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Your blog it's very grosso.
I can't find a substitute word in english for "grosso" (grosso in the argentinian way)
Thank you very much.Replies- AnonymousOctober 13, 2012 at 12:57 PM
More than grosso. Beware English speaking readers, nothing to do with grossness, rather the other way around - Greatly respect deserving.
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So now I want to know, what about your brand promise? Are CEOs talking about it? Is it guiding and driving strategy?
I've written about brand promise many times in the past, but today I want to know some brand promises and which companies broadcast their promises to their employees and their customers.
What is a brand promise? It is a promise to your customers. Everything you do should reflect this promise. Consistency is key. It sets expectations and defines the benefits customers can expect to receive when they engage in your services or use your products, when they experience your brand.
The CEO understands the power of strong brands and uses the brand promise to align all of the activities of the organization; that promise guides people, processes, products, systems, etc. Everything you do must support and reinforce the brand promise: every product, every person, every interaction, every touchpoint, all of it. Every time.
"A promise, for example, is meant to inspire. It creates alignment. It serves as the foundation for your vision, mission, and all business strategies and it must come from the top to mean anything. For without it, we cannot genuinely voice what it is we stand for or stand behind." -Brian Solis
What a brand promise is not? It's not a mission statement. It's not a brand position. It's not advertising. It's not a tagline. (Though I have noticed that some companies do make double duty of their brand promises and use them in their advertising.)
Is a brand promise meant for customers or for employees? It's meant for both. Employees at all levels, frontline and behind the scenes, deliver on the promise. But in order to deliver on it, it must be clearly communicated. Is that happening in your organization? Do you know your company's brand promise? Employees can't live the promise if they don't know it. Communicating and socializing the brand promise also helps to attract the right kind of people to support your culture.
- Starbucks: Providing the highest quality coffee, exceptional customer service, and a truly uplifting Starbucks Experience is the same around the world.
- Zappos: Superior customer service; delivering happiness.
- Harley-Davidson: The pursuit of freedom.
- Walmart: Save money. Live better.
- Ritz Carlton: Ladies and Gentlemen serving Ladies and Gentlemen.
- Southwest Airlines: Dedication to the highest quality of Customer Service delivered with a sense of warmth, friendliness, individual pride, and Company Spirit
- Nordstrom: Exceptional customer service, every time. Offer the customer the best possible service, selection, quality, and value.
- JetBlue: You above all.
- Trader Joe's: A place where value, adventure and tasty treasures are discovered, every day.
- Ford: Go further.
- McDonald's: Simple, easy enjoyment.
- Nike: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete in the world.
- Signature Worldwide: We promise to be inspiring and fun, to be results-driven, and to provide you training that sticks.
- Geek Squad: We'll save your ass.
- Umpqua Bank: To make your stop at an Umpqua Bank the best thing you did all day.
- Telefonica O2 Europe: Helping customers connect. We're better, connected.
- Honest Tea: Strive to create healthy and honest relationships with its customers, suppliers, and the environment.
- Virgin: To be genuine, fun, contemporary, and different at everything we do at a reasonable price.
- Affinity Medical Group: Delivering personalized care to patients by listening, treating them with respect, and putting their needs and interests first.
- Google: To provide access to the world's information in one click.
A brand is a promise, but a great brand is a promise kept. - Muhtar Kent


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UCLA's Hundley has experience to lean on
SAN BERNARDINO – No matter how hard he tries this season, UCLA's Brett Hundley will not win a game by himself. Fortunately, he won't lose any by himself either.
The Bruins' newly minted starting quarterback will open the season with a grand total of zero collegiate snaps to his name. Yet, what Hundley lacks in experience he more than makes up for in something else.
"Brett Hundley is the type of guy who's always confident," redshirt senior tailback Johnathan Franklin said Sunday. "From the first day I met Brett I knew he was confident. He's a hard worker and he puts the hours into his craft ... He's the type of guy who's going do whatever he can to be the best."
Until Hundley gets those autumn repetitions under his belt, the 6-foot-3, 223-pound redshirt freshman will look to his lead running back and No. 1 wide receiver for guidance when adversity arrives.
"A couple months ago I took Brett under my wing and we really developed a relationship off the field," Franklin said. "That's like my little brother; we talk all the time. He had a rough day yesterday so I was talking to him, telling him to keep his head up and keep working.
"I'm just going to keep talking to him about the experiences I've had, the ups and downs, and keep pushing him and telling him the sky's the limit."
In addition to having a seasoned group of running backs to lean on if necessary, Hundley will also benefit greatly from building a rapport with his veteran group of receivers.
"In my years here, when I had those down and off days I'd just go home and look in the mirror and talk to myself and talk to my family," fifth-year wideout Jerry Johnson said. "If he gets down I'll just tell him to look deep within himself or talk to his family because that's your biggest support system.
"He can always talk to me, too, because I've been through it all before."
With the attention focused entirely on Hundley's much anticipated first start on Aug. 30, the steady improvement of the UCLA backfield will ultimately be what alleviates the pressure under center.
"I look at our backfield as one of the strengths of our team," Coach Jim Mora said. "You start with 'Jet' (Franklin) and then after that you can jumble them around: (Damien) Thigpen, Jordan James, Malcolm (Jones) ... I think it's a really strong group.
"If you can have two or three or, in our case, four guys that you feel really good about, that's a real positive for your football team."
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You can also test out your AAA batteries to see if they're working and if they'll play nice with your radio.
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Dr. Vazquez also studied bone grafting at UCLA in California and went on to get a specialization as a Maxi-facial oral surgeon. He is certified to train Mexican doctors in implantology while many industry professionals consider him to be one of the very best implantologists in Tijuana.
Tijuana dentist's prices are lower than their American counterparts for a number of reasons but mainly because they include certain parts of the treatment in their final price. Industry insiders say American doctors itemize their prices and in doing so they are able to charge extra money for the same exact procedures that are performed in Mexico.
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Since Legalese -the language of law- which includes a lot of Roman, some Latin, and a lot of very old English, is used in the court system of the major English-speaking countries, any interpreter in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, knows extremely well that a precise interpretation in the legal settings does not come easy.
The Somali Court Interpreter is therefore intended to be used as a quick, on-the-feet, in-front-of-the judge/magistrate reference by the English-Somali everyday court interpreters in the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia.
In the compilation of the glossary part of the book, great lengths have been gone to select the regularly used legal lingo and phrases in order to anticipate and offset any legal terminology challenge that can cause the court interpreter (s) to scratch their heads, feel helpless and embarrassed, bring the proceedings to a standstill, or – worse and most perilous – guess and interpret according to the context.
The other parts of the book give the interpreters a simple and succinct idea on how they must conduct themselves while interpreting in courts, depositions, prison facilities, police interrogations, etc.; what are acceptable and what are not; and how must they react to the emergence of certain situations.
The book is the first and only of its kind and this - among its other qualities - is what makes The Somali Court Interpreter a Must-have for every Somali Court Interpreter in the United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.
Domicile That place where a person has his true and permanent home. A person may have several residences, but only one domicile
Degaan dhab ah Meesha uu qof ku leeyahay hoygiisa joogtada ah. Qofku wuxuu deggenaan karaa dhawr meelood hal mar ah, balse waa in uu jiraa hal degaan oo joogto ah.
Double jeopardy Common law and constitutional prohibition (5th Amendment of the U.S. constitution) against more than one prosecution for the same crime.
Khatar laba-laaban Sharci caam ah; Mamnuucid qaanuuni ah (Kabitaanka 5aad ee qaanuunka araykanka) oo diidaysa in eedaysane hal dembi ah laba goor loo ciqaab mariyo.
Drug abuse State of chronic or periodic intoxication, detrimental to the individual and to society.
Mukhaadaraad si xun u isticmaalid Si aan caafimaadka u fiicnayn oo sharci jabin ah makhaadaraad/daroogo loo isticmaalo. Maandooriye si khaldan loo isticmaalo oo qofka isticmaalyaa dhibaato u horseedi kara Bulshadna halis ku keeni kara.
Due process The guarantee of due process requires that no person be deprived of life, liberty, or property without a fair and adequate process. In criminal proceedings (as well as juvenile) this guarantee includes the fundamental aspects of a fair trial, including the right to adequate notice in advance of the trial, the right to counsel, the right to produce witnesses (and, if necessary to have the court order those witnesses to appear through the use of subpoenas), the right to confront and cross- examine witnesses, the right to refuse to give self-incriminating testimony, and the right to have all elements of the crime proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
Hannaanka dawga ah/Xaqa sharci ee qof walbaa leeyahay In la xaqiijiyo helitaanka uu qof helay xuquuqdiisa; waxay u baahan tahay in la hubiyo in aan cidna laga qaadi karin naftiisa, xornimadiisa, ama hantidiisa, tiiyoo aan la marinin hannaan sharci oo waafi ah; cadli hufan oo ku filan leh. <
Adam I. OHirsi, [Aden AwXirsi in Somali], an American of Somali origin, has been an interpreter/translator for almost all his entire adult life. He had worked with the United Nations, International Rescue Committee, CARE International, and many others as an interpreter and language consultant.
Besides the Master's Degree in Education Leadership and Managementaza] in Islamic/Sufism History.
At an early age, AwXirsi attended the famous Koranic School of late Moallim Ahmed Sarmaale of Sarinley. During this period, He participated the Halaqas (teaching circles) of Sayid Warsame's Her followers.
For five years [2000-2005) AwXirsi had worked as a Somali/Maay-Maay Court Interpreter in Columbus, Ohio's Municipal, Juvenile, and Common Pleas Courts. He also taught English at Columbus State Community College for three years.


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Saturday, June 11, 2016 Pier 3, Downtown New Bedford Waterfront Ticket and artist announcements coming soon. Join us this year for another great day of jazz, food, and art on the New Bedford Waterfront. We are pleased to welcome back Jazzfest favorites Southcoast Jazz Orchestra! Want up to the minute updates on Jazzfest? Like us … More 5th Annual New Bedford Jazzfest
Thank you to the audience, performers, and sponsors of New Bedford Jazzfest that made it another special year! Once again we were treated to beautiful weather along the waterfront, and diverse jazz from our five bands. First on the lounge stage, Native Spaces, a jazz band of UMass Dartmouth students kicked off the festival. Native … More Year 4 Review
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BALTIMORE - The Dustin McGowan story took a turn like it has so often in the past, with a sore shoulder and a trip to Alabama to see Dr. James Andrews.
Manager John Farrell revealed Thursday that the oft-injured right-hander, who came down with plantar fasciitis in his right foot at the end of spring training, suffered the shoulder setback as he was re-starting his throwing program in Dunedin.
He has experienced some soreness in his shoulder in this early phase of his throwing and has been shut down two weeks, Farrell said. He has seen Dr. Andrews (on Wednesday) for a precautionary MRI and its confirmed theres inflammation. There is no additional damage or new damage. Unfortunately hes shut down for two weeks.
During spring training, prior to the foot injury, McGowan, 30, was making steady progress and it looked as if he would take off from where he left the 2011 season when he came back to the Blue Jays to make four starts at the end of the campaign.
McGowan was on his way to nailing down the fifth spot in the rotation when on March 23, he took himself out of a minor-league game with the foot problem. He started throwing again about a week ago and was throwing long toss from 120 feet when the shoulder problem surfaced.
Its disappointing on a number of levels, Farrell said. First and foremost you think about his path that hes come though, weve all talked about his resilience, but the fact is we were banking on him being part of this rotation, whether that was at the start of the year, and we fully expect him at some point to still be available. But its a blow to our overall starting depth.
McGowan had yet to get back on the mound in his rehab and you have to wonder with all his past problems two shoulder operations that kept him out of baseball from July 8, 2008 to last season where he made 12 minor-league starts before joining the Jays on Sept. 6 if he can bounce back yet again.
A few days prior to his foot injury, the Jays signed him to a three-year contract with the first two seasons 2013 and 2014 guaranteed at $1.5 million with the club having a $4 million option on 2015.
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Sip&Go (Bubble Tea & Co.)
We are a new, young, dynamic and fresh Startup company planning to start a Bubble Tea Business in Switzerland.
Our shop / take-away will offer Bubble Tea, Smoothies and Soups as well as some desserts, ice-cream, sweets, cakes, etc.
Bubble Tea is in Asia, Australia, US and Canada already very popular and loved and we will be the first to bring Bubble Tea to Western Europe and expand it over here by a franchise model.
Everyone from the young to the old loves our refreshing drinks.
Our drinks appeal to everyone who is open for new tastes, flavors, drinks and food.
Our fanbase and customers are trendy, like unconventional tea, love fruits, live healthy and are LOHAS (Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability).
The logo should remind to Bubble Tea (e.g. a cup, a straw, Bubbles or anything else). And under the main title Sip&Go there should be the slogan Bubble Tea & Co.
Also logos with a touch of Asia are welcome but it is not a must.
If possible do not use more than three colors.
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Mitsubishi Repair Problems? Ask a Mechanic for Answers ASAP
Hi,Am I understanding correctly that when you try to release the tailgate door the handle squeezes up then does not naturally return to the at rest position?
This is a rather common condition. In most circumstances, your latch will be OK in this case, however the handle itself will need replacement or liberal lubrication. The handle has a load spring on it which seizes up from corrosion causing this to happen. I have always been able to free a door for service by working the handle open and closed manually (using a plastic prytool to work the handle back and forth)....
If you do not have luck doing it this way, you can access the actual latch portion of the door from inside the vehicle with a little work
I have already tried this. Matter a fact I opened it several times by manually moving the handle to its normal position, then locking an unlocking, then opening the door. Now there is no tension at all on the handle when pulled or moved back to its original position.
Okay thanks. If you are unable to get it open again that way for handle replacement, we can usually go in from the inside as well.
How do you get to the latch from inside?
On the driver side of the inner door panel you will have a small recessed pocket or possible a tool box built into the door panel
If you have the tool box, you will twist the two locks at the top to remove it; if you have the pocket, you will likely have two push-in plastic fasteners to remove, also both on the top of the pocket
Yes, I have a tool box built into the door.
Once removed, you can tip the box forward and lift up to remove
Great. Behind the tool box, you should see a rather flimsy plastic sheeting
you are going to need to cut a slit in this material to reach through it to the latch
You will need to repair the cut with some duct tape or similar afterward, as this is your water sheet for the door that keeps the plastic dry
Once you have access into the door, you will need to feel around towards the top near the glass, for a vertical metal rod about 3 inches long. Grab this and work it up and down once or twice and the latch should pop open
If my handle parts have rusted or need to be replaced to fix, how difficult is this to fix and are parts available for this repair?
This is something the average do-it-yourselfer can accomplish. You will need to go in there and verify the handle is the problem to be sure, however in my experience it almost always is if the handle is sticking; a failed latch will not jam the handle into position.....
If you provide your VIN for me I can get you exact pricing on your handle
Also, here is the metal rod I was referencing:
My Vin number is XXXXX
Thanks. For that vehicle, the door handle is going to be part # XXXXX and has a list price of $64. You can purchase them online for a little bit less however (Mentor Mitsubishi sells this part for $47.80).
The only difficult part you may run into is if your vehicle has enough rust/corrosion issues to cause this handle to fail, you usually will have the trim panel (that holds the handle and the license plate etc) bolts seize up and potentially break off in there, run into that a few times
Thanks for the info. My son currently has the vehicle now and is in class until 10:00 pm to night so I will not be able to check all of this until tomorrow. Is there anyway we could continue to chat on this if I run into problems?
Sure just come back here and post and I will receive a message if am available; otherwise I will see it as soon as I become available. I try to respond as quickly as possible, but sometimes there are delays
If you would like, I can give a summary of removal
I'm not sure how to gain access to this area if I have to replace the handle. Will the whole back liner come off or will I have to just do it in the dark by touch?
Oh no, you'll have a good view of the action. You will need to remove the door panel....
Once the door is open, that's about it for playing it by feel,
On an 02, I believe you are going to need to remove the top and bottom door trims...check to see which trim overlaps which; if the bottom overlaps the top, you can leave the top intact. If the top overlaps the bottom, you must remove the top.... the top trim has a cover over the third brake light that is held on by two philips screws, and a pull handle with two 10mm bolts holding it on....
The lower door panel, the toolbox will need to be removed. There will be two philips screws behind the 'net' box, check the hooks on the top corners just outside the 'net' box, sometimes these are replaced with screw anchors, so remove them. If the top panel overlapped the bottom, there will likely be screws behind it (The reverse setup ones were this way). Once all screws are out, you will be able to pry the panels off
The remainder will be held on with pop-in fasteners
Remove the license plate from the outer garnish.From inside, release the actuator rod from the handle (there will be a small plastic retention clip holding it to the handle)
On the bottom area of the garnish, accessed from inside the door, will be two 10mm nuts. Lube these up with penetrating oil, then remove them. THe garnish is now held in with 2 pop-in fasteners at the top; you can now remove the garnish and change out the handle with a new one
The handle will have 10mm nuts holding it on; I have heard people say they have changed it without removing the outer garnish, I have never tried this however
I will check this tonight or in the morning and get back with you if I have more questions. Thanks. This sounds like a lot of work but it sure beats paying Mitsubishi (I don't know how much they would charge. Do you have an estimate?).
I would charge one hour for this job if the door was stuck. If it was currently opening, 1/2 hour or about $45 plus the cost of the part
Basically a 1/2 hour fee for time spent climbing through the car and fumbling in the dark to get the door open. Once that is done, it is mostly smooth sailing
Thanks! That price does not include parts or Mitsubishi's $105.00 charge for diagnostics.
Will chat tomorrow.
In my dealership, any 'diagnostic' is applied to price of repair. Further, if you come in with a known problem, there is no diagnostic.... not sure how your dealer(s) are, but that should be negotiable in a situation like this
Sounds good, just remember there are busy and slow parts of the day, and if you do not hear back from me I will get with you as soon as I can
Thanks again. It will probably be tomorrow evening around this time.
Sounds great, I am usually pretty slow around 5-6pm
so you should hear back from me quickly
Doug C I did get the door open. I can feel a small spring that is aparently not reseting the handle to allow it to open. It appears all the parts are still there and functional, just need to replace the spring. There was also a wire attached to the back side of the key lock. Is that a part of the alarm system?
By the way I have been busy the last couple of days so I just got to this today. And, thanks for your help!
sorry for the delay
Yes, the wire on the door lock is the sensor that disarms the alarm when the key is turned in the lock
If just the spring is binding, you will need to just get the handle itself and no latch. The handle is $64 retail at your local dealership... it is not a common stock item though, so anticipate having to order it.
Thanks Doug! I do have other Mitsubishi issues but I will save them for another time. I will log back on later this month to discuss wheel alignment and 4WD issues. Thanks again for your help. I'm accept this one and closing out.
You're welcome, thanks for the Accept!
When you are ready to work on your alignment and 4WD concerns, I'd be happy to assist you again if you wish. Just put my name in the opening question so it is brought to my attention.


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Do you bake your own pizza at home?
To 'bake' something is to cook it in an oven. To 'bake your own pizza' is to cook it in an oven at your house, instead of buying from a restaurant. Notice the following:
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Have you ever seen a polar bear?
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On location at Spendthrift Farm, Joel & Jon fittingly discuss the Triple Crown possibilities of Eskendereya in front of the Wall of Fame, which includes Seattle Slew and Affirmed – the last two Triple Crown winners. Now a huge favorite to win the Kentucky Derby after romps in the Wood and Fountain of Youth, does Eskendereya have what it takes to win the Triple Crown? Watch video and comment.
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Eskendereya basically duplicated his 8 1/2 length Fountain Of Youth win and even went a shade better in the Wood winning by 9 3/4 lengths. Have we even seen Eskendereya's best??
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This is a disaster and shows why there are no real experts when it comes to handicapping. Eskendereya has raced back to back against very light competition and very slow fractions. Pace makes the race and what pace has this horse seen? What great contenders has he seen ? Jackson Bend is a sprinter from CALDER. He faced one G3 winner and won by 9 and he is the next coming? Maybe some of you need to watch what happend to him the last time he faced the big boy like Lookin At Lucky and Noble's Promise. Two easy preps and he is the favorite? Crazy. All I can say is bet him big I will enjoy taking your money. Watch the Arkansas your Derby winner is the winner of the Arkansas.
Joel Cunningham
I agree about Esky. He's not my kind of horse for the Derby, but he does deserve to be a heavy fave. Sounds like we'll both try and beat him on May 1st – but I doubt I'll be trying to beat him with a horse coming out of the Arkansas Derby like you will.
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There is suppose to be a thing called handicapping. Watching a horse beat weak competition and then claiming him the Derby favorite is just plain nuts. After Noble's Promise wins the Arkansas and goes over a million in earnings and heads into the Derby with 2 G1 wins under his belt he will be MY Derby favorite. Not some horse that ran a couple of weak preps and the third slowest Wood in 20 years.
Joel Cunningham
I understand what you mean. But there is no denying who the favorite will be on May 1st…I don't care if Noble's Promise wins by 10 this Saturday, Esky will still be the favorite. Fortunately for you (and me), maybe we can capitalize on not liking the horse that will take most of the wagering!
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Dublin verdict: Sri Lanka guilty of War Crimes[TamilNet, Saturday, 16 January 2010, 22:51 GMT]Dublin war-crimes tribunal, conducted by Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) based in Milan, which held hearings on Thursday and Friday on war-crime charges on Sri Lanka from eye-witnesses and other material evidence, in the preliminary findings issued Saturday said, Sri Lanka Government is "guilty of War-Crimes" and "guilty of Crimes Against Humanity." The tribunal also concluded that the charge of Genocide requires further investigations. Eye witnesses included several escapees from the final week of Sri Lanka offensive in the Mullaitivu "No Fire Zone" where more than 20,000 Tamil civilians were allegedly slaughtered by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) training heavy weapons on them. Full text of the press release issued in Dublin follows: In Dublin today at 2:00 p.m. the Peoples Tribunal chairman Francois Houtart read the preliminary findings of the Peoples Tribunal on the war in Sri Lanka and its aftermath. There are 4 findings:
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OK i finally got a hold of a metal Jeep from another forum that only deals with power wheels.
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October 30th, 2008, 02:21 PM | #6 |
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maybe make one out of pvc, it will just have to be able to come off for it can fit in my blazer when i travel with it
I also just order the new 12 volt so that should be coming in some time next week. and i just added another power Positive power block, how the first one was only made for when the toggle switch is turned to on, and in the future ill need other spots for power not working off that toggle switch. O yea and i found a way to make a winch that works for it Here is what it looks like: So that might have to be another thing i add. All he did was take an old motor/gearbox from another power wheels and added a reel, and covered it up in a small metal box. He also made a remote to be able to winch from a distance safly like a normal warn winch has. Couldn't find that pic that i seen. o well you guys can get the idea Last edited by toasty; October 30th, 2008 at 02:29 PM. |
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I mean come on i got to at least try it out |
October 30th, 2008, 04:01 PM | #11 |
The toasted one
Actually at the moment its got a Power Wheels 1" body lift...Yeah..power wheels made lift kits for some of their Jeeps back in the day. And then came with a bigger tire then the stock version then.
If you go back and look at the picture of my frame, I had left the body lift kit on the front, at the time i took the picture. I might do a bigger lift later. but i want to get all these other things done first. |
October 30th, 2008, 04:19 PM | #13 |
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sadly enough i do not have the gas cans for it. The guy was selling it as a part out, but i got a hold of him by the time he only had sold the gas cans and holders. And I had left the engine cover behind how i would not need it once i added the bigger battery.
October 30th, 2008, 05:57 PM | #14 |
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I've got one of those sitting in the pole barn to build whenever I get my other projects out of the way.....or when I have kids, whichever comes first. I plan for a black pipe tube frame, mini roll cage, high output motors, 4wd, 4 link, pneumatic tires, etc. Why? I don't know, more like why not.
October 31st, 2008, 11:05 AM | #15 |
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Installed a Key Switch, and a Volt Gauge. Only the light is working in the Volt gauge and nothing with the switch as of right now. How i am waiting for my 12 volt battery to come in. And I will be making a brand new hire harness for everything which all that will be connected to. Here is what it looks like on the dash as of right now. |
October 31st, 2008, 11:17 AM | #16 |
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I want one with a weedwacker motor and pneumatic tires, I have the jeep already.
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October 31st, 2008, 05:37 PM | #19 |
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Ok i want some peoples opionon before I paint the Jeep. I am planning on painting it Allis Chalmers Orange. I was thinking about getting some decals made for it, that would match whats on an actual Allis Chalmers...either saying "Allis Chalmers" on the side of the hood or either "Jeep" with their text. and for where it shows the model it is "B" for the picture below. Put "YJ-7." What do you guys think?
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Learning to care for human beings: a history class for medical school
Four hundred years ago, families in Japan struggled with the tragic moral dilemma of abortion and infanticide.
Researching this period, undergraduate Brandi Bonfert discovered that ethical and religious motivations, even more than poverty, forced women into the difficult practice many Japanese thought of as a "necessary sorrow."
Bonfert's presentation at the 2012 Malone Undergraduate Research Symposium sparks important conversations, especially for someone in her degree program. History? Theology? No, she is a Chemistry major who intends to go to medical school.
Cross disciplinary research like Bonfert's is lauded by the Association of American Medical Colleges. Now more than ever, college graduates need a well-rounded, whole-person, liberal arts education. As they note on their website, "A liberal arts education is a key ingredient to becoming a physician."
In addition to future physicians having a solid background in math and science, the website adds, "taking courses in the humanities and the social sciences will help [students] prepare for the 'people' side of medicine. The ideal physician understands how society works."
A better understanding of society and human nature was integral to Bonfert's Japanese study.
"Because abortion was so frowned upon and because [it was culturally] important to keep a good appearance, they often kept it secretive," she said.
In the absence of statistics, Bonfert was left with stories. So rather than relying on formulas and objective measurements as she does in chemistry research, she found herself delving into anecdotal sources like autobiographies, which followed different kinds of natural laws - the shortcomings of human behavior.
"I had to be awards of the biases, depending on who was reporting the [original] research," she said.
Autobiography and bias are part of every doctor-patient relationship, too: understanding the role these dynamics play is is more than a luxury for a health care professional. Personal diseases and public health issues are always part of larger interrelated stories that have little to do with what is considered "hard" science. Experience can be a diagnostic instrument as well as a curative tool in the hands of today's physicians.
Japanese families four centuries ago were not the last to face questions of abortion and infanticide, Bonfert explained. We still live in a complex world filled with tragic moral dilemmas at the interface of physical well-being, ethics, and social pressure.
Through efforts like the Student Research Symposium, Malone continues to create ways to prepare students like Bonfert to be doctors who care not just for human bodies, but for human beings as well.


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From Contemplation to Impatience and Boredom
This book is a commentary on the emergence and evolution of the modern condition. Over two centuries ago a number of societies, initially in the West, began to forge the urban, industrial apparatus that, gradually but inexorably, came to replace the largely rural and agricultural framework that had shaped the human experience for several millennia. The apparatus foregrounded factories and power-driven technology, but it also recast family life, work, leisure, even sexuality—indeed much of the content of daily activity and personal meaning. Modernity would entail huge changes in government policy, the role of science, the nature of war—a variety of macro developments. But this inquiry deals more with the daily, even ordinary aspects of modernity, often on the more private side of life, which is where many of the nagging issues and conundrums nest. Even here, there's no intention to explore all the details or phases of the establishment of modern life, but rather to focus on key directions and the ways in which contemporary challenges flow from the broad process of modern social change.
Modern developments introduced some unanticipated new problems that emerged on the heels of the resolution or partial resolution of older issues. They also provoked some responses that have turned out to be inadequate and open to review. Both the problem generation and the false starts warrant exploration, for they all contribute to the sense of potential unfulfilled.
Another vantage point is crucial here: the effective recency of the whole current of change that so vividly connects contemporary trends— like the latest iterations of discussions over what constitutes a successful modern childhood—to the first signs of disruption to agricultural patterns over two hundred years before. Though a two-century-plus span is a long time, when considered in terms of the magnitude of the changes involved as well as the deep roots of prior agricultural patterns, it's barely the blink of an eye. We're all still adjusting to basic shifts such as the separation between work and family or the decline in the omnipresence of death or the growing dependence on commercial purveyors of leisure for so much of what we see as the fun of life. We're still trying to figure out how to deal with novel problems modernity generates, such as the unprecedented challenge of obesity, or with first responses to modernity (like retirement as the solution to the issues of modern old age) that probably need a second look. We hear a lot about the "postmodern" or postindustrial, and of course new directions arise within a modern framework. But the fact is that we're still in the early stages of a more fundamental social order—the modern—that may (if past precedents are any model) last for many centuries. This is why most of the adjustments in ordinary daily life remain a bit tentative. This is why it is not at all too late to take hold of the reins of modernity, using the analysis of recent history as a partial guide, and shape it in ways that might work better for us than present patterns do.
A final complication demands attention as well, though more in the West, and particularly the United States, than in modern societies generally. While the dominant process of contemporary history centers on the construction of modern social institutions and experiences, a second process, a bit less familiar, highlights a mounting pressure to seem (and, if possible, to actually be) cheerful and happy. This process also began to take shape in the 18th century, and this meant that many of the really difficult adjustments to the modernization of social and personal life were surrounded by an unprecedented tide of secular optimism from a number of persuasive sources. Here, too, clear connections link contemporary patterns with the earlier directions of change, creating an ongoing relationship between the happiness imperative and the outcomes of modern, industrial transformation. Indeed, the cost of measuring up to intensifying demands for cheer, even while dealing with the inherent complexities involved in constructing modern childhoods or death rituals, has almost certainly gone up in recent decades. Here, too, is a revealing history to be explored not for its own sake but for what it shows about the sources and shadows of the present. The burdens of modernity are compounded by the need to keep smiling.
Combining new requirements for cheerful ebullience with the creation of modern social experiences has not always been inherently contradictory, which is why, at various points, the most starry-eyed optimists have been able to skirt the problem altogether. Elements of a progressive vision have not only come true but have indeed, as pundits predicted, removed or reduced age-old burdens in life in ways that can make it easier to be happy. There is far less untimely death to mourn, to take a leading example, than once was the case. But fulfilling happiness demands could itself be a strain, as several insightful scholars have pointed out, and the context encouraged the development of new expectations rather than the enjoyment of older problems resolved. Here is a set of relationships that has not been fully explored and yet is central to the satisfaction gap that so obviously defines key aspects of modern life.
Any prospectus that tosses around the word "modernity" as often as I already have must offer a few other explanations. "Modern" and "modernization" are terms that have been frequently misused, and much criticized. There's no reason, in my judgment, to back off from the proposition that a cluster of changes has occurred—around new technologies, the rise of urban centers, and the relative decline of agriculture and agricultural forms—that can be accurately and efficiently summed up as modern, but there's also no question that some further, if brief, definition is essential.
First: where, geographically, will this book focus? "Modern" is an encompassing term, and the roster of societies moving into the modern orbit is expanding rather rapidly. Many societies now are modern, in terms of basic urban and industrial structures, with life expectancies and educational levels to match. But modern frameworks, though important, can be variously implemented. In this study, the focus is on the United States, but to carry the analysis through properly some comparisons are essential. Figuring out what has been distinctive about American encounters with, for example, a rapidly falling death rate or the regularization of food supply, and what has been a standard part of the process whether in the United States or Japan, sheds light both on the global present and on the national particulars. The unusually heavy demands of American cheerfulness, which foreign observers noted already by the early 19th century and which have multiplied in recent decades, also transpose a widespread modern dilemma onto a distinctive national canvas. There are a few cases, as well, in which experiences elsewhere in handling modernity seem clearly superior to homegrown models, which is where comparison is practically as well as analytically essential despite a considerable national reluctance to admit any need to learn from abroad.
Issues of evaluation loom at least as large as geography in invoking modernity. Too often, in some social science literature, "modern" has been equated with good or desirable; but since much of the purpose of this study involves assessing the quality of the modern, we can surely hope to avoid this trap. It's precisely because traditional arrangements often worked so well in many respects that the modern becomes more problematic than is often realized; and the fact that several modern societies emphasize happiness in new ways must not lead us to assume that premodern people were actually less happy. Indeed, to anticipate, it's virtually certain that for some people less insistence on happiness would permit greater actual happiness. So the problem, modern=better, can be addressed without too much anticipatory agony.
Overgeneralization within a modern society is another challenge. It is vital to acknowledge a welter of diverse situations and responses. At various key points, and to an extent still today, the two genders have experienced aspects of emerging modernity differently, and the same applies to social class and other common dividers, including extent of religiosity. American responses to modern childhoods, for example, have been hugely contingent on whether traditional ideas about original sin were cast aside or re-embraced. On the class side of things, it has been easier but also more imperative for middle-class folks to try to measure up to happiness demands than for workers or farmers to do so, though by the later 20th century the huge expansion of the self-professed American middle class qualifies this point at least nationally. While on the whole the happiness push has tended to make expressions of outrage or anger more difficult—which was one of the reasons the whole theme gained so much manipulative attention—this doesn't mean that everyone clusters around a ubiquitous smiley face, even in the United States. The complexities of the modern experience amid overt pressures for happiness demand assessment, but accompanied by recognition of varied subgroups and personality styles. Many people make a good thing out of modernity through some commonsense personal adjustments in expectations; many people are angry or resentful about modern standards and pressures; many fare adequately but amid more anxieties than they think they should have to face. The mixture challenges any glib generalizations about modernity.
This book is not intended as an attack on the modern condition— another evaluative posture that would not be helpful. Modern change has brought all sorts of benefits, and where down sides have emerged, they may yet be more successfully addressed.
It is clear as well, even as we turn to the unexpected constraints on modern happiness, that few people would willingly choose to return to a premodern framework. From the early 19th century onward, periodic experiments offered people the chance to go back to a somewhat idealized past, through bucolic, craft-centered communities. The outlet was important to a few individuals, and it did shed light on the pressures of modern change, but the communities always foundered and never posed a serious alternative to modern, industrial reality. The same judgment applies to the commune movement of the 1960s, briefly hailed as a wave of the future. A few small ventures survived, a few people stayed rural and anticonsumerist, but for almost everyone else modernity quickly resumed its forward march, incorporating a few countercultural trinkets mainly as consumer options. Modernity's triumph over traditional values certainly reflects a lack of imagination—with so many people following the modernist herd—and no small amount of brainwashing by corporate culture, but it also builds on the very real advantages of having access, say, to modern birth control or health care.
So there is no reason to indulge in antimodern fantasies or indeed to overglamorize a premodern past when life was often, to parrot Thomas Hobbes, rude, brutish, and short. The challenge is establishing a more sophisticated balance. If modernity often seems inexorable to most people, at least in the advanced industrial societies, a popular sense of certain kinds of loss provides the basis for a more rounded evaluation—an evaluation that can grant real progress but also expose the countercurrents.
For the very vigor of modernity's march can obscure any sense of options, at least within self-styled paragons of progress such as the United States. Individuals create successful adaptations, and important minorities like religious evangelicals preserve or construct more elaborate supplements or alternatives. But a larger sense of the way modern frameworks might be rethought, or of where initial responses to the whole modern process have proved less than optimal, occurs infrequently at best. The effort is all the more desirable in that some modern responses may not yet have congealed, given the recency of many key social changes.
By the 21st century, modern life has generated an almost frenzied sense of compulsions—to keep up with consumer standards, to maintain a vigorous pace of work, to keep track of often overscheduled kids. Modernity itself tends to distract from contemplation, replacing it with a barely concealed impatience or fear of boredom (two relatively recent products—boredom as an identified state is only a bit over two centuries old—that are not the most attractive products of the modern condition). Yet a meaningful life, whether modern or not, deserves to be examined, and an understanding of the historical legacy of modern change and the pressures of happiness opens a path to this examination. The process is at the least interesting and revealing, and at best it offers an invitation to explore some alternatives to contemporary modern extremes.
The assessment of modern life and the happiness gap does not, for the most part, feed into the most pressing of today's political concerns. Specific responses, like retirement policies, do come in for comment, but we are not in the main dealing with problems for which the government should devise a response or that feed a clearly partisan agenda. The target is a more personal grasp of where modernity has taken us, and where as individuals, or as guides to our children, we might think about some adjustments or enrichments in the process.
The following two chapters flesh out key aspects of my argument, by offering evidence about the surprisingly incomplete correlation between modernity and professed happiness and by tracing the emergence of the happiness imperative itself. Three chapters then deal with key problems that have emerged as modernity unfolded. Chapter 4 sketches measurable deteriorations under modernity's shadow, capable of at least recurrently affecting resultant overall satisfaction. Chapter 5 explores more subtle issues, where modernity generated initial reactions that were off the mark, causing ongoing divisions and adjustment needs that affect social and personal experience alike, from gender disputes to perceptions of one's own body. Chapter 6 tackles the disjunctures between modern work and both traditional standards and progressive forecasts, a persistent contributor to the gap between modernity and happiness. The final section, with its own three chapters, confronts the clearest spoiler, in terms of garden-variety modern tensions: the way new and demanding expectations quickly erased any realization of the gains modernity had brought. The last of the chapters in this section deals with consumerism, where unfulfilled hopes became almost built into the modern process, not only illustrating the satisfaction gap but acquiring much of the spillover from other modern disappointments.
Historical analysis has often shed light on current concerns by exploring past analogies with contemporary patterns or by highlighting revealing contrasts between now and then, or simply by applying perspective to very recent trends. The explosion of historical research on the wider ranges of human behavior expands these opportunities. Increasingly, groups of historians concerned with aging, or emotions, or childhood, though still genuinely interested in developments in the past, work even more explicitly to show what combinations of changes and continuities reveal how the present has emerged from the past. My effort to explore the reaches of modernity sits squarely in this vein: my central concern is to offer a vantage point on current behaviors and attitudes, rather than simply to examine these behaviors and attitudes as static artifacts or to look at past contrasts for their own sake. Too often, history's public service beyond the classroom rests on museums and heritage entertainment, but more can be offered.
More historians—and again, their number has been growing—need to be involved in reaching a wider public by demonstrating that history can be a source of discovery and contemporary insight, not just a way to avoid repeating the past. For their part, more elements of the public need to expect new things from history: not just battles, biographies, and ancestries or lots of engaging anecdotes or familiar boredom. History can now provide not only cautionary tales and good stories, enlightening as well as entertaining, but also a commitment to exploring and explaining change and through this the conditions of modern life. The extensive grasp of modernity, as an accumulation of changes that have taken us from past to present, translates that commitment in particularly relevant fashion. We can move what we expect from history to a higher level.
This book depends on the twin beliefs that tracing the trajectory of significant contemporary patterns is not only possible but revealing and that improved understanding is a good in its own right and a goad to debate and to action. When we can see current behaviors and assumptions as the product of change, we are best positioned to consider further change— or to confirm the status quo with greater assurance. Thinking more systematically about modernity's development and impacts—and this means thinking historically—is the basis for managing modernity better.
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We Love Bees; They Love (Many of) Us
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Brenda Kincaid of Ohio shared the following …
Not sure you will think this is the most rewarding toward helping other beekeepers but it was a little amusing to us. My husband Paul has been working with bees for 50 years and everyone knows how much he loves his bees. But we didn't know they felt the same way until he opened his supers to find a heart shaped into the comb. You can tell it was not formed after capping as the comb is not broken.


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Japanese Technology from the Future Friday!
This week it's all about a European pharmaceutical packaging company opening a huge new facility in Japan. Thereafter, it's not about much of anything. Sometimes, yes, sometimes, the future is just ferociously mundane. You could go back and read last week's JTFF, because we really had our righteously indignant (and totally correct and justified) snark on.
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Welcome to Japanese Technology from the Future Friday!
It's already Friday west of the international dateline – here in Japan, it's totally the future. The weekly JTFF is our somewhat Technosnarky coverage of 2-5 particularly important, specifically Japan-related tech stories. Get yourself hip to the micro & macro that went down while North America was sleeping – check in with Akihabara News every Friday morning and BOOM! Ahead of the game, you win.
:: JTFF – April 4, 2014 ::
• Bosch Packaging Opens New Facility in Japan
Now this is interesting. It's not too often that massive corporate entities - foreign ones, that is - opt to set up shop here in Japan. Bosch Packaging, a Western European-based conglomerate that seems to have some kind of presence everywhere over there, turns out is also well represented here in Asia. Now, packaging, particularly that of pharmaceuticals and the quality control involved therein, while vital in modern times for a species that rarely lived beyond 40 for several hundred thousand years, is not the sexiest topic in the world. But, we should on occasion look into the windows of those industries working largely unnoticed in the background, yet essential in maintaining our comfortable, long lives. So yeah, setting up here in Japan is actually a shrewd move for Bosch; after all, Japanese society ain't getting any younger, is running out of kids, and since old people do like/need their pharmaceuticals, well… yeah, shrewd. As a side note, in reflection on the amazing variety of dorkiness our species produces, the JTFF invites you to imagine what the people who earnestly read Packaging Europe must look like. Gotta be some fascinating mammals, they.
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And that's it for tonight, kids. As tech news goes, today the future is kind of a dry, chalky sandwich made of cardboard. Do join us next week though - we're sure to find more to poke fun at, wax geeky on, and, as per usual, chances are high that the hard of thinking will boil the JTFF's blood once again. So, until then, then.
That was the JTFF, and live from the future – that is all.
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