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Contour plots
One thing I think would be really useful and used often is to have a matlab-style contour plot widget producing images such as in http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=05091112 (as an example). I tried to do it with the cloud widget, but it breaks down when I feed in a 300×70 matrix. Also, the cloud widget doesn't display axis.


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Last March I paid tribute to Senator Zell Miller of Georgia as "My favorite Democrat." Among the compelling reasons I cited in support of my designation of Miller was that "the guy has good taste in people. His [Web site] photo gallery includes shots with the following 'good people': Billy Graham, Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron, Isaac Hayes, Barbara Mandrell, Dolly Parton, Little Richard, 'James Brown, the godfather of soul,' Emmylou Harris, and Dale Earnhardt." I also cited the fact that "the guy has read enough books to have ten favorites. And they're good ones too, substantial books like A Stillness at Appomattox [easily one of my top ten as well] and Lonesome Dove, not The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People."
Now Fred Barnes reports that Miller has endorsed President Bush for reelection in 2004: "The next five years 'will determine the kind of world my children and grandchildren will live in,' Miller said in an interview. And he wouldn't 'trust' any of the nine Democratic presidential candidates with governing during 'that crucial period,' he said. 'This Democrat will vote for President Bush in 2004.'"
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Rule 193.1. Responding to Written Discovery; Duty to Make Complete Response (1999)
A party must respond to written discovery in writing within the time provided by court order or these rules. When responding to written discovery, a party must make a complete response, based on all information reasonably available to the responding party or its attorney at the time the response is made. The responding party's answers, objections, and other responses must be preceded by the request to which they apply.
Amended by order of Nov. 9, 1998, eff. Jan. 1, 1999.
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Comments to 1999 change:
1. This rule imposes a duty upon parties to make a complete response to written discovery based upon all information reasonably available, subject to objections and privileges.
2. An objection to written discovery does not excuse the responding party from complying with the request to the extent no objection is made. But a party may object to a request for "all documents relevant to the lawsuit" as overly broad and not in compliance with the rule requiring specific requests for documents and refuse to comply with it entirely. See Loftin v.Martin, 776 S.W.2d 145 (Tex. 1989). A party may also object to a request for a litigation file on the ground that it is overly broad and may assert that on its face the request seeks only materials protected by privilege. See National Union Fire Ins. Co. v. Valdez, 863 S.W.2d 458 (Tex. 1993). A party who objects to production of documents from a remote time period should produce documents from a more recent period unless that production would be burdensome and duplicative should the objection be overruled.
3. This rule governs the presentation of all privileges including work product. It dispenses with objections to written discovery requests on the basis that responsive information or materials are protected by a specific privilege from discovery. Instead, the rule requires parties to state that information or materials have been withheld and to identify the privilege upon which the party relies. The statement should not be made prophylactically, but only when specific information and materials have been withheld. The party must amend or supplement the statement if additional privileged information or material is found subsequent to the initial response. Thus, when large numbers of documents are being produced, a party may amend the initial response when documents are found as to which the party claims privilege. A party need not state that material created by or for lawyers for the litigation has been withheld as it can be assumed that such material will be withheld from virtually any request on the grounds of attorney client privilege or work product. However, the rule does not prohibit a party from specifically requesting the material or information if the party has a good faith basis for asserting that it is discoverable. An example would be material or information described by Rule 503(d)( 1) of the Rules of Evidence.
4. Rule 193.3(d) is a new provision that allows a party to assert a claim of privilege to material or information produced inadvertently without intending to waive the privilege. The provision is commonly used in complex cases to reduce costs and risks in large document productions. The focus is on the intent to waive the privilege, not the intent to produce the material or information. A party who fails to diligently screen documents before producing them does not waive a claim of privilege. This rule is thus broader than Tex. R. Evid. 511 and overturns Granada Corp. v.First Court of Appeals, 844 S.W.2d 223 (Tex. 1992), to the extent the two conflict. The ten-day period (which may be shortened by the court) allowed for an amended response does not run from the production of the material or information but from the party's first awareness of the mistake. To avoid complications at trial, a party may identify prior to trial the documents intended to be offered, thereby triggering the obligation to assert any overlooked privilege under this rule. A trial court may also order this procedure.
5. This rule imposes no duty to supplement or amend deposition testimony. The only duty to supplement deposition testimony is provided in Rule 195.6.
6. Any party can request a hearing in which the court will resolve issues brought up in objections or withholding statements. The party seeking to avoid discovery has the burden of proving the objection or privilege.
7. The self-authenticating provision is new. Authentication is, of course, but a condition precedent to admissibility and does not establish admissibility. See Tex. R. Evid. 901(a). The ten-day period allowed for objection to authenticity (which period may be altered by the court in appropriate circumstances) does not run from the production of the material or information but from the party's actual awareness that the document will be used. To avoid complications at trial, a party may identify prior to trial the documents intended to be offered, thereby triggering the obligation to object to authenticity. A trial court may also order this procedure. An objection to authenticity must be made in good faith.
Technical Correction:
1. In the first sentence of Rule 193.3(b), the word "to" is deleted.
2. The following sentence is added to the end of Rule 193.4(b): "A party need not request a ruling on that party's own objection or assertion of privilege to preserve the objection or privilege."
3. Rule 193.4(c) is modified as follows: "Use of material or information withheld under claim of privilege. A party may not use - at any hearing or trial - material or information withheld from discovery under a claim of privilege, including a claim sustained by the court, without timely amending or supplementing the party's response to that discovery."
15. In comment 5 to Rule 193, the reference to Rule 195.6(b) is changed to Rule 195.6.


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Frankie Gavin: Fiercely Traditional / Happily Contemporary
Jun 01, 2002
Reminiscing with Stéphane Grappelli
Jun 01, 2002
"Fox Hunt" Charlie Bowman
Mar 01, 2002
Séamus Connolly: Beneath the Surface
Mar 01, 2002
Native and Métis Fiddling: Portrait of a People
Dec 01, 2001
The first time I encountered the name "Matt Glaser," it was on the back of an album by a New York string band calling itself the Central Park Sheiks. That was in the mid-'70s, when it was still relatively unusual to hear a violin soloing over old swing tunes like "Honeysuckle Rose" and "Stompin' at the Savoy." Since that time, I've run across Matt in a lot of unusual contexts -- as one third of the triple fiddle section of Fiddle Fever (with Jay Ungar and Evan Stover), on the soundtracks of Ken Burns' Civil War and Lewis and Clark documentaries, playing second violin with Stéphane Grappelli on a whirlwind chorus of "Tiger Rag," teaching Texas-style fiddling for a taped fiddle instruction series, and reflecting on the evolution of jazz in Ken Burns' film epic "Jazz."
For over two decades, Matt has also served as chair of the Berklee College of Music's string department. And throughout his tenure, Boston's fiddling philosopher has always managed to keep one foot in the world of folk and bluegrass and the other in jazz. His latest project, a musical collaboration called the Wayfaring Strangers is an unabashed attempt to meld those two worlds within a single ensemble.
In this interview, held in his book-strewn Cambridge apartment, Matt recounts his journey from New York teenager hooked on old time fiddling to head of a string department renowned for its eclecticism. Like his improvisations, the conversation takes all sorts of turns, but never drifts too far from the central theme -- how can one express oneself through music?
I was born in Brooklyn, New York. My mom was an opera singer and my dad had a great record collection. He was a music lover. I always said that my mom wouldn't swing if you hung her from a chandelier. She was an opera singer, but she knew all the words to the standard tunes and when I was growing up, I could always ask her and she would sing. But my dad gave me the feeling for black music and popular music and jazz and country music and blues. He turned me on to Mississippi John Hurt and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee. I was really into that stuff. So I played piano when I was a kid and played some guitar with a harmonica wrapped around my neck, the Bob Dylan thing. And I took up the fiddle when I was thirteen after hearing some old-timey fiddling on the radio.
So you hadn't studied classical violin?
I did have classical violin training subsequently, but I started out with an interest in old-timey fiddling. So for my thirteenth birthday, my parents got me the record Hell Broke Loose in Georgia: Georgia Fiddle Bands on County Records, and they got me a fiddle. And I would take the subway from Queens into Manhattan and take fiddle lessons with John Burke, who was a clawhammer banjo player. He was also subsequently Mark O'Connor's first fiddle teacher. He left New York shortly after he started teaching me and moved to Washington state.
I was never a very good old-timey fiddler and still not, but I resonate very much with that music and the dark weirdness and depth that comes through those tunes.
What got you hooked on that? You were listening to jazz and blues.
I loved classical music. I loved Bach. I played the piano and the organ some and I was a Bach fanatic. Like many people, you don't keep a track record in your mind of "I should like this and I shouldn't like that." You just like whatever you like. You hear music and you like it. I am still unembarrassed about liking all kinds of music. All kinds of pop music catches my ear to this day. This is one part of my personality that really irritates the people in the jazz community, which is that I believe more firmly in the general power of music than in anything else. The sheer existential power of music as something positive in people's lives. And as I age, that becomes more fundamentally important, and the distinctions, while still there in the background, maybe recede a little bit. So anyway, for whatever reason, I just loved the sound of old time fiddling when I was thirteen years old. So I would take fiddle lessons. Then my parents moved to upstate New York and I auditioned for the orchestra director there, Paul Ehrlich, and he could see that I could play okay. I became very close friends with him and his family and we went down to the Union Grove Fiddlers Convention the next summer. So when I was still in junior high school, I went to Union Grove. That was an amazing experience. I remember seeing Buddy Pendleton playing around the fireplace. It was an incredible, mythic kind of experience for me hearing all these guys. I met Jay Ungar around that time. He was living in the next town over. He was playing at a square dance in Bedford Hills, New York. So I was interested in that stuff, but I also started to study classical when I was in junior high and in high school. I got really into it and worked hard on it. But then my life got thrown for a loop when I heard Vassar Clements play on the Will the Circle Be Unbroken album, which must have been around '72. The next summer I started seeking out bluegrass bands to play in. I didn't know anything about bluegrass but I wanted to "be" Vassar Clements.
You and every other fiddle player who heard that record! I think we all did at that point.
Vassar's thing, you could tell, was a direct expressive channel for him. It's just this beautiful, natural sound coming through, organic expression of himself, and it was so far removed from classical music at the time. I was a mediocre classical student trying to play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto and listening to (Jascha) Heifetz and (Nathan) Milstein. But then to hear Vassar -- it was a whole other way of approaching the instrument. This direct transmission of yourself onto your axe.
So after high school, I went to the Eastman School of Music for one year and dropped out and came back to New York and started playing in a swing band, the Central Park Sheiks, with Richard Lieberson and Bob Hipkens, guys I still play with to this day. It was a straight-ahead string swing band. And that's when I started to get interested in jazz and swing and learn about that stuff. I was about nineteen.
Didn't you write a thesis on Texas fiddling at some point?
I did. It was a very heady time in New York in the late '70s. Amazing music was happening. I started playing with Andy Statman, Tony Trischka, Kenny Kosek. And then I came up to Boston in 1981 and I've been here ever since teaching at Berklee (College of Music). Trying to run a string department that's unlike any other string department in the sense that we want to give string players a sense of all the idioms that are played at a high level on string instruments, not just classical music. We honor and revere classical playing, but we also honor and revere all the folk traditions and jazz, improvisational and world music traditions. We want to create string players who have big ears that are open to all that stuff and can play at a technically high level in all these idioms. It's important for me that string players not be automatons. That they be literate musicians who understand music and can do things spontaneously in whatever idiom they're in.
Before your program at Berklee, folk fiddling was often looked down upon by classical players. You don't find that so much any more.
I think Mark O'Connor is mostly responsible for that. As you said, I wrote my master's thesis on Mark and Benny Thomasson. The name of my thesis is "Controlled Improvisation in Texas-style Fiddling." It's a 1992 thesis from Tufts University, and it looks at the tune "Grey Eagle" as played by Mark and Benny. For me, I'm interested in finding things that are musically valuable in any idiom. I delight in finding them in places that might be looked down upon. I found this quote recently from Béla Bartók that's pretty amazing. He said, "Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which the way musical ideas can be expressed in the utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of meanings. Few people appreciate melodies such as these; indeed, the majority of conservative trained musicians hold them in contempt. This is understandable, because anyone who is slave to customary patterns will naturally qualify as unintelligible that which deviates slightly from them."
There are probably the type of people Bartók was talking about in every idiom. Classical, jazz We find it in the conservative bluegrass element.
Exactly. It's the quality of person and the quality of mindset that you find in these different idioms. How open-minded they are. Among jazz musicians, people think, "Oh, Glaser, he's a bluegrass fiddle player." And among bluegrass fiddle players, "Oh Matt Glaser, he's jazz." John Hartford said to me once, "If you'd stop playing that jazz [stuff], you'd make a decent old time fiddler!" So I've given up trying to be understood. I'm just trying to go about my own lonely road of learning about a variety of different kinds of music and finding a way to express myself musically that brings into play all the things that have been in my own experience. The Wayfaring Strangers project is the beginning of what I hope will be a lengthy process. I don't claim that it's wholly successful, but I was trying to make some music that had some deep feeling to it, that expressed what I thought was important in terms of my ideas about the world and to try to bring different idioms together in a deeper way. As one of the album reviews said, "Most attempts to fuse jazz and bluegrass end up sounding like wretched hippie crap."
[For the rest of this lengthy interview, purchase the Winter 02/03 issue of Fiddler Magazine!]
[Peter Anick, co-author of Mel Bay's "Old Time Fiddling Across America," plays fiddle with the Massachusetts bluegrass band Wide Open Spaces (www.wideospaces.com).]


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The For Pete's Sake Cancer Respite Foundation's 2013 Fashion Show on April 18 will transform the Whitemarsh Valley Country Club into a runway, featuring fashions from the Elizabeth Marr Boutique in Newtown Square and Haverford.
The annual event will include a silent auction, raffles, dinner and the latest fashions. It also will feature an award ceremony presenting Charles Doloway, president of Allegheny Iron & Metal Co., with the Peter R. Bossow Jr. Memorial Award.
All funds raised will support For Pete's Sake Cancer Respite Foundation, which enables cancer patients and their loved ones the opportunity to strengthen, deepen and unify their relationships by creating respite vacations at the FPS respite home near Orlando, Fla., and to select destinations in the Caribbean and along the East Coast. More than 4,400 individuals have been served by FPS since 1999. For information call 610-761-4146.


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Rule 320. Motion and Action of Court Thereon (1981)
New trials may be granted and judgment set aside on motion for good cause, on such terms as the court shall direct. Where it appears to the court that a new trial should be granted on a point or points that affect only a part of the matters in controversy and that such part is clearly separable without unfairness to the parties, the court may grant a new trial as to that part only, provided that a separate trial on unliquidated damages alone shall not be ordered if liability issues are contested. Each motion for new trial shall be in writing and signed by the party or his attorney.
Amended by order of June 10, 1980, eff. Jan. 1, 1981: "Point or points" used in place of "ground or grounds." See Rules 321, 418(d), 458, 469(e), and 515.
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(No. 31) Question: In order to preserve his right to be further heard in the event a judgment non obstante veredicto in his favor is reversed on appeal, is it necessary for a party to file a motion for new trial in the alternative at the time he files the motion for judgment non obstante veredicto? If such motion is necessary, when does the time begin to run for filing the amended motion for new trial under amend Rule 330(k)?
Answer: It is not necessary for the appellee to file an alternative motion for new trial at the time he files his motion for judgment non obstante veredicto in order to preserve his right to be further heard with respect to any matter shown by the record if the judgment non obstante veredicto in his favor is reversed on appeal. If appellee desires to complain in the trial court or in the appellate court of any matter which will not appear in the record unless through the filing of a motion for new trial, such, motion should be filed (Rule 325). The time for filing the motion or amended motion in courts having a continuous term as defined in Rule 330 (counties like Harris) is regulated by Rule 330(k). Where the term of court is not continuous as defined in Rule 330, the matter is regulated by Rule 320(a). The necessary prerequisite to the right of appellee to be further heard in the event the judgment non obstante veredicto in his favor is reversed on appeal is that he must bring forward in his brief the points of error committed against him on the trial and shown by the record (i.e., those matters required by Rule 325 to be set out in a motion for new trial, and those matters otherwise appearing in the record) which would prevent the affirmance of the judgment even if one had been entered by the trial court in harmony with the verdict. See the decision of the Supreme Court in Le Master v. Fort Worth Transit Co., 138 Tex. 512, 160 S.W.2d 224 (1942).
5 Tex. B.J. 170 (1942) reprinted in 8 Tex. B.J. 15 (1945).
Question: The District Courts of McLennan County have continuous terms except for the following provisions: "unless the business of the court shall be sooner disposed of." (Article 199, -19, 54, 74, as amended May 22, 1937.)
Do these courts come within Rule 330, "Rules of Practice in Certain District Courts," or do these courts come within Rule 320 in regard to the time in which to file motions for new trial?
Answer: In the opinion of the Committee, the District Courts of McLennan County are governed by Rule 330 and not Rule 320. Article 199, Sections 19, 54 and 74 as amended by the 45th Legislature in 1937 provides "each of said terms may continue until and including the Saturday next preceding the date for the beginning of the next succeeding term unless the business of the term shall be sooner disposed of." Article 199, Sections 17, 48, 67 and 79, provides that the District Courts of Tarrant County "shall continue until the business is disposed of." In the case of Super-Cold Southwest Co. v. Green & Romans, 185 S.W.2d 749 (Tex. Civ. App.-Fort Worth 1945), the Fort Worth Court of Civil Appeals held that the District Courts of Tarrant County are regulated by Rule 330. Also see Gillete Motor Transp. Co. v. Wichita Falls & S. R.R. Co. , 170 S.W.2d 629 (Tex. Civ. App.-Fort Worth 1943).
The Legislature, in creating continuous terms for the District Courts in Judicial Districts Nos. 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 12, 16, 18, 21, 22, 24, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 38, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 56, 63, 64, 69, 70, 72, 81, 84, 85, 86, 90, 103, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 112 and 119, uses substantially the following language: "each term ... may continue until the date herein fixed for the beginning of the next succeeding term." That language was construed by the Dallas Court of Civil Appeals in the case of Federal Underwriters Exch. v. Bailey, 175 S.W.2d 618 (Tex. Civ. App.-Dallas 1943), as bringing the 86th District Court of Kaufman County under Rule 330. Likewise in the case of Traders & General Ins. Co. v. Scott, 189 S.W.2d 633 (Tex. Civ. App.-Fort Worth 1945), the Fort Worth Court of Civil Appeals said that the 30th Judicial District Court of Wichita County, whose terms are substantially the same as Kaufman County, comes under Rule 330.
In a few instances the Legislature uses the term "shall continue" insteadof "may continue" but obviously the Legislature intended for these Courts to come under Rule 330 even though by the language "may continue" the term of Court could, as it may in the District Courts of McLennan County, come to an end when the business of the Court is disposed of before the end of the term.
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Steve Sabol, who helped his father get an unlikely fledgling movie company off the ground, then later took over and expanded the family business, now known to sports fans as NFL Films, has died. He was 69.
Sabol, who had served as president of NFL Films since 1985, died Tuesday, the company announced. He had been diagnosed with brain cancer in March 2011.
"Steve Sabol was the creative genius behind the remarkable work of NFL Films," NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. "He was a major contributor to the success of the NFL, a man who changed the way we look at football and sports, and a great friend."
Sabol was a football-playing art student with a flair for self-promotion when, in the fall of 1962, his father Ed called him home to Philadelphia from Colorado College in Colorado Springs, advising the young man that they, and a few others yet to be hired, would be filming the National Football League's championship game that December.
At that point, Ed Sabol had never filmed a pro football game. He had not, in fact, filmed anything professionally. He had, mostly, filmed the Sabol family at leisure and at play, in large part Steve playing youth and high school football. Even so, he had convinced NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, primarily by doubling the previous year's bid to $3,000, that he was just the man to record what would be the title game between the New York Giants and Green Bay Packers.
For Ed Sabol, who had been peddling menswear for his father-in-law's clothing factory, it was the opportunity of a lifetime and he wanted an idea man he could trust at his side.
Steve Sabol recalled often, "He said he could see by my grades that all I'd been doing for the last four years at Colorado is playing football and going to the movies. So he said, 'I think that makes you uniquely qualified for this.' "
So the young Sabol returned home and shouldered one of the eight cameras the Sabol crew used on what turned out to be a bitingly cold day in Yankee Stadium. Despite camera malfunctions, film breaks and lens freeze-overs, Blair Motion Pictures, as Ed had named his recently formed company, in honor of his daughter Blair, came up with an unusual melding of art and football that set the tone for all that was to follow.
Two years later, Ed Sabol had convinced Rozelle that the NFL needed its own film company and Blair became NFL Films, a wholly owned, yet artistically independent, subsidiary of the league. With that, the Sabols turned sports movie-making into something entirely new, combining gritty, yet artistic, football frames with stirring background music and authoritative narration, much of it written by Steve and delivered in doomsday tones by John Facenda, sometimes called "the voice of God."
As a team, the Sabols meshed beautifully. Ed was seldom short of ideas but what he didn't think of, Steve did. And often, it was Steve who suggested the artistic touches that set NFL Films apart.
"My dad wanted to show the game the way Hollywood portrayed fiction, with a dramatic flair," Steve Sabol told USA Today in 2008. "I wanted to show the game the way I had experienced it as a player, with the eyeballs bulging and the veins sticking out and the snot flying. We blended those two styles."
Thus, the films showed sweat dripping off skinned noses, savage line clashes in slow motion, and a fatigued player on the bench looking like the Indian warrior in sculptor James Earle Fraser's "End of the Trail."
Ed Sabol ran the business, as chairman and president, until turning the presidency over to Steve in 1985. When Ed retired as chairman in 1995, Steve moved into that position as well, NFL Films never missing a beat. Today, it not only films all things NFL — team highlight productions, Super Bowls, blooper shows and various specials for TV — it also lends its expertise to Hollywood football movies and serves as a treasure trove of pro football history with more than 100 million feet of film stored in a fireproof facility in Mount Laurel, N.J. The facility, Steve Sabol liked to brag, is big enough to house a Boeing 727.
George Halas, founder of the Chicago Bears and one of the founders of the NFL, had some initial misgivings about the filmmakers. At first he thought they were spies but later referred to the Sabols as "the keepers of the flame."
Steve Sabol was born Oct. 2, 1942, in Moorestown, N.J., and while growing up nurtured two great passions: art, whose appreciation he got from his mother Audrey, who befriended up-and-coming artists and hung their work in the Sabol home; and football, a craving he developed on his own.
So determined was he to succeed as a football player that when he went to Division III Colorado College as a 170-pound fullback, one with little discernible talent, he decided all he needed was some positive publicity.
He took out newspaper ads, had T-shirts, brochures, buttons and color postcards printed, all touting "Sudden Death Sabol, the Prince of Pigskin Pageantry now at the Pinnacle of his Power." He invented a new hometown, Coaltown Township, Pa., then later changed it to Possum Trot, Miss.
He rarely played for two seasons, yet, in the program for the last game of his sophomore season, a full-page ad appeared: "Coach Jerry Carle congratulates Sudden Death Sabol on a fantastic season." And the next fall, an ad in a Colorado Springs newspaper proclaimed, "The Possum Trot Chamber of Commerce extends its wishes for a successful season to its favorite son – Sudden Death Sabol."
Coach Carle, Sabol often said, "looked at me like I was a side dish he hadn't ordered."
And yet, as a junior, having gained 40 pounds, he not only played but was voted to the all-conference team and, he figured, big things awaited him as a senior. Except his father called, saying, "I need you here." So Steve went home, took the only job he ever had and turned it into bigger things than Sudden Death Sabol had ever imagined.
Sabol is survived by his wife, Penny; their son, Casey; his sister, Blair; his mother, Audrey; and his father, Ed, who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011.
Kupper is a former Times staff writer.


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GFS 2011 Game 1 – Giants at Marlins (8/13/2011)
Its that time of year again. Time for the fourth installment of the Annual Cook Grandfather-Father-Son Baseball Roadtrip. This will likely be the last Roadtrip with the original line-up. In 2012, Kellan will likely come on board as the fourth Roadtripper. But as for now, the cast of characters remains: Grandfather = Jim Cook; Father = Todd Cook; and Grandson = Tim Cook:
We flew into Tampa and stayed the night in a hotel. In the picture above, we are about to pile into our rented Nissan Altima and head south to…
…Sun Life Stadium! Note: that port-a-potty out front of Gate F is just one of the many luxury amenities the Marlins offer at the ballpark.
From a snagging a baseball perspective, my base goal was to get at least one baseball at each of the three stadiums we are visiting on this Roadtrip (Sun Life, Turner Field, and Tropicana Field). As far as Sun Life Stadium goes, I was counting on this being our best bet. It was a Saturday night game (presumably) with batting practice. But then it started monsoon-caliber rain at our hotel about 15 minutes from the ballpark. The gates weren't scheduled to open yet, but we decided to head up to the ballpark anyway and just roam the concourses while clouds drained out all of their rain.
But then an amazing thing happened. It was serious Noah's Ark type rain at our hotel, but it was completely dry at the ballpark. So we ran into the ballpark when it opened and were happy to find the Giants just starting to take BP.
Despite getting full-Giants BP, several things were working (quite effectively) against us: (1) the Marlins don't like to let fans anywhere near their precious multi-purpose field, (2) the Giants have no power to right field (the only spot the ordinary fan can get to the front row on the field), and (3) the Giants (are quickly
proving to us that they) do not like fans.
We tried our luck in section 126:
That section is just on the CF side of the big tunnel that separates RF from CF. The BP crowd was smaller on our side of the tunnel, but it would take a mighty blast to get a baseball out to us. Tim relaxed in a multi-shaded orange seat right on the tunnel:
Only one homerun reached the deep RCF seats. It landed about 3 rows behind us and only about 15 feet away, but I was blocked in by another couple fans and couldn't even make a real attempt to catch the ball. I say a "real" attempt because I did make an instinctual lunge toward the blocked off aisle as the ball came off
the bat – Sun Life Stadium punished me for this in the form of trying to break my shin on a cup holder bolted to the back of the seat in front of me. Ouch.
A word to the wise: at Sun Life Stadium, the rows of seats are narrow, the cup holders make them even narrower, and many of the seats fail to fold up. So there are many, many opportunities to bash your knees and shins while passing through the aisles.
Meanwhile, the Giants literally tossed zero baseballs into three sections of seats in RCF. BP ended with us still looking to secure our first ever baseball at Sun Life Stadium. Our chances were not looking good and I was fearing that we might never get a baseball at this soon-to-be retired "baseball stadium." Even worse, without getting at least one baseball, we would not be able to get a Sun Life Stadium bonus picture point for the myGameBalls.com photo scavenger hunt!
Anyway, it was time to tour around a little bit. We started by visiting the McDonald's kids area:
The concourses on the 1B and LF sides of the stadium (which I assume match up with the sides of the Miami Dolphins football field) are largely empty (well, LF is completely empty). But on this day, McDonald's had set up a couple face painting booths (FYI, I am about the biggest anti-face painting person on earth), two
basketball pop-a-shots, two football accuracy throwing things, and two baseball strike zone throwing things. While my Dad wandered around looking for a hat and Sun Life Stadium baseball (FYI, they don't have them) in the team store, Tim and I shot tons of hoops, tossed a few footballs, and pitched many, many strikes.
After the play area, we started the process of walking around the ballpark. It was a shorter process than normal because the entire upper deck was closed, and the LF concourse is essentially unused.
First, we visited section 150 behind home plate:
Next, we grabbed some nachos and found some seats in section 106:
The nachos were good…
…but the cheese ran out prematurely. The problem was that they only had one cheese holder and didn't pour any cheese directly onto the chips. That's just not enough cheese.
While eating nachos, we noticed something that showed just how plain it is that the Marlins have second billing at Sun Life Stadium:
Yep, the stadium used to be called Dolphin Stadium, and the end seat on each row is adorned with a dolphin.
Since there is nothing in left field, we turned around after eating our nachos, and headed back toward home plate. We were still baseball-less, so we decided to make an effort at a pre-game throwing baseball (something that I think we have only ever obtained once – from Ian Kinsler May 5, 2009).
Here is Tim hanging out in the "front row" by the dugout:
I say front row because it is row 1, but there are more seats below row 1. They are right down on the field and you can't get to them without those tickets.
As former-Mariner Greg Dobbs played catch below us, Tim had fun watching Billy the Marlin catch the "first" pitches:
He quite enjoyed little Billy too:
At one point, Billy came over to the first base side and gave Tim a happy point in exchange for Tim's excited wave:
In that picture, you can see Greg Dobbs (No. 29) on the far left side of the picture:
Dobbs scooted way back past first base and played long toss before retreating to the dugout. Dobbs was our best chance to get a baseball at this game. He ended up with the ball just 15-20 feet below us. He clearly wanted to give it away. But the music was pumping loud through the stadium and Dobbs just couldn't hear me. If he had, I'm sure he would have given us the baseball. Instead, he gave the ball to a 20-something fan in the true front row who had not even been paying any attention. Dobbs essentially walked over and said, "Here, take this." Bummer.
My Dad headed out to RF where we had our tickets for the game. Tim and I hung out behind the dugout for the top of the first inning to see if we could get a third out baseball (something we've only ever obtained once before – from Ronny Paulino earlier this season).
Cody Ross led off the game with the fly out to LF:
Jeff Keppinger followed Ross with a solo homerun to LF. Eventually, Aubrey Huff struck out looking to end the first inning. We were expecting the final out to be at first base, so we were nowhere near where we needed to be for a catcher toss-up. So some other lucky fan got that third out baseball and we gave up and headed out to RF to meet up with grandpa:
This was our view of the game:
Tim "The Freak" Lincecum was pitching for the Giants…
…and he pitched a very solid game.
Eventually, Tim needed some ice cream. I told him I would go get it while he stayed with Grandpa. But when I turned toward CF in the concourse, there was no ice cream to be found. It was time to explore again.
From CF all the way to the LF foul line, all two of the tunnels into the closed and/or non-existent seating areas were closed off. In CF,the tunnels are covered with a blue tarp that serves as the batters' eyes…
…and in LF two of the tunnels are open exclusively for cameramen. Meanwhile, in the LF concourse, there is absolutely nothing going on.
I stopped off in section 107 where I took this panorama:
A couple more sections over toward 3B (probably section 105), I found this weird single seat at the back of the seating section:
My thought is that this seat is for the usher patrolling this section.
I checked in again at section 154 where this was my view:
While in section 154, I got some of my best photos of Lincecum:
Finally, I found ice cream helmets (vanilla/chocolate twist) and reported back to Tim and Grandpa. As always, Tim enjoyed his ice cream:
We were ready for the weather to be blisteringly hot and disgustingly humid on this entire Roadtrip. In fact, we failed to pack anything for the possibility of cold weather. But the ice cream made Tim chilly. He had to bundle up in my Mariners jersey…
…and snuggle with Grandpa for heat:
Meanwhile, I were still trying to figure out to come away from this game with a baseball. I exchanged a bunch of texts with Ben "Benny Bang Bany" Weil, who in turn exchanged some texts with Mateo Fischer, and the word came back that this tunnel…
…just past the third base dugout was the umpires' tunnel. So I surveyed it with my zoom lens and made our plan.
Meanwhile, the Giants tacked on a couple more runs to take the score to 3-0 Giants. In the fifth inning, Nate Schierholtz scored from third on a wild pitch by Javier Vazquez. And in the sixth, Cody Ross scored on a double by Aubrey Huff. That was all the scoring for the night.
Mike Stanton was playing RF for the Marlins in front of us:
He has had some great games for me and Tim. But he went 0-3 at this game.
From our seats, we had a nice view of the Marlins bullpen:
I thought the bullpen set up was pretty odd at Sun Life Stadium. It is not that unusual for the bullpens to be located down the base lines. But at Sun Life Stadium, the Marlins bullpen and the Marlins dugout are both on the first base line and the visitors' bullpen and dugout are both on the third base line. That's odd because usually a baseline bullpen is located on the opposite baseline from the dugout so the manager can see his relievers warming up in the pen.
Tim found various ways to make wearing his dad's jersey more fun:
The fans tried to get the wave going at one point. So Tim decided that he and I should do our own wave:
In the eighth inning, Tim and I started to slowly make our way over toward the umpires' tunnel. First, we stopped in section 134 to take this panorama from just behind a big advertisement that blocks the view of numerous entire rows of seats behind "the Beach" area behind the Marlins bullpen:
Then we swung around to section 138 and got checked out the bullpen…
…and the beach:
And here is a panorama from section 138:
Two seconds after taking that panorama, a police officer in the Marlins bullpen told us we had to stay at least five rows back in the seats, which did not make much sense, but oh, well.
We headed up to the concourse and circled around to section 156 where the umpire tunnel is located. The umpire tunnel is surrounded by blue seats. The Marlins station ushers at the top of the blue seats and won't let anyone down into them without a blue seat ticket. So we found aisle seats in the orange seats just behind the blue seats. Here was our view from section 156:
The umpire baseball attempt was going to be tricky. There were two rows of people at the OF end of the tunnel, and one row of people at the infield side of the tunnel. It seemed like our best bet would be to go directly above the tunnel, but that would mean home plate umpire Ron Kulpa would have to spot us long before
getting to the covered tunnel and make a lot toss over the tunnel to us.
But there was some more game to watch first.
Our new seats were just behind Greg Dobbs…
…and we had an excellent view of the action when Aaron Rowand grounded to Dobbs, and Dobbs threw him out at first.
My Dad was still lounging out in RF:
The Giants brought in Brian Wilson to close out the game:
I'll tell you, I am officially sick and tired of hearing about his beard. Can someone else win the World Series already so we can all forget that Brian Wilson has a big beard?
Anyway, Wilson and his beard did their job. The Giants won 3-0.
After the game, Ron Kulpa did not hear us and did not give away a single umpire baseball. We headed over to the Giants dugout for the relievers to make their way in to the dugout. But , to our surprise, they never came. They apparently have their own tunnel to the club house. So the only person we saw at the dugout after
the initial victory high-fives was Jeff Keppinger as he was interviewed post-game.
Soon, my Dad found us and a Giants fan took our picture with a grumpy looking usher behind us:
On our way out of the stadium, we discovered there was a full batting cage with rotating arm pitching machine in the concourse behind the first base dugout:
So the first game of the Cook Grandfather-Father-Son Baseball Roadtrip was in the books. A 7 inning shutout win by Tim Lincecum and the Giants. With our final game at Sun Life Stadium being the next day at 1:10 p.m. and still sitting on zero baseballs at Sun Life Stadium, we left this game unsure whether we would ever
be able to say we got a ball at Sun Life Stadium. If not, Sun Life would join Shea Stadium, old Yankee Stadium, and Chase Field as the only stadiums Tim has visited and not got at least one baseball. We'll visit Chase Field again, but Sun Life Stadium was in jeopardy of joining Shea Stadium and old Yankee Stadium on the never-gonna-happen list.
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|20/3 Games (Tim/Kellan)
|18/6 Teams [Tim – Mariners, Orioles, Rangers, Brewers, Nationals, Phillies, Mets, Rays, Braves, Diamondbacks, Astros, Royals, Cubs, Angels, Indians, Reds, Giants, Tigers, Yankees, Marlins; Kellan – Mariners, Orioles, Angels, Mets, Indians, Yankees]
|15 Ice Cream Helmet(s) (Orioles (2), Nationals, Phillies (2), Rangers (2), Mets (1), Reds (1), Tigers (1), Marlins (1))
|55 Baseballs (7 Mariners, 7 Rangers, 4 Orioles, 3 Umpires, 2 Nationals, 2 Brewers, 5 Phillies, 2 Mets, 1 Rays, 2 Braves, 2 Diamondbacks, 1 MLB Authenticator, 1 Easter Egg, 1 Glove Trick, 2 Royals, 2 Cubs, 5 Angels, 4 Indians, 1 Giants, 1 Tigers)
|10/3 Stadiums [Tim – Camden Yards, Nationals Park, Citizens Bank Park, Minute Maid Park, Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Citi Field, Great American Ball Park, Comerica Park, Yankee Stadium, Sun Life Stadium; Kellan – Camden Yards, Citi Field, Yankee Stadium]
|13/9 Player Photos* [Tim – Felix Hernandez, Adam Moore, Garrett Olson, Chris Seddon, David Aarsdma, Michael Pineda, Miguel Olivo, Ryan Langerhans, Greg Zuan, Mark Lowe, Michael Saunders, Chad Durbin, Russell Branyan; Kellan – Luke French, Milton Bradley, Franklin Gutierrez, Justin Smoak, Matt Tuiasosopo, Ryan Langerhans, Michael Saunders, Tony Sipp, Chad Durbin]
|3/1 Management Photos* [Tim – Howard Lincoln, Jack Zduriencik, Eric Wedge; Kellan – Jack Zduriencik]
|5 Autograph(s) (Michael Pineda, Michael Saunders, Mark Lowe, Felipe Paulino, Aroldis Chapman)
|1 Bat* (Milton Bradley)
|7/2 Mascot Photos* [Tim – Mariner Moose, Teddy Roosevelt, The O's Bird, Mr. Redlegs, Gapper, Slider, Sebastian (U of Miam); Kellan – Mariner Moose, The O's Bird]
|1/0 Divisions Closed Out** [Tim – A.L. West (Safeco Field, Oakland Coliseum, Angel Stadium & Rangers Ballpark in Arlington); Kellan – N/A]
|2 Line-up Cards (Royals vs. Rangers; Indians vs. Orioles)
|* includes Spring Training**divisions where we have seen each team play a home game.


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MONTGOMERY — When Alabama legislators return from spring break April 1, they will have plenty to do and only three days left to do it. The pending legislation ranges from serious matters like state budgets and abortion restrictions to light-hearted matters, including declaring cornbread the official state bread.
MONTGOMERY — When Alabama legislators return from spring break April 1, they will have plenty to do and only three days left to do it.
The pending legislation ranges from serious matters like state budgets and abortion restrictions to light-hearted matters, including declaring cornbread the official state bread.
Each year, the Legislature has 30 meeting days to pass the state budgets and consider other legislation. Lawmakers wrapped up their 27th meeting day Thursday and left Montgomery until April 1.
Here's a look at what's left for the last three meeting days:
The House and Senate have passed differing versions of the $5.9 billion spending plan for the 2014-2015 school year. The Senate version included a one-time bonus of 1 percent for education employees. The House version didn't, but it included more money to fund health insurance benefits. Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh, R-Anniston, and House Speaker Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, said House and Senate budget writers have agreed with the governor to drop the bonus and provide more funding for health insurance to keep employees from having to pay higher premiums. They expect that to have broad support.
GENERAL FUND BUDGET: The Senate has passed a $1.8 billion budget that is based on state employees getting a one-time pay bonus of $400. Senate budget committee Chairman Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, said he's optimistic the House will agree. Hubbard said he anticipates that happening.
ABORTION: The House has approved a bill to extend the waiting time for an abortion from 24 hours to 48 hours after an abortion clinic provides information about adoption and the risks of abortion. The bill has cleared a Senate committee and is awaiting a final vote in the Senate. The sponsor, Republican Rep. Ed Henry of Decatur, said he's optimistic about passage in the Senate. The House also passed a bill to ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which can happen at six or seven weeks into a pregnancy. That bill is still pending in the Senate Health Committee.
CORNBREAD: The House has voted to designate cornbread as the official state bread of Alabama. If the Senate agrees to elevate the Southern staple to "official" status, cornbread will join the ranks of the blackberry, which is the official state fruit, and pecan, the official state nut.
PAYDAY LOANS: The House has passed a bill for the state Banking Department to set up a database of payday loans. That will allow the department to enforce a state prohibition against having more than $500 in payday loans at one time. That bill is in position for a final vote in the Senate. "That database is very much needed," said Marsh, who predicted the Senate will approve it.
GUNS: The Senate has approved a bill that would allow people to carry loaded handguns in their cars without buying pistol permits from their local sheriffs. The bill is opposed by the Alabama Sheriffs Association, which says it will lead to less revenue to support law enforcement and other functions of county government. The bill is pending in the House Public Safety Committee, and the bill's sponsor, Republican Sen. Scott Beason of Gardendale, said he's unsure whether it will pass in the House. The House speaker said, "I don't think there is really a lot of support for that. Law enforcement is pretty solidly against it."
TEACHER LAYOFFS: Neither the House nor the Senate has passed bills that would prohibit city and county school boards from using seniority as the main factor in deciding which teachers are laid off and which are kept when there are funding cuts or declines in enrollment. The state teachers' organization, the Alabama Education Association, has fought to keep the bills from coming to a vote.
GOVERNMENT CONSOLIDATION: A bill to combine the state Forestry Commission and the state Department of Agriculture and Industries has stalled this session. But a bill to fold the state Examiners of Public Accounts into the state auditor's office has passed the Senate and is awaiting a vote in the House.
EXECUTION SECRECY: The House has passed a bill to keep secret the supplier and manufacturer of the drugs used to carry out the death penalty in Alabama. The bill is awaiting a vote in the Senate.
DEATH PENALTY APPEALS: State Attorney General Luther Strange got bills introduced in the House and Senate to speed up inmates' court appeals in capital punishment cases, but neither bill comes to a vote yet. If a bill doesn't pass in one chamber on April 1, the issue is finished for this legislative session. "It will be difficult to get out," House Rules Commission Chairman Mac McCutcheon, R-Capshaw, said. The House speaker said the bills ran into trouble when some circuit judges expressed concern.
CROWD FUNDING: The Senate has passed a bill that would allow people trying to start small businesses in Alabama to use "crowd funding" to raise money from fellow Alabamians. The bill, backed by the Alabama Securities Commission, will be on the House's work agenda April 1, McCutcheon said.


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Michael Phelps swam a personal-best time of 50.48 seconds in winning the 100-meter butterfly Saturday at the Canada Cup, flirting with the world record set here four years ago by American Ian Crocker.
Phelps, competing in the pool used at the 1976 Olympics, improved on his previous best of 50.58 set in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
"This pool is still in great shape and it's fast too, it's without a doubt fast," said Phelps, who won one of his record eight gold medals in setting an Olympic record in the event last summer, the only event in which he did not establish a world record.
On Saturday, Phelps narrowly missed Crocker's world record of 50.40 set during the 2005 world championships, which were held at a new outdoor complex.
"It was pretty much exactly the same race as Beijing — I was out a tenth slower," Phelps said. "I just need to get a little bit more rest leading up to (U.S.) nationals and hopefully take it out a little bit quicker."
Phelps won five gold medals in Montreal in 2005, getting the silver behind Crocker in the 100-meter butterfly.
"It's cool coming up here again being able to swim up here for the second time in my career," Phelps said. "In '05, I had a so-so meet but this is definitely better than last time and I'm excited to be back."
Phelps' performance came while wearing a full-length bodysuit. He had previously worn the pants version in the event.
"It felt perfect," Phelps said. "I felt awesome coming off the wall. It really felt like I got up on top of the water so I guess that's going to be the suit I'm wearing now in the 100 fly."
Phelps is using the Montreal meet as a final tuneup for the U.S. championships, which will serve as the trials for the world championships in Rome next month.
"The intensity is still there, the drive to compete is still there, the love to swim is still there, so right now it's just getting back into better shape," Phelps said.
"Coming off the three weeks that I had in Colorado Springs, I really feel like I'm in a lot better shape than I was. I feel like I got a lot out of being out in Colorado and I couldn't ask anything more about where I am and where I stand right now leading into the trials."


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PAMM Teen Workshops and Programs
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) offers a variety of workshops and programs for teens. View all upcoming events below.
PAMM Teen Summer Art Intensive
Calling all explorers and creatives! Are you interested in exploring digital frontiers of augmented and virtual realities? We are now accepting applications for our 2018 Summer Teen Art Intensive: Mixed Reality. This year's program will help teens explore the creative field of augmented reality. We will be accepting applicants from teens 13 to 18 years of age, at all skill levels.
Program Description: Join Miami artist Moises Sanabria for our 2018 Summer Teen Art Intensive: Mixed Reality workshop at the museum! During this five-day augmented reality workshop at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), students of all skill levels will learn to use technology and creative strategies to conceptualize and make a mixed reality work of art. This multidisciplinary workshop is designed to explore contemporary art, technology, and human interactions with various forms of media. As teens explore and apply the use of emerging technologies in creative ways, they will also examine the shortcomings and challenges at the intersection of art, technology, and design.
Application link: https://goo.gl/forms/5dfof7Mn2qinLuSA2
Check out programs from previous summers: 2017, 2016, 2015
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Pérez Art Museum Miami is now accepting applications from rising high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors for the PTAC 2018-19 year . Apply for PTAC, check out our blog and come participate in PTAC events. Learn more about the progam here.
PAMM Teen Workshops have been made possible by endowed funds granted by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Heckscher Foundation for Children to underwrite the museum's broad portfolio of education programs. Together with leadership support from Miami-Dade County, these funders enable the museum to transform the lives of young people in our community through our art education programs.


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European Commission - Press release
European Commission welcomes foundation of the European Law Institute
Paris, 1 June 2011 – Viviane Reding, the European Union's Justice Commissioner, marked the foundation of the European Law Institute as an important contributor to the EU's wider goal of building a European area of justice. The Institute, an independent non-profit organisation, will help improve legal consistency in Europe by providing practical advice to policymakers and authorities.
"The foundation of the European Law Institute is an important milestone in building an EU-wide area of law, rights and justice," said Vice-President Reding, the EU's Justice Commissioner. "The Institute has the potential to bring a significant added value to European legal research, improving the implementation of EU law and helping to put it to work for citizens and businesses. I am confident that the European Law Institute will make the most of the rich diversity of Europe's legal systems and contribute to the development of a European legal culture."
European law has a profound impact on the daily lives of European citizens, businesses and national political and legal structures. Academic research and judicial training is needed to further develop and strengthen all areas of European law – whether civil, criminal or administrative.
The Institute will help analyse the difficulties faced by legal professionals, identify possible solutions to help improve the application of EU law, and develop suggestions for reforms of EU legislation in all areas. It will also be a forum for exchange and discussion for lawyers, academics and professionals.
The initiative to create a European Law Institute – promoted by the Commission in its action plan for delivering an area of freedom, security and justice for Europe's citizens (IP/10/447) – draws inspiration from the American Law Institute, a non-governmental body that played a crucial role in developing the Uniform Commercial Code, which facilitates sales and other commercial transactions across the United States' 50 states.
In addition to strengthening European legal research, the Commission intends to step up the training of legal practitioners in using and applying EU law in practice. It therefore plans to present a comprehensive action plan for European judicial training in the autumn.
The European Law Institute will:
The Institute's Council may appoint fellows and observers – either on its own initiative or following an application submitted by candidates. Its seat will be in Vienna, Austria.
For more information
Vice-President Viviane Reding welcomes the European Law Institute in a speech to the European University Institute in Florence on 10 April 2010: SPEECH/10/154
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`76 Scout II - SOLD
I don't know much about the rig.... but here's the info I have and if you have questions feel free to ask and I will find out.
It is believed that it has a good running 345 (I will find out for sure that it is not a 304). I was an automatic.
recently rebuilt Dana 44's front and rear- the rear is believed to be welded but it could be a limited slip - it does not notch in or out ratcheting and it does not squeal the tires going around a corner on pavement.
front is disk brake
4" lift springs, brake lines and shocks
new fuel tank and skid plate
no tranny or transfer case. The tranny was stolen and the atlas that was going into it is going into our yota.
It has a terra top on it. The body is in really good shape.
$800 obo I would prefer to sell it complete. Currently it is located in Burien, WA. I can transport if necessary - but I would want fuel money if I have to move it.
I don't have pics at this moment but I will get some with in the next couple of days.
I also have a spare 44 front axle. Make me a reasonable offer.
If I am slow to respond please be patient. I'm working in Western WA at the moment and I don't have internet readily available where I am living but I try to get online as often as I can.
O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven. ~Plato
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A few days ago I was finally able to get by there and get pictures....thanks to rain cancelling my work day......
The body isn't as straight as I remembered it being but it was wheeled a couple of times or so since I have seen it last. I am posting this for a friend of mine and I have to let you know that the tires can't go with it because they belong to his dad. We will try to get some others on there soon. I couldn't find the hood pull right off so I didn't get to see what the engine is, or get pics of it. Now that I talked to him I know where the handles at so I can open the hood now....lol
So here's the pics....not the greatest because it is partially in a garage and has stuff in the back that I didn't have time to pull out of there.
I possibly have a buyer for the terra top with the tinted rear slider that is currently on it, but this is the other terra top that will be put on it. If you are interested in the one with the slider let me know and I will find out for sure on the possible buyer.
Here is the other top that will go on it with the sale.
thanks for looking!:cheer:
I was able to get it out of the garage and I will be cleaning it out and up a bit today and getting new pics.
Currently still in Burien. If it has to make the trip over the mountains to my house it will probably get scrapped. Which is sad because I know there are a lot of good parts there.
O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven. ~Plato
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NAT allows you to take advantage of the reserved address blocks described in RFC 1918, "Address Allocation for Private Internets." Typically, your internal network will be setup to use one or more of these network blocks. They are:
10.0.0.0/8 (10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255) 172.16.0.0/12 (172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255) 192.168.0.0/16 (192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255)
An OpenBSD system doing NAT will have at least two network interfaces, one to the Internet, the other to your internal network. NAT will be translating requests from the internal network so they appear to all be coming from your OpenBSD NAT system.
When a client on the internal network contacts a machine on the Internet, it sends out IP packets destined for that machine. These packets contain all the addressing information necessary to get them to their destination. NAT is concerned with these pieces of information:
When the packets pass through the NAT gateway they will be modified so that they appear to be coming from the NAT gateway itself. The NAT gateway will record the changes it makes in its state table so that it can a) reverse the changes on return packets and b) ensure that return packets are passed through the firewall and are not blocked. For example, the following changes might be made:
Neither the internal machine nor the Internet host is aware of these translation steps. To the internal machine, the NAT system is simply an Internet gateway. To the Internet host, the packets appear to come directly from the NAT system; it is completely unaware that the internal workstation even exists.
When the Internet host replies to the internal machine's packets, they will be addressed to the NAT gateway's external IP (198.51.100.1) at the translation port (53136). The NAT gateway will then search the state table to determine if the reply packets match an already established connection. A unique match will be found based on the IP/port combination which tells PF the packets belong to a connection initiated by the internal machine 192.168.1.35. PF will then make the opposite changes it made to the outgoing packets and forward the reply packets on to the internal machine.
Translation of ICMP packets happens in a similar fashion but without the source port modification.
Since NAT is almost always used on routers and network gateways, it will probably be necessary to enable IP forwarding so that packets can travel between network interfaces on the OpenBSD machine. IP forwarding is enabled using the sysctl(3) mechanism:
# sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 # echo 'net.inet.ip.forwarding=1' >> /etc/sysctl.conf
Or, for IPv6:
# sysctl net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1 # echo 'net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1' >> /etc/sysctl.conf
The general format in pf.conf looks something like this:
match out on interface [af] \
from src_addr to dst_addr \
nat-to ext_addr [pool_type] [static-port]
pass out [log] on interface [af] [proto protocol] \
from ext_addr [port src_port] \
to dst_addr [port dst_port]
This would lead to a most basic form of these lines similar to this:
match out on tl0 from 192.168.1.0/24 to any nat-to 198.51.100.1Or you may simply use:
pass on tl0 from 192.168.1.0/24 to any
pass out on tl0 from 192.168.1.0/24 to any nat-to 198.51.100.1
This rule says to perform NAT on the tl0 interface for any packets coming from 192.168.1.0/24 and to replace the source IP address with 198.51.100.1.
While the above rule is correct, it is not recommended form. Maintenance could be difficult as any change of the external or internal network numbers would require the line be changed. Compare instead with this easier to maintain line (tl0 is external, dc0 internal):
pass out on tl0 inet from dc0:network to any nat-to tl0
The advantage should be fairly clear: you can change the IP addresses of either interface without changing this rule. Note that inet should be specified in this case to ensure that only IPv4 addresses are used, avoiding unexpected surprises.
When specifying an interface name for the translation address as above, the IP address is determined at pf.conf load time, not on the fly. If you are using DHCP to configure your external interface, this can be a problem. If your assigned IP address changes, NAT will continue translating outgoing packets using the old IP address. This will cause outgoing connections to stop functioning. To get around this, you can tell PF to automatically update the translation address by putting parentheses around the interface name:
pass out on tl0 inet from dc0:network to any nat-to (tl0)
This method works for translation to both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
web_serv_int = "192.168.1.100"
web_serv_ext = "198.51.100.6"
pass on tl0 from $web_serv_int to any binat-to $web_serv_ext
pass out on tl0 from 192.168.1.0/24 to any nat-to 198.51.100.79
pass out on tl0 from 192.168.1.208 to any
Then the entire 192.168.1.0/24 network would have its packets translated to the external address 198.51.100.79 except for 192.168.1.208.
# pfctl -s state fxp0 tcp 192.168.1.35:2132 (198.51.100.1:53136) -> 198.51.100.10:22 TIME_WAIT:TIME_WAIT fxp0 udp 192.168.1.35:2491 (198.51.100.1:60527) -> 198.51.100.33:53 MULTIPLE:SINGLE
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