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For the first time since 1995 (when Cato was playing for the team), Anacostia HS will be playing for the D.C. championship. Anacostia won their semifinal matchup by way of forfeit last week (use of ineligible player).
Anacostia advances to the Turkey Bowl - to be played at Eastern High School (a block from RFK stadium) at 11am on Thanksgiving day. They will play the local bully - Dunbar HS - for the championship.
For those who haven't been following my posts, Cato took over the coaching duties this season and turned around a team that had won only a single game over the past two years. Let's hope they can finish this fantastic run.


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Which kind of disguised the fact that he didn't have any of the other important assets that are more important in a good bowler.Originally Posted by Neil Pickup
Which kind of disguised the fact that he didn't have any of the other important assets that are more important in a good bowler.Originally Posted by Neil Pickup
Appreciating cricket's greatest legend ever - HD Bird...............Funniest post (intentionally) ever.....Runner-up.....Third.....Fourthcricket player"; "Bob"), 1/11/1990-15/4/2006
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But he was still successful at times, in spite of only having Pace and a big Heart.
Funny that...
marc71178 - President and founding member of AAAS - we don't only appreciate when he does well, but also when he's not quite so good!
Anyone want to join the Society?
Beware the evils of Kit-Kats - they're immoral apparently.
Bless you!Originally Posted by Langeveldt
Cricket Web's current Premier League Tipping Champion
- As featured in The Independent.
"Like queuing at the post office, or a cardboard cup of weak milky tea there is a quality of slightly clichéd but still beautifully reassuring Englishness about watching Cook bat"
- Barney Ronay
Bowlers are successful sometimes.Originally Posted by marc71178
Are you seriously saying you never saw him move the ball off the seam?
Richard, what are you doing making so many comments in such "an infitessimally pointless discussion?"
Post boosting.
And making the point that it's pointless.
And answering questions asked of me.
Sorry a serious question Richard.... why do you want to boost your number of Posts... is it a competition?
Tony Blain(wasn't that bad), Grant Bradburn, Heath Davis, Lee Germon, Mark Priest, Gary SteadOriginally Posted by Richard Rash
ODI XI to beat the best
To answer your question, yes
A hint for you:Originally Posted by Richard Rash
This message is hidden because Richard is on your ignore list.
Why would you put someone on ignore? Youd have to be an uphill gardening LOOSER in a yellow with black maltese cross clown cuit complete with frilly pom-poms to do that.
Slow Motion Sorbolene Gloves,
Remember when you're addressing Australia's Leading Social Commentator it is "Dear Mr Jones" okay got that. Good. Before you try dishing out insults may I say that your choice to have one of the world's worst entertainers in history in Punce as your avatar speaks volumes for your significant mental ******ation. And only a mean spirited person of dubious taste would try making jokes alluding to the tragic Sigfried and Roy accident. Very poor form.
Your so-called "knowledge of the game" is right up there with Britney Spears' understanding of the Heisenberg Mechanism.
Re: "What an infitessimally pointless discussion." - that would mean that the discussion is only a teeny bit pointless wouldn't it?
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Heber Springs defeated Newport 6-3 on Thursday in a 2-4A conference home game and followed that up by winning 2-of-3 games as host team of an eight-team invitational tournament on Saturday at the Heber Springs Sports Complex.
Heber Springs defeated Newport 6-3 on Thursday in a 2-4A conference home game and followed that up by winning 2-of-3 games as host team of an eight-team invitational tournament on Saturday at the Heber Springs Sports Complex.
In Thursday's win over Newport, which evened the Lady Panthers 2-4A record at 1-1, Heber jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first frame. Alexis Ingram, who finished 2-for-2 with two runs scored, ignited the Lady Panthers with a one-out single up the middle.
After Ingram stole second, McKenzie Cresswell reached on an error before Peyton Vineyard grounded to the left side, which caused a throwing error that allowed Ingram to score.
With two runners in scoring position after Vineyard swiped second, Hannah Mangum roped an RBI single to centerfield that scored Cresswell but Vineyard was thrown out at home plate, leaving Heber's lead at 2-0 going into the second inning as Newport pitcher Ashton Madden worked around further damage.
Cresswell, Heber's starting pitcher, retired the first two batters of the second but Newport loaded the bases on two hit batsmen sandwiched around a bunt single by Mallory Watson. Cresswell pitched out of the jam with a strikeout, her second of the inning and third of the game.
Madden retired Heber in order in the bottom half of the second but Cresswell continued to stymie the Lady Greyhounds in the third inning, despite walking the leadoff batter. Cresswell, who improved to 4-0 as starting pitcher this season, struck out two more while receiving help from Ingram, who tracked down a long fly-ball in deep left center from her centerfield position.
Already leading 2-0, Heber added three insurance runs in the bottom of the third, pounding out three hits along the way. Ingram drilled a one-out single to center and Cresswell beat out a bunt single, which advanced Ingram to third.
Vineyard, who finished 2-of-3 with two runs scored a 3 RBI, broke open the game with a 2 RBI double down the left field line, scoring Ingram and Cresswell for a 4-0 lead. Mangum's groundout moved Vineyard to third, where moments later she scored on a wild pitch as Heber built a 5-0 lead before Madden got out of the inning.
Newport got on the scoreboard in the top of the fourth when Mallory Watson pushed a bunt single past a charging infield, scoring Haley Watson, who reached on a walk.
Madden pitched out of trouble in the bottom half, leaving the bases loaded after Courtney Verser was hit-by-a-pitch, Skye Miller beat out a bunt single and Ingram walked.
Courtney Rackley relieved Cresswell to start the fifth and retired the Lady Greyhounds in order, including two fly-balls handled by Ingram in center.
Heber added another run in the bottom of the fifth as Vineyard led off with a single, stole second and eventually scored on Sarah Peeler's RBI bunt.
After third base player Skylar Johnson robbed Newport with a smooth play on a grounder down third base line, Rackley pitched around a one-out walk and two-out single, leaving two runners stranded in scoring position.
Madden sat down the Lady Panthers in order in the sixth and Newport stirred up a rally in the seventh as Emily Lowery reached on an error and Madden pulled a single through the hole on left side.
Rackley fired back with a strikeout before Sissy Boyster ripped a bad-hop, RBI single past second base that scored Lowery. Ally Hutchinson followed with a looping single over second for an RBI that plated Madden as Newport suddenly sliced its deficit in half at 6-3 with two outs in the final frame.
With runners at second and third and the tying run at the plate, Rackley recorded her third strikeout to pick up her second save of the season as Heber held on for a 6-3 victory.
Heber Invitational Tournament
Watson Chapel 5, Heber 4
Watson Chapel pitcher Maegan McGreer kept the ball low on Saturday morning while limiting Heber Springs to only one hit in the first five innings. But, down to its final three cracks, the Lady Panthers would battle back, scoring four runs in the final inning before falling short as the Lady Wildcats claimed a one-run, first-round victory.
Leading 3-0 going into the bottom of the fifth, Watson Chapel's Sydney Crossett slammed a double off the centerfield wall then Natalie Johnson smashed a two-run home run, which ended up deciding the game once Heber's rally fell one run short. Johnson's towering homer landed on top of the hill past the left field fence.
Trailing 5-0 in the top of the sixth and final inning, the Lady Panthers began to figure out McGreer, starting with a leadoff single by Ingram. Cresswell then pulled a single through the hole on left side but Vineyard popped out before Mangum laced an RBI double down the right field line, plating Ingram.
Verser struck out but alertly reached on a passed ball, which loaded the bases but McGreer responded with a strikeout. After Cresswell scored on a passed ball, Madi Fires reached on a throwing error, which allowed Mangum and Verser to score as Heber suddenly pulled within a run at 5-4. But, moments later Watson Chapel catcher Harley Easler gunned down Fires trying to steal second as the Class 6A Lady Wildcats pulled out a 5-4 victory.
Rackley pitched all five innings for Heber, scattering four hits, walking one and striking out four.
Heber 3, Lonoke 1
Although not a conference victory, Heber Springs avenged a loss at Lonoke last Tuesday with a win over the Lady Jackrabbits in Saturday's invitational tournament.
Cresswell, who improved to 5-0 as Heber's starting pitcher, picked up the win on the mound, only allowing three hits in three innings of work. She walked two and struck out two before giving way to Bridget Muse, who pitched the final two innings for her second save of the season.
Lonoke jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the second but Heber answered with a run in the bottom half. Then, the Lady Panthers scored two more in the third, highlighted by Mangum's 2 RBI single, which scored Ingram and Vineyard. Verser also notched an RBI against Lonoke while Johnson contributed a hit and run scored.
Heber 5, Mtn. Home 1
The Lady Panthers erased a 1-0 deficit with three runs in the third inning on Saturday afternoon against Class 6A Mountain Home. Heber tacked on two more in the fourth, pulling away for 5-1 win over the Lady Bombers while finishing with a record of 2-1 in the upper division of the eight-team invitational tournament held at the Heber Springs Sports Complex.
Miller sparked the Lady Panthers with an RBI double to right center, scoring Peeler and tying the game at 1-1. Ingram followed with a double to left field in which she hustled to second as Mtn. Home took its time getting the ball back to the infield.
After Miller scored on a wild pitch, Vineyard poked an RBI single up the middle, scoring Ingram for a 3-1 lead.
Rackley, who pitched all six innings, giving up seven hits and striking out six without allowing a walk, shut down Mtn. Home in the top of the fourth then Johnson led off the bottom half with an infield single.
Miller added a one-out single to centerfield and Ingram walked to load the bases but Johnson was picked off third base before Vineyard delivered a two-out, 2 RBI single to left field, scoring Miller and Ingram as the Lady Panthers built a 5-1 lead and cruised behind Rackley's right arm.


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Creative writing is skill, but it's also an open thought process. What works for some, might not work for all. It's up to each writer to find what works best. Faye Mankowske's approach to fill a blank canvas involves seeing or reacting to something of personal interest."Sometimes when I sit down to write, my ideas are prompted by an image or a character that comes into my head, and other times they're related to an issue I'm thinking about," she said. "I think my strongest writing happens when I'm writing in response to an issue. For example, reading Rachel Carson's The Silent Spring prompted one of the poems I submitted. I'm also interested in science, so I like to explore the intersections between science and literature."
Mankowske, a USD senior studying Biology and English, delivered on both avenues of creativity recently as her prose and poetry were the winning entries in this year's Cropper Creative Writing Contest. She won $250 — $125 for prose and $125 for poetry — and her name will be engraved on a perpetual plaque in a contest that's sponsored by USD's English Department and the Cropper Writing Center. (Full Article)


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Christmas time is here, and everywhere you turn you see Santa hats, lit-up trees and …. couples. They're everywhere, and they look sickeningly happy with their holding hands and their stupid matching sweaters. No wonder the suicide peaks in December.
If you're flying solo, the holiday season has a way of dumping salt in your single wounds. The commercials feature happy couples, the movies are all about finding love on Christmas, the music is romantic, and the parties are always made for a spousal plus one. It's enough to make you jealous of Mrs. Claus.
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The United States has urged North Korea to abandon plans to launch its new satellite-carrying rocket, which is seen as part of Pyongyang's preparation for a possible nuclear test.
North Korea's launch of a missile would be highly provocative, it would pose a threat to regional security and would be inconsistent with its recent undertakings to refrain from any kind of long-range missile launches, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said in reply questions at aroutine briefing on Monday.
"We consider that it would be a violation of the U.N. Security Council resolution 1718 and 1874. So we are continuing to make the point that it is a bad idea to do this," she said.
Nuland said the United States was also working with its counterparts in the Six-Party Talks to try to make the same points to North Korea and to urge all of the six countries to use their influence on the Communist regime. "We believe in particular that China joins us in its interest in seeing a denuclearized Korean peninsula, and we are continuing to encourage China in particular to act more effectively in that interest," Nuland added.
She urged those nations in the region to be on high alert because of the missile launch and other threats.
She made it clear that "any of these types of action are just going to further isolate them and make it harder for them to be part of the world community and to give their people a better quality of life."
Foreign reporters were invited to view the placement of the new North Korean satellite on its launch pad in the north-western cost of Tongchang-ri, scheduled for later this week.
The international community is saying that the building and launch of the Unha-3 rocket violates two U.N. Security Council resolutions and amount to a tacit admission that the reclusive East Asian nation has been working on missile technology.
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Luther won its third game in a row in thrilling fashion this afternoon here in Decorah. Trailing 7-6 entering the bottom of the ninth, Chris Reynolds hit a two-run walk-off double, that gave the Norse an 8-7 come-from-behind victory.
Ben Obermann and Ian Fitzgerald got the rally started after being hit by Loras pitcher Spencer Radabaugh. Reynolds drove in the game winning runs with a shot off the left-center field fence, his only hit of the afternoon.
The Norse played catch-up the entire game and trailed by as many as four runs heading into the bottom of the sixth.
Alec Knop (2-2) was credited with the win. Knop pitched five solid innings allowing three runs on four hits, did not issue a walk and struck out four.
Chris Erikson and Ryan Bahnemann were also credited with two RBI each. Erikson drove in runs in the third and sixth frames, while Bahnemann hit a solo home run to left field in the fifth and drove in a run in the sixth. Erikson had three hits as did designated hitter Thomas Weber who was 3-for-4 with an RBI.
The win gives Luther an Iowa Conference record of 4-5, 11-12 overall. Loras fell to 3-6 in league play, 13-11 overall.
The Norse will travel to Central College this Friday and Saturday. Friday's nine inning game is scheduled to begin at 3:00 p.m. and Saturday's double header will begin at 1:00 p.m. Central will be video streaming all three games.
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Albert Louis Beech Sr., of Flintville, entered into eternal rest Monday (July 1, 2013) at the age of 81. He is survived by his wife, Shirley Jean; sister, Edna Vaughn, and husband, Sonny; two sons, Albert "Al" Jr. and wife, Rayna, and Alan Wayne and wife, Amanda; three grandchildren, Melissa Anne, Mary Frances and Allison Jean. He was preceded in death by his parents, Albert J. and Avis Beech; three sisters, Lorena Burns, Dorothy Ayers and Essie Baugher; and brother, Lawson Beech. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon in the Moore-Cortner Chapel with the Rev. John Ben Neal officiating. Moore-Cortner Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Ronald Van "Rip" Groce, 52, of Mulberry died Sunday (June 30, 2013) at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville after a short illness. A native of Fayetteville, he was the son of the late Claude and Ruth Groce. He worked in construction in framing and concrete. Ronald loved to fish, he participated in fishing tournaments, enjoyed being around friends, and he loved life. He is survived by a brother, Randall Groce and his wife, Memory, of Fayetteville; sisters, Rita Baker of Lynchburg and Jimmie Sue Pruitt and husband, Frank, of Elora; nephews, Jamie and Jason Baker, Frankie, Doyle and Brad Pruitt, Tony and Timmy Groce; niece, Christy Cooney; and several great-nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at the Lynchburg Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. James Myers officiating. Burial followed in Booneville Cemetery. Lynchburg Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Sarah Frances Hancock Jennings, 80, of Asheville, N.C., formerly of Fayetteville, died Friday morning (July 5, 2013) in Asheville. A native of Lincoln County, Mrs. Jennings was the daughter of the late Paul W. and Tina Mae Simms Hancock, was a retired public health nurse and a member of the Highland United Methodist Church. Survivors include her daughter, Patricia "Patty" Ann Willis and husband, Daniel, of Asheville; son, Gary Wilson Jennings and wife, Jana, of Nashville; grandchildren, Sherry Renee Guice and husband, Adam, Jennifer Leigh Smith and husband, Justin, and Cecelia Jennings; four great-grandchildren; and sister, Jimmie Sue Hancock of Fayetteville. Mrs. Jennings was preceded in death by a brother, Paul Wilson Hancock. Graveside services were conducted Monday morning at Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Gardens, with the Revs. Adam Guice and Justin Smith officiating. Burial was beside her husband, Samuel Thomas Jennings Jr., who passed away in 2012. Higgins Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Robert McCrory Sr., 86, of Fayetteville, died Friday morning (July 5, 2013) in Murfreesboro at his daughter's residence. A native of Lincoln County, he was born on Dec. 30, 1926 to the late William Thomas and Hattie Leoma Mansfield McCrory. Robert was a member for 25-plus years of the Andrew Jackson 68, the American Legion in Huntsville, Ala, the Almenah Temple, and the Fayetteville Elks Lodge 1792. He was a Navy veteran. Anyone that knew Robert knew he was kind, honest and had a huge heart. He would help anyone and never complained. Robert's generosity and kind heart were an inspiration to his family. He lived his life with integrity and bravery. Survivors include his wife of 66 years, Mrs. Virginia Pack McCrory of Fayetteville; daughter, Sherry T. Price; son, Robert E. McCrory, Jr., and wife; grandchildren, Lisha Price, Bettina Mitchell and Nicole McCrory; great-grandchildren, Calvin Mitchell, Keishawn Davidson, Keimya Brooks and adopted great-granddaughter, Maria Valencia. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Claudia Diane McCrory, his parents, a sister and a younger brother. Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Bob Bush officiating. Burial followed in Riverview Memorial Gardens. Special thanks to MTMC, Adam's Place and Caris of Murfreesboro. Higgins Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Nancy Mae Raddler, 79, of Fayetteville, died Monday (July 1, 2013) at Fayetteville Care & Rehab. She was born in Lincoln County on May 23, 1934 to the late Tom Kelso and Ethel Short. She was an LPN and a member of Mt. Zion M.B. Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Irving Raddler, sister, Kathleen Kelso, and three brothers, Neal, William Thomas (T.K.) Kelso and E.B. McKinney. She is also survived by sisters Katherine Neese, Bobbie Whitaker, Martha Fuller and Carol Conley; sister-in-law Ernestine Kelso; brothers, Freddie (Nurlene) and Harold (Vicki) McKinney; step-children Leonard Earl and Tony Raddler; several step-grand and step-great grandchildren; devoted nieces Diane Martin, Nita Kelso, Barbara Allen, Nancy Hockett, Angela Dennis and Djuana Jester; devoted nephews Richard Matthews, Elder Daniel Carmichael, Jr., Rickie Carmichael, Cortez Carmichael, David Kelso, Neal Kelso, Pastor Craig Carmichael, Frederick Carmichael, Sr.; 15 nieces and nephews; many great and great-great nieces and nephews; devoted cousins, Kelso-Short and Edmiston-Keith families; lifelong friend, Mary Francis Henderson; and caring friends, Susie Taylor, Evelyn Chandler and Iola Dandridge. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon in the chapel of Gallant-Riverview Funeral Home with the Rev. Craig Carmichael officiating, Burial followed in Pleasant View Cemetery. Gallant-Riverview Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Emily Owen Sowell, 95, of Fayetteville, died Wednesday morning (July 3, 2013) at Donalson Care Center. She was a native of the Hughey community in Lincoln County and the daughter of the late Carl Marcus and Carrie Lou Harris Owen. Mrs. Sowell was an employee of Wright's Jewelry Store for over 20 years. She was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church for 67 years. Survivors include her daughter, Rosalind (Leonard) Greer of Nashville; three grandsons, Steve Jeans of Dallas, Texas, Ronnie (Carolyn) Sowell of Nashville and Kyle Sowell of Nashville; four great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by a son, Ronald D. Sowell, who passed away in 2005; three sisters, Eunice, Mable and Wanda; and two brothers, Colyar and Marion. Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon at Higgins Funeral Home with the Revs. Tim Smith and Ronnie Pittenger officiating. Burial followed in Riverview Memorial Gardens beside her husband, Ross Sowell, who passed away in 1990. Higgins Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Richard Ray "Tooter" Steelman passed away peacefully on Saturday (June 29, 2013), two days before his 64th birthday. Beloved husband and best friend to Sandra Steelman and father to Richard Ray Steelman Jr. and wife, Amanda, and Christy Lynn Chamblee and husband, Ryan, all of Lincoln County. He will be greatly missed. Richard was predeceased by his parents, Charles "Doc" and Mary Elizabeth (Moore) Steelman of Lincoln County. Besides his wife and children, he leaves behind three grandchildren, Brittany Steelman, Matthew Steelman, and Hannah Chamblee: two step-grandchildren, Madison McCormick and Chase McCormick; four siblings, Charles Ray Steelman, Jr., Joe Lynn Steelman, Ronnie Jordan, and Carol Lowe; many proud nieces and nephews; and his loyal border collie, Shadow. He leaves behind countless friends and loved ones who were family in his heart. Richard served 28 years in the U.S. Air Force, including war-time service in Vietnam and time in Saudi Arabia after the Kuwaiti conflict. He was a highly decorated officer, retiring as a Major, and a member of the Medical Service Corp. After retirement, he worked in medical administration and finally opened his own business in promotional products and sign design. Richard was a member of Parks City Baptist Church. A jack of all trades, his interests ranged from computers to hunting, but his main hobby was making people laugh. Even during his long fight with MDS/Leukemia, he never lost his wonderful sense of humor and fighting spirit. His life was a gift to everyone around him, and he will always be remembered with a smile. Richard's memorial service will be held at Parks City Baptist Church on Saturday, July 13, at 3:30 p.m. Higgins Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.


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What began last January with Mayor Menino's dramatic call for Boston students to be given seats in schools close to their homes, with meaningful alternatives for those in areas with underperforming schools, has morphed into something more like an effort to improve the current system of wide geographic zones, multiple choices, and luck of the draw. There's nothing wrong with giving parents a little more control, and a slightly higher chance of having their son or daughter attend a school with better-than-average performance on statewide MCAS exams, as would all three of the proposals produced at the behest of the Mayors External Advisory Committee on School Choice. But none would transform the system. Menino should ask the committee to give him at least one bolder option.
All of the three proposals to come out of the advisory committee would be better than the current system, in which students from the same neighborhoods crisscross the city to widely differing places, based largely on the luck of the lottery. But each of the replacement proposals would still have the complicated lottery system and would only reduce the average distance students travel from 1.8 miles to about 1.1 miles. None would even offer much of a reduction of the system's $80 million annual transportation bill.
The mayor, who once promised that a new assignment process would replace long, expensive bus trips with "school communities'' that draw on the advantages of nearby neighborhood libraries, community centers, and afterschool programs, should hold out for a plan that would do just that. Having laid the groundwork for transformative change, Menino shouldn't settle for half-step improvements.
The committee, comprised of 27 community leaders and educators, clearly took its responsibilities seriously. It sought to address the specific concerns of parents currently in the system, many of whom hope their children can stay in the schools to which they're already assigned — a reasonable request — but also that any younger brothers and sisters should be guaranteed slots in the same schools, even if they're far from their homes.
Those parents of current students, however, aren't the only people affected by the school-assignment plan. Each year, many young families flee the city out of fear of the vagaries of the lottery system, and many would stay if they could be promised a spot in the school nearest their homes. Further, having most of the children in a given neighborhood attend the same school helps to bind communities together and increase parental involvement in the schools. Such parents would then be a strong force for accountability of teachers and principals. Local businesses could also pitch in, knowing that their customers are part of the same school communities. And if the city's educational leadership is concerned about keeping brothers and sisters together in the same schools, a neighborhood-based assignment plan would keep families together with far less difficulty than through a lottery-based system.
The first option forwarded to the mayor by the advisory committee would split the city into 10 zones and let parents chose from up to 14 schools, with entry to the most popular schools depending at least in part on the student's lottery number. The other two options are so-called home-based models that use a child's address as a starting point and offer a student at least six or nine schools, respectively, from which to choose.
Each of the three plans does increase the likelihood that a student will receive one of his or her top three choices. But families would still need to list choices and enter the lottery — a far cry from the simplicity of attending the school closest to one's home. The school department has not released data on how much, if any, savings on transportation will be realized from the new plans. But the decision to allow siblings entering the system to attend schools where their brothers and sisters are now enrolled — no matter how far from their homes — means that busing costs could actually rise over the next five years.
These options were favored by the committee because they gave students the greatest possible chance of attending a school where at least half of the students score at the proficient level or above on the state MCAS exam. Under the current model, nearly 20 percent of the city's students have a chance to attend such a school. Under the new proposals, a student's chance of attending one of these higher-performing schools would bump up slightly to between 22 and 25 percent.
Obviously, getting into a high-performing school is important to most parents, and the committee was flooded with concerns that a neighborhood-based system would unfairly disadvantage students in areas with higher numbers of low-performing schools. As valid as these concerns may be, they don't reflect the increasingly dynamic nature of the city's schools. Today's high-performing schools may be merely average in just a year or two. Meanwhile, many low-performing schools are just a strong principal and excellent afterschool program away from significant improvement. For instance, the Orchard Gardens K-8 school in Roxbury scraped bottom academically as recently as 2009, but has risen to nearer the top under new leadership. The Trotter Elementary School in Roxbury is an example of a school that has seesawed dramatically in its test scores, and is again making great strides under strong school leaders.
The advisory committee's decision to put so much emphasis on current school ratings weakened this process from the start. It reflected the understandable, but increasingly outmoded, concern that students will be forced to attend poorer schools simply because of where they live. But at a time when all Boston students have potential access to charter schools and citywide schools, when most minority students can apply to go to suburban systems through the Metco program, and when all students in chronically underperforming schools have a right to slots in higher-performing schools via the federal No Child Left Behind law, fears of students being left without adequate options shouldn't drive the entire process.
The three plans recommended by the mayor's advisory committee reflect the enormous time and energy spent on gathering and analyzing data by the school department and the committee members. They spared no effort when soliciting public input. The problem is that so much of that energy was spent trying to give each family an equal shot at a limited resource — good schools — instead of creating an assignment system that, in itself, encourages the organic growth of good schools in every neighborhood.
Boston's kids deserve better than a 1-in-4 chance of going to a decent school. The new assignment process should be a spur to improvement, not a tortured exercise in map-drawing. The time is ripe for a major step, not a marginal improvement.


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Lately, I noticed the forum behaving differently. When I go to one of the forums, where there is new content, the topic title is bolded and the bar appears to the left. But the dot that used to go to the new content is no longer there. Clicking on the title goes to the first entry. I then have to advance to the last entry I read. It's not too bad if there's only a few replies, but if there's pages and pages, it's a real pain.
Is this a problem with the forums? Or did I honk up one of my settings? If so, which one?
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WARRENSBURG, MO (May 28, 2014) – An evaluation of environmental and structural issues facing Selmo Park, the president's residence, is continuing at the University of Central Missouri, and will soon be a topic for discussion by the university's governing board.
Through its Facilities, Planning and Operations (FPO) unit, UCM has been working with the Kansas City engineering firm Burns & McDonnell over the past two months to assess the structure's condition, and determine the type of work needed to ensure the safest living environment possible for the university president's family and special guests. Assessment activities began April 3, and will conclude with documentation provided to the Board of Governors in June to help determine how the university will proceed with repairs.
An initial assessment uncovered serious air quality concerns that have rendered the facility uninhabitable, and have prompted UCM President Charles Ambrose and his family to temporarily move into university-owned housing at the Greenwood Park complex. The UCM Foundation subsequently purchased property in Warrensburg for the purpose of providing a safe residence for the president's family in a short timeframe. The house obtained by the Foundation will be leased by the university.
Selmo Park was built in 1866. Although maintenance has been an ongoing issue with the main structure, it sustained considerable damage during a severe storm which hit the Warrensburg area the first week of April 2014. A sewage backup in the basement also resulted in more than 10,000 gallons of contaminated water intrusion that also caused damage to the finished area of the home.
While the university waits to learn more about the environmental and structural assessment, FPO Director Chris Bamman said field work was finished on May 21. Preliminary observations of issues that have developed both recently and over the years include settling of the structure, crumbling mortar between the bricks, cracks in the plaster ceilings, and shifting of floors, door frames and windows. Excessive moisture also has entered the living areas leading to air quality concerns, including mold in the house and within its furnishings. Outside the main structure at Selmo Park, repairs are also needed on driveways, sewer main, and on various outbuildings.
"Based on preliminary observations, a significant investment is obviously going to be needed to make repairs to Selmo Park, but it is too early to know exactly what they will entail and what the timeframe may be," Bamman said.
Selmo Park was purchased by the university's governing board in 1926 at a cost of $35,000, and included a 19-acre block of land located two blocks west of the quadrangle. The 1866 structure, built by the late Edmond A. Nickerson, has remained UCM's residence of the institution's president since 1926. The northern part of the land that was included in the purchase eventually became Vernon Kennedy Field.


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I am responding to the letter by Dave Fox of Tampico in the March 9 SV Weekend titled "Man changes, but God's word doesn't change."
My response is, "Amen, amen, amen." Our country was founded by God and the Bible, but thanks to our government, we're getting further and further away from the Bible's teachings.
Dave hit the nail on the head in his article. It's too bad not many people read and respond. We, as Americans, are losing our rights little by little. Wake up, America.


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Story highlights
- President says on social media that curfews are in hands of local governments
- In Port Said, about 4,000 people join protest, chanting anti-government slogans
- U.N. office: Early reports suggest most casualties were caused by authorities
- The defense minister denies claims that the army used live ammunition on protesters
The political turmoil dividing Egypt threatens the nation's future, the defense minister said, as the instability persists in the Arab world's most populous country.
"The ongoing conflict among the various political forces ... may lead to the collapse of the state and threaten the future of our coming generations," Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Fattah al-Sisi said Tuesday.
Anti-government protesters ignored President Mohamed Morsy's curfew order in cities along the Suez Canal and clashed with police and troops, state-run media reported Tuesday.
In Port Said, about 4,000 people joined the protest, which began at Mariam mosque and continued for hours, winding its way through the streets. They chanted anti-government slogans, at times laced with profanities.
The authorities didn't appear to be detaining any of the demonstrators.
On Tuesday night, the Muslim Brotherhood announced on its Facebook and Twitter pages that the president has delegated authority to either limit or cancel the curfew to governors of Port Said, Ismailia and Suez.
The protests are the latest in the seesaw struggle between Egypt's first democratically elected president and dissidents who say his tenure is a throwback to past dictatorships, particularly the reign of President Hosni Mubarak, toppled in a popular revolt two years ago.
The most recent furor stems from Morsy's declaration of a limited state of emergency for violent hot spots. On Sunday, he announced a 30-day nighttime curfew for the provinces of Port Said, Suez and Ismailia.
Those areas have seen a spate of bloodshed in recent days, starting with the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution on Friday.
Dissidents angry about the slow pace of change fought with Morsy supporters and police. At least seven people were killed in those clashes.
The tumult intensified a day later, when a judge issued death sentences for 21 Port Said residents for their roles in a deadly football riot last year.
Port Said, which has had a difficult relationship with Cairo over the past six decades, erupted in chaos. At least 38 people were killed in the two days following the verdicts.
Egypt's defense minister has denied reports that the army used live ammunition on protesters, state-run media reported.
Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim told police forces Sunday that he understands the challenges and demands they've faced, saying "together with your brothers at the armed forces, you constitute the country's shield and fort in face of all dangers."
"You've faced unprecedented and systematic patterns of violence," he said. "Your security during these confrontations is my goal."
Ibrahim huddled with Prime Minister Hisham Qandil on Monday over state of emergency arrangements, including maintaining peaceful expression, but also dealing firmly with saboteurs targeting police.
The Transport Ministry said that despite the tumult in the Suez Canal region, the unrest has not affected shipping operations to or from the eastern and western ports of Port Said or the traffic at the El Arish port.
Black Bloc labeled terrorist group
Egyptian Prosecutor General Talaat Abdullah has listed one anti-government group, the Black Bloc, as a terrorist entity.
Authorities say its members are often seen wearing black ski masks, waving their trademark black flag while taking part in some of the most violent attacks against police and security forces.
The designation raises the specter of the government taking a more aggressive stance against anti-government protesters.
The group says its mission is to fight government corruption and oppression. The government has often used the Black Bloc's aggressive tactics to depict anti-government protesters as part of an insurgency that wants to topple Egypt's leadership.
Morsy calls for talks
In a speech Sunday night, Morsy decried the behavior of "criminals," saying recent violence "does not have anything to do with the Egyptian revolution. ... In fact, it is against the revolution."
But he acknowledged the legitimate dissent in Egypt, saying "dialogue is the only way to bring about stability and security."
To this end, he invited representatives from 11 political parties to a meeting.
But a key opposition leader issued conditions before accepting Morsy's call for talks.
"Without accepting his responsibility as a president for the latest bloody events, promising to form a government of national salvation and commissioning a balanced committee to amend the constitution, any dialogue will be a waste of time," said Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the Constitution Party and a member of the opposition National Salvation Front.
Protests could drag on
The National Salvation Front held the president responsible "for the excessive violence used by security forces against protesters" and called for peaceful demonstrations, according to a statement posted on the state-run Al-Ahram news website.
The group made several demands before it would urge people to stop protesting, including the formation of a new government and making changes to what it called the "distorted constitution" that voters passed in a referendum last month.
Morsy's supporters warned the opposition against such demands.
"We would like for the political forces, especially the National Salvation Front, to realize how important this defining moment is and to put the interest of the nation above all," said Gamal Tag, senior leader of the Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.
"They need to know that President Morsy's call for dialogue is not out of weakness, but it is out of his responsibility as president. ... Some forces are still putting conditions and obstacles before this national dialogue in order to make it fail. These people do not put forward the national interest. They are looking for personal gains."
U.N. human rights official weighs in
The scores of deaths prompted Navi Pillay, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, to denounce the violence and call for dialogue among all parties.
"While at least two policemen are among those killed, preliminary unconfirmed reports suggest that most of the casualties have been caused by live fire and excessive use of tear gas by the authorities," a statement from Pillay's office said.
In addition, as many as 25 female protesters reportedly have been sexually assaulted in Cairo's Tahrir Square over the past few days, "in some cases with extraordinary violence," the statement said.
She said the state of emergency should be governed by the rule of law, in line with international standards. She urged Morsy to listen to the demands of demonstrators and take action to deal with problems in the judicial system. She said that all "stakeholders" should be involved in reviewing legislation on demonstrations, associations and access to public information.
"I urge the government to take urgent measures to ensure that law enforcement personnel never again use disproportionate or excessive force against protesters, firstly because it is illegal to do so, and secondly because it is likely to make the situation even more explosive," Pillay said.


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- 1 tube (11 ounces) refrigerated breadsticks
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- Unroll and separate breadsticks; place on an ungreased baking sheet. Combine pesto and garlic pepper; brush over breadsticks. Twist each breadstick three times.
- Brush with butter; sprinkle with cheese. Bake at 375° for 10-13 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm. Yield: 1 dozen.
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A couple of months ago, I shared my frustration with the word stockpiling – a term used to describe how couponers buy more in the short term so we have enough of a product to get us through until the next time an item goes on sale. I invited readers to suggest some alternatives to that word. And did you guys deliver!
Dear Jill,
Your column asked readers to suggest terms we couponers could use for stocking up on sale items that separates us from hoarders.
For more than 20 years I have worked as a planner/ scheduler in a manufacturing facility. In the planning function of my job, one of the key areas of responsibility is inventory management – making sure products are in stock when customers want them. There is a term called safety stock where a certain quantity of an item is subtracted from the actual inventory. This helps to prevent the company from running out of stock if the supply chain is interrupted.
I can see how it also could apply to stocking up on a three-month supply of a particular item. In this case our groceries, laundry detergent, paper towels – whatever it is we purchased with a combined store sale and coupon savings is kind of like safety stock. This helps ensure we do not run out and keeps us from having to pay full price and with no sale or coupon. It keeps our cost at a minimum.
Let us couponers consider our low-cost supply as safety stock – not hoarding or wiping store shelves bare. We take advantage of a good buy on a sale item we will use within in the immediate future.
Bob R.
I agree! Stockpiling has become synonymous with hoarding. However, we do need a new term. The retail industry already has a term for merchandise not out on the floor but will be needed within the several weeks before a new truckload arrives –it's called back stock. Items you need on hand to be sold soon. It's a familiar term and describes that three-month supply.
Leslie F.
We call the extras backup. If it's on sale, or I have a "buy two" coupon, we use one and put one away for backup. Whoever opens the backup lets me know to get more. To begin with, who can afford to stockpile?
Barb Z."
Inventory on-hand, or in-hand inventory. Think like a business!
Sarah C.
I read your column asking for opinions on what to rename stockpiling. In my church we call it a short- or long-term emergency food supply. No one knows when a food supply will be needed due to lost jobs or a natural disaster that cuts of outside supplies. We discuss shelf life and rotation strategies as well as how to make room in your budget to create a steady food supply.
Anne W.
A little over a year ago I decided that I didn't like the term stockpiling so I changed it to collection. Now I have a mayonnaise collection, a mustard collection and a laundry detergent collection!
Sandy M.
I enjoyed reading all of your responses. There are quite a few other readers who suggested inventory or variations on the word stock. While most of the emails I received agreed that we are long overdue for a new term, one reminded me that the word stockpiling still means different things to different people.
I loved your column on stockpiling vs. hoarding. Thank you for writing it. I think the difference is often context-based. I have had this discussion with my stepsister.
She lives across the street from a very nice grocery store and I live in a town with only a convenience store out by the highway. I have to drive more than 30 miles to get to a supermarket, so I keep a well-stocked pantry and freezer. She recently accused me of hoarding because I had two 12-roll packs of toilet paper in my hall closet. Hoarding seems to be in the eye of the beholder.
Thanks again for great columns.
Donna M.
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MOSCOW -- Exactly a year before the 2014 winter Olympics in the Russian city of Sochi, President Vladimir Putin fired a highly placed official Thursday after personally inspecting the construction process the day before.
Akhmed Bilalov, vice president of the national Olympic Committee, lost his job because of delays and overspending in the construction of the ski-jump complex Russki Gorki in Krasnaya Polyana, which is part of the "mountain cluster" that will serve as a hub of Sochi Olympic events.
The ski-jump complex was to be launched in the summer of 2011 and its construction budget was planned at $40 million. Dmitry Kozak, Russian vice premier accompanying the Putin during his Sochi trip, said that it will be completed in September, and the cost of its construction, sponsored by the state-owned Sberbank (where most Russians keep their savings), will reach about $267 million.
In televised footage from the site, a visibly upset Putin looked around and said menacingly through clenched teeth: "Good for you. Nice work." Later, Putin said: "On the whole this work is being conducted satisfactorily. But there are problems too, the disruption of schedules on certain facilities and the issues connected with financing volumes."


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Any thoughts on Hayward's Residential Energy Conservation Ordinance? Here's our preview story on the special Sustainability Committee meeting tonight, and here's the city's report on the matter. At previous public meetings, members of the real estate community turned out to speak against it on the grounds that it can only damage a market that's already hurting, particularly if the requirements are triggered upon sale of a property.
Staff is recommending three such triggers: Older homes have a deadline in 2023 or 2025 for upgrades, improvements costing more than $50,000 would require compliance for the property, and buyers would have two years after purchase to comply. Costs of various retrofits ranges from around $1,000 to $4,000, according to the report.


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Release Notes: This release added a -version command line option, better error management in geoip modules, updated databases for domains, robots, and search engines, Windows 8 and iOS support, and detection of 8.1 and IE11.
Release Notes: This release will detect Windows 7. It can format numbers according to language. There are more MIME types, a geoip_asn_maxmind plugin, and graphgooglechartapi to use the online Google chart API to build a graph. This release can show the map of a country to report countries when using graphgooglechartapi. Part of the code was changed to use more functions and be cleaner. A parameter to ignore missing log files was added. Databases were updated. A plugin for Dolibarr ERP & CRM has been added.
Release Notes: Windows 7 detection has been added. Support for more Maxmind databases has been added. A new version of webmin was added. The ability to use the online Google chart API has been added. There were many other changes.
Release Notes: The name of the config file used to build data files was added to the data files header. Version details were added for Chrome, Opera, Safari, and Konqueror browsers. AdobeAir detection was added. A major update of the browsers, robots, and search_engines databases was made, including the addition of the Bing search engine. Bot detection was improved. The Breton language was added. Sub-pages were added for geoip maxmind modules in awstats_buildstaticpages. Some bugs were fixed.
Release Notes: The database of robots and search engines was expanded with support for Google Chrome browser, Wii, and more. The languages files were updated. A security fix and other changes were made.
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Release Notes: The -day option is fully supported to build a different report for each day. The virtualenamequot tag was added. The NotPageList option was added. The .jobs and .mobi domains were added.
Release Notes: All geoip plugins support the PurePerl version. A possible use of vhost was added in the extra section. IPv6 is supported in the AllowAccessFromWebToFollowingIPAddresses parameter. The svn family was added to browser detection. Some Perl warnings were removed. lc() on translation strings was removed. The migrate parameter was not sanitized. urlxxx parameters that could be used for XSS attacks were not sanitized. The AWStats version has been added in stdout outputs. Some language files were updated. The browser database was updated.
Release Notes: Many changes were made.
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Why? Yet Another Fscking Package Manager. I've got a perfectly working apt-get, and until ruby 2.0.0 is in there it doesn't count.
Until you have 2 apps on different versions that require mutually incompatible libraries due to said version difference.
$ rvm
The program 'rvm' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install ruby-rvm
it doesn't seem like a package manager but more like ruby's own tool; Ruby Version Manager
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/rvm.1.html [ubuntu.com]
http://rvm.io/ [rvm.io]
on debian [lucas-nussbaum.net], there are better alternatives to rvm:
apt-get install ruby-build
rbenv install 2.0.0-dev
In addition, with rbenv, no-one is encouraged to use gemsets instead of bundler.
But when will it be available in my apt-get?
Ask your debian/ubuntu package maintainer. You could just use RVM or rbenv-build.
in Ubuntu or Linux Mint or Debian, get the prerequisites
sudo apt-get install libyaml-dev ncurses-dev libreadline-dev bison libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libssl-dev libmysql++-dev libsqlite3-dev make build-essential libssl-dev libreadline6-dev zlib1g-dev libyaml-dev gcc
then download the ruby2 source from ruby-lang.org. then untar it and make/install it:
tar xvfz ruby-2.0.0-p0.tar.gz
cd ruby-2.0.0-p0
sudo apt-get install
see if it works:
ruby 2.0.0p0 (2013-02-24) [x86_6
wow, slashdot formatting sure mangled some of that. let's putsome explicit < br / > in there:
tar xvfz ruby-2.0.0-p0.tar.gz
cd ruby-2.0.0-p0
sudo make install
Should have been released on Tuesday. Ruby Twosday.
Refinements, which allows meta programming to be scoped to a particular namespace. This addresses a lot of concerns about meta programming code having too much global impact if done as a "monkey patch" or module include/prepend (which is just a glorified name for a monkey patch that can subclasses from, and can invooverride arched class'smethods instead of rewriting the method on the patched class).
However, it's released as "experimental" probably because they still haven't figured out how implement this in
What bothers me is that they don't say that it's truly parallel yet. This probably means that they've still got that fake parallelism in there to keep the libraries happy. They *REALLY* need to solve that.
It's true that what they introduced in 1.9.? was a lot better than nothing, but it's not good enough with MPUs becomming so dominant. And doing parallelism at the gross level of processes isn't very satisfactory. Threads should have a means of multi-tasking.
Happy birthday to Ruby! Pretty cool the way that numeric coincidence worked out.
2.0 looks like a nice step forwards. I'm not sure where I stand on Refinements yet. I hate the method overriding of base classes that goes on in Ruby land, and Refinements is supposed to minimize the bad affects of that by offering scoped alterations, but from what I've heard there's a lot of side effects. Frankly, I think Ruby needs a 'protected' type; any other solution is just monkeys all the way down. But I could say this about a lot of the popular languages right now.
Skillset momentum aside, why would anyone choose Ruby over Node.JS [wikipedia.org]?
Node is *significantly* faster [debian.org] right out of the box (while Ruby JIT is still in its infancy [infoworld.com]). With so many well-funded implementations (Google [wikipedia.org], Mozilla, Opera, Microsoft) competing to be a tiny bit faster in any way possible, JavaScript is very likely to remain the fastest dynamically-typed language. Node is also built with a specific emphasis on scalability / parallel performance.
Node.JS also has the advantage of using the same language o
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|Memphis, Tenn.
|High School:
|White Station
2010-11: Three-year letterwinner in cross country and two-time letterwinner in track & field … looking to return to form after battling injuries as a junior.
2009-10: Participated in one race, finishing in
18th place at the W&L Invitational (30.37) …
(Indoor Track & Field): Did not compete
… (Outdoor Track & Field): Did not
2008-09 (Cross Country): Earned Second Team All-ODAC honors for his eighth-place finish (25:54.15) at the league meet … also named to the All-South/Southeast Region Team after finishing in 35th place at the regional meet (27:02.5) … (Indoor Track & Field): Earned First Team All-ODAC honors as a member of the distance medley relay team that captured the ODAC Championship with a meet-record time of 10:39.21 … posted a season-best time of 4:35.76 in the mile at the Liberty Open … (Outdoor Track & Field): Placed fourth at the ODAC Championships in the 3,000 meter steeplechase with a time of 10:06.36 … finished third in the 800 meters at the Lynchburg Invitational with a time of 2:00.32.
2007-08 (Cross Country): Notched a 22nd-place finish at the ODAC Championships as a first-year … posted his best time of the season at the William & Mary Invitational (28:19).
High School: Earned four letters in cross country and three in track & field at White Station … also earned one letter in basketball … served as a team cross country captain for two years.
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To lift or not
Posted 17 December 2003 - 08:53 PM
So anyway I'm talking to a guy at work who likes Subes,tell him my plan and he says "man those Turbo Brats are seriously rare only made em 2 years you should fix the rust and restore it".
Well as a Mopar guy I have heard the word Rare abused badly.
So does this guy have it right would it be worth the time effort and money to restore this 84 Turbo Brat or is he blowing smoke?
If not I'm planning on lifting 3" doing the six lug conversion putting a 4 speed D/R and beating the hell out of it lovingly of course. Any help would be appreciated thanks.
Posted 17 December 2003 - 09:07 PM
turbo brats are kinda rare, only 83 and 84 it has the EA81 motor, the pushrod version of the 1800.
later 85 and up have EA82 timing belt motors
but since its starting to rust, that make it grounds for a project!
make it a good running off roader.
Posted 17 December 2003 - 10:06 PM
Posted 17 December 2003 - 10:18 PM
I did some cutting, and put 30x9.50x15 tires on some re-drilled Chevy wheels... with the 4 speed and turbo, it was real easy to spin 'em....
the turbo brats are rare. I'm on my second one now. it's had a fair amount of rust repair done to it before it came to me from the east coast. it's still all stock, and will most likely remain that way until I sell it....
Posted 18 December 2003 - 04:18 AM
Thing is - the turbo motor doesn't make a good hard core off-road engine - too complicated, and too rare to find parts to easily fix. Plus they don't have the low-end. Too much restriction with the turbo when it's not spooled, and difficult to keep it spooled at low speed. And the turbo engine is only making 95 HP compared to the N/A engine at 73 HP. The N/A engine can easily be brought up to 120 HP+ with just a few mods (cam, deck heads, weber, turbo muffler, etc). If you want something to play in the mud, get a regular Brat that's in the same shape or better and let someone restore the turbo - I'll bet someone would trade you.....
Posted 18 December 2003 - 08:08 AM
Miles, all Brats run the EA81. (Except for those that have been converted/modified by their owners).
If the rust is repairable I would say fix it. As long as it doesn't get into the thousands to fix. You may be able to find another Brat body and swap your set up into it. Granted, it is alot of work but could be worth it.
Or... you could just sell the Brat as is and get something that will suit your needs better.
Posted 18 December 2003 - 07:13 PM
Originally posted by GeneralDisorder
Thing is - the turbo motor doesn't make a good hard core off-road engine - too complicated, and too rare to find parts to easily fix. Plus they don't have the low-end. Too much restriction with the turbo when it's not spooled, and difficult to keep it spooled at low speed. And the turbo engine is only making 95 HP compared to the N/A engine at 73 HP. The N/A engine can easily be brought up to 120 HP+ with just a few mods (cam, deck heads, weber, turbo muffler, etc). If you want something to play in the mud, get a regular Brat that's in the same shape or better and let someone restore the turbo - I'll bet someone would trade you.....
i would disagree with trading a turbo off. the fact its turbo is good enough reason to hold onto it
if you dont mind swapping and taking things apart (that is the fun in a project!) i would say put a 5spd dual range, and chuck the auto
that in itself would be a standard mod for an off roader anyway
but the turbo will have its higher rpms and boost curve with the lower gears in the tranny
i had a dual range in my 83 turbo wagon and it off roaded quite nicely! wheel spin is what will get you thru mud, and the turbo will hold rpms
the higer rpm power curve would be better suited for the 5spds gearing.
if the motor gives you trouble, i would like to think an 85-68 ea82 turbo moor would work, having similar mpfi
but the turbo motor will fit in there for sure!
Posted 18 December 2003 - 07:20 PM
As for the rust I've found it in the rocker panels the wheel wells and the rear fender well lips.As for the fender rust I was planning on cutting them out and trying to make some fender flare work. The wheel wells I was just going to fab something together and the rockers I've found replacements(thanks to this wonderful board) and will be getting them income tax time.
I didnt even think about the bottom end power problem though. I'm probably stuck in the position of having coil plugs wires and exhaust being the only performance upgrades(all are coming at income tax time) that wont cost me an arm and a leg. As far as getting a N\A Brat the ones I've seen around here are beloved and not being sold, I completely understand that I really love mine.
I think I'll just fix her up and maybe get some 14" Pugs keep her stock height and buy a ea81 hatch or wagon to go the lift route with.Thanks for all the points of view.USMB forever!!!!
Posted 18 December 2003 - 07:59 PM
Another thing you should be aware of - the turbo itself on the EA81T's was a recall because it was originally oil cooled. These were found to be a fire hazard or something, and were replaced with water cooled turbo's. Your may or may not have the water cooled turbo. If it doesn't no problem because the EA82T turbo works just fine - you simply have to plumb in the water lines for the turbo. I think the EA82 Turbo is also slightly bigger, but will bolt right in apparently. You could easily get it up to 120 HP I would think with an intercooler, and a manual boost controller. Both are pretty cheap upgrades - you just have to find an intercooler, which can be a bit difficult. Look for saab's and mitsubishi starion's and things like that at the JY.
Posted 18 December 2003 - 08:39 PM
Officially, the ea81T's were introduced as 83 1/2 models....
Posted 18 December 2003 - 08:44 PM
83 1/2 - I'll file that away in my memory banks. No wonder I see so many more 84 Turbo's than 83's.....
Posted 18 December 2003 - 10:38 PM
I know that alot of you are going Duh moron but just want to be sure about it.
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I am wondering , am i a diffuse thinner - If so or even if iam not , am i good candidate for HT - Have a look at the pics & advise please - Also will FUE be possible in my case as i like to keep my hair short - These pics are 3 weeks from buzz cut 0.
In my opinion, your supply does not meet your demand. The donor area appears thinned out as well.
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Maybe look into SMP (scalp micro-pigmentation) - but a HT alone won't do enough for you.
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It's a tough call. You have a high NW level balding pattern and a fairly sparse donor supply. There are always options, but in your case, it is difficult to tell whether traditional hair transplant surgery would provide adequate results.
Altogether, I think the only way to tell for certain is to undergo a consultation with a trusted hair restoration physician.
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I would abslutely love to discuss more potential hair restoration treatments - Though i have embraced my Baldness for years now & have no problem living with it - But i always wonder what i would look like with more hair - Also at this stage , do you think Minoxidil / rogaine / propecia / nizoral would help in any way ??
It's definitely difficult to sort through the legitimate hair loss treatments out there and the "miracle cure" snake oils.
Frankly, as far as medications are concerned, Propecia (finasteride) and Rogaine (minoxidil) are the only two proven safe and effective for treating hair loss. However, Nizoral (ketoconazole) shampoo is frequently utilized with positive results as well. In this regard, it is hard not to suggest that all hair loss sufferers investigate these treatments.
Additionally, if you are not a candidate for traditional hair transplant surgery, there are a few things you could investigate. However, keep in mind that most of these treatments are essentially alternatives to the proven norms:
1. You could immediately start on a proven medication regimen (Rogaine, Propecia, and Nizoral) and hope this causes a dramatic enough reversal to create a suitable environment for hair transplant surgery (this is likely the most effective option).
2. You could consider a more extreme type of hair transplantation procedure, such as the body hair transplant cases handled by Dr. Umar. He's shared some pretty amazing results on patients with high NW balding patterns and depleted donor supply (see his work here), but I would proceed VERY carefully and only work with him (if you're choosing this route). Additionally, keep in mind that body hair will retain its natural characteristics, and it will always be body hair grafts growing on the scalp (i.e. it will never look 100% like scalp hair - though beard hair grafts can come fairly close).
3. You could consider scalp micropigmentation (SMP) or an SMP + follicular unit extraction (FUE) combination. Frankly, if you were going to take this route, it would probably be best to undergo a sparse, low density FUE procedure and try to increase the overall appearance with SMP. Again, I'm very wary to even recommend this, and I would seriously only consider undergoing this combination with a very limited number of practitioners and only after a thorough consultation (send me a private message if you would like to discuss this further).
Of these three options, I would highly, highly recommend considering "1" above the others. Frankly, the other two are quite alternative, and I only provided these hypothetical treatment plans because you asked.
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A teenage surfer is recovering at Health First Holmes Regional Medical Center, in Melbourne, Fla. today after a shark took a bite out of his leg.
Michael Adler and four friends went surfing at Melbourne Beach on Saturday, an area known for its bull sharks.
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"His whole jaw just crammed down on my leg and right from there I kind of knew it was a shark attack," he said. "So then I was paddling in as fast as I could."
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TCP Protocol Layers Explained03/14/2001
In the next few articles, I'd like to concentrate on IP packets and the information that can be found within the headers of an IP packet. This week, we'll cover the various fields in the layer-3 and -4 headers in preparation for next week, when we'll capture and view this information using the "tcpdump" utility. We'll then be in good shape to see how this information relates to packet filter rules and firewalls.
Your FreeBSD system uses TCP/IP as its networking protocol. The best definition I've seen for a protocol is from www.whatis.com, and I quote it here:
"In information technology, a protocol (pronounced PROH-tuh-cahl, from the Greek protocollon, which was a leaf of paper glued to a manuscript volume, describing its contents) is the special set of rules that end points in a telecommunication connection use when they communicate. Protocols exist at several levels in a telecommunication connection. There are hardware telephone protocols. There are protocols between each of several functional layers and the corresponding layers at the other end of a communication. Both end points must recognize and observe a protocol. Protocols are often described in an industry or international standard."
Before your FreeBSD system can send data over a network connection, the TCP/IP protocol must first package that data into IP packets. An IP packet is simply a chunk of data that has had labelling information appended to the beginning of the data; like the Greek protocollon, this labelling information, called a header, is used to describe the data that follows the header.
All IP packets have at least one header, which is known as the IP header; sometimes this header is also called a Layer 3 or network header. The IP header is simply a series of bits which have been grouped into fields of a set size. All IP headers have the same structure; the only difference will be which bits have been set to "1" to either turn on a field's value or to represent a binary number within a field. Let's take a closer look at the fields in an IP header:
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An IP packet has 14 fields; let's go through these fields one at a time.
This is a 4-bit field that indicates the IP version, written in binary. For example if you are using IPv4, the bits will be set to 0100; if you are using IPv6, the bits will be set to 0110.
IHL or header length
This 4-bit field indicates how long the IP packet header is; this value is used to distinguish which part of the IP packet is the header, and which part is the actual data. If you take a look at the picture of the IP packet, you'll notice that it is 32 bits wide. Now take a look at the length of the packet: the data is not part of the header, the options are optional, but all other fields are required. This means that the minimum header length is five 32-bit words, or binary 0101. You'll sometimes see these words translated into bytes; that is, five words multiplied by 4 bytes (32 bits divided by 8 bits to make a byte) equals a header length of 20 bytes. If the options are used, the header length will be at least six 32-bit words. Since this is a 4-bit field, the maximum length will be 2 to the power of 4 minus 1, or 15. This effectively limits the size of an IP header to 60 bytes (15 words multiplied by 4 bytes).
Type of Service (sometimes called TOS) flags
This field is 8 bits long; the first 3 bits are called precedence bits and the last 5 bits represent the type of service flags. These flags were originally created to prioritize which packets should be delivered and which packets could be dropped if a router became congested. Since then, other protocols have been invented to prioritize traffic and most routers ignore these flags even if they have been set.
Total length; also called packet length or datagram length
This 16-bit field represents the total length of the IP packet, meaning both the data and the header. The minimum size is 21 bytes (default header size plus one byte of data). Since this field is 16 bits long, the maximum packet size is 2 to the power of 16 minus one, or 65,535 bytes. (The minus one represents the illegal length value of 0.)
Every IP packet is given an identification number when it is created; that number is contained within this 16-bit field. It is possible for an IP packet to be separated into smaller "fragments" before it reaches its final destination; each fragment still belongs to the original IP packet, so each fragment will have the same identification number.
This field contains three flags as follows:
- reserved flag: must always be 0
- don't fragment flag: if set to 0, this flag is off, meaning you can fragment the IP packet; if set to 1, this flag is on, meaning you don't fragment this IP packet
- more fragments flag: if set to 0, there are no more fragments; if set to 1, there are more fragments of this IP packet yet to arrive
Fragment offset
If an IP packet has been fragmented, each fragment will have a value in this 13-bit field indicating where this fragment's data fits into the original IP packet. For example, let's pretend an IP packet containing 128 bytes of data was fragmented into two fragments each containing 64 bytes of data. The fragment containing the first 64 bytes of data would have a fragment offset of 0 as its data belongs at the very beginning of the original IP packet. The fragment containing the last 64 bytes of data needs to indicate that its data starts after the first 64 bytes. Since the number in this field represents an 8-byte multiple, its fragment offset will be 8 (8 multiplied by 8 = 64 bytes).
Time to Live (often called TTL)
Whenever an IP packet passes through a router, the router will decrease the TTL by one; if the TTL ever reaches 0, the packet will be thrown away under the assumption that it must be undeliverable as it hasn't been delivered by now. The original TTL value depends upon the operating system; your FreeBSD system uses a default TTL of 64. Since this is an 8-bit field, the maximum allowable TTL is 255 (2 to the power of 8 minus 1; the minus 1 is for the non-allowable TTL of 0).
This 8-bit value specifies which protocol's data is contained within the IP packet and gives a good indication of what type of information will be contained within the data portion of the packet. The protocol numbers that appear in this field are found in the "/etc/protocols" file on your FreeBSD system.
For example, the protocol number 1 represents the ICMP protocol. This means that this IP packet does not contain any data from an application; instead, it contains a small amount of ICMP data. We'll be taking an in-depth look at ICMP and how it affects your firewall in a separate article.
A protocol number of 6 indicates the TCP protocol. You may remember from earlier articles that TCP is a connection-oriented transport. This IP packet will have an additional header known as a TCP header that will be located just after the IP header and before the beginning of the actual data that is being delivered.
A protocol number of 17 indicates the UDP protocol, which is the connectionless transport. This IP packet will have a UDP header located just after the IP header and before the beginning of the data that is being delivered.
Header Checksum
Whenever an IP header is created or modified, a CRC (cyclic redundancy check) is run on the bits contained within the IP header. Basically, some math (the CRC algorithm) is done which results in an answer known as the checksum. When the IP packet is received, the same CRC is repeated on the header; if this results in the same answer (checksum), all of the bits of the IP header must have arrived in the correct order. If the CRC results in a different checksum, some of the bits in the header didn't arrive, meaning the IP packet was somehow damaged during transit.
Source Address
This will be the IP address of the host that sent the IP packet.
Destination Address
This will be the IP address of the host that is to receive the data contained within the IP packet.
Options and Padding
This is the only field in an IP packet which is optional, as all other fields are mandatory. This field is used to provide special delivery instructions not covered by the other fields in an IP header. It can allow for up to 40 bytes worth of extra instructions; these instructions must be in 32-bit words. If an instruction doesn't quite fill up a 32-bit word, the missing bits will be filled in with "padding" bits.
The last field in an IP packet is called the data field. This will be the actual data that is being sent from one host to another. The data field may start with a Layer 4 header, which will give additional instructions to the application that will be receiving the data; alternately, it may be an ICMP header and not contain any user data at all.
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Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin and California Rep. George Miller say their bill, introduced Tuesday, would boost the minimum from its current rate of $7.25 an hour by 2015. It then calls for automatic annual increases tied to changes in the cost of living.
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A Timeline, Zuckerberg says, is "the story of your life," significantly altering the way users' information is shown on Facebook, and presenting "all your stories, all your apps, and a new way to express who you are....It's a way to tell all the important stories from your life on a single page." Shown here is Zuckerberg's own Timeline, including his dog "Beast."
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Governor Rick Scott is being urged by a number of health professionals to veto legislation reorganizing the Florida Department of Health.
The former health officers site the closing of the states only TB hospital, cost shifting, and a change in mission as reasons for the Governor to say no.
The 161 page bill closes the state's only TB hospital, AG Holley in South Florida. The 500 bed facility is expensive and houses just an average of 30 people. But opponents of the closing, like Richard Polangin, say it will place the rest of Florida in danger. "It serves the very hard to treat tuberculosis patients, those with drug resistant tuberculosis and those who are ordered by a court to be treated until they are cured because they are non-compliant with taking medications."
Former health officials have written Governor Rick Scott urging a veto of the legislation. In addition to closing the TB hospital, they are concerned the Department of Health will no longer be required by law to promote healthy lifestyles.
Brad Ashwell represents the Florida Public Interest Research Group. "It basically undermines the Department of Health's role in promoting public health."
The legislation also ends a controversial septic tank inspection plan, shifting the job of inspecting septic tanks to county governments.
Under the current law, if someone shows up here at the health department because they're too afraid to see their own doctor about a sexually transmitted disease, the health department will treat them, and then send the bill to the insurance company. Under the new law, taxpayers will eat the cost."
Sponsor Rep. Matt Hudson of Naples says the legislation will focus the department on its core mission. "I know this bill will go a long way to promote public health, bring about better health outcomes."
Rick Scott has until April 28th to decide if the changes should become law.
While opponents say the bill could be the end of promoting healthy lifestyles, the sponsor says the promotion is allowed in different statutes.