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The top layer is only shifted over so I could try to separate it with a heated spatula and fuse it in place but I'm not sure if that's the best course of action. Anyway I'm almost done with my hips but they need to be shaped a little more since they're a little large right now. I might try to make an "M pad" using the scraps that I have from making my breast forms but I have no idea where to start with that.
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I never really used a 3D printer so I don't know how the material works, I think filling with something else that you would use to smooth the "printer lines" sounds good enough
How you did the pads and forms? how they looks?
about the Mpad I heard that only a tight panty is enough to hold everything , maybe some foam would help on the looks too...
imgur.com/a/LhinI1W Here are some pictures of the hip pads in use. Slightly NSFW because my kig is in her underwear but I don't have any form fitting clothes for it. Sorry for the messy wig.
A bit of an update on the wig. After the hair has completely covered my mask I figured that I would just cut it into bangs and I'm pretty pleased with the result. I used a picture of Dawn without her hat and her hair down as a reference and I think I got pretty close. imgur.com/a/ZubcCmx
a doll isn't nsfw lol jk
well you are progressing very nicely!
I found a old " how to" Hikari hair long ago, it's a coplex way, could be simplifoed for costume anyway, idk how it works on the anime XD
there was an better drawn one but I can't find.. I'm sure I have in my pícs foldel somewhere XD
I think I know the one that you're talking about. Someone did a cosplay version of it over on DA. deviantart.com/creamypumpkin/a…i-hairstyle-cos-498233259
Something that I realized was that I'm going to need to make a bigger hat. The one that I have doesn't fit over my mask. The pokétech has run into a small problem with the screen having too many pins than the Arduino. I may have to make some kind of breadboard to get the signal to split into the right values for each pin.
I don't have anything to really show for the pokétech yet. I'm still trying to figure out what I have to do inside because I need to convert the signals. Not to mention writing the code for it to run the apps. (May be a bit of a challenge since I'm a mechanical engineer and not a software engineer. I'm glad the apps are simple.)
I've been refining my hip pad's shape and size so they don't stick out so much and make me look like an Ultra Recon Squad member. The one on the left was been refined. imgur.com/a/LGWBjPn
Sorry about the recent lack of updates. Events in my life are preventing me from continuing as quickly as I'd like to but I'm still working on it. Having a bit of trouble with styling the wig. The hairstyle is proving harder than I thought. I'm also trying to restore another wig that I'm going to use for a Serena kig since she has the same facial structure as Dawn so I could use the same mask.
A bit of an update on the wig. I managed to sort of fake having the hair wrap around my head and be clipped up front by using some of the wig that was next to where I cut some bangs. There's still some work to do with straightening it but I doubt I'll be able to get it perfect. I still have to make the final version of her clips with modeling clay but these construction paper ones should do for now. imgur.com/a/olIKGCn
Buff55 wrote:A bit of an update on the wig. I managed to sort of fake having the hair wrap around my head and be clipped up front by using some of the wig that was next to where I cut some bangs. There's still some work to do with straightening it but I doubt I'll be able to get it perfect. I still have to make the final version of her clips with modeling clay but these construction paper ones should do for now. imgur.com/a/olIKGCn
Hi Buff,
Do you think Dawn's hairstyle is challenge to make? I wonder about her hat. How would you make the hat will fit kig-mask?
I look forward to your finish version of kig Dawn because she is cute.
Well it looks simple at first but when it actually comes to doing it I can never get it to look right. It doesn't help that I tried to strengthen a curly wig and didn't get it perfectly straight. As far as the hat goes I'm going to make it out of fleece. I might even make a second set of clips for her winter outfit (when I start making it but I have a Ranamon kig to work on for practice)
Those are the ones that I've been using to style the wig. I think the main problem that I'm having is with my wig stand being smaller than my actual head so the clips end up sitting higher than they should be. I actually reworked my kigs eyes a bit by removing some of the internal structure of my mask to make a flatter space to mount them. What I removed was only some of the support structure that the printer used for itself so no harm was really done to it. I may actually repaint the face and stencil in the eyebrows and eyelashes instead of doing them freehand.
I've started work on the Poketch that Dawn wears. I'm starting to learn JavaScript bit by bit so I can program the apps properly but it's not going to be finished for a while. I've also switched from Blender to Fusion 360 so it will hopefully be easier to create things without the weird errors. On a slightly unfortunate note the heat and humidity these past few weeks have revealed a slight flaw in my mask. Turns out the eyes have a tendency to fall out because the tape I'm using to hold them in doesn't hold up well in heat so I might try using a different kind.
Just a small update here. I've switched to duct tape and the eyes seem to be a lot better now. Now if only my wigs wouldn't frizz up in this heat and humidity... Picked up the fabrics for the new hat that will hopefully fit on my kig head (As well as some for a secret project). The poketch is progressing nicely. I just need to figure out the pinout of my touchscreen before I can attach it to my Arduno and test the program. Not too confident because my programming skills are a little shoddy at the moment but I'll hopefully improve with time.
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In several categories, the Puppies took all but one nomination, and those remaining nominees have no doubt taken a read of the situation and realized that they stand a very good chance of winning a Hugo by default, which is probably something they feel very conflicted about. Taking a look at those nominees myself, I see some who would have seemed like deserving winners in any year (Julie Dillon for Best Pro Artist), and others that I don't know much about (Wes Chu for the Campbell Award). I also see the Best Fan Writer category, in which Laura J. Mixon is the only non-Puppy nominee. As difficult as this is to say, my plan at the moment is to rank Mixon below No Award, and I'd like to talk for a bit about my reasons for doing that.
Mixon is on the ballot because of a single post, "A Report on Damage Done by One Individual Under Several Names." George R. R. Martin endorsed her for a nomination, and whether or not that played a deciding role in securing it for her (his endorsement was made only a day before the nominating period closed, but on the other hand he does have a huge megaphone and the Best Fan Writer category has a relatively low profile and would thus be susceptible to his influence), it reflects the perception that Mixon performed a public service in writing that report, and that the Best Fan Writer category can and should be used to reward such service. I don't know whether I agree with that approach, but the fact that everyone (including Mixon herself) seems to agree that this is what happened makes it easier to discuss what message is sent by nominating and rewarding her.
The individual Mixon writes about was known variously as (to give a by no means complete sample) Wintefox, Valse de Lune, Pyrofennec, A Cracked Moon, and, most famously, Requires Hate. Under that last name, she published a blog in which she wrote angry, often harsh critiques of genre fiction, particularly epic and urban fantasy. She often came under fire for the angry tone of her reviews, and for her liberal use of violent rhetoric, often directed at authors or other reviewers she disagreed with. Defenders of the blog argued that the anger Requires Hate displayed was merely a performance meant to illustrate her disgust with the sexist and racist tropes and plot elements she disdained, that her reviews served an important function in dismantling the prejudice that still lingers within the genre, and that attacking her rhetoric amounted to dismissing her arguments for not being presented in the correct, conciliatory tone.
The Requires Hate blog was allowed to fade away around 2012, more or less coinciding with a loud, public blow-out with a number of authors including Liz Williams and others. Shortly thereafter, a young writer by the name of Benjanun Sriduangkaew began publishing well-received short stories in several major short fiction venues, even earning a Campbell Award nomination last year. Known to a small number of people within the industry was the fact that Sriduangkaew and Requires Hate were the same person. (Because that's the name under which she's continued to speak publicly, for the rest of this post I'm going to use the name Sriduangkaew to refer to this individual, even when referring to statements made under her other aliases; the impression I've formed, however, is that Benjanun Sriduangkaew is also a nom de plume--which, for the record, is a thoroughly legitimate and commonplace choice for which I see no reason to criticize her.)
What happens next is less easy to discern. What does seem to have been substantiated is that Sriduangkaew got into a fight with author Tricia Sullivan over the latter's most recent novel, Shadowboxer, which Sriduangkaew felt presented a skewed, Orientalizing view of its Thai setting. At some point she seems to have attacked the author Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, who refused to join in her excoriation of Sullivan's book. At another point--and the timeline here has been very hard to gauge, so I have no idea what happened before what--Sullivan and, apparently, Williams began a whisper campaign linking Sriduangkaew to the Requires Hate persona. This went on for several months and included, it has been claimed, contacting publishers and urging them not to buy stories from Sriduangkaew. Finally, last fall, Nick Mamatas, who is close with Sriduangkaew and knew her identity, made a public post linking her with Requires Hate, in what he claimed was an attempt to get ahead of the rumor mill. If Mamatas believed that his post would throw the burden of guilt on Sullivan and Williams, however, he miscalculated. When James Nicoll reported on the affair, the comments to his post became inundated with anonymous respondents all saying the same thing--that during the ten years that she was switching identities and "performing" rage, Sriduangkaew was also engaged in campaigns of abuse and harassment against authors and fans, many of whom were still too frightened to accuse her publicly.
My own feelings about this mess are deeply conflicted. I never thought much of the Requires Hate blog. I appreciate--and indeed have published--angry and performative reviews that make strident points about racism and sexism, but in Requires Hate's writing the ratio of rage to actual critique and insight didn't seem to justify the effort. Still, it was obvious that a lot of readers got something out of her writing and valued its existence, so when the rhetoric in her reviews turned violent and began to be directed at actual people, I quietly stopped reading. I had been vaguely aware that Requires Hate was one of several pseudonyms (which, again, I see nothing wrong with), but the only one I was aware of was the one under which she commented at Ferretbrain. There, she struck me as a bully, someone who perceived disagreement as inherently illegitimate and ruthlessly attacked anyone who expressed it. But, since the people on the site seemed to take this in stride, it hardly felt like my place to intervene. When the blow-up over the Requires Hate blog happened in 2012, I was sympathetic to a lot of the criticisms raised, but it also seemed clear that to stand against Requires Hate would mean standing with people I cared for even less, who would cheerfully use her behavior as a cudgel against all anti-racist, anti-sexist writing, and who would tar any angry review with the brush of "bullying." I was dismayed to discover that the friendly Sriduangkaew persona had been a front, but in the grand scheme of things we hadn't been friends and she hadn't owed me anything. It did not seem obvious to me that the extent of Sriduangkaew's deception justified its exposure.
I did not know about the abuse. When the allegations surfaced in the comments to Nicoll's LJ post, however, it seemed obvious that I should have guessed. Not only were there multiple accounts of it, but the behavior they described was entirely consistent with Sriduangkaew's public utterances, the viciousness merely turned up. In that light, Sriduangkaew's behavior--the multiple aliases, and even more tellingly, her consistent deletion of her internet history, especially where it could cast her in a negative light--was clearly revealed as that of a predator, who makes nice with those who have power and attacks those who don't. Sriduangkaew's apologies--one as herself and one as Requires Hate--only confirmed that impression. They both minimize or outright ignore her actual abuses. She is far too busy apologizing for offending the powerful to remember that she bullied and abused the powerless.
I've said all this not only to clarify where I stand on Benjanun Sriduangkaew (which is surely not something that anyone cared about) but to make it clear that I do see the value in Mixon's report, which collates evidence of Sriduangkaew's history and actions over more than a decade and in multiple guises. Abusers thrive when the communities around them forget who they are and what they've done. They actively encourage that forgetfulness--as Sriduangkaew has done by switching personas and erasing her own past. Especially in a community like ours, in which newcomers are always showing up, there is a great deal of value in having a single resource to point to whenever a certain name comes up. And there's no denying that something like Mixon's report is exactly how people with privilege and power should use them when abuse and harassment happen in their community. (Over at SAFE, the blog she established with Tade Thompson to provide a safe space where fans of color can hopefully be protected from abuses like Sriduangkaew's, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz writes about why she feels that this value justifies awarding Mixon the Hugo. Obviously, we disagree, but I strongly urge you to read her take in full, because it is an argument worth considering.)
There is a huge difference between acknowledging that something has value and giving it an award. The message that the latter sends is one that I, personally, am not comfortable with. To begin with, there are huge problems with Mixon's report. Some of them are not her fault--Sriduangkaew's self-editing and the fact that so many of her victims would only speak on condition of anonymity mean that Mixon lacks citations for many of her claims, and I can see feeling that the importance of her cause justified ignoring the conventions of good journalism. Others, however, were entirely within her control. The report consistently treats all of Sriduangkaew's excesses--her rage-blogging, her public bullying, and her private abuse and harassment--as if they were equally bad, whereas to my mind only the last one justifies the opprobrium that has descended upon her. In a particularly ill-judged segment of the report, Mixon divides the people who have sounded off about Sriduangkaew into "pro-abuse" and "anti-abuse," even though it should be clear to anyone that this is an enormously complex situation with many nuances. (UPDATE: I had misremembered that this segment was in Mixon's report. It's actually in another LJ post by azarias.) The report's emphasis on mathematical "proof"--Mixon includes charts and graphs to demonstrate, for example, that Sriduangkaew predominantly targeted women of color--feels perverse, especially given that Mixon is missing most of her sources. Worst of all, unsurprisingly, are the comments, which confirm my impulse from back in 2012 that most of the people who would take an anti-Requires Hate stance are ones that I want nothing to do with. It takes a mere instant for someone to show up and announce that Sriduangkaew's existence proves that all anti-racist writing is bullying. Another wonders aloud whether Sriduangkaew is "really" Asian. In her essay, Loenen-Ruiz writes that giving Mixon a Hugo demonstrates the genre community's commitment to protecting the weak and vulnerable. I think the comments on Mixon's report demonstrate something very different.
One thing that Loenen-Ruiz and I absolutely agree on: more than race or gender or anything else, this story is about power. There is, sadly, no shortage of abusers in the genre community, and whether they get excoriated as Sriduangkaew has (deservedly) been seems to depend a lot more on their power and connections than on what they've done. René Walling sexually harassed a female writer at Readercon. It took tremendous community organization and outrage to get him banned from that con (and where, might I ask, is Genevieve Valentine's Best Fan Writer nomination for her fearless and oh-so-eloquent writing about the experience of the harassment and the ordeal that followed?). Within weeks of that decision being handed down, Walling was volunteering at the 2012 Worldcon in Chicago, and being thanked from on stage by Best Novel winner Jo Walton. Jim Frenkel harassed women from his position as an editor at Tor for decades before anyone thought to do anything about it. Marion Zimmer Bradley sexually abused her children and enabled the abuse of countless others by her husband, Walter Breen, something that should, if we lived in a just world, have landed her in prison for life. Instead, the genre community seems determined to forget about it. This last year, Deirdre Saoirse Moen and James Nicoll did yeoman's work in publicizing the sordid details of Bradley's crimes--things that were known but not spoken of--but somehow no one seems to have seriously considered them for a Hugo.
I'm not trying to say that Sriduangkaew deserves a pass because so many other, more powerful (and whiter) figures in genre got one--she clearly doesn't. But when people like Walling and Frenkel and Bradley are allowed to skate by for years, while an author of George R. R. Martin's caliber (who is, quite justifiably, a prime target for the kind of angry rhetoric about race and gender that Requires Hate specialized in, and who just yesterday published a post in which he describes all such angry rhetoric as illegitimate) takes the time to sing the praises of Mixon's report... Well, it makes it easier to understand why so many people were willing to ignore the problems with Sriduangkaew's public behavior for so long. Loenen-Ruiz thinks that nominating Mixon for the Hugo shows that the community is taking abuse seriously. I think it shows that the community will happily excoriate abuse, but only when it's committed by someone of relatively low status.
Benjanun Sriduangkaew and Vox Day are two sides of the same coin. They're both bullies and trolls, who seem to take genuine pleasure out of causing pain and destruction. But at the end of the day, neither one of them is really our problem. Vox Day destroyed this year's Hugos and may have done the award permanent, irrevocable damage, but he's never going to get the prestige and recognition he so clearly craves. Sriduangkaew has hurt real people in a terrible and lasting way--and if you take nothing else away from this post, I'd like to be clear that I consider that unforgivable--but everyone now knows what she is and her career has suffered real damage (earlier this year Tor.com--whose parent company continues to publish Orson Scott Card and John C. Wright--came under fire for publishing a story by her). Neither one of them is our problem because neither one of them is in a position to have any real power over the community as a whole. Our problem--our real problem--is things like the inexplicable, sickening hostility directed at projects like Con or Bust, the People of Color in European Art History project, or Tempest Bradford's challenge to take a year off reading books by white men. Our problem is that the only thing that gets fandom up in arms over the prevalence of rape in Game of Thrones is when the rapist is a beloved male character. Our problem is that when fans of color complain about the uniform whiteness of Agent Carter they're told that what they want is "unrealistic," and criticized for harshing white fans' squee.
There's been a lot of talk in the last six days about Us and Them. The takeover of the Hugos by a cabal of reactionary, bigoted trolls makes it very easy for us to feel righteous and just, as the standard-bearers for social justice and equality. But the fact is that there are a lot of people on our side who don't feel like an Us, who frequently feel that their concerns, their points of view, their grievances, are not taken into account. What sort of message does it send to those people to give a Hugo to Laura J. Mixon and her report? Does it tell them, as Loenen-Ruiz claims, that genre is becoming a kinder, more equitable place? Or does it tell them that if they ever fuck up, they can look forward to being pounced upon while people with more power and status who have committed far worse crimes skate by?
In writing this, I realize that I will be seen as attacking Mixon. I'm very sorry about that and I hope that what I've written here doesn't cause her a lot of distress. My problem, in the end, is less with her than with the people who nominated her and who will now vote for her. (It is also worth acknowledging that I was a Best Fan Writer nominee last year and had reasonable expectations of being on the ballot again this year. To be honest, I'm relieved that I'm not--I wouldn't want to be in the middle of this mess--but you only have my word for that.) I also want to urge you, again, to read Loenen-Ruiz's post, because her perspective is important--arguably, more than mine. I would also, however, like to point out this post by Kate Nepveu, another


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Dr. Magi Nassif, reviewed the history of the Commission in Egypt since 1946, pointing out that the seminars are held in conjunction with the celebration of the 70 years of cooperation and the establishment of a Fulbright office inside Egypt.
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This was followed by the opening of a discussion between the audience and the Fulbright team to identify the available scholarships and grants and how to apply for them and all the conditions necessary to join them.


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DNR to offer wolf tracking workshop
Participants will learn tracking skills, understanding footprints
MADISON, Wis. — State wildlife officials will offer a wolf tracking workshop in far northwestern Wisconsin next month.
The session is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 12, at the Crex Meadows Wildlife Education and Visitor Center just outside Grantsburg in Burnett County. Participants will learn tracking skills, including sign identification, understanding footprints and interpreting gait.
The agenda includes classroom lectures, outdoor field training and a free lunch. Anyone who completes the training qualifies to become a Department of Natural Resources volunteer carnivore tracker and can help agency experts as they complete carnivore tracking surveys.
Participants can register by calling 715-463-2739.


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31 October 2011
Sermon for the Feast of Christ the King
Canon Michael Wiener of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest was kind enough to allow me to publish his sermon from yesterday's feast:
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth,
will draw all things to myself.
"Wherefore, as there can be nothing that is not ordered to the Divine goodness as its end, so it is impossible for anything to escape from the Divine government … Foolish therefore was the opinion of those who said that the corruptible lower world, or individual things, or that even human affairs, were not subject to the Divine government."
Saint Thomas Aquinas discusses in the 5th article of the 103rd question of the 1st part of his Summa "Whether all things are subject to the Divine government".
Today's world doesn't bother itself any more with answering this question, but is very anxious to maintain three positions:
- It believes (in the true sense of the word) in science and holds its procedures, principles and knowledge in highest esteem, reducing almost all intellectual activity to the level of science.
- It believes in perfect legislation and the necessity and effectiveness of universal state government.
- And – based on the findings of science – it defends vigorously the dogma that there is a perfect anarchy in the universe and the absence of any order in the cosmos and nature as a whole.
An English man once said: "By some mad paradox, we trace political and social ills to poor direction and government; while we trace perfection in the universe to a complete absence of government."
This mad paradox is the fruit of our wounded nature which distorts our intellect and our will in a special manner.
"You were not redeemed with corruptible things, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled."
God became man to allow man to submit more readily to the divine government. The incarnation of God enables the will of man to be submissive to the will of the King who is clothed with all power in heaven and on earth.
"But if we ponder on this matter more deeply," says Pope Pius XI. in his Encyclical Quas Primas, "we cannot but see that the title and the power of King belongs to Christ as man in the strict and proper sense too. For it is only as man that he may be said to have received from the Father 'power and glory and a kingdom', since the Word of God, as one with the Father, has all things in common with him, and therefore has necessarily supreme and absolute dominion over all things created."
What man's fallen nature made obscure is visible and acceptable in Jesus Christ: Christ is King. Now man is united to the Godhead through the new head of humanity. God's grace allows man to freely consent to the will of God and to embrace His goodness.
"For my yoke is sweet and my burden light." God's almighty power is effective in man, enlightens his mind and directs his will while giving man true freedom.
"Christ has dominion over all creatures, a dominion not seized by violence … but by essence and by nature."
"But a thought, says Pope Pius XI. in Quas Primas, that must give us even greater joy and consolation is this that Christ is our King by acquired, as well as by natural right, for He is our Redeemer. "You were not redeemed with corruptible things, but with the precious blood of Christ."
This king doesn't ask anyone to do what He Himself hasn't done. That is why we can entrust ourselves and all we love to the will of this king. Because He acquired His kingdom on the cross, because He purchased our citizenship by His Precious Blood, we can readily and happily acknowledge to be subject to His orders and His dominion. Christ continues to offer Himself as a victim for our sins, in each and every Mass the King and victim offers Himself for us.
And once we have acknowledged the kingship of Christ and understood the gentleness and humility with which Christ reigns, "there seems no reason why we should despair of seeing that peace which the King of Peace came to bring on earth - he who came to reconcile all things, who came not to be ministered unto but to minister."
It is precisely in the moments when the divine sacrifice is renewed on our altars that this kingship of Christ becomes especially visible and conceivable. In the silence and the veiled mystery of the liturgy the power and majesty of Christ the King becomes most obvious. All aspects of Christ's kingship are therefore made most obvious by the Church through the divine liturgy.
"There can be nothing that is not ordered to the Divine goodness", teaches St. Thomas. This divine goodness is now opened and made tangible in the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Church's wisdom has constituted that today mankind should be again dedicated to the Divine Heart of the Redeemer.
Is there a better teaching which makes God's government in the whole understandable? Can we expect a more concise and clear teaching about the character of Christ's kingdom than that which is given us today on the feast of Christ the King?
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth,
will draw all things to myself.
2 comments:
- Geremia said...
I absolutely loved how the Gospel of this feast ended: "Thou sayest that I am a king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the world; that I should give testimony to the truth. Every one that is of the truth, heareth my voice." (St. John 18:37).
- 01 November, 2011 01:17
Beautiful sermon for a beautiful day. Thank you for posting. Is it possible to get Canon's talk at the breakfast?
- 01 November, 2011 11:01
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text: Show Hide image Politics 22 August 2013 What Thatcher did for football: How a new generation of sports writers have embraced politics Margaret Thatcher hated football - and sport in general - but her legacy to the game was to turn a generation of sports writers, who had previously dodged any analysis of their sports' significance, onto politics. Sign-up One of the more preposterous claims put forward by Thatcherites after the passing of their heroine was the notion that she had been football's saviour. According to Jeff Powell, back in the 1980s the then prime minister "took up arms against the mob who were killing the game". Where would soccer be now, the veteran Daily Mail sports writer wondered, if she had allowed it "to wither on the vine of feral violence and tribal hooliganism"? As any fool knows, the baroness hated the sport. Indeed, she hated sport in general. Left-wing critics are keen to point out how such loathing (Kenneth Clarke has described how Thatcher considered football fans, like the miners, to be the enemy within) was symptomatic of her own – and more generally the right's – disdain for popular culture. And yet, historically, the left has been no less disdainful. "Bourgeois sport has a single clearcut purpose," wrote Maxim Gorky: "to make men even more stupid than they are." Football in particular was demonised as the opium of the masses, a prophylactic against workers' revolution. In a superb new history, Sport in Capitalist Society, Tony Collins recounts how the early British socialist movement poured scorn on the professionalisation of football and rugby. The Independent Labour Party (ILP) dismissed soccer, as it was called in the 19th century, deeming it a "debasing spectacle". One ILP member, a certain George Orwell, argued that "serious sport" was "bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting". Even a liberal historian such as G M Trevelyan could assert, without challenge, that the aristocracy of France would not have had their châteaux burned by the peasantry in 1789 if the French had played cricket. The great irony is that, up until the Thatcher era, sport had acted, by and large, as a bulwark against incisive analysis of its own political significance. The mantra adopted by right and left alike was: "Keep politics out of sport." When Thatcher broke this golden rule by calling for a British boycott of the Moscow Olympics in 1980, following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, it opened the floodgates. Stuart Hall's New Left Review and Raphael Samuel's History Workshop had paved the way by carrying out some pioneering research, but sports writing before Thatcher – with the magisterial exceptions of C L R James's Beyond a Boundary ("Cricket had plunged me into politics long before I was aware of it") and Arthur Hopcraft's The Football Man ("Football was not so much an opiate of the people as a flag run up against the gaffer bolting his gates and the landlord armed with his bailiffs") –had usually turned its nose up at politics. So it would be no exaggeration to describe the keen interest of the new generation of writers, bordering at times on obsession, as a profound change. David Peace's recently published Red or Dead is a paean to Bill Shankly, one of football's greatest gaffers, and it has socialist politics at its core. The novel retains the repetitive, Beckettian rhythms that have become his trademark, but also adds another dimension to a body of work that has exposed the social and political evils of 1970s Britain relentlessly: in particular, optimism. Or more accurately, "pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will", to quote the Marxist theoretician Antonio Gramsci. In an interview in the forthcoming edition of the Blizzard, a quarterly in the vanguard of the new, post-Hornby football writing, Peace describes Red or Dead as "a Socialist Book. I think Shankly's socialism was fundamental and integral to every aspect of his life and work. It was about equality, on and off the pitch, and working for the people and the supporters of Liverpool. It was about communal work for communal success. And I do admire this and lament its absence." But this is no tiresome jumpers-for-goalposts pining for the muddy pitches, questionable tackling and even more questionable haircuts of a purer, irrecoverable past. As one reviewer has pointed out: "This isn't a book about the way things were or the way things are. This is a book about the way things should be." Peace's Gramscian approach to sport is shared by Mark Perryman, the editor of London 2012: How Was It for Us?. The contributors to this collection include Mark Steel, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Billy Bragg and Zoe Williams, none of whom could be considered, by any stretch of the imagination, a sports writer. But then some of the best recent writing on the world's most popular recreational activity has popped up beyond the boundary of sports writing. Whether it's Jonathan Freedland, arguing in the Guardian that last summer's Olympics reflected a kinder, gentler and more inclusive country, or a Daily Telegraph iconoclast such as Peter Oborne, taking issue with his paper's appropriation of Andy Murray's Wimbledon victory as a national triumph and declaring that "tennis is not a national sport. It is a middleclass game", it is now virtually obligatory for cultural commentators to regard sport as a prism through which to view society. Perryman, like Tony Collins, seeks to distance himself from Freedland's view. "London 2012 was one big party . . ." he writes in his introductory essay. "For a precious few it will have changed their lives. For most it hasn't." But both writers avoid the snottiness of Gorky, Orwell and those party-poopers at the Socialist Workers Party who, even before the Games had closed, were gleefully insisting that, "whatever brief effect the Olympics have, it won't last. Team GB medals won't be much of a consolation when news of crisis, cuts, job losses and pay curbs returns to the front of people's consciousness." Collins, who traces the history of modern sport from its origins in the burgeoning capitalist economy of mid-18th-century England, believes it is as much a product of that economic system as the factory, the stock exchange and the unemployment line. Sport's redeeming feature, however, is that it can "play a positive role in helping men and women to reach the fullest extent of their mental and physical potential". And yet, in a distorted way, Jeff Powell may be right. Thatcherism has triumphed, in the sense that much of the globalised sporting entertainment we now take for granted was founded on Thatcher's free-market, neoliberal principles. Just as she gave new life, inadvertently, to politically motivated comedy and protest music, so she helped radicalise a young generation of football writers, from When Saturday Comes contributors and creators of fanzines to Hillsborough pamphleteers and magazine editors such as Jason Cowley, of the NS, with his 2009 memoir, The Last Game. So perhaps we should be thankful that her moves to politicise sport saved it from the sour-faced condescension of the miserabilist left. Certainly, the "Thatcherisation" of the Premier League has provoked a wave of sports writers, inspired by the two Davids, Conn and Goldblatt, into performing socio-economic dissections of Sky's brave new world of rocketing ticket prices, mega TV contracts and pampered prima donnas. Sadly, the Anti-Sport Brigade has not withered away. In last year's Barbaric Sport: a Global Plague, Marc Perelman announced himself as the miserabilist left's answer to Ronny Rosenthal – just a few yards out, with the goal gaping, the lad only goes and clips the bar. Perelman disparages an activity that engages the time, money and emotional commitment of millions around the world as "pestilential" and asks: "What can critical theory come up with today against sport now it has become the visible face of every society? The only possible critical response is a firm assertion: there should be no sport." Try telling that to Lizo Sitoto, who wrote so movingly of how football "saved the lives" of political prisoners during apartheid. "A person locked up and doing nothing cannot think," explained Sitoto, an organiser of the Robben Island soccer league. "When football was there it gave us something to talk about. That's why it's more than just a game." Anthony Clavane is the author of "Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?", a history of Jews in English football, published in paperback by Quercus (£9.99) Subscribe For more great writing from our award-winning journalists subscribe for just £1 per month! This article first appeared in the 19 August 2013 issue of the New Statesman, Why aren't young people working SUBSCRIBE More


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Readings in phenomenology 3
OCHS Library
Professor Gavin Flood
Thursday, 12 February 2009 - 10:00am
This seminar series continues. This term we will focus on reading Paul Ricoeur's Tme and Narrative. This three volume work covers a great deal and raises questions about the nature of text, action, history, fiction, memory and the very nature of existence itself. These volumes provide a critical engagement with issues in historiography and theories of the text.
Ricoeur, Paul Time and Narrative vols 1'-2. Trans by Kathleen McLaughlin and David Pellauer, University of Chicago Press, 1984-88.


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MODESTO, CA (KTXL/CNN) – Mark Chacon has built a life, a home and a loving family in California for the past 50 years.
But the 63-year-old grandfather now fears that could all be stripped away.
"At that time, I can't think of nothing. Just in my mind, I said, 'I don't know what I did or what happened,'" Chacon said.
The Chacon family said the Department of Motor Vehicles has accused Mr. Chacon of identity theft.
His daughter, Tina Aguilar, said it's all a big mix-up.
"It's not like he lived underground. I mean, he raised three kids, he bought a home, he worked the same job for 45 years," Aguilar stressed.
Chacon said he got a letter from the DMV back in Oct. 2017 which stated he needed to renew his license and that the department placed a control stop on his record.
The family said all the DMV would say is that he's under investigation.
A month later police, officers swarmed their home. Mr. Chacon was handcuffed and taken in.
"Well, when it all went happened it was very frightening, very scary," said Vicki Chacon, Mark's wife of 40 years.
She said they had no idea what was happening until an officer spoke up.
"You know your husbands up for identity theft and I said, 'what?'" Vicki Chacon recalled.
The family posted bail, but authorities took his drivers license, his birth certificate and his identity
"He has no ID. He's a John Doe," Aguilar said.
A deputy district attorney in Stanislaus County said the DMV did refer the Chacon case to them. They ultimately decided not to file charges against Mr. Chacon because they did not find any criminal intent, nor criminal history.
Soon after, the family was handed this death certificate for a Mark Chacon, who only lived for eight days.
The same Chacon named in the Tulare County birth certificate his mother Eva Hernandez gave him.
She died in 2013.
"There's nobody to talk to, to get any definitive answers," Aguilar said.
Mr. Chacon said he first saw his birth certificate when he needed a driver's license as a teenager.
"We don't know who he is. He could be a stolen child," Aguilar stressed.
Now, the family fears hell be deported.
"Because he has no name and I'm scared they're going to take him away from me," Mrs. Chacon said.
So, Chacon stays locked up in his own home. The family said they were given two options: start over with a new name or fight
"It's the only thing that we've been after, is to restore what's his, what he's worked all his life for," Aguilar said.
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(visited by Dr. Mark W. Palmer and Thomas C.H. Mueller)
31-Mar-2001 --
My co-explorer, Thomas C.H. Mueller and I set out in the morning from Wisconsin to Illinois with the goal of visiting three confluences along the 40th parallel. This one and N40W091W had recorded no visitors as of our travel date. The 90W confluence had a pending claim, which posted within a couple weeks.
Colorful events which usually unfold about our other confluence visits were lacking this day, but this was probably for the better since these events usually cost us money (e.g. speeding tickets, broken equipment, etc.). Instead we were treated to the mild stimuli of scattered early-spring showers (which always seemed to materialize as we stepped out of the car) and the broad, treeless expanses that are Illinois farmlands.
This confluence was located in fields west of Janvrin Road, a none-too-broad gravel street. The latitude of the confluence put it just a little north of the halfway point between School Rd and Hampshire Rd -- so perhaps not coincidentally there was something of an access point for farm machinery from Janvrin that allowed me to park the car off the gravel. Tom and I were very conscious of the flatness, lack of trees, and easy viewing for a mile in any direction so we moved at a brisk jog out to the confluence, took our photos, and ran back to the car to minimize the chance that anyone would take note of us or be bothered by our presence. Fortunately the fields hadn't been plowed yet this season, which would have been a muddy mess with the on-again off-again rain showers.
We were off and on our way by 1 p.m., heading west to visit N40W090.


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1. Tachometer (GLX & GLS) - When an unmodified GLX cluster is installed in a TDI, the MFA works perfectly (after adding missing wiring, controller and sensors), but the tach is no longer accurate. It reads 33% lower than it should in its new 4 cylinder environment. The tach calibration cannot easily be reprogrammed, but the tach can be made to read correctly by inserting a pulse frequency adaptor inline with the ECM's tach signal and installing your original TDI cluster's tach face in the GLX cluster. GLS clusters can be installed in 2 ways:
a) Without the pulse frequency adaptor. The stock GLS tach face is utilized and graphically modified to show a lower, TDI-appropriate redline.
b) With the pulse frequency adaptor. This approach is identical to the GLX option.
NOTE: There is a discussion on the first page of this thread about editing the cluster controller chip to correct the tach readout in GLX clusters & GLS clusters using a TDI tach face. Chip editing would also allow display of English measuring units w/ Euro or Canadian clusters and metric units for US clusters. Chip editing would eliminate the need for a pulse frequency adaptor. To summarize: an experienced cluster programmer and TDI Club member attempted to edit the chip on my B4 cluster and was unable to get beyond the chip's read-only status. Although this was the first B4 cluster on which he had attempted an edit, he had not had this issue with A3 cluster chips he had successfully edited. This may not be definitive proof that the chip cannot be successfully edited, but until someone can not only edit the chip, but make a GLX cluster read correctly with a TDI tach face plate's wider sweep range, the pulse frequency adaptor remains the best method for tach reading correction.
1. '96/'97 GLX , '96 GLS (w/ optional MFA), '95 & earlier GLS (w/ optional MFA) or '95 & earlier GLX Instrument Cluster
'96/'97 GLX p/n 3AO-919-930F (5-spd. U.S. market). Do NOT use p/n 3AO-919-035H ('95 5-spd. U.S.). See "MIL", above and "Advantages/Disadvantages", below.
'96 GLS (w/ optional MFA p/n ? (5-spd. U.S. w/ MFA). See "MIL", above and "Advantages/Disadvantages", below.
'95 & earlier GLS (w/ optional MFA) p/n ? (5 spd. U.S. w/ MFA). This is a significantly different cluster than the '96 GLS. See "MIL", above and "Advantages/Disadvantages", below.
'95 & earlier GLX p/n 3AO-919-035H (5-spd). This is a significantly different cluster than the '96-'97 GLX. See "MIL", above and "Advantages/Disadvantages", below.
Used - If you don't have a local source, try Car-Part.com.
Rebuilt from dealer. No longer available new. See "Tachometer issues", above.
Euro-spec TDI cluster (for Canadian cars only), see this thread for a possible supplier. Note: this is an A4 MFA thread. These do not have an MIL and may or may not allow MIL function using the procedures described here.
1. Disconnect the battery
2. Remove the driver's side under-dash panel and knee bar.
3. Remove the 2-piece steering column shroud trim.
4. Remove the air bag. After removal, make sure to set the unit down with front side facing UP.
5. Remove the steering wheel. Do not allow the clockspring to rotate.
6. Disconnect/remove turn signal switch, then wiper switch. Slide the 3rd TS switch connector off its locating groove under the steering column before removing switch.
7. Fabricate a 4-wire harness (approximately 32" long) for the MFA controller/wiper switch. Use P/Ns 1HO-953-634, 357-907-968 and (4) 000-979-133 as the connector plugs and terminals/wire. Unsnap, then unhook and rotate the fuse/relay panel down so that the backside is exposed. The panel should now be upside down, oriented as shown in Figure 1.
1. Remove dash trim panel. Remove the 3 vent registers by grabbing the middle vane of each register on one side with needle nose pliers. Pull straight out until that side releases. Then repeat on the other side of each register. Remove the headlight switch panel by inserting a feeler gauge (.025"-.030") or other thin tool into the gap between the upper edge of the switch panel and the trim panel above it (just below the left hand vent register) at a point just to the left of the graphic symbol for the instrument lights rheostat. After pushing feeler gauge in and to the right to release the panel switch retaining pin, remove the switch panel. Remove 5 trim panel retaining screws and, then, the panel. Slide diagnostic connector out the rear of the trim panel.
2. Disconnect/remove the instrument cluster. Remove the retaining screw on each side of the cluster. Pull the cluster straight out; it's 2 lower locating pins will release from the dash surround. Unplug the 2 connectors from the rear.
1. Remove cluster lens and black gauge surround trim panel.
2. If using a GLX cluster (or '96 GLS cluster when using a TDI tach face), remove the tach needle and face plate. Use the procedure described in section D, below. This is not required if using a '96 GLS cluster with its original tach face.
1.Remove clear lens and black instrument surround.
2. Remove all gauge needles and face plates. First, rotate each of the speedo, temp., & fuel gauge needles to their respective stops. While lightly holding each needle against its stop, mark a pencil line on the face plate where the needle points when at its stop. Now try to remove the needles. Using moderate torque, cautiously try to rotate them on their spindles when against their lower stops. Be careful here; some needles may have a very tight press fit and may snap off before they will turn, so use only moderate torque to try to rotate them. If the needles won't break free and turn with moderate torque, STOP. If they do turn, continue to turn while gentley pulling up and they will pop off. If they did come off, skip to Step 3.
If the needles didn't come off, you now must remove them by pulling straight up without rotating. The first time you do this (you will be doing it at least twice) you may pull apart the 2-piece servo motor casings beneath the face plates rather than pull the needles off their spindles. Don't worry, its not uncommon, but it will feel like you have broken them. Usually the casings at first become only 1/2 separated and the spindle/needle will be floating around at an angle. Just continue to pull straight up (not at the angles at which they're leaning) until they feel like they are free (Note: the needles have probably still not separated from their spindles...but the casing halves have separated). Since the face plate for the 2 gauges and speedo is one unit, you will have to finesse this a bit, trying to pull each of the 3 needles a like amount in stages. Once all casings are separated (or needles pulled from spindles...or a combination of the two), remove the 2 face plates. Pull needles off of any spindles/casings that came off as a unit with the face plates. Don't lose the rectangular spring washer installed between the spindle and the upper casing half.
Reassemble any separated servo motor casings. Make sure that the dark grey plastic reduction gear is installed on its shaft in the center of the lower servo motor casing. If not installed, it got pulled off when the casings were separated. Find it and reinstall it, making sure that the small pinion gear in the center faces up (the other side has a boss that is about the same size as the pinion gear, so look carefully). Now install the spindle (with integral reduction gear) into its bore. Rotate the spindle/gear so that the stop tab on the gear will fall into the free rotation (1:00 to 11:00) section of the circumferential groove located in the underside of the upper casing (rather than the 11:00 to 1:00 "stop" area) when the upper casing half is reinstalled (see Figure 3). Now install the rectangular spring washer on the spindle/gear, convex side toward the gear, oriented so that it will be located and kept from turning by the rectangular depression in the underside of the upper casing half (see Figure 3). Now install the upper casing half carefully over the spindle to reintegrate the servo motor casing.
1. Solder in yellow MIL LED bulb in the unused far right location. NOTE: If you don't have board soldering experience or a 'solder sucker" device, I recommend farming this job out to an electronics technician. If not using a new LED, desolder/remove original TDI MIL LED bulb. Observe proper LED orientation as shown on the molded graphic located between the 3rd & 4th LED on the right hand LED holder bank.
1. Reassemble in reverse order. Thread the MIL signal wire out the back of the housing. The 2 Torx screws are tightened before installing the gauge faces. If using a GLX cluster or '96 GLS cluster w/ pulse frequency adaptor, install the tach face from your TDI cluster. '96 GLS clusters not using a PFA, use the GLS tach face with graphic modification to the redline (optional). You may want to print out a small solid black rectangular graphic on a self adhesive mailing label that will cover over the "Unleaded Fuel Only" text on the fuel/temp gauge face. When installing gauge needles, first turn the spindles to their respective lower stops, then JUST BARELY PRESS THE NEEDLES ON. You will need to remove the needles again without pulling the servo casing halves apart, so they should just be installed to a minimum depth that will allow them to rotate on their spindles when at their lower stops. For now, set the needles at the index marks you made (@ "0" for the tach needle), but you will be reindexing them. Install the black instrument surround from your TDI cluster (with corrrect warning light identification), but NOT the clear lens at this point. Wire tie the MIL signal wire to the cluster housing.
1. Mount the Dakota Digital SGI-8. Wire-tie it to the HVAC duct below and to the right (passenger's side) of the back of the light switch. There is a flat area of the duct facing forward.
2. Wire the tach drive signal. Locate the white tach signal wire. It runs from the #6 pin of the U1 harness connector on the back of the fuse/relay panel (see Figure 1) to pin #10 of the instrument cluster harness connector. Splice into this wire and run it to the "Sig. In" terminal of the SGI-8 and return it to the splice via the "OUT1" terminal.
3. Wire the Power and Ground. A convenient source for switched ignition voltage is the TV5 Terminal Wire Connector. Its the only yellow 4-terminal Terminal Wire Connector stacked on top of the fuse/relay panel. A convenient ground for the "GND" terminal of the SGI-8 is the round, brown multi-terminal ground point located above the driver's kick panel area near the fuse/relay panel.
4. Set Calibration. Adjust calibration correction with the up and down switches.
5. Test for low voltage signal dropout The SGI-8 is sensitive to voltage drop. You may find that the tach reading will momentarily drop to zero when putting a large electrical load on the system. With engine running, try simultaneously opening all 4 windows with headlights on and see if the tach needle drops for a split second. If so, and it bothers you, you can wire 12V+ to the SGI-8 directly from the battery via an ignition-controlled relay, but this isn't necessary as the dropout doesn't hurt anything.
1. Install in oil filter/cooler adaptor. On top of the oil filter/cooler adapator you will find an unused, plugged port in addition to one or two oil pressure senders. Install the temp sensor in the unused port, then locate and connect the female spade terminal at the end of a solid black wire which should be floating somewhere above the filter adaptor.
1. Locate the sensor input wires. On the back of the fuse/relay panel, locate the brown/white and white/red wires that originate from pins G1/2 and G2/2, respectively (see Figure 1). These wires may either be taped together, bare-ended and unconnected at their other ends or they may have a 2-pin connector plug.
2. Make a harness. This is a long 2-wire that runs all the way to the passsenger side lower corner of the front bumper cover valance panel. Connect your harness to the 2 input wires and run it up to the upper part of the firewall, directly behind the center of where the instrument cluster resides. Here you will conveniently find a rubber grommet (where a speedometer cable once went on B3 models). Run your harness though the grommet, though the cowl well and out through the second grommet in line with the first on the other side of the well. From here, thread it along the passsenger side of the engine compartment and down the front corner to the 3/8" hole in the passenger side lower corner of the valance panel (directly beneath the tow hook), where the sensor snaps in from the back.
3. Install and connect the sensor. Install the 357-972-752 connector socket (w/ 357-972-741 seals) to the end of the harness and connect the sensor. You also should wire tie the harness to the A/C hose above the sensor location, since the sensor is not very securely located and may pop out of its hole if you scrape the underside of the valance on something. This way it won't drag on the ground if that happens.
1. Reassemble under dash items. Rehang fuse/relay panel. Reinstall knee bar and under dash panel.
2. Install cluster. Cut off the second 28-pin instrument cluster harness connector (the one with only 1 wire) and install a female pull-apart connector on that wire. Connect/install the cluster (be careful handling it, since the clear lens is off and you could damage the needles).
3. Reinstall steering wheel, airbag and column shroud. Make sure yellow air bag lead fits into slot in the column shroud. Turn ignition to "on" before reconnecting the battery.
4. Check MFA and MIL function. Hopefully the odometer reading is what you expected. With ignition on/engine off and MFA reset, the MFA should display 1:00 clock, 0 elapsed time, blank MPG, blank MPH, 0 miles, blank oil temp. (if below 120 degrees) and ambient temp (unless you didn't install the sensor, in which case, the display will be omitted entirely).
1. Calibrate Tachometer. For GLX and '96 GLS clusters using a pulse frequency adaptor, hook up your VAG-COM and check RPM vs. tach readings @ 1,000/2,000/3,000/4000 RPM. If the readings are off, make sure the tach needle is at "0" when rotated fully counterclockwise to its lower stop and correct as necessary. If its still off, readjust the SGI-8 calibration buttons.
'96 GLS clusters using the GLS tach face shouldn't require calibration.
2. Calibrate Odometer. Generally, if using stock OD tires, the odometer should be pretty accurate. Test with a GPS, speedo dyno, or mileage markers that are known to be accurate. If its significantly off, it can be corrected by installing a Dakota Digital SGI-5 adaptor inline with the VSS signal, but this would be an unusal condition with stock OD tires. An odometer correction will require re-calibrating the speedo, so make sure you check the odometer before the speedometer.
3. Calibrate Speedometer. Your speedo is most likely optimistic. You can calibrate the speedo using a GPS, speedo dyno, or the MFA itself. Correction involves re-indexing the needle below "0" when at rest. It looks a bit odd at rest, but once in motion, the speedo reads accurately.
Calibrating with the MFA: Unlike the speedo, the MFA displays average speed without built-in optimism. So as long as the odometer proves to read accurately, so will the MFA average speed readings. Re-indexing the needle will make a linear change to the speedo (i.e., the differences in accuracy between high and low speeds will be identical to what it was before re-indexing, but it will be more accurate at all speeds). So, choose a speed at which you would like the speedo to be most accurate (I chose 65 MPH). Set your MFA to display avg. MPH and, while maintaining that exact speed (according to your speedo), reset the MFA and maintain the exact speed until the MFA displays a speed value. Stop and re-index the speedo needle on its spindle. Recheck and repeat until its accurate. Also check at a different speed to make sure there are no linearity problems.
4. Calibrate fuel gauge (optional). This is really personal preference. I like the fuel gauge to read just to the "full" line when the tank is full, and to the "0" white line as the car sputters to a stop. Suit yourself.
5. Calibrate MFA's MPG readings. MFA fuel consumption reading is calibrated by adapting fuel injection pump Injection Quantity (IQ) by trial and error. The use of larger injectors, chips, biodiesel, or other engine modifications will affect MFA accuracy, so before calibration, make as many of the changes you plan to make to engine and/or fuel as you can, or be prepared to recalibrate with future changes. First, make sure that the odometer reads accurately so you don't compound fuel measurement error with distance measurement error. Then, for the next several fillups, compare MFA average MPG readings (in Trip 2, measured for the duration of each tank only) with accurate, consistent station pump readings (i.e., at the same station, at the same dispensor w/ the same car orientation and load, tank vented to the top). Then adjust pump IQ to correct after each fillup. If MFA readings are optimistic (higher, numerically, than actual), increase pump IQ (numerically). Reduce IQ if readings are lower than actual. An initial IQ setting of 3.8 mg/R is a good place to start before your first calibration fillup. Unfortunately, this can be a lengthy process of trial and error. And remember, the MFA fuel consumption function is not intended to be a highly precise measurement; its a rough interpretation of actual consumption and ranges above and below actual, depending on driving conditions. I've been able to get accuracy down to + or - 1.5%. "Your mileage may vary".
1. Finish cluster assembly. Make sure that, when finally pushing needles on more securely after final calibration, you did not change the calibration! If not, then remove the cluster and re- install the clear lens and reinstall the cluster. Disconnecting the cluster will erase all accumulated values, of course.
2. Reinstall instrument panel trim. And you're done! Enjoy your MFA!


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I just had to check the "The App Is Broken Because You Didn't Pay For It" Section and it makes me laugh my ass of.
I had before I went to buy Drastic not a single friggin game on my Phone that was actually paid. I had several shady Apps like GameGuardian or LuckyPatcher and some Cracked Paid Apps, but when the time came and I wanted to play DS Games on my Phone.. that was the first time I didn't had a problem to actually buy it.
Thats ridiculous... in some kind of way. The Time I actually owned a DS are like 11 years behind me, at that time I nearly biweekly bought a new game. When I moved to the Philippines, I gave the NDS to my lil Sister.
Then I got my first decent Android Phone and wanted to play again.. and after like 3 Month I actually bought two Emulator, to play Games, that I download ..... in a not legal way.... PPSSPP and Drastic.
And NOW I see for the first time... that I made a good choice for NOT using a cracked version of Drastic.. its just... amazing for me ... 28-Jan-2016 at 5:41pm ... I even have the 'receipt' of it.
Well, mostly what I wanted to say with my thread..... GREAT WORK ... Keep on the good work, even if there seem to be no update since 17-Jul-2016 ... but what do I always say.. "Never change a running System"
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The US designer and graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design Louie Rigano realised this series of furniture. The construction is based on joineries which take a backseat to alternative methods that require no tools for assembly.
"The tray table implements a crossbeam that locks in place and two triangulated leg pieces. The tray top's two angled rectangular openings get wedged onto the top of the legs; this creates two handles that make the piece easy to carry and move about. The tray top can also be detached and used for serving."
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Laufer Center Graduate Tracks
Year 1, Fall (12 credits)
Year 1, Spring (12 credits)
Year 2, Fall (9 credits)
Year 2, Spring (9 credits)
Course Descriptions
AMS 507: Introduction to Probability
The topics include sample spaces, axioms of probability, conditional probability and independence, discrete and continuos random variables, jointly distributed random variables, characteristics of random variables, law of large numbers and central limit theorem, Markov chains.
3 credits, Letter grade
AMS 510: Analytical Methods for Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Review of techniques of multivariate calculus, convergence and limits, matrix analysis, vector space basics, and Lagrange multipliers.
Prerequisite: A course in linear algebra and in multivariate calculus
Fall, 3 credits, Letter grade
AMS 530: Principles in Parallel Computing
This course is designed for both academic and industrial scientists interested in parallel computing and its applications to large-scale scientific and engineering problems. It focuses on the three main issues in parallel computing: analysis of parallel hardware and software systems, design and implementation of parallel algorithms, and applications of parallel computing to selected problems in physical science and engineering. The course emphasizes hands-on practice and understanding of algorithmic concepts of parallel computing.
Prerequisite: A course in basic computer science such as operating systems or architectures or some programming experience.
Spring, 3 credits, Letter grade
AMS 531: Laboratory Rotations and Journal Club in Computational Biology
This is a two-semester course in which first year Ph.D. students spend at least 8 weeks in each of three different laboratories actively participating in the research of participating Computational Biology Faculty. At the end of each rotation, students give a presentation of their lab activates and accomplishments. The primary goal of rotations is to help students choose a research advisor and to help faculty members choose students. Students register for AMS 531 in both the Fall and Spring semesters of the first year.
0-3 credits, S/U grading, may be repeated for credit.
AMS 532: Laboratory Rotations and Journal Club in Computational Biology
The goal of this course is for students to hone critical reading and analytic skills through discussions of literature in the area of Computational Biology. Participants take turn being a "discussion leader" who informally guides the group through a peer-reviewed manuscript for which all Journal Club members will have to read in advance of the meeting. Meetings in the Spring semester will include in Person Training (IPT) in Responsible conduct of Research and Scholarship (RCRS) on topics that comprise (1) Integrity in Scholarship, (2) Scientific Misconduct, (3) Mentoring, (4) Ownership and Authorship, (5) Plagiarism, (6) Data Management, (7) Journalism and Science, (8) Human Subjects, and (9) Laboratory Animals.
0-1 credits, S/U grading, may be repeated for credit.
AMS 533: Algorithms and Model-Making
An in-depth survey of many of the key techniques used in diverse aspects of computational biology. A major focus of this class is on how to successfully formulate a statement of the problem to be solved, and how that formulation can guide in selecting the most suitable computational approach. Examples will be drawn from a wide range of problems in biology, including molecular modeling, biochemical reaction networks, microscopy and systems biology. No prior knowledge of biology is required.
3 credits, Letter grade
AMS 534: Introduction to Systems Biology
This course is geared towards teaching essential concepts and computational skills in Systems Biology. The course is centered upon two key programming languages: Matlab for modeling applications and the R language for statistical analysis and sequence manipulation.
Spring, 3 credits, Letter grade
AMS/CHE 535: Computational Structural Biology
This course will provide an introduction to Computational Structural Biology with application to Drug Design. Methods and applications that use computation to model biological systems involved in human disease will be emphasized. The course aims to foster collaborative learning and will consist of presentations by the instructor, guest lecturers, and by course participants with the goal of summarizing key methods, topics and papers relevant to Computational Structural Biology. This course is offered as both CHE 535 and AMS 535.
Fall, 0-3 credits, Letter grade
AMS 536: Molecular Modeling of Biological Molecules
This course is designed for students who wish to gain hands on experience modeling biological molecules at the atomic level. In conjunction with the individual interests, Molecular Mechanics, Molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo, Docking (virtual screening), or Quantum Mechanics software packages can be used to study relevant biological systems(s). Projects will include setup, execution, and analysis. Course participants will give literature presentations relevant to the simulations being performed and a final project report will be required. Familiarity with Unix (Linux) is desirable.
Spring, 0-3 credits, Letter grade
AMS 537: Dynamical Models of Gene Regulation and Biological Pattern Formation
This is a graduate course in the fundamental theory of genetic function and biological pattern formation in animal development. The course covers dynamical (sometimes called 'physiological') models of these processes at a variety of mathematical levels. Biologically, the emphasis will be on E. coli and the fruit fly Drosophila, with a careful discussion of key experimental results for nonspcialists. We will study the use of both deterministic and stochastic differential equations to solve fundamental scientific problems such as the phage lambda lysis/lysogeny decision, the engineering of artificial gene circuits, and the determination and regulation of the morphogenetic field in animal development, particularly the segmentation field in Drosophila.
Spring, 3 credits, Letter grade, x-list with PHY/CHE 559
AMS 539: iPQB-Intro to Physical and Quantitative Biology
This course is a seminar series organized by the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology and is aimed at any incoming graduate students who may be interested in doing research in computational, mathematical or physical biology. Each seminar will be given by a different faculty member about their research and will span a range of topics including computational structural biology, genomics/bioinformatics, metabolic and regulatory modeling, computational cell biology and evolutionary models.
Fall, 0-1 credits, S/U grading
AMS XXX: Research or ESL
Fall, 3 credits, Letter grade
BSB 515: Computational Methods in Biochemistry and Structural Biology
Data analysis and statistics using the R programming environment, sequence and graphical analysis of proteins and nucleic acids. Prerequisite: This class is restricted to first year BSB, HBM, MCB PHD, & HBH PhD students. Exception requires approval from the course instructor.
Fall, 1 credit, S/U grading
CHE 504: Structure and Reactivity in Organic Chemistry
Electronic and stereochemical theories relating to organic structure and reactions. Topics such as bonding, strain, aromaticity, MO theory, molecular rearrangements, pericyclic reactions, and photochemistry are covered. This course is intended to provide a foundation of knowledge at the beginning graduate level as preparation for advanced subjects in CHE 502 and CHE 503, and is complementary to CHE 501.
Fall, 3 credits, Letter grade
CHE 523: Chemical Thermodynamics
A rigorous development of the fundamentals of thermodynamics and its application to a number of systems of interest to chemists, such as electrochemical cells, gases, and homogeneous and heterogeneous equilibrium. An introduction to statistical mechanics will also be included.
Fall, 1-3 credits, Letter grade
CHE 528: Statistical Mechanics
Statistical theory of equilibrium systems and rate processes. Ensemble theory, spatial and time correlation functions. Model systems and methods of estimating their properties. Designed to enable the student to use the current literature dealing with application of statistical mechanics to problems in chemistry.
Spring, 3 credits, Letter grade
CHE 541: Biomolecular Structure and Analysis
The structures of biological macromolecules and the relationship of their structure to biological function are described. Methodology employed to study macromolecules is also discussed. Topics include chemical and physical properties of cell and tissue constituents, including carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, proteins and peptides. Prerequisite: Strong foundation in physical and organic chemistry.
Fall, 3 credits, Letter grade
CHE 542: Chemical Biology
The reactivity and physiological function of biological macromolecules and their cofactors are described at the chemical biochemical level. The emphasis of this course reflects recent advances in chemical biology. Possible topics include catalysts, reaction mechanisms, correlation between three-dimensional structure and reactivity, receptor-ligand interactions in extracellular and intracellular signaling, protein folding in vitro and in vivo.
Spring, 3 credits, Letter grade
CHE 543: Chemical Approaches to Biology
The use of molecular concepts and methodology to solve problems in biology and medicine. The course covers methods to elucidate and control biological systems. Possible topics include chemical genomics, metabolomics, and chemotherapeutics.
Prerequisite: CHE 542
Fall, 3 credits, Letter grade
CSE 549: Computational Biology
This course focuses on current problems in computational biology and bioinformatics. Our emphasis will be algorithmic, on discovering appropriate combinatorial algorithm problems and the techniques to solve them. Primary topics will include DNA sequence assembly, DNA/protein sequence assembly, DNA/protein sequence comparison, hybridization array analysis, RNA and protein folding, and phylogenic trees.
Prerequisite: CSE 373 or CSE 548; or consent of instructor
Fall, 3 credits, Letter grade
BME 558/CHE 558/PHY 558: Physical and Quantitative Biology
This is a course on the quantitative principles of physical biology. We describe the nature of the forces and energies and entropies that drive molecular and cellular systems toward their states of equilibrium. We consider a broad range of applications throughout chemistry, biology, materials engineering and nanoscience. This course aims to give students an understanding of how the actions and behaviors of materials and biological systems arise from their constituents (atoms, molecules or cells). Topics of this course include but are not limited to: Time and space in cells; Structural basis of biology; Molecular solvation and lattice models; Chemical potential; Diffusion; Mass action and stochastic chemical kinetics; Electrostatics, potentials, dipoles, electrochemical potentials; Poisson-Boltzmann and Born models; Intermolecular potentials and force fields; Phase transitions; Lattice and Ising models; Adsorption; Binding polynomials; Binding cooperativity; Molecular machines; Molecular motors, energy conversion and transduction; Polymer theory; Flory-Huggins; Random flights; Elasticity; Helix-coil theory; Collapse transitions; Protein folding equilibria; Protein folding kinetics; Sequence space; Protein evolution; Protein elasticity and biological mechanics of proteins; Biophysics of the cell; Proteome stabilities, aggregation, kinetics; Gene regulation; Population and evolutionary dynamics.
Fall, 3 credits, Letter grade
CHE 559/PHY 559: Systems Biology and Network Dynamics
This course gives the foundations for systems biology. First, we discuss dynamical properties of chemical and biochemical networks, particularly in cells. Second, we give a broad introduction to the emerging science of networks including the internet, transportation systems, social nets such as Facebook, networks of disease propagation and others. We apply the principles learned on those systems to the networks of biochemical reactions in cells. Our aim is to prepare students to better understand the properties of cells and the principles for drug discovery of the future. Topics of this course include but are not limited to: Physical kinetics; Diffusion/ Smoluchowskii; Random flights; Waiting times; Poisson; Brownian ratchets; Chemical kinetics; Transition states; Stability, bifurcations, pattern development; Noise in cells: intrinsic and Extrinsic; Feedback; Biological Osciillators; Recurrence, period doubling, chaos; Networks; Topologies; Degree distribution, betweenness; Models of nets: Erdos-Renyi, scale-free, social, Watts-Strogatz, agents; Robustness, highly-optimized tolerance, bowties, epidemics; Biological networks: Protein-protein nets, regulatory and metabolic nets; Known biological circuits and their behaviors; How networks evolve: Preferential attachment, rewiring; Power laws; Fluxed through networks; Information and communication, entropy; Metabolic flux analysis; Artificial and Natural selection for traits; Darwinian evolution; Population dynamics.
Spring, 3 credits, Letter grade, x-list with AMS 537
CHE 581: Departmental Research Seminar
Meetings in which first-year graduate students learn about the research activities of the departmental faculty.
Fall, S/U grading
CHE 603: Special Topics in Bioorganic Chemistry
The subject matter varies depending on interests of students and faculty. Possible topics include asymmetric synthesis and natural product synthesis.
Fall, 1-3 credits, Letter grade, may be repeated for credit.
CHE 607: Modern Drug Design & Delivery
A seminar course covering modern aspects and approaches to drug design. This course combines presentationsby faculty and by industry representatives to provide a cross-disciplinary view of the development of pharmaceuticals.
Fall, 1-3 credits, Letter grade
CHE XXX: Teaching
CHE XXX: Lab Rotation
CHE XXX: Journal Club
CSE 549: Computational Bioinformatics and Genomics
This course focuses on current problems in computational biology and bioinformatics. Our emphasis will be algorithmic, on discovering appropriate combinatorial algorithm problems and the techniques to solve them. Primary topics will include DNA sequence assembly, DNA/protein sequence assembly, DNA/protein sequence comparison, hybridization array analysis, RNA and protein folding, and phylogenic trees.
Prerequisite: CSE 373 or CSE 548; or consent of instructor
Fall, 3 credits, Letter grade
PHY 501: Classical Mechanics
Analytical classical mechanics including Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations and the Hamilton-Jacoby theory. Variational principles, symmetries and conservative laws. Selected advanced problems such as parametric and nonlinear oscillations, planetary motion, classical theory of scattering, rigid body rotation, and deterministic chaos. Basic notions of elasticity theory and fluid dynamics.
Fall, 3 credits, Letter grade
PHY 505: Classical Electrodynamics I
Electrostatics and Magnetostatics in vacuum and medium; Green's functions; Maxwell's equations and gauge invariance; Electromagnetic wave propagation; Radiation, scattering, interference, and diffraction; Special relativity; Radiation by relativistic charges; Additional topics as time permits. Three lecture hours plus two recitation hours per week.
Fall, 0-3 credits, Letter grade
PHY 511: Quantum Mechanics I
First course in a two-part sequence. Topics include basic quantum physics and mathematical apparatus; application to one dimensional examples and simple systems. Symmetries, angular momentum, and spin. Additional topics as time permits.
Fall, 3 credits, Letter grade
PHY 512: Quantum Mechanics II
Second course in a two-part sequence, covering variational principles, perturbation theory, relativistic quantum mechanics, quantization of the radiation field, many-body systems. Application to atoms, solids, nuclei and elementary particles, as time permits.
Spring, 3 credits, Letter grade
PHY 540: Statistical Mechanics
Brief review of thermodynamics, principles of physical statistics, systems of non- interacting particles: Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac, and Bose-Einstein statistics. Applications to ideal gases, electrons and phonons in solids, and black body radiation. Approximate treatment of non-ideal gases. First-order and second-order phase transitions. Ising model, transfer matrix, and renormalization group approach. Fluctuations in thermal equilibrium, fluctuation-dissipation theorem, brief review of non-equilibrium fluctuations. Basic notions of ergodicity, classical and quantum chaos.
Spring, 3 credits, Letter grade
PHY 561: Biology for Physical Scientists
Topics of this course include but are not restricted to: Overview of living things; Six kingdoms, animal phyla. Physiology and organs; Chemistry of life; Noncovalent interactions; Hydrogen bonds; Solvation; Biochemistry: reactions, catalysis, ATP amino acids, nucleic acids, lipids; Cell structures: Nucleus, mitochondria, chromosomes, membranes; Basic paradigm: DNA makes RNA makes protein; How cell machines and circuits work; Cell cycle; The processes of evolution; Genetics and heredity; Diseases: how biological systems fail; How drugs are discovered; Tight-binding inhibitors; Antibodies; Current research: Cell division and cancer, genomics, bioinformatics, high throughput sequencing, systems and synthetic biology.
Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter grade
PHY 584: Rotation in Physical Biology
A two-semester course in which students spend at least 8 weeks in each of three different laboratories actively participating in the research of faculty associated with the Laufer Center. At least one of the rotations must be in experimental physical biology. Participants will give a research talk at the end of each eight week period.
Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter grade
PHY 600: Practicum in Teaching
This course provides hands-on experience in teaching. Activities may include classroon teaching, preperation and supervision of laboratory experiments, exams, homework assignments, and projects.
Fall and Spring, 0-3 credits, Letter grade, may be repeated for credit.
PHY 665: Journal Club in Physical Biology
Presentation of preliminary research results and current research problems by students and faculty. Required every semester for all graduate students in Physical Biology.
Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (March 13, 2017) –Horace Mann named Sherry Pine of Jacksonville its 2016 Employee of the Year last week. Horace Mann President and CEO Marita Zuraitis presented the award to Pine in front of more than 1,000 employees at the company's annual employee meeting.
"Winning employee of the year has been the most humbling experience," said Pine, a Benefits Specialist in the Life & Retirement division. "The prestigious role of representing this company and our customers is truly an adventure and the opportunity of a lifetime."
Pine's manager, Deona Kuntzman, says Pine strives to improve and grow with every opportunity. "Sherry is an individual who exemplifies the kind of person everyone would want on their team because of her work ethic and willingness to act, to learn and to grow," said Kuntzman. "She is someone that willingly puts in the extra effort to exceed expectations and be successful. She is not happy with status quo and is driven to consistently produce great results."
Pine was selected for Horace Mann's pinnacle award after receiving the November 2016 Employee of the Month. As Employee of the Year, Pine will receive a trip for two to the company's Agent Leadership Conference in Sydney, Australia, and $2,500. She will represent Horace Mann at various community events throughout the year.
Pine said she looks forward to being an ambassador for Horace Mann. "I love my job," she said. "Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. I enjoy helping people, the educators we serve, as well as my fellow employees."
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Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner and once considered the greatest athlete in the world after winning the men's decathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics, say's she doesn't miss a thing about her life as the "ultimate male."
"Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life," Jenner told NBC's Matt Lauer on "Today" during an interview Wednesday. "And here I have the opportunity to do that, and to be honest, everything is so new and fun. There is nothing better in life than to wake up in the morning, look yourself in the mirror and feel comfortable with yourself and who you are."
Over a round of golf at the Woodland Hills Country Club outside of Los Angeles, the two also spoke about the backlash over Jenner's ESPYs award, the fatal Pacific Coast Highway crash and her gratitude for the kind reception she has felt since coming out as a transgender woman.
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"You hear people say a lot that you will never truly understand the experience of other transgender men and women because of your privilege and your fame and your money," Lauer said, noting the discrimination many in the transgender community encounter.
"You're absolutely right," Jenner responded. "Yes I have worked hard and was able to put a few bucks away, but for me that's the American Dream. But, I get it. It's devastating to me to see people dying over this issue."
Jenner admitted she is aware that her experience is the "exception and not the rule."
Asked about the criticism from some following the announcement that Jenner would be the Arthur Ashe Award recipient at the 2015 ESPYs, the former Olympian said she did not ask to be honored.
"They gave it to me," Jenner said. "Did it take a lot of courage to come out? Absolutely. Did I have tremendous respect for Arthur Ashe and that award? Absolutely. And I am very honored to have that awarded to me. Not just to me, but this entire community."
In addition to the obstacles that Jenner has faced in the last few months since joining the LGBT community, she is possibly facing a manslaughter charge over the fatal crash on the Pacific Coast Highway earlier this year.
"Something like this, a tragedy like this, you'll never get over," she said of the event. "You just learn to live with it the best you can."
"Seems like the worse case scenario you could spend a year in the county jail," Lauer said.
"The media wants that picture," Jenner quipped before spotlighting the issue of transgender women locked up in a male prison. "It's an enormous problem, these are things we are looking into."