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Machine Man update
Seriously: I'm making this story up as I go. I didn't say that just to lower your expectations. It's a work in progress. I haven't plotted it out in advance. I write each page a few days before you see it.
I'd like to believe the reason I keep getting emails like, "Come on, tell me: how much of this have you written already?" is that people think Machine Man is so amazingly brilliant that no mere mortal could dream it up on the run. Unfortunately, I have to face the fact that you just think I'm shifty.
So look, I swear: it's for real. I'll show you the blank pages I haven't written yet.
Anyway. Six weeks in, I'm thrilled. I like the story, I like checking the latest comments about each page, and 2,700 people have signed up for it. The unsubscription rate is 7%, meaning 93% of people who try it out via email stick with it, which I couldn't be happier about. Well, I guess I could. 100% would be better. But maybe that 7% just changed email addresses. Or someone close to them died and they couldn't handle any contact from the outside world for a while. You can't rule that out.
Now some news:
Machine Man is going to be a book. You know, a real one. My Australian publisher, Scribe, decided there was no need to wait to find out whether the rest of the story—i.e. most of it—would be any good, and offered for print rights. That's some pretty good blind faith right there. I'm touched but slightly afraid.
I did an interview on Machine Man for LiteraryMinded.
I'm enjoying this enough to see it though, so the end of the free feed is nigh. I'm thinking Chapter Ten; i.e. the last free page will be 43. That's eight and a half weeks in, which seems about right. Actually, page 33 would have been a good place, story-wise, but I hadn't gotten around to setting up PayPal. Soon, anyway, you'll have the opportunity to pay $6.95 for the rest of the story. If it helps, you can think of me using that seven bucks to buy shoes for Fin. Look at her! Right now she has to walk around in baskets.
And a few thoughts:
My favorite chapter so far is Chapter Five, which contains my favorite page (20), which contains my favorite line ("Don't do that thing."). I realize this is something no self-respecting author should ever admit, but that line made me giggle like a child.
Biggest surprise was the reaction to page 23. I forgot that nobody but me knew that Lola was into prosthetics. I mean, really into them. And people liked this development. Which was great to discover, you sick bastards.
At the risk of disappointing you by revealing its very mundane origins: Page 21 is more or less the original idea I had for this story. I was walking along one day when I saw an unattractive man in a beautiful car; I had a notepad with me and wrote down: The cars are better than the drivers. I thought about this while waiting for the train, at which point I added: I want to be a train, which is essentially page 2. The rest follows naturally, I'm sure you'll agree.


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Earthquake overview : A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit near the coast of Central Peru. The earthquake hit at 01:54 PM local time (18:54 UTC). Initial USGS data stated that the epicenter was on the coastline approx. 50 km from Ica, a big Peruvian city. Lucky escape for Ica, as the Peruvian seismological agency IGP did locate the epicenter at 117 km from Ica.
With the collaboration of Carlos Robles, Ana Paula Silva Correia, José Rodrigues Ribeiro and Robert Speta
"I have Felt it" Reports --> see below + Let us know "how you have felt this earthquake"
To read the full story as it happened, we advise our readers to start at the lower part of the page (earthquake data).
Keep this page open or return regularly as we will be back with more details when they become available
Update 01/11 - 10:00 UTC : The manager of the Civil Defense office of Ica has announced that he will continue to search for inflected damage.
Earthquake-report.com expects not a lot of additional damage anymore. All injured and killed people are accounted for.
Update 31/10 - 04:18 UTC 1705 people are homeless. 154 tents have been distributed. In addition to the 63 houses collapsed, 278 houses uninhabitable, 515 houses damaged - 2 temples/churches as well as 2 health centers have been damaged.
Update 30/10 - 23:18 UTC : Unfortunately, also this earthquake became a deadly one after that the 44 year old Javier Humberto Ennriques Caycho from Cochahuasi, playa hermosa was killed by a falling stone.
Update 30/10 - 23:17 UTC : Indeci has published report nr. 157 with details of the impact of the earthquake. Click here to consult it.
The affected zones where : Ica, Oalpa, Pisco, Chincha and Canete. In this report Indeci said that :
- 104 people were treated for all kind of injuries (Chincha : 34 and Ica : 70)
2,575 people were affected by the earthquake, 63 houses have collapsed, 278 houses were uninhabitable and 515 houses were damaged.
Update 30/10 - 12:12 UTC : Indeci has published report nr. 156 with the aftermath details of this earthquake. Click here to consult it.
The affected zones where : Ica, Oalpa, Pisco, Chincha and Canete. In his latest report Indeci said that 2,575 people were affected by the earthquake, 92 houses had collapsed, 194 houses were uninhabitable and 515 houses were damaged
Update 16:46 UTC : The Cathedral from ICA will be demolished as the total structure become destabilized and would collapse anyway with the next serious earthquake.
Update 16:05 UTC : We have NO further updated reports on the number of injured. The last report from INDECI was at 23:00 local time yesterday!
Update 16:02 UTC : Peruvian president Humala has canceled his presence to the IberoAmericana meeting in Cumbre (Pagaguay) to travel back to Lima first and to continue thereafter to Ica.
Update 12:19 UTC : La Republica Peru quotes Seismologist Julio Kuroiwa in saying that yesterdays very strong earthquake could be called an "aftershock " of the massive 2007 earthquake. Massive earthquakes can trigger very strong to massive aftershocks for decades. Mr. Koraiwa compared both the 2007 earthquake with yesterday's aftershock, as he called it. The 2007 7.9 magnitude earthquake was 30 times stronger than the one from Friday.
He also said that to generate a tsunami the magnitude has to be at least 7.2 and be very shallow. (ER ... these are the words of the seismologist, not ours - tsunamis are a very difficult subject and cannot be generalized on a worldwide scale. Every coastline is different and magnitudes to trigger tsunamis do vary a lot. Additionally, the local aspect may never be forgotten. For example in this case, we at earthquake-report.com are always alerted when the epicenter is shallow and it is located on the steep slopes of underwater mounts. Here the level difference between the top of the South America plate and the base of the Nazca plate was 3000 m! Landslides below sea level have generated destructive local tsunamis in the past. Luckily, here everything was kept well together.)
Update 11:00 UTC : The mayor of Ica Mariano Nacimiento Quispe, says in an interview to TV station Hora 24 that he is prepared for the many aftershocks Ica is going trough at the moment. An extended contingency plan is ready if it would be needed.
Update 10:41 UTC : The video below from 24Horas a Peruvian TV station is showing emotional scenes and a lot of chaos in Ica. Luckily not too much damage, but as you will see People were panicking a lot.
Update 10:32 UTC : We expect higher damage numbers a couple of hours after daylight. As it is the case with most earthquakes, Civil Defense personnel cannot assess the complete situation in in less than 48 hours, which is the reason why early numbers are never correct in case of such very strong earthquakes
Update 10:28 UTC : The M 6.7 earthquake has not generated a tsunami warning for the coasts of Peru, said the Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation of the Navy of Peru (confirmation of the news from our 10:10 update)
Update 10:10 UTC : Ana Paula and José (see above) have contacted some people in Huacho and they say that no tsunami or unusual movement at sea was observed. This is important news because it contradicts completely the Tsunami map in this article. This does not mean at all the the GDACS models are bad (we @ earthquake-report.com are valuing them as a very huge step forward in alerting people) but that the data they used to calculate the wave-heights (epicenter location, Magnitude and Depth) might have been erroneous to some point. In a seperate article we will explain why these errors can occur.
Important Update 07:43 UTC : The Peruvian Civil Defense, responsible for organizing the rescue and relief support to the people have reported that at least 83 people were injured by this earthquake. 132 houses have been reported collapsed and many more damaged.
Click here to open the FULL INDECI REPORT as published on October 28 @ 23:00 (11 PM) local time = 04:00 UTC
Earthquake-Report.com congratulates INDECI for there extensive reporting, an example to be followed by other countries
Update 07:35 UTC: 1.89 tonnes of roof and tents have been provided to the region. 45 tents/roofs have been provided to Ica Province of which 24 are located in Pachacutec, 4 in Parcon and 17 in Tinguina.
Update 07:15 UTC: At the moment the injury toll stands at 83, with no casualties reported.
132 houses have collapsed, and 660 people are homeless. 1220 people have been affected.
From the latest statistics: only 88 houses collapsed, yet 40 are uninhabitable in addition.
245 houses in addition have been damaged.
INDECI statistics state that: 640 people were homeless, five of them in the province of Palpa and 635 in Ica province (in the districts of Ica (20), Ocucaje (230), Pachacutec (120), Parcona (35 ), San Juan Bautista (5), Santiago (40), Tate (100) and Tinguiña (85)).
Also listed as 1225 people affected, 1220 in the Ica region and province of the same name, in the districts of Ica (30), Ocucaje (980), Los Molinos (200), Tate (10), and only five in district Imperial (Cañete).
Of the 83 people were injured, all came from the Ica region.
- In the district of Palpa 1 was injured,
- in the province of Ica 48 were injured in the districts of Ica (41) and Ocucaje (7),
- while in the province of Chincha 34 were injured.
Earthquake-Report.com Robert Speta overview video
Update 06:38 UTC : At least 7 houses have collapsed in and around Ica. Three houses collapsed in Acomayo sector, two in Victoria, one in San Joaquin Viejo and another in the Los Espinos. The affected families are receiving assistance from the Peruvian Civil Defense. Tents have been installed to help the owners through the night .
Update : The President of the Council of Ministers, Lerner Ghitis, ordered the immediate mobilization of the National Civil Defense Institute (INDECI) to address possible impacts of the strong earthquake that hit several regions of the country.
Update : After the damage created by today's earthquake the demolition of four churches in Ica is under discussion. The local mayor thinks they are not safe anymore because the 2007 earthquake has already weakened their structure.
Update : The people living at the coastal town of Pisco have been seriously alarmed by a fast retiring Ocean. Retiring oceans can be a signal for an upcoming tsunami.
Update : The Peruvian Civil Defense just announced that so far 17 people have been reported injured and 35 houses collapsed.
Update : 29/10/2011 - 00:02 UTC : 17 minutes ago a powerful 5.5 magnitude aftershock struck the same area. Depth : 19.7 km This will go on and on for the coming hours and days, gradually decreasing in strength.
Update : The Peruvian President, Mr. Ollanta Humala, has called the population to remain calm. Mr. Humala is currently in Paraguay.
Update : Panic in Chincha, a coastal town about 120 km to the North of the epicenter. Parents run to the schools to rescue their children. People crowded the streets.
Update : Good News : ICA is ONLINE again, We saw the first people with an IP address in Ica showing up in the site. Also our first I Have Felt It report from Ica. (see below)
Update : In the province of Huancavelica (to the NE of Ica province) a school was closed because of the damage. In Ascension, in the same province, a few abandoned shacks have collapsed.
Important Update : The Theoretical models of GDACS using an epicenter close to the coast are returning very damaging tsunami waves up to 4.8 meter high (this is VERY high for tsunami waves). So far we have NO news from these coastal localities. We remind our readers that theoretical models are based on historical information and on information from seismological agencies. GDACS has used the USGS data for their computing.
Based on the data below we are especially curious on the Huacho situation.
Update 23:21 UTC : Apparently, the earthquake was felt (with small or moderate intensity) in Huacho too. No damage was caused.
Update : The newspaper Peru21 says there are at least 20 persons injured. The newspaper Correo says 16 wounded are in ICA Regional Hospital and 4 other are in the San Juan de Dios Hospital in Pisco. Some of them are seriously wounded, many from falls caused by panic.
Update : So far we have almost NO news from the sparsely populated coastal area, the area at risk for a local tsunami.
Update : Two persons were seriously wounded in Acamayo (near Ica) and three houses have collapsed. Another ten persons suffered light injures and seven houses were damaged. Telephone lines and electricity are being re-established. (These data are preliminary and will certainly increase further)
The two persons seriously injured are two girls aged 9 and 19, with fractures in the femur and pelvis, caused by the falling walls of their houses, in Acomayo, near Ica. There are 12 injured persons, until now.
Update : The greater area of Ica province is out in the streets and will probably stay out in the streets all night.
Update 22:23 UTC : Palpa has NO injured people as of now.
Update : Peruvian press is almost BLIND on the situation. Even regional ICA newspapers have at this moment only a couple of lines and nothing detailed.
Update : As could be expected, the area is hit by multiple powerful aftershocks. Most people will not read our article and not only because they do not understand English but because telecommunications are down and sitting behind a computer does not serve to anything as there is NO power.
The most powerful aftershocks since the mainshock measured 4.7, 4.9 and 5.0.
GOOD NEWS from ICA : Mario Luis Franco (hospital manager @ ICA ) "We went out to search and we didnt find injured people" only 3 people are in emergency room with cutting wounds and strokes from falling debris.
(ER: This means that the seismological data from IGP (magnitude, depth and epicenter location are probably very accurate).
Based on the data of IGP, there are NO major and medium range cities in the vicinity of the epicenter
IGP = Instituto Geofísico del Perú
Update : There are no reports until now if the earthquake did caused any damage in Peru's mining and oil industry operations, which are very important sectors of the country's industry. Southern Copper, one of the largest copper mines in the world reported that everything is normal.
Update : Acording to the peruvian newspaper LA REPUBLICA, the earthquake was also felt in Northern Chile.
Update : It will be ANXIOUSLY WATING for the first detailed reports from the coast.
Important Update : IGP, Peru is giving the following (little weaker) data for this earthquake : Depth : 30 km, Magnitude 6.7 and very good news for Ica : 117 km South East of Ica.
The IGP data are completely different than those from USGS. The distance to the major city of Ica is almost double.
Local seismological agencies are often very close to the real epicenter because their instruments are mostly closest to the epicenter. The epicenter following IGP is at least 50 km out of the coast and is right in the middle of the subduction slope. This very steep subducting hang has a height of 3,000 meter!. Hopefully, NO sea-slides will occur on this steep mountain.
All this means that the THINLY POPULATED COASTAL AREA IS AT HIGH RISK for the strong shaking and an eventual tsunami. Earthquakes below 7.0 are seldom generating tsunamis
Update : The earthquake was, as expected, strongly felt in Lima, the capital of Peru
Update : WAPMERR, the theoretical model earthquake engine has calculated that 50 to 500 people will be injured and that 0 to 50 fatalities may be expected.
Update : Only very few news facts are arriving out of the epicenter area. Main reason : no power (computers) and NO or very limited telcommunications (few cell phones)
Update : The earthquake was also felt in Ecuador and Brasil
Update : There are reports in many towns that mobile telephony is not working. Please try to use SMS (text message) communication, because too many voice calls are causing networks to crash.
Please read our in-depth article on the redundancy of telecommunication networks - part of our analysis was based on earlier Peruvian earthquakes. Click here to read it!
Update : A little more on the 2007 Central Peru earthquake with an epicenter to the North West of today's earthquake :
15 August 2007 an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale hit Chincha, Pisco and Ica y Cañete. These cities are close to each other and approximately 300 kilometres from Lima. Pisco is the most affected city with 70% of destroyed infrastructure, no basic services and problems with communications. So far there is no information on the damages caused in the rural areas but according to local radio "there are many people from rural areas coming to the cities asking for help". (an excerpt from a report of the Intermediate Technology Development Group)
Video (8 seconds) from the shaking in Lima
Important Update : The IGP informed that the feeling percibed by the people was like the one of 2007 and damage is reported in Palpa,Ica.
Hernan Tavara...... pointed that the sectors of Ica,Nazca and Palpa in the center-south were the most shaked.
The earthquake make landslides in the coast, power outages, and problems with the cellphone service.
Local authorities informed that most of the houses have cracks and that there were sea level changes.
The sea withdraw 10 meters from the coast of San Andres.
Update : Some more information on the ICA 2007 devastating earthquake (source Wikipedia) :
The earthquake occurred in the coastal zone to the north-west of today's epicenter
To come
Update : The Peruvian Civil Defense is currently monitoring the extend of the damage and the number of injured in Santiago, Los Aquijes y Pueblo Nuevo.
Update : People are so scared after have lived trough the August 15 2007 earthquake.
Update : The power in ICA has been dropped since the mainshock.
Update : 291,000 people will have felt a strong shaking
Update : It has only limited sense of digging up earlier earthquakes in this case. To the positive : the coastal area is very thinly populated which is a good sign even in the case of a local tsunami.
Update : Data from other seismological agencies :
EMSC : M 7 @ 27 km (epicenter approx. 10 km out of the coast)
GFZ : 6.9 @ 30 km
PERU : 6.7 @ 14 km
Update : Palpa, a city at approx. 80 to 100 km from the epicenter has houses with cracks in it - a very bad sign. (see picture at right)
Update : In the province of Huamanga in Ayacucho, the earthquake interrupted the council session. In Palpa there are reports of cracks in houses caused by the violent shaking.
Update : A little more on the Ica region (source Wikipedia)
The Ica Region has a remarkable geography. It is the only region of the southern coast formed by plains, also called coast plains, since the Andean Cordillera rise up inland. Some geological folds have determined the formation of dunes moving toward the sea, which form much of the Paracas Peninsula. Some isolated formations located at the southern part created the Marcona complex, with the biggest deposits of iron in the Pacific coast.
Ica's configuration is due to the geomorphology of its two big and unique fluvial watersheds: the Pasco and Ica rivers. Also, it has a waterway called the Rio Grande, although its waters do not reach the ocean. Some waters are diverted for irrigation and agriculture in the provinces of Pampa, Nazca and Ingenio; the Rio Grande's final riverbed is dry since sand and dried lands absorb its limited resources. There are extensive deserts in Ica, such as the Lancha Pampas. Pozo Santo and Villacuri pampas are extremely hot areas. Strong and persistent winds called paracas are present and stir up large sandstorms.
Update : GDACS, the theoretical modelling system from the European Union has NO tsunami alert (just like NOAA), but both organizations are using the USGS parameters (epicenter on the coast). (We @ earthquake-report.com are NOT 100 % sure of these predictions as we have experienced serious location errors in the past).
Update : If the epicenter of this earthquake has been correctly calculated a Tsunami is highly unlikely (just on the coast), but please keep in mind that an error margin of 20 to 40 km has to be kept in mind, in this case the earthquake's epicenter could have been right in the coastal waters. We are hoping that all is OK.
Update : NO DESTRUCTIVE WIDESPREAD TSUNAMI THREAT EXISTS BASED ON HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DATA. HOWEVER - EARTHQUAKES OF THIS SIZE SOMETIMES GENERATE LOCAL TSUNAMIS THAT CAN BE DESTRUCTIVE ALONG COASTS LOCATED WITHIN A HUNDRED KILOMETERS OF THE EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER. AUTHORITIES IN THE REGION OF THE EPICENTER SHOULD BE AWARE OF THIS POSSIBILITY AND TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION. (NOAA message for the Pacific Ocean)
Update : The last deadly earthquake in the area was in 2007, which killed more than 500 people
Update : The MMI VI zones below are at risk for damages and at least minor injuries
Update : MMI values for nearby locations (K= 1000 inhabitants)
VI Santiago 10k
VI Ica 247k
VI Hacienda Vista Alegre 10k
VI Subtanjalla 9k
VI San Juan Bautista 7k
VI Los Aquijes 8k
IV Huancavelica 42k
IV Lima 7,737k
III Ayacucho 140k
III Huancayo 377k
III Callao 813k
Update : The earthquake is also reported to be felt in Arequipa, Cusco and Pisco, where many citizens refused to go back in their homes. The quake has caused power outages in many locations.
Update : Damage is expected in Ica because more than 3,000 houses are built of mud. Rescue groups are on their way to the affected area.
Update : The earthquake was felt with great intensity in Canete, Chincha, Huancavelica and Cuzo Huamanga. There are reports of smaller aftershocks felt in Huancavelica and Huamanga.
Update : earthquakes are very common in this area but are rarely tis powerful
Update : This earthquake is a subduction earthquake, which means that the Nazca plate (oceanic plate) is subducting the South American plate. Sometimes the gliding is not smooth enough and the plates are cracking with the accumulated energy. This event makes these massive earthquakes.
Update : Panicked people rushed into the streets. The earthquake was well felt in Lima too
Update : Earthquake-report.com is labeling this earthquake as EXTREMELY DANGEROUS
Update : USGS has calculated that the max. MMI is VII (very strong shaking) which will be experienced by 373 people only, however 334,000 people will have felt a strong shaking
Update : Ica is a city with 247,000 inhabitants (latest census)
Update : The earthquake happened right on the coastline near Ica, Peru
"I Have Felt It" reports as received by Earthquake-Report.com
LIMA - In Lima, the earthquake was felt like two horizontal waves. It was 6.9in the Ritcher's scale.
Ica : I felt energy coming out the earth..weaving from side to side, after earthquake i felt very dizzy for a few minutes more... when i went home my outside mud wall felt all down (Strong shaking indicated)
Most important Earthquake Data:
Magnitude : 6.9
UTC Time : 18:54:35
Local time at epicenter : 01:54:35 PM
Depth (Hypocenter) : 34.9 km
Geo-location(s) :
51 km (31 miles) SSW of Ica, Peru
112 km (69 miles) S of Chincha Alta, Peru
201 km (124 miles) W of Puquio, Peru
288 km (178 miles) SSE of LIMA, Peru
Links to important maps
USGS Did You Feel It Map
Google satellite map showing the epicenter and the surrounding area.
Historic earthquakes map
Seismic hazard map
Shaking map
Focal mechanism report
Human impact map
GDACS earthquake report
GDACS tsunami report
NOAA tsunami report
QuakeSOS+ and QuakeSOS free are iPhone applications developed by Armand Vervaeck, the founder of Earthquake Report. The Application simplifies immediate group communication to friends and family members (with your exact GPS location) and is feeding the users with Earthquake Report news. The 0.99 US$ QuakeSOS+ version will support the activities of SOS Earthquakes.
Earthquake-Report.com headlines on twitter
@OnlyQuakeNews : Get all the headlines of our earthquake-report.com articles + regular updates on ongoing events
@QuakeSOS : earthquake-report.com news + automatic earthquake notifications of USGS earthquakes of M 4.0 or higher with emphasis to earthquakes in the America's and the Pacific Ocean sphere (4 and up) and a lot of the rest of the world (5 and up). This account was created for our QuakeSOS and QuakeSOS+ iPhone applications
@ShakingEarth : earthquake-report.com news + automatic earthquake notifications of EMSC earthquakes of M 4.0 or higher with emphasis to earthquakes in European and Asian / Middle East sphere (4 and up) and a lot of the rest of the world (5 and up). This account was originally created to stimulate our Facebook account
@QuakeMaps : earthquake-report.com news with mapping notifications of ALL earthquakes M 3.0 and higher from all over the world via EMSC and USGS. This account was created for our http://www.quake-maps.com website
I did feel it – Ik heb het gevoeld – Το έκανα αισθάνεται –Yo lo he sentido – 我的确感到了 – 私はそれを感じていました- Ich habe es gefühlt – Bunu hissediyorum yaptı – لم أشعر أنه

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Please share your EVO performance ideas, tricks, as i want to steal your ideas!
Plus I will share mine.
Need some help from anyone who has installed a Bikers Choice Wide Tire Kit on a 1998 a Stock FLSTF. (the bike belongs to a friend of a friend who bought his own parts) The Kit says will Work with a 250/40/18 Avon. I know the Stock Belt is to wide so he brought me a 1 1/8 /135 tooth s&s belt and a 70th Pulley. I've tried multiple Spacers behind the Pulley and Rotor and either I get the Tire centered and the (2000) later Caliper won't lay fully on the Swing arm Bracket or the tire rubs on the belt. He provided the rear wheel/tire which I've never herd of. the wheel has a Name on it of Ego Trip, of course it is used. Do I give up and put a 1 inch rear Pulley and Belt on ? Any help would be very appreciated from this old Mechanic.
I have a 02 Electra Glide I have rebuilt the master cylinder new break lines and rebuilt both calipers and new pad and the reason I did this is when the bike sets in the sun the front break gets tight and locks front wheel after doing all this it still does it what can I do to fix this
Thanks Dawg....seems like if i push the "post message" button several times in a row quickly it'll take the post and also tell me "the message has already been posted" otherwise....everything get erased.and when you type at my speed you need to pack a sandwich.....I'll keep ya informed....now back to my cave.. Mike
Yea Dawg ...still having problems. after a post and entering it ...it doesn't post and comes up" message entered is too short- lenghten message to at least 3 characters. I've been loosing post after post and just can't quite figure it out. Thanks for any help and I don't really think it's on my end . BC.
having a hard time posting...is it the forum or my computer?? Thanks Mike
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Clint suggested I PM you for the purpose of checking the history of this scoot:
He said you had the ability to determine whether it has been in an accident...it is an Ebay listing, ending fairly soon but looks a little suspicious. Visually, it appears to be a Limited but is actually an Ultra wit lots of Limited parts on it (wheels, saddle bag chrome remved, ect.) I'm think it has been wrecked and rebuilt from parts of another bike. The seller appears to be an independent vehicle dealer that acquires bike and cars from auctions.
Thanks in advance for any advice you might have.
Hi dawg, i finished my handle bars today., they look great all i have to due is rglue the left hand grip, what would you recommend i use to do this. Also wanted to thank you again on the info on those blk/wires. I was stressing a little until tou answered my quest.
Thanks again Gushys flhx
I have to remove the primary chain to replace the Stator. The 2003 service manual says to turn clockwise to loosen the 1-3/16 nut. The pictures indicate counterclockwise to losen . Which is correct?
Got the AC backing plate.,.,,. TX tom. '.,.'
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IF YOU must have your apple a day, you can now enjoy it in a variety of forms. A new method of extracting pure apple essence from the fresh fruit has brought the flavor and aroma of the ripened Mcintosh or Red Delicious to candies, ice cream, soda pop, gelatin desserts, and many other homemade and commercial products.
And if current experiments are any indication, you'll soon be able to chew your apple in chewing gum, inhale it in cigarettes, smell it in perfume, or enjoy its taste in apple-flavored medicines.
It all stems from the apple industry's problem of producing a concentrated apple juice that would keep for year-round sale and still have the flavor of fresh cider, which is perishable. Processors had learned that by adding an enzyme, Pectinol A, they were able to break down the pectin that causes gelling. Thus they produced an apple juice of about 75 percent solids; it had excellent keeping qualities and could be shipped in tank cars without special precautions. But, unfortunately, the processing robbed the juice of most of its flavor, and it couldn't compete with fresh apple cider.
When the processors tossed their problem into the collective lap of Department of Agriculture scientists, the latter had a theoretical, but wholly logical, answer: extract the flavor from the fresh apple; process the fruit; put the flavor back in again.
"Yeah, brother, but how do that?" was the wail. "Don't know, but let's try," the scientists replied. So an experimental station was set up at the department's Eastern Regional Research Laboratories, at Wynd-moor, Pa. There, for several years, the apple has been given such a thorough going over that it has fewer secrets than a presidential candidate.
After much trial and error, the researchers hit on a way of capturing the sources of the natural apple flavor, located for the greater part just under the skin. The process consists of first heating the juice of pressed apples to volatilize the flavoring elements. Then the vapor is mechanically separated from the juice, concentrated by fractional distillation, and condensed.
The result is a clear, colorless liquid, a 150-fold concentration of the juices from which it is extracted. And the stuff is so powerful that a few drops released in a room carry you right back to the old orchard.
This separation of the apple flavor has been a shot in the arm for the apple industry. The essence is first recovered from the fruit. The juices are then concentrated and reflavored with the essence, with the result that there is no apparent difference between the processed product and apple cider fresh from the presses. Another advantage is that peelings and other parts of the apple, often waste products, can now be used. Also, apples of inferior flavor can be squeezed for juice-making and then spiked with the essence of the more desirable varieties.
Six companies already are selling the essence, and 60 others are installing the equipment for making their own products. Other fruits and berries are also in line to have the juice knocked out of them.
Since its extraction, the new essence has found many other uses outside the apple industry. Perfume-makers are experimenting with it. Research chemists say it may serve as a bait for insect poisons and as a mask for the nasty taste of castor oil and other medicines. The housewife will soon have a bottle of it on her kitchen shelf to flavor a dish of ice cream or a gelatin mix. Since the day of the Big Apple, this fruit has never had such a big moment.


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How innovation, collaboration and civic engagement spawned the creation of the High Line – New York City's 1.5-mile-long park built on an abandoned rail track above the West Side – was the subject an illustrated lecture on Sept. 28 at the Mahaney Center for the Arts.
Adrian Benepe '78, former commissioner of NYC parks, and architect Peter Mullan, vice president for planning and design of the High Line, presented the talk in connection with 2012 Clifford Symposium at Middlebury College.
The High Line stretches from Gansevoort Street in the West Village to the rail yards at West 30th Street, and it affords grand views to the east and west as it juts through the Meatpacking District and Chelsea. Never wider than 60 feet and more often just 30 feet from side to side, the High Line opened in 2009 and has quickly become one of the leading tourist attractions in the city.
So how did the High Line come to fruition? "It's a story of collaboration and creativity," Benepe said, and over the course of an hour he and Mullan took the audience on an excursion through its evolution.
After the last freight train ran on the High Line in 1980, the property lay dormant for nearly two decades until 1999 when two residents of the West Side, Joshua David and Robert Hammond, began an intensive lobbying effort for its preservation and use as a public open space. They formed a non-profit organization called Friends of the High Line, which was instrumental in garnering the civic, commercial, governmental, and financial support necessary for the project.
Benepe and Mullan pointed to three key developments that propelled the project forward during the first decade of the 21st century.
First, whereas former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani opposed the project, his successor in City Hall, Michael Bloomberg, ran on a platform in 2001 that favored conversion of the High Line into a city park. "I thought it was an insane idea," the former parks commissioner told the gathering. "How would we get water 30 feet above ground?" he asked. "How would we get things to grow?" But the new mayor believed in the High Line's ability to connect neighborhoods and bring people together.
Second, the proponents of the High Line could point to another world capital, Paris, where its Promenade plantée is an elevated green beltway built on a former railway line. The popularity of the Prominade plantée "proved that the idea of an elevated park could work," Mullan said, which turned out to be a crucial factor in proving to people that the High Line project had merit.
Third, the Friends of the High Line worked with land-use planners to build an economic rationale for the High Line. They showed that if the city invested $100 million to build a public space on the High Line, the city would gain $262 million in increased property taxes to adjacent lands over a defined period of time, and the estimate has proven to be low because the High Line has had a "ripple effect" on the value of properties in the entire area.
The economic argument proved to be a powerful factor, Mullan said, because "as cities and municipalities are increasingly strapped for cash, they need to make investments in their public infrastructure that are going to be cost effective, and parks in general will do that if they are well designed."
The High Line allows no bicycles, dogs, jogging, or ball-playing of any kind, and yet it has become wildly popular for city residents and visitors. The High Line attracts nearly four million people a year, Benepe said, which places it between the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Statue of Liberty in terms of attendance.
Its lush greenery and never-before-seen views of the Hudson River, its preservation of the rails and variety of environments, and its chaises and benches that seem to pop up out of the rail bed – inspire "a contemplative mood of awe and gratefulness that such a delightful oddity could be dedicated to public space," the Wall Street Journal wrote just days after the first section of the High Line opened. (Photos of the High Line abound on the Internet; for a sample, click here.)
Built with brick, steel, concrete, soil, and wood, the High Line "is essentially a shallow planter box in the sky," said Benepe, who is currently senior vice president at the Trust for Public Land and a trustee of Middlebury College.
The guest speakers closed the presentation by stressing that "public-private partnerships like the High Line work when they represent the local community," and that preservation and the use of public space can be drivers of economic development. Moreover, they said people are inspired by innovation even when their natural reaction is to resist change.


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Till now, analysts have been talking and writing only of the dangersof cyber-terrorism to States and civil societies.
2. China has, for the first time, experienced the lethal force ofCyber Democracy and has started showing signs of fears of its likelyimpact on the stability of the authoritarian Chinese State and itsclosely-controlled civil society.
3. The uprising of large sections of the Tibetans against what theyperceive as the Han colonisation of their traditional homeland andsuppression of their Buddhist religion, which started in Lhasa onMarch 10,2008, and has been continuing since then in various forms,has been planned and orchestrated by Tibetan youth located indifferent parts of the world. Hundreds of Tibetan youth living indifferent democratic countries, who had never met each other and whocame to know each other only through Internet chat rooms anddiscussion groups, pooled their ideas together and decided to takeadvantage of the year of the Beijing Olympics to launch a movement forTibetan independence and democracy under the leadership of the TibetanYouth Congress (TYC).
4. Even if the movement is ultimately crushed after a few weeks byChina's Neo Red Guards, who are dictating the policy on Tibet, withthe help of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the third TibetanUprising of 2008--- the earlier two having taken place in the 1950sand the 1980s--- will go down in history as the first people'srevolution made possible by the power of the Internet's connectivity.This revolution might be crushed ultimately by the PLA, but neitherthe PLA nor the Chinese intelligence will be able to eradicate thispower.
5.Not only the Chinese, but even His Holiness the Dalai Lama and hisclose advisers were taken totally by surprise by the manner in whichyoung Tibetan boys and girls---- with the help of their youngnon-Tibetan friends in different civil societies--- planned thisuprising sitting behind their personal computers and had their plansexecuted.
6. The Chinese as well as His Holiness and his advisers are worriedover the dilution of their control over the youth and its implicationsfor the future of Tibet. His Holiness was in favour of only a peacefulmovement coinciding with the Olympics in support of the ethnic andreligious rights of the Tibetans. He did not want an anti-BeijingOlympics movement, but young Tibetan boys and girls, wielding thepower of the Internet, turned it into a global movement against theBeijing Olympics. His repeated appeals against any attempts tosabotage the Olympics have fallen on deaf ears till now.
7. The initial Chinese response was to close down all servers beingused by the Tibetans and try to impose an iron curtain on theInternet. They found this very difficult to achieve. There wereseepages through the Iron Curtain They realised that the Iron Curtain,which served the purpose of the USSR, cannot serve the purpose of theChinese State in this age of the Internet.
8. The Ministry of Public Security, which is China's internalintelligence and security agency, then decided to counter-attack theTibetan youth and their foreign supporters doing unto them what theywere doing unto the Chinese. Young Internet-literate Chinese boys andgirls, not only in the overseas Chinese diaspora,, but also in theChinese civil society were mobilised to unleash a counter-campaignagainst the Tibetan youth and their foreign supporters.
9. Young Chinese boys and girls, who were indignant over what they sawas acts of anti-Han brutality of the Tibetans and the distortedprojection of the events by the Western media and human rightsorganisations, joined in the Internet-based campaign against theTibetans and their foreign supporters. The outpouring of theirpatriotism was as impressive as the outpouring of the patriotism ofthe American people after the 9/11 terrorist strikes in the UShomeland by Al Qaeda.
10. The beginning of the patriotic campaign was state-inspired anddirected, but after a few days, it assumed a momentum, direction andflavour of its own.There were indications of a xenophobia and all thecontrols, which the Chinese State had been exercising on the use ofthe Internet, started showing signs of melting away. The moderatorsnominated by the Ministry of Public Security to moderate thisInternet-based campaign and to prevent it from taking directions whichcould be detrimental to the Chinese State, found themselves unable tomoderate effectively.
11.Fears that the exercise in controlled Cyber Psywar launched by theMinistry could turn into an uncontrollable exercise in CyberDemocracy with criticism of not only the Tibetans and their foreignsupporters, but also of the Chinese leadership itself for lettingitself be taken by surprise have caused the Chinese authorities to tryto apply brakes on the campaign. The Chinese are also worried that themounting anti-foreigner feelings as a result of this Internet-basedcampaign might lead to unpleasant incidents against foreigners duringthe Olympics.
12.The Ministry of Public Security and the offices of the CommunistParty in different parts of the country have reportedly been tellingthe young Chinese that they have achieved their patriotic purpose andthat it is now time to cool it.
13.But will they be able to? (19-4-08)
(The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt.of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai. He is also associated with the Chennai Centre ForChina Studies. E-mail:email@example.com )
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Good News: Sox Win…Bad News: Danks Hurt
You have to give the Sox credit.
They found themselves facing the most unenviable of positions tonight after losing John Danks to an oblique strain after 1 2/3 innings. There they were needing to fill the remaining 7 1/3 innings a day after the entire bullpen was used in the 14-inning marathon defeat.
But survive they did as the combination of Brian Bruney (2 1/3), Jake Peavy (4) and Sergio Santos (1) had Danks' back and shut out the red-hot Nationals, 3-0. Peavy improved his record to 4-1, allowing just one hit and striking out seven For the record, it was his first major league relief appearance.
The run the Sox scored in the first on a Carlos Quentin sac fly was all the South Siders needed. But they tallied two insurance runs in the eighth on a Ramon Castro single to breathe a little easier.
The Sox were unsure of Danks' status following the game. He will very likely have to go on the DL, in which case a reliever will be added with the club going with the conventional five-man rotation.
The White Sox go for their 18th consecutive interleague series win tomorrow with Phil Humber on the mound.


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Sochi Games are apt venue for athlete activism
The United States has a long, inglorious tradition of attacking political athletes who push for progressive social change in their prime, only to praise them decades later. Recently U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun epitomized this double standard. When asked about John Carlos and Tommie Smith's iconic act of medal-stand dissent - when they thrust their black-gloved fists into the sky at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics - he responded, "I'm proud of what they did. It is memorable, and memorable in a positive way." Yet when asked to comment on Billie Jean King's provocative remark that "sometimes I think we need a John Carlos moment," Blackmun bristled, blathering about how the Games are supposed to unite and not divide.
The truth is that the Sochi Olympics provide a prime - and prime-time - moment for a courageous act of athlete activism. Rarely has the arc of history so tantalizingly telegraphed itself.
Last summer, while most of the rest of the world was expanding rights for LGBT people, Russia lurched in the opposite direction.
President Vladimir Putin signed antigay legislation banning "propaganda" that promotes "nontraditional sexual relations" to minors. The legislation aggravated a sharp rise in street violence leveled at the LGBT community. Yet the International Olympic Committee has assiduously avoided condemnation of Putin's law, even though such state-sanctioned intolerance clashes with the Olympic Charter.
Meanwhile, Putin and his allies have done all they can to foreclose the possibility of the Russian LGBT movement bringing its protests to Sochi. The Duma has passed legislation that is both drastic and elastic. One law requires "politically active" nongovernmental organizations that receive funding from outside Russia to register as foreign agents. Another advances a definition of high treason so broad that activists fear it could be leveled against anyone who teams up with foreign groups. Russian security forces have vowed to vacuum up every morsel of Internet and telephone communication at the Sochi Games.
Brandishing his trademark finger-snap brand of authoritarianism, Putin initially issued a decree banning all non-Olympic "gatherings, rallies, demonstrations, marches and pickets" in Sochi between Jan. 7 and March 21. Then Russian authorities backpedaled, vowing to establish "protest zones," with the closest one 7.5 miles from the nearest Olympic site.
Yet there's one thing the Russian Olympic security apparatus - all $2 billion of it - can't stop: a principled athlete taking a high-profile stance for justice. Sochi presents the best opportunity for a Carlos-Smith moment in years. As John Carlos said to us in an interview, "If I was an athlete today, I wouldn't be concerned about anything other than what's right. You need to follow your conscience, follow your heart, follow your wisdom, and follow your education as to what the plight is. If you feel like you must do something, the only thing you will regret is doing nothing."
The fact that the Olympics occur under the hot glare of the global media spotlight abets athlete activism. Security forces and Olympic honchos will hesitate to squelch the free speech of athletes, especially while the cameras roll. Activists often chant "the whole world is watching," and with the Olympics, it actually is.
New Zealand speed skater Blake Skjellerup, who is gay, has pledged to openly defy the antigay law. Lesbian Australian snowboarder and out-lesbian Belle Brockhoff says she will publicly criticize the law as part of the "P6" protest (based on upholding the Olympic Charter's Principle 6). U.S. snowboarder Hannah Teter described the law as "very inhumane" and hinted at Sochi activism, even if that meant breaking rules against dissent. "That's what snowboarders do: We break rules," she stated. Brian Burke, the chief of USA Hockey, whose hockey-playing son came out of the closet only to tragically die in a car accident the next year, said, "Olympians, when you pack your skates, pack a rainbow pin. When you practice your Russian, learn how to say, 'I am pro-gay.' "
The time is right for courageous athletes to seize the opportunity of a lifetime. Let's hope an athlete - or better yet, a critical mass of athletes - steps up to this historic challenge.
The official Sochi 2014 motto is "Hot. Cool. Yours." Homophobia is burning hot in Russia. The IOC's response has been cool. Athletes, the stage is yours.
Jules Boykoff, author of "Activism and the Olympics" (Rutgers University Press, 2014), played for the U.S. Olympic soccer team and teaches political science at Pacific University in Oregon. Dave Zirin, the sports editor at the Nation, writes about the intersection of sports and politics.


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Pasadena PD: Woman arrested in fatal shooting of female acquaintance
One woman is dead and another in police custody after a dispute outside a Pasadena home Saturday afternoon.
Pasadena Police Department spokesman Vance Mitchell said a woman shot another woman outside a home on the 3100 block of Redfield Drive in Pasadena around 1:10 p.m.
Crime scene technicians were still at the Pasadena home in a quiet neighborhood just off Suiter Way late Saturday afternoon, sweeping the ground for shell casings and other evidence.
Mitchell said the woman suffered a massive head wound and was flown to Memorial Hermann Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, he said.
Police believe the two were acquainted, and that the shooting occurred after the two got into an argument at the victim's front doorstep, he said.
"I have no idea what precipitated this," Mitchell said.
The identity of the woman and other details have not yet been released.
Witnesses gave police a description of the alleged shooter's car, allowing them to arrest her a short time later at a home on the 4100 block of Vista, about three and a half miles away.
Mitchell said that while police were heading to the home of the alleged shooter, they received a call from a person telling them they'd found a handgun tossed out of a car on Cherry Brook Lane.
"We think that's probably the murder weapon," he said, but added it still needed be examined by the department's forensic analysts.
Details about the woman and what the motivation for the shooting are unclear at this time.
The women were in their mid-50s, Mitchell said.


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Growing up, I used to hate this being made or served at home. Now I think it is a delicacy and prepare for special occasions. As I was talking earlier, my Sasu had gone to visit relatives. The day she came back, I had made this ghanta and tomato khata and dalma, another typical oriya meal. We all had a nice meal together. And yes one of the few meals that I have cooked in the last few months. I have been enjoying the summer and spending time with the kids after work, no major cooking for me! And yes summer is going to end soon and my sasu will be leaving soon too! Sigh!
Also sending this ghanta to Priya's event 'Lets sprout' . And a very Happy Independence day! Don't the colors of the veggies remind you of the Indian flag ?
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(The moral of the story: When all else fails, rant about 30-year old game mechanics. That's usually good for a thousand words or so…)
Amongst the many D+D mechanics that were transferred over into CRPGs, MUDs, and MMOs that I would like to see retired (or at least given some career re-training), one of the big ones is the concept of the "saving throw". My reasoning, and a few potential re-imaginings, follow in the text hereafter…
Dungeons and Dragons, since it was developed for the small group gaming situation, implemented a host of very abstract concepts to keep the basic mechanics relatively simple: after all, no one wants to have to do multiple derivatives or matrix multiplication each time they have their Barbarian take a swing at an orc. There are a lot of little intricacies that just get folded up into the basic steps of the resolution processes in D+D: things like "to hit" rolls, damage rolls, and saving throws.
The saving throw concept itself was largely implemented to simply give the player some feeling of control over their character when attacked in ways that couldn't be "realistically" modelled via the D+D hit point mechanic… mainly non-physical attacks like charms, confusion, fear, and so on. The saving throw abstraction kept the flow of play relatively fast paced, while still offering the player some feeling/illusion of control. It wasn't the most precise mechanic in the world, and could lead to arguments and disappointment when players felt that circumstances should warrant a different result than the die roll indicated… but the GM was there to adjudicate such situations, and it mostly worked given the situation.
Like most of the mechanics of modern day computer RPGs, the saving throw abstraction was largely transferred wholesale from pen-and-paper gaming into the computer version of such games. The range of possible values and intricacies of the modifiers to be applied might be adjusted somewhat, but the basic concept is largely the same: one random number check, pass or fail, often all or nothing, for nearly all non-physical stresses that a character might be exposed to.
However, two of the more important aspects of the original implementation of the mechanics have been lost in the translation from pen-and-paper to computer: 1) saving throws gave the player an illusion of control by having them roll the die/dice that would determine success or failure: no similar activity exists in most computerized implementations; and 2) there is no GM to overrule the random factor when it generates a result that just doesn't make a lot of sense.
There actually has been some development on the concepts and systems related to the saving throw over time, although often relatively limited. Players are often granted a measure of control over specific stresses via abilities or equipment gained during play: a "ring of charm resistance", or an ability that makes the character immune to fear effects for a period of time when triggered.
Some games also appear to vary the duration of effect based on the level of success achieved on the random roll, modified for character level and other factors, again, allowing the player some measure of control and making it a little easier to suspend disbelief in those relatively rare situations where the results might otherwise seem off-kilter.
I would suggest, however, that a great deal of additional variety in gameplay might be obtained if the generic saving throw was set aside, and more robust systems used instead to adjudicate the situations it is currently used to handle.
This is not exactly a new concept. Systems to allow finer control over "non-physical" stresses have been implemented in various systems even in pen-and-paper RPGs. Examples include the Sanity score from Call of Cthulhu and/or the Humanity scores (same name, different impacts) from Cyberpunk 2020 and/or Vampire: The Masquerade.
The most obvious tactic to pursue is to simply duplicate the "hit point" mechanism, creating a separate pool of points for use against non-physical stresses, used in much the same manner as typical hit points are used for physical stress. I don't happen to like this one all that much, since it still usually leads to an all-or-nothing implementation if not further developed, but it does usually lead to options that restore some measure of control to the player.
An alternative system might be to reverse the above concept: instead of a diminishing pool of points, have a cumulative value representing the current level of effect being suffered, with no absolute maximums, but instead somewhat flexible "threshholds" of effect. The player's goal is to keep such accumulations as small as possible, bleeding off pools in various ways.
It's only a subtle change from the first option above, but since it is more likely to lead development away from an all-or-nothing implementation, I'd be more interested in it personally. Watching a "Fear" indicator grow as the character cautiously explores the dark dungeon corridor, or seeing a "Rage" indicator spike as the opponent makes obscene gestures before combat, seems to be a possible way of evoking an echo in the player of what the character would be experiencing, tho a bit contrived.
My "dream system" currently would use a combination of the above… a vaguely hit-point like mechanism determines whether each initial stress is sufficiently powerful to have a significant effect, then separate scores track the cumulative present totals of various possible effects, moment by moment.
Follow up and conclusion
What other ideas have people had for handling the types of situations that usually get covered by the ubiquitous "saving throw" concept? I didn't go into poisons and diseases, for example, in part because several different implementations already exist, but that was a concept that was originally wrapped into the saving throw mechanic as well: are there additional lessons to be learned from how those concepts have been developed over time in existing titles? What games have I overlooked that experimented with these alternatives or others, and how did they work?


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Tigers must supply correct answers to five key questions
Sunday, August 05, 2007
By Jim Kleinpeter
BATON ROUGE -- The LSU brand is hot now that the college football practice season is under way.
The 2007 Tigers snagged a No. 2 ranking in the USA Today coaches poll. But whether the Tigers can live up to that standard and make a Jan. 7 appearance in the BCS championship game at the Superdome remains to be seen.
Here are five key questions that will help determine LSU's fate:
1. Can Matt Flynn step in for JaMarcus Russell and make the offense go?
Flynn, a fifth-year senior, won't be the No. 1 choice in the NFL draft next season like Russell was, nor will he match Russell's amazing arm strength.
But he won't have to for the Tigers to be successful.
A strong returning defense, solid offensive line and a host of good running backs make Flynn's job easier. Russell won some games by sheer will and the strength of his right arm.
Teammates of both say Flynn's best assets are managing the team and the knowledge he has gained while watching from the wings.
"He has the perfect mental makeup for a quarterback," said one teammate. But don't sell him short on ability. He was one of the most recruited quarterbacks in the country and unlucky to play in Russell's shadow. He's a better runner than Russell, a facet that will be worked into the Tigers' offense.
Still, Flynn is unproven. His 2005 Peach Bowl MVP performance came against a Miami team that all but quit in the second half, and he threw a couple of ugly interceptions against Georgia in the SEC title game that year and one last season against Mississippi State.
Fans will get an idea early with games at Mississippi State and at Tiger Stadium against Virginia Tech in the first two weeks.
2. Is the offensive line really solid, or is trouble bubbling just beneath the surface?
On paper, it looks good with four starters returning.
But one of those is senior guard Will Arnold, who has yet to get through a season without a significant injury (23 games played in three seasons).
With season-ending surgery last year, his work will be limited in camp, and there's no guarantee he'll play full time once the season kicks off. There is even talk of him playing some at tackle. Arnold was working with the second unit in Saturday's opening practice.
Right tackle Carnell Stewart is transitioning from defense and has laid claim to the job. He's in his second year on offense and still is learning.
Brett Helms is an underrated center; sophomore Ciron Black had a steady year at left tackle; and guard Herman Johnson is just a big ol' guy who's hard to handle.
The depth is questionable, so an injury to a starter could have a huge impact. Lyle Hitt worked ahead of Arnold on Saturday, and there is a knot of inexperienced players vying for other backup roles.
Massive incoming freshman defensive tackle Joseph Barksdale has been moved to offense to beef up the reserves.
3. Can the defense absorb the loss of All-American LaRon Landry and Jessie Daniels at safety?
This appears to be the easiest question to answer.
Although LSU loses two safeties who started three (Daniels) and four (Landry) years, eight other starters on defense return.
Every good defense starts with a dominant defensive line, and LSU's could be better than last season's, led by All-America tackle Glenn Dorsey.
Tyson Jackson could be in for a big year, and the depth across the front is good.
Three linebackers, led by Ali Highsmith, return, as do both corners, who are seniors. The new safeties, Craig Steltz and Curtis Taylor, have seen plenty of action.
Safety Danny McCray was one of the few freshmen to see significant action last season and performed well.
Landry's high-spirited play will be missed. He was a sure tackler and the last person opposing quarterbacks wanted to see coming on a blitz. Daniels, however, had a habit of blowing coverages.
4. Who will punt, and will the kickoff rule changes hurt with Chris Jackson gone?
Patrick Fisher is the Matt Flynn of special teams.
He has been stuck behind Jackson for four years, and the job is his to lose. He's big for a punter (6 feet 5, 253 pounds) and has shown the ability to send the ball a long way. He just has to show consistency, having kicked only six times in his career, none last season.
Again, it's nice having a fifth-year senior stepping in.
The loss of Jackson may hurt more on kickoffs, where rule changes will have the ball teed up at the 30-yard line. And it looks like either of two incoming freshmen, Josh Jasper or Andrew Crutchfield, will have to handle the job. Both have strong legs, but the coverage team won't be able to rely on many touchbacks.
One of these freshmen will have to learn how to place the ball where the coaches want it.
5. Will the Tigers be able to handle the expectations of their high ranking?
The good news is that LSU has been in the top 10 each of the past four seasons, meaning high expectations come with the territory.
Still, many experts are saying LSU should be in the BCS championship game, and that's different from just being in the hunt.
The pressure will come to bear as each week passes if the Tigers continue to win.
Though the toughest games are at home, there are many potential stumbling blocks. The Virginia Tech game in Week 2 will be the early litmus test, and SEC road games at Kentucky and Alabama won't be rollovers.
LSU appears to have the necessary leadership to understand the situation and adapt as the season goes. This will be quite a test for third-year coach Les Miles, whose tenure with the Tigers will probably hinge on this season's outcome.
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Warren leads NC State by Pittsburgh 74-67
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon kept trying to find somebody — sometimes two somebodies — to guard N.C. State star T.J. Warren.
Dixon eventually ran out of volunteers and options.
Warren never ran out of shots.
Hot from the start and scorching at the finish, Warren poured in a career-high 41 points to lift the Wolfpack to a 74-67 win over the Panthers on Monday night.
"T.J. was special," N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried said.
Unstoppable too.
The ACC's leading scorer made seven straight shots at one point and finished 16 of 22 from the field. His emphatic dunk in the final seconds sealed it to give the Wolfpack's flagging NCAA tournament hopes a needed boost.
"It was a pretty cool night," Warren said. "I was just moving without the basketball, finding open spots."
And his teammates kept finding him.
N.C. State (18-12, 8-9 ACC) won for just the second time in its last six games, riding Warren for much of the second half. Warren's 41 points were the most by an N.C. State player since Rodney Monroe scored 48 against Georgia Tech in 1991.
"We tried to double-team him," Pitt center Talib Zanna said. "He just kept making shots."
The Wolfpack came in having lost four of five, including brutal one-point losses to Syracuse and North Carolina. There would be no late collapse this time.
N.C. State beat the Panthers at their own game, dominating the glass and taking over the lane.
The Wolfpack outrebounded Pitt 35-23, including 13-2 on the offensive glass. It led to a 16-0 advantage in second-chance points, including a pair of clutch baskets in the final minutes as the Panthers turned away one last-gasp comeback after another by the Panthers.
The 23 rebounds by Pitt were its fewest in Dixon's decade on the sideline.
"We have to outrebound people and we didn't get it done today," Dixon said.
Josh Newkirk led Pitt (22-8, 10-7) with a career-high 20 points but the Panthers had no answer for Warren.
Not that they didn't try.
Pitt threw a series of players at Warren, from Patterson to defensive specialist Cam Wright to power forward Jamel Artis. The Panthers even mixed up the defense, running zone at some point while mixing in a little man-to-man and the occasional double team.
It hardly mattered, though Warren didn't exactly do it alone.
Lennard Freeman added 10 points off the bench and provided a physical presence the Wolfpack used to bully Pitt around on what was supposed to be a celebratory Senior Night for Patterson and Zanna. Patterson finished with 17 points but made just 7 of 12 at the free throw line.
Even worse, the nearly unbeatable aura the Panthers have enjoyed at home since the Petersen Events Center opened in 2003 has disappeared. Pitt is 6-2 on the road in the ACC and just 4-5 at home.
"We got what we deserved," Dixon said.
Pitt led by as much as 13 in the first half but struggled to put away the Wolfpack.
The Panthers controlled play for long stretches in the first half but only led 36-31 at the break, with the Wolfpack doing their best work when Warren finally got some help. Pitt appeared on the verge of blowing out N.C. State only to get sloppy at the end of the half.
The Wolfpack used a late 8-0 surge to get back in the game, pushing the Panthers around in the lane with relative ease.
"Our guys had a mindset to go get it," Gottfried said.
A runner by Warren gave N.C. State its first lead of the second half at 48-46 and then followed it up by drilling a 3-pointer from the top of the key.
The Panthers could never quite catch up. Several times they trimmed the deficit to a single point and each time N.C. State answered. A 3-pointer just before the shot clock buzzer by Warren made it 69-65 Wolfpack and he added a 15-footer that bounced off the rim and in.
Pitt would get no closer, and when a late Pitt turnover freed Warren up for a fastbreak dunk, the only sound was the roar of a small batch of Wolfpack fans who whooped it up as Warren's teammates celebrated.


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Fire chief: Fatal Council Bluffs fire set intentionally
Mark Vander Woude, 43, dead
Council Bluffs Fire Chief Alan Byers said a house fire that killed a man and caused extensive damage to the two-story home is believed to have been set by the man who died in it.
Crews were called to 46 Norwood Dr., east of Interstate 80, around 3:10 p.m. on Monday.
-- Video: Listen to a neighbor's 911 call
After the fire was under control, firefighters found a man's body in the second-floor master bathroom of the home. He was identified as Mark Vander Woude, 43.
Investigators said no one else was home at the time of the fire.
Authorities believe Vander Woude, who was in the process of getting a divorce from his wife, Lori, may have started the fire.
-- Video: Firefighters battle home blaze
According to court documents, Lori Vander Woude had taken out a protection order against her husband in September, after he allegedly tried to run her off the road with his car several times in one night.
Mark Vander Woude was arrested on charges of assault with intent and was set to go to trial for those charges on March 19.
In December, Mark Vander Woude allegedly violated the protection order by calling his wife at work in Omaha.
He was again arrested and charged with misdemeanor violating a protection order in Douglas County.
He posted bail and was set to stand trial on that case on March 4.
Pottawattamie County Attorney Matt Wilber said that there was also a felony stalking charge being investigated prior to Mark Vander Woude's death.
Neighbors said that Lori Vander Woude was scared of her husband.
"She had security cameras and had an alarm system recently put in," said neighbor Pam Viestenz.
According to officials, the preliminary investigation lists the fire as suspicious due to previous incidents at the residence, the amount of damage done to the structure and the possibility of an accelerant being used to start the fire.
"It was terrible. I'm still nervous from it -- very, very scary," Viestenz said.
An autopsy is under way to determine the victim's cause of death.
The family lost everything in the fire --clothes, furniture and photographs. There is a fund at US Bank for the family under "Vander Waude family" for donations.


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A patient has written a disturbing account of life with a condition which makes him think he is dead - and how he spent his days in graveyards as it was "the closest I could get to death".
The British man, identified only as Graham, woke up nine years ago utterly convinced that he was no longer alive even though he was still breathing.
Doctors diagnosed him with Cotard's Syndrome, which is also known as 'Walking Corpse Syndrome' because it makes people think they have turned into zombies.
Graham did not believe them, however, and insisted that his brain was dead.
The unusual condition emerged after Graham, who suffered from severe depression, tried to commit suicide by taking an electrical appliance with him into the bath.
Eight months later he told doctors that his brain had died or was, at best, missing.
He lost interest in smoking, stopped speaking and refused to eat as there was "no point because I was dead".
Only through months of therapy and treatment was he able to overcome the condition and live anything approaching a normal life.
Cotard's Syndrome is among the most rare diseases in the world and it is thought that it affects just few hundred people at any one time.
It is linked to depression and comes in a variety of forms including some who feel that their limbs are no longer functioning.
Writing in New Scientist magazine, Graham describes how baffled doctors referred him to neurologists Adam Zeman at the University of Exeter and Steven Laureys at the University of Liège in Belgium.
At the time Graham was being looked after by his family because his illness had gotten so bad.
He said: "I didn't want to face people. There was no point.
"I didn't feel pleasure in anything. I used to idolise my car, but I didn't go near it. All the things I was interested in went away.
"I lost my sense of smell and my sense of taste. There was no point in eating because I was dead. It was a waste of time speaking as I never had anything to say."
The nadir was when he felt compelled to go to his local cemetery as he thought he would fit in.
He said: "I just felt I might as well stay there. It was the closest I could get to death. The police would come and get me, though, and take me back home."
Graham's recovery started with scans which found that levels of activity in parts of his brain were so low they were more consistent with somebody in a vegetative state.
Mr Laureys said: '"I've been analysing (brain) scans for 15 years and I've never seen anyone who was on his feet, who was interacting with people, with such an abnormal scan result.
"Graham's brain function resembles that of someone during anaesthesia or sleep."
After his own regime of therapy and drugs, Graham is on the road to recovery.
He said that he is not really back to normal but can go out of the house on his own and "feels a lot better" than he was.
He said: "I don't feel that brain-dead any more. Things just feel a bit bizarre sometimes.
"I'm not afraid of death. But that's not to do with what happened – we're all going to die sometime. I'm just lucky to be alive now."


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The Doctor of Physical Therapy Program currently operates via a consortium arrangement among the Graduate Center of CUNY (the degree-granting institution) and the College of Staten Island and Hunter College campus programs. We are beginning a transition whereby the College of Staten Island and Hunter College will each assume degree-granting authority. The first step in the transition will take place at Hunter College. On July 16, 2012, the Board of Regents of the New York State Education Department granted approval for Hunter College to grant the Doctor of Physical Therapy degree. This will become effective for students enrolled in the Class of 2016 (beginning June 2013).
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PLEASE NOTE: The program starts in the Summer session. However, when completing the online application you need to select the Fall option as the potential start date.There is no Summer option in the online application system.
Applying to the graduate program at Hunter College is a fully online process. The online application system requires that applicants:
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A 61-year-old Long Island lifeguard was told he'd have to wear "boxers, briefs or board shorts" rather than his preferred, less-revealing swimwear, in order to pass a swim test. Now he's suing for age discrimination.
According to CNN, the new requirement was instituted in 2007, when Roy Lester had already been working as a lifeguard for over 40 years. He typically wore jammers, which end above the knee, because he felt that "as you age you should show less skin." The New York State Parks apparently didn't agree, telling him he'd have to wear the regulation swimwear if he wanted to work. He called the decision a "blatant act of discrimination," and accused the Parks department of "trying to get rid of the older lifeguards."
If the Parks really wanted to get rid of older employees, changing the clothing requirements seems like a very roundabout way to do it. But it's also not clear why Lester's jammers would've hindered him from doing his job. The case is now going to trial after several appeals. Whatever the outcome, Lester's story is a reminder that clothing and uniform issues affect men as well as women, and that the freedom not to show skin can be important enough to go to court over.
Lifeguard Sues New York Over Revealing Swimsuit Rule [CNN]
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Where do you get your groceries?
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Harris Teeter @ Barracks. Cheaper than Whole Foods & Less people who have no spatial awareness, but still better quality produce/meat/seafood than Food Lion/Kroger/Giant.
I do go to Giant @ Pantops to get some cheap stuff from time to time, but What's up with $20.99 for a case of Yuengling? Thats about 5-6 bucks too expensive, guys!
Retail Relay
I shop at Kroger Rio Hill, I really like Harris Teeter at Barracks Rd as well. My absolute favorite is the Charlottesville City market on Saturday morning...fresh produce, eggs, homemade jelly & sauces, no bull burgers! Great place to shop and experience so much of what local farmers and small business' have to offer
I go to the world's best market: Crozet Great Value. No kidding. Small store (compared to the big chains) but decent selection and excellent prices; especially on meat. A very substantial selection of organic foods, plus bakery items and veggies from local sources. And a decent number of basic items for just a dollar, whose branded competitors cost 2 or 3 times as much. The wine aisles have a good selection, too, and, yes, you can "make a deal" on case lots. And the service? Beyond belief. The checkouts are staffed by baggers who have it all ready to go and in your cart in a moment or two after you pay; often BEFORE you pay and, yes, they'll take it to your car. And it is the same staff, month after month, year after year. And if anything is not right, the checkout clerk handles it on the spot; no need to go to a "service" desk.
What's the most authentic grocery store in town?
Whole Foods, and Giant up at Pantops primarily. As far as mainstream grocery stores go I like Giant because they carry organic brands and have a section of all natural/gluten free foods.
But yes, Whole Foods is way expensive. They need to tone down their prices. Useful tip: Shop there on Fridays. They always have sales on Fridays. So on Fridays you can buy things at normal prices. ha
Reids on Preston
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Well, Gasbag, you did it now. In this world-class city full of elitists, you uttered the "WM" word. I can hear the snickers now! They will be spewing cognac all over their collar-up polo shirts over that comment!
I get wonderful steaks, lobster tails and crab at Sam's Club. I really could not care less if the cows are eliminated by any which way; they taste great.
BTW, this thread is guaranteed to elicit tons of responses. I never lived in a town with so many people obsessed with where to buy food, what kind of lighting stores have, how the personnel is, etc. It is food, for Lord's sake: buy it and eat it.
Speaking of great customer service and local stores, I know a lot of the snobby pony-tail-through-the-ball-cap crowd go to Harris Teeter in that abomination called Barracks Road. Isn't that where the serial rapist cut and sold meat products?
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Starting in November, I'll be spending a lot of time and money at Trader Joe's. Also like Harris Teeter.
The woods, were I hunt in my socks and sandals for granola eating liberals. They can be tough to find because they blend in with the trees they are hugging, but if your quiet, the quiet sound of humming "kumbaya" gives them away every time!
Alas, they dont taste very good. Too much White Whine flavors and cheesy political facebook posts.
But on the bright side: every one caught and eaten is one less B.O. bumper sticker on a car that does not know how to merge into traffic.
We don't sing "kumbaya" anymore, we sing "wagon wheel".
And we don't think we're better for shopping at Whole Foods. We're better for not drinking Yuengling.
Ah Liberalace, we care about service because it is so RARE!
I will get meats and organic produce when I need it (I garden) from Whole Foods - and stock up on things on sale or go to Farmer's Markets for items too. I am not loyal to any one chain grocery store though - and absolutely despise the customers Whole Foods has - Jimi Hendrix - please go there - easy pickings! Target those with the SUVs and "Planet Earth" bumper stickers, please!
I am considering buying half a cow to freeze though and perhaps shot the deer from my deck to keep them out of my garden and fill the freezer. :)
Reids on Preston Avenue is the most authentic grocery store in CVL. Its been around for decades and has always been locally owned.
We're really lucky to live in an area where so much is available
locally--fruit, vegetables, meat, eggs etc. The Mennonites have
excellent produce as well as pickles etc. For other shopping I just
stop where it's most convenient. Whole Foods for buttermilk only.
The shoppers there are so wired it jangles my nerves. Just a guess
but probably liberals AND conservatives--wow.
There's nothing wrong with Yuengling, it's a great daily drinking lager, as it has been for 100+ years. Certainly better than the Natty Light they drink on campus.
We have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to having available choice in beers here, but I'll be damned if I'm going to pay $10-$14 for a six pack of really good beer on a regular basis.
My biggest gripe about Whole Foods (And the Harris Teeter) is the number of inconsiderate people who don't have any idea of personal space and think that the store exists for only them. i.e. leaving their cart in the middle of a walkway while you walk an aisle away to get your organic gluten-free fad food of the year. Seriously, it doesn't take much effort to realize there are others around you trying to do their shopping. Get out of the way!
@buzzbomb...regarding inconsiderate people, it is Cville, after all!
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Oh wow! I thought I was the only one who noticed the spacial issues with people at WF! And GOD FORBID-I should say "excuse me" to get by-oh and-let's not forget the moms talking really LOUD to show how involved they are with their kids.........UGH! *desipe this-I still go there and detest every minute of it-
Retail relay will solve all those spacial issues problems. They carry almost all Whole Foods inventory as well as inventory from Reids as well as fresh fruits and vegetables from a number of the local producers. Oh and the baked goods from local bakeries. Did I mention those?
I agree with jsgeare - Great Valu in Crozet has great local produce, meats, locally baked goods and down home friendly service.They opened even without power after the derecho to help folks out.
Kroger at Rio Hill, Cville Market for produce, occasionally farmers' markets. And I go to Sam's for $4 huge tubs of organic salad greens and spinach.
Whole Foods -- aka Whole Paycheck -- is not only an extremely irritating place to shop, it is also extremely expensive. Gave up on it long ago.
Also at WF prepared food isn't that great. Better
soup at Revolutionary Soup. Better pizza and pasta
at Mona Lisa. Salads are easy! Do them yourself!
Still WF has the best buttermilk.
just out of curiousity... Is there a downside to using RelayFoods? I'm willing to give it a shot, but I've never used a business / grocery aggregator like that. And I generally don't buy into the whole "organic" movement, though i do like extremely fresh food.
Buzzbomb the only down sides are that you have to make a list (though you have until midnight on the day before your pick-up to do it), that you have to be available sometime between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. to pick up your groceries, that you have to buy $50 worth of groceries -- though, alas, that's getting easier and easier to do! and that you can't see for yourself or touch the products you choose (just photos but you can read the labels of packaged products on the photo). (If you really don't like an item at pickup time, you can refuse it and get reimbursed. But of course if you really wanted it, that means a trip to a store to get it! I've used them for most of my shopping almost since they started operating and I love the convenience -- and the constant attempts to improve their service and make their customers happy.
I've stopped eating food until Wegmans opens!
I shop at Whole Foods with supplemental groceries from Pantops Giant, Target, or the Teets. The only rival to WF quality produce is the Saturday farmer's market.
Reids..If they don't have what you want, they will order it. Meats custom cut, very good.
I also agree about Crozet Great Valu (or the IGA as some still call it) I even came in one night 5 minutes after they "closed" and they let me run in and replace my rice that I managed to burn for dinner quickly, no complaints and with a smile. They always ask me how my day is, and smile even when the day is dreary or gloomy. I've asked the meat department before for more cuts, or thicker steaks, and they've always obliged graciously and quickly -- and do large orders quickly and way more cost effective than anything else. The Mission home fresh bread (trust me, the Ciabatta will knock your socks off) and the local produce sold equal or LESS than produce that the Harris Teeter less than 2 miles away sells for is delicious! And I also agree with the bagging comment. They're a great bunch over there in Crozet.
Whole Foods also known as Whole Paycheck! I notice no one mentions the Integral Yoga store on Preston Avenue. These days I often shop at Trader Joe's in Short Pump - it's a bit closer than Charlottesville for me. 29 North still seems a disaster, and I have to wonder what genius thought up that location for Trader Joe's in Charlottesville. Wegman's evidently had a clearer notion for their 5th Street location -- it will be closer to the Interstate and the Bypass, and not really that much farther from the southern end of 29 North. I used to shop at 7-Day when they still hung sides in the meat locker and it was the only game in town for exotic foreign groceries. And I used to shop at the Carriage House when Mr. Maupin purveyed the best Italian sausage in town. I'd like to remind everyone that the supply of groceries and wine in Charlottesville has really gotten much, much better since the '70s and '80s. And the local restaurant scene now has a lot to offer. I guess that fits in with America's general love of food these days. I hope the Wayside Takeout manages to re-open after the traffic hassles and that it continues to thrive. Most of all I hope everyone will take thought about how to ensure that no people still go hungry in Region 10 between now and Three Kings Day. Perhaps we can encourage Charlottesville and Albemarle County to loosen up some on their "chicken rules" ... and allow three or four hens without a rooster; this could help many families meet their daily protein requirement without bothering the neighbors, even in suburban settings.
Reassuring Christian Wayside has been open and doing business all during the work on the bridge (which I live just a block from so I know). And the bridge work should be coming to an end in September so if you're to --ahem -- "chicken" to deal with the traffic, you'll soon be able to go back.
They were closed for a while -- maybe just the day I tried to stop there? Thanks for letting me know ...
Nom, nom, nom.
Foods of All Nations....owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Reids, Market St. Market, Cville Market, Whole Foods for 365 basics
Steal groceries from your parents as long as possible. Then from your girlfriends roommates.
Our good friend John Ruvalds, who was a Physics professor at UVA, often used to bring fried chicken from the Wayside Takeout to Wednesday Night Supper at Biscuit Run.


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Plan a Veg Patch
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I have always found they get hotter, being all black plastic, than the pallet jobs? Certainly faster, if not as good compost. They do make turning it a bit tricky though.
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Composting daleks work ok for small households. Compost bins do not need air or water from outside. If it is not working it is more likely that the mixture of materials is at fault.
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Mine aren't black, but green; that is, one of them, the smallest, is black, but that composts even worse than the bigger ones. And I do mix the materials, but of course I have to use what I have.
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I think so but also they can pass on diseases. Having said that, the robin is often in my chicken run and I don't think he's ever passed anything on to my lot.bonniethomas06 wrote:Are the wild birds a problem because they eat the chicken food?
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