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Wipers and Heater for a Model A Pickup - All-Weather AWritten by on January 21, 2012 Wipers and a heater for a phone booth
One of the great things about being around the Street Rodder office is the chance to gather at our editor's feet while he regales us with tales of the "good old days." Evidently back when Editor Brennan was a young'un braving the harsh SoCal winters and walking up hill both ways to magazine school, most people referred to '28-29 Model A closed cab pickups as "phone booths" due to their tall, skinny profile. Of course that was back before an enterprising Australian, by the name of Kelvin Waddington, introduced the 6-inch stretched version manufactured by his company, Roadster Ute.
Since Brennan has never seen a pickup he didn't like, when the super-sized version hit our shores he had to have one. Since the plan is to make this a daily driver, there were a couple of options he chose to include: a heater and dual windshield wipers. Waddington has made them available on the new cabs, but they can be added to an original as well.
To keep the confines of the cab warm when it's chilly outside, Waddington installed a compact heater from Moal Coachworks. Known far and wide for their one-of-kind handcrafted bodies, Moal's heater is everything you'd expect it to be. The compact underdash design measures 12 inches high by 10 inches wide by 6 inches deep. It has a gelcoated fiberglass housing that's ready for painting and a machined aluminum trim bezel and stainless steel grille that are ready for polishing. A single switch controls the three-speed blower motor and the on/off water valve.
In addition to being cold, one of the realities of driving a hot rod regularly is that it's going to get rained on. But this pickup won't be parked when the skies open up because it's going to have real windshield wipers from New Port Engineering. They offer wiper kits for a wide variety of vehicles, including '28-29 Model A pickups. Ours came with a new, two-speed electric motor, linkage arms, wiper transmissions, wiper arms, and blades. Also included is a drill jig to accurately locate the mounting holes for the wiper shafts.
With a heater and wipers Brennan can be cozy when it's cold outside and see where he's going when the skies open up in his all-weather A. Can't wait to hear all the stories about that.
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Kelvin Waddington's crew fabricated brackets to mount the heater. One attaches to the side of the heater outlet.The bracket shown previously secures the heater to the lip of the dashboard and leaves plenty of room for the instruments.This simple bracket will bolt onto the heater and attaches to another bracket that is fastened to the body.The bracket on the motor end of the heater attaches to the body with the fasteners used to secure the upper portion of the cowl to the passenger side.New Port Engineering's Clean Wipe system is well built, easy to install, and best of all it makes driving in the rain safe.
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I've had some bad pain in my Achilles before. For me, it was a problem when I did a long ride with my seat too high and using SPD shoes and pedals. Because of the seat height, I was bending and flexing my ankles to push the pedals slightly at the bottom of each pedal stroke, this is called ankling. If you find yourself doing this, creep your seat down slightly and watch your pedaling form to see if that removes the need to apply force with your ankles during the pedal stroke.

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First, I should say a big thank you to all the people that helped make our Fundraising campaign so successful, but more infos about that will come in the next days. It is anyways really motivating to see that you are supporting us!
On my side, I have been working on a rewrite of the Kdenlive's effect stack. This work has just been merged into master git, so users of sunab's experimental PPA will get it in the next update, probably in 1-2 days.
The highlights are:
I tested the new features for some time now, there are probably a few bugs, but it is really worth it in my opinion, So I am waiting for your feedback & bug reports. And here is a small video demonstrating the new effect stack (video link):
Jean-Baptiste Mardelle
Sun, 04/01/2012 - 18:27
Excellent! I was wishing for something like this long ago. This will really improve the Kdenlive work flow. Kdenlive is maturing into an excellent video production tool. I am looking forward to the further developments that come out of the fundraising campaign.
Mon, 04/02/2012 - 00:33
Looking forward to trying this out j-b-m and learning of the development news/targets from the fund raising. Kind regards.
Tue, 04/03/2012 - 23:46
hi j-b-m
Trying out your new effect stack WIP.
A couple of things that come to mind and I hope you don't mind me suggesting these:
Currently a clip has to be 'selected and activated' on the time line [1 Click] and a double click done on the effect in the effect list [2 more Clicks] for it to appear in the effect stack, [3 Clicks To Activate an Effect] however the active strip doesn't necessarily relate to playhead position / currently previewed frame in the Project Monitor. They are not necessarily one and the same.
Working with effects is a visual process and we will be watching the effect altering the image in the preview seeing the result of sliding the parameters so it seems to make more sense to be able to:
1. Drag an effect from the Effect List, straight onto any clip on the timeline but most likely the one under the playhead regardless of whether the clip is 'active' this requires No Clicks vs 3 Clicks described above.
2. Drop an effect onto the Project Monitor window and therefore affect the clip being previewed where the playhead is which is quite likely to be the clip we wish to affect, regardless of whether the clip is active in the timeline and the playhead over the activated clip or not.
So to clarify, if I'm looking to add an effect it's going to be the one previewed in the Project Monitor ie: where the playhead is, that is not necessarily the 'active' clip on the timeline and don't quite see why I need to activate a clip first to apply an effect to it.
I understand this is WIP. :-) currently the Effect Stack entries don't adopt the color theme which makes them hard to read. :-)
Thu, 04/05/2012 - 18:29
Great work, thanks!!
I think that some indentation on the grouped effects would be better to indicate which effects are in the group.
Wed, 04/11/2012 - 12:07
Thank you for your work! Now we need a nice gui for adjusting effect-keyframes easily :)
Fri, 04/13/2012 - 17:57
All I can say is that the KdenLive team ROCKS. This tool is becoming mainstream and many people are taking notice. The design is beautiful and functional.
THANKS to all working on this project.
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Philadelphia Young Playwrights held its annual benefit, Write On! A Celebration of Student Voices, on Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at World Cafe Live. Attendees enjoyed a cocktail reception before the awards ceremony and live performances of plays and monologues written by the 2010 winners of the Young Playwrights' Annual Playwriting Festival. Mayor Michael Nutter was present along with Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown, and many students, teachers, playwrights and community leaders. The night was hosted by myphl17's director of community relations, Steve Highsmith. Photography by Jessica Vermeer Hawkes.
Attendees at the National Constitution Center's "Shaken, Not Stirred" cocktail party enjoyed the Spies, Traitors & Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America exhibition on Tuesday, May 3, 2011. Guests watched James Bond films on a big screen, played James Bond trivia games and created spy decoders to uncover hidden messages in the museum. The Center's caterer, Max and Me, provided complimentary "spy-tinis" and hors d'oeuvres. Photography by the National Constitution Center.
Lisa Nutter, with nonprofit Philadelphia Academies, Inc, held the annual fundraising event called "The Party 2011" on April 30, 2011 at Loews Philadelphia Hotel. In attendance were hundreds of the city's biggest business associates, education advocates and community leaders. The event celebrated "everyday superheroes" who help the welfare of Philadelphia public high school students through career-focused programming. Photographs by Anthony Sinagoga.
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[shale gas]
By BEN KESLING
Fluor has been a prime
beneficiary of the US shale oil and gas boom as the engineering
and construction group starts to build
out energy infrastructure, but like rivals, it faces the
challenge of navigating one big possible bottleneck: the
availability of skilled workers.
Big chemical companies plan an array of new and expanded facilities along the US Gulf Coast
to handle the surge in gas and liquids supply, and Irving,
Texas-based Fluor reckons its can use some "home-field
advantage" to avoid its projects being delayed by the
squeeze on craft labor such as electricians, welders and
"We've seen a lack of willingness on the craft part to
travel more than one state away. I think we're going to see a
change in that," Fluor CEO David Thomas Seaton said on an
investor call last month. He also said he thinks craft labor
could be a "pinch point" for new projects.
"So we're going to have to be careful about craft labor, but
I don't see that being an Achilles' heel to the schedules
people are thinking about or cancel in any way the projects we
are focused on," he said.
The shale gas boom is touted by many economists as a
transformative event for the US economy, generating an $88
billion in infrastructure spending over the next decade,
according to Macquarie Group Ltd.
Fluor, which posted $27.6 billion in revenue last year,
estimates the need for 20,000 to 50,000 craft workers for construction of US oil and gas
projects over the next decade, depending on how many projects
move forward.
The aging workforce of US engineers is a well-known issue
for companies such as Boeing, but the shortage of craft workers
is less publicized. Craft workers are two of the top 10 most
difficult types of jobs for companies to fill, according to
temporary hiring specialist Manpower Inc.
Fluor is the prime contractor
for the new ethylene cracking plant being built for Dow
Chemical in Freeport, Texas. The project is already underway
and is expected to require 2,000 workers at its peak, with both
companies counting on first-mover advantage to avoid being
caught in a labor-shortage trap as rival plants seek regulatory
Fluor is beginning the Dow cracker project ahead of a potential rush in
petrochemical construction, said
Richard Meserole, the company's vice president of energy and
chemical construction.
He said this will help it attract workers and establish a
beachhead with the supply of labor. Fluor also has a network of
factories in the Philippines, Mexico and Canada that can allow
it to build modular components off-site and then assemble them
on site.
The company also works closely with local schools and
governments to recruit and train local labor rather than trying
to woo workers from around the US.
"Fluor, in particular, has a lot of initiatives set up with
local junior colleges for apprenticeships and training
programs," said Sameer Rathod, an analyst with Macquarie Bank.
"Being a large player lends itself to attracting more people.
Fluor is a name that everybody knows, maybe others don't have
Fluor had almost 36,000 salaried staff and 8,601 craft and
hourly employees world-wide at the end of 2012. In North
America, it employs 5,000.
"We have a fairly well-established network of technical
colleges," Mr. Meserole said in an interview. "We take a large
portion of those who come out of high school and see construction as a long career."
Fluor lists more than a dozen universities on its website with
which it shares official partnerships, including specialty
training support and scholarships.
Crackers -- plants that break
natural gas into its component parts -- are popular projects
for contractors to chase because of the increase in gas volume
available and the continuing low cost of domestic gas feedstock. Crackers are the first
step in a long processing, storage and distribution chain, as
well as further production of other gas derivatives, much of
which remains to be built.
By establishing themselves early in the process, Fluor has said
it will position itself for major contracts as projects ramp up further down the
"Everything is sort of focused around crackers, of course,
because you need to build crackers first before you can build
downstream units," said Peter Oosterveer, president of Fluor's
energy and chemicals group, at a recent investor
"A lot of people get excited about the prospect of maybe as
much as 10 crackers, which have been on our radar screen... I'm
quite happy to say that I will be disappointed if we can't win
or at least have a share on 50% of those crackers," he
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Any interest in a field Landman? I work with my husband and he has been a consulting Landman for over 20 years. I have been working in the industry for 7 years. Anyone out there that may have information on stable long term employment let me know. I'll send my resume.
simon ndungu
hi,am intrested to work in your company as a craft worker from kenya.thank you
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Hi, if they would need a Mechanical Engineer with pipe stress Analysis experience, i´m interested.
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Hrand Avanessian
I used to work for FLUOR and one month ago I was demobilized. I called and talked to the Electrical Manager in LA area, but I was told that they don't have projects. I am a Electrical Engineer, MS EE, Senior Member of IEEE since 1999, PE in California and Nevada, with more than 30+ years of experience in oil, gas and petrochemical fields. So, call me if you need me (818) 524 9454. My email is: email@example.com
Robert Brown
Fluor would not have so much trouble staffing these mega projects if their supervision on other projects knew how to manage and treat the craft workers. They have lost loyal hands over the years due to lack of good on-site management. I believe upper management may know this and are trying to correct the problem. We shall see in the next couple of years how well they corrected the problem.
domingo s pabalan
When will you gonna open this for Senior : Civil/ Structural Engineer, QC Engineer even. Through this position I'm inquiring to carry-out not only to the knowledge and experience in different oil and gas location in heavy infrastructure projects site based. Gladly to hear your kind favor in the future.
Goud Prasad
If they Need MAtireal Control Admin Specialist in Any Decipline. My expertized Matireal, Waste Management,
Fluor Corporate License
what schools are offering training for Fluor in Texas
Ronilo M Garcia
If they need Material controller in any decipline.my expertized both oil & gas,power plant,polymer,LNG materials.
Ernie G.
Do they need Piping Materials Specialist? I have both metallurgy and polymers experiences as well as Piping Materials.
Sounds like JP, is a disgruntled union hand. Don't give on your career at McDonalds....it will teach you a craft skill that even your pappa will be proud of.
Donald Phillips BSChE, MEChE, & MBA
Need any Chemical Engineers?
Well Well, Between the huge EPC firms and the huge petro/chem companies that worked very hard on breaking the unions for one reason or another. They were very proud of them selves for the accomplishment. This all took place thru 70s to late 90s. With their great accomplishment they forgot one thing to invest in the future. With no real trade schools left to support the boom what is left? Now all the players of industry are left with is McDonald's rejects who can just about screw to pieces of hose together or manage to screw in a light bulb. This little piece of history should be considered when looking at FEED and EPC schedules, everyone.
Dr.Mukesh Kumar
Being a Materials & Metallurgist having 22 years of experience, i will am willing to join Oil & Gas MNC as materials expert.
Gulshan Malhotra
Great news for the craft workers.
Christopher Odokonyero
I am a mechanical engineer with a post graduate qualification in project planning appraisal and financing. I have had a wealth of experience working for two multinational oil/gas companies (Chevron and Total) in Uganda. I would wish to join the industry at up stream level so as to acquire the requisite experience and skills in the sector. Please I request that you forward my interest to relevant companies )the likes of Fluur)who could be willing to engaged me in the trade. I would be grateful to hear from you.
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Bowling Green Police have released new information about a body being found in a car over the weekend.
The man who was found in the car had been missing for several days.
Police say the body of Joey Smith, 31, was found in the trunk of his own car on Saturday.
"Mr. Smith had been reported missing on Thursday and the person who reported him missing says he had been missing since Monday," says Public Information Officer Ronnie Ward.
Smith's friend told police that Smith's car was at an apartment complex in Bowling Green.
Residents at Greenwood Villa Apartments say the car was moved while Joey Smith was missing.
"The car wasn't there. The car was there when we came back, obvious because the police was here, but that morning, the car wasn't there," says Ron Daniel, maintenance technician for Greenwood Villa Apartments.
Daniel says he was at the Veteran's Day parade early Saturday morning.
"I came back and there was a lot of law enforcement around here and found out that a white car was sitting over there by "J" Building and it got towed to the police precinct, I assume, and they found a body in the trunk," Daniel says.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -- A Colorado fugitive, turned Kansas kidnapper is appealing his conviction, just as Jesse Dimmick's civil case against the City of Topeka is turned over to a jury.
It was exactly three years ago when Dimmick, 26, stole a van, led police on a high-speed chase, then took shelter at the home of Dover couple, Jared and Lindsay Rowley. The hostage situation ended when Dimmick fell asleep, allowing the Rowleys to get away, and law enforcement officers to move in.
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"NYU's Dept of Public Safety first received word of a missing student --a male undergraduate – about 12:30 am Sunday morning from students and immediately began a search, checking the student's room, reaching out to friends, checking area emergency rooms, checking local precincts, and checking on the NYU locations where his ID had most recently been used for entry, among other efforts. Later on Sunday, possessions of his were found at our residence hall at 80 Lafayette St., and the Public Safety Dept's efforts were focused there.
"One of our Public Safety sergeants in the course of his search of the building extended his search to a narrow space between our building and an abutting garage, where he discovered someone wedged into the space and heard moaning. The FDNY and the NYPD were immediately called; they responded and rescued the student. Our understanding is that the student was conscious and able to communicate with rescuers throughout the rescue. The student was transported to the hospital.
"The circumstances of how the student came to be in this space remain unclear to us. We are very glad to say the least that student was found safe and mostly sound and was rescued, pleased that his condition was such that he was able to remain conscious and alert during the rescue, grateful to the FDNY and NYPD for their quick response and excellent work, proud of the student's friends who reported him missing and were so concerned about him, and proud of our Public Safety officer for looking in what would have been an unlikely spot for a student to be.
"We believe that we can learn something from every incident, even ones that have a happy ending, and so our Public Safety Department will be reviewing what happened here with an eye towards what, if any, lessons should be incorporated for our response to missing person reports going forward."
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So far I have shared quite a few tutorials and info about the Epic Room Makeover. There are also a few of the really big projects that I am working on the tutorials for (and maybe a video or two) but today I wanted to share a little about the smaller things that don't really need a tutorial but are hugely important in the grand scheme of things!
I found these nightstands at the DI (utah's version of Goodwill) they were in 2 different parts of the store and the difference in the prices was CRAZY.
One was priced at $10.00 and the other was priced at $50.00. NUTS right? So what did I do? What I do best. I called one of the managers over and pointed out the craziness. He was so nice, he ended up selling them for $25.00 total. Did you know that most of the time all you have to do is ask? I don't get a discount every time I ask, but its worth it when I do!
Look at their cute little feet and wheels!!
So first things first. Remove the hardware, tape the things that you don't want painted and get to work. I painted these with Krylon's Classic Gray. (ps for those of you who follow me on FB know that as I was cleaning out my garage I posted a question asking which color of spray paint you think I have the most of and Classic Gray is the winner!) Also I love how it looks pigeon toed!
I didn't glaze them because lets face it, not everything needs to be glazed to be awesome. I love how they turned out and I wish I could find some more for my Master!
Now to the lamps. Oh the sweet, sweet lamps. They started out as your run of the mill sassy brassy thrift store goodness. Actually I had an impossible time finding a matching set but these were pretty dang close. And perfection is boring AND lame, so there ya go.
Now if you have followed my blog for more than 5 minutes you know that I am a Kilz primer and Krylon spray paint girl. But there are sometimes products that are better suited for stuff like this…Enter da da da!
Krylon Duel!
Kilz is too heavy of a primer to use on something like this. Dual is PERFECTION in a can. Make sure you wipe them down really well first and get to spraying. I didn't have Sun Yellow Dual but I did have white so I painted it white first and then Sun Yellow. One of my fave things about not using Kilz is that the lamps had a really high gloss to them. (Kilz will take that away, did you know that?)
The lampshades are from Ikea.
They come like this:
If you are going to put something on them now is the time. I used my Silhouette to cut out a man and a woman figure.
See the little holes? That is where the metal piece goes to hold it on the lamp.
So some people may wonder why. Why in the world did you put the universal sign for a restroom by these peoples bed?
To that I say, why not? Its fun and quirky and pretty hilarious. Adding a small touch of humor to a room makes it REAL. It makes people feel comfortable there. Remember my lampshade? And the pillow in my bedroom?
If you feel like you are struggling to make a space YOURS then adding something that you LOVE especially if its quirky instantly injects life into it. Try it, I triple dog dare you.
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I am running a static PHP website for the past 3 months. It's not a CMS but just simple PHP files (no database) in to which I add content. I am struggling to manually create RSS feeds as it is very time consuming. Can someone suggest me ways to save time creating RSS feeds? I am also looking to automate the process of RSS feed creation, maybe using variables? Please suggest.
As alluded to in the comments, you'll need a database holding your content to be able to automate your feed. We don't know from your question how comfortable with PHP you are or if you have any database experience, but this would almost certainly speed up other things in your site too - such as being able to serve each of your 'content' pages from one dynamic script, rather than trying to maintain several static pages.
I'm going to assume for a minute that you have MySQL and you know how to set up a table. Do that, and make sure your table (which i'll call "
In PHP, connect to your database - again, this is extremely simplified, you'll need to investigate further to add in some error checking and all that, but its just to point you in the right direction and show you how simple it can be to get started. (Also, MySQLi is the modern thing, but lets avoid OO for now..)
There you go. That's how easy it can be, although an RSS feed probably needs more information, I think thats about the bare minimum to create something that's valid. While you're welcome to copy/paste this bit of code - it won't win any programming awards, i've just tried to keep it extremely simple to give you the basic idea of how it works.
If you deploy anything on a real website, depending on many factors (not least who is using it, how they are putting content into the database, etc) you will want to work on things like error checking and data validation.
Hope it helps.
Yes it is possible to create an rss.xml feed automatically
This website is a static website and apparently it has an auto generated rss.xml
Validate the RSS feed
Why don't you contact them via their website and ask them?


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5 Real Deleted Bible Scenes In Which Jesus Kicks Some Ass
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The Gospels that made it into the Bible pretty much skip from the birth of Jesus Christ to his adulthood, but there are other documents that chronicle the adventures of Jesus Christ: Boy Wonder. They're part of something called the New Testament Apocrypha, a series of books deemed unfit for inclusion due to concerns over the message they'd send or, in some cases, the number of faces they'd melt with their sheer awesomeness. Most of the stories are pretty normal fare -- healing lepers and raising the dead -- but some are so insane that we learn that the answer to, What would Jesus do? is Whatever the hell he wants.
#5. Jesus Christ: Dragonmaster
The New Testament didn't just descend from the skies onto newsstands the morning after Jesus ascended up to heaven. The 27 books in modern Christian Bibles weren't declared official until over 300 years after Jesus walked the earth. By that time, thousands of sayings and stories about Jesus' life had to be left on the cutting-room floor. Such was the case of the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew. The name comes from the fact that it's basically an extended director's cut of the Gospel of Matthew that made the Bible, covering most of the same territory save for one regrettably deleted scene.
No, not this one.
Two years after Jesus was born, King Herod got word of a child being called the "king of the Jews" and ordered that all two-year-old male children in Bethlehem be killed to protect his throne (making Herod the first, and last, member of the controversial "kill all babies" political platform). But God managed to warn Joseph in time, and the family fled before Herod's men arrived. You probably knew all that. What you may not have known is that on their way to Egypt, Jesus and his family stopped to rest in a cave, which, to their surprise, was populated by a herd of dragons. (What do you call a group of dragons? A flock? A pride? A concert?) Actual scaly, fire-breathing, winged lizard-dragons.
These assholes.
And, lo, suddenly there came forth from the cave many dragons; and when the children saw them, they cried out in great terror. Then Jesus went down from the bosom of His mother, and stood on His feet before the dragons; and they adored Jesus, and thereafter retired.
-- The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, Chapter 18
That's right: The Bible could have included a passage detailing how Jesus Christ totally gave the cold shoulder to a dragon army. At first glance, this seems like a pretty baffling omission. Jesus Christ, dragon tamer, would have been pretty effective when converting metalheads and 14-year-old boys.
This doesn't have quite the same draw.
It makes a lot more sense if you believe that God was handling editorial duties. Jesus totally could have used his dragon-taming powers to sic an invincible hell-beast armada on Herod's ass. That's what the God from the Old Testament would have done. If our son squandered powers that awesome, and we were editing his biography, we'd probably skip that part too.
"I should have taken him hunting or something."
#4. Jesus Takes Pools of Water Very Seriously
Written in the early second century, around the same time most scholars date the four Gospels in the Bible, the Infancy Gospel of Thomas picks up the story a few years after the dragon taming. Back in Nazareth now, five-year-old Jesus was playing beside a small brook with some other children, forming pools of water to make clay. (Fun had yet to be invented.) Jesus formed some sparrows out of the clay and, since he was not the figurine-collecting type, decided to give the sculptures life, and off they flew on his command. One of the children playing with Jesus saw this and, rather than thinking, "Holy shit! That kid can create life with a word -- I should probably not walk up behind him and start splashing his pools with a stick," instead walked up behind him and started splashing his pools with a stick. And Christ just goes apeshit:
Above: An appropriate response.
"O evil, ungodly, and foolish one, what hurt did the pools and the waters do thee? Behold, now also thou shalt be withered like a tree, and shalt not bear leaves, neither root, nor fruit." And straightway that lad withered up wholly.
-- Infancy Gospel of Thomas 3:2-3
It doesn't say that the Lamb of God took trophies, but it's probably safe to assume.
And, like the Nazi archaeologist in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the boy started aging rapidly and withered away. Sure, it would've been easier just to kill the kid, but this is Jesus Christ we're talking about here. He's not just gonna up and waste some kid.
#3. Jesus Christ Up and Wastes Some Kid
In Thomas' version of events, later that same day as Jesus was casually strolling around town, running divine errands, another boy accidentally bumped into him on the street. So what would Jesus do? He'd probably use his divine presence to heal the boy of being friggin' clumsy, right? Let's see:
Jesus was provoked and said unto him, "Thou shalt not finish thy course." And immediately he fell down and died.
-- Infancy Gospel of Thomas 4:1
And you don't want to know what happened when he lost the school science fair.
We ... He probably ... No. Wait. He just murdered a kid for brushing against him? Was Jesus a Crip? Far be it from us to question the judgment of the Son of God, but being sentenced to death for scuffing Christ's sandals seems excessive. Maybe if the kid had been walking exceedingly slow right in the center of the sidewalk so he couldn't get past him and was just obliviously yakking away on his cell phone while, like, eight people stuck behind him were trying to get somewhere and seriously if you would just move four inches to one side we could get past and GODDAMN IT DON'T STOP SO THAT WE ALMOST RUN INTO YOU. OH, AND JUST TO STARE SLACK-JAWED AT A TABLOID ON THE NEWSPAPER KIOSK, YOU SON OF A BITCH -- maybe that's a walking crime worthy of divine capital punishment. But wasting a kid because he touches your arm? Jesus was like a bully in an 80s high school movie, if they had been able to murder people with words.
He rolled kids for lunch money before he whaled on money changers.


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Let's suppose my character is in the middle of combat, and that he can move right in front of an opponent without using all his movement points (let's say he has 5 speed and he moves 4 squares). Can he now shift to another square next to the enemy to get a better position, in the same move action, or would that count as a second move action?
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Shifting counts as a second move action. What you'd be doing is "walking" or "running," then Shifting. Each of those takes a move action. (Rules Compendium, p. 203)
It costs an entire move action to shift (generally 1 square). It costs an entire move action to move up to your normal speed (generally 5 or 6 squares). You cannot combine them in a move action.
There are powers that let you shift more than 1 square. If your move is 6 squares and somehow you gain a power that lets you shift 6 squares, you can effectively do what you're describing.
Some characters can teleport. This lets you move to any square within range you can see.
Last, you could spend an action point, if you have one, to take an additional move action and then shift into place.
You are combining two entirely different move actions. Each move action has it's own benefits and drawbacks. To be pedantic you should declare which move action you are taking prior to doing the movement. When that action is concluded you can convert your standard action into a move action if you wish (assuming you hadn't used it prior).
Here are the generic move actions that allow you to move (and their restrictions).


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Simple, Straightforward French Fare in the East Village
The southern blocks of the East Village aren't the dreamiest destination for leisurely dining (see: NYU pubs). But with its elegant food, Calliope, at the corner of Second Avenue and Fourth Street, makes the argument that you can stick around for a least a couple of courses.
A French bistro, Calliope is owned by wife-and-husband team Ginevra Iverson and Eric Korsh. (Before this, in New York, Mr. Korsh was chef at Waverly Inn and Ms. Iverson cooked at Prune; both worked at Picholine, where they met. For a stint out West, the couple ran Restaurant Eloise in Sebastopol, Calif.)
The restaurant opened in June, began serving brunch a couple of weeks after that and introduced lunch items earlier this fall.
"The lunch menu is pretty simple and straightforward, and slightly more typically French than dinner," Ms. Iverson said. The daytime crowd has been "mostly neighborhood people, but it's starting to be more than that."
Popular at lunch are what Ms. Iverson calls a "not typical" chicken paillard (served with white anchovies and fingerling potatoes, $15) and spicy tripe with a sunnyside-up egg ($15). "I'm definitely surprised by that," she said. "A, it's tripe. And B, it's very spicy."
There are moules frites ($14) and tête de porc (pig head with radish vinaigrette, $10) for the traditionalists. Pastry whiz Shuna Lydon, late of Peels, has resurfaced here, producing such treats as puff pear pastry and seasonal fruit scones. On a recent visit, they were huckleberry-sour cherry, moist but not heavy with buckwheat flour, and worth spoiling the rest of lunch ($10 for two, with jam and clotted cream).
—Kimberly Chou
Calliope, 84 E. Fourth St. at the corner of Second Avenue; lunch is served Tuesday through Friday between 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.; 212-260-8484.


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I realize sometimes when browsing with https shows the certificate is not valid "This certificate is not from a trusted authority", clicking continue will just poping up the same warning. That time, I start thinking certificate store not updated. I trying to compare with Windows trusted CA which it will be updated automatically.
I think certificate must be update in a period of time since the validity of trusted CA is about 1 to a few years.
I cannot find this thing mention in Android anywhere. Does the way it manage certificates is different? How can I make sure I get the latest update?
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Could I put a DI box between my amplifier and my guitar cabinet, and then run the DI signal in to my USB interface? Or would that create issues? I'm using a Michael Kelly guitar, through a Bugera 333xl head in to a Bugera cab.
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Not with any old DI box. The signal going from the power amp section of your guitar amp, to your speaker cabinet, is HIGH POWER. Face-melting type of power. Most DI boxes cannot handle this kind of power and you will melt them in an instant trying to run them between your power amp and your speaker cabinet.
There is a notable exception: the Palmer PDI-09 The Junction. This DI box is specifically designed to go between your amplifier and your speaker cabinet and provide a line-level signal of your power amp's output. Suitable for running in to a USB audio interface or a mixing desk.
It also has a switch that can apply some simple equalization to the signal (the Bright and Mellow settings) so you could use this in place of a microphone to run your signal to FoH.
With the PDI-09 you still have to run your speaker cabinet -- your power amp doesn't see any load when it's just connected to the PDI-09. You need your cabinet attached as well or you'll risk damaging your power amp.
If you want to be able to run your amplifier without even attaching a speaker cabinet take a look at the Palmer PGA-04 or Palmer PDI-03 -- both of these can act as DIs like the PDI-09, but they also contain active, dummy loads that allows them to dissipate all that power your power amplifier is pushing at it. So you can run without a speaker cabinet and record your guitar head completely silently.
+1 to Ian's answer above. However, if you're able to come out of your effects loop on either your pedal board or on your amplifier (or if you have a DL4 or some other effect that has a stereo out) then you can just use the input at the DI there.
From there, run the
Update: Diagram
Look for a Box that has two 1/4" jacks (marked "IN" and "OUT") and a pad switch (0/-10db/-20db). I use one of these when a guest sets up their own system and I want a mix into my system for remote speakers or recording a video. I grab the (amplified) line to one of their kickers and route it through the box (IN/OUT), pad it, and run the balanced output to my board. It should work the same way between your guitar head and speaker.


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The Seniors will play games at the Nehawka Wooden Bat Tournament at 8 p.m. Friday, noon Saturday and noon Sunday.
The Juniors will play games at Densmore in Lincoln at 10 a.m. Saturday and 12:30 p.m. Saturday. Syracuse will play a third game at Densmore Sunday. Saturday's results will determine the game time and opponent for Sunday.
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Hilbert reformulated the quadratic reciprocity law of Gauß as a product formula $$ \prod_v(a,b)_v=1 $$ for the various local Hilbert symbols. For each place $v$ of $\bf Q$, the Hilbert symbol $(\ ,\ )_v$ is a bimultiplicative map $$ {\bf Q}_v^\times\times{\bf Q}_v^\times\to{\bf Z}^\times $$ so that, by definition, $(a,b)_v=1$ if and only if $a\in {\rm Im\;} N_b$ where $N_b$ denotes the norm map ${\bf Q}_v(\sqrt b)^\times\to{\bf Q}_v^\times$. An important property of the Hilbert symbol is that $$ a+b=1\Longrightarrow (a,b)_v=1, $$ which makes it a Steinberg symbol. This property in not listed in older books such as Hasse's Number theory but it can be found in all modern treatments, such as Serre's Course in arithmetic or his Local fields, or Milnor's K-theory.
I'm curious as to who first noticed that the Hilbert symbol is a Steinberg symbol. Was it Steinberg himself ? A precise reference will be appreciated.


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About two weeks ago she began her position as director at the Synder Museum and said she is enjoying her new job.
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Nugent said she loves art and is very involved in her church in Bastrop, where she helps out with the youth group on Wednesday evenings as well as helping to plan church events.
"I am a graduate of Bastrop High," she said. "After I graduated I got married and had children. I have three daughters and four grandchildren, with one on the way."
Nugent said she hasn't decided exactly what changes, if any, will be made at the museum, but in March she is planning on announcing the workshops, events and artists that will come and display.
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I now have Jimmy Graham and Aaron Hernandez, and I think this guy wants to make a trade for Hernandez where he gives up Ahmad Bradshaw. He also wants Lance Moore from me. I'm thin at RB, I have Beast Mode, Shaun Draughn, Daryl Richardson, and Mark Ingram.
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I'm in year 2020 and for some reason there are no good young left back in the world anymore. I have the best younger LB and the 3rd best overall according to Genie Scout and hes only a 3 to 3 1/2 star player (according to my coaches).
Everybody I've scouted at best has potential of 3 stars max.
Has anyone else had a problem like this at any positions? Its just kind of weird.


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My MacBook Pro screen constantly dims and brightens. The automatic box is unchecked. The brightness adjustment button is constantly moving back and forth.
Go your System Preferences, select "Displays", and uncheck Auto-adjust Brightness.
Might be an issue with the power supply when "Slightly dim the display when on battery power" is checked in Energy Saver prefs. This would dim the display when the power adapter is lost and become brighter again when not running on battery anymore.
I'd try to reset the System Management Controller (SMC).
Apple's documentation on the SMC states that this may resolve issues related to the power management. The document specifically mentions:
As the guidelines on how to reset the SMC depend on your kind of Mac, I will not list them all here. Please follow the link and go to the section with the title Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) for more information on how to apply the reset.
Should that not work, you're left with two other avenues to remedy this:
This could be a keyboard issue. If other things are going wrong with keys, such as the backspace or caps lock, the keyboard (top case) needs replacing.
You can get a temporary fix by using a keyboard remapper program and change the keys for brightness and turn off the usual F1 and F2 ones.
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Reading other people's Tweets, I think I'm getting the hang of it now. 9:23am: cleaning toenails.
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Little girl spilled her chips at LAX and I am watching her eat them, one by one, off the rug. Her Mom doesn't seem to care. #chic
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Great shot Master! :)
I love everything about this images. This is perfection
I really like the framing in this shot.
if its religious, its boring as is this photo
beautiful colour shades here, although the individuals do not appear to be concerned
wow!! like those paintings of louvre
The girl looks confused
this picture is kinda boring
Cuando el viento regresa.
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Very beautiful and peaceful feeling i get when i see this photo!
So, so lovely - it almost looks like a painting. The costumes, although made of very humble fabric, capture a period mood beautifully.
These processions are quite extraordinary - I saw one at night in Salerno, by candlelight, back in 1968.
The flower offerings in their hands somehow touches my heart ! j.e.s.......
I just fell in love with this photo...it is so perfect....the ladies , the colours , the divider all seem so well composed.well done. Vickneswaren
The two womens figures are almost doll like standing there. Composed into a photograph that is strong in detail, impacting the eye, and with those definate colors, making it a wonderful shot, anyway one looks at it. Good job,Willem. And thank you. j.e.s.........
very nice
Perfect color and composition.
Gorgeous Willem!
absolutely nice
Colors are great!
What a subject picture it's great timing shot.
your shot is very nice
Covering the bodies adds to the modesty of the women and to their grace as well. Nice picture.
l'évacuation d'eau en plein milieu tue complétement l'ambiance lol...
nothing to say.. just awesome..
what an awesome composition!
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It was one of these seldom moments where all pieces fell together and everything was in the right place.
Two weeks ago I walked in this street again...The door on the right was replaced with ugly grey steel ....
picture from the past
This photo has such a beautifully balanced composition. It's great that the reddish-brown colour on the wood on either side also appears on the drain pipe that is the central demarcation of the symmetrical composition. It's also just perfect that the two participants in the procession are standing just where they are, and that the earth-tone colours of their costumes blend so harmoniously with the colours of the wall.
Given the subject matter, it's appropriate that the making of this photo was blessed with such serendipity.
Religion can never be boring - at least I know where I will be one day when I die as I love the Lord - but in a way you are correct in that it could be said that it is a boring photo if you take all else out of the equation or shot. One can photograph anyone in the street and make it a boring shot. But.. it is still a excellent shot as far as shades, lighting ect go.
@Steve Portaro I think: Religion means, Respecting Nature,Respecting people and finally respecting God.
@Mat Millies Ce n'est pas personnellement mon genre de photo préféré, mais c'est plus ton commentaire qui tue l'ambiance.
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My big three are:
Quit smoking and boozing until I can get back into good shape. I want sexy abs again, dammit.
Watch less porn.
What about you guys?
Because why the fuck not?
My big three are:
Quit smoking and boozing until I can get back into good shape. I want sexy abs again, dammit.
Watch less porn.
What about you guys?
Watch more porn.
Continue with working out ect to back to how I was fitness wise.
Continue my life resolutions of meeting new people, trying new things/foods/drinks, seeing more places and doing something(s) that means something.
And maybe make a porn.
Continue living life and being happy. Nothing could be much worse than 2012, I lost four months of my life to some of the shittiest feelings I could ever have.
So as long as that doesn't come back, just keep enjoying life, hope to make some more friends and meet some Dtoid folk.
Some of the funkiest moments I've had whilst going through the shittest year of my life was with people met through here, so you've good times ahead Edd.
I'll second that. I was unemployed for so long when I started participating here. NEVER LOOK BACK.
Unless you're double checking who you're making a porno with!
I'm going to shave my sideburns and beard. It is the best New Year's resolution, because it's totally tractable.
Also, I'm going to try to play at least an hour of all of the games in the recent Steam Super Indie Mega Pack (or whatever it was called).
Also, getting back into shape would be nice, but that's SO HARD that I'm not going to officially call it a resolution.
Quit my job Saturday so I guess my resolution is to score a new one. I don't feel like shaving though.
Definitely quit smoking this year as i have a little one on the way, and probably get myself into a better physical state.
My Resolution is to acquire every port of DOOM ever made, and the consoles to play them on.
Hard mode: All complete in box
God mode: All mint condition
Why? Because on December 10th, it will be the 20th anniversary of DOOM, and the game has honestly played a huge role in my life, so I'm going to beat every version of the original DOOM on that day.
My new year's resolution is 1600x900
of course it's better than Tarvu's
that's a given
Why is this in the gaming section? Now I'm worrying we're only suppose to make gaming related resolutions ;_;
It's just the confusing title of "general discussion" the gaming section has.
To be fair I only just noticed it, cos I went looking for it in the Bar. I just...can't make promises to games, too much heartbreak.
Gain muscle, lose more weight (16kgs lost in the last 4 months).
Apply for VicPol, move to Melbourne.


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RAYLAND - Village Administrator Rich Bibbo discussed sanitation costs at a recent Village Council meeting.
Bibbo talked to Waste Management officials about extending the village's sanitation contract with the company, and company officials agreed to extend the present contract for another three years with no increase in fees.
The cost is $12 a month per household. A letter was received from Waste Management confirming extension of the contract, which would have expired at the end of this year. Council adopted an ordinance under suspension of rules, authorizing the mayor and the village administrator to enter into a contract with Waste Management, which is in effect from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2015, officials said.
In other matters, Mayor Tammy Morelli appointed Kim McKnight to fill a council vacancy, following the death of Mary Doughty.
On the recommendation of the state auditor's office, council adopted an ordinance, setting each council member's pay at $30 a month. This is a change from an ordinance approved years ago with the pay at $15 per meeting.
Councilman Bob Conrad, a member of the village's beautification committee, told officials the committee, which is a private organization, is preparing a float for the Christmas parade planned Dec. 8 through Rayland, Tiltonsville and Yorkville. The float will have seating for council members and the beautification committee. He thanked Richard and Mimi Logston for providing the truck for the float.
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The beautification committee also was thanked for decorating for Christmas and for all its work throughout the year.
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Councilman Roger Beck asked about repairs to the fire hydrants, which have been covered. The village administrator said the hydrants are shut off at the valve and can be used if necessary.
Council's next regular meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. at the municipal building.


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Sometimes combat can last a long time. If a long combat happens in Savage World, so long, say, that it can't be completed in one session. Should the players get new Bennies at the start of the next session even if it is the same encounter?
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Savage Worlds is a game of pulp action and Fast! Furious! Fun!
If it makes sense for them to have more bennies, do it.
I've had this happen before. The way I handled it was simply to complete the combat and then give them the session's Bennies refresh. It worked well enough that I forgot about it entirely until I read this question – it just went smoothly.
I am concerned that combat is taking this long in SW. Even a major pitched battle should be resolved in a single session. In fact one of Pinnacle's infamous Convention sessions does precisely that. You might want to look carefully at what is making combat take so long. As always I recommend popping by the forums at www.peginc.com/forum
To answer the question: new session means new bennies. If your combat is lasting longer than one session I expect they will need those bennies. Bennies are designed to compensate for some of the wilder dice rolls in the game and encourage exciting risky play: you will not break anything by using a lot of them.
I would say no, for a couple of reasons. One is that, although the Explorer's Edition says that "[E]ach player starts each game session with three 'bennies'..." (p.58), I believe that 'game session' is taken here to mean a chunk of in-game time (as opposed to real time) that is framed by periods of (typically off-stage) rest and routine activity. The second is that game time and real time usually have very little to do with each other, and whether or not a combat takes two sessions can have as much to do with real-life distractions as it does the scope of the conflict.
For instance, if you start a combat and then, five minutes into the fight, you receive a phone call saying that your friend needs a ride to the hospital, you're going to stop the game and take it up next week or whenever. But it has nothing to do with the resources you're accruing or expending in the game world--if the phone call had never come, you wouldn't be adding more bennies, and your game set-up hasn't changed at all in this situation.
Nevertheless, if you're engaged in an epic struggle that really takes more than one game session to complete, your characters will have ample opportunity to earn bennies through daring feats, cunning strategies, and dramatic role-playing, so if you're worried about running out of that resource in the middle of a long combat, I would encourage your GM (or encourage you, if you're the GM) to take the passage from page 130 to heart:
...so you could refresh your point total simply by playing a riveting game--which is what it's all about, if you ask me.
(As a corollary, note that bennies are not saved between sessions. I would also waive this rule, in the situation you describe.)
I can see two ways about this. My team did a lot of information gathering then started a fight towards the end of the evening. Enough activity happened in the session to warrent a bennie refresh, but mid-combat is a bit weird. I'm excusing it as they just brought down a big baddie.
Perhaps offer a bennie refresh at the start of a combat you know will take a long time, and make it clear then those bennies have to last through the entire encounter.


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Does anyone know where I can find a sample shapefile that has null entries in it (preferably a polygon shapefile)?
I'm not sure how to create one with null entries.
Does anyone know where I can find a sample shapefile that has null entries in it (preferably a polygon shapefile)?
I'm not sure how to create one with null entries.
Be warned that a lot of software reading SHP files do not support null-values for the geometry. Even older versions of ArcView had problems.
I have created a sample here: http://www.routeware.dk/temp/shp_null_sample.zip It has 3 records, the 2nd has no geometry.
I assume you mean null for the geometry/shape column, because shapefiles don't support null for any field type except the geometry and (i hear) for date fields.
The code below creates 1 shapefile with 1 record/feature that has a null poly geometry.
I run it and get this which is what i'd expect
WARNING 000442: null geometry at 0 in c:\temp\outfc.shp
If you are working on ESRI software, at least I can speak for ArcGIS 9.3, then shapefiles do not support nulls. I ran into this problem a few weeks ago and spent a day investigating. I found this link particularly illuminating http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=93&f=993&t=125464. It seems the only way to support nulls within ESRI shapefiles is to use geodatabases (then the shapefiles become featureclasses. I used file a geodatabase). To support nulls, I ended up making a geodatabase and creating the featureclasses (otherwise known as shapefiles) inside the file geodatabase (this will support nulls) as opposed to creating a shapefile and then importing it into the geodatabase (this will not support nulls). If I remember correctly, you also have to explicitly state in the field properties that you want nulls to be supported. Here is the link that might help How to create a feature class in a file geodatabase in ArcGIS 9.3 with Python?


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When accessing the internet from my home connection, Google Chrome has trouble accessing certain sites that use https. These include Google search, Facebook and discussions.apple.com, but for some reason Gmail is ok. This is on a Retina Macbook Pro with 10.8.3 Mountain Lion.
Given the symptoms described below, it the issue seems likely to be some misconfiguration of the router, which unfortunately I'm not in a position to change. However, since it works in Safari but not Chrome, the two browsers must be doing something differently. What I would really like to know is how I can diagnose what this difference is.
What happens when I try to access the site varies depending on the site. Google search works intermittently, and when it doesn't work it times out as if the server was down. Facebook.com consistently renders the first two wall posts but then stops loading. The Apple forums just sit there forever with a white screen.
I can access these sites just fine in Safari, and they also work fine when I'm browsing via the WiFi at work. It's only when I'm (a) using the ethernet cable at home, and (b) using Google Chrome that the problem occurs. Unfortunately I have no access to the router at home, because the internet is part of my rental agreement and I just have an ethernet socket in my room.
I have tried the following things (and possibly more) to no avail:
- Clearing all brower data in Chrome (cache, cookies etc.)
- Disabling all extensions and restarting Chrome
- Switching to Google public DNS
- Checking my proxy settings in OS X. (No proxies are configured. Both Safari and Chrome use the system settings.)
- Checking that my IP address is the same when browsing via https from Chrome and Safari (it is.)
- Looking for any suspicious messages in Console. (There are several about things relating to Spotlight, but nothing relating to Chrome, and nothing comes up when I try to load these sites.)
- Disabling "Predict network actions to improve page load performance" in Chrome preferences. This changes the symptoms slightly (Facebook times out instead of displaying the first two wall posts; other sites behave the same as before) but does not resolve the issue.
- Rebooting into safe mode
- Deleting my Chrome profile
- Deleting all the other files in ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome
- Setting ipv6 to "Link-local only" in system preferences
- Turning off ipv6 completely by running
networksetup -setv6off Ethernetin Terminal
- Accessing the web via TOR. The problem does not occur, but the connection is too slow for regular use.
My question is, what else can I do to try and work out what the problem is? Chrome is obviously doing something different from what Safari does when trying to access these sites, and I'd like to know what that is, with a view to either solving the problem for myself, or at least being able to submit a bug report to whichever party is responsible.