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How to make your own pitta bread. Pitta Bread can be found in shops all over the world, but it's so much nicer (and cheaper) to make your own! Try this recipe and use the Pitta bread with whatever you want - at the bottom you can see a picture of Greek Souvlaki with pitta bread, just follow the link to go to the recipe.
This recipe is for 10 pittas. Any that you want to keep for later can easily be wrapped in cling film and kept in the fridge for around a week. You can also keep them in the same way in your freezer.
½ kg plain white flour suitable for bread
40g fresh yeast
80ml olive oil
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
Dissolve the yeast in a cup of tepid water.
Take 1 cup of the flour and in a bowl, mix it well with the dissolved yeast and the sugar.
Cover the bowl with a cloth and set aside in a warm place for 10-15 minutes.
Put the rest of the flour in a larger bowl, along with the salt and oil.
Add the yeast mixture, which should have bubbles and be double its original size.
Add enough tepid water to make a pliable, non-sticky dough.
Knead very well for at least 10 minutes on a flat surface.
Put the dough in a bowl and cover it with cling film and a cloth on top of that.
Set aside in a warm place for at least 1 hour until it has doubled in size.
Gently cut the dough into 10 equal pieces.
Gently roll out the pieces into circular shapes, about 20cm in diameter.
Brush the surface of a non-stick frying pan with some olive oil and warm the pan.
Yake one of the 10 pittas and make small indentations with a fork all over on both sides.
Keeping the pan at a moderate heat, place the pitta in it and leave it for approx. 2 minutes until it starts bubbling and then turn it over and repeat for the other side.
Repeat this process for each of the remaining pittas.
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From the Editor: Decision Making in the Digital Age
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Business executives today have access to far more data than any previous generation, and that transforms the way business decisions are made. The Winter 2014 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review features a special report investigating how, even with plenty of data, making wise decisions about topics like strategy can be challenging. No matter how much data we collect and analyze, our perspectives are still colored by human foibles.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Sophomore Tessa Hoefle and senior Ashley Lehman finished second and third in the women's five-kilometer race leading the Lady Bisons to a second-place finish out of 23 teams. Isaiah Greer paced the men's team for the third week in a row, leading the Bisons to a sixth-place finish at the Vanderbilt Commodore Invite.
Hoefle and Lehman finished just behind MTSU's Lucy Kipkiai. Hoefle, from Winnebago, Ill., was runner-up with an 18:05.40s mark, while Lehman was third with an 18:08.10s run. Both runners stepped up in the squads first race without sophomore Danielle Walker, out for the season with a broken foot.
Minna Fields was the first Lipscomb freshman across the line, finishing 14th with an 18:30.00s time. Fields finished fifth among freshman runners in the race.
Hoefle, Lehman and Fields each bested the previous school-record 5K mark at Vaughn's Gap, set by Alex Newby last season.
Two seniors rounded out the scoring for Lipscomb's women's squad. Catherine Beals had her season's best showing to date, finishing 18th with an 18:39.70s mark, while classmate Louisa Van Batavia was right on her heels at 18:40.70s.
In all, Lipscomb placed seven runners in the top-25 of a race that featured 194 runners. The Lady Bisons finished second as a team, behind Alabama and ahead of Belmont, Cincinnati, Memphis and Florida Gulf Coast, among other schools.
The men's side was led by Greer, who finished 18th with a 25:54.30s mark in the season's first eight-kilometer race. It set the Lipscomb 8K record on the Vaughn's Gap course, breaking Tim Muller's 26:12 mark last season.
Juniors Geoff Musick and Ashton Fisher were neck and neck at the line, with Musick (26:28.40s) just besting Fisher (26:28.50s) for 36th; Fisher would settle for 37th.
In his first collegiate eight-kilometer run, freshman Ryan Gadsey was the fourth Lipscomb runner on the board with a 26:58.00s. Gadsey has earned points in each of his first three meets for the Bisons.
Junior Ben Wright rounded out the scoring for the Bisons, finishing 58th out of 190 runners. Cincinnati won the men's event; Lipscomb finished behind Belmont and Middle Tennessee but ahead of Vanderbilt and Florida Gulf Coast.
Next weekend, the squads will be spread out across the country. The top women runners will be out in Palo Alto, Calif., for the Stanford Invitational, while the top men will be in Spokane, Wash., for the Erik Andersen Invite. The remaining runners will return to Chattanooga for the Chattanooga Cross Country Festival. All three meets will be held Saturday, Sep. 24.
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Groth Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville Napa Valley
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Wine Description
Cabernet Sauvignon is big and lush with huge gobs of fruit in the aroma and flavor. The texture of the wine is soft and supple, typical of Cabernet Sauvignons grown in our area of the Oakville AVA. The sweet vanilla character derived from 22 months in the barrels blends well with the black cherry and blackberry flavors and aromas of the wine
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Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wines(2003 Vintage) Solidly varietal aromas of dried grasses and hay, melon and citrus are moderately rich and just a little on the pungent side. Slightly rounded yet also a touch narrow and pinched, the wine picks up a stony, minerally edge and closes with a hint of bitterness in its otherwise mildly fruity aftertaste.
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Wine Advocate(1986 Vintage) Rating: 92/100 - As reviewed in Wine Advocate # 106 on Aug-96


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Year One Bristol 20th Anniversary Drag Race Show
Year One Throws a Party in Tennessee
Readers know Year One as a company that provides top-notch goodies for many of our favorite cars. But, many don't realize they don't just provide the parts we can't find anywhere else, they also put on a huge car show/drag race for all enthusiasts in Bristol, Tennessee, this year to celebrate their 20th anniversary.
We stopped by to see how things shaped up and were impressed by both the enthusiasm shared by participants and the overall quality of the cars brought out to play. This three-day event includes a huge car show, chassis-dyno tests, drag racing, and autocrossing, so there's plenty to do all weekend and it's really worth the trip.
We wanted to share a few glimpses from this event with those who weren't able to attend, but mark your calendars for late October next year when this party will happen all over again! Thanks to the folks at Year One for making this event possible, and hopefully it will continue to grow into one of the "can't-miss" events we all look forward to.


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Our design team will be re-engineering the team's heritage for Williams Racing fans to own. Every piece is unique and, due to its race-used nature, only available in limited quantities. When it's gone, it's gone!
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Is one of the bulwarks of writing using reverse psychology public relations?
I wouldn't even have noticed this if it weren't for the fact that it seems to be happening two years in a row. In these days of e-readers and scannable headlines taking attention away from traditional print media, the Pulitzer board (you know, the ones responsible for that prize) did not see fit yet again to issue an award in a major category.
Last year it was Breaking News (the category) with no prize, which resulted in several snarky tweets, including my own, pointing out the "breaking news" of there being no actual breaking news worthy of an award.
This year, despite having selected three works as potential winners, the board awarded no prize in the Fiction category. This has upset some publishers, but on the other hand has resulted in news coverage about guess what: the Pulitzer Prize.
No Prize = More Coverage?
Not only that, but the works nominated in the Fiction category are now all receiving publicity, rather than the case of simply one title appearing on the list that fewer people might pay attention to.
So how about that? The absence of the award brings attention to even more works. In the short-term, this is a good thing, but I can't help thinking that it may devalue the overall impact of the prize. Because I'm sure there will be ample hyping of "Pulitzer Prize nominee" more so than in years past for these titles. Also, I agree that it sucks to be nominated when there's no winner in the category at all. If not for the bonus PR and the glory of being noted in the blogosphere (obviously), it would seem rather anticlimactic.
The board has gotten away with this stunt for two years in a row, but what does that do to the credibility of a prize that's become a metric across so many fields? In the meantime, here are the nominees – go check them out.
- Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
- Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
- The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
And here are some books I've read that, while not winning any Pulitzers, I've still found entertaining enough to hold my interest lately.
What do you think? Read any good books lately? Does this anti-tactic actually justify the means for more coverage, or do you think is this even a tactic at all? Let us hear from you in the comments!
Related articles
- No Pulitzer for Fiction This Year (slog.thestranger.com)
- #fictionpulitzergate (americanfiction.wordpress.com)
- Pulitzer sur-Prize: No Fiction Winner (Marketplace.org)
- Pulitzers Snub Fiction (Salon.com)
- All the Easiest Ways to Search Old Tweets (TweetSmarter.com)
- No Pulitzer Prize In Fiction – Why Not? (The Moderate Voice)
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Rita needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 81 designs submitted by 26 freelance designers.
Company name is Home Solutions 4 U. Looking for a logo that represents Home Solutions for my pamphlets, business cards and website.
Home Solutions 4 U
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avacado and berries -- or something with purple in it
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The more I think about it and the more I look at the great logos coming in I realized that I should have explained more about my business. I am a real estate investor and I buy houses from people in preforeclosure. They are losing their house and want to save their credit from final foreclosure. In saying that. My company is more about solutions than the 'house'. So I would like to see something that emphasizes "Solutions" rather than "House". Simple can sometimes be best.
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I have so many questions
In this life that I now lead.
I wonder who I am,
In the midst of so much need.
I see my own need first
With each awakening dawn
As I make my painful way
"Dear God, let me reach the john."
I learned long ago
There is illness and pain
Amidst abundant life,
Each suffers loss and gain.
Like a living Geiger counter
I search for relief and joy,
Because I can only stand so much of me,
And know it's not just a ploy.
My husband's laughter
The hugs of a child
A balloon flying high
And nature's amazing wild.
I know time is passing
Each day I write a check,
I marvel at how quickly
And know my life is but a speck.
Some days I see such suffering
My very essence aches.
I wonder if God uses Super Glue
If my heart should break.
I'm alone yet not lonely
Although no one else can feel my pain;
I know there are many who,
Like me, are standing in the rain.
I have to remind myself
I'm washable, I'll dry
And relief will come
As will an azure blue sky.
Today I'll grab a piece of sky
Plant a blooming flower
Wash some dirt off the floor
And unleash my inner power.
It's okay for now, dear Lord
Today we can both be salt-free
Just for today
You need not weep for me.


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Rain.. and winter mix... just won't give up
Winter Weather Advisories & Flood Warnings in effect
Weather misery persists for about the next 48 hours. Winter Weather Advisories are in place until 10am for Fond du Lac, Dodge, Washington and Sheboygan Counties.
Temperatures are closer to 32 in the area and a freezing mix will create slipper spots on area roads. Elsewhere, the Flood Watch covers all of southern Wisconsin until Friday morning. Several area rivers are in flood and you can find details on www.wisn.com.
Heavier storms just in time for the morning commute will bring gusty winds, small hail and downpours. Allow extra time for early morning travel. Temperatures hover in the mid 30s this morning and only manage to struggle to about 39 for an afternoon high.
A drier period is likely today late morning to early afternoon. Rain and storms increase again by mid afternoon and continue to the evening and overnight. NE winds will increase this afternoon 20-30mph and will remain blustery all night.
Another day of wind and rain for Thursday with highs still in the upper 30s. Later Thursday night the mercury fall to near freezing and we stand a good chance of a freezing mix or wet snow. Minor accumulations are likely into early Friday morning.
Welcome sun for Saturday with highs still in the low 40s.
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The ultimate F1 Christmas presents have a genuine connection to the sport and these F1 present ideas have that in bucket loads! Own a piece of the F1 car, a photo signed by the F1 driver or a stunning artwork by one of the top F1 artists.
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Easy Grilled Chicken Dinner features strawberry vinaigrette-marinated grilled chicken with a tangy fruit chutney, served with roasted brussels sprouts!
Thank you so much for the anniversary well wishes – and congrats on all your milestones too! Ahh, love. :)
Ben and I held hands over dinner at Django – a French restaurant "without the attitude" downtown.
Best meal we've had at a restaurant since Emeril's NOLA in New Orleans last Spring, and certainly one of the best meals we've ever had in Des Moines. We started with Braised Pork Ravioli served with crispy prosciutto, butternut squash, leeks, mushrooms and prosciutto broth topped with parmesan cheese, then absolutely stuffed ourselves silly on our mouthwatering entrees.
Seared Sea Scallops with lobster-sweet corn mashed potatoes and red onion-sweet corn butter sauce for her…
Bouillabaisse, a French fisherman's stew of scallops, mussels, halibut, shrimp and potatoes in a saffron scented seafood broth, for him.
We died. We literally died and went to French-cuisine Heaven. Things were said about the ultimate deliciousness that is lobster-sweet corn mashed potatoes that can't be repeated on this blog. If you live in Des Moines, or within a 30 mile radius, get to Django…now! ;)
I sopped up more butter with more rolls than I care to ever think about again, so I hit the trail after work today to knock out 4.5 miles on my trail. It is goooooorgeous outside right now! I think I even got a little tan line. ;)
Now, copious amounts of butter, bread and potatoes the night before a 4.5 mile run is not an equation for success, and there were several times when I wanted to stop, park it on the nearest bench, and throw in the towel.
Whenever I feel like quitting in the middle of a run, though, I go through my book of How to Not Stop Mid-Run tricks:
1. Concentrate on your breathing: think about breathing deep and evenly. Concentrate on your breath instead of how bad your thighs are killing you. PS I used to get terrible migraines in college after running in PE, and my doctor finally deduced that they were coming on because I wasn't BREATHING when I ran. I was concentrating more on not looking like I was dying on the mile run in front of cute college guys, than I was on, you know, my overall well being. Breathe when you run. Breathe hard. And loud even, if you want. You can certainly hear me coming now!
2. Think about fake arguments or complicated math problems in your head: Sounds ridiculous but honestly I completely lose myself in my head when thinking about what I should have said in this one situation or another, or when I'm trying to solve some crazy formula in my head. Such as, ok, if I left at 4:45, and it takes me 40 minutes to run 4.5 miles, what's my average mph? See? There goes a good 5 minutes, at least!
3. Repeat after me: I often find repeating a little mantra or phrase over and over, and over and over, in my head gets me just a little bit farther. Something like pain is temporary, accomplishment is forever, or anybody can do anything for 5 more minutes!
4. Slow down: if concentrating on your breathing or thinking about something else doesn't work, and you still feel like calling it quits – slow down! The only one who's looking at how fast you're running is you. Don't be scared to slow down to a jog if you feel like you're too tired to go. There's nothing wrong with taking a walking break, but try slowing your run down a bit first!
Ok? Ok.
Tonight, I nearly kissed my grill after I was done eating dinner. I used it to make Grilled Strawberry Chicken, that was out of this world!!!
I started by pounding two chicken breasts until they were even, then marinating them all day in Strawberry Vinaigrette. Simply whisk the following ingredients together!
2 Tablespoons Strawberry Preserves
2 Tablespoons Red Wine Vinegar
3 Tablespoons olive oil
Salt & pepper
Tonight I removed the chicken from the marinade and followed my formula for perfect grilled chicken: piping hot grill + 3 minutes on each side. That's it!
The topping for my strawberry-kissed grilled chicken was this Dried Fruit Chutney from The Gracious Gourmet!
This chutney is kind of like chunky fruit preserves, but it has a touch of zing and zip from ginger and vinegar.
It. Is. Amazing. and has dried fruit like apricots, cherries, dates, cranberries and apples in it. It's really good over soft cheeses, like brie or cream cheese…
Or draped over my grilled strawberry chicken!!!
Sweet – almost apple fruit-leather tasting – but again, not too sweet because of the ginger, vinegar and a touch of garlic in the mix.
So, so, so, so, SO amazing – and all-natural too! It totally enhanced the slightly sweet, caramelized flavor of the strawberry vinaigrette. Ben and I both wanted more when we were done!
On the side, I whipped up roasted brussels sprouts. It's been ages!
Simply pre-heat your oven to 425 degrees, then cut the core off the end of the sprouts and slice in half. Discard any loose outer leaves. Place the halves on a non-stick sprayed, foil-lined baking sheet.
For a carton of sprouts, I drizzled on 2 teaspoons olive oil, and lots of garlic salt and pepper. LOTS!
Line 'em up, then roast for 15 minutes.
Flip, then roast for 10-15 more minutes.
I just sigh in utter delight when I eat these.
My favorite roasted veggie. There, I said it.
The perfect feels-like-summer dinner.
That's all I've got to say about that…
Oh! For dessert, I grilled up some mangoes!!!!
I just peeled a mango and sliced the two "cheeks" off.
Sprayed each side with non-stick spray, then grilled for about 2 minutes on each side.
Dotted with a little whip cream!
Ugh I am perfectly full and happy. That was just what I needed after such a heavy dinner last night.
I'm off to clean the house. Ben and I are going away this weekend and I always like to leave/come home to a spotless place! :D
Have a good night!
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"KPN has always been keen on moving towards a simplified yet powerful Business Support System (BSS). In our endeavour to strengthen the customer service and lower the business's total cost of ownership, Accenture was an unequivocal choice. Their agile methodology to create a read map guided us to a new, simplified technology landscape. It helped us accelerate the software delivery, drive a faster time to market and raised the customer satisfaction index. Accenture has been a true end-to-end integrated technology partner that helps us through this major transformation."
Bouke Hoving,
Executive Vice President
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As a leading provider of mobile, internet, TV and information services, KPN aims to deliver the best customer experience to its more than 11.5 million subscribers.
However, with the development of fiber, copper networks and multi-play services, as well as its expansion into OTT TV, this has made the company's business increasingly complex.
The introduction of more services with new systems to its subscribers has led to higher costs, inhibiting the agility and responsiveness of the organization. The result is fragmented Business Support Systems (BSS), which impacts negatively on customer experience and KPN's brand.
KPN needed to boost its digital capabilities, while ensuring little to no impact on its operations, business and customer services as it moved toward a more simplified BSS platform.
During this transition the company faced several business challenges: aligning the different and complex product and pricing strategies for both copper and fiber customers.
Supporting the seamless migration of customers. Implementing new unified ways of working following the customer migration and developing a BSS capable of handling an increase of 500,000 to 2.5 million customers.
Accenture developed a Data Migration Factory (DMF) to move customer data seamlessly.
More than 1.9 million KPN customers were in the scope for migration.
Accenture helped KPN achieve faster time-to-market and higher levels of customer satisfaction.
Accenture simplified KPN's IT landscape and accelerated its day-to-day business.
Accenture was selected to design, develop and execute KPN's transition to a new Oracle technology, based on BSS Laverstraat 3.0 (L3.0).
Accenture worked as an integrated team with KPN to transform the company's ability to meet the needs of its customers in the digital age, whilst increasing its ability to serve, sell and lower the business's total cost of ownership.
KPN's major business priority has always been customer service and its primary objective was to ensure that its customers experienced a "non-disrupted service" as it transitioned to the new fiber platform.
By bringing our management and technology consulting expertise together with our digital and operations capabilities, we could develop an end-to-end integrated service aimed at delivering a seamless solution that supports a higher volume of customers on a new system.
Accenture guided KPN through its first decommissioning—the first-of-its-kind for a telco in Europe.
The new platform is capable of supporting more than 2.5 million customers with quality customer service.
Accenture and KPN achieved a 10 percent reduction in call volumes.
Accenture prepared an impact plan predicting shift of 1,500+ KPN employees.
"During migration to the new provisioning systems, a main goal of KPN was to ensure that customer impact was minimized. KPN's collaboration with Accenture, both during and after migration, was essential in realising this. Accenture's combined expertise in Digital, Technology, Operations and Consulting proved essential in managing, preventing and solving potential problems resulting in happy customers and a happy KPN".
Vladmir Cibic,
Director Change & Innovation Fixed
Accenture Technology helped KPN realize the business case for the L3.0 platform. Accenture Technology secured tangible cost reductions and created a simplified landscape with fewer systems holding business data, ultimately helping to accelerate the ease and speed of the day-to-day business.
In addition to managing the complex technology, Accenture Operations developed 20 end-to-end releases and 80 minor releases on time and within budget. 6 KPIs were monitored and improved, more than 1 million data fixes were executed and more than 290 business criteria fulfilled.
Finally, the decommissioning and complete shutdown of the delivery street was the first-of-its-kind in the history of telecoms in Europe and KPN.
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12 Days of Christmas Now Cost $107,000
You've heard of the consumer price index ... but what about the Christmas price index? PNC Asset Management's Jim Dunigan on Lunch Break talks about the rising cost of buying a partridge in a pear tree and the other items in the song the "12 Days of Christmas."
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TO borrow a line from the horse racing industry, Golden Square coach Mark Lloyd expects his team to be "better for the run" in tonight's Bendigo Football League second semi-final against Gisborne at the Queen Elizabeth Oval.
Golden Square last week escaped with a 13-point win over Sandhurst in the qualifying final to earn tonight's crack at top-of-the-ladder Gisborne.
However, while Square was outplayed by the Dragons for much of last Sunday's game, Lloyd's expecting an improved showing tonight with his side now having one final under its belt.
"We had seven or eight guys last week who played in their first final," Lloyd said yesterday.
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A win tonight would propel Golden Square into its fifth-consecutive grand final, while Gisborne will be striving to play in its first grand final since its heartbreaking two-point defeat to Eaglehawk in 2007.
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Golden Square named an extended squad of 24 on Thursday night and won't finalise its team until this afternoon.
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06.22.2011 – Twenty-First Year – Num. 117
VATICAN CITY, 22 JUN 2011 (VIS) – Benedict XVI dedicated his catechesis during this morning's general audience to what he described as "the book of prayer par excellence, the Book of Psalms". The audience was held in St. Peter's Square in the presence of 10,000 people.
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The 150 Psalms of the Book of Psalms "express all human experience", said the Pope. "All the truth of the believer comes together in those prayers, which first the People of Israel and later the Church adopted as a special way to mediate their relationship with the one God, and as an adequate response to His having revealed Himself in history".
"Despite the many forms of expression they contain", the Psalms "can be divided into two broad categories: … supplication associated with lamentation, and praise. These two dimensions are related, almost indivisible, because supplication is animated by the certainty that God will respond, and this opens the way to praise and thanksgiving; while praise and thanksgiving arise from the experience of salvation received, which presupposes the need for help expressed in the supplication. … Thus, in the prayer of the Psalms, supplication and praise intertwine and fuse together in a single song which celebrates the eternal grace of the Lord as He bows down to our frailty".
"The Psalms teach us to pray", the Holy Father explained. "In them, the Word of God becomes the word of prayer. … People who pray the Psalms speak to God with the words of God, addressing Him with the words He Himself taught us. … Through these words it is also possible to know and accept the criteria of His actions, to approach the mystery of His thoughts and His ways, so as to grow and develop in faith and love".
"By teaching us to pray", the Pope went on, "the Psalms also teach us that at times of desolation, even in moments of suffering, the presence of God is a source of wonder and consolation. We may weep, plead and seek intercession, … but in the awareness that we are advancing towards the light, where praise will be unending".
"Equally important and significant are the manner and frequency in which the words of the Psalms appear in the New Testament, where they assume and underline that prophetic significance suggested by the link of the Book of Psalms with the messianic figure of David. In His earthly life the Lord Jesus prayed with the Psalms, and in Him they reach definitive fulfilment and reveal their fullest and deepest meaning. The prayers of the Book of Psalms, with which we speak to God, speak to us of Him, they speak of the Son, image of the invisible God Who fully reveals the Father's face to us. Thus Christians, by praying the Psalms, pray to the Father in Christ and with Christ, seeing those songs in a new perspective which has its ultimate interpretation in the Paschal Mystery".
Having completed his catechesis and delivered greetings in various languages, the Pope recalled the fact that tomorrow is the Feast of Corpus Christi. He invited everyone in Rome, residents and pilgrims alike, to participate in the Mass he will celebrate at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the basilica of St. John Lateran, and in the subsequent procession along Via Merulana to the basilica of St. Mary Major. "I invite you", he said, "to join this act of profound faith towards the Eucharist, which represents the most precious treasure of the Church and of humankind".
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Shred Stixx Europe needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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We need a logo for our christmas wakesurf contest on the lake. Combining a summer sport with christmas opens up a new dimension of possibilities. Boats towed by reindeers instead of Santa Claus' sled, christmas tree lights around wakesurfers, sweets, gifts, snow...
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Chemical peeling is a type of cosmetic treatment in which a specific solution would be used for removing the (superficial) damaged skin layers. The chemical is generally used for the face to improve the skin texture. Skin pigmentation is also a condition, which can be effectively treated with Chemical peeling cosmetic treatment. The Obagi bleu peel is also known to improve the skin irregularities, wrinkles and facial blemishes. It is essential for all patients to consult with a cosmetic surgeon or dermatologist to determine if they are good candidate for this procedure.
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In most cases, patients who have light hair and fair skin would be the best patient for chemical peeling. However, patients who have other hair colour and skin pigmentation can also see good results. The ideal candidates for this cosmetic treatment would be the ones who are not happy with their skin appearance, do not smoke and have a realistic expectation of the procedure.
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Cystoscopy (sis-TOS-kuh-pee) is a procedure used to see inside your urinary bladder and urethra — the tube that carries urine from your bladder to the outside of your body. During a cystoscopy procedure, your doctor uses a hollow tube (cystoscope) equipped with a lens to carefully examine the lining of your bladder and your urethra. The cystoscope is inserted into your urethra and slowly advanced into your bladder.
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Very low frequency radio observations of lightning discharges (AARDDVARK)Entry ID: K060_2008_2012_NZ_2
Abstract: The AARDDVARK/WWLLN Very Low Frequency (VLF) Radio Sensor was installed at Arrival Heights from 10-15 December 2008 by Dr Craig J. Rodger and Dr. James Brundell as part of Antarctica New Zealand Event K069a. The sensor measures the magnetic field in the Very Low Frequency radio range (~500�Hz-50�kHz), and passes it to a PC which processes the data for the experiments. The primary experiment is the ... AARDDVARK observations. The secondary experiment, WWLLN, uses exactly the same VLF feed but processes it to detect the radio-wave pulses from lightning. WWLLN observations are sent to a central processing computer to determine the time and location of lightning pulses all over the globe. The World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) is an experimental Very Low Frequency (VLF) network of sensors being developed through collaborations with research institutions across the globe. The network exploits the considerable electromagnetic power radiated by lightning as "sferics" present in the VLF band. By combining radio-pulse observations from at least 5 stations, the WWLLN central processing computers can determine the location of the original lightning discharge. As the radio-pulse observations are immediately sent back across the internet to the central processing computers locations are generated within ~10 s of the discharge, and thus near real time. There are currently 33 active VLF receiving stations operating in the VLF World-Wide Lightning Location Network as of December 2008, including the "Scott Base" measurements made at Arrival Heights. WWLLN observations are continuously transmitted to one of the WWLLN primary servers, in this case flash.ess.washington.edu at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
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The Cameron University Foundation has established the Shelia Lee Endowed Scholarship in Business, an initiative launched by the Lawton Fort Sill Chamber of Commerce and Leadership Oklahoma Class XVII to commemorate the legacy of the late Shelia Lee. Major donors to the endowment are Cameron University alumni Sylvia Burgess, Brad and Karen Burgess, and Bill Burgess, who jointly contributed $10,000. Approximately 25 additional donors also contributed to the endowment.
"Cameron University is honored to commemorate Shelia Lee's legacy of leadership and excellence with this endowment," says Albert Johnson, Jr., Vice President for University Advancement. "The members of the Burgess family and the many donors who have made this scholarship possible will impact the lives of Cameron students and in doing so, honor Shelia's memory and commitment to the community.
To be eligible for the Shelia Lee Endowed Scholarship, applicants must be female, full-time students carrying a minimum of 12 hours, with a preference toward those who are pursuing a degree in business. The scholarship will be awarded to sophomores, juniors and seniors who meet a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75 on a 4 point scale. Scholarship funds are to be used for the cost of tuition, books, and other educational fees. Once awarded, a recipient may retain the scholarship until degree completion if she maintains eligibility.
Lee was a community leader who served the Chamber for more than 15 years and who was named president of the organization in November 2010. She began her professional life as a successful businesswoman in Hanau, Germany, where she was a retail specialist with Waterford/Wedgwood and as an accountant for the Army and Air Force Exchange Service. Once she returned to the United States, she began work in the field of career services, assisting others in the finding an appropriate career path. She moved to Lawton where she worked in Student Services for Draughon College and later became a Fiscal Officer at The Marie Detty Head Start Center. She began her prominent Chamber of Commerce career in 1996 as the receptionist with the Lawton Fort Sill Chamber of Commerce. Throughout the years, she thrived in many roles at the Chamber, including Military Affairs, Membership, Tourism and Vice President.
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"What amazes me about this is that Jesus came to Thomas on his level. He didn't rebuke him. He didn't humiliate him."
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John Barnett
On the cross, god treated Jesus as if He had committed every sin ever committed by every person who would ever believe. Did you get that? God treated Him as if He committed, personally, every sin ever committed by every person who would ever believe though the fact is He committed none of them. That's the great doctrine of substitution. And that's the first side of imputation. God imputed our sins to Him. He was guilty of none of them. God treated Him as if He committed all of them. And He just unloaded His fury for all the sins of all the people who would ever believe in Him in the history of the world. He unloaded all His fury against all their sins on Christ.
To borrow the language of Leviticus 16:1, Jesus became the "scapegoat." The scapegoat was guilty of nothing. But the High Priest, as it were, laid all the sins of the people on the scapegoat and sent him away. He was without sin. But sin was credited to His account as if He had personally committed it and then God punished Him though the fact is He never committed any of it. That's imputation.
Have you ever asked yourself the question, "When Jesus came into the world why did He have to live all those years?" If I was planning the plan of redemption I'd have had Him come down on Friday, die, rise on Sunday and go back to Heaven Monday. Why 30 years? Why 30 silent years?
Jesus lived a full life was that He might live a complete life fully righteous. That He might live a complete life absolutely without sin, absolutely perfect, so that that perfect life could be credited to your account. That's the backside of imputation. On the cross, God treated Jesus as if He lived your life so He could treat you as if you lived His life. That's the Gospel. That's substitution.
Taken from "how to escape the fires of hell" by Discover the Book Ministries (used by permission).
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Note: Portions of this review appeared in our PS3 Review of Guacamelee!.
Guacamelee! is the game that dares to ask the question — What would happen if you replaced Samus with a luchador? The answer, of course, is pure awesome. Guacamelee! is an unremittingly entertaining romp through a Mexican-themed fantasy world, where the evil death-skeleton Calaca has decided to merge the Land of the Dead with that of the living. Worse, he's kidnapped El Presidente's daughter, and you'd better believe Juan is a bad enough dude to rescue her.
At first Juan is just a big burly guy with some good moves, but it doesn't take long for him to be transformed into a deadly combo-stringing luchador of sheer destruction. The plot is laid out relatively quickly, and advanced moves that both put the hurt on enemies and open blocked off paths follow right behind. The initial basic move set is a punch combo with positional modifiers, and a tap of the right stick does a dodge roll that also gives a quick moment of invincibility. Special moves that use a block of power come along pretty quickly, earned by finding and destroying some suspiciously familiar statues. These abilities are color-coded to specific blocks along the path, and later enemies come with glowing shields that can only be breached by the move of their color. Additionally, some moves, such as the uppercut, are required for advanced jumping puzzles. And then things start to get interestingly tricky.
The combat is fast and fun, and working out a properly destructive string of moves will require good timing and an eye for sorting out the chaos when a load of enemies gather on screen at once. The jumping puzzles, on the other hand, can be downright evil, especially when going after a hidden bonus. There's a lot of buttons on the remote and they all do something. Jumping is easy enough, but special moves need a direction plus button press. You eventually unlock the ability to switch between the land of the dead and living at will, which not only leads to fights where you need to switch between one world and the other, but also changes in the wall and platform layout of the room. A common jumping puzzle might be jump, wall jump, change world so you've got something to land on, wall jump back, change world again, special move, fingers fall off. Once you sort out the manual dexterity there's a ton of clever areas to master and secrets to wrest from them.
As nice as the Metroidvania gameplay is, though, it's the window dressing that really brings Guacamelee!'s world to life. The art throughout is stylish and vibrant, bursting with color and a dynamic angular style. There are tons of jokes and references in the background art and villager dialogue, and the levels are loaded with personality. The story itself is a silly cartoon plot, but it's a fun silly cartoon plot so that's OK. Everything works together perfectly, and the only disappointment is that the game is somewhat short. It's also perfectly tuned with barely a wasted screen, so the game length ends up being more feature than problem, if just barely.
While Guacamelee! was no slouch on the PlayStation 3 or Vita, the Gold Edition looks absolutely divine on the PC with a rock-solid smooth framerate and an increased resolution. Other than that, there aren't too many advanced graphical options, but then again, this is a 2D platformer that's all about its bright and vibrant art style rather than pixel count or special effects. Enabling anti-aliasing is also made available, along with vertical syncing and a windowed mode. Besides the graphical enhancements, the keyboard and mouse controls are fully customizable, and it's strongly encouraged to remap them yourself. As much as the default bindings are functional, they are far from the most efficient way of playing. Regardless, using a controller is still the best way to experience Guacamelee!, but the transition to the PC is a solid one.
Additionally, while it wasn't in our pre-release build, the game also comes with Steam Workshop capabilities, allowing users to create, share and download custom skins for their Luchador. On top of that, the Gold Edition has a bevy of Steamworks features, including leaderboards, achievements, cloud support and trading cards. Throw in a costume pack and El Diablo's Domain Challenge Levels, and you have the most complete Guacamelee! package possible.
Closing Comments:
Guacamelee! Gold Edition only helps to enhance the rich, fun, free-scrolling action platformer by strengthening the visual art style and adding a bevy of Steamworks features. With a fantastic fighting engine and some truly tricky platforming challenges, this is a game for the ages. It knows exactly what it wants to do and has a blast doing it, and while the game comes to an end a little quickly, it's a great time the entire way through. Exploring the levels and finding secrets while pummeling enemies into piles of marrow is entertaining from start to finish, and absolutely worth checking out.
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Viewing Photos of Kittens and Puppies Improves Attentiveness and Focus
October 7, 2012
by Robert Wascher
Filed under A Cancer Prevention Guide for the Human Race, Attentiveness, Carefulness, Cats, Children, cognitive function, Cute Photos, Cuteness, dogs, Focus, Kids, Kittens, performance, Puppies, Rewards, Toddlers, Weekly Health Update
A new study suggests that viewing pictures of cute baby animals improves our ability to perform focused tasks.
Most of the columns that I write for this blog deal with very serious health-related research studies. This week, however, I will be discussing a somewhat more whimsical research study, compared to most of my prior columns. This study from Japan appears in the current issue of the journal Public Library of Science (PLOS) One.
We all know that a young child, a kitten, or a puppy can evoke feelings of adoration and happiness. Now, a newly published research study from Hiroshima, Japan, suggests that the positive feelings that arise when we see baby animals, or some other "cute thing," may have a potentially greater impact on our behavior than has previously been appreciated.
In this innovative prospective study, several separate experiments were conducted using photos of cute little baby animals (kittens and puppies) and less cute adult animals (cats and dogs), as well as photos of "neutral" objects not associated with being "cute."
In the first experiment, university student volunteers were asked to perform a task requiring significant manual dexterity after viewing photos of, variously, cute baby animals and (not so cute) adult animals. In this experiment, viewing photos of cute baby animals increased the successful performance of the assigned task by 44 percent, as compared to only a 12 percent improvement in performance among the students who performed the same task after viewing photos of adult animals.
In the second experiment, the participating college students were asked to perform a visual search task after looking at the cute and not so cute animal photos. Once again, task-related performance significantly improved after looking at the pictures of kittens and puppies (16 percent), compared to the degree of improvement that was noted after viewing photos of adult cats and dogs (1 percent).
When the researchers analyzed the data from this study, they determined that looking at photos of cute little kittens and puppies significantly improved attentiveness to focused tasks such as those performed in this study. Based upon the findings of this study and previous similar research studies, the authors of this study propose that a "cuteness-triggered positive emotion" is associated with increased motivation to complete assigned tasks, as well as improved processing of information associated with performing manual and visual tasks (as was demonstrated in this new research study). They further suggest that intentional exposure to "cute objects" might be helpful in stimulating positive behaviors in both the workplace and at home, particularly when tasks requiring careful attention are being performed.
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May 23, 2011
by Robert Wascher
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Fourth Year of Ganlu (259 AD)
Shu: Second Year of Jingyao
Wu: Second Year of Yongan
1. Spring, first month (February 10-March 11). Two yellow dragons appeared in a well in Ningling. Before this time, dragons had appeared frequently in wells in Dunqiu, Guanjun and Yangxia.
[1] From SGZ, Chronicle of the Duke of Gaoguixiang.
2. The various officials held the appearance of the dragons in the wells to be an auspicious sign. The Emperor said, "Dragons symbolize the virtue of a sovereign. [2] But they are not in heaven above, nor in the fields below [3]; in their frequent appearances they are being constricted in wells. This is not an auspicious omen." He composed a poem on a dragon lying hid [4]in allusion to himself. Sima Zhao saw it and was displeased.
[2] From the Han Jin chunqiu, which begins: "At this time, dragons appeared frequently."
[2.2] The Zhou yi has: "'The dragon appears in the field: it will be advantageous to meet with the great man,' has reference to the virtuous qualities of a ruler (as thus described)." The Emperor borrows the phrase from the Yi Jing but uses it in accordance with his own interpretation.
[2.3] Again the Emperor is quoting from the Yi Jing, which reads: "In the third line there is a twofold symbol of strength, but the position is not central. Its occupant is not in heaven above, nor is he in the fields below."
[2.4] The designation, 'dragon lying hidden,' is derived from the Yi Jing, where it reads: "In the first or lowest line, undivided, we see its subject as the dragon lying hidden in the deep. It is not the time for active doing."
3. Summer, sixth month (July 7-August 5). Wang Chang, the 'Affable' Lord of Jingling, died.
[3] SGZ, Chronicle of the Duke of Gaoguixiang has: "Summer, the sixth month, Wang Chang, the sigong, died." According to the biography in SGZ, Wang Chang had been promoted to be the Lord of Jingling and, after his death, was canonized as the 'Affable' Lord.
4. The Sovereign of Han enfeoffed his sons: Liu Chen as Prince of Beidi, Xun he made Prince of Xinxing and Qian the Prince of Shangdang.
[4] From SGZ, Biography of the Second Sovereign.
5. The shangshu ling, Chen Zhi, had ingratiated himself with the sovereign of Han through his deft manner and smooth tongue. Though superior to him in rank, Jiang Wei was for the most part out of the capital serving as a commander of troops, and seldom participated in State affairs; hence he was inferior to him in power and influence.
[5] Rewritten from a passage in the biography of Dong Yun in SGZ, which reads in its entirety: "Chen Zhi, zi Fengzong, was a man of Runan; he was a grandson on his mother's side of Xu Jing's elder brother. In his youth, he lost his father and was brought up in Xu Jing's house. When he was about twenty years old he became famous. After some promotions he was appointed xuancaolang. He was solemn and august, with an awe-inspiring mian; he was highly ingenous and gifted in the mathematical sciences.
Fei Yi admired him exceedingly; hence he made him, by extraordinary promotion, succeed Dong Yun as a neishi (Chamberlain); when Lü Yi died (in the fourteenth year of Yanxi; 251 AD), Chen Zhi furthermore, in his capacity as shizhong, acted as shangshuling and received the title of zhenjun jiangjun.
Though superior to him in rank, Jiang Wei, the da jiangjun, usually served out of the capital as a commander of troops and seldom participated in state affairs. Chen Zhi was disposed to please his sovereign above and stood in intimate contact with the palace eunuchs below. Hence he was deeply loved by the Sovereign of Han, and his power was greater than that of Jiang Wei.
6. Autumn, eighth month. ON the day bingzi (September 23), Chen Zhi died. The Sovereign of Han appointed the shangshu puyi Dong Jue of Yiyang as shangshu ling [1] and the shangshu Zhuge Zhan as shangshu puyi. [2]
[6] From various sources.
[6.1] From the Huayang Guozhi, under the second year of Jingyao, which reads: "Autumn, eighth month. On the day bingzi, Chen Zhi, acting zhonghujun, died. Dong Jue, the Lord of Nanxiang and shangshu puyi was appointed shangshuling." With regard to the date of Chen Zhi's death, it must be noted that it is given in the biography of Dong Yun as having occurred in the first year of Jingyao (258 AD).
[6.2] Sima Guang's text conveys the impression that Zhuge Zhan was appointed shangshu puyi in this year, but the appointment may not have occurred then. His biography in SGZ reads: "He went through a series of promotions: shesheng jiaoyu, shizhong shangshu, and shangshu puyi, with the title of junshi jiangjun...In the fourth year of Jingyao he was appointed xingduhu and wei jiangjun; together with the Lord of Nanxiang and fuguo dajiangjun Dong Jue, he took charge of matters pertaining to the Shangshu."
Hong Yisun in his Sanguo zhi guan biao writes that the appointment occurred in the early years of Jingyao.
7. Winter, eleventh month (December 2-December 31). The juji jiangjun Sun Yi was killed by slave girls.
[7] From SGZ, Chronicle of the duke of Gaoguixiang, where a more exact date is given: "In the eleventh month, on the day guimao (December 19)..."
SGZ, Biography of Sun Huan states: "Lady Xing was beautiful and so jealous that those under her could not bear her at all, and in the end they together killed Sun Yi and Lady Xing. Having gone over to the Wei, Sun Yi died in the third year of Huangchu (222 AD)." The last sentence is obviously an error.
Sun Yi went over to the Wei in 257 AD. Hence it was altogether three years between then and his death in 259 AD. The text is definitely wrong.
8. In this year, Wang Ji was appointed chengnan jiangjun in charge of the various military affairs of Jingzhou.
[8] From SGZ, Biography of Wang Ji, where it reads: "In the fourth year of Ganlu, Wang Ji was transferred to the post of zhengnan jiangjun."


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Doug Cooper's 1955 Chevrolet 210 - Hidden In Plain Sight
Low-Mileage 210, Original Paint, Big-Block Power, Overdrive, And A Fully Modern Chassis.
Doug Cooper's a New York boy, born and bred in Westchester County. Lives on Long Island 20 years now and has a slew of rods and street machines, including one that walked away with Street Rod Of The Year in 1997. He has several "slick" cars, as he calls them, ones done to hell and back, but ones that require a toothbrush to dust and detail after every drive. Now he's hot on a venerable 210 that he found with only 35,000 miles from new. Had a few dents but no rust. It sleeps. It's been washed twice since he's had it. He likes to drive, man. Has original road rash. Its bleached-out Seafoam Green is mostly factory, too. But underneath this sheepish fafade there's a whole lotta noise supported by underpinnings that the '55 couldn't imagine back in the day. A professionally built 700hp big-block shakes and rolls under that patina, backed by a professionally built double-overdrive six-speed. The frame isn't stock, nor is the suspension. So how come it looks like our man just dragged it out of some old guy's garage down in Long Beach?
"I was at Pigeon Forge last year looking for a '55 post car. I was sitting with my friend Alan Johnson. We were just chatting and enjoying a sandwich and a can of soda. Then he exclaimed, 'There's that '55 post you were lookin' for!' I dropped my soda and ran after it." Alan adds: "We'd been looking for a '55 for over a year. I knew when that car went by it had never been monkeyed with."
Doug: "Though it looked like a ghost from Southern California, it had been living on a farm in Tennessee all of its life. It was a six-cylinder Glide car. The original owner died in 1958. Apparently it sat somewhere for years and went nowhere until his grandson had a realization and sold it to a guy in his late 40s who obviously knew its value. Hell, I bought it on the spot."
Not quite that easily, though. Doug had but $500 cash, so he asked his other Johnson pal (car nut Bob, yes, that Bob) to pony up the money, which he did. Doug said, "I wrote him a check to cover it and that was it. The car came with all the original documentation, including the bill of sale and the warranty as well as the life insurance policy that people had to provide the dealer when they bought a new car. From there, I drove it to Alan's shop in Gadsden, Alabama, about 250 miles south, without incident."
We've heard of pristine finds like this, but very infrequently. Doug was so crazy about it that he stayed in Alabama and took it apart so he could discover the treasures he was certain it held. Sure enough, when he was getting ready to pull the body off at Alan's, he turned not a single rusty bolt, except those holding the bumpers, and even they freed up with a little grit and hand tools. The eyebrows on the front fenders, notorious for collecting moisture and rusting through about five years after they came off the assembly line, were intact and in their original form. It got better. He and Alan pulled the inspection plates on the doors and found the window mechanism still coated with the light lithium grease that an assembly line worker had applied more than 50 years ago. Even the ashtray and the column shifter slid on the same white compound.
"When I pulled the fenders off, I found some clay residue up in the wells, and I asked the seller about it. He told me the road from the farm had a small ditch along the way and that the wheels dipped into it every time the car passed through. Two days after I'd driven it to Alan's, I had the body off," Doug said. "The only damage to the car was a little sideswipe rash on one of the doors; otherwise the thing was straight. The paint was faded, but it was faded evenly."
Though Doug's '55 will forever be known for its stock, unrestored condition, it is a completely modern entity underneath. Most '50s cars and those from the musclecar era are invariably marked by chassis and brake updates augmented by modern rubber on wider rims. Doug's car could easily be the poster child. When people pour buckets of cash into a project, they usually want their car's outward appearance to reflect that. Doug's been there several times already. This time his notion was to create the ultimate antislick appearance, the high-buck sleeper that never was, hidden in plain sight. He wanted to drive a taunt, a raspberry, a Bronx cheer from out on the Island.
Though known primarily for its elegantly understated street rods and Bob Johnson's insanely slippery G-Force 'Cuda, Alan Johnson's Hot Rod Shop turns out its share of muscle-era iron, too. "We do a lot of cars like that here, it's just that they are not as publicized as our early cars. Where we usually have to cut stuff out and weld stuff in, Doug's required nothing like that. We put it on the new frame untouched. This was an interesting project and something we wanted to be part of," Alan confessed in his easy way. "Otherwise, I would have passed and sent it on down the road. If the car is interesting to us, I don't care what we do. If it isn't, we pass. The main thing is that it has to reflect on the shop's taste. We and the owner have to be completely together on that."
When Doug went back to Johnson's a few months later, they plopped the raw body on the new chassis, and it was one of Art Morrison's Tri-Five series. Alan and his 14-person crew put about 1,500 hours of labor in it and finished the piece one day before the '07 Power Tour. Have no illusions. There's high-tech high performance everywhere hidden in plain sight. One of the build bogies was to have nothing hanging lower than the bottom of the framerails, and to purposely obscure details to complement the 210's strangely unforgettable exterior. It represents the ultimate brown-box fake-out. "With Doug's car," said Alan, "we did the mini-tubs and sunk the firewall, but we finished them off to look like they were just part of the factory assembly. The casual observer won't even notice the changes."
Suppliers like Morrison have made the car builder's life much easier. You figure out what you want, order it to spec, and never fire up a welder. Johnson's crew did, of course, and modified Morrison's GT55 assembly further according to the plans Doug discussed with them. So that it would be more adaptable to the 540 bullet, they fabricated new motor and transmission mounts, raising the combo up and back two inches, thus hiding the bottom of the oil sump and giving the car better front-to-rear weight distribution, but not necessarily a lower center of gravity. As installed, the chassis lowers the C/G three to four inches, and that iron-block Rat is about 200 pounds heavier than a Mouse. As a reference, Morrison's 427-inch small-block '55 demonstrator generates a monstrous 0.94 g on the skidpad. That's more lateral energy than some exotics costing upwards of $200K.
A student of finely detailed automotive art, Doug instilled his 210 with Hyperco coil springs over Bilstein dampers between the Morrison tubular control arms in front and at the rear, thus eliminating the space-hogging leaf springs. A triangulated four-link suspension makes room for big tires, but the fat Michelins (the widest street skins they manufacture) made minitubs a necessity. Regardless, the back seat still looks stock, although it is just as uncomfortable as it always was. The chopped Morrison/Currie 9-inch spans 52 inches and sports big Wilwood sixpiston discs. Since the car is meant to handle curves with the same alacrity as the 700hp engine that propels it, Johnson's finished the assembly with a 3/4-inch-diameter antisway bar. Doug points the car via a Mustang II powerrack steering, and burns off energy with six-piston calipers putting the clamp on 14-inch Wilwood discs. A matching Addco 1-inch antisway augments the Hyperco/Bilstein wheel-control alliance. The suedelike body may seem whimsical, but there's no doubt that the dynamic capabilities of this nearly 4,000-pound road burner are ferocious.
One look at the spec chart reveals that Doug invested in the very best engine equipment. From the Dart Big M cylinder case to the Callies rotating assembly to the Dart heads, it's all first class. He is of the mind that if you do it right, then you only have to do it once. With its shrinking 9.5:1 compression ratio, he could peddle this thing on Mexican gas and still be detonation free. The motor makes 700 hp, but more importantly, it seethes with grunt, more than 600 lb-ft available at 3,000 rpm. Doug just crowds the loud pedal a bit and goes, regardless of where the shifter is pointed. That custom-built-by-Johnson's stick snakes up from the T56, its shape reminiscent of the Inland shifter attached to '60s GM fourspeeds. It was wholly necessary to clear a bench seat. Doug considers the Line- Loc critical. He has the occasional yen to create a spectacle when people least expect one.
Those subtle details? Alan and Doug put their heads together on all of them. None is more subdued than those surrounding the 540. What stealthy relief: black-out reigns. Begin with the Vintage Air Front Runner accessory drive, low down and compact. Unless you looked closely, you'll probably miss it completely. Those custom-built rocker covers fall right into place, too, for their "invisible" paint and the period Chevrolet script that appeared only on early smallblocks. That goes for the custom air cleaner as well. The ambience is one of, "Well, I am a big-block, but I don't look the least bit dangerous...or do I?"
In the sea of street machines out there, it is always encouraging to see one that hasn't forsaken the manual transmission. While a straight Muncie or BorgWarner four-gear is good, it isn't very friendly to fuel consumption, the engine, or the driver's comfort. Call us impetuous, but we are of a mind that an overdriven top gear is mandatory now, especially in light of premium pee that's shooting for four bucks a gallon. A T56 behind a stout big-block is a brilliant thing, like a warm thought that you take out and savor on a cold, rainy day. The Rockland Gear six-gear we know. Doug favors them because of their bulletproof constitution, protected by larger input and output shafts, modified Viper components, hardened steel shifting forks, and triple-cone synchronizers. This is not Doug's primary interest with the 210, though. Suffice it to say that he is cognizant of the thoroughly destructive force that its big-block represents and prefers the control and immediacy of a clutch.
There's more to it. Doug took some remedial action on the intake system. With the Dominator and open plenum intake combo, he was experiencing about 10 mpg, even with the deep overdrive. He's much happier with the Holley 950 and the dual-plane Edelbrock on the engine now. Throttle response on the low end is measurably improved and fuel consumption has jumped to about 14 mpg.
A quick eyeball on the inside reveals little to excite. Redone stock, right down to that flabby bench seat ("I could use a little more lateral support," razzed Doug). There are no thick-web harnesses. Instead, Doug chose modern three-point seatbelts anchored to the B-pillar. Spend a few more moments and you pick up the tachometer sitting sidesaddle beneath that bus-big steering wheel. Then you pin the one-off Classic Instruments instrument cluster with the basic meters surrounding that freakin' 200-mph speedo. Doug used up a bunch of it on the Power Tour while "pacing" a buddy's Camaro between 105 and 130 mph for, oh, about 30 miles. Certainly, it has the horsepower to ring up a 200, but Doug thinks that the Chevy's cinderblock silhouette and gearing would limit it to about 180 mph.
Alan and his crew know Doug well from other times and other cars they've fabricated for him. While he was there with the 210 last year, they ribbed him and started a pool to see how long it would take before he blew it apart and did the mambo on it. He swears he never will.
|Doug Cooper Syosset, NY
|Vehicle weight w/driver: 3,850 pounds
|GM displacing 540 cubic inches
|(4.500 bore x 4.25 stroke)
|Dart Big M low-deck
|Compression ratio:
|custom Milodon 6-quart oil pan
|and oiling system
|Rotating assembly:
|4.250-inch stroke Callies crank,
|6.305-inch Callies rods,
|Mahle forged pistons, Speed-Pro rings
|Cylinder heads:
|Dart 352cc Pro 1 aluminum,
|CNC-milled valve pockets
|COMP hydraulic roller,
|236/246 degrees duration @ .050-inch,
|.641-inch lift, Cloyes Tru-Roller timing gear
|2.30-/1.88-inch valves,
|1.7:1 COMP Pro Magnum roller rocker arms,
|3/8-inch pushrods, COMP valve springs
|Edelbrock Performer dual-plane
|intake manifold, Holley 950-cfm carburetor
|prepped by Book Racing Enterprises,
|phenolic spacer, Johnson's Hot Rod Shop (JHRS)
|Power adder:
|MSD Pro Billet distributor,
|6AL box, 38 degrees total timing
|JHRS coated custom headers,
|2 1/4-inch primary pipes, 3 1/2-inch collectors,
|3 1/2-inch coated exhaust system,
|Flowmaster mufflers
|Built by:
|Shafiroff Racing Engines
|Rockland Gear Tremec 6-speed,
|McLeod Twin Disc, JHRS custom shifter
|chromemoly steel
|by The Driveshaft Shop
|Rear Axle:
|Morrison/Currie 9-inch narrowed
|to 52 inches, Strange third member,
|locker differential, 4.11:1 ring-and-pinion
|Front suspension:
|Art Morrison tubular upper
|and lower control arms, Hyperco coils over Bilstein
|shock absorbers, Morrison/Addco antisway bar
|Rear suspension:
|4-link with Hyperco coils
|over Bilstein shock absorbers,
|Morrison/Addco antisway bar
|Wilwood 14-inch discs,
|6-piston calipers, front;
|Wilwood 13.5-inch rotors,
|6-piston calipers, rear
|American TorqThrust II
|18x9, front; 20x12, rear
|Michelin Pilot Sport PS2
|245/40ZR18, front;
|335/30ZR20, rear