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20 degrees and a soft rain here in Oishida. Enjoy

I hope they're going to beam him up........

Fuel tank. Wonder if they run the motor on alcohol?

Sorry team, but I'm going to blow a little smoke about Chiropractors. My back problem is very common: an unequal force caused a slight dislocation of the pelvis, where one hip moved up relative to the other. This rotates the coccyx, and puts an "S" shaped curve in the spine seen from behind. My back is weakened by being bent, and my balance suffers because my head is no longer centred over my hips. But wait... because my hips are out, my legs are different lengths, my knees are twisted (painful), and I find it hard to get enough angulation with my right knee to make a decent left tu

It cost my partner 1.2 million to get her old house demolished, and that was a special price because the Yak fancies her. sakebomb: I'd say your chances are pretty good. People still have to pay property taxes even if empty.

Quote: Originally posted by sava: soub: computer science (databases (data mining ) ) SQL? Blech, my code never worked.

That's a really interesting distribution. I've been skiing for 30 years, this year. Far out! My skiing doesn't seem to be getting any better though. When I skiied at Val d'Isere, I was pissed on by a bloke who must have been 75. He carved immaculately past me, pure balance and grace. I wanna be like him. What's the PhD on sava?

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Westmoreland was a general from the the Sherman school "war is hell", and he made it so. Nightly on TV we had the several hundred dead body count, where every dead Asian was Vietcong. The Politician behind this was not Johnson or Nixon. His name is Kissinger, the grand strategic planner behind carpet bombing of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. I would like to see Kissinger in front of a truly independent War Crime tribunal.

No, this is web wisdom. But they are perennials, and cutting a flower spike shouldn't kill them. I don't think you are going to see two flowerings, though.

What are your priorities? If skiing comes top then give up football, and get a decent bike. Swim, and keep your weight under control. I have had intermittent knee problems for 25 years, and have only recently connected it with a twisted pelvis, injured playing rugby as a teenager. When my back is right, the knees work perfectly. See a good Chiropractor, and do it while young.

Story here: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15980564-23109,00.html "GENERAL William Westmoreland, the highly decorated former commander of US forces in Vietnam whose name became synonymous with the US military debacle in South-East Asia, has died at a retirement home in Charleston, South Carolina. He was 91." My abiding memory is of him coming out in a TV interview with something like this ".... Asian people aren`t like you and me, they don`t have emotions........" I knew then, in 1966, that the US had picked a general to win battles, but not a war.

Kintamani is a volcano in Bali.

From here: http://www.delphinium.co.nz/growing.htm Plant Maintenance * Cut each spike down to 5 cm above ground after flowering; reduce water, gradually increasing again when new growth begins * Cut down and tidy in early winter, put slug bait down & mulch * Start feeding again when new growth is 5-10 cm high

Quote: Originally posted by gamera: Yep, soubriquet. I wonder why a politicial like at his position can say that kind of things again and again in public. It just shows how unconscious or ignorant about human rights. The troubling thing is that people keep voting for him. Take comfort that at least he's not a maniac like Le Pen, or a complete pillock like the Mayor for Ayre, who labeled my boys as mongrels

have fun.

The Office. On wowow from Friday 22nd July, 11.40 pm.

Sangokujin is "three world person". A pejorative for Korean or Chinese.

According to my goil, they are the old classy names for some of the 12 month calendar.

Spook. The Trafic is a van, n`est pas? In which case it will certainly have a carb, buried under a web of 20 year old rubber tubes. Popping and banging in the exhaust on overrun is a classic symptom of a vacuum leak. Time to inspect the vacuum tubes for cracks, and the throttle spindle and carb gasket for leaks.

They are well written and entertaining. JK Rowling has a degree in classics, which is a good start. 600 pages is nothing to a motivated 10 year old. I've read all the previous books, after my 8 & 12 year olds have finished them.

The braking effect of an engine is due to internal friction and pumping losses. The higher the revs for a given speed, the greater the braking effect. Hence changing down. The changing down wisdom stems from a time when cars had drum brakes. If you were lucky, you could lose about 40-50 mph before they overheated and faded, sometimes to nothing. Yes, I've done it, in a 32 tonne truck, and if I hadn't been able to keep it on the road it would have been very messy. On long descents it was easy to cook the brakes, so the rule was to use one gear higher than you'd need to climb it. Mode

IMHO, it goes something like this. The Apollo missions sent an effing ginourmous tube of aluminium into space, only to return the pimple on the top. Everything else was either burnt up, or is orbital junk. There was a school of opinion at the time (I was one of them) that something re-usable would be less wasteful. So, political pressure was brought to bear on NASA by the paymaster, and the Shuttle was born. Magnificent! The problem is that the the beast serves a political rather than scientific agenda. The need to be re-usable hopelessly compromises the engineering. Turn around

There are a couple of related issues here, manned vs unmanned flight, and the Space Shuttle itself. There's no doubt that the things people do in space could be done as well by machines. Without all the life support systems, thats a bunch of mass that doesn't have to be accelerated into space. The rationalisation for manned flight, is basically adventure. That's OK as long as we recognise what we are paying for. The shuttle itself is grossly wasteful, costing something like 100 times more to fly than initial projections. These were based on a turnround and relaunch on a hopeles

Quote: Originally posted by Steve W: So I just had an interview with Nova and it looks like i won't be able to teach in Sapporo, they tell me they don't have any openings. So they said they would do their best to put me close to skiing. What are some cities in japan that are the closest to skiing or have a hill right in town? Niigata seems close but i'm not sure. thanks You could try Yamagata. Zao is right on the edge of town and you can take a local bus. They have night skiing too. We had 14 metres of snow last winter, but don't mention "Tohoku" to anyone