Everyone wants to know what drug—"drugs", as that interview lady may have let slip tonight—Chris Andersen was into. All of them would be funny, for different reasons. However, I think this weird T3 graphic inserted into the halftime show might actually hold the answers. If you didn't know, it's a biometric scan. And I'm guessing ESPN didn't realize that, if you perform the calculations already underway above, the truth emerges. They narrowed it down to three in the script, too, but don't be fooled: Experts knows that many, many more substances, and sub-substances, are contained in the little lines and symbols.
More important: My J.R. manifesto for tonight over at The Baseline. Let's see how that audience deals with my religious leanings.
I usually hate the sun, in fact, it places undue pressure on me to love life and makes me that much more determined to hide in the shadows. But fuck it, it's been gorgeous here for three days, there's only so much basketball on, and no one's checking their email. So I'm suddenly filled with spring fever—more like compulsion—and have to get to the water and get my tan on.
Before I run out the door, though, I did want to say a few things about last night's game. Sorry for the lack of frilly language, these are more notes that grew out of post-game conversation:
-I recognize that this Cavs loss somewhat mutes my latest spasms of LeBron-mania.
-That said, it is kind of sad to watch Bron go straight at Howard like the DPOY doesn't have shit on him. You wonder if an angrier Dwight might help here.
-At some point, I began to wonder if the Magic could only win, or at least impress me with a win, if they made a comeback that was . . . ummm, magical?
-Based on conversations with my friend Nate, Kevin Pelton, and my own two eyes, it's become obvious to me: Howard is a monster on offense provided he's in motion. Give him the damn ball, just make sure he's cutting, leaping, or in a position to make one step and then dunk. That's why, even though he could stand to diversity his offense, it is on SVG and other players to see this gives them a tremendous weapon right now. See also Game 1 of this series.
-Someone needs to tell Howard that him stationary in the post is a total dead-end. Unless he's got a total mismatch. When Amare was a raw killing machine in 2004-05, the trick to his success was that he avoided this situation like the plague. Now, Howard will never be able to expand his range, or ability to put the ball on the floor, like Stoudemire has done—the main way he's overcome the obvious limitation of not playing in the post. So who knows what the long-term prognosis for Howard is. But Amare was never as imposing as Howard. There's no reason he can't be used creatively so that, in short, the post is always the terms set by Howard's lateral or upward motion.
-Not surprisingly, Kevin just realized he'd said something like this several years ago:
For years now, Howard has drawn comparisons to Phoenix's Amaré Stoudemire because of how both players have a prodigious combination of size, strength, and athleticism. The comparisons break down at some point, because Howard is a far better rebounder and defender than Stoudemire, but the Magic clearly learned from how the Suns accelerated Stoudemire's development by pairing him with Steve Nash and surrounding him with double-team neutralizing outside shooters.
And also. . .
We're trained to recognize that those kind of outside shooters help beat double-teaming of a post player, a style so popular in the NBA in the 1990s that was perfected by the Houston Rockets around Hakeem Olajuwon. However, the Suns of recent vintage have demonstrated that deep threats can be just as valuable when it comes to running pick-and-rolls. Even though Magic point guards Carlos Arroyo and Jameer Nelson are not on Nash's level, the Orlando pick-and-roll is still difficult to defend because teams can't leave the outside shooters to provide help and because Howard is so good at going up and getting the ball on lobs to the rim.
-KP adds: "The point now is they realized this a long time ago, and then seemed to forget it in these playoffs, either because Nelson/sorta Turkoglu were hurt or because of ORTHODOXY."
-Tangentially related, Rafer Alston is so weird. He's at his best as a straightforward guard. Nothing outside-of-the-box or too improvisational.
-So yeah, despite Joey's earlier critique of Howard, the Magic could be making a lot more of the current situation. And maybe Dwight could stop making me feel so damn bad for him, as LeBron plays like him with perimeter skills.
-It's true, I wrote something claiming that a big game from J.R. was more important to the Nuggets than Billups stepping it up. That probably would've made more sense around these parts. But I would still like to forget it happened.
Além dos pistões em si, também os pinos podem sofrer desgaste.
Por isso verifique, e sempre , se os pinos de pistão não estão frouxos e substitua-os se for necessário. Muitos pinos de pistão são instalados sob pressão na extremidade superior da biela sendo necessárias ferramentas especiais para pôr e tirar esses pinos. Consulte o manual de serviço do motor antes de tentar retirar o pino do pistão. Isto poupará tempo e possíveis danos ao pistão se os pinos forem do tipo colocado sob pressão.
Exame das bielas
Um outro ponto importantíssimo a ser observado, e que muitas vezes é deixado de lado, é a verificação do estado das bielas.
Se uma biela estiver empenada, ela vai fazer com que o pistão fique desalinhado dentro do cilindro, provocando um contato irregular dos anéis com a parede do cilindro.
Uma biela empenada faz com que o pistão fique desalinhado dentro do cilindro.
Quando isso ocorre em um lado do pistão , o canto superior dos anéis é que vai fazer contato com a parede do cilindro, enquanto que, no lado oposto, somente o canto inferior é que vai fazer este contato.
O canto superior do anel, em contato com a parede do cilindro aumenta o consumo de óleo.
Esse contato incorreto dos anéis provoca um aumento no consumo de óleo e desgaste irregular dos anéis.
Além disso, como todo o conjunto pistão-biela trabalha desalinhado e portanto, forçado, outras partes também apresentarão desgaste irregular, estando entre elas as bronzinas e bielas.
Como pode-se observar na figura abaixo devido ao empenamento das bielas, as bronzinas tenderão a se desgastar mais em pontos opostos o que, sem dúvida, reduzirá sensivelmente sua vida útil.
Bronzinas desgastadas em regiões opostas.
Para se descobrir se uma biela está empenada existem aparelhos apropriados que permitem determinar-se, exatamente, quanto é e onde está localizado o desalinhamento.
Verificação do alinhamento das bielas.
No entanto, uma pré-determinação pode ser feita através da observação dos locais de desgaste do pistão.
Se o pistão estiver mais gasto, de um lado, na parte superior (região dos anéis) e no lado oposto, o maior desgaste for na parte inferior da saia, isto indicará que a biela está empenada.
Um desgaste em diagonal, conforme indicado na figura abaixo, também é indicio de empenamento da biela.
O desgaste do pistão em diagonal é indicio de empenamento da biela.
Am I the only person on the planet who didn't know that Paulette Reaves is the mother of Josh Smith? Her current site has some candids of her with Amare, Nash, and others.
Like you need FD to tell you that LeBron is almighty. Read The Baseline tomorrow for my thoughts on the game. Some other random shit will probably show up here around the same time.
UPDATE: Excuse whatever chippiness follows, because my internet connection is once again totally unreliable and it makes my increasingly professional life a total mess. Fuck writing serious emails on a phone. Anyway, I know I've been scarce around these parts. It's got a lot to do with the new gig; I'm trying to both 1) figure out the hang of it 2) divert traffic from here to there (sorry if that's a huge sinister surprise). So if anyone has advice or feedback on either of these counts, let me know. I can pretty much write whatever I want, and it's really only the recaps/previews I've gotten bogged down with, but every writer is these days (power of repetition = power + repetition. Which means no need for "experts" after a point.)
That said, from last night's Bron/Magic post, here's the FD money shot that would've fit very nicely into this site's special place:
The Magic have been better in this series than they've been at any time during the season (or playoffs, of course). That Turkoglu shot, a mirror image of Lewis's heroics from Game 1, looked like it had capped off, or kicked off, a new glory era for the Magic. No matter how unlikely it all seemed, it would be damn hard to argue with after this. I know that athletes can taste victory, but for once, I understood why that language exists.
But the Magic don't have LeBron James. And while we know stars can lose, upsets can happen, and our preconceptions can be wrong, James is the ultimate superstar. In that, he's both breathtaking and boring. We're watching a career unfold that's already HOF-bound, maybe even the best ever, and yet it all feels so inevitable. And so it was with that shot. Of course James would make it and put everything in its right place. The second -- and yeah, it was literally a second -- the ball went his way, you thought "this is how it's supposed to happen, isn't it?" You realize that "scripted" and "storybook" differ only in connotation.
It had to happen, and as shocking as it was, you could only be so surprised. But isn't that what makes LeBron so ridiculous? He's conditioned us to not only expect the impossible, but take it for granted.
See, it lives! And yes, I took out two really weird sentences that are what happens when I write too late, under some deadline of some sort. Those always make me anxious, as opposed to the sense of urgency, or competitiveness, that used to spur me on when it was totally self-imposed. Welcome to America, I guess.
-While we're on the subject of me saying shit that could potentially hurt my future interest, I find it weird that in that fat dude swimming adidas ad, KG is cast as both less (cardboard shoes) and more (world champs!) fortunate in the grand socio-economic scheme of things than Jim, or whatever his name is. It's like NBA players' former poverty has been mythologized, turned into a necessary part of how high they'll one day rise. It's teleology, and Horatio Alger, and frankly kind of gross. At best, there's a disconnect between "kid plays on dirt and goes on to dominate American sports" and "ordinary schmo loses job during recession." The former is both fantastic and in our society, totally familiar; the latter is cast as the salt-of-the-earth feat of bravery. We're all ordinary people, unless we're too poor, then we might as well be rich because we'll end up cagers or rappers.
Fuck a photo, I have to go watch a movie about Chechnya. Will be live tonight.
Como já é de tradição quando um carro vai sair de linha ou sofrer uma modificação muito grande a Volkswagen costuma lançar uma série especial para reduzir o estoque. E a bola da vez é o Fox que terá a serie especial denominada Sunrise.
A nova versão adiciona ao veículo rack e antena no teto, lanternas escurecidas, spoiler, aplique na placa, refletores no para-choque traseiro, adesivos pretos nas colunas centrais, rodas de liga leve de 14 polegadas com pneus de uso misto, estribos laterais, faróis com máscara negra, molduras nos para-lamas e adesivos alusivos à versão aplicados nas colunas traseiras e na carcaça dos retrovisores. Na parte interna, nova forração em couro e tecido, detalhes nas maçanetas e painel pintados de branco completam o visual. O modelo está disponível apenas com o motor de 1,0 litro de 72 cv, nas cores branco Cristal, prata Sargas e amarelo Ímola.
Internamente, o Sunrise possui revestimento dos bancos em couro e tecido com uma inscrição alusiva à série, enquanto que as maçanetas e a régua do console central são pintadas em branco. A lista de opcionais inclui itens como ar-condicionado, freios com sistema anti-travamento (ABS), vidros e travas elétricas e coluna de direção com ajuste de altura e profundidade.
De acordo com a VW, o modelo será vendido em diversas opções de cores, como Branco Cristal e o Amarelo Imola. O Fox Sunrise poderá ser comprado por 32.785 reais.
A BMW divulgou algumas imagens da BMW Série 5 GT. Que é uma mistura de SUV com esportivo, ou seja, tem posição mais elevada para dirigir porem desempenho de em esportivo.
A BMW informou que o Série 5 GT é baseado na plataforma da próxima geração dos outros modelos da Série 5 . O GT mede 4,998 mm de comprimento, 1,901 mm de largura, 1,559 mm de altura e 3,070 mm de distância entre eixos.
Com comercialização mercada para o final do ano, o Série 5 GT Será proposto com dois motores a gasolina, os já conhecidos 3.0 de 306 cv (535i GT) e o V8 de 4.4 litros (550i GT) com 408 cv, e um turbodiesel de 3 litros de cilindrada com 235 cavalos de potência (530d GT).
O Série 5 Gran Turismo (GT), que será apresentado oficialmente no salão de Frankfurt, em setembro.
