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Four times a year I teach a workshop called "Be a Bike Commuter" for the local university's community education program. It's mostly based on my experience and information from the League of American Bicyclists. I am looking at making some changes for the next session and am wondering, from other experienced commuters, what things you wish someone would have told you that would have made your first few commutes more successful and/or enjoyable.
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My suggestion would be:
Scout and rehearse your route before you start.
This is really an exercise in two parts:
Once your commute is established I'd suggest that fairly regularly you allow yourself a bit more time (much easier going home!) to explore alternative routes - especially for urban commuters. The most obvious routes are not always the best, you may find shortcuts that are faster or routes that are prettier or have less traffic or smoother surfaces or that you simply like better (or that are not really very different but allow you to vary your route from time to time "just because").
Occupy enough lane to make cars think twice about 'sneaking' by you.
Get fenders even on your nice road bike a wet butt sucks when you ride home and your shorts are cold.
Leave early enough to enjoy the view. My best commute I watched 6 eagles in a field 10' away. Wouldn't have been able to stop for a few minutes if I hadn't left early.
I'm not sure how you'd teach it, but I think an ability to relax and just get on with it has made my commute much more pleasant.
I ride about 12 miles each way, through some fairly busy bits of London. There are some bike lanes, advanced stop lines, separated paths and all sorts of possible things to confuse the new bike commuter, but the thing that obviously gets to a lot of people is that there is just so much going on. The noise, the bustle, cars and lorries going in all directions, shouts from pedestrians, not necessarily at you (but sometimes).
You have to pay attention to the road, its surface, the upcoming junctions and obstacles, but beyond that, just create a little bubble of calm. You might be faster than other people, you might be slower, but don't let them distract you or at least try to reduce the amount of road rage you create.
I see dozens of things on every ride that could (and used) to annoy me - bikes going through red lights or riding on pavements, car drivers cutting up me or other bikes, talking on their mobile phones or turning without indicating - but since I've stopped worrying, I'm enjoying the ride a lot more.
Just worry about yourself and let the others find their own path - and every now and then, just pass a comment to a neighbour when you're waiting at a junction. You'll both be happier for it.
Be as visible as possible, and assume you are invisible.
No matter how much neon spandex and blinky lights you have, some drivers won't notice you until it's too late, especially if it is rainy, getting dark, and their radio is on. ASSUME you are invisible and they are all out to hit you, and ride accordingly.
Claim your space on busy roads
When approaching parked cars, start pulling out into the road well before the parked car. This gives drivers coming up behind you notice that they're going to have to leave you some space so you can get around the car.
Also, I sometimes pretend to wobble when I hear a vehicle approaching from behind that sounds like it's fast or big. This should worry the driver a bit in thinking you're a novice so that they give you a bit more space.
I guess, I'm saying, be confident in claiming the road you need because not all drivers will be thoughtful enough to give you that space if you don't ask for it.
Hopefully that makes sense, it's a little tricky to describe. But, last week I went out with my girlfriend at the weekend to practice the route she was going to start commuting, and I just felt that by not cycling assertively, she was allowing cars to take up space and get closer to her than they should have been.
The Most Direct Route is Not Always the Best
Or in other words. Your driving commute route is usually a horrible bicycling commute route. I purposefully avoid big roads as much as possible and take small residential streets or dedicated bike paths when available, an extra mile on a bike path can actually save you time over a shorter busy commute route, not to mention the savings to your health, safety, and the increase in your general enjoyment. If my commute reminds me of my sunday ride, then I know I have a good route.
You are a bicyclist, there is no reason to endanger your life on the 50MPh express-way when the 25MPH residential street can get you there just as quickly. In California, residential streets are often extremely wide (Parked car + Bike Lane + 1.5Width lanes both ways) compared to dedicated expressways and can be orders of magnitude more safe and comfortable to ride (The pavement is often newer and less broken).
If you are new to the area, spend a weekend or two just exploring local residential streets, hop on over to google maps and find the a way to use small streets to get to where you need to go (often this involves riding through the residential maze and with at least 5 or 6 street changes). Practice your route at least once and carry a printout of the route with you at least the first few times.
I do have the right to a lane, even on the busiest streets, but the fact of the matter is that not everyone respects this right and not everyone is aware of this right. During Busy commutes, drivers are often distracted in many different ways (putting on makeup, drinking coffee, worrying about being late, etc.) and can be unaware of bicyclists, nothing will ruin your day more than an accident on the way to work.
This is good for any ride, not just commuting, but sometimes people think that since they're "only" commuting it's not as important:
You may find it easier on your commute, depending on the length of the ride and how much stuff you have to carry with you, to invest in racks and panniers rather than a backpack or messenger bag. My finding has been that weight "on the bike" is much less noticeable than weight attached to your body. If you commute with a full change of clothes, pair of shoes, kryptonite U-lock, laptop, and shower gear you'll find that your bag will become quite heavy. Might make your ride less cumbersome with that stuff in a luggage bag instead of across your shoulders.
Never, ever listen to music while cycling. As Scottie says, "Cyclists use their ears like rear view mirrors."
Of course, you should also have a traffic side mirror.
you might be surprised how incredibly rude people can be. I'm actually a second generation commuter & have been riding to work my entire adult life, and still am floored regarding how little consideration for your life those in cars take. And commuting puts you in the line of fire for the worst driving behavior--drivers are cranky on their way to work and even worse on the way home.
So my advice would be: prepare to see some unseemly behavior.
(p.s. I live in a really friendly bike town too (Portland, Oregon))--compared to a lot of places this is bike-paradise.
Get a seat bag and have at least one spare innertube, a multi-tool, spare CO2 (if that's your inflator of choice, a frame pump otherwise), and park a $10 bill in there. It's not a matter of 'if' you have a mechanical, but 'when'. Anticipate it, prepare for it, and deal with it.
More than once (because I don't learn quickly) I got as far from either end of my ride and had a flat. I ended up riding home on my rim, which is BAD.
Additionally I have a laminated photocopy of my driver's license in case I'm unresponsive, but that may be overkill.
The importance of layered clothing.
On my earliest bike commute on a crisp fall day, I put on a coat and headed out. At first I was cold, but after a mile or two I got comfortable. Halfway up my first hill I warmed up and unzipped my coat. At the top of the hill I took it off. By the bottom I was freezing again and put the coat back on. And then again on the next hill...
Anyway, over the years I've found that a wind shell plus various thin layers is key to cold weather comfort while commuting.
Maintain awareness of your surroundings when riding in marked bike lanes. Two friends, and I know of others, have had collisions with cars while in clearly marked bike lanes. Apparently, some cyclists assume they are safe just because they are in a marked lane and thus drop their attentiveness.
Gear down and raise your cadence.
Stand on pedals to ride over cracks and bumps
When you're going over bumps, pot-holes, and cracks in the pavement/asphalt: stand (put all your weight on) the pedals and lift your bum off the seat; and coast (without pedalling) over the obstruction. Doing that is more comfortable for you, and for the bike.
(P.S.: I do this wearing bike shoes which clip to the pedals; I have little experience of how easy/safe it would be to do when unclipped).
Also, do this when you're going over a smooth speed bump (which would otherwise tend to eject you from the saddle).
A well maintained bike (tire pressure, oil chain...) with the proper equipement makes a big difference.
Good mud guards are definitly one of the best improvements I had on my bike along with a good lighting system (cars seem to leave a wider space when they overpass).
The one thing l would recommend is puncture proof tyres, I use the Specialized Armadillo range. Only twice in 3 years has anything managed to puncture my inner tubes. I live and commute in a large city, lots of broken glass and other nice stuff and that's what's in the cycle lanes!
Don't skimp on clothing it makes a different l have purchased some sealskinz clothing. Seems pricey however its worth all the money and more.
Also remembering that I'm not training or in a race, taking it easy once in while :-)
Allow for cool down time once you get to your destination.
I've always found that when I'm actually rolling I never feel that hot or sweaty, but as soon as I stop at my destination and don't have the wind on me anymore - BAM! - I'm sweating like a pig. Not a good look when you are about to start work. So I always try to arrive 10 minutes early so I have a chance to cool down and stop sweating.
If your destination doesn't have air conditioning, it's sometimes worth stopping at the nearest place that DOES have air conditioning (shops, library, highrise building foyer, etc) to sit quietly for 5 min to cool down. Then ride nice and easy to your final destination looking fresh and clean ; )
Assume that every vehicle that passes you is also pulling a trailer, so that you won't be surprised when it happens.
Also be aware (at least in my area) that city busses have their engines in the back, so they 'sound' further away than they really are.
Cyclists use their ears like rear view mirrors.
Better yet, get a rear-view mirror.
Pack light. Leave whatever you can at work, and only pack tools that are appropriate to the distance that you are travelling. Cycling is much easier with less weight!
For example - on my previous commute the distance was short enough that if I got a puncture in the middle of the ride, it would be quicker to walk the rest of the way than repair it at the side of the road. I decided to leave a replacement tube, tyre levers and a pump at either end of my commute, instead of carrying them with me.
Make sure there is somewhere safe to put your bike at the other end.
I Just started commuting to work by bike and I turned up at the front door of my office absolutely exhausted on Tuesday expecting to just be able to take my bike up to my office in the lift.
The Janitor/Doorman said no way, citing health and safety. He did point me to a place on a disused stairwell where they allow someone else who works in the building to store their bike, but he said that they were bending the rules as technically it was a fire exit, it's just that no one was using that half of the building so it wasn't an issue at the moment.
One more for the list - "prehydrate" - that is, start drinking water some time before your ride. Starting out dehydrated is painful and totally unnecessary!
I'm lucky to live in a country where the bike is an accepted means of transportation. Lots of bike lanes, and bike friendly traffic lights (some places). But that's countered with a lot of rain and wind.
When you start biking, don't overestimate yourself. When your condition improves, speed increases accordingly. And listen to your body (if your heart appears to be jumping out of your ribcage, you probably went too fast).
Be prepared for bad weather. If necessary invest in a good rainsuit because you will get wet. And not all offices have showers. Besides, driving while wet has risks of cooling down, which is often underestimated.
As a positive note, biking is fun. It improves your health. You see a lot more of the surroundings. And you can play little games/challenges with yourself.
Leave Your Car At Work -- You Don't have to Commute Both Ways Each Day
If you drive in with your bike, then commute home leaving your car at work you can get away with only commuting one way per day. You also have your car at work if an emergency comes up, or in case of extreme inclement weather. It's amazing how many people don't think that this is an option, and it makes a lot of sense for people with small children and people just getting started commuting by bicycle.
Use a Route Planning Website
I use Cycle Streets in the UK, it provides you with a fastest, balanced and quietest route from A to B. I assume there are similar sites for the US as well.
There are also various applications you can download for your smartphone that will give you a route from where ever you are to where ever you need to go, useful if you take a wrong turn or need to go somewhere new.
Buy clip in shoes/pedals if you are going to ride in the rain
Clip in shoes/pedals made riding in the rain much better. Prior to that, it was difficult due to my feet slipping from the pedals. They are easy enough to unclip from if you ever need to in a hurry.
I've read through all the answers here, but if I could go back in time and tell myself one thing, it would be: "Be prepared for everything." I now pack my road bike with enough of everything to last me if I had to camp out for the night (water, protein bars) plus my rain gear, a tarp, and all of the equipment I need to do minor repairs.
Part of this also includes what I saw in a prior answer: "Know your route". I moved to a new office building earlier this year and it totally changed my route, so I walked it first (took me 3 hours) before I rode it. That helped me get a sense of the traffic and things to avoid.
Biking in the dark isn't as scary as biking at dawn/dusk
When I first started bike commuting and the sun got low in the sky in the evenings, I'd leave work and try to get home before the sun went down. I didn't realize then that that was the absolute worst time to bike because the low sun meant that it was in driver's eyes, making bikes very difficult to see, even with lights and bright clothes, I just wanted to get home before it got dark.
Now when the sun starts getting low, I wait until it sets before leaving work rather than try to beat the sun home. Once the sun sets, then my lights and reflectors are much more visible to cars. And with a decent headlight (which is much cheaper now than it used to be), seeing the road is not a problem at all.
You still have to worry about nighttime visibility and watch for cars without headlights.... unlit cars are exceptionally hard to see against a background of headlights (and early in the night biking season, car drivers aren't used to turning on their headlights when leaving work so might drive quite some time before they notice) Bikes too are more difficult to see against a background of headlights/taillights, but even so, I'll still take biking in the dark over biking at sunrise/sunset when drivers are struggling to see against the sun. I've biked behind some cars at sunset where I couldn't see through their windshield myself due to dirt and/or scratches, so I really don't think they could see well enough to drive.
Make sure you have adequate lights and reflectors. At a minimum, front and rear lights and reflectors, reflective spokes or tires, and reflective pedals or ankle bands (the motion lets cars know that you're a bike). I have a helmet headlight/taillight since I feel that the higher position makes it easier for cars to see me, especially if I'm stopped in traffic.


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1956 Ford F-100 - Sante's Little HelperWritten by on February 1, 2008 Contributors: D. Brian Smith The Knoxville Hustle
As a young kid growing up in Toronto, Ontario, Richard Mio used to walk by a rusty old pickup on his way home from school everyday. "When I was old enough to drive, I approached the owner to see if he would sell it to me, and he told me 'no'- that he was going to get around to fixing it up someday." Realizing that the rusted-out old truck would probably grow new sheetmetal and tires before the old coot got would ever get around to fixing the truck, Richard moved on. It was on his second attempt that Richard wandered into a tool rental yard and struck gold. The guy who owned the yard had taken in a '56 Ford small-window as payment for a delinquent tool rental bill, and all he wanted out of it was enough to square the total. It wasn't right away that Richard was able to buy the '56. In his words, he had to badger his dad a lot before the old man would consent to letting him drag the truck home. Once Richard finally got the '56 into his possession, he was able to get to work on making it driveable. He tuned up the 396-inch Chevy engine and Muncie 4-speed that came with it, and then shifted his attention to the cosmetics. The interior got a complete detailing, and he repainted the exterior gloss white. "I cleaned it up and painted it white, and then had fun in it until the kids were born. The truck sat for about 15 years, but I always had the intention of restoring it completely and putting a Ford engine back into it."
The turning point for Richard and his '56 came when it dawned on him that the F-100 Supernationals, held in Knoxville, Tennessee, for 2006 were going to honor the 50th birthday for the Deuce of trucks. That was the good news. The bad news was he had only six months to get his truck ready to go. In between hockey, swimming lessons, and gymnastics classes, the mad rush was on. Richard jockeyed his time in between carting the kids around, to stripping his '56 down to the bare frame and getting down to business. With the frame down to the empty rails, Richard gave Gary Heidt a call and ordered a matchedset of Heidt's front and rear independent suspensions. In between the Heidt's IFS and IRS, Richard boxed the original framerails and then invested many a late night with a body-grinder smoothing the welds and getting the frame ready for paint. The PPG Ford Lemon Yellow paint had barely cured before Richard started tacking the rolling chassis back together and dropping in the Ford engine he had been planning on for so long. His engine of choice was a '73 351-inch Cleveland backed with a '73 C6 Cruisomatic rebuilt and beefed by his cousin Luis. To justify a beefed tranny, Cousin Luis squeezed extra horsepower out of the Cleveland motor by installing an edelbrock Performer intake manifold equipped with a Holley 950 Commander TBI setup. Ford Racing valve covers reside above a pair of Sanderson headers that dump into ceramic-coated Flowmaster mufflers, and stainless-steel pipes. A redcapped Mallory Unilite distributor handles the ignition chores through a set of bright yellow silicone plug wires.
To help the Holley F.I. stand a chance of increasing the fuel-mileage and performance, a set of 3.73:1 gears were specified for the Heidt's rearend that sits directly in front of an 18-gallon stainless-steel tank that Richard custom fabricated. With the gas tank in place, it was time for Cousin Luis to hard line the plumbing in stainless. While we're on the subject of plumbing, it would probably be a good time to mention the truck's custom aluminum radiator, complete with internal tranny-cooler by Bill Kidd Radiators.
Originally Richard's '56 came from the factory with a small-window cab that had seen its share of Ontario winters. After searching for a replacement, Richard came across a big-window cab in New Jersey, complete with doors and a whole lot less rust for $800. The next score was a pretty good price on a big-window rear glass from Blue Oval Truck Parts. Fairly handy with metal fabrication and custom bodywork, Richard tore into the New Jersey transplant cab and didn't stop until the drip rails and doors were shaved and the door corners were rounded. From the cab, Richard worked rearwards-widening the rear fenders 3 inches at the leading edge, and 5 inches at the rear. Next up was a full Swiss Army knife conversion, with a dump bed and a tilt front end. With all of the customizing handled at home, the '56 was then shipped to Armando Cianfarani at Zenith Auto Body to get covered in Ford LemonYellow PPG paint.
With only six months to build his truck in, Richard stated that he was really fortunate to have the help of his family and friends, who oftentimes stayed late into the night until a task was accomplished. A retired carpenter by trade, Richard's father, Sante Mio, constructed the oak floor in the '56 from scratch, with Richard pitching in for the varnishing chores. It was Richard's brother-in-law, Dave Poldrugovac, who performed a lot of the work on the interior. Dave's wife, Lisa (that'd be Richard's sister), picked out the colors. Then Dave and Richard went to town installing a Dakota Digital dash, a Billet Specialties steering wheel, and ice-cold air-conditioning from Vintage Air.
With barely a week left before the '06 Supernationals took place, the '56 was on its way to Knoxville. Richard told us that the experience really brought his family together, but they probably were real glad when he left town for Tennessee.


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Budget Throttle Body Injection System- TBI DIYWritten by on June 1, 2009 Throttle Body Injection On A Budget
We're going to give you three words that strike fear into the hearts of many hot rodders, even more so than "wiring" or "upholstery." Electronic fuel injection. There, we said it! But the simple fact of the matter is, EFI shouldn't scare anyone. Or at least it shouldn't anymore. Images of tuning using laptop computers and miles of wiring leading to any number of mysterious black boxes can be dispelled nowadays. Of course, you can still have that if you wish, but you can also have "fit and forget" EFI too.
To prove our point, we followed along at Kiwi Steve's Hot Rod Shop as the guys were installing throttle body injection (TBI) on Jules Engoren's '34 phaeton. Jules has owned the tub forever; in fact it was his first real car, and he drives it everywhere. A few years back he installed a crate ZZ4 engine, but noticed a lack of power at high altitudes, such as in Colorado, and not-so-great fuel economy at speeds above 70 mph. Yes, this is one well-traveled and hard-driven hot rod, and Jules wanted it to remain that way. Discussions with Kiwi Steve led to the decision to replace the Edelbrock carburetor with fuel injection, but on a budget. Which is why the throttle body itself and the distributor are OEM GM swap meet finds. The throttle body is what you'd find on an '88-95 Suburban or truck with a 350ci engine. The adaptor plate and even the wiring harness, though brand-new, were sourced on everyone's favorite Internet auction site.
That harness was produced by Howell Engine Developments, which is also where the ECM was sourced from. In fact all the components used here are available from Howell, and indeed they can supply a Universal V-8 Throttle Body kit, but where OEM parts from a parts house or good used parts could be used for this particular job, they were. The ECM is the computer that mounts inside the car. Howell uses GM ECMs, which are commonly found in pickups and vans from 1987-95. They are tested and carry a guarantee, and the Howell Throttle Body Injection wiring harness is designed to work with these ECMs. Howell also offers custom-calibrated, application-specific PROMs, the "chip," if you will, that sets the parameters for engine and transmission (if electronically controlled) calibration. It would be easy to get lost in the differences between ECMs and PCMs and PROMs and MEM-CALS here, so we'll simply say do some research for your application, such as year of engine and transmission, or leave it to the experts such as the guys at Howell, who will be able to hook you up. Meanwhile, we'll concentrate on the application in our guinea pig phaeton.
Before we start, we should mention that it's a good idea to trial-fit everything before modifying anything, check for clearance for the new fuel supply and return lines (yes, you'll need to add a return line for injected motors) against the intake manifold, adaptor, or distributor, and check for clearance between the hood or radiator braces and the throttle body. We should also mention that one thing we haven't shown here is the speed sensor, an electronic pulse generator that mounts in the speedometer drive to tell the ECM when the car is at rest or at what speed it's traveling.
We couldn't run an article on easy-to-install throttle body fuel injection without mentioning this new system from FAST. The EZ-EFI system is a self-tuning injection system that can support up to 550hp and is supplied complete with the ECU, oxygen sensor, wiring harness, and optional fuel pump.
The business end of the package is the 4150 throttle body which can be bolted to any existing 4150-type inlet manifold and includes appropriate injectors and fuel rails. The original throttle linkage can be used and it accepts all OEM sensors. FAST claims the system can be installed in less than a day and doesn't require any EFI experience or expertise. Once the hardware is installed, a few Setup Wizard questions have to be answered on the included handheld display and the system tunes itself while the car is driven.
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The crate ZZ4 features a large cap distributor, mechanical fuel pump, and Edelbrock carburetor. The ZZ4 is an ideal engine to convert to GM fuel injection, as the intake manifold is the old Quadrajet mounting pattern, the same as the throttle body adapter.Apart from the throttle body, TBI adaptor, and the distributor, everything here--ECM, fuel pump, fuel filter, PROM, oxygen sensor, knock sensor, MAP (manifold absolute pressure) sensor, and ESC (electronic spark control) module--is available from Howell, as well as the service manual, either individually or as a universal V-8 TBI kit, complete with throttle body. The distributor is a small cap late-'80s GM HEI, required as it's computerized and the existing one wasn't.The wiring harness is also from Howell and is perfect for transplanting TBI or TBI-equipped engines into precomputer-controlled vehicles. A new harness is paramount on installations such as this, as incorrect wiring will ruin the system, and of course it eliminates any mistakes that can occur when splicing into an existing harness.The ECM is a GM part that Howell tests and offers with a guarantee. That's the correct PROM for our application about to be installed in the ECM.The throttle body used on the phaeton is on the left, with a pair of new -6AN to metric GM fittings from Pure Choice Motorsports installed in the fuel inlet and return ports. Antiseize was used on the threads before installation. The throttle body on the right is from a big-block with larger butterflies and was used in a Mercruiser application.The original plan was to use this GM 454 truck manifold adaptor between the throttle body and the manifold, as it has vacuum ports and a water jacket that enables the manifold to be heated for driving in colder climates (the ZZ4 doesn't have an exhaust crossover to heat the inlet).Time and budget limitations meant keeping the stock throttle cable bracket, which didn't align with the throttle body when mounted to the 454 adaptor, so this simple aluminum plate adaptor was sourced on the Internet and used instead. Of course, this would be simple to fabricate yourself.Between the water temperature gauge sender and the thermostat housing on the ZZ4 intake manifold, there's a boss that accepts a new GM water temperature sender for the ECM.As the ZZ4 is a stock engine, a stock GM knock sensor could be used, though be aware these are engine-specific. The sensor controls timing by sensing any pre-ignition conditions. Instead of fitting it into the drain plug hole in the block where it can easily be added, this hole on the left rear of the block was retapped, as the headers blocked usage of the drain plug hole.
The only welding involved in this project was to add a threaded bung in the right exhaust to accept an oxygen sensor. This is a single wire sensor, though three wire heated versions are available for mounting further back in the exhaust system. The tight-tuck shorty headers on the phaeton meant the sensor could be mounted near the exhaust ports where the gases are hotter.The harness was test-fitted early in the installation, as the length of the wires dictates where components such as the MAP sensor and coil will be mounted as they're not on stock brackets. A hole was drilled in the lower right side of the firewall for the harness to pass through and hook up to the ECM mounted under the dash.The coil is a stock GM item for a small HEI distributor application. It would normally mount on the intake manifold, but not having the stock bracketry, a simple bracket was fabricated to mount it to the firewall.This ring spacer performs two functions. It acts like a velocity stack and smooths airflow into the throttle body, and is necessary in order to fit a "normal" air cleaner. These spacers are found on OEM applications.In order to bolt on that air cleaner, a piece of all-thread was bent and centralized on the throttle body. With it installed, the motor will still look like a regular carbureted engine at first glance.This ring spacer performs two functions. It acts like a velocity stack and smooths airflow into the throttle body, and is necessary in order to fit a "normal" air cleaner. These spacers are found on OEM applications.There are two things to note here. Firstly, the MAP sensor is mounted on the throttle body using a ring bracket from a Mercruiser marine application. The sensor measures manifold vacuum and senses barometric and altitude changes, allowing the ECM to supply the required correct fuel and spark settings. Secondly, this shows the braided fuel lines that were custom-made at NAPA with AN fittings to match the Pure Choice adaptors, along with elbows at the end for distributor clearance.
The fuel filter was mounted in the fuel supply line on the inner chassis 'rail. Note the new return line below it.A high-pressure fuel pump is required for a TBI fuel system, delivering 18-20 psi. Stock vehicles have a pump inside the fuel tank, but Howell offers this inline electric pump, mounted here just forward of the tank, adequate for systems up to 350hp.The finished installation, which apart from some extra wiring and new braided fuel lines, looks very much like it did when we started! Running fuel injection doesn't mean you have to have a large aluminum or plastic "box" atop your motor. Though Jules has yet to make any high-altitude trips, he reports increased throttle response around town with the TBI.


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Brain & Nervous System Health Center
Nicotine Patch May Improve Memory in Pre-Dementia Patients
Jan. 9, 2012 -- People with mild memory loss, often an early warning sign of future dementia, may get help from an unexpected source: nicotine patches.
A new study published in the journal Neurology shows that wearing a nicotine patch improved the brain performance of such adults.
The study, which the authors acknowledge was a small one, involved 45 men and 29 women. The average age of the group was 76, and just over half were former smokers. Each of them showed signs of early memory loss, but their symptoms were not severe enough to qualify for a diagnosis of dementia.
Dementia is an umbrella term for certain brain disorders involving problems with memory and thinking, including Alzheimer's disease.
The participants were divided into two groups. For six months, one group wore 15-milligram nicotine patches, while the other was given a placebo. Each patient took memory and brain function tests at three separate times: one at the beginning of the study, another halfway through, and a final test at the study's conclusion.
By the end of the study, the patients who had worn the nicotine patches were better able to pay attention, and they also demonstrated better long-term memory than patients who didn't use the nicotine patches.
"The patients improved enough that they noticed the difference," says researcher Paul Newhouse, MD, a professor of psychiatry at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tenn. "Their doctors noticed the improvements, too, but not as much as their patients."
Nicotine, the addictive ingredient in cigarettes, appears to provide increasing benefits the longer it is taken. Newhouse says he and his team noticed a small effect a week into the study. By the three- and six-month marks, that effect had grown substantially.
"It seems that the effect grows over time," says Newhouse. "I was quite pleased with that finding."
Unanswered Questions
Neuroscientist Joshua Grill, PhD, says the study shows good results, but larger and longer studies will be needed to determine whether nicotine will improve more than just memory. Grill, who reviewed the study for WebMD, points out that the study showed no improvement in more extensive functioning -- the ability to perform everyday activities. He is also concerned about safety.


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Which will go further if a batter manages to hit it with a baseball bat: a baseball thrown to the batter at 90 miles per hour or one thrown at 60 miles per hour?
The faster ball will recoil faster, because the collision is partially elastic. The ball compresses at contact with the bat, and the outgoing velocity is faster than the bat velocity by the effect of the compression, which is always increasing with the incoming speed. So all else being equal, the faster ball recoils faster.
There are no confounding factors. There are no extra variables. This is just the answer.
This all depends on the ball, the air pressure, the batter, his bat, and a whole bunch of other variables, including some that can't be controlled. Otherwise, there is no real way to scientifically determine which pitch speed will cause the hit to go farther/faster.


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Dodge Challenger Concept Car - '08 Hemi Super StockWritten by on June 12, 2007 Contributors: Wes Allison, Rob Kinnan Mopar Performance Builds An '08 Super Stock Hemi Challenger And Then Lets Hot Rod Beat On It.
This is special. When this project was conceived, there was only one running '08 Dodge Challenger prototype in the whole world. And as you can guess, it has been pretty busy doing the car-show scene and hauling journalists around. Mopar Performance Parts wanted a Challenger, too. A smash hit when it was introduced on the floor of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit last winter, the Challenger was the perfect vehicle to showcase Mopar's new 392 Hemi crate engines and to fly the flag for Chrysler performance at the SEMA show in Las Vegas. The Mopar people just couldn't wait until 2008 like the rest of us will have to, so they built another new Challenger, from scratch, and Hot Rod was there to look in on the construction.
Chrysler's SkunkWerks team, a loose-knit group made up of employees from various departments and led by Vice President of Design Ralph Gilles, began by working up special paint and style treatments for the project. "There is so much creativity in this team," Gilles said. "A lot of these guys are hot rodders by nature. They bring, in some cases, 30 years of hot-rod experience to the project." One early rendering, a Pro Streeter done up in bright silver and flat black, soon evolved into an all-out tribute to Chrysler's early Super Stock and Pro Stock racers. Slicks, wheelie bars, and a big fat hoodscoop testified that the Challenger meant business, while red, white, and blue panel graphics evoked the famous Dick Landy, Ramchargers, and Color Me Gone Mopar Hemis of the '60s. The Dodge Challenger Super Stock Concept had taken form, and it was a form every hot rodder could recognize. Suddenly, it's 1970 going on 2008.
Using digital code generated by the Chrysler design studios, Metalcrafters of Fountain Valley, California, constructed a duplicate prototype Challenger body in fiberglass and CFRP (carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic). But in this stage, it was a bare shell, an exoskeleton, rather like a Funny Car body or a plastic kit model. To turn the shell into a real car, the crew at Vehicle Build Shop Services and the Experimental Metal Shop at the Chrysler Technical Center in Auburn Hills, Michigan, went to work.
They kicked off the job by pulling a brand-new, perfectly good Inferno Red Dodge Magnum 6.1L SRT8 out of inventory and then-oh, the horror-hacking it to pieces for its cowl and floorpan. The method seems wasteful, but actually it was far cheaper and quicker than tracking down all the hundreds of required components individually in the DCX global parts system. With 4 inches sectioned from the rear passenger floor to shorten the wheelbase from 120 inches to 116, the former Magnum wagon's unibody became the platform for the new Challenger.
The doors, hood, decklid surround rings, and interior panels all had to be hand-fabricated in 19-gauge steel and then bonded to the outer shell to make the Challenger look and function like a real production car. The prototype shop crew, all of them proud UAW skilled tradesmen, also made all the necessary tooling and then constructed the grille, dash, and interior panels, along with the molded front and rear lamp assemblies and "glass" (it's actually Lexan). To round out the neo-retro-futuristic approach to custom-car construction, computer-aided design (CAD) was used to create a six-point, 1.5-inch mild steel rollcage and to devise mounting boxes in the late-model floorpan to replace the IRS with a pair of good ol' Mopar Super Stock leaf springs and a Dana 60 rear axle. Now that's New Old School.
After body finishing and the aforementioned red, white, and blue paint, the roller was sent to Mike Pustelny Race Cars in Almont, Michigan, up in the tall sticks north of Detroit. There, the veteran Super Stock racer and chassis builder performed all the plumbing, wiring, and assembly. Mark Williams axles and Mopar 4.88s and a Sure Grip went into the Dana 60, while the stock Magnum front struts were converted to adjustable coilovers using hardware from QA1. Pustelny also installed Mark Williams disc brakes all around and American Racing Pro Series wheels with bead-lock rims on the rear. The bucket seats are Dodge cop-car units with custom-embroidered covers by Katzkin. Summit Racing Equipment, which carries the full Mopar Performance Parts line in its catalog, expedited the build process with regular shipments of big boxes of stuff, including a full complement of Mopar gauges and Simpson safety equipment.
Of course, the centerpiece of the Challenger Super Stock Concept-what the entire project is all about, really-is Mopar's new 392 Hemi crate engine. With a 4.055-inch bore and 3.795-inch stroke, the 392 begins as a stroker version of the 6.1L V-8 used in the SRT8. The heads are CNC-ported aluminum dual-plug castings, while the cam is a hydraulic roller with advertised duration of 279/285 degrees and 0.584/ 0.552-inch lift. With sequential fuel injection, this 392 (PN P5253605) is rated at 525 hp and 510 lb-ft of torque. There are two other versions offered: a single-carb 540hp model (P5153604) and a long-block-only (P5153603). For this car, the 392 was mated to a 904 TorqueFlite with an electronic valvebody, dialed in by legendary Hemi racer and retired Chrysler engineer, Ron Mancini.
There is a second, more serious purpose behind the Mopar Challenger. The car was also built as a testbed to validate various drivetrain combinations and to serve as proof of concept for a purpose-built, limited-production factory Super Stock racer in the mold of the '68 Dodge Dart and Plymouth Barracuda Hemi lightweight cars. The car and concept have been shopped around to several drag-racing sanctioning bodies, and while it's too early for any announcements just yet, "I can tell you the interest is definitely there," said Jon Clark of Mopar Performance Parts. "With all the equity and heritage of the 1968 Hemi cars, we would be fools not to stand on their shoulders with this car." If the plan flies, you could see a limited run of factory-homologated Super Stock Challengers with Hemi crate engines coming soon to a dragstrip near you.
The Challenger made a big splash in Vegas in its public debut at SEMA. Right after the show, it was trailered (show car, no VIN, can't be street-driven, fuhgetaboutit) out to the edge of town where editors Kinnan and Freiburger gave it a thorough thrashing . . . er, testing. The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway was booked up, so they couldn't obtain any quarter-mile results, but they were able to drive the Challenger around, run it up through the gears a few times, and do several big, smoky burnouts. And then Freiburger broke the nearly priceless, handbuilt, factory concept car. Kinnan said it was probably nothing serious
Some of you may be too young or too bong-addled to recall the drag cars of the early '70s that inspired the stance and graphic element on the new '08 Mopar Super Stocker. The red, white, and blue treatment immediately recalls the string of Sox & Martin cars of the day, but all of those were Plymouths. The flag-waving treatment on Dodges was found on Rod Shop cars and on Dick Landy's and Larry Huff's '72 Pro Stockers, but the general retro vibe is exhibited on all these '70-'72 Challengers that we dug up in the HOT ROD archives. -David Freiburger HRM
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What the Challenger Super Stock Concept is all about: showcasing Mopar's new 392ci Hemi crate engine. The SFI model pumps out 525 hp; single four-barrel and long-block versions are also offered.It takes a lot of work to transform a bare body shell into a fully finished car. Dozens of complex one-off details, such as the taillamp assembly and rear spoiler, were tooled and fabricated by the wizards at the Chrysler Tech Center. When have you ever seen wheelie bars on a factory concept car?This concept came in the early days of the Challenger's design evolution. It features front and rear spoilers, big Foose wheels, and a silver and satin-black paint scheme with a period musclecar flavor. Then they decided just to hang it all and build a drag car.
That red paint betrays the floorpan's origins-a brand-new Dodge Magnum SRT8 gave up its life so the Challenger concept car could live. The inner doors are fiberglass, while all the structure tying together the outer body shell and Magnum platform was fabricated in steel.The rear axle is a Dana 60 with a Mopar Sure Grip unit, 4.88 screws, and Mark Williams axles and disc brakes, controlled by Mopar Super Stock leaf springs and a pinion snubber.


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Diagnosed 2/28/2012, by HBA1C...... 7.3 , also on Lovaza, twice a day, high trigs.. prescribed metformin 500mg x 2 day
PCP didn't give me any diabetes education....so i made an appt with endocrine doctor, who gave me testing kit
BEFORE BREAKFAST READINGS...first time got Freedom Lite...3/23/2012
90...an hour with diabetes dietician, and diabetes nurse, diabetes education class it was called
she said to stagger testing times, in case meds need adjusting.....return to nurse and dietician 5/11, and diabetes doctor on 4/25
Before Dinner
120 4/7/2012
Before Bed, 117
4/8/2012, before dinner 115
116, 4/9/2012..before dinner
85, 4/10/2012, before breakfast
110 4/10/2012, before dinner
73 4/11/2012, before breakfast
234 4/12/2012, before bed, had Remicade Infusion for psoriatric arthritis, with depo-medrol pre-med IV (steroids)......geez!
111 4/13/2012, before breakfast
88 4/13/2012, before dinner
101 4/14/2012, before dinner
86 4/15/2012, before breakfast-----------------------no prednisone( steroid today).....will try tapering off this
89 before lunch
DO YOU THINK THIS 89 BEFORE LUNCH IS A LITTLE LOW?...i DID FEEL A BIT DIZZY, GROCERY SHOPPING. CAME HOME AND HAD AN ORANGE RIGHT AWAY, AND SOME SOUP
Watching my CARBS, dietician wants it 45 to 60 mg a meal, and optional 15-20 carbs bedtime snack
next HBA1C test is Mid-May
I know got to get off the oral prednisone!...that will spike sugar
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I think 89 is a nice number. Since you are newly diagnosed your body might be used to running higher, so an 89 can feel low to you. Did the doctor give you a blood sugar range he/she wanted you at?
Thanks for the reply!...your reply reassures me!
I got this check-book looking thing...and i think it was the dietician that wrote in..before meals 80 to 130
1 to 2 hours after meals, lower than 180
Friday night, i got concerned, and my diabetes doc was on call. It was nice she called me back, and she said i had good numbers. Just a little concerned, it wasn't hypoglycemic from Metformin.
is humid today, waiting on heavy rain tonight....and i hate humidity
Take care!
mrshumptydumpty wrote:
Thanks for the reply!...your reply reassures me!
I got this check-book looking thing...and i think it was the dietician that wrote in..before meals 80 to 130
1 to 2 hours after meals, lower than 180
Friday night, i got concerned, and my diabetes doc was on call. It was nice she called me back, and she said i had good numbers. Just a little concerned, it wasn't hypoglycemic from Metformin.
is humid today, waiting on heavy rain tonight....and i hate humidity
Take care!
Metformin doesn't usually cause lows, so there are now worries there. Any number less than 70 is usually considered low.
Why are you only testing before meals? How can you see how the food you're eating affects your numbers if you don't test after meals as well?
Most of us use a different testing method here. It gives you a lot more information. Here's a link to tell you about it, click on the title:
mrshumptydumpty wrote:
Thanks for the reply!...your reply reassures me!
I got this check-book looking thing...and i think it was the dietician that wrote in..before meals 80 to 130
1 to 2 hours after meals, lower than 180
Friday night, i got concerned, and my diabetes doc was on call. It was nice she called me back, and she said i had good numbers. Just a little concerned, it wasn't hypoglycemic from Metformin.
is humid today, waiting on heavy rain tonight....and i hate humidity
Take care!
Welcome mrshumptydumpty, diabetes can be very overwhelming when diagnosed, as you work to understand the process of what you need to do, it will get easier.
Metformin is not going to give you a low. It is designed to help with the "Dawn Phenomenon", a rise in the BG in the early morning hours. Research on the internet will provide more details.
I am a big believer in testing. Especially when I was diagnosed last year, I tested upon waking, before each meal, then at 1 and 2 hours after each meal and finally at bedtime. As you can see that is a lot of testing. You have to find out what and how much you can eat and the only way to do that is by testing to see how your body reacts to various foods.
I am also a big believer in exercise, I do about 1 hour per day and try to split into three sessions, 15-30 minutes after each meal. It works wonders by keeping your BG numbers lower than they would be otherwise. Again, testing will help you realize how much the exercise will reduce your BG.
BTW, steroids, as you are seeing, will increase you BG. Don't stop taking the meds unless your Dr. said it's ok.
If I were you I would aim to have a max of 140 at any given time. It is going to take a while to figure it out and get the food and exercise balanced to reach your goal. Also, just FYI, most diabetics could not eat that many carbs per meal and have tight control on their BG. You have to find out what yours are, since everyone is different.
Give us a sample day of what you eat, including snacks, and how your numbers are according to the food. We should be able to make some food suggestions based on that.
Ask any questions you have. Tomorrow more people will respond. Sometimes the weekends are quiet.
Tks for the replies on Metformin,
I started a few days log of my meals, and i can continue and do it daily. The dietician gave me 6 sheets of info, about food.
Breakfast is always the same now. One slice of Oatmeal bread toast, 20 carbs, and i am supposed to subract the fiber....3 gr fiber, so thats 17 carbs
it says 1/2 banana is 15 carbs, and i eat a whole one, and coffee with Cremora, and no sugar.
lunch was kinda late, 3pm, and i had an orange ( 30carbs)? sheet says 15 carbs for 6 1/2 oz small one
and a soup, more or less home made, with lots of veggies
1/2 Luna bar...so maybe thats 15carbs, and 3 small keebler cookies
gave up drinking soft drinks about 6 months ago, and have to cut back on the honey i was using in tea
so am using very little, and stevia, lemon....so no calories except for the little honey
dinner, ...2 cubes of cheddar ( carb-free) but high fat on the food info shets
1/2 avocado..sheet has a smiley face, and shows 5 carbs
plum tomato free carb, and 10 natural lindsay olives...sodium is 115 for 5, counting this as a free carb, as 10 olives are 2 carbs
Brown Cow Greek Yogurt, from Sams Club......18 carbs, no fiber
nature valley granola thin, ( dark chocolate) 11 carbs, negligble fiber
1/2 of a fig newton from sams club individual pkge...22grams, minus 1 fiber
so u can see i got a sweet tooth, and look at those carbs in one fig newton!.....
and had 1 line of a hersheys special dark, 4.25oz bar...trying to calculate that one...but i am thinking about 5 carbs for a line?..and who knew it has a little fiber
also, got to limit my Werthers hard candy caramels, sugar free, or whatever, basically same carbs, sugar free or not
will def start testing after meals!, and keep a food log
another low carb meal for me, would be 1 slice of oatmeal, or high fiber bread, i can't believe it's not marjorine has no carbs
swiss cheese slice has no carb, but has fat!...but putting in sandwich
olives again, and few slices red pepper...and will try to have more free carbs, like a tomato
i think about 25 Cheeze-it crackers had 17 carbs
Yes it is overwhelming, being newly diagnosed.
I have to find that show on TV, sit and be fit.....but i do get my exercise going up the stairs, 3 level old house
and housework. I do have knee replacements, and fused ankles, if i ever find a good bike seat for my back problems, i would use the exercise bike.
thanks for all your help, i really feel better about metformin now
04-16-2012 02:36 AM - edited 04-16-2012 02:39 PM
Hi, mrs h-d,
I just wanted to echo What Lizzy mentioned about testing after meals--you may be in for a bit of a surprise--probably mostly with the breakfast you detailed. The toast by itself, or perhaps with some cheese might be enough carbs, but then you add in the banana, at maybe 30 grams and that is a lot of carbs for breakfast, which is the time of day when most of us have the most trouble keeping numbers down after eating carbs. Your meter will give you some instant feedback as to whether what most of us find actually applies in your case.
Some of the other items you list might also cause your blood sugar to soar, but the timing might make a big difference. It sounds like you listed dinner, which didn't look too bad, and then a bunch of snacks, which were either your snacks for the day, or maybe after dinner snacks. All at once, that would be a lot of carbs; spread out perhaps not enough to really shoot up your glucose levels.
Oh and those fig newtons are not 22 grams per fig newton but for 2--always remember to check the serving size on the package!
I think you will be very shocked when you see the after-meal numbers. That is way too many carbs fo me to handle without having sky high numbers.
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Thanks Lizzy and others
I had to go a little bit higher on the prednisone this morning..barometric pressure change
but like u all said
with toast and breakfast banana...
before breakfast had a 99
167 after breakfast, 1 hour
and a 110, 2 hours after dinner, which was 7 veggies!
will let u know how it goes after tomorrow breakfast, after having an egg
not too thrilled about eating less banana....always thought good for u
but i wills ave 1/2 for a snack later
If you really feel you want some banana, eat 1/2 as a dessert after a meal (not breakfast) and then do some exercise. The protein and fats from the meal should help with the high carbs from the banana. That should enable you to enjoy some banana every so often. That way you won't feel too deprived about a favorite food. I can't have more than 10g of carbs for breakfast, tops. I usually have about 5g-8g. Breakfast time is the lowest carb time for most diabetics.
Unfortunately this disease has us making some hard choices, especially in the beginning. Keep in mind that once you figure YOUR diabetes out (YMMV), things will get easier and you will be able to make food decisions that work for you. For instance, sometimes I negotiate with myself if I REALLY, REALLY want to have some high carb food. Then, as I have learned, my other ingredients have to be low carb to make up for the high carb item. You can still enjoy almost anything as long as you put limits on the quantity and frequency. The most important part, for me, is my BG. I look at the long term picture of potentially losing digits and limbs, going blind, havening neuropathy pains, kidney and heart problems, and the list goes on and on. I feel that makes the decision making easier for me.
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And is there any basis for believing that massage relieves that tension?
Tension is not a quantifiable thing, rather an abstract concept to describe feelings of stress in muscles. I think I see what you are getting at but I would separate it into two questions.
"Is massage provably beneficial to muscles under physically induced stress?"
Emphatically yes, however there are so many different types of massage, some are more medically viable than others. Most massage stimulates muscles to encourage a release of tightening, much like exercise does, though I would assume that there's also a psychosomatic that plays a significant role as well due to human contact.
The other question, more the point "Are massage therapist's claims about relief true?"
Some are and some aren't. Unless it's by a medical professional (prescribed physical therapy for instance) they can claim whatever they like. "Reiki contributes to your body balance and wellness by attuning your energy" This can not be proven, but not really disproven either, so they can claim it all they want though it's purely anecdotal (if not outright fabrication on the part of less ethical individuals.)
In summary: Massage has tangible benefits, but if the claims of the therapist sound too good to be true, they probably are.


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Issue Date:
October, 2010
The October issue of Budget & Tax News leads with news that Indianapolis taxpayers are being forced to bail out the city's NBA Pacers. The city's Capital Improvement Board voted in July to provide $30 million over three years to the team.
Also in this issue:
- On New Year's Day 2011, virtually every American will be facing the possibility of higher taxes. So much for President Barack Obama's pledge that middle-income earners would experience no tax increases.
- Michigan's attorney general has filed an "attempted false pretense" fraud charge against a principal in the Grand Rapids-area Hangar42 movie studio. The project had been in line to receive a $10 million tax credit from the state's film subsidy program.
- Claims that the oil and gas industry receives especially expensive tax incentives from the federal government are a myth.
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Eastern Gateway Community College students in the Leadership and Teambuilding classes on the Jefferson County Campus participated in service learning projects this fall to support the community and the college.
Three projects earmarked donations for separate projects while a fourth activity involved connecting with a group of grade school children.
Cisco Gonzales, Ginny Carulli, Jesse Cologie and Melody Lyons conducted weekly bake sales in November and raised money to purchase a new microwave oven for the student lounge.
Brian McGlone, Brett Windon, Darlene Lewis, Rosie Lucas and Jordan Porreca collected pet food donations for the Jefferson County Animal Shelter and spent time working at the shelter. They worked with Jefferson County Humane officer Cassie Howell, an Eastern Gateway graduate.
R.J. Barnett, Nick DiBattista, Frank Francis, Clinton Grafton, Brittany Minor, Anthony Petrella, Jessica Snyder, Vikki Law, Michael Moore and Robert Hall decorated the main hall on the Jefferson County Campus for the holiday season. They also offered coffee and doughnuts for a donation and gave the proceeds to Eastern Gateway's book fund.
Maria Wanchic, Sean Lyons, Jacob Hilton and Sarah Mapel spent an afternoon at the Jefferson County Christian School sharing with fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders the benefits of community service.
"Each of these projects was done in Jefferson County and, in my opinion, showcase the great young people we have here at Eastern Gateway," said professor Ken Knox. "These were great teambuilding projects and helped the students learn leadership skills while giving back to their community and college."


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I've downloaded a game from iTunes to my PC and want to install it in my iPod Touch. I've synced it so many times, but can't install the app. Can you tell me how to do it?
First check all of the following values (see yellow arrows) in the "apps" tab in iTunes. Does the icon show up in the simulated screen on the right side ?
Then, right-click on the your iPod in the devices section of the left column in iTunes and choose "reset warnings."
Then sync again (by clicking on the "Apply" button at the bottom right of iTunes) and see if iTunes shows you any error messages.
In iTunes, click on Store, then authorize this computer (i.e., sign in with your username and password). After that, check the application you want to sync to your iPod touch.
On the bar on the left of the iTunes window, click your iPod. Then, go to the "apps" category along the top of the window. Then, make sure one of the following is true:
If this doesn't work, if you have a wi-fi connection (or can get to one), you can go on the app store on your iPod and download it again (if you paid for it on your computer, it will be free on your iPod)


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The 15 Most Baffling Boasts in the History of Rap
The boast is the very backbone of rap. When used correctly, it can turn a run of the mill recollection of words that rhyme into an epic saga of hilarity and badassedness.
#15. Lil' Wayne - "Bring it Back"
The Lyric:
"I'm the Cash Money Makaveli, y'all ain't ready, break fast like Tom Petty, y'all just petty."
Why We're Baffled:
Fast like who what now? There are three famous Pettys who were all NASCAR drivers. None of them were Tom. Is he seriously talking about this guy?
Is there a single goddamned thing that is fast about Tom Petty? His music isn't exceptionally fast, he speaks in a manner similar to Forrest Gump and, if we had to guess, he probably can't run for shit. Does Lil Wayne not have anybody in the studio who can Wikipedia this shit, to make sure he has the right guy?
But maybe Wayne's right, maybe we're just being petty.
#14. Lil' Wayne - "Dr. Carter"
The Lyric:
"Fly go hard like geese erection."
Why We're Baffled:
Might as well stick with Lil' Wayne while we're on the subject. And this one flies so much further off the baffling scale it lands somewhere on the moon.
"Fly go hard like geese erection." So... "fly" is a rap term. That gets us through the first word. He's also hard. Like hardcore, like he'll beat your ass. And geese fly. They do, we looked it up.
Research, bitches.
Erections. Geese erections. Are geese... known for that? We would have heard something, wouldn't we? Maybe we're just taking it out of context:
"Swagger tighter than a yeast infection
Fly go hard like geese erection
Fashion patrol police detection
I stay tight like Chinese connection
See? Perfect sense.
#13. Chamillionaire - "You Got Wrecked"
The Lyric:
"I'll lay you out over some beef like some sesame seeds."
Why We're Baffled:
Who is the aggressor here? Is Chamillionaire going to lay somebody out over a disagreement (beef) in a manner that is somehow comparable to the way one might sprinkle sesame seeds over a Chinese take out meal? That doesn't sound very violent at all.
Is this what you want?!
Or are the seeds themselves going to knock somebody right the hell out? Because, seriously, you can read it both ways. And frankly, of the two, enraged sesame seeds engaging in fisticuffs is the far more awesome scenario.
#12. Khia - "Hit Her Up"
The Lyric:
"I got the pussy bitch but I ride my own dick."
Why We're Baffled:
She got what pussy? If she's referring to her own pussy, shouldn't "the" be replaced with "a"?
And if she did, in fact, get the pussy, is that the one she's using to ride her own dick or is she using her own? If so, what is the other pussy doing? Where did she get the dick? Is this a Lady GaGa song? Lyrics like this should include an instructional diagram or flow chart or something.
Of course, that chart would be completely repulsive and unreadable, but still.
#11. Tim Dog - "Fuck Compton"
The Lyric:
"I'm simplistic, imperialistic, idealistic and I'm kicking ballistics."
Why We're Baffled:
Have any of those adjectives ever been used in a positive manner? If a prospective employer were to ask you what your best qualities were, is there any scenario imaginable outside of auditioning for the role of a mentally handicapped person that you would kick things off by saying you're "simplistic"? How about "imperialistic"?
We get that "kicking ballistics" is an awesome phrase, but you just can't rhyme that shit, Tim. Let it go.
The price of not making sense.
#10. Dr. Dre - "Dre Day"
The Lyric:
"Gap tooth in your mouth so my dick's got ta fit."
Why We're Baffled:
Has an attempt at slander ever backfired as horribly as this? Not only does Dre indicate that his dick can fit between the wide gap in his target's teeth, but seems to imply that his dick fits between even normally spaced teeth (where the extra gap gives him confidence that it's got to fit).
Wonder what all that extra muscle is compensating for. Hm...
It's not just that he's implying he has a freakishly small penis, it's that he has to be exaggerating how small his penis is for the purpose of the boast. A penis couldn't function as a penis with a thickness of only a sixteenth of an inch. Even if he had dimensions the other way, like if Dre has a roll of six inch-wide penis tape between his legs, it's just medically impossible.
#9. Ja Rule - "Clap Back"
The Lyric:
"Like Bush and Saddam, I'ma find Em Laden"
Why We're Baffled:
There's really no easy way to tackle this one. Is he saying that, just like George Bush found Saddam Hussein, so too is Ja Rule going to find Eminem? Considering that this song came out a full month or more prior to Saddam being found, that's highly unlikely.
Is he saying at some point "Bush and Saddam" formed one of those WWE olden days "good guy/bad guy" tag teams to fight a common foe? If so, he's implying it worked. The numerous recording sessions Bin Laden has taken part in since then beg to differ.
And lastly, how fucking hard could it be to find Eminem? Just, like, go to where he lives or something. Don't sit around and write nonsensical rhymes about it.
#8. Randy "Macho Man" Savage - "Be a Man"
The Lyric:
"Your movies straight to video the box office can't stand, While I got myself a feature role in Spider-Man."
Why We're Baffled:
Well, just like the rest of you, we're baffled because Macho Man Randy Savage is rapping about Hulk Hogan. So there's that. But damn, of all the slights you can throw in the direction of Hulk Hogan, a man so forward thinking he at one point turned down the opportunity to endorse the George Foreman Grill in favor of endorsing a blender, this is what you come up with? Movies?
You could have done an entire album on this picture.
You played a wrestler in Spider-Man. He played a wrestler in Rocky 3. That's a draw, at best. And to think, had Macho Man been just a little more patient, he could have brought up the fact that Hogan's wife left him for an 18-year-old. There's no coming back from a diss like that. And yes, we have a video of the song. Don't act like you don't want to hear it.


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TOPEKA -- Healthy Families is just one Topeka-area program that Red Stocking Breakfast supports. Child abuse prevention efforts and education campaigns, the availability of mental health services for children and families and the Parent Helpline (1-800-CHILDREN), are all made possible thanks to Red Stocking Breakfast funds.
While many of these programs are federally or state funded, and some receive additional support from United Ways and other grant sources, all rely on the Red Stocking Breakfast funds to fully serve their area.
KCSL prevention and education programs are designed to help keep children safe and families strong, according to Gail Cozadd, North Central Region Director for KCSL. "By helping families early, before problems arise, we increase the likelihood that at-risk children are raised in a safe and supportive home – which numerous studies show decreases the probability for negative childhood outcomes such as truancy and substance abuse."
Red Stocking Breakfast is KCSL's signature fundraising event. This year's event will be held from 7:30 to 10:30am this Saturday morning, December 8th, at Carlos O'Kelly's, 3425 S. Kansas Avenue in Topeka. All proceeds will help support KCSL's Topeka-area Prevention and Education programs. Carlos O'Kelly's and U.S. Foods donate all the food for the breakfast; 100 percent of the funds raised benefit KCSL programs and services.
The event features a breakfast buffet served by local "celebrities" including personalities from 13 News. Come join us, for a chance to win 2 roundtrip airline tickets from Southwest Airlines. Other sponsors include: WIBW Channel 13, 94.5 Country, 580 Radio, Westar Energy, Cox Communications, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Capitol Federal and Kansas Gas Service.
"Attending Red Stocking Breakfast is a way to help support children and families in the Topeka area, while having a great breakfast with family and friends," said Ramona Miller, Development Manager for KCSL. "By attending a breakfast in your area you're helping to ensure the future availability of programs that keep children safe and strengthen families."
Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 at the door (children age 10 and under eat free). Advance tickets are available online at www.kcsl.org.
A Holiday Tradition
The Red Stocking Breakfast is a continuance of a tradition of holiday giving to the Kansas Children's Service League that started more than 80 years ago. In the 1920s, the community was invited to make holiday gifts to children living at KCSL's receiving home, a temporary residence for children awaiting a foster or adoptive home. These children would hang their "Little Red Stockings" in anticipation of the generosity of the community.


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Arrested: Gerald Brown, 30, 3061 Glendwell Road, violation of protection order, Sunday.
Cited: Christopher Z. Hawthorne, 22, Cadiz, improper display of registration; and Kazimierz Bednarek, 63, 601 McDowell Ave., no brake lights and loud exhaust.
Arrested: Daniel Duncan, 34, 715 Carnegie St., operating vehicle while intoxicated, stop sign and defective equipment, Sunday.
Vandalism: Vehicle damaged with concrete block in the 600 block of Brady Avenue, Saturday.
Arrested: Charles Johnson, 48, Columbus, failure to appear warrant out of municipal court and two petit theft charges, Sunday.
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What do I do with my new Sony Dash?
I got my new Sony Dash today. Its all set up connected to my network. I've got Netflix working on it...Now what? What does everyone use their Dash/Chumby for?
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While it's a glorified high-tech alarm clock, well that's it. It's a sweet high-tech alarm clock. Personally if I had one or two, I'd keep it as a glorified alarm clock then maybe a little kitchen player to throw recipies, movies, music, etc while we're cooking.
Granted that's all until singularity happens and then I welcome our new Dash/Chumby robotic overlords.
Probably the wrong site to be asking this on but... why would you buy something you don't know what to do with?
@wingnutzero: I bought it to have a little netflix player and a fancy alarm clock. I was just wondering what else people are doing with theirs.


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There is, of course, a complete classification for simple complex Lie algebras. Is there a good reference which lists the group of outer automorphisms for each?
Proposition D.40 of Fulton and Harris' Representation Theory states Emerton's comment: the group of outer automorphisms of a simple Lie algebra are precisely the group of graph automorphisms of the associated Dynkin diagram. There is also some discussion of this in Section 16.5 of Humphrey's Introduction to Lie Algebras and Representation Theory.
So for $A_n$ and $n>1$, there is an order 2 automorphism which for $sl_{n+1}$ amounts to negative transpose.
Type B and C have no outer automorphisms.
For $D_n$, there is an order two automorphism swapping the two endpoints, and this corresponds to interchanging the two spin representations. On $so_{2n}$ this is obtained (modulo the inner automorphisms) by conjugating by an orthogonal matrix in $O(2n)$ which has determinant $-1$. For $n=4$, there is also an order 3 automorphism. This is triality, and is discussed in Section 20.3 of Fulton and Harris.
For $E_6$, there is an order 2 automorphism, though I don't know enough about the exceptional Lie algebras to say anything useful about it. But you can find a discussion of the automorphism group in Section 7 of Jacobson's Exceptional Lie Algebras where it is described using Jordan algebras.
For the other 4 exceptional Lie algebras there are no outer automorphisms.
I don't have a good reference, but I can work out the beginning of the answer for you. I will work just over $\mathbb C$, and I will call my simple Lie algebra $\mathfrak g$.
First, you must decide what you mean by "outer automorphism". We know what an automorphism is, and an "inner automorphism" should be conjugation by something. Of course, for $x\in \mathfrak g$, the bracket $\text{ad}_x = [x,-] \in \mathfrak{gl}(\mathfrak g)$ is a derivation of $\mathfrak g$, not an automorphism. So I assume you mean the automorphism $\exp(\text{ad}_x) \in {\rm GL}(\mathfrak g)$ as the inner automorphism. Now, the set of matrices of the form $\exp(\text{ad}_x)$ is not a group, but generates a connected group, which I will call $\text{Inn}(\mathfrak g)$. (Remark: any automorphism of $\mathfrak g$ preserves the Killing form, so we really have $\text\{Inn\}(\mathfrak g) \subseteq \text{Aut}(\mathfrak g) \subseteq \{\rm SO\}(\mathfrak g)$.) Of course, $\mathfrak g$ acts on itself faithfully since it is simple, so $\text{Lie}\bigl(\text{Inn}(\mathfrak g)\bigr) = \mathfrak g$, but $\text{Inn}(\mathfrak g)$ may not be simply-connected. Regardless, it is a quotient of the connected simply-connected simple group $G$ with Lie algebra $\mathfrak g$, and so you could if you prefer consider inner automorphisms to be given by the adjoint action of $G$.
Now, over $\mathbb C$ (and this requires facts about the topology of $\mathbb C$), any two choices of Cartan subalgebra are conjugate by an element of $\text{Inn}(\mathfrak g)$. See, for example, Proposition 5.32 of my notes on the class by M. Haiman. So, to understand $\text{Out}(\mathfrak g) = \text{Aut}(\mathfrak g) / \text{Inn}(\mathfrak g)$, it suffices to understand how it acts any chosen Cartan subalgebra $\mathfrak h$.
Any automorphism of $\mathfrak g$ that fixes $\mathfrak h$ must act on the root lattice, and must take some system of positive roots to some system of positive roots. Now, any two systems of positive roots are related by the Weyl group $W \subseteq {\rm GL}(\mathfrak h^\*)$. (Proposition 5.60 from my notes.) On the other hand, we have $W = \mathcal N_G(H)/H$, the normalizer of the maximal torus $H = \exp \mathfrak h$ in $G$ modulo $H$, which acts trivially on $\mathfrak h$. So $W$ acts on $\mathfrak h$ by inner automorphisms, indeed by $\mathcal N_G(H) \subseteq G$.
A system of positive roots picks out a Cartan matrix and corresponding Dynkin diagram, and conversely from this matrix you can reconstruct the group. Thus, the only possible source of outer automorphisms of come from automorphisms of the Dynkin diagram.
So your question follows simply from looking at the Dynkin diagrams. In particular, $A_1$, the $B$ and $C$ series, and the exceptional groups $G_2,F_4,E_7,E_8$ have no outer automorphisms.
Notice that for semisimples, the Dynkin might be disconnected, and clearly any inner automorphism preserves the connected components. So there are certainly outer automorphism for $\mathfrak g^{\times n}$ given by the $S_n$ that permutes the pieces.
In characteristic 2, $B_2$ and $F_4$ each have an outer automorphism, and in characteristic 3, so does $G_2$. This is relevant when you want to construct the twisted Chevalley groups, which use a Chevalley group over a finite field, and take the invariants under a field automorphism times an outer automorphism.
Aut(\g) is the semidirect product of Inn(\g) and Out(\g) in the complex AND in the real case. However, this is a rather recent result: tinyurl.com/68748hn
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Hasan Gündogan, The Component Group of the Automorphism Group of a Simple Lie Algebra and the Splitting of the Corresponding Short Exact Sequence, Journal of Lie Theory 20 (2010), No. 4, 709--737.
Abstract: Let $\frak g$ be a simple Lie algebra of finite dimension over $\mathbb K \in \{\mathbb R,\mathbb C\}$ and $\mathop{\rm Aut}(\frak g)$ the finite-dimensional Lie group of its automorphisms. We will calculate the component group $\pi_0(\mathop{\rm Aut}(\frak g)) = \mathop{\rm Aut}(\frak g)/\mathop{\rm Aut}(\frak g)_0$ and the number of its conjugacy classes, and we will show that the corresponding short exact sequence $$ {\bf1}\to\mathop{\rm Aut}(\frak g)_0\to\mathop{\rm Aut}(\frak g)\to\pi_0(\mathop{\rm Aut}(\frak g))\to{\bf1} $$ is split or, equivalently, there is an isomorphism $\mathop{\rm Aut}(\frak g)\cong \mathop{\rm Aut}(\frak g)_0 \rtimes\pi_0(\mathop{\rm Aut}(\frak g))$. Indeed, since $\mathop{\rm Aut}(\frak g)_0$ is open in $\mathop{\rm Aut}(\frak g)$, the quotient group $\pi_0(\mathop{\rm Aut}(\frak g))$ is discrete. Hence a section $\pi_0(\mathop{\rm Aut}(\frak g))\to\mathop{\rm Aut}(\frak g)$ is automatically continuous, giving rise to an isomorphism of Lie groups $\mathop{\rm Aut}(\frak g)\cong\mathop{\rm Aut}(\frak g)_0 \rtimes\pi_0(\mathop{\rm Aut}(\frak g))$.


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By Valerie Martin This past year, as part of my graduate social work internship I conducted student counseling in a local high school, both one-on-one and in groups. For my final project, I created a presentation on Media Literacy that I gave to 10 classes. It provided an excellent opportunity to see the students' reactions and … [Read more...]
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The list of finalists for the Eclipse Awards that will honor the most accomplished horses and humans in American racing are out, and the roster of nominees has a decided Bluegrass State flavor.
In mid-November Churchill Downs honored the Kentucky horses and connections that performed so well in last year's Breeders' Cup races at Santa Anita, with Classic winner Fort Larned, Mile champion Wise Dan, Filly & Mare Sprint winner Groupie Doll and Turf winner Little Mike each paraded in the paddock on a Sunday afternoon. Speaking to fans that day, Louisville born-and-based trainer Dale Romans, who saddled Little Mike, remarked that Kentucky racing continues to endure significant struggles, but the talent on display presented evidence that racing in the state was "still alive."
Each member of the aforementioned quartet of Kentucky-based Breeders' Cup winners and several more horses that raced in Kentucky during 2012 are prominent among the 2012 Eclipse finalists. And each of the four that paraded beneath the Twin Spires is a finalist in more than one category. Here's a look at each division's final three:
Horse of the Year: Fort Larned, I'll Have Another, Wise Dan – Each was prominent in Kentucky, with Churchill Downs-based Fort Larned in the care of trainer Ian Wilkes; I'll Have Another's abbreviated campaign highlighted by his victories in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands and the Preakness; and Lexington-based Wise Dan executing a near-perfect season during which the only blemish was a narrow loss in the Grade I Stephen Foster at Churchill Downs.
Older Male: Fort Larned, Little Mike, Wise Dan – The new name here is Little Mike, who notched a trio of Grade I turf wins during the year that began with the Woodford Reserve Turf Classic on Derby Day at Churchill Downs. He also won the Arlington Million along with his Breeders' Cup Turf triumph.
Older Female: Groupie Doll, Include Me Out, Royal Delta – Two finalists had Kentucky links, with Churchill Downs-based Groupie Doll scoring Grade I wins at Churchill Downs and Keeneland for the Frankfort, Ky. owner-breeder duo of Fred Bradley and his son, trainer Buff Bradley. Royal Delta won the Grade II Fleur De Lis at Churchill Downs in June during a campaign that climaxed with a second consecutive triumph in the Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic.
Male Turf Horse: Little Mike, Point of Entry, Wise Dan – The only non-Kentuckian was Point of Entry, a New Yorker trained by Lexington native Shug McGaughey. Wise Dan appears to be the frontrunner for Horse of the Year, but might not win this division after enjoying his greatest success at a mile on the grass.
Female Turf Horse: Marketing Mix, Tapitsfly, Zagora – Marketing Mix, trained by Tom Proctor, and Tapitsfly, trainer by Romans, were based at Churchill Downs.
Three-Year-Old Male: Bodemeister, I'll Have Another, Union Rags – Each contested the Kentucky Derby, with I'll Have Another catching Bodemeister to win both the Derby and Preakness, and Union Rags winning the Belmont Stakes in the absence of the other two finalists.
Three-Year-Old Filly: Believe You Can, My Miss Aurelia, Questing – The former won the Kentucky Oaks under jockey Rosie Napravnik, the first woman to ride an Oaks winner. My Miss Aurelia trained briefly at Churchill for Steve Asmussen.
Male Sprinter: The Lumber Guy, Shackleford, Trinniberg – Shack won the Grade II Churchill Downs and the Grade I Clark Handicap Presented by Norton Healthcare for Romans. Trinniberg was an also-ran in the Kentucky Derby under former Churchill Downs jockey Willie Martinez, but scored a surprise Breeders' Cup Sprint victory to complete the year.
Female Sprinter: Contested, Groupie Doll, Mizdirection – Kentucky-based Groupie Doll should dominate this category, though California-based Mizdirection – owned by sports talker Jim Rome – will probably enjoy some love from voters.
Two-Year-Old Male: Shanghai Bobby, Uncaptured, Violence – Uncaptured swept Churchill Downs' Iroquois and Kentucky Jockey Club in the fall for trainer Mark Casse. Likely champion Shanghai Bobby didn't race in Kentucky during his unbeaten season, but is owned by Starlight Racing, a partnership that includes Louisvillians Jack Wolf, its managing partner; attorney Ed Glassock; and his son, Clinton.
Two-Year-Old Filly: Beholder, Dreaming of Julia, Executiveprivilege – No Kentucky connection in this category.
Steeplechase Horse: Demonstrative, Divine Fortune, Pierrot Lunaire – No local connections, but that's not a surprise.
Owner: Godolphin Racing LLC, Midwest Thoroughbreds, Inc., Reddam Racing LLC – J. Paul Reddam's stable won the Kentucky Derby with I'll Have Another, while Midwest Thoroughbreds wins big with claiming and allowance horses at Churchill Downs and other tracks.
Breeder: Adena Springs, Darley, Brereton C. Jones – Former Kentucky Gov. Jones won the Kentucky Oaks with his homebred Believe You Can.
Trainer: Bob Baffert, Todd Pletcher, Dale Romans – Romans appears to be the favorite for his first Eclipse, but the list of finalists is very strong. But Romans won nine Grade I races during his "career year" and seems a clear favorite for his first Eclipse in the trainer category.
Jockey: Javier Castellano, Ramon Dominguez, John Velazquez – With the move of Julien Leparoux to the West Coast, no Kentucky-based rider is on the list.
Apprentice Jockey: Jose Montano, Irad Ortiz Jr., Angel Suarez – Again, no locals on this list.


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The Yummy Mummy Kitchen
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Inspired by her British grandma ("the original Yummy Mummy" and still the epitome of chic at ninety-two years old), Marina Delio has found her groove as a modern Yummy Mummy: a loving and devoted mom who values fitness and health and maintains style and grace, even with small children at home. Offering busy moms easy, irresistible recipes for every meal of the day and every season of the year, The Yummy Mummy Kitchen shows how healthy meals with small touches like sparkling cranberries and flower garnishes can make us all feel a little more glamorous amid the chaos of raising a family.
Focusing on quality, seasonal, local ingredients, Marina shares mostly meatless, produce-rich recipes that are sophisticated without being complicated. They're accompanied by life tips and timeless wisdom about the importance of establishing regular family dinners and traditions, teaching kids to respect and appreciate real food (she begs of you, do not hide pureed vegetables in their meals ), and engaging your children in the cooking process. Marina offers practical, time-saving hints for preparing make-ahead meals, stocking the freezer and the pantry for impromptu entertaining, and menu planning. She even shares the secrets behind fish that doesn't taste fishy, why every Yummy Mummy should keep a stash of chocolate in her nightstand, and where to find the most dazzling, classic red lipstick.
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I feel as though sometimes, particularly when fighting some of the bosses in the Original Mode, that the words I need to type to kill zombies are becoming more difficult in response to my performance throughout the stage, even though I always play on the same difficulty(Normal). Am I mistaken, or does the difficulty change depending on the stage path?
You're absolutely right! It's wholly dynamic. If you never took damage or had to use continues, the difficulty would climb and climb until you always had to type a long sentence in. The way I remember, it lowers a little with single lives you've lost (i.e. taking a hit) and drops considerably after continues.
The tranquilizer is also supposed to have such an effect. No reason to believe it doesn't.
Oh and the path you chose doesn't directly affect the difficulty, but you can be led to slightly different boss fights, i.e. several bosses have types A and B one of which could be tougher to beat than the other. But that's unrelated to the first point.
I used to play the game a lot so I'm fairly sure of this.
Turns out it's because of the tranquilizer power up I pick up occasionally, which, according to the game, weakens the zombies temporarily.


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Ferrero Rocher Asst. Chocolates Gift Box, 24 Pieces/Box for $9.90
This deal is likely in-store only. The site says "free ship-to-store".
Ferrero Rocher is Italian for "addictive chocolates filled with hazelnuts"
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Great price, I may just have to buy a few! I looks like you can order online, it just won't be free shipping. They also have the 18-piece box for $6.90!
I always hit up my local grocery stores, drug stores, and/or walmart for leftover Christmas Rocher's. They are usually on sale for 50-75% off whithin two or three days of Christmas. I purchased 12 piece packages a few days ago for $2.20 each.


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