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Rhythm Magazine Claims for unemployment benefits dropped more than expected last week, Reuters reported. The claims dropped 15,000, rounding out the total week's claims to 281,000. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 15,000, to a seasonally adjusted 281,000 for the week ended July 11, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Analysts predicted the claims would reach 285,000. The drop ended three straight weeks of increases, and experts are pointing to a solid labor market. While claims can increase during summer months due to factories closing for maintenance, some remain open for production. Get More at NBC News
NBC NEWS The confessed gunman in the massacre at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, appeared in court Thursday morning and waived his right to a bond, NBC News reported. Prosecutors presented their indictment against Dylann Roof, 21, who faces nine counts of murder, three counts of attempted murder and one count of weapons possession in the June 17 rampage at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Roof, who is being held without bond, entered the Charleston courtroom shackled and wearing a stripped grey prison jumpsuit. Circuit Court Judge J.C. Nicholson asked about Roof's competency evaluation. One of this two public defenders responded that he has an "online GED, he can read, he writes, he understands. I don't see any issue with competency at this time." A trial date was tentatively set for July 11, 2016. Get More at NBC News
President Barack Obama went behind bars as he extended his campaign for reform in the criminal justice system, becoming the first sitting president to see inside a federal prison, NBC News reported. The president visited the sprawling El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in Oklahoma, a complex which includes sections of buildings separated by large green yards and barbed wire fences. While there, he met with six inmates in prison for drug offenses. "Every single one of them emphasized the fact that they had done something wrong, they are prepared to take responsibility for it, but they also urged us to think about how society could've reached them earlier on in life to keep them out of trouble," the president said. On Monday, the president commuted the federal prison sentences of 46 nonviolent drug offenders, 14 of whom were serving life terms. And on Tuesday, Obama argued for shortening or eliminating mandatory minimum sentences for those same offenders in a speech to the NAACP in Philadelphia. Get More at NBC News
Getty Images South Africa's retired archbishop Desmond Tutu has been hospitalized for a persistent infection, his charity announced on Facebook. The Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation said the 83-year-old anti-apartheid campaigner is "receiving an intensive course of antibiotics to quell a stubborn infection." It added that the Tutu family "has been overwhelmed by the deluge of love and prayers." Tutu's official Facebook page also said that the retired archbishop's family "hopes he will be able to return home in a day or two." Tutu previously has been treated for prostate cancer, but his daughter Mpho told reporters Thursday that her father's infection was not related to his cancer. Get More at NBC News
Kunz Family A frantic search has been underway for a 2-year-old toddler who vanished last Friday from his family's campsite outside rural Leadore, Idaho, NBC News reported. The family of Deorr Kunz Jr. said his parent's believed his grandfather was watching him at the campsite while his grandfather believed he was down by the creek with his parents. "Just in a split second, your whole world is upside down and vanished," Deorr Kunz Sr., Deorr's father, told East Idaho News Monday. Lemhi County Sheriff Lynn Bowerman told NBC's "Dateline" divers were searching the Stone Reservoir Wednesday after cadaver dogs indicated there may be more there to find. A comprehensive search of the 2.5-mile radius of the family's campsite turned up no clues. Get More at NBC News
AP Officials said Two bodies have been recovered from wreckage matching the description of a crashed plane at the center of a teenage girl's dramatic survival story in Washington, NBC News reported. Autumn Veatch, 16, walked for around two days through the wilderness after the Beech A-35 she and her step-grandparents were flying in crashed in the northern part of the state. Officials have been searching for her step-grandparents, Leland and Sharon Bowman, and the wreckage. The Skagit County Sheriff's Office said in a statement Wednesday that wreckage matching Veatch's plane had been found about 100 miles from Seattle. The bodies were not being identified until the next of kin had ben informed. Get More at NBC News
AP President Barack Obama telephoned Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to thank him for his part in the recent nuclear deal with Iran, the White House said. Obama thanked Putin for Russia's role in achieving the milestone agreement, "the culmination of nearly 20 months of intense negotiations," the statement said. It added that Obama and Putin agreed to remain in close touch as the Iran deal is implemented and would work together to reduce tensions in the Middle East, particularly in Syria. Get More at NBC News
NASA The first pictures sent back by NASA's New Horizons probe after this week's unprecedented Pluto flyby reveal towering mountains made of frozen water — and a giant dark impact basin on top of its biggest moon, Charon. The scientists who are leading the team say even they are flummoxed by the images from an icy, alien realm on the edge of the solar system, 3 billion miles (5 billion kilometers) away. "Who'd have supposed that there are ice mountains?" Johns Hopkins University's Hal Weaver, project scientist for the New Horizons mission, said Wednesday during a news briefing here at JHU's Applied Physics Laboratory. Principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute called the findings "balloon-busting." Get More at NBC News
France prevented multiple terrorist attacks this week, the country's president Francois Hollande said a day after two explosions rocked a petrochemical site near Berre-l'Etang by Aix-en-Province. "Several terrorist attacks were thwarted this week," Hollande said on French national television station BFMTV 24 news. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said earlier Wednesday that the explosions were "criminal acts, but the motivation has not yet been established." Cazeneuve said that on "Monday, July 13, at dawn, four individuals between the age of 16 to 23, (including one who was) a former military in the national navy" were arrested. Get More at NBC News
Former top U.S. health insurer regulator, Marilyn Tavenner, will lead the insurance industry lobbying group America's Health Insurance Plans, the group announced Wednesday. Until last February, Tavenner was Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In addition to the Medicare and Medicaid programs, Tavenner was responsible for the individual insurance created under the national healthcare reform law, often called Obamacare. She was confirmed by the Senate in May of 2013 and oversaw the troubled rollout of Healthcare.gov. Get More at NBC News
ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images Disney is coming to China. The corporation's CEO announced Wednesday the first Disney theme park in Shanghai China is in the works, with a promise to be "authentically Disney and distinctive Chinese." There will be vintage Disney, too, with amusements based on institutions such as Mickey Avenue and Fantasyland, as well as sections celebrating Marvel Comic superheroes like Iron Man and the Hulk, both of which are popular in China. The $5.5 billion estate follows the unveiling of Hong Kong Disneyland, which required massive expansion after opening with too small a capacity. Get More at NBC News
AP NASA officials are holding a media briefing to reveal new images of Pluto and discuss findings from Tuesday's Pluto fly-by. Get More at NBC News


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B. lockable / field
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As noted in 450.14 of the 2011 NEC, "Transformers, other than Class 2 or Class 3 transformers, shall have a disconnecting means located within sight of the transformer or in a remote location. Where located in a remote location, the disconnecting means shall be lockable, and the location shall be field marked on the transformers."
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EAST PEORIA — Faced with an enrollment decline for the fall semester, Illinois Central College leaders unfurled a revamp to its enrollment strategies this summer.
In mid-June, about two months before the start of the fall 2014 semester, the college observed a 12-percent decline in credit hour enrollment from the same time in June 2013. The news of that double-digit number follows a steady decrease in credit hours at the college since 2010.
"I really sensed last month, and I certainly shared it with some of you, some anxiousness," said John Erwin, ICC president, at the July board meeting last week. "We were dropping enrollments more rapidly than some of our peers were dropping. It really was puzzling to me that we were dropping 7 and 8 percent for two or three years in a row, and our sister institutions were dropping only 3 or 4 percent. What's the difference about this area to cause the extra loss?"
But at that same meeting last week, Erwin announced that the current credit hours enrolled for fall 2014 was up 1.68 percent from the same week in July 2013. Some of that fluctuation is a normal occurrence in tracking enrollment, said ICC Vice President of Student Services Tracy Morris, but part of the uptick could be traced to a series of proactive steps ICC has taken to halt the enrollment drop.
Some of the steps target potential students that have, so to speak, fallen through the cracks of the application process. For instance, a student may have applied but hasn't started testing or completed financial aid paperwork. Morris said even within that subset of people who only applied is a category of potential students that started the financial aid process but did not finish. Once those individuals are targeted, ICC follows up with those applicants via phone calls, emails or postcards to update their status in regard to enrolling. Erwin said up to 3,000 people might fall under the umbrella of the those that have applied but never enrolled.
In the study of enrollment research, ICC also found that its "Walk In Wednesdays" feature, which provides a streamlined process for students to apply, take a placement test and enroll within a few hours, could use an expansion. Though credit hours received a significant uptick after each Walk In Wednesday, research showed that holding it only one day of the week limited prospective students who may have been busy during Wednesday business hours.
"What we've also seen is the demand is starting to grow a little, and one day isn't enough," Morris said. "So if I have to work on Wednesday, but I'm free on Tuesday, I haven't missed out on the opportunity."
Express Enrollment, under the same guise as the Walk In Wednesday format, will be held on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays for the three weeks prior to the start of the fall semester.
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EAST PEORIA — Faced with an enrollment decline for the fall semester, Illinois Central College leaders unfurled a revamp to its enrollment strategies this summer.


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(a) Supreme Court jurisdiction. All cases appealed shall be filed in the Court of Appeals except that the following cases shall be filed in the Supreme Court:
1. All appeals involving the interpretation or construction of the Constitution of Arkansas;
2. Criminal appeals in which the death penalty or life imprisonment has been imposed;
3. Petitions for quo warranto, prohibition, injunction, or mandamus directed to the state, county, or municipal officials or to circuit courts;
4. Appeals pertaining to elections and election procedures;
5. Appeals involving the discipline of attorneys-at-law and or arising under the power of the Supreme Court to regulate the practice of law;
6. Appeals involving the discipline and disability of judges;
7. Second or subsequent appeals following an appeal which has been decided in the Supreme Court; and
8. Appeals required by law to be heard by the Supreme Court.
(b) Reassignment of cases. Any case is subject to reassignment by the Supreme Court, and in doing so, the Supreme Court will consider but not be limited to the following:
(1) issues of first impression,
(2) issues upon which there is a perceived inconsistency in the decisions of the Court of Appeals or Supreme Court,
(3) issues involving federal constitutional interpretation,
(4) issues of substantial public interest,
(5) significant issues needing clarification or development of the law, or overruling of precedent, and
(6) appeals involving substantial questions of law concerning the validity, construction, or interpretation of an act of the General Assembly, ordinance of a municipality or county, or a rule or regulation of any court, administrative agency, or regulatory body.
(c) Informational statement and jurisdictional statement.
(1) The Informational Statement and Jurisdictional Statement in appellant's brief are for jurisdictional purposes only, and the discussion of the issues on appeal should be limited to their jurisdictional relevance, and not to argue their substantive merit.
(A) The Informational Statement which is to be contained within the brief, as provided in Rule 4-2(a)(2), shall be on a form which may be copied from that provided below and which shall be available from the Clerk.
(B) The Jurisdictional Statement, in narrative form, shall be completed on separate page(s), not to exceed three 8 1/2" x 11" double-spaced, typewritten pages and shall comply with the provisions of Rule 4-1(a). All requested information shall be contained in the body of the Statement. No separate supporting materials shall be affixed. The attorney's signature may appear on a separate page at the end and shall not count against the three-page limit. The style of the case should not be stated, and, beginning with the first page, the Jurisdictional Statement shall contain in the order indicated:
(i) The first numbered paragraph which shall concisely state all issues of law raised on appeal. The issues should be expressed in the terms and circumstances of the case but without unnecessary detail.
(ii) The second numbered paragraph which shall state the following: "I express a belief, based on a reasoned and studied professional judgment, that this appeal raises (no) (the following) question(s) of legal significance for jurisdictional purposes:" Then, the appellant shall discuss as many of the issues listed in Rule 1-2(b) which are relevant to the appeal. Each issue should be stated with accuracy, brevity, and clarity, and should include the citations of any cases sought to be overruled or perceived to be in conflict.
(2) If a cross-appeal is filed, the cross-appellant shall include in his or her brief an Informational Statement and Jurisdictional Statement in the same format as that for the appellant limited to the issues raised by the cross-appeal.
(3) If there is substantial disagreement on the part of an appellee or cross-appellee with the information in the appellant's Jurisdictional Statement, the appellee or cross-appellee may include in the appellee's or cross-appellee's brief a statement entitled "Appellee's Response to Jurisdictional Statement", in which the appellee or cross-appellee may dispute or clarify any of the appellant's statements, concluding with the following certification. "I express a belief, based on a reasoned and studied professional judgment, that the statements made by the appellant in the appellant's Jurisdictional Statement to which I have taken exception are material to understanding correctly the nature of this appeal and its disposition in the appropriate appellate court." The page requirements for the appellee's response shall comply with the provisions of subsection (c) except that it shall not exceed two pages. The appellee's response shall not include an Informational Statement.
(d) Transfer and certification. The Supreme Court may transfer to the Court of Appeals any case appealed to the Supreme Court and may transfer to the Supreme Court any case appealed to the Court of Appeals. If the Court of Appeals seeks to transfer a case, the Court of Appeals shall find and certify that the case: (1) is excepted from its jurisdiction by Rule 1-2(a), or (2) otherwise involves an issue of significant public interest or a legal principle of major importance. The Supreme Court may accept for its docket cases so certified or may remand any of them to the Court of Appeals for decision. The Clerk of the Court shall notify the parties or their counsel of the transfer of any case.
(e) Petition for review. No appeal as of right shall lie from the Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court will exercise its discretion to review an appeal decided by the Court of Appeals only on application by a party to the appeal, upon certification of the Court of Appeals, or if the Supreme Court decides the case is one that should have originally been assigned to the Supreme Court. In determining whether to grant a petition to review, the following, while neither controlling nor fully measuring the Supreme Court's discretion, indicate the character of reasons that will be considered: (i) the case was decided in the Court of Appeals by a tie vote, (ii) the Court of Appeals rendered a decision which is arguably in conflict with a prior holding of a published opinion of either the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals, or (iii) the Court of Appeals arguably erred in some way related to one of the grounds listed in Rule 1-2(b).
(f) Improper filing. No case filed in either the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals shall be dismissed for having been filed in the wrong court but shall be transferred or certified to the proper court.
(g) Allocation of workload. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, cases may be assigned and transferred between the courts by Supreme Court order to achieve a fair allocation of the appellate workload between the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals.
(h) In all appeals from criminal convictions or postconviction relief matters heard in the Court of Appeals, the appellant shall not be required to petition for rehearing in the Court of Appeals or review in the Supreme Court following an adverse decision of the Court of Appeals in order to be deemed to have exhausted all available state remedies respecting a claim of error. When the claim has been presented to the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court, and relief has been denied, the appellant shall be deemed to have exhausted all available state remedies.
Addition to Reporter's Notes, 2001 Amendment: Subdivision (h) was added in response to language in O'Sullivan v. Boerckel, 526 U.S. 838, 119 S. Ct. 1728 (1999)("[N]othing in our decision today requires the exhaustion of any specific state remedy when a State has provided that that remedy is unavailable. Section 2254(c), in fact, directs federal courts to consider whether a habeas petitioner has "the right under the law of the State to raise, by any available procedure, the question presented," . . . . The exhaustion doctrine, in other words, turns on an inquiry into what procedures are "available" under state law. In sum, there is nothing in the exhaustion doctrine requiring federal courts to ignore a state law or rule providing that a given procedure is not available.") Id., 526 U.S. at 848. Petitions for review, which are discretionary under subdivision (e) of this rule, should not be required in order for a state prisoner to exhaust his state remedies.


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Would you pay $20 for a beer? Apparently 15,000 Americans did, as they lined up around the block at specialty stores around the country this week.
On tap? The exclusive Westvleteren 12 made by Trappist monks in Belgium.
Folks shelled out $85 for a six-pack with two special drinking glasses included. Why? Because this beer has been named the best beer in the world time and time again.
There are two things at work here... the exclusivity - similar to some wines and whiskies - and the love of drinking.
Combine these two and you've got a very interesting market. You can play it by grabbing up fine wines from Bordeaux and storing them in your cellar for half a century, or you can bank on the idea that people like to drink.
And this side of the market is hopping, particularly in emerging markets. Consider this: In 2009, India's market for alcohol totaled $14 billion, and was expected to grow 10% a year for the next five years. That's more than expected growth from China, the U.S. and Europe combined.
Why? It's back to that idea of urbanization...
Over the next 12 years, 235 million households will earn more than $20,000 in the developing world. That's up from only 80 million in 2007. In other words, an extra $3.1 trillion worth of consumption will hit the markets in developing economies.
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China'sexpected to become the sixth-biggest wine market by 2014, and has been experiencing 20% growth a year in consumption since 2006.
Bigger-name brands from developed countries are also looking for cheaper production costs. For example, Japanese brewer Sapporo is looking to boost production in Vietnam from 40,000 kiloliters to 200,000 kiloliters between 2014 and 2019. And alcoholic drink sales in the country are expected to increase 25.3% this year... and 16.5% a year on average through 2016.
SAB Miller, Foster's, Heineken and even the ubiquitous Bud brewer InBev are setting up shop in India.
And there's some big consolidation happening in this industry. Take, for example, Molson Coors (TAP:NYSE) buying StarBev - the Central European brewer - for $3.5 billion this year, and Heineken buying Mexican brewer FEMSA for $7.6 billion in 2010.
My favorite way to play this growth is with a company that holds a lot of global, desirable brands.
Brands like Guinness, Captain Morgan, Ketel One and other well-known names.
And they all are under Diageo's (DEO:NYSE) umbrella. DEO ships these brands all around the world.
These are just some of Diageo's strategic brands. And earlier this month, Diageo brands won 44 awards at the 2012 Ultimate Spirits Challenge, and 30 products scored a 90 or better.
The company has 20 brands in Impact Databank's Top 100 spirits list... that's more than any other company.
Emerging markets are becoming huge contributors to DEO's bottom line. For the full fiscal 2012 (ending on June 30, 2012), emerging markets grew to become 40% of DEO's business, net sales in these markets jumped 15% and operating profit climbed 23%.
And this is how that translates:
DEO's president said, "We have continued to see a rising number of emerging middle class consumers who aspire to our brands and our brand health in these markets is very, very strong."
So strong that DEO is buying up stakes in spirits companies in growth markets. On Nov. 9, the company announced it was acquiring a 27.4% stake in United Spirits Limited (NYSEARCA:USL), the leading spirits company in India.
And each of its big-name brands is seeing strong growth from emerging-market hot spots like Latin America and Asia.
I talked specifically about this company at our commodities conference in Toronto late last April. There, I said:
It's made sizable gains over the past year. In fact, share prices are now back above their peak from back before the financial crisis. Analysts are expecting this company to keep growing, and if it continues making gains from emerging markets it will be on track to hit the 10.9% annual earnings growth estimate for the next five years.
The share price is already in uncharted territory, but near-term targets could put this stock's price at better than $108 in the next six months.
And I was right... More than right. DEO hit $108 by the end of June 2012, and kept climbing. Shares are now trading above $118, and could have room for another $10.
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1965 Shelby Cobra Replica - Snail-Fed Serpent
Two Turbos; No Waiting
Back in the swingin' '60s when the crew at Shelby American was busy creating and piecing together small- and big-block Cobras, they would have scoffed mightily if some crystal ball reader had predicted that versions of these charismatic, but simple little brutes, would still be being built a full half-century later. And they would have fallen on the ground laughing at any suggestion that one of those future versions—in small-block form—might boast horsepower well into the four figures, and have no less than four electronic processors onboard. Computers? What are those? Welcome, ladies and gents of the '60s, to the 21st century.
Lu Stoddard's staggeringly detailed, five-year Cobra build may pay obvious visual homage to the flared and fearsome 427 S/C, circa 1965, but it also positively bristles with the power and civility afforded by new-millennium technology.
"My concept," Lu says, "was to build a modern-day AC Cobra, but maintain the original body lines and general appearance." Mission accomplished.
This Colorado-based black beast makes its 1,009 rwhp and 1,114 lb-ft of rear-wheel torque by way of a twin-turbo 351W—admittedly one that has been bored and stroked to displace the magical 427 cubic inches. But, perhaps most impressive is just how much of this new-age roadster Lu visualized in his clearly oversized brain, and created with his own talented pair of hands. Lu's personal ingenuity and handiwork can be seen throughout the project, from chassis modifications, to its fastidious paint and bodywork, to its hand-molded carbon-fiber interior panels that form the dash, door panels, console, and bucket seat shells, to the artful fabrication of the underhood induction and exhaust plumbing.
It all started in 2007 with a basic body and chassis from Hurricane Motorsports, and then Lu, best we can tell, just went flat nuts from there. First, he had to alter the chassis for rigidity and to accommodate the poked and stroked Windsor's pair of 62mm Garrett hybrid turbochargers sourced from Work Turbochargers, as well as the associated snake's nest of ducting. Of particular note are the intake manifold and inlet plumbing that draws through a pair of Treadstone Engineering air-to-air coolers that are all of Lu's own design and fabrication. So are the Windsor's headers, which obviously have to service both turbos themselves, as well as the roadster's 4-inch-diameter side pipes that Lu also mandrel-bent himself, and then protected with carbon-fiber heat shields.
This twin-turbo madness is all commanded by an Accel Gen 7 DFI system controlling humongous 150-lb/hr Trick Flow injectors, and paired with wideband oxygen sensors for closed-loop efficiency and perfect drivability manners. OK, that's processor number one. Electronic brain number two is Greddy's Profec (Spec 2) boost controller that works in concert with a pair of Tial 38mm external wastegates. Lu keeps the boost dialed back to around 10 psi at peak for most occasions. And compressor surge is warded off by the pair of Turbonetics Raptor blow-off valves that look a bit like small air horns on those shiny inlet tubes.
The third onboard processor is a CompuShift 2 box from HGM Electronics that oversees all aspects of the roadster's wide-ratio 4R70W four-speed automatic. Why an automatic? Likely because there aren't many manual gearbox and clutch combos that would successfully handle all of that power and still provide decent street civility. That brings us to the fourth and final onboard piece of electronic kit, called the Shrifter, from Twist Machine. The Shrifter wirelessly interfaces with the aforementioned CompuShift tranny processor and feeds it signals from Twist Machine's paddle shifters you can see mounted behind that very cool leather-and-suede Sparco steering wheel. Lu's console also houses a stubby little Lokar shifter for mechanical tranny command.
But it's not just in electronics that things have advanced over the last 50 years. Take brakes, for instance. Back in the day, a 427 S/C would roll out of the factory with decent Girling discs, but nothing like Lu's Wilwoods. Up front are 13-inch rotors squeezed by six-piston calipers, while out back is a 12-inch, four-piston setup—should do the job nicely on something that weighs only 2,574 pounds.
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Lu also went modern with the lighting, employing HID projector headlights and LED taillights—neither detract from the original appearance of this fat-fendered flyer. Same with the V60 rims from Vintage Wheel Works that, while 2 inches larger in diameter than a Cobra's 15-inch originals, still manage to look period correct. Those chubby rear skins, by the way, are 345/40R17 Toyo Proxy TQ drag radials, as Lu can no doubt use all the traction he can get—he reports it will still literally smoke those skins at 140 mph.
Note that the wheels, along with the roadster's exterior/interior trim and roll hoops, are all plated in black chrome, done in a physical vapor deposition process by American PVD. The same process was used on the bright chrome bits underhood. Lu's obsession with detail is evident no matter where you look on this project. He sums it up this way: "Five years of fabricating just about every part on this car by hand in my shop has given me a real appreciation for what it takes to build a performance vehicle. Some have asked, but it would be impossible to add up the thousands of hours of fabrication, research and thought that have gone into this project."
It seems the result was worth the effort: "To date," Lu says, "only four people other than myself have ridden in this car: Jack Sears, Bob Bondurant, Allen Grant, and my father, Lu Sr.—three of those guys were the original drivers for Carroll Shelby back in the 1960s when the Cobra made its name. Not only was it a complete honor to take those gentlemen for a ride, but a thrill to see the huge smiles on their faces. All three commented how they had never felt anything accelerate like that … a pretty big compliment from guys who have raced/won Daytona and LeMans." Enough said.
|The Details
|1965 Shelby Cobra Replica
|Lu Stoddard
|427-inch small-block (351W-based stroker)
|Dart short-block
|Forged 4340 crank
|Forged 4340 H-beam rods
|Comp Cams hydraulic roller
|Edelbrock Victor Jr. aluminum heads, 70cc chambers, 9.5:1 compression
|Twin 62mm Garrett hybrid turbos
|Turbonetics Raptor (x2) blow-off valves
|Tial 38mm wastegates (x2)
|Greddy ProFec Spec II boost controller
|Treadstone Engineering air-to-air intercoolers (x2)
|RB Racing electric oil scavenge pumps (x2)
|Snow Performance ethanol injection
|Intake manifold custom fabricated by owner
|Ford 4R70W 4-speed automatic, by Silverfox Racing
|Dirty Dog Performance 10-inch, 2,800-stall converter
|HGM Electronics CompuShift II transmission controller
|Twist Machine paddle shifters (radio-frequency wireless)
|Lokar shifter on tunnel
|B&M cooler
|TCI blanket
|IRS, 8.8 center section
|Moser Trac-Loc diff
|Driveshaft Shop 35-spline axles
|LPW diff cover/girdle
|3.55 gears
|Headers with 17⁄8-inch primaries, fabricated by owner
|4-inch side pipes
|Front: Tubular A-arms, QA1 coilovers, power rack-and-pinion steering
|Rear: IRS, QA1 adjustable coilovers
|Front: Wilwood disc, 13-inch rotors, six-piston calipers
|Rear: Wilwood disc, 12-inch rotors, four-piston calipers
|Front: Vintage Wheel Works V60, 17x9.5
|Rear: Vintage Wheel Works V60, 17x11
|Front: Nitto NT-555R, P275/35ZR17
|Rear: Toyo Proxy TQ drag radial, P345/40ZR17
|Carbon-fiber seats, dash, and doors custom molded by owner; Auto Meter gauges; Sparco steering wheel; Gallo Tech pushbutton start; upholstery by John's Auto Upholstery
|Basic body and chassis from Hurricane Motorsports; PPG Jet Black and House of Kolor Candy Cobalt Blue stripes; paint and bodywork by owner


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NEW YORK -- Chris Kluwe has been one of the better punters in the NFL since he joined the league in 2005. That's why it came as a surprise Saturday when the Minnesota Vikings took the first punter off the board in UCLA's Jeff Locke.
Teams don't draft punters to sit on the bench. Kluwe's job is in danger.
"I'm looking forward to competing for the Vikings' punting job, as I would love to spend my entire career here, and as the best punter in Vikings history, I'm enjoying the chance to show what I can do," Kluwe said in a text message to ProFootballTalk.com on Saturday.
Kluwe also is one of the best quotes in the league. It's not really fair, but that might be a big reason why the Vikings are looking for a new punter. Special teams coordinator Mike Priefer said in December that Kluwe's "distractions" were "getting old." It's quite possible the Vikings just want a punter who isn't often in the news.Follow Gregg Rosenthal on Twitter @greggrosenthal.


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I'm afraid i cant be very helpful here but when i was much younger i watched an episode of a tv series which i remember being Sliders but cant seem to find any episode of that show with this description.
The part i remember is the end of an episode where there is a preview of the next episode. The preview involved the protagonists (cant remember anything about them) finding themselves in a city where the surround horizon contained a wave larger than all of the buildings in the city which was closing in upon them. I remember the city being empty apart from just them.
I know this isn't much to go on, I remembered this for some reason the other day and was hoping to watch the full episode but browsing the descriptions for the episodes of sliders (which i was sure it was) i couldn't find anything of that description.


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A leading reason for the crack up: U.S. farmers are exporting more eggs to Mexico, eating into supplies for American consumers. The United States' southern neighbor has been hit by avian influenza, forcing the slaughter of thousands of chickens.


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CHARDON: A judge in Ohio has outlined arrangements for the aggravated murder trial of an 18-year-old charged in the high school shooting deaths of three students.
Judge David Fuhry in Chardon says jurors must be sequestered during deliberations in the trial of T.J. Lane.
In an order filed last week, the judge also says jurors will be told Lane isn�t subject to the death penalty. Lane was 17 at the time of the shootings.
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Foreclosing on the Familiar
"Fallen Star," by the Korean born artist Do Ho Suh, is the newest sculpture installation at the Stuart Collection on the campus of the University of California at San Diego and debuted this week with more than a thousand visitors on opening day. It's a small gabled cottage that has somehow crashed into the
roof of a seven story engineering building and now teeters over the edge… perhaps the Wizard of Oz was aiming for an advanced degree. It's definitely a mortarboard mash-up. According to Mary Beebe, the collection director, "It was his idea and we produced it." From the rooftop the house appears only a little off
kilter, but then as you peer over the railing you see that only engineering — i. e. the cantilever — is holding it up. It may be an art piece but it's also a strong advertisement for structural daring. ("Go forth ye graduates, and engineer!") The work explores Suh's "on-going exploration of themes around the idea of home, cultural displacement, the perception of our surroundings, and how one constructs a memory of a space." When he arrived in the U.S. from Seoul, Korea in 1991 to study, Suh understandably felt un-moored, which "led him to measure spaces in order to establish relationships with his new surroundings. He had to physically and mentally readjust." The permanent installation is clever in the way it literally and figuratively readjusts — indeed, upends — the romantic notion of home, acknowledging that in today's reality it remains both fixed and floating — or fleeting — for many.
In my mind this work is really a last minute West Coast entry in the current exhibition "Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which I saw last month. The purpose of the show, organized by MOMA architecture curator Barry Bergdoll and which runs through August 13, is to explore new architectural possibilities for cities and suburbs in the aftermath of the recent foreclosure crisis. Five teams of architects, planners, ecologists, engineers, and landscape designers were asked to produce proposals for housing in five different suburban communities, from Temple Terrace, Florida to Rialto, California. The result is a series of essentially utopian schemes. I was most drawn to the solution called Nature City, for Keizer, Oregon by WORKac, a design firm in Manhattan. Inspired by the Garden City concept
espoused by influential late 19th century British urbanist Ebenezer Howard, (detail of part of a garden city plan shown above, courtesy Our Letchworth), they proposed developing a 225 acre parcel (already slated for big box stores and the like) in a way that is "five times denser than the adjacent suburban blocks but
has three times the amount of public open space, including a 158-acre nature preserve." The idea is to create a symbiotic relationship between structure and site with a wide variety of housing types, from attached town homes to towers tocourtyard houses and long blocks like this "Cavern Building" with huge park-like pass-throughs and lake-like pools; the latter, glass-walled and three stories deep, is especially ambitious! The most arresting feature is a series of parks and pools that spiral around a great dome that collects methane from a mound of solid waste and produces compost, while waste heat warms public pools at the rooftop. It's an architectural circle of life — a rose is a rose is a Compost Hill. The show's other four schemes offered equally suggestive architectural solutions for new construction (one, by Studio Gang, even inserted new housing into the shell of a derelict factory) but none addressed how to deal with existing neighborhoods where foreclosures are rampant — the house on the brink, as it were, to steal Suh's metaphor. In the end that is the harder question.


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A slew of U.S. companies announced big profits Thursday, but investors spooked about the economy sold stocks anyway.
Investors shifted between buying and selling early Thursday, then stuck with selling after deciding that strong earnings results weren't enough to make up for weak reports on jobs, housing and manufacturing.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 68.65 points, or 0.5 percent, to close at 12,964.10. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index dropped 8.22 points, or 0.6 percent, to 1,376.92.
Morgan Stanley rose 2.3 percent after it beat Wall Street's earnings and revenue estimates. UnitedHealth Group Inc. rose 2.4 percent after reporting higher profits. EBay, Southwest Airlines and Bank of America also beat forecasts.
Stock indexes fell after two relatively weak economic reports came out mid-morning. An index of regional manufacturing compiled by the Philadelphia branch of the Federal Reserve dropped sharply, and the National Association of Realtors said home sales fell 2.6 percent last month.
Earlier, the Labor Department said applications for unemployment benefits dipped 2,000 to 386,000. When the number is above 375,000, investors take it as a sign that hiring isn't strong enough to lower the unemployment rate.
"None of these (reports) were disastrous, but they're not as strong as we like to see," said Brian Lazorishak, a portfolio manager at Chase Investment Counsel in Charlottesville, Virginia.
In other trading, the Nasdaq composite fell 23.89 points, or 0.8 percent, to 3,007.56. Tech stocks could be in for some gains Friday following a strong earnings report after the closing bell Thursday from Microsoft. The software maker was up 2.8 percent in post-market trading after reporting a rise in sales of its Windows operating system.
Thursday's slide began from the start of trading. Investors were on edge after stocks fell a day earlier on worries that Spain could have trouble paying down its government debt. Adding to the jitters, the Bank of Spain had reported that bad loans at the country's banks had hit an 18-year high.
Before the opening bell Thursday, investors were nervously watching a sale of new government bonds from Spain. The auction met with high demand, and more bonds were sold than expected, but yields rose anyway.
The yield on Spanish 10-year notes rose to 5.87 percent, an increase of 0.06 percentage point.
European markets mostly fell. Spain's IBEX index fell 2.4 percent, Greece's main index 1.8 percent and France's CAC-40 fell 2 percent.
All but three of the 30 stocks in the Dow fell. Companies whose profits are more closely tied to the economic cycle fell the most. Alcoa, an aluminum maker, and DuPont, a chemicals company, lost more than 1 percent each.
Travelers, an insurer, rose 4.3 percent after a strong earnings report.
Eight of the ten industry sectors in the S&P 500 fell. The biggest losers were industrial and information technology stocks, down more than 1 percent each.
Uri Landesman, president of hedge fund Platinum Partners, said the good earnings are a bit of a sideshow. "There are bigger things at work here — European fears, unemployment," he said. "People are more worried about what's going to happen than what's in the rearview mirror."
Stocks started drifting lower after noon. By mid-afternoon the Dow was down 136 points. The S&P 500 was hit by a drop in Apple.
The iPhone maker dropped 3.4 percent to $587. Some analysts think the stock's recent drop reflects investors taking profits after a big run-up. Others think the fall is more ominous, perhaps a signal that the company will sell fewer iPhones than expected.
In other corporate news, Tumi Holdings, a maker of high-end luggage, jumped 47 percent to $26.50 on its first day of trading.
The U.S.-listed shares of cell phone maker Nokia sank 3.8 percent after the Finnish company reported a loss for the first three months of the year and a 40 percent plunge in device sales. The company faces fierce competition from Apple's iPhone and handset makers that use Google's Android software.
Human Genome Sciences doubled to $14.17 after the company spurned a takeover offer from GlaxoSmithKline of $13 per share, saying it undervalues the company. The biotech drug maker, which produces the lupus treatment Benlysta, said it would consider other options including a sale of the company.


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Kaju Pista Rolls (Indian Cashew and Pistachio Sweets)
Kaju pista rolls are Indian sweets that are very similar to marzipan. It's almost like edible Play-Doh. Kaju and pista respectfully means cashew nuts and pistachio in Hindi. I guess there is a similarity with French, we called cashews, noix de cajou. I'm just thinking out loud.
Anyways, these cylinderical shaped mithai (Hindi for sweets) look very playful and are absolutely delicious. I find many Indian desserts too sweet for my palate, but these treats are just perfect. I can never eat just one, and if you make this recipe, you won't be able to either.
Yields: 1 dozen2 cups cashew nuts, unsalted
1 cup pistachio kernels, unsalted, unshelled
1 1/2 cup whole milk, + 1 Tbs for the saffron
3 drops green food coloring
1 1/4 cup powdered sugar, or more to taste
1 1/2 Tbs light corn syrup
3 Tbs ghee, or homemade clarified butter
2 cardamom pods, unshelled
2 drops cardamom extract, optional
1/4 tsp saffron threads, for decoration, optional
Remove the seeds from the cardamom pods. Gather all the seeds in a mortar and pestle and grind to a fine powder. Set aside.
In 2 different bowls. Soak the cashew nuts and pistachio kernels in warm water. Let the nuts sit in a warm area for about 2-3 hours. During this period of time, change the water about 3 to 4 times with new warm water. Drain the nuts separately and set aside in 2 other bowls.
Coat 2 silicone baking mats with a thin layer of ghee. Set aside.
Reserve 1 cup of milk for the drained cashews and 1/2 cup of milk for the drained pistachios.
For the cashew nut barfi: Blend the cashews first into a fine paste. If the cashews don't blend easily, add as little milk as possible (from the 1 cup previously mentionned) to get it to blend.
In a medium nonstick saucepan, add a tablespoon of corn syrup, 3/4 cup of powdered sugar and the rest of milk (meant for the cashews). Bring to a boil, then lower the heat of the stove immediately to a medium low. The liquid should be syrup-y. Add the cashew paste. Stir the paste constantly to prevent the mixture from burning. Cook the cashew paste for about 6 to 9 minutes. The mixture should be much thicker and form a single solid mass. It will still be very soft and pliable. Add 1/2 of the amount of cardamom powder, a drop of cardamom extract and 2 teapoons of ghee. Mix well. Transfer to one of the 2 ghee-greased silicone baking mats. Let the paste cool a bit (about 15-20 minutes) while you're making the same procedure with the pistachios.
For the pistachio barfi: Blend the pistachios into a fine paste. If the pistachios don't blend easily, add as little milk as possible (from the 1/2 cup previously mentionned).
In a small nonstick saucepan, add 1/2 tablespoon of corn syrup, the rest of the powdered sugar and the rest of milk (meant for the pistachios). Bring to a boil, then lower the heat of the stove immediately to a medium low. Add the pistachio paste. Stir the paste constantly to prevent the mixture from burning. Cook the pistachio paste for about 6 to 9 minutes. The mixture should be much thicker and form a single solid mass. It will still be very soft and pliable. Add the remaining cardamom powder, a drop of cardamom extract, food coloring and 1 teaspoon of ghee. Mix well. Transfer to the other ghee-greased silicone baking mats. Let the paste cool a bit (about 15 minutes)
Assembly: Divide the cashew paste into 2 or 3 balls. Cover the cashew paste with another mat or plastic wrap, then roll the cashew paste with a rolling pin to about a 1/8-inch thick layer and cut the layer into 4-inch wide rectangles. Cover the paste with a humid cloth to prevent the paste from drying.
Divide the pistachio paste into 2 or 3 balls as well. Create 2 or 3 1/4-inch diameter cylinders. Cover the cylinders with a humid cloth to prevent the paste from drying.
Insert a pistachio cylinder into each cashew rectangle. Roll the dough tightly so that the cashew paste completely wraps the pistachio filling entirely. Repeat with other balls of nut paste. Cut the rolls into 1-inch cylinder using a paring knife.
Place the saffron in a mortar and pestle. Grind the saffron into a powder. Add a tablespoon of milk. Decorate each kaju pista roll with a dot of saffron liquid using a Q-tip cotton swab.
You can store them in rectangular-shaped airtight-container then refrigerate them for a week.
Arrange them layer by layer, between waxed paper if you're afraid they stick to each other. Serve with hot tea.
Kaju pista roll can also be sticky-rice-ball shaped as well. Just make sure a little amount of pistachio marzipan is peeking out at the top of the mount.
You can also create 3 layers (with the pistachio layer in the middle), then cut into diamond shapes.
I love the Vitamix blender. The dry blade really turns the nut into a smooth nut butter. It's well worth it if you cook a lot or if you're a smoothie drinker.
If the green food coloring is too intense, either lower the amount to 3 drops or add a drop of yellow food coloring.
The addition of the cardamom extract is optional. I get from my Indian local market. It's called Elaichi in Hindi, so you might want to search for Elaichi extract. It's very convenient and brings that little oomph to your drinks and desserts like Masala Chai, Sharbat or Kheer.
Per David Lebovitz's advice, to make a smoother more spreadable product, add a tablespoon of light corn syrup to the sugar for the marshmallow frosting. I made the same application to my homemade caramel sauce and my marshmallow banana frosting.
You can also decorate the kaju pista rolls with a little silver foil as well. Just press a little silver piece of foil using a toothpick. I didn't have any on hand though. You can find silver leaves or gold leaves for decoration in fine specialty stores or in Indian stores, it's called Varak.
You can mix-match any kind of nuts like almond, walnut or hazelnut with your own flavoring like mango extract, rose water, kewra water, orange blossom water or even finish by dipping the rolls in chocolate or by coating them with coconut flakes. Be creative!
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App Review: Sevens by Nigel Hanbury
by Dorothy on
July 27, 2009
Filed under Daily App Reviews, Educational, Entertainment, Games
Puzzles lovers everywhere are going to love the new puzzle app, Sevens by Nigel Hanbury. This Sudoku inspired game will hone your logic and problem solving skills and then push them to their limits. In Sudoku, you must place the numbers 1-9 in columns and rows such that the numbers only appear once in each row and column. Sevens takes this idea one step further. You must place the numbers 1-7 in rows and columns. However, the squares that you place the numbers in are now color-coded too. Each number must appear only once in each row, column, and color group. This third criteria for placing numbers seemed to make the game much easier at first by providing more information to use in determining the placement of each number. However, because you do have this added help, the harder levels seemed to be that much harder. The app can get away with giving you a very few numbers on the board to begin with.
There are three levels of gameplay (easy, intermediate, and professional). Each one of these levels contains 200 different puzzles. Let's just say you won't run out of puzzles to solve anytime soon, which is a big bonus in my mind. As soon as the app pulls up a puzzle, the timer is started. The pressure is on to complete the puzzle in the shortest time possible. The app has a stats section that keeps track of the fastest time for completing a puzzle at each difficulty level. I was surprised by how long some of the levels took me to solve. If you do have to exit the game before you complete the puzzle, the app will save it just where you left off and pause the timer. Time resumes when you pull the puzzle up again.
To place a number on the board, tap on the square that you want to place it in. That will place a question mark in the square. Then, tap the number at the bottom of the screen that you want in the square. To remove numbers that may be wrong, simply tap on them and the square will revert back to a question mark. When you tap on another square, the question mark will disappear, leaving the square blank again. If you fill all the squares, but have a mistake somewhere, the app will tell you that your solution is not correct. It is then up to you to find the problem.
The only flaw that I found with the game is that I could not find a way to go back an replay levels that you have played before. There is a button that allows you to skip to the next level if you are frustrated with the one that you are on. Likewise, I could not figure out how to go back and play the ones that I skipped. Maybe if you cycle through all 200 puzzles, you can end up back at the beginning. Regardless, Sevens is a great puzzle app, that works well and has great replay value.
Developer's Website: http://www.hanburyapps.co.uk/


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I spent some time today looking for any biographical information on Jitsuro Nagura and came up empty-handed. Any suggestions welcome.
Also, the Wiki note on the Chebyshev $\psi$ function says that von Mangoldt proved in 1895 that
$\psi_0(x) = x - \sum_{\rho}\frac{x^{\rho}}{\rho}- \frac{\xi'(0)}{\xi(0)}-\frac{1}{2}\ln(1-x^2) $
There is a reference to a 1903 note by E. Schmidt which may or may not contain a reference to the original paper, but my amateurish search (in Euclid, JSTOR) did not turn up anything.
Thanks in advance.
Edit: have changed the title to reflect that I am seeking information on J. Nagura and have found the other reference. Thanks.


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New film on Wołyń massacres unites Poles in praise – but reconciliation with Ukraine will be harder
By Daniel Tilles
In Poland's deeply polarised society, it is rare these days for anything to bridge the country's social, cultural and political divides. However, a new film about the WW2 Wołyń massacres by director Wojciech Smarzowski appears set to achieve this, winning rave reviews across Polish media after its screening at the Gdynia film festival, writes Daniel Tilles. Continue reading


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This week, The Doctor Anonymous Show will be talking about the sensitive subject of what is called "palliative care." There are a lot of definitions out there, but a common one is one I found on wikipedia and it follows below:
Palliative care is any form of medical care or treatment that concentrates on reducing the severity of disease symptoms, rather than striving to halt, delay, or reverse progression of the disease itself or provide a cure. The goal is to prevent and relieve suffering and to improve quality of life for people facing serious, complex illness.In the US, palliative care is pseudonymous with the term "hospice care," or "end of life care," but that is not always the case. Our guest this week is a good friend of mine and med school classmate. His blog is called "The Journey Learned" and there he calls himself "Dr. M." Here is how he describes himself and his blog:
I am a family physician in a rural setting and also very involved with "End of Life Care". I am blessed daily by the people I am honored to treat and learn life's lessons from them constantly. I feel honored to be a physician as it is a great privilege.So, I invite you to join us on Thursday, April 16th, 2009 at 9pm Eastern Time for a special edition of The Doctor Anonymous Show on BlogTalkRadio. After our interview, we'll lighten things up a little bit and maybe reminisce about being back in med school "back in the day." Also check out the video post above. Hope you can join us for the show!


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Best Buy Optimistic, Despite Ending Deal Talks
Best Buy has ended talks with founder Richard Schulze for a deal but a conference call revealed the company is trying to make moves to remain nimble in the retail sector. Andria Cheng reports on Markets Hub. Photo: AP.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Carl is Making the Best of the Situation
Fund: Enterprise Partners Venture Capital
Posted by BrettHelm on 2010-04-05
Carl is making some tough choices. He is working hard on the fund. I respect him for continuing to work hard on it when he got involved later in the stage of this fund. It's tougher when most of the investments were already committed. Character is not about investment returns but rather the choices you make. I have been impressed that he is working on their portfolio. Initially very disapointed, I have changed my mind to being an advocate because they are 1) working the portfolio when they could do something else (like other Venture firms) and 2) they are returning investor money rather then holding it.PRIVATE: Members Only


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Farmingdale State - 89, Mount Saint Mary - 86 (OT)
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The #2 seeded Farmingdale State men's basketball team defeated #3 seed Mount Saint Mary College (20-7) in overtime tonight, 89-86, to advance to the Skyline Finals for the first time since 2009. The Rams (21-5) will host #4 seed Purchase on Saturday, February 25th at 7:30 p.m.
Mount Saint Mary jumped out to an early 10-3 lead, before an 8-0 run would give the Rams their first lead of the night, 11-10, on a layup by junior guard Ryan Davis (Flushing, N.Y.). The Knights would pull away at the end of the halftime, holding a 38-31 advantage at the break.
In the second, the Rams fought back a double-digit deficit twice and then made a 10-3 run over the final 3:15 to tie the game. Trailing 75-68, junior forward AJ Matthews (Brooklyn, N.Y.) made two free throws for a 75-70 score. Two possessions later, senior guard Dyshaun Flournoy (Brentwood, N.Y.) sank a 3-pointer with under two minutes to play, Rams were then down by two - 75-73. Mount Saint Mary saw a 3-point play from senior forward Kevin Milella (Floral Park, N.Y.) and pushed the lead back up to five, 78-73 with 1:30 on the clock.
Matthews made another layup for the 78-75 score and with 33 seconds remaining junior guard Christian Nunez (White Plains, N.Y.) shot a 3-pointer from the corner to tie the game at 78-78, sending the game into overtime.
The lead changed five times in overtime. Mount led by four, 84-80 with 2:57 left before Matthews scored his 1st of 7 points with a free throw, 84-81. He forced a turnover and made a layup, 84-83, Rams trailed by one. Freshman forward Ibrahim Johnson (New York, N.Y.) pulled down an offensive rebound on the next possession and would give the Rams the 85-84 lead with 1:04 to play.
Mount Saint Mary's Milella was fouled with 50 seconds left, making both to give Mount the 86-85 advantage. In the final seconds, Matthews made 4-of-4 free throws to secure the Rams victory and spot in the Skyline Championship game.
Matthews finished with a season-high 35 points, a school record 29 rebounds, four steals and three blocks. Flournoy had 23 points (6-for-9 from 3-point territory), while senior guard Joshua Smith (Deer Park, N.Y.) scored 16 points.
The Knights had four players in double figures. Milella tallied 23 points, sophomore guard Donte Howell (Baldwin, N.Y.) finished with 20 points, sophomore guard Joe Stabach (Staten Island, N.Y.) had 17 points and senior forward Carlos Valdez (Carolina, PR) had 13 points and 10 rebounds.


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- Australian Grand Prix
'It was one of the easiest races' - Raikkonen
- Race:
- Australian Grand Prix
- Drivers:
- Kimi Räikkönen
- Teams:
- Lotus F1
Kimi Raikkonen said his win in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix was one of the easiest of his career.
The key to Raikkonen's victory was his two-stop strategy which gave him a vital edge over the other leading drivers who all opted to pit three times. "Our plan was to do two stops and though it's always difficult in the first races to know when to stop and not to, we got it exactly right. We followed the plan and it worked out perfectly. I could save the tyres and go fast if I needed.
"It was one of the easiest races I have done to win. Hopefully we can have many more of these races."
He had enough in hand to ease off towards the end to preserve his tyres, and as Fernando Alonso closed he upped his pace and set a new fastest lap.
"Fernando was catching me at some points when I was taking it a bit more easy and I had some traffic, so I just wanted to make sure that if the rain came or anything I had a bit more of a gap. It was a pretty nice race, not so difficult."
He said he was disappointed to only qualify in seventh and admitted he had "taken it a bit too easy … it wasn't ideal but it was still ten places better than last year".
But typically he refused to get carried away. "It feels good but it's only one race so it doesn't really change our aim or our work. We're happy with he win and there's a lot still to do to try to win the championship."


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