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Dinar Updates Daily Chat Log
Part 3 - Featuring rcookie & tman23
sheila3 says to subgirl(9:30 AM):
good morning :)
subgirl says to sheila3(9:30 AM):
hey!!!!!!!!!!! Good Morning!!
sheila3 says to subgirl(9:30 AM):
thought id pop in and see whats up lol
subgirl says to sheila3(9:30 AM):
whatcha doing!!
sheila3 says to subgirl(9:31 AM):
drinking coffee,lol
subgirl says to sheila3(9:31 AM):
me too!
subgirl says to sheila3(9:31 AM):
subgirl says to sheila3(9:32 AM):
my 2nd cup!! lol
subgirl says to sheila3(9:32 AM):
sheila3 says to subgirl(9:32 AM):
subgirl says to sheila3(9:33 AM):
ok back lol
subgirl says to sheila3(9:33 AM):
glad to be home!
sheila3 says to subgirl(9:33 AM):
iam watching,we own the farm,lol
subgirl says to sheila3(9:34 AM):
you are?? lol
subgirl says to sheila3(9:34 AM):
is it good??
sheila3 says to subgirl(9:34 AM):
beautiful farms
subgirl says to sheila3(9:34 AM):
you want one??
sheila3 says to subgirl(9:34 AM):
DUH lol
subgirl says to sheila3(9:34 AM):
sheila3 says to subgirl(9:35 AM):
why out in the country,horses,chickens,cows,lol
subgirl says to sheila3(9:35 AM):
true!! lol sounds great!
sheila3 says to subgirl(9:36 AM):
come on you stupid rv lol
subgirl says to sheila3(9:36 AM):
lol (y)
sheila3 says to subgirl(9:36 AM):
iam ready to move lol
subgirl says to sheila3(9:37 AM):
I am ready too for this to happen for sure!!
sheila3 says to subgirl(9:37 AM):
peaceful and quiet,yayyy,lol
subgirl says to sheila3(9:37 AM):
yyyaayy!! love it!
sheila3 says to subgirl(9:37 AM):
me too
sheila3 says to subgirl(9:38 AM):
quiet in here
subgirl says to sheila3(9:38 AM):
yes it is! for now!
rcookie says(9:49 AM):
Hamoudi calls to adopt a proposed amendment to the articles budget to support local industry
Author: AB, HH
Editor: AB, HH
11/01/2016 11:43
Number of Views: 192
Long-Presse / Baghdad
Called on the Presidency of the Council of Representatives member Hamoudi, on Tuesday, the competent parliamentary committees to adopt a proposal to the Ministry of Industry and the private minerals to amend articles in the budget to support the local industry law, and as he emphasized that Parliament will enhance its oversight role towards the institutions that "will not commit to support the procedures," pledged to " continue to support the local product. "
Information Office of the Member of the Presidency of the Council of Representatives, said in a statement received (range Press), a copy of which, "The first deputy chairman of parliament Humam Hamoudi, called on the competent parliamentary committees to adopt the proposal of the Ministry of Industry and Minerals and private amend Article 28 and 36 of the federal budget for the 2017 law."
The statement quoted Hammoudi confirmed, that "one of the amendments would require state institutions to secure their needs from the local product, rather than imported in support of the Iraqi national industry and to maximize the financial resources of the state," noting that "the Second Amendment is conducive to exempt raw materials and imported components for productive purposes for the public sector companies from fees customs. "
Hammoudi added, "The House of Representatives will enhance its oversight role over the institutions that will not commit to supporting the national product procedures and did not care about the financial crisis faced by the country," stressing that "there are tough decisions to be taken in this regard."
He pledged Hammoudi, "constantly local product support in all his joints," returned to "the development of the country and the face of the financial crisis is not only to activate the local product and reducing the import and operation of the hand of the Iraqi labor efficient."
subgirl says to rcookie(9:52 AM):
GM rcookie!! thank you for the news!! There is so much news out there!!
subgirl says to rcookie(9:52 AM):
awesome title!! Hamoudi calls to adopt a proposed amendment to the articles budget to support local industry
rcookie says(9:54 AM):
subgirl says to rcookie(9:54 AM):
(10:01 AM)THE OBSERVER - http://www.dinarupdates.com/observer/ - Save as a favorite... for Daily Dinar Commentary, Notices and Call banners!!
subgirl says to jeffusa(10:12 AM):
hey!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
sheila3 says to jeffusa(10:13 AM):
good morning,from the good twin lol
subgirl says to jeffusa(10:13 AM):
good morning!!! jeffusa!! lol
subgirl says to sheila3(10:13 AM):
sheila3 says to subgirl(10:13 AM):
(10:13 AM)wickedwitch1 was kicked out by wickedwitch1!
subgirl says to sheila3(10:13 AM):
guess I am the evil twin lol
jeffusa says(10:13 AM):
are we rich yet?
sheila3 says to jeffusa(10:14 AM):
sheila3 says to jeffusa(10:14 AM):
subgirl says to jeffusa(10:14 AM):
nope not yet but rich with friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sheila3 says to subgirl(10:14 AM):
subgirl says to sheila3(10:14 AM):
jeffusa says(10:14 AM):
can i trade them for a car payment?
sheila3 says to subgirl(10:14 AM):
awe thank you :-*
subgirl says to jeffusa(10:15 AM):
:@:D no way!!!
sheila3 says to jeffusa(10:15 AM):
wouldnt get much lol
subgirl says to sheila3(10:15 AM):
your very welcome!!!!!!!!!
jeffusa says(10:15 AM):
sheila3 says to jeffusa(10:16 AM):
sheila3 says to jeffusa(10:16 AM):
depends on how many friends you have lol
subgirl says to sheila3(10:17 AM):
there ya go lol
jeffusa says(10:17 AM):
just you 2
subgirl says to jeffusa(10:17 AM):
aweeee then you are rich indeed!!!!!!!!!!! lol
sheila3 says to jeffusa(10:17 AM):
your in trouble here lol
subgirl says to sheila3(10:17 AM):
sheila3 says to subgirl(10:17 AM):
jeffusa says(10:18 AM):
didn't you love the nerdy grandson...
sheila3 says to subgirl(10:18 AM):
the older you get,the less you get lol
subgirl says to jeffusa(10:18 AM):
I loved it!!!!!!!! lol :D he was soooo cute!! lol
subgirl says to sheila3(10:18 AM):
sheila3 says to subgirl(10:18 AM):
to many repairs lol
jeffusa says(10:19 AM):
send that to the good twin
sheila3 says to jeffusa(10:19 AM):
subgirl says to jeffusa(10:20 AM):
ok lol
subgirl says to sheila3(10:20 AM):
hold on ok??
sheila3 says to subgirl(10:20 AM):
subgirl says to sheila3(10:21 AM):
sheila3 says to subgirl(10:21 AM):
Ame9632557644 says(10:22 AM):
hyiya 3
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:22 AM):
hey :)
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:23 AM):
i was wondering where you were :)
Ame9632557644 says(10:24 AM):
washing pots N pans
Ame9632557644 says(10:24 AM):
we cooked ALL weekend
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:24 AM):
oh lol
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:25 AM):
what did you cook
Ame9632557644 says(10:25 AM):
then I found in a little used small refrig 4 week old corned beef N cabbage... that was FUN
Ame9632557644 says(10:25 AM):
I made Ox tail veggie soup
Ame9632557644 says(10:25 AM):
Di make ckn N dumplings
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:25 AM):
for real
Ame9632557644 says(10:25 AM):
4 real
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:26 AM):
ox tail,yuk lol
Ame9632557644 says(10:26 AM):
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:26 AM):
Ame9632557644 says(10:26 AM):
it makes great base 4 veggis soup
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:26 AM):
ill do without lol
Ame9632557644 says(10:27 AM):
after I rendered it down I osterized teh meat soI can eat it then added veggies and cooked 4 more hrs on low
Ame9632557644 says(10:27 AM):
its is soo good
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:27 AM):
but its ox lol
Ame9632557644 says(10:27 AM):
beats Campbells all the time
Ame9632557644 says(10:27 AM):
no its from beef cows
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:27 AM):
oh lol
Ame9632557644 says(10:28 AM):
thas just its name
Ame9632557644 says(10:28 AM):
no Babe eating here
Ame9632557644 says(10:28 AM):
or Bambi either!!
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:28 AM):
i thought it was from a ox lol
Ame9632557644 says(10:28 AM):
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:28 AM):
thats good lol
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:28 AM):
no i dont eat deer either
subgirl says to sheila3(10:29 AM):
yum!!!!!!!!!! lol
Ame9632557644 says(10:29 AM):
where IS our Bambi killer today anyhow
subgirl says to sheila3(10:29 AM):
deer meat is good!!
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:29 AM):
not sure
sheila3 says to subgirl(10:29 AM):
nooooo lol
Ame9632557644 says(10:29 AM):
veneson is like Exlax to me
subgirl says to Ame9632557644(10:29 AM):
maybe he will come in a bit later??
subgirl says to Ame9632557644(10:29 AM):
Ame9632557644 says(10:30 AM):
probably after lunch he may be cracking
subgirl says to Ame9632557644(10:30 AM):
sheila3 says to subgirl(10:30 AM):
i didnt get the picture yet
Ame9632557644 says(10:30 AM):
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:31 AM):
yea i saw that too
(10:31 AM)goldenbear was kicked out by goldenbear!
Ame9632557644 says(10:31 AM):
surrender or die I vote 4 teh latter teh inhumane creeps
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:31 AM):
on fox news
wickedwitch1 says(10:31 AM):
"«Daesh» acknowledge defeat and give up «capital of succession» alleged
1/11/2016 0:00" This article was just brought in on facebook side but I don't know how to put it here
Ame9632557644 says(10:32 AM):
wickedwitch1 says(10:32 AM):
sheila3 says to wickedwitch1(10:32 AM):
thank you :)
Ame9632557644 says(10:33 AM):
ugg I cracked a nail into teh quick
Ame9632557644 says(10:34 AM):
brb UGGGG
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:35 AM):
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:36 AM):
its on fox news now
wickedwitch1 says(10:36 AM):
If anyone reads the article, please give an opinion.
subgirl says to wickedwitch1(10:40 AM):
is there a link?
wickedwitch1 says(10:42 AM):
I can't find a link and really don't know how. Should not have posted. Sorry.
RickeyT says to wickedwitch1(10:42 AM):
from what I just saw, it is an ongoing battle.
bbgene says(10:42 AM):
http://nenosplace.forumotion.com/t88...ession-alleged Try This
subgirl says to bbgene(10:42 AM):
thank you!!
Ame9632557644 says to wickedwitch1(10:44 AM):
THANK YOU 4 posting
subgirl says to wickedwitch1(10:44 AM):
no problem!! thank you too!!
sheila3 says to RickeyT(10:44 AM):
thats what i just saw on fox news,could take weeks or months
(10:44 AM)goldenbear was kicked out by goldenbear!
subgirl says to sheila3(10:45 AM):
mosul will be liberated very soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ame9632557644 says(10:46 AM):
that is USA soon NOT Iraq soon btw
sheila3 says to subgirl(10:46 AM):
ok ({) just saying what the guy just said on fox news
Ame9632557644 says to sheila3(10:46 AM):
copy cat :P
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:47 AM):
Ame9632557644 says(10:47 AM):
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:47 AM):
subgirl says to wickedwitch1(10:47 AM):
bring that link into the call tonight ok and the guys will talk about it on the call tonight ok? :)
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:47 AM):
he said they fight they die,they run they die
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:48 AM):
but what do i know ({) lol
Ame9632557644 says to sheila3(10:49 AM):
NOW ur talking lol
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:49 AM):
wickedwitch1 says to subgirl(10:49 AM):
After seeing the link itself, I'm personally not sure it has any truth to it at all
sheila3 says to subgirl(10:50 AM):
ok gotta go fix some eggs,iam hungry,be back later :)
Ame9632557644 says(10:50 AM):
be well 3
sheila3 says to Ame9632557644(10:50 AM):
you too,see ya later :)
tman23 says(10:50 AM):
If any recall..... Trump said 10 days ago that forces were getting hammered in their entering Mosul.....resistance was great etc etc....... He didn't say this just to say it and I assure you he is well informed........ Media presents a winning picture BUT Barzani came out a few days ago and said he expects the total liberation and stability to take 3 months..... now RECALL THAT THE POPULAR CROWD WAS NOT TO FIGHT IN MOSUL..... The popular crowd has been brought closer to the fight as being reported.......WHICH would indicate that the battle is fiercer than what is being reportered..... The ISIS fighters are not running anywhere....To die in battle is an honor..... I would take what Barzani said to be more factual.......
wickedwitch1 says to subgirl(10:51 AM):
I think I'm better just reading what the REAL reports are here.
kalis says(10:51 AM):
fox news just said carter said mosul could be week even months before it is over
diagyAAAE says(10:52 AM):
.. And we entered Mosul
11/1/2016 1:42
And we entered MosulAbadi of] advice: we will cut off the head of Daesh {}
I say to our people in Mosul: our troops that liberated all regions of Iraq are now in Nineveh to Tharirkm
Baghdad / Mosul / morning and finally vigorously those who care about and stand up the Iraqi people in one line with the army, security forces entered yesterday to revive the city of Mosul, hoist the banner of peace to their people, and death Zaam for terrorists . check yesterday as promised by the commander of the armed forces , Prime Minister Haider al – Abadi, from the year 2016 will be the end of the terrorist gangs. Achieve the dream became a reality, and dashed the enemies of the country charts, pending Bushra Liberation final permeated weddings all the cities of Iraq, home to humpback sons editors amid cries of mothers. Had not moved hours a springboard to break into the left coast of the connector operation at dawn on Monday, even our forces entered neighborhoods Kokjla, dignity and liberation, according consecutive data cell media war. this coincided progress from the eastern side with the liberalization of dozens of villages from the southern hubs of Western and Northern. In a move that will Hamas more than the fighters, visited Abadi yesterday area of operations (coming, Nineveh) to oversee the ongoing processes of liberalization. the contract soon arriving meetings with commanders in the field, and toured between combatants heroes in the advanced lines, according to a statement issued by his office. he said during his visit hand ] advice liberated: "We came for the connector to release it and try to close the road on" Aldoaash "all over the place, and we will cut off the head" Daesh " and they have no way out or inevitable, either to die or surrender and will not hold up pockets in other areas after the liberation of Mosul and we will eliminate them all. " He added , " We intend to liberate Iraq from "Aldoaash", either after "Daesh" there is a difference and effort civilians for reconstruction and provide services to the liberated areas. "
Ame9632557644 says(10:53 AM):
futuremoney says(10:55 AM):
I cant believe that all my Iraqi twitter contacts are wrong. ISIS is getting spanked..
subgirl says to wickedwitch1(10:55 AM):
well bring it in to the call tonight and lets see what the guys say about it ok?:)
dinarstudent says(10:58 AM):
hey everyone .. wow it has been been over month ,but I am back .. What happen to change in Oct 2016 ??? I see Mosul is taking longer then they thought .... Most say from the state that it could go well into 2017 .. Wow Off with the heads ... Things are moving ,but they are moving at the pact that will be best for all .. So hang in there people . Look for something to happen soon ,but not now ..
RickeyT says to dinarstudent(11:00 AM):
HAh, thanks.......
(11:01 AM)Check out the "Current Iraq NEWS" Thread in the Forum - http://www.dinarupdates.com/forumdis...rent-Iraq-NEWS - All News - ALL DAY LONG!!
(11:02 AM)dale was kicked out by dale!
dinarstudent says(11:03 AM):
i been reading all the newstimes and facebook .. How can anyone not be jumping with joy . This is moving each day ....!!!!!! Mosul is big big battle and we will win it i am sure ,but it will take time ..
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Ame9632557644 says to rcookie(11:07 AM):
PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT ARE u TALKING ABOUT?
Ame9632557644 says to rcookie(11:07 AM):
oops caps loc
rcookie says(11:07 AM):
rcookie says(11:07 AM):
dinarstudent says(11:08 AM):
man oh man just read the that last 30 days of newstimes along with facebook . If that does not put a smile on your face and boost you up then call Dr Phil .lol
rcookie says(11:08 AM):
He didn't say this just to say it and I assure you he is well informed..
rcookie says(11:08 AM):
Ame9632557644 says(11:09 AM):
now I understand you thanks
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Hey there, I was trying to contact administrators directly, but I guess I have to go through a forum. Anybody please help me redirect this, or let me know a way I can resolve this myself...
I tried importing a month's worth of posts from an xml file I prepared, into dailyconfession.wordpress.com. I do this all the time; this month I wanted to do it a little early for Jan 2013 because Christmas is coming up, and I'm moving house, so I'm going to be not only super busy, but also off the grid, and I didn't want my subscribers to miss any content.
Anyways, when I tried to import my Jan 2013 set of 31 posts, it barfed. It seemed to ingest 1/31 down to 1/11, and then no more. I deleted them to try again, but now it appears my import is hung. (never got the import complete email, going to import/wordpress in the dashboard, says it's still working)
This happened to me before, when wordpress.com established a limit on scheduled/published posts (before that I would pre-publish a whole year at a time! Now just monthly). When it happened before, an administrator did something for me behind the scenes to reset it.
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Training reduces risk for police's tactical rope squad
Last June, Ottawa police Const. Sean Kay was first on the scene where an intoxicated man had climbed up the girders of the Alexandra Bridge.
With his rappel gear but without the immediate support of his tactical rope squad teammates, Kay secured himself to the bridge, 30 feet below the deck and 200 feet above the water, and held on to the desperate man with his bare hands until two of his squad-mates arrived.
"We were up there for quite a few minutes and it was just me and him and my rappel gear," said Kay of the incident. "So it was good to put your training into actual practice."
Kay is part of a small eight-man unit of tactical officers who rappel from buildings to perform high-risk takedowns and rescues. The unit must work quickly and safely, as in Kay's bridge rescue, in less than ideal conditions.
Two officers trained in rapelling are required for every tactical unit shift.
While each year the unit spends countless hours practising — tying knots, securing ropes to a variety of structures and rappelling — and in three decades they've been called on 15 times.
"Maybe we have a hostage situation where the only option is to get from the rooftop to the outside of the building," explained Const. Gord Ward, the rappel unit's most senior member. "Or it could be a drug warrant scenario … like send the guy down the rope, can he look inside the apartment to see how many guys are in the apartment? Are they dealing drugs? Is it an optimal time to go in the front door?"
When they drop off the side of a building's ledge on a mission, each officer is carrying 25 pounds of equipment: a two-way radio, a gun, taser, pepper spray and flash grenades.
In situations where crucial decisions must be made quickly, there's no time to worry whether the knot will hold.
For Kay, rappelling — either during training or in the field — never gets dull.
"No matter how many times that I step over the edge, there's always that adrenaline rush." he said.
In 36 years of the tactical rope squad's existence, no officer on the team has been injured.


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Observing and Studying Extreme Low Pressure Events with Altimetry
AbstractThe ability of altimetry to detect extreme low pressure events and the relationship between sea level pressure and sea level anomalies during extra-tropical depressions have been investigated. Specific altimeter treatments have been developed for tropical cyclones and applied to obtain a relevant along-track sea surface height (SSH) signal: the case of tropical cyclone Isabel is presented here. The S- and C-band measurements are used because they are less impacted by rain than the Ku-band, and new sea state bias (SSB) and wet troposphere corrections are proposed. More accurate strong altimeter wind speeds are computed thanks to the Young algorithm. Ocean signals not related to atmospheric pressure can be removed with accuracy, even within a Near Real Time context, by removing the maps of sea level anomaly (SLA) provided by SSALTO/Duacs. In the case of Extra-Tropical Depressions, the classical altimeter processing can be used. Ocean signal not related to atmospheric pressure is along-track filtered. The sea level pressure (SLP)-SLA relationship is investigated for the North Atlantic, North Pacific and Indian oceans; three regression models are proposed allowing restoring an altimeter SLP with a mean error of 5 hPa if compared to ECMWF or buoys SLP. The analysis of barotropic simulation outputs points out the regional variability of the SLP/Model Sea Level relationship and the wind effects. View Full-Text
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Jeff Curran weighs-in for WEC 29: Condit vs Larson. Photo property of World Extreme Cagefighting.
World Extreme Cagefighting has announced five additional bouts for their next scheduled event on June 1st in Sacramento, California.
The event will feature the organization's self-proclaimed "most important bout of all-time" as WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber will clash in a highly-anticipated fight against former UFC lightweight champion Jens Pulver in the main event.
Two previously rumored bouts have been confirmed as former WEC featherweight title contender Jeff Curran will look to get back on track against newcomer Mike Brown and former Shooto champion Alexandre Franca Nogueira will make his WEC debut against fellow Brazilian Jose Aldo.
Additional preliminary bouts that were announced earlier today include Charlie Valencia vs. Dominick Cruz, Alex Serdyukov vs. Luis Sapo, and Tim McKenzie vs. Eric Schambari.
The current card for the event is as follows:
Urijah Faber vs. Jens Pulver - WEC Featherweight Title
Miguel Torres vs. Yoshiro Maeda - WEC Bantamweight Title*
Jeff Curran vs. Mike Brown
Rob McCullough vs. Kenneth Alexander*
Alexandre Franca Nogueira vs. Jose Aldo
Rich Crunkilton vs. Donald Cerrone
Charlie Valencia vs. Dominick Cruz
Alex Serdyukov vs. Luis Sapo
Tim McKenzie vs. Eric Schambari
Mark Munoz vs. TBA
* - not yet confirmed by WEC.
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The golf course design industry has a thing about family trees. You have the Dyes ("Pinky," Pete and P.B.), the Joneses (Robert Trent Sr. and Jr.) and the Fazios in the more famous limb - and all of them seem to have family members struggling to grab their share of the limelight from more famous relatives.
Tommy Fazio, not to be confused with his uncle, Tom, is doing a pretty good job of that. Tommy's father, Jim, is just now starting to get out from under the more highly focused publicity glare of brother Tom, who has nine courses on Golf Magazine's list of "top 100 courses in the U.S." and 19 on the "top 100 you can play" list.
It was Jim's association with Donald Trump, in particular his work on Trump International Golf Club in West Palm B each, FLa., that helped revive a 40-year career that was already solid. The Trump name has also worked wonders for Tommy.
"I've worked with Trump the last seven or eight years," Tommy Fazio said. "It's not an in-house thing, but it's very close to it. Every single golf course he looks at, I sort of go through the whole evaluation for him and his people, to see if we should do it, how we should do it and all that."
This isn't exactly an "Apprentice" relationship. Trump liked the young Fazio's work ethic from the start and once Fazio got to know how Trump worked, the relationship grew even tighter.
"He's phenomenally particular," Fazio said of Trump, a six-handicapper. "He's got a very good eye. He'll walk by a piece of grass that's out of place and you'll be moving it. After working with him, you understand what he's going for after you see it through his eyes. And it's not just the golf - it's everything he does.
"He's very particular about the quality and once you get in tune with that, then it's not hard. But, there is definitely a learning curve."
Trump also liked the young Fazio's old-school approach. Fazio grew up in the business when sub-contractors were unheard of. One company did all the work from the ground up.
"I do design/builds where I exclusively hand-build my own golf course," Fazio said. "I bring all my own people in and I do not hire contractors. Then I supervise daily the construction, all aspects of it - not just the design, but the underground and everything - so that I get it exactly the way I want it."
Fazio differs from his uncle Tom, who despite his accolades, has been criticized for cranking out too many courses and becoming a "corporate brand," in the words of golf design critic Gib Papazian, writing for Golf Digest.
"I come and move to the project and live there for eight months," Tommy Fazio said. "Because of that, I can only do one job a year. Part of the criteria of me doing a course is that it's got to be a certain caliber, since I only have one to do. I only get one bite of the apple a year."
All the Fazios share some common traits when it comes to course design, but Tommy said one important way he differs lies in the difficulty of the courses he builds. Whereas Tom Fazio has also been criticized for designing courses that some consider too easy - only one of his designs has hosted a major tournament (the Champions course at PGA National for the 1987 PGA Championship) - his nephew likes to make them tough.
All the Fazios share some common traits when it comes to course design, but Tommy said one important way he differs lies in the difficulty of the courses he builds. Whereas Tom Fazio has also been criticized for designing courses that some consider too easy - only one of his designs has hosted a major tournament (the Champions course at PGA National for the 1987 PGA Championship) - his nephew likes to make them tough.
"Working with clients like Donald Trump, they always push you to make it harder, as hard as you can make it. We never make it as hard as we can make it because we'd make it impossible."
Fazio is like his uncle in that he doesn't mind altering the natural landscape in search of drama.
"Coming from Florida, I sometimes take out what's typical of the area and do something different," he said. "I did a course in Vero Beach (Fla.) where I took out all the palm trees, so it doesn't look like your typical south Florida course. I just try and get a variety of different looks."
Getting to know the family business from the ground up, literally, was a tremendous advantage.
"Back in those days it wasn't as glamorous as it is now - if it is glamorous at all," Fazio said. "I ran tractors, graduated to bulldozers, worked on irrigation crews. It was hard work. I learned it in the trenches. It wasn't until after high school I really start doing the design aspect of it, but it gave me that base knowledge of how to build a golf course.
"They did basically what I do now. So when I went out on my own, I went back to that heritage of hand-building the golf course."
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If anyone has a two day ticket available please let me know. Thanks!
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If anyone has a two day ticket available please let me know. Thanks!
I meant when will they be made available for rent. Was it a week before the fest or two weeks. I can't really remember.
When did they start offering the locker rentals last year?
This is what I was hoping for.
Anyone want to start write ups for some of these bands? Who to miss or not miss, songs to listen to etc, etc.
Charles Bradley was the perfect start. Deerhunter were amazing as usual.had me a spicy pie. All in all a pretty damn good first day. Legs are killing me though.
Checked the faq's on the website but was wondering if anyone has had a problem bringing in a backpack that has a built in battery pack to charge cell phones? I have a FŪL power bag.
I seriously wish death upon you before this festival happens you fat, greasy haired, living life behind a lens, virgen, piece of shit. Go fuck yourself! Fuck anyone who defends and tolerates this...
I'm sure there will be add-ons. Any idea who might have a chance at getting added?
Some hip hop would be nice.
any website to watch this for free?
Anyone else notice Daryl's tattoo switches from right shoulder to left shoulder from one shot to the next?
Anyone at the bootleg tonight?
Fuck the shitty sharks and fuck whatever you reply with.
The thread to post that album from before or now that just seems to work for you in regards to the seasons change. The cold weather, leaves changing, music that soundtracks your life at this moment. ...
!!! Alex's bar LBC. Oct 7th.
That was a pretty damn good speech.
Thanks for that.
I'll be there. anything i should listen to in preparation for sun araw?
why are you pieces of shit trying so fucking hard to find deeper meaning in shit like the fifth element? It was a fun movie when it came out. If you didn't watch it then what makes you think you'd...
yaaaaawn. thats my contribution.
hates fatties and organ donors.
I know one of the other performers that night and yes it's for the benefit.
doubt anyone cares but eagles of death metal headlining the echoplex tonight.
Anything worth doing or checking out in or around L.A. Day before 4th of July? Was planning on doing the Cinespia showing of Jurassic park but I found out too late and tickets sold out.
Fucker got what he deserved. He's gotten a few decisions in his favor his last few fights when he's clearly been losing. Fuck anyone who says otherwise. Although i'll even admit that was a blatant...
wtf? whats wrong with hawthorne and lawndale?
so what do you guys figure we'll be looking at as far as prices for both days?
RT @FYFFEST BTW: Monday. @kcrw at 10:00am. Probably the most unpunk way to release the line up. #FYFFEST*
So this starts @6pm both days and ends at?
fantastic. kudos to your brother kreutz. hope he maintains it.
Agreed. The sound was amazing last night. Drake was a nice surprise. Saw the Jessica Simpson on acid t-shirt as well.
thats good to read cutter. this will be my first time watching but already i feel he's doing an amazing job. his backing band is also tearing that shit up. it should be a good night at the cemetary.
awesome. i too missed the coachella show but ive since caught it on youtube and i'm really looking forward to it.
well, yeah.
so who's going to this?
unfortunately you're probably right about a first round exit for the lakers. its been fun to watch either way.
bunch of whiny bitches. wish he'd hit him harder now just to get all you laker haters panties even more in a bunch. especially this old fuck above.
That's pretty wonderful drinkey.
The more mellow Yo la tengo songs.
Hbo can't afford to hand manny a loss right before the supposed mayweather fight. specially not to an opponent that mayweather dominated already.
That was complete bullshit. Marquez had that win. There was so many times where pacquiao looked frustrated and was swinging wildly and missing his shots. I give up on boxing.
has real estate- days leaked?
Not a leak but malkmus' mirror traffic streaming over at NPR.


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Newcastle United skipper Fabricio Coloccini has been commended for showing complete bravery to play against Manchester United on the weekend.
The Argentine defender recovered from a back strain sustained at training to take his place in the Magpies' starting line-up for the 1-1 draw at Old Trafford and his efforts were praised by manager Alan Pardew.
"It was Colo's bravery that got him out there, and we wouldn't have got the results without him - 100%," he told The Chronicle.
"How he played at Man United I don't know, he could hardly walk off the training field on Friday.
"His back seized up and the medical team did a fabulous job on him."
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James Stephen Fossett
He was an American aviator, sailor, and adventurer who became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon. He made his fortune in the financial services industry and was best known for many world records, including five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo flight fixed-wing aircraft pilot.
A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and The Explorers Club, Fossett set 116 records in five different sports, 60 of which still stand.
Fossett was reported missing after the plane he was flying over the Nevada desert failed to return.[4] Despite more than one month of searches by the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) and others, Fossett could not be found, and the search by CAP was called off on October 2, 2007. However, privately-funded and directed search efforts continued.
On November 2, 2007, Peggy Fossett and Dick Rutan accepted the Spread Wings Award in Steve Fossett's behalf at the 2007 Spreading Wings Gala, Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, Denver, Colorado.
On November 26, 2007, Fossett's wife requested that Fossett be declared legally dead.[6] The petition was granted on February 15, 2008.
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|Rescuers to Resume Search for Plane Carrying Aviation
Adventurer Steve Fossett
Plane Carrying Aviation Adventurer
Steve Fossett Missing
Rescue crews on Wednesday were to resume their search for the plane of aviation adventurer Steve Fossett, who disappeared after takeoff from a private airstrip in Nevada.
Fossett, 63, the first person to fly solo around the world in a hot-air balloon, last was seen on Monday in a single engine plane heading south of Smith Valley, Nev., Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Western-Pacific region of the Federal Aviation Administration, told FOXNews.com.
Fossett departed at 8:45 a.m. Monday from the Flying
M Ranch in Yerington, Nev., but did not file a flight plan so it is unknown
where he was going.
March 3, 2005: Steve Fossett and Sir Richard Branson, left to right,
celebrate after Fossett landed the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer at Salina
Municipal Airport in his solo flight around the world without refueling, Kansas.
See More Photos at Fox News
A friend at the ranch reported Fossett missing Monday night when he didn't return, Gregor said.
Click here for photos of Fossett.
Air Forces Rescue Coordination Center in Langley, Va., is coordinating the search with Civil Air Patrol to find Fossett's blue and white plane.
Rescue crews have found no signs of Fossetts plane yet, said Maj. Cynthia Ryan, a spokeswoman for the Civil Air Patrol.
Six single engine planes carrying crews of three launched Tuesday morning to search the air for Fossett. Fossett had a full tank of fuel that would provide four to five hours, Ryan said.
The search area includes hundreds of square miles of rugged terrain and area airports are on alert for the missing plane.
Richard Branson, friend of Fossett who financially backed some missions, called him a tough old boot.
I suspect he is waiting by his plane right now for someone to pick him up, Branson, Virgin Group founder, said in a statement. Based on his track record, I feel confident well get some good news soon.
In 2005, Fossett made the first solo non-stop, non-refueled circumnavigation of the world in 67 hours.
He and a co-pilot also claim to have set a world glider altitude record of 50,671 feet during a flight in August over the Andes Mountains.
Fossett, a Stanford University graduate with a master's degree from Washington University in St. Louis, came to Chicago to work in the securities business and ultimately founded his own firm, Marathon Securities.
The 63-year-old has climbed some of the world's tallest peaks, including the Matterhorn in Switzerland and Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. He also swam the English Channel in 1985, placed 47th in the Iditarod dog sled race in 1992 and participated in the 24 Hours of Le Mans car race in 1996.
In 1995, Fossett became the first person to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon, landing in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Fossett, of Beaver Creek, Colo., was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in July. He told a crowd gathered at the Dayton Convention Center in Ohio that he would continue flying.
"I'm hoping you didn't give me this award because you think my career is complete, because I'm not done," Fossett said.
Fossett said he planned to go to Argentina in November in an effort to break a glider record.
FOXNews.com's Melissa Drosjack and The Associated
Press contributed to this report.
SOURCE: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295714,00.html
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Disappearance of Adventurer Steve Fossett Baffles Experts
By Steve Friess 09.05.07 | 5:00 PM
As the search for missing millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett entered its third day Wednesday, the disappearance of the highly skilled and experienced pilot, on a clear day in terrain familiar to him, continued to baffle rescue crews and aviation experts.
Fossett, 63, has not been seen or heard from since departing in a single-engine aircraft early Monday for a brief recreational jaunt from the Flying M Ranch in rural western Nevada. His wife, Peggy Fossett, was waiting at the ranch -- an exclusive retreat owned by hotel magnate William Barron Hilton -- for her husband to return by noon so they could leave the state on a private jet.
More than a dozen aircraft have been used to scour the dense, mountainous region about 90 miles south of Reno since the search began in earnest at 6 p.m. Monday, but so far there's been no indication of Fossett or the blue-and-white Citabria Super Decathlon he was flying.
"This is kind of strange because these aircrafts have transponders and emergency locators and you can usually readily find them anywhere in the world, including under the sea," said Ross Aimer, CEO of Aviation Experts, a San Clemente, California-based aviation consulting firm.
"This guy is totally lost.... So far, nobody's heard the electronic location beacon," said Aimer, who has flown the region several times. "That sounds to me very, very strange. There's all kinds of possibilities."
The unlikely disappearance has already spawned rampant speculation on the internet about possible conspiracies and government involvement, fueled in part by CNN journalist Miles O'Brien's on-air comments Tuesday that Fossett may have wandered into restricted airspace in the military's top-secret Area 51 or Nellis Air Force Base. As both sites are more than 300 miles from the search area, Maj. Cynthia S. Ryan, spokeswoman for the Civil Air Patrol Nevada Wing, called such notions "laughable."
Such disappearances aren't unheard of in these parts, a rough, hilly terrain of sagebrush, pine and dry lake beds, according to Ryan, who said the region's mountains are "full of plane wreckage that nobody's ever found."
Early Wednesday, searchers had a false alarm as they spotted something they were sure was Fossett's plane. It was not.
"We thought we had it nailed," said Ryan at a Wednesday afternoon press conference, describing elation in the command center upon spotting what rescuers thought was Fossett's plane.
"It turned out to be one of the many unmanned wreck sites from previous years," Ryan said. "(Rescuers) sent in a helicopter, put a man on the ground. They verified it was not Mr. Fossett or his aircraft."
Officials say there's been no detection of the emergency locator beacon that would automatically go off in the event of a crash or could have been enabled by Fossett himself if he were capable. Fossett did not file a flight plan and didn't carry extra radio equipment because he was only planning to be gone for a short while, Ryan said.
Fossett's wife of more than 30 years was believed to be in seclusion Wednesday at the Flying M Ranch, according to William Hasley, co-author of the 2006 memoir, Chasing the Wind: The Autobiography of Steve Fossett. The Fossetts have no children.
Fossett is a veteran aviator known for setting world records. In 2002, on his sixth try, he became the first person to fly solo around the world in a hot-air balloon.
He has an application pending with the federal Bureau of Land Management to allow him to try to break the land-speed record in a jet-powered race car in the northern Nevada desert sometime next year. Hasley and others have speculated that Fossett was scoping out dry lake beds to challenge that record.
Billionaire businessman Richard Branson, Fossett's close friend and frequent financial backer of his record-breaking efforts, told Reuters on Wednesday that he's asked contacts at Google to see if the company's satellite images can help in the search for Fossett.
Hasley called the disappearance and the inability to locate Fossett a "mind-blowing thing."
"I can't figure this out because it is a mountainous area but I think he was looking at the desert part of it," said Hasley, a Los Angeles-based author who last saw the missing aviator in July when Fossett was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio.
Noting that Fossett sits on the executive board of the Boy Scouts of America, Hasley said, "I'm hopeful even if he did crash, he would be able to survive. He has unbelievable survival skills."
Hasley said if Fossett died amid a simple outing on a day with optimal conditions, it would be a cruel irony, considering his legacy.
"He's crashed all over the world in planes and balloons," said Hasley, who has not had contact with Peggy Fossett since the aviator went missing. "I would be very discouraged if he passed this way. But I'm not giving up hope."
Ryan was also optimistic.
"I can't think of anyone more experienced and capable of dealing with an emergency than Steve Fossett," she said. "The chances are still very, very good that we'll find this man."
SOURCE: http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2007/09/fossett
|Originally posted by johnlear
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Post ID 3485269
I didn't know Steve but I know the Flying M Ranch very well and flew out of there many times. I was Baron Hiltons personal pilot (Barron owns the Flying M) for about 3 years.
Here is a map that shows the Flying M Ranch (blue rectangle of left) in relation to the Navy Undersea Warfare Center in Hawthorne. The Flying M Ranch is 18 miles due west of NUWC on the East Walker River.
I do not believe that NUWC could
have had anything to do with Steve's disappearance its just on the same
map I am using to show where the Flying M Ranch is located.
Google maps image showing the location of the Flying 'M' ranch in relation to Hawthorne Nevada and the Naval Underwater Warfare Center NUWC base...
Originally posted by makeitso ATS POST ID 3485328
Thanks for the map John. I've been using this interactive map to look around, but google earth would probably be even better I suppose. Relying on your knowledge of the area, perhaps you know of some dry lakebeds around there that he may have gone to look at to set a new record? One that may be within the hour or two timeframe he was expected back?
Originally posted by johnlear ATS POST ID 3485446
Thanks makeitso. I can't understand why anybody would use other than Bonneville for any record attempt. It doesn't make sense.
But the only other dry lake suitable would be Mud Lake down by the Tonopah Test Range. The northwestern corner of the Nellis Restricted R-4807A sticks about 3/4 of the way into the lakebed. (Or used to I lost my current Nellis Range chart a few months ago.)
Mud Lake was an emergency strip for the X-15 and was used by Darryl Greenamyer for the F-104 worlds speed record. But I don't know anybody that has used it for a land speed attempt.
Steve was pretty savy so I can't even imagine what happened to him or what kind of trouble he might have gotten into.
But I am hoping he is still with us and there is a
good possiblity he is because the ELT did not activate.
|Steve Fossett was looking for
lake beds suitable for land speed record attempt
Tuesday, 04 September 2007
A spokesman for Steve Fossett has told BYM News that the record breaking yachtsman and aviator, flight out of the Hilton Ranch, in Nevada, yesterday, was a reconnaissance mission, over the desert. Fossett planned to fly over a number of lake beds, to find possible sites for his planned attempt on the world land speed record.
Fossetts team still has high hopes that he is alive, telling BYM We all know hes been in tough situations before and come out of them, were hoping hes going to walk out of the desert.
The Steve Fossett website has gone down, as a result of an extraordinary number of hits, but work is going on to restore it as soon as possible.
Thirteen aircraft are now searching for the blue and white Citabria Super Decathlon plane. There is no indication as to why a signal has not been received from the planes emergency beacon.
SOURCE: BYM Marine & Maritime News
|Originally posted by makeitso ATS
Thanks John,
I may have found the answer about Bonneville Flats question. While first looking at Mono Lake and cross-referencing with "land speed record" I found the following:
The Bonneville Salt Flats are world-famous as the site where the land-speed record has been broken several times!
Unfortunately, there is concern that the amount of salt being deposited is decreasing dramatically. This has affected the racing surface and actually slowed down racers. Eventually it may even require abandonment of the site as a speedway.
Some of the most recent land-speed record events, in fact, chose to do attempt their feat in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada partially because of this growing problem.
About mud lake. It has been used for attempting the land speed record. Hal Needham crashed there while attempting the record in '77.
Hal Needham - A Need for Speed
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Hals' great love for speed ultimately led him on a personal quest to become the first man to break the sound barrier on the ground. Hal launched his campaign to be the first man to break the sound barrier in Tonopah, Nevada with the H.M.I. Motivator. Needham drove to a top speed of 620 miles per hour. When the H.M.I. braking parachute failed at 350 miles per hour, Needham took a scary ride across the mud lake desert. Having not succeeded in breaking the sound barrier, Needham built a new rocket car, The Budweiser Rocket. Needham hired Stanley Barrett, his stuntman protege, to drive the Budweiser Rocket and the Needham Team headed for the Bonneville Salt Flats. 8 hair raising runs were made but the salt was to thin and the wheels would break through causing the car to tricycle and bounce across the salt bed. "The Needham Team" then decided on Edwards Air Force Base to make an assault on the Sound Barrier. On December 17, 1979, Stan Barrett drove Needham's Budweiser Rocket Car to a speed of 739.666 mph, which broke the Sound Barrier on the ground for the first time ever. The car was donated to the 'Smithsonian Institute where it is on display in the Aerospace Museum.
|Fossett has extensive ties to
No. Nevada
Posted: 9/4/2007
Tycoon adventurer and record-setting pilot and balloonist Steve Fossett was planning an assault on the land-speed record in Northern Nevada.
In late 2006, Fossett said he planned to smash the 763 mph record, rocketing up to 800 mph in a jet-powered vehicle on the Black Rock Desert.
The effort was to be based in Reno.
This is surely the most dramatic of all world records, the oldest and most famous record in world motorsport, Fossett said in a October 2006 news release. I am very, very excited by the opportunity to meet this challenge to drive through the speed of sound and reach 800 mph. This is a great goal and we have the car to achieve it.
The current land-speed record was set in 1997 in Nevadas Black Rock Desert by Britains Andy Green, driving the twin-turbojet powered Thrust SSC.
The car Fossett was touting is a dart-shaped, 47-foot-long,
9,000-pound vehicle.
The car was originally designed and built by five-time land speed record-holder Craig Breedlove for an unsuccessful 1996/97 LSR campaign, and was undergoing chassis modifications and aerodynamic development under Fossetts team in 2006. The effort was being led by project director and aerodynamicist Eric Ahlstrom.
Fossett made the first solo non-stop aircraft flight around the world between Feb. 28, 2005 and March 3, 2005, taking off from Salina, Kan., and flying eastbound, returning to Salina after 67 hours, one minute and 10 seconds without refuelling or making intermediate landings.
In December 2006, former land speed record holder Craig Breedlove, 70, said he sold his jet car described by the San Francisco Chronicle as a winged rocket crouched on wheels to Fossett after his big sponsor, the National Guard, withdrew from Breedloves run at the land speed record because of the war in Iraq. Breedlove said at the time that he was working with (Fossett) as a consultant, helping him get organized. He said the rocket car was to be moved from Rio Vista, Calif., to a place in Reno, closer to a venue (the Black Rock Desert) where it will be run.
| Aided By Weather, Crews
Resume Search For Steve Fossett
Wed, 05 Sep '07
Among the equipment being used to search for Fossett is ARCHER, high-tech hyperspectral imaging equipment capable of distinguishing between objects on the ground, according to Agence-France Presse. The Civil Air Patrol has deployed the imaging device onboard a plane flown in from Utah.
"ARCHER is essentially something used by the geosciences," CAP spokeswoman Major Cynthia Ryan said. "It's pretty sophisticated stuff ... beyond what the human eye can generally see."
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Hotels in Space
HOTELS IN SPACE (Based on Preprint
Relevant Excerpt... Barron Hilton talks about Don Douglas Jr.
"Perhaps we'd better learn to walk before we run, so let's begin with the Orbiter Hilton. My friend Don Douglas, Jr., has been telling me about his company's concept of a space laboratory which would be 14 stories high and could comfortably accommodate up to 24 people. Personnel would arrive in a six man ferry craft.
As developed and expanded why couldn't this be the first orbiter Hilton? Perhaps the two organizations - Hilton and Douglas - could get together on a deal. Mr. Douglas could provide the orbiter hotels and we would franchise the Hilton name and know how to set up a chain of Hilton Douglas orbiter hotels.
These might be like Hilton Inns for short trips in space. They could accommodate brief stop-overs on a continuing journey to the moon or other planets. I should advise you - and I guess I'd better tell Mr. Douglas too - that an Orbiter Hilton is already in existence. It's known as "Hilton Space Station Number Five" and you'll be seeing it next fall in a motion picture called "2001 - A Space Odyssey". So I guess it behooves Mr. Douglas and me to get busy with our orbiters before somebody beats us to it." - Barron Hilton 1967 - AAS 67-126
Many people have asked "How does John know so much... Well above you see the document dated 1967 where Barron Hilton talks about Don Douglas Jr. and their plans for the Lunar Hilton back in 1967..
Barron Hilton has encouraged the sport of gliding through the Barron Hilton Cup since 1981. Pilots who have completed the longest triangular flights are invited from around the world, with their guests, by Barron Hilton for a week long soaring camp at the Flying-M-Ranch in Nevada. The objective is for the best pilots to get to know each other and to fly with some of the other best soaring pilots. - Wikipedia
John sent me this letter today (Sun Sept. 16, 2007) as I was finishing this page..
The ranch was named the Flying-M by its previous owner, Stanfield Murphy. Mr. Hilton said he did not change the name because his wife, who died in 2004, was named Marilyn.
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How should I integrate this remote volume control?
I will shortly be building a diy remote volume control kit:
It controls a 20k pot.
I'm currently using an integrated amp, which has pre-out/main in, and I have inserted Behringer Ultracurve in between pre and power amps, which means I can use it to provide more gain. This makes me think, should I bypass having a normal preamp? Could I insert this 20k motorised pot before or after Ultracurve?
It has a +12 and +22 dbu setting which as I understand, alters the gain ...
I have a non working ESP preamp (the one with tone controls), which I could get working and insert it in there perhaps ... (but don't really want the tone controls now) ...
If I inserted this motorised pot in without any preamp, would it then be a passive line level attenuator? I have never been clear on what is the difference with those apparently expensive passive attenuators!
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It's a good value kit and I've done a few. Never could get the mute to work properly as too touchy on adjustment so the track was cut as suggested in the instructions and the pot varies in quality.... have had a real good one and others crappy. I ended up getting one of the 16mm Alps that Peter Daniel was selling and was very cheap and sounds good.
Just wire it in after the selector and before your pre out. You can try passive or with your active pre in the existing location. Passives are a strange beast and when they sound good they are great but when they don't.... er.... awful. Impedance matching and all that stuff. The only amp I've ever had luck with a passive was the GC.
Here's a layout but has an active pre.... igonore that and it's a passive.
Ok I've built the kit, grabbed some remotes to see if one of them can control it. Fortunately yes, one of them does :)
However ...
I then programmed the signal that worked into my learning remote, and then tried it. It worked as well, but only for a short time! :( I disconnected from the power, and after half a minute tried again and it worked for a few moments, then stopped working again. This happened yet one more time ...
but now it doesn't seem to work at all!
Any ideas?
Yes - it has adequate power 12V going to the terminals
Yes - all the connections seem fine
One strange thing - there was a spair MKT cap left over, did you find that as well? Also, does that chrystal thing have a polarity?
Now I tried it again and it works just fine!!! .... ahhh how to understand this! :xeye:
Should be 3 100nF MKT's on the PCB. If they are all there, then surplus. There is another 10nF MKT for the motor filtering. 4MHz Crystal can go in any direction.
Just double check the wires running to the motor as sometimes the fine wires break. Once I solder these on I put heatshrink over the joint to act as a sort of strain relief (put the heatshrink on the wire before soldering).
If it happens again, check the voltage at the input terminals and pull out IC1 and measure the voltage between pin 5 and 14 on the socket for roughly 5V.
ahhhh that's the cap I was talking about ... so how do I put it in?
I tried it out in my system passively, after the switchbox and before preamp, and it sounded terrible. Apart from very unsteady changes in volume, which seemed to change almost randomly, the overall sound was terrible - distorted like a very cheap amp (ie. 1w) and speakers turned up to their limit. TV speakers would sound good in comparison!
It appears I'll have to do a diy preamp! ... I did one as one of my first electronics projects, however it didn't work :(
Any ideas why it might sound so bad?
Sounds as if you have too much gain in your system. Maybe you should try without that Behringer, or preset that for a comfortable range on the remote control.
Jan Didden
How can there be too much gain? If that were the case, surely the amp would be clipping. However, in this case, the sound is distorted at any volume when the pot is included as a passive attenuator. Not distorted as in the peaks being clipped, but distortion as in the entire signal sounds like AM radio on a cheapie clock radio!
Rabbitz, what do I need to do with that 10nf MKT cap?
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The 10nF goes across the motor terminals.... see the pic below.
Too much gain really can make the sound sound harsh and ill defined. Had a Rotel pre amp attached to an AKSA and the Rotel must have had a zillion dB gain as it was full bore about 9 o'clock so I put in a dividing network to attenuate the signal which was OK until I finished my pre amp with 6dB of gain.
Try the passive first with only the source > pot > power amp without any other electronics. Then add one active thing at a time.
Just double check you have the pot wired correctly... looking from the front:
Right pin is IN
Centre pin is OUT
Left pin is GRD
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Thursday's Racing Podcast - Royal Ascot Day 3
It's Day 3 of Royal Ascot! Craig Forsyth joins Jack Critchley to look ahead to another tremendous day of racing.
The pair reflect on the successes of the first day and pick out the star performers.
Craig previews all six races and offers some big price selections along the way.
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Marlene Dietrich achieved international acclaim with her 1930 performance as Lola the gold-digging cabaret singer in BLUE ANGEL. Paramount Studios promoted the German actress as a rival to MGM's Greta Garbo. Von Sternberg guided his star to success in MOROCCO, DISHONORED, BLONDE VENUS, and SHANGHAI EXPRESS by heightening her beauty through the illusions of light and shadow. Her swift rise in Hollywood was followed by the fall and she was declared 'box office poison' in the mid 1930s. Offered lucrative contracts by the Nazis, Dietrich remained in the USA and became a staunch supporter of the Allied War Effort.
After the war she wowed audience around the war with her stage performance and few songs were better than her version of Pete Seeger's WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE.
Where indeed?
A great lady and a great song.
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Hello all. This map of a nonscientific survey over 5,000, Americans shows that the nation's favorite beers are a patchwork of both history and innovation: from based style wheat beers since 1995. Yuengling being the oldest beer in America, and Blue Moon being brewed since 1995. Of course no matter your thoughts on Bud Light, it will away be in the top ten for good, bad or undecided.
What ever your thoughts are on Wheat beers, there is a category you fit in.
Now go train. As Always, Workout, Drink be Merry.


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When did you last ask yourself what you really want?
You tore yourself away from TV, Facebook and the multitude of life's distractions to pause quietly. You asked, "What do I really want?, " and really took the time to dig deeply.
You decided on a clear desire, created a plan to fulfill that want and then held yourself accountable to it. You looked beyond your current situation and discovered a new world of possibilities. Your perspective shifted, so life shifted and transformation occurred.
This is what a life coach can help you do.
Life coaching is a tool to help people find forward, focused action. It keeps the learning process alive, and takes someone from where they are now to where they want to go.
The process begins with a client and coach designing an alliance. This partnership is cleary defined to create an effective working relationship. The client plays a critical role in declaring how he or she wants to be coached. This then empowers the relationship and sets the foundation for the client to decide the agenda – what exactly do they want to be coached on?
An individual may choose to be coached in a number of areas, be it work, relationships, health, personal growth, balance, creative expression or money, to name a few. This agenda can change from session to session, and sometimes even while in session.
Life coaching is still catching on. There are questions about what it is and what it is not:
1 – Therapy
Therapy is the understanding of pathology of past and current decisions. It states there is a problem. Therapists are trained to diagnose emotional problems and work with clients to heal the emotional wounds.
A life coach is not a therapist. You can talk openly and freely to one, but do not expect a diagnosis.
2 – Consulting
Consultants bring specific skills, experience and analytical processes to a situation. They are paid to understand a problem and provide workable solutions in the business realm.
A life coach is not a consultant. There may be times when he or she can share a specific skill or experience, but there is no attachment to the idea that it's the right answer for you. The information is presented as one of numerous options the client may consider during the coaching process.
3 – Mentor
A mentor is someone with more experience in a specific subject who advises or assists someone seeking more knowledge through the relationship.
A life coach is not a mentor, per se, but like a mentor, can serve as your own personal cheerleader. He or she will encourage you to look inside yourself for the answers.
4 – Athletic Coach
An athletic coach develops an athlete's performance on and off the field, which is then usually measured by wins and losses.
When a person thinks of a coach, the first thought is often of someone behind the bench, coaching a team to victory. While life coaches may encourage and challenge their clients, the process is different and the focus isn't necessarily athletic.
What life coaching is:
It's all about you and what you hope to achieve. The relationship with your coach reminds you of your strengths and offers you insight into your thoughts and behavior to support you in moving forward.
A coach will use aspects of personal improvement practices like visualization, creating mission statements and exploring areas of your life at a deeper level through charting. The identifying characteristic of life coaching is that the client is encouraged to find their own answers to the questions they ask. Many times this can happen between sessions.
Coaching provides a greater focus on and awareness of the choices available, which can accelerate an individual's progress. It helps clients overcome obstacles by re-framing patterns of thoughts and behaviors that aren't aligned with who they want to be and where they want to go.
Life coaching meets you where you are right now, helps you get clear on what you want and takes you there.
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During the 1980s, if you wanted to see a movie adapted from a Stephen King story, chances were pretty good one was playing at a nearby theater or drive-in. After the financial successes of Carrie (1976) and The Shining (1980), Stephen King movies for a time were cranked out like sausages, at the rate of about one every six months: In 1983 there was Cujo, The Dead Zone, and Christine; 1984 saw the release of Children of the Corn and Firestarter; Cat's Eye and Silver Bullet followed in 1985; and Maximum Overdrive, Stand by Me, and The Running Man were released not long after.
Children of the Corn was just about the worst of the early King adaptations though, incredibly, it's spawned no less than six sequels to date (most direct-to-video) and a made-for-TV remake has been announced. Nevertheless, the film "that started it all" is about as bad as it could be; the two leads give decent performances, but otherwise it's a model for how not to make a horror film. There's no suspense, it's not scary or atmospheric, it's full of plot holes, and like many bad horror films, the main characters are required to act like total idiots to facilitate a plot that demands far too much suspension of disbelief.
Adapted from King's short story (it debuted in Penthouse before appearing in the 1978 compilation Night Shift), the movie version is oddly structured, told simultaneously from two incompatible perspectives: a young boy named Job (Robby Kiger) narrates the film, but most of the picture is told from the point-of-view of a married couple, Burton Stanton (Peter Horton), a medical doctor, and his wife, Vicky (Linda Hamilton). This odd approach is not only awkward - it stifles all the potential effectiveness of each perspective.
Further muddling things is the film's badly-executed prologue: In 1981, in the small, isolated farming town of Gatlin, Nebraska, all but two of its children return from a visit to the cornfield to gruesomely murder all the adults. Only Job, who was in church that Sunday morning, and his little sister, Sarah (Anne Marie McEvoy), at home with a fever (and clairvoyant for no good reason), are spared the hypnotic influences of adult-child Isaac (John Franklin), leader of the religious cult-like children of the corn.
Three years later, one boy attempting to flee Gatlin is stabbed in the cornfield by Isaac's lieutenant, a fiery redheaded teenager named Malachai (Courtney Gaines). Dying, the boy wanders out onto the highway and is struck and killed by Burt and Vicki's speeding automobile. Taking note of the trail of blood leading out of the cornfield, Burt puts the body in the trunk of his car and he and Vicky decide to contact the appropriate authorities in the nearest town. But, as fate would have it, they're inexorably drawn to the nearly deserted, decaying Gatlin.
For starters, telling its story from two perspectives is ruinous. The filmmakers should have picked one or the other: stick with the kids and explore their fears, isolation, and efforts to get away, or with Burt and Vicky so that the audience stumbles upon Gatlin and its mysteries as they do. In trying to have it both ways the filmmakers only shoot themselves in the foot: the potential for a baffling, unsettling mystery with Burt and Vicki evaporates, and because the lion's share of the script focuses on them, there's no time to get inside the kids' heads, or to tell the story from a child's perspective.
In this sense the film invites unfavorable comparison to the later Stand By Me, which did a much better job capturing the concerns of children and the way they talk and behave. In Children of the Corn the kids are like those in a Disney comedy; they don't react in ways that are anything like real kids, and the child actors just aren't in the same league as those in Stand By Me, either.
Because it's filmed without any finesse or effort to adapt King's nightmare-like storytelling style cinematically, the story's flaws are accentuated and the film begs innumerable questions that go unanswered. What do the children eat? Why hasn't anyone in nearby communities noticed Gatlin has been taken over by a supernatural cult and that all the adults have been murdered? After three years wouldn't the IRS make inquiries? Who empties their septic tanks? Who's paying the water and electric bills?
Worse, Burt and Vicky act like total morons almost from the very beginning. It's obvious to Burt that the boy he and his car struck had been viciously stabbed, but Burt tramples all over the crime scene, moves the body (left rotting in the trunk of his car at the fade-out, incidentally) and other evidence, and after the initial shock of hitting the boy, has no sense of urgency about contacting the police. For most of the film they act more annoyed than unnerved, like vacationers put out because their airline lost track of their luggage. In King's story the couple's marriage was on the rocks; that made them less appealing but it also made their self-defeating behavior more logical.
When he and Vicky arrive in Gatlin, they see no adults and find the local café, its front door unlocked, overrun with corn stalks and rats. All the phones in town are dead, and there may be no electricity. (The film is extremely unclear about this latter point.) At this point, if not much earlier, any sensible couple would have beat a hasty retreat, but they decide to separate, with unconcerned Burt continuing to wander around an obviously long-unused, vandalized town hall and police station.
Why did the filmmakers choose to set most of the film in broad daylight? A dark and stormy nighttime setting would have helped a lot, and many of the film's deficiencies (including notably poor optical effects and lackluster makeup) could have been hidden away in the shadows. As it is, Children of the Corn is much less frightening than the average Simpsons Halloween Special.
If it weren't so boringly uneventful and routine - "Things just aren't happening fast enough," Burt admits at the halfway point - it might have gained a cult classic status. The script is certainly full of howlers: "It's a little weird here," Burt admits to Vicky, "but it's safe." This is five minutes before Vicky is attacked by teens with sickles. When it's revealed that older teenagers must sacrifice themselves to the monster under the cornfield, the latest sacrifice cuts up his chest and explains to Burt that today is his 19th birthday, prompting Burt's reply: "You gotta sick way of celebrating it, pal!" Malachai - an over-emphatically evil-sounding name - spends most of the film wandering around town like a demonic Mick Jagger screaming, "Outlander! Outlander!" After a few appearances Malachai becomes comical instead of threatening.
Video & Audio
Children of the Corn gets a 1080p 1.78:1 presentation, opened up slightly from its 1.85:1 theatrical presentation. The image is generally impressive though digitally tweaked a bit, most obvious in an early scene where Hamilton's character dances in front of a window with bright sunlight pouring in. Generally though, the image is bright and impressively sharp, though opticals tend to be pretty grainy. The Dolby TrueHD 5.1 remix, though a big upgrade from the original monophonic release (New World's films were usually mono, well into the mid-'80s at least) boosts the musical score at the expense of dialogue, but it's okay. English and Spanish subtitles are included. The menu screens are clumsy and overdone.
Extra Features
For such a bad movie the disc has a lot of supplements. Harvesting Horror: Children of the Corn is an older, 36-minute documentary in standard definition from an earlier release, but the other three featurettes are all new and in high-def. Welcome to Gatlin: The Sights & Sounds of 'Children of the Corn' features interviews with production designer Craig Sterns and composer Jonathan Elias: It Was the Eighties! offers a fascinating chat with Linda Hamilton; and Stephen King on a Shoestring features a rather dull but informative interview with co-producer Donald P. Borchers, who was only in his mid-20s at the time yet New World's VP of worldwide production.
A party-like atmosphere prevails on the audio commentary track with director Fritz Kiersch, co-producer Terrence Kirby, and actors John Franklin and Courtney Gaines. A Fast Film Facts feature accesses bits of trivia that one can enjoy in tandem with the commentary track. A trailer, storyboard and advertising art round out the extras.
Parting Thoughts
Children of the Corn is extremely mild, uninvolving, and at times criminally stupid. It's a product of its era, when it seemed almost everybody was screwing up one Stephen King adaptation or another. But the transfer is nice and the extras are plentiful, so if inclined toward this sort of picture, you might want to Rent It.
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Feta And Kashkaval Spirals
Turkish borek can be made into beautiful shapes, turning pastry into delicate roses. Here we take a shortcut to a less involved but still somewhat floral-inspired approach, using puff pastry to create beautiful crisp cheese borek. These make addictive party snacks. Feel free to make up more than you need and freeze, unbaked, for your next party. They can be transferred directly from the freezer to the oven and will bake with just a few minutes' extra oven time.
Makes 4 dozen small spirals
1/2 pound feta cheese, crumbled
1/2 pound kashkaval cheese, grated (if unavailable, substitute provolone or a similar mild semi-firm cheese)*
1/4 cup minced parsley
2 9-by-13-inch sheets puff pastry
4 large ripe tomatoes (optional, but nice)
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
In a bowl, mix together the feta, kashkaval and parsley until well-combined.
Lightly dust a clean countertop with flour, and lay out one of the sheets of puff pastry. Sprinkle half of the filling over the pastry, spreading it evenly to the ends, leaving a 1-inch exposed lip along one long edge. Begin rolling from the opposite edge, tucking along the way to keep things snug, then pressing/rolling to secure the roll when finished.
Take a sharp knife, and cut 1/2-inch rounds. Take each spiral, and press it between two hands to flatten slightly and compact the filling into the dough. Place on a baking sheet (these will expand a bit, so leave room). Repeat with remaining dough. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until they puff and brown. Transfer to a serving tray, slice the tomatoes into thin wedges, and top each spiral with a wedge of tomato (optional, but the bright, juicy tomato is a nice counterpoint to the crisp, cheesy spirals). Serve warm.
*Kashkaval, a somewhat firm sheep's milk cheese, can be found in markets that carry European products.


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San Diego County employers reduced their labor force by 4,400 in July, but job growth over the past 12 months is the strongest it's been since December 2000, according to state data released Friday.
Over the past year, county employers have added 35,100 jobs, the most they have in a 12-month period since the one that ended December 2000, when they added 39,900 jobs. It's the kind of growth economists say could really put a dent in the unemployment rate.
San Diego County's unemployment rate was 9.2 percent in July, down from 9.3 percent in June, state Employment Development Department data shows. However, that's up from a three-year low of 8.7 percent in May.
While the unemployment rate is up from a few months ago, consider this: In July 2011, the county's unemployment rate was 10.5 percent, as employers cut 17,300 jobs. The 4,400 jobs lost last month are the least amount of jobs cut in a July since 1990.
San Diego's data is not adjusted for seasonal factors, and July is a big month for seasonality.
Job cuts in local government education accounted for the brunt of the decline with a seasonal decrease of 8,500 workers. Alan Gin, an economist at the University of San Diego, said that includes support staff such as food servers and janitors whose services are not needed in the summer. It also counts 10-month employees who only work during the school year.
Many will be hired back at the beginning of the academic year and will again be counted as employed.
Educational and health services, which includes private schools, posted a loss of 1,600 jobs in July.
Gin called the report very positive, noting this is the first time the unemployment rate has gone down from June to July since 2003, when the rate went from 5.7 to 5.6 percent.
"This is excellent," he said. "The only reason for the decline from June to July is seasonal."
Gin said adjusted for seasonal factors, the county's July unemployment rate is 8.6 percent.
Gin said July is also a slow month for job growth because most of the summer seasonal hiring was done in April, May and June. In June, the leisure and tourism field added 7,200 jobs. Last month, it brought in 4,200 workers. Professional and business services added 2,600 jobs in July.
Lynn Reaser, chief economist at Point Loma Nazarene University, said adjusting for seasonal factors, the county actually added 8,600 jobs last month. She said while the growth has picked up, economic factors such as the presidential election, the "fiscal cliff," and the European debt crisis could put a damper on future economic growth.
"The last two months have been very impressive, which indicates that despite all of this uncertainty, San Diego companies are apparently seeing enough business that they need to hire workers in certain areas," she said. "Payrolls have been cut to such lean levels that they might sacrifice customer service or sales if they do not secure those certain workers, but overall I think companies are going to remain in a very cautious mode in general because of all these uncertainties."
Reaser said San Diego County is still an adjusted 56,000 jobs below where it was at a peak of July 2007. The county's job growth, at 2.9 percent, is outpacing California's, which is at 2.6 percent, and the nation's, which is 1.4 percent in the last year.
Professional and business services has accounted for the biggest gain in the last 12 months, adding 8,300 jobs. That includes temporary staffing, which has accounted for about ten percent of that gain as employers increase production but don't want to risk full-time commitments.
"This is a slow, healthy dig out of the recession," said Phil Blair, CEO of staffing agency Manpower San Diego, which currently has 247 jobs available, 117 of which are for engineers. "It's starting to happen and I know people are frustrated and it's slow, but it's going to be OK."
Statewide, California's jobless rate remained unchanged at 10.7 percent in July as the state saw slow employment growth, adding a little more than 25,000 jobs.
The figure is an improvement over California's 11.9 percent unemployment rate a year ago but also is a sign of the state's slow recovery. The national unemployment rate was 8.3 percent in July.
A federal survey of households shows a slight dip in the number of employed people compared to June. But the number of Californians who had jobs in July, 16.4 million, was 277,000 more than the same period a year ago.
Across the state, jobs were added in July to the government sector, financial and professional services, education, health care and the hospitality industry. The construction, manufacturing, transportation and information sectors saw job losses.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.Copyright © 2018, The San Diego Union-Tribune