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If you're the type of person who cares about horsepower and nothing else, you'll probably answer the above question with an instant 'yes'.
However, while muscle cars used to be defined by power figures, their modern-day counterparts are much more capable and well-rounded and can only be adequately compared on a racetrack. Fortunately, Kelley Blue Book has done exactly that by pitting the new Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 against its slightly-older yet no less impressive rival, the Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R.
Powering the ZL1 is a supercharged V8 engine that delivers a truly insane 650 hp, enough to rival and beat many current supercars. By comparison, the Shelby GT350R has a more characterful naturally-aspirated 5.2-liter V8 engine with 526 hp and 429 lb-ft of torque. In a straight line, it has no chance against the ZL1 but is it the more enjoyable of the two to drive?
Well, the video below answers that question, or at least tries to, and should help you make up your mind as to which is best. I'd take the Mustang.


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Charging the burliest trail features and steepest lines with reckless abandon, the 2018 Pivot Switchblade Carbon 27.5+ Race XT/SLX 1x Complete Mountain Bike carves out its own category within the mid-travel plus-bike world, blurring the boundary between aggressive trail and enduro disciplines with 5.3in of DW-Link suspension. In 27.5+ form, the Switchblade floats you over chunky and loose terrain, with maximum control and traction, gripping into loose berms and soaking up every rock and root in its path. 27.5+ wheels skew the Switchblade toward the backcountry craving rider, with tractor-wheels that plow ahead through winding deer trails into the wild beyond, and can hold their own through rocky enduro trails for riders seeking a trail bike that can conquer it all.
The DW-Link suspension is a tried-and-true platform employed on all of Pivot's full-suspension machines. This comes as no surprise, seeing DW-Link's ability to claw up the steepest, chunkiest climbs and smooth square-edge hits on the descent. The Switchblade's 5.3in of DW-Link travel remains quick to surge forward with every pedal stroke, yet it's surprisingly confident on the descent, mainly due to the DW-Link's unflappable composure on successive hits and burly rock sections. Another thing to note, the Switchblade's DW-Link suspension uses a Phoenix-inspired, double-wishbone rear triangle that stiffens both the pedaling interface and linkage design.
Pivot takes Boost axle standards to entirely new realms with the advent of their Super Boost Plus rear axle spacing. Poking fun at the upward escalation of hub spacing, "Super Boost Plus" refers to Pivot's choice to employ a 157-millimeter rear axle, which in turn allows for increased tire clearance and incredibly short chainstays. Super Boost Plus adds an additional 9 millimeters of room to the rear axle, which results in 12mm of additional tire clearance. Essentially, it combines a DH chainline with a typical 5-inch bike's Q-factor and heel clearance.
One of the main benefits of Super Boost Plus lies in Pivot's ability to chop down the chainstays to a mere 16.85-inches, which is a ridiculously short dimension that embarrasses bikes with standard BOOST rear axles. These trimmed-down chainstays equate to incredibly nimble handling through switchbacks and tight sections of trail. Another benefit to Super Boost Plus is the ability to swap between the voluminous 27.5+ wheels provided for quick-rolling 29er wagon wheels; In fact, this wider axle standard readily accepts up to 27.5 x 3.25 inch tires, meaning you can drastically improve traction and bump compliance, especially across loose, drifty corners and jarring rock gardens.
Delving into the geometry figures, the Switchblade is relatively slack in 27.5+ form with its 66.8-degree head tube angle (with a 17mm cup) providing just the right balance of steering precision and downhill composure at higher speeds. The snappy-short rear end makes for quick turning when you're slaloming around tight corners and negotiating sketchy sections of trail where instantaneous response is necessary. It's both long and low-slung for descending confidence, with a generous reach keeping things comfortable, so you're not crammed in the cockpit.
To ensure consistent geometry if you chose to swap between wheel sizes, Pivot supplies a 17mm headset cup on the 27.5+ model that keeps the bottom bracket height and head tube angle consistent between 27.5+ and 29er configurations. It adds additional height to the bike's front end in 27.5+ form, slacking it out and raising the bottom bracket to keep it consistent with the 29er's geometry. Should you decide to switch wheelset to 29er, Pivot recommends ditching the cup, though you can ride with this 17-millimeter cup in 29er form, you'll just notice the bike sits a bit higher and gets extra slack.
- Aggro 27.5+ ride blurs the line between trail and enduro
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To get an idea of just how conservative Matthew Paul Turner's Independent Baptist upbringing was, consider this:
• In middle school, he "rebelled" by listening to Sandi Patti.
• In high school, he felt so guilty for buying Amy Grant's Heart in MotionCD that he destroyed it, and then bought it again, five times.
• As a kid, he had to cover his ears at Sea World when Ollie the Otter began dancing to Michael Jackson. ("The beat was syncopated," explains Turner, "and for a young Independent Fundamental Baptist, few things existed that were more frightful than a syncopated beat.")
• The first time he set foot in a movie theater, he was 19 years old.
• When his Belmont University professor began quoting Bob Dylan, Turner raised his hand in class and asked, "Should I know who Dylan is?"
If these tidbits make you grin (or cringe), you will love Matthew Paul Turner's latest book, Hear No Evil: My Story of Innocence, Music, and the Holy Ghost. A collection of anecdotes about Turner's tumultuous relationship with popular culture through the years, Hear No Evil can best be described as a lighthearted tribute—to growing up, to the evangelical Christian subculture, to music.
It's been a while since a book made me laugh this much. I found myself reading some of my favorite lines out loud to Dan—"For a lot of Christians, their imaginations are liabilities, like the five senses and genitals" (p.51); "Then my father introduced me to Sam, a thirty-something single man who had recently converted from being Episcopalian to Christianity" (p. 52); "A month or two later Laura and Jesus broke up, and she started dating a nice-looking keyboardist from Arkansas" (p. 156).
Those who grew up in the evangelical subculture will especially appreciate Turner's stories about accountability groups, contemporary Christian music, and how the Holy Spirit was so involved in the everyday decisions of Christian college students that he appeared to work part-time in Belmont's admission office.
Of course, Turner is at his best when he turns the joke on himself and connects his personal stories to the universal so that the reader can really relate. In one of the more insightful chapters of the book, Turner explains how he and his college classmates "rebelled" against their upbringing by becoming Calvinists. Writes Turners, "I liked being Calvinist because it made me feel controversial and edgy to believe something different than what my parents believed. On those trips home, I felt like I was experiencing my own little Protestant Reformation, hammering various disagreements I had with my past into my parents' faces…Reformed doctrine offered a different way to think about God. And sometimes different, even when it really isn't that different, is all we need to make us feel alive, creative, and in control of our own destiny" (p.131).
I hope that in his next book, Turner does a little more of this, for it transforms his funny, sometimes bizarre anecdotes into more relatable, human stories and makes the reader feel more like a participant and less like an observer.
If you're looking for a fun, memorable read, be sure to check it out. Hear No Evil will get stuck in your head, like a song you almost forgot you loved.
[This book was provided for review by the WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group.]
So, what have you been reading recently? What are some of your favorite books that humorously highlight the idiosyncrasies of your particular religious culture?
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Marco Tedesco, a researcher with Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, pointed out that a process called "ice darkening" is one significant process at play in Greenland. Tedesco was the lead author on a recent study that focused on this effect in northern Greenland. The idea is that as the climate warms and the ice continues to melt, it begins to lose its ability to reflect the sun's radiation away from the surface. Radiation that doesn't get reflected is absorbed instead, causing the ice sheet to warm even further and melt faster — a vicious cycle." view article


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Activists Protest Relationship Between Lobbyist, Obama Administration
(WASHINGTON) -- Opponents of a proposed $7 billion Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline say emails between an oil company lobbyist and the Obama administration reveal a pattern of "deeply disturbing" bias and corruption that undermines an impartial government assessment of the deal.
Friends of the Earth, an environmental group that obtained the emails through a Freedom of Information Act request, has been publishing the documents online in an effort to ratchet up pressure on the State Department, which is considering approval of the so-called Keystone XL project by the end of the year.
The emails show frequent, friendly and collaborative interactions between Paul Elliott, a lobbyist for TransCanada, the pipeline's owner, and State Department staffers in Washington and Ottawa. Elliott is a former campaign aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Activists say the "most disturbing document" is an exchange between Elliott and Maria Verloop, a State Department energy and environmental issues counselor, in which Verloop cheers Elliott's success in winning support from Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., for the pipeline.
"Go Paul! Baucus support holds clout," she wrote in a Sept. 10, 2010, email.
Elliott responded to Verloop later that day, saying lobbying "is a grind but when the grind pays off with support it makes it worthwhile."
In a December 2010 email, Verloop told Elliott that "it's precisely because you have connections that you're sought after and hired."
Critics say the exchanges and dozens more like them depict inappropriately "cozy" relations between Elliott and the department, even if there is no sign of illegality.
"If President Obama remains true to his campaign promise that his election would mean an end to the days of lobbyists setting the agenda in Washington, he has no choice but to rescind the executive order delegating to the State Department the authority to sign a presidential permit for this pipeline," Friends of the Earth said in a statement on its website.
"If the pipeline decision is made in the White House, rather than at the biased State Department, and if President Obama undertakes a fair and impartial analysis of the evidence, we believe he will reject this pipeline," the group said.
Neither Clinton nor Obama have signaled their views on the pipeline, and administration officials insist the independent vetting process remains underway. Clinton is the final arbiter of the deal, which she is expected to rule on by the end of the year.
Nuland said the documents depict only one side of multi-lateral consultations surrounding the pipeline. She also said no contact has occurred between Elliott and any administration staffers with direct influence on the final approval process.
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Fasting Guide
The goal of fasting is not just to do without food; it is to draw nearer to God. The definition of a biblical fast is, "to restrict food for a spiritual purpose." Biblical fasting always has to do with restricting food for a spiritual purpose. Fasting is not just an exercise for the super- spiritual, but it should be a periodic discipline in the life of every believer. The constant demands and pressures of daily life on your mind, will and emotions can weigh you down and cause you to lose focus and feel spiritually sluggish and desensitized. Fasting hits the reset button of your soul and renews you from the inside out. Fasting is a way for you to celebrate the goodness and mercy of God and prepare your soul to expand and contain the fresh, new purposes and work God desires to bring into your life (Matthew 9:14-17). Remember, your personal fast should present a level of challenge, but it is very important to know your own body, know your options and most importantly, seek God in prayer and follow what the Holy Spirit leads you to do.
An absolute fast is what Moses did when he was on Mount Sinai for forty days when "he neither ate bread nor drank water." (Exodus 34:28) Rarely is an absolute fast practiced for a long period of time. Some will abstain from all food and all water for a short period, but longer periods are not recommended since physical complications could result.
A normal fast is when only water is consumed. This would be the type practiced by Elijah (see 1 Kings 19:8) and Jesus (see Matthew 4). They abstained from food for 40 days.
A partial fast is when some foods are restricted. Two of the most common partial fasts are:
A juice fast: Consuming vegetable and fruit juices and water instead of solid food. Some include whey protein in their liquid plan as well. This is a popular and effective fast. Substituting liquids for one or two meals is an alternative.
A Daniel fast: Based on the fasting principles of the prophet in Daniel 1 and 10. Daniel 1 states that he ate only vegetables and water, and Daniel 10 states that he ate no rich (or choice) foods, as well as no meat or wine. The foundation of the Daniel fast is fruits and vegetables. The website www.daniel-fast.com is a good source of information about this fast. Remember, the power of fasting has less to do with food than with setting yourself apart for a specific period of time to focus more on the Lord, prayer, and worship.


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