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Here's a side by side shot comparison. Check the Pentax Optio W60 against the Olympus Stylus 1030 SW. http://www.imaging-resource.com/IMCOMP/COMPS01.HTM Click on the thumbnails to increase the sample pic size then click on the image again that comes up to zoom in. Check the pics at any iso. In my opinion the Pentax blows the Olympus out of the water. (Pun intended.) The Olympus pictures are very soft while the Pentax are obviously sharper.

I hope Toolman doesn't see this thread.

I had a big long rant typed out but decided to say this instead:

It's a Ford. The damage happened 20 minutes ago. The bumper should fall off by the end of the hour.

The click on your humidistat may be accurate to within 1/2 a percent or accurate to within 90%. They are typically cheap devices that are out of calibration drastically. Try checking it with a half decent humidity probe or take it out of the duct and measure it against a known humidity. You may have received a crappy one to when the unit was installed. You should check with your building codes department about this. You should have two ducts coming in from outside. One for your combustion air (the Hoyme damper duct) and another duct that is connected to the return air plenum of your furnace. I was asking about the one that is connected to the return air plenum of your furnace. What should happen is that when your furnace starts the fan will draw air from both the return air grilles inside the home as well as from the duct that is connected to outside. The air from outside serves as a source of "makeup air" for all of the air that is exhausted out of your house by the exhaust fans.

Walker - a few questions and suggestions. One, how are you measuring your humidity? With what kind of instrument? Two, is your exhaust fan for your range hood vented to outside or does it recirculate the air back into the kitchen? Three, when you turn on an exhaust fan in your home does your furnace start? The exhaust fans should be interlocked with the furnace in order to have the furnace draw in air from the outside when the exhaust fan(s) are removing air from the home. I'm not in the residential business but I think this may be a code requirement that came in in the last 10 years or so.. Four, have you checked your dryer venting to ensure there are no restrictions? (A blocked dryer vent will cause the humidity to go up fast.) Five, check your soffits to ensure they are not covered over with blown in insulation. Make sure the temperature in the attic is about the same as outside. Six, do you have a heat exchanger for your fresh air into the furnace or is it ducted directly into the return air plenum? If ducted into the return air plenum check to ensure the damper for the outside air isn't blocked or shut off. Seven, is the pressure in your home negative or positive with respect to outside when running the exhaust fans, dryer, etc? It should be neutral to prevent backdrafting of the furnace flue gases when the furnace is running.

Illegal Immigrants Returning To Mexico For American Jobs Dec 13, 2008 | Issue 42•18 MEXICO CITY—As dozens of major American corporations continue to move their manufacturing operations to Mexico, waves of job-seeking Mexican immigrants to the United States have begun making the deadly journey back across the border in search of better-paying Mexican-based American jobs. "I came to this country seeking the job I sought when I first left this country," said Anuncio Reyes, 22, an undocumented worker who recrossed the U.S. border into Mexico last month, three years after leaving Mexico for the United States to work as an agricultural day laborer. "I spent everything I had to get back here. Yes, it was dangerous, and I miss my home. But as much as I love America, I have to go where the best American jobs are." A group of Mexican workers make the dangerous trek home across the Rio Grande for their lunch break. Reyes now works as a spot-welder on the assembly line of a Maytag large-appliance plant and earns $22 a day, most of which he sends back to his family in the U.S., who in turn send a portion of that back to the original family they left in Mexico. Like many former Mexican-Americans forced by circumstance to become American-Mexicans, Reyes dreams of one day bringing his relatives to Mexico so that they, too, may secure American employment in Mexico. Despite the considerable risk illegal immigrants face in returning across the border, many find the lure of large U.S. factory salaries hard to resist—at 15 percent of the pay of corresponding jobs in America, these positions pay three times what Mexican jobs do. Still, the danger is very real. When 31-year-old illegal Arizona resident Ignacio Jimenez sought employment at an American plant in Mexico, he was shot at by Mexican border guards as he attempted to illegally enter the country of his citizenship, pursued by U.S. immigration officials who thought he might be entering the country illegally, and fired upon again by a second group of U.S. Border Patrol agents charged with keeping valuable table-busing and food-delivery personnel inside American borders. "It was a nightmare," Jimenez said. "Many became disoriented and panicked, and some were mixed in with immigrants going the other way across the Rio Grande and ended up swimming to the wrong country." He added: "My cousin almost drowned. They fished him out and sent him back to wash dishes at T.G.I. Friday's." Many say the trip across the border as illegal Mexican-American emigrants offers them a chance to land the American jobs in Mexico they never have been able to get as illegal Mexican-American immigrants in the U.S. "It has always been my goal to have a good American job," Johnson Controls technician Camilla Torres, 27, said. "Many Mexicans now see Mexico as the land of opportunity. Mexicans will not stop trying to get here, no matter how much the Mexicans wish we would not." Indeed, the trend of illegal re-emigration is causing great resentment among the local Mexican population, and tension between Mexicans and illegally re-entered Mexicans—dubbed repatriados—continues to build. "I hate these Mexicans, always coming back here to Mexico from America and taking American jobs from the Mexicans who stayed in Mexico," said 55-year-old former Goodyear factory manager Juan-Miguel Diaz, who lost his job to a better-trained repatriado last March. "Why don't they go back to where they went to?" Still, Jimenez, Reyes, and hundreds of others say they have no choice. "The American Dream is alive and well in Mexico," Reyes said. "If I work hard, save my money, and plan well, I will be able to send my children to a good school—and who knows? If they study hard, perhaps they will get jobs someday at the new plant General Motors is building in China."

A woman was shopping at her local supermarket where she selected: a half-gallon of 2% milk, a carton of eggs, a quart of orange juice, a head of romaine lettuce, a 2 lb. can of coffee and a 1 lb. package of bacon. As she was unloading her items on the conveyor belt to check out, a drunk standing behind her watched as she placed the items in front of the cashier. While the cashier was ringing up her purchases, the drunk calmly stated, “You must be single.” The woman was a bit startled by this proclamation, but she was intrigued by the derelict’s intuition, since she was indeed single. She looked at her six items on the belt and saw nothing particularly unusual about her selections that could have tipped off the drunk to her marital status. Curiosity getting the better of her, she said “Well, you know what, you’re absolutely correct. But how on earth did you know that?” The drunk replied, “Cause you’re ugly.”

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Are you implying you know what our board Taco tastes like? Eeeeeewwww

I was only complaining of the "overpaid, greedy, lazy, UNION workers", not the hard working, deservedly well paid, loyal brothers that make this continent the best place to live in the world. Here's some more fuel for the fire. The bottom line is we're doomed. Bailouts won't work and all those cushy union pensions will evaporate. I will be me paying for them with all that hard earned private sector coin I've made myself rich with! Flame on! (It's from Youtube so it must be correct.) Click here if the movie does not play.

I Googled "average auto worker pay" after you posted. Here are some of the links that came up. If there is any truth to the compensation these people are getting then as far as I'm concerned they can blow the bailout out their ass. Let them sink. It's time for a reality check!! http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2007/07/uaw-pr...-of-market.html http://rightvoices.com/2008/11/18/average-...e-of-nearly-40/ I don't believe it would be irresponsible. The union lobbyists have had the frickin governments by the balls for years and it's time to put an end to this crap. They cut their own throats and now it's time to let them bleed out.

I say give the money to the Japanese to build better and more efficient vehicles in and for North America. If you give them a billion they will turn it into 10 billion and employ 20000 people in the process. I hate to say it but the North American auto industry has gone for *hit mainly due to a bunch of overpaid, greedy, lazy, UNION workers. (How's that for a troll? Wish it was.)

Those aren't real.

Enjoyable as always. Keep up the good work!

Better than eating "Homo" or "Faggot".

So does this mean we can call you "Anonymous Guy" from now on and not be put on your stalk and methodical rampage list?

Reeeeeer!!

From : http://sierraclubchinook.org/Newsroom/2004...2004-Herald.htm Sikome Lake - "The 26-year-old lake is now filled from underground wells next to the Bow River every June and drained after the September Labour Day long weekend. Between 75,000 and 100,000 people visit the lake each week of the summer." Lake Chaparral - "Our lake is completely filled with city tap water." I think the other lakes are filled with the tears of Flames fans in June.

What's next? Jihadi Joe? The crap people come up with sometimes astounds me.

I don't think you should have to take that kind of abuse from your family members. A new thermos cannot come close to replacing the old one. It's your thermos and you should be able to do as you like with it. Your family needs to know this! They're obviously quite jealous that you have such a prized possession. I say we start a petition to put an end to this thermos abuse. We may even have to form a coalition to put an end to this nonsense!! Down with Thermos abuse!!!!

As much as I would love to see fly fishing only in certain parts of the Bow I don't think there's a chance in hell that would ever happen. The Bow is an icon of Alberta fishing and much too productive to warrant any more rules which are restrictive. Especially rules that bark elitism.