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fertile ground for an engrossing film this trailer proves me wrong while i think it s a bit overwrought for a character to tell king bertie that he s the bravest man i ve ever met it is an interesting tale of a man thrust into a very public role that required him to address and conquer his most terrible fear public speaking a fear shared by most of his fellow humans it doesn t hurt to have geoffrey rush colin firth and helena bonham carter starring either i especially like the king s daughter watching a newsreel of hitler giving a speech and asking her father what s he saying the stammering king replies i don t know but he seems to be saying it rather well if i went to the movies this d be on my must see list posted by mike lief at 07 02 am september 19 2010 file under better mouse trap i ve watched this video several times but still haven t quite gotten a handle on well the pedal and crank and cable on this reimagined bicycle propulsion system the gears and chain we all know from our childhoods have been replaced their familiar round and round circuit replaced by an irregular elliptical path at the front crank and cables rising and falling winding twining around the rear hub how the gearing works can it even be called gearing when there aren t anything with teeth is still a mystery to me eccentric discs the pedal axis rotates these discs at both sides of the frame the discs has a specific kidney like shape which determines the driving characteristic i e the angular displacement of the rear wheel of the bicycle as a function of the angular position of the pedal shaft the chosen shape provides for a conventional driving characteristic i e the same as if a chain driven bike with circular gears were used in a more expensive model the discs can be changed with other ones having different shapes whereby the driving characteristic can be changed in a tour or in a contest to load different muscle groups the swinging unit comprising a pair of oppositely swinging arms arranged for swinging movement around a pivoted auxiliary axis the rotation of the eccentric discs results in the swinging movement of the arms in forward and backward direction transmission speed changer this unit is a controlled slide it changes the longitudinal position height of respective pulleys guided along the swinging arms the height of the two pulleys is always the same when the pulley is in the outermost position the transmission ratio is at maximum while in the innermost position this ratio is at minimum uh yeah the design is supposed to offer a number of benefits the least of which is no dirty chain to lubricate and mess up your pants the rest along with photos are here posted by mike lief at 11 00 pm september 10 2010 but can you flat pack a cat as you may have surmised i am a dog guy through and through still if pressed upon threat of something really painful being done to bits and pieces upon which one really doesn t want anything painful done i ll confess to having perhaps a hint of a smile play ever so briefly across my usually poker faced features while watching this video featuring 100 cats in an ikea store but i ll deny it of course posted by mike lief at 11 09 pm comments 1 how long does it take to field strip a jeep how long does it take to field strip a korean war era jeep about four minutes for these soldiers did i say four minutes i m sorry that s how long it took to tear it apart and put it back together and drive away there s something to be said for simplicity and purity of design i wonder how much time they could shave off with a world war ii jeep an even less complicated design posted by mike lief at 10 22 am september 06 2010 what s my name every family that immigrated to the united states has heard stories of how their last name changed over the years supposedly as a result of impromptu modifications at the hands of the officers staffing ellis island i ve been exploring online seeing what i could discover about my original last name there have been numerous versions given over the years at family reunions so it s interesting to see what s recorded in the official record such as it is from when my great grandparents first arrived in the u s the answers to a variety of questions like our name appear to have been rather elastic june 15 1900 was the first time my great grandparents participated in the u s census the enumerator visiting them at their apartment at 26 cook street brooklyn new york my paternal great grandfather max lipsitz 33 had been married to sadie 30 for nine years they had three children lillie 8 henrietta 6 and my grandfather harry 3 according to these entries in the 1900 census max and sadie arrived in the united states in 1891 the same year they d married my great grandfather was working as a day laborer he d soon be trading a shovel for needle and thread ten years later may 5 1910 my great grandfather max lipshitz was living at 213 215 seigel street in brooklyn he d been married to my great grandmother sadie for 19 years max was 41 sadie was 39 they had seven children living with them although the census enumerator noted that sadie had given birth to eight children with all eight still alive lillie born in 1893 was already out of the house although she was back at home by the 1920 census my grandfather harry was just 13 years old in 1910 not quite old enough to run away and join the cavalry according to this census max and sadie came to the united states in 1881 and max was not a veteran of the union or confederate army or navy nor was he deaf dumb or blind in both eyes my grandfather harry lief circa 1914 ten years later max lifshutz was living at 920 dekalb avenue in brooklyn when the enumerator stopped by on january 9 1920 to count up how many of my ancestors were crammed into that small apartment max was 50 years old living with his wife and nine children my grandfather harry apparently between hitches in the military my grandfather in france during world war i he returned home after the war and was living with his parents during the 1920 census looking across the page of the census ledger to the right i found a list of their occupations max was a tailor making men s pants my grandfather was a clerk in a clothing house according to the 1920 census max and sadie came to the united states from russia in 1892 and their three eldest children were born in manhattan presumably near hester street the rest born later in brooklyn harry lifshutz and one of his brothers at the beach circa 1925 harry and shirley lief on their wedding day in 1928 by 1930 my grandfather was married to my grandmother living with their daughter my father s debut still three years in the future herbert hoover was president and the depression was in its early stages the stock market crashing just a few months earlier the enumerator visited my grandparents on april 10 1930 at their apartment at 2015 mermaid avenue brooklyn for which they paid a monthly rent of 33 in the intervening decade since the 20 census my grandfather did another hitch in the army got out and married my grandmother in 1928 now 33 harry was using the last name lifschutz and my grandmother 24 had dropped her birthname sadie in favor of the presumably more fashionable shirley harry was working as a chauffeur according to the enumerator who clarified in the next block of the ledger that grandpa was driving a taxi the census form also reveals that my grandparents had a radio in their apartment although family lore says they did not yet have their own bathroom still having to walk down the hall to share one with the neighbors the 1940 census isn t online yet but i was able to track down my grandfather s draft registration card from early 1942 in the months after the japanese sneak attack on pearl harbor you ll notice that we ve finally arrived at the last name currently used by my family lief harry and his brothers filed the paperwork to adopt lief in late 1939 the government giving the okay in 40 grandpa is still living in brooklyn apparently having moved to a new apartment on closer inspection harry writes that my grandmother is the person who will know how to contact him she s living on liberty ave the address harry lined out were my grandparents living apart i ve heard the marriage was often tumultuous but this is a bit of unexpected news as i recall my grandfather was anxious and eager to enlist in the army my grandmother appalled that a 45 year old father of three would volunteer and leave them behind perhaps this was the source of the separate living arrangement although the draft board said an approximate height was good enough someone made sure my grandfather was given credit for that last half inch past 5 6 that was his to claim i may be a mere half inch taller than him but my grandfather towers over me in my memory check out those racial classifications they provide an interesting glimpse into the nation s melting pot stock at the beginning of the 1940s a night out on the town for my grandparents circa 1948 that s my grandfather seated on the left my dad s older sister phyllis standing next to him my grandmother second from left my late godfather s dad and my grandmother s sisters on the right so to review 1900 lipsitz 1910 lipshitz 1920 lifshutz 1930 lifschutz 1940 approximately lief the flexibility in spelling was easy to explain early on given that our family name was being translated from russian or yiddish and transliterated from the cyrillic alphabet into english meaning that the spelling was merely trying to capture the sound of the name harry and shirley lief at my bar mitzvah reception july 1976 harry passed away less than a year later almost 50 years after he and my grandmother married what s less easy to explain are the multiple spellings in the census logs i suppose the most likely explanation is a combination of my great grandfather s accent and the enumerator s lack of interest in listening to thousands of immigrants explain over and over again how to spell their names or in the alternative my great grandfather was having them on the different years given for our arrival in the u s 1891 1892 and 1881 are more difficult to attribute to language barriers i have no good explanation for this and have yet to find the passenger list for max and sadie s voyage from the old world to the new as i look over the pages from the various census ledgers i m struck by the humanity of the entries flowing strokes from a fountain pen capturing the smallest details of the daily lives of my great aunts and uncles grandparents and great grandparents these handwritten ledgers seem so alive all the more so compared to the modern sterile computer generated logs that will appear to be untouched by human hands when released 72 years from now when i look at these written entries i feel a connection with my grandfather the three year old boy the 13 year old youth the 23 year old veteran the 33 year old husband and father and although i never met him i also feel a kinship beyond that of blood ties with his father max younger in 1900 than i am today building a family a new life in the bustling ferment that was turn of the century manhattan posted by mike lief at 08 31 pm comments 5 august 11 2010 airshow wildcat and zero click on image for full size version i spent this past weekend at naval air station ventura county where my california state military reserve unit was recruiting next to the c 130 transport i was parked next to a b 25 mitchell bomber the plane jimmy doolittle and his men used to hit tokyo shortly after pearl harbor sitting in my 1945 willys jeep dressed head to toe in wwii gear i had a great view of the mock dogfight in the skies above between a japanese zero the plane that dominated the skies during the early days of the war and an american f6f wildcat a plane that more than made up for its less than graceful lines especially when compared to the lithe zero with gobs of power lots of firepower and enough armor to keep the pilot protected here the zero maneuvers to get on the wildcat s six click on image for full size version the wildcat presented a big target for the japanese pilot actually a white guy from camarillo click on image for full size version the wildcat used its massive engine to pull away from the pursuing zero the sound of the big radial s exhausts music to my ears click on image for full size version the maneuverable but lightly armored zero soon found itself in the sights of the massive wildcat and it s array of 50 caliber machine guns capable of putting pounds of lead on target with the press of a finger click on image for full size version the wildcat and the zero flew in formation after they finished their mock dogfight providing the crowd a nice view of the birds during a photo fly by the zero is one of three still flying the only one with the original and extremely rare japanese engine is based at chino ca this bird has an american wright cyclone radial engine under the cowling posted by mike lief at 10 16 pm comments 1 august 03 2010 so this is what it s like to sit in a p 51 mustang did you ever wonder what it was like to sit in the cockpit of a p 51 mustang arguably the greatest fighter of world war ii for many of us aviation enthusiasts this is the closest we ll ever get it s a 360 degree high resolution click and draggable virtual reality rendering of a p 51 it ll take a while to load even with a high speed internet connection but when it s done you ll be able to zoom in to get a close look at the controls spin around look up down and around the inside of the old warbird this is a screengrab after i zoomed in on the throttle and the controls for the weapons i ve reduced the size and resolution which should give you an idea of just how detailed this rendering is based on the shape of the canopy lots of framing as opposed to an unobstructed bubble she looks like an early war razorback model very very cool posted by mike lief at 08 17 pm july 18 2010 tom jones older better i listened to a lot of tom jones this weekend most of the recordings from the last decade or so the welsh singer s voice in fine fettle then i came across the latest from the singer a spare stripped down album featuring raw bluesy numbers contemplative musings on mortality faith and the nature of man it s very different from the pop tunes that jones has spent most of his life performing but it makes for compelling listening however it seems at least one executive from his label was not impressed here he s performing the old john lee hooker blues number burning hell on jools hooland s tv show earlier this year posted by mike lief at 10 06 pm morning flowers carnations and roses in the morning sun i sit at the island bleary eyed sipping my coffee and gazing at the flowers the sun moving slowly creating blazing highlights and inky black shadows i set my mug down and pick up my camera posted by mike lief at 07 48 am july 17 2010 tom jones maybe older but just as good as e...