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Anne Mostue's work in radio journalism has taken her from black bear dens in the North Woods of Maine to the streets of Seoul and San Juan.
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Arnie Seipel delivers weather forecasts five times daily on NPR Berlin. He is also a producer for NPR's coverage of U.S. elections. Arnie previously worked as a production assistant with the promotions department at NPR, as well as the live...
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Student awarded Medal of Excellency in Bankruptcy
June 04, 2012
DETROIT — Wayne State University law student Valerie Jackson has been awarded the 2012 American Bankruptcy Institute Medal of Excellence in Bankruptcy.
Jackson, as a second-year student, made the highest grade in Professor Laura Bartell's Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights class last fall. Jackson also scored highly in oral arguments representing Wayne Law during last year's Mardi Gras Sports Law Competition at Tulane University Law School.
She said she chose Wayne for law school based on its "stellar reputation in the area."
"Also, I liked the idea of being on an urban campus," said Jackson, who plans to practice in bankruptcy and commercial litigation after passing the bar.
And she has advice for beginning law students.
"Remember that you are more than just a law student," Jackson said. "You are also a son or daughter, a friend, possibly a sister or brother, and maybe a mother or father. Make time to fulfill those roles and to do things that you enjoy. Reading and preparing for classes is important, but if you manage your time wisely, you should be able to adequately prepare for classes and enjoy the non-law school parts of your life."
ABI is the largest multi-disciplinary, non-partisan organization dedicated to research and education on matters related to insolvency. The group gives the medal annually to one student at each participating law school nationally. The medal honors top law students for their achievements in the field of bankruptcy. Winning students are selected by bankruptcy law faculty and deans, and also receive a one-year membership in ABI and a certificate.

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On March 11, we'll kick off our global Heart of the Swarm launch party with activities and live stream content leading up to the midnight release. Read the press release for the details, and visit the Heart of the Swarm launch event site to see what's going down in your neck of the world. We hope you'll come out, join the party and help Kerrigan usher in a new era of Swarm dominance.
The minions of Hell grow stronger.
We're excited to announce that Diablo III is being developed for the Sony PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. We'll also be adapting the award-winning action–role-playing game for Sony's newly announced platform: the PlayStation® 4!
Sit Down, Relax, and Kill Some Demons
Diablo III for the PS3™/PS4™ will be based on the core PC game and feature all the latest updates, including Paragon levels, the Infernal Machine event, Monster Power, Brawling, and more. This version is also being tailored with customized controls, a new user interface, and a dynamic camera perspective to provide an awesome Diablo III experience for PlayStation gamers.
Players will be able to wage war against the Burning Hells on their own in single-player games as well as team up and destroy countless demons with their fellow Nephalem in multiplayer games. For multiplayer, players will have the option to choose between four-player online (complete with matchmaking) and four-player local co-op modes for their couch-based warfare.
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The PS3 version of Diablo III will make its public debut at PAX East in the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center from March 22–24, and attendees of the convention will be some of the first to defend the world of Sanctuary via handheld controllers.
We call upon all heroes to join us at the official Blizzard booth, where you can enjoy some fast-paced hack-and-slash, participate in fun contests and giveaways, and learn more about the game. (Community managers will also be on-site, and they look forward to answering your questions and slaying some of Diablo's many malevolent minions with you.)
For more information, be sure to check out the official press release, and stay tuned to Diablo3.com for future updates.
BLIZZCON!!!!!! The seventh BlizzCon is coming to the Anaheim Convention Center Friday, November 8 and Saturday, November 9, 2013. Those who join us for this epic community gathering will experience two days of hands-on time with the latest Blizzard games, in-depth developer discussion panels, intense eSports action featuring some of the top players in the world, and a variety of other exciting activities and events. Further details on the show, including ticket pricing and availability, will be posted on BlizzCon.com at a later date. In the meantime, check out the press release for more info and prepare to help us blow Anaheim's mind.


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If you think that your family were in the gentry or royal class of folk then this subscription web site is for you! You can do a free search to see if any of your family names are entered in the database.
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text: So I was reading the David Thorpe Chat on Espn.com and he suggested Utah trade Boozer for a starting 3... Clark (Durham, NC): If you are the Jazz GM and Boozer comes back healthy in a month, do you try to trade him or hope he helps the team in the playoffs? David Thorpe: I trade him for a legit starting 3 + cap space + a pick. So we trade Prince for Boozer... Next we go back to that Sheed for Josh Howard idea...he'd be our starting 3. He's young, athletic, but does have a bad attitude. I think we should keep AI for the 20 mil to make a run at Bosh... Starters would be... Stuckey, Rip, Howard, Boozer, whoever AI off the bench and possibly nab Bosh for our frontcourt. Probly will never happen but that'd be dirty.


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Oct. 23, 2012
By Stephen Trembley
FRESNO, Calif. --- The fun, flair and focus on fundamentals stole the show during the Fresno State men's and women's basketball program's annual Red and White Hoops Night on Tuesday night at the Save Mart Center.
The evening gave the Red Wave a look at the 2012-13 Bulldogs, which are led by first-year head women's coach Raegan Pebley and second-year head men's coach Rodney Terry.
"We're grateful for everybody who came out here to support our men's and women's teams," Pebley said. "I think Fresno State has some of the best fans in the west and we want to keep it that way."
"This night is for the fans, as it is an opportunity for our fans to get a chance to meet our new players and we've got a lot of new faces right now," Terry said. "And of course for the guys, this was a chance to have a little bit of fun."
That fun was evident throughout the evening, with the two squads being introduced to the crowd, going through skill and scrimmage sessions, and competing in 3-point, dunk and four-person shooting contests.
"This is a great opportunity for the student athletes to come out and have a good time, not just as a team, but to be able to interact with the men's team as well as the crowd," Pebley said.
The interaction built to a crescendo especially when co-men's 3-point champions Garrett Johnson and Kevin Foster and women's 3-point champion Ta Nitra Byrd swished shot after shot from long range, and during the dunk off where Jerry Brown edged Tyler Johnson.
In the men's scrimmage, newcomers Cezar Guerrero and Braeden Anderson both pocketed a pair of baskets to lead the scorers in the up-tempo session that felt like a NBA All-Star game exhibition.
"In the three minute scrimmage, we let them just get up and down the floor for just a little bit and have some fun and then it will be back to work for us in the morning bright and early," Terry said.
Both teams return to their regular practices as they go through final preparations before playing their only exhibition games next week. Both games will pit the Bulldogs against the cross-city Division II Fresno Pacific Sunbirds, with the women taking the floor on Tuesday, Oct. 30 and the men competing on Friday, Nov. 3.
Season tickets are available for both the men and women through The Bulldog Ticket Office and online at www.gobulldogs.com.
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Indiana's voluntary clean energy portfolio standard began January 1, 2012. This program will provide incentives to the state's utilities to voluntarily increase the amount of clean energy resources in their electricity portfolios. The program is called the Comprehensive Hoosier Option to Incentivize Cleaner Energy, or CHOICE. Electric utilities that sign up for the program agree to use an average of four percent of their total electricity supplied to their customers from clean energy sources from 2013 to 2018. Beginning in 2019, these CHOICE program utilities will increase that number to seven percent, and in 2025 they agree to have ten pecent clean energy in their portfolios.
The CHOICE program is a result of Indiana's Clean Energy Law passed by the Indiana General Assembly and signed by Governor Daniels in 2011. In addition to creating the voluntary clean energy portfolio standard, the Clean Energy Law names 21 clean energy sources that can be applied to this standard.
The new law itself is quite involved, and there are quite a number of stipulations and requirements of utilities that agree to participate in the CHOICE program. The Indiana Office of Energy Development has created the following FAQ in order to help Hoosiers understand this new clean energy program.The Indiana CHOICE program, as part of Clean Energy Law, was subjected to the rulemaking process of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commisson (IURC). The IURC regulates this program and all other utility issues with consumer oversight by the Office of Utility Consumer Counselor.
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|That's a problem that a lot of people run into with that program, including me. To be honest, I forget how I ever actually fixed the problem, but it may have had something to do with the Firewall. You could try contacting their official support, because there is no doubt they have run into this issue many times. They have have a quick answer for you.
Hi Anonynona, great explanation but maybe you could help me with an annoying problem.
When i install the program it works great although slow(maybe i need to adjust a few things as suggested in your post) but when i switch the computer off/on i can still get a link to the internet but cannot connect to any website or even update my antivirus(nod32). Running the network wizard sorts this but only AFTER i uninstall the program. then i also have to reboot..
Any advice would be appreciated thx.
|Rob Williams
Hey Anonynona,
Thanks for your review! I am glad to see you enjoy the program so much, and have found more uses for it than I did. Sadly, I had to start and finish that review in two hours flat in order to hit publishing, so apparently that helped me miss things :/
As for that extended.. I didn't even notice it! Of course now I forget exactly which program I wanted to use to remain anonymous :/ I'll try and remember and then give it a try.
Great writeup!
You also have the ability to set how often, to some extent - hard coded choices, the host servers are optimized. As the author suggested for DSL, I set it to optimize every 10 minutes, the quickest time available between optimizations and it makes a difference. Big improvement over v7, which I found very lacking in this area, as it would start up with 100-160 servers and I would immediately start it optimizing. After churning through them all I would consitently end up with anywhere from 15-35 servers that passed!! I'm sure the servers used haven't changed, but I'd rather not see such dismal numbers.
You can now set up individual URL's that you wish to bypass the anonymizing process, which is another thing I was wanting - it's great!
If you have a good graphics card, but maybe would rather not use the 3-D globe, you can turn it off. It's nice to watch for a bit, but there are only a fixed number of positions for the crosshair to slide to and many times it looks like it's hurrying to catch up to the server location...it misses the race sometimes.
You never said just what oddities you were experiencing...?? I recently was dragged into a poisoned DNS cache; it was Steganos.com!! Had the temperament of a hijacking mixed in with a phishing expedition. I had used the link inside the SIAP7 to go to their site and up popped a completely different site selling everything in the world...looking at the page links, every single one of them (and there were many) showed Steganos.com as the domain site! Some other things also occured that I told them about, providing an in-depth article explaining DNS cache poisoning.
I am having very good speed out of 2006 and would recommend it to any wanting really solid anonymity!
Thanks for your time! BTW, I give it a 9.
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Steganos have just released a new version of their award winning Internet Anonym program, which brings us to version 8! We are taking a look at the basics, and also what's new. Has much changed? Let's check it out.
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Every bridge is unique, whether it allows a person to walk across a sedate, rural creek, or it lets a train cross an industrial valley. Bridges allow people to go where nature did not intend.
Still, some spans are truly special. Take the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in California. Though not as famous as the Golden Gate Bridge, its neighbor five miles west, the Bay Bridge has been a godsend to area residents, saving them hours of commuting time. It has seen prisoners taken to the former Alcatraz prison. And it has seen the earth quake.
Now its eastern span is being replaced at a cost of more than $5 billion. And concrete is the star of the show.
When the contract to supply concrete for the Skyway portion of the eastern span was signed, everyone at Cemex knew we were beginning something special. We did not know it would tax the limits of our 80-plus years of industry experience. From the mixes, materials, delivery, and the plant itself, the project presented a unique challenge.
The multi-billion dollar expenditure is part of an initiative to make state-owned bridges more resistant to earthquakes. The bridge, combining a single-towered suspension skyway with a bike/pedestrian path, was designed to draw a modern and striking white line across the Bay. The project features the world's largest precast concrete segments that are three stories tall and require using the largest cranes available to set elements in place.
The owner is the State of California Department of Transportation (CalTrans). California ReadyMix, a Cemex subsidiary, contracted with Kiewit FCI Manson (KFM) to supply concrete for the skyway viaduct and the foundations for the self-anchored suspension construction.
In all, Cemex needed to supply more than 100,000 cubic yards of concrete, delivered by barge for this high-profile project.
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The batch plant was constructed on the outer harbor of the Port of Oakland, a site with historical significance as a loading pier during World War II. Because the site will be restored at the end of the project, no excavation or structural alterations were allowed. Construction was complicated because the pier had deteriorated over the years, so it could not support the weight of the batch plant and storage bunkers. To provide needed support, a massive concrete footing was built on imported fill 90 feet from the edge of the pier.
Although the plant site anticipated during bidding was 2¼ acres, it was actually built on 1½ acres, including aggregate and waste storage. Many contractors, the batch plant, and CalTrans share the site.
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Hey all,For those who don't know, I'm a "wanabee." I made the decision to keep bees too late this year to buy a package, but Ihave found a place that will sell me a nuc.Since I have all my equipment ready, I'm going to go ahead and buy the nuc. Any advice? What to expect? Ooo. I'm so excited!
I will defnitely feed them well. Right now, white clover is also blooming all through my fields and the fields next to me, along with the tulip trees on my land. So I'm hoping that there will be plenty for them when they arrive to go with the sugar syrup.
Good for you, Lesli. ... So, what I'm saying is...don't be surprised. They are living creatures and don't read the same books as we beekeepers do. :lol: Do you have to return the nuc box in a certain amount of time, or do you get to keep it?
I had 5 gallons of syrup but that is about gone and I am having trouble finding a source to sell me 5-10 gallons. I may be dissolving a bunch of sugar soon.Good luck!


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i mainly use transgo kits in the shop but there 4r55/5455 kit is pretty crappy compaired to the superior kit for this unit
the pro king kits are not bad auctually a reboxed transtar kit they dont come with thicker steels to set clearance
i use buy kits directly from dacco or transtar u can get a atsg book pretty resonable it would be usefull
Thanks for the input fellas. However - your help causes more questions:
-any rebuild kit better than the next? i can easily get get my hands on a pro-king kit... but through my work i can only get a kit for a 2wd model... since i have no book or manual abut the tranny ... any input?
-transgo is a no-go in this case? ive used trans go kits before... pretty impressed with their stuff. Liked what it did in my Z28 and other various projects i stuffed their kits in.
-again... literature on the matter? any manuals better than others?
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|99 should be a 5455 e with a 4.0 there not a bad unit to build make sure you replace the servos on the side of the case i aways use the zc cover and pistons on both the center support is known for wear use a superior shift kit do not use a transgo kit in this unit get a large ratio pressure regulator valve they make thicker steel clutch plates to get the clearances tighter becareful cleaning the valve body it has many clips that will fall out also use a a external trans cooler
Get bandaids .... the edges of that narrow deep case can be sharp and trim up your arm skin.
Check the servo pin bores in the side of the case, they like to wear out badly sometimes
|rick 427
|The only specialty tool you will need is the pump alignment kit,which consists of a plastic outer ring,and a plastic hub that re-inacts a converter hub.The clutch drums come apart like a 400,which you are familier with allready.I use my seal puller to remove the center support.You will see what I'm talking about when you get to that point in the disassembly.Everything else,you have in your toolbox....you can get the pump kit[and everything else you need] direct from Transtar in Bedford....alignment kit PN is T-0168K....upon reassembly,you will need to find a plastic sleeve that compresses the new rubber center support rings. They come installed on new replacement supports.I haven't seen them for sale anywhere else. A trans shop,or Cleveland transmission,will prob have one laying around to sell or give you.
99 ranger tranny rebuild - what special tools are needed?
Hello everyone
Got a 99 Ranger (4.0 4x4) that lost reverse. Absolutely no reverse whatsoever. From all preliminary diagnosis it seems the band failed inside the tranny. Apparently common problem for these 4r44/55e trannys from my research so far. So... a tear down and rebuild is in order.
I have rebuilt a few trannys (all of them actually GM trans'... i am GM tech), installed reprogramming kits and shift kits, all without a problem so far. I have a ton of books on 700r4/4l60s, th 350s, 400s etc... but no info so far on a ford trans. Anyboy have any recommendations on a good book for rebuilding one of these bad boys? Most importantly, any special tools these trannys require? As a side note, any of you guys have any experience with these units?
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Open Rank Professor of Comparative Politics and International Relations
Date Posted: 09/07/2010
Status: Full-time position
Term: Fall 2011
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Soka University of America (SUA) seeks applicants for an Open Rank position in Comparative Politics and International Relations with specialization in the Asia Pacific region. The standard full-time faculty teaching load is five courses per year; two courses per semester and one short (three-week) intersession course (August or January).
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Hi all,
Early this morning/late last night I got an email on my AOL account from my sister. I didn't really pay attention when I opened it, but it had a strange subject line. I opened the email and replied to her.
Throughout the day I got a couple of "mailer daemon" email notices on my phone. Didn't think too much about it.
When I got home this afternoon, I opened AOL and saw that a lot of spam had been sent to many people on my contact list. . . some with very embarassing subjects! :wacko
I ran a malware sweep with two different programs and isolated a trojan. I cleaned it off my computer and changed my AOL password, and hopefully that will be the end of it.
Can't people come up with better things to do than hijack peoples' email accounts??? :facepalm


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In the midst of recent fires that swept California, President Bush pointed proudly to Republican Governor Arnold Schwarezenegger as an example of how tragedies could be avoided with proper leadership, a dig obviously directed toward the Democratic governor of Louisiana's performance during the Hurricane Katrina fiasco. It now appears the Republican governor made numerous mistakes, as did the military, in providing assistance to those fighting fires. After 2003 fires, a commission set up by Governor Schwarzenegger urged purchasing more planes and working in close coordination with military air borne capabilities. The Associated Press reported that Marine, Navy and National Guard air planes and helicopters were not all available due to lack of personnel needed for use in getting the planes into the air. Two National Guard cargo planes lacked the right equipment to make them effective in fighting fires. After insisting for four days that winds were responsible for failure to get the planes airborne, the Republican governor then blamed lack of Forest Park spotters.
US Agriculture Deputy, Mark Rey, who oversees the Forest Park Rangers says the lack of equipment is "probably something we have to look into." One can only wonder how diversion of planes and personnel to fight in Iraq was a factor in lack of personnel and equipment in the California fire fighting fiasco. It is clear, the governor's own commission urged purchase of additional planes, but this was not done.


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Originally Posted by AirFlacco
Accident or not, it did give SF to re-group and figure out what to do and they almost
won the game. It took the momentum away from the Ravens as they had to fight
for their lives and the win after the break.
Thank God we won, otherwise this would have been equivalent to the man on the grassy knoll. Lol
Look, Ray Lewis saying this is o different than people complaining about the phantom Jimmy Smith holding call at the end.


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Originally Posted by AntonR View Post
Speak of simplicity. My first LA was a 19ft Bristol SailStar. I moved onto it for, I thought, a weekend after my gf and I broke up...and the idea of living on the hook with no bills hooked me. The weekend became two years in the blink of an eye. This was the mid 80's.
No engine no lights no battery no galley no slip no phone no computer no TV no address no bills $0 maintenance but a lot of barter and elbow grease. I sailed coastally all over from Louisiana to the Keys and there were months where my total expenditures were $20, and that's no BS. I know because there were trips where I left with only $20 to my name.
I built a sweep for maneuvering short distances. Sometimes when anchoring I was just as likely to put on my diving fins, jump overboard and tow the boat with legpower to the spot I liked best and set the anchor by hand. I may have been a curiousity to onlookers but it worked very well. Washed myself and clothing in Joy and salt water with no ill effects for two years...remember to beat the salt out of my shirts before I put them on lol. Cooked with a driftwood-fueled Hibachi bolted to the transom. (You're really an eagle scout if you can make coffee at 6AM with a 20knot wind going on) In places where I didn't want my dinghy stolen, I bought the cheapest 2 man blowup raft I could find, ride in to shore, deflate it and take apart the 2 piece plastic paddle, put it in my backpack and go to town. Going back to the boat, I habitually took a gander along the shore for driftwood to stock up my locker. For entertainment, I had a solar radio and read from my library of mold-spotted books by candlelight, did not feel culturally deprived. Being the 'weird person' in an anchorage I think added to my popularity...boat people seem to love a madman and want to feed him...lol. I made moorings out of engine blocks and milk bottle buoys, and a day of sailing didn't need an opportunity, only the urge.
The boat I have now, people would say is simplicity itself as it is. But 20 years on, it seems I "have to have" a PC, internet, phone, TV, cable, a diesel, stove, fridge, icemaker, the list goes on. Part of me really misses the simpler way. But as I'm 20 years older I'm almost a little afraid now to try it.
The boat needs to be hauled out within the next 12 months, and when it comes to that I'll decide. I may pull the engine, prop shaft, tank and toss the batteries, and replace all nav lights with solar beacons they use for ocean buoys. One motivation is there's an incredible amount of space to be gained with all the engine related units gone. No circuit box, no wiring, charging, fueling, maintaining, repairing...back to full time sailing and submission to the elements. Maybe my memory is faulty in my old age, but I don't remember being in significant trouble before because the wind wouldn't blow hard enough...if you kept finding wind on the nose, it meant you were going in the wrong direction, lol. If I was trying to cross ahead of a freighter and a sudden dead calm ensued, that would be bad. I try to stay away from city-sized mechanized behemoths at any rate...rather scary things, seems like they're bumping into bridges and islands and spilling black muck on a regular basis.
If the mad act occurs, I'm back to the minimalist thing. Well, semi-minimalist. A portable solar panel, cellphone and a laptop can make life easier if they're used right. After all, I'm I'm not going to start chasing dinner with a sharp stick just to prove a point...lol
It's not a done deal yet...just a temptation needing a temporary insanity for it to bear fruit...see what happens. It would be very liberating to take a thousand dollars and think I could disappear indefinitely. Don't know if that's possible anymore..can I really be free of my civilized addictions? Do I even want to be?
but something does often change with folks as they get older; when once all they needed was a pack and a tent and a can of sterno to see the world, suddenly they need half a village, twenty pack animals and a few elephants (with wireless of course). do we just get lazy or weak or smarter?
i suppose you can't generalise. in my neck of the enchanted forest, I sure wouldn't want to be roughing it. southern california or mexico is one thing, but up here its just too damned cold. it's a lot easier being a sand fly when the water is 30 degrees and the air is 40.
as i've gotten older i have moved more and more towards simple and wondering how far i can go, and whether i'll have a mate with me the whole trip. most women won't buy what is described above, not once they reach the grey side of 20.
one person's hell is another's enlightened bliss.
In my 8 months out and about, I've seen a lot of boats, and a lot of expensive boats, but that's not usually the people I end up anchored with at the end of the day. Like me, they have older, less pricey boats. Yes there are the midrange boats, out there as well, but by and large, it's us low buck boats that fill most of the space.
One can dither about forever, or one can go out and do it, and make do as best you can. It really isn't any more complex than that.
Originally Posted by HoffaLives View Post
I thought there was a time when yachting (okay, boating) was geared for garden variety families, the kind popping up like weeds and fescue in the suburbs in the 1950s-70s. Yet going through many of today's magazines mom and pop must have struck it rich, or somehow the tide of wealth that has floated everyone else's boat found a loose stuffing box in my poor scow and I'm sitting here gurgling away with just my toerail above water.
Never has been.
I sailed a lot but never much cared for having to come back to the ramp/dock.
I saw a cat being built that I had been reading about. I knew all the gizmos I wanted to have on it. It was early 80s.
It was way out of my reach.
I saw a cat a week ago. It had all of the gizmos that I would want.
It is way out of my reach.
Only the rich have boats (that work). Or the newly poor.
Livia, thanks for joining the thread and contributing such interesting thoughts.
I too am struggling with a lot of this right now and trying to decide what kind of a life I want on the boat. I am glad to have all of you to discuss these kinds of things with, it is engaging and helps me think through it in my own mind. I have more thoughts on this but I need to get out of here because I'm getting ready to go somewhere. Hope you all have a great few days! See you soon.
Originally Posted by Valiente View Post
I note that Victoria had 90 km/hr. wind gusts today. If you can put up with that at dock (and you deployed doubled lines and plenty of chafe gear), you'll be fine...
Originally Posted by bestfriend View Post
No need to apologize, stand up for what you feel. As you found out, most of us here are willing to support anyone in their efforts to live their dream.
That said--some people seem to be enjoying the ruckus so none of my beeswax.
So, on the original topic - my husband and I are looking at potentially 2.5 years to a very early retirement and an indefinite cruise.
We're dealing a lot with the idea of simplicity vs ease. Some of it for us has to do with what bothers us. There is a balance between making and fixing that each person has to decide on. I would rather boil water every day than fix a hot water heater. But I would rather fix a wind vane than always hand steer.
As we get further into our process, my mind changes. I become more willing to fix but also more willing to make (boil water, whatever). Many of the things that seemed so important when we were shopping for our boat** are fading. As we start to think in terms of indefinite travel, not on the US coast, we realize that minimizing the complex moving parts and electronics are important to us in a way that they wouldn't be while living a mile from a West Marine.
*making inflamatory comments just to get people riled
**A gorgeous Wauquiez Pretorien needing just a bit of TLC (of course)
|And speaking of trolls, that might be a good definition for us antisocial liveaboards in our damp, dark boats. That might even make a good club/website moniker: "The Trolls" Much more imaginative than sailnet.
This is a tangent but a damned interesting one so WTH. First of all, I've also posted that the above kind of commentary is an acerbic persona, useful in drawing out the lurkers. Having said that, I do think there are broad social generalities that do exist, even though they fall apart when you get to the individual.
We could debate the reasons until nuns fly, but in my experience guys are more willing to put themselves at risk, more willing to be assholes when drunk, and more willing to wallow in their own filth. Of course there are tons of women willing to go out in a gale with dirty underwear, but I do think they are in the minority.
As for the guys buying the expensive gear, that's just the point. It's the ikea ethic, only on the water. Personally, I hate buying crap for the boat.
My wife is somewhere in the middle; good for her. She has many times impressed me with her ability to be very feminine, and yet have the gonads to climb on the foredeck and haul down a headsail in a blow.
A lot of women don't have that. Same for a lot of guys. But among sailors, there are fewer women than men.
IMO, that makes the women who do all that more special. Sure it's just them being them, but I admire toughness and the willingness to give it a shot wherever I find it.
|No need to apologize, stand up for what you feel. As you found out, most of us here are willing to support anyone in their efforts to live their dream.
I just read the Phoofy ladies thread.
I apologize for feeding the troll.
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Iowa Lakes Community College Softball team is heading down to Houston, TX for their spring trip and season opener. The Laker's will have 8 games while down there; Monday March 12 a double header against Galveston College, Tuesday March 13 a double header against Lamar State College, Thursday March 15 a double header against San Jacinto College, and Friday March 16 the last double header against Blinn College.
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We're flattered The Fiscal Solutions Tour decided to visit Portsmouth and we hope their message was heard far and wide. They appear to have real ideas about how to escape our temporary fiscal insanity.


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New York gunman who killed firefighters left note saying he 'likes killing people'
A gunman who shot dead two firemen on Christmas Eve after luring them into a trap left a note saying he intended to "do what I like doing best, killing people", police said tonight.
What if this guy is not legally judged mentally ill! Not a convicted felon but still on some sort of prescription medication for a mental illness. Then what? Should he be allowed a licence? Should he be on a list?
I hear a lot of deflection on gun control and no answers coming from the right except more guns in schools and guns to follow our children about!


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The Canisius baseball team completed the weekend sweep of Marist College with wins of 8-1 and 7-3 over the Red Foxes at McCann Field on Sunday afternoon. The Golden Griffins extend their winning streak to six games and improve to 28-14 overall and 11-4 in the MAAC.
Game One — Canisius 8, Marist 1
The Griffs scored twice in the first inning, getting two-out, RBI singles from senior Jimmy Luppens and sophomore Brett Siddall. Freshman Anthony Massicci led off the game with a walk, moved to second on a wild pitch and to third on a groundout. Luppens then used an opposite-field single to score Massicci. Junior Connor Panas followed with a single, and Siddall singled to left to score Luppens and make it 2-0.
Canisius doubled its lead in the third, with Massicci leading off with a single and senior Shane Zimmer working a walk. After a sacrifice from junior Jesse Puscheck, Luppens walked to load the bases. Panas was hit by the next pitch to force home Massicci and chase Marist starter Scott Boches from the game. A sacrifice fly from Siddall made it 4-0.
Marist got one back in the third before Canisius extended the lead in the sixth with two more runs. Senior Jose Torralba led off with a walk and scored on an RBI double from senior Ryan Coppinger. After a sacrifice bunt from senior Ronnie Bernick, Massicci singled up the middle to score Coppinger and put the Griffs up 6-1.
The run support would be more than enough for Godzak (6-3), who threw his third complete game of the season. The sophomore lefty allowed three hits and one run, walked two and struck out five on 85 pitches.
Massicci was 2-for-3 with a walk and two runs scored. Coppinger and Siddall each posted two hits and two RBI in the game.
Game Two – Canisius 7, Marist 3
Marist (12-27, 5-10 MAAC) took its first lead of the series by scoring a run in the bottom of the first, but Canisius responded with three unearned runs in the second inning and chased Marist starter Rich Vrana by seeing 40 pitches. Siddall led off with a single and Panas reached on an error. After Luppens popped out and senior Jesse Kelso struck out, the Griffs took advantage of the extra out as junior Mike Krische worked a walk to load the bases. Freshman Christ Conley scored two runs with an opposite field single to give the Griffs the lead. After Massicci worked an eight-pitch walk to reload the bases, Torralba drew a four-pitch walk to force home Krische and chase Vrana from the game.
The Griffs manufactured a run in the fourth without a hit as Krische led off with a walk, stole second and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt. Massicci sent a grounder to second, but Krische was able to score on the play and make it 4-1. Canisius extended its lead in the sixth as Conley led off with a walk, moved to second on a sacrifice from Massicci and scored on a double from Torralba. Siddall would bring home Torralba with a double of his own to put the Griffs up 6-1.
The Red Foxes added one run in the bottom of the sixth, but Canisius got it back in the eighth as Torralba led off with a single, moved to second on a groundout and scored on an RBI single from Siddall.
Torralba reached base four times by toing 2-for-4 with two runs scored, two walks and two RBI. Siddall was 3-for-4 with two RBI and a HBP. Conley was 1-for-2 with two walks and two RBI.
Junior Devon Stewart (4-5) picked up the win by allowing two runs on five hits in seven innings. Stewart walked two and struck out four. The top three Canisius starting pitchers have now gone at least six innings in 28 of 32 starts this season, including 14 out of 15 times in conference play.
Canisius is scheduled to play three mid-week games, starting with a seven-inning doubleheader against Cornell at the Demske Sports Complex on Tuesday. First pitch is set for 3 p.m.
Notes: Canisius is on a winning streak of at least six games for the third time this season. The other 10 teams in the MAAC have two such winning streaks combined this season… Canisius has now won each of the past three regular-season series with Marist. Prior to 2012, the Griffs had won the regular-season series just twice in 14 previous seasons… Canisius won the three games by a combined 18 runs, the largest margin of victory in a three-game series this season. (Quinnipiac outscored Saint Peter's by 16 runs in a sweep last weekend)… Canisius has scored at least seven runs in five of the last six games after scoring seven runs once in the previous 11 games… Massicci was hit by a pitch in his last plate appearance, recording an HBP for the first time this season (170 plate appearances)… Canisius reached base to lead off the inning 15 of 25 times on the weekend.


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Discussion in 'November 2012' started by roscoe36, Oct 29, 2012.
They went to the bench pouting didn't they?
Probably Manu.
Was it Manu's idea and Pop agreed?
I don't even think his assistant coaches have the leeway to make suggestions like that to Pop.
It was a rhetorical sarcasm.
I honestly don't remember how it all went down. It was like a bad soap opera.
Singler starting. Pistons by 12.
Jesus BK is fast!
And we are seeing some decent rotations on defense which is so pleasing.
Sad to see a loss, but this was probably our second best game of the year. Dre was awesome.
This was a big time defensive choke by the Pistons that started in the 3rd period and carried over to the 4th to the tune of 39 points. I hate to say it, but why didn't the doctor keep Stuckey out until at least the Pistons got back to .500...e....Case in point, the Pistons had a 13 point lead with a little under 3 minutes left in the 3rd quarter. (75-62). After Aflollo hits what appeared to be lightly contested three, LFrank calls a timeout and subs in Stuckey for Singler and the roofs caves in as the the Magic closes out the quarter on a 9-0 run including the three by Alf. Stuckey scored 3 buckets during the 4th, but he finished the night with a -19 playing nearly the whole quarter when the Pistons defense disappeared. Although the Pistons scored 31 in the 4th quarter, they missed a ton of close shots and fed a lot of passes into the paint that were fumbled and picked off. The Pistons shot over 50% from the floor and 80% from the FT line, but were out boarded 44-30 Despite Drummond's -9, he still was a force in there blocking shots and was 5/6 shooting....but once again he was yanked during a time out in the third was never seen again This should of been a win!!!!
Gee, some good, more stupid to balance it out. Look, Stuckey is not a shooting guard. Basically, it was a straight substitution for much of the night - either Stuckey or Singler at shooting guard. With Singler, plus 17. With Stuckey, minus 19. Lets examine just how stupid this is. According to Dumars, who let Billups go, Stuckey was suppose to be our point guard. Well, now Stuckey has not only been replaced by Knight as the starting point, coach has stripped him of even being the backup point. And who is it that Stuckey can't beat out for the backup point guard position? Bynum. This is non-sense. Stuckey should simply be our backup point, and never ever play shooting guard for us. Pretty simply. Yes, that means not playing Bynum - which goes against the coach's agenda - but it would win us games. Also, in Frank's world, Bynum, who hardly is any kind of a point guard, and not even a guard considering guards are suppose to be able to guard, is better to have in the game than guys like English and Middleton who indeed could have been out there tonight playing some good perimeter D for us. And the usual stupid. JJ is not a power forward and provided not one inkling of evidence tonight that he could function as one in any aspect of the NBA game. Never altered anyone's shot, never outrebounded an opposing big, and certainly did not cause any response from the other team other than laughter if he was given the ball on offense. One solution is to play the guy at small forward, where us fans really appreciated him durinig Tay's injury a couple of seasons back. More stupid. Why did we win last game? Every second of that game, we had a shooting guard at shooting guard, either Singler or Maggette. And furthermore, we had a small forward at small forward the whole game - either Tay or Singler. In this one, again, much of the time no shooting guard at shooting guard (Stuckey instead), and not much of a small forward at small forward in Magette. In many respects, Magette improved tonight in his second game back - but since he was put in a role he is poor at this time, he was way less effective vs. last game. More stupid. What does coach do if we can't rebound. Pretty much nothing. He has the option of playing the combo of Monroe and Drummond more. But simply chooses not to for no good reason whatsoever. Here a team comes in and scores 110, which is just sickening, and further its our place and that team comes in on a five game losing streak. Further, coach actually gets the starting halfway right so we had every chance to win. But Stuckey coming back doomed us - but not because Stuckey is a bad player, but because our coach is clueless and won't play Stuckey where he can excell - as the backup point. (Yes, he did play there about 2 minutes or so late in the fourth - too little too late.) Monroe and a great scoring 3rd, as did Tay. Things were looking pretty darn good - until Frank started substituting the very same people who could not do anything in the first half. Apparently Frank has an extremely short memory, or my theory is correct - he is the most blind man on the planet - because he refuses to see. Anyone notice where Singler was on that early fast break. Tay finished it - but Singler had hustled down there and was in perfect position to put the tip in if that shot had come off. Indeed, Singler was where he needed to be pretty much all game. Still does not change the fact that he is short on quickness - Orlando burnt him bad on that in clutch time - but that play should not ever have mattered. Fact is, Singler is doing enough overall to makeup for his lack of quickness. But a decent coach would have made some defensive changes in crunch time. Again, Drummond swiped a ball all on his own, drove and dunk. If Drummond gets any position at all near the glass on offensive rebounding, his length and ups does the rest for a tap in. Very impressive. And don't come around the backet trying to score if Drummond and Monroe are in together. However, since the Pistons don't play them together much, come on in, doors wide open.
At this point, I really wish it had been Stuckey rather than Gordon rocking that Bobcats jersey. Giving this guy $8M+ per is right up there with drafting Mateen Cleaves and Rodney White.
Good assessment Lee.......although the defense disappeared in the 4th, this IMO was a coaching loss..as Jacque Vaughn capitalized on the blind coaches short memory.
Gordon proved that he could take over games. I can remember 3 outings where he absolutely torched teams with his stroke. His defense sucked, but Stuckey's hasn't been much better lately
You could very well say it was a coaching win for the Orlando Coach.
Good effort. The Magic just played smarter and never stopped fighting - it just sucks that they had to get out of that rut they were in against us. I will say this: coaching loss. Why leave the all-bench squad in when the other team's getting starters in? I don't get it. Greg had a good game, efficient and mostly under control before the poor decision at the end. He was 9/12 and made all his FTs, which is what you would expect from him. He wasn't half as dominant on the boards, but that's also a consequence of having to deal with a stronger opposing front court. His defense probably won't ever be there, though. Brandon quietly had a good game as well despite again struggling with his shot, his new career high in assists going to waste as the Pistons hemorrhaged the lead at the end of the third to beginning of the fourth quarter. He did a solid job on Nelson for the most part, but the crafty vet and the Magic figured the Pistons' defense out and they never really recovered (this is where coach needed to change things up, but nooooo). Kyle played a solid game. He hasn't been perfect, but the team looks much more cohesive with him. Max - he's solid, and his dunk and free throw got us what was, iirc, our last lead of the game - but he does have his deficiencies. Tay - played pretty well. He's fitting in with the makeup of the new SL so far, looking like the Tayshaun from the contending years these last two games. Andre - really needs to play more. He was effective in his 15 minutes, and I think the team would be better served if he got more (most) of JJ's minutes at this point, preferably getting them alongside Monroe. JJ - who? I didn't see a JJ, unless you count the one who couldn't rebound or guard a pole. Also, bringing him in to to match up against Big Baby was...terrible. Perhaps Shabazz was in someone's dream? Corey - didn't play all that well in the second half. Ok in the first. Stuck - the 6th man role might suit him, but he is struggling still, and the team struggled with him (-19). Bynum - meh. Coach Frank - I said up top - coaching loss. He did a poor job responding to the Magic's runs, and the bench in against starters in the fourth was bad. He looks like he's trying to give everyone a set number of minutes every game, and that's a mistake. Play the guy who's playing well, go with the hot hand, what have you. And please, please stop playing the whole bench together right when the other team gets its starters in at the beginning of the fourth quarters.
Well, a bit of time on rotation. First of all, as good as we saw Singler do today at shooting guard, fact is, he can provide pretty much all the good stuff at small forward - while not being quite so slow for the position. Start Knight, English, Singler, Drummond, Monroe. 2nd unit) Stuckey, Maggette, Tay, JMAX, Kravtsov (with Drummond and Monroe staying over as much as foul situation permits as our two bigs.)
Guard a pole...I am almost 58 years old and never heard that one before....where have I been?? Good one Alexa...I can't wait to use it in a conversation at a sports bar or Staples Center... Agree Stuckey should no longer start...and needs to be pulled anytime opposing team starts to pull away...by 2 pts... Bynum...sit him for the next two weeks and see if we are better off without him. Coach...these losses are on you. If you gotta play set minutes, give Drummond 25....
The Pistons simply don't have a player that can take over in the late stages. On one key possession with about a minute to go, Monroe and Knight passed the ball to each other. Neither could create nor looked like they wanted to take the shot. Finally, the ball was thrown out to Maxiel in the corner. I started to laugh (though it was painful inside). Wow, Maxiel shooting a jumper just outside his limited range. Of course it missed and I knew the game was lost. I mean Singler can already make more plays down the stretch that most of his team mates. The Pistons must be getting the poorest production from a set of guards (Knight, Stuckey, Bynum) in the NBA. How often can a team win in a guard dominant league with this trio at present.? Answer: Check the record. What worries me is Knight. He is supposed to be the future. I just don't see the progress from year one to year two. If he is still a couple of years off, the Pistons must make getting a real guard a priority. And Monroe needs a big man coach on how to finish at the hoop. Yes, he scores, but he fails too often in easy spots for NBA players. On one fast break drive late in the game, he was handled by their 6 foot guard who rode him out to the left. If Monroe is to be a star, he must be an offensive machine. Monroe and Knight are the franchise now until, hopefully, Drummond gets there. But neither look ready to be a star.
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|I had to replace the deck lid That I ruined with the blaster but again I was lucky and found a good used one. I have mentioned ruining the deck lid before when discussing sandblasting but this is the first time I admitted that I got the door frame at the same time Live and learn I guess but I sure as heck will not let it happen again. That door frame probably would have blasted ok if I had not gotten careless with it so that is why I wanted to warn anyone new to blasting to be very careful.
|I bought a repro decklid that going back too.
|Yep I remember the textured surface inside the mustang doors. I was lucky on the one I did, they were not in bad shape and only had a few rust pits on the inside. Still a pain using paint stripper and a scotchbrite to strip. If would have machine sanded with course grit, then the texture would most likely be ruined. I did blast some, but I have a siphon feed blaster and it doesn't shoot a lot of pressure. But a big flat panel, probably would be easy to warp if not carefull. There was a discussion on restoring the texture on one of the mustang sites but I can't remember which one it was offhand. There were a few different ways people were doing it. Spraying a texture coating like chip guard is a cheesy way in my opinion, but think they had other ways to go about it also. He put an aftermarket trunk lid from mustangs unlimited on because the original was in such bad shape, and to my surprise it fit well. Only thing is it didn't have holes for the trunk bumpers, and since he needed new ones I let him handle that. Glad I didn't have to mess around a lot with the doors, by the sounds of the experience others are having with them.
Bob, I am sure you are aware of the warping problem from sandblasting and know how to avoid it but for someone not too familiar with sandblasting I would like to say be careful! I didn't admit this earlier but I ruined the original door frame by improperly blasting it. By the time I finished the bottom was bowed WAY out and down and the inside was wavy and could not be repaired since it is not covered by a door panel and has a textured surface, basically it was destroyed. I was lucky in that I was able to locate a door with a decent frame for free since the guy had replaced his with a new one and just wanted rid of it.
BTW, I also ruined the deck lid which I was blasting at the same time, but that is a different story, slow learner I guess After ruining those two parts it finally hit me that one has to be extremely careful what and how to blast.
It's good to be able to hear and realte some of your problems with doors, it makes me feel a little better that I am not alone.
I wish that the previous owner did not butcher two massive speaker holes on the inside of the factory doors. If this was the case, then I would only need door skins or small patches.
Anyway, I'm going to have a look at the car today, and take some more pics.
I am going to discuss body work. If I should let him do the major fills, and take the car home and block it myself, or do all the body work myself.
We haven't got a great garage to work from, so I don't know if I can consider doing any painting or primering at all myself
Its frustrating spending hard earned money for new stuff and not having it fit. I did not have the issues you are having, but I bought a NOS GM skin for this Camaro I am working on and installed it. Looked perfect. But when I mounted the door it was easy to see the back of the door was out of square.
With the door mounted I taped a line that would give me a straight seam and ended up grinding the back of the door off starting with about 1/4" at the bottom and tapering up. I just TIG'd the edge, quick file job and painted.
Not near your grief but I just dont expect stuff like that when buying a NOS piece. Heard horror stories (whore) about the aftermarket stuff.
I am to the point now that if I cant hand straighten it, I will.
|Sandblasting and repairing the original frame then priming and installing a new skin would definately be the best way to go IMO. With today's primers, adhesives, and sealers a skin can be installed and last 10 times what the factory did years ago. Some of the doorskins I've installed I've been able to monitor for 15+ years and they hold up way longer than a factory door---and this is in the roadsalt capital of the world! Keeping those seams protected is key to corrosion resistance.
|Thanks for the info.
|Shoddy, FWIW I got the skin I used from NPD and it was a good fit with straight lines and about the only problem I had was the bottom corners were just a little too rounded but it was a minor thing that was an easy fix, other than that it was fine.
|Bob thats what i did. I broke it loose where its spotwelded below the vent window and got the twist out. Before i did that the bottom of the door stuck out four inches. No lie. I got the twist out but there are to many other issues to deal with. The customer paid almost $300 for the door. He would have to pay me way to much time to make it work and the whole thing would be skimmed with bondo to correct the massive waves. Thats wrong for a new part. Mine isnt square either. Metal would have to be added/subtracted at the edges to correct the gaps. Plus the body lines are not close to being straight. Im going to repair the frame and install a skin.
|Bob, That's about what I figured. I have two 65's (64-1/2) and fortunately one is nearly rust free but the other has some inner shell rust damage that has been repaired on both doors with a new skin on the drivers door so I was considering new doors for both sides but now I think I will just stay with what I have.
|I just talked with a shop yesterday that's been struggling with a repo first generation Mustang door, they ended up cutting the frame then twisting the shell and rewelding it. This one appears to have been twisted when the skin was installed. Talk about some junk! The gaps are way off also like it isn't square.
|Shoddy, The description of that door sounds like the first parts I bought back in 1989, two fenders that required a wedge shaped strip nearly 1" wide and 7" long to be removed from the top rear to reshape so the dang things would match the doors! These doors were still in factory alignment but the fenders still protruded nearly an inch when installed tight against the cowl and were nearly flat on top where they met the door, these things were junk and I mean big time! I can see where one could not fix a door like I fixed(cobbled) those fenders and that's why I am almost afraid to buy them until someone other than a salesman can recommend them.
I didn't see in any of your photos where the left fender was on the car. When I stated that I test fit the parts, I meant all of the parts. Installing the door, with the fender off, when replacing the quarter, really tells you nothing. You can work all you want to get the door to fit the quarter, then install the fender, and find that everything is wrong. Some minor tweeking is normal, and sometimes with aftermarket or reproduction parts, a little more tweeking is called for. Unless the parts are "JUNK", they should not require that much work to make them fit properly.
I have seen many times that the problem with the fit of the parts is not the parts, but the installation. I have seen many times that someone has taken a "used" quarter panel and had to make modifications to make them fit. This is a quarter panel that fit another car fine. It was a problem with the way it was handled from the point of being removed and reinstalled, not the part itself. Having watched the whole process, I knew that there was going to be a problem several times, and pointed it out, just to be ignored. Sometimes some of it is the part, but some of the problem may be the process.
Try to get some good photos of the problems that you have. Try to get good lighting on the areas.
|I bought mine from Johns Mustang in Houston about a month ago.They said API on the box. I called NPD also.they said theres are made by Golden legion but their skins are made by API. I guess Golden Legion uses API skins?I don't know.But the drivers door is unusable.The pass. i may be able to work it. The gap at the bootom of the door to the rocker is about 1/2" and the peak at the top front of the door is round instaed of sharp.Also gap to the quarter is uneven. But my original pass. door frame is rotted beyond repair so a skin is not an option.Driver frame can be repaired so im going to repair it and skin it.At least i can put the skin on straight. Also NPD told me they had no complaints on their shells.I m going to call johns and see what they have to say.
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