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A little more than a year ago, MetroPCS released its first-ever Android smartphone, the LG Optimus M. Though its plastic build made it less glamorous-looking than its counterparts from different networks, the M was competitively priced and did not require a contract.
Fast-forward to now, and boy, do these carriers done grow up so fast. MetroPCS has offered numerous Android handsets since then and it's currently selling 10. One of which is a revamped version of the debut Android device itself, aptly called the LG Optimus M+.
Although the M+ is still marketed as an inexpensive device, it has a bigger screen this time around, and slightly better specs. It also lost some weight, sporting a thinner redesign. Though not as historically meaningful as its predecessor, the M+ still carries on the tradition of being a solid, entry-level phone.
The LG Optimus M+ went through a welcome redesign from its predecessor. At 0.39 inch thick, it's noticeably thinner than before and I'm fond of the new details, like the sharper corners, the tapered sides, and the convex top and bottom. It measures 4.48 inches long and 2.47 inches wide, and it weighs 4.23 ounces. I like that it feels slightly wide in the hand, which makes it easier to hold.
On the left side is a volume rocker. Up top are a 3.5mm headphone jack and the sleep/power button. In between these features is the Micro-USB port, which can be covered with a neat, tiny sliding door.
A 5-megapixel camera is located on the back, next to its LED flash. On the right hand corner is an output speaker. Although I liked many design elements of the handset, the texturized plastic backing feels cheap. Once you pry it off you can see the 1,300mAh battery and microSD card slot that holds cards with capacities up to 32GB.
The M+ has a 3.5-inch capacitive touch screen display. Like the original M, it has a 320x480-pixel resolution, but it sports more colors -- 262,000 hues instead of 65,000. Photos and video graphics were vivid and rich (especially when the screen brightness was cranked all the way up), but the resolution is disappointing. Although menu icons were crisp, more complex images looked grainy and streaky. On the upside, the display was responsive to my touch when I selected icons, swiped through menus and transitioned to the homescreen.
Below the display are the four usual navigation buttons that light up when in use: menu, home, back, and search.
The LG Optimus M+ runs on a slightly zippier (800MHz) processor. It's not as fast as the dual-core LG Connect 4G, but I didn't notice any lagging when performing simple tasks like switching from landscape to portrait mode, opening the camera app, or zooming in on photos and Web pages.
The phone ships with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and is preloaded with all the apps you'd expect from Google, such as the Play Store, Google Maps with Navigation, Search, Books, Messenger, Gmail, Talk, YouTube, Plus, and Places.
Also included are MetroPCS's own brand of maps and apps for mail, and browsing the Web. M Studio stores media files like ringtones, MetroPCS Easy Wi-Fi is a Wi-Fi hotspot app, Metro411 searches and locates for nearby businesses and restaurants; MyExtras is an entertainment and media app; and myMetro lets you check your account balance and plan.
There also are three Yahoo-branded apps: Sportacular (sports news), Yahoo Movies, and the oh-so accredited Yahoo! Answers. Meow.
In addition, the Optimus M+ is equipped with several basic task management applications, like a clock with alarm features, a calculator, Bluetooth, a calendar, text messaging (with Swype) a voice recorder, and a news and weather app. Uncommon apps include IM and Social, which consolidates all your social networking portals; the mobile media suite known as Pocket Express; and the mobile office suite known as Polaris Office.
The handset also comes preloaded with Rhapsody's music subscription service. For an extra $10 a month, on top of a $50-a-month unlimited talk, text, data, and e-mail plan, you can search and download thousands of albums and artists on major U.S. record labels. Despite the fact that you can't play songs offline unless you add it onto a playlist, the service is pretty neat and more intuitive compared to other music services. Its UI is intuitive, songs downloaded without any hiccups and played continuously.
The 5-megapixel camera comes with a few editing features including a flash, a digital zoom, an exposure meter, six scene modes (auto, portrait, landscape, sports, night, and sunset), five image options, four ISO choices (ranging from 400 to 100), five white balance modes (auto, incandescent, sunny, fluorescent, and cloudy), five color effects (none, mono, negative, sepia, and aqua), and a timer that can go off in 3, 5, or 10 seconds.
The video recorder has similar offerings, such as a digital zoom, a continuous flash, and the same white balance, exposure, and color effects. There are also two shooting modes (one for normal recording and one for sending videos over MMS), three video sizes (VGA, QVGA, and QCIF), three quality options (super fine, fine, and normal), and audio muting.
I tested LG Optimus M+ in San Francisco using MetroPCS' services. Signal quality was decent, but sound quality was mediocre. Although I didn't experience any dropped calls, extraneous buzzing, or audio clipping in and out, voices sounded muffled. Even at the maximum volume, my friends sounded like they were talking under a thin sheet. Friends told me the same thing -- even though I could be understood perfectly well, the audio didn't sound so refined.


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Conservative pundits wrongly claimed Kerry lied about Vietnam decorations
On May 1, two panelists on FOX News Watch asserted that Senator John Kerry has a "credibility" problem over the issue of whether he threw away ribbons or medals at a 1971 anti-Vietnam War rally, when in fact, an official U.S. Navy website, which displays various medals and ribbons under the heading "The United States Military Navy Service Ribbons" seems to confirm that the Navy regards the two war decorations as interchangeable.
Conservative syndicated columnist Cal Thomas said, "John Kerry [is] trying to make a case through the media that it wasn't medals, it was ribbons. It just doesn't have any credibility." Newsday columnist Jim Pinkerton -- who has worked for both the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, as well as for four Republican presidential campaigns -- went further, stating that the "whole business with the medals back and forth, clearly has got reporters wrangled because they don't like being lied to."
These assertions follow the April 28 edition of Hannity & Colmes, also on FOX News Channel, in which co-host Sean Hannity said that Kerry's view that military ribbons and medals are interchangeable was a "ridiculous" means of protecting himself from scrutiny:
HANNITY: John Kerry said last week in the "L.A. Times," one of the L.A. papers, that in fact he never said he threw his medals. Then this tape emerges which contradicts it, and then he lies. And then he comes up with this ridiculous answer that ribbons and medals are interchangeable as a means of covering himself.
The Boston Globe's Thomas Oliphant, who was "4 or 5 feet behind John Kerry ... on the way to the fence where he threw some of his military decorations 33 years ago," wrote in an April 27 op-ed, "It was clear from our conversations back then [1971] and ever since that Kerry made no distinction among his various decorations, though others have. Some in the military don't either."

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momi dont give away to much.. switch might steal your design again....MOMI wrote:SURF X
would explain why they always following these topics..
ah ok kinda joking here..
I thought this topic was about Tips and pointers for characteristics for the EPIC surf.
Not sure how pimping switch has any thing to do with this topic.
The Renegade is a nice allround kite with very very good characteristics in Wave riding. Dimitri just thinks a full wave dedicated kite ads something for the true wave rider.


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· Responsible to conduct comprehensive psychosocial assessments of patients in accordance with Satellite Healthcare (SHC) policy; collaborate with interdisciplinary team (IDT) to develop, implement and evaluate plan of care issues for patients including attending Plan of Care meetings, updating Plan of Care Issues and completing monthly plan of care charting; support center reporting responsibilities by preparing quality reports, transplant reports and other reports as requested
· Conduct depression risk screenings and quality of life surveys of patients as scheduled
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· Develops and facilitates support groups or psychoeducation meetings for patients whenever a need is indicated
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· Basic computer skills; proficient enough to be able to use computer software programs for medical record maintenance
· Able to read, write, speak, understand and satisfactorily communicate with others in English in person, over the phone and via email
· Demonstrates willingness to help patients; acknowledges and responds to patient's needs promptly and appropriately
· Contributes to harmonious, positive and productive work atmosphere through actions and attitude. Promotes a teamwork approach by offering information, advice and assistance to all unit staff members in a positive, courteous and cooperative manner
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Fishing's Future combines the fishing experience with outdoor education at what are called "Family Fish Camps". These camps include learning different fishing techniques, teaching the "Leave No Trace" philosophy and addressing water and outdoor safety practices. The overall goal is to reconnect kids to nature and to strengthen the family relationship outdoors. This is achieved by including parents in "Family Fish Camp" events.
Shane Wilson, Fishing's Future's master angler, is excited about doing the family fish camp at Lake Texana State Park and hopes this will be the first of many Family Fish Camps to be held at the park. Lake Texana is one of the best little crappie lakes in the area and also has a large population of monster knuckle-busting catfish ready to do battle.
"Having a Family Fish Camp in this park is a very special event and many of the kids will catch fish," Wilson says. "I have fished this lake several times and each time I have caught fish. I am eager to try my luck again. Lake Texana State Park is a great little park that I love to visit and hate to leave."
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The House Judiciary Committee is considering a bill (.pdf) to amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 USC 1030. I've redlined the current statute (.doc) to show how the law would look should this bill pass, and inserted comments where relevant.
I've heard that the bill is intended to fix what's come to be known as "The Lori Drew Problem": criminalizing terms of service violations. By my analysis, it does the opposite. The text could clear the way for such prosecutions while introducing new legal uncertainties, expanding the scope of the CFAA and greatly increasing penalties, without resolving the underlying problem, which is that the phrase "exceeds authorized access" — as well as the new phrase "in excess of authorization" in the bill — are subject to conflicting interpretations.
The bill also dramatically increases penalties while introducing new ambiguous language that muddies rather that clarifies the reach of this expansive law in other areas as well. For the reasons set forth in the comments to my attached redline, this legislation needs to be scrapped.
This legislative push comes just a few days following the Ninth Circuit's opinion in United States v. Nosal. There, the Court sitting en banc reversed the panel decision and held that violations of an employer's computer use restrictions are not penalized under the statute, because "exceeds authorized access" doesn't mean merely violating a policy, it means obtaining data you are not allowed to see. While a very welcome decision, this creates a Circuit split with the Fifth, Seventh and Eleventh Circuits. We don't yet know whether the government will petition for, or the Supreme Court will grant cert in Nosal. What we do know is that if Congress wants to resolve the ambiguity, the current bill will only make matters worse.


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A Cruise across Wakatipu Lake
A cruise across the dazzling Lake Wakatipu is the highlight of every Queenstown's trip.
A cruise across the dazzling Lake Wakatipu is the highlight of every Queenstown's trip. It is not only the perfect way to enjoy the wonderful sight of rugged mountains rising from the shore of lake, but also the most blissful way to absorb the magnificence of alpine surroundings of the whole region. The cruise, which starts from Queenstown's Steamer Wharf also offers you a chance to get acquainted with the lifestyle of the people living in the villages located near this charming lake.
Appearing like a lightning bolt, Lake Wakatipu is an inland lake situated in the South Island of New Zealand. This 80-km-long lake, spanning an area of about 290 sq. km, is the longest and third largest lake of the country. Tall mountains encircle the lake from all sides, with Mount Earslaw (2819 m) being the highest.
Lake Wakatipu is known for its unique, peculiar shape. Dart River flows into the northern end of the lake, from where the lake runs about 30 km towards south. Then it turns to the east and runs 20 km further. There again, it changes its direction towards south and runs about 30 km before reaching its southern end near Kingston.
Lake Wakatipu boasts of being the proud location representing "Lothlorien" scenes in the movie "Lord of the Rings" directed by Peter Jackson. The city of Queenstown is the major settlement near the Wakatipu Lake, located towards the northern shore of the lake near eastern end of its middle section. Glenorchy, Kingston, and Kinloch are the small villages that are situated around the lakeshore. The lake serves as a popular venue for a variety of adventure tourism activities to visitors. It is also home to a variety of marine creatures including longfin eel, brown trout and rainbow trout. A large number of Black-billed Gulls are also seen around the lake.
The Legend
Lake Wakatipu is known for its odd shape and an unusual phenomenon. The water level of the Lake Wakatipu rises and falls about 10 cm every half an hour due to a "tide" or standing wave in the lake. This type of tide is usually not observed in other lakes. Local Maori people associate this change in water level to the legend of lake monster Matau. This Maori legend of love and devotion tells about a beautiful lady Manata, her beloved Matakauri, and the giant Matau. According to this legend, once giant Matau kidnapped the beautiful Manata and took her to a remote place. Manata's father, a local chief, announced that he would allow Manata to marry the person who rescues her from the giant. Knowing it was his only chance to get his love, Matakauri followed the winds and reached the spot where giant had kept Manata. He waited for months for the right time to come when the giant fell asleep. Matakuri rescued Manata, and as per promise of Manata's father, Manata was married to Matakuri. Matakuri knew that the giant might again kidnap Manata, and therefore he decided to kill the giant by setting the giant's grass bed on fire. The legend has that the fire produced was so intense that the snow in the whole region melted and created the Lake Wakatipu. Only the heart of the giant survived in the fire, and it is the heartbeat of that giant that causes the water level of the lake to rise and fall every half an hour.
A cruise across Lake Wakatipu aboard 100-year-old steamship TSS Earnslaw is the perfect way to experience the picturesque beauty of Queenstown region. The 51-m-long coal-fired steamship, the icon of the Queenstown city, takes hundreds of visitors to the exciting and refreshing voyage of the lake everyday. The still-operational original steam engines of this steamship enable it to complete about five trips of the lake in a single day.
TSS Earnslaw was first used for commercial purpose in 1912. It was one of the four steamers which were used to serve the nearby sheep stations and the railhead at Kingston. It was also the largest steamship to ply on Lake Wakatipu. A few years back, it was completely renovated to be used for conducting the lake cruise trips.
Your cruise on board Earnslaw starts from Steamer Wharf at Queenstown. As the steamship moves on the lake, the sounds of the steam whistle echoing from the surrounding mountains create an out-of-the-world atmosphere on the steamship. While on board, you can watch the original steam engines in operation or explore the mini-museum with a large collection of historical photographs. You may even enjoy the piano music at the back of the boat. The Café and Bar on Earnslaw serve visitors with wine, beer and café-style food on-board.
Lake Wakatipu cruises are usually available throughout the day. You have the liberty of choosing a simple lake cruise, or a cruise package involving a tour to Walter Peak High Country Farm or a horse trekking tour. A cruise only trip takes around 90 minutes and costs less. Tickets are available at Steamer Wharf and the Fiordland Travel Visitor Center.


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SAN ANTONIO — Mike Coolbaugh became a coach with the Tulsa Drillers earlier this month not so much for the job itself, but because his little boys loved to see him on the baseball field.
SAN ANTONIO — Mike Coolbaugh became a coach with the Tulsa Drillers earlier this month not so much for the job itself, but because his little boys loved to see him on the baseball field.
"He had just started," said Coolbaugh's wife, Amanda, who is expecting their third child in October. "We were going to be done with it, but his kids wanted to see him."
Coolbaugh, 35, died Sunday after being struck in the head by a line drive as he stood in the first-base coach's box during a game in Arkansas.
Amanda Coolbaugh, 32, said they planned to wait to find out the baby's sex until the birth. The couple has two sons, Joseph, 5, and Jacob, 3.
"You couldn't have asked for a better father," Amanda Coolbaugh said through tears Monday in San Antonio. "He just paid attention to the boys, put them in clubs and sports ... volunteered time on their teams."
The game between the Double-A Drillers and Arkansas Travelers was suspended in the ninth inning Sunday after Coolbaugh was hit by a foul ball off the bat of Tino Sanchez. He was taken to Baptist Medical Center-North Little Rock, where he was pronounced dead at 9:47 p.m.
The Drillers, a Colorado Rockies affiliate, said Monday night's game against the Wichita Wranglers in Kansas was postponed.
"Our entire organization grieves at the death of Mike Coolbaugh," Rockies president Keli McGregor said. "We were shocked and deeply saddened to learn of the accident on Sunday evening. Mike was a great husband, father, brother and friend to so many throughout the baseball community."
According to a report on the Drillers' Web site late Sunday, Coolbaugh was knocked unconscious and CPR was administered to him on the field.
Sgt. Terry Kuykendall, spokesman for North Little Rock police, said Coolbaugh stopped breathing as his ambulance arrived at the hospital.
The former major leaguer who played 44 games for the St. Louis Cardinals and Milwaukee Brewers over two seasons was remembered Monday as a generous man.
"He always said if he won the lotto, he would divide it up between every single person he knew," said Amanda Coolbaugh, who met Mike on the first blind date for both. They had been married for seven years.
Coolbaugh was good with his hands, and built a changing table and crib for one of his sons. He also was taking college courses on nights and weekends to earn a business degree.
Mikaela Adams Rios, who graduated with Coolbaugh in 1990 from Roosevelt High School in San Antonio, said she was grateful to have seen the star high school athlete at a luau get-together with a few other classmates in late June.
"You could tell he cared about everyone," said Rios, who had known Coolbaugh since kindergarten. "He gave hugs to everybody and wanted to talk about what they'd been doing. He was really kid-oriented. I was very impressed with how confident and secure he was as a father and husband and how much he loved his family. You could tell."
The native of Binghamton, N.Y., was homecoming king, a star quarterback and also played baseball and basketball, Rios said.
"Everybody in high school liked him," she said. "He was a little more reserved in high school. Very focused on sports. He was a really nice popular guy."
Mark Worley, who hosted the June luau, said they talked briefly about his baseball career, "but it was definitely, 'Let's get the families together.'"
Coolbaugh was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 16th round in 1990.
He played third base and bounced around the minors for a decade before reaching the major leagues for the first time in 2001 with the Brewers. He played 39 big league games that season and five for the Cardinals in 2002. He hit two home runs in 82 major league at-bats.
Coolbaugh's older brother, Scott, also played 167 major league games over parts of four seasons with Texas, San Diego and St. Louis in the early 1990s.
"Mike came from a baseball family, and he was a part of the baseball family," commissioner Bud Selig said. "On behalf of all of Major League Baseball, I extend my deepest sympathy to his wife Mandy, their children and all of their family and friends."
The Drillers said Monday they had established a memorial fund for Coolbaugh's family. Coolbaugh also played for the team briefly in 1996. The family said a friend also had set up a memorial fund in San Antonio.
"The Coolbaughs have been a big part of our organization, with both Mike and his brother Scott playing for us. I know that Mike was very excited to become a coach and to begin this new chapter in his baseball career," Drillers president Chuck Lamson said in a statement. "Even in his short stint with us this year, he had provided a very positive influence on our club."


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It`s always a pleasure to watch your videos!
BTW I love your book!
Jason; it's really great to have you on the forums. A lot of us are huge fans of your work; we'd love to see more of what you do and hear about how you think whenever you've the time. Great stuff, man.
Regarding the riffle shuffle work-- are they 'whole deck' perfect riffle shuffles (i.e. Faro) or are they only controlling the top eight? Either way; stupid impressive. I'm personally interested in looking for alternatives to the Faro and doing a tabled riffle looks more natural and elegant to me.
Hope to hear from you soon.
I've had the total pleasure of seeing some of this in person and can say it's incredible. Jason is 100% a real worker as well as one hell of a technician.
If you like this kind of material, I cannot recommend his book Confident Deceptions enough. It's really a great look into Jason's repertoire. Also, I should mention that I perform a couple of routines from the book and people LOVE them. Great ideas, great presentations and just fun to perform.
Thanks guys:) I'm glad everyone likes the book. I'm working on another right now.
The faro I'm using in the video controls the top 8 easily. With practice you can get a full deck faro. However, I prefer a different technique.
Well yes. So much good material in this book. "Through and Through" is one of my favorite card tricks EVER and it´s the perfect closer. Magic which involves the spectator and let him/her FEEL it. The look in their faces after the final penetration is priceless!
This alone is worth the price of the book. But hold on. There is much more in this book. Not a single filler and something for everyone in my opinion.
A new book ? Great! What I loved from "Confident Deceptions" beside the effects:
the crystal clear descriptions and structure, good references, the Patter!, the photos and last but not least, the DVD, showing some of the tricks.
This is the way a Magic book should look like!
Incredibly talented and I admit I´m jealous (in a positive way of course ;) )!
I´m pretty sure we will hear, see and read more of him in the future.
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Today marks the release of the WiiWare service in Japan, and the Internet is already buzzing about the prospect of micro-transactions in WiiWare. Reports are that a screen is shown at the beginning of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as King warning players that they will have to pay to pay for additional "data or service." Siliconera has already gotten to the bottom of this and detailed what exactly we'll be paying for in the future.
While the game will feature a total of four races (Clavats, Yukes, Lilties, and Selkies), only the Clavats will be available from the start. In order to acquire the other three races, players will have to spend some extra Wii points to purchase buildings for them. Additional costumes for the main characters will also be available to buy, including a rather fetching pirate get-up.
Specific pricing was not announced, but Square-Enix has said that all DLC will fall within the 100-300 Wii points range ($1-$3). We'll be able to see if the extra content is worth the price when My Life as King comes to North America on May 12.


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Hi guys,
this is my first time posting here so please go easy on me. So I'm trying to assign a suit, number, and value for the cards for a Black Jack game for my Computer Programming class but I'm running into a problem. I have variables in my "Card.class" for all value, number, and suit but it just doesn't seem to work. It compiles fine but when I run the applet, I get an error saying something along the lines of: NullPointerException at line 64. Which is the line, "Cards[i].suit = "Spade";" . I'll appreciate any help.
// Import section // Use this section to add additional libaries for use in your program. import java.applet.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; import java.lang.Math; // This begins the class definition. // Notice that this is a "world". You can tell since it extends Applet. public class BlackJack extends Applet implements Runnable, /*KeyListener,*/ MouseMotionListener, MouseListener { //variable declaration section // public datatype variablename public int xTitle; public int yTitle; public Card[] Cards; public int sizeC; public int randomXpos, randomYpos, randomCard; public Image cardDeck; Graphics bufferGraphics; Image offscreen; //Sets up a Thread called thread Thread thread; // Method definition section // init() is the first method an Applet runs when started public void init() { //Initialize variables xTitle=250; yTitle=50; sizeC = 52; Cards = new Card[sizeC]; /*for(int j = 0; j<13; j++) { for(int i = j; i<52; i = i+13) { Cards[i].value = j+1; Cards[i].number = j+1; } }*/ for(int i = 0; i < 13; i++) { Cards[i].suit = "Spade"; } for(int i = 13; i < 26; i++) { Cards[i].suit = "Club"; } for(int i = 26; i < 39; i++) { Cards[i].suit = "Diamond"; } for(int i = 39; i < 52; i++) { Cards[i].suit = "Heart"; } cardDeck = getImage(getDocumentBase(), "CardDeck.gif"); //double buffering offscreen = createImage(800,600); //create a new image that's the size of the applet bufferGraphics = offscreen.getGraphics(); //set bufferGraphics to the graphics of the offscreen image. setSize(800, 600); addMouseListener(this); addMouseMotionListener(this); //Set up the thread thread = new Thread(this); //constructs a new thread thread.start(); //starts the thread }//init()


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With a hit that he personally described as one of the greatest of his career, Ray Lewis put an exclamation point on a Ravens west coast victory that will go down as one of the most exciting games in purple history.
Seriously – watch that hit again.
Whether in the bar, the living room, the den, or at Qualcomm Stadium for a lucky few, an entire fan base exploded as #52 crashed through the line of scrimmage to end San Diego's hopes of a comeback win. Actually, on the telecast, it was tough to tell immediately which player it was that made the game winning hit, but in reality…did you ever really have a doubt? Was there an iota of surprise when you saw that it was Ray Ray who took matters into his own hands? Certainly not.
It was a fitting end that the man who has been dazzling us with his play for 14 years now would be the one to finally let us all put down the Pepto Bismol bottles that we had been clutching ever since Darren Sproles ran 81 yards untouched in the first quarter to put the Bolts up 7-0. As we mentioned here Friday, Sproles WAS GOING TO MAKE PLAYS, the Ravens just had to limit the number of times he was able to do so. As evidenced by his 278 all-purpose yards (124 receiving, 26 rushing, 128 return), Diminutive Darren did indeed run wild on the Ravens.
And it wasn't just Sproles that had a field day. Philip Rivers' stats jump out like a sore thumb:
25/45 436 yards 2 TD 2 INT
Basically, the mismatch that we all feared, Chargers' big WRs vs. the Ravens' small CBs, was exploited by San Diego all day. With Ladainian Tomlinson and two starting offensive linemen out, Norv Turner decided he wasn't going to waste time trying to establish any sort of ground game, and would just air it all all day.
And air it out they did.
Until it really mattered.
Turner's decision to run on 4th-and-2 from the Ravens' 15 with 37 seconds remaining in the game is the kind of thing that would have me absolutely calling for his head if I had a closet full of pewter blue jerseys. You've thrown for 436 yards, you need TWO…and you're…RUNNING?!
Game. Set. Match. Ravens. Thanks for having us.
Add that to his other bone-headed calls, including kicking a FG on 3rd-and-goal with 10 seconds to go in the first half, and you pretty much sum up Norv Turner's head coaching career.
As far as that torched Ravens' secondary goes, well…as John Harbaugh so eloquently put it, "we need to get better." Gee, ya think? Fabian Washington and Dominique Foxworth had atrocious days, and safety Dawan Landry, while stout against the run, was nowhere to be found in pass coverage (unless, of course, you count "getting ran by like you're standing still," being "found.") Rivers seemed to be avoiding Ed Reed on purpose, and with the kind of success he was having doing so, who can blame him? Frank Walker, filling in on the final drive for Washington, who had sustained a head injury, and who prompted me to say aloud as he took the field, "Frank Walker is going to lose this game for us," actually had a game-SAVING play when he knocked the ball from Legedu Naanee's grasp near the goal line on 1st down of the critical final series.
Foxworth marginally redeemed himself with two passes defensed in the 4th quarter, one of which ended up in the hands of Antwan Barnes and led to a key FG that put the Ravens up by five. Honestly, though, Foxworth could have easily been flagged for pass interference on the latter, when he got to Antonio Gates a split second before the ball did.
The secondary was bad, no question about it. Some of the blame has to lie at the feet of the defensive line though, who only sacked Rivers twice all day, despite the Chargers' banged up O-line. They applied some decent pressure in spurts, but there were far too many "almost got 'ims," and not nearly enough "got ims." Defensive coordinator Greg Mattison needs to figure out a way to get some more pressure, and quickly.
On a day where Rex Ryan's New York Jets held the New England Patriots without an offensive touchdown (the Jets have yet to allow one all year), my preseason assertion that losing Rex was really no big deal as long as Ray, Ed, and Sizzle are around was feeling a bit empty, to say the least.
Turning the page to happier conversation…how about that Ravens offense?
Did any of you, like me, find yourself feeling like you were living in some sort of "Twilight Zone" alternate reality watching the game yesterday? The Ravens defense takes the field, and my stomach knots up…Joe Flacco and crew jog on, and I'm relaxed as can be. Down is up, up is down, what the hell is going on here?!
Flacco's calm demeanor just seems to permeate our television sets and put us all at ease. Willis McGahee looks better than he ever has since coming to Baltimore, Ray Rice continues to develop into a great open-space weapon, Le'Ron McClain keeps chugging for the sticks on every 3rd-and-short, Todd Heap has 1 touchdown less through 2 games than he had in all of 2008, and "Groovin" Kelley Washington has emerged as a a legitimate #3 wide out.
After two games, the Baltimore Ravens are second to only the New Orleans Saints in points per game, and that is with the help of exactly ZERO points scored by the purple defense and/or special teams. Strange days indeed in the Land of Pleasant Living, my friends.
With a tip of the cap to (not so) old, faithful #52, the "Bottom Line," is that the Ravens are 2-0, which looks a hell of a lot better than 1-1.


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Looking back I should have sent it back and tried again.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Birdy Beakers
6 comments:
- reb said...
Too divine Mel!Where are these going to be sold?
My little bird wall vases you sent me were a big hit with my little 6 year old niece the other day, when she helped me pop some flowers into them that she'd picked.She was amazed that you could put flowers in them!
- November 13, 2009 at 10:44:00 AM GMT+10
- Mel Robson said...
Hi Reb! Happy Birthday to you (a little belated)! Glad your niece liked the vases. Some of these ones have just winged their way down right near you at Craft Vic, or at Pomme at Mornington Peninsula. xo
- November 13, 2009 at 10:50:00 AM GMT+10
- Tracey said...
Oh they are absolutely lovely!!
- November 17, 2009 at 1:27:00 PM GMT+10
- Jones said...
They look really aodrable. I wonder where can I possibly find them..somewhere in California.
- February 5, 2010 at 2:11:00 PM GMT+10
- Zill.y said...
Not just the beakers - love your style!
Cheers from Washington State, US, zill.y
- May 5, 2010 at 2:30:00 PM GMT+10
- Digital camera lenses said...
I think I saw one of my friends who has a beaker as you call it similar to that. I was so envious. I really like it.
- May 13, 2010 at 7:00:00 PM GMT+10


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Well after 16 months, 425 posts, over 88,000 hits and many,many hours put in, I have had to call time on the blog. Due to family, work and school commitments I don't have the time to put into it any longer and can't do justice to the team/ fans even as an unofficial blog.
Last season, the blog was one of the most updated (not well typed at times, sorry) and for the most part informative in the BCHL. During a difficult season for the team in the 2011/12 season on and off the ice, the Grizzlies social media team set about and put together a facebook, twitter, photography and a blog to put the Grizzlies on the social media map. The Grizz Roar was proud to be a part of that. But, it was only meant to be a stop gap until an official blog was born. Usually, the broadcaster from a BCHL team does a blog for most of the teams ???
As an unofficial blog, I had luxury of being a bit more edgy, but, at the same time, respectful to the organisation. I hope that was accomplished. It has been a thrill as a fan, to be able to do something for the team your passionate about.
Grizzlies fans will have lots to look forward to as the social media team goes from strength to strength with Tony, Mike, Roy and Kevin.
I'd like to say a big thank you, to Tony, Mike, Roy, Reza, the new Grizzlies ownership, players from the last two seasons, players parents/families, the fans for sure and most importantly my amazing wife and one year old daughter for allowing me the time to have done this.
Good luck to Bill and the boys in what looks to be an amazing season as we go forward.
Thanks folks it's been a blast!!!
Dave Findlay
|Kathleen (My Daughter) says it best.... GO GRIZZ GO


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Arlington Heights police received a report about 8:31 AM Friday of a vehicle burglary in the block of 400 West Rand Road at the Stonebridge Apartments Arlington Heights, IL. Police received a report that an unknown offender or offenders entered the victim's unlocked 2012 white Nissan Altima. Taken from the vehicle was a cookware set valued at $14, and a hat valued at $4.
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The Henderson Times. (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 3, 1898
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This is the eighth time since 1997 that the 400,000 cells/ml proposal has been rejected.
The National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments again rejected proposals to lower the U.S. somatic cell count standard for Grade A milk from 750,000 cells/ml to 400,000 cells/ml.
This is the eighth time since 1997 that the 400,000 cells/ml proposal has been rejected. NCIMS meets every other year.
At the NCIMS meeting in Indianapolis this week, three separate proposals were submitted to lower the SCC standard. The first proposal, submitted by the National Milk Producers Federation, would have lowered the standard to 600,000 cells/ml on January 1, 2014 and then to 400,000 cells/ml on January 1, 2015. The proposal was defeated 22 to 28 on Tuesday. A motion to reconsider the proposal failed by one vote today. You can read the NMPF statement here.
The second proposal to lower the SCC standard to 400,000 cells/ml was submitted by the West Virginia Bureau of Public Health. A third proposal, also to lower to 400,000 cells/ml, was submitted by the New Mexico Department of Agriculture. Both of these proposals received strong "no action" votes by the NCIMS.
The NCIMS is the ruling body of the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance (PMO), which sets regulations for Grade A milk. Each state gets one vote in the NCIMS process. Proposals that are passed also must pass muster with the Food and Drug Administration, which is the final arbiter of the PMO.
The United States already has a defacto 400,000 cells/ml standard because the European Union requires individual farms to meet that standard. USDA certifies export certificates for all dairy products shipped to the European Union. And since processors cannot easily segregate dairy products for export to the European Union, all milk must now meet the standard.
Currently, farms can receive derogations (or exemptions) from the standard if they are close to reaching 400,000 cells/ml. The first such round of applications for derogations was conducted last year, with nearly 3,000 farms qualifying. To have the derogations renewed, however, farms must demonstrate they are making progress toward the 400,000 cells/m SCC goal. More on the derogation process can be found here.
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After clinching the Conference USA regular-season title over the weekend, Rice moved to No. 4 – its highest ranking of the season – in this week's Baseball America Top 25 poll released Monday.
The Owls won the final regular season series at Central Florida for their sixth C-USA title in seven years. It also extended the Owls' streak of 17 consecutive conference championships dating to 1996.
Rice is the top seed and will open the C-USA baseball tournament against crosstown rival Houston at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Pearl, Miss.
Here is the Top 10 in the latest Baseball America poll:
|1. Florida State (43-12)
|2. Louisiana State (42-14)
|3. Florida (40-16)
|4. Rice (39-15)
|5. Oregon (41-14)
|6. Baylor (42-12)
|7. South Carolina (39-15)
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I have this huge roll of table paper in my garage and I have been waiting so long for a good weather day to use it. I wanted my girls to be able to paint on it without the colors being all mixed and turning brown. To solve this problem, I decided to use foam sponges cut into 2-inch squares. I put one or two sponges into each color, each color having it's own container. I used paper hot dog trays left over from a birthday party. These worked great because I could add a little water to the paint to stretch it a little.
The only problem we really ran into was the wind, so I recommend doing this on a calm day. It was a little tricky taping the paper onto the garage door because the paper was a bit thin and easily tore. The wind also kept blowing over the paint trays. Luckily most of the paint stayed in the tray, but we did have a little spillage. I also would only do this project with washable paint because even with paint smocks, we ended up with it between toes and on clothing. We used washable Crayola kids paint.
After the painting was dry, which was pretty quick, I was able to cut each child's section apart and put their mural on their wall. Let me tell you, such a bright large painting really cheers up a room. It looks great on their walls!


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Do you love art in all its forms? Then Québec City Area is for your! Québec's storied past lives on in its imposing architecture and historic buildings and its impressive network of first-rate cultural attractions.
There's so much to see and do in this open-air museum of a city. May we suggest...
You have undoubtedly visited this museum for one of its major exhibits (Rodin, Monet, Picasso, Botero, and Ingres, among others) but did you know that it is also one of the world's biggest repositories of Québec art? Spanning the 17th century to the present day, the museum collection includes works by Riopelle and the Brousseau collection of Inuit art.
Take in a show or attend a panel discussion, lecture, or workshop and see Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in a whole new light!
Bold, modern, edgy—contemporary theatre has a lot to offer!
Québec City's very own contemporary theatre festival is a celebration of professional theatre and a place where audiences can discuss their passion and discover new theatrical voices.
From mid-May to mid-June, the very best of national and international theatre takes center stage at Carrefour international de théâtre.
If you've got the treasure hunter's instincts of an Indiana Jones or Robert Langdon, you'll love the magnificent churches and museums of Québec City's religious communities.
The city is a veritable treasury of sacred art that bears witness to the influence of the clergy since the days of New France.
You'll find gold pieces, rare books, and priceless works of art, including a chalice at Musée de l'Amérique française that once belonged to Monsignor François de Laval. One visit just won't be enough!
For some great gallery hopping, start at place Royale in Old Québec, where a number of heritage homes exhibit paintings on canvas, watercolours, and sculptures by local, native, and international artists.
You'll also find a wide array of galleries to choose from in the Old Port district (rue Saint-Paul, rue Saint-Pierre, and rue Sault-au-Matelot), on Île d'Orléans, and in the Côte-de-Beaupré and Jacques-Cartier regions.
Put together your own tour as you visit art galleries throughout the Québec City region!
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Sunday, July 28, 2013
My Current Top Ten U.S. Databases for Tracing My Family Tree -- Sort of
My first selections include the Big Three U.S. databases:
Since I have just written about all three of these sites in the last little while, I will forego any further comments. They all have huge databases of digitized and indexed records to research. Both Ancestry.com and WorldVitalRecords.com put their records right up front on their websites. If you go to FamilySearch.org, click on the Search link, at the top of the startup page, to see the records. FamilySearch has a recent tendency to downplay (hide) the source records, but they are still there.
Now, where would I go next? Well, I would do a Google search for the names I was looking for (sometimes adding the word "genealogy" to the name helps). Then I would search in Google Books for any written or published family histories about the surnames in my research file. Then I would look in WorldCat.org for additional published material about the names and families I am searching for. But, technically, these are genealogy databases, even though they contain endless information about my family.
But back to dedicated databases. What could possibly be next after the Big Three?
Unless you have ancestors in the military, Fold3.com (formerly Footnote.com) now a part of Ancestry.com, is not that helpful, but it does have some valuable records. Very few of my ancestors served in the military, so this isn't a big source for me personally, but it always helps to check. Likewise, I find the U.S. Archives website to be archaic and virtually unusable. So I would have to disagree with Kimberly on both of these sites. Also, I might note that the Family Tree Connection, listed by Kimberly, has been merged into the Genealogy Today Subscription Data Collections.
By the way, the LDS Family History Centers have many of the subscription services online for free for use in the Centers.
Hmm. I have only gotten three sites listed so far. What could be next? Well, here is my real practice. I don't find any of the other databases listed by Kimberly Powell to be "must use" sources. I do use the U.S. Gen Web and RootsWeb (also owned by Ancestry.com) but I would not consider either of them to be go-to places initially for research because most of their information is unsourced and further, shows up in Google searches.
I guess I am struggling to come up with a list. But I do have some more suggestions.
How about Mocavo.com? I don't think this genealogy search engine is a database, but it is certainly valuable. For searching newspapers, how about Elephind.com? This search engine searches the Library of Congress Chronicling America database and many others. I would also have to rank Archive.org and the Hathi Trust as hugely important for genealogists, but they aren't genealogy databases either, but they have huge resources including Archive.org's complete 1790 through 1930 U.S. Census records and the U.S. Census Soundex. Let's not forget Cyndi's List. Cyndi has a hugely valuable source of listings in every conceivable category.
I also like sites such as ProGenealogists.com (also part of Ancestry.com) for the lists of links they have to genealogy sites.
This is getting serious, I haven't made it to number four on my list yet. There are a lot of digitized newspaper sites, some free, some subscription, and I use as many as I can, but none of them are so comprehensive as to be singled out except perhaps the ones on WorldVitalRecords.com. I am starting to repeat myself, I fear.
Of course, as long as I am mentioning huge websites, I must include Trove.nla.gov.au and Europeana.eu. Oops, we were talking about the U.S. weren't we.
Well, I'll think about it some more and see if I can come up with seven more U.S. databases to search.
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James, you note "Although this just popped up today, I think it may be a little out-dated." It is at least older than October, 2010, when Ancestry.com bought footnote.com and renamed it. Ms. Powell's list includes Footnote.com as one of her favorites.ReplyDelete
Have you considered doing a review of the customer service track records of the databases that require paid memberships? For instance, how does WorldVital Records compare to Newspaperarchives, which has a less than pitiful record?ReplyDeleteReplies
Well on problem with that approach is the extreme variation in customer satisfaction with various websites based on the user's personal experience. I get the entire gamut of responses from people about every genealogy website. It is really hard to come to a consistent viewpoint. I field detractors of Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, MyHeritage.com and about every other website out there.Delete
On GenSoftReviews, a reviewer has just posted: "When I first started with MyHeritage I didn't know what I was doing. Thanks to the many features MyHeritage has I have been able to go back to about 840 AD with my family genealogy." Not my own experience with MyHeritage, though - not even close to 840 AD!!!!ReplyDelete
At the TXFannin GenWeb, we show up in Google searches because we have transcribed all of our 12,455 obits and any print images to make them accessible to screen readers and to search engines. We source all of our data and we research "inherited data" for which we do not have sources. We spend hours and hours researching and adding sources only to have you tell your readers not bother because we have so little of value to offer.ReplyDelete
You must realize the influence you carry in the genealogy community. I hope you realize the damage you have done to those of us who are really trying out here and will now have fewer site visitors based on your recommendation not to bother with us.
There are many USGenWeb sites as good as or better than mine. There are also many which could use some serious work but it is not fair to paint us all with the same brush. Many of us strive to be the "go to site" for initial research you describe. You've now made our efforts that much harder.
Suzie Henderson
I am so sorry I painted the entire USGenWeb with such a broad brush. As you point out, some of the sites are carefully documented. My mistake was lumping the USGenWeb in with RootsWeb. See my subsequent post.Delete


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Sunday, June 20, 2010
I'm going going, back back, to Cali Cali
Hey everyone, it's almost 1:00 am here in Boston. I had a good time. Even though the Dodgers were swept by the Red Sox, we had fun. Time to go back to California. I'm off to the airport in a couple of hours. No time to sleep. Need to get my stuff together. It was nice meeting a lot of Dodger fans. I'll have more when I get back home. Stay safe everyone.
2 comments:
- KempKershaw said...
Nice self-promotion haha.
Hope you convinced a few people to buy the shirt.
- June 20, 2010 at 10:51 PM
- matthew said...
im at our hotel in boston watching the laker parade thinking this will be the dodgers in late october!
- June 21, 2010 at 12:25 PM
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Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a bestselling author whose 25 books include "Late Edition: A Love Story" and "Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen."
(CNN) -- As rooms go, it's quite nice.
It's shaped like an egg. It has a well-tended garden a few feet out the door, and then an expanse of lawn leading to a fence.
It is certainly not the most ornate or luxurious room in the United States. Most five-star hotels have suites that out-glitter it. Any number of corporate CEOs boast offices that are larger and more lavishly outfitted.
But the Oval Office at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington has always been the object of a singular kind of yearning. Mitt Romney fervently wants to move into it in January; Barack Obama just as fervently wants not to move out. This fall's presidential campaign, which begins in earnest with the Republican National Convention this week, will determine whether it will be Romney or Obama who gets his wish.
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Campaigns go by so quickly, and unfold so feverishly, that the combatants can be excused for not dwelling on the fact that each successive occupant of the Oval Office is, by definition, a transient.
It's temporary work, the presidency, and the Oval Office is the traditional home of the most high-level temps in the world.
I've been looking at two pieces of Oval Office video, each mesmerizing, even astonishing, in its own way. Neither was originally intended for public consumption. Each stars a man who is in his final weeks -- or in one case final hours -- as president.
One of the men knows it. The other has no idea.
The first video consists of outtakes from an interview that Chet Huntley and David Brinkley of NBC News conducted with President John F. Kennedy on September 9, 1963. Huntley and Brinkley were at the apex of their fame and journalistic influence; their evening newscast, "The Huntley-Brinkley Report," was expanding from 15 to 30 minutes, and Kennedy had agreed to tape the Oval Office interview to launch the longer show.
The main interview had concluded. But on the tape, Kennedy tells Huntley and Brinkley that he is dissatisfied with some of the answers he gave them. He wants to do them over.
"There's one or two places we're a little ragged," he says to the newsmen.
And then, to be certain Huntley and Brinkley understand what he is asking for:
"Let's try and do it again and we'll see what comes out this time."
They accede; they redo the questions. And what comes across most strongly in the footage is the complete aura of command that Kennedy projects in that White House office. He appears filled with the Oval Office's inherent power and authority, and betrays not a smidgen of doubt that, for him, all of that will likely go on.
Neither Kennedy, nor Huntley and Brinkley, could have had any inkling that within 12 weeks he would be dead in Dallas, that the two newsmen would be covering his funeral, and that Lyndon Johnson, not he, would be sitting in this office. In the outtakes, Kennedy gives Brinkley advice on whether a new Cary Grant-Audrey Hepburn movie is worth seeing; Kennedy seems supremely at home and at ease in that room. Leaving it looks to be the furthest thing from his mind.
The other piece of videotape features a president who knows that, within 24 hours, he will be leaving the Oval Office, and the presidency, ahead of schedule.
Most of us have seen Richard Nixon's resignation speech from the evening of August 8, 1974. But, in the five minutes before he addressed the nation, there was some calibrating of lights and checking of sound levels. Nixon was in the chair behind his desk for that. And it was all being recorded.
Through the amalgam of overwhelming emotions that had to have been coursing through him -- he knew what he would be saying to the citizens of the United States a few minutes later -- Nixon grins. It is as if he does not want the technicians to see his anguish
To an assistant who, for purposes of lighting adjustments, is sitting in the president's chair behind the Oval Office desk as Nixon enters the room, Nixon says: "Hey, you're better lookin' than I am. Why don't you stay here?" To the person operating the television camera: "Have you got an extra camera in case the lights go out?"
It's banter, in a dark American hour. He sit behind his desk and says: "All Secret Service, are there any Secret Service in the room? Out."
He gets no response, and because the camera is focused on Nixon we don't see the Secret Service agents. But it is clear that they do not depart, because Nixon says in their direction:
"You don't have to stay, do you?"
"You're required to?"
"I'm just kidding you."
It is a difficult video to watch, because the moments are so raw. In its own way, it is even more revelatory than the resignation speech itself. Here is a man who worked all his life to make it to this room, and now he -- as Kennedy, in a very different context, did before him -- is leaving it earlier than he thought he would have to.
Kennedy and Nixon may be the stars of those videos, but the real star is the room itself -- it is the one aspect of the videos that is sustaining and permanent. Mitt Romney and Barack Obama will battle all fall for the symbolic key to that room, even while knowing that, in the end, it will stop being theirs.
Presidents depart; the Oval Office remains. Which may be at the heart of the lure that has made so many people over the centuries hunger to be there, for however brief or long a stay.
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Mike Jordan's '62 Nova
Mike Jordan got started early. By the time he was 12 years old, he already owned three cars and had begun learning car crafting from a neighbor who had a full shop. He helped build engines and worked on full restorations while also feeding his curiosity about how things worked, tearing apart household appliances such as vacuum cleaners and then putting them back together. A few years later, he hooked up with Mike Shelton, another mechanic who lived across the street and really got the youngster going.
"He had a 12-second El Camino," Jordan says. "Once he took me for a few rides in that thing, I was hooked."
In the early '80s, Shelton and Jordan built a small-block engine for one of Jordan's cars, a '63 SS Nova. It was originally a six-cylinder coupe (the SS version was nothing more than a trim level in those days), and Jordan added nitrous to the swapped-in V-8, backed it with a TH350 transmission and a Corvette posi rearend with 4.56 gears, and ran it on the street for several years. When he finally sold the car to a buddy, the seeds of a future project were already germinating in his mind. He decided he would one day own another Nova but would go for the ultimate setup with it: aluminum engine, supercharger, injection, wheeltubs-the whole shot.
Jordan gradually expanded his knowledge, learning about engines and transmissions as well as chassis and bodywork on a progression of GM vehicles he owned, including a '70 Chevelle, a '69 Chevy van, a '73 Vega panel wagon, an '88 Camaro, a '68 RS/SS Camaro, and a '75 Monte Carlo. He even served a stint as president of a car club in the San Francisco Bay area, and his interest in machinery eventually brought him to his career as a civilian mobile equipment mechanic working for the U.S. Navy at the Naval Construction Battalion Center in Port Hueneme, California, where he repairs heavy-duty pieces such as D8 Caterpillars. Always, though, he had that Nova in the back of his mind. One day, it leaped to the fore.
A friend of Jordan, a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership, called him to say he'd found the right car-a '62 that was a roller. Jordan traded emails with the owner and finalized the deal for $400 plus another $50 for the guy to deliver it to Jordan's home in Ventura, California. All Jordan wanted was the shell, doors, decklid, and hood, because he knew the '62 would undergo a full sheetmetal treatment.
He went to work on the car with Bill Bradley, another friend who owned a custom car business called BBS Services. Jordan and Bradley installed a full rollcage in the Nova and got everything ready for the sheetmetal job, but they couldn't find anybody who could do the work until Jordan met Lawrence Bryant, owner of Bryant Custom Fabrication. Bryant had built a beautiful '57 Chevy for another client in about a nine-month period, and that car ended up in a feature display at the SEMA show. Having come to the U.S. from New Zealand, Bryant had been the lead mechanic on two IndyCar teams and a fabricator, and finally opened his own business where he built customs as well as race cars. Jordan gave Bryant a list of what he wanted to do-the sheetmetal, floorpans, wheeltubs, whole front apron, and bumper mounts-and the two of them had it almost totally assembled in less than a year.
Top engine builder Ken Duttweiler ordered the engine block and did the initial machining, and the 427ci powerplant went together quickly. Jordan counted on Bradley and Bryant for help with much of the fabrication and powertrain work. When it came time to lay on the color, Jordan went for an eye-popping yellow, which was sprayed by Cal Custom in Camarillo, California. Jordan says the hardest part of the buildup was simply gathering all the parts and pieces-deciding what type of harness to use, how to mount the sheetmetal, and finding the correct alternator.
"It was a lot of detail," he says. "Every piece is hand-shaped and -formed, so we had to figure out what would clear, what would fit, and what would work. All that stuff was just mind numbing. As Bryant was building and fabricating, I was trying to stay ahead of the details."
The car has yet to receive a full race tune, but it did get a session on a chassis dyno. Even with only 6 pounds of boost and too much timing, a half-throttle run brought 450 hp and 780 lb-ft on pump gas. It was also one of the feature vehicles at the '08 SEMA show, where it received plenty of attention along with speculation about whether it was strictly a feature car or if it could run as well as it looked. Jordan plans to answer those questions in the near future when he takes the Nova to the track to complete his dream.
Tech Notes
What: '62 Chevrolet Nova
Owner: Mike Jordan
Hometown: Ventura, California
Duttweiler Performance machined the block and pistons, and the engine was assembled by Bill Bradley at BBS Services. The 428ci, Brodix 8b 1,000, CNC-machined aluminum block with a 4.125-inch bore houses a knife-edged Callies Stealth crankshaft with a 4.00-inch stroke. The crank spins 6-inch Oliver billet connecting rods pinned to dished Ross 8.5:1 pistons that are fitted with Speed-Pro chrome-moly rings.
McKenzie's Racing cylinder heads built the Chevy splayed-valve NASCAR heads with 50cc chambers. The heads are fitted with Manley stainless steel 2.20 intake and 1.60 exhaust valves actuated by Jesel 1.7 roller rocker arms over Comp Cams springs. The lifters are Comp Cams offset rollers, and the pushrods are custom-length Smith Bros. 3/8-inchers with titanium retainers and keepers. The camshaft is a Comp Cams billet roller that received a custom grind from Ken Duttweiler to provide 0.630-inch lift and 292-degree duration. The moving parts reside under a set of custom covers built by Bryant Custom Fabrications.
A 20 percent underdriven BDS 8-71 Stage 2 supercharger gets the air moving into a custom Hogan's Racing Manifolds intake. A set of 16 nozzles inject fuel into the plate at 30 psi. The fuel/air mix is lit by an MSD Digital 7-Plus ignition control and crank-trigger distributor through Crane 8mm sleeved Firewires. Spent fumes vent through a custom header set from Bryant Custom Fabrication.
The Brown's Transmission TH400 reverse-pattern automatic was built to handle a minimum of 1,000 hp and is fitted with a B&M trans cooler with an American 3,500-stall converter turning a custom steel driveshaft built by Coast Driveline Service. An extra-heavy-duty yoke makes the connection to an Art Morrison 9-inch housing around 4.11 Richmond gears that incorporate a Detroit Truetrac unit and spin a set of 33-spline Strange axles.
The Nova rides on a 2×3-inch boxed Art Morrison frame that is suspended by a Strange one-piece strut coilover front assembly and Alden coilovers fitted to a four-link setup with a Panhard bar at the rear. The front Mickey Thompson Sportsman tires measure 26×5-15 and are wrapped around Weld Racing 15×5 Alumastar wheels mated to a Morrison mechanical steering rack, and the monster 33×22.5-15 rear Hoosier ET drag tires ride on 15×15 Alumastars. The Wilwood discs, proportioning valve, and master cylinder are linked with stainless steel lines and fittings and incorporate a Hurst line-lock.
Brilliant! Bryant Custom Fabrications designed and fabricated all the body sheetmetal, and Cal Custom in Camarillo, California, smoothed and filled the layers before spraying House of Kolor Lime-Candy Yellow paint. The window holes were fitted with green glass from House of Glass.
From the headliner and door panels to the carpet, the interior is all custom by Gold Coast Auto Upholstery in Ventura, California. The Corbeau racing buckets were re-covered in leather. Deist cam-type black five-point harnesses and an Art Morrison 12-point 'cage secure the front occupants, and huge tubs dominate the rear. As with most of the interior sheetmetal, Bryant Custom Fabrications built the center console, which carries a Precision Performance air-type cable shifter and a switch panel by Auto-Rod Controls. The modified dash was fitted with Classic Instruments' All American oil, water, fuel, tach, and speed gauges, and the steering wheel is a Billet Specialties 15-inch Outlaw model.


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Lenovo, the Chinese-based company that bought out IBM's PC line and became the world's third-largest computer manufacturer, has become the first major PC company to preload Microsoft's Windows Live toolbar with their products.
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SHOW DESCRIPTION: Beginning November 10, GMA News and Public Affairs – the only four-time Peabody Award recipient in the country – unveils dynamic changes in its award winning newscasts, particularly in GMA7's primetime newscast 24 Oras, late-night news source Saksi and midday news bulletin Balitanghali on GMA News TV.
24 Oras' formidable and time-tested tandem of Mel Tiangco and Mike Enriquez will welcome veteran journalist Vicky Morales as their newest co-anchor. Joining forces, they become the triumvirate to beat on primetime news.
24 Oras has been a household name since 2004 when GMA News and Public Affairs launched what would be the Kapuso Network's flagship nationwide primetime newscast. The program has since served the need of viewers for non-biased and balanced news, and later even extended broadcast to include weekends.
Monday will also see the rebranding of GMA's regional newscasts into the 24 Oras brand, delivering the news in the distinct 24 Oras style all over the country.
Late-night news source Saksi, led by Arnold Clavio, meanwhile, will have Pia Arcangel on board as its newest co-anchor. Seasoned broadcast journalist Connie Sison, on the other hand, will take over as Raffy Tima's co-anchor in the leading midday newscast Balitanghali, which airs daily on GMA News TV.
Weekend news program 24Oras Weekend will still be headlined by Jiggy Manicad and Pia Arcangel, while Mariz Umali and Jun Veneracion anchor Balitanghali Weekend.
With new anchors on board, expect these fortified news programs to continue providing the public with balanced and unbiased news.
"These changes reflect our goal to inject a new dynamism to our newscasts, while still remaining true to our commitment to Serbisyong Totoo— the hallmark of GMA News and Public Affairs," says Senior Vice President for News and Public Affairs Marissa L. Flores.
24 Oras airs from Monday to Friday at 6:30PM and Saksi at 11:00PM, while 24 Oras Weekend airs at 5:30PM every Saturday and Sunday on GMA 7. Balitanghali, meanwhile, airs weekdays at 11:30AM. Balitanghali Weekend airs at 12nn on GMA News TV.
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