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1. Discuss and demonstrate the proper elements of a good motion picture. In your discussion, include visual storytelling, rhythm, the 180-axis rule, camera movement, framing and composition of camera shots, and lens selection.
2. Do the following:
a. In a three- or four-paragraph treatment, tell the story you plan to produce, making sure that the treatment conveys a visual picture.
b. Prepare a storyboard for your motion picture (This can be done with rough sketches and stick figures.)
c. Demonstrate the following motion picture shooting techniques.
1. Using a tripod
2. Panning a camera
3. Framing a shot
4. Selecting an angle
5. Selecting proper lighting
6. Hand-held shooting
d. Using motion picture shooting techniques, plan ONE of the following programs. Start with a treatment and complete the requirement by presenting this program to a pack or your troop, patrol, or class.
1. Film or videotape a court of honor and show it to an audience.
2. Create a short feature of your own design, using the techniques you learned.
3. Shoot a vignette that could be used to train a new Scout in a Scouting skill.
3. Do ONE of the following:
a. With your parent's permission and your counselor's approval, visit a film set or a television production studio and watch how production work is done.
b. Explain to your counselor the elements of the zoom lens and three important parts.
4. Find out about three career opportunities in moviemaking. Pick one and find out the education, training, and experience required for this profession. Discuss this career with your counselor. Explain why this profession might interest you.


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Did you know? ALDS Game 1: DET 3, OAK 2
A look at some notable facts and figures from the Detroit Tigers' 3-2 win over the Oakland Athletics in Game 1 of the American League Division Series at O.co Coliseum on Friday.
• This is Oakland's third consecutive postseason series against Detroit (2012 ALDS, '06 AL Championship Series), and the A's have lost all three series openers. The Athletics have lost eight of their last 10 playoff games.
• Max Scherzer (21-3) vs. Bartolo Colon (18-6) was just the second postseason matchup in the last 50 years to feature two starting pitchers with at least 15 wins and a .750 winning percentage, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
• Scherzer recorded a postseason career-high 11 strikeouts over seven innings in the win. He's 1-0 with a 1.46 ERA in two postseason starts against the Athletics.
• Colon is 0-8 with a 6.75 ERA over his last 15 games (14 starts) against Detroit. He hasn't beaten the Tigers since April 13, 2003.
• It was the first time Colon allowed three runs in the first inning since June 12, 2012, against the Rockies.
• Oakland's left fielder Yoenis Cespedes went 2-for-4 with a triple and a home run and has hit safely in all six postseason games in his career. He joins Rickey Henderson from Game 4 of the 1989 World Series as the only players in Athletics history with a triple and home run in a postseason game.
• The home run hit by Cespedes was his first career homer in the playoffs. Cespedes' triple was the first by an A's player in the postseason since Adam Melhuse in Game 4 of the 2003 ALDS.
• Detroit's pitchers struck out 16, a postseason franchise record. It was also a franchise postseason record for the A's offense.
• Tigers closer Joaquin Benoit earned his first career postseason save.
• According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Jose Iglesias became the first rookie to start at shortstop for the Tigers in a postseason game since Donie Bush in the 1909 World Series.
• There were 48,401 fans at O.co Coliseum, Oakland's largest baseball attendance since June 27, 2004.
• Colon is the oldest pitcher in A's history to start a playoff game at 40 years, 133 days.
• A's right fielder Josh Reddick had his first career postseason outfield assist and has now thrown out five runners over his last eight games.
• The Tigers are 24-4 this season when scoring at least three runs in games started by Scherzer.


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Talk of consolidating schools in the San Antonio Independent School District has been put on hold, but Superintendent Robert Durón has made it clear that the issue is not going away.
Durón announced earlier this week that he plans to assemble a second group of community members to continue studying the issue. This group would pick up where the Facility Advisory Committee appointed in January left off, and, in addition to considering school closure and consolidation, it would help develop a blueprint that sets minimum standards for all SAISD schools.
The group, Durón says, will help him define "state-of-the-art," a word he threw around a lot when trying to sell to the community his plan for consolidation last spring. He emphasized to advisory committee members that some of the district's 92 schools must be sacrificed so money can be directed to making the rest of the district's campuses "state-of-the-art."
Durón acknowledged last month that many people didn't know what he meant by "state-of-the-art." So, he's going to ask members of the task force to help him define the phrase by setting standards for what buildings and program offerings should look like at each elementary, middle and high school.
The Facility Advisory Committee, which had more than 30 members, was created to help the district decide which schools to close. Its purpose was to review the process administrators were going to use to come up with the closure recommendations.
Durón had planned to have two campuses closed by the beginning of this coming school year, and he even proposed closing the high-performing, but low-enrollment, Bowie Elementary School and Cooper Middle School. However, he put the brakes on that effort after committee and community protest.
This time around, the district plans to hire a professional facilitator to work with the taskforce, which could include anywhere from 15 to 50 community members, said Kamal ElHabr, the district's associate superintendent for facilities services. He will oversee the group. ElHabr said he hopes to have the taskforce in place, and a facilitator hired, by the end of the September. Recommendations would be ready in March, he said.
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Countless magicians achieved success commercially and with their peers - and accomplished this impressive feat by incorporating the classic effect - Linking Rings. One example that comes to mind it would be Viktor Voitko, who took this classic in a completely different direction - and the rest is history. Viktor and others have proven, "there can be something new with a 2,000-year-old trick."
This book has it all - everything you would ever want to know about the Linking Rings. Never before has there been a work that encompasses so much about this favorite classic. From its rich illustrious history, entertaining routines, and the showcasing of famous magicians who have built their world wide reputations using this effect.
There is even a chapter on "linking things" (that will serve as a mental spring board for magicians that want to create "their" reputation using this effect in novel and unique ways). There really is something for everyone in this book.
Here is a sampling of just some of the contributions and/or material provided from top magicians featured in this exciting book.
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Earlier in the week we told you about all the amazing fashion brands we went to see at the Acappella showrooms. Remember? Well we love our STELLAR readers so much that we are going to share with you a little secret. The lucky public can get their hands on some of the amazing designs we saw and at just a mere fraction of the rrp cost!
From Wed 6th-Sat 9th October in Citywest Hotel, Acappella will be holding a sample sale of their S/S10 and A/W10 must-have pieces. Brands included are Darling, Rare, St.Martins, S'nob, Culture, Yuki, Fever, Jarlo, Religion, People's Market, Supertrash, plus more, all selling at discount prices (how much has not been revealed).
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December 14, 2012
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch tweeted after the shooting in Connecticut. Here is what he said in the tweet:
Is it possible Murdoch meant "semi-automatic," not fully automatic? Did he mis-tweet or is he clueless about gun laws in the United States? (Murdoch was born in Australia and became a U.S. citizen in 1985. It seems his naturalization did not include the duty to understand the Second Amendment.)
Fully automatic weapons are highly regulated by the federal government in the United States. They are regulated under the National Firearms Act of 1934, the Gun Control Act of 1968, and the Hughes Amendment of 1986. In order to buy one, you must go through an extensive federal background check and obtain a permit from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms.
As you can imagine, this anti-gun federal agency doesn't hand out permits for automatic weapons very often.
A purchaser must go through a Class III dealer and pay a $200 transfer tax. The government restricts access to weapons manufactured before 1986. Rifles for sale are usually M16s that cost around $15,000.
It is a felony to have one of these weapons without government permission.
Rupert Murdoch may want to outlaw automatic weapons, but this would be rather pointless since there are so few of them in the hands of citizens – not legal ones, anyway.
In fact, comparatively speaking, there are a small number of semi-automatic weapons out there as well. Semi-automatic weapons account for about 15 percent of the more than 250 million privately owned firearms in the United States, according to the NRA.
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- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 1/4 cups (packed) golden brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup mild-flavored (light) molasses
- 3/4 cup stout (beer), flat, room temperature
- 3 cups chilled whipping cream
- 6 tablespoons powdered sugar
- 3 tablespoons minced crystallized ginger
- Orange slices, quartered
- Crystallized ginger slices
- Fresh cranberries
Recipe Preparation
For cake:
Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and flour two 9-inch-diameter cake pans with 2-inch-high sides. Sift first 6 ingredients into medium bowl; set aside. Using electric mixer, beat butter and brown sugar in large bowl until light and fluffy. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in molasses. Beat in flour mixture alternately with stout in 3 additions each (mixture may look curdled). Beat just until smooth. Divide batter between prepared pans; smooth tops.
Bake cakes until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 40 minutes. Cool cakes in pans on rack 10 minutes. Turn cakes out onto racks; cool completely. DO AHEAD Can be made 1 day ahead. Wrap in plastic; let stand at room temperature.
For frosting:
Using electric mixer, beat cream and powdered sugar in large bowl until peaks form. Fold in minced crystallized ginger. Place 1 cake layer on platter. Spread 2 cups frosting over top. Top with second cake layer. Spread remaining frosting over top and sides of cake. Arrange orange slices, ginger slices and cranberries on top. DO AHEAD Can be made 2 hours ahead. Chill. Let stand at room temperature 20 minutes before serving.


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Hours & Information
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is temporarily closed. We are closely monitoring the Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation and our first priority is the health and comfort of our visitors and staff. Learn more.
Museum hours
Monday - Tuesday
Friday- Sunday
Same-Day Admission
Same-day admission may be purchased at the lobby desk during gallery hours up to thirty minutes before the museum closes.
PAMM is closed for Christmas Day and Thanksgiving Day.
In the event of hurricanes, natural disasters or other emergencies, PAMM will close in accordance with Miami-Dade County offices.
Admission to PAMM
Children (6 and under)
Active U.S. Military (with ID)
Seniors (62+ with ID)
Students (with ID)
Youth (ages 7-18)
PAMM Student Pass
The PAMM Student Pass grants free admission to the museum for all students (pre-K-12th grade) currently attending Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS). Sign up
PAMM Free Second Saturdays
Admission is free every Second Saturday of the month. Explore the museum, learn something new and create art with friends and family during this fun-filled afternoon at the museum.
Free Educator Admission
All Florida K-12 educators with identification receive free admission to the museum.
Free First Thursdays
Admission is free every first Thursday, 10am-9pm.
Thursdays, 6-9pm
The museum is open every Thursday evening until 9pm. Check the calendar for a robust schedule of evening talks, performances and screenings.
Getting Here / Parking
PAMM is located at 1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL 33132 between the Arsht Center and the American Airlines Arena. From Biscayne Blvd., go east at 11th street. The museum is located at the far east side of Museum Park, between the Frost Science Museum and Biscayne Bay.
Paid self-parking is available in the museum garage during regular museum hours (space limited). Rates are $8 for the first hour and $4 for each additional hour. (Max daily rate of $40). Guests must take their tickets and pay at the stations located near the Knight Plaza elevator or at the bottom of the garage entry ramp. PAMM members receive a $4 discount on parking. Members must bring their ticket to the Visitor Services Desk for the discount validation before paying at the stations. Active PAMM membership required. Discount available for all PAMM membership levels and cannot be applied to parking for the guest of members. Parking subject to availability.
Visit Miami Parking Authority to find parking lot addresses, hours and rates.
Self-parking at the Omni garage is available (rates apply). Omni garage located at 1645 Biscayne Blvd.
Self-parking within Museum Park (not affiliated with PAMM) rates apply.
To visit PAMM via train, hop on the Brightline at the Ft. Lauderdale or West Palm Beach Brightline station. In Miami, arrive at the MiamiCentral Brightline station, and take advantage of free transportation. Walk one block south on NW 1st Ave., to the Wilkie D Ferguson Metromover station. Take the Omni Loop to Museum Park (10th stop) and arrive directly at PAMM.
Those looking to walk from the MiamiCentral Brightline station can enjoy a 15-minute stroll to the museum. Head east on NW 6th St. and turn left onto Biscayne Blvd. Walk north on Biscayne Blvd. to NE 11th St. and PAMM will be on the right hand side. Use code PAMMBL for 25% off your ride.
PAMM is directly adjacent to the Miami-Dade Metromover, Museum Park station. Take the Omni Loop train to Museum Park station, and arrive steps from the museum entrance. Visit Miami-Dade Transit to view a full map of stations and information.
Museum Park is serviced by several bus routes. Visit Miami-Dade Transit to view bus schedules, connections and transit directions.
Miami Trolley
Museum Park is serviced by the Biscayne trolley route, with a stop on Biscayne Boulevard, just north of NE 10 St. Visit Miami Trolley for a full list of route maps and information.
Bike racks on-site
There are several bike racks located around the museum, including eight in the on-site parking garage, four by the promenade and two by the plaza stairs.
Map to Bike Racks
A Citi Bike® station is located in Museum Park, steps away from PAMM's main entrance. The solar-powered bike sharing system consists of a fleet of specially designed, sturdy, very durable bikes that are locked into a network of docking stations sited at regular intervals around a city.
Taxis may drop off at the main entrance of the museum.
Visitor Policies
Bag Check
The Museum requires visitors to check backpacks of any size, shopping bags, handbags 9 x 14 inches (23 x 35.5 cm) or larger, laptops, and umbrellas. Free luggage storage is available to all museum visitors, as available. For groups of 6 or more visitors please contact visitor services at 305-375-3000 prior to your arrival. The museum reserves the right to refuse items and is not responsible for items held in the checkroom. All bags are subject to security inspection before entering the museum.
Only cellphone cameras are allowed in the galleries. You can check your camera with vistor services. Commercial photography and videography must be pre-arranged through email@example.com.
Please do not touch the artwork on display.
No smoking, food and drinks
Food and drinks are permitted only in the lobby and may not be carried into the galleries or other areas. Smoking is permitted in designated areas.
Sketching is permitted in the galleries (pencil only, no ink or paint) with sketchbooks no larger than 8 ½ x 11 inches (21.6 x 27.9 cm). No easels, stools, or sketching while sitting on the floor is permitted.
Baby strollers are permitted at all times, however oversized bags, food or drink accompanying stroller must be checked.
Photography and videography in progress
Please be aware that by entering this area, you consent to your voice, name and/or likeness being used, without compensation, in films and tapes to be used in any exploitation in any and all media, whether now known or hereafter devised, for eternity, and you release Pérez Art Museum Miami, its successors, assigns, and licensees from any liability whatsoever of any nature. Do not enter this area if you do not wish to be subject to the forgoing.
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is committed to making its programs and facilities accessible to all of our patrons. For additional information, questions, or any accommodation not mentioned below, please contact Visitor Services at 786 345 5662 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Click here for our Web Accessibility Statement.
ADA Accessible Entrance
An ADA accessible doorway is located to the right of our main lobby doors.
Courtesy Wheelchairs
All galleries and facilities are wheelchair accessible. Complimentary wheelchairs are available at the visitor services desk for the duration of your museum visit. Leaving a driver's license or ID is required.
Service Animals
The Americans with Disabilities Act defines a service animal as any guide dog, signal dog, or other animal individually trained to provide assistance to an individual with a disability. These service animals are welcomed in the museum galleries and terrace during museum hours. Pets or companion animals are welcome on our terrace only.
Parking spaces are available in the PAMM garage for vehicles with a clearance of 8'2" bearing valid DMV handicapped parking stickers or license plates on a first-come, first-served basis. For information on accessible spaces for vehicles more than 8 feet tall, please contact Visitor Services at 786 345 5662 or email@example.com.
There are elevators from the ground-level parking garage up to the museum's entrance and lobby. Additional elevators take you to the second and third floor from within the museum. The group entrance to the right of the main doors is most easily accessible in a wheelchair. The following are accessible entrances (no steps or stairs):
Drop off at North side of museum: Visitors may be dropped off on Museum Drive. Crosswalk is accessible by staying left at the fork after turning east on 11th Street. Take elevator to Knight Plaza.
From Parking Garage: Take elevator from ground level parking to the museum's main entrance at level one.
From Metromover station: A plaza elevator is available. Take elevator from ground level to the museum's main entrance at level one.
Group and Accessible Entrance: The group entrance door is located to the right of the main entrance and an assist system is available.
Access Programs
Assistive listening devices (ALD) are available free of charge at the visitor services desk in the lobby. For sign language interpretation, CART or printed matter in an alternative format, please contact Visitor Services at 786 345 5662 or firstname.lastname@example.com at least two weeks in advance of your visit. Shorter notice will be accommodated whenever possible.
For information about access programs, including touch tours and audio tours, contact PAMM's education department at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 786 345 5643.
*Due to science museum construction, the south promenade/driveway may be blocked. Anyone visiting the museum that needs assistance should contact Visitor Services at 786 345 5662 or firstname.lastname@example.com for arrival instructions.
*Due to science museum construction, the south promenade/driveway may be blocked. Anyone visiting the museum that needs assistance should contact visitor services at 786 345 5662 or email@example.com for arrival instructions.
Personal Care Assistants
No admission fee will be charged for any paid Personal Care Attendant (PCA) accompanying a visitor with disabilities. A request for complimentary admission for a PCA should be made at the time the visitor with disabilities purchases their ticket. Please contact Visitor Services at 786 345 5662 or email@example.com.


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The library offers many programs for Teens!
Contests! Part of our programming includes two annual contsts. Throughout the summer reading program we accept entries to our Bookmark Design Contest. And during the winter, we accept entries for our Digital Photo Contest, which takes place in March during Teen Tech Week.


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Atlanta, GA – For the 19th straight year, MAXIM returned to the biggest weekend in sports with their highly-anticipated and star-studded Maxim Big Game Experience. This year, Future, Jamie Foxx and Diplo headlined the musical set with additional performances by Yo Gotti, Zaytoven and DJ Ruckus on Saturday, Feb. 2 across 19,000 square feet of event space at The Fairmont in Atlanta. This iconic evening paid homage to Atlanta royalty […]


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I've been wanting to write a tribute to my mother now for quite some time, so when it was announced that the topic of this edition of the Carnival of Genealogy was mothers, I was thrilled. But then "something" came up, as usual. Blogging, and life in general, has been non-existent for the last two weeks because I've been sick. As in feeling-awful, missing-work, doctors-don't-have-a-clue, everyone-please-stay-away-from-me sick. But I also had what you might call writer's block caused by the subject matter, not my clogged brain – what do I write about that sums up my mother and how much she means to me?
It's not that there's a lack of material – there's so much to say! Do I write about how I almost lost her (that is, she almost died) three times in my life – including the day I was born? Or how she taught me everything I know about my faith in God? Or how her beliefs and illnesses shaped my views on health? Or how she's without a doubt the World's Greatest Cook? Or about her extreme generosity? Or her talents as a dancer? Or her unfulfilled dreams that could have used her other talents? Do I talk about how she met my dad? Or how hard it was for her to simply become a mother and the sicknesses she endured after giving birth?
I simply have too much to say about my mother, but I felt too sick these past two weeks to say any of it. I even missed Mother's Day itself last week. But the COG deadline is today, and I am finally feeling better. I realized I can fully introduce my readers to my wonderful mother with one simple story. While I was home sick, she brought me chicken soup. Twice. I'm not talking about that stuff they call "soup" that comes in a can – no, this is the real deal as only my mother (and deceased grandmother) could make it. Oh. So. Good. I've tried to duplicate this magic; I've failed. To put this act of charity in perspective, I'm not a child sick in my room upstairs. She's 73 years old, but she drove twenty minutes to come to my house (dragging along my dad, also recovering from a bad cold). She came because she knew it was the only thing that would help me get better. And it did.
But I have a theory on that…I don't think my cure came 100% from that delicious chicken soup. No, not entirely. I have no doubt it came from my mom's love. You see, she's my chicken soup for my soul. Who could ask for anything more?
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I'm getting these linker errors and I've been trying for a while now to fix them to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
LocalizeRC.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: __thiscall CLocalizeRCDlg::CLocalizeRCDlg(class CWnd *)" (??0CLocalizeRCDlg@@$$FQAE@PAVCWnd@@@Z)
libcmt.lib(crt0.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _main referenced in function _mainCRTStartup
LocalizeRC.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 2 unresolved externals
My declaration is in a .h file as follows:
Code:// CLocalizeRCDlg dialog class CLocalizeRCDlg : public CDialog { // Construction public: CLocalizeRCDlg(CWnd* pParent = NULL) //standard constructor
and the definition is in my .cpp file:
Code:// CLocalizeRCDlg dialog CLocalizeRCDlg::CLocalizeRCDlg(CWnd* pParent /*=NULL*/): CDialog(CLocalizeRCDlg::IDD, pParent) , m_bCopy(FALSE) , m_nObsoleteItems(0) , m_strWorkspace(_T("")) , m_strEdit(_T("")) , m_strTextmode(_T("")) , m_bNoSort(FALSE) , m_strInputRC(_T("")) , m_strLangINI(_T("")) , m_strOutputRC(_T("")) , m_strAbout(_T("")) { // last used Workspace from registry m_strWorkspace = AfxGetApp()->GetProfileString( SEC_LASTPROJECT, ENT_WORKSPACE ); }
If i move the definition to the .h file as well then the error LNK2001 above is no longer a problem. However then the project can't link with other definitions and they come up as LNK2001 errors. I don't want to move all my definitions in the .cpp file to the .h file if possible.
As for the libcmt.lib(crt0.obj) : error LNK2019 ... I've no idea why that is coming up so any help with that would also be great.
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MagicFest Brisbane 2019 - MagicFest Brisbane 2019 - Constructed Fanatic Package (Package)
MagicFest Brisbane 2019 - Constructed Fanatic Package has a registration fee of A$150.00. Registration online closes on Thursday @ 21:00
This package includes the following items:
- 2 Double Up Event Vouchers
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- Exclusive 2019 MagicFest Fanatic Lightning Bolt Playmat
- Exclusive 2019 MagicFest Foil Lightning Bolt Promo
- Deck Box
- Set of 5 2019 MagicFest Foil Basic Land Promos
When you register for this package you will be able to pickup vouchers and additional items can be picked up from the customer service booth on-site.
Vouchers good for Fanatic-eligible Constructed tournaments. (more information on eligible tournaments). Double up vouchers can be used for any Constructed Fanatic Event. Regular Vouchers can be used Fanatic eligible events except for Double Ups
This price is for online pre-order only. Onsite or same-day price will be 40$AUD more.
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Spring is the busy season for purchasing a home, and now may be a good time to look into the effects of changing interest rates. My name is Jance , and I'm your local Austin Financial Center Lending Officer. I'm here to help you finance your home, whether you're considering purchasing a home, refinancing your current one or applying for a home equity line of credit. If you have any questions, reach out and I'll be happy to help.


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Autism Conference: Lighting The Way set for June 10-11
SIOUX FALLS, SD – Lighting The Way: Autism Spectrum Disorders in our Community will be held at Augustana College on June 10-11.
This year's conference features Dr. Cathy Pratt, director of the Indiana Resource Center for Autism at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, and Dr. Stephen Shore, who was viewed as "too sick" to be treated on an outpatient basis and recommended for institutionalization.
The Walk Now For Autism will be held Saturday, June 12, from 8:30 a.m. to noon on the Augustana campus and Kirkeby-Over Stadium. For more information, contact Jennifer Miller at 605.376.5959.
A preconference session is scheduled for June 9 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The theme is Positive Behavioral Supports.
The conference registration deadline is June 1. There are 35 breakout sessions covering education, medical, and adolescent and adult topics. Register online at www.augie.edu/autism.
Autism is a complex neurobiological disorder that typically lasts throughout a person's lifetime. It is a group of disorders known as Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Today, one in 88 individuals is diagnosed with autism and it occurs in all racial, ethnic, and social groups. Autism presents challenges in communication skills and the ability to relate to others.
Educators, parents, social workers, counselors, therapists, adult service providers, and business and community members are encouraged to attend the two-day conference. Sessions will be held in Gilbert Science Center, located on the corner of 33rd Street and Summit Avenue on the Augustana campus.
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Dr. Cathy Pratt serves as Chair of the Board for the national Autism Society and has been honored by the Autism Society of America with the Individual Achievement Award, the 2005 Princeton Fellowship Award, and various awards through NYFAC (New York Families for Autistic Children, Inc.), including recognition from the United States House of Representatives. In 2008, she was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Indiana Council of Administrators of Special Education. She is a writer and national presenter on a variety of topics related to autism spectrum disorders. She is a board certified behavior analyst.
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One of the biggest international stories over recent years has been the economic miracle happening in China, with Shanghai as the epicenter. While the city's rapid development is quickly apparent in the shiny new skyline, ambitious urban projects, the fancy cars, the luxury shopping districts and grand pleasure palaces, its cultural development has lagged behind. Live music usually means pop cover bands at hotel bars.
There have been several attempts to remedy this, but rising rents means proper live music venues haven't been able to compete with the new glamour discos. Local bands with coherent focus are rare, because there hasn't been much opportunity or space to play out.
With foreign and local brands, especially international beverage companies, eager to capture the expanding market here, there are scores of sponsored events every week. A popular formula is to bring in jet-set DJs listed on the Top 100 list, but this has been done so much over the past five years – with several every week – that it's become a blur, and consumers are starting to ignore it.
In 2007, there's been a movement towards live music, as sponsors like Bacardi, Converse and Chevrolet have supported international acts like Linkin Park, Faithless and Talib Kweli. The year also saw acts from America and Europe coming in unprecedented numbers – Beyoncé, Sonic Youth, Avril Lavigne, The Go! Team, Roger Waters, Ziggy Marley – while Beijing hosted Public Enemy and Nine Inch Nails.
Perhaps the most visible evidence of Shanghai's maturing live music scene was the Yue Festival held on October 5, 2007. With approximately 4,000 attendees packed into a grassy downtown park, Yue Festival was the first music festival in Shanghai to feature an eclectic line-up of local rock bands, traditional folk music from China's Muslim minority, along with multi-cultural super group Ozomatli, American hip-hop star Kweli, and British dance-pop darlings Faithless. In the tradition of outdoor music festivals around the world, Yue brought together music fans of all kinds, and had the usual side attractions – from yoga demos and charity volunteers to independent crafts-makers and theater groups.
At the same time, local rock bands like Banana Monkey, who had been playing for cheap at small venues, are now hired to play corporate gigs and are getting picked up in international media.
It remains to be seen how far this newfound appreciation for live music will go, but at this rate it looks like 2008 will see the trend mature – more foreign bands coming here for the first time, and local bands getting a larger stage. Last year China was still a curiosity for foreign music acts; next year it might become part of the standard global tour circuit.
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The "Teen Mom" and "Couple's Therapy" star, 22, became an X-rated sensation last year following the DVD release of a graphic sex session with porn star James Deen.
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Corrosion and oxidation are being repaired in the signal relay room the South Ferry subway station in lower Manhattan, devastated by flooding in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. The station is being repaired with damage done to all components of the infrastructure, especially the electrical system.
When the gleaming South Ferry subway terminal in Lower Manhattan opened in 2009, it came with a vast concourse filled with public art installations of wrought iron and smoked glass, polished white walls—and a hefty $500 million price tag.
The cost of rehabilitating it from the devastating effects of Hurricane Sandy? At least $600 million—though a full assessment of the damage hasn't even been done yet.
"It's a complete gut job," said MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz. "Every component of the station needs to be replaced."
As communities rebuild and residents return to their homes, dozens of workers at the South Ferry station are taking the very first steps toward getting the station back online, starting with scrubbing mold from virtually every surface. Before the storm, 30,000 people passed through South Ferry each day, shuttling between Staten Island and Manhattan and around the labyrinthine streets of New York's financial district.
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Joseph Leader (top) of the MTA shines a flashlight on standing water inside the South Ferry 1 train station in lower Manhattan on Oct. 31, in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. Six months later, Leader (bottom) descends the stairs toward the track in the same station.
Now, the stillness of the station is unsettling. The 90-foot platform sits empty, with strings of construction bulbs lighting two tracks and tunnel walls still covered with debris and dirt from the storm. Drywall and tiles have been ripped up by construction workers to expose the film of mold that quickly built up in the dark, humid space after the storm hit six months ago. The air is thick and pungent.
But the greatest damage inflicted from Sandy is not visible. The salty ocean water that flooded the station eighty feet below street level corroded nearly every piece of equipment in the space, adding considerably to the cost of recovery.
Over 700 relay components – devices critical to the signaling systems of trains – were destroyed. A separate room of signaling equipment at the end of the platform flooded to the ceiling and is now a "complete loss," said Joseph Leader, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's chief maintenance officer, who is overseeing the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the station.
Leader was actually the first person to see the damage from Sandy's storm surge. On the morning after the storm passed late last October, Leader entered the station and saw "just a trickle" of water coming down the stairs, he said.
"I thought our barriers held and that we were doing good," he said, referring to the makeshift barricades –sandbags and plywood -- the MTA constructed at the street-level entrances of certain exposed stations.
But as Leader ventured further, he realized the surge had breached the main station entrance. "Water was coming up the steps at me from the platform level, lapping at my feet," he said. The entire subway "tube" was filled to the brim; 14 million gallons of seawater had to be pumped out before officials could even get a look at the destruction.
South Ferry was designed to be the last stop on a busy line that follows Broadway as it snakes through Manhattan as well as a connector to another main subway artery and the Staten Island Ferry. The original station, which opened in 1905, was much maligned for a layout quirk that only allowed five of ten subway cars to open at the platform; inattentive straphangers who neglected to move to one of the cars with open doors were forced to take the "loop" back uptown one stop to exit.
While the new South Ferry station addressed many of the engineering problems that existed at the old station, the possibility that a 14-foot storm surge could take it offline in the span of a few hours was not accounted for.
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The subway map, with mold spreading up from the bottom, can be seen on the platform after being under water at the damaged South Ferry subway station in lower Manhattan. The station is being repaired with damage done to all components of the infrastructure, especially the electrical system.
The MTA says it is now "considering all options" that would mitigate the effects of a similar or even lesser surge as it rebuilds South Ferry, along with other vulnerable parts of its city-wide network (Sandy also wiped out an entire above-ground section of a subway line in the Rockaway section of Queens that is yet to be reopened).
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo laid some of these ideas out in his State of the State speech earlier this year, calling for subway stations to adopt "closing vents…roll down doors… inflatable bladders," and repeating his refrain that "there is a 100 year flood every two years now" as reason to invest in infrastructure improvements.
One of the options under consideration involves letting subway tunnels and stations flood in a storm – but only after workers have removed valuable pieces of equipment and taken them to higher ground. This use of "modular infrastructure" allows critical gear to be packed up like suitcases and brought to higher ground so it can be "plugged right back in" after the pumps have removed the water from tunnels and stations, Leader said.
"Can you stop every ounce of water that comes into the system? Theoretically yes," Leader said. "But is it feasible? Probably not."
Footing the bill, at least in part, will be the feds. The MTA has received $1.2 billion to date in federal funding as part of the $51 billion Sandy relief bill signed by President Obama in January. It is asking for billions more (the total hit to New York's transit system from Sandy is estimated to be $5 billion). The MTA plans a bifurcated approach to how that money is spent: partially for repairs to damaged infrastructure in places like South Ferry, and partially toward making long-term improvements that would harden and protect the system in future storms.
"As we work to bring our system back to normal, we must also make the necessary investments to protect this 108-year old system from future storms. We must rebuild smarter. The South Ferry subway station is a perfect example," said MTA Chief Executive Thomas Prendergast.
Nicole Gelinas, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute who specializes in urban economics and infrastructure, cautions that federal money is "apt to disappear quickly in cost overruns" and that the MTA should carefully examine precisely how it can apply the aid to projects that will keep the system from suffering catastrophic damage in the next storm, and not on "complex and untested mitigation efforts" that may not work.
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Joseph Leader of MTA holds an example of cable damaged by sea water in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, typical of damage found at South Ferry subway station.
"Otherwise, this 'free money' from the feds doesn't end up being free at all, and taxpayers end up on the hook," Gelinas said.
The MTA recently reopened the old South Ferry station, which was entombed next to the new terminal after its grand opening four years ago – the first time the authority has ever brought a decommissioned station back into use, Leader said. Engineers knocked down a wall between the two stations to allow passengers to get to the old platform area through the new entrance. It's a way to reestablish subway service to the area, however imperfect. "We're building a new station within a new station," Joe Leader said. "It's going to take a while."
Until that monumental task is completed, commuters in Lower Manhattan will need to reacquaint themselves with a once-familiar phrase thought to be relegated to history:
"You must be in the first five cars to exit at South Ferry."
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A bald eagle that the Houston SPCA said was shocked by electricity earlier this week was euthanized on Thursday morning.
According to Angela Clendenin, spokesperson for the Texas A&M veterinary hospital, the eagle, which was found severely injured in a Pearland yard, had to be put down per federal guidelines.
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Seniors Julie Vander Wiel (Malone, N.Y.) and Mark Talamo (Oswego, N.Y.) received the Nicole Fleury Memorial Leadership Award and Alden Chadwick Memorial Leadership Award respectively at the Roos' year-end student-athlete picnic.
The awards are named in honor of Nicole Fleury, a former standout basketball and soccer player who tragically lost her life in a car accident during her senior season, and Alden Chadwick, who spent 30 years at SUNY Canton, the last 15 as athletic director. The awards are given to a female and male student-athlete each year who inspire others and who exemplify strong leadership qualities and sound character.
Vander Wiel was a four-year member of the women's basketball team and this past fall ran on the women's cross country team. On the court she played in 91 career games and scored 515 points, grabbed 304 rebounds, made 48 steals and handed out 38 assists. The legal studies major has received an academic achievement award from the athletic department for four straight years. She was a three-time Sunrise Conference scholar-athlete and an Outstanding Scholar Athlete award winner during her junior year for achieving the highest grade-point average among all women's basketball players in the conference. Vander Wiel earned a place on the President's Honor List in four semesters and the Dean's List in another and is a member of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. In 2009 she received the Make a Difference Award for her outstanding effort and commitment to all of the athletic department's community service projects. This year Vander Wiel received the prestigious Chancellor's Award for Excellence and a Chancellor's Scholar-Athlete Award from New York State.
"Without a doubt Julie has made an incredible positive stamp on our department, the women's basketball program and the college," said athletic director Diane Para. "Anyone looking for the true meaning of a student-athlete and all the desirable attributes one would want associated with the term only needs to look as far as Julie."
Talamo, who received the award for a second time, was a four-year member of the men's ice hockey team. During his tenure he has been a Region 3 all-star, a Region 3 Scholar-Athlete, an NJCAA Academic All-American, an ACHA Academic All-American, and an Eastern Collegiate Hockey League academic all-star. The business administration major has made the Dean's List in each of his past seven semesters, has received an academic achievement award from SUNY Canton for four years and is a member of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. He joined the 100-point club this season and finished his career with 40 goals and 70 assists while being whistled for just 14 total penalties during his career. This season Talamo, and teammate Scott Zaryski, were two of 40 players chosen to compete in the ACHA Division-1 all-star game.
"What was said about Mark when he first won the award two years ago holds true even more today," said Para. "He is absolutely the kind of young man that Al would have loved and bragged about time and time again. Mark is a model of maturity and politeness and has the type of behavior we want all of our student-athletes to be known for."
"We have been blessed to have both Julie and Mark in our athletic family for four years and we will miss them dearly," added Para.
Former athletic staff assistant Jerry Sawyer, who went back to a management position in the physical plant, was named the Athletic Staff Member of the Year by the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
Senior Dominic Creazzo (Massena, N.Y.) of the baseball team and freshman Abbey Shoen (Waddington, N.Y.) of the women's basketball team received this year's Make a Difference Awards for their outstanding contributions to the department.
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Managers Who Don't Get the Value of Emergent Collaboration Have No Strategic Compass
By Jacob Morgan on November 21, 2011
In our "State of Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration Report" we found something interesting when we looked at manager resistance to these new tools and strategies. Some of the top reasons for manager resistance included uncertainty of tangible ROI and uncertainty of overall value of how emergent collaboration can meet business objectives. Fair enough right? But then we looked […]
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Scout families deliver petition on no-gay policy
IRVING, Texas (AP) — Scouts and their families have delivered a petition to the Boy Scouts national headquarters in Texas urging the organization to end its policy excluding gay scouts and leaders.
They say the petition delivered Monday in Irving includes 1.4 million signatures.
Jennifer Tyrrell was among the dozen who delivered the petition as the Boy Scouts of America meets this week to consider ending its ban on gays.
She says she doesn't want to see any more parents treated in the manner she was. Tyrrell says she was forced out as leader of her son's Cub Scout pack because she's gay.
She says the policy is "archaic" and needs to change.
The families were waiting for a representative of Boy Scouts of America to come and accept their petition.


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The Meg Whitman housekeeper story is the most interesting political story in California this week. It isn't the most important.
That distinction belongs to Gov. Schwarzenegger's decision to sign bills establishing the first health insurance exchange in the country. Such exchanges are supposed to be web-based marketplace where individuals and businesses can purchase policies. These state exchanges are a crucial part of the major federal legislation passed earlier this year. States can either choose to set them up themselves or let the federal government do it for them. Consumers will be able to buy from such exchanges beginning in 2014.
By choosing to go forward, California is seizing the opportunity to shape the future. But there are risks to going first. The establishment and design of the exchange here deserves rigorous scrutiny, particularly on difficult questions related to cost. If California can figure out a way to make health insurance better and cheaper, it will have done itself, and the country, a service.


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Students are invited to attend a 19th Century party as a character from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. To play this role, students must understand the values and customs Dickens' characters represented in Victorian society. This lesson is divided into three stages: Group Investigative Roles, Individual Characterizations, and Individual Presentations. Students collaboratively research the life and times of Charles Dickens as it relates to a character, and write and present a first-person character analysis.
Party Planner: This handout, used for planning a Victorian-themed party, can be used to plan a variety of literature themed parties.
This lesson blends the interactive strategies of Bernie Dodge's WebQuest Taskonomy with the reading and writing character workshops outlined in Donald Graves' book, Bring Life into Learning. This lesson can be used to teach characterization, elements of drama, and presentation skills. It engages students in cooperative learning, note taking, and roleplaying activities. Students research print and nonprint sources, and search selected Internet sites in an effort to understand the motives, actions, and symbolism of Dickens' characters. The researched information is synthesized into a first-person character analysis.
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Graves, Donald. 1999. Bring Life into Learning. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Dodge, Bernie. 2002. "WebQuest Taskonomy: A Taxonomy of Tasks." The WebQuest Page. Web. http://webquest.sdsu.edu/taskonomy.html. Accessed October 28, 2003.
O'Day, Shannon. 2001. "Creative Drama through Scaffolded Plays in the Language Arts Classroom." Primary Voices 9.4 (April): 20-25.


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If you're looking for a good barometer of enterprise interest in Research In Motion's forthcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system, the company's BlackBerry 10 Ready Program is one place to check.
With its offers of free BB10 training and the opportunity to easily upgrade existing BlackBerry Enterprise Server licenses, the program was designed to woo RIM's bread-and-butter customers to its new platform. And it appears to be doing just that.
RIM says that more than 1,600 businesses in North America have registered for BlackBerry 10 Ready since it was announced in December — among them, government agencies, Fortune 500 companies and universities. And, according to Bryan Lee, senior director of enterprise accounts at RIM, BlackBerry Enterprise Server 10 is currently in beta testing with some 130 major government agencies and corporations.
"We are very enthused by the engagement and response of our customer base," Lee told Reuters. "In terms of verticals and segments, we are seeing good activity levels across all of our segments from small- and mid-market to large enterprises."
That's encouraging news, and it bodes well for RIM, which is struggling to regain traction in the enterprise market it once dominated. The company is scheduled to debut its first BlackBerry 10 device at an event on Jan. 30.


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Proper Distributor Installation Practices- It's An Install Thing
Proper Distributor Installation Practices To Help Your Distributor And Cam Live Longer
There's no doubt that plenty of racers feel the ignition system is the area of the engine that gives them the most trouble. Is the timing right? Am I getting enough spark to the combustion chambers at high rpm? Is everything wired correctly?
Yes, the electrical part of the ignition system can be difficult and confusing at times, but don't allow your focus on the electrical component to cause you to ignore the mechanical component when it comes to keeping your distributor working the way it should. In many cases, quality racing distributors come from their manufacturers practically "plug and play." For example, the internal bushings that hold the shaft steady are already lubricated. But one thing that no distributor manufacturer can do for you is make sure you have the proper mesh between the distributor and cam gears. Racers spend a lot of time and money ensuring their ring-and-pinion gears mesh as perfectly as possible, so doesn't your distributor gear deserve a little more respect than simply slamming the unit in place and tightening up the hold-down clamp?
Wear Versus DestructionThe gear that drives the distributor lives in a very difficult environment. First, in stock form, the only oil that lubricates the spinning cam and distributor gears gets there by the practically random splash effect. Second, in a wet-sump engine, the oil pump is driven off the distributor shaft. That means the resistance that the distributor gear applies as the cam gear tries to turn it comes not only from spinning the distributor shaft, but also the oil pump. If you are running a high-volume oil pump or racing on cold motor oil, this can cause tremendous pressure on the system. Even if you don't run a high-volume pump, the tight bearing tolerances used to increase oil control and high rpm levels seen in modern racing engines still cause the pump to work very hard and put extra resistance on the distributor gear.
Finally, a distributor gear has a tough life because it's designed to be sacrificed if things go wrong. It's a lot easier to pull the distributor and replace a worn gear than it is to replace the camshaft, so the distributor gear should always be made of a softer material than the cam gear. If you are racing a hardened flat-tappet camshaft, an iron distributor gear should be fine, but if you are racing a roller cam, you need to go with a bronze gear. Whichever type you run, the softer distributor gear also wears some during engine break-in to help the two gears mesh properly. Some racers fear that a bronze gear will wear too quickly and is undependable, but if the distributor is installed correctly, it will last a full season under even the worst racing abuse, and the particles that are worn off the gear are so fine that they do not hurt the engine.
Determining DepthThe Chevy V-8 is, by all accounts, a fantastic engine design, but it also has its quirks. One is that the distributor mounts to the intake manifold. This means the distributor's installed height is determined by the height of the intake's distributor mounting boss. In stock form, this isn't a problem, but many modifications can be made to the engine in search of power-such as decking the block for a higher compression ratio, as well as decking or angle milling the heads-and all can require cutting the intake to fit and change the height relative to the camshaft. This isn't as much of a problem on Ford engines, where the distributor shaft collar seats against the engine block and not the intake.
When this happens, it raises the possibility that the distributor will bottom out on the camshaft gear and oil pump driveshaft. The same problem can also arise (no matter what type of engine you are building) if you use a replacement oil pump driveshaft that's longer than necessary. This puts extra pressure on the entire system and causes destructive wear on the cam and distributor gears, and the pressure can even be transmitted down to the oil pump and bind that up, too.
Steve Davis of Performance Distributors says checking for proper distributor gear depth is critical, especially on Chevy engines, but it isn't that difficult to do. "When you install a distributor, you need to check to make sure it isn't bottomed out," he says. "You can do this by installing the distributor in the engine without any gaskets. If you haven't already, pull the cap and rotor so you can reach the top plate for the main shaft where the advance weights connect.
"With one hand, hold the distributor firmly against the intake and use the other hand on the top plate to see if there is any up-and-down movement. Make sure you do not grab the reluctor because this slides on the shaft and will always have movement. If you can move the distributor shaft up and down a few thousandths, you should be OK. Put the gasket on, set your timing, and you are good to go. If you don't have any movement, you need to shim the distributor to get it up some so it won't be bottomed out."
Performance Distributors-and most reputable distributor manufacturers, for that matter-sells a nylon shim kit to help you achieve the correct distributor height for your engine. Davis warns against simply stacking gaskets on top of each other to get the correct height. Over time, the gaskets will compress and the gear mesh problem you thought you had fixed will return. Also, as the distributor gear wears, you want to see a nice even wear pattern centered vertically on the gear.
Cam PlayIf you have your distributor depth set correctly and still notice undue gear wear, it could be because your camshaft is "walking" inside the block. A better term for this is "camshaft runout." It happens when the cam moves back and forth, from front to back, in the block. Davis says camshaft runout is most common when using a lightweight stamped steel timing cover that will flex and not hold the cam in place. When this happens, it sends a shock wave through the gears and up the distributor shaft and can disrupt engine timing. Signs that this is happening in your engine will be excessive wear on one side of the distributor gear, excessive play in the distributor shaft from worn bushings, and possibly damage to the cam. Fortunately, the remedy for this problem is also simple. Davis recommends investing in a sturdy machined timing cover and using a cam button to precisely locate the cam's position in the block and hold it there.
Advance WarningsDavis also cautions about ignoring the mechanical advance mechanism in your distributor. Performance Distributors customizes the advance curve in every distributor for the specific engine that it will be going into, and it is usually correct, right out of the box. But the system of weights and springs that make up the advance mechanism can wear and cause timing problems, so they do require periodic attention.
One area that is prone to wear that you might not expect at first is the top plate, where the pins serve as hinges for the advance weights. The movement of the weights can wear the pins over time and cause the advance curve to change. Davis says the chance for pin wear increases if the effects of camshaft runout is sending shock waves up the distributor.
The easiest and often most practical way to determine if your distributor is suffering from wear or other problems is simply to put a timing light on your balancer. If you check your engine's timing and notice it is erratic or changes shortly after you set it, then there is definitely a problem somewhere that must be fixed. You should first check for wear at the mechanical advance pins, the distributor gear, and the distributor shaft bushings. You will be surprised by how quickly you can spot problems and pinpoint the specific source of those problems with the right information.
Not all of the great tips for reducing distributor gear wear come from the distributor manufacturers. Crane Cams also offered this tip for improving the lubrication between the camshaft and distributor gears on Chevrolet engines. As we mentioned earlier, the only oiling for the gears in stock engine trim comes from what's splashing around inside the block. But Crane has come up with a simple way to provide the gears a fine jet of pressurized oil.
According to Crane: ". . . the bottom of a Chevrolet distributor housing can be modified to spray pressurized oil onto the distributor drive gear. The extra lubrication will reduce distributor gear and camshaft gear wear. This is especially important when the gear is used to drive non-standard accessories, such as a high-volume oil pump or a magneto that puts additional loads on it and the cam. Simply file a small vertical groove 0.030 inch wide by 0.030 inch deep on the bottom machined band (immediately above the gear). This can be accomplished by using the side edge of a file. Pressurized oil running between the two bands will be directed downward onto both the gear and the cam."
This idea sounds like a great one because it is simple, easy, won't cause much pressure loss in the rest of the engine, and will work with both iron and bronze gears.
It is possible to determine correct distributor depth with nothing more than a set of shims and a steady hand, but if you want to be a little more precise or build several engines a year, this will be useful to you. Goodson, a top supplier of engine building tools, recently began offering a tool designed to measure correct distributor gear depth.
Known simply as a distributor depth gauge (PN DDG-05), this tool allows you to precisely measure the distance from the distributor seating flange on the intake to the oil pump driveshaft and then match the measurement to your distributor. The design is elegantly simple and, in our experience, works quite well.


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It's "inning" time! That time of the year when someone famous, and gay, dies and the media cures him. Today's patient, former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, who has just died.
Koch was gay.
But you might not know it from the huge, 9-page NYT obit that mentions the word "gay" twice, and then only to subtly mock the notion of Koch being gay:
Mr. Koch, for whom the headline "Hizzoner" seemed to have been coined, was a bachelor who lived for politics. Perhaps inevitably there were rumors, some promoted by his enemies, that he was gay. But no proof was offered, and, except for two affirmations in radio interviews that he was heterosexual, he responded to the rumors with silence or a rebuke. "Whether I am straight or gay or bisexual is nobody's business but mine," he wrote in "Citizen Koch," his 1992 autobiography.
Because what heterosexual isn't uncomfortable admitting and expressing their heterosexuality? Let's see… there was this guy:
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And then there's this guy, a family values Republican who is anti-gay but who gets awfully upset when you ask him if he's gay or straight, and then gets awfully uncomfortable while trying to answer a simple question about why he opposes gay marriage:
More on Ed Koch's death from Andrew Sullivan, who is none-too-pleased with the imminent "inning" of Ed Koch:
Perhaps it's better to see how Koch approached the subject. He saw it in two ways: about sexual behavior alone and about privacy. In that way, he was, in fact, quite typical of many in a generation of gay men his age, who defined their orientation understandably but entirely in terms of sexual freedom and protection from government scrutiny and prosecution. But AIDS, of course, ripped that sub-cultural eco-system apart. Of course, no one – straight or gay – is entirely defined by their sexual orientation. But it's a core part of your personality – and Koch was simply too old, too self-loathing, and too prickly to change. Here's the money quote when he was asked about it:
What do I care? I'm 73 years old. I find it fascinating that people are interested in my sex life at age 73. It's rather complimentary! But as I say in my book, my answer to questions on this subject is simply "F*ck off." There have to be some private matters left.
Of course they do. And I sure don't want to know about Ed Koch's sex life, if he had one. But the plain fact of your orientation is not the same as the details of your sex life. And when you are such a public figure and single and your city is grappling with an epic health crisis among gay men, it does become other people's f*cking business – especially if he was inhibited from a more aggressive response because of not wanting to seem gay.
History will judge that. And so will the souls of countless gay men, who perished as their mayor panicked.
It's a shame the ex-NYC mayor never came out.
It's tragic that he hid behind excuses like the fact that he was old and wasn't sexual at all anymore.
Old people are still sexual–and if you're gay, you're still gay–and besides, he could have commented on his past.
But Ed was so paranoid on the subject that when I interviewed him in the '90s, he propped up a tape recorder to tape me as I recorded him. It was a creepy double game of "gotcha!" that led nowhere (though he was otherwise gruffly charming).
The media doesn't like to "out" people as gay, though they're happy to out politicians as just about everything else, including speculating just the other day that a Democratic Senator might have been with prostitutes. Yet "the gay," they run in fear. In part it's because the media thinks they're helping us, protecting us (us, being gay people). And the concern is natural. Once upon a time it was extremely dangerous to be gay. And it still can be. But once you're dead, the danger is gone. No one is going to bully you. You're not going to lose your family. And other than the San Francisco 49ers, who else is going to have the vapors by the un-revelation that you're gay after you're dead?
So the media's usual defense of defending the living doesn't really apply, even if it were a valid argument for the living, and I'm not sure it is. So why "in" the dead, especially if their homosexuality was little more than a thinly-veiled secret? We don't respect the famous dead's wishes in any other subject area of their CV that I can think of. So when we know, the majority in society now know, and certainly the majority in the media know, that being gay is is not a "bad" thing, who are we protecting when we "in" the one person who possibly needed protection, but no longer does because he's dead?
And as for history's sake, if Ed Koch was gay, and neglected to address the AIDS crisis sufficiently, in part because he was a closet case, and men (and women) died because of it, then it is absolutely part of the historical record of both Ed Koch and the disease. I repeat what Andrew said above:
[W]hen you are such a public figure and single and your city is grappling with an epic health crisis among gay men, it does become other people's f*cking business – especially if he was inhibited from a more aggressive response because of not wanting to seem gay.
Ed Koch was gay. He was conflicted, afraid, a bit paranoid, and very old-world about his sexual orientation. Which is perhaps understandable considering the age he grew up in. Any reporter under the age of 88 doesn't have the same excuse.


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My new book on "BlazeDS" was released earlier this week. I got my first set of author copies last night in the mail. It was a great feeling holding a copy in my hand. This book was written over the last many months as I toiled with a number of other things, including working on client projects, at the same time. Most of the writing was done in the nights and weekends. I must at this point mention that my family (wife and kids) was extremely supportive else this book would have never been possible.
The book covers a lot of ground at the sweet intersection spot where Flex based RIA and Java meet. It covers the fundamentals of the wiring, protocols, formats and the API that relate to the integration of Flex/AIR and Java in the first few chapters and then rapidly graduates to explaining advanced topics. Advanced topics include Spring and Hibernate integration, custom adapters and real-time data push. As the topic clearly suggests all integration discussion is in the context of the open source data services product from Adobe: BlazeDS.
If the subject of integrating Flex/AIR and Java interests you, then go grab a copy of this book from your local technical book retailer or order online at Amazon — http://www.amazon.com/Professional-BlazeDS-Creating-Internet-Applications/dp/0470464895/. As you read the book, please let me know of any errors. If you like the book, please rate it well on Amazon and/or leave a comment behind.
Hope the book helps the folks who are actively combining Flex (or AIR) and Java to create the next set of rich and robust productivity enhancing enterprise grade applications.