January 11, 2010
How has net poker become a favorite pastime of today? Simply put, the convenience of visiting a top poker web site, any time, any place. Be this the first time you’ve tried poker or the hundredth, give some thought to playing it online. And, of course, with such an assortment on which to play, you’re going to determine the easiest poker sites for you to develop as a player and win with. Internet poker sites have become big business over the time since the first web site was launched in 1998, with thousands of game sites, a few of the most famous counted among the most visited online poker hangouts in the world. Sitting in the comfort of your lounge chair you can deal against the poker aficionados who you’ll see each and every day playing all forms of poker. Over the course of the game’s development and growth in popularity, however, it reduced the difference between the net form and what you’d find in circulation in casinos. Occasionally net play granted the opportunity for face to face play in major tournaments. Tournaments online gave out awards like places in major offline events. Quite soon after this began, an online player not only attended a major offline event but won, putting a spotlight on net poker like never before. The online game took off right away, and you got the impression a new wave of hopefuls were looking for the ideal poker game web site in hopes of coming away a professional. Jump forward in time to now, and plenty of the bigger sites put up places at offline tournaments to players in their competitions. We’re not merely discussing regional competitions, at that. The World Series of Poker stands firmly amongst the biggest the world over with expectations of above 100 million dollars in winnings. The World Series takes place in a number of the best known casinos, famed for their high-rolling visitors and opulent luxury.
Some net poker events have as a prize an opportunity to qualify for the celebrated World Poker Tour, the Tour that, as you’ve heard, energized Chris Moneymaker’s success. Big names are going to play, real money will change hands, and all through these noted casinos you’ll experience amazing exhilaration on and off tour. The biggest poker sites can give members the opportunity to pit their wits against big names in the leagues they enjoy watching on cable. You don’t need to be famous, or be from a particular part of the world. Why not try? Simply join the net contests and emerge victorious to earn your place playing against the stars. Don’t forget, as we touched on briefly, casual players can also find a helpful atmosphere in the easiest poker sites giving them as much fun with less at stake.
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Removing the Stock Air Intake System on a Victory Motorcycle
With the basic need of all motorcyclists being the need for more horsepower. I decided to upgrade my Victory motorcycle from the stock air intake to a custom aftermarket air filter. Why? The stock air boxes are often too restrictive. They do not allow enough air to freely flow into the engine. The Victory stock air box is a mechanical suction. The air is sucked in through the left side of the coffin like air box. There are a few modifications that can be done to the stock filter to get a direct flow of air into the throttle bodies. But these require drilling ugly 1-inch holes in the front of your cheap looking plastic air box.
The theory behind this is that you will be producing a Ram-Air effect. This is where fresh yummy colder air gets forced in through the strategically drilled holes. Free flowing is the key, no ninety-degree turns and bends for the air to travel. This is all good, but you are still limited by what the stock Victory air box can provide. Especially when you upgrade the exhaust. With such an upgrade, you will need to be ingesting more air for the exhaust to work at its peak performance.
The other benefit of removing the stock air box and replacing it with a high-performance custom air box, is the esthetics of the look of the new air box in place of the stock air box. Some aftermarket high-performance air filter kits, like the Eaglecat, make your Victory look like a custom motorcycle once it is installed. This alone is reason enough to do the air box upgrade.
Having given the reasons why, let’s now discuss the technical procedure for removing your stock Victory air box. We will follow up by showing you how to install one of the many aftermarket performance air box kits.
Victory Air Intake System Removal Instructions
Removal of plastic stock cleaner system, use owners manual if needed.
1. Remove side covers from bike (side covers pop on and off).
2. Remove seat by unscrewing (2) mounting bolts 6 mm allen head.
3. Remove gas tank rubber mounting bolt covers front right and left.
4. Remove gas tank mounting bolts (2) front and (1) rear 8 mm allen head.
5. Lift rear of gas tank slightly disconnect electrical connector and disconnect vent hose.
6. Loosen fuel line hose clamp and disconnect main fuel line, remove gas tank.
7. Disconnect and remove air temperature sensor.
8. Remove map sensor disconnect wires.
9. Remove air box cover (5) screws, lift out intake tubes.
10. Remove air filter cover and filter.
11. Disconnect crank case breather hose from air box.
12. Using a sharp gasket scraper or chisel and a small hammer split and separate stock plastic air box at it’s seam. Remove top portion of plastic air box.
13. Unscrew (4) mounting screws that hold air box to throttle body. Remove bottom portion of plastic air box, save rubber gasket between plastic box and throttle body. You will be reusing this rubber gasket.
EagleCat EC-VAIR Air Intake System Install Instructions
(Note fuel injected bikes) aftermarket air cleaners are designed to be used with a fuel controller unit such as TFI / PC or factory mapping upgrades to prevent possible damage to the engine. Aftermarket air cleaners are also designed to be used with aftermarket exhaust systems or slip on mufflers for performance gain).
Installation of new air cleaner system.
NOTE SECOND GENERATION CAT BOX HAS REVERSE THE MAPPING AND TEMPERATURE SENSOR LOCATIONS
1. Remove top plate and filter of new air cleaner system.
2. Cut stock crank case hose, remove approximately a 5 inch section (you might want to mock up new crank case hose extension to get correct length needed).
3. Attach crank case hose extension to the hose you just cut using barbed nipple provided. Route hose extension to connect to barbed nipple mounted on underside of new air cleaner mounting plate.
4. Relocate map sensor to underside of new air cleaner bottom mounting plate using screw provided to secure it in place.
5. Reinstall stock rubber gasket between throttle body and new air cleaner bottom mounting plate.
6. Attach new bottom mounting plate with (4) 6 mm taper head screws provided, tighten (4) screws to 30 in-lb torque.
7. Install new air filter and top plate, (Note when installing top plate carefully tighten (2) mounting screws evenly.
8. install air temperature sensor into top plate notched hole, insert and turn.
9. Twist throttle grip a few times while checking throttle return pulley clearance.
10. De-pin stock gray female connector that was originally connected to map sensor. (Be careful you will be reusing these items)
11. Insert same (3) pins into the A B C port positions located on new female connector attached to new map sensor extension harness provided.
12. Route new map sensor extension harness in convenient manner to reach map sensor located on underside of new bottom mounting plate.
13. Insert extension harness pins into A B C port positions on stock gray female connector from line (10) above, connect female connector to map sensor located on underside of new bottom mounting plate.
14. Install gas tank vent line, electrical harness and main fuel line.
15. Install gas tank bolts and rubber bolt covers.
16. Reinstall seat and side covers.
17. Turn ignition on check for fuel leaks before starting engine.
18. No fuel leaks start engine.
Enjoy your new throttle response and power. Performance Matters
Contributing author to Cycle Solutions
http://www.cyclesolutions.net
Technical research performed on Kingpin Cruisers
http://www.kingpincruisers.net
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Kettlebells aren’t new inventions. The modern belief places their age at about three centuries old. Only recently have they shot to global fame, however, and as a result they’ve become as common as any workout accessory. And why not?
The simpler exercise routines can be done by all, whatever their prior workout plan, and there shouldn’t be a need to spend much on paraphernalia. Naturally, the trickier exercises shouldn’t be used immediately. You should learn the simple techniques first, before mustering the advanced exercises. Above all, with Russian kettlebells as with all weight work, you need to be certain you purchase the appropriate weight for your body. Although, with these types of exercises, the weights used are surprisingly light. For female enthusiasts, an 18lb Russian kettlebell can easily be more than enough as you begin, while male aficionados are better served by the thirty-five lb weights. The explanation stems from the fundamental mechanics by which these exercises will benefit you. Using a Russian kettlebell it comes from the movement rather than from how much weight is employed. It’s also smart to look for an instruction book or video to guide you and make sure you perform the movements as they should be.
The two-handed swing should be the initial exercise you master on first taking up the Russian kettleball. As the common element of many later exercises, the two-handed swing must be studied in the early going - and there’s more to it than you’d expect. The weight ought to glide fluently, without harsh stops or jerks. A useful health tip is worth relating at this point: back and shoulders shouldn’t be used to lift. Rather, lift from your hips.
Having mastered this basic building block, you’re free to try your hand at the difficult kettlebell routines. Keep your exercises interesting by adjusting techniques, maybe accompanied by different varieties of music. Later on, while your experience with them develops, you can adjust the kettlebells’ weights and maybe incorporate an additional pair. In this way, you’ll keep your muscles exerting as effectively as possible and not run the risk of levelling out. A point we really must repeat while we are at it is that kettlebells won’t help you increase muscle mass or assist in bodybuilding. Instead, call upon them for weight control and, also, to advance and maintain all round fitness and health over time.
Personally, I recommend folding a session using the kettlebells into a well rounded exercise regime. How regularly you turn to these techniques is obviously at your discretion. Practising only one or two sessions each week it’s perfectly easy to uphold your baseline fitness levels, and if you up that to five or six you can be sure to lose excess fat at an awesome pace.
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There are hundreds of thousands of people who are trying to make an honest living on the Internet these days. The Internet is a great opportunity for starting your own business. There is not a lot of start-up cost, you can reach the whole world from a small corner of your own house, and the income can be exceptional.
However, a lot of us publishers and Internet marketers are running into a serious problem.
Before I start talking about it, I want to ask you all a question - How many of you get junk snail mail? Everyone, right? Now, how many of you call the cops when you get it? None, right? Of course not because that would be ridiculous!
We simply throw it in the trash and forget about it. Very easy, right?
What I don’t understand is why it is not as simple as that with your email. We have all received junk email, also known as sp~m. Just junk mail of the Internet, right? So why do so many people make such a big deal about it??? I know that reputable publishers and marketers have been reported to “sp~m cops” and were caused serious problems because of it. And why? Not because they have done anything wrong, but because a subscriber forgot they subscribed to the ezine or they forgot they requested information or some other foolish reason.
Now we have to deal with a thing called “sp~m filters”! Not only do these “filters” keep legitimate ezines, emails, reports, etc. from going through, but the amount of sp~m has only increased! These “filters” are also causing many problems for publishers and subscribers alike!
I have also had an experience of being reported for sp~m. Someone requested one of my articles by autoresponder. Well, they received the article and then a couple of days later a follow-up thank you note. Apparently this thank you note pi**ed them off because they reported me to my ISP. I then received a phone call from my ISP telling me my email account was going to be cancelled immediately! Well, it took me awhile, but I finally was able to explain that the person who received that email had to have requested my article by autoresponder. There was no other way he could have gotten that message.
So, I was able to save my account, but I know of several people who didn’t get off so easy.
I rarely gripe about anything like this because I know a lot of computer problems are out of our control, but this is a problem caused by people, not machines!
This is really getting out of hand…..so I have come up with a very simple yet effective idea for getting rid of sp~m! Are you ready for this???
Ok, first you click on the sp~m message in your inbox. Make the determination ( be sure now) that it is, indeed, sp~m. Then you stick up your index or other finger if you prefer ( be nice now) 
and push the magic button marked D-E-L-E-T-E. This will make the sp~m magically disappear!
I have used this method of sp~m destruction since starting on the Internet and have found it to be most effective. I receive hundreds of sp~m messages a day, but always manage to make each and every one disappear forever!
I also have some tips for people who do not want to receive any so-called sp~m:
- Do Not subscribe to any newsletters!
- Do Not sign-up for special offers!
- Do Not request any information via autoresponder!
- Do Not send any email to anyone at anytime!
- Do Not use your email for any reason whatsoever!
I assure you if you follow all these tips you will never receive any sp~m!
I know I have been a little ridiculous in making my point, but that just is my point. All this hullabaloo about sp~m is ridiculous. It is simply junk mail and can be deleted without any trouble, hassle or problems!
Try it a few times and you will soon be like me - I have the fastest delete finger in the Midwest!! Anyone care to challenge me??
Wishing you a wonderfully warm and joyous Christmas!
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The Club of Rome:
Eugenics is a lot like all the other arrows in the quiver of the social engineer. Francis Fukayama’s book The End of History and The Last Man is a powerful reminder of how much ‘absolute religions’ are mere tool for the elite, and I think everyone should read what he bluntly states. In order to design or engineer a quality environment we must have ethics or principles that allow decisions to be made that benefit all life on earth rather than a few elites who operate to benefit their cronies and share a little with their paladins in some Physiocratic ‘trickle down’ approach to the governance and resources or opportunities that humanity has the duty to fulfill according to some over-riding purpose. That purpose might be divine but it must make sense and be commonly apprehended or shared. I happen to think there is an intelligence and collective conscious design. I also think we are part of this design and can make mincemeat or a thorough botchery of it. We are individually responsible for being like gods as Jesus (John 10:34) and all so many adepts have made eloquently apparent. We are part of God and should help she/he/it achieve what is RIGHT.
Is that an elitist attitude? Maybe it is at some point, because I am not one who caters to the destruction of the human gene pool or one who thinks anyone deserves a free ride at the heart of it. That is not to suggest that I think everyone should not be enabled and encouraged far more than has been done in the WASP world of history in the last two millennia and more. I probably share more with Thomas Paine and his New World Order types than I share with bleeding heart nave do-gooders who seek something they have not fully examined. I think helping babies exist and take food from the mouths of others in India was not a godly or good thing, for example. The Club of Rome and I share a great deal in terms of how we view the opportunities and problems that our leaders must address. Here is a good point they make.
“Systems of education are less and less adapted to the new issues, to the new emerging global society we are presently involved in. New priorities force us to redefine the role of education, which should be conceived as a permanent learning process. Transmission of knowledge is no longer sufficient, and new objectives such as developing one’s own potential and creativity, or the capacity of adaptation to change are becoming essential in a rapidly changing world.
The Club of Rome considers that education is both part of the global problematique and also an essential tool to become an effective actor in control of one’s own life and within society. If there are “Limits to Growth”, there are “No Limits to Learning” (titles of two Reports to the Club of Rome).” (1)
Their recommendations to limit population growth can be seen from many points of view but their prognostications of doom and gloom have not considered various technologies which continue to make it possible that the outcomes their reports have predicted will occur. In fact there are technologies I think they are not even aware of if you go by what they say on their web site.
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