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I got a two long carbon strips 3 x .3 mm. I think one strip goes on the leading edge of the wing. Where does the second one go?
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A couple more pics. Landing gear leg installations, and nose bracing. I had the gear legs pass through the fuse about 2.375 below the crutch. I replaced the 1.4 mm CF rod in the kit with 1 mm tube for the gear legs (about 7 long), with an aft support (0.7mm), and a spreader string between the gear legs, approximately 1.5 above the wheelpants. Before gluing the landing gear legs, measure the height from the workbench and check the angles to make sure they are symmetrical so the plane will sit level and the gear legs will flex equally. Larger diameter CF rod / tube can be used without any additional support, but they are generally more prone to chatter/vibrate when sliding (or rolling if wheels are added) on takeoffs and landings. Rods to brace the nose essentially connect the very strong landing gear area to the ends of the CF flat in the nose, making for a very rigid nose that will not twist with torque loads from the motor.
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Removing the plane from bench, it is time to start adding equipment. I start with the aileron servo and linkages. The aileron servo is located at the leading edge of the wing. The kit included control horns and offset servo arm will give perfect throw if installed accurately (the aileron servo arm sweeps forward). The kit also includes CF rod, Z-bends, and heatshrink to hold the Z-bends, which I replaced with CF tube and ball links.
A quick note about the aileron servo arm. Use a small stock servo arm as the "base" for the large offset arm supplied in the kit. With the radio on, center the stock arm as closely as possible, and do not use any subtrim or trim to get it exactly centered. Then glue on the offset arm to be perfectly straight relative to the airframe, even if it is slightly offset to the stock arm. This results in symmetrical linkage without having any electronic offsets so that all of the servo travel can be used for aileron deflection while retaining maximum mechanical advantage. I use Kevlar thread and CA to firmly secure the arms together. ***Edit - addition A little trick to getting perfectly centered ailerons. Use a depron "clamp" to hold the aileron centered while prepping the final length of the linkages. The clamp is simply 3 pieces of depron glued together, with the center piece being undersized so the clamp can be slid onto the crutch and aileron simultaneously. Regards, Dave |
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Locations of the elevator and rudder servos will depend largely on the weight of the power system and the servos. Typically, the elevator servo is generally mounted aft of the wing
possibly very close to the elevator, and uses a pushrod for connection. In my case, I used a very light servo and mounted it in the stab itself. Also pictured is my Arrow V6 which has the elevator servo mounted midway between the wing and stab. The elevator servo and linkage in the V6 was actually installed prior to removing the plane from the bench.
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Next bit of construction is installing the fuse top, again using aluminum angle stock and triangles for accurate alignment. Trial fit the top to make sure the tabs fit through the crutch properly. With my kit, it appeared the thickness of Depron was a bit more than the designed tolerance. I needed to slightly crush the tabs to fit through the slots, and the tabs did not fully extend through the crutch. I trimmed about .5 mm from the bottom of the fuse top in the areas that glue to the crutch to allow the tabs reach the fuselage bottom. Next is the rudder hinging. After cutting the hinge bevel on the rudder, I put a strip of blenderm tape on the rudder, and then attached the rudder to the fin, holding the rudder at 45 degrees of deflection while adhering the tape to the fin. As I installed my rudder servo in the fin/hingeline, I did not add a pinned hinge or figure 8 hinges. Regards, Dave |
And the remainder of the fuselage bracing
..typically CF rods from the top of the fin to the tip of the stab is sufficient. I added a couple extra rods to support the mounting area of the rudder servo. The taller, lighter fuses often have some reinforcement at the peak of the canopy.
Regards, Dave |
More common rudder servo installations have the rudder servo mounted in the top of the fuse, within the span of the wing, with a connection to the rudder using cables. The Spies kit includes pull pull material and fiberglass reinforcement plates for a CF rod control horn. Pictured is my Arrow V6 using kit supplied materials for the rudder pull pull.
Prior to installing the rudder servo, I generally do a quick CG check with the motor, ESC, and RX taped into place. For overall lightest weight, grouping the ESC, motor, and lipo close together is best….and this is often very close to the nose. Weight of rudder cables is negligible, so the rudder servo location can move quite a bit (in the interest of getting the correct CG location) with no downsides other than the weight of the rudder servo wire. With very light motor setups, rudder servos are occasionally mounted 1-2" behind the nose, just behind the lipo. Vertical location of the servo horn in the rudder and the rudder servo itself are important to avoid inference with the elevator at full "up" and the aileron servo linkage. Regards, Dave |
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Great to meet you last week. I'm sure we'll have some specific questions as we are just getting started this week. We managed to get the bags out of the bags out of the box so far. But, kudos to you for doing such a nice job on the build thread so far. Thanks for helping to bring this type of flying and building to us folks that admire it yet were afraid to hop in due to the advanced techniques used. Erik and Aaron |
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Thanks! Nice talking with you at WRAM. Keep the workbench clean, build patiently, and I'm sure you will be fine. Biggest thing with a plane like the Spies is that it is very easy to damage while building. A bit more now - Motor/ESC/RX install this is simple enough. Grouping this equipment close together (hopefully close to aileron and rudder servos) allows shorter wire lengths which can save a substantial amount of weight. With standard X motor mounts, I glue the mount to the fuse, and then use small strips of blenderm for additional security. For the Kimmo coaxial unit, I slotted the fuse for ½ lengths of plastic tube which were tapped for 2-56 nylon screws. After gluing the tubes in place (while attached to the coaxial unit to ensure perfect alignment), I further secured them using small pieces of fiberglass cloth to capture the tubes top/bottom and side/side. Battery is friction fit in a slot in the fuse. Regards, Dave |
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The scope of a cyber espionage campaign targeting Iran and other parts of the Middle East has widened, even after security experts blew the operation's cover last month, according to the research firm that discovered the Mahdi Trojan.
Israeli security company Seculert said that it has identified about 150 new Mahdi victims over the past six weeks as the developers of the virus have changed the code to evade detection from anti-virus programs. That has brought the total number of infections found so far to nearly 1,000, the bulk of them in Iran.
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Experts disagree in the British Medical Journal about the best way to tackle the obesity crisis. While Professor Louise Baur and colleagues from the Children's Hospital at Westmead and the University of Sydney in Australia acknowledge that "physical inactivity is a major contributor to the global burden of disease," they says that it would be wrong to only focus on this and ignore the problem of obesity.
Baur and colleagues argue that physical inactivity is just one marker and that there is substantial evidence that unhealthy diets low in fibre and high in sugar and large portion size are also responsible for obesity and the diseases associated with it.
However, Dr Richard Weiler, a specialist registrar in sport and exercise medicine at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and general practitioner, and colleagues believe that inadequate cardio-respiratory fitness causes disease more than excess body fat, waist size and body mass index.
Weiler and colleagues maintain that "physical inactivity is one of the greatest health threats facing developed nations today" and they are concerned that 95% of the populations in England and the United States do not meet the recommended guidelines of doing 30 minutes moderate to vigorous physical activity on at least five days a week or equivalent.
They say this is alarming given that physical inactivity rather than obesity per se is an actual cause for many illnesses including obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, mental health problems, high blood pressure and dementia.
Spending huge amounts on treating obesity is not the right way forward, they argue. Weight loss drugs and surgery are risky and the long-term benefits are limited and they certainly do not have the associated health benefits linked to physical activity. They conclude that it is time for health policy and healthcare professionals to focus on fighting physical inactivity, a "chronic disease that has an adult population prevalence of 95%."
Professor Baur, on the other hand, believes that "on its own, improving physical activity will have little impact on reducing overall levels of already established obesity."
She believes that obese people need access to high quality treatment provided by well-trained professionals to deal with their weight and any linked health problems.
In conclusion, Professor Baur and colleagues advocate tackling obesity with a range of strategies, for example, increasing physical activity, improving diet and lifestyles. They say urban planning should be developed to encourage people to use their car less and cycle more and public transport should be made more accessible and affordable.
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Phil Mushnick responded to the backlash he has been receiving today after writing in his NY Post column that the Brooklyn Nets should be renamed the New York N—–s.
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"I don't call black men the N-word; I don't regard young women as b—-es and whores; I don't glorify the use of assault weapons and drugs. Jay-Z, on the other hand…..Is he the only NBA owner allowed to call black men N—ers?
"Wanna be Jay-Z hip? Then go all the way!" Mushnick added.
The public is outraged by the racial overtones in his column and many are calling for him to be fired.
New York sportswriter, Phil Mushnick, didn't choose his words wisely and is now in hot water after writing that the Brooklyn Nets should change their name to the "New York N——s" because they are co-owned by Jay-Z.
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Why the Brooklyn Nets when they can be the New York N——s? The cheerleaders could be the Brooklyn B—-hes or Hoes. Team logo? A 9 mm with hollow-tip shell casings strewn beneath. Wanna be Jay-Z hip? Then go all the way!
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SemiAccurate has been busy with the news coming out of the new Global Foundries Technology Conference, where GF has been
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An Efficient Method for Graphic Password Authentication
The authors propose and examine the usability and security of Cued Click Points (CCP), a cued-recall graphical password technique. Users click on one point per image for a sequence of images. The next image is based on the previous click-point. They present the results of an initial user study which revealed positive results. Performance was very good in terms of speed, accuracy, and number of errors. Users preferred CCP to PassPoints, saying that selecting and remembering only one point per image was easier, and that seeing each image triggered their memory of where the corresponding point was located. They also suggest that CCP provides greater security than PassPoints because the number of images increases the workload for attackers.


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Venue Information
Hammersmith Apollo is one of London's major live entertainment venues. It is located in Hammersmith, West London and is one of the UK's largest and best-preserved original theatres. The Hammersmith Apollo is famous worldwide for performances it has hosted in it's glittering history. Many comedians such as Michael McIntrye and Jack Dee have had their live DVDs filmed at the venue and it played host to the hit stand up TV series 'Live At The Apollo'. Music DVDs have also been filmed at the venue from artists such as Thunder, The Saturdays and Judas Priest to name a few. Venue Rules - Current England & Wales Licensing laws are strictly enforced - Ticket holder may be subject to search - Tickets are non-refundable or transferable - The venue reserves the right to change the bill without prior notification. - Ticket holders consent to any filming and sound recordings as members of the audience - Ticket holders may be subject to continuous sound levels which may cause potential damage to hearing - Ticket holders may be exposed to strobe lights - Only official merchandise is on sale inside the venue, do not buy outside. This is for your protection so that you will receive goods of proven quality. - No 'professional' type cameras, video cameras or sound recording equipment will be allowed in the venue. - No re-admission policy is strictly enforced - No bottles, cans, alcohol or food is to be brought into the venue - No illegal substances may be brought into or taken on the premises. Any one caught in possession of such substances will be ejected form the premises and may be reported to the Police - Any ticket holder throwing objects (beer, glasses etc) will be removed from the building and no refund given. Furthermore, customer details will be provided to the regulatory authorities should an offence be alleged to have taken place. - The venue management accepts no responsibility for acts of willful endangerment, or injuries caused thereby to yourself or other patrons whilst on the premises. - No weapons. The management reserve the right to define & confiscate - No smoking anywhere within the venue complex - at it's discretion the venue management will allow smokers out of the venue. Management reserves right to refuse admission The Venue adopts a neighbour friendly policy so please make as little noise as possible on leaving the venue.
By Tube
Nearest Tube: Hammersmith (Piccadilly & District lines) & Hammersmith (Metropolitan Hammersmith & City line). There are 2 underground stations at Hammersmith. They are 3 minutes walk from the venue & are accessible by underpass.
By Car
The Hammersmith Apollo does not have any parking spaces and we would advise customers not to drive and park in the surrounding areas due to it being mostly residential areas and car crime being at a current high. It is possible to drop off directly outside the venue on Queen Caroline street.
By Taxi
Dial-a-Car 0208 563 8888 / 0207 835 1111 Why not book a cab in advance to the Apollo and back? Visit minicabit.com for a cheaper, easier deal.
By Bus
Buses: 9, 10, 27, 33, 419, 72, H91, 190, 211, 220, 267, 283, 295 and 391. Hammersmith bus station is wheelchair accessible
The nearest 24-hour car park is located behind the Kings Mall and accommodates 1000 cars. The car park can be entered up until 20:00 and cars can be collected anytime. Novotel London West, located 3 to 5 minutes walk from the Apollo offers great and secured car park facilities. Up to 240 bays are available on a first come first served basis. Prices are ú3.00 an hour or ú1.00 an hour if you are staying at the hotel. For information regarding Blue Badge holders' parking please visit the LB Hammersmith & Fulham website.
Number of Steps
There is an access ramp at the front entrance of the building or 2 steps from the street into the venue. The foyer and bar area into the auditorium is step free. The circle seating area is only accessible via steps .Unfortunately there is no lift to the circle area. There are: - 30 steps from the main entrance to the circle foyer. - 10 steps from the circle foyer to circle auditorium entrance. - 12 steps from circle auditorium entrance Row F to A. - 39 steps from circle auditorium entrance Row G to Z and rear circle standing. For example, if you have a seat in row F of the circle there are a total of 52 steps.
Wheelchair Access
The wheelchair viewing platform is located at the rear of the stalls and can accommodate four wheelchair users and four personal assistants per performance. Any wheelchair user that is able to transfer from their wheelchair into a stalls aisle seat are preferred to do so. As the venue can only accommodate four wheelchair users on the viewing platform it is preferred that these areas are reserved for those that are unable to transfer into a seat. Your wheelchair can then be stored at the rear of the stalls and returned by an usher at the end of the event or as and when needed.
Hearing Systems
The venue has a hearing loop system that covers rows J-R in the Stalls, plus blocks 8,9 and 10 in the Circle. Amplification headphones and neck loops are available for a refundable deposit of ú5. Please speak to the Box Office staff upon arrival to collect a unit.
Guide Dogs
Guide dogs are welcome into the venue and the staff are happy to look after them during the performance. If you are bringing a guide dog, please call 020 8563 3806 to inform the venue in advance.
General Access Info
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Stonington – Touchdown runs by Zach Poirier (7 yards) and Harry Calmar (15) helped rally Stonington to a 33-28 victory over Westerly in their annual Thanksgiving Day game.
The scores came after Ryan Young recovered a fumble in the end zone to give Westerly a 22-19 lead early in the third quarter.
Despite the win, Stonington was unofficially eliminated from Class M playoff consideration when Quinebaug Valley defeated Killingly 14-6 to earn the eighth and final spot.
Trailing 19-6 late in the first half, Jaycee Hamelin returned a kickoff 80 yards for a touchdown to pull Westerly with 19-14. Hamelin's return came moments after Divante White's 23-yard touchdown pass to Calmar had given Stonington a 19-6 lead.
Calmar ran seven yards for a TD earlier in the second to break a 6-6 tie, he first of his three touchdowns.
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When the pregnancy tests show positive results, the stability of the mind is lost and you start thinking many things. "Am I prepared?" "Can I handle pregnancy?" "What if...?" "How to tell him?" "Its a bright new chapter of our life!" Are few questions, doubts and happiness which capture the mind of a pregnant woman. The very time when you come to know that you are pregnant, mixed reactions and confusion can make you panic for sometime. To be clear about the next steps to follow, here is what you should do after knowing that you are pregnant.
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This celebration in the wee hours of Monday morning was what Pete Carroll envisioned when he arrived in Seattle in January 2010 and was finally given the full say over an NFL franchise in the hopes of replicating at the professional level what he was able to accomplish in college.
Celebrating was standard practice when Carroll was at USC. But the party that followed Sunday's 43-8 blowout of Denver that gave Seattle its first NFL title topped all those previous celebrations.
It may just be the beginning for the Seahawks.
"This is exactly what we envisioned from day one. We were going to be right here and win this football game — and it just happened to be in New York. which makes it even more special — in the fashion that we were able," Carroll said. "We deserved it and we earned it because this is exactly what we've been preparing for, and we expected it. That may sound cocky. That may sound arrogant. But it's a mentality you can't get in one week."
Seattle's coronation was the culmination of an overhaul that Carroll and general manager John Schneider embarked upon when they took control of the Seahawks. Nearly 1,000 roster moves later, they could finally take the ultimate satisfaction in what they had created: the envy of the NFL.
The Seahawks are mean and talented on defense. They have one of the most dynamic young players in the game in quarterback Russell Wilson. And the surrounding cast complements him well.
There is very little indication this will be a one-year flash.
"One of the things that happens every so often is teams have a big fallout after they win the Super Bowl," Carroll said. "We're not in that situation."
Seattle's title will be remembered for a dominating defense that will be regarded among the best in league history. Richard Sherman's play at cornerback — and sometimes his mouth — drew the attention but that defense was far more than Sherman and his "Legion of Boom" teammates in the secondary. Linebacker Bobby Wagner was even better in his second season, while Super Bowl MVP Malcolm Smith was called upon to play different positions throughout the season.
The signings of Cliff Avril and Michael Bennett on the defensive line, and the re-signing of Clinton McDonald after Week 1, gave the Seahawks the deepest defensive line rotation in the league, all with plenty of energy to chase Colin Kaepernick in the NFC title game and harass Peyton Manning in the Super Bowl.
Offensively, the Seahawks were without their top two wide receivers for most of the season between Percy Harvin's preseason hip surgery and Sidney Rice's midseason knee injury. But Harvin showed just why the Seahawks made the investment with his 87-yard kickoff return touchdown that was essentially the final blow in the Super Bowl.
Golden Tate and Doug Baldwin believed they were disrespected all season and were intent on proving critics wrong. For the most part, they did, while Jermaine Kearse continued to play the role of another undrafted gem discovered by Schneider.
The offensive line missed both starting tackles — Russell Okung and former Packers washout Breno Giacomini — for more than half the regular season due to injuries but managed.
And Marshawn Lynch continued to go "Beast Mode" at just the right times.
Seattle should be able to keep its core together but there will be difficult decisions to make. There are key free agents, including Baldwin and Tate. There are also potential salary cap decisions to be made with players like Rice, Zach Miller, Chris Clemons, Brandon Mebane and Red Bryant.
Then there are the two looming extensions that could get done this offseason — Earl Thomas and Sherman.
Both players can be extended before the start of next season, but the likelihood is that Seattle tries to get a deal done with Thomas first and then see if an extension will work for Sherman. So far, Sherman has been the ultimate bargain for Seattle, scheduled to make less than $700,000 in base salary next season. Thomas and Sherman are entering the final year of their rookie contracts in 2014 and with both now two-time All-Pro selections, each is likely due a hefty raise.
If Seattle can get both extensions done, it would allow them to focus on Wilson during the 2014-15 offseason when his rookie deal can be redone.
"We are looking two to three years ahead so last year we knew we were going to have some things coming and how to handle certain players and to know just where we are headed," Schneider, who learned in Green Bay under Ron Wolf and Ted Thompson, said recently. "We put different models together. Matt Thomas does a phenomenal job with it. Figure out the best way to navigate it. They are really good problems to have."


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PREDICTION: Who Will Be the Next Captain of the NY Islanders?
When Bill Guerin was sent to Steel Town USA, it was clear to why he was sent away. In his last year on the Isles, it was very obvious that the paths of some vets diverged between the Isles amid a rebuild.
A captain or vet and a young coach might debate or argue, but to ship that captain off tells a tale of a young rookie coach benefiting being the singular voice to the young kids.
A singular message that is undiluted by some wise wily vets who don't buy it simply because they are not quite tailor-made to utilize that new system.
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"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
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"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
Steve Jobs
"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."
Alan Alda
"Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious"
Carl Gustav Jung
"I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely."
Kim Basinger
"God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met."
Farrah Fawcett
"Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation."
Eileen Caddy
"Learn to let your intuition—gut instinct—tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right)."
Oprah Winfrey
"Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual."
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MRV Leads Bovespa Lower on Disappointing Profit: Sao Paulo Mover
Denyse GodoyMRV Engenharia & Participacoes SA, Brazil's second-biggest homebuilder by market value, fell the most on the country's benchmark index as profit missed estimates for a fifth straight quarter as sales declined.
The shares slid 7.9 percent to 9.82 reais at 2:39 p.m. in Sao Paulo, the lowest level on a closing basis since Nov. 16. The benchmark Bovespa index slid 0.3 percent.
MRV's adjusted net income fell 35 percent to 115.4 million reais ($58.5 million) in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, based on a company report yesterday after markets closed. The figure compares with the average estimate of 144.4 million reais among nine analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
Grupo BTG Pactual cut its recommendation on the Belo Horizonte-based company's stock to the equivalent of hold from buy because of "weak" results and a "more challenging outlook for 2013," according to a note today from the firm. The main risks for the industry this year include sensitivity to interest rates and the "overall availability of mortgage finance," BTG analysts Marcello Milman and Gustavo Cambauva wrote in the note.
Price increases "seem to have taken a toll on affordability for the company's clients, particularly as consumers become more leveraged, leading to a lower sales speed in 2012," the analysts wrote.
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Jimmy Kimmel has been hitting it out of the park with this week's shows in Brooklyn. The latest video to catch the internet by storm is Chris Rock's hilarious message to white voters, in which he makes his case for the whitest Presidential candidate of this election, Barack Obama.
He cites Obama's stance on gay marriage, his cheesy dance moves and notorious 'mom jeans'. Mitt Romney on the other hand, "has more family members than a Tyler Perry movie." If that doesn't have you convinced, Rock's final plea should: "If you want a white President, I've got a polo wearing, Hawaii living, home beer brewing, league bowling guy for you: Barry Obama. He's just white." [Mashable]
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the guy who was going to come over last weekend to change rears couldn't make it and he couldn't make it this weekend either. I'm going to continue doing other things like taking the frame to get sandblasted, working on the cab, clean and paint the engine, etc. when the time comes to decide if I replace the rear or keep the Ford rear then I'll make the call. Here are the pros and cons of replacing with the T/A rear:
PROS- -disc brakes in rear -emergency brake system -all 4 wheels would be same bolt pattern (currently GM front and Ford rear) so they'd be interchangeable if needed. Of course if I have wider in back it's not a big deal anyway since i won't mount them in front anyway. CONS- -still waiting for the guy who knows how to do it -need to change the master cylinder and proportioning valve Last edited by PRHeloPilot; 11-04-2012 at 02:42 PM. |
Yes it's always a challenge if your relying on somebody. On your Pro and Con list...Don't forget that the Ford diff is already in the truck. I know just one more thing to think about.
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If I keep the Ford rear :
PROS- -already installed and working fine -resell the TransAm for the same or higher price and use that money toward the rebuild -No need to change Master Cylinder or proportioning valve -no need to wait for anyone and I keep doing my restore CONS- -no disc brake in rear -Need to buy an emergency brake system I'm starting to convince myself. I guess I'll wait for that moment and then pull the trigger. |
These are actually the joys of building a vehicle for yourself...sometimes it's overwhelming but in the end when you stand back and look at it, it is worth all the effort your putting in now. The hardest thing about what I do is giving the keys back to the customer after I've poured my heart and soul into a project. Sometimes I just go and look at my own little collection just to get over it.
It gets overwhelming but like you say I take a step back and remind myself that I have another car and this one is not needed. It's my toy so I want to do it correctly no matter how long it takes. |
It does take the sting out of it as you say and I've made life long friends along the way all across the country. The next project I'm on is coming to me because of a build I did for this fellow a long time ago and close to 1,500 miles away from where I am now. So gratification can be measured in many ways, money, although it is important, it would never replace the relationships this trade has built for me. I guess that's another reason I enjoy it so much. It's been in my blood from an early age.
I can't remember if it was this thread or another one but I said that sometimes I feel like the luckiest guy in the world. I have a job that I love, It's challenging and makes me think every day, I work the hours I want, I choose what I work on and in the end they pay me. It's like a hobby with fringe benefits.
I feel that way too. I love my job even though it was just named one of the top 10 most dangerous jobs in the world (helicopter air ambulance). I get to fly, help people that really need it, and on top of that get paid.
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This article will attempt to cover the areas of historic background, current status, newer applications of existing tracers, attenuation correction, metabolic imaging, sympathetic imaging, new stress agents, molecular imaging, and positron emission tomography (PET) without on-site cyclotron. By no means is it meant to be inclusive of all that is currently happening but rather to illustrate some points of what can be seen as potential and what is needed.
The introduction of the gamma camera in 1965 paved the way in 1973 for the use of Potassium-43 (K-43) for myocardial perfusion imaging, a tracer of only historic interest at present. At almost the same time, thallium-201 came aboard and was the only tracer available for ~15 years because it was not until 1990 that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first technetium-based perfusion tracer. In 1999, gated single positron emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging was described and soon gained wide acceptance. The FDA approved Adenoscan as a stress agent in 1995. Adenosine, Tc-99m Sestamibi and Tc-99m Tetrofosmin heralded the era of clinical phase 3 trials in nuclear cardiology and in the process paved the way for rapid growth in this field.1 These applications were the subject of two prior presentations in US cardiology by Hendel and by Nobel and Heller.2,3 Alongside the technological advance, the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) was created in 1993 (its official journal was first published in 1994) and the Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology (CBNC) was established in 1996. There are a large number of educational programs sponsored by the American Heart Association (AHA), American College of Cardiology (ACC), ASNC, and working groups at regional and state levels. The annual program of the ASNC now provides the venue for original research presentations and breaking news from large trials. Despite the emergence of other imaging modalities (echocardiography (ECG), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and CT) nuclear cardiology continues to grow and is by far the most widely used method in ischemia work-up. The growth has been in office-based and out-patient facilities, where turf issues are avoided to a large extent. Imaging accounts for almost US$100 billion in health expenditure annually and there is no end in sight in terms of containment. The political ramifications and power struggles are beyond the scope of this presentation although the ACC is hard at work to produce documents that deal with appropriateness and quality, including the uniform requirements for certification and laboratory accreditation.4
- Iskandrian A E,Verani M S, Nuclear cardiac imaging: principles and applications 3rd ed., Oxford University press (2003).
- Hendel R C,ÔÇ£Practical applications of nuclear cardiologyÔÇØ, US Cardiology (2004).
- Noble G L, Heller G V,ÔÇ£Ethic differences in myocardial perfusion imaging. Identifying patients at higher riskÔÇØ, US cardiology (2004).
- Readers interested in this topical debate are encouraged to read the editorial by A N DeMaria in the June 21 2005 issue and the message by P S Douglass in the July 5 2005 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC).
- Shaw L J, Iskandrian A E,ÔÇ£Prognostic Value of Gated Myocardial Perfusion SPECTÔÇØ, J. Nucl. Cardiol. (2004);11: pp. 171-185.
- Chen J T, Garcia E V, Folks R D et al., ÔÇ£Onset of Left Ventricular Mechanical Contraction as Determined by Phase Analysis of ECG-Gated Myocardial Perfusion SPECT Imaging: Development of Diagnostic Tool for Assessment of Cardiac Mechanical Dyssynchrony. J. Nucl. Cardiol. in press.
- Barbato E et al., ÔÇ£Role of a-2 Adrenergic Receptors in Human Atherosclerotic Coronary ArteriesÔÇØ, Circulation (2005);111: pp. 288-294.


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How interesting about the combs! That scampering video is too funny!
I just got three pullets and have a little ark coop. They've only been here 3 days and still haven't learned that they are supposed to go upstairs to roost at night. I would like to lure them up there with a treat rather than have to destroy my knees crawling in there and grabbing them to force them up there. Does that mean I should use raisins? Or would cracked corn be better? Maybe I need my own "Raisin Man"!!Thank you all for the comments!
JGH --I'd suggest you bring little treats often during the day, and let them eat it out of your hand. Then eventually they might come to you in the evening, rather than your climbing in there to get them. I'm wondering if the upstairs of the ark is well ventilated -- could it be too warm in there for them? Break the raisins in half so they can taste the goodness. Also you could try chicken-scratch, sliced grapes, melon, tomato.


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and where or who is the money going to??? paying a bill to terrorist
It would be a LOT easier to sneak one of those across the afghan border and close to one of our bases. Thousands of dead American's. Possible chaos in the Afghani government. The Taliban would blow their load at the thought.
What else would they do? Get it onto a ship, and try to get it all the way to the US? Extremely unlikely.
Smart bet would be to hit one of our major military installation that is within easy striking range of where the got the weapon from.
Al Qaida and the Taliban? No. They aren't even fighting Israel. Why would they try to nuke them? Why not the enemy that they've been in war for with a decade? Why not hit an easy target that's got 10 thousand or more troops that you can kill in an instant?
It makes no tactical sense at all. These people that we are fighting are not stupid. If they were, we still wouldn't be fighting them.
If they were to hit Israel, there would be international outrage. The world would have no choice at all but to come down on them. Including Arab states, because they would mostly be effected by the fall out. Hitting a legitimate target, one they've been at war with for 10 years would have a lot less political fall out.
He was the most wanted man on earth.If he stuck his nose out side his window about a dozen Reapers would unload on him.He had learned from past mistakes that electronics emit signals that can be used to locate him so no outside electronic radiation .
He was largely a figurehead by this time and his death was political vengeance for his past deeds against America....Bush had it right,Bin Laden no longer mattered in the war on terror.
Al Qaida and the Taliban? No. They aren't even fighting Israel
Al Qaeda's Jihad Against Israel and Jews - Al Qaeda Renews Call For Attacks On Israel and Jew
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Judge Posner, regarded as a top expert on intellectual property, claims the nation's legal system is being abused
It's hard to visit
or other science or technology publication over the last couple years without having your eyes assailed by a
. Indeed, as mobile device use has exploded so too has a stream of patent lawsuits, much of which cover areas like user interface design which were considered too ubiquitous to sue in past technology applications (e.g. traditional operating systems, games, the internet, etc.)
I. Judge Posner: Wake Up, the System is a Mess
The landslide of patent lawsuits isn't just a headache for companies and readers. It's increasingly drawing the ire of some of the U.S. legal system's most prestigious experts, who are arguing that companies are exposing flaws in current U.S. Patent Law, gaming the flawed system to achieve anticompetitive ends.
Among them is
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Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
, Judge Posner occasionally moonlights in Chicago's
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
for crucial cases, a privilege earned by his glowing reputation and vast expertise regarding intellectual property law. And as a foremost expert Judge Posner has been
increasingly sounding the alarm
regarding the broken intellectual property system in the U.S., which is essentially be used and abused as a tool for large competitors to try to damage each other, and unilaterally to block out smaller competitors.
Judge Richard Posner says the U.S. patent system is broken.
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In his joint blog with
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Economics and Sociology Professor
Gary Becker
-- another top expert -- he recently posted
a scathing review
of the current law, writing:
When patent protection provides an inventor with more insulation from competition than he needed to have an adequate incentive to make the invention, the result is to increase market prices above efficient levels, causing distortions in the allocation of resources; to engender wasteful patent races—wasteful because of duplication of effort and because unnecessary to induce invention (though the races do increase the pace of invention); to increase the cost of searching the records of the Patent and Trademark Office in order to make sure one isn't going to be infinging someone's patent with your invention; to encourage the filing of defensive patents (because of anticipation that someone else will patent a similar product and accuse you of infringement); and to encourage patent "trolls," who buy up large numbers of patents for the sole purpose of extracting licensee fees by threat of suit, and if necessary sue, for infringement.
The problem of excessive patent protection is at present best illustrated by the software industry. This is a progressive, dynamic industry rife with invention. But the conditions that make patent protection essential in the pharmaceutical industry are absent. Nowadays most software innovation is incremental, created by teams of software engineers at modest cost, and also ephemeral—most software inventions are quickly superseded. Software innovation tends to be piecemeal—not entire devices, but components, so that a software device (a cellphone, a tablet, a laptop, etc.) may have tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of separate components (bits of software code or bits of hardware), each one arguably patentable. The result is huge patent thickets, creating rich opportunities for trying to hamstring competitors by suing for infringement—and also for infringing, and then challenging the validity of the patent when the patentee sues you.
In so many words, what the Judge is saying here is that the U.S. Patent Law is being handicapped by the fact that it does not consider commercial importance or obviousness as a criteria for accepting or rejecting a patent.
II. Patenting the Obvious, Trivial
Why does this matter?
A company with enough time and money can patent every single tiny feature of their complete product, no matter how trivial or unimportant, and then use that vast portfolio to drag its competitors through the mud.
What's the line between a feature and an invention? In the eyes of current Patent Law there is no real distinction. And that's what's leading to the
growing deluge of "junk" litigation
For his part Judge Posner is trying to both sound the alarm and personally knock out bad cases that happen to come through his jurisdiction. For example, seeing that Apple, Inc. (
) and Google Inc. (
) were simply trying to leverage their ubiquitous patent portfolios to harm the other, he twice threw their respective cases out of court [
The "trolls" are multiplying thanks to the growing swell of junk patents.
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However, Judge Posner is just one man, one who some would argue is one of the few fighting "the good fight" in a broken system. Until that system is fixed, the abuses will likely expand as companies in other fields recognize how to use patents to transform a what society hopes is a free (capitalist) market into a closed (command) market, in which a select few power players seek to ban all would-be product producers.
Judge Posner suggests, "My general sense, however, bolstered by an extensive academic literature, is that patent protection is on the whole excessive and that major reforms are necessary."
He adds that copyright law is suffering from similar issues, although the mess hasn't (yet) reached some epic proportion as it has with patent law. He concludes, "The need for reform is less acute in copyright than in patent law, but it is sufficiently acute to warrant serious attention from Congress and the courts."
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