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to be honest noz that just sounds like a bunch of shit every 15 year old went thru
man up
to be honest noz that just sounds like a bunch of shit every 15 year old went thru
man up
no offence Noz, but thats normal man..
you claim that people are ''small minded'' but right now your acting weak man..
I think the earliest time was when I was around 3-4 when I wondered what it'd be like if I just opened the car door on a freeway and jumped out. There've been times when I've almost done it, but I have to keep talking myself out of it. A few years ago, I started to feel really down on myself and felt that nothing was going as planned. I contemplated suicide, but fortunately never did it. I've been asking people for years what they would do if I died, because I often feel I'm not wanted, I'm annoying, etc.
However, after my friend died in June of 2009 from being shot four times, I really considered what life meant to me. I thought of who would go to my funeral, what they would say, if I was a bad person, etc. There was just never a real answer I came up with and I got depressed for a while. I just felt like one day I would die, and that it was soon coming.
After that, my girlfriend of 3 years told me she was going to commit suicide. I'm not sure how long I was talking to her for, but it was the most pain I've ever felt in my life; the only woman I've ever fallen in love with was going to leave and never come back. I tried to make her feel better, but nothing was working. I tried to get her to call a suicide prevention hotline, but she just kept telling me "go to sleep, everything will be better in the morning." After constant begging, she ended up not doing it, seeing why she should live.
My life has turned around for the better, and I see a lot more positivity in life. I believe graffiti and the internet have helped me out a lot, mainly because of the reasons Syne stated. Looking back on it, it was a very selfish thing for me to think of: just killing myself and hoping people would regret being mean to me, hoping I was in a better place, etc. I won't go back to that time again.
yo Noz you got a lot of growing up to do. i used to have the same thoughts when i was your age but hang in there man. if i would have went threw with it back then then heres just a few of the things i woulda missed
seeing all my favorite bands preform
f*cked this kinky chick in the ass
surfed 15ft waves
took a trip to the dominican (and got to touch up a piece at a hotel on there halfpipe)
skull f*ucked a different kinky chick lol
got wasted in one of the oldest pubs in america
met my girlfriend who im with now
insane nights of painting, and the list goes on. so if anyones ever thinking of doing it just remember, another can another wall, tomorrows another day.
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Why would ya wanna kill ya self when ya got drugs and crime. Get rich or die trying.l Get on some drugs and start doing crime get some money buy a gun and if ya to much of a bitch to do jail time kill ya self
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i'm new here, this is my first post, but this sounds like a great community to get involved with.
also i find any time im down i just blaze a bowl and feel better. Not saying turn to drugs at all just find something like graffiti that makes you happy.
Probably not serious, but don't do it man. Life is too short already, why make it shorter?
Good advice man respect!
I have been in and out of a fairly hectic relationship for the past 4 years. I am currently trying to overcome the depression from this relationship. I feel that my ex girl friend is the only girl I loved and will love for a long time that is why it is so hard for me to get over her... I thought about commiting suicide a few times not any plans or anthing but just hating life in general. But then I just realize that my mind is not in the right place. I have had a wonderful childhood and grew up with some great friends and family. Life is way worth living... Friends and relationships are what stress me out the most. I think it is because I expect to much out of them. But friends and girls will always come and go until you are ready to settle down or some shit lol.
Well anyways I have a friend that constintly talks about commiting suicide. He even puts it as his FaceBook status. I am one of the only friends that he has now because none of my other friends enjoy his company. He is a little nutty and he talks way too much. I feel bad for him but I feel that helpful advice is all I can provide for him. Also he really gets on my nerves at times too. I think he realizes it too, I just deal with him because I feel sorry for his ass. But the day he tried to kill himself I showed up at his crib. I was the only one to show up out of our twenty odd homies, kinda sad. But he told me I saved his life. That made me feel really good. It really shows that one can make a difference for the best. Helping people can make you feel better about your self.
So my advice to every stressed or depressed graffiti writer out there is look out for eachother because you would want your friends to do the same for you. Help others to help yourself.
man, you guys are right, i gotta grow up hehe... thnx alot everyone, you guys dnt kno how much youve helped me.. and thrice, your right, i hope that one day i can hav faith (nd sorry 4 sayin that shit bout relgion, i kno you are very religous)
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I can't see how people who are religous don't understand the fact that their are thousands of confident ideologies. If you were born in a tribe in third world Africa that raised you to believe in an underwater god and told you everday of your life everything that is, was, and ever will be is made by an underwater god, chances are, your going to believe just that.
Also, that whole "homosexuality is a choice" thing is bull honkey. Its been proven that its a chemical imbalance in the brain. Not the "devil". I understand that they mean its a choice to pursue those feelings, but its not a choice to feel those feelings. That contridiction between biology and ideology is what causes some young kids to commit suicide.
Your talking about how stupid I am yet you are assigning homosexuals a certain way to walk and talk. Im gay and I don't act like those fruity mofos with the short shorts. Also props on completly ignoring the fact I said its a chemical imbalance in the brain. You can't say ok im gay now, thats like sayin ok im going to be black today and white tomorrow. Im sorry I dismissed you religous belifes so quickly but i wasnt raised in a religous faimly and to say all that it just sounds like jesus was a narsacist
sorry about multi post im on a psp. Have you even heard about those boys who have a lack of testostron and conform to their societies view of a girl? another example of imbalanced chemicals in our brains. our minds are fragil and can be warped like nothing. especialy as a child. i respect that you dont spread your belifes because people are supposed to find god not the other way around. but without others to spread it how would it have reached African tribes? it would be a completly foreign idea.
you mean eat his flesh?
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Since I can't sew worth a darn, I used some industrial strength velcro to attach my armor. The backside was very sticky, but I wanted to strengthen it so I added some contact adhesive (Welder from Lowe's). It is similar to GOOP. I miscalculated (it happens alot) and ended up with too much glue near the collar and lower ab plate. I tried to position the armor to hide the glue, but it wont work.
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interesting, I never had any problem with my Salomon bindings but I bought some Raidens this season and noticed that some of the inside binding had peeled away. I thought it was an issue with the binding (plastic/fabric too thin) but loved them so didn't worry bout it. I will check and see if it is where the loophole is when I get home.
Edit- does not appear to be from the hook but from general rubbing. I will have to get a glue that will help protect the thin covering on the binding.
Oh and those 'circular things' were what had rubbed/worn the stitching on my outer tongue. I will make sure if they get bent next time I Shoe Goo them smooth.
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Hi Everyone,
I've had my ZF1's for about 8 days of riding. I noticed that my bindings (Burton Cartel) ankle straps were ripping. I did not know what was happening until I realized that the bottom lace hook of the ZF1's were rubbing against the ankle strap.
There is a discussion about this issue on EasyLoungin somewhere. There's not really a fix but just instructions on how to repair the strap.
I have a two ideas to prevent damage to our ankle straps and I'm just looking for some feedback.
One idea is to apply a piece of mounting tape to the area where the binding is touching the lace hook, so that the lace hook rubs against the padded mounting tape.
Second idea is to actually remove the bottom lace hook. If you look on the inside of the lace hook there are two circular things that keep the lace hook in place. If you can remove these, you can easily slide your laces through the holes. You can also add grommets to the new holes.
I got this idea from seeing the Zoom DK's because there isn't a bottom lace hook, instead its a regular shoe lace eyelets.
Your feedback, comments and suggestions are appreciated.
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48 Jeepster swap
There is one here in my area with a inline 258 Jeep in it with a throttle body system from Holly and an HEI. It is impressive to ride in! That is a great engine too!
|the last 3yrs here has been devastating,my dad,both my grandmothers,2 aunts have all passed away that caused turmoil and havoc enough,My dad left me the shop and all its tools,presses,brakes,shears etc and i had a something called 'break-in'..thats the best way to describe it...a sibling helped himself to several tousand dollars in tools/equip while i took my first vacation in 15yrs and did about 8k in equipment damages. at any rate i told myself after all this passes and things settle down,im going to take time to get my Falcon convertible back on the road (been sitting since 92) then im going to get a leg up on my daughters 64 falcon wagon,And after that im going....fill in the blank..you're right ..no time to do all these things..the shop is finally back up and im making parts again and selling,So i settled on one vehicle to do,i did my 55 willys at least to the point i can now drive it and use it as my work vehicle..i settled on doing this 48 jeepster for my sister,My dad had got it for her and started to work on it,But he got lung cancer and couldnt do it.And at the time i was too busy with the shop and 3 kids at home (single parent..and self employed = nitemare) anyways enough gloom and doom.Im getting this 48 ready for summer for my sister
jeepster hubcaps
There are 4 jeepster hubcaps on Ebay right now.
jeepster parts
Kaiser willys parts supply had some jeepster parts but no hubcaps, Mine are well used, a few dents and dings. I just keep checking Ebay, craigs list and googleing , We have a lot of project cars, not enough time, You think when you retire you will have more time, We took back the farm this year and are building our smaller retirement home, farm equipment needs work, haven't mowed the 1 acre house yard for 3 weeks. Garden needs cleared off before winter snow, wife wants to have the A roadster or T speedster ready for next years 4 th of july parade.
|while i have your attention timothale.Do you have a source for new or good used hubcaps with the WO stamped into them? and the trim rings? (16in) the ones for my sisters jeepster are very rusty and thin..just chrome left behind mostly..the caps are wall hangers and i dont have any trim rings at all
jeepster ignition,
I have a couple Model T fords in the barn, horseless carriage type and well as a V8 T bucket and a couple fiberglass T bucket projects, lots of T parts, Back to the subject There are or were ignition systems conversions fot the horseless carrage T 's that used Jeep distributors, and some of them are solid state. You could search some of the T parts companies and ask, Snyders, Mac's Texas T parts, or go to the MTFCA web site. there is also a willys site and parts co some info- forums there.Kaiser Willys Jeep Blog
pinto rear to 5 bolts
I don't know if early mustang 5 bolt axle shafts and 5 bolt brake drums are a direct fit or not, That way you could keep the Willys wheels , hubcaps and beauty rings. On mine I used ford centers and wider buick hoops for the rear and used some VW spring clips i bolted on so i could keep the Willys hubcaps.
|yeah,mine has that.im not straying too far from factory when i dont need to.im doing the jeepster for my sister.She wants to lollygag around town and go to parades with it.I will convert it to 12v. And i wonder if pertronix has an 'ignitor' set up for the early flattie jeeps that were 6v systems?The rear axle is definately getting changed.It looks a bit feeble.I have a rear axle from a 1976 pinto thats basically the 8in light duty axle you would find in mustang II's with a V8,Its not a 9in but this jeep wont be needing anything that big anyways.And its darn close in width to the original jeepster axle.She better like this jeepster when i got it done...uughhh the last time i did a car for her was in high school..a 1977 pinto 2dr wagon with the 'bubble' rear windows..she said 'i just want a 4cyl automatic'..my dad and i got it all done,then she says 'ahhmmm...can you guys put a v8 in instead?? arrgghh!!!!! of course she being the only girl (4 brothers) my dad made sure she got her way! BUT this time she has a husband hehehe guess what brother in law if my sis aint happy
jeepster time
Does your jeepster have the cross leaf front suspension, A arms on the top. Mine handled pretty good, I put in a 9 in rear from a 58 ford wagon, width was right, it dropped right on the springs, I had to adapt the shock mount to the Ford botton plates. On the front I used the 58 ford wagon brakes, adapted the ford backing plates and used the Jeepster hubs and wagon drums. Ford T 85 OD trans and 364 Buick nailhead engine, My daily driver for 5 or 6 years.
|Problem solved,i just got a 1948 jeepster thats a barn find...hhmmm not a barn find to brag about under any circumstances.The barn roof fell in on top of several cars that were in the barn.A tractor,and Edsel,A 1963 mecury comet convertible..and a 1971 nova.Problem is,the roof fell in way back in 1974 and has remained that way.cars uncovered and exposed to weather.Snow,rain,sleet,hail...golf ball sized hail.anyway people have been picking over all the vehicles after the town told the owner of the barn he had to clean it out and dismantle the remains.Last car out was the jeepster.I asked if i could see if the motor in the jeepster was seized before i made an offer.I got the 'okay' it was seized uughhh.But i came back a few days later and doped the motor with a mixture of kerosene,marvel mystery oil,10w30 and a squirt of PB blaster and have let it set for a week.It turned over by hand without so much as a squeak.So i next brought a 6v battery,clean gas,fuel pump,points condensor and cap,cleaned an gapped the plugs and then kicked the motor over..it coughed and sputtered but she evened out and idled nicely.I offered the owner $100 for the remains he said 'great!' off i went.So i now have a 4cyl flattie,trans and a whole bunch f other widgets and gadgets to help with my sisters jeepster
clutch linkage
My older brother used to have the Warn franchise in Reno Nevada and did a lot of Jeep 4 X 4 engine swaps and installed a lot of other equipment. I followed his suggestions when I did the first V 8 swap into my jeepster. I moved the clutch linkage cross bar back into the chassis, made new brackets to mount the pivot brackets then ran longer linkage rods foreward, I had to drill a hole in the end of the clutch fork and used a half ball with the threaded hole on the end of actuating rod for adjustment. Also the relocated and longer rods made less movement of the clutch pedal from engine torque rocking the engine on the mounts
48 jeepster
The idea is to keep modifications to a minimum,If it were my car,I would likely still keep it 2wd but add a V8.However,my sister just wants to run it around town,And not have asked of it anymore than what it was designed for.The little V6 already has a stock Willys 4cyl flattie beat by a long shot for power,If its lacking torgue i will just add a steeper ring and gear..its a 4spd one more gear than the original 3spd. I do have a 1943 willys jeep engine that will work,But i still needed to find a 3spd from a non 4wd willys.I got tired of looking hence the V6/4spd from the mercury.All of you guys have good ideas and solid combinations,But im working with limited dollars.To me it will be underpowered,but to her..it runs/drives and is a convertible.my dad got it for her some years ago and was going to put it together for her,But he got cancer and passed on before he could do anything with it.the only immediate problem i see is the oil pan clearance..but,if i have to i will build what i need to make it work.Then the clutch/brake arrangement..hmm..steering column from a mazda truck seems to fit the bill with some modifications
The V 6 would have a little more power than the flat head jeep. I worked my Jeepster, pulled a trailer a lot hauling lumber when I was building my house. The guy that bought the Jeep pickup put in a toyota 4 X 4 drive train and was not happy with it.. like the ad , he could have had a V8 , My son had a german Capri V6 when he was in high school, It had an offy dual port and 4 barrel holly carb, and headers and was comparable in performance to the early mustangs, The jeep FC and std pickups used a stronger channel frame that has the same contour as the jeepster, just longer for the pickup box, the single cross leaf front 2 WD suspension handled very good, I could out corner the stock 65 mustangs driving in the S turns into the Ford Adm building every morning. Some of the guys at Ford gave me a bad time about not driving a Ford, BUT Ford south america was in a partnership and built Jeep wagons after they went out of production in the US, A lot of tooking went south after Us cars changed to new models.
I would consider a larger cubic engine; V8. Here is why. Even if you chose a larger cubic inch engine with the same hp you will generally have more tq at a lower rpm. A smaller engine will have to rev more to make the HP.
What that means is drivability. If it were an small light weight sports car (I have an MG with a V6) I think it would be a good match. A heavier car would really do well with the larger cube's.
To take it to extremes to understand where I am coming from, look at Nascar engines (I know they are V8's) but they are designed for the highest HP. They get the extra HP by running them at 9,000 rpm. They cannot take off out of the pits without revving them up and spinning the tires If they try a normal take off they stall the engine.
V6's, to get the same HP as a V8 do the same. If it is a small car, it doesn't matter.
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im trying to keep the jeep on its original frame,Its for my sister and she doesnt want 4wd or anything.I just picked up a 1977 mecury capri thats got a V6 and a standard trans,It runs really nice..so guess what she will be getting for a drivetrain? She wont even know that the thing doesnt have a flattie in it,Until she raises the hood to check the oil..by that time,She will be too far away from me to exact retribution..for the moment. What?...she gave me $500 to find a running drivetrain..and misc costs..huh??? good thing she is my sister and i promised my dad that i would finish the car for her.Hehehe i cant wait to put glass packs on that thing!!!
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Automatic Differentiation roughly means that a numerical value is equipped with a derivative part, which is updated accordingly on every function application. Let the number x0 be equipped with the derivative x1: . For example the sinus is defined as:
You see, that's just estimating errors as in physics. However, it becomes more interesting for vector functions.
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- http://comonad.com/haskell/monoids/dist/doc/html/monoids/Data-Ring-Module-AutomaticDifferentiation.html
1 Power Series
You may count arithmetic with power series also as Automatic Differentiation, since this means just working with all derivatives simultaneously.
Implementation with Haskell 98 type classes: http://code.haskell.org/~thielema/htam/src/PowerSeries/Taylor.hs
With advanced type classes in Numeric Prelude: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/numeric-prelude/0.0.5/doc/html/MathObj-PowerSeries.html
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Les Chevaliers de l'Ordre de la Terre Plate, Part II: Courtillot's Geomagnetic Excursion
In a paper entitled "Are there connections between the Earth's magnetic field and climate?" published recently in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Courtillot and co-authors attempt to cast doubt on carbon dioxide as a primary driver of recent (and presumably future) climate change; he argues instead that fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field (partly driven by solar variability) have an important and neglected role. Like most work of this genre, it is carried out in an intellectual void — as if everything we know currently about physics of climate had to be set aside in order to make way for one new (or in fact not-so-new) idea. But the problems don't end there. With the help of a Comment published by Bard and Delaygue (available here at EPSL or here as pdf) , we'll expose a pattern of suspicious errors and omissions that pervades Courtillot's paper. Sloppiness and ignorance is by far the most charitable interpretation that can be placed on this pattern.
Let's set the stage by noting that, as a significant competitor to anthropogenic greenhouse forcing of recent climate change, the direct radiative forcing by solar irradiance variations is dead on arrival. The solar output has been monitored by accurate satellite instruments since 1978. Measured peak to trough over the 11 year solar cycle, averaging over the Earth's surface and allowing for albedo, the radiative forcing amplitude is under 0.2 W/m2. The trend left after averaging over the solar cycle is even smaller. This pales by comparison with over 2 W/m2 of radiative forcing arising from long-lived greenhouse gases that have accumulated in the atmosphere since 1750; it pales yet more by comparison with the forcing to come in the future if action is not taken to control emissions. There is nothing in climate physics to suggest that the sensitivity of climate to solar irradiance variation differs substantially from the sensitivity to infrared radiative forcing arising from greenhouse gas changes. As far as the climate cares, a Watt is (for the most part) a Watt, regardless of whether it comes from changes in the incoming solar energy or greenhouse-induced changes in the infrared radiation loss.
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Amazon just launched a new region today in Sydney, Australia, as part of its Global AWS Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering. We're pleased to announce that RightScale supports this new region (Asia Pacific - Sydney) on launch day!
This is exciting news for the Asia Pacific region. We've had RightScale customers launching resources in nearby supported clouds such as AWS's Singapore region, who are eager for this announcement. And now, because they embraced RightScale's configuration automation technology, these customers can swiftly migrate their applications (and the associated data!) to Sydney to better serve their customers. If you have been considering a renewed availability zone design, or multi-region footprint for your web services, RightScale makes that much easier by allowing repeatable infrastructure blueprints to be stamped out in the Australian region, Singapore region and others as required, without having to rework your infrastructure for each region.
Thanks to our close partnering with AWS, RightScale has been able to ready our services so customers can begin to deploy servers through our dashboard today at 12pm PT/ 7am in Sydney, Australia. We've worked with AWS as it opened many regions around the world including Japan, Singapore and the UK. RightScale stays current with the latest feature releases, allowing our customers to build their repeatable infrastructure designs with AWS features such as provisioned IOPS capabilities. We've also updated our PlanForCloud cost forecasting site with the new region and customers have already started to create models for the Sydney region.
As many of you might know, AWS is hosting a customer appreciation event in Sydney on Tuesday, November 13. Josh Fraser, our SVP of Sales and Business Development, is speaking at the event with one of our customers, PhotoMerchant, about how to leverage RightScale to manage Amazon infrastructure at peak performance. Check out more information about his talk here.
Cloud in Australia
Being based in Santa Barbara, California, I wanted to understand what this launch announcement means for the Australian market. I turned to our Country Manager, Giri Fox for his take. We had an interesting conversation and it's clear to me that the Australian market will benefit in many ways. The highlights include additional differentiated services from cloud computing vendors and best in cloud expertise with offerings from AWS and RightScale. Read on for more anecdotes from Giri Fox, whom you can reach out to directly.
With AWS now available in Australia, the local adoption of cloud computing is likely to accelerate. Not just because many organizations will choose AWS, but also because local competitors will be driven to offer more differentiated services than simply having the prior unique position of being on Australian soil.
In Australia, a report recently commissioned by the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) and completed by KPMG, outlined the benefits of cloud computing to Australian enterprise Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the economy:
"...should Australian organisations adopt cloud platforms as expected across their ICT requirements – as more mature markets such as the US suggest is likely – then the benefits at both the enterprise and aggregate economy level could be substantial, lowering ICT operating and capital expenditures by up to 25 percent and 50 percent respectively."
The report cited a "lack of local IaaS options" as one reason the surveyed users have not adopted cloud computing to the same degree as the USA.
The review considers the NIST-defined spectrum of cloud computing including SaaS, such as RightScale itself and Salesforce, plus IaaS from providers like Amazon. The report identifies a number of areas where cloud computing is beneficial, and those which overlap with RightScale include:
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The AWS' Australian region, combined with RightScale's recently announced expansion into Australia, enable locals to take advantage of the experience both organizations have had in the USA with early adoptors. RightScale's professional services group has been involved with thousands of clients, and helped onboard 4.8 million cloud servers, with clients of all sizes, and all degrees of complexity. That knowledge, combined with AWS local region, is now available to help Australian speed their entry to the cloud.
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At the recently concluded Tizen developer conference in South Korea, Nokia announced that it has licensed its maps and related functionality to the Tizen ecosystem. While no phone or tablet running the Tizen OS has yet launched, device manufacturers like Samsung, Huawei, and Fujitsu are backing it.
Mobile handset manufacturer Jolla, whose first phone ships on November 27, also announced that it has licensed HERE's positioning services and map technology for its Sailfish OS. We expect more handset manufacturers to build devices for Tizen and Sailfish over the next 12 to 18 months, as both are open source and can run Android apps.
In my opinion, two key factors make Nokia HERE maps a tough competitor for Google and Apple:
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I attended this year's Nokia World in Abu Dhabi on October 22 and 23 — perhaps the last one that Nokia will host to showcase its devices (Microsoft wants to acquire Nokia's device and services business). And it seems that Nokia saved its best for last. The company announced its entry into the loosely-defined phablet category (smart devices with diagonal screen size of more than 5 inches but less than 7 inches) with two devices: a top-of-the-line flagship device, the Lumia 1520, and a more affordable version, the Lumia 1320. It also announced its first tablet, the Lumia 2520. It also launched three new Asha devices: Asha 500, Asha 502, and Asha 503. However, Nokia has neither announced the release date for its new devices nor identified which operators will carry them.
The event tag line was "Innovation Reinvented," and Nokia did demonstrate many innovations, especially around imaging software. It launched new apps like the Nokia Camera, which combines Smart Camera and Pro Camera apps; Refocus, which adds Lytro-like variable depth of field; Storyteller, which integrates photos and videos onto HERE maps; and Beamer, which shares Lumia's screen in real time over Wi-Fi or cellular networks.


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I just got up after the night shift here in Reykjavík Iceland. As some know I´m a police officer like so many here.
Last night started out like any other, drunk guy beating his wife, what a weasle.
I managed to grap something to eat and aroun 3:30 I got a F-1 call from distpatch (f-1 is Code 3 life is in dagner get ther as fast as you can) there was a report of a huge fire downtown, where buildings are build tight and mostly made of timber and built around the begining of the last century.
When I got down town I saw one of the biggest fires I have ever seen in an appartment building. No one knew how many lived there and if anyone was inside. Lucky no one died.
I saw a movement in the basement,wich housed an appartment, there was a couple trying to get out, I had to shout at them and drag them out. Note the whole building was on fire, and the reason the basement was not on fire was because it was concrete. Glass was flying all over the place, Firedepartment had not arraived.
I managed to drag them out, but at the last minute the female rips loose from my grip and dives deeper inside the appartment. H runs out and I follow her. I find here in side looking for valuables then the lights fuse out total darkenss.
I´ve never been so thankful for my Surefire flashlight, I just thought need to get out I´ve got a blazing inferno above me.
We managed to get out. What a night. Two firefigters were almost burned to death inside the building and they jumpt out a window and on a balcony, the balcony was a bonus, they were gona leap out and take the chance.
A friend of mine (PO) raises a ladder to the balcony wich is 6 to 8 meters from the ground. But the flames are getting to them so one FIrefighter uses the ladder but falls from the top on to my friend, but the other scaled down a plole.
you can see the press coverage here http://mbl.is/mm/frettir/innlent/200...r_um_ikveikju/
It is Icelandic, you can see me at the very end, I got my back turned to the camera.
Here is another clip from a news, you can see the fireman with a propane tank climbing down the ladder if the camera would have not panned you would have seen him fall down.


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Bad grammar and spelling doomed an ex-con facing fraud charges, prosecutors told a federal court jury on Friday.
The panel began deliberating Friday afternoon on six charges of mail and wire fraud, stemming from Wayne Ogden's involvement in a real-estate investment company in 2001 and early 2002. The jury adjourned its deliberations after four hours and is to return Monday to the federal courthouse in Salt Lake City.
Prosecutors allege Ogden cut and pasted signatures as he created forged documents. The fakes allegedly allowed him to divert millions of dollars of new investor monies from an escrow account to pay earlier investors in order to make the operation appear profitable. The former South Ogden Eagle Scout also diverted tens of thousands of dollars for personal use, including buying a new BMW for his girlfriend, prosecutors say.
But in creating false documents, Ogden repeated the same grammar mistake you're instead of your numerous times and misspelled a word on what was supposed to be another company's letterhead, Assistant U.S. Attorneys Rob Lund told the jury in closing arguments.
"To say the defendant is not a good grammarian is an understatement," said Lund.
Ogden, 48, now of Koosharem in Sevier County, got back into real-estate investment not long after he got out of prison on a 1997 Weber County conviction of theft by deception and money laundering. In 2007, he was indicted by a federal grand jury for operating a real-estate development company, Sandy-based Empire Investment Group, as a Ponzi scheme. He backed out of a plea agreement in June 2011.
In her closing arguments, Ogden's attorney blamed others with whom the defendant worked for conducting the fraud. Mary Corporon also said Ogden tried to stop the fraud by repeatedly contacting an FBI agent, and then the agent's supervisor and state investigators.
"Does a man who is trying to perpetuate a Ponzi scheme call the FBI?" she asked.
Prosecutors had a different take. In the midst of attempting to inform on others, Ogden confessed to deep involvement in the crime, they said in introducing as evidence a statement created and signed by Ogden.
He testified this week that he did not conduct the operation through a small group of inexperienced employees whose names and signatures were on company documents. Prosecutors allege Ogden was the actual leader of the operation and took advantage of his employees' youth and lack of experience.
Ogden and his brother, Terry, also were indicted in 2011 for their operation of Paradigm Acceptance LLC, another alleged Ponzi scheme that took in $29 million in investor money. Trial is set for April.
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I was just reading that the MJ memorial cost the city of LA 1.4 mil.Initially I figured that the family or the MJ estate should kick in for the cost, however after reading how the local goverment completely screwed up I sure as heck would not expect anyone other than the city to pay for their own screw ups.Here are a few examples, I am sure more will follow.After spending most of the weekend telling folks that if you dont have a ticket dont show up they brought in 3200 police expecting 250,000 people to show, when only 1000 showed up they sent 1000 officers home early still leaving 2200 officers to manage them (all on overtime by the way)They brought in lunches for the police from a restuarant 80 miles away for a cost of $49,000. a local sandwich shop could have provided lunch for about $17,000. Funny thing is when I work overtime my boss still expects me to pay for my own lunch ?The city set up a website asking for fans to donate to the cost, so far $17,000 has been donated but they are having technical troubles, by the time they get it fixed people will have moved on to the next big news item.I am all for paying legitimate expenses but goverment excess should come out of their own budgets.
I may be wrong but I've read somewhere that back in the 1980s the IRS seized a brothel in Nevada for back taxes. The government claimed the owner was making money hand over fist and wasn't reporting it.
Now you do know that funeral processions are escorted by police so they can stop traffic. Who pays for that? Is it included on the funeral cost?


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CHICAGO, Ill. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) – The Green Bay men's golf team's great start to the 2013-14 continued on Tuesday at Harborside International Golf Course in Chicago. Playing the back nine in 2-under par, senior Dan Ozga (Edgerton, Wis.) carded a final round 71 to lead the Phoenix to the team title at the CSU Invitational hosted by Chicago State.
After also winning the Green Bay Shootout and the Green Bay Invitational to start the season, the win was the third in four events for Green Bay this fall. The Phoenix also have had the individual medalist in three of four events and finished third in the John Piper Intercollegiate.
Green Bay held a 3-shot lead after Monday's opening 18 holes, and the Phoenix was again three strokes better than anyone in the field in the final round. With a team score of 592 (298-294), Green Bay finished six strokes in front of second-place Texas Pan American and 14 shots clear of third-place Loyola (606). Eastern Illinois (619) and Chicago State (620) rounded out the field.
Leading the Phoenix was junior Joseph Collard (Marinette, Wis.), who carded his second consecutive round of 1-over par 73 and finished in a tie for second place individually (146=73-73), just one shot back of medalist Ricardo Solis (145=75-70). Collard had 23 pars in the 36-hole event and led the field in scoring on the par fours at 2-under par.
Ozga bounced back from an opening round 77 to lead the Phoenix on day two and finish in a tie for fifth place at 4-over 148 (77-71). The senior was 2-over through 14 holes before making birdie on three of the final four holes. Sophomore Gene Kiela (Plymouth, Wis.) also finished tied for fifth place after a second-straight 2-over par 74 to finish in the top-10 for the fourth time in as many events this season.
Redshirt freshman Joe Du Chateau (Fond du Lac, Wis.) finished tied for ninth (150=74-76) while junior Tom Boockmeier (Green Bay, Wis.), who entered after two-straight victories, finished in a tie for 18th.
Green Bay returns to the Chicagoland area this weekend to compete in the Dallio Memorial hosted by DePaul at Ruffled Feathers Country Club. The 54-hole event will begin with two rounds on Saturday and conclude with Sunday's final round. Fans can follow live scoring for the 11-team tournament by clicking here.
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Good stuff here. I agree, 350 is by far, the most popular of the small blocks, and for many good reasons, most of which have already been duscussed.
The original poster asks which is the "strongest" small block. If he means "physical strength" (as in resistance to destruction), 350 most definitely. If he means "most powerful", 400SB (with modifications) is it for obvious reasons.
On the issue of "rod/stroke ratio"... Many high-end engine builders have their own "ideas" about this. Smkey Yunik wanted "as much rod as you can fit in there!" Most agree, 1.7:1 is "ideal" for most performance and drag applications. By no small coincidence, this is the r/s tratio of a 5.7" rod and a 3.25" stroke (327). Hard to argue with the higher rev durability of 327...
A misconception about cylinder pressure and "dwell " is present. "Dwell" (the time the piston is "at rest" between direction changes) is longer with a higher r/s ratio, INCREASING cylinder pressure, not reducing it. It can actually increase the potential for detonation. But it DOES make more power if not detonatng. Added dwell at BDC also improves cylinder "filling" on the intake stroke.
We use 6" rods whenever possible for the 3.75" stroke. Sometimes, budget constraints prevent it. Circle track 350s "like" 6" rods on longer tracks, too.
For ease and availability, 350 is the better choice, IMO.
|I would say that chevrolet knew what they where doing in the fact that they produced the 350 from 1967-2003. I don't know of any other motor that was produced and put in multiple vehicles for 36 consecutive years. That is just flat impressive. Now I personally prefer to built the 383 because of the added tq benifits. But you can buy a simple 5.7L 350 vortec from 96-02' for 400-600.00. Then do some minor head work, intake, carb, cam, headers and you can easily make 350-400hp with a minimal investment.
Silver you somewhat threw me off when you mention sticking a 400 shaft in a 350 and having a better rod to stroke ratio. What to you is better?
Lets start out with the basic 350 in stock form
5.703 / 3.480 = 1.63:1
Now a 400:
5.565 / 3.750 = 1.48:1
Budget 383 with stock 400 rods.
5.565 / 3.750 = 1.48:1
383 with 5.7 rods
5.703 / 3.750 = 1.52:1
383 with 6 inch rods
6.000 / 3.750 = 1.6:1
None of these are very good. It's said the optimum rod to stroke for a acceleration engine is 1.8:1 to 1.85:1
Being the most popular 383 combo uses 350 rods, it takes us back to a 1.52:1 ratio. You are right on a longer rod is better, but there are factors in there. longer rods help increase piston dwell time at tdc which helps resist detonation issues in theory by the piston sitting at tdc longer the combusting air/fuel mixture can expand more before the piston moves.
The longer rod also reduces side loading and piston speed.
A example of dwell time is a stock 350 engine, stick a degree wheel on it and a tdc indicator. The dwell time at tdc to 2 to 3 degrees.
Try the experiment again on a 350 with a 6 inch rod, dwell time increases to 8 to 9 degrees. a 6 inch rod in a 350 moves the rod to stroke ratio up to 1.72:1. The lower rod ratio also increases piston side loading into the bore which increases friction and wear. Another issue short rods cause is due to the really low dwell time of the piston at top dead center in the mid range RPMs the piston starts to outrun the flame front. This is especially true in the stock 400 and the 400 rod 383 build. The increased piston speed is also going to put a cap on rpm limit for cast and hyper pistons as they can only take so much before the piston breaks due to the high speed side loading.
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The SBC 350 is (was) the most popular engine in the world for good reason. That popularity has given us zillions of aftermarket parts. The parts and technology have become better and cheaper over time too. It only makes sense to stick with what works.
From there you can add a 400 crank to your 350 and make a 383 stroker and have all the benefits of more cubic inches and a better rod to stroke ratio (long rod engines are better).
400's have their quirks. The smaller displacements seem like a waste of time to me (the power is not there and the aftermarket parts are not there).
Many of them can be made into respectable runners. The 283, 305, 307, 327, 350 and the 400. However on a popularity scale the 350 is the most popular and parts for it are the cheapest. One thing to keep in mind is the small cubic inchers such as the 283 and the 305 are somewhat more difficult to wring power out of due to there small cubic inches. The 307 is likely the most scorned small block ever but it can easily be made into a strong runner.
If you want a play toy engine then get a 350. As said, good cubic inches, parts common as the day is long, parts cheaper, and just like the rest of the small block family easy to build and easy to hot rod. You don't have to spend alot of money to get 300 horses out of a 350.
strongest SBC?
265-400. which out of all sbc family could be a fun engine to have as a play toy? like just doing the basics. cam,intake,headers,heads carb. little stuff.
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Men's Soccer Set for NIU Adidas Invite
By Rachel Buck (@GBRachel)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) – The Green Bay men's soccer team will look to remain unbeaten this weekend as it travels to DeKalb, Ill. to take part in the Northern Illinois University Adidas Invite. The Phoenix will face Northwestern on Friday at 4 p.m. before taking on host NIU on Sunday at 2 p.m.
Green Bay enters the weekend 3-0-1, most recently defeating Viterbo, 3-1, on Monday afternoon. The start is the program's best since 2009, when it started the season 6-0-2.
Sam Krenzien (Wauwatosa, Wis.) currently leads the team and Horizon League with four goals, while Sabastian Xiong (Cottage Grove, Wis.) is right behind with three goals. Tyler Swanner (Glen Carbon, Ill.) and Lawrence Talery (Coon Rapids, Minn.) are tied atop the conference standings with three assists apiece. In goal, Kyle Ihn (Wales, Wis.) has started three of the four matches this season, recording a 1.90 goals-against average and a .714 save percentage.
GREEN BAY vs. NORTHWESTERN
When: Friday, September 13, 2 p.m.
Where: Soccer and Track & Field Complex, DeKalb, Ill.
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Friday's match will be the 18th meeting between the two squads, with the Wildcats owning an 8-6-3 advantage in the all-time series. The two squads last met on September 1, 2009, when the two teams played to a 3-3 draw. Northwestern was ranked ninth in the country at the time.
Northwestern is 2-1-0 this season, dropping its season opener to UC Santa Barbara before recording back-to-back wins against DePaul and Xavier. Joey Calistri leads the team with five points on two goals and one assists, while Brandon Medina has three points on a goal and an assist. Tyler Miller has started all three matches this season, posting a 0.93 goals-against average and a .700 save percentage.
GREEN BAY at NORTHERN ILLINOIS
When: Sunday, September 15, 2 p.m.
Where: Soccer and Track & Field Complex, DeKalb, Ill.
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Hosts of the weekend tournament, Northern Illinois will take on Butler on Friday evening before facing Green Bay on Sunday. It will be the 37th meeting between the teams, with NIU leading the all-time series 15-13-8. Green Bay edged the Huskies last season, 2-1, in double overtime at Santaga Stadium.
Entering the weekend with a record of 1-3-0, NIU won its season opener versus Cincinnati but has since lost three consecutive. Isaac Kannah leads the team with two goals, and in net Andrew Glaeser and Miles Herbert have spit time, posting combined 1.43 goals-against average and a .739 save percentage.
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Student volunteers hammer away at housing project
Release Date: 11/10/2009
Clarksville, Ark. --- As Margaret Mead put it, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." For student volunteers from the U of O, a Saturday trip to 505 N. 23rd in Ft. Smith to help build a house through Habitat for Humanity proved just such an opportunity.
Hammer time! -- Volunteers Christiana Paoli, Jodi Lee Bartles, and Krystal Clark pause to smile for the camera. Ozarks sends volunteer groups to help with Habitat twice in the fall and twice in the spring.
Habitat for Humanity is an international, ecumenical Christian, non-governmental, non-profit organization founded in 1976 and devoted to building "simple, decent, and affordable" housing. Homes are built using volunteer labor and are sold at no profit.
Students participate in the volunteer program for multiple reasons. Some are required to complete hours of community service for their scholarships, like junior Taylor Crutchfield. "I need the service hours for my Native American scholarship," said the petite soccer player from Claymore, Okla. "Plus it's a nice way to spend a pretty Saturday outside."
Other students volunteer to meet their convocation requirements. Some just do it for fun, like juniors Alex Chandler of Little Rock and Lindsey Kellaway of The Colony, Tex. "We've already met our convo and volunteer requirements," said Chandler. "We're just out here trying to help."
"It beats wasting the day sleeping!" Kellaway added with a laugh.
"U of O has been involved with Habitat for about a dozen years," said Jones Learning Center Director Julia Frost, who was in charge of the trip. "I read about it a long time ago. It interested me, and the fact that participants work toward their houses. It isn't just a handout. I am a sponsor of the Methodist Campus Ministry and was looking for community service projects. It's important to teach students to give back."
Frost says originally the university participated in the program only once a semester, but as interest grew they increased their participation to two houses in the fall and two in spring. "Once more faculty and staff became interested in helping, it became possible to increase our participation," Frost said. "Sometimes we have more students volunteer than we have room for. Once students participate, they often want to come back."
Fun in the sun -- Lindsey Kellaway and Taylor Crutchfield attach siding on the Habitat house being built at 505 N. 23rd in Ft. Smith. Students volunteer to earn community service credits for scholarships, to meet their convocation requirements, or just for fun.
Future homeowner and mother of two Maria Ochoa watched the busy students with a broad smile on her face. "It should be done by January or February," she said. "We had been praying for Christmas, but this will be wonderful too. We may put the Christmas tree on the porch anyway!"
Helping to put up the siding was another Habitat future homeowner, Kim Cruz, and her husband Martin "Our house is finished," she said. "We are working on our house's hours so we can move in. We have five kids living in a two-bedroom apartment, so we're ready!" Habitat homeowners must volunteer several hundred hours on Habitat projects to complete their commitment.
On-site foreman Ed Peters has worked full time for Habitat for six years. "I had originally applied for another job, but when they saw I had carpentry experience they said they'd prefer me to work on the houses," Peters said. "We built about five houses a year. This is my 30th house."
Peters said Habitat works with numerous student groups throughout the year. "March is going to be a busy month because most colleges are on spring break," he said. "March is full. We have two colleges a week sending volunteers here that month. We plan on building two or three houses in March, getting them framed and in the dry. In December I'll be pouring the foundations for the March houses."
Slappin' it on – Alex Glaub and Krystal Clark apply mortar to the foundation of the Habitat for Humanity house in Ft. Smith during the U of O's volunteer expedition there last weekend."
Following a morning of spreading mortar on the concrete block foundation of the house, volunteers were fed pizza supplied by other volunteers, and the afternoon was spent with the students, under Peters' guidance, putting up siding on the house. They made it about halfway up.
"Not a bad day's work," Peters said in late afternoon, as the students began to pick up their tools and carry them inside. Some of them will return in the spring, when the U of O sends volunteers to work on two more projects.
"I'm glad I got involved in this," said Alex Chandler. "It makes me feel like I'm helping somebody else, contributing to my community."
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Better than harsh words and a stern look, I suppose, but as a firearm,? -- a joke, designed to separate rubes from their money.
Awful human engineering by nature of the design -- can't get a decent firing grip, so even if the guns were accurate, it would be hard to hit with them. The couple I've tried had radically different points of impact for the two barrels (like a foot or more apart at 7 yards), neither of them bearing any relationship to where the sights were aimed.
Recoil is vicious, yet the stopping power of .410 out of a short barrel is nil. Friend of mine got shot in the face last year, at close range, by a robber with a .410 sawed-off shotgun. His bell was rung, but he was not killed, knocked unconscious, or incapacitated. Had the punk not run away immediately, my friend would have killed him. Despite a face full of pellets, he was still capable of drawing and firing his .45, had the target only stayed around a couple of seconds. That's not "stopping power." My friend has a hell of a nasty scar on his jaw, but that's all. (Punk got away, never caught.)
Although the .410 derringers are small, they are not all that light.
If you need a desperation gun that is easy to hide, get a Kel-Tec .32 or .380, and practice head shots. A titanium 5-shot .38 is a little bigger, but still lighter. The .410 O/U derringer is the mark of a duffer.


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Thanks GatorBytes! That was a lot of interesting information! The month before she got her itching was the only month I forgot to give her her flea/heartworm prevention. It would figure, right?
Well, we ended up taking her to a dermatologist vet today. The vet said Misty has yeast infections, bacterial infections, probably an allergy to dead fleas (?), and maybe something else. I can't believe my vet didn't catch the infections, but the dermatologist vet said that the infections would have made it almost impossible for any treatments to work (I don't know why). But anyways, I have a TON of different medicine to give her. Hopefully this works, though!
Possible zinc deficiency, or zinc copper imbalance
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Was/is she on spot on flea/tick/heartworm prevention? Vaccinated (any) within a couple days to months prior to start of itch or at time of starting prevention.
If so, this could be sign of liver toxicity...milk thistle and dandelion (tincture) to detox
Super itchy for 5 months!
My GSD, Misty, who will turn 2 on Christmas day, has been super itchy for the past 5 months with lots of red bumps on any bare skin showing and a couple small patches of fur missing. I posted a few months ago on here asking the same question. I've seen the vet too many times to count... He at first said it didn't sound like allergies at all (Misty is also raw fed) and not fleas. Instead he was thinking it was sarcoptic manges (scabies) and treated Misty.
It seemed to work pretty good, but did not get rid of all her itchyness, so he gave her a super strong dose manges specific. Misty was almost entirely better, but then it came back. Well, anyways, after a few more different treatments, each having the same affect, the vet is wanting to try treating allergies next. He really is a excellent and passionate vet, but I think going off Misty's raw food diet is the wrong decision and is not going to solve the issue.
We don't have a lot of money to keep spending on this problem... so I was hoping someone could point us in the right direction here. It sounds to me like she has manges, but I guess I don't understand how she would of got it. When she got whatever this is, we had not been around any dogs for awhile, due to the extreme heat (my understanding is you can only get it from other animals). Her itchiness is primarily on her stomach, but also very much on her muzzle, armpits, and all sides of her legs. Do you think it could be manges? Or could it be allergies? Any other ideas? I would like to still see my vet as he is so wonderful, but do you think I should try a specialist? Would it be worth the higher price? Ugh, I just don't know what to do anymore. She is itching as we speak.
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I thought you might find this interesting. This is a perzine I did about a demonic experience I had that led me to Christianity. True story. I used to be on the borderlines of agnostic and atheist, and I was raised Buddhist, but this experience led me to God. I know now that Jesus Christ is real, and He certainly answers our prayers.
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Product strategists at Mars, Incorporated are experimenting with mass customized offerings quite a bit. In addition to their build-to-order customized M&Ms offering, their subsidiary Wrigley has just rolled out MyExtra gum, which prints personalized wrappers on Extra gum packs.
Product strategists at Wrigley declined Forrester's recent request for a research interview, but judging from the myextragum website and their press release, the offering is a really interesting example of a creatively mass customized product strategy. Why? Product strategists at Wrigley have:


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Looking to go electric with Nissan's LEAF? The line is getting longer
From Green Right Now Reports
If you want to pick up a new LEAF when Nissan's all-electric automobile debuts in December, you may need to take a number. Already, more than 8,000 customers have plunked down the required $99 deposit to pre-order the vehicle. That's almost eight percent of the 102,000 who previously had signed up as interested buyers.
Those folks had first dibs in terms of making what is still a fairly nominal commitment. (The $99 is refundable.) Nissan expects the figure to grow even more after May 15, when the general public will be able to get in the game.
The company aims to produce about 50,000 LEAFs during the car's debut year. It expects to have about half of those spoken for in pre-orders by the time the vehicle actually begins to hit the streets. The LEAF lists at $32,780, but existing federal tax credits can take $7,500 off that price, and state and local incentives can reduce the cost even more.
Mindful that early word of mouth could be crucial to long-range success, part of the Nissan game plan is to make sure potential buyers know the range limits of the car, which is projected to get 100 miles on a full charge. Since home charging equipment is part of the cost, the company will go the extra mile when it begins taking firm orders in August: Nissan will pay to have an electrician visit your home and provide an estimate on how much it will be to purchase and install the equipment.
How serious is the manufacturer when it comes to assuring that early buyers become happy owners (and solid references)? Very serious, it seems.
"We may tell the customer, 'Look, you'd be better off buying an Altima or a Sentra because your driving patterns are not ideal for this car,' " Carlos Tavares, Nissan's chairman of the Americas, told Automotive News.
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Arsène Wenger does not think that Nicolas Anelka's future lies in England.
The Chelsea striker, along with centre-back Alex, had a transfer request accepted by the Blues last week to all but seal their exits from Stamford Bridge.
Anelka played under Wenger for two years at Arsenal between 1997 and 1999, and his former manager believes his compatriot will leave the Premier League.
"You can expect a move but not within England from what I have heard," said Wenger.
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JimWhat I have been doing for open feeding of dry pollen sub is. I use a 6 inch piece of 4 inch pvc pipe. On one end I have an end cap and the other end is a down spout. I secure the caps to the pipe to keep it water tight and then paint them. The down spout converts the round hole into a small square, I like to run some sand paper on the inside just to give the girls something to grip. I then hang this in a tree and keep the opening pointed down to keep the wind and water out of it. It has worked fantasticly for me the past few months untill we started getting real pollen here. Now the girls are no where near them but I am sure when it dries up here they will return to them.
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I should post more.... Passat 5-speed $1850
tough call.
3,803 posts X $10 = $38,030
2005 Lotus Elise - $34,999 in Michigan(9k miles, 6 speed)
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For ~$82,000, I'd pick up a used Lotus Exige, a decent camper for the pickup, and an enclosed trailer. Whatever is left over would be blown quickly on fuel and tires.
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and still have money leftover for one of these:
I'd have $263,940 to play with.
I would find me a used S2000 in white with tan leather.
I'll be in my bunk.
Hands down.
lets see...
$100k would comfortably get me a Modena Spyder and allow me to transplant an actual Ferrari V12 into it. That would do nicely.
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Great thread. 5469 x 10= $54690. Hmmmm.
FJ80 axles, diesel or some sort, Toyota splitcase transfer case. Done.
A used Toyota RAV4 V6 for tackling the untamed streets of Nola with $5-10K left for gas and things to put in the trunk.
CTS-V Coupe or.... Too early in the day for big decisions like this
These two cost me < $1000 for the set - RWD, 5-Speed Manual, IRS, Turbo, 2.3 Pinto engine easily capable of 400 or more hp, Recaro Seats, hatchback for utility and you don't see them every day.
So, I'd probably by another one of these
This thread is not kind to lurkers
If I did have an extra $1300 in my car budget right now, it'd be going into parts for the Z, but if it has to be spent on purchasing a car, probably something like this...
mmmmm if only.
id get either this
or this
I'd buy a plethora of cool vehicles. No need to blow it all in one place.
Unless it's on hookers and blow.....
Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?
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For Loop problem
I've got to manipulate some signed 12bit integer numbers from a file and
apparently Mathematica only handles 8 and 16 bit signed numbers
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they're stored that way with a leading zero nibble) and then I have to
do the following to make sense of them. I really don't know why this
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For[i = 1, i < Length[y], i++, If[y[[i]] > 2048, y[[i]] =
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Wu plans to focus on several initiatives before his departure, and in particular the continuing progress on the fundraising for the Damon J. Keith Classroom Building & Center for Civil Rights at the Law School.
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In late 2010 I noted that startup SeaMicro had introduced an ultra-dense server using Intel Atom chips in an innovative fabric-based architecture that allowed them to factor out much of the power overhead from a large multi-CPU server ( http://blogs.forrester.com/richard_fichera/10-09-21-little_servers_big_applications_intel_developer_forum). Along with many observers, I noted that the original SeaMicro server was well-suited to many light-weight edge processing tasks, but that the system would not support more traditional compute-intensive tasks due to the performance of the Atom core. I was, however, quite taken with the basic architecture, which uses a proprietary high-speed (1.28 Tb/s) 3D mesh interconnect to allow the CPU cores to share network, BIOS and disk resources that are normally replicated on a per-server in conventional designs, with commensurate reductions in power and an increase in density.


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Dave Isay is the founder of StoryCorps and its parent company, Sound Portraits Productions. Over the past two decades his radio documentary work has won nearly every award in broadcasting, including five Peabody awards. Dave has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a United States Artists Fellowship. He is the author (or coauthor) of four books based on Sound Portraits radio stories, including Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago and Flophouse. He and his wife, Jennifer Gonnerman, live in Brooklyn.


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The first 3 sections of the tree are in place
What kind of a demented person would put a tree topper before the tree is completed
more pics coming....
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Bella inspecting some of the electrical cables
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The top piece is in place
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Hello everyone. I'm new to this forum, and Ive been researching this forum as well as the Aircrack forums for an answer to this...but Ive come up empty handed. Hopefully you guys can help me shed some light on my problem.
Technical Info.....
NIC: Netgear USB WG111 v2
SOFTWARE: Using Backtrack 2 FINAL
LAPTOP: Compaq Presario V6110US
I'm having problems apparently with my WG111 not injecting properly. I run this test for injections.....
Start monitoring the deauth attack using wireshark and I run aireplay-ng -0 10 -a 00:11:22:33:44:55 wlan0
(and I cannot see the deauth unless i fire up KISMET ....odd huh?)
So...to try to remedy the situation .....I check my steps. And they are in order...
1. airmon-ng stop wlan0 (no channel and with a channel selected)
2. ifconfig wlan0 down
3. macchanger --mac=00:11:22:33:44:55 wlan0
4. ifconfig wlan0 up
5. iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor (no channel and with a channel selected)
6. airmon-ng start wlan0 (no channel and with a channel selected)
****When I say (no channel and with a channel selected), that means I tried this with a channel the fist time and when I failed I started over and tried with no channel on the second attempt****
7. I fire up kismet (no channel and with a channel selected)
8. Select my network AP ---Lock onto it. (Shift L)
9. I run aireplay-ng -0 10 -a 00:11:22:33:44:55 wlan0
10 Fire up wireshark ckeck update list of packets in real time on my wlan0 interface....and use the display filter wlan.fc.type_subtype == 12
11. Start monitoring the deauth attack using aireplay-ng -0 10 -a 00:11:22:33:44:55
Then THIS HAPPENS EVERY SINGLE TIME!!!!! ---------->>>>>>>>
I can see that SOMETIMES wireshark will pick up the deauths' and then ill switch the filter to view the packets normally in wireshark...Ill see beacons from my network and then the DEAUTHS come....but the vast majority of them are MALFORMED!!! :0 :-( I mean sometimes they are not malformed....but most of the time they are. Ill get a whole set of 10 deauths with no problems...but then I notice the aireplay-ng screen kinda "IDLE" and "stall" in between the 10 deauths sent. Odd Behavior indeed! Sometimes it will actually freeze. Now why would my card send good deauths 1-3 times out of 10 sets is my question?? And why can I not get wireshark to even see the deauths unless I have KISMET up and running?? Its almost like my card is not in monitor mode! Ive tried to check injections with KISMET not enabled and I get no deauths to show up at all...but when I turn it on and lock the channel...it shows them...just 80-90% of them are MALFORMED!! Am I not putting my card in the monitor mode the correct way or something?? Is there a correct way to put this USB card in monitor so it will inject?? I know this version of backtrack has the right drivers installed it says RTL8187 on boot up. And ive even tried the whole iwpriv wlan0 rawtx 1 command..and nothing. Please someone out there help me shed light on this. I cant get anything over a 900 count with ivs. I don't know if its my card tripping or me. Its so frustrating to know how to crack your own WEP and not have the means to do so. Also Id like to note that I can lock my channel with airmon-ng and with iwconfig and using KISMET and when I fire up airodump for my channel 6 only...I still get other channels showing up as well. And In the Kismet dialog boot up it seems to always seem to say that its enabled my wlan0 on channel 6.....even when no channel is specified. Thank you all for taking time to read this and for ANY input from people who have my WG111 v2 and are experiencing the same problem. I'm really leaning toward my card not being on the right channel...but Ive done everything I can think of to make sure it stays on my channel I want it to be on. One last bit of info.....on this iwconfig command I see lo listed as well as my wlan0. And if lo is not "up" i cant get kismet to run. Thanks again everyone.


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Oil Follies – and a Gentle Suggestion
posted at 2:26 pm on December 18, 2009 by Dafydd ab Hugh
Today, Iran sent troops into Iraqi territory and seized one of Iraq's oil wells.
This is nothing new; it evidently happens several times every year:
The field is about 500 metres (yards) from an Iranian border fort and about 1 kilometre from an Iraqi border fort, US Colonel Peter Newell said, adding that it falls on the Iraqi side of a border agreed between the two countries.
There are five other similar fields that also fall into disputed territory, he said. [The territory is only "disputed" because Iran covets it. — DaH]
"What happens is, periodically, about every three or four months, the oil ministry guys from Iraq will go … to fix something or do some maintenance. They'll paint it in Iraqi colours and throw an Iraqi flag up.
"They'll hang out there for a while, until they get tired, and as soon as they go away, the Iranians come down the hill and paint it Iranian colours and raise an Iranian flag. It happened about three months ago and it will probably happen again."
In keeping with the absurdity of Obamunism, everyone — Americans and Iraqis alike — is desperate for a "diplomatic" solution:
"There has been no violence related to this incident and we trust this will be resolved through peaceful diplomacy between the governments of Iraq and Iran," a US military spokesman told AFP at Contingency Operating Base Adder, just outside the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah.
"The oil field is in disputed territory in between Iranian and Iraqi border forts," he said, adding that such incidents occur quite frequently.
To which I respond, "Well there's yer problem right there!"
Nations always have disputes between them… but territorial integrity is the first and most basic component of sovereignty: If a country cannot hang onto its own territory, it may as well hang it up; it's not really a nation.
(And before anyone starts shouting about immigration, yes I believe that a country must be able to control who crosses its borders; but no, we are not being "invaded" by Mexicans. Immigrants are not invaders; they're guests. They may be unwelcome and unwanted guests, but that doesn't make families the equivalent of heavily armed Iranian soldiers.)
Iraq has been entirely too complacent for entirely too long about so-called "disputed" territory; worse, this lackadaisical attitude, in the Age of Barack H. Obama, has even infected the American military forces in Iraq. This is unacceptable; it's primitivism. And rather than enable it, we should help the Iraqis stamp it out and shift to a modernist conception of sovereign territory.
(The same could be said, by the way, about Japan's complacency when South Korea declares the island of Takeshima part of the Republic of Korea, or when Russia plants its flag on the four disputed islands in the Kuril Island chain, in violation of the San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951.)
So I have a suggestion; it should be familiar to our Commander in Chief, coming from Chicago… but it appears he has never heard of such a thing, so I'll enlighten him:
- For right now, send a combined U.S. and Iraqi force into the area; the Iranians will amble on out, smirking. We linger at the border for a few weeks, then withdraw. (This step is necessary to feign weakness and set the Iranians up for step 3.)
- Inform Iran that this is the last time they will enter the Abu Gharb oil field, the Iraqi side of the al-Fakkah field, or any other Iraqi oil field… but don't tell them what will happen if they do. We keep troops fairly nearby but not close enough to keep the Iranians from doing what comes naturally.
- Within a few months, Iran will do it again; we know they will, because we deliberately signalled weakness with step 1. This is the trigger for which we will be waiting: Our troops move into the region; the Iranians withdraw. But instead of stopping at the border, American troops move into Iranian territory, seize some of their oil wells (on the pretext that they are "disputed territory")… and sit on them.
- We invite Iraqi oil workers in to start pumping the oil from these wells and driving it back to Iraq. The idea is not just to chase Iran out of Iraq but to force them to serve penance for their sins.
- We hold the wells for six months; then we tell Iran that this seizure was their one warning: The next time Iran invades any portion of Iraq, these wells and unspecified other assets will be annexed to Iraq… permanently.
If we are to introduce Iraq into the community of civilized nations, we must first induce them to break from their bad, old Arab traditions that turn nationalism on its head and keep them a backwards, "third world" nation with a few trappings of modernity. Until they think of themselves as a sovereign nation, nationalism will never trump tribalism.
Such a jump is impossible in Afghanistan, at least anytime in the forseeable future; all we can do there is maintain a more or less "tribal-democratic" government (where each tribe gets a vote — in the form of each person voting) and keep the Taliban and their ilk out of power. But Iraq can be so much more; they can be a powerful American ally in the Middle East into the future. But we must encourage them to stop thinking like their neighbors and start thinking like us.
We cannot allow them to revert to their former ways; the danger to the United States would be dire.
Alas, this is all fantasy: Barack Obama cannot "feign" weakness because he is weak, and only the strong dare such pretense to draw an attack — an expected attack — and turn it back on the enemy. Perhaps someday Iran will school Obama on what it means to act from strength, not submission.
Cross-posted on Big Lizards…