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Analyzing Awry Anchors
Magazines that center around our hobby by their very nature tend to focus on technical stories dealing with performance or appearance, but any performance upgrade to a stock vehicle, or any rod or custom built from the ground up, will require improvements to the brake system or a system properly set up with compatible components.
Master Power Brakes sent us one of their Brake System Diagnostic Kits, and rather than just run it in our Rod Shop section, we figured it'd be neat to actually put it through its paces on one of our cars. My '46 roadster pickup was the obvious choice, especially as I've not been completely happy with the brake system since getting the truck on the road. While the front and rear brakes are stock Caprice, albeit rebuilt with all new calipers, wheel cylinders, hoses, pads, and shoes, and the combination valve is also from a Caprice, the dual circuit master cylinder and booster were aftermarket items more commonly used on lighter hot rods such as a '32. I didn't know the cylinder bore size and had a feeling the 7-inch booster was too small, but I'd selected it as a 9-inch version would have been too large to fit between the steering column and the inner fender panel. It should also be noted here that the brake pedal is the Caprice item, with the ratio unchanged, though it's modified to offset the pushrod 2 inches to the left in order to align with the booster on the firewall.
The brakes had never felt "right" and it took considerable effort to bring the truck to a halt after the first, and easy, use of the pedal. All things considered then, the system needed inspection, so I put it up on the rack at our Tech Center and unboxed the diagnostic kit.


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The team behind the popular Weather Flow app have just pushed out an update. The app was last bumped to a new version back in December, which brought some lock screen goodness. We've continuously praised the development of Weather Flow, as well as its competitor - Amazing Weather HD. So what's new in this latest release?
It's not a huge overhaul as such, but a number of improvements have been implemented. Here's the changelog for version 1.4:
- HD resolution lock screen and live tiles
- Shuffle multiple images on lock screen
- Improved startup time
- Fixed updating issue for live tiles and lock screen
We're told the update should go live within the next handful of hours, so be sure to keep an eye out. You can download Weather Flow from the Windows Phone Store.

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Mayor Coleen J. Seng today released the fiscal year 2006-07 City Budget that cuts more than $8 million in spending requests and limits spending to less than a one percent change in actual dollars spent from the current year.
Seng said the City will be on a "low calorie diet for the coming year" and stressed there are no new spending programs or new employees in the budget. "This no-frills budget meets the minimum daily needs but won't satisfy anyone's appetite for full services," Seng said.
The City tax-supported operating budget would change less than one percent in dollars spent. Even when the cost of the additional pay period incurred this year is excluded, the cost of next year's City budget will increase only 2.2 percent, which is less than the rate of inflation and less than the increase in the Consumer Price Index. The proposed fiscal year 2006-07 General Fund operating budget will be $131,654,357. The current year fiscal year 2005-06 budget is $131,564,552.
"The City has become reliant on sales tax revenue, and we have lowered the property tax regularly over the last decade. The result is that property tax revenue does not now even cover the annual cost of police, fire and 911 in Lincoln," Seng said. "So when sales tax revenue drops, spending cuts are mandatory because sales tax revenue is the largest source of revenue for the City of Lincoln." Seng complimented City department directors for their fiscal management, but said, "even after cutting spending, the last resort was to rely more on property tax to help cover the cost of public safety services."
Sales tax revenue funds about 42 percent of the City General Fund budget. Property tax funds only 28 percent of the City budget. The drop in sales tax revenue is attributed to a combination of increasing Internet sales that do not pay sales tax, more discretionary income going to pay for the higher cost of gasoline, and changes in State law that have exempted remodeling and large business equipment sales. The State law changes have reduced local sales tax revenue by an estimated $1 million annually. In addition, federal budget cuts in the Community Development Block Grant program have reduced City funding and unfunded federal mandates continue to increase City costs.
The City faces nearly $1 million in higher fuel costs to pay for the 1.2 million miles driven by the police, public works and other City vehicles during the year. "Higher fuel costs have hit the City budget just as hard as they hurt family budgets. City vehicles are under guidelines to not let vehicles idle, avoid quick starts and follow other fuel saving practices that have improved mileage, but we can't control the cost of fuel," Seng said.
The City made changes to its health insurance by converting to a self-insured plan and increasing deductibles and prescription co-pays. That lowered the increase to 5 percent, which saved about $795,000 in tax funds and nearly $1.27 million across all funds.
Seng cut $640,000 in personnel costs and is directing City Departments to examine ways to reorganize to reduce costs. The cut will require Departments to review every vacancy and determine if it needs to be filled or can be downgraded. In addition, Seng said she will ask the City Council to consider approving retirement incentives to further reduce personnel expenses.
More than $824,000 in requested funding was cut from the Antelope Valley Project. Funding for the project was limited only to what is necessary to keep pace with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers construction of the flood control channel.
The budget proposes eliminating the equivalent of eight positions, saving about $163,000 in tax funds. No uniformed police, fire or 911 personnel would be reduced, although a vacant deputy police chief position will remain vacant for next year. Travel and training budgets were reduced by $257,288. The Public Works and Utilities Department overtime and supplies budget was cut by $67,140 and Police Department overtime was trimmed by $75,338.
Sidewalk repair funds are limited to $175,000, and minor storm drainage repairs will rely on carry-over funds. Overall park maintenance will be reduced. Aging division support services will be reduced by $26,000.
The Mayor's budget proposes to increase the City's commitment to economic development by earmarking $250,000 in land acquisition funds for Lincoln Partnership for Economic Development (LPED) related job creation projects. "This additional economic incentive for job creation could go toward the purchase of right of way for the sewer, water or roads needed to make a project feasible and to make new jobs happen," Seng said. It could also be used to acquire land for an industrial park if needed to help attract a major employer creating jobs. "Earmarking these funds is one more way the City can meet its obligation to infrastructure, which is the key to private sector job creation," she added.
Seng said she ensured that the Police and Fire Pension Fund normal cost would be fully funded for the first time in many years. Popular family-oriented services such as pool and library hours are preserved in the budget.
The majority of the City Council had earlier expressed support for investing the estimated 10.7 percent of the property tax attributed to the recent reassessment in preserving core City services. If the majority of Council members changes their intention, up to $3 million more would need to be cut from City services.
"We started this budget process facing a funding gap of more than $6.8 million. After a lot of cutting this proposed balanced budget protects taxpayers, funds essential public safety services and continues to move the community forward," Seng concluded.


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STARKVILLE, Miss. (Nov. 20, 2005) - B.J. Banjo (Baltimore, Md.) scored a game-high including five threes as the ETSU women's basketball team stunned Mississippi State, 78-53, Sunday afternoon in Humphrey Coliseum. Sophomore Michele DeVault (Columbus, Ohio) added 19 points of her own, also sinking five threes, in the season-opening win.
ETSU led by 18 at the intermission and by as many as 28 points in the second half. While Banjo scored a game-high 21 and DeVault added 19, senior forward Candace Gibson (Warner Robins, Ga.) added a double-double, tallying 16 points and 10 rebounds.
"I did not expect us to win this big at all," said ETSU head coach Karen Kemp. "We had confidence because we played them well at our place last year, but I never dreamed we would win 78-53. The score did surprise me. It is always big to win on the road against an SEC team."
The defense was the difference for the Lady Bucs.
"I am extremely pleased with the way our girls played today," Kemp said. "This year we focused on improving our defense. Our girls came out and played good defense, and that is why we won this afternoon."
Junior guard Sarah Johnson scored the first points of her Maroon and White career by giving MSU an early 3-0 advantage with 18:32 remaining in the period. Following a defensive struggle and some poor offensive execution between both teams, East Tennessee State tied the game at three with 16:20 left in the period.
After ETSU went up 5-3, MSU tied the game for the second time at five with 14:13 to play. From there, the Lady Bucs went up by two only to have the Lady Bulldogs fight back to a seven-all tie at the 13:31 mark.
East Tennessee State went up by two and extended its lead to nine points midway through the period. The Lady Bulldogs used layups from freshman forward Lauren Roberts, freshman guard Robin Porter, freshman guard Marneshia Richard and Sarah Johnson to cut into the Lady Bucs lead, however it was not enough as ETSU took an 18-point advantage into the lockerroom at the intermission, 36-18.
During the first half, East Tennessee State out-rebounded MSU, 26-18. The Lady Bucs also scored 16 points off of 13 State turnovers and got 19 of their 36 points on second-chance shots.
In the second period, the Lady Bucs extended their lead out to 21 with 15:49 left to play and never looked back. Despite an effort to mount a comeback, the Lady Bulldogs only managed to cut the ETSU lead to as little as 17 with 12:05 remaining in the game. Halfway through the period and again at the 8:56 mark, East Tennessee State held its smallest advantage of the period at 16. In the final seven minutes of the contest, ETSU went up by 20 and gradually added to the lead to win by a 25-point margin at 78-53.
"Last year when we went to East Tennessee State, I don't think we played a team the whole year that played as hard as they did," said MSU head coach Sharon Fanning. "We knew they had experience. They were bringing everyone back plus three that played against us last year. We started out I felt like with some intensity, but when you look at what they did well, they rebounded offensively, they made the extra pass, and they took care of the basketball. When you play hard and you play together and have that experience together, you win."
ETSU ended the game scoring 28 points off of 22 MSU turnovers and had 24 second-chance points compared to MState's 14.
Porter led the Lady Bulldogs with 15 points, while Roberts added 11.
ETSU returns to action Wednesday night, as the Lady Bucs travel to Cincinatti, for a 6 p.m. start time.


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Lovely hula ladies welcomed the over 200 people attending the Park Ridge Health Foundation Gala at the Double Tree by Hilton in Asheville on Thursday night.
Each year this event invites guests to "experience" a different exciting part of the world. Last year, Paris was the featured location. This year's Hawaiian theme was highlighted by an "Experience Hawaii" vacation package.
More than 300 tickets were sold for this drawing. The package included airfare for two and hotel accommodations for 5 nights.
In addition to the trip to Hawaii, there was a silent auction featuring 79 items including such things as a handmade ceramic platter donated by Biltmore Estates, a landscaping package by Snow Creek Landscaping, Asheville, Chanel and Polo fragrances donated by Belk and a imaginative mosaic box hand-crafted by local artist Jenny Roberts.
The live auction featured paintings by Jonas Gerard, a diamond necklace donated by Marthaler Jewelers, a week getaway to any of the Wyndham Resorts, donated by Dr. Max and Cari Hammonds, and the use of a Jaguar for a weekend donated by Jaguar Land Rover.
There was also a live funding auction. The proceeds from this initiative will be used for a stereotactic biopsy machine which will provide a fast, accurate diagnosis to breast cancer patients; a Perinatal Loss Program, which provides bereavement support to families who have experienced the loss of a baby; and a Breast Health Resource Center which provides free prosthesis, wigs, scarves and other cancer related needs to uninsured breast cancer patients.
All donations were due to a collaboration of local businesses, local artists and community members who came together to assist Park Ridge Health.
Jenny Roberts, e-strategies Manager for Park Ridge Health, said, "Last year we raised over $90,000 and we hope to meet or exceed that goal this year."
By the end of the night, $105,000 had been raised.
All monies raised will be used to fund renovations to the third floor of Park Ridge Health. These renovations include sleeper/recliners for use by visitors in patients' rooms, hush curtains and the relocation of nurses' stations to provide a quieter environment for patients.
The Third Annual Dr. P.J. Moore, Jr., M.D. & Dr. Arthur A. Pearson, M.D. Award of Excellence was presented to Kenmure Fights Cancer in recognition of this outstanding member of the community.
Column: Foundation 'experiences Hawaii' at gala
Lovely hula ladies welcomed the over 200 people attending the Park Ridge Health Foundation Gala at the Double Tree by Hilton in Asheville on Thursday night.


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Team USA in Sochi: High-Tech Gear Spurs High Hopes
Feb 7, 2014 5:50 PM PT
While it takes years of training, determination and really good genes even to get a chance to compete in the Olympic Games, the difference between making the podium or not can come down to milliseconds in some events. At this year's Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, new advances in fabrics, materials and designs are giving the athletes an edge as they go for the gold.
It isn't just sporting goods manufacturers that are now developing the technology being used by the competitors. Auto makers such as BMW and aerospace pioneers including Lockheed Martin have helped design equipment that is lighter, faster and more streamlined.
High-Tech Fabrics
Speed skaters for years have relied on skintight uniforms to reduce drag. For the 2014 games, Team USA partnered with apparel maker Under Armour and Lockheed Martin to create a skinsuit that could help skaters get to the finish line just a little faster.
The Mach 39 was developed by Under Armour with the aid of high-speed cameras that captured skaters' movements and positions. The development team then turned to Lockheed Martin engineers to analyze the air flow.
It was found that a single type of fabric didn't work all that well when it came to air flow, so the developers opted to use different materials for different parts of the body. The new suits also utilize "flow molding." Though it seems counterintuitive, aerodynamic shapes and bumps attached to just the right spots to disrupt the air flow can enable faster speeds.
"The technology and resources that Under Armour put into this suit are unprecedented and can be felt from the very first moment you put on the suit," Patrick Meek, an American Long Track speed skater who is competing in Sochi, told TechNewsWorld.
"It sounds weird, but you just feel fast. I expect this suit to be a game changer," he said.
"What is revolutionary is that we were able to devote so many resources into one suit," Meek added. "There have been no technology breakthroughs that came about because of this suit. The wheel was not reinvented. But what UA was able to do was combine the latest technology in aerodynamics, compression, fluid dynamics, human physiology and biomechanics all in one suit."
In addition to clothing that will help reduce drag, athletes are using compression apparel on the slopes. For the 2014 Olympics, many competitors will don the latest in 2XU's compression tights and socks.
The clothing's usefulness isn't limited to competition, however. Some athletes took advantage of it prior to their arrival in Sochi, as it has been shown that compression can improve circulation during long travel times.
"Athletes at this level of competition understand the importance of utilizing compression in their training, recovery and injury rehabilitation," Fred Hernandez, 2XU director of marketing, told TechNewsWorld.
Super Sleds
While the American bobsled and skeleton competitors will be donning Under Armour skinsuits, they'll also have the advantage of advanced sleds developed with help from several corporate giants.
The United States hasn't won a gold medal in bobsled racing since 1936. For the 2014 games, the team turned to BMW, which helped design a new bobsled that is made of carbon fiber. Developed for its electric cars, this advanced composite polymer has been proven to be far stronger and much lighter than the fiberglass shells used just four years ago.
BMW's engineers provided adjustments to the sled's aerodynamics and weight distribution through included computer-aided modeling, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), full-size wind tunnel testing, on-track testing, and even athlete scanning.
"We were truly excited by the opportunity to work with the United States Bobsled and Skeleton Federation and saw it as a natural fit to transfer our approach, technology, and design resources to the development of the two-man bobsled," Michael Scully, creative director of global design for BMW Group DesignworksUSA, told TechNewsWorld.
"The two-year development process in collaboration with Team USA has been an intense, exciting and rewarding one, and we're all looking forward to Sochi," he said.
The same level of commitment went into the development of the luge. Dow Chemical re-engineered the single-person sled bodies and incorporated lighter materials and design features that improved performance, while Saint Gobain worked with U.S. Steel to completely redesign the sled's runners.
"Previously, Team USA bought the runners from an Austrian firm," said Brad Johnson, vice president at Saint Gobain.
"The team never felt they were getting the most consistent steel, so we worked them to develop a recipe that U.S. Steel than produced," he told TechNewsWorld.
"Saint Gobain also provides some of the most advanced coated abrasives to polish the runners, but this isn't the typical sandpaper you'd find in a hardware store," added Johnson.
"This is actually used in the production of automobile and aerospace technologies, and this can be used to polish and shape even hard steel," he explained.
This is important, because just as athletes are drug-tested after they compete, the luge sled is tested for consistency.
"The temperature has to be within a range, or the effort was all for nothing," Johnson noted.
Head Above the Rest
For snowboarders, it isn't just speed that matters. A new snowboarding helmet developed by Giro could help prevent concussions and other head injuries.
"The Combyn is designed and built to better manage low-energy impacts, while still able to manage high-speed impacts like traditional EPS (expanded polystyrene)," Giro spokesperson Benny Cruickshank told TechNewsWorld.
"This is achieved with Giro's patent-pending liner made with dual-density Vinyl Nitrile and the flexible outer-shell material. VN differs from EPS in that it is able rebound after an impact," he pointed out.
"For the rider, the VN liner provides a more durable helmet that can better manage those low- and high-energy impacts, while the flexible outer shell allows the helmet to be more comfortable by flexing to fit your head," Cruickshank added.
Skiing Without Snow
Russia's goal in bringing the games to Sochi was in part to transform what was typically viewed as a summer resort town into a winter destination. That presented challenges, because many of the slopes are completely new and thus unproven.
Skiers must train year round, even when there isn't snow. SkyTechSport's virtual training technology addresses both issues. The company, which has created snow sports simulators for a number of teams, allows athletes to experience being on the slopes even during the off-season months.
"Skiers and snowboarders mostly run and do other exercises in the off-season," Alex Golunov, project manager at SkyTechSport, told TechNewsWorld. "Our machines replicate the experience on the slopes. We draw on the physics they would experience and recreate the exact terrain."
For the 2014 games, SkyTechSport completely recreated the courses even as the runs were built and then provided them to the teams, allowing them to get a feel for Sochi before ever arriving there.
"There are three parts to this: the machine that simulates being on the slopes; the virtual reality system where the scanning technology recreates the terrain; and the physics," said Golunov. "This allows the user to get the feel of heading down the mountain in Sochi."


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kirwood wrote:I don't think XAMPP can use port 80. Should not Virtualhost be *:39393?
You are correct, my mistake
kirwood wrote:Can I change Documentroot to D:/kim? This is the drive all the websites are stored on.
You can, but then you have to define access rules for the directory too, because it is outside of the by default configurated base directory \xampp\htdocs\
so, it can look something like this:
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<VirtualHost *:39393>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
ServerName localhost
<VirtualHost *:39393>
DocumentRoot "D:/kim"
ServerName kim
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Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
<VirtualHost *:39393>
DocumentRoot "D:/tc"
ServerName tc
<Directory "D:/tc">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
so the urls would be
http://localhost:39393/ for the XAMPP Administration page
http://kim:39393/ for the kim vhost
http://tc:39393/ for the tc vhost
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The U.S. corn and soybean crops grew larger, while rice production shrank from last month, according to USDA's July 10 Crop Production Report and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates.
U.S. corn production for 2009-10 is projected at 12.3 billion bushels, up 355 million from last month due to higher estimated area.
Feed and residual use for 2009-10 was raised 50 million bushels while food, seed, and industrial use was lowered 35 million bushels.
Expected exports were raised 50 million bushels due to the competitiveness of U.S. supplies in the world market. Ending stocks were projected at 1.6 million bushels, up 460 million from last month, but down 220 million from 2008-09.
The 2009-10 marketing-year average farm price for corn is projected at $3.35 to $4.15 per bushel, down 55 cents on both ends of the range.
Global corn ending stocks were projected at 139.2 million tons, up 13.7 million from last month.
U.S. soybean production was projected at 3.26 billion bushels, up 65 million due to increased harvested area. Soybean yield was projected at 42.6 bushels per acre, unchanged from last month. Ending stocks are estimated at 250 million bushels, up 40 million from last month.
The U.S. season-average soybean price for 2009-10 is projected at $8.30 to $10.30 per bushel, down 70 cents on both ends of the range.
World soybean production is projected at a record 243.7 million tons, up 2.1 million due mostly to higher production in the United States.
Estimated U.S. cotton area for 2009 was raised marginally, and harvested area is unchanged. Cotton production is estimated at 13.25 million bales, the same as last month.
Domestic mill use was unchanged, but exports were reduced 600,000 bales to 10.2 million due to lower U.S. supplies and reduced foreign import demand. Ending stocks were unchanged at 5.6 million bales.
The forecast range of 48 to 60 cents per pound for the marketing-year average farm price is the same as last month.
World cotton beginning stocks for 2009 were raised about 800,000 bales, due to adjustments in the 2008-09 balance sheets for several countries. Forecast world production in 2009-10 was reduced marginally, due to reductions for Turkey and Uzbekistan. Estimated world consumption was reduced, with lower use in Pakistan, China, and Thailand. Estimated world trade was lowered about 1 million bales, due to reduced import demand by China, Pakistan, and Thailand. Despite the increase in world stocks from last month, ending stocks are still forecast nearly 7 percent below the beginning level.
U.S. rice production is projected at 211 million hundredweight, 4 percent below last month, but 4 percent above 2008-09. The average all-rice yield for 2009-10 is projected at 7,033 pounds per acre, 1 percent above last month, and 3 percent above 2008-09.
Long-grain rice production is projected at 151 million hundredweight, about 11 percent below last month while combined medium- and short-grain rice production was projected at 60 million hundredweight, nearly 18 percent above last month.
Beginning stocks for 2009-10 were lowered nearly 7 percent to 21.7 million hundredweight, while imports were lowered about 5 percent to 21 million hundredweight.
U.S. rice exports for 2009-10 were projected at 99 million hundredweight, up 2 percent from last month, and up 1 percent from 2008-09. Exports of combined medium- and short-grain rice were raised 13 percent to 26 million hundredweight, while exports of long-grain rice were lowered 1 percent to 73 million. The milled rice export projection was raised 5 percent, while rough rice exports were lowered 3 percent.
The 2009-10 season-average farm price range was raised $2.75 cents per hundredweight on each end to $13.25 to $14.25 per hundredweight compared to $16.05 per hundredweight for 2008-09.
Smaller domestic supplies along with stronger-than-expected global prices will lead to higher U.S. prices in 2009-10, USDA says. The long-grain season-average projected farm price range for 2009-10 was increased $2.50 per hundredweight on each end to $12 to $13 per hundredweight compared to $14.85 per hundredweight in 2008-09. The combined medium- and short-grain farm price range was increased $4 per hundredweight to $19.50 to $20.50 per hundredweight compared to $21.50 per hundredweight in 2008-09.
Projected world rice production was raised less than 1 percent from last month. Global exports were raised 500,000 tons. U.S. exports were also increased slightly.
Wheat ending stocks are projected 59 million bushels higher. The 2009-10 marketing-year average farm price is projected at $4.80 to $5.80 per bushel, down 10 cents on both ends of the range.
U.S. exports were increased 5 million bushels and ending stocks were reduced 2 million bushels. Global ending stocks were projected 1.4 million tons lower.
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Photo:Prow of Maori War Canoe, 1836. Auckland Museum. Click to enlarge photos in this post.
The Haast's eagle had a wingspan of up to three metres. but the Maori also carved many apparent images of a winged creature which has only been described within the last decade. Many examples of this mystery creature appear on antique war canoe prows. This carnivore possibly (Tupuxuara, Tapejara or Pterorhynchus) had a wingspan of up to 19.5 feet and depending on the genus.
The Maori "myths" incude a description of a red crest on their man-eating flying monster. The crest on the tapejara alone could have been as large as three feet high. These creatures could have weighed as much as eighty pounds, twice as much as the creature science now suspects; the Haast eagle. Following is the official version. More on the unofficial version later…..s8int.com
Maori Man-Eating Bird Legends Confirmed as True
A Maori legend about a giant, man-eating bird has been confirmed by scientists. Te Hokioi was a huge black-and-white predator with a red crest and yellow-green tinged wingtips, in an account given to Sir George Gray, an early governor of New Zealand. It was said to be named after its cry and to have "raced the hawk to the heavens". Scientists now think the stories handed down by word of mouth and depicted in rock drawings refer to Haast's eagle, a raptor that became extinct just 500 years ago, shows their study in The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Haast's eagle (Harpagornis moorei) was discovered in swamp deposits by Sir Julius von Haast in the 1870s. But it was at first thought to be a scavenger because its bill was similar to a vulture's with hoods over its nostrils to stop flesh blocking its air passages as it rooted around inside carcasses.
But a re-examination of skeletons using modern technology, including CAT scans, by researchers at Canterbury Museum in Christchurch and the University of New South Wales in Australia showed it had a strong enough pelvis to support a killing blow as it dived at speeds of up to 80kph.
With a wingspan of up to three meters and weighing 18kg, the female was twice as big as the largest living eagle, the Steller's sea eagle. And the bird's talons were as big as a tiger's claws. "It was certainly capable of swooping down and taking a child," said Paul Scofield, the curator of vertebrate zoology at the Canterbury Museum.
"They had the ability to not only strike with their talons but to close the talons and put them through quite solid objects such as a pelvis. It was designed as a killing machine."
Its main prey would have been moa, flightless birds which grew to as much as 250kg and 2.5 metres tall. "In some fossil sites, moa bones have been found with signs of eagle predation," Dr Scofield said.
New Zealand has no native land mammals because it became isolated from other continents in the Cretaceous, more than 65 million years ago. As a result, birds filled niches usually populated by large mammals such as deer and cattle. "Haast's eagle wasn't just the equivalent of a giant predatory bird," said Dr Scofield. "It was the equivalent of a lion."
The eagle is thought to have died out after the arrival, 1,000 years ago, of humans, who exterminated the giant moa. The latest study shows it was a recent immigrant to the islands, related to the little eagle (Aquila morphnoides) an Australian bird weighing less than 1kg.
Remains of Haast's eagles are rare because there never were many. They lived only on New Zealand's South Island, with probably not more than 1,000 breeding pairs at any one time.
Photo:Primitive art. Prow from Maori War Canoe. Auckland Museum compared with recently discovered, high crested pterosaur.
S8int.com: A curious creature appears on ancient Maori ship prows and ceremonial boxes. These pieces of ancient art go back to the 1800's and earlier. Mostly preserved as museum pieces, these depictions are similar in form to pterosaur types that have only very recently been discovered or described; preceeding them by several hundred years.
The Maori art depicts a high crested creature with characteristics similar to birds–and pterosaurs. The high crests, "wattles", arms and feet along with the large eyes and sharp beaks suggest that the identification as pterosaurs is a better match.
Photo; Right. Another ancient Oceanic boat prow.
Pterosaurs with high crests, similar to the ones depicted in Maori and Oceanic art include the Tupuxuara, Tapejara and the Pterorhynchus. It should be noted that even among the various types of these pterosaurs that the crest and crest shape vary.
It is not neccessary that the Maori pterosaurs be identified specifcally as any of the three named here. The point is, that the Maori are depicts creatures which are very similar to certain high crested pterosaurs and if they existed in this century, could be the source of Maori man-eating bird myths.
"Pterorhynchus was a genus of rhamphorhynchid "rhamphorhynchoid" pterosaur from the Late Jurassic-age Daohugou Formation of Inner Mongolia, China.
The genus was named in 2002 by Stephen Czerkas and Ji Qiang. The type species is Pterorhynchus wellnhoferi. The genus name is derived from Greek pteron, "wing" and rhynchos, "snout", in reference to the tall crest on the head. The specific name honours the German pterosaur researcher Peter Wellnhofer.
The genus is based on holotype CAGS02-IG-gausa-2/M 608 (earlier DM 608). It was found in Chifeng in the Daohugou Beds. According to Ji Pterorhynchus belongs to the Yanliao Biota from the Haifanggou Formation of the Callovian; Lü Junchang in 2007 ascribed it to the somewhat later Tiaojishan Formation of the same stage."…wikipedia
Photo:Comparison of primitive Maori art fishing boat prow with several crested pterosaurs. Click to enlarge.
"Tapejara (from a Tupi word meaning "the old being") is a genus of Brazilian pterosaur from the Cretaceous Period. The Tapejara genus possibly contains two species, both bearing a differently sized/shaped crest that may have been used to signal and display for other Tapejara, much as toucans use their bright bills to signal to one another.
Tapejara crests consisted of a semicircular crest over the snout, and in the case of the type species T. wellnhoferi, a bony prong which extended back behind the head. A second species, T. navigans, lacked this prong and therefore may not belong to a different genus. Soft tissue impressions also show that in T. navigans, the small bony crest was extended by a much larger structure made of a keratinous material (similar to the related T. imperator, with an even larger crest supported by a backwards prong as in T. wellnhoferi). The complete crest of T. navigans rose in a sharp, sail-like "dome" high above the rest of the skull.
Profiles of three species historically assigned to Tapejara. T. imperator has been renamed Tupandactylus, and T. navigans has also been assigned to a new genus.The type species and first discovered, T. wellnhoferi, is the smallest species assigned to Tapejara and does not preserve evidence of soft-tissue crest extensions.
Photo: Right. Another boat prow from the Ancient Maori:
A second species, originally named Tapejara imperator, is much larger and possessed a crest made up of distinctively long prongs, projecting from the rounded snout crest and the back of the skull, which supported a large, possibly rounded sail-like crest of keratin. A third species, Tapejara navigans, was mid-sized and sported a similar crest to T. imperator, though narrower and more dome-shaped, that lacked the backwards-pointing bony support prong.
Several studies in 2007 showed that T. imperator and possibly T. navigans are too different from T. wellnhoferi and therefore require their own genus names. The species T. imperator was given its own genus…."…wikipedia
"Tupuxuara is a genus of large, crested, toothless pterosaur, originally described in 1988 from the Cretaceous Santana Formation of Brazil by Alexander Kellner and Diogenes Campos,[1] but since reported from North America as well.
Photo:Another comparison of pterosaur and the Maori prow creature.
It was superficially similar in appearance to Pteranodon, mature individuals having a swept back crest arising from the snout, but its crest was larger and more pronounced than that of Pteranodon. Females of the species also had large crests, but their crests were more round. It is likely that Tupuxuara was a fish eater, and lived near the coasts of South America.
Photo: Ancient Maori war canoe. Note prow shape at its front.
The skull of the Tupuxuara measured a length of 900mm, the length of the entire body was 2.5 meters, and had a wingspan of 5.4 meters. Among pterosaurs, Tupuxuara is part of a group termed the Azhdarchoidea, but within Azhdarchoidea there is a controversy as to whether Tupuxuara is closer to the azhdarchids (the group that includes the giant Texan form Quetzalcoatlus) or to Tapejara and its relatives." ..wikipedia
It is of course unlikely that Tupuxuara is the man-eating culprit if he was truly toothless as science supposes.


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(Reuters) - The St. Louis Cardinals beat the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers 1-0 in another pressure-packed pitchers' duel to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven National League Championship Series on Saturday.
After holding the Dodgers scoreless for the last 10 innings of a 3-2, 13-inning win in the opener, St. Louis stifled them again, this time with hard-hitting shortstop Hanley Ramirez on the bench with bruised ribs after getting hit by a pitch Friday.
Rookie starter Michael Wacha and four relievers combined on a five-hit shutout to extend the scoreless streak to 19 innings.
"Up to this point, we haven't been able to get the key hit," lamented Dodgers manager Don Mattingly, whose team was 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position after being 1-for-10 in those situations in Game One.
"We weren't able to put the run up when we needed it. If we get two key hits over the last two days, we're walking out of here up 2-0. Didn't happen, so we're walking out of here down two."
The only run was scored in the fifth inning when David Freese crossed the plate on a sacrifice fly to left by Jon Jay.
Freese led off with a double into the left-field corner and with one out advanced to third on a passed ball by Dodgers catcher A.J. Ellis. He scored the unearned run on Jay's fly, well ahead of left fielder Carl Crawford's errant throw.
The Dodgers answered with a serious threat in the top of the sixth, loading the bases with one out. But Wacha rose to the challenge and struck out Yasiel Puig and Juan Uribe to end the inning and the 22-year-old skipped off the mound in delight.
Wacha, who came within one out of a no-hitter in the regular season finale and has continued his brilliance in the postseason, went six and two-thirds innings, giving up five hits and one walk while striking out eight.
Rookie closer Trevor Rosenthal, who pitched two innings in Friday's opening win, pitched the ninth and struck out the side, hitting 101 mph on his blistering fastball as the last five Dodgers hitters went down on strikes.
Los Angeles starter Clayton Kershaw was a hard-luck loser, going six innings and allowing just two hits, one unearned run, one walk and five strikeouts.
The Cardinals had only two hits and four baserunners in the game, but their pitchers made the meager offense stand up.
"The last two days, two very good wins, very tough wins facing starters like that," St. Louis skipper Mike Matheny said about going against Los Angeles starting pitchers Zack Greinke and Kershaw.
"We did a lot of little things right. It came down to pitching, came down to Michael (Wacha) being pretty good and then some young kids coming in and getting big outs.
"We got two hits on the day, so we're not talking about how our offense exploded. Guys know we have to do all the little things right and it was a great job of doing the little things right."
The series shifts to Los Angeles for Game Three scheduled to be played on Monday.
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In all, the Canucks regular season has been a damned good one. Despite a less-than stellar campaign from Roberto Luongo and long-term injuries to Daniel Sedin, Kevin Bieksa, Pavol Demitra, and Willie Mitchell, our boys have performed well. Henrk Sedin leads the scoring race, as just the fourth Canuck to crack the century mark. Mikael Samuelsson, Alexandre Burrows and Ryan Kesler are all having career years, and Mason Raymond has chipped in for 20-plus goals for good measure.
So what do the playoffs hold? Why should we self-appointed pundits wait for the end of the season? I'm completely willing to stick my neck out there before the match-ups are even finalized.
Here are a few predictions on the Western Conference match-ups based on what we see right now, T-minus six games before the second season begins:
(1) San Jose Sharks vs (8) LA Kings
You heard it here first: the Kings will finish up as the eighth seed in the West. San Jose should walk through the upstart Kings, especially considering the Sharks recent winning streak. The Kings, on the other hand, have lost four straight and seven of their last ten games. Sure, LA has Ryan Smyth to stir up some emotion in the room, but this is just a too-young team that's flagging after an impossibly fast start. San Jose, on the other hand, has woken up from their post-Olympic nap, and look dangerous. This is a healthy, hungry team that wants to ditch their rep as playoff chokers. Dont be surprised if Joe Thornton plays an angrier game after sitting out a couple to rest the shoulder he injured in this weekends win over the Canucks.
Preediction: Sharks in five.
(2) Chicago Blackhawks vs (7) Colorado Avalanche
The Avs haven't exactly been tearing it up themselves, but they wont stumble quite enough to let the sad-sack Flames catch them, and theyll take advantage of their five remaining home dates to skip past the Kings. Steve Duchene is a legitimate Rookie of the Year candidate, and Paul Stastny is a scoring threat from anywhere, but these guys just wont be able to skate with Chicago. The Hawks cant be happy to be without Brian Campbell on the back end, but this is a team full of speed and swagger. Last years run to the conference final was considered a fluke these kids didn't know what they were doing this years club has their eyes on Lord Stanley
Prediction: Chicago in five.
(3) Vancouver Canucks vs (6) Nashville Predators
The Predators are putting together quite the late-season run in Smashville, and, interestingly this team looks a lot like the Canucks. Oh, they don't have a 100-point man like we do in fact, not a single player is over 50 points. But this is a team that scores by committee, something we've been privy to here in Vancouver. They play well on the road. There is no dominant top line; everyone on this Preds squad chips in. The defence corps for Vancouver will have to keep their wits about them. Nashville has ten players with ten goals or more; we have nine. The lingering concussion symptoms for Willie Mitchell put the Canucks D under the spotlight, something that literally bit the teams back end in last years heartbreaking second-round loss to the Hawks. And goaltending? Since the Olympic break, Pekka Rinne leads Roberto Luongo in goals against average, save percentage and shutouts. To paraphrase Alain Vigneault, however, if Luongo is the Canucks biggest worry heading into the playoffs, they'll be all right. Sure, Bobby Lou's GAA hasn't been what it should be. Yeah, he let in a few weak goals against Edmonton. But hey, this is Roberto Luongo here, and that was Edmonton; its not like were still being subjected to Dan Cloutier in the #1 position. If the Sedins score, great. If not, no worries, for the first time in a while, we've got other guys who will.
Prediction: Vancouver in six.
(4) Phoenix Coyotes vs (5) Detroit Red Wings
Hockey fans are shaking their heads over both of these teams. With the off-season legal circus over Jim Balsillie trying to move the Yotes to southern Ontario, was there even a single hockey expert who picked them to top 100 points? They're played over their heads all season, and there's no reason to think they wont continue to do so. Oh, wait there's the small matter of that other team on the ice. Detroit, just three weeks ago, flirted with tenth spot in the West. Its taken a Herculean effort by coach Mike Babcock to shape this veteran Red Wing squad for another run at Lord Stanley. And goaltending? Ilya Bryzgalov has none other than Wayne Gretzky trumpeting his name for Hart Trophy consideration. Jimmy Howard just won a spectacular goaltending duel with Rinne in Nashville one where both goalies played shutout hockey for 65 minutes, and Detroit finally won it in the 11th round of the shootout. Detroit, like San Jose, is healthy and hungry. Detroit, unlike San Jose, has been a Cup finalist the past two years these guys know how to win.
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On Sept. 26, Jaci Maurer watched as construction crews began assembling a 12,000-square-foot facility on Goulden Avenue that will allow the Lehman College Child Care Center to double its enrollment and serve dozens of student parents on its waiting list.
Ms. Maurer, the center's director, said the project has been discussed for a decade and that seeing the first crane deposit the first of 26 steel and concrete building units nearly brought tears to her eyes.
"I just can't believe it's actually here. The teachers are very excited. The kids, it's great for them to watch, but I don't think they really understand that in a few months this is where we're going to be," Ms. Maurer said. "Maybe the reason we're waiting this long for it is so that we would have a really fabulous setup."
This January, Lehman will open the $6.3 million building to 140 children.
Last week, Axis Construction crews began stacking the modules, which were built offsite in Ephrata, Pa. to prevent weather delays, into the two stories that will soon host six classrooms and a multipurpose play area between Davis and Shuster halls.
Skylights will brighten the rooms. Children will be able to learn about the vertical greenery growing outside their classrooms on the east and west sides of the building. Next to a traditional playground, a "natural playground" will offer students a chance to play among boulders, plants and a garden.
Ms. Maurer said she's particularly excited that the building will include a space for parents to work on homework or spend time with their children on campus, which is a "huge stress reliever" for parents enrolled in afternoon and evening classes.
In 1971, Lehman was one of the first City University of New York schools to open a childcare center. It moved to a bigger facility in 1985 and by the early 90s, the college was eyeing a new building. But more than one version of the plan did not clear bureaucratic hurdles, Ms. Maurer said.


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Nikola 1856-1943
Serbian-born American electrical engineer and physicist who in 1881 discovered the principles of alternating current. He went on to invent numerous devices and procedures that were essential to the harnessing of electricity and the development of radio.
Biography: The Serbian-born inventor Nikola Tesla came to America when he was 28 years old. After working briefly for Thomas Edison, Tesla set up his own laboratory and immediately launched a succession of discoveries and inventions. At the time, most commercially generated electricity was distributed over a direct current (DC) system invented by Edison's lab. This system was very expensive and inefficient for a variety of reasons. To be practical and safe, everyday use of electricity generally required low voltages, but transmission of low-voltage power is very inefficient. Generators at the time easily generated alternating current (AC), but not steady DC, and conversion was difficult. Finally, converting high-voltage DC power required for efficient transmission to low voltage power presented yet another set of technical difficulties. Tesla was a staunch proponent of using AC throughout the power supply chain. He demonstrated that AC power could be transmitted efficiently at high voltages over very long distances, and it could be brought down to safe voltages easily with the use of transformers. After Tesla sold the patents to his AC system to George Westinghouse in 1885, there ensued a competition for dominance between Edison's DC system and Westinghouse's AC. Tesla gave public demonstrations of electricity to ease people's fears about the safety of the AC system, even to the point of having currents passed through his body to ignite flames. Tesla's approach won out; the first power plants at Niagara Falls used the AC system to power the city of Buffalo, New York. Tesla's invention of motors and generators using the AC system helped to ensure its success at replacing direct current throughout the country. Beyond his pioneering work in the production and transmission of electromagnetic energy (including what we now know as radio transmission), Tesla's inventions include the Tesla coil (an induction coil used in radio and television technology), a kind of bladeless turbine, remote control systems, and dozens of other devices-over 700 patents in all.
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.


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Topic: star wars radio drama
so, did anyone else know the OT were adapted into radio dramatizations? with all the sounds and music from the films, along with extra scenes and whatnot? it... it's interesting. a lot of people seem to love it, i just started listening to it right now. i do like the voice-over for the opening crawl, the same thing as they're doing now with the clone wars.
edit: i like this a lot more than i expected. the extra scenes are what george lucas originally had in plan for the films, and they give more character description, and the music is placed really well.


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Below I had a bit of fun styling some looks around my 'Fingerstache.' Enjoy and be sure to support this amazing cause by sponsoring our Mo Bros. For more information on the Movember charity visit their home webstie:
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Below I'm wearing vintage leather pants which I converted into shorts. The sleeveless lace blouse was from a little shop in Bridge Road. Vintage glasses from Beacon's Closet in NYC and Harajuku Lovers shoes. You might recognise the orange bag from Dusty Petals Shop. I love it!!!
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