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|October 3rd, 2011, 05:39 PM
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This would be great if these had a rotor behind them instead of a drum. Manual, four wheel drums on a Jeep with 35's don't stop it much quicker than a freight train.
The Lock-O-Matic hubs are junk, Warn quit making them over 30 years ago for a reason. They regularly do one of four things, no one more than another;
And they tend not to work at all in sub freezing temps.
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|October 3rd, 2011, 09:22 PM
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|October 4th, 2011, 09:48 AM
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My .02¢ on stock Jeep CJ axles. They are the worst part of the vehicle once you get serious about low gearing and wheeling with aggressive rubber. Spending money twice is the biggest problem/mistake when trying to make stock CJ axles live longer. 'Get by' with cheap used part gear or locker upgrades and invest the bigger money into axles that will survive spirited use.
Personally I wouldn't stick a ton of $$ into a model 30 that would even occasionally be run hard with 35's & 4:88's. That's lots of fragile little teeth in an itty bitty diff. With a 6 I broke enough 30 axles and ring gears running 35's that I could have paid for a narrowed Scout 44. Maybe lunch box locker it, match the rear gear and call it good. Then start saving for an upgrade. Until then respect the 30's limitations & know when to pull cable.
That's brings us to the rear model AMC 20. It has a nice sized ring & pinion, that's about it. I'm not a fan of it's crush sleeve pre-load, but that's a personal preference.
Sure you can buy a truss. Sure you can buy one piece axles. Sure you can weld the tubes to the center. But why waste all that time and $$ putting lipstick on a pig when you can get a low geared 60 or 14 bolt narrowed for about the same investment and never worry about it again? Even the smaller ring geared Dana 44 has a better history of survivnig as a rear diff than the AMC 20.
My suggestion to get going cheap and save $ for later improvements based on staying with the 4cyl for now;
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The donor a le I have is no good all the gears and internals r shot u can move the ring gear up and down about an inch so u would have to do the knuckle swap and the axles should still be good on it as well
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Ok you are running a 4 cylinder so I wouldn't worry about breaking anything I run a 95 mpi 4 cylinder that has more power then yours with the stock 30/35 wrangler axles and I wheel the shit out of it I beat it to death and I haven't broken a thing
And u want to go to 35s that is gonna kill your motor the 33s r really to big for the gears you most likely have and yes the 20 has weak axle tubes weld then and don't beat on it too bad and u won't bend it a set of one piece axles for 200 bucks is a deal throw those in and call it good do the knuckle swap inthe front for disc brakes and run the 33s
I would do that until you decide to upgrade your motor
And even then the d30 can hold upto alot of abuse my dad ran a 30 up front with a lunchbox locker for probably 10 years with a 360 for a motor on a 5000 pound jeep and didn't break it till he had It standing on one wheel and even then he broke the carrier
So basically don't be afraid of the stock axles
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ok so i figure i owe everyone my game plan. this winter is to get the jeep driving down the road in one piece, completely legal. i replaced a belt and vacuum lines. replacing a clutch and u joints, fluids, and tune up. re wiring stuff to get it actually working, redo the brakes and a 50mph paint job =].then this summer im going to just drive it. get used to how it handles, get used to the clutch, and figure out what needs to actually get fixed since it hasn't been driven in awhile. then next last fall it's going into the garage again with all the money i hopefully saved up over the summer for upgrades. armor, the amc v8 that came out of these and a trans that will handle that and will mount up to my dana 300. would like beefier axles, and im not sure on the lift, i wanted to run YJ springs because i hear they're alot better ride and flex but im not sure if i wanna run SOA or just lifted springs. also going to upgrade the steering and get a steering box brace. and possibly start on doing the interior.
|October 4th, 2011, 07:33 PM
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That looks like an early style spring mount (arrow) like what were used on the narrow (pre 76) 1.75" wide springs. Not really a big deal if you're swapping out the outers and just using it to get by. Looks like someone had a ball putting that CJ puzzle together.
And no I'm not buying a CAD program to make a demo diagram here, live with my crappy 'paint' job
The body underside looks good, get at the bad spots, rhino line it and that tub will last you many years yet. Or if you ask jeepjk4dr he'd say it's got 30 years left on it the way it is I still have some Bendix disc stuff and other intermediate year hubs, axle shafts, crap that hasn't been scrapped out yet. Lemme know if you need any parts during the swap. I may have them and I definitely want to get rid of all of them from the barn.
.....that reminds me, jeepfreak81 owes me his first born for a 10 spline bull gear that came out of the hay mow
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|October 4th, 2011, 08:29 PM
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No offense to anyone, but most YJ's on here and other 4x4 sites are YJ skeletons with GM parts in them for a reason Make it easy on yourself, find CJ parts (booster, etc) and it'll all be direct bolt in.
Just some things to consider about drum brakes. I'd be willing to bet you'll be blowing out those old wheel cylinders the first time you push on the pedal with the new power assist brakes. Additionally, you can't "shoe slap" drums without having them turned and I'm betting those old drums are beyond spec. You can get them measured to see for sure. Start adding up the cost of front wheel cyls, shoes, drums, spring combi kits and it may well exceede the time & money you're looking at for an outer / disc swap.
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|October 6th, 2011, 08:57 AM
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If you need CJ parts, you really can do yourself a favor and get ahold of DMCJeep on this site. Denny has every single part you'll ever need. He isn't dirt cheap to deal with, but he's on the low side of average as far as his pricing. If nothing else, send him a list of what you need and if he doesn't have it, he might be able to help you find it.
Enough of the shameless plug... just start doing what Renegade is saying. Look here, and on any of the other jeep sites, and on craigslist (get craigslisthelper for your phone if you have an Android/ iphone) for parts. Build a stockpile. Use what you need, sell the rest. Even if you buy an entire D30 for the disc swap, you can still sell the housing for $20. When I did my CJ, I went out to Lansing to pickup a free D44 rear housing and ended up buying a D30 front with disc brakes, a brake booster, master cylinder, and a spare set of cro-mo axle shafts for $150. Most people on this site aren't JUST selling one piece of a Jeep, and all it takes is flashing a bit of money to get most of us from "thinking of selling" to "sold".
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- Patients with advanced stage refractory breast cancer
- Progressive or relapsed disease following standard therapy with chemotherapy and/or surgery, and/or radiation
- Patients must have measurable (bi-dimensional) chest wall disease and/or cutaneous metastatic lesions
- Patients must be at least 7 days from last chemotherapy and 30 days from local radiotherapy and/or systemic steroids
- Patients on bisphosphonates, trastuzumab, lapatinib and/or hormonal therapy are eligible
- White blood cell count >= 1000/ul
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1200/ul
- Platelets > 75,000/ul
- Serum creatinine =< 2.0 mg/dL, a creatinine clearance > 60 ml/min
- Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) < 2 X upper limit normal (ULN)
- Total bilirubin < 2 X ULN
- Patients must have a Performance Status Score (Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group [ECOG] Scale) =< 2
- Patients must have recovered from major infections and/or surgical procedures and, in the opinion of the investigator, not have a significant active concurrent medical illness precluding protocol treatment
- Men and women of reproductive ability must agree to contraceptive use during the study and for 1 month after imiquimod/Abraxane treatment is discontinued
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with prior allergic reaction to taxanes
- Patients with any clinically significant active autoimmune disease requiring active treatment with systemic steroids or other immunomodulators
- Pregnant or breast-feeding women
- Patients with peripheral neuropathy >= Grade 2
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00821964
|United States, Washington
|Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98109
|Principal Investigator:
|Lupe Salazar
|Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|University of Washington
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00821964 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
NCI-2010-00040 ( Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program) )
R01CA138521 ( US NIH Grant/Contract Award Number )
131 ( Other Identifier: Tumor Vaccine Group )
|Study First Received:
|January 13, 2009
|Last Updated:
|August 8, 2016
Keywords provided by University of Washington:
Breast Cancer
Stage IV
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Breast Neoplasms
Neoplasm Metastasis
Breast Neoplasms, Male
Neoplasms by Site
Breast Diseases
Skin Diseases
Neoplastic Processes
Pathologic Processes
Albumin-Bound Paclitaxel
Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
Antineoplastic Agents
Tubulin Modulators
Antimitotic Agents
Mitosis Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Adjuvants, Immunologic
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Interferon Inducers
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on June 23, 2017


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By Chris Harris
Arsène Wenger believes Norwich City's team ethic is the secret to their success.
Paul Lambert's squad has exceeded expectations since winning promotion to the Premier League last summer and secured top-flight survival some time ago.
Norwich will arrive at Emirates Stadium on Saturday in 14th place after their worst run of the season - three straight defeats. But Wenger is wary of their collective strength.
"It is difficult to pick one [player] out," he told Arsenal Player. "Grant Holt has done very well, Anthony Pilkington as well. It is a team who has done extremely well through the flanks, like Elliott Bennett when he plays, they have all done well.
"I think what strikes you more is that it is a team who has really played like a team with a positive philosophy more than any individual."
Watch the full interview with Wenger on Arsenal Player.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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Natural gas gold rush: Is your state next?
The script might not play out exactly the same in each new community touched by the nationwide boom in natural gas and oil drilling, but the changes have a familiar echo:
Trucks. Noise. Cash. Conflict.
Since the late 1990s, American landscapes have become dotted with a small forest of shale gas wells — 13,000 new ones a year, or about 35 a day, according to the American Petroleum Institute. In the past decade, this steady stream of development has become a gusher as nearly half the country has staked claim to these energy riches. In 2000, the USA had 342,000 natural gas wells. By 2010, more than 510,000 were in place — a 49% jump — according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Twenty states have shale gas wells, so-named because they tap rock layers that harbor the gas in shale formations (with names such as Marcellus, Utica, Barnett). The bulk of the drilling has come since 2006, according to the EIA.
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Wherever drilling happens, life changes.
First, the "landmen," or agents from drilling companies, show up offering three- to six-year drilling leases to property owners. The payoff can be as little as $15 an acre or up to $6,000 an acre, producing a new class of wealthy landowners, though some have used the windfall to simply pay off old farm debts.
Then the trucks arrive and the drilling starts, using a process called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," to retrieve the natural gas. The process pumps millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals underground to fracture shale layers and release its natural gas.
That's what happens below the Earth's surface. Above ground, rents increase and hotel rooms begin to fill up. In the process, out-of-the-way towns that had been moseying along for decades begin to change: Some folks are thrilled at the infusion of jobs and cash, and others worry about higher rents and the massive change in the landscape. After all, right before their eyes, forests and farms become factories for finding fossil fuel.
"The issue is, what kind of landscape is left behind? Who's going to win? Who's going to lose?" says Harvard public policy professor David Keith, speaking at a National Academy of Sciences event in May.
Whatever the changes, fracking is no longer a distant phenomenon for many Americans. Natural gas production from shale was just shy of a trillion cubic feet in 2006. Last year, it swelled to 7.19 trillion cubic feet, a 600% increase, according to the EIA.
Stephen Cleghorn, owner of a 50-acre certified organic farm and goat dairy in Reynoldsville, Pa., is worried hydraulic fracturing gas drilling activity nearby will affect his animals and the farm he and his wife started in 2005.
At this rate, it might be coming soon to a town near you.
Where the money is good
Starting with efforts during the 1990s to fracture the Barnett shale in Texas — a 5,000-square-mile rock layer more than 320 million years old and loaded with natural gas — shale fracking has crept across the country. More than 1,400 wells were drilled last year across Pennsylvania alone, and nearly that many the year before, according to the state's Department of Environmental Protection.
"Oh my heavens, yes, the boom is here," says Ohio State University agricultural extension agent Mike Hogan, who until recently worked in two eastern Ohio counties, Harrison and Jefferson. Both sit atop the Utica shale, about 10,000 feet down and prized for its "wet" natural gas, rich with liquid ethane, butane, propane and heavier liquids that can be made into gasoline.
As natural gas prices are down and gasoline prices top $3 a gallon in most of the country, the action in hydraulic fracturing has found a home in eastern Ohio.
"The number of trucks on the roads is incredible," Hogan says. "But the money is more than welcome here."
States swept up in the fracking frenzy rush to keep pace with the relatively new phenomenon.
In New York, community and business groups are fighting over an unreleased proposal by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo that could limit fracking to a handful of economically struggling counties along the border with Pennsylvania.
In May, regulators unveiled updated rules to cover fracking in Ohio, the latest state to take such a turn. The regulations require water well tests within 1,500 feet of gas wells, partial disclosure of fracking fluids and other measures to ensure "cradle-to-grave" monitoring of wells.
Next door in Pennsylvania, regulators approved similar rules last year for drilling from its Marcellus shale, a layer of rock about 7,000 feet deep stretching from New York State to Tennessee, which was the star of the boom six months ago. The Marcellus shale produces mostly "dry" natural gas, a commodity whose price has fallen by half over the past year.
The two states illustrate the wider issues that ride tandem with the spread of the fracking boom, seen from North Dakota to Texas and beyond.
"A big issue is just change itself. Too often 'fracking' gets blamed when it's the whole package that leads to the problems — the trucks, the noise, the workers, the environmental problems, the feeling of being disempowered by regulations," says rural sociologist Kathy Brasier of Penn State. "At the same time, there's no doubt that this industrial activity causes significant change to the landscape, and there are unanswered questions about environmental impacts that concern people."
The big questions
The first to confront the questions are landowners, sometimes offered big money for rights to drill on their property.
"We have had some landowners walk into extension offices with 'million-dollar' checks, and ask, 'What now?' " says Ohio State's Kenneth Martin, who heads the university's agricultural extension efforts that have helped farmers and landowners in the state for decades.
Besides producing such "winners," boomtowns typically see more jobs (unemployment is down more than a percentage point in Ohio's eastern counties in the past year, partly because of manufacturing and drilling activity), more occupied hotel rooms, more Texas and Oklahoma license plates on drillers' cars and higher property values, increasing rents and taxes.
"The big question we hear is, 'when do I pull the trigger' and sign a lease agreement," says Steve Schumacher, an Ohio State extension agent in Belmont County, where the heavy drilling has not quite started. "We have had some time to prepare in Ohio because we have seen what happened elsewhere." Schumacher and his colleagues tell landowners to get everything in writing, check their water for methane and brace for change.
Even as the price of natural gas dropped to around $2 for a thousand cubic feet this warm winter — half last year's price — states caught up in the boom have enjoyed an employment windfall when jobs nationally have been hard to come by. Since 2009, Pennsylvania has 38,900 natural resources jobs, up 72%; North Dakota has 21,900 jobs, a 172% surge, according to Federal Reserve data.
These numbers don't include jobs added to service the fracking industry — everything from selling workers donuts to making steel pipes used in the process. One-time lease checks — some for more than six figures — also can juice local economies, according to Schumacher.
At the same time, concerns have mounted about the risks of having such industrial activity near towns and farms. Some farmers have taken smaller lease checks on the promise that the wellheads wouldn't be on their land. That shifts the hassle and noise of a wellhead — an industrial site up to 8 acres in size and operating 24 hours a day while it is being drilled — onto the land of neighbors who took bigger checks. The wells drill down to the shale layer, then fracture the rock sideways to recover the natural gas under all the leased land.
The other side of the boom
"I never, ever, thought about leaving. It was my lifelong dream to be a farmer," says Jenny Lisak, 58, of Punxsutawney, Pa., who owns a blueberry and apple farm with her husband, Tom. "Now I have to worry about air pollution and water pollution and life not being normal around here anymore."
Amish buggies wait for tanker trucks filled with drilling fluid to rattle past on the country road in front of Lisak's farmhouse. Across the lane is a neighbor's alfalfa field, leased to a drilling company. About a mile away is a deep disposal well, one of only a handful in the state, where leftover fracking fluid goes to be deposited in deep underground rock formations.
Lisak, who has no desire to see her farm become a fracking site, sees nothing but downside around her. She says the threat of spills keeps her up at night.
For many others, the good times are rolling. Welders employed in the natural gas industry average $28.48 an hour, 6 bucks more an hour than other industries pay, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
"We're still hiring," says David Schultz, a plant manager for Forum Energy Technologies' metal fabrication plant in Clearfield, Pa., one county over from Lisak's farm. About half the fracking well tanks that are manufactured or fixed at the plant are bound for Ohio and the Utica shale, Schultz says.
Just as the gold rush boom of the 1800s left ghost towns in its wake, some wonder whether fracking boomtowns will revert to bust towns once the trucks have left.
In Ohio, the concern is that too many homes or hotels will be built, Hogan says. "I worry about jobs after the workers aren't drilling the actual wells and the royalty checks slow down. What happens then?"
Brasier says "there's no recipe book" to help communities perfectly respond to the mix of new wealth, environmental concerns, housing price fluctuations, crime spikes, noise, trucks and other disruptions to daily life associated with an energy boom.
"All we have is a list of ingredients that each place will face in different amounts in different ways," she says.
Environmental concerns
As for environmental concerns ushered in with the fracking boom, there are more questions than definitive answers.
"We need more technical information that does not exist," says Vicki Colvin, head of the Center for Biotechnology and Environmental Nanotechnology at Rice University in Houston. This lack of clarity has fed a roiling debate between environmental organizations, industry groups and professors over the possibility of fracking fluids contaminating air and water near well sites.
A University of Texas review this year concluded that the biggest environmental threat was from spills and poorly constructed wells. This review followed a Duke University study last year that found higher odds of natural gas contamination in water wells within 1,100 yards of fracking wells. That led to a push for stronger "setback" distances between drill sites and wells in regulations for sites in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
There is also the recent concern that fracking might cause earthquakes.
A National Research Council report this month concluded that fracking "does not pose a high risk" of triggering meaningful quakes. It noted, however, that deeper wastewater disposal wells do pose rare risks of triggering minor quakes like the ones that shook Youngstown, Ohio, last year.
Indeed, the challenges and concerns that arise with this energy boom vary greatly from state to state, and even from town to town.
"Every place is different in its history and the people who live there," Brasier says. "Every company is different in how it does things. So the way that each community responds will be different, too."
Then there's the challenge that people are happy to wrestle with: what to do with all that money.
"We're now moving on to talking to people about financial management, handling those checks, expecting the trucks," says Schumacher, the extension agent from Belmont County. "I think we are ready for what's coming. Overall, there's a sense of excitement to be where things are happening."
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The history of humanity is a non-ceasing outburst of hatred towards those who religion is not your own. People are killed, whipped, burned to death and other forms of punishment because their religion was not that of other people. A Malaysian court has charged six Muslim men with sedition for parading a severed cow's head to protest the construction of a new Hindu temple. They were part of a group that marched from a mosque to the Hindu temple in an effort to arouse public anger against Hindus.
According to their lawyer, the cow's head was not meant as an offense to Hindus but to reflect the "stupidity" of the government. "If you llok at the Malay culture, the cow is synonymous with stupdity and not meant as an insult to religions.
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Who is going this year and who is planning to march in the parade?
Who is going this year and who is planning to march in the parade?
man i wish i could make it this year
I'm going, don't know about the parade. They keep shooting prices up though. $75 until the 15th and $90 at the door.
I go every year, but I have never once been awake in time for the parade. It's just too darn early in the AM for me. Plus I don't want to rush from the parade to the 501st booth to start the droid hunt.
Going and marching in the parade.
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Art and I are going, no parade for us...it is wayyyyy too hot!
Me and my wife will be there again this year.
But I have to argue the point that we buy our passes on site every year on thurs. Yes, we pay more, but have never waited more then 10 min in line to get the on site passes.
And no parade for me either. Its waay to early and I`m usually to hung over.
To each his own...
I'm realy hoping to go next year....but man, I'm ssssoooo going to miss not seeing all you guys (And the TCF'ers!) this year at all.
As of now the plan is this year but next year for sure. Def going to get the tickets asap for next years! I would love to meet and chill with some fellow Feters. Cheers!
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The Advantages Of A Hoseless Dive Computer
A hoseless dive PC is a remote and air facilitated compass which is planned for bouncing while considering an extension or lessening in pneumatic drive as an individual is diving. There are a few focal points that are joined by the utilization of a hoseless plunge PC, for example, the PC permits following of the decompression status as it anticipates decompression infection in jumpers this is on account of it tracks the nitrogen levels in the body of a jumper by controlling the measure of nitrogen admission and out take in the jumper as it is critical to likewise guarantee that the jumper gets great quality air as they are making a plunge the ocean.
It also allows an individual to spend more time under water this is because it has a maximum number of feet that the diver can be able to dive deep and it also limits the period of time the individual will be in the water as this often helps prevent decompression sickness in an individual.
Bounce PCs also help in giving accurate time and significance recordings when appeared differently in relation to the conventional strategy for figuring the significance and time that the jumper spends in water as it was much of the time off course, yet the usage of the dive PC progresses exact estimations and meanwhile it in like manner ensures that there are no more dive table bumbles this is in light of the fact that hop PCs actually plays out each one of the considers for the decompression status of the jumper and besides register the decompression time and the rooftop significance this is just in case an individual encounters a decompression.
The dive computer also has accent rate indicators which often indicate to the diver the rate at which they are supposed to ascend this is because divers are taught on how to ascend slowly so that they do not exceed their set maximum ascend rate this is because if they do so they may suffer from decompression sickness and it also gives the diver a warning in the event where they are ascending at a fast rate than they are supposed to.
Hoseless bounce PCs are in like manner known to consider a decrease in weight when an individual ascensions to shallow profundities and thusly an individual can have the ability to know the rate at which they ought to ascend on to the surface of the water and this is frequently seen as more exact when stood out from standard tables which are thought to be less correct.
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So your vehicle's been sitting for a while…you get in it, start the engine and pull out of the driveway when you notice a hard, rough (but very regular) vibration that only gets worse with speed. It doesn't feel like it's coming from the driveline or suspension – so what is it?
It could be that the tires have developed flat spots.
With the weight of the vehicle pressing down on the tires for long periods, a section of the rubber and belts can become softer (or harder) than the rest of the tire. This can be exacerbated by cold weather, or just by parking on a cold concrete floor.
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In this first Session of the Study Group we will explore the role the political climate, the big idea, and the individual leader have on successful social entrepreneurship. Is it necessary with big ideas to have an initial launch that often does not succeed (ie, health care over fifty years, climate change, military service for all people, ) or does the individual leader cause the immediate success (Facebook or Google). Discuss the ability of policy changes to improve or harm the lives of others. In addition, can innovation be the driver for global social change (Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation}.
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I would greatly appreciate your comments regarding the following:
What upscale SLR cameras utilize user-activated (or automatically selected) visual indicators within the scene area of the viewfinder, superimposed over the image of the subject? For example, the Canon EOS series has a series of autofocus areas in the center of the focusing screen that are black rectangles until one, or more, is/are selected, at which time it/they become illuminated in red.
I think certain Nikon models do a similar thing.
The point is, I have reason to believe that cameras that have this feature infringe upon one of my patents. I have already reached a satisfactory settlement with one major Japanese camera corporation regarding active viewfinder indicia and would like to pursue the rest of the bunch.
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Depends on your dog, and the personality of the adult/puppy coming in. If you are worried about a possible reinjury, and your older male won't discipline of stand up for himself (not that he should have to, but if they are playing in the yard, a nip from him is faster and more effective than you running to correct overly rough play), then a calm adult would probably be better.
If you feel he won't be pushed over and can assist you in setting those boundaries, and has "his only" places to get away, a puppy might be okay.
My older dog is 9 years old. I also have a 11 week old GSD mix. My older girl has mild arthritis, but otherwise is healthy and "active". She does have her limits, and makes them clear to the pup. She also has several places around the house that she can get to where she can get away, in addition to the time when the pup's in her crate. So it *can* work... But it's very individualized.
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If Kato accepts new dogs readily, an older female would suit him fine. There are so many mature ladies in shelters waiting for a home.
We lost our beloved Morgan in 2012 when Otto was 4. Morgan was a very assertive female, stern taskmaster and 7 years old than Otto. He's hard headed dog but was never given a choice but to accept Morgan as his wicked stepmother from 8 weeks old. I've had shepherd friends come for walks with iron bitches were like Morgan was. Otto has made perfectly clear he does not having that in his life.
So we got a puppy and she's exactly what I asked her breeder for, athletic, brilliant, not afraid to stick up for herself but not looking to challenge Otto. Otto adores her.
New Pup or Adult GSD??
Hello all. Hope this is in the correct forum... I have a 6 yo male GSD, Kato, who has mild hip issues. He is mostly fine on daily walks and with normal daily activities but when he spends a couple hours playing with my friends gsd pup he shows some soreness in his hips that evening and also most of the next day. He currently gets msm/gluco'/chondroitin and Vit C supplements. I lost my other GSD last summer at the age of 12.
So, I am currently looking for a second GSD again and was originally thinking of getting an adult female. Now I am thinking I would like to get a puppy. Three of my last five dogs were puppies and the last two were rescues.
Now I am questioning whether the puppy would be too much energy for Kato to deal with and may cause his hip issues to exaggerate. This is why my original thought was to get an adult gsd so there wouldn't be the constant puppy energy in the beginning. I want what is best for my current dog and don't know IF there is a correct answer or not.
If anyone has experience with this, or simply an opinion, I would love to hear from you.
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By Chris Harris
Philippe Senderos marked his return to action with the winning goal as Arsenal Reserves beat Portsmouth 1-0 at Underhill.
It's been a torrid season for the Swiss defender, who moved to London last summer but has yet to feature in a competitive first-team game for Arsenal.
A back injury and a broken bone in his foot had restricted Senderos to just one reserve appearance but his luck changed on Tuesday night.
The second half was barely two minutes old when David Bentley swung in a cross from the right following a short corner. John Spicer failed to get his head on the ball but Senderos was on hand to send a crisp, left-footed shot past the goalkeeper.
It was a lead that Arsenal deserved at the time, but they were perhaps fortunate to claim all three points after a stirring fightback from Pompey. The home side were indebted to Graham Stack, who produced two masterful saves to deny the visitors.
Stack was woefully under-employed in the first half as Eddie Niedzwiecki's team dominated. Ray Parlour was another notable starter after two months on the sidelines with a knee ligament injury.
Parlour captained Arsenal and showed no ill-effects from his injury in the early stages, firing in two low shots which Chris Tardif held and stopping Mark Wilson with a typically fierce challenge.
Alongside Parlour was Cesc Fabregas, 15 years his junior but once again underlining his potential with a composed, tenacious performance.
Aside from pot shots from David Bentley and Parlour, Arsenal created little in the opening exchanges but they could have taken the lead after 27 minutes.
Justin Hoyte cut inside his marker on the right flank and crossed for Jeremie Aliadiere, who hooked a volley towards goal as the ball dropped marginally behind him. Wonderful technique, but Tardif was equal to it.
Tardif was forced into another fine save two minutes later when Bentley advanced unchallenged to fire in a shot from 20 yards, but the Pompey goalkeeper should have been beaten five minutes before the interval.
This time Bentley's shot cannoned off Aliadiere and bounced kindly for Michal Papadopulos. Only Tardif stood in the way but the on-loan striker lashed his shot wildly over the crossbar.
Fortunately for Arsenal, Senderos showed far more composure in front of goal two minutes into the second half to put the hosts ahead.
On the evidence of the first 50 minutes one would have expected Arsenal to add further goals, but Senderos' strike galvanised Portsmouth into action.
They were unfortunate not to equalise on a number of occasions. Scott Harris thought his low shot had restored parity but Stack stuck out a hand and Senderos completed the clearance with Pompey claiming that the ball had already crossed the line.
Just after the hour mark Parlour was replaced. Reserves manager Niedzwiecki revealed afterwards that the midfielder "turned an ankle" but otherwise felt no ill effects following his lay-off.
With Parlour back in the dressing room, Portsmouth pushed even harder for an equaliser. They should have grabbed it with 11 minutes remaining.
After a melee in the penalty area, the ball bounced for Matthew Day. He forced a wonderful save from Stack, who recovered to tip another shot from Wilson over the bar seconds later.
Arsenal clung on for all three points and in doing so stretched their unbeaten record to eight games, a run which has included six victories.
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Based on the novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of West, by Gregory Maguire, we are given a glimpse of Elphaba's past, discovering that evil isn't born but made. In fact, it may come as a surprise to many to find that Maguire's novel is actually targeted to adults, with adult language and violent imagery and sexual situations abound! Written and composed by the ever talented Stephen Schwartz, the musical deviates much from the original book, and so when the accompanying book was released it was reformed and written by Winnie Holzman (who also had a hand in writing the musical)! To address the changes, Schwartz said on his website "Primarily we were interested in the relationship between Galinda, who becomes Glinda and Elphaba the green witch."
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