The best rig overall, for performance, is the crab claw: However, the catch is that it only operates at amazing levels of lift/over drag in specific contexts:
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As anyone who’s observed the emasculation of Shane Warne of late has seen [note though that he still wears blue] – he looks effing awful, a shadow of his former self. It’s not that he’s any less the philanderer, it’s that he’s had the nerve extracted. This is the great danger when the tail wags [...]
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Image text – To anyone who understands information theory and security and is in an infuriating argument with someone who does not (possibly involving mixed case), I sincerely apologize.
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The details of the new treaty are out and they’re jawdropping in their chutzpah: Abridged version at OoL Full Version at IPJ Basically: What do you do when you get into financial trouble. What do you do when all your friends are in financial trouble as well? Do you cut your spending? Do you borrow [...]
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[Source] BBC Proms radio broadcast pulled after Israel protest The BBC was forced to pull a live Proms performance of air on Thursday night after a performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra was disrupted by protesters. So let me get this straight:
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When we are absorbed, entranced by art…. “…we are in touch with something outside the empirical realm, a different order of being; we literally have the experience of being taken out of time and space altogether, and also out of ourselves, even out of the material object that is our body.” Arthur Schopenhauer
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1. Johnny’s mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child’s name? 2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh? 3. Before Mt. Everest was [...]
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This is my time. It might be your time as well so I’ll join you, if I may. This is the time of year I find peace, even in the coming troubles, personal, national and global. This is the time not to offend your lady because you’re going to need her in your arms later. [...]
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At Orphans of Liberty now.
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There are issues which are a bit irritating, there are issues which get you hot under the collar and then there are issues best avoided because you’ll say something you might later regret. This is one of the latter. Comment by a man: The fact is men are slaughtered in the family courts. My advice [...]
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I watch RT these days as well as the Beeb/ITV and it is surprising what ‘our’ broadcasters miss; they didn’t tell us about the huge protests in TelAviv with quarter of a million people camped in the main square but RT had the news.
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September 1st – little kids go back to school right across Russian influenced Europe and it’s a big day. Parents stop off at florist kiosks, which are plentiful and buy flowers for the teacher. The 11th graders, the oldest pupils, look after the littlest ones and put on a show outside of the school building [...]
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