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Wayne Law announces 2010 recipients of Public Interest Law Fellowships
DETROIT (June 2, 2010) – Wayne State University Law School is pleased to announce the 2010 Public Interest Law Fellowship (PILF) recipients. Eric Berg, Adam Clements, Bradley Dembs, Anupama Gokarn, Andrew Hoff, Phyllis Jeden, Jeffrey Kerby, Elizabeth Kruman, Natalia Santanna, Aisa Villarosa and Chelsea Zuzindlak will be gaining practical legal experience through $4,800 fellowships that will allow them to work for a variety of agencies and clinics in Michigan and Washington, D.C.
The fellowships were created by the Law School in 2009 to give students additional opportunities to gain practical experience before graduation, ease financial stresses and offer needed assistance to organizations providing legal services to underserved constituencies. Fellowship recipients will hold public interest jobs during summer 2010. A committee of Wayne Law faculty and alumni selected the recipients.
"On behalf of Wayne Law, I would like to congratulate our 2010 Public Interest Law Fellowship recipients," said Wayne Law Dean Robert M. Ackerman. "These fellowships provide an excellent opportunity for these students to gain practical experience in public interest law. They will also supply help for worthy organizations and assist folks in need of legal help at a time of economic difficulty."
Dean Ackerman added, "We are thrilled to be able to offer these fellowships for a second year, and hope to be in a position to continue funding the program in future years as well."
The fellowship recipients and the organizations for which they will work include:
• Eric Berg – Wayne County Prosecutor, Major Drug Unit
• Adam Clements – City of Highland Park
• Bradley Dembs – Counsel and Advocacy Law Line, Lakeshore Legal Aid
• Anupama Gokarn – Free Legal Aid Clinic
• Andrew Hoff – Michigan Poverty Law Program
• Phyllis Jeden – American Civil Liberties Union
• Jeffrey Kerby – State Appellate Defender's Office
• Elizabeth Kruman – U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C.
• Natalia Santanna – Legal Services of South Central Michigan
• Aisa Villarosa – Michigan Children's Law Center
• Chelsea Zuzindlak – Asian American Justice Center, Washington, D.C.
"This fellowship makes it financially possible to take a public interest internship that would otherwise be unpaid," Elizabeth Kruman said. "Through my internship with the Department of Justice, I hope to gain a sense of the kind of public interest legal work I will pursue as a career after graduating. Without the PILF, it would be more difficult to explore such opportunities."
Added Aisa Villarosa, "My internship at the Detroit office of the Michigan Children's Law Center and the PILF will bring me closer to realizing my goal of providing legal services to underrepresented populations in Detroit."
For more information, please visit http://www.law.wayne.edu/finaid/pilf.php.
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"This satisfying soup is fantastic any autumn or winter day. The blend of Swiss, Parmesan and mozzarella gives it a richness onion-soup lovers will enjoy." —Gina Berry, Chanhassen, Minnesota
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- 2 large red onions, thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup butter, cubed
- 2 cans (14-1/2 ounces each) chicken broth
- 3 cups water
- 1 envelope onion soup mix
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 7 slices French bread (3/4 inch thick)
- 1/2 cup shredded Swiss cheese
- 1/2 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- In a Dutch oven, saute onions in butter until tender. Add the broth, water, soup mix, pepper, Worcestershire sauce and garlic powder. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Meanwhile, place bread slices on an ungreased baking sheet. Sprinkle with Swiss and mozzarella cheeses. Broil 4 in. from the heat for 1-2 minutes or until cheese is melted.
- Ladle soup into serving bowls; top each with a toast slice. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Yield: 7 servings.
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Remove spark plugs.
Remove valve covers.
Remove distributor.
Standing at the front of the motor, at the water pump and looking toward the rear of the motor, #1 cylinder will be on your right, the first one, just behind the radiator. The next one to the rear will be #3, then #5, then #7 will be the last one on the driver's side, next to the firewall. Looking on the other side of the motor, the passenger side, the front cylinder will be #2, the next one to the rear will be #4, then #6, then #8 all the way to the rear against the firewall. Do whatever you have to do to get this all fixed in your mind. If you have to make a diagram on a large piece of paper and sit it against the carburetor, then do it. Knowing which cylinder is which cannot be over-stated.
Also, knowing which way the crankshaft turns and which way the distributor rotor turns cannot be over-stated. As you are standing at the water pump, the crankshaft turns clockwise, the same way the hands on an analog watch or clock turn.
If you were to climb up on top of the motor from the front and look directly down on the distributor with the cap off, you would see the rotor turning clockwise also. See this cute little animation.....
With a socket and long bar with a ratchet attached to the bolt head that holds the harmonic damper onto the front of the crankshaft, turn the crank clockwise while a friend holds his thumb over the #1 spark plug hole. Using the starter for this operation WILL NOT WORK. When your friend feels air pressure beginning to build under his thumb, that means that both valves are closed and the piston is coming up on the compression stroke of #1 cylinder. Watch the harmonic damper and you will see the notch that is cut into the outer ring of the damper come up to the top. When that notch is at the top, STOP. You are now at approximately top dead center on #1 cylinder. It doesn't have to be EXACTLY at top dead center to adjust the valves.
Make a mark on the harmonic damper ring so that you can reference this TDC position again later. Either use a yellow crayon like they use at the tire store or a piece of tape placed at that position or whatever your mind can come up with. Make the mark at the top of the harmonic balancer inertia ring. We are going to refer to this position as NORTH, because if you got down on your knees and looked at the harmonic damper from straight on, like you were looking straight through the centerline of the crank, this would be the NORTH position.
Loosen both adjusting nuts on both rockers on #1 cylinder until the rockers are loose on the studs. Have your friend hold his finger on the tip of one of them so that he is pinching the rocker arm down onto the tip of the valve, holding it tightly. Now, you grasp the pushrod for the rocker he is holding down and jiggle the pushrod up and down while using a socket wrench to slowly tighten down the adjusting nut until all the slack is removed and you cannot move the pushrod up or down any longer. Be delicate here. This is not a strong-armed operation. You are simply taking all the slack out of the pushrod and getting the rocker adjusting nut very slightly tightened down against the trunnion of the rocker arm. Now, make 1/4 turn more on the adjusting nut.....1/4 turn.....90 degrees......OK, that valve is done. Now, move over to the other valve on #1 cylinder and repeat the operation.
You may have heard that you can rotate the pushrod with your thumb and forefinger until the pushrod gets tight and use that for adjusting the valves. While that may work for someone who builds motors day in and day out for a living, it WILL NOT WORK for someone like you who has no way of knowing how much resistance he should be feeling for. Jiggling the pushrod up and down is BULLETPROOF and can be done successfully by even a first-time builder.
Now, you have both valves adjusted on #1 cylinder. With the socket and ratchet on the harmonic damper retaining bolt head at the crank, turn the crankshaft 1/4 turn clockwise. That will mean that the mark you made on the damper ring will move clockwise from NORTH to EAST.....STOP. Make another mark on the damper ring at the straight-up position. Now, you will have a mark at EAST and a mark at NORTH.
You have moved the crank 90 degrees and into the next cylinder's firing range. There are 720 degrees in a full cycle to fire all 8 cylinders, so turning the crank 90 degrees at a time will allow us to adjust the valves on all 8 cylinders with just 2 full turns of the crank. If you knew that a small block Chevy's firing order is 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2, then you would know that it is #8's turn to fire. Go to #8 and loosen both adjusting nuts, just like you did on #1. Have your buddy hold the rocker down against the valve stem while you jiggle the pushrod up and down to remove all play, all the while slowly turning the adjusting nut to remove the play. When all the play is removed, tighten the nut another 1/4 turn. Move on to the other valve on #8 and do the same.
Now, you have adjusted the valves on cylinders 1 and 8. Put the socket on the crank nut and turn the crank 1/4 turn to the right (clockwise, just like before). Place a mark at the top of the inertia ring like you did last time. This mark will be at NORTH. The mark you had at EAST will move to SOUTH and the one you had at NORTH will move to EAST. Following the firing order, we will now go to cylinder #4 and adjust both valves. Then we will move the crank 1/4 turn and make another mark and do cylinder #3. Then we will move another 1/4 turn (the crank has marks for each 1/4 turn now) and do cylinder #6. Then we will move the crank another 1/4 turn and do cylinder #5. Then we will move the crank another 1/4 turn and do cylinder #7. Then we will turn the crank another 1/4 turn and do cylinder #2. Then we will turn the crank another 1/4 turn and be back to firing on #1, where we will stab the distributor and install the retaining clamp and bolt. We will leave it a little loose so we can rotate the distributor housing. You may have to use a long screwdriver to line up the slot in the distributor driveshaft as you look down into the hole where the distributor goes.
As if we were standing on the motor and looking down on it, we will want to point the rotor tab at #1 cylinder, approximately 5:30 O'Clock if you look at a clock face. Position the distributor housing so that you can twist it both ways without the vacuum advance can hitting on the intake manifold. Replace valve covers. Replace spark plugs. Using your longest spark plug wire, plug it into the 5:30 position on the cap, co-inciding with the tab on the rotor at 5:30 and run the other end of the wire to #1 spark plug. The longest wires will be for #1 and #2. The next longest wires will be for #3 and #4. Next longest for #5 and #6. The shortest wires will be for #7 and #8. Going around the cap in a clockwise manner, the next hole in the cap will take the wire for #8 spark plug, then #4, then #3, then #6, then #5, then #7, then #2.
Now, depending on where the timing tab is on your motor (there were 3 different positions used), you might have to rotate the distributor housing a little one way or the other to get the motor to fire off, but unless I miss my guess, SHE WILL FIRE OFF THIS TIME. Have a timing light affixed to the #1 spark plug wire, adjust timing and lock the distributor down.
A little more info about the different timing positions. Like I said, there are 3 different ones. If you were to stand up over the motor and look down on the harmonic damper, there is a 12:00 Noon position, a 2:00 O'Clock position and a 2:30 O'Clock position. Through the years, the timing tabs and front covers get mixed up on these motors, so you really should find top dead center and use the proper mark on your harmonic damper to line up with the timing tab on your front cover. Here is the procedure for doing this with the motor assembled that I wrote for the Crankshaft Coalition Wiki....
|I thought my problem might be the distributor or coil so I swapped them out with one out of another engine. I set the distributor to #1 plug and have rotated it in each direction but it just wont start.
|Have you looked at Rotor position to see if it's still in correct position? Timing could have jumped while trying to start, 200k is a lot.
They can be loose if the Lifters are not full of oil.
That would've been the Intake then Compression stroke so, correct.
|I checked TDC by rotating the engine by hand and watching the #1 intake valve open on the down stroke and then continued to rotate until the timing mark was at 0.
|So I am correct in thinking that the rockers shoudn't be loose after i rotate a few degrees past TDC? That is what is making us think the chain has slipped and the cam is off. I didnt touch the chain or even pull the cover. Just trying to get it running until I can build another motor as it has 200K on it.
|Are you sure you were on #1 TDC? Check for compression with finger over #1 spark plug hole?
|Everything sound correct. You didin't replace Timing chain so #1 TDC would be correct for Distributor. I think above Poster thought you did. With timing marks on gears aligned the engine is on #6 TDC.
|I didnt put in new lifters, just pulled them out, pushed some air through to get the milky oil out, wiped them off and put them back. To set them, I set the #1 to tdc, and adjusted the intake and exaust ones that the Haynes manual said to, Then rotated 180 and set the rest by the book. I tightened the nut until pushrod cannot be rotated by hand then one more full turn. I have backed the nuts off and re adjusted them about three times just to make sure.
|Exactly how did you adjust the Rockers?
first did u pump up the new lifters... then do a primary adj.
as for the timing chain.. when u put the dizzy back in u should have pointed it to #6 cyl.. thats if u didn't turn over the motor to pump them up, then put the dizzy in.. ck for tdc
timing chain
I have a 90 Chevy PU with the standard 350 TBI. It was running but had a blown head gasket and coolant in the oil. Changed both head gaskets and set timing, valves etc. Now it won't start. Have spark, even swaped distributor and coil from a van that I am parting out.
When I set the balancer at TDC on the indicator and adjusted the rockers, it seemed fine. But when I rotate the engine past TDC, the rockers are loose agian. Engine will try to start with the pedal pushed in, but never really starts. My buddy thinks I may have slipped a tooth on the timing chain, but it is hard to believe when I didnt touch the cam or chain at all. Any other ideas before I pull the water pump again and the timing cover? I am not 180 out, I physically watched the intake valve open and close as I was rotating the engine by hand. I have checked and triple checked all the obvious mistakes, I have fuel and spark and even sprayed starting fluid in. I dont think the rockers should loosen past TDC, any one have any ideas??
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A Weber State University assistant professor says it appears he lost his job because he disagreed with the school's decision to name a new family center after senior Mormon apostle Boyd K. Packer, who has stirred controversy with comments critical of feminists, intellectuals and gay people.
Jared Lisonbee, an assistant professor of child and family studies, said he got a letter "out of the blue" last week stating his employment would be terminated at the end of the 2013-14 academic year. He spoke against the decision at a faculty meeting in late 2012.
"I kind of see, at least at Weber, that only a certain type of speech is valued or valid," he said. "I don't think it's an issue for most of the faculty as long as you don't do anything that your department chair disagrees with."
A Weber State spokesman said the Ogden school supports free speech and academic freedom but declined to comment on Lisonbee's case.
Lisonbee has worked at Weber State for about two years and said his performance evaluations have not been negative. But his relationship with department Chairman Paul Schvaneveldt changed dramatically in late 2012, Lisonbee said, after Schvaneveldt announced at a faculty meeting that a new fundraising and support group for community programs would be named for Packer. The family center is not a building.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints apostle previously has spoken against interracial marriage, called same-sex attraction morally wrong and declared the greatest threats to the LDS faith came from feminists, gays and intellectuals. Packer earned an associate degree from Weber State before continuing his education at Utah State University and Brigham Young University.
Lisonbee spoke up at the meeting.
"I said, 'I really don't think this is a good idea. I don't think it represents the diversity of families the center will be serving,' " he said.
He also outlined his concerns in an email to Jack Rasmussen, dean of the College of Education, who acknowledged the issue to Lisonbee but kept the name.
Afterward, Lisonbee said, his department chairman seemed to watch him more closely. Schvaneveldt accused him of walking out of graduation halfway through the ceremony, although Lisonbee responded that he had only changed positions to greet students.
In another conversation, Schvaneveldt "basically said not everyone is a good fit for Weber," Lisonbee said.
After the new Boyd K. and Donna S. Packer Center was announced May 1, Lisonbee's wife, Shairylann, wrote a letter to Ogden's Standard-Examiner calling the name "a slap in the face for many in the community."
The letter sparked a change.org petition started by James Carroll, a native Utahn who now lives in New Mexico, advocating for a name change. It now has 2,500 signatures. The Utah Stonewall Democrats, a gay-rights group, later wrote a letter to Weber State protesting the name.
But Rasmussen told The Salt Lake Tribune that officials hoped the name would connect with donors, and it appeared that it did, based on the funds raised.
Shortly before Lisonbee received his termination letter June 25, he said, he had a positive conversation with Schvaneveldt about his progress toward tenure. He would have been eligible for tenure after six years of employment. Lisonbee earned a bachelor's and master's degree from Brigham Young University and a doctorate from Auburn University.
"I was definitely making progress in the areas we identified," he said. The letter didn't outline a reason for his dismissal, and "because I'm pre-tenure ... I doubt I will ever really know."
Schvaneveldt couldn't immediately be reached for comment. A university spokesman, though, denied that the school makes personnel decisions based on employees' beliefs.
"Employees are evaluated on neutral, job-related criteria," said Weber State's John Kowalewski, pointing out that the school has an employment appeals process. "Dr. Lisonbee underwent the normal tenure-review process during the '12-13 academic year."
Lisonbee said he plans to finish out next year and look for a new job. "It'll be an uncomfortable year," he said. "Next year, I'll be somewhere else."
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Walter Jones, a librarian and collector of Vietnam War literature, will speak at the J. Willard Marriott Library's Books and Authors Series.
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Where • University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library, 295 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City
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The club espouses spiritual poetry for everyday and as a form of meditation to nourish the soul and mind. The club will hold its spiritual poetry session. Participants are welcome to read their favorite poems.
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Where • Anderson-Foothill Branch Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, Salt Lake City
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The refuge of the Wasatch
Photographer Howie Garber will exhibit his photography and sign the book Utah's Wasatch Range: Four Season Refuge.
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Where • Our Lady of the Snows, Highway 210, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Alta
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Authors Turley, Slaughter to sign books
Richard E. Turley Jr. and William W. Slaughter, authors of the recently published How We Got the Doctrine and Covenants, will speak about the book and sign copies.
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The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo
After Frida Kahlo nearly died in a traffic accident, she received a notebook from her friend Tina Modotti. Kahlo called the notebook The Hierba Santa Book (The Sacred Herbs Book) and filled it with memories, ideas and recipes. Registration for this Cooks & Books class includes a copy of the book, the cooking lesson and discussion. Visit www.harmonsgrocery.com to register.
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Local author Jessica Day George will read from and sign her new book, Princess of the Silver Woods, book three in her Twelve Dancing Princesses series.
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Where • The King's English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City
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Jo Deurbrouck, the author of Anything Worth Doing, will appear at Barnes & Noble/Layton Market Center. The book tells the story of two raft guides who believe that "anything worth doing is worth overdoing" and spend 10 years trying to prove it on the West's great wilderness rivers, in particular Idaho's Salmon.
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The new President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Bob Kendrick, sits down with Randy Mason to discuss what is next for this special museum, including the Buck O'Neil Centennial Celebration and plans for the MLB's 2012 All-Star Game in Kansas City.
Life hasn't been so good for the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum since Buck's passing five years ago. The facility in the 18th and Vine Jazz District has gone through financial and leadership struggles. This spring, the musuem's board picked Bob Kendrick to to take over the museum in hopes of drawing in new fans and turning a profit.


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©1980 Frank Abagnale, Jr.; (P)2001 Blackstone Audiobooks
"Zingingly told...richly detailed and winning as the devil." (Kirkus Reviews)
An Audible veteran with more than a decade of commutes listening to audiobooks.
"Really entertaining!"
This is very entertaining title and Barry Whitener does an incredible job narrating. Barry does the voices and acting so well you forget there's only one person performing.
"Veryy entertaining but Cut Short"
I enjoyed this book immensly. Mr. Abignale Weaves a wonderful story that traces his life as a brilliant "paper hanger." I learned some things I never knew. His ability to create relationships and trust is truly amazing. He has a very keen mind and it was a pleasure to watch it work. The only problem I had with the book was a premature ending. I was left hanging.
"Great Story - Who Stole The Ending?"
Catch Me If You Can, made into a movie a few years ago with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, was my first introduction to the story of Frank Abagnale, Jr. This is "truth is stranger than fiction" at its finest and one of my most enjoyable listens from audible. My only problem with it is the ending. Spoilled by the movie, which details his time with the FBI and then, in the ending credits, talks about his subsequent consulting work helping combat check fraud for banks and businesses, the audio book doesn't get into any of that, but ends very abruptly - like many of Abagnale's alter-ego lives. Still very enjoyable and highly recommended with very good narration.
"Way to go, Kid?"
Breezy, fascinating story of an amoral teenager duping the adult world and enjoying *almost* every moment of it. (The French prison portion is harrowing.) No surprise: better than the movie. Reader is excellent. Well worth it.
"Catch Me If You Can"
This book does a great job telling the story of how this young con man swindled millions of dollars from hotels and banks during a multi-year escapade through the US and Europe. After reading about Abagnale's prison life in France, that's one country where you should not break the law.
"Amazing true story"
I thoroughly enjoyed the telling of this sport span of white collar crime in a person so young. It is truly unbelievable that a mere teenager could have pulled off so much and fooled so many. The narrator kept my attention throughout. Although I had already viewed the film, I found the book so much more entertaining. If you saw the movie and liked it, I recommend that you follow up your experience with this book.
"Absolutely Fascinating"
What a brilliant con artist, and to be so young....one with a (sort of) conscience. Held my attention all the way thru. Good reader Barrett Whitener. Has a pleasing voice, easy to listen too. Recommend to anyone interested in the workings of the con artist's mind.
"Read the book AND watch the movie"
What a great story. Truely it must be read to be believed. The only thing that I didn't like was the long time spent on his time in the French jail. That was brutal. The rest of the story was very light and whimsical. That part was disturbing. Also, I think the ending leaves a very different impression than the ending of the movie, so for closure see the movie, for the details, enjoy this wonderful story - truth is stranger than fiction!
"Much better than the movie!"
The movie is very loosely based on this book - and this book is far better. I enjoyed listening to this book more than any others I've listened to in a while. The only criticism I have is that the ending seems rather sudden. Interestingly, Mr. Abagnale never reveals the name of the university he taught at in the book. In the bonus material for the movie, though, he does - Brigham Young University. As a former BYU student myself, and one that still lives in the area, I found that part of the book especially interesting.
"Great complement to the Film"
Of course, the successful film brought this book (20+ years old) back into print and its a good complement to the film as it is far different, with more detail into exactly HOW Frank got away with matters and far less on the FBI "Javert" who pursued him. Still, we all paid for what Frank did, in terms of higher prices, Frank relied on the willingness to be kind of total strangers so his 6 months of cruel treatment in France didn't concern me too much. Still excellent and highly recommended.
"Captivating - his audacity is astounding"
Abagnale glibly tells a story of an ingenious criminal lifestyle. He expresses guilt a few times over something that he did, but it's always some off-the-wall little thing that pales in comparison to the jobs and lives of the people that his behavior likely wrecked.
It's a grabber. From the start, I was so engrossed. How much of it is Abagnale's own words and how much is Redding's work I have no clue. Whoever is responsible for the bulk of the writing did a top notch job.
It's not often I read a book that holds my attention like this one does. The sheer imagination and audacity it took to pull off Abagnale's capers is something to marvel at, however unacceptable his activities might have been.
He gets his. You'll know what I mean when you reach that point in the story.
Get this, its well worth your time.
"Definitely recommended!"
loved it! So interesting and captured my interest right from the start. I saw the film 'Catch Me If You Can' and downloaded the audiobook to hear a more accurate account of Frank Abagnale's life. I was so surprised to learn that he was as bold and intelligent, if not more so, than he was depicted in the movie! I enjoyed the audiobook no end. I've listened to it a few times and I'm still amazed by the ingenuity and inventiveness of Frank and his brazen frauds. Wish I could give it more than 5 stars!
"Funny and engaging"
I did enjoy this book. It is written in such an engaging way, very light hearted and humorous for the most part, and it is difficult not to side with Frank villain and conman though he is. How true to life it really is.. your guess is as good as mine but it makes for a terrific story. A tad repetitive at times, but the book doesn't drag. Narration is top class and adds a lot to the book.
Worth a listen if you're looking for something different from a run of the mill thriller, for example.
"great listen."
Well read
What a character Frank was.
A real gentleman and rogue rolled into one.
As good as any fictional book of this type I've read/listened to. Bonus points for being all true as well.
Fascinating story and wonderfully narrated. If you've seen the movie and liked it, then the audiobook is much better.
"Really Enjoyed Listening"
I've seen the movies a couple of times but still enjoyed this book and would recommend
"Better than the film!"
Engaging and interesting story
The sheer audacity of the man in his actions
Easy to listen to and he keeps you interested. the only issue I had wa shis terrible interpretation of a French accent! Not good.
"You couldn't make it up!"
Even if you've seen the movie this is well worth a read. It has additional stories and is the definitive account, provided, that is, you're willing to believe the account of surely the greatest con man of the modern age!
Superb even if you've seen the film. Well recited and lots of entertaining humour. Thoroughly enjoyable piece of work done.
"Loved it!"
The narrator was very good and the story of Frank absolutely gripping.
The close calls that Frank had with the law.
No I haven't listened to any others.
There is towards the end but I won't give the story away.
I really enjoyed this book. It was well read and a great story. It makes you realise how lax things were 'back the ' and how much security and technology has advanced.If you have seen the film I would highly recommend this, it is different (especially the latter part) and a real eye opener. It concentrates more on Frank and his escapades than the police.
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Voting Selena for trying to stop 80's music D:
Voting Selena for trying to stop 80's music D:
Gryphon for having awful taste in music.
Christoph for being coulorist.
{Credit to TheSketchQueen}
OR IGN: Felix
Moon IGN: Dakota
3DS Friend code: 4313-2502-9197
Espeon EX
Mitzy because hugs are better than drugs.
I vote of Christoph because he's using bigotry to justify his rude behavior.
3DS Friend Code
Friend Safari
Fire with Magmar, Slugma, and Braixen. Please PM if you want to add me.
Shinies Obtained
Crobat, Golem, Magnezone, Butterfree, Spheal, Luvdisc, Charizard, Xatu, Sableye,
Hippopotas, Spearow
Shinies obtained from GTS/Trades
Parasect, Glameow, Chansey, Deoxys, Lugia, Machamp, Linoone, Spiritomb,
Skuntank, Foongus, Aron
: Gah! black pokemon!
: *sips coffee* Hm?
: *turns and sees Damone* Ah!
: Good evening.
: *storms out of the house* If I wanted to see a bunch of black pokemon, I would've gone to a KFC
: *whips out gun and shoots Christoph*
: *6 gallons of blood explode out of the bullet hole*
: .....It's Damone
Day 2
(Damone) professed his love to Daisy again, thinking that he'd won her over
(Daisy) gave Damone signals to indicate that she was into him
(GlumDalGlitch) sneezed and took out the electricity in the house
(Amchito) panicked because the coffee machine didn't work
(Beverly) started hallucinating due to the lack of coffee
(Gryphon) couldnt listen to 80s music through the stereo so tried to get Selena's CD player
(Selena) laughed at Gryphon and kept the CD player for herself
(Eli) tried to convince the Not Very Grand Fairy to summon Asdfghjk down to Earth
(NVGF) agreed to summon Asdfghjk even though he wasnt good at magic and instead summoned a cat
(Mitzy) saw the cat and immediately huggled it to death
Vote and Give Justification!
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I vote off Selena for being selfish.
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Selena for being selfish.
Selena for being selfish.
As to what once, it now is. For this my retirement tour, let us commence, forevermore, forevermore.
Selena for obstructing the playing of 80s music.
Gryphon for having awful taste in music, and for having the nerve to try and take Selena's CD player.
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Daisy for falling for Damone.
Was the Not So Grand Fairy supposed to transform himself into a dialga?
All fear the vampiric ghost skeletal uber mr. mime caterpie!
Thank you Megadio for the awesome banner.
Bev because there can only be one coffee addict at a time
Selena for being selfish.(who in a way, is kinda like my sister, on the not liking 80's music, at least.)
{Credit to TheSketchQueen}
OR IGN: Felix
Moon IGN: Dakota
3DS Friend code: 4313-2502-9197
Espeon EX
Selena for hating on 80's music. Music back then was the best!
EDIT: Sucks that I missed out on nominations though.
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NOTICE: Me posting in a thread DOES NOT always mean I want your FC. If I DO want your FC, I will ask for it.
Dialga - CAUGHT! 7,167 SR's.
Happy 6th Anniversary to Pokemon Big Brother!
: Wow, 6 years. I tell you, when I first came upon this threa-
: Hey! No one wants to hear you ramble!
: Uh, did I say you could break the 4th wall?
: Who cares about the 4th wall? I can do whatever I want and you can't stop me.
: I write you, Selena. And there's NOTHING you can do about it.
: Oh really?! You can't make me do anythi- I am going to leave the house now. *walks out of the PBB house*
: ......What the ****?!
It's Day 3, and everyone's having a music/dance party because I said so.
(Amchito) did the tango with his spoon, Sammy
(Mitzy) changed the music to Justin Beiber and got attacked by Amchito
(Daisy) changed the music to this band thats totally awesome that you havent heard of called Toxic Shock Syndrome
(Gryphon) changed the music to some 80s music, of the Tears for Fears variety
(Eli) sang along to 'Everybody Wants To Rule The World' while he tried to get Not Very Grand Fairy to bring Asdfghjk to mortal world again
(NVGF) dropped a smoke bomb and then came back dressed in a cloak and glow powder to convince Eli that he was Asdfghjk
(Damone) changed the music to some Frank Sinatra and dared anyone to change it
(Beverly) hallucinated everyone as Pikachus and tried to dance with Damone but got shot down
(GlumDalGlitch) tried to dance to the music but glitched up and the music turned into static, angering everyone
Vote and Give Justification!
GlumDalGlitch for ruining everyone's fun.
Amchito for attacking Mitzy. Even though I dislike Justin Beiber!
Spoiler:- Banners!:
Name: Puggy
Adopt one yourself! @Pokémon Orphanage
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I vote off the Not So Grand Fairy for not being Grand and for filling the room with smoke, then trying to be deceptive.
Go Tears for Fears!
All fear the vampiric ghost skeletal uber mr. mime caterpie!
Thank you Megadio for the awesome banner.
Mitzy for Bieber Fever
Mitzy for putting on Bieber.
As to what once, it now is. For this my retirement tour, let us commence, forevermore, forevermore.
Damone for think no-one would be brave enough to change it. It's thinking like that which will get you nowhere.
NOTICE: Me posting in a thread DOES NOT always mean I want your FC. If I DO want your FC, I will ask for it.
Dialga - CAUGHT! 7,167 SR's.


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The scope of this study is a .5 mile section of Louetta Blvd. from Whitewood Drive west to the southbound frontage road of IH 45.
Current Conditions
The current road is four lanes with a continuous left turn lane.
Proposed ImprovementsThe proposed project would consist of the following:
The four travel lanes would remain 12 feet wide with a 5 foot wide outside shoulder. All improvements would be within existing right-of-way.
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Very few dinosaur fossils have been found in Australia, yet Australia has many rocks of the right age to contain dinosaurs. Why have so few been found?
Australia is mostly a low, flat land, with few mountains, deep river valleys, canyons or other geological features that expose rocks that may contain dinosaur fossils. Most of Australia's vast plains are very ancient, and any exposed fossils in these areas are likely to have been destroyed by weathering.
The vast majority of Australia's dinosaur bones come from north-central Queensland, found in Early Cretaceous rocks formed about 140 million years ago (mya). But even though this is the richest Australian dinosaur region, finds are still rare, and fewer than 10 skeletons are known, some of them rather incomplete. These include the iguanodont Muttaburrasaurus and the ankylosaur Minmi. Both are somewhat atypical of their groups and suggest that Australian dinosaurs, when better known, may turn out to be rather different from their contemporaries elsewhere in the world. Queensland has also produced two very incomplete sauropod skeletons: Rhoetosaurus brownei, from the Middle Jurassic (170 mya), and Austrosaurus mckillopi from the earliest Late Cretaceous (90 mya).
The opal fields of Lightning Ridge in New South Wales have produced virtually all of Australia's opalised dinosaur bones. These are from marine sediments of early Cretaceous age. In South Australia, the Andamooka opal field has produced a single bone of a small theropod called Kakuru. Much more common than dinosaurs in the Australian opal fields are the bones of marine reptiles, particularly plesiosaurs. Whereas the opalised dinosaur remains are all single bones, a few nearly complete opalised skeletons of marine reptiles have been found at Andamooka and Coober Pedy in South Australia and White Cliffs in New South Wales.
The quintessential Australian Dinosaur, an opalised femur or thigh bone of a hypsilophodontid dinosaur from Lightning RidgePhotographer: John Broomfield / Source: Museum Victoria
In Victoria, a large number of isolated bones (but only two partial skeletons, both hypsilophodontids) have been found in a few small coastal outcrops. For a decade, bones were mostly found at a site called Dinosaur Cove near Cape Otway. At this locality it was necessary to blast tunnels underground to reach the fossils. The site was considered exhausted at the end of 1994. Work is now underway at another site 300 km to the east of Dinosaur Cove called Flat Rocks, near Inverloch. Flat Rocks is about 10 million years older than Dinosaur Cove. The most common dinosaurs found at these locations are hypsilophodontids, but theropods, ornithomimiosaurs, protoceratopsians, and ankylosaurs have also been found.
From the vast area of Western Australia, only six dinosaur bones have been discovered in three different marine formations ranging in age from the Middle Jurassic (170 mya) to the Late Cretaceous (90 mya). One of the oldest is a partial bone of a theropod named Ozraptor. Systematic searching for fossil marine reptiles continues in Western Australia, and may eventually yield an occasional dinosaur bone or even a skeleton.
Given the scarcity of fossil bones of dinosaurs in Australia, it is fortunate that dinosaur trackways or footprints are relatively common and greatly add to our knowledge of Early Cretaceous and Middle Jurassic dinosaurs in Australia. Palaeontologists at the University of Queensland are going to great lengths to develop techniques to collect and analyse trackway information. Much of this collecting involves getting access to trackways on the roofs of coal mines, which can only be reached using elaborate scaffolding.
Map of Australia showing locations at which dinosaur fossils have been foundSource: The Dinosaur Society
Norman, D. 1985. The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Dinosaurs. Salamander Books Limited, London.
M. J., Norell, M., McKenna, M. C. and Clark, J. 2004. Fossils of the Flaming Cliffs. Pp. 56-63 in Scientific American Special Edition: Dinosaurs and other monsters Vickers-Rich, P. Monaghan, J. M., Baird, R. F. and Rich, T. H. 1991. Vertebrate Palaeontology of Australasia. Pioneer Design Studio, Novacek.
Vickers-Rich, P. and Rich, T. H. 1993. Australia's polar dinosaurs. Scientific American July 1993: 50–55.
Vickers-Rich, P. and Rich, T. 2004. Dinosaurs of the Antarctic. Pp. 40-47 in Scientific American Special Edition: Dinosaurs and other monsters.
Vickers-Rich, P., Rich, T. H., Rich, L. S. and Rich, T. 1997. Australian Dinosaurs. Kangaroo Press, Sydney.
Hi Dale, consider contacting your local branch of the Field Naturalists Society, they should be able to provide your son with information and guidance about how and where to search for fossils. They may also provide group excursions that he can take part in.
Hi Nikki - Evidence suggests that the environment around the Dinosaur Cove region was a floodplain crisscrossed with streams an channels in a wide rift valley, with ferny forested margins nearby. The streams were in grey mud and sand, sediment that was previously volcanic rock that had been eroded and transported and was deposited as sediment in the great rift valley. In these fast-flowing streambeds, tumbling amongst this sediment were leaves, twigs, bits of gravel and very occasionally animal bones that had washed down into the valley and been rapidly covered in more grey volcanic sand and mud. As this region was close to the South Pole during this time (over 110 million years ago), it is likely that there was some seasonality to the flow in these streams; perhaps the flow of the streams was greater during the warmer months as higher altitude snows melted and flowed into the lowland areas, or there may have been monsoonal conditions – this is still the subject of some discussion and research.
Although this is a fairly lengthy description of our understanding of the conditions at Dinosaur Cove, it is only a summary of some of the basic ideas of what we think the environment was like. You can learn more about the evidence of some of Victoria's ancient environments in the Melbourne Museum exhibition '600 million years' and its accompanying website here: http://museumvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/discoverycentre/600-million-years/
Hi Steph - there have been no 100% complete dinosaur skeletons found in Australia. 'Complete' skeletons from dinosaurs are actually very rare, and Australia's dinosaur skeletons tend to be quite fragmentary. Three of the more complete dinosaur skeletons that are known from Australia are Minmi, an armoured ankylosaurid dinosaur, Muttaburrasaurus, a large plant-eating ornithopod dinosaur similar to Iguanodonts, and Australovenator, a large carnivorous theropod dinosaur similar to Allosaurs. All these dinosaurs are of Cretaceous age and lived in what is now Central Queensland.
You can learn more about Minmi at http://australianmuseum.net.au/Minmi-paravertebra, Muttaburrasaurus at http://australianmuseum.net.au/Muttaburrasaurus-langdoni and Australovenator at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2703565/?tool=pmcentrez
Hope this helps
Hi Shane - our palaeontology records don't appear to have much material from this area at all, and we'd ideally like to see the specimen to comment any further - could you upload a photo and some more information via the Ask the Experts page? We'd be happy to have a look for you - feel free to send as many photos as as you think neccessary to see the specimen from a few angles, and please also include a coin or ruler in the photos to give us an idea of the size of the specimen.
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Gearing up for the big Super Bowl XLIX weekend in Phoenix, AnnaLynne McCord showed up at the W Hotel in nearby Scottsdale on Thursday night (January 29).
The "90210" stunner was in fine form as she posed for some photographs outside the Hennessy Lounge, sporting a black jacket/white silk dress combo.
With the sexual assault and rape statistics on the rise on college campuses around the country, AnnaLynne McCord is gearing up to fight back.
After divulging her own experience with sexual abuse in Cosmopolitan magazine's May 2014 issue, the "90210" actress has announced she'll tour universities this fall to speak on the tremendously important topic.
While she could have her pick of any guy on earth, AnnaLynne McCord hasn't always had a positive relationship with men.
In the July 2014 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, the "90210" hottie breaks her silence about her experience with sexual abuse when she was a mere 18 years of age.
Showing off plenty of skin in the California sunshine, AnnaLynne McCord took a walk on the beach in Los Angeles on Sunday (March 9).
The "Dallas" star chatted on her phone in a ruffled fuchsia bikini top, lacy sleeveless jacket, and blue skinnies.
Given that the Southern Hemisphere is experiencing the summer season, it's no wonder AnnaLynne McCord and Dominic Purcell have escaped to Australia for the holidays.
On Wednesday (January 1) the "Fired Up!" starlet pranced around on Manly Beach in Sydney with her main man, who displayed his buff bod for all to see.
Preparing to say farewell to 2013, AnnaLynne McCord showed up in the Palm Beach district of Sydney, Australia on Tuesday afternoon (December 31).
The "90210" hottie was joined by her boyfriend Dominic Purcell as she strolled to a New Year's Eve dinner at a local eatery.
With the year 2013 drawing to a close, people all around the world are eager to head out to ring in 2014.
Celebrities such as Britney Spears and Adele took to Twitter today (December 31) to share their thoughts and plans for the big night ahead. See what they had to say below!
Heading out to a swanky affair, celebs gathered at the Van Cleef & Arpels Bowers Museum Exhibit Gala in Santa Ana, California on Saturday night (October 26).
Sporting a sexy red dress was AnnaLynne McCord while Krysten Ritter looked pretty in a midriff-baring lavender top and skirt with platform heels.


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I am just learning about concept check questions and have a fairly good idea though am still far from competent at using them. I'm supposed to devise concept questions for "Tanya is having her car repaired" - to check the meaning of the grammatical structure.
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does anyone have any good shots of the esb blaster stock? Does anyone know if the same little plates that are on the rotj stock are also on the esb version? Any tips?
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does anyone have any good shots of the esb blaster stock? Does anyone know if the same little plates that are on the rotj stock are also on the esb version? Any tips?
No the ESB is completely different than ROTJ.The ESB has the same split plugs that are on the Vader reveal....two on one side,and one on the other and some sort of presumed circuit board in the middle.
hmm, where can I get some of those plugs you're talkign about? and do you have any pictures of where on the stock they belong?
I know they're identified as "split plugs" but what exactly is the original part called? When combing through the threads, i've gleaned the fact that this was an older european plug. What kind? An electrical outlet plug? An outlet adapter? Is there a modern counterpart? Any insight is welcome!
Shinobi :skull
They are more of a plug replacement if an original plug is damaged or a cord of custom length is desired. They have U.S. versions of "replacement plugs" ,but the ESB's are vintage parts to the best of my knowledge and are not of U.S. origins rather U.K.
So what then, is the proper European name for them; and is there some way to get a hold of these original parts? Again, is there a modern counterpart? Anyone of our European friends have any insight or leads?
Shinobi :skull
They are simply called "split plugs" as thats what they really look like until they are wired up to an appliance. There are no modern versions that double for these that have ever surfaced.
Ok, I see. So they start out split. My thought was that it was something that was a whole piece that they cut apart to create the part. Thanks a lot! This is tremendously helpful!
Shinobi :skull
Shinobi, Check out this thread made by yours presonally for a quick easy way of making split plugs out of styrene.
Hey FT!
I saw that when you posted it. It looks terrific, and I will probably wind up using it! Thanks!
Like most, I'm trying to find as many of the original parts as possible. A truly difficult task. Had I started this project 10 years ago, when I dreamed of building my Fett, I might have had an easier go of it. Then again there are FAR more resources available now.
Has anyone molded any original split plugs?
Shinobi :skull
Resin cast split plugs should be available sometime soon.
I had my real ones cast since I haven't seen anyone cast the correct ones yet. I did hear Natty did, but I missed those.
I got a really good set of ESB stock greeblies from Omega man about a year ago, (4 split plugs & the center box thingy). The casting was superb, but I dunno if he's still making them or not.
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By Richard Clarke
Roy Keane was one of Arsenal's principle adversaries on the pitch for over a decade. Now he is becoming a worthy rival to Arsène Wenger on the manager's bench.
On Saturday, the Frenchman takes his side to the Stadium of Light to meet Keane's Black Cats hoping to complete the process of redemption following that worrying defeat to Hull last weekend. Arsenal may have dispatched Porto 4-0 on Tuesday but, in the opening half-hour, there were signs of lingering fragility.
Of course Keane, the player, was a warrior against weakness, a tenacious clinched-fist captain who showed little mercy. It is tempting, though not completely valid, to pigeon-hole his current side the same way. But certainly they have become creditable top-flight operators during the course of the last 12 months. Arsenal beware.
The Irishman spent heavily at the start of last season having won the Championship title the previous May. But a safe season of consolidation more than justified the expenditure. Over the summer, Chairman Niall Quinn allowed his manager to open the club's cheque-book once again to bring in the likes of Anton Ferdinand, George McCartney, Djibril Cisse, El-Hadji Diouf, Pascal Chimbonda, Steed Malbranque and Teemu Tainio.
Ahead of the game, Wenger was quick to praise manager and, importantly, chairman for the strides the team has made.
"It is remarkable what Roy Keane has done," said the Arsenal boss. "But what is most important at his level is to have the support from your chairman.
"I must say Niall has done a great job. Roy Keane has spent a lot of money and he is always behind him. They have a team inside the club and, with Quinny and Keane, it looks to be a good team."
The 'team' may be pulling together but at Sunderland the focus will always return to Keane, especially when coming up against Arsenal. It is difficult to think of a modern player who had been more influential in stopping silverware coming to London N5. A Sunderland victory on Saturday would not do that but it would undermine Wenger's rebuilding process. The Frenchman expects no sympathy.
"Keane has done well in his first year in management," he said. "You could see already when he was a player that the ingredients are in there. But after that you judge a career on the long term. A management career is a marathon but he has the qualities to become a great manager."
Wenger is one of those of course already. However he has had a testing week.
After the Hull defeat the manager talked of radical changes to his side but, in the end, only made one tweak. In his pre-match media work on Friday, Wenger suggested there could be more rotation this weekend. The return of the versatile Alex Song after a hip problem will certainly give him options.
Arsenal are two points off the lead in the Premier League and are top of Champions League Group G, so let's not overblow the problems. However two defeats after six games is two too many and therefore only after Saturday will we know whether Arsenal's gas tank is half-empty or half full right now.
"The pain was big but the response was good," said Wenger. "It was important to show that Saturday was an accident.
"Looking at the League table I do not think [the Hull defeat] has too much of an impact, but it is damaging. You do not want to lose at home against anybody.
"But I believe we have a healthy attitude in the squad and that has been shown against Porto. We want to show we have learned from the defeat against Hull.
"We gave the first half of the response on Tuesday night and we want to give the other half on Saturday at Sunderland.
"When you go there, you want your team to be completely at its best and focused. I believe what happened last week will help us to do that."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Re: main sail blown?
I'm seeing two separate questions that have been confused here:
1-Is the trim right?
2-Is the main blown?
And for #2 I would suggest the snuggle test. Rub your cheek on the main. Would you get rug burn if you used it as bedding? If yes, the sail is probably OK. If the sail is too soft to give you rug burn, it is probably blown out.
Odds are that every lo9cal loft will be glad to schedule a visit to your boat, to loan you someone who knows rigging and sails and can put eyeballs on things to give you a better answer. Sure, they're not objective, but a number of them actually know the best long term business is not to sell you a new sail unles you need it, so some of them are likely to say "You don't need a new sail, you need to..." and if you hear the same story from two or more of them, that's probably true.
On the other hand if they all guffaw and offer you condolences, you probably need a new sail.
Re: main sail blown?
If you need to de-power the main, you can leave the mainsheet tight and ease the traveller. That way, you don't lose your sail shape, but you change the angle of attack so as to ease pressure on the rudder. This is a temporary tactic I use whne dealing with gusty conditions when i don't want to reef (or reef more).
Re: main sail blown?
Yeah I felt there was something wrong when I found it was so easy to push the foot of the sail at dock.
I changed my leech reef line attachment a bit and I also added purchase in the form of an extra block.
That's the only picture I took:
I think the shape looks much better I let the leech rope out a little. The foot is much tighter that it used to and when I tightened it all the way that crease on the leech disappeared. but I will have to try it to be sure. I just need to find the right crew to go out with.
I also feel like I can play with the rope at the luff on the lower part of the sail. If I tension it more, I can flatten the lower part of the sail a little more. Currently it is locked with a knot but I could play with it too.
I do have a traveler I let the cart follow the main to get a little more tension out of it. Just for info I do not expect the vang to change the mast shape. Just to keep the boom from lifting up when I let the main sheet out a little
Re: main sail blown?
Draft position, where it should be
Re: main sail blown?
Do you have a traveller?
Re: main sail blown?
Wow, there are a lot of different opinions on the vang topic.
Lots going on with your videos and photos. First, what was the wind speed? Didn't looks too bad out there, not a lot of white caps. 15 kts? You shouldn't need to reef in those conditions. That being said:
Work on your reefing skills. The sailshape is horrible. You've effectively reduced sail, but have bellied out the bottom of the sail, greatly powering up what cloth you have flying. Take a look at a proper slab reef.
Flat as a board. That is efficient and depowered correctly. There is an extreme amount of fullness in your current main. Try to trim that out first before dropping coin on a recut or new main.
Also, re-set your bolt rope (it's probably shrunk) and check the outhaul bolt rope if you have one for similar shrinkage. This will make a sail seem very blown out. I would also look into bringing out a rigger or sailmaker to make some adjustments to your rig. SF bay in the afternoon is always breezy. Might as well tune for it.
Re: main sail blown?
when i read the title of this thread i was expecting something much more scandalous, but thoroughly documented,
Re: main sail blown?
The vang is not there to bend back the mast - that's way too much work to ask of it, and more importantly, the fittings that you would be asking to work against that leverage. If you want to bend the mast by pulling the sail down, then crank in on the sheet until it's in all the way, and then snug up the bang, but to try and accomplish that with a rope vang alone in heavy winds is a lot of work for you and your equipment.
The vang is there to reduce twist in the sail. We want to do this, because the lift that is generated by the sail is pretty much perpendicular to the surface of the sail, so when sailing off the wind and the boom lifts, the lower portion of the sail is looking at the water, and that's where the lift is pulling the sail, inducing heeling of the boat. By reducing the twist, that lift is now directed more horizontally, where we want the boat to be pulled. But it's not going to do much for you on a close haul, because your sheet is a more effective lever arm for flattening the sail. At some point, the sheet starts pulling mainly down and not in, and that's where it can be helpful, especially in lighter winds, to switch to the traveller for sail trim, as it's pull is strictly horizontal.
Flo, from your pics, I'd say the sail is pretty blown. One clue is that your leech line is cranked way in, which suggests that the cloth is pretty stretched (if you can loosen it and keep the leech from flapping, go ahead. That curl is making an uphill climb for the wind exiting the sail, and causing lots of turbulent drag. Get some yarn and stitch a couple telltales in there and you'll see what I mean. If the cloth isn't too worn, the sail can be restitched. I'm not sure what your boat is, but I have a pretty decent Catalina 27 main that came with my boat. The problem is that the PO spilled some West Marine resin on the area near the tack, so it's discolored and still a bit sticky, but I can give it to you cheap, and an hour or so with some vinegar or alcohol should cure the stickiness. I'm over in Sausalito, PM me if I can be of any assistance -
Re: main sail blown?
The first reef is locked onto the boom at the tack with a hook.
there is a set of slugs on the lowest part of the sail that are attached to the sail through a small rope to create a gap. when I put a reef in, I usually have to let a couple slugs get off the track to be able to bring the tack ring onto one of the two hooks at the gooseneck. I suppose I could try to work on the tension of this rope.
Finally, the boom itself in on a track. I can control how high or low I want it to be using a tensionning line at the bottom of the gooseneck going to a cleat on the mast (before tensionning the halyard).
Re: main sail blown?
It does look like the sail is fairly well blown. Look how far aft the point of maximum draft is. If it's that far aft in light winds it must be really aft in heavy ones. Your focus should be on moving it forward.
But something odd is happening to the lower few feet of the sail. You say this is with the first reef? It looks like the lowest ring is not attached to any slide on the mast track.
The second point up is attached but not tightly. I don't think you should have that huge gap between the sail and the mast.
It looks like there is some kind of loose luff line that isn't working or tensioned properly.
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On the October 18 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly stated that Mexico has "never been different in 300 years" and that it's "[n]ever going to change" because "it's too corrupt; it's too disorganized." O'Reilly was discussing immigration to the United States with a caller to the show.
From the October 18 broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly:
CALLER: Seriously, Bill, we have been nothing but benevolent to these people. And it really offends me when people like Enrique [Morones, a call-in guest to the show and president of Border Angels, a humanitarian program in San Diego] say that he's offended by swastikas. I'm offended by gang graffiti that is everywhere around me, that I have to deal with on a daily basis. And it's just absolutely outrageous. You got to stop these people. We have been nothing but kind to them and nice to them. And you know what? We've had it up to here, here in California. We're tired of them. We're --
O'REILLY: Well, look, I don't -- look, there are good people and there are bad people in all walks of life. And you can assign the same proportion to illegal immigrants, to undocumented aliens, whatever you want to call them. Okay? It's the same proportion. The problem is that the government has let us down and has created a chaotic situation where violent gangs like MS-13 from El Salvador can come in and can cause unbelievable carnage. And anybody can come in.
And that -- see, I'm more angry at our government -- Mexico is Mexico. It's never been different in 300 years. Never going to change. I don't think it's going to change, ever, there. It's too corrupt; it's too disorganized. It ain't going to change, all right? But our government should know better. So I'd lay it on the government rather than the people.
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At the resort, she sang show tunes, from George Gershwin to Andrew Lloyd Webber, as well as a little country. Twain stayed there for three years, at the end of which all of her siblings had begun lives of their own. When she was finally independent again, she assembled a demo tape of her songs, and her manager set up a showcase concert in Canada. Twain caught the attention of a few insiders with the concert, and within a few months Mercury Nashville had signed her to their roster. Her eponymous debut album was released in 1993, and although it wasn't a major hit, it performed respectably in the United States, launching two minor hit singles, "What Made You Say That" and "Dance with the One That Brought You"; in Europe, the album was more successful and Country Music Television Europe named her Rising Video Star of the Year.
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Twain took a sabbatical and returned to her Swiss home for some down time with her husband. The next summer, she and Lange welcomed their first child. A son, whom they named Eja, arrived August 21, 2001. During this time, Twain brainstormed for a fourth album. While balancing a domestic life and a career, the end result was Up!, which appeared in November 2002.
Up! was released to considerable fanfare - not only was it accompanied by a huge publicity blitz but it appeared in three different mixes, designed to appeal to country, pop and international audiences - and it initially was a big success, selling over 870,000 copies in the US upon its first week and debuting at number one in the Billboard charts, but despite such hits as "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!" and "Forever and For Always," it failed to have the same kind of staying power as The Woman In Me or Come On Over. Those two albums sold over 10 million copies a piece in the US, whereas Up! sold 5.5 million -- an impressive number that only pales when compared to her track record. As Up! worked its way down the charts, Shania released a Greatest Hits album in the holiday season of 2004; the compilation was a great success, going triple platinum in the US, where it peaked at number two on the Billboard charts. In the wake of Greatest Hits, Twain spent the next few years quietly, working on several non-music related projects and appearing only on soundtracks. As of 2007, she was still working on her follow-up to Up!. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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The Canisius women's basketball team has announced its non-conference schedule for the 2013-14 basketball season. The Golden Griffins will play nine non-conference games as with the expansion of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference to 11 teams, the conference schedule will feature 20 games.
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Re: Rabbit of Red Rocks
I've always loved the Red Rocks region of Arizona, and the area is overrun with the common jackrabbit.
To me, this shirt is sort of a modern take on Alice in Wonderland - follow the rabbit and see wonders!
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Ah man, this is wonderful. For some reason the sapling reminds me of the Whomping Willow haha. I especially love the scribbly background; I always love to see how good artists do their backgrounds. I also like the way the birds stick out, breaking it up. Awesome design.
newnie wrote:At first I thought this was also a reference to Starbuck's paintings in BSG as seen here. But then I noticed the colors didn't match... ah well.
It's for Yellowstone's grand prismatic, a large colorful hot spring: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Prismatic_Spring
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Love this one!
I'm amazed at the depth you're able to create using halftones. I wish you'd do a tutorial sometime, it is truly impressive. Great design.
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sooo happy to see Jewelwing!!!!this is lovely!!
This design is lovely!! Love the "no humans allowed" detail ;)
This makes such a great shirt. It's simple and well-drawn. I can't think of another word for your color choices other than... unobtrusive. It works wonderfully on the background color, not jarring at all. Also, great idea (:
The joke must be *hilarious* if it's making the cloud pee itself.
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Terrific! Amazon should buy this to promote Kindle -- or Apple for iBook -- or Nook --or?
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The title's a little sad for the whole "appreciate what you have" purpose.
But you can totally call it "Reclaim the Concrete" if you're in a fight'n mood
Haha very Edgar-esque, yet obviously Josephus. For some reason I really like it, it creates a whole story in my head. Awesome (:
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This is just SO precise! I thought I was looking at an actual picture of the cave. What you accomplished with this is really amazing.
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As someone who works with surveyors, I believe this is indeed how they see themselves - haha!
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Love that tree, and his hat!
nancyzas wrote:Terrific! Amazon should buy this to promote Kindle -- or Apple for iBook -- or Nook --or?
Definitely a Kindle. No way the tree could read an iPad with this much natural light. Eink FTW!
Great concept Kevlar
Genius again. Would be a crime if this didn't get printed. Sad, yet poignant.
The alley would look alot cleaner without that damn rabbit spilling paint everwhere.
Re: Open Sky, Open Heart
Inspired by Lake Coeur 'd Alene, Idaho.
Dude... the brushstrokes on this give it such an awesome feel. The subtle skulls in the background are outstanding as well. I only wish the plant itself was a little bigger, but still awesome. Good luck!
Very nice concept!
This is super great, I love how the top of the tree blends into the shirt.
Re: Clear Skies
I really like what you did with the negative space there!
Re: Welcome!
She's a butte!
Almost every derby you enter I find myself rooting for your entry. This is such a beautifully simplistic design, and your clouds are stellar (; Your different style of art always makes me happy. Beautiful work, as usual.
Re: Naturestache
This is Magnum-ficent!
Love, love, love it.
Jewelwing is back! And in her special style. Southern Florida is in the derby. Great that blue is one of the colors specified for this derby, underwater doesn't work with most other colors.
Re: pair a pearakeets
Reworked coloring and did quite a bit of half-tone stuff. Enjoy. Thank you for your support.
hehe, funny and pretty! i like the colours. GMV
It's a mural... If the clouds formed a heart or other cloud shape maybe. But I'm more drawn to the forest that is dark. Maybe if it was called sunset it would work
The light streaming through makes the design so realistic. I love the contour of the rocks you were able to create, and how soft the brushstrokes make the moss feel. I only wish there was something else to bring the design together, such as a tree or a rock or an animal; I think something like that would make it a little more memorable. It is beautiful as-is though.
Re: Wolf Night
I really like the style of this. I wish glow-in-the-dark ink was allowed for derbies.
Happy this one is doing well. Good luck!
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'The Lightning entered Sunday's matchup against the Sabres 3-for-64 on the power play in their previous 10 games. They went 0-for-9 in beating the Blues at home and 0-for-9 again in Saturday's scoreless tie at Philadelphia. Against the Sabres, the power play was 0-for-4.'
Bolts' power play still powerless
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