resources the "most important asset" for meeting the demand of the technological revolution, Vaughn argued that there is a deficit and pointed to the results being yielded by the education system.
Many students are not passing the key subjects, he said, citing an overview of the last two years. "This is where the core of our construction challenges begins… We have to try to fix it. For us to move on we have to deal with the core. If Science and Math are not up to scratch, our construction sector will continue to suffer," he added.
Further, he informed that statistics from the University of Guyana showed that there had only been 2,900 students enrolled in the Technology Faculty from an overall total of 31,090 enrolments over a five-year period.
"How do you supply our construction sector with engineers, with clerks of works, with technicians, which supervisors, when we have such a meagre figure?" he asked. "For our construction sector to improve we have to build our training capacity; we have to strengthen the students coming from the secondary level; we have to give them the tools for them to understand Math and Science-based subjects. This is the only way that they will be able to deal with the challenges that we are faced with in the sector," Vaughn stressed.
Vaughn said that one reason why locals are not given internationally-funded contracts was because they don't have the capacity to execute specific projects, since they lack technical and managerial capabilities. "Assessing the contracts awarded for the last five years, projects where loans or grants were received via funding agencies, such as the IDB, EU, World Bank, show that only a few contractors have the capacity to execute the projects funded by these agencies," he noted.
"There has been a shift, in the construction sector, where we are finding lots of persons who are not qualified are actually managing projects and this is the reason for the time overrun, cost overrun and defective bills of quantities. We have to join heads, join hands to move forward," he further added.
President Donald Ramotar, in his remarks at the conference, stated that Guyana has to "train more and more of our human capital to cope with the new world." He said that he believes that lack of planning and preparatory work was the cause for construction maladies, including excessive variations in projects and delays. "Too often I hear about when they throw sand it is disappearing or bridges sinking away quickly… wasn't there any soil test? Wasn't there enough planning and preparatory work? I don't think enough supervision is done," he stated. Recently a major Guyana Power and Light project on the West Demerara suffered from the sand-disappearing syndrome as a swampy area was selected for construction.
Ramotar lamented that he was "tired of hearing of excuses" from contractors in the sector and urged them to give value for money in their works.
University of Guyana Vice-Chancellor Professor Jacob Opadeyi said that government needs to involve student engineers more in public projects so as to give them the experiences needed. He made reference to a project in Trinidad which allows students of the University of the West Indies in-field interaction with professional engineers. He also charged government to implement a policy where 0.1% of the project cost should be donated for human resource development in engineering here.
To the thunderous applause of students in the conference centre's main hall, veteran engineer Charles Ceres urged that engineering students and young engineers be included in on-the-job training when there are mega projects, such as the construction of the Amaila Falls Hydro Project, the Marriott Hotel and the Cheddi Jagan Airport Expansion. Such placements are needed, he said, to give students first-hand experience in whatever new technology is being used by contractors and allowing them to use skills learned in the future execution of their own works.
A University of Guyana student, who asked not to be named, said "All they keep saying is that we are not suitably qualified, we don't have enough experience; this, that and the other. But the man is right. Where are the opportunities for those of us who want to learn who want the experience?"
"They block us out of Marriott. That is possibly one of the largest buildings being constructed in the city and that is like five minutes away from classes. Don't they think of synergising us with those trained?" he further questioned.
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The University of Nevada women's basketball team (6-8, 1-0 MW) will face its first Mountain West road test Saturday afternoon, as the team will take on the Wyoming Cowgirls (11-3,0-1 MW) in Laramie, Wyo. Tip-off is slated for 1:00 p.m. PT at the Wyoming Arena Auditorium.
"Wyoming is an extremely talented team who will be hungry for a win at home after losing a close conference opener on the road," head coach Jane Albright said. "They have a player of the year candidate in Sewell who averages a double-double. It will be a tough challenge for us, but I feel that we are improving each game and will be ready to compete on Saturday."
The last time the two schools faced each other was during the 2009-10 season in the first round of the WNIT. Wyoming defeated Nevada 74-53 in Laramie. The Wolf Pack trails the overall series 4-8. The Cowgirls opened Mountain West play Wednesday night with a close 70-68 loss on the road at Boise State. Wyoming is led by senior Chaundra Sewell's 14.8 ppg and 10.1 rpg. Sewell leads the MW in rebounding and field goal percentage.


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MicroGlobalScope science advisor Russell Durrett Reports from his recent trip to Bangkok, Thailand.
What can we do with DNA? Can I resurrect my puppy? Can you mix some zebra cells with eagle DNA so it can fly? These are some of the questions MicroGlobalScope science advisor Russell Durrett fielded on his recent trip to Thailand to meet with MicroGlobalScope grantees.
In what he described as "an awesomely good time," Russell visited the classroom of MicroGlobalScope grantee Ms. Gwenn Pettitt at the International Community School in Bangkok, Thailand. Russell is a Synthetic Biologist and Co-Founder of GenSpace NYC , a non-profit community biology lab located in Brooklyn, NY, that provides professional biology laboratory space for individuals to conduct molecular biology research cheaply and safely.
Russell spent a few days speaking with Ms. Pettitt's elementary class, the high school AP biology classes and some kids interested in genetic engineering as well biology and microscopy.
"I started coordinating with Ms. Pettitt early in January. She started talking to the other teachers in the school and I ended up speaking to the 4th graders in the morning, the 9th grade biology class at noon, the upper-class high school biology classes that afternoon and then the 4th grade after school program where we did the microscopy and fruit extraction experiments.
"The really cool thing I noticed was that the high schoolers were asking the same questions as the 4th graders. 'What can we do with DNA?' 'Can I resurrect my puppy?' 'Can you mix some zebra cells with eagle DNA so it can fly?' 'Why are people making things that glow so often, and how does that work?' All the students knew that certain traits were due to certain genes being present, but not really how DNA translated into a phenotype.
"One of the students, was curious about the difference between Asian people and Caucasian people and if I could tell if I compared her and my DNAs."
During the DNA extraction, the most common question was what you can do after you extract it.
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"The microscopy challenge was to image crystals," Russell said. "They did a pretty good job. We had brown sugar, sugar, instant coffee, instant green tea (both vacuum dehydrated, so they had ok crystals) and possibly some other stuff. Bangkok is built on a marshland, so they typically find some cool bugs around their school and image them. In all, they're doing a great job and the kids are asking a lot of great questions. I'm looking forward to seeing this program expand in the future."
Thanks for the update, Russell, and thanks to our intrepid MicroGlobalScope grantees for their passion for science!


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My mom doesn't buy things for our dog. (not sure?)
Well we never got a collar tag for our dog until a few months ago ( my dog is almost 3). Everyone else also said that the furminator is a rip off while they complain that there is hair everywhere.
I see every other family has so many new toys for the dog, they have chews for them, they wear their collars, and they're well trained.
We only have a tennis ball, a kong, a ring,
My mom says that we have plenty of toys the only one my dog is interested in is the tennis ball, and so all I get to do with him while outside is throw the ball. He eventually gets bored of it. The only time she buys toys for the dog is when I tell her to, which is like once a year. She keeps saying that we can make toys out of old rags but our dog tears that up in like 10 mons.
My dog has nothing to do. He gets bored of his tennis ball and my mom barely buys food so I cant fill his kong good a lot. Also, she never buys chews
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Dogs, like kids, don't need a lot of toys. The thing he will like best is for you to take him outside for a walk.
Sonny answered on 8/12/12. Helpful? / 1
If I were you, I would be filling his kong with some of that meat your mother gives him. You can squash it in really tightly, then freeze it to last longer.
My dogs DO have lots of home made toys and they prefer them to store bought toys most of the time! Their favorite toys are old soda and water bottles, pieces of tree limbs, and old, holey socks I tie together for them. They also LOVE small, empty cardboard boxes that they can shred and tear up.
None of these toys cost me ANY money and they will entertain my dogs for hours and hours.
However, MOST dogs do not want to play with any toys, handmade or other, unless YOU spend time playing with them and the toys. In spite of all their "toys", each one of them would much rather spend some time playing with me or even going on a long walk with me.
Member 641257 answered on 8/12/12. Helpful? / 0
Some dogs don't play with toys at all. My mini Aussie I had would occasionally play with one but would much rather spend time with us. You could take your dog on hikes or bike riding or teach him tricks to stimulate him. Don't know how old you are but if your a teenager your old enough to earn some money so if you feel your dog needs more toys or treats then earn the money for it. I started babysitting when I was 11 or 12 and got my first real job at 15. Maybe your mom will let you earn money by working around the house. If your dog isn't trained then train it. You can pull up tips online if you need help and I'm sure there are YouTube videos as well that could help.
Sarge answered on 8/12/12. Helpful? / 0
Maybe you can do odd jobs for people and make a some money that you can spend on dog toys and food to put in the kongs.
Tiara answered on 8/13/12. Helpful? / 0
Dogs dont need toys, they need excerise and love. Take him for a long walk every day and when you get home play ball with him. He'll be so tired until the next day when you'll do it all over again :)
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Glad to hear it Whec. I'd say you are the type of person who deserves a good day. I'm sure the boy will find he likes your way in other things as well.
This is a discussion on Awesome day yesterday within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Guns and motorcycles are my thing. They are what I enjoy. I'm careful not to cast my son in my own image on all things, ...
Guns and motorcycles are my thing. They are what I enjoy. I'm careful not to cast my son in my own image on all things, and let him choose the things that he enjoys when it comes to recreation.
Saturday night, he lamented that he's the only boy in his class (He's in 5th grade) that has never shot a 'real' gun. Whec is suddenly filled with inner joy, and reminds the boy that he has never asked to go shooting with me. His eyes get as big as saucers and he's grinning ear-to-ear now. I noted that he's done well for the last year in gun safety when it comes to his BB gun, and after he recalls the 4 basic rules of gun safety to me, I tell him that we can go shoot my .22 rifle tomorrow.
Fast-forward to Sunday after church. He said he was a little worried about how loud it would be (and the kick, LOL). So I showed him how to load a single .22 short into the rifle, and had him aim at a target that I had set out at 75'. He still flinched, but was amazed that he only heard a click, followed by the sound of the bullet hitting the wood. 'Half a box of shorts later, he was drilling dead on, but dissapointed that the rounds wouldn't shoot through a 2 by 6 that I had set up. He asked if he could shoot something that would go through it. I handed him a .22 long round and had him load it up. After a much more satisfying report, he was delighted to see that it punched a nice 1/4" hole out of the back of the board. It was 'on' after that. He wanted nothing to do with .22 shorts anymore.
I backed him up to 100' and let him cook through a box where he was drilling pretty much everything he aimed at. He was also extremely careful - no safety violations. Last night when I went to round him up for bed, he was at his computer and had discovered 'Buds Gun Shop' and was checking out the Crickett, and asking it if might show up under the Christmas tree this year. I think it just might.
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Glad to hear it Whec. I'd say you are the type of person who deserves a good day. I'm sure the boy will find he likes your way in other things as well.
" Blessed is that man, who when facing death, thinks only of his front sight"
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That does truly sound like an awesome day! Glad to hear you, your son, and America in general was blessed with that kind of a day. More people should have days like this.
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Good for you, and good for him. If I'm thinking correctly 5th grade = 10 yo. Perhaps a squirrel hunt might be in order?
"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it".
Thomas Jefferson
I'm really looking forward to some deer hunting with him someday.
Gman/Joker - thanks. Yes, yesterday was one of those days when I could bask in the Blessings of being an American and how good our country still is.
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Congrats! Shooting with the boys lasts a lifetime!
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Giving a young man memories that will last a lifetime isn't a bad way to spend an afternoon. Sounds like you *both* had a great day!
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Congrats to you and the young lad. You may have just started somthing that will last your lifetime.
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Congratulations. When you get ready to take him squirrel hunting, try this recipe. It's easy to do and can cook while you're out doing other things.
2 squirrels - skinned, gutted, and cut into pieces
4 large potatoes, quartered
1 pound carrots, chopped
1 green bell pepper, chopped 4 onions, sliced
2 cups water
1/4 medium head cabbage
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1. In a slow cooker, place the squirrel meat, potatoes, carrots, green bell pepper, onions, water, cabbage, salt and ground black pepper.
2. Cover and cook on low setting for 8 hours.
Sorry for going a bit OT, but I had to point out the irony of these two posts showing up in this order:
Sometimes life throws a bit of a curve ball.
(I didn't want to urinate on revolvingmag's rough time by posting there - figured the lighter mood on this side was more befitting...)
Congrats on the milestone, both your son's & yours!
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I'm particularly interested in the serial port pins and I know that working with it has been documented before, but I'm trying to skip across all the subsystems and read/write from/to the Rx/Tx lines bit by bit. I'm not interested in any communication protocols.
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The Bonehunters are marching to Kolanse, and to an unknown fate. Tormented and exhausted, they are an army on the brink of mutiny. But Adjunct Tavore will not relent. If she can hold her forces together, if the fragile alliances she has forged can survive and if it is within her power, one final act remains. For Tavore Paran means to challenge the gods. Ranged against Tavore and her allies are formidable foes. The Fokrul Assail are drawing upon a terrible power; their desire is to cleanse the world - to eradicate every civilization, to annihilate every human - in order to begin anew. The Elder Gods, too, are seeking to return. And to do so, they will shatter the chains that bind a force of utter devastation and release her from her eternal prison. It seems that, once more, there will be dragons in the world. And in Kurald Galain, where the once-lost city of Kharkanas has been found, thousands have gathered upon the First Shore. Commanded by Yedan Derryg, they await the coming of the Tiste Liosan. Are they truly ready to die in the name of an empty city and a queen with no subjects? In every world there comes a time when choice is no longer an option - a moment when the soul is laid bare and there is nowhere left to turn. And when this last hard truth is faced, when compassion is a virtue on its knees, what is there left to do? Now that time is come - now is the moment to proclaim your defiance and make a stand...And so begins the final cataclysmic chapter in Steven Erikson's extraordinary, genre-defining "Malazan Book of the Fallen".
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Cadillac ATS General Discussion Forum Discussion, ATS changes for 2014 MY in Cadillac ATS Discussion Forums; it's not the exact same, no, there are no onstart lights. I'm thinking the mirror in the ATS will similarly, ...
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it's not the exact same, no, there are no onstart lights.
I'm thinking the mirror in the ATS will similarly, have the onstart buttons integrated into the overhead console, so all you'll get is mirror.
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frameless mirror comes in standard and auto dimming no onstar buttons
cue is updated, software version 21341811 - nav / 23141813 - non nav
climate app in cue now has on screen temp controls
onstar nav app is called 'onstar nav' and its compass works
new options for CUE's voice response, and voice prompts
updated DIC, new graphics for TPS and sport/snow mode and new selectable item 'maintenance due'
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The timeline I posted a few weeks ago was at the request of a friend of mine who is going to be beginning a similar journey in a few months. The journey to planting a church is one that is hard to cookie cutter. I find many of the books on church planting are written by extremely successful church planters and read as chronicles of their church and how it launched. I have come to the conclusion that while they often read like they are recommending their strategy to you to follow, my opinion is that the diligent church planter should read as many of these stories as possible to understand both the possibilities for where your church plant might go and to grasp that there is no perfect plan, there is no God-endorsed system that always works. Church plants are most of all about people. And people are of infinite variety. As a group of people forms into a new church family, the gifts expressed amongst them will be of a different and unique combination than any other church family. As a result the church community will grow differently and bear different fruit in different times and different seasons.
Having said all this, there are in general phases that all church plants go through. In the readings that I have done on others and in the two church plants I have participated in, these phases all exist. I identified them in my first post in this series, our timeline. The first phase I have identified is Community Integration.
In my mind this phase is one that is most likely to be skipped, but it is also the one that must not be skipped. To define this phase I would say that it is the process of exploring your context, connecting to existing local resources and networking with other pastors and church planters in the area. If you are planting in a city in which you already reside and have resided in for some time, it may be possible to shorten this period because you already know the answers to who you need to talk to but it does not make the process any less important.
Exploring your context means that you need to discover and understand the community in which you are planting. This involves taking advantage of demographic studies. But it also means much more. Demographics are an ok place to start. Are there predominantly blue collar families or white collar families? Are two income families the norm or one income families? Do people in general commute to work or do they work locally? Or do they work out of town? What education levels are most common? If you can obtain a spiritual profile of the area that would also be exceedingly useful, as it will help to determine special challenges that you may face – like large communities of Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses, or in more urban centers, pockets of Muslims, Buddhists, or even Atheists might require special preparation to reach into.
Here in Medicine Hat, we discovered that
Tags: church planting, community, connection, context, Demographics, relationships, short term missions
I have been thinking about writing a series of retrospectives on our journey to launching Grasslands Church for a few days now. I am thinking that for those who are out there thinking about planting a church or trying to get ideas about how they should go about doing it, it would be a helpful series. Not because I think we did everything right, but because when I was in that place, I desperately wanted to read every story I could that led to the birth of a church. I wanted to see, hear, breathe in the energy, excitement, joy and sometimes worry, pain and regret. So for those of you who crave that, here is part 1. This will be a timeline of events from our arrival in Medicine Hat to Grasslands Church's first Christmas.
Phase 1 – Community Integration.
Objectives – to integrate family into the city, identify and contextualize vision for new church, grow support network.
May 22, 2010 – Our family rolls into Medicine Hat, as sleet falls from the sky. So much for the sunniest place in Canada.
June 2010 – Working on wrapping up training to start in Real Estate, transferring insurance, driver's licenses, etc.
June 13-18 – Great Canadian Adventure. Community Surveys and service projects with local organizations.
July 2010 – Travel to Ohio to participate in Fellowship's National Conference. Invaluable face time with leaders and supporters. Added new prayer supporters. Begin attending at the Link Church, a 4 year old church with similar values.
August 2010 – Finish Training, deal with major repair bill for van, launch Real Estate Career. Also, meet my associate church planter, discover his calling.
September 2010 – Kids start school (first day ever – they had been homeschooled previously). Start driving School bus for extra cash flow. Join local ministerium to network with local pastors.
October 2010 – volunteer with Exchange Student Alpha program at the Link.
December 2010 – First listing ever! Christmas trip to parents' house.
Phase 2 – Pre-Launch
Objectives – form a launch team continue to gather support, cast vision, invite people into relationship.
January 2011 – transition out of school bussing and into real estate assistant role. Associate church planter and family arrive in Medicine Hat.
January 8-11 – Participate in Northwest District Ministerium and Church Planter Assessment (added new prayer supporters)
January 31-Feb 2, 2011 – Southwest Pastor's Retreat (added prayer supporters and a church to participate in Summer's mission teams)
February, 2011 – Launch our first evangelistic Bible Study. Invitations extended through various nontraditional means including craigslist and facebook. Attenders come through craigslist ad.
February 28, 2011 – 1st Information Session. Over 20 attend. Form first core group, made up of us, the Blairs, and several new friends from the Info Session.
March 7-11 – Church Planter's Boot Camp in Minneapolis with Bart. Invaluable exercise.
March 25-30 – Northwest District Conference. Added prayer supporters, visited potential financial supporters.
March 31 – 2nd Information Session.
May 2011 – 3 more core team members arrive from Surrey, BC
May 15 – Sunday Night Open meetings begin at Southview Church of God (Anderson)
May 16-18 – Northwest District Focus Retreat
May 31 – end employment as a realtor. Begin temporary position at Census Canada.
July 12 – Cheryl begins work at the Hospital as a Nursing Educator.
July 16 – Couple from Evangelistic Bible Study accept Christ, renew their vows.
July 31-August 5 – Great Canadian Adventure (USA Mission Week)
August 14-18 – Trans-Canada Summit (First GBCanada National Conference, Canadian Mission Week)
August 28 – Begin another evangelistic bible study with 4 people. First Sunday morning in the Galaxy Cinemas, Medicine Hat.
August 29 – Launch 2nd Community Group.
Phase 3 – Post-Launch
Objectives: to foster community, encourage commitment, and more towards true community creation (membership).
September 11, 2011 – CHURCH LAUNCH! 174 people in attendance.
September 2011 – numbers taper off from 174 to 115 to 76, by October average remains steady at 70 until the end of the year.
October 15 – Family Fun Day Connection Event. ~30 attend.
October 23 – 1st Lunch With Oliver (Initial Membership Lunch – leading to Bible Study and Membership Class)
October 30 – 1st Baptism Service – 5 Baptized! 3rd and 4th Evangelistic Bible Studies launched (in conjunction with Membership classes)
December 4 – 1st Baby Dedication.
December 24 – Christmas Eve Service at local restaurant. Dec 25 Sunday morning service cancelled.
January 15, 2012 – Annual General Meeting/Vision 2012/3 more baptisms!
January 29 – launch of a new Evangelistic Bible Study, Discipleship class, and 2 new community groups!
That takes us pretty much up to the present. We are excited to have 3 or 4 more in evangelistic Bible Studies and are about to celebrate our first crop of 17 members! God has been so good to us.
Tags: church planting, evangelism, Great Canadian Adventure, launch, medicine hat, vision
Hey everyone. You may have noticed this blog has not been updated in what seems like forever. As we have moved towards launch of course things have gotten a lot busier. We have also started up a blog for the church itself. It can be found at www.grasslandschurch.com/blog. That blog gets updated with some regularity.
Thank you for journeying with us through the process of planting a church on faith. God has proven incredibly faithful to us through our journey, and we really marvel at how He has shown himself not just able, not just willing, but actively doing much much more than we could ask or imagine. I hope your faith has been built up by journeying with us.
Oliver continues to blog sporadically on theological and personal tidbits at www.oliverinthehat.com so if you are into debate and discussion, that's the place to go. Peace!
God has been at work! I just wanted to get this quick blog up to let you all know that God has been at work in Medicine Hat! If you have been getting our newsletters, you know we have been holding information sessions and they have gone well. More than well in fact, but we are moving onward and upward as God builds momentum and brings people excited to be a part of Grasslands Church together to build His Kingdom.
I wanted to let you all know that our core team is growing! Since the arrival of the Blairs, things have been happening. If I can look ahead by a few weeks, to the arrival of the Greenhows and Megan Kendall in May, we have currently 11 believers who want to see this church move forward! We also have 5 more adults currently in connection with the Blairs who may wind up joining us. Further there are a couple of other families who we have been in contact with who we are currently growing relationships with.
Join us in praising God for this work that is forming! Please pray for us as we will be switching formats to move to a Sunday night meeting at the Southview Church of God. They have graciously opened their doors to us to give us a chance to begin to hold non-public services. We hope to launch into this next phase of the church plant on May 15th.
Tags: church planting, community, core group, launch team, medicine hat, services
I am at the Southwest Focus Retreat for Pastors at the Oaks Conference Centre in Lake Hughes, CA. So far it's been a really amazing couple of days with leaders, lay and clergy. I have been refreshed doing things I love like hiking and exploring. We have been challenged to think about how God makes us fully alive and restores us when we have lost energy.
We were discussing tonight what that looks like, what challenges it for us right now. Certain things that I am dealing with sprang quickly to mind. I got discouraged because I didn't follow directions, and I checked in on business at home. I found out there are some issues waiting for me when I get back, and it just took the wind out of my sails.
I began to think about what it means to walk with God. I thought about how when you fail, it is you who fails. Failures weigh me down because I fail a lot. Failures to keep myself from sin, failures at work, failures in my home life. They are everywhere. And I can only blame myself.
Yet, when something goes right, as Christians we give God the glory. It is not us who succeed, lest pride overtake us. It is God, to His glory. So we give all the credit away, in humility, but take all the blame upon ourselves.
This is a recipe for disaster.
But the message of this retreat is the truth of who we are in Jesus. Because of His love for us, because of His sacrifice for us, because of His cleansing of us of our sins, we are wholly clean, and loved without end. We are loved by God, and there is nothing we can do about it.
It is this miracle, this unconditional relationship that changes everything and makes the first two concepts irrelevant. I can blame myself for all my failures, but to God, none of that matters. I can fail at everything – absolutely everything in life, but I can rest in the love of God for me that doesn't care about those things that I am letting devastate me. I am perfect in the Father's eyes because Jesus has made me white as snow.
This is a rich truth. I am grateful to God for getting me here at this time.
Tags: failure, love, relationship, salvation
I am pondering the late summer window. We are considering having a week at the end of August set aside for pre-launch outreach. The interesting thing about Medicine Hat (and Alberta) is public school starts the week before Labour Day, which I keep feeling is an opportunity. Parents are stressed (but relieved) to get the kids back into weekday routines, kids are disappointed to be back at school (but happy to renew friendships with kids they haven't seen all summer). In times of change there is opportunity.
My question to you is this: what ideas can you think of that would be appropriate for such a period? I am thinking something that either saves time or takes the pressure off parents rushing for school supplies, or something that might be fun for the kids who are dealing with the shock of classes and homework again, or maybe something school-related that blesses a school. Ideas please!
Tags: outreach, parents, pre-launch, school
I've been wishing I could get back to the concept I started with a few weeks ago, but after two days of thought and energy engaging with Nathan Bryant and Bart Blair about the vision and mission of our church-to-come, now I find the thought developing further.
In my first post, I talked about how it seems that we might have been getting it backwards. In an effort to preserve perhaps the "holiness" of our churches, we have attempted to distance ourselves from people until they share our faith. We don't really want them with us until we know they are "saved" and then magically, they become perfect like us (snort, and if you actually believe that, I have a deal on some oceanfront property in Saskatchewan for you). So it was fine to lead people to the Lord, but you didn't really want to be around them until they were in the club. It seems that this is being turned on its head now, with the new idea being welcoming people into your community, and as they get to see your faith lived out between you and the rest of the church (see John 13:35). As they see, and begin to desire this love for themselves, they seek after the cause of this love (see 1 Peter 3:15). This leads them to Christ, but in the context of community.
Some have even gone so far as to say it need not be normative that a person can point to a "moment in time" that they became saved. In fact, many report this reality anyway – that they can't recall a specific date where they came to believe, but they know they believe now – that they recognize their sin, they have repented of it before God and accepted Jesus' death on the cross as having made them clean in the Father's eyes – and brought them into the Family of God.
I think this view has a corollary – that we recognize that the process of discipleship – the process of becoming a fully committed follower of Jesus – is ongoing. Everyone is somewhere on this continuum. Some have surrendered more of their lives to Jesus' lordship than others. Some have not surrendered at all. It is impossible for us as mere humans to know with certainty the state of anyone's soul so we must keep our doors open as wide as possible that all may hear and take steps along their own personal continuum towards Jesus.
It occurs to me as a student of Church History that this reintroduces the problem that many people wrestled with in the past. More than one Christian group was formed in an effort to be pure and holy (1 Peter 1:15-16) – the spotless bride of Christ (Eph. 5:27) that we are called to be. What it appears I am advocating is a return to what was first advocated by Augustine – the idea of the church encompassing both the saved and the unsaved. The difference is that I am not suggesting that the unsaved can in any way participate in the ordinances – they are for those with faith in Christ. The challenge is, without omniscience, I can't know for sure who is who so I am forced to rely on confession and admonition – advising people that these things (Baptism, the Lord's Supper) are for believers so if you are not all there with respect to Jesus, His his sacrifice for you and His Lordship over you – then you need not participate.
Tags: Augustine, communal, discipleship, ordinances, process, salvation
And all through the church, people debated: Harvest Fest or Trick or Treat?
Jon Acuff asks us what we think of Hallowe'en, and proposes one of three responses. I have a fourth.
Hallowe'en looms like a black stain on the fall for many Christians. It is a dark night, full of the connotations of paganism, spiritism, black magic and occultic practices. In response, many churches have attempted to absent themselves from the holiday by creating "Harvest Festivals" or other activities where kids can approximate the Hallowe'en experience with "good" costumes, free candy, and fun games instead of the door-to-door "trick or treating" and scary decorations.
When our oldest was getting to the age where he might go trick-or-treating, we had to wrestle with this question a bit. We wrestled even more when the church we belonged to had one of these "harvest fests". Now, as a family we have landed in a different place. We have decided to participate in Hallowe'en.
Whoa! There goes our prayer base! No, please, hear my heart on this. Hallowe'en is not the first pagan holiday that the Church has had to wrestle with. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Christmas, Easter, evangelism, Hallowe'en, holidays, missional, neighbourhood, Paganism, relationships
Pastor Mike Landry of The Link Church out here in Medicine Hat gave me a copy of "The Tangible Kingdom". I finished it last week and have been meaning to hash out in writing a concept that was new to me.
What has become of salvation? The evangelical concept of salvation has been communicated so often to culture that it has become the butt of jokes: "have you started a personal relationship with Jesus Christ?" "Have you made him your personal Lord and saviour?" Keyword: personal.
Maybe this emphasis on making an individual decision is a by-product of the individualistic self-centred flavour that western society has indulged in for the past 100 years or so. Maybe it isn't what Jesus had in mind.
I notice that in the writings of a lot of missional thinkers (Halter and Stetzer spring to mind first as they are two I have read most recently), they talk about a reversal of the standard process of evangelism. Instead of the person staying on the outside of the church family until they accept Christ, then they join "the family", they come, they participate, they integrate, and as a result they come to faith.
It seems to me that this rings true but think about this: they are not coming to a personal faith, they are joining a communal faith. If it sound a little communisty to you, remember monasticism is a Christian tradition that is 1800 years old, and even in protestantism, the Hutterites have been around for 400 years.
Does Scripture back this up? I will look at a few verses next time, but please, if you think of some verses that shed light on the question for or against this view, please share in the comments.
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A TEACHER was determined to lose weight for her wedding day and in a year shed nearly five stone.
Gemma Durcan-Smith, 26, of Saltney, set herself a goal of one year to slim down before marrying Alex, 28, with the support of mother Karan and sister Kassy.
The trio joined a WeightWatchers group in Saltney. At Mrs Durcan-Smith's first weigh in she was 14st 3lbs.
"The first meeting was nerve-wracking, I knew I was overweight but hadn't weighed myself in a long time," she said.
Despite her initial worries, Mrs Durcan-Smith, an RE teacher at the the Catholic High School, Chester, reached her goal of 9st 13lbs – a drop of four stones 10 pounds – by last Christmas, months ahead of schedule.
She said: "The first few weeks were an adjustment but the weight came off steadily and I set mini targets monthly about weight, new recipes or exercise. I felt so much better about my holiday photos last summer when I was losing the weight and seeing how good my mum felt spurred me on for my goal. I had gains along the way but I always gave myself a time limit to get the gain weight off."
Not content with her already impressive weight loss, Mrs Durcan-Smith set about shedding a further six pounds to reach a weight of 9st 7lbs just weeks before the big day.
She said her weight loss added to the joy of her wedding day.
"I loved every minute of our wedding day but putting on a size eight wedding dress that day was a great feeling," she said. "I felt so beautiful all day and I wore my bikinis with pride on honeymoon."
After her weight loss, Mrs Durcan-Smith ran the Delamere Forest 10k in under an hour.
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Mr Gebauer, the Ottawa Treaty banning anti-personnel mines has been in force for fourteen years. Yet recently 2,000 children were killed or injured by landmines and unexploded bombs. The Landmine Monitor Report 2012 records a total of 4,286 casualties. How do you explain these sad statistics?
Every casualty is one too many. There is therefore still work to be done to rid the world completely of the threat of mines. The Ottawa Treaty created the conditions required for this. In the early 1990s there were 25,000 dead and umpteen thousands injured. Moreover, mines hindered farming and prevented children from going to school. Entire villages were cut off from the outside world. Since then great efforts have been made to make people aware of the danger and to clear mines. But as quickly as these weapons can be placed, so expensive and complicated is their removal. Still, life is slowly returning to formerly mine-infested regions.
What are now the major challenges, and do those affected receive enough attention?
Our efforts mustn't flag. A mine-free world can be achieved only if the funding of mine action programmes continues. Nor is it enough to give prostheses to people who have been maimed by mines; they need life-long support. Awareness of the plight of mine victims is still high. It must not wane.
What is the German commitment to a world free of anti-personnel mines?
We have always striven to ensure that Germany fulfils its share of the responsibilities. Many mines have been used in so-called "proxy wars", which concerned the interests of the West. It's therefore good that Germany makes a substantial contribution to eliminating the threat of mines. In 2012 it was eighteen million euros.
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I run 4whl drums on both of my cars, stock and I have no intensions of changing them, they stop fine for being over a ton.
BTW the main reason I swapped is I got sick of adjusting them or having them adjust on their own or blowing wheel cylinders or...
Just too much to go wrong with drums.
Hydroboost Systems
The reason most hot rods have poor brakes is the lack of vacuum in high performance engines. Othe changes have come up from modernizing older cars. The older cars had manual trans, for the most part. With auto trans, hot cam, f.i. turbos, overdrives, etc. the car can not stop the way it came from the factory. Another problem is valve cover clearance. As far as the question; are rear discs better than drums, rarely are they. Air brake trucks still use drums, because the rotors will melt going down a mountain with 80,000 lbs. The drums can and will "lock up" because of their self-energizing action. Discs, by design don't lock. To make a disc brake work, the piston size is increased from the basic 1.125" to 3" piston, and requires a 1200psi booster. drums usually lock up at 600psi. That is the function of the proportioning valve, to hold down the rear line pressure from a disc brake booster. Rear disc brake systems require the same high pressure as a front disc, but with the increase from a 1" rear wheel cyl to a 2.5" rear caliper, the piston size (volume) of the master must be increased to fill them. Increasing the piston size lowers the line pressure. The power booster output must be increased to bring the pressure back up. All new cars with 4 disc have huge vacuum boosters. Not good for hot rods. The best alternative now is the Hydroboost system. It runs off of the power steering pump, and requires "no vacuum" It can generate up to 2000psi, push a master cyl up to 1.625" and clear the valve covers of a hemi or 572 Chevy.
Last edited by Deuce; 01-29-2006 at 11:33 AM.
Why to consider rear disc brakes....
1. Rear drum brakes have a non-linear response to fluid pressure, so the proportioning valve needs to be matched to all of your vehicle characteristics including the rear drum brake design.
2. Rear drum brake linings often become "grabby" when wet or in a high humidity environment. The resulting rear brake lockup is particularly nasty in slippery conditions.
3. The people making rear disc brake conversion kits could use the money.
I don't think most hot rods ever came with power brakes at all so none of that really matters unless you are talking about adding power brakes. I hear what your saying but on the two vehicles I have swapped from four wheel drum to four wheel disk there was a significant difference - and both remained NON power.
I come from the off road school where your not making vacuum simply because your barely moving so hydroboost is nice..
Hope This Helps
IT was a hard choice to convert to disc brakes in the rear on my suburban rod--which tows a 12kl,lb trailer to boot.....However after all the proper evlauation of both systems, i went with all disc's .....
at the junk yards i got a set of front 77 chevy truck disc and 69 cady elderado rear discs with ebrake built in.....i got the bracketts to hook it all up to the dana 60 axles from ccp in calif as well as the 1' master cylinder and a 8' stainelss double booster....the ebrake cable came from lokar--but the real secert to having it all work great was a stainless vacum can from summit.....this stores all the vacum i could ever use and really helps pedal pressure.....it is pluged in directly to the vacum port under my stealth ram throttle body....
also going to a 1'' bore mc really helped pedal presure greatly and i ended up with more stopping-then the stock 12'' booster with the 1.5'' bore mc....and i kept the p-valve were it was with the original adjustments-60 up front 40 in the rear......and with a lil bardering got everything for under 500 dollars--that is before i chromed it all......But with it all chromed--lines and mc and booster and calipers, vacum tank and all braided ebrake lines and an vacum lines--i would put it up against any system costing thousands in any show.....
when you look at my system it is small enough to look great on a roadster but has the stopping power for a tank.....ALL MY TEC INFO CAME FROM REALLY GREAT FOLKS AT SPEEDWAY MOTORS--THEY SPENT MORE TIME HELPING ME GRASP WHAT WAS NEEDED-THEY ARE TOP SELF FOLKS INTO HELPING PEOPLE....AND ALSO THE FOLKS AT CCP WERE ALL KNOWING ABOUT WHATS NEEDED.....CHECK THEM OUT IF YOU NEED HELP....
Anyway i hope this helps and remember you do not have to spend alot of money to do this....BUT YOU DO HAVE TO INVEST SOME TIME TO GET IT RIGHT
Added the SSBC rear disc conversion for our 98 Durango, after adding 20" rims. The Durango had marginal braking before, and with the heavier rims (73lbs per corner as opposed to 54lbs) braking upgrade was necessary.
The brakes are 200% better now, and it stops effectivly even when we are towing (7000lbs)
I would call the braking on this suv almost acceptable, as opposed to marginal the way it was from new.
Incidentally the proportioning valve had the spring removed for equal pressure to all 4 corners, as instructed by SSBC.
Pads are 90 % of stopping ability.
Who makes the best shoes in your opinion? Has anyone tried these folks? http://www.praisedynobrake.com/index.htm
I've got 4 wheel non-power drums on my 65 Rambler Classic, and just want to find the best shoes for it.
It's easy to upgrade the front brakes of the Rambler to discs, provided you can find a 79-83 Concord or Spirit to rob the brakes from. Get the spindles and all, then bolt to the Rambler. Almost that simple! There's a small brake line issue, and you need to remove the residual pressure valve from the front brake portion of the master cylinder, but otherwise it's pretty easy. You don't have to have a power brake system either, but you will notice a slight increase in pedla pressure is needed with non-power front discs.
No disrespect but, where are you getting your info. on braking? A 60/40 braking bias is a recipe for disaster! The rear brakes do aid in braking but, ad more to controling the direction to which the car in steering.
The normal braking bias is 70% and 30% max this is greatly in due to the dive designed into most vehicles.
I highly recommend visiting http://www.stoptech.com to better understand the complexity of the braking systems.
Brake bias.
Some stockcars can achieve almost even brake bias front and aft due in part to anti-dive designed into the car.
Last edited by 63mrl; 01-06-2006 at 03:21 PM.
Bang the drum
I had a 66 gmc 20 years ago that had manual drums. The stopping performance was so bad, I swapped in late model C10 power disk brakes, and as you would guess, braking improved dramatically. Fast forward to my current project, a 65 gmc. It has the same drum brakes, but it has a factory power booster. It stops better than the first truck did after modification.
If I were looking to improve braking on a rig, before I spent big money on a conversion, i'd Increase the pedal leverage, or increase the vacuum booster and see what happened. I hated drum brakes when I was younger, but I'm leaving mine in place.
A lot of cars and trucks have 60/40 displacement. Of these, many also have the same size rotors, and same type pads, front and rear, but most are also set up to fade rear first. I dont think it is a recipe for disaster unless it does not match the car. Most FWDs are 80/20.
I'm not pretending that displacement is the same as braking torque, but it does play a major role, especially when setting up your own ride. A heavy car or truck can easily have 60/40 displacement. Proportioning valves are your friend, but they should be used to optimize braking, not fix an 'oops' in the setup.
The displacement info can be determined through mathematics, or looking up the specifications in either the service manual, if listed, or the AMA specs.
go drum
I have to say, once GM went back to rear drum in 1/2 ton pickups in 05, braking has dramatically improved and with our new york winters, we wont have to replace/turn rear rotors anymore
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Mathematics: The New Golden Age (original 1988; edition 1998)
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Devlin explains in the preface to this book that his aim was to highlight the breadth and excitement of current mathematical research by selecting 10 topics from the past 25 years in which significant developments had been made and which were capable of being described to the lay reader. It's an interesting challenge and I think he was at least partly successful. However, it's worth noting that this book was written in the mid-1980s, and published in 1988; "the past 25 years" refers to the period between 1960 and 1985. I'm not sure how this book managed to sit on my shelves unread for nearly 25 years; I'm a keen reader of this sort of popular exposition of mathematics. The time lag has made it an interesting read. Some topics in mathematics retain their interest and relevance over many decades or centuries and the methods used to tackle them may not change much in that time. Others wax and wane in interest or are transformed by theoretical or methodological advances. Given that Devlin intended to pick areas of research which were very active it is not surprising that the same is true of the topics he tackles here. Some of the descriptions remain current; others describe areas which have undergone significant transformation or where questions which were outstanding at the time Devlin was writing are now settled, often in unexpected ways.
This is perhaps best illustrated by considering the 4-colour problem, one of those to which Devlin devotes a chapter. It's one that pops up in many, many popular mathematics books over the years because its description is accessible even to children but its solution eluded many of mathematics' finest minds for 150 years. Before 1976 it was an interesting unsolved problem; a popular exposition might describe both the unsuccessful attempts of the past and speculate about how it might be solved in the future. After 1976, that question was settled. The problem had been solved by an unexpected means of attack - an exhaustive enumeration of 10,000 or so special cases and a mixture of hand and computer analysis which proved both that this set was complete and that each case consisted of an 'irreducible configuration.' It was a proof of a different and unexpected kind and some would argue that it transformed mathematics. Devlin was writing after this proof and so was able to consider its effect on mathematics more widely with nearly 10 years of hindsight. The same is not true of Fermat's Last Theorem, another of the topics he tackles. Unsolved at the time of writing, it was finally dealt with by Andrew Weil some 10 years later. Devlin make one successful prediction regarding the proof - he says that "if one is ever found, it will involve a great deal more than elementary considerations."
Enough about historical perspective. In addition to the two topics mentioned, Devlin also covers prime numbers and factoring, infinite sets and undecidable propositions, the class number problem, chaos theory and fractals, simple groups, Hilbert's tenth problem, knots, algorithmic efficiency and a collection of 'hard problems' in complex numbers including the Riemann hypothesis. You don't need to recognise all of these topics for this book to be interesting and accessible. But I suspect that if you have not heard of any of them you'll find the book very hard going. Devlin tries not to assume much knowledge on the part of the reader - he gives an explanation of complex numbers in chapter 3, for instance - but he does assume a familiarity with some basics of algebra and elements of mathematical notation. In some chapters he also moves rapidly from these basic explanations to some challenging concepts, a number of which defeated me on first reading despite having a degree in the subject.
These moments are rare, however. Overall this book does a good job of explaining the history of the problems discussed and describing many aspects of them which will be new even to those who may have encountered the topics in many similar books. It was new to me, for instance, to discover that the 4-space manifold has unique properties with regard to differentiation, something which has significant impact on much of theoretical physics given that this manifold describes space-time. The existence and accuracy of Heawood's formula (which places an upper limit on the number of colours needed for a map on a surface of a particular genus) was also new to me, as was its accuracy for every surface except the Klein Bottle.
Further reading is provided at the end of every chapter should you wish to investigate any of the topics in more depth. The book also has both an author index and subject index, an unusual but helpful division. Worth reading by the aspiring student of mathematics, those like me who studied it but moved elsewhere and those with interest and ability in the topic but without formal education beyond secondary school.
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Mathematics: The New Golden Age offers a glimpse of the extraordinary vistas and bizarre universes opened up by contemporary mathematicians: Hilbert's tenth problem and the four-color theorem, Gaussian integers, chaotic dynamics and the Mandelbrot set, infinite numbers, and strange number systems. Why a "new golden age"? According to Keith Devlin, we are currently witnessing an astronomical amount of mathematical research. Charting the most significant developments that have taken place in mathematics since 1960, Devlin expertly describes these advances for the interested layperson and adroitly summarizes their significance as he leads the reader into the heart of the most interesting mathematical perplexities -- from the biggest known prime number to the Shimura-Taniyama conjecture for Fermat's Last Theorem.
Revised and updated to take into account dramatic developments of the 1980s and 1990s, Mathematics: The New Golden Age includes, in addition to Fermat's Last Theorem, major new sections on knots and topology, and the mathematics of the physical universe.
Devlin portrays mathematics not as a collection of procedures for solving problems, but as a unified part of human culture, as part of mankind's eternal quest to understand ourselves and the world in which we live. Though a genuine science, mathematics has strong artistic elements as well; this creativity is in evidence here as Devlin shows what mathematicians do -- and reveals that it has little to do with numbers and arithmetic. This book brilliantly captures the fascinating new age of mathematics.
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