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  1. Dorian is due east of Charleston, which appears to be getting hammered. The models show that overnight it will come very close to Wilmington (around 1:00) and then start a northeasterly turn. Also, It still looks to hit the barrier islands of NC.
  2. Though we have not met please accept our condolences and prayers. Your daughter sounds like a wonderful person.
  3. Dorian is now off the coast of Savanna GA as a Cat 3 storm although it is expected to weaken again. The bad thing is that it seems to have slowed down which if that continues we will probably have landfall in the Carolinas. Both GA and SC should be seeing hurricane force winds now. Charleston SC appears to be getting 90+ MPH winds. There are reports of flooding already in GA and SC. Let's pray this thing moves faster and begins its turn eastward soon. I use a site, https://www.ventusky.com, where I can select the model and choose to see various settings like radar, wind speed, pressure etc. Stay safe. Forecast Models
  4. Dorian is currently southeast of JXNVL who should be feeling Tropical force winds by now. They are still under a hurricane warning. By Midday - afternoon the winds could be hurricane force. It will remain off shore. JXNVL currently has light rain and a 15 MPH breeze. Storm surge predictions are much lower this morning for the Jacksonville area and estimated to be under 3'. A friend is riding it out on his boat in a harbor south near St Augustine and he says the winds are 30 MPH or better with a light rain. Dorian continues to weaken and its turn back east may keep it off shore completely. It's still too out to know. Stay safe our coastal Friends.
  5. Dorian is still tracking off shore for FL by 30 - 70 miles. Remember that this thing is 250 miles wide right now. Long range modeling shows it much closer to to the Carolinas and a landfall there is possible Thursday or early Friday. The hurricane will become fatter on its northwest side as it comes up the east coast, so significant flooding may occur even well inland. It remains to be seen how intact Dorian’s wind core will be on its way north, but the storm could potentially still have winds over 100 mph near the Carolinas. Storm surge remains the primary concern. Hopefully the forecast is accurate in that it will be downgraded again to a Cat 2 storm Let's hope for even lower. Stay Safe.
  6. Models are still keeping it off shore but they will still have to deal with storm surge, maybe for a couple of days. This thing is going to slow to ~4 MPH tonight. Right now models are pretty inline at about 30 - 50 Miles off shore. There will still be a ton of wind. Tomorrow night and early Tuesday will tell where and how far out this thing will be.
  7. Prayers up for all. Right now the path regarding the US is still pretty uncertain with the central path skirting the coast all together. Even if it does it will still be close enough to cause high wind, storm surges, rain and flooding. The Graphic below shows the model runs from 10:00 PM ET tonight. One outlier still shows it hitting FL. The error rate is still pretty high for more than a 2 day forecast. Let's hope for everyone that it just stays out to sea. More than 50 - 75 miles would be best. https://ruc.noaa.gov/tracks/
  8. Do you have any other accounts on the machine? Try those and see if Edge is there. you can also try this by launching powershell as administrator Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers -Name Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml" -Verbose} With MS Abandoning EdgeHTML, which like others has stated is not well liked by most, they are introducing a new version based on the same Open Source code as Chrome called Chromium. This is why Chrome is named the way it is, that and the team at Google thought they were being cute since it relates to shiny and new. Also, I'm worried about Chrome's direction too. Google announced they are working to allow Chrome the ability to edit files on your computer. This is a VERY bad step by them. It will lead to malicious activity and even give nefarious web sites access to all your files they way they currently intend to do this. If you are interested in the new version of Edge base on Chromium here is a link to get it: https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/. I've been using the development version for a few months now. I don't use a lot of extensions to Chrome but my colleagues use a lot and they have said they have no issues. . . . yet.
  9. That would be EdgeHTML which MS is abandoning. Edge is the future will be based on the same open source code as Chrome. I found this link but it will depend on the build version of Windows 10 and if it is new enough https://www.intowindows.com/how-to-repair-microsoft-edge-in-windows-10/. The first part of the article is basic fodder, scroll down a little to find the steps. I have not had to do this in the past but to be honest I now manage the techs here and haven't done support directly in quite a few years. Reading through the article though it looks to be a solid process. I have the new Edge Beta installed for testing so I no longer have these options available on my machine to check.
  10. I think your easiest way out of this is the reload then. The windows registry is a fickle and unwieldy beast. CCleaner goal is to try and keep it somewhat under control by removing garbage left in the registry by other programs and such. In general it does a good job.
  11. Cowboy is spot on. I had the same issue on My '06 when I hit about 95K miles on it.
  12. I've used CCleaner in the past with no issues. It sounds more like a piece of adware or malware got installed and CCleaner while doing somethings well is not a tool for that. These things probably slowed down the performance. Go to Malwaybytes (https://www.malwarebytes.com/) and download the 'free' version, it's really a 14 day trial. Run that to try and clean it up. I personally have the paid version on my home machines. Also remember that as monthly updates get installed from MS, Apple and the various Linux OSs that they all add to their product and slowly begin to cut at your performance. If this does not help then a reload or recovery of the operating system may be necessary. Backup all your important data, pictures and generally anything else you want to keep to an external drive. There is a Seagate 2 Terabyte unit on Amazon right now for $60 ModelSTGX2000400. It's a pain, just had to do it on my wife's but. . . .
  13. I had removed mine and made a small wood box for storage in its place. Worked fairly well and made sure to seal it from water as best I could.
  14. I wasn't able to put much into retirement the until I was a little over 40 for various reasons (other than my house) so at the moment I'm more aggressive on the strategy. My 401K is with Schwab and I'm sitting at about 13% growth this calendar year. Mostly in their Large company and International groups. I went very conservative under the previous Admin as I just didn't agree with their Policies and still took a little beating . I knew this Admin would be aggressive and figured I'd do the same. It has paid off as I'm up over 25% since Jan 2017. The one thing we did over the last 20 years though is buy a house and then upgraded both square footage and location as we needed to move (Cleveland, OH and now in Houston, TX). This was in lieu of a retirement account for a while. That's put us in an area where the houses are selling like hotcakes and the current valuation just put me up almost 100K in 5 years. Looking to buy much more modestly, some rural land somewhere and put a small house on it. Then when the time comes I'll lease out the house we have now. Currently lesser homes in our neighborhood are getting 2500 - 2700 monthly and netting over 2000 a month, mostly transient oil execs. Leasing it out will add to our available monthly funds. I'm 53 at the moment and have some time left so I will be a little more aggressive than some on the investing. Will the House thing work out? Only time and the market will tell.
  15. Living in Houston for the last 10+ years it has been blown tire remains. They're everywhere, Even in the HOV lanes and riders here call'em road gators. I ride 35 highway miles one way for work and well before dawn. A few weeks ago I was cruising around 75 and came across a small mine field of these things eventually hitting one bending the oil cooler line, denting the oil filter enough to blow the seal and catching some wiring. I see cages with blown tires ever day and they ride the rim to get off the highway. Lately I've been seeing more truck retreads than normal but it feels like a million degrees Kelvin on the road too. That said a ride on the bike is always 100% better than a drive in the cage as I can get to work with out being to hot and I can shower or jump in the pool when I get home.
  16. This is exactly why I fell in love with the Ventures early on. I was able to pull the front wheel in 3rd and then I got to ride one for a summer while a friend was deployed. I took a hiatus after having kids as my wife was scared of an accident. Once the youngest was a senior I immediately when looking for one. bought the Gen 2 and put 70K on it in 5 years before buying the SVTC end of April this year.
  17. I'm a newbie to this forum and have never met Bob. You can feel the true love everyone has for him and it is my loss for not know him: Safely Home by Unknown I am home in Heaven,dear ones; Oh, so happy and sobright! There is perfect joyand beauty In this everlastinglight. All the pain andgrief is over, Every restlesstossing passed; I am now at peaceforever, Safely home inHeaven at last. Did you wonder I socalmly Trod the valley ofthe shade? Oh! but Jesus' armto lean on, Could I have onedoubt or dread? Then you must notgrieve so sorely, For I love youdearly still; Try to look beyondearth's shadows, Pray to trust ourFather's Will. There is work stillwaiting for you, So you must not idlystand; Do it now, whilelife remaineth-- You shall rest inJesus' land. When that work isall completed, He will gently callyou Home; Oh, the rapture ofthat meeting, Oh, the joy to seeyou come!
  18. My Brother-in-Law had a Red 305 Dream when I was 12. I used to run/jump on it to ride it and thought it was the greatest thing under the sun at the time. He and my sister moved to NC that summer and someone hit him in the rear sending him sliding down the highway at 55 - 60. The bike was totaled and he was super lucky to survive. He spent the next couple of days in the hospital and came away with severe road rash and if I remember only had a broken wrist. I remember seeing him a year later and his back looked like a cheese grater. He never rode again that I know of. I would love to find one of these just to ride it. My wife has a 1 bike rule, for good reason too as I'd probably fill the garage.
  19. Don, sorry to hear about this and we will all be keeping you in our thoughts. Along the line of BlueSky I have several friends who swear by acupuncture. One had similar descriptions of symptoms you have listed. One was a cancer patient with nephropathy and the Dr.'s told him to accept it and learn to live with it. He did the acupuncture and says he is 'cured' of the nephropathy now.
  20. I'm just not into EVs as they do nothing for me. One way or the other, I'm not against them either, what ever you want. I ride ~70 miles round trip to work every day. I love this time on the bike, even in heavy stop and go traffic when the ride can be grueling hot in Houston. My schedule permits me to miss the height of rush hour but it is not uncommon for me to be on the road more than an hour one way. I agree 100% with Freebird, my back would kill me on an sport bike. Also, while there are a few garages that have plug ins for EVs, mine does not. Who knows they may add them. I work with a few people who say I'm polluting the air and they can't wait to see everyone using EVs. It's always a fun conversation for me because I love to discuss conflicting views. I get to learn and hopefully I get to teach but for some reason a few of the EV crowd still seem to believe that they add to pollution too. I asked one where he thought his charging power came from and he said the building. After I spewed my coffee and quit laughing I still could not get him to understand that his power came from either nuclear, coal, natural gas and to a far lesser extent solar and wind.
  21. I have a Pitbull lift I used on my RSV without issue but I'm having issues with the SVTC. I just does not lift it stable and leans to the back. Their site has no adapters yet. Thoughts and ideas appreciated. I did find this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk_ACKScmQc but I believe there is still too much lean to the back.
  22. Sales matter - and Indian was outselling Victory. Polaris is going to grab anything they can from any of their lines to make money. I hate the fact that if you want the Indian look, i.e. the traditional front fender that encompasses the wheel, you now have to pay extra on a large chunk of the models. But even if I built it the way I wanted it - I'd choose the SVTC again, hands down.
  23. My issue wasn't so much height as I needed a slight height and to reduce the reach a little. I can open the gas cap itself without issue and move the bars fully in either direction after the flip lid is opened. I'll probably be tweeking it for a while. I ride every day to work so any adjustments are normally on the weekends.
  24. My son and I finally put on some 2" risers yesterday. Working on the adjustments yesterday too. Because I am shorter getting the offset to the back was a little interesting with the gas cover. Having that flip backwards has always been the only thing I've had issues with. As long as the bars are square I can open and close the cover other than that the bars don't interfere with it. It can be done by yourself but much easier with a second person.
  25. Thanks for everything you do Freebird. It may be time to look into an add on for the site that requires some form of multi factor like reCAPCHA. I don't know what this site uses on the back end but I'd be willing to help research options. I for one would be willing to pay more for my membership to help pay for it too.
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