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Yonder Alonso returned to the lineup today and went 0-2 for the Gulf Coast League Reds. Alonso had been out since mid-June after suffering a fracture of the hamate bone of the right hand while swinging at a pitch for double-A Carolina.
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The hamate bone (bone "H" in the photo to the right) is a roughly triangular-shaped bone composed of both a body and a hook. Hamate fractures are classified as type I fractures involving the hook and type II fractures involving the body. Type I fractures, which usually occur in the non-dominant hand, are more common than type II fractures. Type I fractures can be caused by repetitive motion or by direct trauma, while type II fractures always require direct force. It's estimated that hamate bone fractures account for 2% of all carpal fractures.
Hook of the Hamate Fractures
The hamate has a hook through which the flexor carpi ulanris tendon passes. The hook acts as a fulcrum to increase the strength of the muscle. A fracture of the hook of the hamate bone is an usual injury, but is more common among athletes who consistently swing a bat, racket, or club. Loss of grip strength, especially on the little finger side of the hand is a common symptom of this fracture, which is obviously a problem in professional baseball. Other common symptoms include pain and tenderness in the palm and numbness in the ring and pinky fingers.
Treatment of this fracture usually involves immobilizing the bone in a cast for 4 to 6 weeks. However, in more serious cases, surgery may be required to remove the hamate bone. Healing is usually complete in 6 to 8 weeks, which was the case with Yonder.
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It'll be interesting to see how Yonder performs as he works his way back. He wasn't flashing great power before the injury, slugging only .466, so this injury certainly won't help in that department. Occasionally, players returning from injury have a difficult time immediately regaining the same power that they had before the injury. Pirate uber-prospect Pedro Alvarez struggled early in his return from hamate bone injury, but has picked it up as of late. Other players who have suffered from the injury are Dustin Pedroia, who managed to play through the injury effectively, and Darin Erstad, while both David Ortiz and Wily Mo Pena fractured the hook of their hamate bones at one time.
While hitters can be 100% healthy from a medical standpoint, they may not regain the power and timing needed to be successful at the plate for quite a while longer. The best case for the Reds is that Yonder uses the rest of 2009 to get his timing and power back and hits the ground running for the 2010 season.
Future with the Organization
Now that the Reds have traded for Scott Rolen and revealed their intention to compete in 2010, it'll be interesting to see what they do with Yonder Alonso. Rolen's arrival makes it more likely that Todd Frazier will compete for time in leftfield with Chris Heisey, Chris Dickerson, Drew Stubbs, Jonny Gomes, and Wladimir Balentien.
So, will the Reds keep Yonder Alonso at first when he's ready for the majors and shift Joey Votto to leftfield? Or, does he become a very attractive chip to trade for a shortstop, catcher, or young pitcher to offset the loss of Zach Stewart?
Personally, I've never been a fan of the idea of shifting Joey Votto to leftfield. And, his performance at first base this year strengthens the case for keeping him there. In addition, the Reds seem to have a lot of viable candidates for leftfield, so flipping Yonder for a piece of the puzzle that we actually need may be the better option.
Regardless, it's nice to have Yonder back and healthy. Reds fans need as many silver linings as they can find right now.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
The Return of Yonder and Hamate Bone Fractures
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Developed country wages failed to keep up with inflation in both 2008 and 2011, but remained about 5 percent above the 2000 level in real terms, the ILO said in its Global Wage Report, published every two years.
"So far as we can tell for 2012 at this stage the trend seems to be for zero percent growth — flatlining," ILO Director General Guy Ryder told a news conference in Geneva.
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Loading his earthly belongings into a laundry cart that he rented from Campus Services, Johns Hopkins University freshman Austin Dennis made several trips from his dormitory room to his car on residential Greenway at North Charles Street, opposite the Homewood campus May 15.
It was move-out week for Hopkins students as the school year ended, and Dennis, an economics major, was catching a flight that night to his hometown of Miami, Fla., where he planned to relax and find a summer job.
Why not stay in Baltimore for the summer, he was asked.
"Because I can go to Miami," he said, grinning.
The exodus of Hopkins students will have a noticeable impact on businesses and residents in the Charles Village-Oakenshawe area. Eateries, markets and other stores along Charles, Calvert and St. Paul streets are bracing for a slow summer without thousands of students like Dennis, 18, who said he goes to Charles Village three or four times a week, mostly to eat at places like Subway, Chipotle, Potbelly, Sandella's and University Mini-Mart.
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That's why Sandella's and other businesses on the same block are bracing for a student-less summer.
"We do see a small dip" in business," said Curtis Ellison, a sales consultant for the Verizon Wireless store. But Ellison said even in summer, business "comes and goes," depending on what new phone products come out.
And Ellison said there is a steady business from international students, many of whom stay in town for the summer or come back at the beginning of August, "a little earlier than you might think," he said.
At the Potbelly Sandwich Shop, which opened March 26, manager Jessica Byars said the Chicago-based chain took the departure of Hopkins students into account when it opened the St. Paul Street shop, as the chain does with other shops it has opened near colleges and universities.
"We're in colleges all over the country," Byars said.
And Potbelly is trying to align itself closely with the Hopkins community, with sports photos and other Hopkins memorabilia around the restaurant, said Byars, who wore a Hopkins baseball cap and used to manage a Potbelly at the University of Maryland in College Park.
As a new restaurant in Charles Village, "we're not sure what to expect here," once students depart, Byars said. "We're sure there's going to be some dropoff."
She too hopes to recoup some businesses with area office and hospital workers, as well as catering opportunities.
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The business community's loss is residents' gain, however, as some look forward to peace and quiet and more parking on their streets.
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One thing that Cobb said she definitely doesn't miss are the belongings that Hopkins students used to toss in the alleys before they blew town. For several years, the university held an end-of-school sale and encouraged the students to donate their belongings to the sale instead. This year, there was no such sale, but Cobb said she saw Goodwill trucks stationed in several locations near the campus. She said alleys have been cleaner in the past few years.
Cobb said students have also been better behaved, thanks to Hopkins hiring liaisons between the campus and the communities near Hopkins.
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But students are still students, said Sandy Sparks, who has lived at Guilford Avenue and 30th Street since 1970. The Hopkins lacrosse team has a house next door to her, she said.
In general, students are a little loud, prone to late-night partying and "not good about trash," Sparks said. "They're behaving as you would expect a 20-year-old to behave."
But Sparks also has several international students living in her house during the school year. for her the presence of the students has been good and bad.
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Staunton's war on pornography began in December with felony indictments against After Hours Video owner Rick Krial. Now, the a cashier who sold police porno DVDs has also been caught up in the dragnet.
On Wednesday, January 23, Staunton Commonwealth's Attorney Ray Robertson indicted Tinsley Embrey on six felony and four misdemeanor counts of obscenity.
Why has Robertson decided to charge the man behind the counter when he's already indicted Rick Krial, the man behind the store?
"It's not really fair to charge the owner of the store and let the guy who actually sold the obscene material off the hook," Robertson says. "He knew the general nature of the material, and he's admitted to the police that he was hired to sell porn."
Kent Willis, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, doesn't see this prosecutorial tactic very often.
"In the obscenity cases we've done," says Willis, "I don't recall any of the clerical staff ever being charged. If you target the owner of the store, then the store goes away. If you target an employee who has little to no decision-making power over what items are for sale, it just means more work for the prosecution to achieve the same goal."
Robertson says this is the last set of indictments he intends to hand down in the case.
"Nobody else sold the videos," says Robertson. "On the four occasions undercover agents bought videos, three times they bought them from this guy Embrey, and the other time it was Krial himself."
Robertson won't be the only prosecutor trying that evidence. Matthew Buzzelli, an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice's Obscenity Prosecution Task Force, will join Robertson as co-prosecutor in the After Hours Video case, although the federal government has not announced any indictments of its own against the Manassas-based Krial or any of his Staunton employees.
"The Justice Department called me because this has been getting some national media coverage and offered one of their attorneys," explains Robertson. "They're going after porn on the Internet and through pay-per-view, so they're very interested to see how we do here."
Robertson says he welcomes Buzzelli's help, especially considering that Krial's co-counsel is Paul Cambria, a man who's made a career defending the likes of shock rocker Marilyn Manson, gangsta rapper DMX, and the king of porn himself, Hustler publisher Larry Flynt.
"I don't have a great deal of familiarity with these kinds of cases, because we've never had an adult video store in town," says Robertson. "They other side is bringing in their A-Team, and having an attorney from the Department of Justice who's experienced in obscenity cases evens up the odds."
Buzzelli did not return the Hook's calls for comment, but an online search finds that among the federal prosecutor's accomplishments is a 2007 conviction of Brazilian fetish porn producer Danilo Simoes Croce for conspiracy to mail obscene materials, in which he reached a plea deal that stipulated a six-month prison sentence and a $98,000 fine for distributing Croce's possibly stomach-turning scatalogical brand of adult videos. (Croce gained mainstream notoriety when people filmed others' reactions to his "Two Girls, One Cup" video. At press time, a YouTube search for "one cup reactions" yielded 5,830 hits.)
While Robertson concedes the material After Hours sells is more sex than toilet, he says it's not any less criminal.
"In just about every one of these things, you'll see one guy inserting his penis into a woman's vagina, and another guy inserting his penis into her anus, and then that guy puts it in her mouth, again, and again, and again," he says. "The message you get from this stuff is that unprotected sex with strangers– multiple strangers, even– is okay."
If the obscenity of a store like After Hours goes unchecked in his city, Robertson says, he worries about the Queen City's future.
"There's a reason Staunton doesn't have an AIDS epidemic," says Robertson. "We're not like Las Vegas or San Francisco where they've got these problems. We're a decent, moral community, and when I see this coming, I revile at it."
Robertson says he will move then to have Embrey and Krial tried together. Embrey's hearing has been set for Tuesday, February 5 at 8:30am, and Robertson is adamant about charging the clerk.
"I'm convinced this is the right thing to do," says Robertson. "He should have to face the music along with his employer."
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The last time I checked porn was legel, Just another
bible thumper trying to rid the world of the great evil porn. If you don't like it don't watch it wow wasn't that simple. As far as going after internet porn good luck with that. The US thinks for some reason it can control the internet. The laws of the USA don't apply over seas. So when we ban porn from the internet I guess we can start arresting people for viewing the overseas content. You guys are going to be very busy.
What? Vegas and San Francisco have aids issues because of *morals*? Someone needs to teach this guy that unprotected sex, not porn, spreads HIV before he catches it himself.
Good lord, what decade did this guy Robertson come from? The 1950s? In my opinion he is completely nuts. Was that store hurting anyone? If you don't like it, don't go in there. Should he ban satellite dishes because you can get Playboy and Skinemax as well?
The question is, are there actually laws against selling pornography in Staunton, and if so what is the definition of "pornography?"
Dear Danl101,
That's an excellent question and the answer is a two-parter. Following the indictment against Krial, Staunton's city council passed two ordinances. One of them requires all future adult businesses to apply to the city for a permit. The other bans such businesses from being within 500 feet within "daycare centers, schools, churches, or residences." So, if anyone wants to open up something like After Hours Video in the future, the city gets to determine its legality. However, since neither of these went into effect before After Hours opened, they don't apply in this case.
As for the definition of pornography, the law of the land is still the 1973 Supreme Court case Miller v. California, in which Chief Justice Warren Berger wrote that in order for something to be obscene--and thus unprotected by the First Amendment-- it must meet all three of the following criteria: "a) whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest, b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by state law, and c) whether the work taken as a whole lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value."
So, is pornography legal? The law doesn't explicitly say. Is the porn After Hours sold legal? That's for the jury to decide.
You can read more about it in the cover story we did about the case in December: http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2007/12/13/COVER-StauntonPorn-E.rtf.aspx
Thanks for asking, and thanks for reading.
Lindsay Barnes
I'm still trying to wrap my mind around this story, in that it seems that yet another 'public crusader of good' feeling the need to make decisions for adults.
If there were cases of the store selling/renting their wares to people who were underage, then I could see there being a hue and cry to deal with it.
However (and not that I'm interested in what they sell), the last time I looked, as adults, we do have the right to decide what we see and buy (outside of items that are illegal). I'd appreciate it if the do-gooders of the world would let some of us make our own decisions on what we watch, read, or buy.
I'm still trying to understand this comment:
"There's a reason Staunton doesn't have an AIDS epidemic," says Robertson. "We're not like Las Vegas or San Francisco where they've got these problems. We're a decent, moral community, and when I see this coming, I revile at it."
Thanks for the reply Lindsay.
"a) whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest, b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by state law, and c) whether the work taken as a whole lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value."
Heh, I think that definition is in serious need of updating. Those items would eliminate Jerry Springer and many other shows, magazines, and books (hey maybe that wouldn't be a totally bad thing, but who am I to judge?)
The "patently offensive way" phrase in item B is the real tricky part to me. To paraphrase of all things the band Anthrax, "What is offensive to you may not be offensive to me."
Wonder if Robertson ever goes into grocery stores and sees all the SEX!!! headlines on Cosmo each month?
"Descent" and "morality" are relative concepts to one's philosophy. How can one attorney speak for the majority or the minority? My moral code eliminates egalitarianism and embraces capitalism, not collectivism. My moral standards are higher than this attorneys',but to me, pornography falls into business ethics--not what is good or bad, which defies set theory of what is finite, not morality since my being moral is not reflective to religion but self respect and confidence to deal with the world.


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A week ago, we lost patience with Tim Geithner and called for him to be fired. He won't be fired, of course--throwing him under the bus only a month or so into his tenure would embarrass the Obama administration--but we have now heard the first public discussion of a possible resignation.
Why might Tim Geithner resign?
- He still has no coherent plan to fix the banking system
- He has convinced no one that he's the right man to lead us out of this.
- He helped design the past administration's failed bailouts
- He was the architect of the original AIG bailout
- He tacitly helped cover up the AIG "counterparty" bailout beneficiaries for 6 months
- He approved the latest round of AIG bonuses last week (according to AIG)
At the very least, Geithner needs to answer for his role in the original AIG bailout, which has been a disaster, as well as the counterparty cover-up.
In September, Geithner and Hank Paulson engineered an AIG bailout in which Paulson's firm (and one of Geithner's patrons on the New York Fed) secretly received $13 billion of taxpayer money that no taxpayer was told about. Now that taxpayers have found out about it, they are justifiably pissed.
In any event, Republicans have been emboldened by Geithner's stumbles, and they're getting closer to calling for his head:
Huffington Post: Sen. Richard Shelby, ranking Republican on the Banking Committee, charged that Geithner had known about the AIG bonus payments before they were made and failed to stop them...
Shelby said that Geithner "either knew or should have known what was going on. We need to know, what are the details of this? When were the bonuses signed up? Who's getting it?"
The Alabama senator stopped short of calling for Geithner's resignation, saying "he's under fire from all sides now."
"I don't know if he should resign over this," Shelby said. "He works for the president of the United States. But I can tell you, this is just another example of where he seems to be out of the loop. Treasury should have let the American people know about this."
See Also: Geithner Seen As Mistake, Steve Ratter The Fallback Plan


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- Anonymous15 December, 2009
If you know fear you are within fear, if you do not know you do not what is fear.ReplyDelete
This is a beautiful photo. waiting to see Bhangadh.ReplyDelete
Very nice bird in discreet colours.ReplyDelete
Good week Bhavesh.
Very strange this Myna... So different in the head and in the body expression.ReplyDelete
I have read of the Myna bird. In fact a shop owner who went out of business had a black one that he said was a Myna bird and it was all black and talked. We heard it talk and it was allowed to fly around his shop.ReplyDelete
Great photo, he looks smart with the yellow legs, bill and patch by the eye.ReplyDelete
so beautiful!ReplyDelete
Very common but very beautiful, just like the European Starling. PhilReplyDelete
Some people don't know, but Mynas can be taught to speak. They are among the cleverest of birds...ReplyDelete
Thats a beautiful clear picture... Good shot Bhavesh..ReplyDelete
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WOW!!! Magnificent!!!ReplyDelete
It's beauty indeed:)ReplyDelete
Their cousins rule Waikiki!ReplyDelete
Aloha, Friend!
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I loved your blog!!!ReplyDelete
Great pictures :)
This is an excellent picture...they are talkers, these birds, I've heard. I remember a tree, outside what was then the Kahala Hilton in Honolulu. The birds would return at sunset, filling the tree and jabbering nonstop. God forbid, you walked underneath!ReplyDelete
A beautiful shot, Bhavesh! Well done!ReplyDelete
What a dear little one! I saw footage last night of a massive flock of starlings, swirling like a black cloud ~ quite awe-inspiring.ReplyDelete
hey, here!ReplyDelete
Lovely Bhavesh :)
missed quite a few....Not to say, all nice :)
Gorgeous shot and beautiful picture. I would enjoy so much ligh nowadays!ReplyDelete
Very nice capture! We have the same bird here too..but i have never done a perfect photo like this!!ReplyDelete
Bhavesh: That certainly is a beauty and very well captured, great photo.ReplyDelete
Great capture Bhavesh.ReplyDelete
Very interesting image.ReplyDelete
Creativity and imagination from pictures of Jose Ramon Thanks for the comments
I heard those birds talk once in a pet shop – they have a very peculiar voice. Good shot. Thanks for visiting my blog.ReplyDelete
You have captured this common bird beautifully.ReplyDelete
I have three I raised from babies..(my son found them under the eves of a house he was working on..they talk and jabber up a storm (especially one)They whistle for my dog and call her by her nick name- hilarious! I'm glad you featured this! Have a great day-ReplyDelete
That's a great shot of the bird.ReplyDelete
A very good picture, we have these birds here at my feeders. Have a nice day.ReplyDelete
great shot! colors so sharp and nice bokeh!ReplyDelete
Tack sharp and the colors are right on. Great work, Bhavesh!ReplyDelete
Você fez um ótimo trabalho. Ficou muito boa essa imagem.ReplyDelete
you always amaze me with your shots, Bhavesh. They are so beautiful.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 December, 2009
Now, this is what I call a perfect image :)ReplyDelete
Wow.....so beautiful the myna is..ReplyDelete
I too clicked a myna I saw on a hill in Pune. She was singing too :-)
Lovely photograph of the Myna ..Bhavesh.ReplyDelete
I gone through all post, i was unaware that Myna can speak or trained to speak. Nice one :)ReplyDelete
Uma excelente imagem. Gostei muito.ReplyDelete
É um pássaro muito bonito.


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In a first of its kind development, the Republic of India was recently held liable for breach of its Bilateral Investment Treaty with Australia for judicial delays in enforcement of a foreign arbitral award. The order was passed on November 30, 2011 but has been made public only recently. It can be found here.
The UNCITRAL Arbitration between White Industries Australia Limited and the Republic of India was held in Singapore and will go down in history as the first ever investment arbitration against India. The previous one was concerning the Dabhol power plant in India but these multiple investment arbitration proceedings were settled before any award was made.
The dispute in this case concerned the excessive judicial delays suffered by White in enforcing its 2002 International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) award made against its JV partner Coal India. White sought enforcement of this award in Delhi High Court whereas Coal India sought to set aside the award in Calcutta High Court. The Calcutta HC held that it had the jurisdiction to consider setting aside the foreign arbitral award and appeals regarding the same were pending before the Supreme Court of India. The SC is currently considering the jurisdiction of Indian courts in setting-aside foreign arbitral awards. A summary of the award can be found here and here.
The UNCITRAL Arbitral Tribunal held that this excessive delay in local courts amounted to a breach of the India-Australia BIT. More interestingly, this was held to breach the treaty's Most-Favoured Nation (MFN) clause. As India's BIT with Kuwait contained an "effective means" clause, the Tribunal used the MFN clause to apply this "effective means" standard to the current dispute. The utility of this "effective means" clause was that this was invoked in a 2010 arbitral award to include court/judicial delays as being breaches of investment treaties (see Chevron v. Ecuador under the US-Ecuador BIT).
This investment award raises various unforeseen and unsettling questions regarding international investment law in India. Since, there have been no precedents to guide the legal system, a new niche area of investment arbitration will develop due to this award. Already, in the aftermath of the 2G judgment, Sistema JSFC, a Russian company has notified the Indian government of its inclination to invoke the investment arbitration clause in the India-Russia BIT. With the opening up of the FDI routes in India and various international investors entering into JVs, Indian bureaucracy will have to be aware of the obligations under the several BITs India has entered into with numerous countries across the world.


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I buy the products from japan and I sell to Europe. I am based in France.
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Sandblast warping heat MYTH.
A fellow forum visiter was nice enough to send me this email a long time ago after I posted about heat causing warpage while sandblasting. Very interesting stuff. If you feel the metal while sandblasting, it actually gets cooler from the air being blown on it!!
I deleted his name not knowing if he would want me to post it.
Sandblast warping
XXX XXXXX here - I read your post / recommendations against sandblasting body parts and I am in complete agreement. However, the mechanism that creates warpage is not the heat associated with friction of the abrasives hitting the metal. Rather it is the compressive forces induced within the sheet of metal by the heavy abrasive particles hitting the metal surface. You will not see this same warping when light abrasives are used because they lack the kinetic energy required to compress the molecules in the steel sheet thus leaving the sheet in the same stress state as it was in when formed by the dies at the factory.
This is a common misunderstanding, yet this behavior is well understood by some industries and is exploited by those who understand it to improve fatigue life of certain parts (like connecting rods for instance - they are often shot peened to redistribute stresses and place the surface of the rods in compression to reduce fatigue crack propagation).
When you blast one side of sheet metal, that side of the sheet metal surface will build compressive stresses and will physically grow - this places the opposite side of the sheet into tension - this will result in the side being blasted to bow up toward the blasting source.
In order for warping to occur due to thermal conditioning - the metal actually has to be heated up to a point where the molecules reach a transition state where they go from one packing arrangement to another (close cubic packed to close hex packed) - picture a six pack of beer held together with the plastic rings - that is stress relieved / annealed steel. Now - take the cans out and stack them so that each row of cans is offset by half a can diameter - this is a tighter pack - although less friendly from a packaging standpoint at the grocery store. This new denser orientation is the orientation that steel molecules take on when raised to a sufficient temperature (depends on carbon content and alloys) . . . if you raise steel to this temperature and then quench it - you lock the close packing orientation into this dense packing structure and this results in shrinkage (and increased hardness / brittleness).
Using this technique it is possible to take a piece of 1013 mild steel, whack a piece off, heat the piece up and then drop it in a bucket of water, use a water cooled grinder to sharpen it . . . and then you can cut the parent piece of metal with it as it is harder and denser in this condition.
Soooooo . . . . that is the difference between warping / shrinkage of metal due to sandblasting (compressive mechanism - localized molecular packing) or due to thermal influences (gross - macroscopic transition of molecules to a higher density due to re-orientation of molecular packing).
With all this knowledge in hand (or mind) . . . you now also know that thermal conditioning is typically used to shrink metal on a localized basis where sandblasting will always cause metal to grow on a localized basis.
Hope this makes sense . . . thanks for the great writeup!
I have read bits and pieces of this in different books over the years.
It was an excellent post.
I guess the question is how much of a sandblast beating would it take to see with naked eye?
Kinda like all solvent base products will have some shrinkage but I guess the trick is keep it small enough so you cannot see it?
Of course I'm one of those wackos that sand blast everything but do it very carefully and a lot of times stop at the factory primer or try to.
Even though risky have in the past cleaned up hard to reach spots on fiberglass and will on the vette I'm working on now but know its risky and requires a lot concentration and very low air pressure.
Once again that was a wealth of information!
barry, type 5 acrylic is quite soft. i use it on vettes. it's best to use it on a metal car first then switch it to glass. it works best at about 30 to 40 lbs of pressure with the media chocked down somewhat so you can go slow. i'm doing a 57 now and the third pass on it should have it nice and clean. plus i have to get rid of a ton of bondo on the rear.
I returned to find that his son had done the job. The doors were totally ruined. That Buick door was warped about two inches! No kidding, it would pop in and out like one or two inches. I shrank it with a torch and water just so it would maintain a shape. I then covered it with a LOT of filler, cut it flat with an 8" orbital and poly primed it. The end result was pretty nice, but boy was that thing heavy.
Here is just one of the threads I have seen where someone has ruined a car or panel.
Best I can recall, years ago saw a fender that was destroyed by sandblasting.
I know it can be done for sure.
What I was wondering was although I'm blasting very carefully is if I'm doing damage that you can't see with eye or minor enough to block out with primer.
Not that it really matters if it works out but I would assume any blasting would change the metal somehow or somewhat, just a matter of how much.
Shine thanks for the tip, going to try and locate some.
T6 is the softest. i may drop down to it for these early vettes i'm doing. i have a 54 next and i'm sure it will be a joy it's been repainted 4 or 5 times. anyway i think you'll like the soft plastic.
But if you want to come and help I just happen to have clear moonshine and brown moonshine in the garage of course this is used to start hard to start cars.
after the navy i can smell whisky and get sick. sure , i should be able to take a day off in oh say 2008
when i started a new job in a panel shop they were doing a 65 mustang, the owner had told me it was in perfect condition no rust no bog(bondo) no dents it was perfect
when i looked at it i could`nt beleive it it was f*'d buckled to the s***house even the frame under the boot warped and started protruding through the skin making high spots in the shape of the frame in the outer skin
i get people telling me all the time there going to get there car blasted and i always tell them not to do it some listen some dont the ones that dont always regret it
they always tell me the blaster said he wont buckel it and he`s going to do it slow and garentee`s he wont buckel it and when they do buckel it they say it had bog(bondo) in it or it was like that before i started
in 14 years of doing this job i have never seen a panel not damaged from blasting unless of course it was an engine bay or something
all i say to the people who want to blast, good luck and dont bring it to me when it`s *******'d
Last edited by Jon; 12-30-2005 at 06:44 PM. Reason: profanity
My first job in 1984 was at a deburring company working as a media blaster. It amazed me how big an effect the media could have on even relatively thick sheetmetal. I was doing some 3'x4' 1/8" thick punched aluminum instrument panels the customer wanted blasted prior to anodizing. Blasting one side would produce dramatic curvature of the panel away from the side being worked, so both sides had to be blasted quite evenly at a fair distance to help the panel regain some semblence of flatness. it was very clear to me then that the media was peening and stretching the surface of the metal!
Last edited by crashtech; 12-26-2005 at 11:21 AM.
why do people sand blast?
because its easier?
because it gets the metal clean?
sandblasting is good for somethings,
and others shouldnt be touched with it. IMO
now ive never read up on this, because its worked well for me.
i used a plastic 33 gallon garbage can, filled it with a box of arm n hammer washing soda, and water.
i ran 4 electrodes on the perimeter of the can.
all hooked together with jumper cables to the + side of my 12 V battery charger.
and the negative to a rod in the center suspended the
parts i wanted clean into the middle of the can, being sure not to complete the circut.
was so much easier than sand blasting, and alot less mess.
supposed to be environmentally safe, and the results rocked!
if you had a pool, you could do a car body in your back yard!
check out my dash that i left in overnight. and spent 15 min with a wire brush.
to remove the rust off that dash just mix molasass and water in a plastic drum and dip your panels in it for a few days
keep in mind electrolysis is the 3rd ingredient in rust. it's the one you cant stop with a coverup. rust lives " in " the metal. what you see on top is rust poop.
There is some very important information left out of all these posts.
What pressure, relative sand density and angle was being used in each case?
I have done 3 cars, yes full cars by sand blasting. I have not been able to find a single panel with warpage. On the other hand, we paid someone to sandblast and the panels were warp to crap.
What is the difference?
Well the guy who we paid blasted at 100lbs and with the sand valve wide open. You have a lot of particles moving at high speed. Lots of energy to move metal.
We run a Model B engine with a compressor head. It runs at idle and we have it set to give about 40 lbs of pressure at the pressure blaster. Then we only crack the sand valve open until we just start to see sand coming out. At these settings you must be patient, but on the other hand I did some thin Frence car panels with NO warpage (I also kept the noozle at and angle to the surface).
Now if you open the valve up more than you are increasing the amount of energy your beating the panel with. So even at 40lbs you might be able to warp a panel if the sand valve is wide open. I never tried this to see what would happen.
So yes if you want to be impatient and blast at high pressures with lots of sand in the stream you are gona warp some panels.
You can safely blast sheet metal if you pay attention and run lower pressures and keep the sand valve minimumly open. This will take a lot longer and is more effective (or faster) at removing rust in the pits than other methods.
So will those who swear that blasting will always warp panels because it has happened to them, speak up and truthfully tell us the whole story. What pressure were you using and how wide open was the sand valve.
This thread is not a "How to sand blast", sure there are ways you "can". This thread is about WHY sandblasting will warp sheet metal.
It is also the reason why I will say over and over until I am blue in the face, DO NOT SAND BLAST SHEET METAL PANELS. I am not speaking to everyone, as you point out YOU have done it. You took the chance, or practiced on something or whatever and can pull it off. I warn others DO NOT SAND BLAST SHEET METAL PANELS because the learning curve is VERY steep. I don't want to see some newbe ruining his car because he reads somewhere that it "can" be done.
You see, as some of these other posts say, you don't cause a "Crap, I messed up the panel I have more work to do" kind of damage. You cause a "HOLY #$^@ I RUINED THE PANEL AND HAVE TO TOSS IT IN THE GARBAGE!" kind of damage.
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Last October, Brian Solis created the definitive list of Twitter Tools, a handy list of Twitter helper applications by key categories. Given Twitter's explosive growth and crossing the chasm to more mainstream adoption, the palette of Twitter tools has most definitely expanded as Brian notes in his post to more than 1,000 apps. I noticed this a few months ago, when a few of us analytics geeks fooled around with creating a Twitter Monitoring and Analytic Tools Taxonomy.
That's why I'm was so excited to see that Brian Solis and Jesse Thomas have collaborated on an "alpha" version of the "Twitterverse" of Twitter tools covering a broader taxonomy of uses — from relationship management to workflow support and beyond.
You may remember that they also created the much replicated and shared Conversation Prism — a map to help communications, service, marketing, and community professionals more effectively navigate the many social media tools. They are asking for feedback on what is missing, suggestions for categories, and other ways to improve the tool.
I would love to see a clickable version. Better yet, I'd like to see a wikispace that included descriptions, links to tutorials, and tips.
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Thanks, Brian and Jesse, for a terrifically useful map to the Twitterverse.
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Another snuffbox from the collection of Sir Arthur and Rosalinde Gilbert, this Eighteenth Century snuffbox was made in France at the apex of the fashionable snuff craze. The box features panels of mother-of-pearl which are carved with a scene of a couple in court dress. They are surrounded by cherubs, which, frankly, I would think a little unnerving.
The mother-of-pearl panels are reverse painted with landscapes which are now substantially faded and worn. Imagine how vivid they must have looked in 1743 when the box was new. The gold mounts have been decorated with a wave pattern.
This box is the work of Jacques-André Delisle who joined the goldsmith's guild by letters patent in July of 1718, sponsored by the gold-box maker Pierre de Roussy.


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Published by an old curmudgeon who came to America in 1936 as a refugee from Nazi Germany and proudly served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He is a former law enforcement officer and a retired professor of criminal justice who, in 1970, founded the Texas Narcotic Officers Association. BarkGrowlBite refuses to be politically correct. (Copyrighted articles are reproduced in accordance with the copyright laws of the U.S. Code, Title 17, Section 107.)
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
By Howard Mintz
San Jose Mercury News
September 10, 2012
With California voters readying to consider whether to retain the death penalty, two prominent district attorneys, including San Mateo County's, are mounting a rebel legal campaign to kick-start executions in San Quentin's long-dormant death chamber.
Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley has been heading the charge, moving in recent months to sidestep legal obstacles that have put executions on hold for nearly seven years and secure execution dates for condemned killers Mitchell Sims and Tiequon Cox.
But San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe has quietly joined in, asking a local judge to set an execution date for Robert Green Fairbank, sent to death row for the 1985 murder of a San Francisco woman.
The legal gambit is spurred by some prosecutors' mounting frustration with Gov. Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala Harris, who instead of rushing to resume executions have focused on fighting state and federal court orders that froze executions because of flaws in the prison system's three-drug execution procedures. The state, in fact, assured a federal judge two years ago that there would be no attempts to execute inmates until those legal battles were resolved.
"Prosecutors and victims' advocates throughout the state are indeed frustrated with the failure of the (state) to get this process moving," said Kent Scheidegger, legal director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation.
Wagstaffe and Cooley argue that California can execute inmates with a single drug, avoiding the legal stalemate over the state's botched attempts to retain its three-drug method. Other states such as Washington, Arizona and Ohio have adopted that approach.
A Los Angeles judge on Monday is expected to hear the latest round of arguments in Cooley's maneuver, and a San Mateo judge will consider the Fairbank case in October, not long before voters decide the fate of Proposition 34 -- the first time Californians have been asked to abolish the death penalty since it was reinstated in 1978.
Wagstaffe could not be reached. But Los Angeles prosecutors insist their demand for swift execution dates is unrelated to the ballot measure, saying both Cox and Sims have exhausted their legal appeals and should pay for crimes committed decades ago.
"We're not trying to rush and get an execution before Nov. 6," said deputy district attorney Michelle Hanisee. "This is about getting our system back on track."
Death penalty foes say the move to execute the inmates flouts a number of court rulings requiring California to fix its lethal injection procedures, which have been challenged because of concerns they expose the condemned to a cruel and unusual death.
"I can't imagine what they are thinking," said Natasha Minsker, Proposition 34's campaign manager. "They're trying to do an end run around the law."
With more than 720 murderers on death row, Fairbank, Cox and Sims are in a group of about a dozen inmates who have run out of legal options to avoid execution. All that stands in the way of lethal injections for them are several court orders that have blocked executions -- and legal experts say the two prosecutors' arguments will not get them past those orders.
A federal judge was the first to halt executions in 2006. More recently, a Marin County judge put executions on hold, concluding that the state did not follow proper administrative procedures when prison officials crafted new lethal injection guidelines.
The Brown administration has appealed that decision, but in court papers says prison officials are working on the single-drug option. Cooley and Wagstaffe argue that San Quentin can use that method right now, saying in their court filings that individual trial judges have the legal authority to order prison officials to carry out executions on a case-by-case basis.
Sara Eisenberg, lawyer for death row inmates in the Marin case, said the courts have barred California from carrying out executions until it devises a legal, court-approved method.
"That should be the end of the story," she said. "In my view, that's just how it's got to be."
Harris's office declined to comment, referring questions to state prison officials. But in court papers, the attorney general and prison officials appear to agree with Eisenberg, telling the judge in the Los Angeles case that ordering them to carry out an execution would conflict with existing injunctions.
"Any such order would place (the state) in an untenable position because it would not be able to simultaneously comply with one order directing it to carry out executions and another order barring it from doing so," state lawyers wrote.
San Mateo prosecutors, however, say the time has come for Fairbank to be executed with a single, fatal dose of a sedative for the rape and murder of Wendy Cheek, whose naked, partially burned body was found in a grove along Highway 280 in San Mateo County 27 years ago.
"We feel the court can set a date," deputy district attorney Joe Cannon said. "The law mandates that the death penalty be imposed in this particular situation."
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The arguments in support of the ballot measure to abolish the death penalty are exaggerated at best and, in most cases, misleading and erroneous. Proposition 34 is being funded primarily by a wealthy company out of Chicago, the ACLU, and similarly-oriented trust funds. It includes provisions that would only make our prisons less safe for both other prisoners and prison officials and significantly increase the costs to taxpayers due to life-time medical costs, the increased security required to coerce former death-row inmates to work, etc. The amount "saved" in order to help fund law enforcement is negligible and only for a short period of time. Bottom line, the "SAFE" Act is an attempt by those who are responsible for the high costs and lack of executions to now persuade voters to abandon it on those grounds. Obviously, these arguments would disappear if the death penalty was carried forth in accordance with the law. Get the facts at and supporting evidence at http://cadeathpenalty.webs.com and http://waiting4justice.org/.


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I also like to mix up my theme a little: last year I sold at Luna under Girls Love Dinosaurs, and this year I'm thinking of combining some kind of craft kit/rainbow thing. The girls have me unhealthily (unholily?) obsessed with rainbows, of all things----all those pretty colors! Lined up in a neat row! How organized! Fussy yet unfussy!
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March 29, 2010
In the wake of the FBI and Homeland Security raid on the Hutaree militia in Michigan over the weekend, the government has released its indictment.
"Nine members of a Lenawee County-based militia group were planning to 'levy war' against the United States and 'oppose by force' the nation's government, according to an indictment released this morning in U.S. District Court in Detroit," reports the Detroit News. "The five-count indictment was unsealed this morning and alleges that between August 2008 and the present, the defendants were attempting to use bombs and other weapons to oppose the U.S. government."
In addition to weapons charges and use of a "weapon of mass destruction" (sic), the government plans to charge the defendants with sedition.
Sedition is regarded as falling one step short of the more serious crime of treason.
The seditious conspiracy charge carries a maximum prison term of 20 years. The charge of using a "weapon of mass destruction" may result in a life sentence for the defendants.
The accused include: David Brian Stone, 45; his wife, Tina Stone, 44; his son, Joshua Matthew Stone, 21, all three of Clayton; and his other son, David Brian Stone Jr., 19, of Adrian. Also, Joshua Clough, 28, of Blissfield; Michael Meeks, 40 of Manchester; Thomas Piatek, 46, of Whiting, Ind.; Kristopher Sickles, 27, of Sandusky, Ohio; and Jacob Ward, 33, of Huron, Ohio.
"This is an example of radical and extremist fringe groups which can be found throughout our society," Andrew Arena, FBI special agent in charge, told the newspaper. "The FBI takes such extremist groups seriously, especially those who would target innocent citizens and the law enforcement officers who protect the citizens of the United States."
The Department of Homeland Security has worked closely with the Southern Poverty Law Center, long a source of conspiracy theories about militias.
In 2004, the FBI revealed the SPLC was involved with government operative and convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and the Aryan Republican Army at Elohim City. McVeigh's contact at Elohim City was Andreas Carl Strassmeir, a former German intelligence officer. Peter Langan, the son of a retired U.S. Marine intelligence officer and said to be the leader of the Aryan Republican Army, was a government informant.
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Radio talk show host and racist firebrand Hal Turner recently admitted in federal court that he worked for the FBI as a "National Security Intelligence" asset. "Turner also claims the FBI coached him to make racist, anti-Semitic and other threatening statements on his radio show, but the newspaper also found many federal officials were concerned that his audience might follow up on his violence rhetoric," the Associated Press reported in November, 2009.
Turner's code name was "Valhalla" and "he received thousands of dollars from the FBI to report on such groups as the Aryan Nations and the white supremacist National Alliance.
The FBI, under its long-running COINTELPRO, subsidized, armed, directed and protected the Klu Klux Klan and other racist groups.
"Because the Hutaree had planned a covert reconnaissance operation for April, which had the potential of placing an unsuspecting member of the public at risk, the safety of the public and of the law enforcement community demanded intervention at this time," said Barbara McQuade, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Hutaree means "Christian soldier," according to the group, and members say they are preparing for battle with the Anti-Christ.
The indictment accuses the Christian group of planning to kill a member of law enforcement, possibly after a traffic stop, to "prompt a response by law enforcement." The alleged goal of this murder, according to the government, would be to "intimidate and demoralize law enforcement, diminishing their ranks and rendering them ineffective."
The indictment says the group then intended to use the incident to spark a "war" against law enforcement, using bombs, ambushes and prepared fighting positions.
It remains to be seen if the FBI had informers and agents provocateurs in the Hutaree militia.
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Welcome back legends!
It's a quick turn around and I've been up all hours of the morning to ensure we are ready to roll as the next round is nearly upon us.
It will look a little different this week due to time constraints.
LAST LOOP HOLE – (Till Rd. 13)
Loop Hole is on again for the Wednesday and Thursday games due to the Partial lock-outs across both games.
- We are looking at the Melbourne v Richmond and Essendon v Collingwood games.
- Place your VC on a player in either of those games (Max Gawn).
- If you like their score, put a non-playing player on the ground and put the "C" on them, and make sure you have also clicked the Emergency for the player you removed.
- The captain (non-playing player) will count as a zero and your VC (Max Gawn) will be doubled. The Emergency you picked will also replace the zero.
- You don't like your VC score?… Play-on as normal and pick another captain.
- Confused? Re-read.
- Still confused? Forget about it.
If you are putting the VC on MAX GAWN, then you will need to put GRUNDY on the bench (with EMG) at the same time. This will give you the freedom to keep Max as VC (by putting the C on the R3 you put on field, make sure they don't play Wed/Thurs) and if Max sucks, you can captain another player as normal.
#1 – Max Gawn (Wednesday) v Richmond
Max has the ceiling and the ability to be a great VC score for us here. Nank is the 4th easiest ruck to score against this year and Max scored 143 against the Tiger last year, and 142 before that.
#2 – Zach Merrett (Thursday) v Collingwood
Running hot at the moment with scores of 143 and 128. He will offer instant reward here with the Pies as his last scores against them are awesome with 124, 109, 105 and 137.
#3 – Brodie Grundy (Thursday) v Essendon
Grundy is very hit and miss at the moment with just 78 last week. Essendon are the 3rd easiest for rucks to score against though and he scored 122 and 110 on them last year.
#4 – Adam Treloar (Thursday) v Essendon
Treloar won the ANZAC Day medal last year with 122 and before that he posted 57, 144 and 129 on the Bombers.
#5 – Angus Brayshaw (Wednesday) v Richmond
As we know, the Tigers give up a truckload and Brayshaw could be the man to cash in.
VC LINE: 120 (if you have a player in my top 2) Outside my top 2, I'd be taking 115+.
We have dangerous taggers in out game at the moment and tracking their movements are very important.
Mark Hutchings plays in the final Sunday game against Geelong and although Dangerfield is their best player, good luck stopping him. He's too big and too much like a beast.
Hutchings will most likely look at their leader Selwood or even Tim Kelly.
All eyes though will be on George Hewett. Will he run with Coniglio or will someone finally stop Lachie Whitfield?
Coniglio has scored 106, 94 and 111 in his last three against the Swans, whereas Lachie has scored 124, 72 and 65…. Never once copping a tag. In those games, Hewett focussed some of his attention towards the departed Dylan Shiel and in the other two games he didn't tag anyone.
The thing is, Hewett put a hard tag on Laird (83) in round 2 instead of the Crow's midfielders which makes me feel that Lachie could be in trouble here.
With that said, I'm not touching any of these boys here though as it's far too dangerous.
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My #1 Captain selection is currently averaging 122.6pts
My personal captains average is also 127.8pts
After sitting in #1 and #2 last week, this week I'm not overly interested in Jack Macrae or Jake Lloyd who still sits as the only guy to score over 120 in every game this year.
Macrae spent way too much time forward for my likely last week against the Blues and last year he managed just 99 on the Dockers. Macrae isn't a huge fan of the new stadium in Perth either where he didn't score over 100 on his two visits last year.
I'll call it now – "this will be the game where Lloyd doesn't reach 120".
No defender has scored over 100 against the Giants this year and although Lloyd is a cut above the rest, I'm not getting the same vibes as I got about him last week.
In his last few games he played against the GWS he has scored 76, 117 and 87. That ton there is the only 100+ score he has had on the Giants in his career 11 attempts.
#1 – Lachie Neale v Gold Coast (Metricon)
A poor game last week needs to be excused for the man who plays the Suns, a team that gave the Crows 7×100+ scores last week. Neale has a great record against the Suns where he has posted 93, 152 and 124 in his last three.
#2 – Tom Rockliff v Kangaroos (Adelaide)
Ballsy but I love it. Rocky will be my captain if all VC options fail. At home this year, the pig has scored 132 and 115. Last time he played the Roos was in the JLT game where he posted 178 and I know it's only JLT but it is slightly relevant. Last week, the Bombers played the Kanagroos and scored freely. The three big midfielders all top score with Zach (143pts, 4 marks), Shiel (127pts, 7 marks) and Heppell (123pts, 11 marks) racking them up. Friday night lights and the pig will be set for a big one, on the big stage.
#3 – Patrick Cripps v Hawthorn (UTas Launceston)
Highest scoring Fantasy ground in Australia and Cripper has been going about his business in recent weeks, despite a poor second half in the Blues' win last week. He scored 116 against the Hawks last year and should be great on Sunday.
#4 – Patrick Dangerfield v West Coast (GMHBA)
In his last game at home he broke his run of 130+ games with 66 but will be much better here against the Eagles, a team he scored 102, 116 and 113 against in his last few.
#5 – Andrew Gaff v Geelong (GMHBA)
115 and 134 in his last two games, just shows that Gaff is set for another elite season. He scored 120 on the Cats last year and although he's away from his beloved home ground, I'm expecting him to dominate like he has been.
Just missing the cut is Rory Laird who loves playing at Marvel where he has scored 115, 138, 120 and 124 in his last four. Against the Saints he has dominated recent games with 120 and 115. Yes, he's been down, but he'll bounce back this week.
Just like Rocky, I really love Boak as well. Fresh off being tagged last week, he'll enjoy the freedom against the Roos and returns home for a big one of Friday night. Fyfe is another who should be great with scores of 136 and 110 in his last two against the Bulldogs.
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Great work Cal!!!
If you put the VC on Max why do you need to put Grundy on the bench at the same time? That would be the case if Wednesday and Thursday were the same partial lockout, but as far as I know they are separate partial lockouts aren't they?
Wondered this myself. Grundy and the bench rucks won't be locked out, so why do you need to bench Grundy straight away?
I think it is backwards… If you want to VC Grundy, then Gawn needs to be on the bench tonight as an emergency??
If you were to VC Grundy and you had Gawn you would need to have Gawn on the bench as emerg, maybe he got the names in the wrong order?
Hey fellas. Have to pick 3 to field : stack, duursma, hore, scrimshaw, wilkie, L Young. (Thru DPP ;)
Stack, Hore and Scrim/Duurs
Stack, Hore, Scrimshaw. Is Constable playing this week??
What happens if Gawn is a late out? Just saying….
Well we would know that before lockout so you can change it
No mention of boak here? Going to tear the kangaroos a new one i reckon
I hope so. Boak's in the last para of the article.
As per usual, the must-read article of DT Talk. I'm not game enough to go with Rocky though and don't have Neale, so the C goes on Cripper.
vc gawn c garlett
Great work Cal, but just FYI, unless my memory is completely failing me, Lachie Whitfield WAS tagged by George Hewett for at least part of the match in the first GWS vs. Syd game last year (R4 i think).
I remember it well, because it was his first week for the Taezers after going 3×100+ in the first 3 rounds.
If you are confused by Gawn and Grundy with VC go back up and read IMPRTANT-VERY IMPORTANT
VC on Grundy for me.
I don't trust Rocky or Danger and I don't have Cripps or Neale, so I'll probably go Cogs as C.
Is Cam Guthrie a reliable option?
Who do I Captain; Sloane, Cog, Treloar, Danger, Grundy or Whitfield. Thoughts appreciated.
Treloar for me
Greenwood playing, he will surely tag Merrett
Next question in SC I have Grundy VC got 134 do I take it or go for Cripps v hawks he actually has an avg of 135.6 in SC
C on neale or rockliff?


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There's not much of a political lesson in a poll out this morning showing that people support federal budget cuts, but just not to the military: Differentiating between decision-making in the abstract and specific examples, after all, is a hallmark of American politics.
The Washington Post/ABC poll at issue consists of two questions: Do you support a five percent across-the-board cut in federal spending? and, Do you support an eight percent across-the-board cut in military spending? To the first question, a majority of respondents, 61 percent, said yes, cut the federal budget. To the second, no: 60 percent oppose cutting the military that substantially. The Post's takeaway? "The American public likes the idea of cutting federal spending; what they don't like are actual cuts in federal spending."
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