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I read a lot of jeep forums about trans problems. Didn't find anything with the same symptom. Most won't go into od period and have trouble codes, that would be to easy for me I guess.

If you can find the report from afternoon today the japs guy said something kinda humorous and telling about the US/Japan disagreement on the situation. he said something along the lines of, "we know that reactor #3 now has water on it due to the steam coming out of the area." It didn't have steam before the helicopter air drops and other efforts through mid day. This kinda proves a point, where there's steam, theres water and heat so if there's still heat and no steam... I think even an amature can look at photos and find the answer.

this current posting on yahoo gives some much smaller numbers http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110318/ts_nm/us_japan_quake but they are numbers for you. I'm not sure how to search back to the news reports from yesturday, but I'm pretty sure I was reading the yahoo AP report where I found those above mentioned numbers. Also if you find that report it will have a section in it where Japans guy admits some of the reactors and fuel ponds have no water cooling them. Something the US was telling them was true via flyovers of drones or possibly satellite imagery. They also eventually admitted that several of the reactors have lost a bit of the casing and another had a crack.

Next problem is these plants and everything within a decent radius has been hit with unsafe radiation for days now and radiation is a cumulative problem so even if it ends right now its still a serious environmental disaster.

I've been following the situation very closely via lots of different sources and other than maybe some really nut job hippie types I don't hear it being reported as "dooms day" or actually as bad as it really probably is. If you could go back and read the reports from each day as they came in you'd see japan minimizing the situation as much as possible. Then you'd see things get worse, yet they continue to minimize it even to the UN and US (which they've asked for help since yesturday.) The UN and US sent people to check it out after a few days ago when our ships got in range of the island and then got out of the wind due to reading higher than comfortable radiation. Once our people checked it out they found that 400 miliverts/hour are detectable up to 50miles from the reactors, (100miliverts/year is enough for increased cancer risk) so its much more radiation than a human should be exposed to according to AP, BBC, and NPR sources. This is a deciding factor in having US people pull back to 50miles from the plants. Its also a reason the US and UN isn't doing a lot to help for now (we're letting them nuke their own I guess, which is probably better than having our servicemen glow in the dark for another country.) The comment about Obama being against nuclear is false (if you can believe anything a dem says) because he has been saying through this whole situation that he's for nuclear energy. Hey something he and I agree on:-) In the end I'm still waiting for Godzilla because as far as I'm concerned I saw him hit Japan last in 1985 so they are way over due.

I got a 99 Grand Cherokee with the 42RE transmission and an interesting problem was going on at the end of my work day today. At highway speeds >55 if I was decelerating or maintaining my speed very lightly the trans would drop out of OD. If I gave it enough pedal to start gaining speed It would get back into OD. I'm kinda thinking throttle position sensor or possibly one of the solenoids involving trans pressure. No codes have been logged and the trans fluid is very clean and topped off.

I get parts or custom made lines at Power Steering and Break Specialists in westerville. Can't think of the other one in westervilles name, but its on Sunbury Rd north of Dempsey Rd, just north of Minico's Pizza.

Its a very easy repair, but depending on the model it can be a pain to get the darn thing apart. On a side note, I'm looking for an older touch screen laptop. Anyone know of any resources that would get me a make/model list? A model that can rotate its screen 180 and lay flat is especially appealing for my application.

I got no problem with it and my family has owned several over the years with no issues.

I tried it, they had literally nothing I'd watch in the "online database" so I canceled.

Ohio 4x4 Trail riders are about to have their "Novice" trail ride. You can find out about it at ohio4x4.com and tag along with them on the trip. Its usually down near Tar Hollow State Park so a little more than 1 hour, but you'll have fun. By novice I mean it will be a trip for everyone, not just the ones with built rigs ready to do serious damage and haul them home on trailers. You'll have a choice of which trails to go on rather than a regular club ride where they hit the easy stuff fast and get to the hard stuff.

I found my pet:-) Actually I already got a skunk, it hangs out in front of my garage and doesn't seem to mind that I'm sitting there watching the stars. I guess it knows nothings going to mess with it.

I'm not going to answer that on the grounds that this a testosterone fueled racing forum and I'll get laughed into an emo rage quit scenario. In other news, since parents love through photos of kids in peoples faces, here's another. http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/EWhytsell/Ella/IMG_1246.jpg

Can't wait for Godzilla

I do this already with cartoons. Drive the wife crazy.

Kids = awesome. My wife, 2.5yr old daughter, 1mo old daughter, and I just finished watching The Little Mermaid for the first time as a family. There are no words for what its like to see them so excited. The best part about kids is getting to experience everything through their eyes again.

I let the wife decide, though I could have had them years sooner and it would have been fine with me. We just had #2 so we'll see.

You can resize to some extent without causing pixelation, but not a lot. It will depend on how much resolution the original file had. If your starting with a 400x400 72dpi file your not going to be able to do a lot. A Canon 40D RAW file 3900x2900 or something like that, at 300 dpi in 16bit mode can be resized a good bit without any loss. Also if you have a good print of the image you want to resize you can run it through a scanner at a higher resolution than you need (say 1200dpi) and then resize it and reduce the dpi to something like 72-300 and you've retained your data and made a nice enlargement. The reason this works is due to the analog/digital conversion.

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I like this, "If it doesn't get reported, most people don't mind paying," he said. Sounds like some type of crime to me, but what do I know.

I use godaddy. There fine, you just gotta know what your getting into and set things up correctly or they can be a pain. I use bludomain for my website design right now. I'm gonna look into upgrading to their best sites or using something else in the next 10mo or so and do a major facelift at the end of the year.

wrong, gold and silver lose value. Ask all those people who bought it at the end of the 1970's. If they held on to it, they've just recently been able to sell it for a profit.

Yes, he's got everything down well.

Well if you file a complaint and then he "gets revenge" then he's hopefully in big trouble including fired.

I'd dodge the deer a little in Tim's edit to make them stand out a little better, but its nice work for what you have to work with.