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Science says: The warming trend is the same in rural and urban areas, measured by thermometers and satellites.
Surveys of weather stations in the USA have indicated that some of them are not sited as well as they could be. This calls into question the quality of their readings.
However, when processing their data, the organizations which collect the readings take into account any local heating or cooling effects, such as might be caused by a weather station being located near buildings or near tarmacs at an airport. This is done, for instance, by weighting (adjusting) readings after comparing them against those from more rural weather stations nearby.
More importantly, for the purpose of establishing a temperature trend, the relative level of single readings is less important than whether the pattern of all readings from all stations taken together is increasing, decreasing, or staying the same from year to year. Furthermore, since this question was first raised, research has established that any error that can be attributed to poor siting of weather stations is not enough to produce a significant variation in the overall warming trend being observed. Even groups that have recreated the global temperature record on their own, with the intent to prove that there are problems with the data, have admitted that there is no substance to the claim.
It's also vital to realize that climate change not based simply on ground level temperature records. Other, completely independent temperature data compiled from weather balloons, satellite measurements, and from sea and ocean temperature records, also tell a remarkably similar warming story.
Confidence in climate science depends on the correlation of many sets of these data from many different sources in order to produce conclusive evidence of a global trend.
Science says: Numerous studies into the effect of urban heat island effect and microsite influences find they have negligible effect on long-term trends, particularly when averaged over large regions.
The goal of improving temperature data is something we can all agree on and on this point, the efforts of Anthony Watts and Steve McIntyre are laudable. However, their presupposition that improving temperature records will remove or significantly lower the global warming trend is erroneous.
Adjusting for urban heat island effect
When compiling temperature records, NASA's GISS goes to great pains to remove any possible influence from urban heat island effect. They compare urban long-term trends to nearby rural trends. They then adjust the urban trend so it matches the rural trend. The process is described in detail on the NASA website (Hansen 2001).
They found in most cases, urban warming was small and fell within uncertainty ranges. Surprisingly, 42% of city trends are cooler relative to their country surroundings as weather stations are often sited in cool islands (a park within the city). The point is they're aware of UHI and rigorously adjust for it when analyzing temperature records. (More on the urban heat island effect.)
Climate Audit and NASA's "Y2K" glitch
Steve McIntyre's discovery of a glitch in the GISS temperature data is an impressive achievement. Make no mistake, it's an embarrassing error on the part of NASA. But what is the significance?
Figure 1 compares the global temperature trend from before and after adjustments. Before the error was discovered, the trend was 0.185°C per decade. After corrections were made, the trend was still 0.185°C/decade. The change to the global mean was less than one thousandth of a degree. (More on NASA's Y2K glitch.)
Figure 1.Global temperature anomaly before (red squares) and after (black diamonds) NASA's "Y2K" corrections (Open Mind).
Other lines of evidence for rising temperatures
The surface temperature trends are also confirmed from multiple, independent sources:
- Surface temperature analysis by NASA GISS finds strong agreement with two independent analyses by CRU's Global Temperature Record and NCDC.
- Weather balloon measurements have found from 1975 through 2005, the global mean, near-surface air temperature warmed by approximately 0.23°C/decade.
- Satellite measurements of lower atmosphere temperatures show temperature rises between 0.16°C and 0.24°C per decade since 1982.
- Ice core reconstructions found the 20th century to be the warmest of the past five centuries, confirming the results of earlier proxy reconstructions.
- Sea surface temperatures, borehole reconstructions and ocean temperatures all show long-term warming trends.
Science says: Independent studies using different software, different methods, and different data sets yield very similar results. The increase in temperatures since 1975 is a consistent feature of all reconstructions. This increase cannot be explained as an artifact of the adjustment process, the decrease in station numbers, or other non-climatological factors.
There are three prominent reconstructions of monthly global mean surface temperature (GMST) from instrumental data (figure 1): NASA's GISTEMP analysis, the CRUTEM analysis (from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit), and an analysis by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).
Figure 1. Comparison of global (land and ocean) mean surface temperature reconstructions from NASA GISS, the University of East Anglia's CRU, and NOAA NCDC.
How reliable are these temperature reconstructions? Various questions have been raised about both the data and the methods used to produce them. Now, thanks to the hard work of many people, we can conclude that the three global temperature analyses are reasonable, and the true surface temperature trend is unlikely to be substantially different from the picture drawn by NASA, CRU, and NOAA.
The three GMST analyses have much in common, though there are significant differences among them as well. All three have at their core the monthly temperature data from the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN), and all three produce both a land-stations-only reconstruction and a combined land/ocean reconstruction that includes sea surface temperature measurements.
Let's explore the reliability of these reconstructions, from several different angles.
The data and software used to produce these reconstructions are publicly available
Source code and data to recreate GISTEMP and CRUTEM are available from NASA and CRU websites. (The data set provided by CRU excludes a fraction of the data that were obtained from third parties, but the results are not substantially affected by this).
The software has been successfully tested outside of NASA and CRU
Both GISTEMP and CRUTEM have been successfully implemented by independent investigators. For example, Ron Broberg has run both the CRUTEM and GISTEMP code. In addition, the Clear Climate Code project has duplicated GISTEMP in Python. Figure 2 shows a comparison of the output of the GISTEMP reconstruction process as implemented by NASA and by Clear Climate Code ... but since the results are identical, the second line falls exactly on top of the first.
Figure 2. The GISTEMP land/ocean temperature analysis as implemented by NASA and by Clear Climate Code. Results of the two analyses are effectively identical.
Similar results can be obtained using different software and methods
Over the past year, there has been quite a flurry of "do-it-yourself" temperature reconstructions by independent analysts, using either land-only or combined land-ocean data. In addition to the previously-mentioned work by Ron Broberg and Clear Climate Code, these include the following:
(There are probably others as well that we're omitting!)
Most recently, the Muir Russell investigation in the UK was able to write their own software for global temperature analysis in a couple of days.
For all of these cases, the results are generally quite close to the "official" results from NASA GISS, CRU, and NOAA NCDC. Figure 3 shows a collection of seven land-only reconstructions, and Figure 4 shows five global (land-ocean) reconstructions.
Figure 3. The GISTEMP land/ocean temperature analysis as implemented by NASA and by Clear Climate Code. Results of the two analyses are effectively identical.
Figure 4. Comparison of land-ocean reconstructions, 1900-2009.
Obviously, the results of the reconstructions are quite similar, whether they're by the "Big Three" or by independent analysts.
The temperature increase is not an artifact of the GHCN adjustment process
Most of the analyses shown above actually use the raw (unadjusted) GHCN data. Zeke Hausfather has done comparisons using both the adjusted and raw versions of the GHCN data set, and as shown in fig. 5, the results are not substantially different at the global scale (though 2008 is a bit of an outlier).
Figure 5. Comparison of global temperatures from raw and adjusted GHCN data, 1900-2009 (analysis by Zeke Hausfather).
The temperature increase is not an artifact of declining numbers of stations
While it is true that the number of stations in GHCN has decreased since the early 1990s, that has no real effect on the results of spatially weighted global temperature reconstructions. How do we know this?
- Comparisons of trends for stations that dropped out versus stations that persisted post-1990 show no difference in the two populations prior to the dropouts (see, e.g., here and here and here).
- The spatial weighting processes (e.g., gridding) used in these analyses makes them robust to the loss of stations. In fact, Nick Stokes has shown that it's possible to derive a global temperature reconstruction using just 61 stations worldwide (in this case, all the stations from GISTEMP that are classified as rural, have at least 90 years of data, and have data in 2010).
- Other data sets that don't suffer from GHCN's decline in station numbers show the same temperature increase (see below).
One prominent claim (by Joe D'Aleo and Anthony Watts) was that the loss of "cool" stations (at high altitudes, high latitudes, and rural areas) created a warming bias in the temperature trends. But Ron Broberg conclusively disproved this, by comparing trends after removing the categories of stations in question. D'Aleo and Watts are simply wrong.
The temperature increase is not an artifact of stations being located at airports
This might seem like an odd statement, but some people have suggested that the tendency for weather stations to be located at airports has artificially inflated the temperature trend. Fortunately, there is not much difference in the temperature trend between airport and non-airport stations.
The temperature increase is present in other data sets, not just GHCN
All of the above studies rely (mostly or entirely) on monthly station data from the GHCN database. But it turns out that other, independent data sets give very similar results.
Figure 6. Comparison of global temperatures from the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) and Global Summary of the Day (GSOD) databases. (Analysis by Ron Broberg and Nick Stokes).
What about satellite measurements of temperatures in the lower troposphere? There are two widely cited analyses of temperature trends from the MSU sensor on NOAA's polar orbiting earth observation satellites, one from Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) and one from the University of Alabama-Huntsville (UAH). These data only go back to 1979, but they do provide a good comparison to the surface temperature data over the past three decades. Figure 7 shows a comparison of land, ocean, and global temperature data from the surface reconstructions (averaging the multiple analyses shown in figs. 3 and 4) and from satellites (averaging the results from RSS and UAH):
Figure 7. Comparison of temperatures from surface stations and satellite monitoring of the lower troposphere.
We'll end by looking at all the surface and satellite-based temperature trends over the entire period for which both are available (1979-present). What are the trends in the various data sets and regions? As shown in fig. 8, the surface temperature trends over land have a fair amount of variability, but all lie between +0.2 and +0.3 C/decade. Surface trends that include the oceans are more uniform.
Figure 8. Comparison of temperature trends, in degrees C per decade.
Overall, the satellite measurements show lower trends than surface measurements. This is a bit of a puzzle, because climate models suggest that overall the lower troposphere should be warming about 1.2X faster than the surface (though over land there should be little difference, or the surface should be warming faster). Thus, there are at least three possibilities:
- The surface temperature trends show slightly too much warming.
- The satellite temperature trends show slightly too little warming.
- The prediction of climate models (about amplified warming in the lower troposphere) is incorrect, or there are complicating factors that are being missed.
It should be noted that in the past the discrepancy between surface and satellite temperature trends was much larger. Correcting various errors in the processing of the satellite data has brought them into much closer agreement with the surface data.
The well-known and widely-cited reconstructions of global temperature, produced by NASA GISS, UEA CRU, and NOAA NCDC, are replicable.
Independent studies using different software, different methods, and different data sets yield very similar results.
The increase in temperatures since 1975 is a consistent feature of all reconstructions. This increase cannot be explained as an artifact of the adjustment process, the decrease in station numbers, or other non-climatological factors.


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I think you probably would get your question better answered around people who don't think "E-Zines" are the devil.
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I can't say "kitty litter" without my tongue tripping over it several times, so it's always "cat litter" or just "litter" here!
In 1947, Lowe decided to sell the clay. He packaged it in 5 lb bags and called it "Kitty Litter." He suggested that a local pet store sell it for 69 cents. The store owner refused, saying that it would not sell because sand was so much cheaper. Lowe told him to give it away free until people were willing to pay for it. Kitty Litter was a success. Lowe drove around the country selling Kitty Litter. He even cleaned boxes at cat shows so he could get a booth to demonstrate his product. He founded Edward Lowe Industries and created Tidy Cat cat box filler in 1964. In the early 1980s, he almost lost his market to Clorox, but by 1990 Edward Lowe Industries was the top producer of cat box filler.[5]
Quote from: Liliane on April 13, 2014, 10:39:02 PMI can't say "kitty litter" without my tongue tripping over it several times, so it's always "cat litter" or just "litter" here!Considering your post and your sig, I am quite amused.
Does the phrase "this person is having a cow" comes from the word conniption?I just made the connection today, and realised I have no idea how to translate conniption in my own mother tongue.
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We got a crossover.
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Stalker? Spectre? Phantom? Reaper? The list can go on.
Chifuyu's son born roughly 4 or 5 years after the conclusion of ST (IN SPACE!) when Ichika & co. is 20 years old. Houki's daughter is born when she was 23, Dan's Twins as well, everyone else born roughly 1 years after that. (8 years after ST)
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You don't call Snake or Raiden casually either, but if you're struck with that then there's no other choice.
If I can finish this FUCKING hiatus, maybe I can think of sequel. Otherwise, no. Assuming we used the kids, the cast is already somewhere in their 40s, which means roughly 23-24 years after the conclusion of ST. (Orimura Jr. being 15 years old)
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Nah, plenty of parents are between 35-45, but rarely past that (because we won't have teenage child in that case)
Considering both Ichika and Madoka went to college it's not really possible, Cecilia and Rin also choose the career path before going married. Only Houki and Sarashikis truly viable for early child, and even then...
Hell, by the time Chifuyu had a child, she was 28-29
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Cecilia didn't go, but she has to rebuild her family business. As I said, Sarashikis are available for 'early child' cause, so did Houki, who didn't go to college, instead she returned to her old home. (oh and Tabane is Killed in the ending, please don't ask)
Char Jr. is the Second child, not the first. They procreate TOO early
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Well, in this case, it's different. She wasn't killed mid story, it's either a lethal accident or she kill herself. I still however had to choose, whether Tabane exist or not beyond that, as human or otherwise
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CBS' Schieffer Drops Trump's Birtherism Down The Memory Hole
This morning, CBS' Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer interviewed Donald Trump about the businessman and reality television star's consideration of a possible independent run for president (consideration that, coincidentally, comes shortly before the season premiere of The Apprentice and publication of Trump's new book). Viewers learned that Trump doesn't want to run for president because he would "rather do what I'm doing now," but if he doesn't see a Republican nominated who he thinks can beat President Obama, he "would certainly think about doing it after the show ends."
CBS viewers heard nothing, however, about Trump's history of pushing debunked birther conspiracy theories. Somehow, in an interview almost entirely concerned with Trump's presidential aspirations, Schieffer did not ask a single question about the central facets of the pseudocampaign for the Republican nomination Trump ran in the spring of 2011: Trump's repeated [1] suggestion [2] that President Obama may not have been born in the United States (and thus could not hold the presidency under the Constitution) and his demands [3] that Obama "show his birth certificate."
These claims were always absurd. In June 2008, Obama's campaign made public a copy [4] of Obama's certificate of live birth, which was published on the Internet by numerous media outlets. Many experts, including a team from FactCheck.org [5], reviewed the document in person and determined it was authentic. On July 27, 2009, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, certified that she had personally seen Obama's birth certificate [6] in the original records maintained by the Hawaii government.
None of this evidence restrained the rag-tag movement [7] of conspiracy theorists [8] who strained logic well past its breaking point in their attempt to prove Obama ineligible for the presidency. Nor did it give Trump pause in his attempt to latch onto that movement [9] and use it for his own gain -- or deter Fox News, which hyped [3] Trump's [10] claims for weeks in at least 52 segments [11].
In late April, roughly a month after Trump first demanded that Obama "show his birth certificate," the president released his long-form birth certificate [12]. Trump promptly took credit [13] for the release (and was declared the "winner" [14] of the controversy by the right-wing media) -- but then questioned the document's authenticity. Soon after, he announced that he would not seek the Republican nomination [15] for the presidency, and the question of President Obama's citizenship -- largely absent from the mainstream before Trump began pushing conspiracies -- receded again from the national discourse.
But over the past few months, Trump has doubled down on his support of anti-Obama conspiracy theories. He has defended his dalliance [16] with birtherism, said that he has "no idea" [17] if Obama was born in the United States, and said that he doesn't believe that Obama wrote his memoir [18], Dreams From My Father (Trump had previously pointed to Bill Ayers [19] as the book's possible real author).
One would think that this sort of history of conspiracy-mongering would be front and center in the discussion of a possible Trump run for president. But at CBS, that history seems to have already been forgotten.
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17Brian Cleveland
2003: Drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 49th round ... Tennessee's shortstop who started all 53 games he played ... Hit .271 with seven doubles, two triples, four home runs and a team-high tying 32 RBI ... Batted .245 with one home run and nine RBI in SEC play ... His nine sacrifice flies tied for the SEC lead and a school record held by Todd Helton ... Hit two two-run home runs and two solo shots ... Had a season-high eight-game hitting streak from 2/16-3/7 ... Got off to a hot start, driving in 22 runs in the first 19 games ... Collected 10 multi-hit and six multi-RBI games ... Recorded a season-high three hits six times, while driving in a season-high four versus Morehead State 2/8 ... Also had three-RBI game against Purdue 3/19 ... Batted anywhere from third to ninth in the order ... Hit . 293 versus left-handers, .262 against right-handers and .208 with runners in scoring position ... Played with the Anchorage Bucs in the Alaska League during the summer ... Wound up with a .257 average in 40 games, good enough for second on the squad ... Was second with seven doubles while collecting 13 RBI and stealing five bases.
JUNIOR COLLEGE: A transfer from San Jose (Calif.) Community College where he hit .401 with nine home runs and 41 RBI in 2002 ... His team finished 30-12 overall with a 16-9 mark in the South Division of the Coast Conference ... Drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 36th round in 2001 after batting .469 in 28 games with one home run and 17 RBI ... Finished as the third-leading hitter among California Community Colleges ... Coached by Doug Robb.
HIGH SCHOOL: Attended Santa Teresa High School in San Jose, Calif., where he was a two-time first team All-Conference selection and team MVP following his senior year ... Hit over .375 his final two years with two home runs and 29 RBI ... Named the senior scholar-athlete of the year after posting a 3.57 GPA ... Coached by Dave McDounough.
PERSONAL: Full name is Brian Michael Cleveland ... Born Jan. 7, 1982 in San Jose, Calif. ... Son of Michael and Cynthia Cleveland ... Has one sister, Jennifer ... Major: Sport Management.


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Arsène Wenger has backed his battery of midfielders to stand up and cover for the injured Jack Wilshere.
Wilshere underwent successful surgery on his ankle on Monday but will now face a spell on the sidelines while he recovers.
The likes of Emmanuel Frimpong and Francis Coquelin have moved into the first-team picture this year and their manager believes they can step up.
"Touch wood we can absorb the number of games we face well and we have some younger players pushing like Coquelin and Frimpong, who are playing very well," said Wenger. "So hopefully we can cope with it.
"If Abou Diaby comes back well and quickly we should, number-wise and quality-wise, be alright. That depends as well on the injuries we have in the next two or three months."
Wenger bolstered his midfield during the summer, bringing in the likes of Mikel Arteta and Yossi Benayoun to add experience as well as quality. He expects them to produce the goods in Wilshere's absence.
"[Jack's injury] makes us a bit shorter in midfield and it puts a bit more pressure on our midfielders to perform game-in, game-out, because we will have less rotation possibilities," he said.
"But every club can be tested on that front so it shouldn't impact our end result of the season and shouldn't be any excuse at all.
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USAF Academy, Colo. – Air Force scored three goals in 148 seconds to rally from a 2-0 deficit for a 3-2 victory over the Canisius College hockey team on Friday night. The loss drops the Griffs to 0-2-0 on the season and 0-2-0 in Atlantic Hockey play, while the Falcons improve to 3-2-0 and 1-0-0 against league foes.
"We played real hard and real simple in the first half of the game but we lost our focus in the second half once we grabbed the lead," said Canisius head coach Dave Smith. "We need to find a way to maintain that high intensity and compete level for a full 60 minutes so we can be our most successful this year."
Junior Cody Freeman and sophomore Ralph Cuddemi both scored for the Griffs in the defeat.
Senior netminder Tony Capobianco finished the contest with 32 saves.
After a scoreless first period, the Griffs dominated the early part of the second frame to race to a 2-0 lead. Canisius outshot the Falcons, 8-0, to start the stanza and were rewarded with goals by Freeman and Cuddemi. Freeman opened the scoring, knocking the puck in off an Air Force defender's skate for the 1-0 lead. Seniors Ben Danford and Kyle Gibbons registered an assist on Freeman's first goal of the season 2:47 into the period.
Cuddemi then continued his strong start to his sophomore campaign, tallying his first of the season on the power play just 1:43 after Canisius opened the scoring. The sophomore received the puck in the slot and roofed a back-handed shot into the back of the net for the 2-0 advantage. Senior defender Duncan McKellar and Danford both posted assists on the goal.
Air Force, however, answered back and scored three goals in a 2:28 span to take the lead. Adam McKenzie started the run with a blast from the blue line 8:57 into the period. Tony Thomas then knocked in his own rebound on the power play 10:48 into the period to knot the contest at two. Finally, Cole Gunner finished the run just 37 seconds later, taking advantage of a Canisius turnover and scoring on a 2-on-1 for the 3-2 Falcons lead 11:25 into the second frame.
That was all the offense the Falcons needed as the Griffs were unable to find the equalizer in the final 28-plus minutes. The best opportunity for Canisius came on a late power play when Freeman made a move to get past an Air Force defender but his shot hit the shoulder of the Air Force netminder to preserve the victory.
The Falcons finished the contest with a 35-22 advantage in shots. Both teams netted one power-play goal in four opportunities for Canisius and three for Air Force.
Jason Torf finished with 20 saves for the Falcons to earn the victory in net.
Canisius returns to action tomorrow night, taking a break from Atlantic Hockey play to face 17th-ranked Denver. First puck drop is set for 9:07 p.m. ET.
Game Notes: In the last 17 meetings between the two Atlantic Hockey foes, 14 have resulted in a tie or been decided by one goal (not including empty-net tallies) … Gibbons has now recorded a point in 12-straight games dating back to last season. It is the longest run by a Griff since Cory Conacher recorded a point in 12-straight games from Nov. 20, 2009 to Jan. 16, 2010 … Danford has registered multiple assists in back-to-back games to start the season … Canisius, who had lost only one game in a 108-game span from 2010 to 2013 when holding a two-goal lead, has now lost its last three games dating back to last year's NCAA Tournament – all with at least a two-goal advantage.


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its not my car it belongs to a friend of a friend i don't know anything about standard shifters i never owned a car with one i wasn't aware you could even swap around the reverse position there is a good chance the entire drive train isn't original. the owner just wanted to make sure he was putting the proper parts in the car so it all would work correctly.
thanks for the help
|Are you trying to restore the car or hot rod it? Mustangs didn't come with Hurst shifters so I figure it's a hot rod? Improve it by putting reverse out of harms way.....and after doing some research, the factory shift (non Hurst) pattern was to the left and back. Mustangs came with top loaders mostly but some came with the T-10...side loader. Don't know if it was a year thing or just an optional deal.
|im basicly trying to figure out how its supposed to be from the factory so it can be fixed right
|Man, it's been 35 years since I had a Mustang with a 4 speed but iirc, reverse was to the left and forward. You don't want reverse where you could accidentally grab it on a power or speed shift and yes, it can happen! If you can, flip the shift lever on the trans over or get one where you can make it over to the left and forward....even if you have to get a different rod...do it. And about nailing reverse....I had a 56 Chevy with a 3 speed and the shifter was hooked up backwards in order to pull 2nd but there was one instance where reverse got pulled. The tires were spinning but the car nosed over. The shift did feel a bit odd and it took a second to figure out what was happening so I shoved the clutch pedal back down. Yup, it was in reverse all right and I can't believe to this day that nothing broke. Maybe something did because I sold the car a few weeks later and the new owner blew the engine within a few days.
66 mustang hurst shifter.
i realize i need a bit more info but i wanted to throw this out there.
a friend has a 66 mustang with a 4 speed tranny and a hurst shifter the shifter was binding and upon inspection the shims were worn and they went to get a new shifter the speed shop gives them a replacement shifter but the shifter in the car had reverse to the left and back the replacement (same number) has reverse to the right and back. they looked closely at the shifter from the car and it looks like the rods were welded and the configuration was altered
so we need to know what the correct shifter is. and i told them to get the numbers off the tranny. where on the tranny would they be?
so maybe this is common i dont know.
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CFS has M53 kits for $299 still, and kits with demilled bbls for $199...
Thinking about the next kit for a future build. What do you guys think?
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CFS has M53 kits for $299 still, and kits with demilled bbls for $199...
No they don't! They just went up to $349.00. I was ready to pull the trigger today and noticed they went up. They won't get my money till they return to $299.00.
*Please tell me different Mr. Posthumous, wishful thinking I guess.
WTF!! they went up today then, I see you are right. FFffFFf. This one here tho.
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The BREN and M53 you can get barrels yet, the barrels for the DPM are hard to find now.
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To be honest the shorter courses like weekend courses are often expensive too, sometimes a couple of hundred pounds, and given it's such a small amount of time I'm not sure they are actually better value for money.
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On the June 2 broadcast of The Radio Factor, host Bill O'Reilly claimed that "there was not slavery in California ... at all" -- despite credible sources documenting that eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Spanish colonial missions in California used Native Americans as "unpaid laborers who were not free to leave"; that the California legislature enacted laws legalizing Indian slavery in 1850; and that African slaves worked in the gold fields of California during the gold rush.
O'Reilly's remarks came during a discussion of the American Civil Liberties Union's recent threat to sue Los Angeles County if the county did not remove a cross from its official seal. The ACLU argued that a cross on the seal violates the constitutional separation of church and state. O'Reilly criticized Los Angeles County First District Supervisor Gloria Molina -- who voted to remove the cross -- for arguing that the cross isn't worth defending because its presence on the seal commemorates the Spanish missions, which she said represent a shameful chapter in California's history.
From the June 2 edition of The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly:
O'REILLY: This is Gloria Molina, who is one of the supervisors for the county of LA, Lena says -- Molina says quote [apparently reading from a June 2 Los Angeles Times article], "The missions were not a great part of our history." [O'Reilly omitted the first part of Molina's quotation: "there are many people who argue that..."] Totally fallacious. Absolutely wrong. The missions in California were the first towns and settlements in that state. So Molina doesn't know anything. And then she goes on to say, "The reality is they were built by slaves." So Molina doesn't like the missions, because they were built by -- in her opinion -- slaves.
There was not slavery in California, by the way, at all.
Later in the same show, a caller tried to correct O'Reilly's statement, but O'Reilly stood firm. O'Reilly argued that even if the missions did abuse Native Americans, such abuse was insignificant for two reasons: "There was no policy of slavery in California" and "Everybody got abused." He also praised the missions as "the first civilized establishments in the state."
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Hi folks,
Well it's been a long time coming but i now have enough parts to make a start on the one costume that i have been eager to get started on.
I wish to thank a few people first as without help from them i wouldn't have the bits that i needed.
1) BM for all his superb costume parts that i have bought.
2) Christi (crazy for boba fett) to whom i wouldn't have my fine girth belt.
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Update: Almost have the rocket done. Will be moving on to the thrusters next.
Update: Almost have the rocket done. Will be moving on to the thrusters next.
Here's a couple pics of the completed rocket. I decided to use a threaded rod to attach it to the pack.
Looks great! Amazing work, just like my BFUK pack how much $ have you spent on this thing if you dont mind?
That certainly looks good does not look scracth built at all. Very professional looking
I think I have around $30 put into this thing now. I used cheap or free materials whenever I could. I would have just bought a MOW, but the $300 is out of the question for me, haha. Thanks for the encouragement!
amazing for $30
When you get done I will give you a cool 50 bucks for it, thats a solid Jefferson right in your pocket. Come on, What do you say?
This is an awesome buildup!... I want to redo mine now! Keep showing us pics!
All primered up and sanded. Still have to make the thrusters and the vent thing that goes on the bottom.
That looks great, you are demonstrating some skillz
I can't wait to see how you do the thrusters, especially the "ball" part.
very nice work
wow man that is seriously awesome
Wow, that looks amazing! Well done.
Figured I'd slap a little paint on while I work out the thruster issue. I'm going to have a lot of weathering to do!
I also drilled holes in the sides for the thrusters.
This jet pack is turning out great! I take it that you're taking a topical approach to the weathering?
Not a big update but I got a little more painting done. All the main colors are on and I've started to lightly distress the paint.
Next I'll hit it with some dull coat and start on the damage.
Amazing work Matt. I'm going to take this on myself after seeing your amazing work!
A couple of questions, on the piece with the teeth where the rocket goes into the jetpack (pic jetpack009), is that foam core also? How in the world did you do that?
Also, did you use a combination of glue and tape to bond the thin plastic? It seems like it would be very hard to bond because it's so thin. How did you get a smooth surface on the vertical seems of the cones?
Thanks in advance!
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Nice work on this one, man. Looking very good. Any new developments? I haven't heard the terms "topical" or "layering" for the painting approaches before. Does topical mean that you go back and just add the metal color in the spots where it shows through instead of undercoating the whole thing in that color? MM
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Tom grew up in Milwaukee, bartended in Wauwatosa in the '70s and moved here in 1984.
Commentary, observations and musings about the outdoors, life in general and maybe Tosa politics and personalities will be the order of the day. He savors a lively debate as much as terrific cooking.
Leave No Tragedy Unexploited
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
-William S. Burroughs
It was pouring rain today so there was no way in the world I was going to take my bow and sit in a deer stand. So I cleaned firearms instead. It's an annual rite at the close of the hunting season. Every weapon that was used is disassembled, stripped-clean, oiled, reassembled, checked to make sure everything operates smoothly and locked in the safe.
This also left me with some solitary time to be alone with my thoughts. I'm a firearm enthusiast and the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown has left me numb and sick to my stomach. How else can anybody feel about such depravity?
Time has compiled a list of the worst mass shootings of the past fifty years. If you include Friday's murders three-fifths of the mass shootings occurred in the United States. You'd think something has gone terribly wrong. What's a society to do about it?
Do we repeal the Second Amendment and confiscate everyone's firearms? Mike Huckabee seems to think that if we didn't kick God out of the classroom such carnage wouldn't occur. Maybe we restrict firearms ownership only from those who have never - ever - been treated for depression, anxiety, despair, anguish, stress, angst or any other mental or nervous disorder. Sadly enough since no tragedy ever goes unexploited I expect I'll hear more of the same in the days and weeks to come.
I watched news footage last night of a very emotional President comment on Friday's killings and promise 'meaningful action' in the wake of this hideous occurrence. I suggest he give my internet pal Karen Waldkirch a call. Culturally-speaking perhaps we have a screw loose. And I think she might be on to something.
Nevertheless, There are a couple of universal truths that we all need to be mindful-of. Violence in the United States is actually on the decline. Sure, I know that is hard to believe if you believe the headlines. But we are a less violent nation today than we have been in more than forty years. Furthermore, you'd think we are awash in firearms. Not so. The ownership of firearms in the United States is at - or near - an all time low. Driving the decline are reduced numbers of handguns and shotguns in American households - the very sort of firearms most likely to be used in committing a violent crime.
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"10-Foot Cops: The NYPD's Mounted Unit"
Children's Museum of Manhattan
Until Sun May 26 2013
Photograph: Courtesy of the Children's Museum of Manhattan
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Wed Jan 9 2013
Few spectacles stop people in their tracks on NYC streets as much as mounted police. On loan from downtown's New York Police Museum, "10-Foot Cops" looks at the phenomenon and history of this elite NYPD unit through artifacts—among them saddles on which kids can have their picture taken, uniforms, paindings and a replica of an NYPD stable—archival video (such as a 1940 short called "Training Police Horses") and special talks that illuminate the role and daily lives of these regal public ambassadors. All ages.
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On Wednesday, Sept. 14, Wired hosted a roundtable with Sir James Dyson at our New York offices. Dyson and his staff began by showing off their new vacuum cleaner (the DC 41) and Dyson Hot, a new fan/space heater, which was being introduced later that day.
We asked Sir James questions about every aspect of emerging and commercial technology, ranging from intellectual property and education reform to the overlap between Steve Jobs' design philosophy and his own. We learned (among other things) why research and development in battery technology and artificial intelligence are critical to the future of household cleaning, and why it's harder to sell high-end vacuum cleaners in China and Brazil.
Wired's interviewers included Steven Levy, John Abell, Jason Tanz, Dave Mosher and Tim Carmody. Dawn Lim, Dave Mosher and Tim Carmody transcribed the conversation. Tim Carmody moderated the roundtable, edited the responses, and wrote this introduction. Except where noted, all images are courtesy of Dyson.com.
On becoming the company's public face and namesake
Sir James Dyson: The first Dyson was a 13th century female cattle rustler in Lancashire. That's the origin of the name. And it's two syllables, so it's quite nice.
Right at the beginning, the retailers wouldn't take me, because they said, "You're not a brand name. Nobody's going to want to buy a 'Dyson.' They'd rather buy an Electrolux, Bosch, or Siemens" or something like that. The only way to overcome that was to be a person. They're all big, anonymous corporations, and the founders are long since gone. So the thing is to be different, and to be responsible for what you do.
That's why I put myself about a bit, as you say. And I put myself about a bit now to understand what's going on in the world, rather than spending my time back where I'd probably rather be, actually: with the engineers, developing new products.
On the relationship between design and technology
Dyson: We're a technology company. We're employing more and more scientists, and working in lots of — we may be in more prosaic areas, we're not in this sort of sexy things. Thing that people don't bother with, that need technological improvement, which makes a big difference. That's what interests me.
So that's our starting point. We look at something that has a problem, whether it's hand dryers or vacuum cleaners. Then we develop technology. We want the product to express the technology we're using, so that people understand it. Even if they don't totally understand it, they might half understand it. Even if they only one-quarter understand it, at least they see that we're doing something different that makes it work better, and perhaps gives them a bit of pleasure to see that and point it out to people.
[Picks up a copy of Wired] When you say design, everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything. It's the technology it uses, how it's engineered, how it's put together, the quality, how long it lasts.
I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box — simplify it. I want something more expressive. It's very easy to make something like a heater into a black box. It might look impressively designed for a few moments, but it has no expression.
That's why our heater shows its technology; the heating component, and that's the main part, is bright blue. It's a very simple product, but at least it still expresses what it does. And it looks different, it doesn't look like an ordinary heater. On the vacuum cleaner, we show the bits that really work, like the cyclones. That's the important bit, and we want people to understand it, to know that it's more efficient than a bag, but it also looks nicer than a bag. In the whole experience of using it, the customer can start to follow the trail of the engineers and scientists making it.
The retailers said, "You'll never sell a vacuum cleaner where you can see the dirt." I'm not normally one to do market research, but we did a bit of market research, and the research confirmed it: No one wanted to see the dirt. We made it see-through, by the way, to see what was happening. It was very practical. But the engineers and I loved it. So we decided to ignore the market research. Our competitors had a good snicker about it. But we persevered.
Continue reading "Expressing Technology: A Roundtable With Sir James Dyson…"
On the importance of incorporating next-generation R&D into products
Wired: What do you think about the Roomba?
I don't like to talk about what our competitors are doing, but I can tell you what we're doing [with robotic vacuum cleaners], and you can infer what we think about the Roomba. We want ours to navigate properly. And also to clean properly. It is a vacuum cleaner; it has to clean, and not just tickle the surface. We've been quite ambitious with what we're doing, which is why it's taken quite a long time. We've been hiring roboticists and working on it for 12 years.
The easiest way [to solve the navigation problem] is to make it random. It's dead easy, and so that's what they've all done so far. But then when you start actually navigating, there are various degrees of success. Rooms are all very different; they have different shapes and different surfaces…. Random machines have various efficiencies at covering the room. It might cover only 70 percent of it. If you do a square, it might cover 90 percent. But the moment you've got a proper room with furniture in it, you get into big trouble.
And you've got to do it efficiently. You see, if you're going to vacuum properly, you've got to use a huge amount of power. If you use a huge amount of power, you can't do it for very long, because you haven't got enough battery life. So, therefore, your navigation has got to be very efficient.
We're writing the software for the IEC that measures the efficiency of a vacuum-cleaning robot that goes across the floor. There are a lot of shenanigans, as you can imagine, about how do you measure the efficiency of robots and how you measure the cleaning efficiency of vacuums.
Wired: Could you talk about your battery development?
Dyson: Well, I can't tell you the secret of it. [laughter]
I can talk in generalities. I think all of the new developments are much more environmental. Carbon nanotube technologies, these sorts of things that will make batteries better.
We actually have a different requirement for batteries than most people. In [laptops] and in cars, you want batteries to last a long time with a small power draw. We're at the opposite end of the scale. We have a massive power draw in a short space of time. Something like a capacitor is a much better technology for us than a battery. So we've realized than in order to get the batteries we want, we have to develop them ourselves.
Wired: Improving all sorts of batteries?
Dyson: Yes, lots of people are doing that anyway. Manufacturing is tricky. But there's a lot of very intelligent people working on it.
We see what's going on. On the whole it doesn't affect what we do because it's so different. But we look at almost every technology that's going on, being announced, that we can see on the Internet.
I don't often do it personally. We have scouts that do it. And just occasionally there's something with a bit of interest. For example, bearing-less bearings — air bearings — have always interested us. They're jolly good for lots of applications, but unfortunately they don't work in ours. We're constantly stopping and starting, and you can't really do that with air bearings.
Our motor there is 110,000 rpm. It's a terrifying speed. You know, jet engines go at 17,000, and a Ferrari racing engine is about 19,000, and basically your average vacuum cleaner motor is about 30,000. We're up at 110,000. If you go slightly off-balance, you hit a lateral force of about 40 tons, so it's a tricky area to work in.
Wired: It sounds like designing vacuum cleaners can be as difficult as designing an aircraft or rocket engine.
Dyson: Yes, because you have to go through the same basic problems, but we have to do it for less money. And we have to produce millions of them, and every one has to be perfect.
On patent reform and navigating a global business
Dyson: Patents haven't changed since Henry VIII granted the first patent, which he granted for 20 years, and he forced the patentee to publish what he'd done, which all patentees hate because that shows people how to get around it.
I think patents are very good, up to a certain point. The controller at the US patent office famously said (I think it was in 1901), "We can shut down the office now, because there's nothing more to be invented." It's not such a flippant mark. Before 1900, if you invented a fax machine, you got a patent for a fax machine. Now, all you can get a patent for, because everything has been invented, is a little improvement on something. By the way, that "little improvement" could be a really big improvement, because it really makes the big difference. But everybody else can make everything about the same machine except the one thing that makes a big difference. They work out a way of getting around that, which makes it look as though they're selling the same thing, but it isn't the same thing, and so the public is duped.
I think patents are not broad enough. They also need to be a bit longer now, because development cycles are so long. The system is a good system, but it needs to be stronger. You get this patent trolling, where people claim to invent something that goes around the real inventor, and then they threaten him with a lawsuit. So you have people using patents as a defense mechanism, so if you get sued using this one, you can threaten using that one. Then you get it in front of a jury that has to try to decide technical matters, and it becomes very difficult.
I think it's gotten ridiculous. Just vastly too complex, in America and Britain particularly, because there's so much discovery, which is not very clever. You don't want to have to give away all the secrets of your R&D department.
Now, in Europe they don't do that. They really just stick to the facts. And then the case is probably 2 or 3 hours in a court, and you get the decision a couple of months later. So win or lose, you don't mind, because it doesn't cost that much. It may be rough justice, but you get rough justice in here and in Britain [as well]. It's just that it doesn't sink you in the process.
If you're an individual or a small business and you invent something, it costs you a fortune to patent it in every country throughout the world. You may only be able to afford to patent it in a few countries, and then you have to pay patent renewal fees. If you can struggle through all that, and then someone copies it, you're in for a $10 million lawsuit. What are you going to pay for that with? In Europe, it might be $60,000 or $100,000. And that's affordable.
On globalization
Wired: Did you ever imagine that you would be running a global manufacturing and commercial business?
Dyson: No. I ran a business, an engineering company that sold high-speed landing craft around the world, so I knew a little bit of what it was like. It was a very small company. But I never imagined I'd be doing what I'm doing now.
Wired: How has running the business globally changed over the years? Where do you think it's going?
I do what I continue to do for the last 40 — what is it now, 43? — years, which is to go into the workshop with the engineers every day, and sort out all the problems and work out what we're going to do next. That bit of it hasn't changed at all. The scale's gotten bigger. The philosophy of what we're doing and striving every day to innovate and improve our products is exactly the same.
I've got wonderful people, everywhere, and we talk; visiting places, you learn more about them. As the world becomes a global market, those differences narrow. We started off designing vacuum cleaners specifically for Japan, intending not to sell them anywhere else. We now sell them everywhere, because the average New York apartment halves in size every five years, and the average size of a new build of a house in England is smaller than the average new build of a house in Japan.
We have trouble in Brazil, China and India, because people who can afford vacuum cleaners have servants. They're interested in Burberry and Gucci, but not vacuum cleaners. But the rest of the world is remarkably similar when it comes to cleaning the home.
On falling behind in education and global competition
Wired: The United States is worried about education and innovation in global economy. Based on your operating everywhere, what's your million-mile view of the US' standing in a global economy?
Dyson: I would say that you're in much the same position as we are [in the UK]. In my view, we're not producing enough engineers and scientists, and it's a pity because we have a wonderful track record — still do have a very good track record — of producing lots of patents and lots of discoveries in our universities. We're sort of at the very sophisticated, highly developed end. And the peculiar thing is that scientists and engineers haven't taken the public with them. So you produce 12 times as many lawyers as engineers, you produce about 65,000 engineering graduates a year and we produce 22,000. India produces, I think, about a million. China certainly 600,000. Iran produces 55,000 engineers a year. So does the Philippines. So does Mexico.
So what this is doing is that developing countries are producing vast numbers of engineers, and their publics see engineering and science as the future in schools and the educational systems.
Wired: Why do you think that changed in our respective countries?
Dyson: I think we had the disease before you did. But when you become rich and so on, you want to do the finer things in life. The finer things are not working in factories developing technology and science. It's being a journalist.
Wired: [laughter]
Dyson: Fifty percent of British graduates of all disciplines want to go into the media. And 33 percent of girls at school want to be models. I don't have figures for America, but in England, 15 percent of the girls want to be scientists, which I thought was fantastic. But then I discovered they all want to be pathologists, because of that CSI program. So children are enormously influenced by the media.
We've started a program in Chicago for doing design and technology classes after school. Children aged between 9 to 14 are really interested in technology and science; it's fascinating, and they're very inventive, actually. We do projects with them. We use vacuum cleaner components to make them, and solve problems that they observe themselves at home.
But somehow after that sort of age they get told that, you know, that's not an academic subject, you've got to do something serious, or something easier, so that you can get a degree. A degree is the best thing to get. So, you know, we all end up being lawyers and accountants and going into the media and become models and all of those other things. We're not interested in going to factories and doing things that create wealth.
The developing countries have it absolutely right. In Singapore, 40 percent of all university graduates … are engineers, of both sexes. They make sure they get a gender mix, and they do lots of posters showing girl engineers and scientists. It sounds silly, but it works. I think it's 2 percent of graduates in British universities are doing engineering. I would say the percentage here must be lower.
Wired: We import a lot of our engineers to do work at the graduate level.
Dyson: So do we [in the UK]. But we chuck them out. You don't chuck them out, you try to keep them. Eighty percent of the postgraduate workers in science and engineering in Europe are from outside the EU. Of the 2,500 extra postgraduate posts made available, only 50 were taken outside of British [citizens].
We do a number of projects at British universities, and I don't think there's one British person — well, there's one, one British person in one of the projects at Cambridge, but otherwise they're all from outside the EU. So my foundation is providing grants and scholarships for people to read at universities, doing postgraduate work and pay them proper living wages.
Someone doing a doctorate is paid between 7,000 pounds and 12,000 pounds, that's about $10,000 or $15,000 per year. That's something like $15,000. They're not going to stay on; they're going to go to something like a bank where they make $60,000 per year. I told David Cameron he should pay them 45,000 pounds a year, which is the median of what they'd earn if they went into a bank. I said, "It won't cost you anything, because no one's doing it."
On education reform and encouraging technology investment
Wired: How do we change the education system to help students get interested in science and engineering?
Dyson: It's difficult. We did a report for David Cameron just before he became Prime Minister called "Ingenious Britain." [PDF] We said there were several aspects to that. We could use an hour to talk about it. But broadly:
What governments should do is take a great deal of interest in engineering projects, and big infrastructure projects. What they tend to do is shuffle it aside, not discuss it; they would rather it wasn't there.
Actually, they should bring it out, bring it into the open and talk about it with the public. Talk about whether nuclear power is the right way to do, whether it should be solar power, whatever it is, have a big, big discussion about it. Make it a really important thing.
And then make a decision. And make your decision clear to everybody so that universities start developing technologies to solve the problem; so that children and parents see that engineering decisions and technology decisions are a matter of importance.
Then children would be inspired at school to get involved in solving those problems, or in learning about those problems. And because universities are piling on it, companies will then pile on it, because they can make money on it by taking up university research. So you've got a whole nation invested and interested in solving an infrastructure project.
What happens at the moment is it's put down. Politicians try to play it down, because they're difficult decisions, and they don't want to get the blame for it. They don't want to make the wrong decision.
Take France, for example. France decided very early on that they didn't have any oil, and the only way out of it was nuclear power. So they developed nuclear power, and they've got very good nuclear power, and very good engineers; they have great capability in France. They decided high-speed trains were the way forward, so they developed high-speed trains. They decided to stay in the aircraft industry and make very good aeroplanes. So the French public knows that engineering is esteemed and valued. And if you're an engineer in France, you're the most esteemed profession. So they've got it right, in that sense, of public interest.
Politicians can do that. But they don't, because most of them are not engineers or scientists or ever had anything to do with manufacturing, or probably ever having been a teacher. They're mostly lawyers. Or journalists.
At schools and at universities, we've got to favor math teachers and physics teachers. We've got to pay them more. You've got to make physics, math and engineering important subjects at school.
You've got to find out that they're not more difficult. They sound more difficult, but they're not more difficult. You've got to pay people to go to universities to study engineering and science. And you've got to pay researchers proper money.
It's an important part of education. You can't ignore it and hope that some people will do it.
Manufacturers are partly to blame, because they haven't shown that what they do is exciting and interesting. They've gone on to produce these dull products, often in a dull way, and then not talking about it.
There are fiscal things you can do, which is what we've done in England. We've upped the tax allowance for R&D investment. Now, if you're a start-up business, you obviously aren't paying tax. So what you can do is pre-take your tax allowance. We've got it up to the point in England now where if you spend a million dollars in one year on development, and you're not making money, you get a million dollars back from the government, and that pays for the next year.
We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups. You're very much better about that here [in the US] than we are [in the UK]. You've got about $20 billion in private money going into start-ups; we have about a billion dollars. And it helps that you also have a giant domestic market; we have to export everything.
On Apple and Steve Jobs, brand to brand, innovator to innovator
Dyson: I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it.
Wired: Have you ever met Mr. Jobs?
Dyson: I've never met him [Steve Jobs], or his designer [Jonathan Ive], no. We used to exchange products, but that stopped that after a while, unfortunately. I just buy his now. [Laughter]
[At Dyson,] we were the first to do a totally see-through product. The iMac came out later, but we did it first. Jonathan Ive bought one in England. It was a new type of material you could use that gave these rather beautiful translucent turquoises and blues, and we did a couple of vacuum cleaners with that.
Jonathan Ive bought one when he came back to England and asked us to send another one over for Steve Jobs, which I did. But it was very annoying because I then get Japanese journalists coming into my office saying, "Ah, you copy iMac."
Wired: [laughter]
Dyson: But what's wonderful about Apple, I mean, over the last 10 years, you hear all these stories about how manufacturing is dead, Google's the future, all this kind of thing. But what's the biggest and richest company in the world? It's the company that makes things. They make serious things.
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John Harrigan: Wizened outdoor writer succumbs to camp nostalgia
JOHN HARRIGAN | February 08. 2014 12:09AM
another subculture for experts to ponder
You get into camp,
a herculean effort, and it's time to go
(But wait: Those are one-column heads from my Death-March days on the front of section B in the print edition. Now, duh, I have a two-column format on Page A2):
Finding kindred spirits
in a grocery store aisle
It happens quite a lot, and this is not a complaint, but a pleasure. I was pushing my cart along at LaPerle's IGA in Colebrook when I encountered a couple of guys more or less wing-plowing down the aisle, raking stuff into their cart.
"You're the guy who writes the columns," one said. "Where's your camp?" I replied.
Turned out that they were holed up in a camp somewhat to the east, Aker's Pond I think, and had emerged, like woodchucks from a burrow blinking at the sunlight, to get some grub and no doubt other absolute essentials before heading back to camp.
"It takes you a couple of days to get into your camp skin," I said, a line I use to ascertain whether camp people are really camp people, and there was instant recognition. These guys knew all about that. "You barely get into your camp skin and it's time to leave," one said.
We stopped there in the aisle, visiting about this whole subject of camp people and the camp culture. Like a snake shedding its skin (probably an undesirable analogy, from the snake's point of view), when you go into camp for, say, a week or so, it takes you two days to shed your Other Life Skin and assume your Camp Skin, a whole other attitude and demeanor. And having achieved what you've worked so hard for, you don't even want to think about leaving.
This is a glacial-bowl pond with abundant and obscure springs where trout go to stay cool in July and August and rise to feed on never-ending insect hatches in the waning light of dusk - when you can barely see your fly - which is why aging casters, and that would be me, tie on a white fly, the only fly they can see enough to fish with when those last rays back-light the pond, when supper back at camp is all but forgotten for the die-hards who pursue fish rising all around, taunting them (a line from Monty Python) in a last feeding frenzy before morning.
I thought about all the effort it takes to get to camp in winter, when there is no groomed trail and so snowmobiles are out of the question on account of getting buried in deep snow, and when getting to camp means a snowshoe trek of between three and five miles, all uphill, dragging sledges, depending on who's logging where.
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