Gauge Console

Car question...?

We have a 1998 Chevy Lumina and the dashboard lights don't work very well at all. At night, I can't see my speedometer, gas gauge, or anything else above my steering wheel. Also the console or whatever it's called isn't lit up either--my radio dials, heat/AC controls aren't visible at night. It seems that the lights are dying out gradually, b/c I could see a little better a few days ago. Is there any way for my husband to fix this himself, or do we need to take it into a shop? I think it's a bit unsafe to not be able to see the gas gauge or speedometer. Any suggestions?
No, that's a legit question lol....but yes, we have the switch turned up as far as it will go without having the interior light on in the car.

It sounds as if you have a ground problem. Sometimes corrosion causes the lights to loose more and more power, until they just go out. It would be best to take it to a qualified tech and have him check it out.
But first have your husband check under the hood for loose or corroded ground straps, going to the body from the engine.
Master tech 40 yrs.

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Another impressive reorganization by Toyota this year was the new 2006 Toyota Tacoma. This truck is synthesized from a small to mid-sized pickup. You are familiar with the Tacoma-ies of the past. They are reliable, as a day long ago, but how will the new truck compare?

I went shopping, and, frankly, I had to check at the border of Nissan, too. It was amended, and is approximately the same size as the new Tacoma. As Nissan has a rail system in the truck bed, but Toyota is on the edge of the deck up above. I like it better, it seems as if it would make binding of items much easier. In addition, in bed, there are two neat lockable storage compartments nestled so they are not noticed. Pretty slick.

The new V6 has 236hp, which does not slouch in any book. The old V6 had about 190 hp I think so. A standard 4-cylinder is 2.7 liters and 164 hp rates are more than most V6's.

There are X-Runner is available, which is more for show and go, than off-road or work. My father was in the previous version, which was S-Runner http://www.autoglass-america.com Tacoma . They are slick. Dad in a way cool, and I saw only one X-Runner at a car show, as they are sold before they are around for much too long. A sensor, which can have a .9 G's on the slip area will rival most sports cars. Basically, the X-runner has everything. In Prerunner and double cab is the top of the line for trucks 4x4, but they have many options. The only option I can find on the X-runner is daytime running lights.

Do not worry, the SR5 still comes loaded up with chrome grille, color bumpers, overfenders, leather steering wheel, and variable Wipers windscreen. In the V6 has fog lamps and a sports package includes a limited-slip rear differential. In off-road package adds larger wheels, a suspension with BILSTEIN shocks, locking rear differential and the slip plates and tow hooks.

In TRD Sport truck my favorite with a hood scoop, 17 "wheels, better seats, sockets and neat overhead console with compass and temperature gauge.

In the Tacoma is not a small truck you see around anymore. My dad was 4. I only owned one truck, Toyota, and I drove until the wheels fell. But you know what? She started and ran every time. I am sure that the trucks we see today a lot of last another generation due to Toyota in unsurpassed quality.

Another impressive reorganization by Toyota this year was the new 2006 http://www.autoglass-america.com Toyota Tacoma . This truck is synthesized from a small to mid-sized pickup. You are familiar with the Tacoma-ies of the past. They are reliable, as a day long ago, but how will the new truck compare?

I went shopping, and, frankly, I had to check at the border of Nissan, too. It was amended, and is approximately the same size as the new Tacoma. As Nissan has a rail system in the truck bed, but Toyota is on the edge of the deck up above. I like it better, it seems as if it would make binding of items much easier. In addition, in bed, there are two neat lockable storage compartments nestled so they are not noticed. Pretty slick.

The new V6 has 236hp, which does not slouch in any book. The old V6 had about 190 hp I think so. A standard 4-cylinder is 2.7 liters and 164 hp rates are more than most V6's.

There are X-Runner is available, which is more for show and go, than off-road or work. My father was in the previous version, which was S-Runner Tacoma. They are slick. Dad in a way cool, and I saw only one X-Runner at a car show, as they are sold before they are around for much too long. A sensor, which can have a .9 G's on the slip area will rival most sports cars. Basically, the X-runner has everything. In Prerunner and double cab is the top of the line for trucks 4x4, but they have many options. The only option I can find on the X-runner is daytime running lights.

Do not worry, the SR5 still comes loaded up with chrome grille, color bumpers, overfenders, leather steering wheel, and variable Wipers windscreen. In the V6 has fog lamps and a sports package includes a limited-slip rear differential. In off-road package adds larger wheels, a suspension with BILSTEIN shocks, locking rear differential and the slip plates and tow hooks.

In TRD Sport truck my favorite with a hood scoop, 17 "wheels, better seats, sockets and neat overhead console with compass and temperature gauge.

In the Tacoma is not a small truck you see around anymore. My dad was 4. I only owned one truck, Toyota, and I drove until the wheels fell. But you know what? She started and ran every time. I am sure that the trucks we see today a lot of last another generation due to Toyota in unsurpassed quality.

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Silicone Mask Snorkel
I have a body glove snorkel mask. No nose purge. I always get water in the mask. It is made of silicone. Any t?

I have an aqua sphere swim mask - ( eye piece no nose piece) that seals very tightly around my eyes. I never have problems with getting water in my eyes.

Can be a number of reasons, most of them common to mask and/or user.

1, Fringe hair trapped in the mask. Make sure you sweep the hair back when fitting.

2, Mask too large for face. Get a smaller mask.

3, Mask wrong shape for face. Buy a new mask.

4, Mask strap too tight distorting the shape of the mask. Loosen strap

5, Faulty face seal. Replace/Repair

6, Faulty lens seal. Replace/Repair

7, Facial hair (sorry if you are female)

When purchasing a new mask, without using the head strap, place the mask against the face and gently push onto the face, take away your hand and the mask should stay in place, if it does not, it is wrong for you.

I have a problem with laughter lines, every time I laugh (which I do often, the mask floods

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Since the human eye is not designed to see in water, anyone who enters the sub-aquatic realm must wear a facemask in order to see; the reason for this is that the optical density of water is completely different to air for which the eye is designed. Allowing for an air gap between the eye and the water overcomes this limitation - we can focus underwater and vision is restored.

A scuba mask is a relatively simple device, consisting of a glass lens, a rubber skirt that seals against the face and a strap to fasten it. The original face masks were often crudely fashioned at home from a piece of circular glass and bicycle inner tube, but by the end of the 1950s mask design was beginning to evolve from this circular design to an oval, allowing for a wider field of view.

A further development in the 1960s occurred when two panes of glass were added to the sides of scuba masks, further increasing peripheral vision but with the side effect of increasing internal volume, making this type of mask harder to equalize or clear. The solution was provided by the first low-profile scuba masks; whereas masks before this had been worn over the eyes and nose, low-profile masks featured a nose pocket below the lens that allowed the glass to be closer to the eyes, reducing the volume of air contained within the mask,.

Another difference in scuba mask design is in the material of the skirt; originally this was made from neoprene, but silicone has been used since the 1980s; it is more comfortable for the diver due to its greater flexibility and longer lasting because it is less susceptible to damage from sunlight.

Modern scuba masks generally consist of a lightweight plastic frame, glass lenses and a silicone rubber skirt. It is interesting to note that although silicone can be translucent, the skirt on modern scuba masks is often coloured black, just as with the original neoprene masks.

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Dive Light

What should I do if the red light comes on on my Xbox360?

My friends have experienced this problem and their Xbox has broken and had to be replaced. At my school it is like an Urban Myth that when the red light turns on on the Xbox 360 you have to immediatley dive on the xbox and pull out all the wires immediatley. Is this true? I just want to know what to do in the event of this situation.

LOL, well the Urban Myth at your school is wrong. But that's hilarious.

I just got the red rings on my xbox, but I knew it was going to happen. Most people think that xbox is crappy, because it over heats and gets the red lights. The only reason why people get red lights, is because they dont take care of their xbox. 1) they leave it on for hours not playing it. 2) They will put their xbox on the floor and let it suck in dust. 3) they will stand it up instead of laying it on its side. Standing it up blocks off air from getting into the 360, which causes it to over heat.

My 360 has never over heated. I have gotten the red rings twice. Because of making stupid desicions. First time was because, I always brought my xbox to my friends house and didn't take care of it. Left it on for hours while not playing it, Put it on a surface where it wasn't clean. 2nd time i got red rings which was 2 weeks ago. I just didn't care about taking care of it anymore. So that was dumb of me. If you notice a lot of people that got the red rings. They usually got it in about a year and a half. Its common to get rrod in year and a half.

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smokey eye is a classic.
1. cover your whole eye in a grey silvery tone.
2. taking a smaller brush, take a darker colour, preferebly a really really dark purple or black, (purple is great) and press that in your inner corner and your outer corner.
3. taking a highlight, (a glittery tone, silver or glittery blue would be good) press this LIGHTLY literally in the center of your eye, in betwween the dark colours.
4. buff it all out, using a brush, rub the higlight into the darker colours.

if you want to go one step further, put on fake eyelashes! the ones with the dimantes!! but always remember to put on mascara with the fake eyelashes, to tab your really lashes in to the false ones.

for your cheeks, go a light bronzer, then a light shimmer dust on top.

go pale lips. or you dont want to overpower the eyes. always only focus on one feature of your face or you'll look OTT.

tell me how it works out!!

Where are the beasts? Where are the monolithic giants of graphical technology that make us go moist in the geek glands? Too long have we waited, frustrated at the less than satisfying make-do cards thrown our way like scraps from the table of the tech gods. AMD has tried to placate us with the vast scale of the HD3870 X2, a multi-core behemoth that demands half the space and practically all the power your PC can muster, but what of NVIDIA's top-end cards?

Just over two years ago, the much-heralded age of the DirectX 10-capable graphics card dawned with the supreme G80-powered GeForce 8800GTX. Then a year ago came the updated 8800 Ultra, a card that has remained NVIDIA's top end offering... until now. We've had to wait 12 long months for the refresh, during which we've been treated to a mass of mid-range cards. Admittedly, this included the excellent G92 8800GT; its first 65nm core, but still it's been a long time coming for the 9800GTX and GX2.

Both new cards are powered by the same 65nm G92, a core that is now one year old, and represents the first time that either AMD or NVIDIA have released a brand new family of top-end cards based on old architecture. Replacing the 8800GTX and Ultra is a necessity as far as furthering the NVIDIA brand is concerned, competition-wise though it's less of an issue. AMD still hasn't managed to create anything to seriously outperform these year-old cards. So is the lack of a new core an acknowledgment that NVIDIA only has to turn up to the race to win?

Promises, Promises

Towards the end of the year we are promised the GT200, the current nomenclature of NVIDIA's next chip, with a core designed to power the 9900 family of cards. With this in mind it was necessary for the green side of the graphics market to produce a range of cards to cover the high-end, and so the stop-gap measure of the 9800 cards have been born.

The GTX model is a straight, beefed up version of the G92 with higher clock speeds across the board. While it shares the same number of Raster Operators (ROPs) as the 8800GT, it has the old GTX's complement of shader units at 128, giving it the necessary speed boost. The GX2 follows the example of the old 7950GX2, strapping two G92-stuffed PCBs together, except this time they both face into the same heatsink, housed in a vaguely coffin-like surround. The clock speeds are slightly slower than the GTX, but a fair dose of optimizing has gone into making this single card SLI offering an impressive piece of engineering.

The first difference you'll notice when comparing the specs of the two new cards with the versions they're replacing is the change in memory capacity. Both the 8800GTX and Ultra had a 384-bit memory bus with 768MB of GDDR3, while the 98005 make do with the same 256-bit 512MB of memory that resides on the GTS and GT iterations of the G92-based 8800s.

ROP rules?

Due to its two cores the GX2 comes out tops in the memory bandwidth stakes at 128Gbps compared with the Ultra's 103.7Gbps, but the 9800GTX lags well behind the older cards. What this all means, in real terms, is that at the higher resolutions, and most especially with full screen anti-aliasing turned on, the new cards take quite a hit at the levels we were hoping these big-panel pixel pushers would excel at.

The differences between the GTX and GX2, and indeed the 8800GT, are slight; the GX2 simply relying on the brute force effect of the single card SLI factor. Where the difference between the two new G92 parts is most obvious though is the number of ROPs. The GTX is still hobbling along with 16, less than both the 8800GTX and Ultra at 24, but due to the doubling up the GX2 has 32. The difficulty is in knowing how much of a benefit this multi-CPU's extra ROPs actually gives as opposed to the single card with 24.

The question is: where do we find ourselves with the two new top-end cards? Well, mostly in the same place we were before, to be brutally honest. There's very little difference between this new set and the old, with the 9800GTX being the biggest disappointment.

Bigger, Faster, Stronger?

The 9800GX2 struggles to find any space between itself and the 8800GTX, it's supposed to be replacing, and there's also the fact that you can still pick up the older card - with the extra memory, bandwidth and ROPs - for less than $600. In some places you can save yourself around $100 and come out with an equivalent and, in some cases, faster card. The march of progress seems to have stomped right past this iteration of the 9800 without saluting.

NVIDIA then had to go down the multi-GPU route, not just to prove they could produce a functional version like AMD, but also to create a card that they could legitimately call the fastest graphics card around. Still, the memory constraints hold the GX2 back from being the superlative, stand out, top-end card de jour.

On the lower-res panels, without the silicon-melting anti-aliasing it speeds ahead of the competition, yet with all the bells and whistles cranked up to a deafening roar it struggles to break even with the old 8800 Ultra. Again, if you shop around you can pick up an Ultra for around $500, and be fairly sure that your card will have drivers mature enough to cater for whatever you throw down its tubes.

Essentially, if you've got yourself an 8800GTX or Ultra and felt that twinge of envy at the announcement of this new generation of top-end cards, then quit your worrying right now. In fact, you can probably be downright smug as your slightly geriatric cards are still more than capable of holding their own against these youngbloods. Till the GT200 that is.

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Coral reefs have provided a habitat for biodiversity that maintain the earth's balance. However, human activities have resulted to the destruction of many coral reefs and are even posing greater threats to the future of coral reefs and sea life.

Examples of the human activities that are destructive to the coral reefs are global warming, coral mining, organic and non-organic or chemical pollution, fishing beyond the standard level, dynamite or blast fishing, and the digging of canals to form access ways into islands and bays. In agricultural areas, the depositing of waste into water may be harmful as it enables the growth of algae that are harmful to corals.

One who benefits from the earth's oceans may not be aware that he/she is in fact contributing to the destruction. Overfishing, for example, may come in different forms. With increased population of the human beings, there is a growing demand for fish, that markets have even become global. Because of great technological advancements, the human can be able to fish beyond what might be tolerable underwater. More and more fish are being removed from their natural sources to be exported to supply global demands.

Overfishing can create a domino effect underwater, as it can destroy the balance in reef systems. If more fish are taken out from the water, sea urchins may dominate, and so will other creatures that are harmful to the corals when coming in big populations. The booming popularity of keeping saltwater aquaria has caused harm to the underwater ecosystem. Also, in the process, chemicals that are harmful to the fish and other creatures in the reef may be used.

There are algae that are toxic resulting to the reduced balance in the reef communities, resulting to the death of fish, corals, and other marine organism that are part of the ecosystem. The intrusions to the sea of unnecessary elements such as phosphates and nitrates have been known to cause great damage. With poor water quality brought about by human activities such as improper dumping of factory wastes and garbage, the spread of infectious diseases easily spread among coral reefs.

There are different kinds of known pollutants. These are the organic pollutants and the non-organic pollutants. Organic pollutants may be soil runoff, windborne, sewage, and mines. Non-organic pollutants may be chemicals and leaked oil that flow from factories and other sources. Both organic and non-organic chemicals pose great threat in the destruction of marine life.

Global warming triggers sea level rise. Since the coral grow in shallow areas where sunlight is accessible, they may die with increased water level. The corals are also disturbed by sudden sea temperature changes. If sea temperatures rise very high, a phenomenon called bleaching, in which the corals are discolored from greenish to white, may occur. With global warming is also associated to increased coral diseases, weakening the corals and causing death.

Ocean acidification is closely linked to global warming. It is caused by the increased emission of CO2, resulting to increased amount of it dissolved in the ocean, and thus disturbing the pH balance needed for marine life survival.

The rampant coral mining conducted by villagers and large-scale companies for construction purposes also pose great threat to the coral reefs. Other physical destruction include improper accessing of boats and ships known as grounding. This may result to collision and scarring of the reefs.

Coral reefs provide a diverse life underwater, co-existing with us in so many ways possible. It is just very important for humans to be very conscious of whether their actions are harmful to the coral reefs or not. The total loss of the coral reefs may be detrimental to the present and future generation.

Author- Len Loman

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Undead scuba diver costume tips?

I'm a scuba diver and I want to wear my wetsuit, BCD, regulator, boots, fins and gloves this Halloween. But all my stuff is new, and I'm aiming for an undead look. I want to look like I drowned or something.

I am not too familiar with what you would be able to do, as far as what may damage your suit, but some simple things I though of would be maybe something that looks like seaweed tangled around your arms or throat. If your face is going to be exposed a lot you can use make up and pale your face and add blue around the lips and dark around your eyes to enhance the "undead" appearance. There are lots of how-to's online you can pick up for makeup tips. For your hair, try using lots of palm-aid...or hair "grease". As far as your suit goes....I don't know if you could use it but I would think maybe face paint? Greens to make it look a little molded and mildewed. Maybe even rub some dirt/mud onto it, since it can be washed off? It sounds like a totally original idea. Have a great time. Happy Halloween.

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We know now why being a commercial crab fisherman in Alaska is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world.We know now why the deckhands and captains who take on the treacherous waters of the Bering Sea every winter are compensated so well for filling the bottom of their boats with crab.Because of the Discovery Channel’s hit reality show “ Deadliest Catch ,” viewers get an inside peek into life ...

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Underwater Camera Housing

Canon U.S.A. Introduces a Powerful New VIXIA Lineup to Meet the Needs of Every User
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y.----Canon U.S.A., Inc, a leader in digital imaging technology, today announced an exciting new line of nine VIXIA High Definition flash memory camcorders. The 2010 high-definition lineup includes Canon’s flagship VIXIA HF S-series, the compact VIXIA HF M-series and a new entry-level VIXIA HF R-series.
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Snapshot: Go underwater with a point-and-shoot
To capture friendly sea turtles up close, Danny Allen put his regular Canon point-and-shoot camera into a waterproof case.

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Dry Bag

Good size dry bag to take on a canoeing trip?

I am going on a canoe trip and of course you don't want your stuff to get dry....what are some good sizes to get the dry bags in?? 5, 8, 13, 20,35 liters?? what i want to do is get like 2 bags and be able to fit my stuff into.

Get a big one to pack your clothes and sleeping bag in. Also, get one of the small ones to put stuff that you want to keep handy (bug spray, sunglasses, weed,etc.) Clip that one to the thwart near you to keep it handy.

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As a camper, you need to make sure that your gear always stays dry no matter what type of weather you end up running into. If you need a large bag that can fit just about anything and will also keep it all dry, then you need a Dry Pak Roll Top. These gear bags are great because you are able to place your things inside and roll the bag up at the top and snap to keep out all of the nasty weather. Your things will stay dry and you will be able to bring everything that you need in order to have a safe and fun trip.

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