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RobbertoRealtor.... you're deleting posts to supress the truth about housing. Why?
Indulging in your usual deleting routine, I see.
Yeah. It seems roberto wants to surpress the truth about housing by deleting.
I have to say it's rather strange of Patrick to allow him to delete your posts. I guess it's his next step seeing as you always circumvent his bans.
Rather strange? It's one of the benefits of paid membership. Maybe we should become paid members so we can delete your posts. hmmmm?
Oh, but Roberto doesn't have one of those lovely gold stars under his name. Clearly he's been given special dispensation to remove every single one of your posts after other people have already quoted and responded to them. Power indeed.
You are underestimating CA sales taxes a bit there. They've recently raised them.
This state only knows how to take all our money and hand them over to the greedy unions.
Uh huh.... And you can ask $50k for your used honda civic too.
I'll take it! 50K today when it could be worth 100k in 500 years at today's asset appreciation rates. My grandson's grandson's grandson's grandson will be rich I tell yah. I can't wait.
Robert Shiller: We might see a housing bubble in some cities. Notably...we already, looks like there's already in Phoenix and San Francisco...
Even though this is the Press Release, not the report, I like reading about the info from the source of the info.
Personally, I have NO fears about the fiscal cliff in 2013. The can will get a big old kick at 11:59:59. I can't believe that anyone actually thinks that our inept government would pursue any course of action other than this. The republicans are retarded, but they are not so stupid as to disrupt the status quo in any meaningful way. Same goes for the democrats. They can both feign disagreement on various fiscal talking points and then get uncle Ben to make some power moves to avert the reckoning for another year or two. Then the circus comes back to town for a repeat performance. I agree that at SOME point we may finally go off the cliff as it looks like an inevitability, but I think that the status quo will be maintained this time around. All the huffing and puffing by our "leaders" is for show, I think.
Out of curiosity, what will drive the "inevitable" house price appreciation? I agree that it is inevitable if inventories stay way below historical norms like they have been. Are we in a new paradigm where housing will be dominated almost solely by yield-chasers and the individual owner-occupier no longer participates in a meaningful way?
1. I happen to work in high-volume consumer electronics development/manufacturing. Automation won't bring jobs back here. The entire supply chain is in Asia and it is not moving here. I'd prefer it stay there. Anyone that has actually been to industrial China would. As much as Steve Jobs was a big asshole, he was dead-on when he explained to Obama why we will never produce iPhones in the USA. Supply chain. Automation could cut the production cost in half, but consumers would still pay twice as much because of the logistical problems that stem from getting all of the raw materials there to factories here.
2. Possibly. If Asia is willing to pay more for the energy than America, it will all be sold to Asia. It will go where there is the most profit, without regard for what is "good" for America.
3. Where will these "displaced workers" find employment? If you are educated in something useful you have a shot at a "better" job. Maybe if energy takes off like you say there will be job growth there. Outside of FIRE and service sector jobs that produce little-to-nothing, I am not sure where job growth will come from.
4. Convenience is, and will continue to increase. No argument here. It's all trinkety crap and no meaningful innovation. New applications of mostly existing technology. Maybe working in the industry has made me jaded, but I don't see any real human "progress" in the perfection of disposable consumer goods and the proliferation of web-advertising (*ahem* social media). Keep buying it though, it puts food on my table!
As far as I can see, the bulk of our economy is fueled by consumption which is easily outpacing production. I don't see how it is sustainable. Maybe I am totally wrong and will realize it in 5 years, I don't know. Everyone thinks that their generation is at the helm of a ship that is about to sink. Maybe the idiocy that I see rampant in every corner of our nation has always been there and is just more visible thanks to the internet, I don't know.
Phoenix market sure turned on a dime. I guess a 20k condo is not a sustainable price when a CD pays 1%. Pretty simple looking back...
Will never trust a businessman when he uses the word "honest" in a sentence.
Has it never been a housing bubble in the Bay Area?
This is the latest one.
U6 is 15%. We have a japan style ZIRP in place with trillions in money being QEinfinity keeping the joke afloat.
This place is a mess. This is the end of the middle class. If housing pops again, it will break the back of the pack mule carrying all the freight.
Denver didn't get whacked like Phoenix did, so we can't expect the same kind of increases, but prices are up, inventory is down, and correctly priced houses are gone in a few weeks (if not during the first weekend). My Redfin notifications (on my iPhone app) have been going absolutely insane over the past 2-3 weeks. Lots of activity. I got lucky to buy when I did (just 1 month ago).
Denver's prices make no fucking sense right now.
Phoenix is a place that will never ever be worth it. Doesn't mean few people won't make their money doing rentals or investors won't flip stuff to each other back and forth until someone is left with the empty bag, but overall it's a has been kind of like Detroit.
Phoenix is a place that will never ever be worth it. Doesn't mean few people won't make their money doing rentals or investors won't flip stuff to each other back and forth until someone is left with the empty bag, but overall it's a has been kind of like Detroit.
People flip houses and do rental investment at about everywhere on earth but it is hard to see the similarity between Detroit and Phoenix.
What happens when water wars change the price of water in desert areas? Let's say there's a long term drought, 10+ years, where the price per month of water goes up to say...$300/month in desert areas?
If landlords try to pass the high water price on to renters, the renter will just move away. For owner occupied, they are more likely to stay because it will be harder for them to sell into a crashing market.
After 10+ years of drought and high water prices, the outlying areas of Pheonix will look like ghost towns. With fewer people in the Phoenix area, the price per houshold of water will probably decrease, allowing the remaining people in the city center to stay. But they probably will pay $100 or more per month for water.
I'm sure you have alot of arguments against this happening and why nothing bad like this could ever happen to Phoenix (or you).
Good luck with that.
Water wars sounds like a great movie!
The RE bears are now inventing fiction since no facts support future price drops.
I waited too long to buy back in. Was lucky to buy last year. When i sell my house for 1.2m i will be sure to logon here with the news. Then retire to AZ where i can carry a gun everywhere like the old west.
It's happened before, it most likely will happen again.
I'll take real estate advice from a realtor when I take diet advice from Willy Wonka.
The RE bears are now inventing fiction since no facts support future price drops.
As much as sales data may mean something to a buyer, those aren't the facts. It's the principle of the greater fool, and we just saw that in 2006, and 2007.
I don't really know what perma bear means, but I do know there has been a long term strategy of Real Estate market timing. You buy when people are selling, and sell when people are buying.
That market timing has, in the past, been based on a decade long cycle such as between 1976, 1986, 1996, and 2006. Those were good times to buy except that 2006 thing.
Between 1998, and 2003 the Real Estate market changed radically, and globally. It wasn't just here in the good old USofA, it was Europe, Asia, and Africa. After the crash in 2008 South America then took off as the emerging Real Estate markets.
While people here blame our government for the change in Real Estate it doesn't explain what happened in the other markets until you look at banking.
Real Estate is always a good investment. Owning rentals is a good investment, but the strategy has changed. The Housing Industry has changed.
The economy has changed.
Banks are in control of large blocks of property. They are selling today for a premium, have cleared the books of dead wood, and they may well be done. I think banks will pull out of Real Estate next year 2014, from what Bernanke has said about the Fed.
Some properties will always be good, some other will adjust according to what the market will bear.
Because of that volitility I would rather have my money elsewhere right now.
So, I don't know if that is a perma bear position, because I own property. I just also know that we will sell another place this year rather than rent it out, but keep the commercial property, and land.
While I was writing this the Dow broke through the 2007 record high. How about that Dow? In terms of short terms gain, what about those that bought in 2008? or even last year?
I understand about the leverage, but still something has changed in terms of investment.
Water wars sounds like a great movie!
The RE bears are now inventing fiction since no facts support future price drops.
I waited too long to buy back in. Was lucky to buy last year. When i sell my house for 1.2m i will be sure to logon here with the news. Then retire to AZ where i can carry a gun everywhere like the old west.
Sounds like a plan. Fortunately or unfortunately, I cannot find any house selling 1.2 M in the future at where I live. May need to find some other ways to get some money to retire in AZ.
As much as sales data may mean something to a buyer, those aren't the facts.
It's the principle of the greater fool, and we just saw that in 2006, and
Like it or not, this IS the game nowadays. You can choose not to play the game but it does not necassarily mean people will all lose shirts by playing it.
this IS the game nowadays
That's exactly what I said, but sales data isn't the game. Real Estate is a long term hold.
6 million people who bought in 2006 can tell you that,
It depends on the deal, doesn't it?
Just because a house sold for $300K doesn't make it worth that, it may well be worth only $80K. Then to tell me a person will rent that $80K investment for $1100, doesn't sound like a good thing either.
In your own scenarios you make it attractive to buy rather than rent, so that is also a contradiction. Why would some one pay you $1100 going forward?
It depends on the deal. You are talking blanket mathmatical formulas, that don't seem like sound advice.
Actually we will see soon enough, because like you, I'm usually right.
Anyone who is still a RE bear and thinks prices are about to crash huge are not capable of rational thought. They literally are refuting math with a math teacher! Really amazing to watch people deny reality. Its magical thinking.
We all wanted cheap housing for all but thats not allowed by the feds.
a year?
You must be kidding. A year, in Real estate is nothing, as we saw in 2006.
I don't dispute your rents today, because it is a tight rental market. What I also know is that three of my former clients two with short sales, and one a foreclosure are now eligible for mortgages.
How's that possible?
My objection was when you took your mathmatical formula from Phoenix Arizona, and wanted to say Chino California was the same. It's not the same demographic, or economy, so that didn't play for me.
You might as well be saying the price of Real Estate never goes down, but we know that isn't true, don't we?
We also know that banks are still tight on credit, but if the price of property were to drop, and the amount of interest income were to rise a little bit they would be back at it.
In the mean time the economy has catered to the rental markets, and over all I don't see housing being a tight commoditiy in the future.
I've been doing this a long time, and timed several Real Estate markets. This time is different.
You are in Phoenix Arizona, and have done a great job there, but continue to make blanket statements based on your own experience which doesn't need to translate universally.
are you claiming my renters don't exist?
There is some suggestion a few might disappear when they qualify for a mortgage. I don't know numbers but I'm having an experience similar to Losh where I suddenly know a list of people who have short-sold homes and are now waiting for their credit to recover so they can buy again. If you're making a premium off them for a year or two, though, you're making money. It doesn't sound like you're concerned that you spend a lot of time making that money, so sounds like Roberto's cleaning up right now.(literally and figuratively)
thats not allowed by the feds.
The Fed is what is driving this market, but they have a limit. Bernanke has said so on many occasions.
I don't understand this fascination with another crash. That isn't what happens. It's a slide backwards.
Housing is a part of the over all economy that isn't growing without cheap credit, and speculation.
We saw a slide in the 1970s, and 1980s, especially the 1980s when interest rates spiked. Even in the early to mid 1990s there were some awesome deals in Real Estate, globally even.
So tell me what's going to continue to prop up this pricing?
Zirp and 2% mortages will prop it up. Ez lending. 5 year foreclosure timelines, workouts, loan mods - money doesnt exist its zeros and ones so there is no limit or end in sight to the manipulations.
I sold several investment homes
I sold in 2005, 2006, and 2007.
the math works the same unless for some reason paying 1500 in rent versus 1000 on mortgage feels better in Chico...
No, the math only works in a rising market. Rising rents, or property values. Buying for the sake of saving on rent isn't sound business, unless that is the place you will stay the rest of your life, but Chico? California? Come on.
I predicted the crash.
We all predicted the crash.
I expect a much better economy in the 2014
You're forgetting the debt from those wars, and ignoring banking as a driver of the Real Estate markets.
Zirp and 2% mortages will prop it up. Ez lending
There will be easy lending on property values that are in line with what the market will bear with higher interest rates.
Like I've said we have been here before. The economy has shifted. Housing will become less of a driver in the economy, kind of like we are seeing now. We have a recovery in spite of the Housing sector.
Rising prices aren't always a good thing, in today's case it's choking the consumer with higher debt that will need to be paid off over a longer, and longer period.
In the past inflation ate the mortage debt up, you could sell for a profit. When you pay a high price today, and prices fall your ability to move is greatly reduced.
It isn't a matter of if prices will recede, it's when. I think it will be in 2014 which will be the end of a seven year cycle started in 2007.
you were completely wrong
I'm very rarely wrong.
I highly doubt we will ever see high intrest rates again. Why why why would the fed ever raise them? It would cause catastrophy thus not allowed. Inflation has been beat by chindia plus automation.
It isn't a matter of if prices will recede, it's when. I think it will be in 2014 which will be the end of a seven year cycle started in 2007.
I happen to agree and anticipate the end of the 2014 RE season will hold the top price for this round. Todays prices will no doubt be hard tested during the off season 2014-2015.
The real test for future home price (2015 and beyond) will be how todays prices hold up.
I highly doubt we will ever see high intrest rates again.
2015 is absolutely looking to be the time int rates do come back with fiery and a true bottom in RE will be established. Perhaps below the already so called established lows... Undoubtedly price will let us know, it will speak for itself.
The only thing that is scientific and reliable is case shiller housing index.
FWIW, shiller proved that RE prices can be influenced by irrational exuberance... hence the name of his book.
Zirp and 2% mortages will prop it up. Ez lending. 5 year foreclosure timelines, workouts, loan mods - money doesnt exist its zeros and ones so there is no limit or end in sight to the manipulations.
LOL, you may very well be correct.
I highly doubt we will ever see high intrest rates again
Could be...depends on how old you are. But I think your scenario is pretty unimaginative and improbable, because, among other things, it assumes that the American economy will never stand on its hind legs ever again.
The only thing that is scientific and reliable is case shiller housing index.
The Index is flawed, and most people know it. It encompasses a broad Metropolitan area, that has proved to be a mixed bag of both good, and bad Real Estate market places.
Which reminds me; I did go into great detail about how the Seattle Real Estate market place was vastly different than Phoenix, because we never had the price reductions Phoenix saw.
We did see massive price reduction in Tacoma to our South and some investors have been stuck there with less than stellar properties.
You can't blanket the Real Estate market.
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INteresting, never really thought about why they're called that....
The earliest firearms were cannon, used to breach castle walls. These were made from logs having their center cores burned and bored out. They fired round stone balls, hewn at or near the battlefield. (Think casting is drudgery?)
All too often these failed, bursting out the hollowed out log. In order to reinforce these cannon, oak, or similar boards were placed longitudinally around the circumference. and coopers wrought iron bands, or hoops, to hold the reinforcing in place. The result looked much like liquid containers of the day, barrels.
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INteresting, never really thought about why they're called that....
While posting this on another forum, it occurred to me that even today in parts of Tennessee and Kentucky, there are still barrels with charred innards very much in use.
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The contemporary one's of which you speak are probably shorter and of larger diameter than the ones of old you so eloquently described. The newer ones are probably used for something other than launching projectiles. :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
What a great concept to purchase new guns, Gee honey can't find my .45 ACP, you seen it? Guess I'll have to get a new one. Oh BTW did you see my .357 magnum can't find it neither.The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.
Hey, try it and if it works I may give it a try around my house. But I've been married 32 years this time and she may have me figured out by now. :-D :-D


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Has anyone else noticed that Olivia Wilde has been spending a lot of time alone lately?
Pamela Anderson isn't alone. She has her dog and a dog for a husband so she is set.
Ryan Phillippe hangs out with his daughter Ava.
Which is the bigger star? Jerry O'Connell or Rebecca Romijn?
Sandra Bullock does some shopping.
Selena Gomez does the car key stuff in hands and also have a purse juggle.
Ashley Tisdale showed up to the premiere of
Zac Efron's new movie.Yeah, I don't think anyone is going to go see it either.
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'"From what I saw, I hope that's not a legal hit, because if it is, I could've gotten hurt more than what I was," Gaustad said. "I just got to move on from it. "'
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Sabres 'disappointed' in no suspension for Armstrong
Kotalik, Morrisonn assigned to Rochester
'The Sabres are now about $930,000 under the cap, taking away Kotalik and Morrisonn but counting a $425,000 bonus owed Tyler Myers. They had been about $3.6 million over with the NHL's top payroll. They are now third in cap payroll at about $63.3 million, behind Washington ($65.1 million) and Philadelphia ($64.1 million). The Capitals are the only team over the cap.'
Only thing left for Sabres is winning
'Getting to opening night, however, has a much different feel this fall. Next week the Sabres will ship off to Europe to open the regular season, leaving behind an arena, nee, center full of Pegula-funded construction projects including a brand new locker room.'
Tuesday's Rochester Coverage
Rochester Amerks' Brennan aims to make Sabres take notice (Rochester D&C)
Ex-Amerk Sean McMorrow pleads guilty to marijuana smuggling (Rochester D&C)
Day 1 of training camp offers a homecoming, reunion of sorts (Amerks.com)
Sabres assign 14 players to Rochester
'This leaves the Sabres with 27 players still in training camp (16 forwards, 8 defensemen and three goaltenders).'
Sabres F Kotalik, D Morrisonn assigned to AHL
'The moves came two days after both players were waived in allowing the Sabres to get their payroll under the NHL's $64.3 million salary cap. Buffalo was projected to be a little over $3 million over the cap, and Kotalik and Morrisonn combined to make about $5 million in the final year of their respective contracts this season.'
Foligno, Kassian assigned to Amerks
'The Sabres also assigned forwards Ales Kotalik, Jonathan Parker, Michael Ryan, Colin Stuart, Phil Varone and Derek Whitmore; defensemen T.J. Brennan, Joe Finley, Brayden McNabb, Shaone Morrisonn, Dennis Persson and Drew Schiestel; goalie Drew MacIntyre.'
Sabres get under cap, assign Kotalik, Morrisonn to Rochester
'Of course, the Sabres are still on the hook for their salaries, so they'll likely eat more than $5 million this season.'
The aftermath: Blue Jackets 4, Sabres 1
'The Sabres finished up a stretch of three games in a row, and four games in five days. This was the first time Buffalo had played three straight preseason games since 2001. "It's a tough schedule, I think it's a good test," said Ruff. "We had some players that didn't have a lot left in the tank and you could tell."'
Sabres' Ellis in a battle for last spot
'Once again, Ellis' fate is expected to come down to the final days of camp. He's essentially fighting Luke Adam and Cody McCormick for the last forward starting job, with a second player taking the reserve role. The third choice will start in Rochester.'
Monday's Columbus Coverage
Mason showing improved form in Jackets' 4-1 win over Sabres (Columbus Dispatch)
Photo gallery (Columbus Dispatch)
Photo gallery (Fox Sports Ohio)
Preseason Post Game vs. Buffalo (BlueJackets.com)
Photo gallery (BlueJackets.com)
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Byers help Blue Jackets top Sabres
'Myers put Buffalo on the board in the third period with a close-range backhander on the power play.'
Columbus 4, Buffalo 1
'Tyler Myers scored on a power play in the third period for Buffalo's goal and Ryan Miller allowed all four goals on 27 shots.'
Buffalo's Boyes suspended two preseason games
'Boyes will miss games against Columbus and Washington, but will be eligible to play when the Sabres open their season against Anaheim on October 7 in Helsinki, Finland.'
Sabres Fall to Blue Jackets
'The Sabres would finally get on the board in the third period with Radek Martinek in the box for a high sticking double minor. Tyler Myers cashed in on the first half of the powerplay, tickling the twine at 10:38 with assists from Pominville and Gragnani. But the rally would stop there and the Sabres took their first lost of the preseason.'


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The New York Public Library continues to amaze us.
The New York Times ran an article recently – Secret of the Stacks. The library encompasses four major research libraries and 87 branches, with a total of 20 million books, 50 million cataloged items and a growing demand in this recession for loaner laptops and other free services. Only the Library of Congress and the British Library are larger. But even the Fifth Avenue landmark by itself is a marvel of big numbers. It is undergoing a $1.2 billion makeover in preparation for its 100th birthday. Built from 1899 to 1911, it cost $9 million, contains 530,000 cubic feet of white Vermont marble and 125 miles of shelving, and opened with an inventory of one million items.
It highlights unique and unknown facts about the library:
- Most Faithful Customer : Norbert Pearlroth, the head researcher for "Ripley's Believe It or Not," visited the library almost daily. Although he wrote about the incredible, his own routine was anything but: He sat at the same table for 52 years, from 1923 to 1975.
- Menu collection : The library has 40,000 restaurant menus, the world's largest collection, dating from the 1850s to the present. It is heavily used by chefs, novelists and researchers; a few years ago, a marine biologist consulted menus from the early 1900s for a study of fish populations.
- Curiosities : The most bizarre item, not counting those skull fragments from Percy Bysshe Shelley in Room 319, has to be Charles Dickens's favorite letter-opener. The shaft is ivory, but the handle is the embalmed paw of his beloved cat, Bob, toenails and all.
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These are my budget boots. Got some leather ankle boots, that were about as close as i could find to the real thing, at the thrift store for 3 bucks. and just glued come gray and black canvas I had laying around. And used some black dollar store shoe laces for piping.
The spikes are just cardboard with some pieces of old pens for the spikes. and voila' .....budget boba boots for less than 5 bucks .
I know they arent exactly perfect but they will do til i can get my hands on some MOW boots.


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Im going to be picking up a new shotgun in the next few weeks for my main waterfowl and turkey gun. I have been using my little brothers pump action winchester model 1200 and he wants it back. All i have is an old single shot that doesn't pattern very well. Fun little gun but not the greatest for hunting. So far i am leaning towards the Browning maxus Duck Blind Camo cause i love browning and found a steal of a deal. I went to the local shop to hold and shoulder all semi's i have found and the Maxus was the best. I dont know weather the 26" or 28" would be better. From what i read the 28" is better for waterfowl but the 26" is better for turkey. What would you personally suggest? This gun will be used for everything, Spring and fall turkey every year, and waterfowl all day every day of the season. I got a chance to hold both 26" and 28" and i think the 28" feels better to swing but im not too sure. I will also be taking this gun out for deer when the shotgun season opens up so i will be picking up a rifled choke to go with it.
I also will be getting the 3" instead of the 3.5" cause its 200 dollars cheaper at least which will go towards chokes and ammo. I have always hunted with 2 3/4" shotguns and it has always worked. just the past year or so i have been switching between 2 3/4" and 3" shells and i like both. I dont feel the need for 3.5" shells personally if its an extra 200 dollars and a little more for ammo. So 3" it is.
As far as shotgun goes, what do you think of the choice. Compared to say the SX3, where does it stand? i read there similar except that the maxus has better chokes. Why is that?


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The thoracic organ transplant program at UNC Hospitals offers heart, lung and heart-lung transplantation. The UNC transplant team includes board-certified thoracic surgeons who have completed formal thoracic transplant fellowships, adult and pediatric cardiologists, adult and pediatric pulmonologists, anesthesiologists, transplant coordinators, social workers, physical therapists, infectious disease specialists, radiologists and pathologists.
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where did you get your onion plants from? I ordered mine from Browns in Texas. I should be getting them next week. And what varieties didja get?


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I currently have a Beretta 92fs. I am looking for something smaller for concealment, as a 92 would be like trying to conceal a Volkswagen.
I have been looking at the HK P2000sk as well as Springfield's compact 1911. I have shot primarily with 9mm, but would love to bump it up to a 45.
What is yall's opinion of these models, in comparison? Also, I don't have much experience firing 45's. How's the kick compare on the 45 compacts compared to the large frames?


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Did you get the Geolandars?
Had to go buy new tires today - I still had maybe another 6-8k left on my old tires, but they truely sucked - They never were that great in the wet weather, and with the rain we've had in the past week - they have been horrible.
Spent an extra $40 a tire over what I had before, and I got some Yokohama tires. I love how they hit ya with all those extra fees to get them put on, but Discount Tires still give a pretty good deal. They even gave me the remaining prorated milage on the old tires, so I save $57.
On the way home, some moron just stopped to make a left turn w/o signalling, so I had to stop hard - My old tires would have slid on the pavement. These new ones gripped. So, I can already tell the difference.
Geolanders? Is that a Yokohama tire?
I have a Toyota car. I got the YK520's
Yeah, a while ago you asked about a good rain tire. I suggested the Yoko Geolandar A/T+II. It is a light truck tire though.
Oh, that's right. I remember now. Yea, it sounded like a truck tire from the name.
The Yokos I got had pretty much all pos reviews when I researched them. Only other tire I may have gotten was a Michelin Hydroedge, but they were $146 a piece. This was kind of a step below that. We'll see how they work in the rain now.
I was gonna get an alignment tomorrow, but it barely pulls to the right. The old tires pulled much worse to the left, and yet they worse evenly. The car is almost aligned. So, I don't think I'm gonna bother spending another $69 + tax on a 4 wheel alignment afterall...
Get the alignment. You'll make the $69+ back in the longevity of your tires. If you car is even slightly out of alignment it's very detrimental (sp) to tire wear.
The new tires don't pull because they haven't been worn yet. You still have an alignment problem, trust me. (I speak from experience) Do you really need a 4 wheel alignment?? Maybe, maybe not. At least get the front aligned.
Well, I've prev had issue w/ my tires in the past - had an alignment and the car still pulled - rotated the tires and it pulled the other way. So, the dealership had to replace my tires at around 7k. Next time I had the tires rotated, it pulled a different way - The factory tires sucked.
Anyway, with these, I will see. I still haven't decided. My last tires wore evenly, and I got 55k out of 60k tires.
My car requires a 4 wheel alignment, not just a 2 wheel. But for $70, I don't see that its really worth it, when its barely pulling...
Well, I drove in the rain on the highway for 1.5 hours today - those tires made a huge different - it was like night and day. I definitely recommend the Yokohoma YK520s...
I just got new tires about a month ago. It feels so much better to drive when its wet now. Plus my gas mileage has improved a little.


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Discussion in 'January 2012' started by roscoe36, Jan 26, 2012.
7:00 PM EST TV: FS Detroit / NBA league Pass Radio: 97.1 The Ticket
I miss Doug Collins as an anouncer. He used to say nice things about the Pistons when there were nice things to say about the Pistons.
He'd get laid off then do to inactivity...........
Y-U-G-E game tonight. The Pistons are going to attempt to blow a 12 pt lead with :20 seconds to go.
We go on the road for this one. We lose our huge home court advantage. 4-16 really sounds pathetic. Philly is in the Atlantic division...where they're not being tested. The Celtics may step up....but the rest will only battle for a playoff spot. Interesting article.........Talks about the 76ers need to "throttle the bottom feeders" http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ycn-10892099 Since we qualify as a bottom feeder..........76ers by 21 points...........
Saturday evening checklist - Exercise - check - Eat Dinner - check - Watch Pistons lose -
Isotayshaun! Dear Rodney: Please don't hog me. Love, the Ball.
They look so tired. Moose looks really mad. This is not the team I watched last night. The ball isn't moving much, the players aren't either and the Sixers are killing us from deep. Blowout imminent.
We're only down 15 in the third..........we can win this game...........
What a farce. And why is Frank playing the clearly dog tired Knight in garbage time? I mean, really? I can't watch anymore.
Ouch! But this game showed us our possibilities if it ever "came together". Ben Gordon was paid a BOATLOAD of money to come in and do what Lou Williams does. JJ, while not nearly as talented, can do for us what Thaddeus Young does for them. While I don't like Brandon Knight I do believe he can be as good as Jrue Holiday. From an offensive standpoint ONLY, Chaz is better than a Past His Prime Elton Brand. The difference in talent is on the wing, Iggy OWNS Tay! But Philly is impressive in the sense that they have truly bought in and go ALL OUT for 48 minutes. Does anybody even know what we're selling so somebody/anybody can "buy in"?
The Sixers have EIGHT guys who average 9 points or more per game.
Bad game. Sixers are good and they didn't have their big man. Glad they didn't hold us in the 50's.
One thing: Tayshaun Prince's hand is where offensive ball movement goes to die. If I never see Tay palm the ball and pretend to set up a play only to jack up a crap shot again it'll be too soon. We're lucky our offense didn't go the way the Magic's did against Boston. It's bad enough getting blown out by 30, it's worse to set a record for it.
Gotta believe that relief is on the way. My guess is that the new owner is talking to a basketball mind even as I type, about the situation in Detroit. My guess is that Joe is out soon........and somebody else is brought in. I'm figuring this post is a two weeks notice..............
Spent time with the wife at the movie theater seeing The Grey and Man on a Ledge instead of wasting time watching another possible loss that eventually turned out that way. Have not watched the game yet, but I see Tay played and we went back to one of our Tay led double digit losses.... Another non-offensive night for our starting forwards ... 6 pts..compared to 2 last night.
Athaletic teams like the 6'ers or Grizzlies really give the Pistons trouble. This could have been a much bigger blowout if Philly were better shooters. I also think this also could have been a much bigger blowout if Tay didn't play. He played well into the 2nd Q before coming out of the game which allowed certain 25 year old players who were moving like they had just been in outer space without a spacesuit because they played 41 minutes the night before a long rest. This was the earliest in the evening I had watched a game all year and it was the first time I did not fall asleep watching . It was still daylight when I started watching and it put me in a better mood. I kept thinking of a playoff game for some reason. I don't think the Pistons have a shotmaker as good as Thad Young or Marv Williams. They definitely don't have an athlete like Iguodala. They may not have a player that could pull off that off the backboard dunk he did in practice or shoot around. Monroe has some Lew Alcindor in his offensive game. It is impressive to me the # of MPG Knight has been playing. It just dawned on me tonight that Walter Russell Jr is a legitimate PG. For that reason alone I hope they keep him. Both he and Knight were consistently getting the Pistons into their offense (Or getting them to the point where they start standing there waiting for the shot clock to go off) with 18-19 seconds left on the 24 tonight.
I'm drooling just thinking of watching a game with Iggy as our SF instead of Tay. He rebounds, he's a great passer and he's probably one of the three best perimeter defenders in the league. And the difference in ballhogging and athleticism compared to Prince is too large to describe. The Pistons highlight of the game - the Russel/V-Mac alley-oop in garbage time. Also nice to see Russell getting 5 dimes and V-Mac adding yet another + game!
Terrico White- we waived him.
Coaching loss, again. Coach can't learn. Look at this. After 6 minutes, the point at which Ben is suppose to come out of the game, we were ahead 8-7. Three minutes later, we are down 15-8 and new coach finally pulls Ben. But it just gets worse, as he brings in JJ, who by no means is an NBA power forward. In the 2nd quarter, we start down 10 points, but pull to within 7, 6 minutes into the quarter - where its time to pull JMAX - cause JMAX can't play but 6 minutes at a time himself. I need not tell you the rest. In all, two fine defensive players were exhausted before the end of the first half - cause their coach can't, or simply won't, coach. They talked about being tired - but that is the coaches decision. We have a fine team. Let them play. And no, guys like Russel and Wilkins do not need to get a lot of minutes. Neither scores points. Ben Wallace is enough of an offensive liability for one team - at least he plays the D. The rest need not apply. A rotation: 1st 6 minutes: Knight, Daye, JJ, Ben Wallace, Monroe 2nd 6 minutes: Knight, Stuckey, JJ, JMAX, Monroe 1st 6 minutes of 2nd quarter: Stuckey, Daye, Tay, Ben Wallace, Macklin next 6 mintues: Knight, Daye, JJ, JMAX, Monroe. Repeat above for 2nd half. For minutes: Knight 36, Daye 36, Stuckey 24, Tay 12, JJ 36, JMAX 24, Ben Wallace 24, Monroe 36, Macklin 12.
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Here's the finished test model..After going back and forth I've decided to go with the original (Alumilite: urethane resin) as the casting medium for the upper sections of the gauntlets and all the component parts. The bottom sections will be vacuum-formed polystyrene. I went with the Alumilite due to it's strength, it's beautiful cured finish and more important there's no chipping! This had a tendency to happen with past fiberglass versions. The down side is my cost has tripled using the Alumilite as compared with fiberglass.
Here's a re-cap: I've created a arched, rib-like design for the upper portions of the gauntlets to help prevent them from being compressed, crushed or what have you. There's a good 3/16th of an inch of Alumilite, a little thinner where the upper portions meet the bottom portions for a cleaner look. I've completely re-designed the flame unit detail. It's larger than my previous versions. It's reinforced with 2 steel pins imbedded in the casting just like my past ESB flame units. I've added a new feature..but you've probably already figured that one out . Yeap, the lever switches..That's what the holes were for in the original photos THESE SWITCHES ARE NOT INCLUDED WITH THE KIT (please don't ask me to provide them. They're simply way to far out of my way to get). They sell for around $3.00 a piece at your local Radio Shack. I've also removed the movie version push button detail from the top of the right gauntlet and kept the cast smooth. You can mount a functional push button or lever switch here as well for an updated look. I'll provide the traditional movie accurate button as a separate detail along with the Kit, you can see it in the original Kit photo. I wont be including a rocket detail with this new set..There are too many beautiful metal versions around and most of you probably own one so I left that detail out.
I'm planning to do a photo tutorial of the Kit assembly very soon which should help..I'll also post the original Kit photos as well.
(The cost of the new ESB gauntlet kits are $275.00 with US shipping included. International orders will be $285.00 shipped)
I'll be begin work on the Kits next week sometime so please PM me for further details and pre-paid orders..This will have to be a quick run so I can get on the ROTJ versions before a few of you guys hunt me down
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Background: There is a lot of misconceptions as to the compatibility of gauge clusters being swapped. Basically, you can swap any Zetec cluster into another, this holds true for the SVT cluster as I'm going to show you. For other engines, I believe the plug is different so I don't think they will work with each other.
Objective: Get the SVT Gauge Cluster to fully work in a non-SVT car, this means having the AUX gauges work and the stock EL backlighting without purchasing an extra inverter.
Two ways to accomplish it:
1) You can do the splices directly into your harness. I found this would be extremely difficult due to the cramped space and the potential to ruin your wiring harness.
2) You can do it how I did it and create an adapter to plug the cluster plug from your car into and the SVT cluster plug into the same adapter. This was very difficult also but a safer way. I feel this would be the best way to do this so that it is 100% reversible if need be.
Materials Needed:
*NOTE: there are two ways to do this so the list below is what I used to create the adapter.*
old gauge cluster (for the connector)
soldering iron & solder
desoldering iron
SVT gauge cluster & aux gauges
electrical tape
hot glue
22 gauge wire
digital multimeter (to check connections and pin routes)
the aux gauge plug and main cluster plug
a printed circuit board or project board from radioshack
Finally the steps:
1) Look over these wiring diagrams as you'll need to know where the pins are on the connectors.
2) Desolder the connector off of the old broke gauge cluster (only if it's a broken one or one you don't care about). Mine came from another SVT cluster that an ebay seller broke trying to fix the mileage.
3) Time to start splicing all the wires together (you may have to extend some of the wires length by soldering more wire as needed). Below you'll find the pins that need to be connected from the aux connector to the main cluster connector:
Pins 1 and 9 from the aux connector connects to the 2 wires on the top of the main cluster for illumination. Just match the colors up for this.
Aux Cluster Pin -----> Main Cluster Pin
Pin 4 -----> Pin 16 [Voltage supplied in Start and Run ]
Pin 5 -----> Pin 19 [Oil pressure switch, input ]
Pin 6 -----> Pin 13 [Standard Corporate Protocol (SCP) data +]
Pin 7 -----> Pin 26 [Standard Corporate Protocol (SCP) data -]
Pin 8 -----> Pin 14 [Battery voltage, hot at all times]
Pin 12 ----> Pin 4 [Speed control indicator, control ]
Pin 14 ----> Pin 10 [Battery voltage, hot in Run and Acc only]
Pin 15 ----> Pin 3 [Illumination dimmer switch output]
Pin 16 ----> Pin 2 [Ground]
Pins 2, 3, 10, 11, 13 are not used on the aux connector.
I complete all the splicing by just soldering the wires together then using some heat shrink tubing to seal it up.
4) Once I completed soldering all of those up it's time to solder those wires onto the connector. I personally bought a project board from radioshack but wish I could/would have taken the time to come up with less of a ghetto solution as it was pretty difficult to do this. Here are some pictures of the connector after I had soldered it all together and added some hot glue holding it all together better:
I then wrapped it up in electrical tape just to be sure. So, here are pictures of the completed adapter:
Everything works except the oil temperature but there's nothing I can do about that. You'll also need to get the cluster reprogrammed for your car or else the ABS and brake lights will be on.
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Nuclear weapons have always been a serious but seemingly insoluble problem: while they're obviously dangerous, they are also, apparently, necessary. Ward Wilson's work argues that five central arguments promoting nuclear weapons are, in essence, myths. Specifically: that nuclear weapons necessarily shock and awe opponents, including Japan at the end of World War II that nuclear deterrence is reliable in a crisis that destruction wins wars that the bomb has kept the peace for sixty-five years and that we can't put the nuclear genie back in the bottle Drawing on new information and the latest historical research, Wilson poses a fundamental challenge to the arguments on which nuclear weapons policy is currently built, arriving at a surprising conclusion: nuclear weapons are enormously dangerous, but don't appear to be terribly useful. Why, he asks, would we want to keep technology that's dangerous but not very useful?


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"It's hot!" As I slog my way up another step, sunscreen drips down my forehead and stings my eyes. I'm battling my skins, which keep sliding backwards as I focus on staying upright. The snow beneath my skis is slicker by the minute. The sun and the snow fuse in radiating heat waves. It's January in the San Juans and today it will be 48 degrees at 9,300 feet. What the hell is going on?
I remember most winters in the San Juans having a January thaw, but this feels extreme. It will later surface that January in 2012 was four degrees warmer on average than any January in the past 30 years. That's a big jump. In lower-elevation western states, like Montana and Idaho, there are now periods of rain that used to be periods of snow, and the snow that does fall is melting earlier. For people who like to ski, this is a bad trend. For people who don't care about skiing, this is still bad news. Seventy percent of the water in the western United States comes from snowmelt. In mining towns turned ski towns, this could be the final bust.
I reach the top of the ridge. The only safe line to ski is crusted over from unseasonal heat. We've had little snow this winter and the snowpack is shallow and weak from a near-barren December. Snow couloirs that are normally winter white remain stripes of black and gray granite this year. Steep, snowy peaks that normally beckon skiers are instead speckled with brown rock and high alpine tundra. Climate models suggest that skiers will have to go to higher elevations to find snow. I'm at 12,400 feet today. How much higher can I go?
On the western skyline, the La Sals rise from Utah's desert floor. In all other directions, 13,000- and 14,000-foot peaks joined by craggy ridges meet the horizon. I see my life in these mountains – ridges walked, summits climbed, high benches wandered.
In the snow just to my left is a pair of large cat tracks – a lynx. I follow the tracks to where they intersect with tracks of a snowshoe hare. Both sets of tracks then disappear down a steep avalanche path. This canyon has been home to a Canadian lynx (some suspect a pair) for several years. I've only seen him once – he was deeply intent on whatever he was stalking – but his tracks appear regularly. The Canadian lynx is in jeopardy of extinction. This one seems to be finding what he needs to survive.
How long will he make it? Lynx like the spruce and fir forests that stand just below tree line, but the forest that cradles this high canyon is beginning to show signs of sickness. The ravenous pine beetle is devouring our dry western forests and a snow year like this one will make the trees even more susceptible.
Below me rest the upper basins of the canyon I've called home for 23 years. These basins are my sanctuary. This is where I retreat in the early morning or at the end of the day to separate – from my work, my family, my life. I know I can make a run for it when life becomes discordant and be alone for a few hours in the mountains. This is my favorite place on earth.
My 3-year-old daughter, Sonja, also knows this canyon well. She camps in its high basins and drinks icy snowmelt from its creek. She knows where to find wild strawberry patches and tells us that the red mushrooms with white polka dots are poisonous but that there are other mushrooms we can take home to eat – if we cook them. She has found delicate pink and yellow lady slipper orchids hidden beneath the grass and has eaten handfuls of bluebells but knows that the purple monkshood that grow over her head are poisonous. She talks about the bear that wreaked havoc in our neighborhood and the rogue moose that appeared for the first time last fall. This canyon is imprinted on her; it beats in her heart.
When Sonja was an infant, I hauled her up and down these mountains every day, first in a front pack, and then as she grew, on my back. Sometimes she'd awake to the sound of me pulling off my skins and together we'd sing "Wheeee!" as we skied down, carving turns in spring snow.
I want this all to endure, and I know I'm not alone. I want the river to run through the fall. I want winter to stay cold. I want the snow to fall. I want to see the smile on Sonja's face as she navigates the trees through the Enchanted Forest on her tiny skis. I want to continue our extreme sledding expeditions.
How long will I tolerate what is unacceptable? Alec Loorz, from Ventura, California, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government for not protecting the atmosphere for future generations. He was 16 years old. I use Sonja as an excuse, an excuse not to go to Washington to protest the Keystone XL Pipeline. An excuse not to get mixed up in politics – I don't have the time. But as Pericles, the great leader of Athens said, "Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
The ten warmest years on record occurred in the last fourteen years. We've waged a war against ourselves and now we're all entangled in the same messy problem. It's time to elect leaders who are going to take climate change seriously and develop national energy policies that counteract, rather than accelerate, global warming. Because some day, each and every one of us will wake up and realize that something we love is gone – and our hearts will break.


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'"I think we made great strides [Sunday] night," Sabres center Daniel Briere said. "We realized that we can play. We're not going to have Henrik [Tallinder] and Dmitri [Kalinin] back. We don't know about Teppo. But you know what? We thought we were the better team [Sunday] night on the ice, and we didn't have Teppo."'
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Now personally I could not give a flying fluck whether she has set any records or not. She did circumnavigate and she did it in fine style.
I seem to remember Tania Aebi having to go through the same stuff after her circumnavigation, people saying that she had not set a record because she gave a friend an 80 mile ride from one island to another during her trip. Who cares. The people who make up these rules probably never even do any significant sailing, and as far as I'm concerned Tania Aebi set a record, and so did Jessica Watson. Whether she gets recognized by one organization or another doesn't even matter to me, she did it her way.
Edit - Moitessier didn't even bother finishing the first non-stop around the world race, he got close to the finish line and just kept on sailing until he got back to Tahiti, but nobody says he didn't do well in that race!
The entire shite storm that has erupted around JW and the record thing really gets my goat. Scott (StillRaining) emailed me about and this is how I replied (extract)...
"The controversy over the record which has been portrayed by some as SailWorld being mean spirited could have been easily avoided had her PR wallah not been an utter sleazebag and her tacticians morons. Ignoring whether the record exists officially or not, they simply failed to read the rules or chose to ignore them. Then, they tried to shift the blame onto a journalist who had pointed their mistake out to them off the record and early enough, for them to have corrected it. A simple case of lets shoot the messenger. The fact that her PR people had also blatantly stolen the logo of the Pink Lady Apple Corporation does suggest they have the moral integrity of a band of stoats."
The SailWorld Journo has been in my opinion unjustly accused of being somehow jealous or envious of JW's achievements yet in every way she is factually correct and the JW team were told well in advance that the course JW was sailing did not cover the requirements for an around the world record.
Now personally I could not give a flying fluck whether she has set any records or not. She did circumnavigate and she did it in fine style. Sure as hell I wish I had the cojones to have done it at her age or indeed to do it now. A splendid achievement no doubt at all but crucifying the journo for simply telling the truth and correcting an error is something I do not understand or accept.
I think it's great that she was able to complete the trip.
And I still think she was too young, completing the trip doesn't change that.
Dude, you cried? Just kidding.
I was a naysayer. I'll eat my crow now. She did an incredible thing. No doubt.
Bravo Jess. Bravo.
Today my wife and I went down and watched Jessica Watson sail into Sydney Harbour along with literally tens of thousands of other people who felt inspired enough to give up a Saturday to witness and honour the achievement of a 16 year old girl. It was somewhat of a spectacle. There were speeches by our Prime Minister, every TV station in the country covered the homecoming and the harbour was literally packed with boats.
When all is said and done, when the controversy is silent and the bulldust has cleared.....what is left is that she is a remarkable girl who has done a remarkable thing. This is what I think today captured my nations heart, it made us think about the things we could all do and could all be.
I cried today...I absolutely balled my eyes out as I watched this 16 year old girl sail into my beautiful harbour having done what I have not yet had the courage or conviction to attempt in my 30 years of existence.
Bravo Jess. Bravo.
She did something I'll never do.
She did so it, she circumnavigated alone, and she's in an elite club. I think it was said that more people have gone to the moon than have done what she has done. She deserves that credit.
As for SailWorld? Screw them.
As for the the naysaying pikers who pick at the technicalities of what she has done, screw them too.
As for her PR team, yeah, them too.
I'll bet not a one of them has done this and never will.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. -- Teddy Roosevelt
She is good, no doubt about it and she has done so much better than I ever gave her credit for but her PR crew appear to be a bunch of scumbags who could comfortably nap on a corkscrew.
Also - I'm with you about "the record" nonsense. As far as I am concerned, she and Abby Sunderland both deserve a ton of credit and fanfare for their accomplishments, along with any other young-ish person who has the maturity and forethought to undertake something like this. Parsing it down to mileage or months just to win a competition is missing the point of what this is about. Really.
And I'm totally disgusted by Sail World magazine (is that the name?) Sure, if they want to question the specs and mileage it's their right, I guess, but it's awfully tacky and catty to bring this up RIGHT NOW as Jessica is preparing to arrive. It's so condescending: "Oh, yes, you've done something MAHVELOUS but, oh dear, it's not QUITE up to snuff, too bad, so sad, I guess now you won't be so happy arriving at the Opera House." They certainly could have raised this point a month or two down the line. It smacks of personal crap and just makes them look bad.
TD. Well extrapolated as always
I don't have the links/quotes at hand, but yeah early in her blog she was fairly clear about setting out to 'break the record'.
To take nothing away from what she has done, there seems to be some very confusing rhetoric coming from her camp......Oh and I always get worried when I hear the words.....book deal and manager....
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Bunfight? I LOVE a good bunfight!
Congrats to Jess.
Record or no record is quite irrelevent really...she has achieved a great deal, far more than I have and I'm over three times her age.
Reality is however that her PR brigade have been portraying this as an attack on an official record, a record that in fact does not even exist anymore and they knew that right from the start. While only going public last week, Sail World reckon they had contacted Team Watson in April last year re this query.
I'm also liking the brouhaha re the infringement of the Pink Lady copyright.
She is good, no doubt about it and she has done so much better than I ever gave her credit for but her PR crew appear to be a bunch of scumbags who could comfortably nap on a corkscrew.
To be honest I don't really care other than the fact that I have something of a complete loathing for this kind of PR bovine excretia.
Developing bunfight.......looks like the JW support team didn't bother to read the rules.
Sail-World.com : Jessica Watson: Keeping the Record Straight
Yes I know she has never claimed to be out to officially break the record but to muck up the distance travelled seems inexcusably careless.
Some wag in this morning's Sydney Morning Herald has suggested she should go round Fort Denison (a small island in Sydney Harbour) a couple of thousand times which will give her the necessary miles.
Congrats to Jess.
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Tarot.com's Family Tree Numerology report purports to tell you a bit about what your ancestors were like, "offering a window into a part of yourself." I'm all for some personal insight.
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While driving back from Indianapolis to Las Vegas the rear strut noise I had became worse and I also started to get a bearing type noise that I thought was the right rear upright. I decided to take a look at everything and ended up stripping out the uprights and have them powder coated and also repainted the c.v joint housings and stripped and regreased the rear struts and fitted the STI strut mounts which are a harder rubber.
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Iowa's 15-day annual pheasant population survey begins on Aug. 1, and wildlife experts say this year could be hard to predict.
A record setting wet June that followed a winter of one polar vortex after another would likely favor a lower count, but many anecdotal reports of seeing more pheasants, quail and rabbits are coming in from across the state.
"When our pheasants do best, it's after mild winters with less than 30 inches of snow followed by a warm, dry spring nesting season where we receive less than eight inches of rain," said Todd Bogenschutz, upland wildlife biologist with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources who coordinates and collects the data from the 208, 30-mile survey routes.
"I don't want to get any hopes too high but perhaps the weather model will be wrong this year. Roadside counts should be interesting."
The 30-mile routes are driven at sunrise on gravel roads preferably on mornings with heavy dew and little wind. Surveyors watch for hens moving their broods to the road edges to dry off before starting to look for insects.
Surveyors note the number in the brood, any adult pheasants present and the size of the chicks, which tells Bogenschutz if this was an initial nest or if the nest was washed out and this brood was from a second or even third nest attempt. Each attempt after the first has fewer eggs than the prior attempt.
They drive the same routes each year.
The survey also collects data on cottontail rabbits, jack rabbits, quail and Hungarian partridge.
The information will be available online at www.iowadnr.gov/pheasantsurvey by middle September.


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TEFL says there are a few countries such as China where you don't need a degree to work as a teacher. However, you do need to have a degree in order to get a work Visa for China in the first place.
When I look for jobs in China there are plenty which don't require a degree. But how do I even get into the country to work to begin with if I don't have one?
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