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The latest installment of the Civil War takes place in Corvallis this Saturday, as the fifth-ranked Oregon Ducks and 16th- ranked Oregon State Beavers get together for the 116th time.
The series, which dates back to 1894 and is the seventh-most contested rivalry in the nation, favors Oregon by a 59-46-10 margin. The Ducks have won the last four meetings, including last year's 49-21 verdict in Eugene.
Oregon had been cruising along with a 10-0 record and had attained the No. 1 ranking in the AP poll, but then came last week's clash with visiting Stanford. The Cardinal dashed the Ducks' national title aspirations by posting a 17-14 upset victory in overtime, snapping UO's 13-game winning streak in the process. What it means for Oregon now is that if it finishes in a tie with Stanford atop the Pac-12's North Division, the Cardinal would play in the conference championship game with a chance to go the Rose Bowl.
As 8-2, Oregon State is off to its best start under current head coach Mike Riley, and a win this week would give the Beavers their first nine-win season since 2008. The team has shown a five-win improvement from last year's 3-9 club, matching Middle Tennessee and Ohio State for the best turnaround in the country. Despite their overall success, the Beavers have split their last four games, winning versus Arizona State and California, and losing to Washington and Stanford. Oregon State has been ranked in the AP Top-25 for a school- record nine consecutive weeks.
Oregon is the second-highest scoring team in the nation, as it averages 51.1 ppg in churning out 313.6 ypg on the ground and 548.3 total ypg, both of which rank the team in the top-five nationally. Freshman QB Marcus Mariota has certainly lived up to his preseason billing as he has thrown for 2,371 yards with 29 TDs and only six interceptions, and has rushed for 605 yards and three scores. De'Anthony Thomas has been Mariota's favorite target, as he has hauled in 40 balls for 381 yards and four TDs, and Josh Huff has made the most his 24 grabs, turning them into 405 yards and seven scores. Kenjon Barner has filled the rather large shoes left by former star RB LaMichael James, as he has gained 1,426 yards and scored 19 TDs in averaging 6.5 ypc and 129.6 ypg.
The Oregon defense has performed at a high level as well this season, allowing just 21.8 ppg (third-best in the Pac-12) behind 380.7 ypg. Michael Clay has a team-high 82 tackles, and the Ducks have certainly proven to be an opportunistic bunch by recording 72 TFL, 26 sacks and 32 turnovers, including 20 interceptions. Kiko Alonso, Ifo Ekpre-Olomu and Avery Patterson each have three picks to their credit, while Taylor Hart has seven sacks. Patterson however, is expected to miss the remainder of the season with a knee injury.
Stanford's top-rated run defense held Barner to just 66 yards last week, and the team as a whole to only 198 rushing yards. Mariota was Oregon's leading rusher with 89 yards, and he threw for 207 yards and a TD. The Ducks converted just 4-of-17 third-down opportunities and they were dominated in the time of possession battle (52:05-22:55, taking into account overtime).
The Oregon defense gave up 411 total yards (200 rushing, 211 passing), but did manage to come up with three turnovers. Clay was credited with a whopping 20 tackles, but the unit as a whole only had one sack.
Oregon coach Chip Kelly spoke about the disappointment he and his team felt following the loss to Stanford.
"It is tough losing but it is not always going to go your way and that's life; that's football. It hurts everyone so badly because they have all put so much into this. It is times like these that you wish you would have the right words to say to take the pain away but there are no words to do that."
He went on to say, "We have so much to work for. We will be back to work on Monday to get ready for Oregon State. They all know what's at stake."
Oregon State doesn't possess anywhere near the explosive offense as its in- state rival does, but the Beavers get the job done nonetheless thanks to efficient, gritty play. The team is averaging 29.5 ppg, with the pass being its weapon of choice as QB Sean Mannion has completed 62.6 percent of his tosses for 1,904 yards, 12 TDs and nine interceptions. Markus Wheaton and Brandin Cooks have combined for 127 catches, 2,025 yards and 15 TDs. As for the Oregon State run game, it features a sturdy Storm Woods, who has turned 143 carries into 698 yards and seven scores.
On the defensive side of the ball is where the Beavers have really excelled this year, as foes are generating just 108.7 ypg rushing and only 18.6 ppg. Enacting a ball-hawking approach, the Beavers have six players who have posted between 44 and 61 tackles on the year, and Michael Doctor and Rashad Reynolds sit atop the list, with the former logging 7.5 TFL and a pick, and the latter three interceptions and 13 PBU. Scott Crichton has 15 TFL and nine sacks to his credit, and Jordan Poyner has six of the team's 17 interceptions.
Mannion threw for 325 yards and four TDs in last week's 62-14 rout of Cal, and in the process became the sixth player in school history to surpass 5,000 passing yards. The 62 points scored were the second-most ever by Oregon State against a conference opponent. In addition to Mannion's exploits, Terron Ward found plenty of room to run in tallying 128 yards and two TDs on only 14 carries. Woods added 64 yards and a score on 11 totes, while Wheaton and Connor Hamlett combined for 13 receptions, 179 yards and two TDs.
The Oregon State defense forced four turnovers, including three fumbles, and held the Golden Bears to 322 yards of total offense, of which only 132 came by way of the pass. Cal was penalized 15 times for a loss of 172 yards.
Poyner remarked after the win about the effort he and his teammates put forth.
"There was a lot of really good football tonight. There were some mistakes, but you always want to limit those. As far as a complete game goes, that was the least amount of mistakes we have made all season."
He went on to comment about the matchup with Oregon.
"It's the Civil War and it was going to be a big game whether they won or lost [last week]. We are definitely excited about it and it's going to be a crazy week. We will prepare our best."


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CASSOPOLIS, Mich. (AP) – A 57-year-old southwest Michigan man whose girlfriend found a secretly recorded video of a teenager disrobing has been found guilty of child sexual abusive activity.
MLive.com reports Friday that a Cass County jury also found James Heidenreich of Dowagiac guilty Thursday of eavesdropping, possession of child sexually abusive material, manufacture of marijuana and gun charges.
He faces a Feb. 1 sentencing.
Heidenreich's girlfriend discovered the video in his jacket. It showed a 17-year-old family friend taking off her clothing before using a shower in Heidenreich's bathroom.
Police found marijuana plants and guns in July while searching Heidenreich's home and property, about 70 miles southwest of Grand Rapids.
Heidenreich had testified the camera was not set up to secretly videotape the teen. He also denied growing the marijuana.
(© Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

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Argument from ignorance
Note that an argument from ignorance is different from an argument that shows the ignorance of the person making it (referring to your edit of Appeal to emotion). It's an attempt to support or refute a claim by pointing out a lack of knowledge or understanding about it (e.g., "We don't know how life first arose, therefore God did it", or "All this time since Darwin and we still don't know how life arose in the first place, so how can you believe in evolution?") - dcljr 17:20, 20 November 2008 (CST)


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I just started going through the "Creating first Yii Application" section. The command line tool seemed to work fine. I went to http://localhost/projectname/ and it did show the first page. Clicking the login link results in a page not found. Did I miss a step?
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Page Not Found 'login'
Posted 09 October 2008 - 12:19 PM
Posted 09 October 2008 - 12:20 PM
Did you make any change to the code generated by yiic?
What is the detailed error information?
What is the detailed error information?
Posted 09 October 2008 - 12:26 PM
The only change I made was to the connectionString (mysql with username and password, instead of sqlite). I'll try again from a clean slate.
Page Not Found
The system is unable to find the requested action "login".
The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
2008-10-09 10:20:55 Apache/2.0.63 (Win32) Yii Framework/1.0a
Posted 09 October 2008 - 12:35 PM
I guess you created a User model and UserController? Did you overwrite any existing files during the file generation?
Posted 09 October 2008 - 12:46 PM
Doh! That is correct. When I created a user model it did ask me to overwrite a file.
Posted 09 October 2008 - 01:17 PM
OK, started over. Before executing the "crud User" command, I made a copy UserController.php. Then, after overwriting the original UserController.php, I merged the newly created UserController file with my copy. Now I have a login and crud controls.
Could/should the code generated from the crud command extend that class instead of overwrite it?
Could/should the code generated from the crud command extend that class instead of overwrite it?
Posted 14 October 2008 - 05:56 AM
I changed the yiic webapp command so that it no longer creates the UserController to avoid this issue.
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Genetic Manipulation Extends Life of Mice by 20%
By manipulating a single gene, scientists at the National Institutes of Health said they increased the average life span of mice by about 20%, a feat that in human terms is akin to extending life to about 90 years from 75. Ron Winslow reports. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Mitt Romney says that President Obama's pre-election largesse in the form of "gifts" resulted in the president's reelection ("Romney blames loss on 'gifts' to Obama backers," Page A14, Nov. 15). These so-called gifts include reducing high interest rates on college loans that are already guaranteed by the government, health care for children up to age 26, and a reprieve from deportation for the children of illegal immigrants who were taken here through no fault of theirs.
Romney's mindset is telling. Benefits and programs geared toward anyone other than the wealthy are gifts, while I suppose preserving tax breaks for millionaires protects the so-called job creators. If Romney had been elected president, I can imagine the "gifts" he would have doled out to his wealthy benefactors, the price for which would have been bought and paid for by a middle class still digging out from a deep recession caused by the same kind of policies Romney promoted.
We are fortunate as a nation that we will not see wealthy people and corporations sitting on the lap of a president who asks them what they would like to see under the fiscal Christmas tree next year.


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Not Right Wing Journalism's Finest Hour
When breitbart.com's Ben Shapiro posted his now-infamous fake story about Chuck Hagel and "Friends of Hamas," it's noteworthy that the entire right wing media machine immediately jumped on the story and spread it far and wide. It's difficult to find a right wing website that didn't run the story; this is how they roll, with nearly instant unison parroting of stories that advance the agenda, whether obviously fake or not.
Today National Review editor Rich Lowry actually posted a correction — which is more than the majority of conservative sites will do: 'Friends of Hamas' - by Rich Lowry.
A week or so ago, Capitol Hill was swirling with rumors that Hagel might have been associated with a group called Friends of Hamas. These rumors were mentioned in this space (albeit conditionally and with grains of salt). It turns out that the group doesn't exist and the rumor was based on a hypothetical question that then spread in a classic Washington game of telephone, as reported here.
This might seem like semi-responsible journalism, but watch: the next time one of these fake outrages floats by, they'll jump aboard as if this never happened.
Since Lowry said in his post that the National Review "mentioned" the rumors "conditionally and with grains of salt," let's take a look at the words that actually appeared on their site. Call it "fact-checking," if you will.
First, from Andrew McCarthy: Is Hagel Toast? - by Andrew C. McCarthy - the Corner - National Review Online
As John notes, Ben Shapiro has reported at the Breitbart site Big Peace that one of Hagel's funding sources is a group purportedly called "Friends of Hamas." That might make someone a good fit for president of Egypt, prime minister of Turkey, or any number of advisory posts on the White House staff. But given that being a "friend of Hamas" — at least the kind of friend who provides material support to that terrorist organization — is a crime in the United States, it may not be quite what the Senate is looking for in a secretary of defense.
How is that "conditional?" Is the word "purportedly" supposed to give them an out, even though the rest of the paragraph quite clearly treats it as a fact?
Second, from Andrew Stiles: Levin Defends Hagel, Calls GOP Disclosure Request 'Unprecedented' - by Andrew Stiles - the Corner - National Review Online.
Rumors abound on Capitol Hill that a full disclosure of Hagel's professional ties would reveal financial relationships with a number of "unsavory" groups, including one purportedly called "Friends of Hamas." The GOP aide said it was "noteworthy" that the White House has yet to deny the association. "Maybe it's not true, but why not provide a list of groups he spoke to and remove all doubt?" the aide said.
There's that "purportedly" again, followed by dark insinuations that the White House hasn't denied the accusation.
Pretty obviously, the National Review's writers pushed this story as factual, and they did much more than simply "mention" it — and Lowry's attempt to picture it as "conditional" is just as ridiculous as the fake story itself.


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A four car wreck in Pennsboro sends several to the hospital and leaves one man dead.
There's still little known about the accident at the intersection of route 50 and 74 this morning near Pennsboro.
State Police say a reconstructionist is coming tomorrow to work through what happened.
39 year-old Jonathan Newell from Calhoun County died in the wreck.
Two others were taken to a hospital in Clarksburg...and an unknown number of passengers taken to Camden Clark Medical Center.
No charges have been filed.


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I say mate, ain't it time for a night out on the town in our finest and what what?
At 7:30 p.m. Feb. 9, join TBAG once again for one of our most popular cruises, the tweed ride.
Meet us at 7:30 p.m. on the corner of Rio Salado Parkway and Mill Avenue in Tempe Beach Park where you can pose for a pic. Then at 7:45 p.m. we'll bike off for a jolly good time in the finest pubs in town.
Don't know what to wear? You poor blighter. Well let us enlighten you to the fashionable choices for the evening.
Bowlers, pleated skirts, course knits, pipes, woolen trousers, suspenders and bow-ties are what's hot for the evening. Show up for a pint in your spandex and you might as well have shown up in your skivvies.
As always, the ride will be frightfully easy,so all birds and mates of any skill level are welcome to attend for a smashing good time.
Pip pip, cheerio and all that rot. Oh, and don't forget to RSVP to the event on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/biketempe
See you there, old bean.
Where: Tempe Beach Park on the northwest corner of Mill Avenue and Rio Salado Parkway.
When: Feb. 9. Meet at 7:30 p.m. We leave at 7:45 p.m.
What: A fine night of cycling and style at the classiest public houses of Tempe
Who: Any bloke or lass of all cycling skill levels
Cost: Ride is FREE! Buy your own bevs


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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Department of Correction says a 47-year-old inmate has escaped from the Adams County Jail in Council.
The department identified the inmate as Robert Michael Williston.
It says Williston escaped Saturday night by apparently scaling a fence.
The agency describes Williston is an Asian-American with a shaved head, brown eyes and an olive complexion. He is 6-foot-1, and he weighs 195 pounds.
Williston's criminal record includes convictions for grand theft and first-degree burglary in Madison County, grand larceny and fraudulent use of a financial transaction card in Ada County, and burglary and attempted strangulation in Kootenai County.
His sentence was to be completed in August 2025.


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Hi All,
I want to know growth status of oracle database.
I gave the below command:
SQL>set pagesize 500
SQL>tti "Database growth per month for last year"
SQL>select to_char(creation_time, 'RRRR Month') "Month",
sum(bytes)/1024/1024 "Growth in Meg"
from sys.v_$datafile
where creation_time > SYSDATE-365
group by to_char(creation_time, 'RRRR Month');
no rows selected
I want to find the growth status. Please can any one help me in finding this.


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Nature: Visitors to Kleb Woods experience old-time farm culture
Updated 10:18 am, Sunday, October 7, 2012
The 133.5-acre Kleb Woods Nature Preserve in northwest Harris County is acclaimed statewide for combining a bygone Texas farm culture and a forest teeming with birds, butterflies and other wild critters.
Edward Kleb acquired three parcels of prairie landscape for farming from 1904 to 1933. His son Elmer Kleb ultimately inherited the land but had no interest in farming. Instead, he let trees and shrubbery grow on the property, which by the late 20th century had become a unique wooded wilderness bulwarked against encroaching suburban development.
Though he was keenly interested in the plants, trees and birds on his land, Elmer Kleb was a recluse, retreating from 20th-century modernity within his forest. When he found himself facing huge tax arrears by the mid-1980s and the possibility of seeing his land sold off, Harris County Commissioner Steve Radack negotiated a grant with Texas Parks and Wildlife to conserve the property as a Harris County Nature Preserve. Kleb was allowed to live on the land until his death in 1999.
Visitors come from all over the state and around the nation to see the houses, buildings and implements representative of early 20th-century Southeast Texas farmers. They also come to set foot inside a dense pine-oak forest hosting a variety of birds, butterflies, dragonflies and native wildflowers.
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Standing near the restored white-framed farmhouse where Kleb was born in 1907 is the 4,900-square-foot Nature Center building with a wide porch swooping around the edifice. Although modern, the building was designed to blend with the farmlike architecture. Multiple hummingbird feeders hang from the edges of the south porch, and the surrounding grounds are full of native plants, wildflowers and birdfeeders.
The Nature Center has exhibits and an auditorium where programs are offered year-round. A typical monthly calendar reveals an array of activities, including tours, naturalist lectures, history discussions, German lessons and even bluegrass music. Free bird-watching walks are held 8:30-11:30 a.m. Wednesdays and 8-10 a.m. the first Saturday of each month.
But the roughly two miles of meandering forest trails are what draws me every time I visit. Even the trail leading like a tunnel through the forest from the parking lot to the Nature Center slows me as I stop this time of year to see a migrant Nashville warbler or a freshly emerged butterfly such as a gulf fritillary.
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If you go
What: Kleb Woods Nature Preserve, a Harris County Precinct 3 park
Where: 20303 Draper Road
Information: www.pct3.hctx.net/parks/klebwoodsnaturepres.aspx
Upcoming programs
Oct. 19: Dr. Sue Heath, an ornithologist with the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory, will discuss her research on the American Oystercatcher.
Nov. 2: Dr. Keith Arnold, ornithology professor emeritus at Texas A&M University will present the history of the Texas Ornithological Society.
Nov. 16: Dr. Cin-Ty Lee of Rice University will give a program on shorebird identification.
Dec. 7: Fred Collins, director of Kleb Woods Nature Preserve, will give a program on sparrow identification.
Trails past the farmstead and deeper into the forest yield sights of dragonflies such as a roseate skimmer over woodland ponds or glimpses of any of the 30 to 40 species of birds busily flitting among trees and bushes.
To contact Lone Star College professor Gary Clark or photographer Kathy Adams Clark, visit their website at www.texasbirder.net.


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2013-05-15 / Obituaries
Kevin P. McDermott, Esq., longtime Amityville resident, St. Martin of Tours R.C. Church
Kevin P. McDermott, Esq., a longtime resident of Amityville, died of complications from diabetes April 9, 2013 at his home. He was 63 years old. Mr. McDermott was born March 29, 1950 in St. Albans to Brendan and Marie (Hannon) McDermott. Mr. McDermott was an attorney in a private practice in Garden City. He was a member of St. Martin of Tours R.C. Church.
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NORTHFIELD, Minn. -- First-year Gabbi Stienstra (St. Paul, Minn./Minnehaha) scored a game-high 14 points, leading the Carleton College women's basketball team to a 55-45 victory over Macalester College. The win snapped an eight-game slide for the Knights (3-10, 3-7 MIAC), who have now matched their win total from a year ago before reaching the mid-point of the conference schedule.
The Knights jumped out to an early lead, using three-pointers from Stienstra and Skylar Tsutsui (So./Northridge, Calif./Harvard Westlake) to build a 15-6 advantage seven minutes into the contest. The Scots (4-9, 3-7 MIAC) responded with a 20-8 run to take the lead, but Tsutsui hit two free throws late in the first half to tie the score at 28-28 going into intermission.
The momentum swung in Carleton's favor early in the second period. The Knights moved into a full-court press, and this proved to be too much for the Scots to handle. Carleton forced 10 turnovers over the first seven minutes of the half and built a 39-30 lead.
"Our defense is really starting to come together, and today was proof of that," said head coach Cassie Kosiba. "We had a great, focused practice Friday, and it paid off."
Macalester cut the deficit to only four with six minutes remaining, but a pair of buckets from Rachael Dodd (Jr./Culver City, Calif./Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies) and a three-pointer by Jenny Ramey (Jr./Cottage Grove, Minn./New Life Academy) put the Knights back in control down the stretch.
Forward Emma Purfeerst (Jr./River Falls, Wis./River Falls) tallied eight points and eight rebounds on the day to pick up a victory over her sister, Abby, a first-year player for the Scots. Megan Meads (Jr./Sillwater, Minn./Stillwater) narrowly missed a double-double, scoring seven points and grabbing 10 rebounds.
The Knights return to the court on Wednesday, Jan. 16 to face St. Catherine University. Tipoff is slated for 7:30 p.m., and Knights Online will feature live.
In addition to Knights Online, there are other great ways to get the latest news about the Carleton Knights:
Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/carletonknights
Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/CarletonKnights
Register for Knight News: http://apps.carleton.edu/athletics/knightnews/
Watch the Knights on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/user/carletonknights
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Required where pipe terminates above the roofline. Removable screws allow for cleaning of the chimney and spark arrestor screen. Shown with optional Spark Arrestor screen.
DuraTech is a double-wall, all-fuel chimney system for used with wood stoves, fireplaces, furnaces, boilers, ranges, water heaters or other appliances fueled by wood, oil, coal or gas, and zero-clearance fireplaces that are factory-built. This system is designed for normal continuous operation at 1000 degrees flue gas temperatures and is subjected to rigorous and stringent HT requirements of the UL standard ensuring its excellence.


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(SportsNetwork.com) - Given a 1-11 record in the final 12 games of the 2012 season, not many would have assumed looking past a foe would be a 2013 issue for the Arizona Cardinals.
But this week marks the perfect storm of opportunity and momentum.
Arizona's defeats of Atlanta and Houston in weeks 8 and 10, respectively, have put it in the position to win three straight for the first time since last September, when it reeled off season-opening victories over Seattle, New England, Philadelphia and Miami.
Week 11 brings a visit to EverBank Field and a meeting with the Jacksonville Jaguars, who are feeling their own oats after ending an eight-game losing streak last week at Tennessee.
"Looking ahead will get you in trouble, but I like where we're at right now," coach Bruce Arians said. "All of our focus is on Jacksonville. If we lose any sight of that, they'll beat us.
"They're playing really well right now."
Just 1-3 on the road alongside a 4-1 mark at home, the Cardinals have scored 23.6 points per game in their last five games. Quarterback Carson Palmer has thrown four touchdowns in the two victories in the Cardinals' existing win streak, including two last week in a 27-24 defeat of the Texans. Additionally, only two of his 15 interceptions in 2013 have come in those two wins.
He has three TDs and one INT in two lifetime meetings with Jacksonville.
Joining him in the backfield is rookie Andre Ellington, who's averaged 7.2 yards per carry and scored twice in nine games. Nonetheless, Arizona ranks just 24th in the league in rushing, averaging 93.6 rushing yards per game.
The defense chipped in with a fumble return for a touchdown last week and the unit has recorded at least three sacks in three consecutive games and in four of the last five. Veteran John Abraham, new to the Cardinals after 13 years in the NFL, has five in his last three games.
Arizona dropped 44-10 and 24-17 decisions to the Jaguars in 2000 and 2005, then scored its first defeat of Jacksonville, 31-17, when the teams last met in 2009. Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald has played in the last two of those three games, catching a TD pass in both.
The Jaguars will enter the week looking to construct some momentum of their own.
Jacksonville hasn't won consecutive games since Dec. 5 and 12 in 2010, but has the chance after ending its 2013 drought with a 29-27 victory at Tennessee. Prior to defeating the Titans, the Jaguars hadn't won a game of any kind since defeating the same foe last November.
Jacksonville had been outscored in this season's eight defeats by a 22.3-point average margin and had heard more than a few suggestions of historical ineptitude.
"(It was a) middle finger to all the people who want talk about the Jaguars not winning the game or being the worst 0-8 team in history," guard Uche Nwaneri said. "It's kind of, 'Eat this.' That's kind of how it feels."
Ironically, coach Gus Bradley has tried to reel in his players' strutting in this week, though the team is still dead last in the NFL in scoring offense (12.8 points) and total offense (278.4 yards).
Maurice Jones-Drew carried 21 times for 41 yards and scored a TD against Tennessee as part of the team's 214 total yards. Quarterback Chad Henne threw for 180 yards and failed to produce a scoring pass while throwing two interceptions. His last TD throw was in a Week 8 loss to San Francisco - a 29- yarder to Mike Brown.
In three home games this season, the Jaguars have been outscored, 89-11, and have not scored a touchdown. The team could be without linebacker Paul Posluszny this week after he sustained a concussion against Tennessee and is deemed questionable. Definitely out of the fold is another linebacker, LaRoy Reynolds, who was suspended for violating the NFL's performance-enhancing drugs policy.
"(Bradley) always talks about eating crumbs, and that's what we're going to do," center Brad Meester said. "Sometimes after you have that big win, you want to go out and eat that big meal, go out to Ruth's Chris. But it's about humility. You've got to continue to stay focused and not get overconfident because you've got one win. You've got to continue to do the things that you do, and that's what we need to do in here."
Run rookie, run.
Ellington, a sixth-round steal for the Cardinals last April, has shown a penchant for gobbling big chunks of yardage through his first eight NFL appearances -- averaging at least five yards per carry in all but one of the games in which he's had at least three runs.
That big-play ability could come in handy against a Jacksonville defense that's worst in the league defending the run and has allowed 4.6 yards per run over nine games -- equaling an ugly 153 yards per week.
Take Palmer to the deep water.
A young Chad Pennington was the scourge of NFL defenses before coordinators realized he couldn't consistently complete deep throws. Seemingly overnight, the middle was taken away and Pennington became less a prolific passer and more a spunky game manager.
As a veteran in Arizona, Palmer has drifted far from the downfield persona he'd had in Cincinnati and is just 8-for-38 on throws of more than 20 yards. If the Jaguars can employ a Pennington strategy here, they jump a big hurdle to win No. 2.
OK, it's been proven that the Jaguars aren't going to go 0-16 and they might not be the very worst team to ever assemble at an NFL stadium.
But even in the afterglow of a road win against a .500 opponent, they're still not very good either. The Cardinals are no one's reincarnation of the 1985 Bears, but they are strong enough on offense and sturdy enough on defense -- third against the run, 13th against the pass -- to negate any tactics Jacksonville might consider employing.
Sports Network predicted outcome: Cardinals 27, Jaguars 17


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Submission + - Anti-Piracy Group Refuses Bait, DRM Breaker Goes T (torrentfreak.com)
coaxial writes: In Denmark, it's legal to make copies of commercial videos for backup or other private purposes. It's also illegal to break the DRM that restricts copying of DVDs. Deciding to find out which law mattered, Henrik Anderson reported himself for 100 violations of the DRM-breaking law (he ripped his DVD collection to his computer) and demanded that the Danish anti-piracy Antipiratgruppen do something about. They promised him a response, then didn't respond. So now he's reporting himself to the police. He wants a trial, so that the legality of the DRM-breaking law can be tested in court.


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|Robin Williams - Live on Broadway
|Tuesday, 19 November 2002
Taped for HBO but released on DVD by (oddly) Columbia Music Video, this was the big New York engagement of Robin Williams' standup comedy tour of 2002. He wound across the country, doing his fast-paced act to huge, enthusiastic crowds, and this DVD captures the show splendidly as it was staged at the Broadway Theater. The sound is crystal-clear; there must have been quite a battery of mikes – including the one on Williams' shirt, which he adds to the act.
It's almost exhausting to watch the dynamic, constantly-moving Williams do this long performance which really should hardly be called stand-up, since he simply doesn't stand anywhere, ever. He runs, hops, twirls, flings out his arms, talks into his elbow, tosses water around -- there's a table full of bottled water behind him, the only other thing on the stage -- and keeps up a constant stream of talk, both as himself and as other people, with Michael Jackson a favorite topic. Jackson, Williams says, complained of racism; "Honey, you got to pick a race first," says Williams, in an urban black chick voice, adding "You got to pick a gender, too."
Williams is so free and graceful that it all seems completely spontaneous, as if he's making up the whole damned thing on the spot -- but he did work out a script before beginning the tour. Most of his best lines are indeed scripted; it's the way he shifts so rapidly from one topic to another that's the spontaneous element. In the brief and only moderately interesting conversation between Williams and director Marty Callner included as an extra, Callner admits to having had a bad time of it for about the first ten minutes of this show, since Williams actually did go off script. But in this discussion, Williams spontaneously comes up with some funny material.
It's like W.C. Fields, who, like Williams, always seemed to be making it up as he went along -- but a biographer found some of Fields' movie scripts, and found them heavily annotated by the great comic.
Some people are disappointed to learn that Williams is not 100% extemporaneous, but what's important is that he's funny -- and he may well be the funniest man alive, at least when he has his own material and is free to behave as the spirit moves him. He's a fine actor in straight material, as he showed in "Insomnia" and "One Hour Photo," both released in 2002. He's not as effective in movies when he's required to be funny to someone else's words. But when it's all Williams, you're likely to laugh hard enough to run out of air -- you keep gulping back the laughter so you won't miss a line. And there are a lot of them, coming with machine-gun rapidity.
On visiting Graceland, Williams says "I never knew Ray Charles had a decorator's license." Taking off on Mike Ovitz's charges of a gay Mafia, Williams shushes the audience: "Shhhh, there's a gay Mafia. Shhh, the mauve hand...the fairy godfather" -- and launches into Marlon Brando: "does this pistol make my ass look too big?"
He gets political. The Supreme Court, he says, banned the execution of retarded people, and he's instantly a Texan: "Well, shit, where's the fun naow?" Jane Fonda found God and left Ted Turner, says Williams, "and Ted found out it wasn't him." Sometimes there are lines that don't really connect much to anything else, but hang there in the air, funny anyway. "Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party," he says. Later, he mentions that after 9/11, National Guardsmen in camo uniforms standing guard with camo-painted Humvees posted themselves at either end of the bright orange Golden Gate Bridge. "A compassionate conservative," he veers. "I don't know what that is -- it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack."
The French are also a favorite target; he's constantly doing a kind of generic Frenchmen, smoking a cigarette and biting off sneering little comments about the world at large. At another point, he's suddenly a drunken Scotsman inventing golf. "A game where you can dress like a pimp and nobody notices!"
The camerawork is fluid and inventive, most of the time keeping up with the speedy comedian; at the end, it's no surprise to see that the show required a huge number of cameras. It's also well edited -- surprisingly well, when you notice in the dialog scene between Williams and his director, and in the "noises" extra feature (a little compendium of all the weird noises Williams makes) that there was some material filmed for the show but not included, it seems quite surprising, even though the show is quite long in the first place.
Williams expends so much energy -- he's constantly sweating -- that you fear that once he leaves the stage, he'll collapse. And maybe he does, but he used to do acts like this a couple of times a day, and then go to another club and do a new one. Of course, he's older now (another favorite topic), and not on drugs, but he's athletic, graceful and, despite the seeming improvised quality of his act, he's precise and disciplined. He's a very special person in the world of show business, and at times almost incredibly funny.


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To Naperville North, its comeback victory was just a matter of attitude readjustment.
The Huskies changed their attitude toward defense in the second half and left Wheaton Warrenville South with a 53-41 DuPage Valley Conference boys basketball victory Friday night.
"Bottom line, in the first half we weren't playing any defense," Huskies senior Derek Westman said. "We weren't getting any rebounds. I think they had 8 offensive rebounds on us. The second half we toughened up, got big and started getting some rebounds and played some defense. That's what won us the game."
"After we got down in the stance and played a little defense the second half, we turned around," added Huskies coach Jeff Powers. "I think there was at the end 10 stops in a row. (Tigers coach Bob) Szorc did a great job, he had a great game plan, kept us at bay most of the time. Their kids played extremely hard."
The Huskies' improved defense took its biggest toll on the Tigers in the fourth quarter. The Huskies (4-2, 2-0) quickly turned an even game into one with a little breathing room by holding the Tigers to 1-of-14 shooting in the final eight minutes.
"Give credit to them, but I thought we got some good looks," said Szorc, whose team was playing only its second game of the season, the first a 56-29 loss at West Aurora last week. "The sign of a young team is when a game gets tight, the more experienced team takes over. We've got to execute better. ... I'm very proud of our effort and very proud of them bouncing back and doing what they did tonight."
WW South (0-2, 0-2) led most of the first three quarters but never by more than 6 points.
"I thought the biggest possessions of the game were when we were up 28-22 and then they got it back to a tie ballgame," Szorc said of the third quarter. "That was the turning point, it seemed like. At 40-40 you saw a team that's been battle-tested a little bit this year win the war."
The Tigers led 38-35 with 6:47 to play after a Keishawn Watson free throw, but Naperville North tied the game with a Brendan Herbstritt 3-pointer. Herbstritt scored 10 points off the bench.
"He was huge, he was huge today," Westman said. "This is his first game, and he hit some big 3s, kept us in the game."
The Huskies took the lead for good at 43-40 with 4:29 to play on a 3-pointer by freshman guard Jelani McClain, and senior Bryan LoLordo followed with another 3 at the 3:43 mark to give the Huskies momentum. The rest of the scoring came at the free-throw line.
Westman scored a game-high 17 points, and LoLordo added 10.
"It's mostly my teammates," Westman said. "They kept getting the ball and passing it down to me on the low block, and they just weren't guarding it, so I was getting some easy layups. I credit that to them."
Matt Kienzle led the Tigers with 12 points, and Michael Kramer scored 11.
"Our guys are disappointed, but big strides made in a week from where we've been," Szorc said.


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November 4, 2009 > Plastic bags: To ban or not to ban?
The issue of single-use plastic bags and paper bags was discussed in Council on October 20 and is beginning to gain ground throughout the City and across Santa Clara County. It was also the subject of discussion on October 22 by the Sister City Commission. Council wants to research and examine plastic-bag recycling programs and gather information to make an informed decision.San Jose will assess the impact of a ban, effective from 2010, on plastic and paper bags in an environmental impact report (EIR). The City of Milpitas will await those findings before adopting its own ordinances governing plastic bags. The Recycling and Source Reduction Advisory Commission will gather information, public input, feedback from affected businesses and analyze San Jose's EIR.Some grocers oppose a ban on plastic bags as do packaging manufacturers that make them. Some people favor banning plastic bags. Other environmentally-sensitive packaging, such as Styrofoam food containers, will also be considered as the City studies the subject.Vice-Mayor McHugh reported that there is information and speculation suggesting the costs of providing paper bags could have a more detrimental environmental effect than the production of plastic bags.Empirical studies suggest a ban does not decrease the amount of plastic bags in the waste stream or amount of litter. Not everyone re-uses them or disposes of them in the recycle bins in stores.Council-member Giordano asked staff to consider whether banning Styrofoam food containers would have an adverse effect on small businesses and overall future economic development and whether the alternatives to such containers are any better environmentally, in terms of carbon footprint, life-cycle and ability to be recycled.In all areas, it is important to make sure banning is the right solution for the environment.A representative of the American Chemistry Council, the national trade organization of plastic bag manufacturers, addressed Milpitas City Council. He suggested, along with the other items of research and study, enhancing the infrastructure for recycling.The plastic-bag ban in San Francisco only pertains to 60 stores of certain large companies. The public perception is it applies to the entire city. According to the ACC representative, state regulations also require stores to have recycling infrastructure which many do not have.Frank De Smidt, Milpitas Chamber of Commerce, informed the Council the Chamber feels proposed bag taxes would be detrimental to its members and agreed with the Council that further study is needed.Mayor Livengood concluded by pointing out there are existing grocery stores that do not provide plastic bags but still satisfy their customers and conserve the environment. He asked Council to remain open-minded as they digest information supporting plastic bags.David B. Canning, of Dogipot, the company that makes the biodegradable plastic bags available in Ben Rogers Park, offered some insight:"There are numerous types of environmentally-friendly plastic bags, including biodegradable and oxo-biodegradable. Most biodegradable bags are made from a food source such as corn, potato, sugar, etc. These are processed into a plastic film which then biodegrades. We chose not to use biodegradable bags for numerous reasons," started Canning."Alternatively, we chose an additive which makes plastic bags oxo-biodegradeable. The producer may set the shelf life of these bags before the breakdown process begins."Once the additive kicks in, the bags begin to oxidize (breakdown by exposure to air). The oxidation process chemically alters the plastic so it isn't plastic any more. During this process, the bag becomes brittle and begins to flake. These little chemically-altered pieces then biodegrade," Canning explained. "The time it takes to decompose depends heavily on the environment and the conditions in which the bags find themselves on disposal."The additive used in the bags in Ben Rogers Park was developed to combat the irresponsible disposal of plastics. It is ideal for litter pick-up bags and liner trash bags which usually go to landfills."Each of our bags emits less carbon dioxide than a leaf. The grocery store industry could utilize this technology so their bags break down. You can set the shelf life to a very short period or long one depending on intended use," Canning concluded.


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Interesting speakers started 2013 off for the Westfield-Mayville Rotary Club by presenting information about global hunger and affordable care for those concerned after President John Hamels opened the meeting.
Rotarians around the world adhere to the "things we think, say or do" by living the following: Is it the truth?; Is it fair to all concerned?; Will it build goodwill and better friendships?; Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
For Westfield Academy and Central School junior Mackenzi Habig, she believes in one program that is beneficial worldwide - conquering hunger. She presented "The Fight Against Global Hunger" in which 60 students from WACS, Brocton, Sherman and Chautauqua Lake schools participated in a 30-hour hunger gathering recently.
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Westfield-Mayville Rotary Club member John Rawlinson, left, introduced Development Director for Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce John Krauza, who gave health care after 2014 information for businesses during the February meeting of the Westfield-Mayville Rotary Club.
Mackenzi's PowerPoint presentation covered five major facts about global hunger: a child dies from hunger-related causes every 13 seconds; most of the 20,000+ child deaths every day are 100 percent preventable; around the world, 925 million people are hungry; the poor spend most of their money on food; and these kids' lives can be saved.
Included in the statistics were six "hunger hotspots around the world" where hunger exists. In order, starting with number one, they are Afghanistan, Burundi, Haiti, Kenya, United States and Zimbabwe. It came as a surprise to have the U.S. included. Anyone wishing further information may call WACS.
Introduced by her mother, Rotarian Adele Harrington, Mackenzi described ways to counteract worldwide hunger.
Greg Krauza, Development director for Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce, talked about the effects of the Affordable Care Act in his presentation Health Care After 2014.
Introduced by Rotarian John Rawlinson, Krauza said premium tax credits, available since the 2010 tax year, allow small business owners to spend less on health insurance premiums so they can grow their business and hire new employees. Noted was businesses with fewer than 25 full-time employees who each have average wages of less than $50,000 will be eligible to receive up to a 35 percent tax credit now and 50 percent in 2014.
After presenting more details, Krauza described "how to claim the credit." It is claimed on the businesses' annual tax return by using the new Form 8941, and tax-exempt organizations can claim the tax credit on a revised Form 990-T.


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To everyone who has participated in the adopt a prospect draft. When I suggested the idea I never could have imagined the depth and enthusiasm that so many have put into this.
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Garden-Fresh Gazpacho Recipe
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Nothing equals the taste of an ice-cold bowl of gazpacho on a hot summer day— I was hooked from the first spoonful! I found this recipe when I was looking for something to make with the abundance of tomatoes from my garden.
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- 3 cups chopped seeded peeled fresh tomatoes
- 2 celery ribs, finely chopped
- 1 medium green pepper, finely chopped
- 1 medium cucumber, peeled, seeded and finely chopped
- 1/4 cup minced fresh parsley
- 1 tablespoon minced chives
- 1 green onion, thinly sliced
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 can (46 ounces) tomato juice
- 1/3 cup red wine vinegar
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- Seasoned croutons
- In a large bowl, combine the first 14 ingredients. Cover and refrigerate for several hours or overnight. Garnish each serving with croutons. Yield: 10 servings (2-1/2 quarts).
Originally published as Gazpacho in Bountiful Harvest Cookbook 1994, p12
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When she was 16 years old, Nicole Belanger had a dream: to build her ultimate expression of the Fox GT, starting with a well-used four-cylinder. Although that project got sidelined, Nicole didn't give up and today has the Mustang she . . .
Several months back, we did a special feature entitled "Gear Head Girls." We put the word out to see if we could get any submissions from ladies who own and drive '79-present Mustangs. We received quite a few submissions, and as a result, a number of finalists were picked and we placed their stories and images of their cars in the magazine (Sept. '07).
There was one particular story, however, that knocked us out. One girl, at the age of 25, had built the Mustang she'd always wanted, largely by herself but with a bit of help from her dad; her boyfriend, Jay; and her friend Joe Bellandi. She drove it approximately 2,000 miles from her home in New Hampshire to Mustang Alley and the Woodward Dream Cruise, in Ferndale, Michigan (two years in a row). Talk about being a dyed-in-the-wool enthusiast. Even though her story was amazing and got our vote as the winner of our "Gear Head Girls" story, we figured that wasn't enough, so here is Nicole Belanger's '93 Mustang in all its glory.
Four Cylinders, Five Speeds
Nicole's introduction to the Mustang world began several years ago when she was just 16 years old and living in sunny Florida. She fell in love with the '87-'93 Mustang GTs (sounds a bit like the author), but of course, having just got a driver's license at the time, the idea of piloting a V-8-powered road rocket was beyond her means and likely to give any parent or insurance agent a serious fit. However, Nicole was determined to get a Ford Pony, and she did just that, taking possession of an '89 five-speed, four-cylinder LX hatchback. Her plan was to ultimately convert it into a V-8 GT replica, so she began by installing the GT-specific rocker-panel extensions and added an underbody neon "glow" kit. "Hey, I was just a teenager at the time," she says.
Nicole's next plan was to install the GT front and rear bumper assemblies, but before she could get to that, she had to move to New Hampshire and leave her beloved Pony behind. "Even though I had to get rid of that [first] Mustang, I promised myself that I'd do a V-8 conversion into a Fox-body four-cylinder one day," she says, and she kept that promise. A number of months later, she located yet another four-cylinder LX hatch, this time a '93 model with an A4LD four-speed automatic. "My dad had built an 8-second drag car, and even though he was a Chevy guy, I figured if I decided to do my own project, I'd have some help. I just had to work out exactly what route I wanted to take."
Nicole's first task in her quest to make the ultimate Mustang was to get the car looking like the GT she'd always wanted. "I found a full OEM Ford '87-'93 Mustang GT ground-effects kit--the bumper covers, rocker panel, and side extensions," she says. "These were used parts, and I purchased them without the steel mounting brackets. My dad was a real help in that he made custom aluminum channels so we could install the body pieces onto the LX using the original GT factory mounting screws." Nicole says that the used ground effects went on "almost perfectly," though the driver-side rocker panel extension is slightly warped where it attaches to the front fender. "The previous owner kept the parts in a shed before I got them, and I think the cold and the heat caused the warping," she says. With the body mods completed in November 2003, it was time to move on to the next stage.
"Knowing that I wanted to put a 5.0 engine in the car, I thought it was a good idea to improve the handling first," Nicole says. And she didn't skimp, getting her hands on top-notch Maximum Motorsports control arms and a strut tower brace, Eibach Pro kit springs (front and back), and a set of KYB adjustable front struts and rear shocks. With the suspension taken care of, it was now time to get to the big stuff--turning the mild four-banger into a wild 5.0L car.
"I have to admit," Nicole says, "that before I started, I was afraid the job might be too big to handle. I realized ahead of time that the cost of swapping in a complete 5.0 drivetrain would be costly, not only in parts, but also in labor if I failed trying to do it myself." But she bit her tongue and got to work. The first thing, of course, was getting all the necessary parts to do the conversion. An '87 302 H.O. engine was found in decent shape with just 87,000 miles on the clock. A '93 GT automatic parts car with a blown engine was dragged home to donate the rest of its driveline, including the AOD trans, the EEC IV computer, the wiring harness, and the complete fuel system.
The parts car was stripped in Nicole's father's unheated garage, and once out of the way, the four-cylinder machine was dragged in, ready for the transformation to begin. Of course, as with any project that deals with cars between 15 and 20 years old, there were a few issues. "Because the '87 engine hadn't run in quite a while, Jason and I decided it would be a good idea to install a new water pump, but trying to get the old one off proved a little bit tricky," Nicole says. The bolts were so old and seized that they steadfastly refused to budge, and when Jason tried, "all we ended up with were sheared-off bolts that were now loose inside the timing cover. We thought that was it, the V-8 was done. Luckily, Nicole's dad came to the rescue and the engine didn't have to be junked after all.
Coming Together
Other issues included mating the AOD trans to the originally five-speed-backed engine and the fuel system; installing a new throttle cable; and fitting new fuel rails, lines, and pump. "The engine and transmission install was a fun one," says Nicole. "We got the engine in, and here we were in this unheated garage in the middle of winter in New Hampshire trying to mate this V-8 with the AOD from the parts car. The first time we tried, it just wouldn't fit. We spent an agonizing 25 minutes and nothing. My dad was starting to say that Fords suck and I'd gotten the wrong transmission, but then we discovered that because the engine was from a five-speed car, it still had the pilot bearing in place." With that item removed, the torque converter could now mate with the flywheel and the whole transmission could be bolted up without further adieu.
Replacing the throttle cable was another task that Nicole didn't enjoy. "Try pulling an almost-seized throttle cable off the end of the gas pedal with your feet pushed against the headrest," she says. Still, she got there in the end, and with the old cable finally off, its replacement went on fairly easily.
The '93 LX was slowly coming together as a GT replica. Nicole did the wiring and cleaned up the engine before it went in, fitting new gaskets and fuel rails, along with the previously mentioned water pump. Jason helped out with the process, along with friend Joe Bellandi, who provided some knowledgeable info on the driveline swap.
With the engine, transmission, and fuel rails installed, it was time to add the rest of the V-8 fuel system. "Because we were changing the driveline, we needed completely new fuel lines. They run along the right-side floor on a 5.0 car, as opposed to the left side on a four-cylinder." Nicole figured that due to the fiddly nature of this task, it was best farmed out to a shop.
By May 2004, when the weather was warmer, the car was approaching completion. "We were getting there, but I still needed a few things. On Memorial Day weekend, with just odds and ends to finish to be really done, I worked like mad--of course, it rained the entire weekend." So there was Nicole, like a drowned rat, lying on a soaked blanket, working on her car. "I managed to install the instrument cluster, vacuum lines, and radiator. I reinstalled the front fenders and bumper cover, along with plugging all the accessories into the factory harness except the alternator. I found I didn't have a connector--I must've forgotten to take it from the donor car. I managed to find a local Mustang parts dealer, Rick Menards, and he gave me the right harness so I could hook up my alternator. I don't know what I would have done without his help."
All Fired Up
After some issues with her new Holley 255-lph fuel pump, which wouldn't turn on, Nicole finally got it working. Then the car wouldn't start. "I was at a shop getting the transmission TV cable set properly, and when the car wouldn't run, I had it towed home. I thought it must be an electrical problem, so I went through the wiring and found an incorrect ground connection. I asked Jason to bring in the video camera to witness the car starting for the first time. I turned the key and the starter cranked and cranked, and sputtered. I cranked the starter again and the engine fired. It was amazing to finally see the car I had worked so hard on actually come to life."
Unfortunately, another issue reared its ugly head not long afterward. The new fuel lines Nicole had opted for were replacement OEM lines, which use rubber connectors to link them from the hard lines underneath to the fuel rails on the engine. "The shop that installed them routed the rubber sections outside of the sway bar, so every time I turned the front wheels, the right-side front tire would rub against the line extension," she says. "It only took two days before the rubber part failed and gas spewed out all over the place. Luckily, I had the windows down when that happened." Nicole soon addressed the problem, and now with Russell braided lines installed, that issue won't likely surface again.
Nicole has also been busy enjoying her car. She takes it to shows and cruises in the summertime, to Woodward, of course, and even down the dragstrip at Epping. Nicole can proudly boast, just like her license plate says, that 9 years after she got her first 2.3 LX, she's finally driving a "4NOMORE."


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The peripheral uses tilt sensors to control general movement, while infra-red sensors allow players to perform grabs.
According to developer Robomodo, the game will not be playable without the peripheral, as the title's controls have been "finely tuned" for the board.
Tony Hawk: Ride is scheduled for release this fall on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii.