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a curated collection of antique and vintage decor from around the world.
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a curated collection of antique and vintage decor from around the world.
For Vintage Clothing, check out our store www.86vintage86.etsy.com
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Gorgeous glass, well packed, quickly shipped, happy customer
wendybuehler on May 2, 2017
Very nice unique accent. Looks awesome against our white cabinets.
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"I'm having a go at the referee [Tim Weyland] today because his performance was a disgrace. Now, you tell me how a guy who's running flat out can change direction having to have his arms down by his side. It's impossible. I'm sure the referee couldn't change direction with his hands in his pockets."
-- Comments by Toronto FC coach John Carver,
published in the Toronto Star, that earned him a $750 for public criticism of MLS officiating. Ref Weyland gave Dallas a penalty kick after the ball bounced onto Marvell Wynne's outstretched
arm. The converted PK was FC Dallas' gamewinner in its 3-2 victory (VIDEO of handball, at 4:28)

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Bedrock Geology.
The geology of the Mount Desert Island region has been extensively studied since the late 1800s. The larger geologic units were first mapped by Crosby (1891), Davis (1881), Shaler (1889), Frazer (1906), Bascom (1919), and Raisz (1929). Several early geologic maps were prepared (Shaler, 1889; Keith, 1933; Perkins, 1933). Chapman (1970) and Gilman and Chapman (1988) updated the work of the early geologists.
Granite underlies most of Acadia, including much of Mount Desert Island, Isle au Haut and all of the park on Schoodic Peninsula (Gilman and Chapman, 1988; Chapman, 1970). This resistant bedrock makes up the high elevations and steep valleys that give the park its rugged character. Granites at Acadia vary slightly in texture, color, percentages of accessory minerals and chemical composition (Carl et al., 1984), and a number of sub-types have been described and mapped (Gilman et al., 1988). The granite underlying most of Mount Desert Island is a pink coarse-grained hornblende granite that contains minor biotite (the Cadillac Mountain Granite), while the other granites, including those at Schoodic and Isle au Haut are mostly fine-grained biotite granites (Gilman and Chapman, 1988).
Gabbro-diorite bedrock borders the granites on Mount Desert Island and Isle au Haut. A variety of older stratified rocks make up the margins of these islands. On Mount Desert Island, these include a schist, a siltstone/sandstone formation, and a volcanic series of tuff, felsite and interbedded volcanic and sedimentary rocks. In addition, a shatter zone exists at the contact between Mount Desert Island coarse-grained granite and the older stratified rocks of the Bar Harbor Formation (Gilman, et al., 1988). On Isle au Haut, most of the park shoreline is composed of volcanic rocks.
Chemically-resistant granites and rapid runoff result in surface waters with low alkalinity and low nutrient concentrations. Marine aerosols (Na and Cl) are the dominant ions in most surface waters and contribute more than half of the conductivity of Acadia waters. The mean conductivity of Acadia lakes is 44 µS/cm. Without contributions from Na and Cl, the typical lake conductance would be in the range of 15 to 20 µS/cm, compared to the mean value for all Maine lakes of 36 µS/cm. Upland streams that drain granitic terrain are typically even more dilute than lakes, whereas the valley streams have higher alkalinity and higher ionic strength from weathering and ion exchange reactions in thicker glacial and glaciomarine deposits.
Topography and Glacial Geology. The topography of Acadia consists of a series of barren ridges separated by glacially deepened U-shaped valleys. Mountains within the park rise to heights of 464 m (1,530 ft). The ridges and valleys trend north-south, as modified by glacial scouring. Many park landforms have a distinctly asymmetric profile, displaying gentle slopes to the north and northwest and steeper slopes to the south and southeast. This landform is the textbook example of the roches moutonnees geomorphology that results from glacial action on resistant bedrock (Flint, 1971).
The U-shaped valleys at Acadia are probably pre-existing drainages, which were considerably deepened and modified by Wisconsinan glacial ice that is inferred to have been up to one km thick over Mount Desert Island 14,000 to 30,000 years ago. Some lakes within the valleys were formed during deglaciation as glacial materials were deposited at the ends of the valleys, creating natural dams (Gilman et al., 1988). Acadia's glacial legacy is most evident in the dramatic topography surrounding its lake-filled valleys.
The centermost valley on Mount Desert Island is connected to the sea. This deep valley, known as Somes Sound, represents the only fjord-like feature on the Atlantic Coast of the United States. The unique features of Somes Sound include its extreme depth (50 m/150 ft.), a shallow sill at its entrance (10 m/30 ft deep), and a hanging valley waterfall on the west shore (Man o' War Brook).
Lowell and Borns (1988) mapped the surficial geology of Mount Desert Island. Deposits of till and glacio-marine sediments (the Presumpscot Formation) are discontinuous and limited to low-lying areas of the park of less than 25 m (90 ft) in present elevation (Kahl et al., 1985). These deposits tend to be found in locations that were protected from the energy of the open ocean during the period of rising sea level immediately following deglaciation. The presence of Presumpscot formation in Maine watersheds has recently been shown to increase the trophic status of lakes in Maine (Nieratko et al., 1992). In the park, this formation generally occurs in valley stream watersheds, and less commonly in lake watersheds, due to the higher elevations in lake watersheds.
Extensive areas of bare rock or areas with only a thin veneer of surficial glacial/soil material occur on all of Acadia's upland areas and ridges, and along much of the shoreline. The absence of soil over significant portions of the park landscape is an important characteristic of the hydrologic environment, leading to poor infiltration of rainwater, rapid surface runoff, stream flows that rise and fall quickly in response to precipitation, and low alkalinity and nutrient concentrations in surface waters.
Soil Characteristics.
Soils are an important component of the hydrologic environment. Soils store and govern the transport of water, as well as contribute cations, anions, dissolved organic carbon and other constituents to ground and surface waters through decomposition and weathering processes. The USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service (formerly Soil Conservation Service) has recently mapped Acadia soils. The predominant soil classification is a shallow-to-bedrock, stony Schoodic-rock outcrop-Lyman complex, derived from granite and schist tills. This classification includes extensive areas of exposed bedrock, along with areas where soils exist as thin deposits of gravelly sandy loam less than 15 cm (6 in) deep (Schoodic soils) and areas where soils form a black and reddish sandy loam less than 50 cm (20 in) deep (Lyman soils). This soil complex is described as excessively well drained, with slopes that range from 0 to 100 percent for bare rock, and from 0 to 80 percent in areas with soil. On steep slopes these soils are usually droughty. Lyman and Schoodic soils are Spodosols -- acidic forest soils characterized by an accumulation of Fe, Al, and organic matter in the B horizon.
Soils in valleys at Acadia are typically part of the Hermon-Monadnock-Dixfield complex. These are mainly sandy loams derived from granite and schist tills. They range from excessively to moderately well drained with regolith depths less than 5 m (15 ft) and slopes up to 60 percent. Below elevations of approximately 25 m (90 ft), these soils are commonly underlain by, or developed from, glaciomarine silts and clays of the Presumpscot formation.
Organic soils, known as Lithic Borofolists, are common on bedrock where mineral soil is absent. Depending on orientation and slope, Lithic Borofolists may range from poorly to excessively drained. The drainage characteristics influence vegetation types and surface water chemistry. Organic soils are also associated with wetlands. A range of poorly to well (fibric to sapric) decomposed peats are present, with fibric peats found in raised bogs such as Big Heath near Southwest Harbor. Sapric peats are associated with forest, shrub fen and emergent shrub/fen communities (Calhoun et al., 1994).
The Lyman soils are traditionally considered low productivity soils even for forestry land use (Rourke et al., 1978). These soils are stony, excessively drained, and have a low cation exchange capacity (CEC). In these droughty soils, the contact time for equilibrium between soils and solutions is often insufficient for significant base cation release from weathering reactions. As a result, the nutrient ions and CEC are derived mainly from organic matter overlying mineral soils or bedrock and the organic carbon reserves in the mineral soil horizons.
Properties of park soils that are of greatest significance to the hydrologic environment include: 1) their shallow depth which reduces infiltration and increases surface runoff in watersheds following storm events, 2) their poorly buffered, acidic nature, and 3) the steep slopes which further hasten runoff. Precipitation percolating through the shallow mineral or organic soils in the steeper upland watersheds becomes enriched in weak organic acids which may contribute acidity (hydrogen ions) to solutions. Aluminum, potentially toxic to terrestrial and aquatic organisms, may be mobilized from soils, rocks, and stream sediments in this acidic environment. When thicker mineral soils are present, acidic soil solutions in the upper soil profile are neutralized as they react with the constituents of the B and C horizons of mineral soils. As a result of these processes, the ephemeral upland streams have the lowest pH and exhibit greater episodic acidifications than perennial streams in the valleys (Kahl et al., 1985). Lake alkalinity tends to be intermediate between the upland brooks and valley streams.
Lake Sediment Chemistry. Lake sediment records from The Bowl, Sargent Mountain Pond and Long Pond on Isle au Haut indicate that atmospheric deposition of elevated concentrations of trace metals has been occurring for over 150 years at Acadia (Kahl et al., 1985; Norton and Kahl, 1987, 1991). Similar records from peat cores taken at the park corroborate this inference (Norton et al., 1997; Norton and Kahl, 1986; 1987). The presence of polluted precipitation 150 years ago suggests that anthropogenic contributions of mineral acids (from fossil fuel combustion) were probably present in precipitation in the mid-1800s as well. The chronology of these cores was determined using 210Pb (Binford et al., 1993), as part of a regional effort to determine the historical impacts and trends in acidic deposition.
Estuarine waters constitute the transition zone between the freshwater and the marine environment. Acadia estuarine wetlands consist of intertidal mud flats, coarse gravel shores, salt marshes, and aquatic beds in coves or embayments, sheltered from high energy waves of the open ocean. The high tidal range at Acadia (over 3m./10 ft.) has helped to create an extensive system of mud flats that are of great ecological and economic importance to the region (Calhoun et al., 1994).
Although estuarine waters are outside park boundaries, the National Park Service has sponsored water quality research on Somes Sound (Doering and Roman, 1994) and Bass Harbor Marsh (Doering et al., 1994). A large part of the watershed for both estuaries is contained within the park. Both estuaries receive freshwater from private and park lands.
Somes Sound is classified as a fjord-type estuary because of its long (8 km/5 mi) and narrow (1 km/.6 mi) configuration, deep basins (40-50 m (130-160 ft) deep), and relatively shallow sill (10-12 m/33-40 ft) deep) near Northeast Harbor (Doering and Roman, 1994). Prior research conducted on Somes Sound includes water chemistry studies by Ketchum and Cass (1986) and hydrology studies by Folger et al. (1972).
Bass Harbor Marsh is a 22 hectare (54 acre) marsh-dominated estuarine system with a main creek that meanders for 3 km (2 mi). A study of water quality and habitat of the marsh ecosystem were initiated by the National Park Service in response to concerns about decreasing brook trout populations, increasing macroalgae biomass, and the knowledge of nitrogen leaching from a landfill in the headwaters outside of the park boundary. The researchers' findings and management alternatives for Somes Sound and Bass Harbor Marsh are summarized in section 3.3.
Source National Park Service, Water Resources Division
Binford, M.W., K. Hill, and F. Ignatowski. 1989. Long-term human activities and ecosystem responses: progress report to the Aga Khan Foundation. Harvard School of Design , Cambridge , MA . Chapman , C.A. 1970. The Geology of Acadia National Park . The Chatam Press, Old Greenwich , CT. 128 pp.
Gilman, R.A. , C.A. Chapman, T.V. Lowell, and H.W. Borns, Jr. 1988. The geology of Mount Desert Island - a visitor's guide to the geology of Acadia National Park . Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation, Augusta , ME. 50 pp. + maps.
Kahl, J.S., J.L. Andersen, and S.A. Norton. 1985a. An evaluation of the Technical Report for Management: Water resource baseline data and assessment of impacts from acidic precipitation, Acadia National Park , ME.
National Park Service Document NARO Technical Report 16. 14 pp. Norton , S.A. and J.S. Kahl. 1987. A comparison of lake sediments and ombrotrophic peat deposits as long-term monitors of atmospheric pollution. IN New Approaches to Monitoring ° Aquatic Ecosystems, ASTM STP 940, T. Boyle (ed.), American Society for Testing and Materials, Philadelphia, PA. pp. 40-57.
from the Park's enabling legislation:Proclamation No. 1339 of July 8, 1916 (39 Stat. 1785) p. 16: "The topographic configuration, the geology, ... are of great scientific interest"
Written in the Rocks
Bedrock Foundations
Acadia's landscape had its beginnings long before sunbeams first caressed the gentle slopes of Cadillac Mountain. About 500 million years ago nameless rivers transported sand, silt, and mud onto the floor of an ancient sea. These sediments built at a rate of about one inch every hundred years until they accreted to depths of thousands of feet. Pressure and heat transformed these sediments into the earliest bedrock. Next, titanic forces lifted and warped the bedrock of the sea into a mountain range, a range perhaps as mighty as the Rockies. But inexorably, the forces of air, water, and gravity ground these mountains down until little was left. Today, only schists and gneisses, rocks of the Ellsworth formation, remain as testimony to those mountains of long ago.
The pattern of deposition repeated itself. Rivers laden with rock and mud poured their cargoes into the sea, which amassed as gravel and silt beds on the ocean floor. Pressure transformed the gravel into conglomerate and the silt into siltstone. Known as the Bar Harbor formation, these deposits roofed over the Ellsworth formation.
Then, about 400 million years ago, volcanoes belched out their contents of ash which came to rest on a sea bottom. During the time when seaweeds dominated the plant world, pressure and heat transformed these sediments into rocks known as the Cranberry Island formation.
Geologists sometimes refer to the Ellsworth, Bar Harbor, and Cranberry Island formations as "weak" rock. This rock, however, is not weak, except when compared to granite (the rock most commonly found in Acadia), which is much more resistant to erosion.
After a period of quiet, molten rock (magma) invaded and reshaped the weak rock formations. The first of these intrusions produced diorite. Then followed three enormous bodies of magma that solidified into granite:
- first a fine-grained,
- then a coarse-grained, and
- finally a medium-grained granite.
Each of the intrusions altered the overhead bedrock chemically and physically, but the most dramatic change occurred when the coarse-grained granite formed.
Far below the earth's surface, a huge molasses-like plug of magma at least eight miles in diameter moved upward. And, as it undermined the overlying bedrock, the heavy roof bedrock began to sag, eventually sinking and melting into the magma. The fiery mass incorporated material from the earlier granites, from diorite, and from the weak rocks. Eventually it reached the surface, and gradually cooled to form the coarse-grained granite.
After the various granites developed, other minor intrusions of molten material occurred. The most conspicuous of these consisted of black diabase dikes that spread themselves into open fractures on older rock. The most obvious examples of these formations in the park are on Schoodic Peninsula.
The story of geologic history rushed on, past the appearance of the first insects, even beyond the time when dinosaurs dominated all of life. During this interminable period of time, the agents of erosion, rivers, rain, weathering, removed the overlying rocks from Mount Desert. The various granites, more resistant to erosion, emerged to form a mountainous ridge with V-shaped stream valleys cut into the face of the range. The stage was set for glaciation, an event not far removed from our own time, at least in the reckoning of geologic eras.
Odyssey of Ice
During the last two to three million years, 20 to 30 ice sheets intermittently covered most of New England. Because each succeeding glacier scraped away signs of earlier glaciations, it is the last glacier that has left the most pronounced impact on today's landscape. The last glacier, between 3,000 and 9,000 feet thick, expanded out of Canada and spread across New England. When the leading edge of the glacier reached the highlands of Mount Desert, the ice surged like dough rising over the lip of a pan, into notches in the mountain crests, until six or eight tongues of ice probed the stream-cut valleys. The ice tongues moved like very slow rivers; but, even at the speed of only a few inches or a few feet per day, the strength of the ice far surpassed that of any river. Not even granite could resist the glacier. Just as a river intensifies its erosional power in the narrows, so did the ice multiply its capacity to excavate in the valleys. Eventually, after the ice melted, some of these deepened valleys became water basins. These water-filled hollows became Eagle Lake and Echo Lake. In one instance, the glacier cut a trough that resulted from an ice-sculpting "binge," so deep that it filled with sea water. This formed a fjord now called Somes Sound.
After the ice forged through the valleys, its main body rose high over the mountain range. On the northern slopes the grinding mass of ice streamlined and rounded the profile of the mountain range from base to summit, while on the southern slopes, the glacier plucked fractured rock from the cliff sides, leaving them jagged and precipitous, a dramatic landscape for visitors of the future to view.
The great ice sheet did not travel alone. Embedded within its mass was a passenger load of sand, stone, and grit, tools with which the glacier etched scratches in the granite or polished its rough face smooth. On its broad back, the glacier conveyed boulders as big as trucks, plucking them from mountain ridges, hauling them along, and dumping them one by one at places distant from their origins. These misplaced boulders are called glacial erratics. The most conspicuous of these is the mammoth rock that rests near the summit of South Bubble Mountain.
Then, about 18,000 years ago, the ice mass stopped growing. It had reached the continental shelf, 150 miles or so south of Mount Desert Island, when a warming trend halted its progress. Cliffs of ice broke from its snout and rivers gushed from its massive bulk. The leading edge of the glacier was now its tail, retreating and reaching central Maine about 4,000 years after having conquered the continental shelf.
Meanwhile, the sea level rose as the glacier melted, flooding today's coastline to a depth of about 300 feet. The earth's crust, freed of its burden of ice, started to rebound. The sea, now unable to hold its position on the land, retreated. The resilient land continued to rise relative to the sea until about 10,000 years ago, when it finally stabilized. Since that time, the level of the sea worldwide has risen to its present height, and continues to rise at a rate of about two inches per century. The rising sea and depressed land mass created a "drowned coast". This means that what appears today as arms and fingers of the sea were once river valleys; islands were the tops of mountains; headlands and peninsulas were rocky ridges.
Shore Patterns
The bedrock gave substance and the glaciers gave character, but without the sea, Acadia would be like a gem without a setting. Each headland, bay, and inlet reveals the majestic interface between sea and land. Acadia's rocky headlands bear the brunt of enormous energies unleashed in waves that batter her cliffs and erupt in lofty spray.
Thunder Hole is a familiar example of the awesome power of the sea. When the wind is strong, the rising tide surges into the narrow chasm, compressing the captured air, and resounds with a boom that is felt as well as heard. The surging tides throw stones, some as large as bowling balls, on the chasm floor. These stones are hurled against the bottleneck of rock in a ceaseless effort to tunnel deeper. (Thunder Hole, however, does not always thunder. Often when waves are small and the tide is low, Thunder Hole remains disappointingly still.)
The sea destroys and displaces, but it also builds. What the sea takes from one point on the coast may be added to another. With the irresistible energy of hammer blows, waves dislodge rock particles, smooth them, and deposit them at the head of nearly every cove. In still other places, the dispossessed stones and cobbles become gravel bars and shoals. Bar Harbor was named for just such a bar, which connects it to Bar Island.
Because the coast is young, sandy shores are rare. But at Sand Beach, shore currents have shifted the tons of sand that the sea eroded from the rocks. Mixed into the sand are broken bits of shells and the skeletons of crabs, mussels, sea urchins, and other marine life.
The story that began with sediments piled on the floor of a primordial sea closes for the moment with those washed ashore at Sand Beach. But in reality there is no beginning and no ending. Rock becomes sand, and sand becomes rock. The granite of Cadillac Mountain, the cobbles at Hunters Cove, even a pinch of grit at Sand Beach bears evidence of this endless cycle. For indelibly written on the landscape, in bold stokes or fine scratches, is a script that tells the astonishing story of mountain ranges that rose and fell, of ice that sealed in a continent, and of coastlines that emerged and vanished.
Glaciers and the Landscape
Effects of continental glaciation abound here. Mount Desert Island's major valleys all run north and south and each holds one or two lakes the glaciers scooped out. Erratic boulders sit where the mammoth ice sheet (two miles thick in places) stranded them. Many rocks are polished or scratched by the glaciers. Somes Sound, the only fjord on the east coast of the United States, is a glacial river valley drowned by the sea.
from left to right:
- Before glaciation, the Acadian highland was an east-west running granite ridge
- Huge ice tongues invaded the valleys on the north slopes, cut through the passes, and engulfed the mountains.
- The ice sheet swept seaward, finally extending 300 miles out to the continental shelf.
- As the ice melted, the ocean level rose and flooded the foothills, creating today's indented shoreline.
- Acadia's shape was changed, U-shaped valleys now run north and south. Its mountaintops are rounded.
The General park map handed out at the visitor center is available on the park's map webpage.For information about topographic maps, geologic maps, and geologic data sets, please see the geologic maps page.
A geology photo album has not been prepared for this park.For information on other photo collections featuring National Park geology, please see the Image Sources page.
Currently, we do not have a listing for a park-specific geoscience book. The park's geology may be described in regional or state geology texts.
Please visit the Geology Books and Media webpage for additional sources such as text books, theme books, CD ROMs, and technical reports.
Parks and Plates: The Geology of Our National Parks, Monuments & Seashores.
Lillie, Robert J., 2005.
W.W. Norton and Company.
9" x 10.75", paperback, 550 pages, full color throughout
The spectacular geology in our national parks provides the answers to many questions about the Earth. The answers can be appreciated through plate tectonics, an exciting way to understand the ongoing natural processes that sculpt our landscape. Parks and Plates is a visual and scientific voyage of discovery!
Ordering from your National Park Cooperative Associations' bookstores helps to support programs in the parks. Please visit the bookstore locator for park books and much more.
Information about the park's research program is available on the park's research webpage.
For information about permits that are required for conducting geologic research activities in National Parks, see the Permits Information page.
The NPS maintains a searchable data base of research needs that have been identified by parks.
A bibliography of geologic references is being prepared for each park through the Geologic Resources Evaluation Program (GRE). Please see the GRE website for more information and contacts.
Park Highlights
NPS Geology and Soils PartnersAssociation of American State Geologists
Geological Society of America
Natural Resource Conservation Service - Soils
U.S. Geological Survey
Currently, we do not have a listing for any park-specific geology education programs or activities.
General information about the park's education and intrepretive programs is available on the park's education webpage.For resources and information on teaching geology using National Park examples, see the Students & Teachers pages.


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You might expect that Roy Williams, a man who loves surprises so much that he never wants to know what's happening at his own eponymous Late Night until it's actually taking place, had a few tricks planned for Halloween. But this one was impressive even by his standards.
On the one night per year that Franklin Street is stormed for non-basketball reasons, as the rest of town put on their best/most questionable costumes, Williams and Tar Heel video coordinator Eric Hoots were flying to Phoenix. That's where Harrison Barnes and the Golden State Warriors were playing their season opener against Kendall Marshall and the Phoenix Suns. Neither player had been told their former head coach was coming, which is exactly the way he likes it. Remember, Williams is the self-described "corny as all get-out" coach who loved hiding Easter eggs for his children to find…well into their 20s.
So you know he loved it when he and Hoots were able to walk onto midcourt at the US Airways Center an hour and 45 minutes before tipoff to watch the Warriors warm up, and Barnes had his back to them. The highly focused Barnes was going through his usual pregame shooting routine, happened to catch a glimpse of the visitors out of the corner of his eye, and lit up with a big grin as he walked over to greet them with a hug.
Marshall had called Williams at 2:27 p.m. Wednesday afternoon—if you want to know whether the coach matters to his players, just consider that less than five hours before his first NBA game, Kendall Marshall wanted to hear his voice—but the call went to voice mail. The point guard didn't think, though, that meant Williams was 40,000 feet in the air on his way to the Pacific time zone.
"I had no idea," Marshall said. "A couple months ago, he said something about coming to see me play, but I didn't know it would be like this."
Williams and Hoots didn't come empty-handed. They brought the two stalwarts of the 2012 club their ACC championship rings, which Williams was wearing on his right ring finger. They picked up with the duo much like that group was still together, laughing about peach cobbler and listening to Marshall describe the differences of life in the NBA.
One of the biggest?
"The other day we were supposed to have practice at 10, and it started at 10:04," Marshall said with a laugh.
Needless to say, nothing starts four minutes late in Chapel Hill.
Williams and Marshall went through a detailed x's and o's breakdown of how some of the Tar Heel principles compare to the way the Suns play. There still is an element of coach and player there. Watching them chat on the sideline in a slowly filling arena, you could almost squint your eyes and picture them having the same conversation during a free throw at the Smith Center.
There are those who will be skeptical about these trips, say that they're easy. Williams isn't exactly sitting in a middle seat in coach on most of his trips, and pro team personnel take very good care of him, from tickets to parking to even food. But those who would be skeptical have never made a fuel stop in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as part of a journey that requires ten hours on an airplane to watch two hours and 30 minutes of basketball.
What Williams has figured out, in this age of texts and easier remote communication, is that it might matter even more that he's there in person. He keeps close tabs on all his players in the pros. Even as he watches Barnes and Marshall in person, he's noting that Ty Lawson went for 16 points and seven assists, or that Brandan Wright had 15 points for the Mavericks. But from making these trips repeatedly over recent years, he knows the players appreciate seeing him in person, that they understand the effort required.
And he is right. When the game is over and the Warriors get the two-point win, it is clear that Marshall, who earns a Did Not Play-Coach's Decision for what is probably the first time in his life, is disappointed. He looks forlorn in the hallway outside the Suns locker room. But there is his college coach, the voice he wanted to hear this afternoon before the game, and the voice he wants—or maybe needs—to hear now.
Williams asks a television cameraman who is inserting himself into the Williams-Marshall conversation to turn it off. He pulls Marshall aside and provides a brief pep talk. Eye-to-eye, the point guard nods. This is exactly the kind of conversation that is not as meaningful on the phone. Making the effort to have these talks in person is exactly why the Smith Center fills up in the summer with former players, the pickup game rosters sometimes so deep that two courts are required to allow everyone to participate.
Down the hall, Barnes is happier after his victory. He scored eight points, got the start and his team is 1-0.
"Thanks for coming all the way out here," he tells Williams.
"That look on your face when you went out there was worth it," the head coach says.
Five minutes later, the Tar Heel travelers are headed to the exit. "Did the Jazz win?" Williams asks as he pilots the rental car out of the parking deck. Hoots, as usual, has the answer, and replies in the affirmative, that the Marvin Williams-led Jazz (21 points) did indeed defeat the Mavericks, 113-94.
Very shortly, they are back at the airport. It is 1:25 a.m. Eastern time as the head coach settles back into his seat for the four-hour flight home.
"Now," he says, "I can get tomorrow's practice plan done."
Adam Lucas is the publisher of Tar Heel Monthly and the author or co-author of seven books on the Tar Heels.


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Guru (born Keith Edward Elam on July 17, 1966, in Boston, MA; died following a battle with cancer on April 19, 2010) and Premier (born Christopher Edward Martin on March 21, 1966, in Houston, TX) began working together in 1989. Guru had founded Gang Starr a couple years earlier, in 1987, and had already established a working relationship with Wild Pitch Records. The partnership of Guru and Premier as Gang Starr led to a formative debut album, No More Mr. Nice Guy (1989), and its featured single, "Words I Manifest." The DJ-spotlight track "DJ Premier in Deep Concentration" is another highlight of the album, which spent years out of print. Between albums, in 1990, Guru and Premier contributed a song, "Jazz Thing," to the Mo' Better Blues soundtrack. Gang Starr subsequently moved to Chrysalis Records for their second album, Step in the Arena (1991), on which they perfected the approach of their debut, that is, a stark, hard-hitting jazz-rap production style, complete with Premier's masterful DJ cutting, over which Guru's battle-rap-hardened yet smoothly delivered lyrics -- often thoughtful, sly, and streetsmart -- take flight. Gang Starr's third album, Daily Operation (1992), furthered the duo's approach stylistically; widely considered an East Coast rap classic, it's arguably Guru and Premier's finest work, along with its predecessor.
Beginning in 1993, Guru and Premier began working separately. Guru's debut album, Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 (1993), took the so-called jazz-rap style to a new level, featuring jazz musicians such as Lonnie Liston Smith, Branford Marsalis, Ronny Jordan, Donald Byrd, and Roy Ayers, along with guest vocalists such as N'Dea Davenport (of the Brand New Heavies) and MC Solaar (of French rap fame). Meanwhile, Premier produced six tracks for KRS-One's solo debut, Return of the Boom Bap (1993); moreover, in 1994 he proceeded to produce three tracks for Nas' debut, Illmatic ("N.Y. State of Mind," "Memory Lane [Sittin' in da Park]," "Represent"); two for the Notorious B.I.G.'s debut, Ready to Die ("Unbelievable," an unreleased remix of "Machine Gun Funk"); five for the self-titled debut of Branford Marsalis' Buckshot LeFonque project; the entirety of Jeru the Damaja's debut, The Sun Rises in the East; and also a handful of remixes for various artists. Amid all of this activity, Guru and Premier found time to record their fourth album, Hard to Earn (1994), which was more hardcore-fashioned -- as was the style at the time, in the wake of Death Row's uprising -- than past Gang Starr albums and, also unlike past efforts, featured guest rappers. The album spawned the duo's biggest hit to date, "Mass Appeal," their first to break the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart (peaking at number 67).
Following Hard to Earn, Guru and Premier resumed their solo activity. Guru released Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality (1995) and a various-artists compilation, Guru Presents Ill Kid Records (1995), while Premier produced the bulk of Livin' Proof (1995), the debut of Gang Starr affiliates Group Home (a duo comprised of Lil' Dap and Melachi the Nutcracker, who both had been featured on Hard to Earn). Also in 1995, Premier produced three tracks on KRS-One, the rapper's second solo album; and two tracks on Hold It Down, the third album by Das EFX; as well as assorted remixes and one-off productions. While Guru remained more or less inactive during 1996-1997, releasing no solo albums, Premier stayed busy, producing the entirety of Jeru the Damaja's second album, Wrath of the Math (1996); five tracks on Bahamadia's debut, Kollage (1996); six on M.O.P.'s second album, Firing Squad (1996); three on Jay-Z's debut, Reasonable Doubt (1996) ("D'evils," "Friend or Foe," "Bring It On"); one on Nas' second album, It Was Written (1996) ("I Gave You Power"); two on Jay-Z's second album, In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 (1997) ("A Million & One Questions," "Friend or Foe '98"); two on the Notorious B.I.G.'s second album, Life After Death (1997) ("Kick in the Door," "Ten Crack Commandments"); four on O.C.'s second album, Jewelz (1997); two on Rakim's solo debut, The 18th Letter (1997); two on the Lady of Rage's debut, Necessary Roughness (1997); and more.
In 1998, after four years between albums, Gang Starr returned with Moment of Truth, their first album to chart number one (on the R&B/Hip-Hop album chart, that is; it peaked at number six overall, still their best showing commercially to date). Moment of Truth was a significant departure from past Gang Starr efforts, very much contemporary in style; for example, the album features numerous guests (Inspectah Deck, Scarface, G. Dep, K-Ci & JoJo, M.O.P.) and bore little trace of the duo's jazz-rap beginnings. The lead single, "You Know My Steez," became the second Gang Starr hit to break into the Billboard Hot 100 chart (peaking at number 76). A double-disc retrospective, Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr (1999), subsequently marked the duo's ten-year anniversary. In the years that followed, Guru and Premier continued to focus on their own work. Guru continued his Jazzmatazz series, beginning with a third volume, Streetsoul, in 2000; he also released solo rap albums, beginning with Baldhead Slick & da Click (2001). The next Guru release, Version 7.0: The Street Scriptures, arrived in 2005 on his new label, 7 Grand Records; the album featured beats by Solar, who would prove to be an important contributor on additional 7 Grand releases. The fourth volume of Jazzmatazz, including the typical array of guest vocalists and instrumentalists, was issued in the summer of 2007, along with the "raw" companion disc Guru's Jazzmatazz - The Timebomb: Back to the Future Mixtape. Guru 8.0: Lost and Found, the rapper's next 7 Grand full-length, followed in 2009. Premier continued his production activity, working with superstars such as Jay-Z, Nas, and Common, as well as underground rappers such as Royce da 5'9", Termanology, and NYG'z; he even dabbled in mainstream pop, most notably working extensively with Christina Aguilera on her double-disc album Back to Basics (2006).
As for Gang Starr, Guru and Premier did reunite for The Ownerz (2003), a celebrated return to form, but the reunion proved short-lived, leaving back-catalog collections such as Mass Appeal: The Best of Gang Starr (2006) to fill the void. Sadly, Guru died at age 43 on April 19, 2010 after battling cancer, suffering a heart attack, and for a time falling into a coma. ~ Jason Birchmeier
Selected Discography
Track List: No More Mr. Nice Guy (Explicit)
Track List: Mass Appeal: The Best Of Gang Starr (Explicit)
Track List: Mass Appeal: The Best of Gang Starr [Edited]
Track List: The Ownerz (Explicit)
Track List: Full Clip: A Decade Of Gang Starr
Track List: Moment Of Truth
Track List: Moment Of Truth (Explicit)
Track List: Hard To Earn
Track List: Hard To Earn (Explicit)
Track List: Daily Operation
Track List: Step In The Arena
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Jeff's answer on sailing rigs is certainly one of the most complete I've ever read, and is definitely worthy of the publication he intends.
I have a staysail ketch and I would never go back to a sloop, for exactly the reason Jeff suggests -- I really like the more traditional look and feel of the ketch rig. I agree that a sloop is probably the best option for a new sailor.
Many of the early fiberglass yawls were very poorly engineered
Jeff I was with you on the pros and cons of Sloops vs Yawls and Ketches until you made note that Many of the early fiberglass yawls were very poorly engineered. I believe you are kind of right if you had stated that they where so darn over built that, that could be perceived as poor engineering. While the early Bristols may had a problem like many new boats of today. The Block Island 40s, Bermuda 40s and many other where built like tanks. Now Im bias, Im an owner of a BI 40. She has turned 50 the boat has not had on signal structural issue, the biggest problem we have with her is trying to get deck fittings and through hull fittings long enough to make it through. As for a back stay going around the mizzen mast, I would argue this point as well. Many slops have split back stays for a number of reason, some for racing and some just to get to the swim platform. I have seen many Ketches with a stay from the mizzen mast to the main mast but many not yawls. Our mizzen mast has no back stay or fore stay and relies on being a stiff keel step mast. All the rigging on our mizzen is original, stays, turnbuckles extra with out any failure. I suspect the people at Hinckley knew what they where doing as well.
Every aspect of sailing is a trade off, and finding the right boat for you can be a long journey in its self. If I had the chance to meet the late Bill Tripp JR. I would thank him for his poor engineering. Our BI 40 loves a stiff 20 knot on the beam with only about 10 degrees of heel under jib and jigger averaging 8 knots. For myself I wouldnt trade my old yawl for any other boat on the market.
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Good question. This is definately one that causes much heated debate among sailors. I have always said that if a man overboard rescue (the quick stop method) is performed properly, the victim will not be on either the leeward or windward side. Ideally the bow will be pointed directly into the wind enabling the boat to come to a complete stop next to the victim.
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Give me a break Bob. We can agree that hitting a MOB with a sailboat at 7 kts might hurt him. But, of the four or five different MOB techniques I can think of, none of them suggest that you approach the MOB at 7 kts. They all recommend that you bring the boat nearly to a stop as you approach the person in the water. So, when you aim at the MOB, the boat should be coasting toward him at a slow speed when you reach him. I didn''t suggest that you run the MOB down at seven kts! Sheesh!
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Yikes! This sounds scary. I disagree that you won''t hurt the person in the water by hitting them with a sailboat. Consider that sailing vessels wind up with cracked hulls from hitting flotsam like 2x4''s--then consider the impact that it took to crack the hull. Fiberglass is hard! It''s harder than someone''s skull, believe me...
What you need to do with a MOB drill is come back to the MOB under control and _stop_ within a boathook''s reach. It''s easy to get back to them, and it''s easy to stop--it''s just not easy to do both at the right time. That''s why we practice.
Don''t plan your MOB drills around the "speed retrieval" method. This is fine if you''re picking up a SEAL after a mission, but it''s no good if one of a 2-person crew is unconscious in the water. And please don''t run them down either!
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I was taught to steer the sailboat straight at them, as if to run them down, because you want to be sure you are close enough to them to recover them on the first try. You don''t want to have to go around and try a second time. A sailboat approach to a MOB isn''t made at a speed that is likely to hurt the person in the water. It''s more important that you recover the person on the first try than on which side you recover them.
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I don't use kibble , and when I recommend one it would be Orijen, so I don't have a favourite one , Purina or BB.
Blue Buffalo did not single out Purina . When other companies are mentioned , and BB did make a comparison graph using several , that is still exposure. It did not say "they" were bad .
So what happens to this then Purina Dog Chow Light and Healthy | Review and Rating
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The first ingredient in this dog food is corn. Corn is an inexpensive and controversial cereal grain. And aside from its energy content, this grain is of only modest nutritional value to a dog.
For this reason, we do not consider corn a preferred component in any dog food.
The second ingredient is soybean hulls. The hulls are the skins of soybeans and a waste product remaining after processing soybeans into oil and meal.
Soybean hulls are often used as inexpensive fillers to dilute the energy content of various animal feeds.
We consider soybean hulls a lower quality pet food ingredient and of little nutritional value to a dog.
The third ingredient lists meat and bone meal, a dry "rendered product from mammal tissues, including bone, exclusive of any added blood, hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings, manure, stomach and rumen contents".1"
I'm not sure why Purina filed a civil suit except to make a big stink. I find this quite 'slimy' on their part as well. Not that I use their foods, but I certainly wouldn't after such a tasteless action on their part. Surely, if they had enough evidence, it would have been turned over to become a criminal suit?
I have no idea if BB is guilty of false advertisement or not. I am not impassioned for or against them. I'm feeling a bit passionate in my dislike for Purina at the moment, however.
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Have never liked or trusted Blue Buffalo since the whole recall over the excessive levels of certain vitamins in their foods. I did once try a bag of their Wilderness just because I thought maybe, just maybe, I was making too big of a deal out of nothing. All 3 dogs I tried feeding it to (by mixing it in) promptly refused the food over numerous days of trying to incorporate it. As soon as I removed the Wilderness they ate up with gusto. Maybe my dogs were smarter than I was about food choices?
Anyway, Purina does use some ingredients considered inferior or garbage BUT at least they list it on the bag for a consumer to see and make an informed decision. Blue is NOT listing the ingredients on their bags, like chicken or animal by-products, and is in fact advertising aggressively that they DON'T put those ingredients in their food.
That is the difference, and of course Purina will jump all over that because Blue is a major competitor!
I say "Go Purina!" And FWIW I know a lot of people that use and swear by the Pro Plan formulas, especially the Sensitive Skin and Stomach one, and their dogs do great. I can't say the same about Blue because most people I've talked to that tried it switched off of it rather quickly.
I don't like either one as well. The good foods don't spend money advertising, they put it in the food. I just know from personal experience that Blue is hiding information. Four or five years ago I tried and tried to get their cal/pho max numbers and hit a road block from every angle and I went up the ladder as far as I could get. Someone on the thread said they had worked for them before and couldn't get it. They put their minimum on the bag and will give those numbers when asked. If you call them out that those are their minimums and the maximum is what you are looking for (very important that puppies don't get too high cal/pho) they won't give them. With all their bragging and comparison ads I believe if their numbers were within range they would boost about it.
The other companies I've contacted that didn't list max on the bag had no problem providing me the information.
Purina may very well have the same practice, I don't know because I've never contacted them. Since I know Blue's practices I'm for anyone that takes them down.
I know, I read the legals that Jocoyn provided.
I don't like either one -- I don't like the emotional blackmail, the pet-parent slant .
I see that they don't claim to be grain free -- this at the bottom of the link Blanketback provided ,
very faint white on beige background -- this is a cut and paste of that . "plus wholesome whole grains"
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I think that's the issue, and they would have stayed under the radar if they weren't using other companies as a comparison to promote their own kibble.
WHAT exactly is the definition of the chicken by-product meal.
It could be indigestible feather which has no value , or it could be the offal, and undeveloped eggs which contributes in a nutrient positive way.
It could include feet , which some of us go out of our way to buy as a source for glucosamine and chondroitin to offer raw , dried , or as an ingredient for a bone broth .
Some cultures are as crazy for chicken feet as we are for the wings .
What Exactly Are Animal By-Products?
Basically, animal by-products are what's left of a slaughtered animal after the edible parts have been removed. They include the waste2 of meat processing not intended for human consumption. For example…
Giblets (livers, hearts, gizzards and necks) as well as other organs can be sold as edible meats or used generically to make hot dogs, bologna and sausage.
|They are both awful companies that make awful pet food. This will be entertaining to watch unfold.
I have fed Blue Buffalo to my cats and dogs and I had no issues, I know friends that still use them.
If I have to choose a side, it will always be Blue over Purina. To me Purina is garbage.
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To begin with there is nothing illegal in there as its my flat's router... its only a cable router (no wifi) TP-Link SOHO (serie TL-R402 I think, i would have to check tonight).
here's the story: we live in that flat with 5 people and it has been students moving in and out every 6-12 months.
When I came in they was this old router already in and we don't know who was the owner, probably a chinese as its a chinese old crap.
I do have physical access to it but it does not reset!
There is a quite big button for that, but nothing works, a pen, a needle.... I attempted "leave the reset" button pressed and unplugging from power, nothing does it...
The router config page is "192.168.1.1" but as usual it asks for credentials login/password.
The default according the website is "admin/admin" but does not works!
As I want to access it to monitor and put a bit of rules in that chaos that is flatsharing/using internet, but it wont let me do it.
No need to say that the girls and the other guy are helpless: the girls would be like a chicken watching its eggs and the guy knows a bit but he does not know the settings at its not his own.
So far I used Brutus to brute force it in "http auth" but with no luck, I made my own "user list.txt" and own "password list.txt" but first its very slow and still no chance.
The same, yesterday I tried "HydraGTk", it made 170 000 attemps with no luck...
Im really starting to think that its setup in chinese and that it would be "chinese word for admin", "chinese word for admin as password"...
Is that possible?
Else what suggestions do you have for me?
I was wondering "uploading firmware" if only I find one but then how to do it?
Can I connect like via "telnet" without login?
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Am I alone here? I just finished playing the Tom Clancy HAWX flight sim on XBOX 360 and have a question.
How is it possble for a company to make a flight sim game where you don't take off or land, not once? Would anyone stand for a racing game where there was no start or finish, you just spawned mid race?
The game was ok, nice graphics, plenty of planes, decent missions, but is taxing down a runway, taking of, landing, mid-air refueling, and trying to hit the deck of an aircraft carrier not some of the most fun during a flight sim? It is for me!
Ever since I transiton from PC to XBOX gaming I have longed for class act flight sim, some have come close, but these exclusions in HAWX are ridiculous. These are some of the most basic, integral elements of a flight sim and not a one!
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|December 16th, 2013, 08:27 PM
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Brushless conversion kits for Traxxas Slash
Can any of you RC dudes recommend me a good brushless set up to convert my son's truck for the Christmases
|December 16th, 2013, 08:30 PM
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Oh, you want to make it so it does 100mph and really causes some damage when he crashes it...I've seen videos of those brushless sit-ups and I would even trust myself to drive one!
|December 16th, 2013, 09:25 PM
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With the added cost of going brushless you'll also need to upgrade the charger and batteries to Lipo.
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|December 16th, 2013, 09:32 PM
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We have brushless Rustlers and they have the Nimh batteries in them and they fly. Will do 50 mph easily. There are many options to do what you want but probably the easiest is to just get the Traxxas Velineon brushless motor and ESC for the Slash. I converted my son's Rustler to brushless a few years back doing exactly that.
|December 16th, 2013, 11:43 PM
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If you are buying the system separate, I would not recommend the Velinion setup. It's just too expensive for what it is. If you are looking for something out of a local shop, you'll pretty much have to just go see what they've got. If you are looking to order online, then hobbypartz.com isn't a bad place to order. This link will take you straight to the motor/esc/programming card combos. 13.5 and 17.5 combos are both $120.
Honestly any setup should work fine, though if it's for younger ones I wouldn't go too crazy, no lower than 13.5T. Also, pay attention to the Turn rating, a 1/10 motor may not be a full 540 size motor even though it appears to be. Whole numbers (13T or 17T) are usually a smaller armature, and can usually be told visually by deeper fins on the motor can. Half numbers (13.5T or 17.5T) are true 540 size motors, and usually have smooth cans or very shallow fins.
Either way, I would definitely recommend Lipo. Hell, you may wanna do that first, since that will actually make the stock Titan a fair bit quicker on it's own, though it will also let you burn the Titan up quicker as well.
|December 17th, 2013, 06:46 AM
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www.amainhobbies.com is good for pricing too. NiMh on brushless will fly. I 'trained' mine on NiMh before I trusted myself to LiPo.
But I ruined a LiPo. Expensive lesson.
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|December 17th, 2013, 06:56 AM
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Get some extra pinion gears and spur gears to keep on hand. With the higher torque, until you learn to control it you may strip them. Better to have them on hand than to have to run into Flint to buy them, or to have to wait to order.
|December 17th, 2013, 07:10 AM
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As for switching to Lipo first half the reason we want to convert to brushless is because of reliability of the stock system. In talking to the guys at a few hobby shops and my frsutrations with reliability (and my general troubleshooting and repair knowledge of RC shit) they suggested we convert to brushless as it is not only faster, but much more reliable than the stock traxxas crap. Your thoughts?
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i run this http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/390566967388?lpid=82 in my hpi blitz and have had zero issues, the eBay price is about what I paid for mine also.
|December 17th, 2013, 07:38 AM
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I love my Slash 2wd trucks. I have 3 of them. For Christmas I would consider giving them two modifications.
Castle Creations 1/10 SV3 Sidewinder SC + 3800kV w/5mm
Traxxas Chassis Conversion Kit Low CG Slash
nimh will work on the brushless systems but the low voltage cut off will need to be disabled.
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|December 17th, 2013, 08:12 AM
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You should be able to make the jump to Lipo and brushless right away, its not that hard to learn to drive over a slow truck. Make sure the body is in good shape because you are going to roll it a lot but other than that its not hard.
I went from a slow crawler to a brushless 4x4 slash and some nice big lipos and wow is it fun!
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I've had about every type of RC rig over the past 20 years, and the only thing I would even consider running a brushed motor in anymore is a crawler.
I have had really good luck with Castle products. Their ESCs can be programmed on your PC, or you can get a field card and do it whenever. For a 2wd Slash/Rustler/Stampede the Sidewinder series do a great job. Reasonably inexpensive, and if you get the SW3 (the latest version), it is water resistant, which for bashing is very nice.
With motors, you don't really have to worry about the sensored vs. unsensored issue with what you are doing. With that ESC, any unsensored motor will work great. The stock Traxxas "blue can" one is a 3500 kV motor. You can get a combo with the Castle setup with 3800kV, 4600 kV, 5700 kV, etc.
What the kV value on a motor is is the RPM per input voltage. So, for example, if you run a 2S LiPo battery (LiPos are 3.7V per cell, or "S", the 2S is a 2 cell battery), and a 4600 kV motor, you will run 34040 RPM (4600 x 7.4). The motors with "turns" on them refer back to the days when all motors were brushed, and it referred to the way the armature was wound. They try to assign a turn value to brushless motors more as a reference. I'd still look up the kV ratings on all motors before I buy them to be sure. So, when deciding what to get, you have to decide where you will be running the trucks. If you have wide open space, and a lot of straightaway area, a higher kV motor will get you more top end. If you have a smaller area, or a small track, or indoor track, then the lower kV is a better option.
For my Slashes, I ran Sidewinders with 4600 kV motors and 2S LiPos, and they were plenty fast. My boys are 11 and 7, and they work great for them. If you want to share equipment, then just get a 3S battery for yourself, and you will get a 50% increase in your RPMs =)
I personally try to buy ESCs new, because enough of the used ones have been overheated or mishandled. Motors on the other hand I've bought used and had good luck. You can also look on eBay, etc, for some of the second tier vendors (TenShock, HobbyWing, etc) for motors. I run TenShocks in a few rigs and they work great so far.
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When I raced, Mamba was the general go to. If he plans on racing ROAR, LRP, or Novak are both good choices. I have Novak in my crawler with zero complaints. Mamba is cool, because you can tune it on your personal computer
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The titan 12t that was in my son's slash died so I replaced it with the Traxxas VXL-3S Velineon Brushless Power System, it's pretty fast, and has held up so far. I think I got it for around $150 on ebay.
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I just moved up to a 8.5T Novak got it at tower hobbie for about $175. Im running it in my Losi 22 buggy now that thing is fast. if your new to the Brushless world i would stay right around a 13.5T or 3800KV they have more then enough power i run a Castle Side winder 3800KV in my SCT and it flat out mover i have to tune it down for the track you can pick that kit up for around $100
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iOS is very good at showing us the date and time. The date is included on the lock screen and also from the home screen on the Calendar application's icon. The time is always shown on the lock screen and from the status bar. However, a new free tweak comes to the table called TimeSpeak by iOS developer Mathieu Bolard and it allows you to have your device tell you what the date and time is using Siri's voice.
With all the options in iOS for showing you the time and date, you might be wondering what the advantage is to having the device announce the time and date to you. For starters, not everyone has perfect vision and can see that well – TimeSpeak helps these people to hear the time and date by invoking an Activator action to use the tweak. Swiping on the status bar or shaking the device are two great ways to hear the date and time spoken out to you.
In addition to aiding people hard at seeing, TimeSpeak also shares with you the seconds of your current time (the status bar and lock screen do not) and it also tells you the date and time all in one sentence without the need to check several parts of iOS to find out both. You also have the satisfaction of Siri's voice telling it to you. TimeSpeak comes with a preferences pane in the Settings application after being installed; it is shown below:
From the preferences pane of TimeSpeak, you can customize how the tweak speaks the time. You can set it to say only a few of the items, or all of them – you can also opt to have the time spoken in 24-hour time rather than the 12-hour clock and you can pick your Activator action for how you want to invoke the tweak from these options as well. By default, everything is turned on. The things you can have the tweak say (or not say) include:
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