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Lessons learnt during the delivery of Riverside are being applied at City Campus, the second phase of the scheme.
City of Glasgow College's two new city centre campuses will cater for 40,000 students and 1,200 staff.
The circa 70,000m2 development comprises two new buildings constructed on land at Cathedral Street and at Thistle Street on the banks of the River Clyde.
The design ensures every part of the campuses can be harnessed to support learning, wireless networks permeating each area from the library spaces to the surrounding landscape.
Our team is working to support the college's aspiration of maintaining the highest quality learning experience for students. A full-time team has worked to develop a strategy for the logistically complex, multi-phased migration of the staff and students and the relocation and integration of existing specialist equipment.
We are working with our supply chain to provide opportunities for new entrants, SMEs and social enterprises. We are also working with the college and our supply chain on a Construction Youth Trust programme.
The company leads the Glasgow Learning Quarter consortium which was awarded the contract to design, build, finance and maintain the campuses under a 25-year concession.
Our City Campus and Riverside Campus teams won Silver Considerate Constructors Scheme National Site Awards in 2016.


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Department of Marketing & Supply Chain Management
With a focus on consumers and delivering value, marketing is an exciting field of business that stimulates lateral thinking and creativity. Likewise, supply chain management has become increasingly significant as firms recognize the importance of aligning a firm's supply chain and production system with how a firm strategically competes in the global marketplace. Both areas of study are housed in ECU's Department of Marketing & Supply Chain Management.
The concentration in marketing at ECU provides students with the insight needed to identify marketing opportunities, develop appropriate strategies, and put them into action. Many students with a concentration in marketing have gone on to successful careers in the fields of advertising, sales management, business marketing, research, distribution, retail management, product planning, services, and international marketing. The concentration in operations and supply chain management (OSCM) prepares students for careers in the areas of sourcing, operations, and logistics. Graduates in OSCM have career choices as managers of purchasing, distribution, inventory, logistics, operations, quality, and supply chains. The OSCM curriculum also prepares graduates to sit for the Certified Purchasing Manager examination.

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Trybe necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 714 diseños de 124 diseñadores freelance.
Trybe (pronounced Tribe) is a 'community of practice' for senior executives targeted to big end of town. http://bit.ly/98Ern3
Developing a "tribe" or Community of practice to attract like-minded people who want to discuss problems such as:
Problem solving
"Can we work on this design and brainstorm some ideas; I'm stuck."
Requests for information
"Where can I find someone who knows how we do this?"
Seeking experience
"Has anyone dealt with this situation?"
Reusing assets
"I have a business case for Employment Branding we used last year. I can send it to you and you can easily tweak it for advocating the case with the CEO."
Coordination and synergy
"Can we combine our purchase of training to achieve bulk discounts?"
Discussing developments
"What do you think of the new IT system? Does it really help?"
Documentation projects
"We have faced this problem five times now. Let us write it down once and for all."
"Can we see your premises and learn how your executive cope with the implementation of your leadership program? We need to establish one in our organisation."
Mapping knowledge/ID gaps
"Who knows what. What are we missing? Who should we connect with?"
Note: Trybe is made up of 2 words. Try and be.
Want logo design to carry the by-line:
Learn. Grow. Connect. Note the '.' in the by-line
Our target market is:
- upper-middle to senior and executive level managers leading strategic business functions/department large corporations/organisations
- typically well educated with at least a Bachelors degree - may also have an MBA
- professionals
- likely minimum of 10 years business experience
- aged likely 35 to 50 years
- on their way up the corporate ladder to becoming CEO
- need to appeal equally to females and males
- contemporary in design
- suspicious of being sold to
- if Trybe were a car, imagine the brand to be pitched like a Lexus SC10 or ISC11
- Want logo design to carry the by-line:
Connect. Learn. Grow.
Again, note the '.' in the by-line
- Logo needs to be used with or without the by-line, but mostly with the by-line
- No animals,cartoons, graffiti
- Elegant, yet contemporary balance
- Want a contemporary design that can last several years and if necessary be tweaked in the several years ahead, like Coke does each year or two
- Needs to appeal to target market.
- Hate busy logos and designs.
- Saw a design I quite liked coincidentally as Tribe http://bit.ly/9lVYW7 what appeals is the use of people connected. What about hands or similar? - Please be creative BUT not just give us that idea, but we think there is merit in that concept.
-We are quite OK if you want to develop a logo device.
- If you want to use the word Trybe on its own, then the font has to stand on its own.
- Clearly note the word Trybe and Tribe. We intend to develop a Tribe or community of practice!
- Want something to stand out and be different.
- Want the design to work in colour and in black and white.
-Expect the logo to be used on L'head, Envelope, Business card, Folder, Tent Card, Name tag, Web, Email, Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, FaceBook, Print & Web Advertising.
- Would use the logo device for a favicon on our website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon
- Require: print format file (CMYK)
- Web format: .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
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I thought I'd share what has turned out to be a pretty effective spam filtering approach for me, and one that makes good use of a lot of Poco's features. It's a combination of approaches (whitelisting, bayesian filtering, and then challenge-response) and results in having to pay very little attention to the whole junkmail issue and inconveniencing very few unknown mail senders.
I've created a series of filters that flow as follows:
Filter 1: Sort all newsletters into a newsletters folder to read
Filter 2: Run poco's bayesian filter (but have the junk score threshshold set very high so that the message never gets moved based on the score). Add 100 to the junk score if Bayesian positive.
Filter 3: Stop processing if sender is known or domain is on the "approved domains" list (using the %addressbooks% and %exceptsenders% filter feature)
** ADDED ** Filter 4: Run the dns blacklist filter Hogyt put together. Add 100 to junk score if originating IP is black-listed.
Filter 5: Stop processing if Junk score less than 100. This means that it was Bayesian Negative and not DNS blacklisted.
Filter 6: Stop processing if the subject has a special code word
Filter 7: Otherwise, assume it's junk, and send an automated reply to the sender that says "Don't know who you are. If you're a real person, re-send your message with a code word in the subject line so I know you're not a spammer", and move it to the junk folder (or a quaratine folder). I send this from a different "postmaster" account that I've setup at hotmail so that the spammers don't get confirmation of my real email address.
Because of the whitelisting and bayesian filter steps, this approach means that less than 1 out of 1000 real senders get a bounce-back message, but almost all the spammers do and I never hear from them again.
I have a few other steps I include, which I won't go into detail about, but this is the crux of the approach. Overall, it's been very effective for me and I thought I'd post it for anyone else who might find it of interest.


text: At Piaget, the Manufacture process is a way of life. Since 1874, over 40 types of experts have been working to enrich its excellence. Piaget directly handles all the production steps, from design to delivery, from highly complicated watches to extraordinary jewelry creations. Whether in Geneva or La Côte-aux-Fées, the diverse forms of expertise that have been internally acquired, perpetuated and developed are a unique contribution to the team's creativity. Through the full integration of the production process, from the manufacture of movement parts to the final finishing touches on a watchcase, Piaget enjoys absolute creative freedom and guarantees the authenticity of its timepieces. The brand is truly proud to be one of the rare genuine manufactures still active in the demanding field of haute horlogerie. Over a million precious stones are set each year in the specialized workshops that house its extensive jewelry-making expertise.


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There are things you hear your entire life; things you hear again and again. Some positive, some negative, some which seem one way and turn out differently in the end.
"You should be a foodblogger" says the sous chef where I'm working. We all have a laugh.
I've been bitter. I've been unsatisfied and bitter.
It's not been doing anyone any good.
But you already know that.
I've been angry. I've been waking up at 7 (that's like 4am for normal people) and taking the bus downtown--even wearing a skirt sometimes--I've been sitting under unflattering lights. I've been sucking on Xanax and meeting new people. I've been trying and trying and trying and still just not quite getting there.
I've been lying awake at night and obsessively folding things from papper. I've been weird and uncomfortable and desperately trying to explain myself to eye-rolling listeners.
I've been working as a copywriting intern in an advertising agency, and I've just learned I won't be hired permenantly. It's a blow to my ego, but I'm hoping to use it as a good thing.
I'm a writer. It's hard for me to communicate in the medium of the spoken word. I enjoy restaurant work because everything is black and white: the guest is happy or they aren't. Chef is mad or he isn't. Naturally there's drama and gossip everywhere, but in a restaurant things are so fast and full of adreneline that you tend to get everything out in one heated argument or yelling battle of wills and you might stomp around but by the end of the night after the beers and joints have been passed around you're all boys again. You'll hug before you go home and drunkenly tell each other how much you love each other and you don't mean it and we all know it's crazy incest abusive mother crap but it doesn't matter because it's all out in the open and it's a flash in the pan and then it's over.
In an office, there's protocal. let's leave everything all unsaid and just say that I have been working as a copywriting intern in the hopes of getting permenant employment but I won't be. In 2 weeks, I will be severly underemployed.
When I was first told on Friday (like I'm a crazy person?), naturally I had fits and panic attacks and a brief crying meltdown.
During one of those, I was actually a horrible enough of a cliche to be sitting in a dive bar crying into beer and tequila shots. Isn't that fabulous? So melodramatic, just like a real writer. I'm smitten with myself right now. I even got into a laughing, crying, hysterical fight with some drunk guy next to me.
Husband rolled his eyes as I recounted my failures in the decade since graduating college, ticking them off and crying while he made every effort to get a word in edgewise to finally crack and pound his fist on the bar and say "regret is stupid. You've learned things. So what if things aren't 100% the way you thought they'd be?" Husband continued his typical sanity while I signaled the bartender for more tequila.
He's right, of course. I shouldn't have regrets. Regrets are for people who aren't willing to enjoy the journey.
When there's something you can do, something you can do well, there has to be a way to make it work, right? I know I'm ridiculously naive and equally cynical at the same time, all the while continuing to be a cliche.
So what does this mean? I'm going to start writing about food again. The details are coming soon.


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Sunday, July 25, 2010
Daisy cupcake...
14 comments:
- Taylor said...
This is really cute!
- July 25, 2010 at 10:26 AM
- Rachel Hope said...
Love the one petal coming off!!! Perfect!
- July 25, 2010 at 11:18 AM
- Becky said...
What a gorgeous card !!
Love how you made your card all touchy Feely!!
Thanks so much for joining us at The Creative Cottage!!
Love Becky xx
- July 25, 2010 at 2:24 PM
- marilynwillauer said...
Love you card and cupcake inspiration!!! What a fun blog hop to follow every week, I'm addicted to it!
- July 25, 2010 at 3:17 PM
- Jenny said...
Sooo pretty, love it *Ü* *Ü* *Ü* *Ü* *Ü*
- July 25, 2010 at 6:22 PM
- Carol said...
Such a pretty card! Luv that your image is almost identical to the inspirational pic. Thanks for joining us at The Creative Cottage. Lotsa luv xxxx
- July 25, 2010 at 7:49 PM
- Teresa Kline aka va.sunshine said...
this is sooo sweet, I luv how you pulled the one petal, to cute!
enjoy *~*
- July 25, 2010 at 9:35 PM
- Gingersnap Stampers said...
This is gorgeous - good enough to eat! Thanks for taking the Gingersnaps Color Challenge!
- July 25, 2010 at 10:08 PM
- Alicia said...
This is a beautiful card. I love your cute cupcake image! The aqua blue is so bright and refreshing. Thanks for playing along with PaperPlay Challenges this week.
Alicia xx
- July 26, 2010 at 3:31 AM
- Terry said...
Congratulations Ginger Gem! Your card is wonderful!
- July 27, 2010 at 10:15 AM
- Tracy said...
OMG Piali this is fantastic!!! I really love how you cut out the circle, embossed the outer part and all of the pearls. Beautiful!!! The cupcake image goes perfectly with this Basic Grey paper. Well done! Thank you for playing along with Sketchy Thursday.
- July 27, 2010 at 4:46 PM
- Mandy said...
Piali your card is absolutely gorgeous, so pretty.
Thanks for joining us at Paper Play
hugs Mandy xx
- July 28, 2010 at 2:00 PM
- Kristie said...
Very cute, I love the card design.
- July 28, 2010 at 8:15 PM
- Carol said...
AMAZING! really like how your cupcake, matched so nicely the inspiration pic! it looks FUN while at the same time looking elegant with all the pearls! such a BEAUTIFUL card! :)
- August 3, 2010 at 11:20 PM


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UNC sneaks past NCAA
October 23, 2017
Weve taken plenty of shots (mostly deserving, we think) at the national sports media over the years. But we finally must admit to some satisfaction at the reaction of the majority of those who cover the games in regard to the NCAAs recent ruling (or non-ruling) regarding the academic fraud investigation at North Carolina, as outlined in depth in last months Give It To Em With the Bark On piece.
Indeed, from this point forward, Tar Heel-gate should be viewed as the demarcation point for legitimacy in the sports media; the handful of those who, perhaps with a desire to maintain access and good relations with Roy Williams, or maybe in hopes of one day getting an audience with the most famous UNC alum of all, Michael Jordan, chose to defend and even proclaim vindication for the Tar Heels after the NCAA conclusion, should be forever dismissed as serious journalists, or labeled as useless sycophants. On the other hand, kudos for the vast majority of those who channeled their inner Howard Cosell and decided to tell it like it is and condemn UNC and the NCAA's recent ruling.
Before we go much further, a quick reminder should be in order for those who might have been paying more attention to the opening of the NHL season, or perhaps the English Premier League, the past couple of weeks. On October 13, the NCAA handed down its final decision on the North Carolina scandal and effectively decided it couldnt mete punishment for the admitted academic fraud because Chapel Hill made sure to offer various paper courses in its School of Afro-American Studies to the student body at-large. The NCAA ruled that while student athletes likely benefited from the courses, so did the general student body. Additionally, the record did not establish that the university created and offered the courses as part of a systemic effort to benefit only student athletes.
Never mind that, per capita at least, the courses were overloaded with Tar Heel football and basketball players, and that, among other violations, many received no-show grades and credit for classwork never undertaken. Thus, despite overwhelming evidence of academic fraud, the NCAAs hands were effectively tied because the courses couldnt be solely tied to the athletic department. Which also effectively confirms the NCAA as powerless in response to those who know how to manipulate the system, as did Chapel Hill; the governing body cannot decide what and how subjects are taught. If a member school wants to offer a major in basket-weaving, its the schools prerogative, not the NCAAs. As long as the majors/courses were not offered solely for athletes, the NCAA, apparently, is outside of its jurisdiction and has to effectively dismiss itself from any review.
That sort of toothlessness was echoed by SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey, who led the NCAAs investigative panel on the North Carolina case. NCAA policy is clear, said Sankey. The NCAA defers to its member schools to determine whether academic fraud occurred and, ultimately, the panel is bound to making decisions within the rules set by the membership.
Which, some suggested, must have caused Rick Pitino and his staffers, and those at Louisville who just lost their jobs in part related to a sex scandal, to wonder why they didnt offer the hookers to the student body at-large, and not just Card hoopsters and potential recruits? After all, the NCAAs logic, or illogic, in the Chapel Hill ruling could, in a roundabout way, potentially have spared the Ville as well...only if the Card hoops staff had used the Chapel Hill approach and just made the transgressions available to everyone on campus. No? Why not? If only they knew at Louisville!
(We and others we have consulted, however, suspect there was also likely an element of practicality to the ruling by the NCAA, which knew that Chapel Hill was lawyered up to the hilt to fight and would have dragged the governing body through the federal courts in protest. Minus a limitless budget, the NCAA might have simply made a business decision that spared it millions in legal fees, as UNC was prepared to drive an armored tank through the loophole if necessary to spare its 2005 & 2009 basketball championship banners and prevent it from further punishment.)
Meanwhile, by us, at least, the only worthwhile development to come from the ruling was how much of the sports media and academia has responded, almost en masse, to the NCAAs effective get-out-of-jail-free card to the Tar Heels. A similar incredulous response echoed across the landscape in the wake of the NCAAs Carolina ruling.
With the conclusion of the investigation that covered nearly two decades of the paper classes, the NCAA exhausted the last available measure of accountability for what was arguably the most pervasive academic fraud at a major research university in at least a generation, wrote Jack Stripling, of The Chronicle of Higher Education. The academic and athletic leaders of the university were largely unscathed by a scandal that mostly implicated lower-level employees.
Others, like James Warren of the Poynter Institute, pointed out the obvious inferences that can be drawn from UNCs scandal and the NCAAs ruling. The universitys defense was to both concede the specifics and maintain these werent fraudulent classes. They were part of the regular curriculum, it claimed, meaning the NCAA didnt really have jurisdiction, said Poynter. Thus, quite apart from having any cleansing effect, according to Dan Kane (investigative reporter for the Raleigh News & Observer who did much of the original dig of the story), this could be blueprint for future cheating, especially when one takes into account the university history of stonewalling as facts dribbled out (Kane says its now even installing software so it will know, for example, if any suspicious professor wants to check the transcript of a student-athlete). Just say dubious, non-convening classes for jocks are part of the curriculum.
If ever there was a case of academic fraud, North Carolina would have to be the poster childthe longevity and the outrageous behavior to keep athletes eligible through systematic fraud, said Gerald Gurney, a professor at the University of Oklahoma and past president of the Drake Group, which seeks to reform college athletics. And it leads one to the absolute conclusion that this finding sanctions academic fraud among our institutions for the purpose of keeping athletes eligible.
Include Pat Forde of Yahoo Sports as another who wondered what was going on at the NCAA. If you cant hit a school for the infraction that strikes most deeply at the mission of higher education, what good are you?, said Forde.
Dan Wetzel, the decorated Yahoo Sports columnist whose prized work, Death to the BCS, received a glowing review on these pages several years ago, gladly joined the condemnation crowd, calling called UNCs argument perhaps the most outlandish defense in NCAA infractions history.
Wetzel was just getting started. The Tar Heels went full (Jerry) Tarkanian and constructed an argument that wasnt technically against NCAA rules because no one imagined any school would ever dare employ it, said Wetzel. In perhaps the most outlandish defense in NCAA infractions history, the school acknowledged that the classes that were taken were essentially bankrupt of any kind of teaching, learning or supervision...but that was perfectly OK with them. To defend the basketball team, the university had to claim it wasnt really a university.
Welcome to the Age of Tarkanianism, a complete rejection of the NCAA to the point where Carolina not only isnt ashamed of academic fraud, its practically celebrating it, Wetzel continued. By doing so, and since regular students also took the class, they didnt violate NCAA rules. Sure, they (those at UNC) took a shotgun to their academic credibility, but, hey, those championship banners get to stay. The truth is, alums probably care more about hoops anyway.
UNC was playing chess against the NCAAs checkers. That was damn impressive, true Tark-level trolling. Carolina even changed its argument for the NCAA. When the school was in front of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, which accredits it as an actual university, it declared that no-show, no-professor, no-work classes were wrong. Now, though, the classes werent fraud. They were fine.
Bless UNC for it, concluded Wetzel. Bless it for being unapologetically shameless. Bless it for not just pulling back the curtain on college athletics, but dousing it with gasoline and lighting it aflame. What Jerry Tarkanian, a legend ahead of his time, was saying and doing all those years ago has truly hit the mainstream, reaching levels of lunacy even he couldnt have envisioned. Those championship banners sure look pretty, though.
SB Nations Jason Kirk echoed Wetzel and others, adding a troubling scenario which had to have crossed many inquiring minds. Whats stopping a school from setting up a similar paper course and making sure its open to all students," said Kirk, "then sending athletes through it?
David Teel from the Daily Press in Newport News, Va., agrees. More than a decade of academic fraud cost UNC athletics little more than legal fees and public respect, Teel wrote. If (a university) is willing to risk backlash from accreditation agencies, alumni, donors, fans and legislators, then create all the basket-weaving classes youd like for the student body.


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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Abe Lincoln: Emancipator Vampire Slayer
Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is an unexpected commercial success that's also received some positive review buzz in various magazines (love the cover art). So much so that the author's already signed a book deal to pen Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. While Zombies sought to retain elements of the manners and language from Austen's classic, it's been reported that the Lincoln book will emulate the popular biographical format that sells so many non-fiction books, something similar to Goodwin and McCullough. Who knew all that rail splitting was just to make stakes.
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- Art BergeronApril 22, 2009
And don't forget that Abe originated the World Wrestling Federation (or whatever the heck it is called)!ReplyDelete
A man of many transferable skills!ReplyDelete
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Selection of the H&M Spring 2010 Men's Collection. See the women's collection here.
seems like it's your kinda style:)ReplyDelete
ithink i just drooled bad times
H&M UP them selves every year this collection is amazing
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oh d'blazer send super.ReplyDelete
Dayum, this stuff is amazing. Look at those shoes! I might just browse the men's section myself next time I'm in-store ;)ReplyDelete
i love every single piece.
H&m seems to never go wrong.
btw, lovee thee blogg.
I love the black see-through top. it's A-mazing. Really.ReplyDelete
these shoes are killing me!ReplyDelete
they won't have it in size 38, will they?
I work in h&m and most of the pieces seen here are just the same stuff they churn out each season. It would have been nicer to have seen some of the more directonal pieces which featured heavily in the spring lookbook. Including the harem trousers, kilt, tye dye pieces etc. oh well...ReplyDelete
I bought the grey blazer of the 7th photo! Love it, it's perfect! :)
i like the translucent cardigan.. but i do agree that this is to much like their previous collections.ReplyDelete
Alex: True. I made a personal selection of the pieces I liked the most. I didn't see any harem trousers, I suppose they haven't arrived at the showroom yet. But I saw the kilt. While I like the idea of H&M pushing new pieces into their collection, I would personally not wear it yet.ReplyDelete
beautiful collection! i love those pants and those sweaters!!!
yes, and I would like to add that those sweaters are made of silk/cotton (55/45)ReplyDelete
Alright I need to get everything in that collection. I love it. I love your blog let me know if you want to link exchange xx
h&m for men is on fire! I bought a tee and a cardigan for me instead ;)ReplyDelete
Oh wow, I want that black transparant-ish cardigan,
A certain dane is really looking forward to spring!ReplyDelete
Not the best pieces Ive seen from HM S/S 10, but the mesh cardigan looks kind of nice =)ReplyDelete
do you know when exactly they will start selling these pieces in switzerland? they look great...!ReplyDelete
it depends from piece to piece...starting in a week or so...ReplyDelete
I'll probably grab the mesh cardigan, and possibly the striped brown suit.ReplyDelete
Which H&M Shop is this Pascal? There are so many in Zurich ... but this one looks kinda nice.ReplyDelete
it's the showroom of H&M in zurich and not a regular store :)ReplyDelete
oh my gosh! are those on sale now?? i love them!!!
love the sheer, love the shoes. And more generally, I love H&M. ;]ReplyDelete
I have the gray and black blazer ! (love it)ReplyDelete


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It's Done. We've Driven It. We've Raced It. It's Still in One Piece.
So far our special section has covered the history, the parts, and the construction details of HOT ROD 1, the first all-new '69 Camaro built since 1969. Sometimes magazine project cars get finished and have all the snazzy photographs taken, and that's it-no performance numbers, no legitimate driving impressions, nothing on the problems that always come up when you build a car from scratch . . . nothing. We planned to be thorough this time, to put this car through the full paces, both over the road and on the dragstrip, but we only met the first goal. But we're getting ahead of ourselves.
The HOT ROD staff first saw the finished car at the '04 SEMA Show. As we were pushing Freiburger's Bonneville Camaro into the ballroom for the Primedia party that kicked off the show, we heard a rumble from the parking lot. Then the unmistakable green and white schnoz of HOT ROD 1 made its way up the loading ramp. "Wow, he got it done," said Freiburger, referring to Jim Barber and the mad thrash we all knew had been happening in the weeks prior to the show. Barber pulled up to the ballroom and we poured over the car, checking out the details with "I can't believe you finished it" incredulousness.
"I haven't slept in a week. I knew it had to be here, so we got it done," Barber uttered in a voice obviously strained from too many days and nights yelling at guys to keep working. After the SEMA show we didn't see it again until Power Tour(tm) the following May. Over the winter, Barber and the CARS crew sorted out all the little problem areas and final fit-and-finish details, and the car was delivered via trailer to the Power Tour(tm) kickoff at Miller Field in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We promptly had Barber fire it up and drive down the road, where photographer Wes Allison had him roast the tires into smokey oblivion for this month's cover shot. That burned up clutch number one, though not so bad that it prevented the Camaro from completing the Long Haul(tm) with nary a problem.
"The car drove flawlessly," Barber says. "It drives nice, everything works, and I was really surprised that it actually got decent gas mileage. We were driving it well over 80 a lot of the time, and it averaged 14.5 mpg." Not bad for a 454. Thank you, EFI. Only a few nights at the hotel did the car see the trailer. The rest of the time it was on the road with the whole Power Tour(tm) crowd, chugging right along even through the torrential downpours in the southern states, and it made the trip without a hiccup.
The next time we saw the car was in early August, when we stopped by the CARS shop for a testdrive. Having owned a few daily driver early Camaros, one of them a '68 convertible, we've always wondered what the cars were like when new. By the time we had gotten ours, they already rattled in the dash, the brakes sucked, and they just felt like well-used old cars. HOT ROD 1 is brand-new though, so we hoped it would be a good representation of what it was like to drive off the dealer's lot in 1969. It's probably pretty close. We've never been in a Camaro that was so tight and solid-feeling, especially for a convertible, and everything works as it should. The power steering is light, as is the clutch pedal. The Stainless Steel brakes require a good stomp since they're not power-assisted, but they stop the car hard when you really lean on them. And the Detroit Speed stuff makes it feel like a Corvette when you crank the Budnik wheel.
We were having too much fun to listen to the stereo, so we don't know how good it sounds with the trunk-mounted 6x9s and Bazooka tube; the Flowmasters sound too good to crank up the jams anyway.
But the car didn't feel all that fast, certainly not 510hp fast, so our testdrive ended at nearby Farmington Motorsports Park (www.farmingtonmotorsportspark.com) to give it hell on the eighth-mile dragstrip. That's where we discovered a few problems.
With 500 lb-ft supposedly under our right foot, a clutch pedal under our left, and stiff-handling sidewall tires out back, we fully expected a rocket ride. But after several different launches with no tire spin and pathetic 2.20-second 60-foot times, we decided to beat on it and side-stepped the clutch at 3,500 rpm. It hooked and still only managed a 2.20 60-foot. Hmmm, that's not 500 lb-ft. Running a full pass revealed a bad ignition miss at about 4,800 rpm-it felt like a rev limiter, but there isn't one on the car. A few more tries made it obvious the car wouldn't run past five grand, and a 9.20 at 77 mph in the eighth was all we were going to get. That translates into about a 14.26 at 95 mph in the quarter, which is really weak for a 454 '69 Camaro. We passed it across the scales on the way out; the car weighs 3,680 pounds without a driver.
Not sure where the problem might be and quickly running out of time, we sent the car to Chris Petris at Corvette Clinic in Orlando, Florida, to help sort it out, and he found several problems with the car. The hydraulic throwout bearing was misadjusted, the ignition definitely had a miss, and the timing wasn't anywhere close to optimized. Petris put a few days into fine-tuning everything and reported back that it's an entirely different car now, far more brutal than when we drove it. To see what it was worth, Petris planned to take it to Orlando's Speedworld Dragway to run it again, but then Hurricane Rita hit the Gulf Coast and put those plans in the round file. We couldn't get it to the track for a follow-up before this issue had to go to press, so we're stuck with the lame numbers we got on the first outing. But watch next month for the updated performance numbers, which should be dramatically better. We're still thinking a hit of spray would be the right thing to do to this combination, and since the car is eventually going to end up in the hands of the HOT ROD staff for an extended period of time, you can count on us to make the most of it.
For now, it's time to exhale. Barber and his crew can finally catch up on their sleep-at least for a few months. Because you know, they're building all-new fastback Mustang bodies now, and beer-addled conversations have already occurred about building one from scratch. It looks like that'll happen, and when it does you'll read about the very first one in HOT ROD.
Minutes before we went to press, we sorted some issues and got HOT ROD1back to the track. Chris Petris at Corvette Clinic fixed the ignitionproblems (he installed an MSD Ready-To-Run distributor with a GM module,new plug wires, and Autolite 63 plugs), solved a brake drag issue,cleaned gunk out of the injectors, and installed a new clutch. MichaelJohnson of 5.0 Mustang & Super Fords magazine did the driving atBradenton Motorsports Park just south of Primedia's Florida offices.After some tail chasing, Johnson ran five back-to-back passes in95-degree-F air on the same street tires we ran it with, and the lastone was the best. It ran 12.69 at 109.64 mph in the quarter, witheighth-mile numbers of 8.21 and 87 mph (picked up a second and 10 mph),and a 60-foot of 1.933.


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Twenty years ago, two spiritual seekers met at a workshop about conscious dying. What happened next is the extraordinary foundation for To Love and Be Loved —a life-changing program about what it means to be alive and in love.
Together ever since that first day, Stephen and Ondrea Levine poured all of the wisdom, compassion, and courage they gained from their work with the suffering and grief-stricken into the mystery of their own relationship. The result is a beautiful, unexpected unfolding, a teaching that transcends the anguish of existence to show us the way to God—through the darkest nights of our most intimate relationships.
In the rich and forbidding depths of our personal pain, the Levines teach, lies the essence of intimacy, not only with one another, but with God. This is why true commitment requires us to "swim across the reservoir of each other's grief." Stephen and Ondrea lead you beyond psychological explanations and show how couples together can immerse themselves in the "ocean of compassion"—where you will discover how to face and overcome the fear that closes your heart, and replace it with mercy: the key to creativity, freedom, and love.
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To Love and Be Loved brings you the crowning insights from these pioneering teachers. Out of the crucible of their own experience, Stephen and Ondrea Levine point out a proven way to true transformation—through the spiritual challenge of your own relationship
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This is pure wisdom. Nothing I've ever read or heard on the subject of intimacy and relationships even comes close. Thank you Nani (my former therapist) for sharing this with me many years ago. I'm now going on over 10 years of marriage and 2 children. We are still growing in intimacy, compassion and acceptance of each other. (Posted on March 9, 2010)
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i have the tape version of this teaching. it speaks volumes about relationship, the places we get stuck, invest in, defend, own, think of as final destinations and the pain caused by holding to them. both stephen and ondrea are gifted and deeply spiritual. it is their long standing relationship with each other and with others that really shines through here (Posted on May 16, 2009)
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ECB Survey Supports Bail-Ins, Not Bail-Outs
A European Central Bank survey showing that private Cypriots might be more wealthy than private Germans, even if the reverse is true for their governments, could increase the argument for euro-zone debt bail-ins rather than debt bail-outs in the future.
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I ... the the ... the bailout Cyprus to ... criticism because ... he looks like it's it's it's citizens ... on sentiment ... it's a it's ... the European Central Bank's this baby ... outside the steel ... was told to justify oft All ... Brian Blackstone has told ... clients that the study on the call a wealth of the euro zone hospitals ... the euro zone ... region ... yes this is this was the city's first attempts to that comparable health statistics ... all members of the euro zone this was a study that gone on for the last three years to the data's little bit older actually goes back to two thousand and nine and two thousand and ten ... but its BP did have some pretty interesting and eye popping ... conclusions the main one being that ... based on our average household wealth Cyprus is actually the second ... wealthiest country in euro zone on paper at least ... and Germany if you look at the typical German household ... actually had the least amount of well ... so it's a you know ... he was pretty cute and pretty interesting results ... is this those ghosts of on the elderly have a very wealthy ... governments ... you can have for citizens and that of a tube of the battlefield ... you could have pretty wealthy citizens instead ... exactly and that's can it be the case in a lot of these countries in southern Europe TCW it's not decipher Cypress's numbers were kind of the most eye catching but ... when you look to the average wealth levels again this is going back to two thousand and nine and two thousand and ten ... the average Greek households are more paper wealth and Germans ... you have reached the Spanish consulate the average Italian household ... so just because you have ... a ... houseful to have a lot of people well that doesn't keep ... the government from getting into fiscal problems ... physically so this this was yesterday did the survey was history is those things that age and height ... but I mean this is also have a lot to do with ... how solution that solves the big pots of this is I'm not on other people's one ... yet I was actually probably the biggest ... driver of this huge discrepancy in wealth ... because ... in countries like Germany and Austria which the Barryroe household wealth ... levels ... homeownership is quite low in German you have various reasons that ... you don't have as favorable tax treatment of mortgage interest ... people have to put on a lot of money to buy a house ... to home ownership rates are actually below fifty percent in Germany ... where is the much higher in Greece the much higher in Cyprus much higher and Spain ... and so the way the team ... the way the survey was calculated ... kind of shifting wealth to those countries where there's high levels of homeownership ... and another kind of important caviar is ... this was this was the survey so ... with that that the surveyors go and call people up and ask them what you think of houses worth it ... to the responsive to God doesn't necessarily fit with ... what they might have been able to sell the house for so this might be another factor ... that inflated the numbers for Southern Europe on ... and it's kind of limited to the amount of wealth and in Germany Austria okays about how the Germans react to this mean basically they're the ones in pain for these bailouts ... I mean they can be the same level of a second guys ... yell you into the private sector in in in the in the assassinations is to prevent ... mother to the report although all that kind of statistical caviar to side ... the report did get a lot of attention intermediary so it's probably Guinea be something that's can it ... could add fuel to this debate especially ... you know coming up ... with the elections coming up in the fall ... and I think as long as the German economy continues to grow as long is ... incomes continue to rise I don't think is can it cause a ... storm or new thing ... but what is can it do I think he's just continue to commit to get more ... aam support to the people that say listen we need to find a way to to reduce the size of these bailouts ... we have to look for wealth ... in these countries like Cyprus like Greece ... if it comes to countries like Spain or Italy ... we have to look for ways ... to for the private sector in these countries to take a hit ... so that it's not just German or Austrian Dutch Finnish ... taxpayer money that I ... in other words buys more a case like people they humans love them bailouts exactly ... when I saw ... our right ...


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Study Illuminates Ethnic Disparities in Diabetes and Cognitive Impairment
Release Date: January 31, 2012 |
- Type 2 diabetes is associated with a higher risk of several forms of cognitive impairment and dementia (CID).
- Blacks and Hispanics have higher incidences of type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's disease than Whites.
- Researchers project that reducing the disparity in rates of type 2 diabetes amongWhite, Black and Hispanic patients could reduce the rates of cognitive impairment and dementia (CID) in Black and Hispanic patients.
A new study finds that decreasing the disparities in rates of type 2 diabetes among Whites, Blacks and Hispanics could eliminate some racial and ethnic disparities in the development of cognitive impairment or dementia. Prior research has shown that type 2 diabetes is a risk factor for all forms of major cognitive impairment, including Alzheimer's disease.
José Luchsinger, M.D., MPH, study author and associate professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, said that the research team was attempting to show how disparities with regard to one major public health problem, type 2 diabetes, might be leading to disparities in another major public health problem for our aging society, cognitive impairment and dementia (CID). The study appears in the journal Ethnicity & Disease.
A much higher proportion of people who belong to ethnic minorities have type 2 diabetes as compared to White people, he said. Growing evidence also indicates that ethnic minorities are more likely to develop CID.
"Diabetes is a potentially modifiable risk factor for cognitive impairment and dementia. Considering the impact of diminishing this and other modifiable risk factors may be important since you cannot modify some of the other known risk factors: things like your genes, age or, to some extent, your education, " said first author James M. Noble, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of clinical neurology at Columbia University Medical Center.
The researchers collected data from 941 participants in a longitudinal study who were ages 65 or older and free of CID at the start of the study. Participants disclosed their ethnicity and whether they had diabetes. Overall, 448 patients developed CID over approximately 7 years of follow-up: 31 percent of Whites, 49 percent of Blacks and 56 percent of Hispanics.
In their analysis, the researchers found that type 2 diabetes could be a risk factor for CID, and eliminating ethnic disparities in type 2 diabetes could reduce the relative difference in CID by approximately 17 percent.
"This research is important because it investigates the role of the most common form of diabetes, type 2 diabetes, in the differential development of cognitive impairment among urban older adults of various racial and ethnic groups. Reducing these sorts of health disparities is an important component of the Affordable Care Act," said Darcy Phelan, DrPH, MHS, an assistant scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She added that the study's findings require careful interpretation since the researchers relied upon participants' own reports regarding whether they had diabetes and because a causal link between diabetes and CID is not yet established.
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Noble, J.M., et al. (2012). Type 2 Diabetes and Ethnic Disparities in Cognitive Impairment. Ethnicity & Disease, 22, 38-44.


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So I took My very first quilting class on Thursday, that is unless you count the class where you learn how to use a new machine. I have learned from watching others and books, blogs, videos etc. I would have to say that I preferred the class over trying to figure out things on your own.
The class was learning free motion Quilting and bias binding. One small attachment on my machine and a sew slip mat over my sew steady table, and I was drawing with needle and thread. To be honest I have only tried this once about 6 years ago when a singer dealer convinced me to buy a walking foot for quilting.
So obviously I am still very amateur, but I wanted to show you all cause I am so excited to quilt again. It's funny how something so small can spark your interest in an old love for something isn't it. I learned many cool tricks as well that I will be sharing with all of you shortly. Until then.. I hope everyone had a very happy and spooky Halloween.


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Marking its fifth victory this season, the Audi R18 e-tron quattro wins the sixth round of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) in Bahrain with the trio of Le Mans winners Fässler/Lotterer/Tréluyer.
Tréluyer and his team led the race ahead of the sister car driven by Kristensen/McNish who finished in second despite headlight and tire issues, resulting in 4 unscheduled stops on laps 25, 89, 115 and 117.
The victory here, though, is twofold. Bahrain's climate is desert heat, and during the race the air was a dry 113 degrees on track, making this stop the toughest 6-hour race of the year so far, but Audi's hybrid technology on the e-tron quattro proved extremely reliable and performed flawlessly.
This was the first time since Le Mans that Audi fielded two e-tron quattros, making sure neither driver group had an advantage over one another, giving equal odds the battle for the title.
The gap between the two teams was 7.5 point before Bahrain and now it's 13.5, though there are still 52 points on the table for the final two races in Japan and China, so the title is still up for grabs. Tune in for round 7 at Fuji on October 14th, we'll be watching!
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Hot Wheels Camaro Interview: Design Chiefs David Ross & Felix Holst
Camaro5.com Interviews Design Chiefs for Hot Wheels Camaro!
Written by Mr. Wyndham
Felix Holst is Vice President of Hot Wheels Design, and David Ross is from GM design for performance and specialty vehicles. I had the pleasure to chat with them at-length this afternoon, about this new Hot Wheels production car that is the big Camaro news this Fall.
I've got to say, the more pictures they release, the more the look of this car grows on me. And after speaking with these two gentleman…It sounds to me like this process was lock step with the passion that the Camaro Team we know and love pour into their work. Both Felix and David share a combined enthusiasm for this project, Hot Wheels, and the Camaro in general. Below is a series of questions formed from observations of our own forum members discussing this new special edition. Their answers follow in a lighter text.
There have been many positive reviews on the bright blue applied to the hot wheels Camaro. What is its name, and is there any chance of it becoming a regular production color?
David Ross: "It's called Kinetic Blue. It's a one-time offering special paint color on the Hot Wheels Car. It's an incredibly vibrant blue, very pure and bright. In comparison, Aqua blue had a lot more green in it. This is a very pure blue."
With a radical design like the last year's Green Hot Wheels concept that caught the Camaro-world by storm, what inspired the design of this year's model?
Felix Holst: The really exciting thing about the production car, is that when you take away the two really over-the-top design cues of the green car; which is the Spectraflame paint, and the custom hood…a lot of the other details made it to the production car. Things like the black trim with the red stitching, the red pinstripe around the wheels, the red pinstripe around the grille opening, and the ground effects package and the rear spoiler which come directly from the ZL1. All of those things were featured, in some iteration, in the green car. So, when speaking of the Hot Wheels Production car, we're very excited to have retained so many of the signatures from the green car.
David Ross: You know, obviously the Spectraflame Green Show car was spectacular, and it was meant to be a show car - it was meant to be spectacular. A lot of the reason it's not a production car is because it's just not feasible. But the Kinetic Blue works real well and it hearkens back to the original die-cast from Hot Wheels. The blue color is, obviously, a very popular request from the Camaro fans. A lot of the unique custom features bring their own character to the car, but it also retains a good deal of the excitement from the green show car, too.
Can you detail the defining features of this car? How can folks identify this as a hot-wheels edition Camaro?
David Ross: The redline wheels give it away immediately, and obviously, the great badging on the car in distinctive ways like the doorsill. And the steering wheel has a little hot wheels badge on the steering wheel, instead of the SS badge.
Even the stripe is unique, because it's a combination of a flat, textured center with a semi-gloss outer border. It's not as crazy as the hood on the show car, but if offers the customer something unique that we've never tried before, and not seen in the market.
The neat part of about this car, and we do a lot of great special edition cars, is that is has a custom quality. Things like the "Flame lick", and the custom door sills, the striping package and the combination of parts. The car looks like it's a custom, one-off car, without being garish or over the top.
Felix Holst: Of course, the badging. From any angle you can't help but notice the Hot Wheels flame logo. But also, the redline detail. When we first started this project, the notion of taking the classic red line that Hot Wheels is known for, but moving it into a more modern performance graphic was where the red pinstripe around the grille came from, and where the red stitching on the seats comes from.
Really, one of the best details – that is really subtle, is the graphic we've put on the rear fenders. It's a kind of classic muscle car graphic, which ends in the flick of the Hot Wheels logo. Dave's team did a wonderful job applying it to the car so that you can barely notice it…but in the light it really pops.
How does the production model compare to the toy?
Felix Holst: It's a neat story, really, because the two brands were birthed pretty much simultaneously. You know, the Camaro was launched in '67, and right on its heels Hot Wheels launched in '68. And one of the first cars that Hot Wheels did was the custom '67 Camaro. And over the years, the brands have had a tight relationship over the years. If not every Camaro, we've covered every significant Camaro as a Hot Wheels die-cast car.
There will be models that accompany the production car. There will be a very limited edition model which we'll call the "launch model", perhaps numbering in the hundreds. And we'll have the slightly less limited edition, that will be available as the car does the rounds at the Auto Shows. And we'll eventually roll out the car as a basic hot wheels production model that you can get at any major retailer.
Will buyers get a Hot Wheels version of their car when they purchase?
Felix Holst: We're working through that scenario. It's something, that from the very outset, we wanted to do. Obviously, in muscle-car circles, numbers-matching is something that's very important and we want to take that a step further.
We're trying to look at the logistics that you'd get a numbers-matching, limited edition Hot Wheels car with your purchase of a real car. Logistically, it's not as easy as you might think, but it's something we're still committed to try and work out, because we believe it would really be the icing on the cake.
Why did Hot Wheels choose to create and maintain such a strong relationship with the Camaro vs other vehicles recently?
Felix Holst: We have great relationships with everyone we do business with, which is essential because we cover nearly every make and model. The Camaro, though, really holds a special place in our hearts. It's always been one of the very best-selling and collectible cars we've done. And at the charity auctions we do, it's always one of the top earners.
Anybody that knows Camaro knows the answer, really. It's the everyman's performance car, it's a world famous brand, it oozes power and aggression in every iteration. And that, to us, is what makes it a special Hot Wheels car. It's not elitist in the slightest, yet it carries as much excitement as any car in any era, really – it's a drop-dead gorgeous car.
I might be a little biased, because as a young lad living in New Castle, England in the 70s, I could draw a Camaro without looking at any reference. It's just that coke-bottle shape, was so classic that I used to sit at the age of 6 or 7 drawing Camaros in my school books.
The Camaro really does symbolize all that's good about Hot Wheels, and I would hope that Hot Wheels symbolizes all that's good about Camaro, you know? They're two classic performance American brands that both have a special place in our culture.
There have been some raised eyebrows at the cost of this option by forum members. Yet we realize there are a myriad of different types of Camaro buyers out there. Who are you trying to attract with this special edition?
David Ross: I think this car is going to be attractive to anybody that has a connection to Hot Wheels, or a connection to Camaro. I think it represents a different view of the Enthusiasts' side of Camaro that the other offerings we've done don't quite capture. And it's like 'Why can't I have a real toy in my garage that I can drive every day?'
It's not about the horsepower necessarily, although it has plenty…it really pulls at the heartstrings of the Enthusiast, of the kid in you. It brings a personality to the market, to the Camaro, that I don't think you can get otherwise.
Felix Holst: Not everybody who goes out and buys a new car is the guy who wants to modify it. Not everybody knows how to. You know, what wheels to ask for, or what exhaust. But they might want to drive something that's a little beyond the standard model. And this package gives you a custom car, with the performance, and you don't have to mess around. It's legit, right off the showroom floor.
There are going to be a few people that are THE most popular parents in the world
[Monte Doran, Chevy Communications was present, and he made a great point on the value of this package to consider]
Monte Doran: I would say two things, here. The first is – I don't think it would be possible for someone to make this car on their own for $7,000.00. For that amount, you could not repaint the car, put 21" custom wheels on it, do a custom interior, and do all the cool details that are on this car. And I don't know if you've ever been to an event like, ohhhh Camaro5 Fest is a pretty big one? But a lot of the people there customize their car and make it personal the minute they buy their car. I think that this is for somebody who wants a really distinctive Camaro, for them to buy one turn-key from the factory that is a custom, one-off spectacular car.
Secondly, I'd say that the photos don't quite do it justice in terms of the details of the car. For example, you can hardly see the flame-lick in some of the pictures, but when you see it in person, it is just gorgeous. Or the flat black and gloss black combination on the stripe. Those little details are what I think make the car.
And that this car will appeal to a person to really loves Hot Wheels and really loves Camaro. This is an unprecedented opportunity to buy a Hot Wheels car that you can drive home and park in your garage.
Felix, This is the first drivable, production-model of a hot-wheels car. Does this have any special significance to Hot Wheels?
Felix Holst - Absolutely. We've built full-size cars before, but most of them are show cars. The notion of "Hot Wheels for Real" is something we're standing behind, and you can visit Hot Wheels.com to see some of the things we've been doing like breaking the longest-distance jump record for a 4-wheeled vehicle, and the biggest-ever loop for a full-sized car.
You've got all these people between the ages of 20 and 50 who grew up with Hot Wheels, and nobody's got a bad thing to say, but not everybody is a die-hard die-cast car collector. So this project is the absolute pinnacle and marks a turning point for what Hot Wheels is becoming as a brand. It means so much more to people now, than just toy cars. Whether it's the content of the videos we've made around Hot Wheels, which you can see on our facebook page, or our world records; which are gradually transforming the notion of what vehicular competition can be.
Who had more input on the overall design of the Hot Wheels special edition, Hot Wheels, or GM design?
David Ross: I think it was actually a 50/50 split because the excitement was infectious for both sides. And every time we got together over the project is was a lot of "Oh, that's cool!" And the inspiration for one side, inspired the other side back and forth. We all quickly agreed on what the car really wanted to be, and we all shared a vision – which came very quickly and easily.
Felix Holst: I think that was the thrill, how easy this project was. There were no arguments over whether or not there should be an engine out the hood, or what color the paint should be. GM did an absolutely phenomenal job of capturing the essence of what a Hot Wheels car should be, yet maintain the standard of a quality road car.
Felix, after taking hot laps in the car, you were quoted as saying, "It was insane. I was living every boy's dream. My cheeks hurt from smiling." In the Camaro world, we call that "Perma-Grin". Can you try and describe the feeling?
Felix Holst: The story behind that is that while they were setting up cameras for the unveiling of the Hot Wheels car, I got to get a hot lap in a 1LE with Aaron Link. And that course up there at Milford is absolutely insane! I've done a lot of hot laps with a lot of very good drivers; you know everything from Ferrari to people like Tanner Foust. And that lap….was the hottest lap I've ever ridden in, it was insane!
I mean, heading up the hill, at 140mph as we come to the crest – and a squirrel decides to pop out and stand in front of us staring…that was certainly a big grin moment. The exciting thing is that you're with someone who knows the track and the car inside out. Aaron didn't even flinch.
[I'd like to add here, as Felix relived the moment, there was much chuckling and speaking through an enormous smile...I think the PermaGrin was in full-effect, here. ]
Among the growing club of special edition Camaros, such as Synergy, Pace Car, 45th anniversary, etc - how does the Hot Wheels Camaro rank among designers?
David Ross - I think it's funny that you bring up all those other ones. We're all Camaro Enthusiasts inside, too. And every time we do a new one, it becomes the "favorite one". What's really amazing to all of us about Camaro is that you can take this product from the enthusiasts' standpoint, and the sky is the limit! When you go to a show like Camaro 5 Fest, what we walk away with is how diverse the culture is around the acceptance of Camaro. Everybody does their own thing.
SEMA's been a great venue. We dominate the enthusiast market since we brought the Camaro out. Every year, it seems, we come back with an award for being the most accessorized car. And that really speaks to the enthusiast side of how the Camaro adapts to the personalization.
This Hot Wheels really is a favorite right now, of everybody.
David, Camaro enthusiasts want to know: many like to say the current Camaro design is "sex on wheels". And while I've got you here, David, I've got to ask – what can we expect to see, design-wise, in future Camaros, specifically the 6th-generation of the car?
All I can say…all I know, is that the future for Camaro is very bright. It's like I said, "the next one is always going to be better". There's a lot of excitement around Camaro internally, so stay tuned!
Is there any thing you'd like the Camaro enthusiasts, in particular, to know about the Hot Wheels production car?
Felix Holst – The key for me is…We are very proud of this car. I hope that the majority of Camaro fans will look at this car and see it for what it really is, which is an exciting interpretation of two classic brands. But also, this is Camaro and Hot Wheels. It's going to be rare, it's going to be limited edition and the car looks the part.
There's no doubt that the Camaro Team has an absolute passion for their product. But the Hot Wheels team also has an absolute passion for the Camaro, whether that's a '67 Camaro or a 2013, and all Camaros in between – we love this car. So this definitely came from the heart, and there's a lot excited people who can't wait to see the car out on the road.
I for one know, that I will scream…like a little girl…the first time I see one on the road. It's going to be a very exciting moment to see one out in the wild!
David Ross: I just want to re-iterate, as Camaro matures and we keep going forward, with every opportunity out there – the Camaro really fills the bill. This is another chapter for Camaro, and I think this car brings something different to the enthusiast that you can't necessarily get with another product.
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I want to thank Felix, Dave, and Monte for giving us this opportunity to pick their brains a little bit. And I hope this interview provides a little more insight into the Hot Wheels Camaro for you all reading this.
Stay tuned to the homepage…tomorrow we're in for a couple of Camaro treats from GM as SEMA. One rhymes with "Droptop COPO" (), and the other is a blast from the past…
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There have been many positive reviews on the bright blue applied to the hot wheels Camaro. What is its name, and is there any chance of it becoming a regular production color?
David Ross: Its called Kinetic Blue. Its a one-time offering special paint color on the Hot Wheels Car.
O please tell me its not true...
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Wow, that blue looks really good on a Camaro. I'm not usually a fan of blue but this is one looks great.
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So can we get OEM Matte black upper fascia blackouts now??
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Fantastic interview from Roth and Felix. I love how the only things that are different from this edition Camaro to the SEMA Concept from last year only the hood, paint, and wheels. The paint like they said was definitely not feasible, the hood is something that I can see later on in the aftermarket word maybe recreate, but the wheels from the concept camn easily be created by just getting the 1LE/ZL1 light weights, machine the surface and pinstripe the inner of it and BAM! I love the idea of them pushing for VIN id'd die-casts of the Camaro along with the purchase. Clever idea and definitely something that would have been argued for if it wasn't included in the final product. I most definitely will be looking out for those samll editions of the new HW Edition die cats to add to my 5th Gen Camaro Hot Wheels collection. Again, great interview!
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I hate it when a new version comes out of what i drive,cause i just dont want to trade in my camaro,i have done too much to it that i would loose on trade in,and the wife will certainly not let me have two camaros in the drive way,all the upgrades that have been done since 2010,i would love to have the "HUD",and the radio,
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This one is just way too cool, and for those of you that are all, "UGGGGGGHH, just another stupid rendition of a performance car for kids like the TF Edition!" I am defintiely kid at heart and love my performance and things that made me smile when I was a wee lad, as Felix would say, as well.
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Thank you for the interview. That explains of alot of unanswered questions and complaints I had in regards to why the spectraflame Camaro had alot of cosmetics things I liked that the Hot Wheels edition did not carry over.
He said everything else was not feasible. Even the white Camaro photo'd by Phastek has better looking rims that should have been on the Hot Wheels edition. If those came with it, I would definitely be looking at ways to upgrade. I just can't pull the trigger on it at the moment...only time will tell.
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So, is this color coming for all models in 2013? I hope so.
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When Can We Order this Car???
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MOUNT VERNON, Va. — A 45,000-square-foot library that will safeguard books and manuscripts that originally lined George Washington's shelves more than two centuries ago is on schedule to open in September, caretakers of his estate said Thursday.
"This is the equivalent of a presidential library, and quite frankly no one deserves one more," said Ann Bookout, chairwoman of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.
At a news conference, leaders of the nation's oldest preservation society announced they have exceeded their fundraising goals and have closed a three-year capital campaign that raised more than $100 million for the library that is set on 15 acres just outside the main entrance of the Mount Vernon estate about 15 miles south of Washington, D.C.
Some 7,000 contributors have donated more than $106 million to help realize the dream that the nation's first president expressed in a 1797 letter to friend James McHenry.
"I have not houses to build, except one, which I must erect for the accommodation and security of my military, civil and private papers, which are voluminous and may be interesting," Washington wrote.
Curt Viebranz, the president of the Mount Vernon association, singled out the Las Vegas-based Donald W. Reynolds Foundation for its support — a $38 million gift that kicked off the drive in 2010. The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington is named after the chairman of the foundation.
In all, the Reynolds foundation has contributed $69 million to Mount Vernon for a variety of preservation projects.
The foundation was founded by Donald W. Reynolds, the former owner of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Nevada Appeal in Carson City and dozens of other daily and weekly publications around the country.
"We are grateful for all the patriots who have supported us," Viebranz said.
The association also unveiled its most recent acquisition for the library — eight volumes that were secured from Sotheby's New York in June at a cost of $1 million. The books include one written by satirist Jonathan Swift.
"We are trying to reassemble as many of his original books as possible," Viebranz said, referring to Washington.
The library will serve primarily as a center for scholarly study. As part of its grand opening on Sept. 27, a special exhibit has been planned to focus on what and how George Washington would have read in the 18th century.
"It helps transport us back into his world and how his readings affected his decisions," Mount Vernon curator Susan P. Schoelwer said.
More than 40 objects will be on display, including a copy of "A View of the Conduct of the Executive," written by James Monroe. The book essentially accuses Washington of making Monroe the "fall guy" for diplomatic failures between England and France, Schoelwer said.
Washington wrote copious notes in the book's margin countering the claims. Yet, Washington never offered any defense publicly for Monroe's criticism.
"He said not one word but obviously he had plenty of thoughts," Schoelwer said.
Contact Washington Bureau reporter Peter Urban at firstname.lastname@example.com or 202-783-1760.


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Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict (2007)
Report - 10 year strategic review of Graça Machel's 1996 study on children in armed conflict
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The report, by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict and UNICEF, highlights the changing and devastating impact of conflicts on children. It notes that advances have been made in protecting children from war crimes such as unlawful recruitment by armed forces and groups and sexual violence. It also urges the international community to take concrete actions to stop abuses of children in armed conflict.