![]() ![]() This is one of the most overlooked tests to find the root cause of a misfire code, rough idle or an engine miss or a blown head gasket. So, if the compression value, for the specific cylinder you're testing did not go up (after you added oil to it), then this is a dead giveaway that you've got cylinder head valve damage. Here's why: If the cylinder head valves and their seats are worn out (or maybe even bent from a broken timing belt), no amount of engine oil is gonna help seal the compression in, in the cylinder. This confirms that the problem is in the cylinder head valves. If the problem were in the cylinder head valves, then the engine oil you just added wouldn't make a difference at all (on the compression value).ĬASE 2: The compression value stayed the same. Here's why: The engine oil helped the piston rings seal better, thus bringing up the compression value almost back to normal. This tells you that the piston compression rings are worn out and thus the problem is in the bottom end (block) of the engine in your GM 4.3L, 5.0L, or 5.7L equipped vehicle. The results you obtain from this second ‘Wet’ compression test will help you determine if the low compression you recorded in the ‘Dry’ compression test are caused by worn piston rings or worn cylinder head valves.ġ) The compression value will go up (from the one you recorded before).Ģ) The compression value will stay the same.ĬASE 1: The compression value shot up. This involves adding a few drops (2 tablespoons) of engine oil to the cylinders with the low engine compression result and repeating the compression test. So, you've found the ‘dead’ cylinder or cylinders, what next? The next step is to do a ‘Wet’ compression test and find out if the low compression value (or 0 compression value you got) is due to bad cylinder head valves or bad piston compression rings. For this step, go to: TEST 2: Wet Compression Test. Once you've found the 'dead' cylinder, the next step is to find out what's causing the low compression value. Of course, you'll need to use the highest compression value you got and not the one in the example. To find out if the lowest compression value you got from your engine compression test is within a good range, you'll need to do the same calculation. Since cylinder #2 is only producing 95 PSI, I can now conclude that it's 'dead' and causing a misfire. Any cylinder with this compression (or lower) value will misfire. STEP 2: 26.25 = 26 (rounded to nearest one).My next step is to do the following calculation: ![]() Now, so that this calculation can make more sense to you, let's say that my 4.3L C1500 Pick Up (or Astro or Blazer, etc.) gave me the following compression readings: Cylinder ANSWER: The result of this subtraction is the lowest possible compression value any cylinder can have.STEP 3: Subtract the result (the number that was rounded) from the highest compression value.STEP 2: Round the result to the nearest one (for example: 25.6 would become 26).STEP 1: Multiply the highest compression value by 0.15 (this is the decimal value of 15%).If you want to manually calculate the 15% difference, here's what you'll need to do: You can find the low compression calculator here: Online Low Engine Compression Calculator (at: ). If one or more cylinders have compression value lower than 15% of the highest compression value, your GM 4.3L (or 5.0L, 5.7L) equipped vehicle will run rough or cause a misfire code to set and turn on the check engine light.įiguring this 15% difference isn't hard, you can easily figure out in one of two ways: You can calculate this 15% difference with pen and paper or you can use my low compression calculator. The idea behind the engine compression test (in the case of a misfire condition or rough idle condition) is to find out if any one engine cylinder is not contributing 100% of its power to the overall engine output. Interpreting The Results Of The Engine Compression Test
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![]() If you are looking for a matchbox sized camera and the Git2 falls within your budget, I really can't think of anything that should prevent you from buying it. As far as these kinds of cameras go, it seems to tick the box for every feature you need and then throw in a few more besides. ![]() Well I think the Git2 deserves that cigar, because I'm really struggling to find anything that it doesn't do. However pretty much every camera I've tested has had an achilles heel, whether it was the lack of a mic input, poor exposure control, or general operational issues, it's often a case of 'close, but no cigar'. I've reviewed many action cameras with each new model (usually) improving upon the last. In a 2016 survey by Apple - 90% of the 'Apple' chargers sold through Amazon - using the other the two methods.which includes the "Fulfilled by Amazon" option - were found to be counterfeit.90%! To give you an idea of the extent of the fake goods problem. ![]() I strongly recommend that you only use the first.the Amazon Direct - Sold By Amazon option. Even if it appears that you are paying a couple of £/$ more it is more than likely you are comparing the price of a real item against the price of a fake. There's Amazon Direct - This means that you are only dealing with Amazon themselves, then there's other sellers that use Amazon's facilities - these show as Fulfilled By Amazon and finally there's Market Place sellers that advertise on Amazon, but operate independently. These links take you to the product, however Amazon have three different ways of selling. So, no surprise, there are special High Endurance SD cards made just for dashcams.here's some. Some manufacturers void their guarantee if an SD card was used in a dashcam. The SD card in a dashcam is re-written over, more frequently than in other types of cameras. RECOMMENDED CARDS (for action cams - see dashcams below) so don't just buy the biggest card you can afford - read the specs in the manual to see what it accepts. SDXC cards use the ex-FAT system rather than FAT32 - in short they are a different standard). Good memory is cheaper than it's ever been - see the links above.Ī lot of HD cameras will not work properly with cards larger than 32GB (cards over 32GB are usually SDXC rather than the SDHC standard used by 32GB cards. My inbox regularly gets messages from people who bought a £150 camera then cheaped out and bought a £3 memory card on ebay - Then when it doesn't worth they blame the camera! It doesn't make any sense. I'd strongly recommend not to buy any SD cards off ebay - I've heard about too many issues with counterfeit cards - often sold on by unwitting resellers. If you want an SD Card for your camera - these are the ones I use and recommend. Two digit Led display shows battery level This is the excellent USB power pack I use when I travel. ![]() We even made dioramas with them when we returned home.Īnother fun addition to travel journals is photos. My friend Tisha and I collected free travel brochures everywhere we went and cut them up to document our trip. I distinctively remember a road trip we took out west when I was maybe 12 years old. They have a lot of great things the kids can cut and scrapbook. I found stacks of Michigan travel brochures on eBay for a few dollars as well as some Michigan tourism magazines that include places we’re visiting. ![]() Inside Our Pouches: colored pencils, good journal pens, kid scissors (for cutting things to scrapbook), fun travel themed stickers, double sided tape, glue stick To build some excitement for the trip, I’ll have the kids decorate the covers of their journals the night before we leave. They’re the perfect size-a little smaller than a regular school notebook, and they’re unlined so great for scrapbooking and art. They come in a 3-pack, so it worked great for my kids (I ended up buying an additional one for me). I bought these Soft Cover Spiral Notebooks. I found these wet dry pouches in the Dollar Spot at Target, but these are similar and the same size. ![]() Everything fits into a pouch (I used paint pens to write their names) to keep them organized and make them easy to transport. This year’s travel journals are similar in that they’re very open-ended-blank books and all the fun things a kid would want to write, draw, cut and paste things they see, taste, hear, experience and collect as they adventure. The open-ended scrapbook approach kept her busy for hours. This past year, Lainey really got into journaling as a creative tool-not so much deep dive writing into all her feelings (although I hope that comes) but more a creative collection of thoughts and ideas she noticed in the world: cutting out fun things she liked and gluing them in her scrapbook, making lists, collecting quotes, compiling affirmations, etc. We’ve done different kinds of journals over the years, but I’m excited for this year’s because I put a lot of thought into what I know my kids will love and set them up with creative tools to make the experience of journaling more inviting. One of my favorite things about our road trip and summer adventures is our travel journals. ![]() What Do We Know about the Literacy Benefits of Storytelling? ![]() The study findings show support for some of the previously assumed literacy benefits of live oral storytelling and point to the importance of continuing to offer storytelling events in public and school libraries. To investigate the possible literacy benefits of storytelling, I analyzed thank-you cards created by children in a second grade class in response to a live storytelling session. 1 However, little research has tested whether or not these assumed benefits are real. Many storytellers have written about the strong emotional connections that storytelling builds with listeners, about children’s deeper engagement with live storytelling than with reading aloud, and about the literacy benefits of storytelling. Some tellers memorize their stories others memorize the characters and events and freely tell their stories, varying them with each telling. Storytelling, not to be confused with story reading, involves telling a story from memory without the aid of a book or written script. Storytelling is a long-standing tradition in US public and school libraries. She has published more than one hundred scholarly papers and two books in these areas and has received more than $1 million in research grants and other awards for her work. Her research and teaching interests focus on children’s and teens’ information behavior and practices, youths’ use of social media, and public library services. Agosto is Professor in the College of Computing & Informatics at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Libraries, Information & Society (CSLIS), and editor of YALSA’s Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults. But surprises remain - since they’re returns, you have no idea about the condition of each item and if they actually function or not. The website provides a list of what products are in the pallet. Search for the category you want and a list of pallets show up. Shopping on is similar to shopping on Amazon and eBay. I chose home appliances, which I thought would be easy to resell. My co-worker Alec and I decided to buy our own pallet. “The whole idea here is to increase the profitability for the vendor and at the same time increase the profitability for the reseller.” Buying and receiving the pallet They process every single item on the pallet and then they repalletize to do the sale,” Medina said. We have people who own their own warehouses. “We have people who just buy from us to flip goods. People buy returns that are then delivered in pallets or truckloads for business purposes. “What determines that is the data that we have collected over the years, whether we’re going to profit more or not,” Medina said, adding that it depends on how fast they want to get rid of the inventory, they can set a bid process or fixed price. Platforms like Direct Liquidation do the math and decide what products should be put in the same package and how much they cost. The pallet of Amazon returns we ordered online. “So if you use something for seven days, it has fewer chances of having more wear than if you use it for 30,” Diego Medina, director of Direct Liquidation Sales, told Yahoo Finance. Amazon shoppers can return goods within 30 days while customers at can only do so within 14 days. The longer the retailer’s return period is, the worse the quality the returns may be. Liquidation platforms buy returns from Amazon and repackage things. You can choose the product category, but you can’t decide what products are in a pallet. On those websites, shopping for liquidated returns is similar to shopping for daily items from Amazon- but with a huge discount and orders come in big pallets. Now websites like and Direct Liquidation sell merchandise from major retailers, including Walmart and Amazon. As e-commerce evolves, this liquidation process has also moved online. Warehouse liquidation has always been how retailers remove inventory. Some online marketplaces allow you to buy Amazon returns online- items are not individually packaged but are bundled in huge pallets based on categories. ![]() Turns out there is a multi-million dollar business behind mounting Amazon returns. (Photo: Yahoo Finance) Big business in returns Amazon returns has spawned an entire secondary market. If are being followed up by the hospital, do let your health professional know that you are experiencing these problems. You can talk with your GP to identify what support is available. If you’re having ongoing problems, that are affecting your daily life, healthcare professionals can help you. ‘The lasting effects of Covid affect everyone differently and will be experiencing differently so it’s hard to say completely if memory can be affected,’ he says.Īccording to the NHS, people who had some memory problems before becoming ill may find that they worsen afterwards – however, these changes may be mild and may not last for long. Other people, particularly those who have had a severe illness, may find problems last longer. Some people experience mild difficulties that don’t last for long. Kanani explains that, in most cases, those who have had covid will recover with no – or a limited – impact on their memory, be it short or long term. Brain fog can happen to people who are getting eight hours of sleep a night.’ ‘You do not need to be tired to experience brain fog. ‘Brain fog differs from tiredness as it has many more symptoms,’ Abbas Kanani, lead medical advisor at Chemist Click tells .uk. Others can also find themselves struggling to think clearly, or finding it a challenge to complete certain tasks. So, even those who had a mild dose of the virus can still be affected, making it difficult to focus on things that would have been easy before having the virus. It’s not just people who were hospitalised with coronavirus who can develop brain fog.’ They note that: ‘While recovering from Coronavirus, some people experience brain fog. The study has raised concerns that the potential scale of this, given how many people have been affected, could become a major concern. ‘But I think our paper suggests there are long-term cognitive repercussions from covid that may impact individuals across various age groups and the spectrum of disease severity.’ ![]() ‘Many people believe that they will survive Covid and they’ll be just fine and for the majority of the population I think that’s true,’ Jacqueline Becker, clinical neuropsychologist and lead on the study told Medscape news. The study of 740 people (with an average age of 49 and no prior history of memory problems) found that, although older populations are well known to be susceptible to cognitive impairment after a serious illness, there are implications for younger people as well. ![]() ![]() Impact on our cognitive function – in the form of brain fog and short term memory issues – are high up on this list of symptoms.Īnd it’s not something that necessarily disappears after a few weeks rest.Ī recent study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City found that patients treated for Covid-19 still had high rates of brain fog, an average of 7.6 months after diagnosis. Figures publihsed by the ONS in February 2022 reported that an estimated 1.3 million people living in private households in the UK (2% of the population) were experiencing self-reported Long Covid symptoms. ![]() ![]() Under each network location, click Turn on Windows Firewall, and then click OK.įor more information about how to set Automatic Updates in Windows, see Windows Update: FAQ Don’t be tricked into downloading malware In the left pane, click Turn Windows Firewall on or off (you may be prompted to enter your administrator password). In the Search box, type firewall, and then click Windows Firewall. To use it follow the steps in this article: Help protect my PC with Microsoft Defender Offline.Ĭlick the Start button, and then click Control Panel. Starting with Windows 10, Microsoft Defender Offline is built in. Microsoft Defender Offline is an anti-malware tool that helps remove difficult to eliminate viruses that start before Windows starts. If you suspect that your computer is infected with rogue security software that was not detected by using Microsoft security solutions, you can submit samples by using the Microsoft Malware Protection Center submission form. Go to the Microsoft Safety Scanner website.Ĭlick the Download Now button, and then click Run.įollow the instructions to scan your computer and help remove the rogue security software. Right-click the folder, and then click Delete. Scroll until you find the rogue security software program folder. In the Program Files window, click Program Files in the address bar. Note: The folder name is frequently a random number or string of characters. When you are prompted, use the arrow keys to highlight Safe Mode with Networking, and then press Enter. When you see the computer's manufacturer's logo, repeatedly press the F8 key. For this example, we'll call it XP Security Agent 2020. Note the name of the rogue security software. ![]() If the rogue security software can’t be detected or removed by using Microsoft Safety Scanner or the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool, try the following steps: Manually remove the rogue security software Use the Windows Malicious Software Removal Toolįor more information about the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:Ĩ90830 - Remove specific prevalent malware with Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool 4. To perform the scan, go to the Microsoft Safety Scanner website. Microsoft offers a free online tool that scans and helps remove potential threats from your computer. In the results area, click Windows Update.įollow the instructions to download and install the latest Windows Updates. We recommend that you set the Automatic Updates service to run automatically so that a computer is not missing any important updates.įor more information, see Windows Update: FAQĬlick Start, and then type Windows Update in the search box. Note A computer virus may prevent you from accessing the Microsoft Update website to install the latest updates. Install the latest updates from Microsoft Update Fortunately, by updating the computer and by using malicious software removal tools, you can help permanently remove unwanted software.įor more information about how to remove a computer virus and spyware, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 2671662 - Microsoft resources and guidance for removal of malware and viruses 1. Some computer viruses and other unwanted software reinstall themselves after the viruses and spyware are detected and removed. Removing a computer virus or spyware can be difficult without the help of malicious software removal tools. 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Has it been good for business?įINK: It's hard to know what inspires somebody to call you. Her co-counsel repeatedly called for such an evidentiary hearing.) (Powell asserted during a July court hearing she had carefully vetted her election fraud claims before suing, and that the only way to test them would have been at trial or a hearing on evidence gathered. They're paying a price and the price they pay, God willing, will stop this nonsense in 2024. Not one of them filed these ridiculous lawsuits, and of the nine lawyers who filed and participated in the lawsuit in front of Judge Parker, not one of them understood Michigan election law. We have some wonderful, experienced, intelligent, ethical lawyers who represent the Republican Party and Republican candidates. REUTERS: Do you think you'll be seeing election conspiracy claims again in the next presidential election?įINK: Of course I hope not, and it's exactly that concern that has driven our passion to be sure that the lawyers who brought these cases are sanctioned. Both said they played no role in inciting the rioters – Powell has previously called that "inflammatory, false hogwash" while Wood has described it as "errant nonsense.") ![]() (Both Powell and Wood have denied any connection between their election claims and the attack on the Capitol by pro-Trump supporters. But in the weeks and months since then, you've been quite clear about your views on the culpability of these particular attorneys.įINK: I start from the other side, which is, how did the litigation affect the attack? I am absolutely certain that if it weren't for the validation of insane conspiracy theories that were provided by this litigation, if it were not for that validation, Jan. Capitol affected this case? 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