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Heads, Cam, Induction,.Dyno!
Last month we built the bottom end of our street 400 Mopar mill. Better known as a low compression smog chugger, or the basis of radical stroker combos, we were intrigued with the idea of building a stock-stroke street performance lowdeck 400. After all, with its 4.342-inch x 3.375-inch bore/stroke combo, the 400 makes for some interesting comparisons versus some of the more tried and true big block Mopars. What if you could take a 383 Road Runner mill and bore it out over a tenth of an inch, or .122-inch? It would be one radical 383 if it was possible, but we know that with the available bore material this is just a pipe dream. That bore also equals a stock 400 block with a basic .030-inch overbore …hmmm. What about a 440, de-stroked by 31/48-inch to make a high rpm screamer? Wanna know what it would do? Again, it's basically the same package as the stock factory-issue 400.
True, as issued by the factory, the 400 never got a chance to show its colors as a high performance mill. Introduced in 1972, the era of high compression was by then replaced by the emissions control era. The 400 was hit especially hard in the compression ratio department, with a rated ratio of 8.2:1-though the actual measured ratio was dippin' into the sevens. Add a host of smog equipment and it's no wonder the 400 never got noticed.
In last month's issue, we took care of the low compression problem, compliments of KB Pistons' KB-240 hypereutectic pistons. These are the first reasonably priced off-the-shelf performance pistons for the 400. We added the commonly available 383 forged crank to replace the 400's factory cast piece, and assembled the shortblock with quality components from Summit Racing, including a set of Total Seal moly rings. The stuff that comes next will ultimately determine the temperament and output of our finished engine.
Buildin' To Drive
We've built a wide variety of engine combos over the last few years, some radical, some a bit more tame, but all streetable. What's the plan for this 400? Think "'71 Challenger R/T, factory 383 auto/air car, loaded to the gills with two body buck tags full of options." The original 383 Magnum came through with a factory gross rated 300hp (250hp SAE net); with the original 3.23:1 rear it was no drag racer, but an almost unsurpassed road car. We wanted our 400 replacement engine to deliver an output of 1hp per cubic inch, but do it with the same level of civility and smoothness of the stock 383 Magnum. The easiest and quickest path to making big power was now out. We just didn't want to live with a big lumpy cam, completely changing the personality of our Challenger, but we still wanted a big power edge over the stock 383. Oh, and let's not forget about comparable fuel economy, plus long term reliability all at a reasonable cost.
Making this combination a reality meant keeping the camshaft short-no longer than the stock Magnum cam of the original 383. Instead of a big cam, we would depend on a good set of heads to let the air flow in. With a short cam for street drivability, we were banking on the 400's short stroke/big bore combined with excellent head flow to provide good higher rpm torque-to extend the powerband, delivering the power increases we were after with solid power numbers up top.
Our choice of camshaft would be critical, for the sake of keeping the engine smooth and reliable, yet delivering on our power goals. We tapped the Comp Cams catalog for one of their new Xtreme Energy hydraulic cams. This new line of performance cams features a more aggressive rate of acceleration than traditional hydraulic grinds, providing more lift at a given duration than some of the more common older grinds. The cam we chose was Comp's Xtreme Energy XE268H, with a gross intake and exhaust duration of 268 degrees and 280 degrees, respectively; duration at .050-inches of 224 and 230; and .477-inch/.480-inch lift. The overlap with the cam's 110-degree lobe separation angle is 54 degrees. Comparing specs, the stock 440/383 Magnum cam carried a gross duration of 268-degree intake/284-degree exhaust; duration at .050-inches of 208 and 220; .450-inch/.458-inch lift; on 115-degree lobe centers, giving 46 degrees of overlap.
Although the stock 440 Magnum cam carries the same intake and slightly more exhaust duration, the overlap on the Comp cam is significantly higher (by 8 degrees), owing to the narrower lobe separation angle. It's not that the Comp cam has an especially narrow lobe separation angle (it doesn't), it's that at 115 degrees, the factory cam was very wide. Based upon the increased overlap, the Comp grind will be somewhat cammier, but at 54 degrees overlap, it is still well in the range of a daily-driver streetable grind in a 400-inch motor, even with an automatic trans, air, and power brakes. The most significant difference is in the duration at .050-inch. The Comp grind is so much more aggressive that it reaches .050-inches 16 degrees quicker on an intake lobe of the same duration, and on the exhaust side reaches .050-inches 10 degrees sooner on a 4-degree shorter lobe-a dramatic increase in how fast the modern Comp grind gets the valves moving. This advantage is carried right to max lift, with the Comp cam having .027-inch and .022-inch more lift on the intake and exhaust lobes respectively.
Without increasing the duration, the Comp cam profile provides a significant increase in area under the lift curve, which translates directly into airflow. Another plus for the Comp grind is that with the narrower lobe separation angle, the intake valve closing point is sooner in relation to piston position, helping with torque generation lower in the power curve. Along with the cam, we ordered Comp's lifters, timing set, steel retainers, locks, and springs. The final addition to the valvetrain was a set of Crane's proven and reasonably priced aluminum roller-tipped rockers and pushrods.
Heads Up
Because we were being conservative in the cam selection in the interest of street drivability, we would need an outstanding set of heads to deliver the flow needed to make power. While aftermarket heads can fit the bill, we planned on using production castings that we would modify ourselves to keep the costs down. With the 400 being some 40 cubes smaller than the popular RB Mopar, the airflow-to-cubic-inch picture is more favorable on the short stroke 400 than its big brother. With 9.1 percent fewer cubes to feed, a trick set of modified stock heads would be more than enough for the job. A couple of years back we did some extensive flow bench time on big block Chrysler heads, figuring out what made them move air (see "Going With the Flow," Mopar Muscle, January, February, March, 1999). Our plan was simply to apply all of the porting tricks we learned to a set of factory #346 castings we happened to have. Why the #346? We had already stolen the #452 castings that came on our 400 for another project, and we had plenty of #346s. The fact is our testing showed no real difference in flow potential between these and any of the later production heads, including the sought-after 452s, so the question really should be, why not?
The #346 head was used from 1971-1973 on B/RB engines, and was the first of the redesigned "emissions" heads. This same basic design was maintained on all later castings up until the #452 heads in the last few years of big block production. We found that any of these later heads are much easier to modify for high airflow than the earlier #906 or #915 castings. With conservative porting and the commonly available 2.14-inch/ 1.81-inch oversized valves, the "smog" heads will significantly outflow all but expertly ported early heads. The drawback of the #346 is that unlike later heads designed for unleaded fuel, they came with non-hardened valve seats. On the flip side, the merit of using later heads with factory induction hardened seats is debatable, since once the required cut is made for oversize valves, much of the hardened material is machined away, and the production heads with hardened seats are more prone to cracking. The best way to go is to have hardened seat inserts installed on the vulnerable exhaust side, which is what we had M&R Machine do on our heads.
Induction Action
With the heads and cam situation handled, the final decisions revolved around the induction. Our first choice for this application was the Holley Street Dominator single plane manifold, a proven design on low deck street engines. Unfortunately, this manifold has been discontinued. The Weiand Action Plus dual plane manifold is a direct replacement for a stock square bore manifold (minus choke well), and, if painted, can even pass for the stock piece at first glance, which is the one we decided to go with. Since the Weiand manifold is a squarebore, we also ordered a foolproof Holley 80508S 750 vacuum secondary carb. The 80508S comes with an electric choke, but being a 4160 series carb, it is not equipped with a 4150-style metering block on the secondary side, using a fixed metering plate instead of replaceable jets on the secondary side. This was remedied with a Holley #34-13S metering block conversion kit, which replaces the metering plate with a 4150-style block, allowing jet changes on the secondary side. A Mopar linkage kit is also needed, Holley #20-7. Holley also supplied one of their street performance #12-831 mechanical fuel pumps, a rebuildable type similar to the Carter high performance units of Hemi fame, but in flashy chrome.
With our good flowing cylinder heads, we reasoned that a single plane would prove to be a strong power producer. The Mopar Performance M-1 manifold is reputed to be the best single plane manifold, but the design is more race-orientated than the Holley we originally considered. The M-1 has no provisions for an exhaust crossover (we blocked ours anyway) or thermostatic choke; and unlike the moderate height of the Street Dominator, it is a significant high-rise design which may cause hood clearance problems. We were, however, eager to bolt one of our own modified big-bore Thermo-Quads to the spread bore carb flange on top of the M-1 manifold to see what it would do. To test how this manifold would work in a well set up but docile street engine, we ordered one from West Oaks Dodge. We realize that not everyone has a 55-gallon drum full of big spreadbore Thermo-Quads to fiddle with, or would even want to, so keep in mind that the carb flange on the M-1 has a dual pattern to also accept any standard squarebore carb.
Runnin' The Numbers
With the engine bolted together, it was time to hook up for some dyno numbers and see if our performance goals were reached. As stated before, the original 383 Magnum in our Challenger R/T carried a factory gross rating of 300, and a net rating of 250. The truth was probably somewhere in between, as evidenced by Mopar Performance's bracket racing bulletin, which estimates the real world output of the full range of stock 383 4-barrels at between 260-290hp (including the high compression 335hp rated version). Our 400, though the exact same physical size and weight as the 383, has an additional 17 cubic inches. More importantly, we had 10:1 compression, a nice set of ported smog heads with oversized valves, a more modern cam profile of virtually the same duration as the stock Magnum cam, an aftermarket intake very similar to the stock piece, and Mopar's electronic ignition. Nothing on this list will detract from drivability, but all of these additions will add to the power curve.
On the dyno, with the conservative two-plane manifold, our 400 produced 401hp at 5500 rpm, and 412.5 lbs/ft at 4900 rpm. As expected, the big bore/short stroke 400 loved to rev, even with the short duration cam. While big inch strokers, especially with production heads and short cams, tend to reach a peak and then the power plummets like a stone, the 400 was holding within 15hp of its peak at 6200 rpm. This combo was enough to hit the numbers to meet our goals, and produces enough power, we figure, to get our loaded 3700 lb. Challenger solidly into the 12s with an engine that idles like a dead stocker.
While we hit the targets we sought with our initial combination, we still had the M-1 single plane intake/ThermoQuad combo to try. A few bolts later, we had completed the swap, and loading up the 400 against the dyno, shattering the myth that a single plane would cost power in the low end. Torque was up to a peak of 441 lbs/ft at 4,500 rpm. That's a gain of 28.5 lbs/ft, peaking 400 rpm lower! Up top, horsepower went to 410.9 at 5,500, for a gain of about 10hp. This combo provided a much fatter power curve, but to be fair, the design goals of the two manifolds are at opposite ends of the scale. The M-1 is an unabashed race piece, while the Action Plus is a performance stock replacement unit, designed as a bolt-in upgrade while retaining stock hood clearance. Either way, this deceptive low deck has the punch for serious performance, while looking, sounding, and driving with the mild mannered ease of a stock 383.
Dyno Results
Specialized Motor Service
Clayton Engine Dyno; Depac Electronics
Standard Correction: 29.92-inch Dry Air @ 60° F
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Test 1-Weiand Action plus two plane intake;Holley #50802 750 CFM Vacuum secondary carb
Test 2-Mopar Performance M-1 single plane intake; Factory 1973 440 large-bore Thermoquad carb
Hot Heads
We wanted lots of power, but smooth running with this 400. A conservative choice in cams is required to make the engine smooth, but the power end of the equation isn't going to happen by magic. A set of high flowing heads is the only way it can be done. We took a set of #346s and worked 'em with every trick in the book to do the job. The #346 heads and any of the later heads are considered by many to be "smog heads." However, we know from our testing that with the same amount of porting work, they will substantially outflow the earlier castings. The popular early heads can make big flow, but it'll take twice the grinding time, and you had better know where to cut.
The #346, like the earlier heads, were designed for leaded fuel and have soft iron seats. With unleaded, in a high load/high performance application, the exhaust seats will quickly deteriorate. The best approach for street reliability with pump gas is to have hardened inserts installed on the exhaust side. Our first stop with these heads was to M&R Machine in Glendale, California, to have inserts installed.
The head prep is where most of the money will be spent in a build, but it's also the key to making power reliably. Besides the seat inserts, bronzewall guides, quality machining, and a superior valvejob all cost money, but add performance and reliability. We did our own seats on a Serdi 100 Seat and Guide machine, going with a special 30-degree profile on the intake, which we find pays big dividends in low- to mid-lift flow-especially useful with a conservative camshaft.
Porting is another key area. We won't repeat the in-detail description of how it is done here, but we did all of the porting work at home. The plan isn't to go hog wild with the grinder, either. Paper thin, welded, and epoxied ports have no place on a reliable street engine. We took what we know about extracting flow from production Mopar big block heads, and set about modifying these castings for what ended up being a 28-percent increase in flow area under the lift curve. That's not 28 percent at peak flow, that's 28 percent average over the entire curve, with substantial increases right from very low lift on up. To learn how to do it, dig up your back issues.
We realize that not everyone can or wants to port their own heads, but Jerry Goodale of Specialized Motor Service is up on all of the tricks we used, has the Serdi machine with the special cutter to carve the 30 degree seats, and can install the required unleaded seat inserts.


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Creativity and Social Intelligence
Big-hearted cognitive coach Sas Petherick shares her strengths
To launch our new set of 24 Character Strength pencils, #drawonyourstrengths is a campaign to help you find and cultivate your best qualities. We've invited some of our favourite thinkers, writers, artists and entrepreneurs to share their strengths with us.
We spoke to Sas Petherick. Sas is big-hearted, 'bullsh*t free' cognitive based coach, and the force behind #mymindfulyear - a warm invitation to bring mindfulness into your life (but not the 'chew on a raising for 10 minutes' kind). Sas took the VIA Strengths Survey, and here's what she discovered:
What were your top three?
Creativity, Love of Learning, Social Intelligence.
Were any of those particularly surprising?
I was very surprised that Creativity was top! I am also kind of delighted with that - I've always been a very enthusiastic consumer of other people's creativity, but its taken me a long time to appreciate my own creative tendencies. I think we all have an inherent creativity - and it's not necessarily about being able to paint a recognisable landscape - I think it's our way of being. We humans aren't the fastest, deadliest or even the smartest creatures here on Spaceship Earth. But we are the best at solving problems, and this requires an innately creative nature.
When do you draw on this strength most often - and with whom? (Don't be shy!)
Definitely in my work. When I'm coaching with a client who is going through a big hairy life change, one of the ways I can help is to offer fresh perspectives. So my creativity definitely helps for coming up with new ways for clients to see situations that can seem intractable when they're armpit-deep in it. I think metaphors especially, can be incredibly powerful for helping people to shift themselves forwards.
And what were your least-used three strengths?
Teamwork, Self-regulation, Prudence.
Do you agree?
These made me laugh - yes, absolutely true. Before coaching, I spent decades in senior corporate roles, running large teams. I was never very good at staying 'on message', or being loyal to the Board if their decisions didn't make sense to me.
Strengths are like muscles. The more you use them, the stronger they become. Is there a way you could use your top strength to help you build up your least-used strength?
Prudence is about being careful of one's choices and not taking undue risks - so finding a way to be 'Creatively Prudent' feels a bit oxymoronic to me. The further into my forties I go, the less bothered I am about being careful. I've found that mostly, things work out.
Simply naming a strength in someone can amplify it. Who could you reach out to right now and compliment on one of their strengths?
Love this question! My friend Jeanine is the embodiment of Zest. She absolutely sees life as a massive adventure and I always feel more alive in her company. I am in awe of how she has embraced motherhood in her fourth decade with much Zest. And her daughter Wren (aka: Wrenegade) is displaying signs that this is an inherited strength, which I am very excited by.
To discover your own strengths, you can take the VIA Survey here. We'd love to hear what you find - once you've completed the survey, share your top 5 strengths and tag us @storeforthemind. You'll be entered into our competition to win your very own set of Character Strengths Pencils, with a detailed guide to help you build on your strengths and use them daily.


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Jumper: Griffin's Story
Just as sports games are perennially mocked for being more of the same, film adaptions are often ridiculed for not living up to the material they're based on. Yet with Jumper, the two are perfectly aligned. The movie was a horrendous mess, with a predictable and poorly written script, dire acting and more plot holes than you could shake a stick at. It's fitting then, that the game is just as shoddy.
"The game is just as shoddy"Jumper: Griffin's Story follows one of the film's minor characters and the only one that had any depth whatsoever. Griffin is a jumper; someone with the power to teleport anywhere he can imagine. How he got this power is unexplained and so is the reason why a group called Paladins are out to kill him and his kind.
Just as the movie's budget was seemingly spent entirely on transporting the crew to each of the exotic locations it features, the game's resources appear to have been squandered on its cut scenes. Styled like the cartoon sections of Kill Bill, they do a decent job of telling the story, but do little to hide the hideous game lurking behind this thin veil of quality.
You'd think that being able to teleport would make for some intriguing gameplay, but as in the film, Griffin opts to zoom around and attack his assailants with bats and other blunt objects instead of just shooting them. Griffin's Story maps each of the controller's face buttons to a position around your enemies and all you have to do is hit the buttons until your foes fall limp on the floor. You get a penalty for striking a side of your opponent when the reticule below them is red and a bonus when it's green, but aside from this, there's little skill required to defeat the endless stream of idiotic enemies thrust in your way.
Each level is a linear journey through a copy and pasted world, with scarcely any variety worth mentioning. You'll find a few items to collect and unlock a number of combos, but ultimately you'll just want to progress, hoping that there's some change for the better in sight. Predictably, you'll be sorely disappointed.
"There's little skill required to defeat the endless stream of idiotic enemies"The game's visuals are perhaps even worse than its gameplay, with graphics that wouldn't look acceptable on the original Xbox. There are frame rate issues, pop-up in abundance, appalling textures and comically poor lighting. The Paladins you face are based on perhaps five or six models and the number of animations available to them number in the in the same region. The camera also wanders off whenever it fancies, leaving you to fight multiple enemies whilst effectively blindfolded.
As you might expect, you're not going to find any plausible reason to play through Griffin's Story again, even if you somehow manage to put up with it all the way through to the end.
There are simply no redeeming features to justify recommending Griffin's Story, even for people who are inexplicably fans of the movie. If you were on a quest to find a more pointless way to waste ninety minutes of your life than to watch Jumper, then you'd need look no further.


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"Veg diet key to living longer," reports today's Daily Express front page headline.
Its story is prompted by a large, well-designed, long-term study into vegetarian dietary patterns and their effects on reported mortality (death). The main finding was that vegetarians had a 12% reduction in the risk of death from any cause compared with non-vegetarians. The vegetarian lifespan is actually longer than the average person's.
However, the researchers' definition of 'vegetarian' was quite broad and may horrify some vegetarians as it included people who ate meat and fish once a week or less. Dietary patterns were only measured at the start of the study, and these can change over time. The study also had a relatively short follow-up to determine whether dietary patterns might affect the risk of death.
It's also worth noting that vegetarians tended to live healthy lifestyles, and this could have influenced the results.
While this study cannot show direct cause and effect between diet and death risk, it highlights an important point. Even if you do not want to stop eating meat there is plenty you can 'borrow' from the 'vegetarian lifestyle' to improve your health, such as eating plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.
Where did the story come from?
The study was carried out by researchers from Loma Linda University, California and was funded by the US National Cancer Institute and National Institute of Food and Agriculture. It was published in the peer-reviewed journal, JAMA Internal Medicine.
The results of the research were generally well covered in the media. However, the Mail Online website presented speculation as fact in its headline: it states that people who avoid meat have better health due to low blood pressure. Although this is a possible and plausible explanatory factor, the current study did not investigate the blood pressure of vegetarians.
What kind of research was this?
This was a prospective cohort study set in the US that aimed to evaluate the association between vegetarian dietary patterns and mortality (death).
A cohort study is the ideal study design to address this question. However, cohort studies cannot show cause and effect, as it is possible that other factors (confounders) are responsible for the associations seen. Ideally, the effects of a particular diet on a clinical outcome would be assessed through a randomised controlled trial. However, this is unlikely to be feasible when investigating an outcome such as mortality, which would need a long duration of follow-up; and also it would be difficult to randomise people to eating meat, or not eating meat, which comes down to personal choice.
What did the research involve?
The diet of 73,308 men and women participating in the Adventist Health Study 2 was assessed. The Adventist Health Study 2 is an ongoing cohort study involving members of the Seventh Day Adventist church (a Christian denomination) where the promotion of a healthy diet and lifestyle is a tenet of Adventist teaching.
The people's diets were assessed when they entered the study (between 2002 and 2007) using a food frequency questionnaire. Based on the results of the questionnaire, the participant's diet was classified into one of five dietary patterns:
- non-vegetarian (ate fish and meat more than once per week)
- semi-vegetarian (ate fish and meat but not more than once per week)
- pesco-vegetarian (ate seafood at least once per month but all other meats less than once per month)
- lacto-ovo-vegetarian (consumed dairy and egg products but fish and all other meats less than once per month)
- vegan (consumed eggs, dairy, fish and all other meats less than once per month)
For some analysis, vegan, lacto-ovo-vegetarian, pesco-vegetarian and semi-vegetarian were combined as "vegetarian".
Deaths that occurred up until the end of 2009 were identified from the US National Death Index.
The researchers analysed the relationship between vegetarian dietary patterns and all-cause and cause-specific mortality.
What were the basic results?
During a mean (average) follow-up of 5.79 years there were 2,570 deaths.
The results were adjusted for the following confounders:
- age
- gender
- race
- smoking status
- exercise
- income
- education
- marital status
- alcohol intake
- geographical region
- amount of sleep per night
After adjustments, vegetarians (all vegetarians combined) had a 12% reduction in the risk of death from any cause compared with non-vegetarians (hazard ratio (HR) 0.88, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.80 to 0.97).
Vegetarians also had a reduced risk of death from causes other than cardiovascular disease or cancer (HR 0.85, 95% CI 0.73 to 0.99). More specifically, vegetarians had a reduced risk of death from kidney problems and deaths from hormonal (endocrine) problems. Male vegetarians only also had a significantly reduced risk of death from ischaemic (coronary) heart disease and from cardiovascular disease overall.
The different classes of vegetarians were then considered separately. The researchers found that compared to non-vegetarians:
- Pesco-vegetarians had a significantly reduced risk, in both sexes combined, of death from any cause (HR 0.81, 95% CI 0.69 to 0.94), death from ischaemic heart disease (HR 0.65, 95% CI 0.43 to 0.97) and non-cardiovascular, non-cancer death (0.71, 95% CI 0.54 to 0.94).
- Lacto-ovo-vegetarians had a significantly reduced risk in both sexes combined for all-cause mortality (HR 0.91, 95% CI 0.82 to 1.00).
- Vegans had a significantly reduced risk, in both sexes combined, of deaths from non-cancer, non-cardiovascular causes (HR 0.74, 95% CI 0.56 to 0.99).
When men and women were examined separately, reductions in risk were larger and more often significant for men than for women.
How did the researchers interpret the results?
"Vegetarian diets are association with lower all-cause mortality and with some reductions in cause-specific mortality. Results appeared to be more robust in males. These favourable associations should be considered carefully by those offering dietary guidance."
This large, well-designed cohort study has found an association between vegetarian dietary patterns and reduced risk of death.
This study has the advantage that it included a large number of participants consuming various diets.
However, as this study is a cohort study, it cannot show cause and effect, as it is possible that other factors are responsible for the associations seen. Although the researchers adjusted for many of these factors, it was found that the vegetarian groups tended to be older, more highly educated and more likely to be married, to drink less alcohol, to smoke less, to exercise more and to be thinner. The reduced risk of death may be due to other lifestyle factors of vegetarians rather than diet.
In addition, the study has some other limitations, which were pointed out by the researchers:
- The study had a relatively short follow-up. Although the average follow-up was almost six years, this is quite short to address how dietary patterns might affect the risk of death.
- Dietary patterns were only measured at baseline, and it is possible that dietary patterns change over time.
- The researchers included in the 'vegetarian' category people who eat fish and meats, but not more than once per week. This is not what a vegetarian diet is traditionally taken to mean.
This study was also conducted in a select population sample of Seventh Day Adventists, who have particular health and lifestyle characteristics. They tend to be much healthier than the population at large (for example, smoking and alcohol are discouraged among Adventists), and enjoy a greater average life expectancy.
This may mean that the differences observed between vegetarians and non-vegetarians in this study may differ from what would be observed in study of other population samples.
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State of California HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Contact: (916) 654-3304
May 22, 2013
California Health and Human Services Secretary Diana S. Dooley to Establish Task Force for State Developmental Centers
Sacramento – California Health and Human Services Agency Secretary Diana S. Dooley today announced she will establish a Task Force on the Future of the Developmental Centers. The Task Force will include a cross-section of consumers, family members, regional centers, consumer advocates, community service providers, organized labor, and the Department of Developmental Services.
The Task Force will be charged to develop a Master Plan that addresses the service needs of all developmental center residents, the fiscal and budget implications of the declining population, the aging infrastructure, staffing, and resource constraints, the availability of community resources to meet the specialized needs of residents now living in the developmental centers, a timeline for future closures and the statutory and regulatory changes that may be needed to ensure the delivery of cost-effective, integrated, quality services for this special population.
The challenges facing the residents of the state developmental centers are not new and not easily solved. Until the landmark Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act was adopted in 1969 to establish community-based alternatives, the only care option available to families of children with developmental and intellectual disabilities was state-operated hospitals. Since then, federal and state legal mandates have contributed to the deinstitutionalization of more than 10,000 former developmental center residents and made significant investments in community-based resources. Today, California operates four large, old developmental centers and one small community facility serving a total of 1,510 residents with a budget of $545 million.
Last year, this Administration sponsored legislation, which placed a moratorium on new admissions to the developmental centers, required all residents to be assessed to determine if community services are available to meet their needs, and prioritized resources to reduce state and local institutionalization. As the combination of this admission moratorium, legal mandates, and investments in community-based services are decreasing the developmental center population by approximately 200 residents per year, continued operation of four large institutions is increasingly inefficient and cost prohibitive.
Secretary Dooley said in announcing the establishment of the Task Force, "The health and safety of citizens served by the developmental disabilities service system is a high priority for California therefore we must provide services to people with developmental and intellectual disabilities in the most integrated setting available to meet their needs and to avoid unnecessary institutionalization."
The Secretary will make appointments to the task force by June 1, 2013 and will convene the first meeting by June 15. The Task Force will complete its work by November 15 and produce a written Master Plan that addresses:
1. The effective and efficient delivery of integrated services to meet the specialty needs of developmental center residents; and
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It's easy to get obsessed with the idea of the perfect female body. Add to this all the stuff out there that gives you numbers and statistics about ideal body weight...and for many of us...we're doomed to failure...we focus on this goal and then feel flattened when we fail.
Whether we believe it or not, we were born with the greatest for us! Does that mean we are stuck forever with the body we have now? No...not by a long shot.
No matter what the media presents as 'perfect', or what others tell us is our ideal body weight, or even how we're told we should look at our body image...you can continually make healthy choices to improves your body's look and feel...and it's never too late, and every bit counts.
The perfect female body and fat.
Each of us is different, ideal body weight charts and numbers are indicators only. They are a guideline...they are not perfect, they are not 100% accurate...they are not necessarily 'right'. And every perfect female body has fat!
Fat feeds us, fat pads us out and gives us shape...not just muscle, fat. Fat is useful, fat is good, fat is feminine (masculine too). Whether you believe it or not, your body is not going to let you get rid of all the fat...it needs it...you need it...it helps you look good, and it nourishes you.
It's only too much that poses a problem. And you can change that. You have the perfect female body...the one you were born with, now concentrate on making it healthy and happy, it will reward you ten-fold.
It will reward you not only in the way it looks, it will reward you because you'll feel a sense of accomplishment knowing that you're making it happen! You're making the choices, you're doing the moving, you're choosing health...and you'll realise that the perfect female body was always there, and you'll feel good about it...And what's more, that great body will start to emerge before you're very eyes!
You will find you're ideal body weight as you get closer to it, and the perfect female body and shape for you, will come with it. Your perfect female body.
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And when I did look at myself, I was already looking for the negative bits. I didn't even look at the big picture, just the parts that I didn't like...needless to say my self body image was a little flawed...a little like a hallucination!
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Cool or crazy: mum wants to loosen the apron strings
Lenore Skenazy takes her two sons to the park and leaves them there. They can meet other kids, perhaps even find their own way home. They play outside alone and walk to school unaccompanied.
While most parents are stuck in high gear, Ms Skenazy is on a crusade for cruise control.
In her home country she was dubbed ''America's worst mom'' after making a controversial decision in 2008 to drop her nine-year-old son in downtown Manhattan to take the subway home alone.
Others may have resented the epithet. Skenazy, a columnist and author, started a movement called Free Range Kids, urging parents to teach their children independence and social skills by loosening the reins.
''Why do we behave as if ordinary life is dangerous and treat our children as invalids?'' she will ask an audience at the Sydney Opera House for the Festival of Dangerous Ideas on Sunday.
We live in safe times.
Crime rates in Australia are dropping. Kidnappings and abductions have not risen in the past decade.
''But we treat each excursion of our child's as possibly the last these days. You can almost see the headlines on the news and when you do, you say it's not worth it and you scuttle your plans to let them walk to school alone or let them go to the pool with a friend,'' she says.
Fears of public liability have crippled freedom. The availability of 24-hour news has propelled ''missing child'' stories such as that of English toddler Madeleine McCann into lounge rooms and psyches around the world.
Then there's the obsession with being the best parent one can be.
''Walking to school is so simple, it gets kids alert for the day, it keeps them fit and it frees you up in the morning but anything that makes parent's lives easier is supposedly selfish,'' she says.
''Overparenting is equated to good parenting but by keeping our children from the 'everydayness' of life we've taken away the chance of them noticing something on their own or interacting with someone on their own.''
She's either the coolest mum or the craziest.
Plenty of parents have told her she's the latter. Her son's subway trip unleashed a flood of responses ranging from accusations of child abuse to fond recollections of getting lost in the bush and embarking on train trips.
Maybe the pendulum will swing back, Skenazy says, and we'll see children scuffing down the street, getting lost, being found and ''just being people''.
Lenore Skenazy's tips:
1. Warn your family, then turn off your mobile phone for a day. Why? Because children are getting used to us making all their decisions.
2. When you're standing around with a bunch of other parents waiting for soccer to start, or school to open, or the bus to pick them up, volunteer to watch all the kids yourself. Give the other parents a little break.
3. Get a little perspective on this strange, scared parenting era we are living in by visiting a baby superstore with your oldest living relative.
Source: freerangekids .wordpress.com
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"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," was first published in 1939, and is one of James Thurber's most well-known and beloved stories. James Grover Thurber was an American author, celebrated wit and a cartoonist.. Thurber was best known for his cartoons and short story
Walter Mitty as a character is a Husband, a very tough man in trial, a captain of a navy ship, a hero to all man kind and a husband. Mitty is a dreamer who is dreaming of being a hero not in bed but while driving, while shopping and while talking to his wife but takes no action about this.. He "sees" himself as a hero to everyone, he is seen as an incapacitated man but to him everything is okay.
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Most of us would probably be aware of a potential investment that could net us millions of dollars. How about 50 Cent? Turns out, he "forgot" he owned Bitcoin holdings that are worth almost $8 million now. Talk about a bonus.
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16th April 2003
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The countdown begins! With less than two months to go until the launch of Mars Express - the European Space Agency's mission to Mars - this is your opportunity to here about the science behind the overall mission.
Members of the media are cordially invited to attend a pre-launch press briefing at the Royal Society, London on Wednesday 16th April.
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* Welcome and introduction
Professor Ian Halliday, Chief Executive Officer, Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council
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Dr Agustin Chicarro, ESA Mars Express Project Scientist
* Beagle 2
Professor Colin Pillinger, Open University, Consortium Leader for Beagle 2
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Recent space missions have revealed a wealth of knowledge about Mars but have also raised many questions about the creation and evolution of the Martian landscape. Mars Express will help to answer these questions by mapping the Martian sub-surface, surface, atmosphere and ionosphere from orbit and by conducting observations and experiments on the surface.
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- Produce a map of the mineral composition of the surface at 100 m resolution
- Map the composition of the atmosphere and determine its global circulation
- Determine the structure of the sub-surface to a depth of a few kilometres
- Determine the effect of the atmosphere on the surface
- Determine the interaction of the atmosphere with the solar wind
The Beagle 2 lander will:
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Mars Express will be launched by a Soyuz-Fregat launcher from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in June 2003. At this time the position of the two planets make for the shortest possible route, a condition that occurs once every twenty-six months. It will take the spacecraft six months to reach the Red Planet. Five days before arrival in December 2003 Mars Express will eject the Beagle 2 lander, which will make its way to the correct landing site on the surface. Mars Express will remain in orbit around Mars for one Martian year (687 Earth Days). During this time, the point of orbit closest to Mars will move around to give the scientific instruments coverage of the entire Martian surface at all kinds of viewing angles.
Beagle entry, descent and landing
Beagle 2 will descend to the surface, entering the atmosphere at more than 20,000 km/h. When its speed has fallen to 1600 km/h, parachutes will deploy to slow it further. Finally large gas-filled bags will inflate to protect it as it bounces to a halt on the landing site. Once still its solar panels will open out and the cameras will start to take in the view. After a couple of days the detailed rock and soil analyses will begin carried out by the instruments mounted on the Position Adjustable Workbench (PAW).
UK Science Involvement
Whilst Mars Express is a pan European project the UK plays a significant role in both the orbiter and the lander. The orbiter alone has 7 instruments on it of which UK scientists are involved in the development of 3:
- ASPERA, the energetic Neutral Atoms Analyser (Mullard Space Science Laboratory and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory).
- HRSC, the High Resolution Stereo Colour Imager (University College, London and the Open University).
- MARSIS, the subsurface Sounding Radar/Altimeter (University College London, Queen Mary and Westfield College and University of Bristol).
The UK plays the lead role in the development of Beagle 2, the lander element. Consortium leader Professor Colin Pillinger of the Open University heads up the team, which also involves scientists from the University of Leicester and Mullard Space Science Laboratory.
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Puberty at Nine? Is this possible and why?
Girls are now reaching puberty at age nine, thanks to chemicals in the food supply. (milk and plastics)
The average age of puberty in girls is now nine years old, in a phenomenon increasingly being blamed on rising obesity and exposure to hormone-disrupting pollutants in the food supply.
Puberty at nine was unthinkable before.
The study was conducted in 2006 by researchers from the world-renowned Department of Growth and Reproduction at University Hospital in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The researchers found that among 1,000 girls, the average age of breast development was nine years and 10 months, a full year earlier than when a similar study was conducted in 1991.
"We were very surprised that there had been such a change in a period of just 15 years," researcher Anders Juul said.
Although the study was conducted in Denmark, experts believe that it applies to other parts of the First World, including Europe and the United States. This earlier age of maturation is even more striking when compared with the 19th century, when girls reached puberty at an average age of 15, and boys reached it at 17.
Since then, the age of puberty has moved back steadily, until age 14 for boys and age 12 for girls were formally declared "normal" in the 1960s.
These numbers were based on the average age of first period for girls and of voices breaking for boys. Puberty at nine years old has now become too common.
It's not just scientific studies suggesting these figures are now obsolete; anecdotal reports of boys dropping out of choir schools when their voices break at age 12 or 13 are now widespread. According to Richard Stanhope, an expert in childhood hormonal disorders, specialists are now convinced that early puberty is a real phenomenon.
Puberty at nine or ten can be hard on children who are mature physically, but still young emotionally, experts warn.
"All the things we experience as teenagers are difficult enough to cope with, but when puberty at nine, 10 or 11, it is much worse," Stanhope said.
"These children are also at a much higher risk of being sexually abused, because it is hard for some adults to understand and behave appropriately toward them."
A girl interviewed anonymously by the Times of London said her early development subjected her to teasing at school.
"Puberty at nine, meant I had to wear a bra," she said. "I used to pretend to be ill to get out of changing for PE.
The worst part was men coming on to me as though I was an adult when actually I was 11." Puberty at nine is just too much for many children.
The biological risks can also be dire. Earlier menarche in girls means a longer lifetime exposure to estrogen, which has been linked to an increased risk of breast cancer and heart disease.
Puberty at nine or even ten, as asked in the New York Times article… Is this the new "normal?"
"If girls mature early and have puberty at nine, they run into teenage problems at an early age and they're more prone to diseases later on," Juul said.
"We should be worried about this regardless of what we think the underlying reasons might be. It's a clear sign that something is affecting our children, whether it's junk food, environmental chemicals or lack of physical activity."
"We don't know if this is the result of better nutrition or environmental factors, but it does create social problems for girls who are already living in a sexualized society," agreed Richard Sharpe, head of the human reproductive sciences unit for the United Kingdom's Medical Research Council.
The cause of early puberty at nine remains contested, but the condition has been convincingly linked both to increased obesity rates and to exposure to endocrine-disrupting toxins such as bisphenol A, the chemical found in plastic water bottles and lining canned foods and beverages.
Supporting both of these hypotheses, a recent study in the journal Public Health Nutrition found that while only 35 percent of girls who ate meat four times a week or fewer had reached puberty by age 12.5, 49 percent of those who ate meat 12 times a week had done so.
Levels of persistent organic pollutants are typically higher in foods high in animal fat, such as meat and dairy. Puberty at nine is not normal.
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Gluten-Free Goes Mainstream at NRA Show 2010
Ambler, PA (March 14th, 2010)- The National Foundation for Celiac Awareness (NFCA) and GREAT gluten-free business Association will host the first ever Gluten-Free Showcase Pavilion at the 2010 National Restaurant Association (NRA) Show, held May 22nd– 25th in Chicago, IL.
On the food industry's most prestigious stage, the Gluten-Free Showcase Pavilion will highlight the evolving maturity of the gluten-free industry, and open the door to millions of new consumers for multiple business models within the industry by:
The largest gluten-free affair in NRA history seeks to mainstream gluten-free foods and revolutionize how almost 13 million Americans suffering from celiac disease and gluten intolerance manage their health through a lifelong gluten-free diet.
"Gluten-Free Pavilion is designed to solidify NFCA's role in the growth and development of the industry, and present the best products and services on the market today," said NFCA Director of Education Nancy Baker, who oversees the organization's gluten-free food industry initiatives. "It's an incredible opportunity to interface directly with those who have the potential to enhance quality of life for those living on a gluten-free diet."
The National Restaurant Association's annual "What's Hot" Top 20 Trends for 2010 lists the gluten-free diet among the top food industry developments for the coming year. Market research reports forecast double-digit growth in the gluten-free sector, which is expected to reach $2.6 billion by 2012.
Demand stems largely from the growing number of Americans diagnosed with celiac disease and gluten intolerance, which estimates suggest affect about 1 in every 100 individuals, who must adopt a life long gluten-free diet as their condition's only treatment.
TheGluten-Free Showcase Pavilion at the 2010 NRA Show will provide comprehensive gluten-free initiative assistance including: menu investigation, ingredient and prepared food sourcing, safety and testing, staff training, taste testing, distribution and packaging.
Featuring knowledgeable industry experts including pioneers and entrepreneurs, chefs and foodies, dieticians and scientists; Gluten-free Pavilion exhibitors can fulfill total gluten-free solutions considering a wide range of cuisines, price points, preparation and storage needs, corporate identities and marketing strategies.
"No company should ever have to compromise quality in order to offer gluten-free options. Our partners are safe and tasty!"said Baker.
Companies exhibiting in the Gluten-Free Showcase Pavilion are members of NFCA's GREAT Association, a national business association and registry of gluten-free products. The GREAT Association seeks to improve the gluten-free business climate by promoting quality, tested products, and help businesses in marketplace improve their sales and profits. For information visit www.beyondceliac.org.
Be sure to visit representatives at booth 6436 at the NRA Show 2010 for information about the GREAT Association and the exhibiting Gluten-Free Showcase Pavilion participants.
Information about the upcoming NRA Show Gluten-Free Showcase Pavilion can also be found on the upcoming events section of NFCA's website.
About Celiac Disease
Celiac Disease is an autoimmune digestive disease that damages the small intestine and interferes with absorption of nutrients from food. An estimated three million Americans have celiac disease yet 95% remain undiagnosed, resulting in a fourfold increase in the risk of early death and numerous debilitating conditions including infertility, neuropathy and even cancer. The only treatment is a lifelong gluten-free diet. Left untreated, people with celiac disease can develop further complications such as other autoimmune diseases, osteoporosis, thyroid disease, and some cancers.
About the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness
The National Foundation for Celiac Awareness (NFCA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of celiac in order to gain prompt and accurate diagnosis for those suffering, support the health and wellbeing of those with the disease, and facilitate research that will better understand the disorder and find a cure. Visit www.beyondceliac.org for information.
Contact: Whitney Ehret
National Foundation for Celiac Awareness
(215) 325-1306 x.103


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A collection of manly cartoons and all things perty!!
Did you ever notice R. Lee Ermey always uses watermelons as his targets?Cool drawing by the way. I'd love to see some more army themed George Liquor stuff.
Awesome. I would like to see that. R. Lee Ermey is for pussies and communists. George Liquor is a real man.
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My original vision for this page was to have a space to document my yearlong journey in Xela Guatemala. Like myself, this space has adapted and changed since it was created. I anticipate that it will continue to change with time.
In June I graduated with my masters in social work. Before that I was a student at UC Santa Cruz. Before that I was a student in the California public school system. More simply: this is the first time in my 24 years where I have not been a student. For the first time in those 24 years I am without the security of a future plan.
This blog is a place for me to explore my thoughts and feelings during this transitional time. For me, this blog is an experiment. Some of the variable in this experiment include my hopes, inspirations, and fears. This is a space to see what happens when we mix these different ingredients together. This blog will be a place for me to celebrate the successes and disastrous failures of this social experiment.
I hope this page inspires others to be real about where we are- personally, familially and communally. I will share my inspirations but I am not going to sugarcoating things. Be prepared now that some ingredients in this experiment will not always be clean cut and pretty. At times these different variables may be raw. But each variable will be handled with love and respect. I am excited to see what results are produced from this experiment.
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First season of Friends, George Clooney guest stars, Monica and Rachael have him and Noah Wyle over for dinner, shenanigans ensue, and in an effort to ease the tension George says, "God bless the chickpea!" I couldn't agree more, it's so delicious and filling, one of the great wonders of the world in my opinion.
Now, the boy thinks I have been a little hard on him in the past, so I must say this is all said with love. But since I established that the boy can eat, I thought I'd focus on what he's eating, and what I am used to eating, and how the chickpea all plays into this.
I feel the phrase "Pay back's a bitch" is appropriate here…
In an effort to save money, time and stop the boy from eating 60 cookies, and 30 granola bars in one sitting, as I am learning he is quite capable of doing, I only cooked 13 cookies, dropped out the rest of the dough and froze it. Now if he wants cookies he has to take them out and cook them – something he says he'll do but we both know is not likely to happen. I also wrapped the cut granola bars individually and put them in a bag in the freezer, he takes one each day and puts it in his lunch bag the night before – rather than taking the box of 8 in his lunch bag and acting surprised when it's gone in two days.
The last thing I did this week was make chickpea fajitas. They are a quick an easy dinner that is filling and delicious providing you like chickpeas. I have told the boy that I would like at least one meatless day per week, this week it was Meatless Tuesday. The problem is the boy claims to hate beans (a texture thing apparently and yet he loves Hummus(?)). However, he still eats whatever I put in front of him like a Hoover vacuum so I'm not too concerned about it. Right now we're at one meatless day per week… the goal one meatless week per month. He'll say "Not going to happen" but I'm the cook and I agree with George, "God bless the chickpea!"


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Morning! Today I have a card that I made using the First Class Friend stamp set from My Favorite Things. I've had this stamp set for a while but hadn't used it yet. So I was determined to get it inky. And I thought the gorgeous Weekend Market paper collection from Bo Bunny was a perfect fit with the stamps and MFT's weekly sketch challenge #61. This sketch goes into my files as a favorite for use with patterned paper collections.
Here is my card:
It's hard to tell in the photo but the little rectangular element is an embossed envelope. Very cute!
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!
Cardstock: PTI Enchanted Evening
Patterned Paper: Bo Bunny Weekend Market collection
Stamps: MFT First Class Friend
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(SportsNetwork.com) - Shut out in their third straight loss to cap the weekend, the Toronto Blue Jays hope to have a little more pop in their lineup on Tuesday afternoon when they begin a quick two-game set with the Milwaukee Brewers.
Though still leading the AL East, Toronto has lost four of its last five games and was without slugger Jose Bautista in the starting lineup for a seventh straight game in Sunday's 4-0 defeat to the Chicago White Sox.
Bautista has been out with a strained left hamstring, but was able to make a pinch-hit appearance in the loss. He grounded into a fielder's choice.
Owner of a .304 average and 15 homers through 78 games, Bautista could make his first start since June 22 today.
"Everybody knows I can't go out on the field and not be 100 percent," Bautista said on Toronto's official website. "Hopefully by Tuesday I feel better and I can be in the outfield. If not, I can DH the whole game and play the day after.
"I did all the testing that I could've done in order to see if I could pinch- hit (Sunday)."
Drew Hutchison would love to see Bautista in the lineup as the Toronto right- hander tries to avoid a third straight losing start.
Both of Hutchison's recent setbacks came at the hands of the New York Yankees, who got to him for a total of eight runs and 13 hits while drawing six walks over 10 1/3 innings in the two games.
Hutchison fell to 5-6 with a 4.00 earned run average on the year, including a mark of 1-4 with an 8.13 ERA in six starts at home.
The 23-year-old is set to face Milwaukee for the first time and will go up against Marco Estrada, a winner in two straight.
Estrada snapped a two-start losing streak on June 20 in Colorado despite giving up seven runs over 5 2/3 innings. His offense took him off the hook in a 13-10 decision before the righty rebounded with a solid victory over Washington on Wednesday.
In the 9-2 win, Estrada gave up two runs on two hits and four walks over 6 1/3 innings, improving to 7-4 with a 5.06 ERA on the year.
"This was a real important outing for (Estrada). It's important for him to get back into that mode and pitch the way we know he can," said Brewers manager Ron Roenicke.
The 30-year-old has never faced Toronto.
Estrada's win over Washington kick started a four-game winning streak that came to an end with Sunday's 10-4 loss to the Rockies. Ryan Braun homered in defeat, while Yovani Gallardo yielded eight runs -- five earned -- over five innings.
Neither shortstop Jean Segura (leg cramps) or center fielder Carlos Gomez (strained neck) started Sunday's loss, but both could return to the lineup today.
The Brewers, who are making their first trip to Toronto since 2005, are 7-2 against the Blue Jays since moving to the National League in 1998.


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Custom hand carved wooden display box designed to hold 12 Song of Solomon one half ounce perfume bottles. The top and sides of the box are designed with an intricately carved floral motif pattern accented with a dogwood branch design.
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It turns out a wrist pin keeper came out and messed up the rear cylinder. Easy fix, I scored a completely new top end for a 74" at a swap meet this spring. Nope that ain't gonna cut it. This thing has a big bore kit of some kind. Once we got it measured up it turns out this old 74" is actually a motherfuckin' ninety six cubic inch!! Yup 4-5/8" stroke with a 3-5/8" bore plus 0.200" taller jug! No wonder the clutch slipped! I got a new Primo clutch/belt drive to cure that shit.
After a massive fuck-up via j&p cycles, it's all buttoned up and ready to rock and/or roll!
If any of you guys have some decent fenders for this bike please let me know.
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Rising Spirals Reiki was established in 2008 to assist others in recognizing and working with their most valuable asset: their own energy. The more we become aware of how and why our unique system works, the more self reliant we become. In 2008 I received my Reiki Master training from William Lee Rand. Shortly after that, I received Atlantean and Crystal Reiki training from Geoffrey Keyte, and began my studies using sound healing via Acutonics® tuning forks, singing bowls, gongs, chimes, water sticks and rattles/drums.
In 2010 I received my Karuna Reiki® training from William Lee Rand. Shortly after that, I received my Ra-Sheeba Reiki and Lightarian training from Anne Devore. I became certified in the Acutonics system of sound healing in 2014. I have found that becoming more and more aware of my own energy as well as the energy of the community around me, has helped me attain and maintain greater and greater balance. I have also learned that energy itself will teach you as you work with it.
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Read: According to its Wikipedia page, sherbet is a popular West and South Asian drink that is prepared from fruits or flower petals. This one was indeed made of petals, rose petals. Indians would instantly recognize that the one that I have used is the most popular, and also the most common one, Rooh Afza!
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The photograph that you see above is definitely among my favorites! I talked about 'sharing my experiences while shooting' in my last post. Am glad that this photograph would be the first one I will talk about.
To begin with, let me tell you that I took a total of 29 photographs that day while shooting this and only then I could select two to come up with this diptych. I have attached a few for you to have a look.
Now, coming to the setup.
1)I have read on many blogs that if you shoot at home (if you are not doing it for commercial purposes), window light is all you need. And window light really worked wonders for this shot.
2) I didn't have fancy tissue papers at home. So I used a bed-sheet instead. I ironed out most of the wrinkles but left a few of them strategically.
3) I didn't have fill cards either so I just taped two drawing sheets together and made one. They weren't very effective as they weren't 100% opaque, but they still helped in getting rid of some of the unwanted shadows. As you can see, I've supported this pseudo fill card with a photo frame.
4)It was a bit difficult to find out the exact proportion of water and the sherbet in the mixture that would allow only a particular amount of light to pass through the glass and reach my lens. This was done purely on a hit and trial basis.
5)It was also a bit difficult to cut a clean lemon slice, and more importantly, to make a slit of perfect length. I wasted two lemons in the process but both, the shape of the slice and the length of the slit turned out to be perfect the third time.
Tip: While making a slit in the lemon slice, don't cut it half way through at the first attempt itself. Cut it only a little bit and slowly and steadily figure out how much more cutting is required by placing the slice again and again on the glass until you realize that it sits perfectly.
Then, the only thing I was left with was composing and shooting.
As you can see, I've not used specialized gear at all for this photograph (not even a tripod in this case). But I feel the result was decent enough.
So here is my first post in the Photo-Rant category. Will surely try to add more. I am a firm believer of the ideology that 'Gear should never be a hindrance' and I hope this post supports this fact.
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This Recreation Management Plan (GMP) guides the Washington Division of Fish and Wildlife's management of hunted wildlife for six 12 months timeframes. Wasatch County—Improve 245 acres of aspen stands heavily encroached by conifers on the Horse Ridge Wildlife Administration Area (additionally affects Duchesne County).