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CIM's 2013 Commencement exercises will be held in Kulas Hall on Saturday, May 18 at 10 a.m. More than 130 students will receive their bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, along with Artist Diplomas and Professional certificates.
The ceremony will feature El Sistema founder Dr. José Antonio Abreu, as CIM presents him with an honorary doctorate. Founded in 1975 in a parking garage in Caracas, Venezula, with just 11 children, Dr. Abreu's program has been so successful at using music as a common language that it has been adapted in countries around the globe—including the United States. In Cleveland, CIM alumna and Cleveland Orchestra violinist Isabel Trautwein launched an El Sistema program at The Rainey Institute in 2011.
Dr. Abreu will give the 2013 Commencement Address to graduating students, with the assistance of a translator. Musical performances will include the Omer Quartet performing Mendelssohn; Andrew Manea, baritone, accompanied by Andrew Rosenblum, piano, performing Richard Strauss; and Matthew Allen, violoncello, and Pin-Hsuan Huang, piano, performing Cassadó.
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I was leaving heavy rain in Michigan.
Say what?
I stopped for breakfast near the Eastern Michigan Fairgrounds (track #929) in Imlay City, Michigan.
The wait wasn't too bad driving into Canada.
That's the U.S. to the right.
Welcome to Canada!
I always enjoy the Canadian scenery.
I'm headed to Aylmer today.
Aylmer, Ontario, Canada.
My first view of the Aylmer Fairgrounds.
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This was not the "first rodeo" for many of today's competitors.
I also had plenty of time to see the fair.
Canada and poutine is like America and apple pie.
Where did these eggs come from?
Today was the finals in the cow judging competition.
The "pulling" contest was just finishing up.
More county fair competitions.
See the muppet driving the wagon?
This guy is controling his movements and "speaking" for the muppet nearby!
It was time for lunch.
This all looked good.
I went with the sliders!
They were great.
These folks always put on an entertaining show.
This is what today's racetrack looked like.
Maybe it looked like this in 1955.
Is he beating a dent out or in?
The contestants in "best looking car" competition line-up.
We're almost ready to race.
We're racing!!!
Track #1,700 is in the books!
This is "democross" racing on the oval.
The men in white are the judges and lap counters.
The leader has completed 14 laps.
A future trackchasing fellow competitor?
The jumps made this race interesting.
Nice paint job.
It takes a beating and keeps on ticking.
Racing has always been a family affair.
Check out this Pontiac.
This is a new kind of windscreen.
It was time for a restroom break.
The track is being watered now for the upcoming figure 8 racing.
The figure 8 racers are ready.
Track #1,701 is now in my rear-view mirror.
The figure 8 racing involves a good deal of contact.
Every car gets their own lap counter.
Fun at the fair.
This might be fun to do.
These are all front-wheel drive cars.
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Christine ODonnell debunks Darwin: "Why arent monkeys still evolving into humans?"
Put on your head vises. Here's more brain busting must-see-TV from the one-time dabbler in witchcraft and full-time GOP Senate candidate, courtesy of Bill Maher, via a TP cross-post:
For the second week in a row, HBO's Real Time host Bill Maher revealed a previously-unaired clip of Christine O'Donnell on Politically Incorrect. Recall, last week Maher showed a clip of O'Donnell professing to dabble into witchcraft, and pledged to show a new clip of O'Donnell every week until O'Donnell agrees to appear once again on his show.
So tonight, Maher played a clip from O'Donnell's appearance on Politically Incorrect on Oct. 15, 1998, in which she professed her view that "evolution is a myth":
O'DONNELL: You know what, evolution is a myth. And even Darwin himself –
MAHER: Evolution is a myth?!? Have you ever looked at a monkey!
O'DONNELL: Well then, why they "" why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?
Previously, New York Magazine had dug up a 1996 appearance by O'Donnell on CNN, during which the Delaware GOP Senate nominee insisted "hard evidence" proves evolution is "merely a theory" and God's creation of the world occurred in "six 24-hour periods."
After airing tonight's clip, Maher remarked with astonishment that this is "someone that could be in the Senate." He added, "See this is the point I want to make "" is the stuff from the witch from last week was silly. Who cares what she did in high school, if she dabbled in witchcraft. But this is someone who could be in the Senate, who thinks that mice have human brains and doesn't understand 'oh my God, that monkeys don't evolve in the time that it would take to watch them.'"
— For more on O'Donnell's record, check out our ThinkProgress report: The Old Adventures of New Christine.
See also Video: Christine O'Donnell Says She'd Stop The Whole Country From Having Sex
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51 Responses to Christine ODonnell debunks Darwin: "Why arent monkeys still evolving into humans?"
Darn, I need to buy a new head vise.
Wait. Who's to say they are not.
I can name lots of repub politicians that act like monkeys gone wild.
John McCormick
More proof that humans can devolve.
The Tea-publican Party is evidence that evolution can also run in reverse.
On the same episode, Andrew Breitbart repeated the ridiculous claim that climate researchers are promulgating the global warming "myth" due to two words…"government grants".
I was shouting at the TV begging anyone on the panel to challenge Breitbart to state how much of total university grant funding comes from climate change research. After all, he brought it up, he should know, right? Let's take Penn State and Michael Mann as an example, since Breitbart brought up the "hockey stick".
Breitbart is an unmitigated coward and exhibit #1 in the collapse of a nation.
Actually that part about the mice isn't true.
She doesn't think mice have human brains, but that there are American scientific companys that are crossbreeding humans with mice so the mice end up with human brains.
You make it sound as if she thinks mice have a human brain by default.
Which of course isn't true. At least not until them Frankenstein scientists are done with them.
The way you say it, it would be rather cute. Like… when a four year old girl says it. What she said is more like some paranoid manga fan not being able to differentiate between real world and comics. Which can't be cute at any age.
While more than two-thirds of likely voters surveyed said global warming is a "very important" or "somewhat important" issue to them, only 40% favor the ballot measure and 38% oppose it, reports the Los Angeles Times. One-fifth have yet to take a position. The Times says a ballot initiative with less than 50% support at this point of a campaign typically has trouble because undecided voters often end up voting no.
The nefarious Tea Party plan becomes clear at last. They mean to disable the brains of all thinking people through overloading them with cognitive dissonance.
Then, once the possibility of rational objection has been eliminated, they will command their drones to vote them into office. Having obtained total command of the government, they will proceed to cut taxes to 0.1 percent, privatize the military, and drown the remaining government in the now oil-covered Gulf of Mexico.
Bill Maher may be an unwitting dupe in this plan. Or perhaps not so unwitting…
We now return control of your political process to you — until next week, when the control voice will take you to The Tea-Party Limits.
;-) ;-)
Is there any evidence that Ms. O'donnell is not, in fact, a human with a mouse brain? This would explain soooo much.
As time goes on- and hearing from Ms. O'Donnell
the republican party has not evolved much from the 'Scopes Trial' of the 1920's
but hey that's their 'social gig' economic philosophy for the 21st century??
Bill Maher must just be beside himself these days owning all these old tapes of O'Donnell. Bill is like a kid having six weeks of early xmas.
My one hope is that these kinds of things spur democrats to get off their butts Nov 2 and get down to the polls. This is as important an election as there has ever been.
I find these weekly tidbits from Maher very amusing. Christine is the poster child for what is wrong with America. Unfortunately, Bill apparently does not understand evolution either. However, I'll give him a pass for exposing this self-loathing woman who is so afraid of her own genitalia. I feel sorry for the intelligent people of Delaware who must suffer each day everytime that poor soul opens her mouth.
It was very unfortunate to hear Maher plainly say that some fudged findings were found at the CRU. What the Hell? And it was never corrected. THAT was the worst thing said because it came from the normally supportive side. What a mess.
Flat Earth TV, has a video: "Tea Time with Sarah Palin." You can take the pledge to only vote for candidates who acknowledge the reality of climate change and support clean energy policy. And laugh too! Oh, you will laugh!
No self-respecting coven would have a moron like this woman in their group. Seriously. Wicca is an actual religion. Mind you, what SHE "dabbled in" was likely some dime-store drivel she picked up out of a silly "hexes for love and power" type book.
She really thinks we can "watch monkeys evolve into humans"? WTF? She claims that there's no "hard evidence" for evolution, yet says in the SAME BREATH that "god created the world in six-24-hour days". Wow. Please, please, Delaware, vote this idiot out of office. Oy.
Ooops, my bad- that should be "don't vote her INTO office."
O'DONNELL: Well then, why they — why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?
Let's see.
Why aren't wolves still evolving into dogs?
Why aren't lions still evolving into cats?
Why aren't mice evolving into rats?
Why should we answer a stupid question?
Been looking at the rainfall this past week . There is hell of a lot of water coming out of the sky now. Just in the past 3 days the lower 48 have set 554 new rainfall records, and only 13 of them were ties.
9.02 inches at Amboy, Minn. on the 23th, mind boggling numbers –
Mark @9; that was my thought too. Darn those incompetent scientists trying to put human brains in mice…they got it all backwards and now we have the Tea-Party.
Incidentally, Maher isn't exactly a critical thinker himself. He has his own strange ideologies. I won't sidetrack the thread here, but if you're interested you might Google some "respectful insolence" from an Oracle that highlights this antiscience side of Bill.
I would like to read a psychiatric analysis of Christine O'Donnell.
From the thinkprogress web site http://thinkprogress.org/christine-odonnell-record/:
"O'Donnell believes God speaks to her personally and guided her campaign. "During the primary, I heard the audible voice of God. He said, 'Credibility.' It wasn't a thought in my head. I thought it meant I was going to win. But after the primary, I got credibility." [Wilmington News-Journal, 11/12/06]"
There you have it: auditory hallucination. She is schizophrenic.
I made a few screen shots from the radar out of Brownsville this week ….
In a Warmer World, it will Rain ……
The Lower 48 states have set 824 rainfall records this week , only 23 were ties.
Folks have a problem with TIME. In the case of some people, that has become a problem with Tea Time. The Mad Hatter's watch was stuck at tea time, because 'butter didn't suit the works'.
The Taliban and Bin Laden, like some Wahabi Muslim clerics, also don't go for evolution – or even for the Copernican model of the Solar System. Perhaps this interesting GOP lady would like to give her opinion on the geocentric/heliocentric 'controversy' – after all, like all other scientific matters, it's just a matter of opinion. Evidence? Who cares?
In contrast to the TeaPotty Party, the UK Labour Party has just elected its new leader, Ed Milliband.
He was in the last UK government as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, and in interviews has clearly got climate. He mentioned working with Secretary Chou, and may be the first major party leader in any country who has had experience of responsibility for climate change.
What he says about it from now on, we can only wait and see.
Maybe monkeys are a more intelligent life form and dont need to evolve. Why do humans always think they are the master race and everything should evolve to be like us, our only achievment to date is to over populate the world.
Here is a single person with no employment history to speak of, a string of financial problems (1993 unpaid tuition fees, 2008 mortgage default, 2010 IRS back taxes, alleged personal use of 2010 campaign funds).
Perennially running for a US Senate seat (2006, 2008, 2010).
Can't blame people for wondering whether she's in this for the money.
The ice age is coming …….
Evidence From Solar Scientists Raise Fears of Imminent Ice Age
Follow the seed , a new denier ?
John O'Sullivan
Contributing Writer
Science writer and legal analyst specializing in anti-corruption, John O'Sullivan was born in Berkshire, England, of immigrant Irish…
[JR: Bizarre. The next solar cycle has already started up — and, of course, the "weak" solar forcing can't compete with the immense GHG forcing, as Hansen has shown.]
Invers, I suggest that polluting our entire ecosystem to near the point of failure is another achievement, though dubious.
Some people, maybe Christine O'Donnell, have a mindset that if they and many other people really believe something, it must be true. For them, believing makes it real. They might not know the difference between belief and reality. Most everyone here knows that science doesn't work that way. Verifiable facts, verifiable by anyone, anywhere, is the stuff of science. Only true believers of exactly the right persuasion can relate with the O'Donnells of the world. I hope there aren't too many of these folks come election day.
As for the monkeys, maybe they had a big powwow about 5 million years ago and and all agreed to play dumb. They decided to only evolve to the level we find them at today, because they could see where intelligence, belief, and greed were going when combined. Our pre-historic ancestors must have missed the memo.
Ought to go off to join the Mad Hatter's Tea Party.
Too funny. The timescales involved aside, whoever said monkeys were expected to evolve into humans, given that even hominids as a group are a separate branch (from early monkeys) in the evolutionary tree?
Really, what does it mean that even Bill Maher misunderstood the final outcome of the CRU email "scandal"? What does this say about communication? It really concerned me. The misunderstanding is so vast.
It deeply concerns–and saddens–me that more and more people with beliefs similar to O'Donnell's are being elected into powerful positions. I worry about the damage these folks will ultimately wreak on this great country.
"why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?"
They are! It is just real hard to see it. You see since the earth is only 6000 years old evolution occurs almost instantaneously. One second they are chewing on a banana, poof, the next thing you know they are running for the Senate.
There is something so bizarre about Christine O'Donnell that I keep coming back to this article while shaking my whole body. Is schizophrenia the whole diagnosis, or is there more to it that that? This is a lesson in abnormal psyche. Can a significant fraction of the country really be that crazy? Joe, do you know any psychiatrists who would look at this subject for us? Is an Alfred Hitchcock type writing scripts for Christine O'Donnell?
I'm not sure where else to post this, but unfortunately, Canada's supposedly national newspaper has published an outrageous piece of trash on global warming. I really can't tell if its supposed to be sarcastic, or if its another in their ongoing special series on "Dementia".
Read this and weep. I am really embarassed by Canada today.
Palingates, which generally is confined to the topic of Sarah Palin's pathological lies, has done some excellent analysis of the influence of the Koch brothers, and ripped to shreds the Forbes magazine profile on Obama, all in one post.
Well done and deserving of wide readership!
Is it possible that election of O'Donnell and her only slightly less bizarre counterparts will be a 'Pearl Harbour' moment for the more moderate US voters?
The election of Ed Miliband as Labour leader here in the UK is hopeful, but maybe we should have been rooting for Monckton intstead. We need something to fight against!
Reminds me of "genious" Hank Johnson and Guam tipping over :)
I think she has a great question there. For myself I have long wondered why German Shepherds are not still evolving toward Collies!
p.s. these people are so cute!
Christine reminds me of a cheerleader I knew in high school. Charming, bubbly, and scary in a weird kind of way.
Maybe its time for a Wake Up and Smell the Coffee Party.
Okay this is funny and should not be missed! The Saturday Night Live video…
It seems O'Donnell has evolved into a female Jiminy Cricket, a "half-woman, half-bug who knows what's best for everyone," to quote Ned Flanders.
This woman gives us witches a very bad name. I think she's been watching way too many B-movies and mistaking them for reality.
The thing that makes me wonder the most is why she feels the need to make a comment in the first place – does she really think she understands the issue enough to avoid saying "I just don't know enough to comment"?
Is it a case of political fear that forces someone to pronounce an opinion about everything, regardless of competence?
I remember reading the musings of some astrophysicist, when asked why years of SETI investigatinging had revealed no signs of other intelligent life in the cosmos. After proffering a number of astronomical possibilities, like the cleansing of vast regions by hypernovae, he suggested another possible explanation. That 'intelligent' life was somehow unstable, and, when it reached a certain level of technological and scientific capability, it just obliterated itself.
I must say that I found it chillingly plausible even then, and everything that I've seen since simply confirms its terrible logic. I mean, any species that not only produces Tony Blairs, George Bushes and John Howards by the gross,let alone allows the likes of Palin and O'Donnell and the Mad Hatters of the Tea Party to achieve power, or even come close to power, is in deep,deep danger. Just say that O'Donnell is elected and is nominated by Palin as running-mate in 2012, to the acclaim of the Dunning-Krugerites, Rightwing Authoritarians, 'dominionists', 'intelligent design' numb-skulls and all the other inmates of the Rightwing bestiary, and Obama, as planned,does all in his power to lose, what then? I make it a firm principle to expect the worst, and am rarely surprised.
Clearly there is a range of human intelligence, from just below 'average' to just above, where everything in existence is classified as a matter of opinion. These creatures lack the cognitive skills to examine evidence, and are lacking in self-confidence so avoid changing their minds at all costs, preferring obdurate certainty to the horrors of introspection and rational thought. They become ready fodder for 'emotionally potent over-simplifications' and dogma, because acceptance of dogma relieves one of the burden of rational thought and the exchange of ideas and intellectual growth. They prefer blind faith in revealed truths to the pursuit of knowledge gained by intellectual effort. They therefore become not only impervious to argument or evidence, but openly and ferociously hostile to it. And they are on the march, and they see those who oppose them as their enemies, which we must, regretfully, become, or mankind's voice will disappear from the cosmos forever.
Another member of the Flat Earth Society but she is not alone.
Republican Hopefuls Deny Global Warming
All but one of the 48 Republican hopefuls for the Senate mid-term elections in November deny the existence of climate change or oppose action on global warming, according to a just released report. http://www.newslook.com/videos/253243-republican-hopefuls-deny-global-warming?autoplay=true
Maybe she read Zeena LaVey's (daughter of Anton) The Satanic Witch? And watched Rosemary's Baby a few too many times. Satanism is strictly a christian heresy. Wicca is a completely different religion whose gods and goddesses have nothing to do with the former.
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""why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?"
They are! It is just real hard to see it. You see since the earth is only 6000 years old evolution occurs almost instantaneously. One second they are chewing on a banana, poof, the next thing you know they are running for the Senate"
Well, monkeys are NOT still evolving into humans. Evolutionary history is like human history: the past events do not ocurr today.
Some 5 millions years ago, in the Pliocene Epoch, a primate species splitted into two branches: one led to chimpanzees, the other to hominids. This happened only once, long time ago. This common ancester between chimpanzees and hominids went extinct, and with it any chance of a repeat of the event.
Today both the species (chimpanzees and humans) and the environmental conditions are a lot different from the ones of the Pliocene, making impossible to a repeat of human evolucion.
Like history events, evolution of a species NEVER happen twice.
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Super Bowl by the numbers
Last year, more than 108 million people gathered in bars, lounges and living rooms, donning their favorite team's apparel and eating and drinking while they cheered on their beloved players during the Super Bowl.
This year's numbers are supposed to have been even higher.
To better examine the phenomenon, we have compiled a list that takes into consideration the economic impact of the Super Bowl, as well as some interesting economic statistics about the two teams that competed in this year's Super Bowl.
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Considering all the economic problems this country faces, spending problems, welfare handouts, accumulated debt, loss of jobs, and bleak outlook for the future for many Americans, these numbers are absolutely absurd and rediculous!
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Believe it or not, the NFL is registered as a non-profit and the head honcho has
a salary of $29.9 million.
Man, I wish I was a non-profit.
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"Absurd and ridiculous"? Is it? It's not a tax. It's not
welfare. It's not even governmental. The money is spent because a market
exists: millions of sports fans who are willing to pay for some
Yes, we have economic problems, but that won't stop the private sector from capitalizing on an opportunity.
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In a wide-ranging talk about the Internet and government, Al Gore urged the techie crowd at South By Southwest to use digital tools to improve government.The former vice president sat for a conversation with Napster co-founder and Web entrepreneur Sean Parker on Monday at SXSW in a flashy tete-a-tete that drew an audience of thousands at the Austin Convention Center and more viewers via a live stream."Our democracy has been hacked," said Gore, framing Washington gridlock and the effects of special interest money in digital terms.To fix what he called a no-longer functional U.S. government, Gore urged the audience to begin a new "Occupy Democracy" movement. He pushed for the creation and implementation of digital tools and social media to "change the democratic conversation."Gore talked of a "Wiki-democracy" of "digital flash mobs calling out the truth" and "a government square that holds people accountable."Parker, who was famously portrayed by Justin Timberlake in "The Social Network," has gotten into politics by investing in Votizen, an online network of voters that leverages social networks to campaign for their issues. He also sits on the board of NationBuilder, which also seeks to organize political change.Parker said he believes social media is only its infancy of what it can do to spur action. He cited the Internet rally against the Stop Online Piracy Act as a hint of the power of social networks. He called the protest "Nerd Spring," alluding to the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East.Both Gore and Parker derided the dominant role of television in elections and political dialogue. Change, Parker said, won't come from within the political system.To applause, Gore added; "I can confirm that."
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I'm having an Oracle volume of data issue, which I think is being caused by a data representation problem. I have a hierarchy made from seven different lists, and need to store all the unique potential combinations of these elements. I need to store all the potential combinations, because I need to store additional information along with them.
Historically, we've been managing four lists, which came to a few thousand combinations. This was fine, but requirements have changed as they are wont to do, and now we are running seven lists. In my real environment, the lists store between 20 and 200 items. The total number of combinations for this now, incredibly, is about 350 billion.
As an example of what we're trying to represent with this, you could have a selection of lists like:
Colours:Red, Green, Blue
Shapes: Circle, Square, Triangle
Flavours: Peach, Banana, Raspberry
These would be stored as separate tables in Oracle like COLOURS, SHAPES, FLAVOURS, etc, and what we'd be doing is multiplying them all together (via a Cartesian join) to get an exploded table: This is what we're storing in Oracle at the moment.
Red Circle Peach -- these hold additional information
Red Circle Banana
Red Circle Raspberry
Red Square Peach
Red Square Banana
and so on.
We've found we can't store billions of records within an Oracle table and have any operation performed upon them in a timely fashion. I've tried to think of different ways to store this information but my brain keeps jamming up on the number of combinations. Is there anything I can do to store the records differently? Bearing in mind they're all unique combinations, and we need to store data along with them.
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BHP Billiton Sees a Shift to Monthly Iron Ore Pricing
BHP Billiton Ltd., the world's biggest mining company, said it expects a shift toward monthly pricing agreements for iron ore which better reflect the market and the needs of producers and consumers.
"We expect there will be continued progress toward shorter term monthly pricing," Mike Henry, president of marketing at the Melbourne-based company, said today at a Steel Business Briefing conference in London. Shorter term pricing "will ultimately be the truest reflection of underlying supply and demand fundamentals," he said. Iron ore is used to make steel.
Vale SA, Rio Tinto Plc and BHP, the three biggest exporters of iron ore, this year abandoned a 40-year custom of setting prices annually in favor of quarterly contracts. A further shift to monthly contracts by BHP contrasts with comments from rivals at Brazil's Vale and London-based Rio this week.
"BHP has been at the forefront of these changes," Ian Roper, a commodities strategist at CLSA Ltd. in Shanghai, said in an interview today in London. While steel mills "don't like volatility" they can cope when prices for raw materials and steel "move in unity," he said.
Mining companies and steelmakers should seek a better pricing system, Shan Shanghua, general secretary of the China Iron and Steel Association, said on Sept. 28. Pricing iron ore based on indexes doesn't accurately reflect the Chinese market, he said. China is the world's biggest buyer of iron ore.
Defaulting on Contracts
The association is in talks with producers to price contracts on a monthly basis, China Minmetals Corp., the nation's biggest metals trader, said this month. Such a move would increase the chances of Chinese steelmakers defaulting on contracts, Minmetals' Vice President Feng Guiquan said Sept. 6.
Quarterly pricing is based on an average spot index price for three months. Contract prices are set to fall 11 percent to $129 a metric ton in the quarter starting on Oct. 1 from the previous three months, said Hu Kai, an analyst at UC361.com, citing Platts index prices. The price rose 0.2 percent to $141.10 a ton today, according to the Steel Index.
"Pricing against liquid spot indexes will ultimately mitigate the risk of contract non-performance in times where spot prices move significantly above or significantly below contract prices," BHP's Henry said today.
'System Isn't Perfect'
Rio Tinto this week said it doesn't plan to price sales monthly and Vale's Jose Carlos Martins, executive director of sales, said yesterday the company doesn't expect "big changes" to the way ore is priced.
"The system is not perfect, but it's working," Vale's Martins said in Dalian. "Customers are fulfilling their contracts. It seems the price is good because otherwise the customers would go to spot."
Rio will give the new quarterly pricing mechanism a "chance to operate" this fiscal year, Warwick Smith, managing director of sales and marketing at the company's iron ore business, said on Sept. 28. The company will continue talks with customers in Japan, Korea and China on further evolution in pricing, he said.


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Men's and Women's Cross Country Teams Take 4th At Towson Invitational
Sept. 11, 2004
Oregon Ridge, Md. - Loyola's men's and women's cross country teams both placed fourth at the Towson University Invitational held on Saturday at the Oregon Ridge Cross Country Course.
Senior James DaSilva led the men's squad to a fourth-place showing out of 14 teams with his second-place overall finish. DaSilva completed the five-mile course in a time of 26:48 as the Greyhounds finished behind the winner, Navy, Delaware, and Salisbury.
Freshman Brendan O'Kane, a transfer from the University of Scranton, finished second for Loyola and 19th overall. Greyhound freshman Andrew Rice placed 25th, freshman Brian Parker took 41st, Pat Rice grabbed 46th, Jon White came in 52nd, and Pat McCadden placed 54th, giving Loyola seven runners among the top-55 overall.
Senior Jackie Truncellito steered the Greyhound women to a fourth-place finish out of 12 teams as she grabbed the overall bronze medal with her 5,000-meter time of 18:42. Andrea Rovegno (5th-place) and Sarah Spencer (20th-place) were the other Loyola runners in the top-20. Jackie Gaines (32nd-place), Lauren Bivona (51st-place), Caroline Scott (57th-place), and Patricia Yudd (60th-place) rounded out the top-seven for the women, who fell to only George Washington, Towson, and Hofstra. The women's team was without two of its top runners because of injuries and still produced a fine performance, which has first-year Head Coach Rick Woods feeling very confident about his team's caliber.
"Both the men and the women ran really well again," said Woods, after his second race as Loyola cross country's head coach. "We ran against a tough field once again and had another tough week of practices once again, but both squads looked great. Now, you'll start to see our times really begin to drop as we move away from our base and strength training and focus more on speed and getting those times down."
The Greyhounds return to action Saturday, September 18th when they'll be running in the Salty Dog Invitational in Annapolis, Md.
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Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn't Stop Praying (Among Other Things)by Abby Sher
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Until the age of ten, comedian and writer Abby Sher was a happy child in a fun-loving, musical family. When her father and favorite aunt pass away, Abby fills the void of her loss with rituals: kissing her father's picture over and over each night, washing her hands and counting her steps, collecting sharp objects that she thinks could harm innocent pedestrians
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Until the age of ten, comedian and writer Abby Sher was a happy child in a fun-loving, musical family. When her father and favorite aunt pass away, Abby fills the void of her loss with rituals: kissing her father's picture over and over each night, washing her hands and counting her steps, collecting sharp objects that she thinks could harm innocent pedestrians. Then she begins to pray. At first she repeats the few phrases she remembers from synagogue, but by the time she is in high school, Abby is spending hours locked in her closet urgently reciting a series of incantations and pleas. The prescribed patterns from which she cannot deviate become her shelter and her obsession.In college, Abby is diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder, and while it helps explain the counting and kissing and collecting, she resists rationalizing her deepest obsession, certain that her prayers are not an illness but the cure. Unable to confront the fears that drive her, she descends into darker compulsions, cutting and starving herself, measuring every calorie and each incision. But even in the darkest moments of her illness, there are glimmers of laughter and hope, for she carries the irrepressible spirit and passion that are so much a part of her family. Ultimately, it is another loss-the death of her mother-that compels Abby to redefine the terms of her illness and her faith, freeing her to live and love more fully.Full of heartbreak, buoyant with humor, and marked by exceptionally vivid storytelling, Amen, Amen, Amen is a brilliant account of soul-searching, self-discovery, and the bounds and boundlessness of obsession and devotion.
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"Amen, Amen, Amen is Abby Sher's brave, haunting, amazing memoir of her lifelong struggle with OCD. But it's more than this it's an inspiring tale of a woman overcoming adversity, learning to trust herself, allowing herself to fall in love, letting go of her parents' complex legacy. For memoir lovers, it is a prayer answered. Told in the author's fresh, wise, witty voice, the book, at times, is impossible to put down. This incredible book makes for obsessive, compulsive reading." JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN, author of She's Not There and I'm Looking Through You
"Even if you've never had one obsessive thought in your life, which I highly doubt, you will find yourself in Amen, Amen, Amen. Fine, maybe you don't count your kisses or speak Hebrew or create elaborate anorexic exercise mantras, but I'm fairly certain you know what it's like to feel out of control, small, and unseen. Abby Sher's humanity, humility, and hilarity will make you feel less alone and blessed to be alive in this fragile world." KIMBERLEE AUERBACH, author of The Devil, The Lovers, & Me: My Life in Tarot
"Amen, Amen, Amen offers a poignant, pitch-perfect look at love, loss, danger, and redemption through the eyes of a young woman struggling with OCD. Abby Sher illuminates her fascinating story with insight, wit, and compassion, making for a compelling and powerful read." RABBI DANYA RUTTENBERG, author of Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion
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Sunday night was usually the best night of the week in my house. Our neighbors, Estherann and Arthur, came over for vodka tonics and crackers and to talk politics. Estherann was always knitting fuzzy sweaters and scarves and she let me sit by her feet and dig through her canvas bag of yarns. Then Mom pulled out the Chinese take-out menu and we each got to choose a dish to order.
"You know what that means, kiddo," Dad would say with a wink my way. I was his special helper.
As soon as Dad and I climbed into the station wagon, he would turn on Woody's Children, Woody Guthrie's radio show where he sang folk songs with a team of banjos and little kids whom I imagined living on a prairie and frolicking through enchanted forests. Dad usually had one palm on the steering wheel and with the other he'd tap out Woody's rhythmic rhapsodies on my thigh. We'd sing "This Land Is Your Land" and "If I Had a Hammer" and scores of songs about love and dandelion wine, rolling into new melodies as effortlessly as the hills themselves. Sometimes Dad went extra slow and switched the headlights to bright so we could search for raccoons. There was never anybody out except for us. In the car, on the road, in the whole world.
It was two months after Aunt Simone died and the cicadas had finally gone; the first snow of the season had just fallen, but it was too clumpy and uneven to warrant a school closing the next day. The grass poked through in little hairy patches and the air was the sharpest kind of cold in my nostrils. The station wagon took a long time to warm up and the vents could muster only small splutters of lukewarm mist that smelled burnt. There was no time to look for raccoons on the way to the restaurant. The food'll get cold, Dad explained. He also didn't sing along with Woody, so I decided I shouldn't either.
When we got to the China Lion parking lot, Dad gave me a fold of money that I squeezed in my fist. I walked past the two stone lions guarding the tall wooden doors, my back stiff and straight, and told the lady at the desk who looked like a China doll our last name. She knew me because this was my job every week. She put the greasy brown paper bag in my hands and made me promise to walk carefully to the car so nothing tipped.
"That's some hot chopsticks. You okay?" Dad said when I got back to the car.
"No prob, slob," I said, nodding proudly.
We were quiet as snow again the whole way home. I held the bag on my lap and opened just one corner so I could sniff the moo goo gai pan dripping into the vegetable lo mein and then into the General Tso's, seeping into a salty puddle on the bottom. My thighs got red and tight from the heat, but I didn't budge an inch. Not even when we got home and Dad turned off the engine and we just sat there in the driveway. The Japanese maple tree that Dad had planted was sighing and swaying above us and the car was ticking and farting out leftover exhaust and I wasn't sure why we were still in the car while Mom and Betsy were inside waiting for the food. I snuck a peek over at Dad but he was looking out at the snow so I looked there too.
Then he said, "Hey kiddo, you know what? You go on ahead. I'll meet you inside."
"Food's getting cold. I'll be right there."
I didn't want to go, but it felt as though he was waiting for me to leave, setting his face toward the windshield so I couldn't even guess what his eyes were saying. By the time I slid out and walked to his side of the car, he was standing next to it with the door open, letting out a long, heavy breath.
"I'll wait for you if..."
"Just go!" he said, and there was something coarse and ragged in his voice that I'd never heard before, icier even than the night sky.
I started up the walk, hugging the bag close. I could hear the wax paper from the egg rolls crinkling and my corduroys rubbing together. I could hear everything. Especially something rumbling behind me. A horrible noise somewhere between a groan and a growl. When I turned around my father was crouched on the lawn. I ducked among the hedges so he couldn't see me and through the tangle of frozen branches I watched his body roll forward, the muscles in the back of his neck clenched together. He vomited into the snow. It made a small, steaming hole in the ground. He stayed there on his hands and knees, staring into it, this place where his insides had gone. I stayed staring too. At the moon falling on his head just where his crown of hair curled up at the ends. At his shoulders rising up like looming hilltops under his jacket and his jaw drooping open like a dog's. At how small he was all of a sudden.
Then he leaned back on his heels, took a scoop of fresh snow, and covered the hole so it looked like this moment had never happened.
I crept into the house through the side door and delivered my leaky parcel to Mom, then went to wash my hands. When I got to the dinner table, Dad was already there, licking his lips.
"Mmm, I'm hungry," he said, and gave me a quick smile. I didn't look at him for the rest of the meal.
After I'd helped with the dishes, when I was supposed to be getting ready for bed, I slinked into my parents' room. It was completely dark except for the light from the street, and the blue spotted wallpaper looked like a sky turned inside out. I went to the window to find the hole my father had covered up. It was under the snow somewhere, I knew it, and I had to find it and see if it had grown bigger or deeper. I needed to know where it led. I had this queasy feeling it could be tunneling down all the way through the ground like sour molten lava. Only, when I got to the window, I couldn't see anything on the ground except white. In school they had made us cut out paper snowflakes and then write about how each one was unique and delicate. That was a lie. This snow was not delicate at all. It was monotonous and hard and it made the entire universe slowly sink into its unyielding hush. And I knew something ugly and sinister was lurking just below it.
"What are you doing?" Betsy was standing in the doorway in only her underwear and bra. She had a line of cream bleach on her upper lip.
"Nothing. What are you doing?"
"Nothing. You shouldn't be in Mom and Dad's room, you know."
"You shouldn't either." I wanted to sound tough, but my voice came out thin and whiny.
"I'm just getting the nail scissors. What are you doing?"
"I'm just...looking."
"At what?" said Betsy, putting her hand on her hip.
"Never mind," I snarled as I stomped past her. I wasn't about to tell her that I was looking for a pile of hidden puke.
"Freak," I heard her grumble as she closed her bedroom door.
I checked every night from different windows in the house. The snow turned gray and splotchy and then it broke into warped continents across the lawn, but there was still no sign of the hole. Not even a speck. I tried to measure where the car was parked and where Dad's knees could've sunk in the ground, but any mark he had made was gone. I didn't even know what I was looking for after a while; I just knew I had to look for it. It was as if the dirty snow had swallowed this fermenting secret and every time I stepped over it, or worse, on top of it, I was driving it farther into the earth's core. I hated that I was the only one who knew it was there and that I had become its sentinel, watching to see where it would surface. One night when Mom was tucking me into bed, I tried to tell her that I had seen something that maybe I shouldn't have. Just in case Dad hadn't told her; I didn't want him to get in trouble.
"I think I might've seen Dad maybe get sick."
"What do you mean, sick?"
"I think maybe throw-up sick. Maybe."
"I don't think so, sweetie. But even if he did, you know sometimes his gas gets bad. Don't worry. I'll make sure he eats more Tums."
Then it snowed again and this time it fell in thick, imposing flakes. I knew I'd never find the hole after that, no matter how hard I looked, but I couldn't stop. I also decided that for the rest of the winter I would enter the house only through the side door and I would step on the stone wall to get there. I didn't trust the frozen front lawn at all.
Inside our house wasn't much better. The radio was still on continually, but it had subsided to a muted chatter and I knew without asking that we were not to raise our voices above it. Dad began staying home from work a lot and going to doctors' appointments. Mom said that something was going on with his kidneys, a genetic disease. The doctors were working on it, but in the meantime, we had to leave all the cranberry juice for him and not make too much noise.
Often when I came home from school, Dad was already in his drippy dungarees and cream-colored fisherman's sweater, shuffling around the living room in his moccasin slippers with his hands in his back pockets as if he was holding his kidneys into his sagging frame. Sometimes he was asleep in the big armchair, his head listing backward, the skin of his neck collecting limply like a plucked chicken's.
I'd clear my throat and he would jolt forward to declare groggily, "Well, hello there, madam!" scrambling to rearrange his face into a genteel grin as if he hadn't been asleep and I was a Southern belle sidling up for lemonade.
"Hi, Dad. What are you doing here?" I'd ask. I didn't intend to sound mean, but I didn't like it when he was home before me. I'd think about all those other dads coming up the hill from the train with their blue suits and briefcases and get impatient with him for being so droopy and pale.
"Oh, you know," he'd say.
I didn't know. I didn't know anything. I never learned the whole story. I didn't know how that hole had dragged us all down into its evil silence. I didn't know why Dad's sweater had grown so long and loose that he was lost in it and I was too scared to ask where he had gone. I didn't know when the diagnosis had changed because first Mom would say it was a fever and then Dad would say it's nothing and then Betsy and I were in the bathroom one night and in between spits of toothpaste she whispered, "It's really bad. Like, this is serious."
"Serious how?" I asked with an annoyed shrug.
"Serious serious."
"Shut up. You don't know that." I turned on both faucets as far as they would go, hoping to drive her away in a puff of steam.
I don't know how much my parents shared with either of my siblings. I don't know what they knew themselves. I just knew it was my obligation to trust them when they said it was a nothing fever. Each night as I gripped the windowsill and bore my eyes into the matted ground, I was convincing myself it was something out there that was rotten and not right here this close and this real.
Dad had dealt with bouts of pain caused by his polycystic kidneys, but never like this. Now there were overnights at various hospitals where they tested my father for all kinds of diseases and pumped him with antibiotics. When Mom brought us to visit, he pulled his arm quickly under the covers so I couldn't see the IV needle pricking his cloudy skin. I hated when he did this, especially when I caught him in the act, the small tubing snapping lightly on the starched sheets, dribbling some radioactive-looking elixir into his veins. I wanted to tell him he wasn't being sneaky enough; I could see he was trying to hide something, I just couldn't figure out what it meant.
"The doctors are working hard on it," Mom kept saying as she kissed me good night. "They're really good, too."
Months later when the ground thawed and the first crocuses shot up, my father took off his grimy sweater and he'd shrunken in half. Still, nobody said anything. I decided I wasn't talking either. At my sixth-grade graduation, even though it was almost ninety degrees out on the playground, Dad showed up in his blue corduroys and winter oxford, his Nikon hanging around his neck, pulling him toward the blacktop. He kept asking me to gather my friends together for more pictures but I politely explained that we were very busy signing yearbooks and making summer plans and then I ran away from him and hung out by the bleachers for the rest of the afternoon.
That night, even with my bedroom door barricaded shut, I couldn't tell my diary the real reason I took off. I was too hot and twisted up inside. I was mad at Dad for being so rickety looking, huddled over in a sorry crescent, like he was making a game plan but there was no team beside him. I was mad at Mom for her outdated haircut and flimsy-looking smile. And I was mad most of all at the doctors for being fine and good and working so hard.
My father's decline was swift, though of course I'll never know how much he suffered. I don't remember much about that summer, except that the cicadas swooped in again in their screeching gales and Dad's hospital refrigerator was only big enough to hold cans of vanilla drink that he said tasted like glue.
I still hold on to the slivers of sunlight that we shared.
My mom rented a cabin in Massachusetts with a dock that bobbed absently while we dipped our feet in the lake. When I looked down at our legs in the water, I thought Dad had seaweed climbing up his until I realized those were his veins. The lake was cool and still and looked like a big bowl of muddy soup to me, but Dad said it was the best lake he'd ever seen and I said, "Me too," because I just wanted us to be the same.
The glass cups of orange sherbet that he ate meditatively, longingly, his lips slick and stained as he smiled with humble relief.
The strings hanging like cobwebs from the bottom of his dungaree shorts.
I remember Betsy coming home from summer camp prattling incessantly about her new boyfriend, showing me his clumsy sonnets of adoration and saying that one day they would run away together and it would be better that way because things at home were only going to get worse.
I remember Jon coming home from his summer job teaching tennis and retreating to his room without a word. I only knew he was there because I could smell the salami sandwiches he loved to microwave or hear him socking tennis balls against the wall.
I remember the night Mom made sure Betsy and Jon were both out of the house. She cooked my favorite meal crispy chicken, peas, and onion rye bread, which tasted extra delicious and salty until Dad said that he had something to tell me. The doctors had decided it wasn't the kidney thing after all, it was actually cancer and they're working on it but they're not sure what kind or where it all is and it could be spreading through his lymph nodes but there isn't really any way to treat it because his kidneys can't process chemo and whatever they tell him he promises to tell me and he'll make me a deal that if he gets impatient or crabby just know that he still loves me and it's just that he's not feeling well and if I have any questions or I feel worried I can always ask him and he will promise to tell me everything except we don't know everything yet but he's still my dad and he always will be and does that sound fair?
I wagged my head loosely, which passed for a yes. Then we ate for a little while longer until Mom asked why I hadn't touched my peas. She said she thought they were the kind I liked.
"C'mon, Ab. Just a couple," she coaxed.
"Leave her alone, Joan. She's got a lot to digest right now."
"I know, but she needs her greens."
Usually I liked when they were both talking about me and not my siblings, but not that night.
"Hey, Ab, you want to be excused early?" asked Dad.
I nodded to that too. Dad gave me a big smile and a wink as if we were business partners and I'd just made a smart decision.
Then I went up to my room and lay on my bed and squeezed my hands into fists in my pockets so I couldn't be tempted into touching the wallpaper. I just stared at it with my cruelest glare instead. Those flowers and polka dots had known about this all along. They had their own secret language they spoke with the squiggles and stripes and they recognized when someone was going to explode and someone was going to get cancer and they had been laughing at me this whole time while I thought it was the kidney thing. The flowers had hideously wide toothy smiles and the curlicues were bouncing up and down, soaring gleefully off some invisible trampoline, and I hated them all. They were phony and babyish and liars. As I was scowling, even though I didn't want to or mean to, my hands came unleashed. I traced vigorously, stormily, plowing through the pastel brush, trying to make it all better somehow.
The rest of the summer was trips to the hospital and then to the pool. Mom worked half-days and went straight to visit Dad. Sometimes she stayed the night with him while Betsy, Jon, and I ordered Chinese takeout. But it wasn't Sunday night so it tasted off and all the fortune cookies had messages I'd heard before.
One day in early August, Mom told me that instead of going to the pool, she was taking me to work with her and then we were going on a date to Pizza Hut. We each ordered personal pan pizzas and the all-you-can-eat salad bar buffet, which included croutons and black olives, so I was particularly pleased. Mom tucked my hair behind my ears and said, "Remember Dad promised to tell you what was going on, even if it was bad?"
Twenty-two minutes and eleven seconds.
I had one eye on my watch to time our pan pizzas because if they didn't come out in exactly a half hour, the whole meal would be free.
"Well...so...things are not so good."
Twenty-three minutes and three seconds. I couldn't let the waitress see me timing her because I wanted it to be a surprise.
"So...yeah. It's not so good and the doctors want Daddy to stay in the hospital but he has decided to come home and we'll make the New Room like his bedroom with a special bed and a nurse." The New Room, where we watched TV and played board games, wasn't really new we had been calling it that since Mr. Finneman built it for us nine years earlier.
Twenty-four. It wasn't even that busy in the Hut. This waitress was really cutting it close.
"Did you hear me?"
"Yeah, sure. That's good, right?"
"Well, good that Dad'll be home again. But...it'll be different. First of all, there won't be much TV watching going on."
That wasn't big news, since we didn't watch that much TV to begin with, but Mom was acting very serious, so I scrunched my eyebrows to let her know I was hearing every word she said.
Twenty-five and forty-four seconds. I smiled into my napkin. I loved the number four and took two in a row as a very auspicious sign.
"So, I just thought I'd tell you. And also, I thought maybe it'd be fun if Betsy and you went to visit the Massachusetts cousins for a week or so. That way, Dad can get settled back at home, and you two can get a few days at the beach."
Twenty-seven...and fifteen seconds. This meal was definitely going to be free.
"Does that sound good? Hey, Chicken? C'mon, sit up straight."
"Sure. Sure." Should I stand up and yell Time's up! I wondered, or should I just let them
"And here we are. Sorry for the delay, there. We have one personal pan with green peppers and onions, and one with extra cheese and black olives."
Damn it!
The waitress's name tag said Kiki. She had silky hair and a pert ski-jump nose, which only made me feel more gangly and defeated. Twenty-eight minutes and forty-three seconds. I wanted to tell her that she almost didn't make it.
"Be careful not to touch the pan 'cause it's super hot!" Kiki sang as she galloped away. Mom folded her napkin into her collar because she didn't want to get her plum work suit dirty.
"Do you have any questions for me, Chicken?" she asked. Everyone was always asking if there were more questions but I felt like she hadn't given me any information except that we were rearranging the house and I was going on a forced vacation and meanwhile I'd lost the free pizza race.
"Nope!" I declared loudly, shoving a slice into my mouth. It was delicious and crowded with olives, but I felt gypped. Big-time. I knew my mother was still talking but I couldn't hear what she was saying because I was trying to chew in time to the second hand of my watch. Its rhythm was logical, predictable, much more definitive and comforting than the open-ended question-sentences Mom was spewing.
Two days later, Betsy and I packed up our duffels and boarded a train to stay with the Massachusetts cousins, who were on Mom's side of the family. Any other time, I would have liked hanging out with my cousins, but all they wanted to do now was talk about boys with Betsy. I pretended to be absorbed in the biography of Anne Frank that I was supposed to read for school. But from behind the jacket cover, I glowered at them bitterly, thinking, You'll be sorry when my dad dies and I'm the most important, even more important than boys.
The one place I found calm was underwater, where the world was nothing more than a muffled blur. I felt the deep cradling me, protecting me from my cousins and my anger and all the questions that led to more questions. Betsy was a great swimmer and I loved it when we held contests to see how long we could hold our breath and pick up treasures from the mushy bottom. I lasted to nineteen and got sand dollars, mussel shells, snails, and the entire backside of a hermit crab. At night we laid the ocean's floor on the wooden porch railing so it could dry out in the sun. My cousin Eddie boiled up big pots of clams and afterward we dumped out jigsaw puzzles on the floor so we could look for the corner pieces first like Dad taught us. There were no cicadas up here, only a night so clinging and close it lay on top of us like tar. With no patterns to track in the walls, I often tossed and turned, and one night I even wet the bed. When I told Mom about it she said it was okay, there was a lot going on, and I should try enjoying the beach.
So I plugged my nose and plunged under the horizon, trying to blot out everything on land, everything in the sky, everything unknown.
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Aloe Blacc is really dope, I would be interested to check this project out, I hope there is a vid out ther of it. Dude gets slept on, hopefully he gets more attention this year in the mainstream media.
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Different Types of Boat Hatches
iBoats.com sells a wide range of different boat hatches with varied sizes, shapes, handle designs, and so on. Depending on your boat model, how much space is ... read more permitted, and your personal requirements, there are several boat hatch styles to meet everyone's needs.
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- T-Handle Strongback
This hatch style is simple to open/operate without a requirement of any additional tools or hardware. It is made with a strongback design that allows the torque to be tightened down.
- Classic Hex Centerbolt
This is the most straightforward hatch design in the marine world today. It has a two-hole design that improves the overall strength and sealing of the hatch.
- Quick Acting Low Profile
This is a hybrid style that incorporates a low profile design that is useful in areas with minimal underside clearance. This style is great for bulkhead access. It uses a T-handle design for operation.
- Multi Bolt Manholes
These are best for ship or yacht model. Different bolting methods could work for this design, depending on the application. Multi bolt manholes are made of stainless steel and/or bronze hardware and tools.
- Universal Steel
Built from 100% steel and best used for heavy industrial applications.
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Be honest guys. Do I need to change anything?
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Last year. New England vs Denver. Tom Brady: 26/34, 363 yards, 6 TD, INT
They won 45-10. That counts as running up the score.
Need to pick 2 of these 4 WR. Can't believe the day has come where Fitz itsn't a guaranteed start.
Fitzgerald vs ATL
Denarius Moore vs NO
Amendola vs NYJ
Wallace vs BAL
Any thoughts guys? Need to start 2 of these 3 RB.
LeSean McCoy, Trent Richardson, Doug Martin
Good to see Hunter getting his shot at a ring, I could see this being his final deal if the Tigers win a WS in those 2 years.
He'd probably still be a better player than some of the guys on the roster
So we lose a manager who didn't want to be here, and a pitcher we were going to cut anyway, for a middle infielder who by the sounds of it wasn't happy in Boston anymore. Sounds like a typical...
I need some help again guys! I need to start 2 of these QB's. E. Manning, Flacco, and Luck
Alright guys... I need your help because I've put myself in a weird situation. I need to start 2 of these 3... LeSean McCoy, Trent Richardson, and C.J. Spiller
(Insert crummy Leaf player [Finger, Orr, Komisarek, etc]) for (Insert superstar here)
I love how everyone is saying "We should call Snider up, blah blah blah". When they call him up, and he ***** the bed just like every other time he's played (don't give me this "He hasn't had enough...
Don't forget people have said the Pens intentionally tanked multiple seasons and traded away their top superstars to rebuild the team. So unless you're suggesting the Leafs trade away everyone but...
That would make the most sense. That way if Carlyle ***** the bed Eakins will be there and have some experience with the team as well.
I certainly hope he does. It may not be the NHL play-offs but it gives our young guys some experience in higher pressure situations.
I don't understand Leaf fans, even though I am one. They fire the guy who we've all been blaming for ages, and hire somebody different, and all you guys do is ***** and moan about it. He's probably...
I just posted this in the "Fire Wilson" thread, but rumour has it that Wilson was fired after tonights loss. Take that for what it's worth
Hey guys, rumour has it Wilson was fired after tonights loss. Take that for what it's worth at the moment
Fire Wilson?
Wilson is happy because Leaf fans aren't there to chant "Fire Wilson" during the entire 3rd period
Only for the fact that it could signify the end of Wilson
When was the last time we were the team to score within the first minute? I'm still shocked about that
I realize this is a rebuilding team, but we need a coach who can work with young guys. Look at Washington.. Put up 100+ point seasons how many years with Boudreau? They start sucking this season, and...
Damn right! Definitely the guy we needed to put us over the top! Start planning the parade :(
I get that Nash is a huge player to be on the market, but Howson is mad for raising the price on him last minute. Guaranteed he won't be making that trade this offseason
I'm betting we see a huge trade in the next 6 minutes.


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