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Our Games
Sca3d's pilot casino game line-up includes eleven slot games, plus one game of blackjack, and one game of European roulette. All our games were engineered using HTML5, so you can play on your desktop, laptop, tablet, or mobile device. Our U.S. optimized games are available in thirty-two different languages.
Dames of Derby an English version of สล็อตออนไลน์
You can't call yourself a tough chick unless you've skated the roller derby flat track. Dames of Derby lets you choose which team position you want to play: jammer, pivot, or blocker. Each position has a different system for racking up a good payout: as a jammer, you'll avoid getting knocked off of the track, just like in real roller derby. As the pivot, you choose what strategic plays your team will use in a jam, from a list provided you, unless you want to use Strategic Mode and create your own strategies player by player. Pivots also are the last line of blocking defense against the other team's jammer. And as a blocker, you will do your worst to knock that opposing jammer off the track. Impress the ref, and you'll get the best payout. No fouls, now.
Mozart's Moneymaker
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is debuting his newest masterpiece tonight, and your job is to make the crowd go wild! You play Mozart throughout every aspect: writing the sonata, in which every aspect of the song: volume, emotion, tempo, and more, will effect your payout when you get to the concert! At the concert, you control how Mozart is conducting is symphony – which also controls how the audience responds, and gives you a better or worse payout. Bravo! Encore!
Detention Duct Crawler
Detention? We don't think so. You and the other outcast kids in detention decide to escape through the ceiling into the school's air ducts, and encounter a wacky adventure along the way. Save the littlest kid from the evil Elf King? BIG payout. Lose the redhead boy in the Rat's Nest? Lose all your moolah. Win a double-dutch challenge from the Sixties Sisters, a pair of twins who have hidden in the duct since 1967 but mysteriously haven't aged a year? Jackpot! You get the picture.
Stoner Sal
Denver's legal pot dispensary business took a turn for the wacky when Stoner Sal opened shop. Sal doesn't care for being identified as either male or female, thank you very much, and they don't care for you to identify their products as indicas, sativas, OR hybrids – unless they're Sal's Hybrids! Help Sal create new strains that generate your biggest Sca3d payouts yet! You'll be glad you joint.
Queen Cleo Takes Cairo
Cleopatra's tired of the palace life, and decides to embark on a trip through the fabulous streets of Cairo! You can win payouts by collecting Cleopatra's Jewels, which appear on cobblestones, passing camels, and in the hands of young street rascals. Or, play Cleopatra's Career Quest, in which the queen attempts the daily careers of workers all over the city: pyramid builder, market barterer, street thief, and more. Get caught by Marc Antony or Julius Caesar, who are on the hunt for Cleo, and lose ALL your payout. Hint: make friends with the carpet weaver.
Vitamin Gang
Billy won't take his morning vitamins! Mom hired the Vitamin Gang to help her out. Work hard to hide Billy's vitamins in his orange juice, on his toothbrush, or in his egg and sausage sandwiches. If Billy doesn't take his vites during his morning bites, you'll have to find a way to get the Gang on it when he's walking to school. Place the Gang strategically behind bushes, in trees, and down manholes with the Vite-A-Slingshot, and make sure Billy gets his vitamins!
Poor Maria the Potter – her beautiful pottery store is soon to be in ruins, when you come through looking for your lost key! You've got a baseball bat, and you're not afraid to use it … Especially since you were told your key was hidden in one of her pieces of art. You'd better find it before the timer runs out, though, or you'll have to pay for all that damage out of your betting! If you find the key in time, use it to unlock the Gold Safe, and give Maria a small share … keep the rest for yourself!
Break 'Er Jaw MMA
Who will win? Wanda Woozey, or Keisha Kate? Choose who you want to be, and get to work with your sock-em mixed martial arts skills! Make sure you submit your opponent before they get YOU, and get one incredible payout.
Arthurian Alchemy
Merlin and Arthur are at work in the wizard's cave, creating new potions to win Guinevere's heart. If the concoction you come up with isn't winning the payouts, go outside the cave and see what hidden ingredients you're missing.
Dino Dentist
Which dinosaur makes the best dentist? Choose from brontosauruses to Tyrannosaurus Rexes, and find out! You'll also choose the patient, and their ailment. Will a pterodactyl, or an ichthyosaur best serve Little Suzy with the chipped tooth? There is only one way to find out. There's just one problem: dinosaurs are not the most gentle dentists. Find the winning combo of dental issue and dino dentist, and you'll win big!
Farting Frogs
Oh no! Your motorboat has run out of gas, and you're in the middle of the lake! Luckily, the resident frogs have digestive issues, AND they're hungry! Find the best foods to feed the amphibians, and they'll "toot" your tugboat back to shore. Mosquitoes, fish, newts, and even tin cans and lost swimmers are available nourishment. Find the winning combination for those hungry frogs!
Jack Black's Blackjack
Need we say more? This is the best Blackjack you'll ever play! Jack Black is everywhere in our version of the beloved game – on the cards, around the card table many times over, and – oh yeah – he's even the dealer! Make a good move, and you'll see Jack perform comedy routines from your favorite Jack Black movies, like School of Rock – and you might hear some Tenacious D number thrown in there, too.
Raider's Roulette
You've been captured by raider pirates, and now you must play roulette! If you lose, you walk the plank. If you win, you're the captain! Not to mention, you'll get mucho moolah.


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RICHMOND, Va.- For the first time in VCU basketball history, the Rams reached four straight NCAA Tournaments with their at-large berth into the 2014 tournament.
Despite losing two starters from last year's squad, the future looks bright for the Black & Gold with the incoming class rated 14th in the country by ESPN.com, the first-ever top-15 recruiting class at VCU. The Rams have signed four prospects for the upcoming season, three of which are consensus four-star recruits.
The highest touted recruit landed by Shaka Smart is combo-forward Terry Larrier. An explosive athlete with an all-around game, Larrier chose VCU over national champion UConn. His upside is tremendous, as he averaged over 20 points and 6 rebounds per game as a senior.
At 6'9," Mike Gilmore chose VCU over Miami (FL) and Kansas State. A terrific athlete, Gilmore can elevate to block shots and score in transition like a wing player. He averaged over 6 points and nearly 5 rebounds per game playing on an AAU team crowded with high level recruits.
Also at the power forward position is Justin Tillman. Like Larrier and Gilmore, Tillman is a great athlete who can finish above the rim and block shots.Tillman shows a good shooting touch out to mid-range, and a tenacity to attack the glass. He averaged over 23 points and 16 rebounds per game as a senior in Detroit.
Finally, VCU adds point guard Jonathan Williams to the 2014 class. At 5'11," Williams is exceptionally quick, using his elusiveness to get into the lane to make plays for himself and others. He averaged over 11 points per game as a senior.

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Check out the articles I've written about a variety of different topics like family, youth, and relationships, whether personal or at work. Let me know what you think.
When They Really Need You
Often times when we believe we should leave people alone, it is when they need us the most. This is so true with regards adolescents and teenagers. They may have you fooled, but all they want and need is their parents, contrary to popular belief. They are at an age where they are at a crossroads between dependence and independence.
Parents, community leaders and teachers should not be intimidated to discuss issues with the youth. If you see an adolescent/teenager starting to hang around the "wrong crowd," behaving differently, having academic problems, relationship/dating problems or consuming alcohol and/or drugs, then you need to sit down with them and listen. Guide them to success! Ask them what are their dreams, their goals? And if they believe the path they are on currently will lead them to their dreams and goals; do they really want to idle in the same predicament all of, or if not, most of their lives?
Parents need to play a larger role in their children's lives. They need to be supportive, encourage extracurricular activities and spend time as a family. There is a lack of involvement on the parent's part, due to work and simply just not putting it as a priority. The irony of it all, is that most, if not all parents would say that they do it for the kids, failing to realize that what they really need is you, the parent. People are literally putting their careers and everyday schedules before their family without realizing it and understanding the consequences.
Just as we look at our careers as investments, we need to look at our children in the same manner.


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I love walking to wherever I'm going for dinner or drinks in the evening. Or, eating and then walking. Or, best of all, the expanded program: walking, eating, and watching the sunset. Pick up food, walk somewhere, and have a pick-a-nick while watching the sunset. I have one secret Seattle place where I do that often, and I'm sorry, but I'll never reveal it. But a second place I love to go, and that I will share, is Discovery Park in Magnolia.
Disco Park is a huge and amazing green space in our beautiful city. There are lots of walking trails, and many places where you can access the shore. To watch the sunset, find your way to the beach—here's a map of the trails. Every time I go not only do I think "why don't I come here more often?" I also am amazed that so few other people are around. I think Seattleites forget about it because it's tucked away in Magnolia.
To cover the "eat" part of "walk and eat", if you're walking through Magnolia, pick up some yums at Ichiro Sushi and Teriyaki. Or, if you're coming through Ballard, get a burger or whatnot at The Sloop. From Ballard, you can walk through Chittenden Locks park and over the bridge to get to Disco.
It might be a bit creepy after sunset. So, go with friends. Or like a friend of mine told me, if someone gets in your space, punch them as hard as you can and then run like hell. Either way, take advantage of this great outdoor space in Seattle.
You'll get exercise, great food, and a gorgeous sunset. And you'll officially be part of the "eat and walk" program.


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General Sports
Column: Rio could prove that Olympics are too big to fail
ABS-CBN Sports on Aug 05, 2016 08:29 PM
A Brazilian soldier steps down off a truck to begin patrolling outside the Olympic Village ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
TIM DAHLBERG, AP Sports Columnist
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — On a corner outside the athlete's village, a soldier carrying an automatic weapon tried his best to keep from smiling as he posed for a cameraman trying to put a face on security at the Olympics.
All is not quite fun and games just yet in Rio, though beleaguered organizers are hoping that changes soon. Most competitions begin Saturday and, barring a potential disaster, the discussion may actually turn from the problems of Rio to sports from badminton to basketball in an extravaganza that only the world's biggest sporting event can bring.
It will happen in a city of astonishing beauty and incredible poverty. It will happen despite worries about everything from virus-carrying mosquitoes to gun-toting criminals.
And it will happen with some athletes eyeing each other carefully, not knowing if the playing field is truly level.
The Rio Olympics open with a lot more at stake than gold medals and national pride. Not since Los Angeles rescued the troubled movement with a stripped-down version of the games in 1984 has there been more trepidation about the future of the massive sporting event.
Some issues, like the Zika mosquitoes, were out of the control of the International Olympic Committee. Others were things they simply failed to control, like the rampant dopers who have made a mockery of the Olympic movement itself.
Bowing down to Vladimir Putin and allowing Russian athletes to remain in the games may have prevented a full-blown Cold War from breaking out among Olympic nations. But it also highlighted a schism between Olympic officials and those running the World Anti-Doping Agency, bringing into question their commitment to clean sport.
It also exposed the IOC as a spineless organization more bent on self-preservation than on ensuring cheaters are not allowed in any Olympic sport.
Disappointing, but hardly surprising.
These are the same people, you might remember, who awarded the first Olympics in South America to Rio in 2009, buying without question the promise that in seven years Rio would somehow clean up waters long polluted by raw sewage and build mass transportation systems to whisk people around town.
Instead, the city's highways are a logjam and on Saturday athletes will row their way through the slimy and dangerous waters of Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon, where hastily erected barricades and garbage collection boats will be on duty so that television viewers from around the world won't have to see just how filthy the water really is.
It's enough to make some of the stuffed shirts at the IOC a bit unsettled.
"How worried should we be?" Prince Albert of Monaco asked his fellow IOC members this week.
Plenty worried, though about seven years too late. Every Olympics has its issues — few thought Athens would ever be able to pull off the 2004 Games — but there are so many facing Rio that there will be a collective sigh of relief if everything has gone off mostly as planned when the Olympics end in just over two weeks.
Indeed, IOC President Thomas Bach envisions clear sailing for the Olympic movement if that happens.
"If this model stands such a stress test like it had to here in Brazil, then you can see that this model is more than robust," Bach said.
NBC for one isn't worried. The Olympics have long been little more than a long-running prime-time summer TV show and the network that paid $1.2 billion for the games says it will make money on this edition.
Rather than cutting into ad sales, the stories about crime, Zika and Brazil's economic and political woes have actually increased them. And the backdrop for these games will be a director's dream, with stunning views from venues around the city, including beach volleyball on the famed Copacabana Beach.
The billions in TV revenue have padded the IOC coffers and increased its appetite for adding sports to an already bloated program that for some incomprehensible reason now includes golf. The newest for Tokyo will be sport climbing, surfing and skateboarding, efforts to lure younger viewers into the games while traditional track and field and other sports are in decline.
It may turn out that Bach is right. Barring a terrorist attack or mass illness of rowers and sailors, Rio — for all its myriad of problems — may be remembered as a success.
Proof that no matter how incompetently they're managed, the Olympics are simply too big to fail.
Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at [email protected] or http://twitter.com/timdahlberg


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101 Days... No Comment Cleaning, Kitchen, Quick Tips
A shiny glass cooktop is a beautiful thing, so you almost hate to mess it up, right? Well, I'm here to help you with some tips to clean your glass cooktop, and quickly, because no one wants to spend hours on that job! The first and best tip for keeping your glass cooktop looking like
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There is an easy way to clean and sanitize your garbage disposal! Doing it regularly will give you a disposal that smells fresh and works even better. Here's a hint: it involves some pretty simple ingredients that you probably already have at home. If not, you can get them easily and inexpensively! There really
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Youth waiting for surrender dies
IMPHAL, Apr 29: An 18 year old youth who was handed over to the Army to surrender died under mysterious circum- stances.
Salam Sanjoy alias Bono (18) s/o Kamini of Tera Moirang Hanuba Leirak under Lamphel police station Imphal West district was handed over to 12th Maratha Light Infantry attached to Patsoi police station by some women including his mother Sushila this morning.
Bono collapsed inside the 12th MLI post and he succumbed on the way to RIMS. Contending that Bono died due to torture inside the army camp, a large number of people belonging to Tera Moirang Hanuba Leirak vandalized the house of one Ningthoujam (N) Kabita Devi located at Takyel Kolom Leikai.
The family members and the local people alleged that Bono was handed over to army at the insistence of Kabita Devi. The crowd was however put under control by a team of Imphal West District Police. SDPO N Madhunimai also came to the spot. On the other hand, a police source informed that around 40 SP capsules and four N-10 tablets were recovered from the possession of Bono. There was no injury marks on his body. Yet, police have not yet claimed that Bono died due to drug overdose. Bono was earlier arrested by police for having nexus with a UG group. Later in the evening a public meeting was held at Moirang Hanuba Leirak Machin with MLA S Kunjakishore even as police have been keeping a tight vigil in the area to avert any untoward incident.
Ibobi appeals
IMPHAL, Apr 29: Stating that the practice of selling/hawking things by occupying road sides, footpaths and bridges is unseen in other States of India, Chief Minister O Ibobi has appealed to all street vendors to move to Lamphel Super market where the Govt has allocated space for them.
Speaking at a special training program about flagship programs of UPA and SPF Govts organized by Manipur Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee at Congress Bhavan here today; Ibobi stated that it would be unmanageable for the Govt if vendors from all districts of the State would sell their wares in and Khwairamband Keithel only. Occupying road sides, footpaths and bridges would create many problems in view of the ever rising number of commuters and vehicles.
If the people agree on removing Kangjeibung and the Sahid Minar, the Govt can make arrangements for the street vendors inside Khwairamband Keithel. But this would be impossible, Ibobi stated while appealing to the street vendors to accept the Govt's plan of allocating space at Lamphel Super Market. Once the vendors start business there, customers would certainly come there to buy things.
MAC project
IMPHAL, Apr 29: Under the Military Civic Action projects, 22 Assam Rifles under the aegis of Headquarters 23 Sector AR has provided solar lighting devices to Vangai Chungpao village of Tousem sub-division in Tamenglong district, reports our Jiribam correspondent. Commandant of 22 Assam Rifles Col SB Rana handed over the materials on Thursday to the chairman of the village in the presence of a large gathering of villagers.
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Eight Forty-Eight
DJ Series: DJ Sadie Woods drops some electro-jazz
Last year, DJ Sadie Woods set sail on a Mediterranean cruise. Her companions were over 1,500 Oprah employees, but Woods wasn't on vacation with them. She was bringing them the beats!
Woods has DJ'd just about everywhere, including the Eight Forty-Eight studios now.
You can also catch her at Lux Bar every Friday night.
Sadie Woods of the DJ company White Label spoke with Eight Forty-Eight's Alison Cuddy about her music.
DJ Sadie's Set
Yma Sumac, "Bo Mambo," from the CD Chansons Au Féminin (Platinium Collection)
Fred Astaire, "Puttin' On The Ritz (Club Des Belugas Remix)," from the CD Electro Swing
Tru's Me, "W.A.R.," from the CD Colette No.9
In-Grid, "Vive Le Swing (Suonho Reshaked)," from the CD Vive Le Swing


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Violinist Wendy Sharp performs recital with pianist Joel Wizansky Oct. 20
The Yale School of Music presents a recital by violinist Wendy Sharp with pianist Joel Wizansky on Sunday, October 20th at 4 pm. The event is part of the Faculty Artist Series, which features the School's prestigious faculty in concerts that are free and open to the public. The concert takes place in Morse Recital Hall, located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street.
Wendy Sharp, the winner of numerous competitions, is the coordinator of chamber music at YSM. Joel Wizansky has been praised by the Washington Post for his "emotional and rich performance, sparkling runs, beautiful phrasing, and dramatic interpretation."
The concert will open with two vastly different sonatas: Mozart's beloved Sonata in A major for violin and piano, K. 526, followed by the Violin Sonata No. 2 by the Yale-educated composer Charles Ives. This nostalgic sonata incorporates fragments of ragtime and folk songs.
Next will be September Canons by Yale faculty composer Ingram Marshall. Marshall (b. 1942), a member of the YSM faculty who self-identifies as an "Expressivist" composer, has a diverse background in electronic music, Pacific Northwest culture, and Indonesian gamelan.
Fritz Kreisler is remembered most as one of the most famous violin masters of his day, but he also composed; Sharp and Wizansky will perform his Aubade Provençale and Caprice Viennois. The concert will conclude with Danse Espagnole, Kreisler's 1926 arrangement for violin and piano of a selection from Manuel De Falla's opera La Vida Breve.
Admission to the performance is free. For more information, visit music.yale.edu or contact the Yale School of Music concert office at 203 432-4158.
This concert will stream live on the School of Music's website. LIVE STREAM
About the Performers
Wendy Sharp performs frequently as a recitalist and a chamber musician and is in demand as a teacher and chamber music coach. For nearly a decade, Ms. Sharp was the first violinist of the Franciscan String Quartet, with which she toured North America, Europe, and Japan and was honored with many awards including first prize in the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Press and City of Evian Prizes at the Evian International String Quartet Competition. A native of the San Francisco Bay area, she graduated summa cum laude from Yale University and received the Master of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Ms. Sharp has served on the faculties of Mannes College, Dartmouth College, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Choate Rosemary Hall, and has participated in the Aspen, Tanglewood, Chamber Music West, Norfolk, and Music Academy of the West festivals. Wendy Sharp is a lecturer in violin and director of chamber music at the Yale School of Music.
Joel Wizansky is acclaimed by audiences and musicians alike for his combination of fiery intensity and probing musicianship. The Washington Post wrote of his "emotional and rich performance, sparkling runs, beautiful phrasing, and dramatic interpretation." After his debut with the San Francisco Symphony at age 17, he went on to win numerous awards, including first prize in the Helen Hart International Piano Competition and the Yale Gordon Competition and fifth prize in the Marguerite Long International Competition. He has performed frequently in recital and with orchestras in the United States, Europe, Taiwan, and Korea and has been heard in broadcast performances in New York, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and Chicago. His first solo compact disc, "A Brahms Recital," was released in 2001 on the MRC label. He is also a noted chamber musician and collaborator, and has performed in duo recitals at Carnegie Hall, the National Concert Hall in Taipei, and many other venues. He has served on the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory and is currently a staff pianist at the Yale School of Music.


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TEMPO.CO, Situbondo - The Baluran National Park in Situbondo, East Java, will be closed to tourists from June 26 to June 30 following 4th Annual Baluran PLN Birding Competition.
The Birding Competition itself will kick off on June 27 and run until June 29. The competition will be divided into two categories: bird watching and photography. As many as 70 teams will compete, and each team is scheduled to compete in the bird watching competition. Meanwhile, the photography competition will consist of 25 participants. All of them will battle for a total prize of Rp80 million (US$8,000).
Head of the Birding Competition committee Sutadi, said the activity is aimed at promoting the tourism potential of the national park often nicknamed Afrika van Java and to collect additional data about the types of birds in the park.
Before the competition was initiated in 2010, the Baluran National Park was only able to collect data on 155 types of birds. However, after the 2012 competition, the park gathered data on 196 bird species. The two newest bird species discovered in 2012 are the Ruddy Kingfisher (Halycon coromanda) and a species of bird often found in shrubs.
The Baluran National Park was established on March 6, 1980. The 25,000-hectare park is considered to contain the most complete national park because it consists of almost all types of vegetation such as savanna vegetation, mangrove forests, seasonal forests, beach forests, lower mountain forests, swamps, and forests that are green throughout the year.
There are 444 species of flora and 26 living mammals in Baluran. The banteng (Bos javanicus)is the mascot of the National Park located along the border of Situbondo and Banyuwangi.


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Cloud Computing on Ulitzer
"We're very proud that Rackspace's reputation for innovation, opportunity and growth are attracting top technical and business talent from industry players that have been there, and done that," said Emil Sayegh (pictured below), General Manager of The Rackspace Cloud, as it was announced today that six new key personnel have joined the company to spearhead strategic technology efforts aimed to position the company for continued growth and technology leadership.
"We're continuing investment to deepen our leadership product development bench to support our growth while expanding, and scaling our services," Sayegh continued.
The CTO &-Founder of The Rackspace Cloud, Jonathan Bryce, is joining a very special "CTO "Power Panel" at SYS-CON's 4th Cloud Computing Expo, being held November 2-1, 2009 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
The Rackspace Cloud is the cloud computing division of Rackspace Hosting and the new "Rackers" (as staff are called at Rackspace) come from industry leaders and pioneers like Microsoft and Yahoo as well as the innovative entrepreneur Nick Longo who started CoffeeCup Software and the CTO of the forwarding thinking company Threadless.
The six are as follows:
Harper Reed, Nepholologist, The Rackspace Cloud, a legendary "geek" in the technology space and a longtime Rackspace customer as former CTO of skinnyCorp/Threadless, brings deep expertise in scaling massive infrastructure and supporting customers. Harper, known for his passion for technology and customers, joined The Rackspace Cloud to "work with some of the best technologists in the business and lots of servers."
John Purrier, Director of Software Development, The Rackspace Cloud, will lead Cloud Files and Cloud Sites development, and help the company's Microsoft technology footprint in general. He will manage development efforts for new cloud solutions at Rackspace. A Microsoft veteran, John formerly led the Microsoft Exchange development team. Prior to Microsoft, he served as CEO of Junqbox and Product Information Network and CTO of Global Market Insite. John joined The Rackspace Cloud because "he wants to define and build the next generation systems that will fundamentally change how computing is done in the future."
Mark Collier, Vice President of Business Development, Rackspace Hosting, was formerly a senior executive with the Yahoo! Media division and managed the strategic partnerships for Yahoo! Music. Mark will lead Rackspace's efforts to develop new partnerships for cloud, email and applications and managed hosting. Mark joined Rackspace to "let my inner geek sing -- playing with cloud computing all day."
Michael Foster, Head of Cloud Engineering, The Rackspace Cloud, led major data center automation projects at Microsoft and held technical positions with many start-ups. He will oversee the company's Technical Operations, DC Engineering, and Automation projects allowing The Rackspace Cloud to scale seamlessly. Michael joined The Rackspace Cloud because "I love to geek out on data centers in general, and I love large scale automation (and because I can enjoy Texas BBQ again!)."
Nick Longo, Chief Rainmaker, The Rackspace Cloud, is a successful serial entrepreneur who founded CoffeeCup Software, an award-winning website design software company who had amazing customer loyalty. He brings years of start-up experience and innovation to his new role directing web marketing, and community centered activities. Nick joined The Rackspace Cloud because "I wanted to work with the smartest people in the world to do something great, and the transition made perfect sense given the SaaS Cloud will overtake all downloadable software very soon!"
Rick Clark, Cloud Servers and Slicehost Development Leader, The Rackspace Cloud, was formerly Engineering Manager at Canonical, the company that produces the popular open-source Linux distribution, Ubuntu. While at Canonical, Rick managed Ubuntu Server, cloud/virtualization, and security. He will guide ongoing development for Rackspace's IaaS offerings, specifically Cloud Servers and SliceHost, and advance the company's open cloud philosophy. Rick joined The Rackspace Cloud "for the culture, and to work with the best technical minds to develop technologies that solve deep customer problems in new and creative ways."
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A Mysterious Visit to Huberville
The Thomas Huber solo show at Akinci reminds me a little of the Atelier van Lieshout one at Grimm, which I reviewed here last December – if anything because they both revolve around the construction of an imaginary city. But while AVL's was a three-dimensional, all-encompassing experience, Huber's is more of an old-fashioned dip in metaphysical landscapes, à la de Chirico. The Zurich-born artist invites the viewer to visit his urban creation either through the contemplation of immersive paintings – inhabited by the occasional character, sometimes wandering along impossible, Escherian perspectives (Bildaushub, 2013) – or by perusing architectural plans and sketches, similarly painted in rich oil colors and yet encouraging a more detached look.
Thomas Huber, Halle fur Massgaben, vorzeichnung, 2013, colored pencil, acryl on wood, 60 x 100 cm; Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Akinci.
Huber's approach to the canvas is clean: he covers it homogeneously and in soft tones, arranging a clear and strictly perspectival overview of his spaces, be they flying geometrically-shaped buildings or minimal interiors. Visible notes and lines expose a designer's attitude in most of the pieces, making sure the viewer is aware Huberville is a work in progress, a vision in the mind of a planner. The painterly warmth of the artist's oil and acquarelle paintings is balanced by the language of architectural design, even though the latter element often appears as tongue-in-cheek, an excuse for Huber to go meta and further frame the images. In fact, the act of designing and composing those very pictures is often the subject of the paintings themselves, which repeatedly appear in a matryoshka-style self-reference across the exhibition: paintings of buildings (or sketches for paintings of buildings) filled with paintings of buildings (Halle für Massgaben, 2013).
Although straight lines and square edges are everywhere, the figure of the mound (depicted as a clean-cut, parabolic curve) is a recurring motif in Huberville, always accompanied by an equal and opposed pit. Voids and fills are thus presented as obsessive and quasi-sexualized architectural elements, the logical pivots of Huber's universe.
Thomas Huber, Halle, Massgaben II, 2013, oil on canvas, 150 x 240 cm; Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Akinci.
While the consistency of the artist's visual vocabulary keeps the exhibition extremely cohesive and conceptually air-tight, the few recurring elements create a self-referential vertigo to which one is quickly desensitized. However, Huber's painterly approach to even the most architectural of his pieces (namely, his use of color) makes up for the braininess that would otherwise exude from it all.
In a time when design aesthetics dominate contemporary art, perhaps turning the exploration of imagined spaces into warm illustrations, rather than imitating the coldness of real section plans, is a good way to keep painting interesting.
(Image on top: Thomas Huber, Bildaushub, 2013, oil on canvas, 170 x 240 cm; Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Akinci.)
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Boosting the ranks to protect South Africa's rhinos from poaching
Tuesday 26th June 2012
2011 was a sad record year for South Africa. Over 400 rhinos were reported to have been killed by poachers for the sake of their horn. So far, there doesn't seem to be any relief in 2012 either; the rate of poaching keeps accelerating. With South Africa being the focal point for trade of rhino horn, home to 70-80% of the global rhino population, their protection is now paramount.
One problem in tackling the issue is that of insufficient resources in South Africa. The National Park is so vast that an enormous number of rangers would be required to provide effective monitoring.
Smaller private reserves might pose a more manageable challenge but they lack the public funding. A recent issue of African Geographic cited reserve owners, which were deterred from having rhinos in their reserve by the huge cost of providing effective security. Without having the necessary manpower themselves, they were faced with hiring outside security contractors to patrol their reserves at prohibitive monthly costs.
African Conservation Experience are therefore very excited to have joined forces with a dedicated team of conservationists to enable international volunteers to assist with the protection of rhinos as part of the Mofemedi Rhino Recovery Initiative. Keen conservationists and wildlife lovers can join this project as a volunteer for a period of 2-12 weeks. They will work alongside rangers, reserve managers and vets to protect the rhino population through monitoring and tracking the rhinos' movements. A constant presence has proven to be one of the most effective measures to prevent poaching.
From 24 July to 8 August, the team will dart a further 6 rhinos and fit them with telemetry ankle collars to facilitate monitoring. After that the project will run year round to provide constant monitoring and tracking.Tweet


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Can Drake Uphold Aaliyah's Legacy?
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Kids, here's your urban vocabulary lesson for today.
Stan: Based on the central character in the Eminem song of the same name, a "stan" is an overzealous maniacal fan for any celebrity or athlete.
Ex: Drake can't go five minutes without declaring his love for Aaliyah. He stays stanning.
Drake's infatuation with deceased pop queen Aaliyah has always been…weird, to say the least. I mean look at the pic above – even Aaliyah's poster looks annoyed by the guy.
Now before we go any further, let me silence my critics because I already hear y'all mumbling. Yes, I'm a huge Keith Sweat stan.
But my stanliness has NOTHING on Drake. It's not like a have a Keith tattoo.
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But Drake has one of Aaliyah. Not sure why he thought it made sense to put a woman's face on his back, but who am I to question a man who hangs out with such luminaries as Icki Garbaj and the living seaweed that is Lil' Wayne?
And look, Drake just got another Aaliyah tat!
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The "416" is the area code of his hometown Toronto; the bold "116" is Aaliyah's birthday, January 16.
And people wonder why Drake's own fans are so eager to get dumb tattoos.
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But I digress. Drake's latest foray in Aaliyah standom goes beyond permanent ink and into Aaliyah's forgotten archives. From xxlmag.com:
Reports of Drake taking the helm of a posthumous Aaliyah album have been surfacing for months now, only picking up steam as of late.
Well, after his third-annual OVO Festival in his hometown of Toronto on Sunday (August 5), Drizzy finally confirmed—to T-RexXx of local T-dot media outlet Much Music —that he and his longtime producer Noah "40" Shebib will be working the project for the beloved late singer.
The first single from this project, "Enough Said," landed earlier this week and reactions from longtime Aaliyah fans were shockingly harsh. Word around the 'Net (and my inbox) seemed to be that the Aaliyah/Drake collabo sounded too forced and hollow. They thought it was just too stanalicious to be taken seriously.
I have to disagree with the majority mindset (shocking, I know). "Enough Said" isn't very memorable, but it's not a bad track, per se. 40's eerie production is a perfect fit for Aaliyah; that moody melody was – quite literally – made for her. Drake's verse is tacked-on and unnecessary, but certainly not offensive.
Here's the real question: Is King Stan really worthy of taking the helm of a new Aaliyah album? I'm willing to let him take a shot at it.
In about two weeks, we'll mark the 11th year of Aaliyah's tragic death. Unlike other deceased music stars whose posthumous work has been beaten into the ground (I'm looking at you, Hologram 2Pac – actually, I'm looking through you…) there has been no new mainstream music from Aaliyah since 2003. Listening to "Enough Said," and you'll find her vocals are both familiar and fresh. I welcome more tracks, even though I realize these unreleased outtakes won't touch her classic material.
If Stanley decides to move forward with this project, he MUST do it right. There have been conflicting reports about possible input for longtime Aaliyah contributors Missy Elliott and Timbaland. Their input is not optional – they have to be involved if the project is to be taken seriously. Drake also must have the blessing of Aaliyah's family. In the interview above, Drake claims that he has their approval, but earlier this week on Facebook Aaliyah's brother said the family had not yet given their blessing. Also, if any of those Young Money mutants dare to appear on the album, it will be a disaster.
Yeah, Drake is a creepy Aaliyah fanboy, but if he uses his stanificent powers for good and resists the urge to hog the limelight, he could craft an album his dream girl would be proud of. If Keith ever passed away (Lord have mercy!) I'd jump at the chance to help create a posthumous album. As an invested fan, I'd do all I could to retain Keith's original sound and ensure its success. If Drake keeps his ego in check, I bet he could do the same.
This could be the album Aaliyah stans have been waiting for.


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I am recovering – it's been 20 days since I first started manifesting these symptoms of typhoid fever and I think they've gone by now. I am still battling the super strong anitbiotics, but all to get the typhoid bacteria OUT of my system for good. Strong enough to participate in the discussion "Menu for Eid ul Fitr". It will be small, it's just 4 of us home in Trinidad, and I am only here because I was sick and needed people to take care of me (don't worry, I didn't infect anyone and Public Health knows all about me – after all, T&T hasn't had typhoid for over 20 years – I think my doctor was quite excited!). Anyway, in honour of the occasion and my recuperation, here's a suitably Ramadhan and Eid related post!
I am posting My Mother's Barfi recipe, which is the best milk barfi ever. Granted, I can't eat too much of it with my sinus allergies, but it's far better than others – it's not dry and hard, nor is it too crumbly. The sweetness is just right with a tinge of ginger. This is a traditional Indo-Trini sweet – I am not sure whether and in what form it exists in the India the ancestors came from 160 years ago, but it's very common here in T&T.
500 gm full cream powdered milk (Lilandra couldn't find full cream powdered milk on the East Coast of the US, but please try – non-fat is not quite the same)
1 6 oz (170 gm) tin Nestle's cream (Non British Empire people who don't what Nestle's cream is, Lilandra has successfully used heavy whipping cream in the US)
10 oz granulated white sugar
1 tsp finely minced ginger
1 pinch each of ground elaichi (cardamom), cinnamon and clove
1/3 cup water
candy sprinkles to your liking
Mix milk powder and cream just enough to combine. Let stand for 10 minutes. Rub the cream into the milk powder until it is the consistency of fine breadcrumbs.
In a big heavy pot, bring sugar, ginger and water to a boil. Add the spices.
Add the milk mixture to the pot and stir. Keep stirring until the mixture comes together in one clump and leaves the side of the pot as you turn. (This may be a little hard on the arms at this point, but it is important for it not to be too soft and crumbly.
Spread mixture into a greased cookie sheet and smooth the top. Add sprinkles.
Cut into squares before it is completely cool.
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Come noon, we are back to tropical heat, but with winds. I found a fallen nest near our house, but without any trace of bird activity (no eggs, no eggshell, no feathers). There are sheep nearby, with one of the lousiest wools I've seen, not the New Zealand kind of fluffy wool, not the stark-white variety. Lots of fallen branches, some of which are lined together by length, mother and son sawing wood, father lining them up, probably as kindling for tonight's supper. Then there are fruits smashed to the ground, then some seed-bearing trees, and the disheveled look of trees and electric posts and the erratic flight of birds, panicky, distressed. The storm becomes this comb scattering some pieces, only to be looked at the same afternoon, and disposed the morning after.
I didn't have the good kind of batteries to power up my camera. They cost too much.


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Look at gpu's. As the core counts go up on them. They keep simultaneously forcing higher and higher resolution screens. Because they can't improve performance much on normal resolution screens but they can give the gpu's more to do on each frame.
Computer manufactures are stuck in 2 strategies. Doing what is feasible and workable and hoping it's accepted by buyers. Or working towards nearly unachievable goals and simply lying about progress as they go with customers buying and giving a son i'm dissapoint reaction at every stage of it. So it's either 2560x1600 3d screens that give you headaches or nihilism and converting your early adopter groups into wait and see groups over time.
The problem is they went many cores to get around the clock speed problem. Now they need clock speed to get around the many cores problem because only speed will bring the busses out of lock out faster. So you need what you can't get to fix what you got but can't get.


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Rorbu | Lenangen Brygger at Lenansøyra has two cabins by the sea. The cabins have room for 8 persons divided in 4 bedrooms. Here you will find a sauna, combined kitchen and living room, two bathrooms and a washroom. Many opportunities for nature experiences close by.
Lenangen Brygger is located in Lenangsøyra, north on the Lyngen Peninsula. The cabins offer a good basecamp both summer and winter. The cabins are just by the seaside and has a panoramic view of the northern Lyngen Alps.
The houses are furnished in a modern style. There is a combined kitchen/livingroom, washroom, 2 bathrooms, sauna and 4 bedrooms, each with two single beds. Big windows by the sitting area gives you a great view of the fjord and the mountains. On the seaside of the cabin is a patio where you can enjoy the weather.
Lenangen Brygger also has a combined barbecuehut and sauna that guests can use.
Next to the pier a guttingshed is free to use for preparing the fish, here you will also find several freezers where you can put the fish during your stay.
The closest groceryshop is Joker, just a few meters away. The closest village with several shops, petrolstation and touristinformation office is Lyngseidet, 42 km away.
To Tromsø it is 75 km + ferry ride (25min).
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Army engineer humbled by bullet-stopping impact
April 26, 2016
By Joyce Martin, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Shawn Walsh pushed through a crowded lobby that was filled with chattering voices, because he wanted to be standing right there when Staff. Sgt. Thalamus Lewis stepped out of the van for his tour of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory on April 20.
This was not just any VIP tour, no four-star generals in tow, no business executives and none of the ground-breaking scientists, all of whom Walsh has greeted time and time again over the last year.
Lewis was visiting the laboratory because his Advanced Combat Helmet was penetrated by machine gun fire that was hard enough to knock him to the ground in Afghanistan in 2012, yet he got up with a small scratch on the temple of his head, and continues to serve.
Program Executive Office Soldier, or PEO-Soldier, the organization that puts Army capabilities into the hands of troops, had returned the protective gear that stopped the bullet that threatened this Soldiers' life on the day before; and was introducing him and his family to the people at each stage of the helmet's development at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
Jyuji D. Hewitt, who is the executive deputy to the commanding general, U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, along with Col. Kevin L. Ellison, ARL's Military Deputy, were among the first to give Lewis a warm welcome to APG on behalf of both organizations.
"There is nothing more important in our mission than developing technology to protect this Soldier and the ones who come after him," Ellison said.
The Soldier Protection team had a line up ready to talk about everything from the nuances of the ceramic used in head gear to the latest in mitigating head to ground injuries and the more futuristic design of a newer Robotic Augmented Soldier Protection concept.
"Here's a Soldier who put himself in harm's way," Walsh said. "He's still in the Army. If he's going to keep going, then we have to keep going as a research lab to give him the best protection possible."
The Soldier protection team has been working on helmets that increase stopping power by 35 percent over the ACH that Lewis was wearing.
"Obviously I'm feeling a little emotional because here he is with his family, and his brother, and it is a little exciting," Walsh said. "We are not just protecting a Soldier, we are protecting a 'loved one.' "
The other thing Walsh said he felt was pride in his colleagues.
"We're the people behind the curtain," he said. "It's an honor that Col. [Dean] Hoffman has the foresight to think about making that connection. A lot of times we show the product, which is the helmet, but there are a lot of people, and not just ARL, but a range of people who they are visiting today that made this possible."
Hoffman is the Program Manager for Soldier Protection and Individual Equipment who planned three days of activities, which included a Town Hall at Fort Belvoir, Va. and on the third day, a congressional tour in Washington D.C. for Lewis, a Georgia native.
Walsh pointed out that the ARL-led ManTech helmet technology efforts, in conjunction with early helmet prototyping with Natick Soldier Research, Development & Center and PEO Soldier's drive to develop better ballistic fibers and matrix materials, have led to a helmet that is used across the Army and Marine Corps; the Future Assault Shell Technology Helmet fielded to U.S. Special Operations; and the Navy SEAL's "Maritime" helmet, which was issued to Navy SEALS during the raid and capture of Osama Bin Laden.
"You do the work you do," Walsh said. "This is going to be my 31st year here because the laboratory has empowered me to push the limits of Soldier protection," Walsh said.
Lewis said he had no idea of everything that went into his protective equipment. He got into the truck with medics following his ordeal with the 41st Engineer Company, 1st Engineer Battalion, FOB Airborne, and he just "figured everything would be alright," he said.
Later he saw a picture of the helmet he wore prior to the battle damage analysis, and it scared him a little bit to see how close the bullet came to his head, he said.
"I was in a little accident, but I'm alright," is what Lewis told his mother, Cynthia Boggan. She did not hear the full account for some time, because her son did not want to make her more concerned about his serving in Afghanistan.
Tarone Boggan, Lewis' younger brother, 14, who also accompanied him on the visit, said he was shocked.
He tried out weights used to test the force of impact in a room with a small device and a large, heavy dropping ball. He saw a demonstration of tests used to test his brother's protective gear.
Tarone and his older brother, left with a small token of gratitude before they went on to the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command, a poster of the newest technology that they shared during the visit signed by the Soldier protection team.
"I am happy that Thalamus was fighting for our country and that he is still alive to be here with me and my family," Tarone, said.


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Cuisine Italian • Pizza
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As we all know, having faith in the unknown and unseen can be difficult at times. But that is why we have a Savior that has proven to us time and time again that he will always work things out "…for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to His purpose." – Romans 8:28. Scripture is not just words that were made up by someone centuries ago. They are TRUTH, they are testimonies of what people B.C. and A.C. experienced.
So why is it so difficult for us to believe that God has our life in His hands, that He will never leave us nor forsake us? I believe that our struggle with faith began way back in time, in the Garden of Eden. When Eve took that first bite of the forbidden fruit – she was actively showing her lack of faith in what the Lord had told Adam. And then Adam proved even more unbelief by taking the fruit offered by Eve, after He had been told directly from the Lord not to eat it! I'm sure you all know this story, but this simply shows you how far back our unbelief, as humans, goes.
Faith is difficult because we cannot see the future, the outcome of this decision or that. We fear that our income will not meet our needs, our clothes are not "in", that we won't have enough food to provide for our loved ones. But in Matthew Chapter 6:25-27, Jesus tells us, "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?"
He then continues in Matthew 6:28-34, "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
We all could use a little more trust in the Lord. Imagine how different the world would be with everyone living their lives, fully trusting and believing in the Word! What a great life that would be! Unfortunately, that will never happen in this lifetime. It can, however, happen in your personal life – which can then spread upon many people when you touch their lives. I encourage you today to step out in faith for a better tomorrow. We can, and we will, impact this world. We must simply follow His instruction and His will for our lives.
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Physical therapists and physicians agree that flexibility is the key to maintaining health and fitness as you age, and that it can be an integral part of fending off medical conditions, such as arthritis. Furthermore, maintaining flexibility can prevent accidents and subsequent injuries, which pose serious risk to maintaining independence and good-health in later life.
Consider the following five strategies for maintaining flexibility as you age:
Stretch daily.
Ask any practitioner and they will tell you that stretching is the key to maintaining flexibility and range-of-motion as you age. This may be as simple as morning stretches or yoga, or it may be as in-depth as tai chi or Pilates. Make time to stretch and flex muscles in order to prevent them from becoming constricted and stiff.
Exercise to improve balance.
One of the advantages of yoga and Pilates is the improved balance that these activities provide. Good balance can make the difference between taking a nasty fall and avoiding injury.
Prevent injuries.
It is essential to implement ways to avoid injury during work-outs, while also paying attention to conditions or situations that could prove injurious at home or work. Stretch before engaging in anything strenuous, and avoid lifting or carrying heavy items when you are not conditioned to do so. Recovering from an injury can become more challenging and difficult as you grow older.
Practice coordination.
Make time to practice coordination through simple skills and leisure activities such as knitting, video games, or sports. Hand-eye coordination is connected to overall physical coordination, which can help you avoid accidental falls or subsequent injuries. Yoga is a wonderful way to practice coordination while relaxing the mind simultaneously.
See a physical therapist.
Physical therapists do far more than merely help you recover from an accident; these practitioners can provide preventative treatment, relieve pain, and supervise fitness regimens to optimize the patient's workouts. Talk with your physical therapist about suggestions for stretches and exercises that will improve flexibility and balance.
Staying flexible is not something that you can do quickly, but rather it is a long process that consists of regular activity, stretching, and exercise. A physical therapist is the ideal person to mentor and supervise individuals in fitness regimens, offering sound advice on the best, low-impact exercises for each individual based on their current strengths and weaknesses, decreasing possible injury. Talk with physical therapists about what you can do to improve flexibility and maintain health now that could have positive impacts later.Share


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"Yo, whaddya got under the hood?"
Wallace Tatro told me about a time when people enjoyed one another for themselves, not for what they had. What they did have, however, was gratefully acknowledged. It was, by jingo, the golden time of radio–a time when people gathered together regularly to make some of their own noise rather than waiting for someone to bring it to them. Some of them gathered around partially dismembered coupes or gleefully attacked an engine hung in the driveway. Later, they joined one another out on Detroit's Woodward Avenue. "Times were good then," sighed Wally. "There was money around." This was about 1951.
Wally is 68 and was born and raised in Pontiac where his father worked for Pontiac. Eventually Wally worked for the Big Chief, too. He attained the work-ethic values as he grew up in a fantastically different universe from the one that's swirling madly around us now.
"Everybody knew everybody else. The atmosphere was very relaxed, and we took great pride in our automotive accomplishments. There wasn't any aggression in this, and there wasn't any ego-driven competition, either. We did it for a hobby. It was a different time. You were more your own person then and not influenced by what others thought so much."
There were a few rods out there, but most of the sheetmetal was "late-model" stuff, from the '40 Ford coupe favorite to the '50 Ford Tudor Wally liked the most. "Our cars weren't fast; we lowered 'em and put skirts, whitewalls, and curb feelers on 'em, too. Yeah, whaddya got under the hood?" The favorite cruise spots were Ted's and the Totem Pole. During the week there'd be maybe ten cars on Woodward, and on the weekends no more than a few dozen. It was just like any other main street in any other town anywhere in the country, and the cops didn't hassle anyone.
In the early '50s, Ted's Drive-In on Square Lake Road (near the north end of the Woodward Loop) was known as Ted's trailer, a minimalist structure that served up Coney Islands to cruisers in search of congenial company. By the late '60s, however, the situation was supremely out of hand. Ted's began charging a $0.50 parking lot admission fee to discourage the great American pastime called "hanging out."
Anyone could see that it was big–way too big. In the beginning, Woodward wasn't "Woodward"; it was simply a wide, four-lane thoroughfare that tempted people to drive when there was no good reason for it, except for that big one. Detroit was settled along the Detroit River on Fort and Jefferson, the trunk roads of antiquity. When the city grew, it moved north to Highland Park and then to the residential quarters of the North Corridor. The South Corridor attended the industrial hub of the city, and Fort Street, which was built in the '20s, was the first four-lane divided "highway" in the Detroit area. General Motors established its headquarters right off Woodward and Grand Boulevard. The houses in this neighborhood were above average and joined by those situated in Huntington Woods. This particular community, located between Ten and Eleven Mile Roads west of Woodward, was built by GM to lure upscale execs into staking territory closer to the workplace. Woodward was the epitome of car-oriented suburbia and duly perpetuated by the car companies.
Over on Gratiot, on the eastside, a similar phenomenon began to unfold. Gratiot, too, was a four-lane highway buffered by a wide grass median, a modern road in every sense of the word. It was also the Chrysler stronghold (in Highland Park and Hamtramck, then the "suburbs" of Eastpointe, Roseville, and Mount Clemens). Those who toiled for The Mother stayed close by her side, too. No one disputed that the best-running Mopars toiled on Gratiot.
The original oil squeeze in '73 marked the end of Woodward as it had been known. Performance was bad. Safety and large insurance surcharges were good. The federal government, in effect, became partners with car companies too afraid to do anything but capitulate. About this time, the cities lining the Woodward route went to the state for a subsidy from Oakland County. Soon, ATF task forces began lurking around bars and every drive-in on the strip with the sole purpose of hassling patrons and cruisers who appeared to be under the age of 30. They concocted a "profile" and used it specifically to search vehicles. In about eight months, the scourge had locked the Avenue down tighter than a Pismo clam.
The action was forced to Gratiot, and the ATF played psych warfare there, too. When that scene shriveled, the faithful moved back across town to Telegraph. By the late '70s, the state cops had crushed enough eager hearts to virtually shut the joint down.
When I was a pup, what I knew about Woodward Avenue was limited to lurid advertising copy of the day and the sensational photography that accompanied it. Pontiac used its mythical presence as an emotional backdrop for its GTO ads in the late '60s. I was the FNG reporter at Super Stock & Drag Illustrated, so I saw those compelling images in some issues we put together. They certainly gave me the impression that special events occurred after the sun went down.
At that time, Woodward Avenue was a haven for advertising copywriters and car company account executives alike. Their captive audience was often polled as to preference for a new paint or decal treatment, but there was very little street racing done on Woodward proper. It was more or less a staging area, where the roosters strutted to meet the chicks and the chickens. Challenges were made from the car window, and the drivers would peel off to a deserted service road or slab of interstate where they put up or shut up. It was a clandestine appointment savored as much as any sexual tryst. Woodward Avenue begins a block north of Grand Circus Park in the gut of Detroit and arcs gently to the northwest, cleaving the backyards of what once was Ford, Chevrolet, Chrysler, and Pontiac. It pushes on through Highland Park, Ferndale, and Royal Oak and runs beside the svelte, shaded bedrooms of Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills. When it arrives in Pontiac, it runs out of breath and can go no farther. Woodward extends nearly 25 miles through prime suburbs. It is neither Main Street nor freeway, but a wide avenue crusted with modern effluvia in some quarters and prosaic in others. Neon throbs. Big Boys stand tall. On early spring evenings, people emerged like cicadas, released from limbo and invigorated by the estrus of unburned hydrocarbons and smoking tires. The sap ran free, and the pecking order waited to be established. Woodward Avenue seethed with life.
Jim Wangers was an executive on the Pontiac advertising account, a drag racer, and helplessly addicted to Woodward. By coincidence, his friend John DeLorean had the madcap idea of stuffing an engine from a big, brash Bonneville into the lowly Tempest two-door. They wheedled, whined, made rash promises, cashed in favors, and eventually got management to OK Detroit's first official musclecar.
The matter is what really happened out on Woodward, before the heyday, before the burgomasters roused the locals into taking up pitchforks and torches and crusaded for an end to it all, and what has happened since.
Gathering places peppered the long Woodward Loop from one end to the other. The southern end was Ten Mile Road, and the north end was Eighteen Mile (also known as Square Lake Road). Though the boundaries in the minds of others will undoubtedly differ from these, suffice that this was the heart of the action. The popular Totem Pole drive-in (now a Burger King) was just north of Ten Mile and easily accessed via the south turn-off.
Still in Royal Oak, you'd find a cadre of GM-oriented folk on Main Street north of Eleven Mile at the home of Royal Pontiac. Cruise by Twelve Mile to the Church of the Little Flower. Too late for an act of contrition, dudes, but the parking lot was a favorite platform for confessions of another kind. A little farther up the pike in Royal Oak there was a used car lot on the corner of Webster and Woodward, just past Twelve Mile. The guy specialized in musclecars and welcomed street racers and cruisers with a meeting hall. If things weren't hoppin' there, it was off to the Northwood shopping center at Thirteen Mile. Northwood was considered the hangout–not the place to race, but to be seen. If you wanted to jack up your adrenaline and had a serious piece, you rolled past Thirteen Mile to the Big Town drive-in. In the words of Jim Wangers: "The bad cars hung there, the Six Packs and Hemis, solid-lifter 396s, and Tri-Power 427s. Regular street-driven Pontiacs weren't considered a threat."
A little farther north there was Teddy Spehar's Sunoco, an openly hostile territory to anything but Mopars. Spehar, his Chrysler drag-race connections (Tom Hoover and Dick Maxwell among others), and Jimmy Addison produced the Silver Bullet, an awesome stroked-Hemi Belvedere street racer barely silenced by four Cadillac mufflers! It was a scary car back then. Those who could do without the Mopar wrath spent their time up the street from the Sunoco station at the Maverick drive-in. Pontiacs were appreciated at the Big Boy at Thirteen and a Half Mile; Wangers arranged to have a GTO Tiger commercial shot on the premises.
Beyond these portals, beyond Fifteen Mile, through yuppy-scum Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills, open country is dotted with parks and natural preserves, linked by stretches of four-lane worthy of a safe and sane contest. A good place to get one off. If that wasn't happening, I-75 was only a few minutes to the east. Serious street racers didn't fire up until 11, and as unromantic as it may seem, serious racing was not done on Woodward (or any of the other venues). Stoplight drags were popular, but serious or money racing was done out on I-75, one of its service roads, or on M-59. Compared to contemporary street racing, the payoff was puny and so was the peanut gallery. It was about honoring the marque and your turf rather than money or impressing a bunch of people you didn't know. Most races in the heyday were worth $20-30; ones for $100 were rare.
Until the late '60s, Ford didn't have much of a street presence. Though it built some wonderful and enviable combinations, they were basically raw material for the dragstrip, not the street. According to Wangers, there were ten Goats in the parking lots for every Ford. Mopars, Chevys, and Pontiacs were the real scourge of Woodward, and one of them in particular embodied the Woodward theme.
In 1964, Car and Driver was supposed to compare a Ferrari GTO (Gran Turismo Omologato) with Pontiac's cheeky street fighter GTO. The Ferrari never materialized, and the Poncho's acceleration times (recorded with a handheld stopwatch) were phenomenal. (0-100 in 11.8 seconds!) Wangers: "Our red GTO wouldn't have run from 0 to 100 mph in 11.8 seconds if it had been dropped off the Empire State Building." Regardless of the outcome, this exposure was a win-win situation for Pontiac. It is curious, then, that the division neglected to hold a full-on press intro for the GTO.
According to Wangers, the GTO was hype for the Le Mans just as the Judge was hype for the GTO, and from the outset, the GTO became the basis for Royal Pontiac in Royal Oak. This was in May of 1964. The folks at Pontiac engineering provided Royal (through Wangers) a couple of GTO hardtops. At this point, GM was very serious about not racing, so Royal became the division's tacit high-performance arm and developed the Royal Bobcat GTO, a car with a blend of hard parts, marketing savvy, and a little bit of imagination.
Eventually, there were nine cars in the Great Royal Fleet; further, the Bobcat (tune-up) concept was controlled by Royal, not the factory. In fact, the first Judge was handbuilt at the Royal Oak facility. At the height of its popularity, the Royal scourge was legion and boasted about 55,000 members countrywide (Bobcat tune-ups were also sold through the mail), and the press generated by this put Pontiac one-up on the rest of the Motown gang. In Wangers' estimation, Woodward Avenue publicity was the by-product, and the magazines made it happen. Somehow, we feel that a lot less would have transpired if Wangers' enthusiasm (sometimes perilous) hadn't been bone-deep.
In 1969, Dan Jedlicka, a stalwart of the Chicago automotive press, penned a piece for Esquire magazine called "Gaining Respect on Woodward Avenue." It was a fair and correct documentation of the culture rather than the idiosyncrasies surrounding it (e.g., street racing). Perhaps it was this lure of the street that instigated emissaries from CBS to do a "white paper" expose on Woodward. Since Wangers was in the PR business, he heard about the CBS blitz through the grapevine and had enough time to get the word out: Stay off Woodward tonight. As a result, the coverage was anemic at best.
Running hard alongside the seeming frippery of modified cars was the terrible social tension generated by the Vietnam War. It came down to a complete polarization: the establishment versus the protest generation. Wangers: "We were too removed from real life and weren't smart enough to see it, and here we had this ridiculous orange car with a big spoiler." That was the last big factory shot at Woodward Avenue.
Today's Woodward scene is history repeating itself… in reverse. The same municipalities that shut the cruisers down in the first place are the ones who now champion the Dream Cruise. This is the 21st century, folks, and there's tons of money in the pockets of those 1.5-million-plus spectators to buy back that dream, even if only for a few hours or days.
This year, August 18, I was one of them. Aside from the usual sensory input, what struck me hardest was the heady stench of unburned hydrocarbons. Yeah, pure 1960s. On Friday and Saturday at least, the Woodward air smells like a Mexican border town. I suppose if someone wanted to make a stink about it, they could measure the quality of the air and deem the Cruise an unhealthy event. That might work in California, but not Detroit.
This massive enthusiasm has not gone unnoticed by the car companies, either. The rub for some people is that the corporations usurp some prime viewing turf (a couple of blocks renting for a cool $50,000) and that they overpower the grassroots aspect of the Cruise. Regardless of the necessary corporate influence, the cruisers and those watching from curbside–some of them from Florida or North Dakota–vastly outnumber the factory troops. It is quite amazing to hear the tales of the locals, the ones who passed into adulthood on Woodward, and feel the excitement of their youth spring clean and pure from a more conservative perspective.
As a Woodward Dream Cruise rookie, the throng seemed a deluge of graybeards and their sons and daughters. But where were the teenage kids? When all the sons and daughters have grown old, will there still be a reason for the Woodward Cruise? Several experienced hands told me they'd seen more young folks in vintage iron this year than ever. With more corporate money and exposure in the general media a lot more vast than HOT ROD, the Woodward Dream Cruise could be to the car culture what Mardi Gras is to New Orleans. None of this detracts from the mammoth proportions of the scene. Way more than a million spectators at the roadside eyeball, cheer, and jeer at nearly 50,000 vehicles of every make, model, and description. Dream Cruise is marketed as an event to be remembered. Wally Tatro always has. HR
Held on a single Saturday every August, the Woodward Dream Cruise is the world's largest automotive event, with 1.5 million people, 50,000 cars, 16 miles, and seven cities involved. In reality, the scope is much greater, encompassing the better part of metro Detroit for over a week prior to the "official" event. It ain't the underground Woodward of the past, it's a huge marketing coup of today, and one that the most hardcore should not miss. There are special events in the burgs of Berkley, Birmingham, Ferndale, Huntington Woods, Pleasant Ridge, Pontiac, and Royal Oak. Event info can be obtained from the convention and visitors' bureaus of any of those places, or see the event Web site at www.dreamcruise.org. Call the event hotline at 888/4WDC-1963, or e-mail your questions to questions@ dreamcruise.org.
–David Freiburger
I remember sitting on a cracked plastic-covered chair in a Woodward greasy spoon one early spring evening in 1970. Wangers was in his trademark attire: business suit, tie pulled tight, and a stingy-brim fedora. He was pep-talking his usual driver, a lanky teenager named Billy. This kid didn't bother looking at the tach at all but would soundly whack the chrome Hurst Shifter when the engine howled just right. Billy was so good he was downright scary. He had the cool and the reflexes of Pete Robinson, and he banged a four-speed like Ronnie Sox. He was a celebrity in his own macho circle, and he addressed his fame with aloofness and a stony resolve.
Billy drove a Judge prepared at Ace Wilson's Royal Pontiac (Royal Oak, Michigan). Ace's head performance wrench was Milt Schornack, who with Wangers helped build that first GTO Judge and "field-tested" it. Pontiac had already committed to producing the car. Much of this was precipitated by the huge success of the infamous Bobcat tune-up. On almost any Saturday morning, Schornack had 'em queued up around the block, nearly as many out-of-state plates as local ones. Wangers was extremely competitive, and he hated to lose. One time, at least, he swapped one car for another that looked exactly like it. On a street-fightin' night, Wangers and Uncle Milty would tail the Judge in a Ram Air IV GTO that was even hotter than the annihilator Billy was driving. Wangers' approval was final, and sometimes declined, especially if he smelled a breathed-on Hemi.
For Billy, it was beat the guy or suffer Wangers' considerable wrath. Around midnight, we struck a deal with the portly driver of a Hemi Road Runner. If Bill focused hard, his hair-trigger reflex would stun the driver at the start. According to etiquette, the run began when both cars moved along at 30 miles per hour. I counted down and then… Bang! The Goat kicked away from the Hemi and stayed in front as the engine devoured Second gear. Bill's arm was a blur. The shifter sprang into Third, and he held the pedal flat on the floor. When the young kamikaze yanked High gear, the 426 freight train was bellowing right beside us and pulling like a maniac. At the stripe on the macadam that marked the end of the straightaway, the Hemi kid pulled us by a fender. Billy swore. Wangers, we assumed, was apoplectic.
The contest had been as perfunctory as the sexual mores of the time. Make small talk. Rev up. Do your thing. Split. No regrets. Certainly there was woe in Royal Oak that evening, but it was just another night on Woodward.–Ro McGonegal


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Born in Cameroon, Christian Abégan has become the benchmark for African cuisine. He has been showing off his skills ever since he graduated from "Le Cordon Bleu" school in Paris. After graduating, he returned to his country of birth, from where he then embarked on a long culinary exploration which took him from Central Africa, Douala, Brazzaville, to Southern Africa with Pretoria and Antananarivo, through West Africa, Dakar, Lomé and even meeting up with African diasporas in the USA and the Caribbean.
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Chef Abégan, you have significantly contributed to the increased popularity of African Cuisine throughout the world. How did you become a chef? What inspires you?
As far back as I can remember, I have always been cooking, long before I joined the Cordon Bleu School in Paris.
My experiences cooking during my childhood gradually turned into a passion for cooking, and Cordon Bleu equipped me with the tools to try – and succeed, let's be honest – to create an evolving blend of French and African cuisines.
Africa has an amazing resource of orally-transmitted recipes spanning back over thousands of years .
How do you encourage a healthy and balanced diet through your cuisine?
I don't just talk about healthy and balanced diets, but also about responsible consumption. I encourage people to eat produce that is free from chemical substances, which are spread all over our continent by the globalised industrial food companies.
Our continent has an abundance of quality produce which is currently under-used, and which is often instead replaced by products from these companies, often full of chemicals….
I want to make people aware of this, and of the health risks associated with dietary choices.
In your opinion, what are the advantages of fair trade, and of a greater focus on local farmers?
This approach to agriculture will help reverse the exodus of young people towards the big cities. Fair trade helps create a balance between the city and countryside, with the countryside bringing healthy and balanced food produce to the city dwellers. Raising awareness and using quality African products, which are produced through fair trade, will allow local markets to develop and become part of the wider international market.
The labelling and guarantees provided by fair trade organisations also help preserve biodiversity, and these types of organisations allow everyone to find their own space in the market.
You fight for food security and good nutrition for African children and you are an ambassador for the World Food Programme. Could you tell us a little more about your commitment to food security on the African continent?
"A plate is a prescription for life "....
Food Security on the African continent is a measure of health for current and future generations.
When we are not confronted with crises or famine, we don't always realise the essential nutritional needs that are required for continued development.
Our eating habits can help build a healthier and more sustainable world.
The situation with children is, for us, the most crucial aspect. It's an issue of conscience: they have to have a healthy and balanced diet, without vitamin deficiencies, in order to enjoy a normal development.
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Art teacher Amy Hall didn't just want to teach her children about portraiture last semester – she wanted to teach them about empathy.
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