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Rehabbing Harper puts on show in batting practice
By Daniel Popper / MLB.com
WASHINGTON -- Nationals left fielder Bryce Harper put on an awe-inspiring display early Thursday when he took live batting practice on the field for the first time since tearing a ligament in his left thumb in April.
The slugger sprayed 14 home runs to all fields during the session -- which lasted around 20 minutes -- including the fifth, sixth and seventh pitches he saw. Two long balls reached the upper deck in right field, and another sailed well over the center-field fence, which stands 402 feet from home plate.
"We almost ran out of baseballs," manager Matt Williams said. "Whoever gets in the park first today and goes to the outfield will have lots of souvenirs."
When he returned to the clubhouse, Harper -- who also went through his second full outfield workout in as many days -- said he felt good. However, Harper anticipated swelling in his thumb later in the day after his adrenaline subsided because of the impact from hitting live pitches.
"I'm still trying to see where my swing's at and try and get in shape in the outfield," Harper said. "Just try and feel how I go about everything every single day and try to get as strong as I can."
Williams said the Nationals would likely send Harper on a rehab assignment when they go on the road, but the specific date is still in question because it depends on how the thumb reacts. The Nationals start a seven-game road trip on Monday that lasts until an off-day on June 29. The team then plays eight home games from June 30-July 8 before going on the road again prior to the All-Star break.
"He's special," Williams said. "He can go out there and take batting practice and hit the ball over the fence. But he's got to get in shape to do that rehab assignment too. So it'll take some time."
Harper said he would like to play at least seven or eight rehab games to make sure he is fully healthy and prepared to return to the Major Leagues.
"I really want to see where my thumb's at and how it feels," Harper said. "If it takes longer than that, it takes longer. If it takes less, then it takes less. But I don't see myself coming back after five games or four games. I really want to push it."
Harper suffered a similar left thumb injury in high school, which he said left the same ligament 75-percent torn throughout his time in Washington. But Harper said he never felt any pain in his thumb until he slid into third base on April 25 against the Padres.
Nonetheless, he was happy to get the thumb surgery done, especially considering he put off knee surgery last year until the offseason.
"I played through a lot of pain last year, and I'm never going to do that again," Harper said. "Going through the knee surgery and doing that, I wish I would have done it in the middle of the year last year. I think going forward right now, my thumb feels great. And I have no trouble with it at all."
Williams said the Nationals would continue to proceed carefully with Harper's thumb, as they have done all season. The manager conceded the impressive batting-practice session was a good sign, but making sure Harper is healthy for remainder of 2014 is of the utmost importance.
"We don't want any setbacks," Williams said. "He doesn't want any setbacks. He wants to play the rest of the season and hopefully beyond that. We have to be cautious in that regard."
Ramos progressing, nearing rehab assignment
WASHINGTON -- Nationals manager Matt Williams said catcher Wilson Ramos (right hamstring strain) is progressing through running drills without any problems and should be close to a rehab assignment.
Ramos left the Nationals' 2-1 victory over the Giants on June 10 after sliding into second base for a double. He had already missed 32 games in the beginning of the season with a hamate fracture in his left hand.
Ramos is eligible to come off the 15-day disabled list next Thursday, so Williams said he hopes to send the catcher on a rehab assignment sometime this weekend or on Monday.
"We'll look to get him out for three or four [games] before then," Williams said. "Get him out and get him going."
Daniel Popper is an associate reporter for MLB.com. He also can be found on Twitter @danielrpopper. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Reimold walk-off gives O's series sweep
O's stage comeback with four-run 11th inning
By Spencer Fordin / MLB.com
Baltimore's manager saw his team erase two trends with one victory on Wednesday, a 12-10 win over Toronto that gave the Orioles their first three-game sweep of the season. Baltimore also snapped an 0-23 string when trailing after seven innings and overcame a two-run deficit in extra innings to earn the win.
For Trembley, whose team had had four chances to earn a sweep, the victory was sweet indeed. Now, after falling short against New York, Tampa Bay, Texas and Washington, Trembley can turn the page.
"I don't have to answer that," Trembley said when asked about getting the sweep out of the way. "I don't have to answer a lot of questions, but I'll be more than glad to answer anything you like today. I'm here for you today."
And his team was there for him. The Orioles fell behind early and trailed by as many as six runs, but never let the game get away. Baltimore scored five runs in the eighth inning to knot the score, and after Aaron Hill hit a two-run homer in the top of the 11th, Nolan Reimold answered with a three-run shot in the bottom half.
Facing former Blue Jays closer B.J. Ryan, Nick Markakis led off the 11th with a single to right and was followed by Aubrey Huff, who popped out to third base. Brian Wolfe then replaced Ryan and allowed back-to-back singles to Melvin Mora and Luke Scott to bring home Markakis and put runners on first and third. The next batter was Reimold, who sent the third pitch he saw from Wolfe -- a 93-mph fastball -- into the left-field stands.
"I had two chances to win the game before that, so I was happy I was able to come through," said Reimold, who has four homers since being promoted from Triple-A Norfolk. "I think us having a comeback win like that is really something to rally behind. We didn't give up, made every at-bat count and were able to pull it out."
The victory gave the Orioles their first three-game winning streak of the season and pushed the Blue Jays to a season-high nine-game skid.
Reimold's homer sparked a jubilant celebration. Robert Andino, who had his first career four-hit game, stalked Reimold and delivered a shaving-cream pie during the rookie's postgame interview. Moments later, Andino was greeted by a facefull of yogurt when he went back into the clubhouse. Juvenile antics aside, the players were all united in their emotions.
"I was just telling Nicky [Markakis] that this is getting real fun right now," said Huff. "I was telling him that this is starting to feel like the end of my career in Tampa, when the young guys are coming up and putting together some real good starts and the young position players are doing well. I'm feeling that kind of thing here.
"It seems like every young guy that has come up has done a pretty good job. I know it's early and they are going to struggle at times, but now is the time to get them up and give them a chance."
Baltimore starter Rich Hill, whose past troubles have revolved around his ability to throw strikes, fell into the same trap on Wednesday. The left-hander lost the strike zone and walked two of the first three batters he faced in the fourth inning, and the Blue Jays (27-23) took advantage by posting a six-run rally.
The Orioles (21-26) answered in the eighth with a five-run outburst of their own and came close to going ahead. Andino and Adam Jones delivered run-scoring hits in that inning, and the latter player was thrown out at the plate while trying to score the go-ahead run. From there, the two teams were scoreless until the 11th.
"That's about as much fun as I've had in a long time," said Trembley. "That's reminiscent of some of those games we played last year -- way behind and came back late and won. It was just such a great, great atmosphere in our dugout today. And I'm glad we won because I'm glad we got the win for the team, but also for [Danys] Baez. He deserved to get the win. He went a extra mile for us. So did a lot of other guys today, but especially Baez."
Baez (4-1) worked three innings to get the win, and he resolutely finished the 11th after allowing Hill's home run. One other pitcher -- Toronto starter Roy Halladay -- distinguished himself in the marathon game. Halladay worked seven innings and stranded three runners in the seventh, leaving with a five-run lead.
"We made him work early in the game," Trembley said, lauding his team's effort against Halladay. "But he's one of the game's premiere pitchers. What he does is he attacks both sides of the plate with very good movement. But I didn't sense they were going to give it to him. I didn't sense that at all."
Reimold, a former second-round Draft pick, entered the game in the eighth inning as a pinch-hitter and struck out swinging. The youngster remained in the game and got back up in the ninth with two runners on base but was called out on a borderline 3-2 pitch. Finally, two innings later, he redeemed himself and his team.
"That was a huge at-bat," said Huff of Reimold. "To me, when you have a young guy that goes through a situation like that -- two at-bats where he could have won the game -- and he comes up that third time, you want to see him come through so bad. To see that kind of at-bat just shows you what kind of head he has on his shoulders. He definitely belongs here. You can just see by the way he's swinging the at-bat. Four homers already."
Spencer Fordin is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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At last count, there were 327,341 licensed agents in the State of California. Half are probably inactive — a quarter of them are part timers — of those that are left, half make a decent living at it. All of this is supposition on my part but, I bet I am pretty close to accurate.
In our immediate area, the statistics are much rosier than the above. We are blessed with very healthy prices and the competition among agents is fierce, thereby creating a perfect Darwinian landscape. Only the best generally survive for any substantial length of time.
After hiring and firing dozens of agents over the years and observing the traits that make success and failure in this business, it is obvious that this is a business not for the faint of heart. Some words that come to mind that are absolutely necessary in this business: self-starter, confident, creative, determined, compelling work ethic.
Unfortunately, the barriers to entry in this business are very low. A trained chimp could pass the State Real Estate exam. It is what happens after that that determines whether you will be wildly successful or struggle to stay in the business — and it is an expensive business to be in. Costs are ongoing and include Errors and Omission insurance, MLS and Board of Realtor fees, lockbox fees and advertising costs (on some large listings agents spend upwards of $15,000 per listing — with no guarantee that they will ever get paid) to name some of them. Many top agents must employ clerical help for assistance once in awhile (or full time) and when you go out of town, you will have to pay someone to cover for you. No paid vacations here. Remember too, you are paid as an independent contractor (1099) so a number of tax burdens are left to you personally as opposed to being an employee and being paid on a W-2.
Some other issues that should be top of mind when considering the business is what can be a very long learning curve — read no income — for a long time. You need to have pretty strong financial legs to deal with a possible six months to a year with no income to speak of. That is a long dry period for most people.
Also, the business end of the business is just that: very serious business. You are dealing in assets that are most times your client's single biggest asset and it needs to be treated with gravity and conscientiousness. Every document that is associated with the transaction needs to be read and read carefully by you: You are the person the client is relying on. You are the client's fiduciary. This is a weighty burden and takes skill, intelligence and experience to understand. This is not a business for a dilettante.
Now the good parts of the business! The business is never dull. Repetition is not even in our lexicon. There is a great satisfaction in finding people the right house, and you meet an enormous number of people of all walks of life. Good agents become a part of the fabric of the community. The only capitation on your earning power is the number of hours a week you are willing to work.
Many years ago when I became a Realtor (the word "many" should be in all caps, actually), I was simply following in a business that my father dabbled in. It has been an extremely rewarding career and one in which anyone can excel given the right guidance and willingness to dedicate yourself to it.
There will be that Friday night dinner for eight you have been planning for four weeks when your big client calls to say he is in town and has to see a house on Friday night. Yes, one more thing about the business — it is pretty much 24/7!
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Quoting the article "Defence spending in a time of austerity," in the Aug. 26, 2010 issue of The Economist, "The fighter is an endangered species. One threat comes from success: in Iraq and Afghanistan, Western forces have been uncontested in the air, if not on the ground, so sophisticated fighters seem less relevant … The aircraft that American field commanders most clamour for is not the F-22 but helicopters…"
With the economy in a continued downturn and defense spending likely to see drastic reductions in the coming months, what we do need is a game changer—aircraft that allows us to do more with less. Could the offspring of the X2 be such a game changer?
On Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010, the Sikorsky X2 Technology demonstrator flew at a speed of 250 knots true airspeed, breaking (unofficially) the world speed record for a helicopter. The X2 flew at 260 KTAS during that flight while in a slight descent. Also, one drag-reducing component was not installed during that flight but will be added and X2 will be test flown again to see if there will be any gain in airspeed with it installed. For more on the September 15th flight, see Rotorcraft Report.
In an exclusive interview with Rotor & Wing just moments after the historic flight, Sikorsky President Jeffrey Pino, Chris Van Buiten, director of Sikorsky Innovations and Mark Miller, vice president of research and engineering, marveled at the sight of the X2 out-accelerating an S-76 in the length of half a runway as well as its ability to pull up and away from the twin turboprop chase plane leaving it quickly behind. To hear Rotor & Wing's exclusive interview with Jeffrey Pino, president of Sikorsky Aircraft, go to www.rotorandwing.com.
Later, in a press conference, Kevin Bredenbeck, director of flight operations and chief pilot for Sikorsky, spoke with childlike enthusiasm about the potential abilities of the X2, saying that in all the flights so far they had been very conservative in the maneuvers not wanting to risk any unnecessary delays. It was easy to tell he is eager to really put the aircraft through its paces saying, "the control power was amazing."
Another key idea that was discussed during the press conference was the fact that almost the entire flight occurred at a speed greater than 200 KTAS, substantially faster than most helicopters fly today in normal cruise.
Just imagine it: a substantially faster helicopter with incredible maneuverability and control power. But I'm not suggesting this helicopter is a frivolous, high-end sports car of the sky. These are not just "wants" in terms of what would be nice to have in a future helicopter. These are "needs."
In the current economic situation, all business entities, including the U.S. military, are being asked to do more with less. Increasing the capabilities of the assets at our command would significantly help in terms of trying to achieve the most efficient and capable way to conduct business, military or civilian.
Can you imagine doing your work today without copy machine? Without a computer? How about without a cell phone? All these technologies are things that allow us to function more efficiently. These efficiencies allow us to be productive at a level that would no doubt awe our ancestors. So it will probably be when someone looks back on the progress of the helicopter.
One of the interesting things that Sikorsky did in setting their performance parameters for the X2 was that they included things like noise level, pilot workload and the ability of the helicopter to adjust to its environment. They didn't set out to make an unusable piece of equipment whose only claim to fame was that it broke a speed record. They set out to produce a safe, fast, usable product.
There have been tandem rotor helicopters before. There have been aircraft with pusher props before. There are vibration control systems. Fly-by-wire is in a couple of military helicopters already. But each of these systems has been refined to the point that they can be put to use in the real world, and have been integrated into this demonstrator.
From that perspective, I do believe this advancement will be a game changer. We may not see it for a number of years to come, but in 50 or 60 years, I think aviation historians will look back to the day X2 broke the 250 KTAS speed record as a turning point. The military will benefit. Soldiers who have been injured on the front lines will benefit. Those needing the services of civilian HEMS will benefit.
To quote the father of the company, Igor Sikorsky, "If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life." And if that aircraft happened to be twice as fast as its predecessor, imagine the possibilities for improvement in outcomes.


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"Pain , happiness, peace, love, friends and your partner, is very common ! Every body does have these facts! But remember the partner who made you cry, you are not the only person who crying for a men ! There are many more women's who crying every single minute for a men in this planet including Insects to Animals! End of the day we all have a thing called HEART!"
"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."
"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable."
"There is a thing, like a bird, weak and fluttering within my chest, i cradle it and care for it as anyone should an injured thing, yet, i silently pray for it's death."


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By Laura McLachlan, MSYP for LGBT Youth Scotland
I recently had the opportunity to go down to London to film with Channel 4 as part of their 4thought series from a young person's perspective on Equal Marriage. This was a great day and also special that I got to put my views across on the campaigns that I have been working on for the past two years. The interview was about my views and what I thought about the religious bodies being opposed to same-sex marriage and also about how I felt about marriage as an individual from the LGBT community. As you will see from my interview I have always wanted a white wedding but also I see that if religious bodies are opposed to performing same-sex marriage then they should not be forced to do so. Check out my interview and the other interviews from the series by clicking here .
As a representative for LGBT National Youth Council we have been working on our campaign called M.E 2 (Marriage Equality 2) we have held a symposium in partnership with the Equality Network, held a photo petition on Equal Marriage and also a 10k run to raise awareness of Equal Marriage.
Becoming an MSYP was a great opportunity for me to get the young people's voice's heard and the main issue that was arising was Marriage Equality and when the 'Love Equally' campaign became SYP's national campaign. I was so proud to be a part of both organisations fighting for the same cause. Love Equally has gained so much support around Scotland and also hit the headlines in many news rooms across Scotland and the publicity towards the campaign has been great in many areas clearly showing that young people's voice's are being listened too.
2011 ended with a massive push to ensure a massive positive response to the Scottish Government's consultation on same-sex marriage and with over 50,000 responses I think we did a pretty decent job! 2012 kicked off with a busy start and I have been spreading the word a lot about Equal Marriage and also doing a few other bits and pieces for LGBT Youth Scotland.
In October I also spoke at a fringe event at the SNP Conference in Inverness which was sponsored by Alyn Smith MEP. We spoke about the Love Equally campaign and I also presented a speech to represent young people's views on the subject of marriage. We then had a question-and-answer session where the people got to ask us questions or give us there thoughts on marriage. The event was packed full of MSPs, journalists and members of the public and we had a few negative comments but all in all the event went really well and we got so many supporters from it.
The Love Equally and M.E 2 campaigns have brought Scotland to a place of better understanding of equality and what needs to change and hopefully in the not too distant future it will change. As an MSYP I hope that we all keep up the hard work and maintain the belief that Scotland will change, keep campaigning and educate people on the issues that young people face every day.


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Former Astronaut Bonnie Dunbar Highlight of Space Day at Clarkson University Thursday
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Clarkson University's Coulter School of Engineering will present the second of two Clarkson Space Days this Thursday, October 29.
Bonnie J. Dunbar, former astronaut and now CEO and president of the Museum of Flight will speak with Clarkson students, faculty and staff, and, especially, the young people of the North Country.
"This will be another exciting day with a very special celebration of the contributions of space activities to humankind," says Distinguished University Professor Liya Regel, the event chair. "Students from all North Country schools are invited to join us for the day's events."
The day will kick off at 9:30 a.m. in the Cheel Campus Center, as an historical overview of space research performed by Clarkson professors, students and alumni is presented. This will be preceded by light refreshments.
"We have found that many members of the Clarkson family have been and are involved in space research, space business, space exploration and developing future space programs," says Regel. "The Clarkson network in this field is impressive and fascinating. Students, faculty and the public will be most welcome."
At 1:30 p.m. a student team space-quiz competition for North Country high school students takes place in the Cheel Center.
At 3 p.m. in Science Center Room 360, Dunbar will present an inspiring speech to North Country youth, students, faculty and the public. Immediately following there will be an award ceremony for students from the earlier space-quiz competition.
Space Day wraps up in the Cheel Campus Center from 5 to 6 p.m. with an informal reception and discussion with Dunbar. All are welcome to attend.
Bonnie Dunbar is the president and CEO of the Museum of Flight in Seattle. She earned a B.S. and an M.S. in ceramic engineering at the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. in mechanical/biomedical engineering from the University of Houston. She is also a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
She held research and engineering positions with the Boeing Co., Harwell Laboratories in Oxford, England, and Rockwell International Space Division until 1978, when she joined NASA as a guidance and navigation flight controller. In 1980, she was selected as a NASA Mission Specialist Astronaut.
Dunbar is a veteran of five spaceflight missions, logging more than 50 days in orbit aboard the Shuttles Atlantis, Challenger, Columbia, and Endeavor, including two dockings with the Russian Space Station Mir.
Her NASA management assignments included Deputy Associate Administrator for Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.; Assistant Director for Mission Operations at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas; Deputy Director for Flight Crew Operations at JSC; and Assistant Director for University Research and Affairs at JSC.
Dunbar's final NASA assignment was as Associate Director of Technology Integration and Risk Management at JSC's Space and Life Science Directorate. She retired from NASA in 2005 to accept her current position.
Dunbar has received numerous awards from professional societies and universities, including 11 NASA medals, the Museum of Flight's Pathfinder Award, and eight honorary doctorates. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and a corresponding member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland. She was elected to the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame.
This year she will receive the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Ralph Coats Roe Medal "for serving as a role model while a NASA Astronaut on five shuttle flights, for leadership as a senior NASA Administrator, and for inspiring and educating the public about the nature and history of aerospace technology as President of The Museum of Flight."
For further information about Space Day, please contact Prof. Liya Regel at firstname.lastname@example.com; 268 7672
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Short release cycles, continuous deployment, automatic updates, and a fear of social media tattling on beta defects are causing vendors to forgo beta testing and find new ways to get useful user feedback.
Many QA engineers I've known have had a love/hate relationship with beta testing. "It's expensive to administer and doesn't give me useful information," said one. "Too many bugs slip through this so-called 'beta testing,' so I have to test the whole app in the lab anyway," said another, "but if Marketing wants it, I can't stop 'em."
On the other hand, some organizations continue to see value in beta testing: "We need to plan for three weeks of beta phase to make sure we get better coverage on use cases and environments that we can't test against ourselves."
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OCEAN CITY — The venerable Ocean City Marlin Club, officially founded in 1936, although its roots date back a few years earlier to the creation of the Ocean City Inlet during a cataclysmic 1933 storm, turns 75 this week and will fete its decades-long history of fishing and conservation with a special celebration at its West Ocean City home for members.
Born out the creation of the Inlet during the famous 1933 storm, the Ocean City Marlin Club for the last 75 years has had its roots firmly in the conservation of the newfound industry in the resort. The 1933 storm cut the Inlet, separating Ocean City from the north end of what is now Assateague Island and creating open access to the fertile canyons offshore teaming with billfish, tuna and other species targeted by sport fishermen around the world.
When the Inlet was cut by the storm, it changed fishing in the resort area forever and a few hardy early captains realized even then the potential charter industry for Ocean City. Captain Frank Parsons is largely given credit for taking the very first charter through the new Inlet, reluctantly agreeing to take a couple fishing on his boat in the ocean. While Parson was the first, most of the credit for bringing big game sportfishing to Ocean City goes to brothers Jack and Paul Townsend, avid marlin fishermen who fished for the famed billfish off the coast of Florida and began to explore the waters off the coast of the resort in 1934.
The Townsends formed the resort's Game Fish Association shortly thereafter to unite anglers of similar interests in the study of white marlin off the coast and their conservation. That association became to Ocean City Marlin Club in 1936 and the rest is history. While the new club was focused largely on catching white marlin in the waters off the coast of the resort, it was also founded in preserving the new fishery and began meticulous record keeping.
For example, in 1936, 175 white marlin were reportedly caught off the coast of Ocean City. The figure jumped to 781 by 1938 and an astounding 1,343 by 1939. With its newfound reputation as the "White Marlin Capital of the World," Ocean City blossomed as countless marinas, docks and sheltered harbors sprouted up around the bayside of the resort to accommodate the ever-expanding sportfishing fleet.
Recognizing the rapidly increasing popularity of white marlin off the coast of Ocean City could overtax the newfound fishery, the Ocean City Marlin Club adopted a serious conservation ethic aimed at promoting the catch and release of the species. Now, 75 years later, club members are still adhering to those early principles.
"We have grown from a club that was primarily centered on organizing the local fishing fleet to an organization that is centered on the conservation of billfish as well as helping charities," said charter captain and current Marlin Club President Franky Pettolina this week. "We also make sure to provide a fun atmosphere for our members to gather both during the season and in the off-season."
Past-president Bill Regan, who shepherded the club through its last big expansion and a move to its new digs in West Ocean City, agreed the Marlin Club began as a means for the early sportfishing community in the resort to realize what they had and take steps to protect it.
"I think the most interesting thing about the club is that it started as a group of charter captains who had just recently found out what they had in terms of a business opportunity," he said. "They started out getting together to set their rates for going out the new Inlet and fishing offshore. It wasn't until sometime later that the sport fishermen, those who went offshore for marlin for the sport of it, started to get involved in the club."
In the years since, the Marlin Club has become the de facto source of information about white marlin, their numbers off the mid-Atlantic coast and their migratory patterns. In some instances, the club's records have been used by state and federal regulatory agencies.
"We've become the go-to organization for anything related to white marlin," said Regan. "Those early members had the foresight to begin keeping meticulous records about the numbers being caught and when and where they we being caught. Some of that data was instrumental in not getting an endangered listing for white marlin."
Pettolina agreed the Marlin Club's record-keeping has created a historic account of the species off the coast over the years.
"We serve as the primary historian for Ocean City fishing," he said. "It's something the club has always done from the beginning."
The original Ocean City Marlin Club was housed in a small building on Talbot Street where the dozen or so members would gather after a day of fishing to record their catches and tell and retell fish stories. The club eventually moved to a bigger location on Route 50 in West Ocean City before arriving at its glamorous new home near the commercial harbor.
"Those early members got the original building on Talbot Street and it was essentially a clubhouse where captains and anglers could meet and discuss fishing over a drink at the end of a day," he said. "I don't think those early founders ever imagined what the club has become with its 700-800 members."
Seventy-five years later, club members new and old will gather at the facility for an anniversary celebration next Saturday.
"From the beginning, the club has had its roots in conservation," said Regan. "Those early members knew they had something special and steps were taken to be sure it wasn't exploited. They were tagging and releasing billfish even way back then."


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|Have you ever wondered what happens if you put a jar over top of a hole in a beehive?
If the answer to that is "no", you will be kicking yourself for not wondering about this sooner after seeing what happens.
|Here at the Big Bad Blog, we love math jokes. This one is fantastic.
|It would seem that the security features on touchscreen phones can be hacked using a 'smudge attack'. This information will feature in an upcoming episode of Burn Notice, most probably.
|Things you have always known but never bothered to test empirically: Women with larger breasts have an easier time hitchhiking.
|Georgia Pacific, a maker of paper towel dispensers you find in restrooms, is suing for trademark infringement as people are using paper towels from other brands in their machines.
|Everything you need to know about parasite powered zombie ants.
|While creationism (and its variants) do not belong in the science classroom, not being science, do they belong elsewhere? Religion class? Philosophy? History? Albert Meyer argues not. Personally, I would like to see it as a subject to be tested in a class on Critical Thinking.
|In case you do not know what a Rickroll is, there is now court testimony explaining it on record, thanks to hacker Christopher Poole.
2 thoughts on "The weekend coffee has bees. And ants. Zombie ants."
That bee thing is amazing!!!
@Liz Yep. Definitely the coolest thing to make it into one of these things in a while.


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Girl do whatever makes you comfortable
This for the girls who be smokin', right?
Yo, go 'head girl
Roll up, pour up 'til it ain't no more
Girl, let's get tore up from the floor up
Tell the chauffeur let's go
Go on and roll up, pour up 'til it ain't no more
Girl, let's get tore up from the floor up
Tell the chauffeur let's go
Girl, is you high? You high as hell? Are you high as fuck?
Is you high? If I ain't hit it yet, you ain't high enough
Girl, is you high? You high as hell? Are you high as fuck?
Is you high? If I ain't hit it yet, you ain't high enough
[Verse 1]
Smoke-filled atmosphere; girl, why you acting weird?
You don't really smoke like that? Oh, we got a actress here
Nah, for real, you keep acting shy, maybe you should pursue that career
But your girl looking so thirsty
Want to fuck so bad, I wish I had a mattress here
A little white'll make em get hype
Nigga, that Goose'll make em get loose
Or that ass'll make me salute
When I'm in H-town, I'm knocking them boots
I ain't lying, had a little chick in Texas
Woke up, she had dick for breakfast
Had her eggs made, tried to play detective
Next time I called her, shit disconnected
I guess, I guess that's how a lame nigga roll
Little nigga, I'm blessed; motherfucker, I'm blessed
To have my hoes in check
Hey girl, you enjoyed the show? Then you already know, then
Put it on the floor, put it on the floor then
[Verse 2]
Hold up, wait a minute
Niggas putting hating in it
So lame, no game
Niggas couldn't pay to hit it
All night, throwing ones at my favorite stripper
She get off around four, and she trying to take me with her
Cool; I say, I say cool -- I say, I say cool
I want two, that means me and you plus one -- she say cool
Fucking right, we gon fuck all night
I got something to prove, nigga
Stop watching, cock-blocking
Let these hoes choose
Girls just wanna have fun, you trying to give these hoes rules
You pimping, you caught feelings; you got these hoes all confused
Barely like em, I don't love em
I just fuck em, I don't cuddle
Looking for me after shows, find me out looking for trouble
Bitch tattoo with my name on her
Yeah, I ran that game on her
She like, "You 'bout to blow up
Hope that you don't change on me"
Yeah, I spent that change on her
I guess that's just my life, nigga
I know she your wife, nigga
Connor gives us a slice of life on the road, minus that whole performing-your-songs-onstage thing


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I read 'somewhere' about this paper piecing technique. You app. have to place the patches on the paper, than fold it very precise and sew. It seems to be a fast, eccurate was of sdewing small pieces.
One of the books about this is Miniatures in Minutes, and part of it can be read in Google Books
I wonder if someone here has already sewn this way?


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BERLIN- Stephen Decatur's varsity softball team sandwiched a pair of wins this week around a 3-2 loss to Parkside.
The Seahawks beat Washington, 22-1, last Wednesday, then fell to Parkside, 3-2, on Friday. Decatur then rebounded with another win over Snow Hill, 5-4, on Monday. Against Washington, Jessica Iacona had three hits, scored three and drove in two, while Amanda Parsons had three hits, drove in three and scored four times. In the win over Snow Hill, Iacona was the winning pitcher, striking out eight and collecting three hits. Jessica Bunting also had two hits against the Eagles.


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ARLINGTON, Texas — It wasn't worse than a noogie from Nolan Ryan, but losing his first game as White Sox manager to Ryan's Rangers hurt Robin Ventura.
Not that Ventura showed it. There are Mandarin dictionaries easier to read than Ventura.
"I figured we were probably going to lose a game this year,'' Ventura cracked in the clubhouse Friday after the 3-2 defeat. "You don't like losing. We got some guys on late but just didn't get them in.''


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B8562-001: Social Ventures & Impact Investing: Risk Capital for Expanding Innovation
R - B Term, 02:15PM to 05:30PM
Location: WJW 208
Instructor: Rick Larson
Impact Investing and Social Entrepreneurship are both "works in progress." This course focuses on how the search for expansion capital by social entrepreneurs is playing out at the deal level. What challenges do social entrepreneurs face as they search for growth capital? Who are the investors and what do they seek in terms of return and social/environmental impact? What equity and debt structures are available to social ventures (both nonprofit and for-profit)? How do they differ from conventional investments? Finally, how are these financing options affected by innovative corporate structures (e.g., B-Corp, L3C) and Impact Investment metrics (e.g., GIIRS)?
Students explore these questions by looking at specific examples of domestic and international social ventures that need risk capital to grow. Through class assignments and contact with practitioners, every student will understand the existing capital opportunities for nonprofit and for-profit social ventures and how impact investments are structured.
This course is designed for MBA students who seek to understand the forms of risk capital available to grow social ventures "to scale," because they plan to: (a) pursue social entrepreneurship as a career; b) pursue a career in impact investing; or (c) support social ventures at some point in their career as board members, investors, or advisors. Students with venture capital experience are welcome but may find some material repetitive.


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For more than 20 years, the Santa Fe Opera has been sending singers from their highly respected apprentice program on a spring tour throughout the Southwest. Maybe they will return to Durango at some time in the future. With our splendid Community Concert Hall and a growing opera fan base, not to mention the 100-plus person audiences for The MET: Live in HD programs, it would seem a good bet. In the meantime, you can see the Santa Fe tour program for free in two nearby cities.
The 2014 tour presents a double bill. "True North" is an original work written for the tour and tells the story of two couples that meet by coincidence at an airport. All four were on an opera tour before. They reminisce through music. Written by Kathleen Clawson and Andrea F. Walters with original music by Frederick Frahm, the first half will lead into a second half with many popular operatic favorites.
Expect to hear Juliet's Waltz from "Romeo and Juliet," the Toreador Song and a duet from Bizet's "Carmen," two works from Donizetti's "Don Pasquale," "Mister Snow," a moving soprano solo from "Carousel," and a Ragtime Opera Medley from "Watch Your Step."
Both "Carmen" and "Don Pasquale" are on the bill for full productions in Santa Fe this summer. In addition, the company will perform Beethoven's only opera, "Fidelio," two short operas in a single bill, Mozart's "The Impresario," and Stravinsky's "Le Rossignol." In addition, Santa Fe will present the American premiere of Huang Ruo's "Dr. Sun Yat-sen."
The summer season begins June 27 with an opening performance of "Carmen," followed the next night by "Don Pasquale." The 2014 season runs through August 23.
"Carmen" will have the most performances, 12, followed by nine for "Don Pasquale" and five of "Fidelio." Two evening performances of Apprentice Scenes will take place on August 10 and 17. The Apprentice concerts carry ticket prices ranging from $5 for youth and $15 for adults.
The Spring Tour is free, and the company will be performing during the day in high schools from Texas to Colorado.
Summer tickets are available now. You can reach the Santa Fe Opera by phone, (50) 986-5900 or online at www.SantaFeOpera.org. Single performance tickets range from $30 to $215.
firstname.lastname@example.com. Judith Reynolds is a Durango writer, artist and critic.


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Physics Department Chair John Lindberg helps direct new Engineering scholarship
Published on Thursday, February 17 2011
Physics Department Chair John Lindberg – along with Engineering Program Director Elaine Scott and Associate Professors of Engineering Don Peter, Kevin Bolding, and Melani Plett – is directing a new National Science Foundation grant. The $600,000 grant, entitled "Engaging the Community to Achieve Success in Engineering II," will provide scholarships to engineering students demonstrating academic potential and financial need.
Our thanks go out to the grant-direction team!


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The cost to attend college in Florida is in the spotlight as the House is set to unveil a 6 percent tuition hike proposal in Tallahassee.
The tax hike is something the Senate and Gov. Rick Scott don't want.
Another group that doesn't want these increases is universities.
Earlier this year, university presidents signed off to not raise the cost in exchange for a promise of more than $100 million in a budget increase.
Before the 2013 legislative session began, presidents of Florida's public universities gathered in Tallahassee and promised not to raise tuition.
The schools are seeking an extra $118 million. If the Legislature gives them the money, they promise not to increase tuition for a year, but they may not have a choice.
"We may see a smaller tuition increase," Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford said. "It's not going to be a double digit increase or anything like that."
In a Channel 4 one-on-one interview with Weatherford Monday, he said it's hard to find the cash the schools are asking for.
"We unfortunately don't have $418 million, but we've got about $360," Weatherford said. "So to bridge the gap to get them to the ask that they had, there's a 6 percent tuition increase, but not a 15. We think a 15 is too high."
Channel 4 also caught up with Scott to ask about the House tuition plan. Scott has long opposed tuition increases and he's holding his ground.
"I'm against tuition increases. This is a tax. It's a tax on students. It's a tax on families," Scott said. "We can't be raising the cost to get higher education in this state."
As of now, the Senate isn't recommending any tuition hikes.
More details will be seen about each chamber's budget recommendations in the coming weeks.
Copyright 2013 by News4Jax.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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All quotes tagged Arrive
(414 quotes found)
"By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination."
"The solutions all are simple / after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are."
"No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living."
"A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it."
"If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."
"I've been told that I've arrived many times over the years so I take it with a grain of salt. It's a relatively new situation obviously, but if it all went up in smoke tomorrow, I wouldn't really care that much. There are a lot of things that interest me. As for my fortunes, it's really a crap shoot."
"When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, "I have arrived." Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead."
"He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things."


text: Until a Superman movie came out, Superman Returns...Alot of stuff was off limits for Smallville...like showing Krypton, Jor El, Lara, Zod, Doomsday...and God knows what else...but after SR Smallville was able to explore more of the Superman mythos...etc. With a new Superman movie in the works...very earlier works...will this hurt Smallville the rest of the season & hurt a season 10...if there is a season 10??? I say yes, because the ball is rolling on a new Superman movie and we have yet to hear about a season 10 of Smallville, when not to long ago it seemed to be a done deal...alot is at play here.


text: Hi, I'm looking for a racket with that is similar to the pure drive but doesn't have the similar price. Im looking for one with a lower price stick that is a wilson or prince. I want to get 2 or 3. I'm open for suggestions. Do you think this one would be good? http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/Prin...RINCE-TTW.html


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text: We are approaching what has become an annual tradition in the Phoenix area: The Saturday after Thanksgiving Coke Ovens Ride! This year will be the fourth or fifth annual ride! Because the area gets hit with storms every year and there are lots of groups using the trail, it's always good to do a pre-run to check for major changes, like washouts or other blockages. The prerun crew: 4play - KTM 600 Slowred - CRF450X Wild Bill Kelso - KTM 530 Yardstick - KTM 530 RWAZ - the Big RZR Jersey Dave & his son Brandon - Two Seat RZR Wild Bill ran out ahead while the rest of us mounted up. We did our recon in the "normal" direction. Heading into Telegraph Canyon. Slowred is just back from a broken collarbone and this is a rough trail. He was confident early on with a stand-up wheelie after the shutter clicked on this pic. I was curious about an alternate route to Ajax Mine. It's fun and fast but there was a little confusion in this spot. At the "Temple of Doom" part of the Ajax site. Turning south at Mineral Mountain Rd. to head toward Box Canyon.


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|1 Air Flap
|9 Turbulence Screens
|17 Honeycomb
|2 Air Flap
|10 Nozzle 1,85m x 1,85m
|18 Fan 350 kW
|3 Bypass Flaps
|11 Honeycomb
|19 Turning Corner
|4 Blow-In Tower
|12 Turntable
|20 Diffusor
|5 Sound Absorber
|13 Test Section
|21 Sound Absorber
|6 Heating
|14 Windows
|22 Blow-Out Tower
|7 Turning Corner
15 Floor Panels
|23 Air Flap
|8 Turning Vanes
|16 Flexible Ceiling
Technical Characteristics of the Atmospheric Wind Tunnel
Electrical heating in the blow-in tower (N = 1,2 MW) to heat the air up to a maximum of 80 °C at a test section velocity of 4.0 m/s. Heating and cooling of the floor panels in the range between 0 °C and 150 °C in order to simulate neutral, robust and instable layered atmospheric boundary layer flows at ground level for Richardson numbers Ri between -0.4 and +0.4 and for geometric scales between 1 to 100 and 1 to 1000.
Open circuit with a closed test section. Flexible test section ceiling with adjustable height in order to arrange for preset pressure gradients (for example: dp/dx = 0) within the test section. Test section of great length (L = 22.0 m) for the natural generation of fully developed boundary layer flows of big height (up to 1.5 m). Cross sectional area of the test section about 4 m². Velocity in the test section adjustable between 2 m/s and 45 m/s.


text: Hi, I am just curious about this, and would like to hear from you guys what you think. I'm not really picky about balls. I will play with any used balls, whatever I have available in my bag. Sometimes only used once, sometimes 10 times or more. The few times I bought new balls were to please other players, but not really for myself. Yes, I'm cheap. However, I've noticed a lot of people are "ball snobs". By using this term, I don't mean to offend anybody here. It's your business whatever you like to do with your money. It's just that some people only like to play with new balls. And if they are playing with used balls, when they are losing, they will blame it on the balls. Which doesn't make sense, because we are both playing with the SAME balls. I think these people, when they have to play with used ones, they don't do as well, because they are so used to playing with new balls. And to people who are not as picky, it makes no difference. Sure, new balls got a nice bounce to it, but I think one can play well with older balls too. It's all in the mind. What do you think? Do you only play with new balls? Why? Or are you like me, who just wants to play, no matter the ball condition? For the record, I am a league player, and have been playing for 6 years, I'm a 4.0/4.5 borderline (female).


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|2004-06-25, 10:52
|Link #61
kisses for all
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: ぶちゅー!
Age: 34
For fun, my current top ten.
1) Nasu [so frustrating and yet rewarding to translate]
2) Real [the top of Inoue's game]
3) Believers [amazing]
4) 20th Century Boys [dragging a lot lately, but still tremendous]
5) Ryuguden [pure fun]
6) Helter Skelter [enjoying this much more than River's Edge; it's even more fcked up]
7) Narutaru [good twists]
8) H2 [the more I read, the more I am convinced this is Adachi's masterpiece]
9) Gantz [mindless entertainment at its best]
10) Death Note [how can this possibly run in Weekly Jump]
|2004-06-25, 15:21
|Link #62
Junior Member
Join Date: May 2004
Emphasis on CURRENT manga (as in, ongoing). Im listing them alphabetically by author.
-Heibon Ponchi George Asakura (George Asakuras first delve into manga targeted at the male audience works on a splendid level.)
-Saikyou Densetsu Kurosawa Nobuyuki Fukumoto (Im still not sure if this manga is supposed to be a serious piece or a comedy. )
-Noramimi Kazuo Hara (If this series doesnt touch you, then you either have no heart or must have spent a childhood that was utterly devoid of any sense of wonder or magic.)
-Shiawase Danchi Jiro Hasukoda (A pet favorite. Who doesnt enjoy laughing at stupid, poor people? And yet the characters are so endearing and so human that you just cant help but sympathize with them.)
-Soil Atsushi Kaneko (Its Atsushi Kaneko, one of the most stylish manga artists out there right now. Need I say more?)
-Ultra Heaven Keiichi Koike (Im so glad that this series has finally started again. Eagerly awaiting volume 2.)
-Freesia Jiro Matsumoto (In Tropical Citron, you had a main character who was sane and everyone else was mad. With Freesia, the main character is a total nut case.)
-Ryuguden Toyokazu Matsunaga (Mutated fish monsters are cool.)
-Danchi Tomoo Tobira Oda (Whether hes writing for an alternative mag like Comic Cue or a mainstream mag like Big Comic Spirits, the one fact that remains is that Tobira Oda is a comic genius.)
-Hotta Naoki Yamamoto (Do I understand whats going on in this manga? Hell no. But I love it anyway, just for the mental trip that it gives you.)
|2004-07-10, 14:35
|Link #63
The Black Dragon
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
my top 10 in no particular order:
1. Dragon Ball
2. Yuu Yuu Hakusho
3. Rurouni Kenshin
4. Shin Tekken Chinmi
5. One Piece
6. Naruto
7. Shaman King
8. Wild Base Ballers
9. Samurai Deeper Kyo
10. X - Magic Knight Rayearth - Sailor Moon - Shoot! - Tennis no Oujisama - Hamerun no Violin Hiki
|2004-07-10, 17:43
|Link #64
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2004
The top two are dead on, but the rest under the line can go in any order.
01. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - Hirohiko Araki.
02. 20th Century Boys - Urasawa Naoki.
03. Homunculus - Hideo Yamamoto.
04. G Senjou Heaven's Door - Nihonbashi Yoko.
05. Berserk - Kentaro Miura.
06. Rookies - Morita Masanori.
07. Sakigake!! Cromartie High School - Eiji Nonaka.
08. REAL - Inoue Takehiko.
09. Monster - Naoki Urasawa
10. Steel Ball Run - Hirohiko Araki
Honourable Mentions (in any order):
Yotsuba to! - Kiyohiko Azuma.
Pluto - Naoki Urasawa
Kimi no Kakera (Pieces of You) - Takahashi Shin
Rokudenashi Blues - Morita Masanori. (I haven't read enough yet)
Hareluya II BOY - Umezawa Haruto
GANTZ - Hiroya Oku
Alive - Takahashi Tsutomu
Blue Heaven - Takahashi Tsutomu
Initial D - Shigeno Shuichi.
Beck - Sakuishi Harold
Bremen - Umezawa Haruto
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|2004-07-14, 00:39
|Link #66
Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2004
There are two mangas I can tell you that will not disappoint you guaranteed! One of them being Naruto! The other being Shadow Star (Narutaru)!
.hack is okay i guess..... and Brain Powered is just plain confusing and isn't popular at all... So my top ten: (reduced to 2)
(in no particular order)
1. Naruto
2. Shadow Star (Narutaru)
Not really suggesting but okay:
Brain Powered
|2004-07-14, 15:35
|Link #67
Guardian Of Deamons
I only like two mangas at the moment:
1) 20th century boys
2) Gantz
Although i havent given thought to trying anything else at the time being because these two are taking up quiet alot of my readin time.
|2004-08-09, 02:13
|Link #69
Just another anime fool
THE most important manga
hi im actually a n00b in manga.. so i just wanted to know if u could give me like a list from 5 to 10 titles that any person MUST have read (plz identify if they are licensed plz ) thx for ur help
edit: Btw im an ecchi (dunno if i got that 1 right romance/comedy) fan so could u plz put next to the title if its ecchi ? thx ;D (that doesnt mean the list has to be all ecchi ;D)
|2004-08-09, 16:16
|Link #70
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: もう東京ではない
Age: 36
I think I'm reading too few mangas to really do a top ten, but I can try and make a list of those I'm currently reading and enjoying:
Death Note (Best thing i'm currently reading, if you like smart people outsmarting eachother, then you'll like this. Ok, that didn't give it enough credit, but meh...)
Gantz (I almost feel like a gantzotard. Anyway, really cool and doesn't play it cheap with the blood.)
Hajime no Ippo (Hmm dunno what to say... )
Prince of tennis (Far outclasses the anime...)
Yakitate Japan (Only read first volume, but enjoyed it. I'm gonna try out the anime a little before continuing.)
Of course then there's naruto, but meh...
|2004-08-12, 07:33
|Link #71
Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2004
Aishiteruze Baby (cute story, great art about guy raising orphaned cousin)
Kare Kano (romance)
Hot Gimmick (romance with twisted relationships)
Naruto (ninja dbz)
Hana Kimi (not quite as good as hot gimmick, main girl crossdresses)
Azumanga Daioh (funny comic strips with wacky girls)
Gantz (twilight zone like)
Tenjou Tenge (great art, story isn't the greatest..)
Your and My Secret (lovely artwork)
I'm more into shoujo manga, with some shonen anime.
Stuff that I will probably pick up.. eventually
Fruits Basket
Berserk (great anime)
GTO (ditto)
Initial D (er, wasn't it butchered)
Hunter x Hunter (is that licenced?)
From this thread I'm going to look up:
20th Century Boys
Bleach (think i saw that at the comic store)
Ichigo 100%
Yakitate Japan
Legend of Basara (carolyng808's list matches mine)
Black Cat
|2004-08-12, 08:48
|Link #72
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Basement
Age: 35
I hate to sound like a broken record but
Tenjo Tenge has to be in the top 3 this month(Maybe #1), as far as sales
Want evidence, try buying the Vol. 12 that comes with Aya figurine online. It comes out on the 19th
All the preorders are sold out, and if you can get someone to sell it to you. They will probably grossly over charge you and say "Supply & Demand"
|2004-08-13, 16:25
|Link #73
Senior Member
not in any order but heres what i read
Gantz - Im disgusted at myself for reading this but its too interesting to stop reading
DearS - Picked it up after watching anime, more funnier than anime.
Yakitate Japan - First cooking manga i ever saw. so funny.
Ichigo 100% - harem?? yea buts i like this. (ecchi-full-ish-ness)
Eyeshield21 - REALLY FUNNY. Hiruma's the funniest guy ever.
Katsu - Donno why but its good.
Pastel - Another love love manga.
FullMetal Alchemist - Funny, Great Story, and just crazy all around.
Yotsubato - Funny and I picked it up cuz its author made Azumanga which i also read
Chobits - meh. better than anime version imo.
GetBackers - Anime version is better in this imo.
Bleach - Better than Shaman King which i also read.
Ai Yori Aoshi - just picked it up
Love Hina - i mean come on.
Naruto - My First Anime ever. so i read the manga too.
One Piece - This is my favorite so far.
Now - Picked this one up Thanks to Slade
gah... too much to list ill stop here. -_-*
|2004-08-13, 23:15
|Link #74
Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2004
Silent Otaku, yeah i know its really popular. I read like 11 vols and watched like 8 eps of the anime. Maybe because i stopped reading/watching it, or the fact that I couldn't like the main characters Soichiro and Aya. What caught my eye before in the store was the great artwork on the covers, some how though the story seems lacking to me. Soichiro comes off as a lesser version of Naruto as a character, the only thing that really kept my interest was Maya and her story. I'd like to see how her and Mitsuomi (sp?) resolve things, other then that i liked the supporting characters like Bob and Takayanagi.
|2004-08-14, 00:33
|Link #75
Old God Member
my top 10 or so at the moment
Battle Royale-Crazy shit. I acually felt queasy at moment v.v
Blade of the immortal- The best samurai/swords manga you can read, cept for...
Vagabond-not as nasty as blade, then the characters are more likable. I love it.
GTO- in the later books it starts to just get stupid, but still good
saiyuki-just read Vol1, and it seems pretty good
Arms-kids with weird arms that morph into cool things. errr, hard to explain....
Ranma 1/2- 27 volumes in, and it's still funny as hell
well, thats like, 7, but still...o_o
|2004-08-14, 11:41
|Link #76
Senior Member
|2004-08-14, 13:28
|Link #77
Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
i'm really quite surprised Hajime no Ippo was only mentioned one or two times in this topic.
I strongly recommened it, the series is STILL going, nearly 70 volumes!!! About 36-37 volumes are scanlated at the moment. TOTALLY jammed packed with awesome boxing action, very good quality art, intriguing storyline and good comedy too.
I really recommend Love Hina, I"s, Hikaru no Go (strangely addicting, after watching and reading it, i learned to play the game, and made it to around 5k in kgs too, took like 2 years, but o well, fun game), Rurouni Kenshin, it's very good swordfighting action backed up with a very developed storline, GTO,hm, gto is just funny =D, Naruto, it's very addicting, but later on the series, the point where it is right now, it just seems to drag, Initial D, i really never thought a racing manga can be this damn good.
I noticed Ichigo 100% is recommended quite a bit right now (i'm reading it too), but I dunno, the story doesn't seem that interesting, and the artwork is nothing spectacular either.... it's okay...... definitely uncomparable to the quality of art and mindless comedy in Love Hina and the crazy hilarity in I"s. They both have their quite touching moments for a romance/comedy manga.
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This manga has to be to the first where I hate the main character Soichiro, and the whole love rubix cude (Masataka>Aya>Nagi>Maya>Mitsoumi) is very annoying. I ignore that and look at the art work, figthing, and characters (My avatar is the "F" member Tetsuhito ). I also believe that Masataka (I think he got cheated) and Bob should have bigger role, but it seems Oh! Great likes to tell his story in a diffrent way. Whether they will be great, only time will tell
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I am not recommending per se, since I use scanlations to find out which series are worth my moola. Ironically, at the end of the day, I do buy most of the mangas I am reading...
Well in no order of preference, these are the series I am actively pursuing (i.e. I ask whether the latest volume is out when I drop by the comic shop):
1) Ichigo 100%. (its 草莓 100% (in chinese) and translated and published by Taiwanese publishers Boys if you do read chinese. I guess you can call it 'not popular' since no Hong Kong publisher has picked it up yet... heh)
2) 20th Century Boys. (Excellent. But, pales a bit in comparison to the tight storyline of Monster. Then again, alot of manga out there pales in comparison to Monster... )
3) Eyeshield 21. (unique, since no one has ever done a sports manga on American Football, of all things... )
4) Magister Negi Magi. (er, light reading. )
5) Yakitate Japan. (I guess everyone knows about this.)
Merely 'collecting' mode (some originate from waay back before there were scanners and scanlations):
6) Guyver (a cookie to those who remember this series...)
7) Bastard! (I heard volume 23 is out, again, another slow one)
8) Berserk (yeah, another very slow one)
9) Ah! Megami-sama (not stalled, just has no end in sight)
Some of the new stuff that has just appeared. (as in around 5 volumes...)
10) Tsubasa (by CLAMP. Before you cringe, it features a romp through the CLAMP universe...)
11) Deathnote (Plenty of dialouge. Chinese may be my mother tongue but even then it got me lost plenty of times)
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Chevrolet Cobalt - Door Issues
gearheadguru Posts: 1Hello pthreadgill, I am a professional technician dedicated to working on anything and everything made by General Motors. I just fixed the same make and model with the same problem today. Your problem is that your door lock switch is shorted out. The switch uses one wire to control the driver commands. Meaning a short on that wire will cause both the locking and unlocking. Replace the door lock switch/switches ( I recommend you get them both replaced), and your troubles will be over.
Welcome in advance.
I have a 2006 chevy cobalt Lt and the doors won't open I used the key from the outside but it won't let me in. I used the remote and it still won't let my open the doors the fuse is still good I even replaced it. I tried to open the doors from the outside and inside but that doesn't work. The other day I took it to sutlif Chevey in Harrisburg pa and the passenger side door opened so instead of climing out of the sun roof I had to clime out the window and wind up falling on there wet floor from the rain. So I told them what was wrong with it and they checked it. Then they told me that it could cost me around $1,000 to fix it. They want to run tests and milk money out of people. They didn't seem to care about nothing exept taking money. I even had probloms with the air vents and when it was under warenty and they didn't fix that. What a bad business. Can someone give me advice for my doors. I don't have $1,000 to give away to the company who sells faulty doors and cars.
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This is more than the door lock switch. I have a 2005 Cobalt and a year and a half ago my door locks did the same thing, locked and unllocked by themselves, my car started dying when idling and things just went from bad to worse...we ended up replacing the body control module and it helped with everything, we also replaced several other parts before the BCM trying to fix this problem...well here we are again not even two years later and it is all happening over again...the VERY SAME problems!!! SO frustrating, I just got my power steering back and now this again! Going to fix and SELL it and never by another Chevy as long as I live! So disappointing, it used to be such a great product...
Hello Cchall,
I apologize that you have had concerns with your vehicle. Do you currently have the vehicle at the dealership? Do you currently have a case with GM? If so, what is the case number? Thank you,
Mariah GM Customer Service
Nope they had the chance and a second chance now I reported them.
Hello Laurence1983,
I apologize that you have had concerns with your vehicle. I can understand that you are frustrated with your situation. However, you can e-mail me if you change your mind. You can get my e-mail by clicking on gmcustsvc. Thank you,
Mariah GM Customer Service
No, I can't afford to get this fixed at the dealership...have spent way too much money on this car as it is! I am ordering the parts through the dealership but that is it...I also do not have a case with GM...when the whole power sterring thing happened I gave up on trying to talk to them as I had sent snail mail and email with no response to any of my concerns.
Hello Cchall,
I am sorry that no one responded when you tried to contact them. If you would like to e-mail me your information I can get you in contact with an agent. I would need you to e-mail me your contact information, VIN, current mileage and dealership. You can get my e-mail by clicking on gmcustsvc. Thank you,
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I have a 2006 two door Cobalt SS. I am experiencing a similar issue door with my driver side door. It originally would not close fully. I was able to get the door to finally close but now I can not get it to open. When I try from either the inside or outside handle it will not release. Any one have any clue how I could fix this issue? This is a major safety concern!!
To use the car I have to climb in from passenger side which is not very easy. I experienced the same problem on passenger side door last year this time but it fixed itself. Not sure if weather is a factor in this problem. Any one have any recommendations on how to get the latch to release so I might be able to get it fixed?
I was able to get the door to open by soaking the inside with WD40 and also working the lock some but still experiencing the problem intermitent. Will need to get looked at. Any recommendations on parts I will need to order and replace. Service Dept at dealership say Striker maybe bad. I was told it should only take them less than an hour to replace. If I was to do myself what parts do I need?
jrhott Posts: 1Did you ever get the door sticking problem resolved. Mine just started on my 2005 Cobalt.
I too have a problem with my passenger door opening im going to try lubing it to get it open so i can remove the panel and replace any shorted wires and such if not it seems ill have to cut into the panel damaging it. I looked online a new panel isnt too expensive. As for any1 with the idling issue and the car turning off, i had the same problem. To fix it all i had to do was clean the throttle body assembly which isnt too hard. The tools i used were a screwdriver, a pair of pliers, a tooth brush, and throttle body cleaner that i got at advanced ap. Make sure to not get the cleaner on the mass airflow sensor advanced also sells a seperate cleaner for the sensor cause that could be an issue. I just got in and under the throttle and cleaned it with the cleaner and toothbrush and my car is running fine. Just make sure not to get it on the sensor. I didnt clean the sensor but my car is running fine. Also make sure the fuel injector is clean. Ill post back if i can fix my door somehow.
Can the door be opened by someone using a slim jim type device that reaches a part of the latch and pulls on it to open the door?
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cuppycake Posts: 1OMG, i just had the same thing happen to me two days ago..i have a 2008 cobolt. i have not yet taken it to the dealer cause i know it will cost so much money. i have had so many electrical issues with this car. first all my windows went out. i took it to the dealer to be fixed they replaced the motors.. a month later they all went out again.. they replaced them once again.. about two to three months they all started going out one by one. now they are all completly not working. Then my power steering went out.. now my flipping drivers side door will not unlock. i have to crawl in fromt he passenger side. which is a huge safety issue. when i try to use the key to get in the key just turns there is no pull in the handle.. soooo frustrating. oh and top of all of that the power starts to go out on the lock and unlock buttons when you push them about 5 times. MY fobe does not unlock/or lock my car in turns means sense my key wont work on the drivers side, the drivers side wont unlock at all and the fobe wont work i have to leave my car unlocked at all times cause if i lock the other three doors i wont be able to get in the car at all. these cars are a joke!!!
gmcustsvcsarah Posts: 1,964Cuppycake,
I'm sorry to hear about this repeat concern with your Cobalt. I see that you had worked with a dealership in the past – can we help you towards getting this concern resolved? Please email us with your name, VIN, involved dealership, and any other information you can.
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superchargedss Posts: 4I have the same problem right now. I have a 05 ss cobalt and it started last weekend with the door not closing and finaly got it close and it would not come open. I had to call pop a lock to get it open. It just happend again last night though. It wont open from inside or out and i called a gm dealer and they said they havent had this happen before and the guy at pop a lock said he has never seen it either. Does anyone have any advice? It should be a recall! Thanks
angrychevyownr Posts: 1I have the same problem. was at walmart, tried to shut the door, it wouldn't shut. I looked at the latch didn't see anything wrong shut it again and it shut with no problem. The next day, I shut the door after driving it and it never opened again from the outside or the inside. I have to crawl over the stick shift to be able to drive it. I just paid for a mysterious computer upgrade I was supposed to do and I can't afford another high priced service charge. With all the people having the same problem, it should be a recall. I will most likely sell this car after I fix it and never own another one. Which is sad as my dad retired from Chevy. :-(
zeyad1 Posts: 1Hi gearheadguru
I'm having similar problems with Chev Cobalt 2007. The drivers door starts opening and closing and I suspected a short in the switch. I unplugged the wires from the switch and the door problems are solved for the time being. I'm planing to take it to a technician since I want the problem to be fixed ones and for all.
I noticed something strange about the electrical circuits about the car. After unplugging the door switch the rear lights aren't working any more. Could the unplugging of switch caused that or am I looking a bigger electrical problem ?
no i never did fix the door i dont have money for a dealer to fix it ill try with a slim jim thing because i believe it may be a clip down at the bottom may have become disconnected somehow because all the cables for the latch work fine. i was at a body shop because i was rear ended and the owner came out and looked at it( ive cut the panel pretty much off) he said im pretty much doing what he would do haha if anyone has any other ideas let me know because im worried if i am wrong and i cant get the door close i will be screwed.
slims_85 Posts: 1I have an 05 cobalt and worse gm car I have ever had, and my family bleeds gm blood, they have been working there since the 40's. This car has had problems after problems. Most recent is the rear drivers door won't shut or stay closed. This is a major safety issue and on a 7 year old car should not have it. Any ideas on what it could be or am I S.O.L. , I think it is the hole locking mechanism . Any info on this would be amazing, or if you have the.same problem let me know how you fixed it.
I will tell you, it makes me cry but I will never buy gm again, if competitors will match the gm pricing
jan11pa Posts: 1my Cobalt drivers door is stuck closed. the power locks go up and down but the door latch does not feel like its releasing the door. you try the handle and it does nothing. what a hassle! I never had a door issue like this with any car...they can't make the door latch so it works for the life of the car?
any suggestions on how to get the door opened so I can look at the latch would help.
so disappointed in Chevy engineering and manufacturing.
Looks like they want about $500 or more to fix this problem...is that right?
rosa11 Posts: 3HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM WITH MY CAR CALL 18002633777 PRESS4 AND EXT 2346 THEY TOLD ME AT GM THEY HAVE NO COMPLAINTS ON THIS ISSUE SO ANYONE WITH THIS PROBLEM REPORT IT TO GM AT THIS #
tere_s Posts: 2I bought a 2006 chevy cobalt in November from a local dealership and they said everything was fine with the car but that the drivers side panel wouldn't lock the doors, but the passenger side did. I was fine with that. A little over a month after i bought it i noticed that my car doors were always unlocked, even though i know i locked them. Now about 2 months ago, my car doors unlock as i am driving!! I'm terrified that some one is going to break into my car. Suggestions????
Sounds like a control module is telling the doors to unlock when it shouldn't.
I would take out the fuse for the power doors locks if there is a separate one. It may be a shared circuit with something else, but that way you know your doors won't unlock in the middle of the night.
And ask in the forums like this for help. Someone will know what to tell you.
2015 Cruze 2LT, 2014 Malibu 2LT, 2008 Cobalt 2LT
dosperros Posts: 1I just purchased a 2006 Copbalt, and the passenger door can't be opened. I looked on the internet and found that NHTSA issued a bulletin #10038344. My car is going in tomorrow for a recall on the "power steering motor" so when I set up the appointment. I told him about the door. They have to "diagnose" it. I told him that it has manual locks and the lock is stuck in the locked position. wha la Diagnosis done!! I asked him how to fix it. I have to let them "take a look" From reading this thread on the forum, I think I'm in for a battle. At what point does an NHTSA bulletin prompt a recall?
snoy0502 Posts: 2GM doesn't care about this issue. They would do some kind of temporary fix while i was still on warranty, and after they told me its 1500 to fix each door. My ac also leaks in the front under the passenger side floor, which they could never find out why (every cobalt owner I know it does it too so watch out for that problem it's crappy) as for the door problem, since GM and Chevy is refusing to recall or at least offer some kind of discount repair, I'll help u all out since I've had the issue since it started. Often when I try to open my door, the doors don't work. It feels like the handles aren't attached to anything. Keep something hard in the car at allll times (like a cup) otherwise if you get in an accident and can't get out ur screwed and Chevy doesn't care. Lock the doors, then unlock.DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING until you take the cup in your hand, and slam it on the lock stick thing near the window. Then unlock and Wah-lah! The people in your car will laugh, and you can get out. I have broken both tips off of my lock sticks, but it's the only way. I've reported it numerous times so as for the fact GM says no reports on it, they're full of [non-permissible content removed]. They just know its an expensive issue to fix all the doors in every cobalt. Apparently they realllllly don't care about our safety. My family too used to bleed GM and Chevy but not anymore. My dad went Nissan and my mom is about to. Grandparents are going Toyota. There's a reason people don't buy American anymore and it's because their vehicles are built solely to make the company money. Oh, and my door handle has fallen out on the outside because of this issue too (the door handles stick on the outside after this problem has been there a while) so I have a one door coupe I like to say. Gna fix it Chevy? Nope. Don't worry tho, like I told u people every time I've called, I will make sure myself and everyone I know will not ever buy a GM, and you doubted me? Well I did, and it's working.
I'm having the EXACT same problem as is listed in this thread. Has anyone solved this issue? Did GM ever recall the model?
Hi again,
I was also wondering if anyone has tried to make this problem more public? Its obviously illegal for GM/ Chevy to neglect this issue with their car model, and its alarming that they will put the lives of their customers at risk before spending money on the issue. Has anyone thought of a lawsuit?...
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