I agree! There may be a correlation between lead and violent crime, but I don't believe the former caused the latter. I was simply pointing out the decline in violent crime cannot be due to the AWB.
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I agree! There may be a correlation between lead and violent crime, but I don't believe the former caused the latter. I was simply pointing out the decline in violent crime cannot be due to the AWB.
People are gonna hate each other with whatever tools they have available, as has been happening since Ooga beat Booga to death with a rock 100 thousand years ago, long before "assault sickles" were banned in the medieval times.
Just saw these over at two stroke world.
That's not a good spot for that.
Ran when parked.
Still has good compression.
"You either know someone like this or it's you."
What the heck. He’s got a fence. No foul where I’m concerned.
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A Suzuki
the bike looks like a brand-new 2027 Suzuki GSX-R1000 40th Anniversary Edition. The powerful sportbike is capable of rapid acceleration thanks a 4-cylinder DOHC engine and a curb weight of about 450 pounds.
Speed is believed to be a factor in the crash that left the motorcycle dangling above the intersection.
Hahaha reporter not a Rocket Scientist ...
The Lonely Camp
In the fall of 1948, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game loaded seventy-six live beavers into airplanes and parachuted them into the backcountry wilderness of the Chamberlain Basin. Every single beaver survived the drop.
The problem that led to this was straightforward. Idaho had too many beavers in the agricultural lowlands where they were damming irrigation ditches and flooding fields, and not enough beavers in the remote high-country watersheds where their dams would actually be useful for erosion control and water management. The obvious solution was relocation. Trap the nuisance beavers, move them to the backcountry, let them do what beavers do. The problem was getting them there.
The Chamberlain Basin is deep wilderness. No roads. No vehicle access. The standard method was to strap live beavers onto pack mules and ride them in over multi-day trail routes through the summer heat. A beaver is a forty-pound animal built for cold water. Its body is insulated with dense fur and a thick fat layer designed to maintain core temperature in near-freezing streams. That same insulation system works in reverse on a dry, hot trail. The beavers overheated on the pack animals and died in transit. The mortality rate was high enough that the relocation program was failing before it started.
An Idaho Fish and Game officer named Elmo Heter proposed an alternative that his supervisors probably thought was a joke until he demonstrated that it worked. He wanted to drop the beavers out of airplanes on surplus military parachutes.
Heter acquired a stockpile of rayon parachutes left over from World War II and engineered a wooden crate specifically for the job. The box was designed with a mechanical latch system that stayed clamped shut as long as the parachute lines were under tension during descent. The moment the crate hit the ground and the lines went slack, the latches released and the box fell apart, freeing the beaver. No human needed to be on the ground to open it. The beaver walked out on its own.
Before scaling the operation, Heter needed proof of concept. He selected a mature male beaver, named him Geronimo, loaded him into the crate, loaded the crate into a plane, and dropped him over an open airfield.
The parachute deployed. The crate descended. It hit the dirt. The latches released. Geronimo walked out into the grass and stood there. Uninjured. Not panicked. Heter loaded him back into the crate and dropped him again. Then again. Geronimo survived every test drop without a fracture, without visible distress, and apparently without holding it against anyone. A beaver's skeleton is dense and compact, built to absorb impact from falling trees and collapsing bank dens. The fat layer that killed them on the pack mules functioned as shock absorption on landing. The animal was structurally overbuilt for exactly the kind of short, sharp impact that a parachute drop produces.
With the concept proven, the operation went live in the fall of 1948. Seventy-six beavers were loaded into twin-engine aircraft and dropped over the Chamberlain Basin in individual parachute crates. Geronimo went on the first flight, boxed with three young females. He hit the ground, walked out of the crate for the last time, and started working. Subsequent surveys by game wardens confirmed that Geronimo and the airdropped beavers had established functional dams on the local streams and built a permanent breeding colony in the basin.
Seventy-six beavers were thrown out of airplanes in wooden boxes on surplus military parachutes into roadless wilderness, and the operation had a near-perfect survival rate. One beaver died during the entire program when its crate opened prematurely in the air. Every other animal landed, walked out, and got to work. Heter published the results in the Journal of Wildlife Management in 1950. The paper includes a photograph of Geronimo exiting his crate on the airfield, looking exactly like a forty-pound rodent that has been dropped out of a plane multiple times and has no strong feelings about it.
Source: Idaho Department of Fish and Game Archives / "Transplanting Beavers by Airplane and Parachute" (Elmo Heter, 1950) See less
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In the fall of 1948, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game loaded seventy-six live beavers into airplanes and parachuted them into the backcountry wilderness of the Chamberlain Basin. Every single beaver survived the drop.
The problem that led to this was straightforward. Idaho had too many beavers in the agricultural lowlands where they were damming irrigation ditches and flooding fields, and not enough beavers in the remote high-country watersheds where their dams would actually be useful for erosion control and water management. The obvious solution was relocation. Trap the nuisance beavers, move them to the backcountry, let them do what beavers do. The problem was getting them there.
The Chamberlain Basin is deep wilderness. No roads. No vehicle access. The standard method was to strap live beavers onto pack mules and ride them in over multi-day trail routes through the summer heat. A beaver is a forty-pound animal built for cold water. Its body is insulated with dense fur and a thick fat layer designed to maintain core temperature in near-freezing streams. That same insulation system works in reverse on a dry, hot trail. The beavers overheated on the pack animals and died in transit. The mortality rate was high enough that the relocation program was failing before it started.
An Idaho Fish and Game officer named Elmo Heter proposed an alternative that his supervisors probably thought was a joke until he demonstrated that it worked. He wanted to drop the beavers out of airplanes on surplus military parachutes.
Heter acquired a stockpile of rayon parachutes left over from World War II and engineered a wooden crate specifically for the job. The box was designed with a mechanical latch system that stayed clamped shut as long as the parachute lines were under tension during descent. The moment the crate hit the ground and the lines went slack, the latches released and the box fell apart, freeing the beaver. No human needed to be on the ground to open it. The beaver walked out on its own.
Before scaling the operation, Heter needed proof of concept. He selected a mature male beaver, named him Geronimo, loaded him into the crate, loaded the crate into a plane, and dropped him over an open airfield.
The parachute deployed. The crate descended. It hit the dirt. The latches released. Geronimo walked out into the grass and stood there. Uninjured. Not panicked. Heter loaded him back into the crate and dropped him again. Then again. Geronimo survived every test drop without a fracture, without visible distress, and apparently without holding it against anyone. A beaver's skeleton is dense and compact, built to absorb impact from falling trees and collapsing bank dens. The fat layer that killed them on the pack mules functioned as shock absorption on landing. The animal was structurally overbuilt for exactly the kind of short, sharp impact that a parachute drop produces.
With the concept proven, the operation went live in the fall of 1948. Seventy-six beavers were loaded into twin-engine aircraft and dropped over the Chamberlain Basin in individual parachute crates. Geronimo went on the first flight, boxed with three young females. He hit the ground, walked out of the crate for the last time, and started working. Subsequent surveys by game wardens confirmed that Geronimo and the airdropped beavers had established functional dams on the local streams and built a permanent breeding colony in the basin.
Seventy-six beavers were thrown out of airplanes in wooden boxes on surplus military parachutes into roadless wilderness, and the operation had a near-perfect survival rate. One beaver died during the entire program when its crate opened prematurely in the air. Every other animal landed, walked out, and got to work. Heter published the results in the Journal of Wildlife Management in 1950. The paper includes a photograph of Geronimo exiting his crate on the airfield, looking exactly like a forty-pound rodent that has been dropped out of a plane multiple times and has no strong feelings about it.
Source: Idaho Department of Fish and Game Archives / "Transplanting Beavers by Airplane and Parachute" (Elmo Heter, 1950)
"Dem fecking humans, but that was a blast."
OMG!!!
Twas my fault, but the Honda CB900F filter has a futsy "correctly aligned tab" black on black, hidden up under, and between oil lines.
yeah you guessed it.
This after scraping sopping 2 quarts of oil off the driveway. Dish detergent, mineral spirits, carb cleaner, TSP hot water, bunches of pans paper towel, etc, and you can't tell the Exon Valdez had been there.
Gotta love it anyways.
yeah you guessed it.
This after scraping sopping 2 quarts of oil off the driveway. Dish detergent, mineral spirits, carb cleaner, TSP hot water, bunches of pans paper towel, etc, and you can't tell the Exon Valdez had been there.
Gotta love it anyways.
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Sparkyduc
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I did the same thing on my 550F
Eh
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