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December 9, 2004
When Wabash senior Jeremy West woke up near Antonita, Colorado with a ruptured eardrum, Professor Doug Calisch rushed him to the emergency room. Tagging along were 11 of Jeremy's classmates.
As Jeremy received medical treatment, his classmates grabbed their cameras and hit the streets.
"It was certainly an unpredictable stop," says Calisch, who last summer took the group of 12 Wabash students West on a three-week photographic expedition as part of the College's Art 124 course. But Calisch and his students had talked about the ways the creative way an artist responds to such "serendipitous" opportunities.
"I knew I could trust these guys not to get into trouble; I knew they'd take pictures, and they did. And some of their best images came from that excursion into Antonita—a stop we'd never planned to make."
Those images and other selections from the photographers' work were presented Monday night at the opening of a weeklong exhibit in the rear wing of the Wabash College Fine Arts building.
Calisch says the agility to respond quickly to creative opportunities is just one advantage of teaching photography to students "on the road."
"It comes back to the way that students learn best, and they learn best in these types of concentrated experiences," says Calisch, who has led the summer photography expedition three times in the past six years. "We take them off campus and are with them day-in and day-out. It's not for everyone, but I love it—where life and learning become one."
Calisch's students were equally enthused.
"Life is passionate behind a camera," sophomore Nic Bitting wrote in his journal during the trip. "Instead of passing glances, instead of looking at life, we begin to look for life. Beauty, simplicity, spontaneity, ugliness—whatever it may be we search for it. We search to reveal that life is full. Not perfect, but definitely full."
"After three weeks of camping, shooting, and traveling, I have a much greater understanding and appreciation for what the "West" encompasses," wrote sophomore Nate Mullendore. "As I look at my Ziploc bag and the sixteen rolls of film inside, I can only hope that I have managed to capture it on film."
"After four days in one amazing place I've seemingly changed forever," senior Shaylan Owen wrote of Chromo Mountain Ranch, which Wabash alumnus Richard Gooding allowed the group to use as their home base during their time in New Mexico.
The students created not only images, but also a traveling community.
"These guys gelled quickly," Calisch says of the group, which also included computer support specialist Mike Heinold and his family and Wabash alumnus and summer photography "veteran" Kyle Nickel. "I could be less a disciplinarian, more a teacher, someone to share aesthetic and creative ideas. We had a family, we had kids—it was a real community, and it still feels like that when we get together for class. We still have that warmth, and the guys are at a level of intimacy where we can talk openly and honestly about the work, yet joke and have a good time, too."
The photos will remain on display until Dec. 14.


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Bruce Jenner confirms skin cancer surgery
This time, the avid golfer's nose fell prey.
Bruce Jenner's face went under the knife again.
But this time it was for medical, as opposed to cosmetic, reasons.
TMZ is reporting that Kim Kardashian's stepfather had surgery on his nose Monday to remove a hunk of cancer, resulting in 30 stitches. The former Olympian (and current questionable plastic surgery poster boy) was snapped sporting a big bandage the next day in Calabasas, Calif.
Doctors are pointing to golf-induced sun damage as the culprit, the website says.
It's not the first time Jenner's face has had cancer carved out of it. Last year, the right side, just in front of his ear and under his sideburn, fell victim.
UPDATE: Jenner has given a statement to his Keeping Up With the Kardashians reality home, E! News.
"I was diagnosed with a form of melanoma called basal cell carcinoma and have undergone Mohs surgery to remove it. I have been struggling with this for several years and appreciate all of the support and prayers while I continue to fight the battle against skin cancer."
(The statement is medically confusing, considering the fact that basal cell is, by National Library of Medicine definition, a relatively minor, non-melanoma form of skin cancer.)


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V. 3 - You Can't Go GNOME Again
Apr 14, 2011 5:00 AM PT
Now that Canonical has adopted Unity for its next Ubuntu release, it seems likely that no desktop environment in history has ever launched to as much scrutiny as the new GNOME 3.
Indeed, the GNOME project's latest contender made its long-awaited debut last week, and the reviews have been coming fast and furious ever since.
"The new desktop will likely appeal to users who share GNOME's philosophy of debris-free computing, but there are parts that seem to have been pared down too aggressively," wrote Ars Technica's Ryan Paul, for instance. "The whole environment is significantly less configurable than its predecessor and is missing a handful of important features."
On the other hand, while "even seasoned GNOME users will find many aspects that are very unfamiliar," The H acknowledged, "some aspects of GNOME 3.0 that seemed awkward at first have turned out to be well-crafted on closer inspection."
'Ubuntu Should Stick with Unity'
The software's pros and cons have been enumerated and detailed at considerable length throughout the blogosphere -- and with widely diverging opinions -- leaving the innocent bystander to simply wonder what all the variable fuss is about.
Is GNOME 3 the best ever? Is it the worst? Should Canonical be rethinking its plans? Linux Girl hit the streets of the Linux blogosphere to find out.
"If I am any indication, Ubuntu should stick with its Unity plans to the end," Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza opined. "After what I've heard about GNOME 3, I have little to no desire to go down that road."
While he does see the need to create a more "simplified and streamlined" user experience, "I don't want it," Espinoza added. "Unfortunately for me, I'm not a big KDE fan, either. Unity it is, until something better comes along."
'That Is Why I'm an Xfce User'
More speed was what consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack was yearning for.
"I wish they would quit rearranging things and concentrate on making things faster," Mack told Linux Girl. "But that is exactly why I'm an Xfce user."
Slashdot blogger hairyfeet took a more extreme view.
"Wow! I thought KDE 4 sucked!" hairyfeet exclaimed. "Congrats Gnome, for being even more condescending to users than I thought possible! Did you even ASK the users if they wanted 'minimize' and 'maximize' gone?"
'Our Users Are Dumb As Bricks'
Indeed, "some of the design decisions for GNOME 3 just don't make sense," agreed Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site.
One example, for instance, is not grouping applications by type, Hudson noted.
"This, and a lot of other decisions, look like they were made with the view of a user only using one of any kind of application," she opined.
"The 'we're removing the minimize and maximize buttons' decision also comes off as another 'change because our users are dumb as bricks,'" she added, echoing hairyfeet.
In fact, the ability to toggle different windows between maximized and normal is "needed for efficient workflow in many tasks," Hudson pointed out.
"I can just see the future according to GNOME," she mused. "'GNOME 4: One Desktop to Rule Them All... eliminating multitasking as 'too confusing' and multiple desktops as 'no longer needed since you can only run one application in one window at a time.' What could be simpler?"
The Minimalism Trend
Chris Travers, a GNOME user and Slashdot blogger who works on the LedgerSMB project, likes GNOME 3's new notifications structure, he said, but isn't impressed by the software's minimalism, either.
"There is a trend right now in the web browser market to make menus minimalistic," Travers explained. "Microsoft is going this way in all their software, and from the screenshots, GMOME 3 seems to be going this way too."
Whether that minimalism works well for a desktop environment, however, isn't so clear.
Traditionally, "one thing I think that GNOME does better than Microsoft Windows or Apple is the fact that instead of a single menu, you have three well-partitioned menus to choose from," Travers explained. "This leads to less user confusion than Windows or Mac does, where everything is jumbled together under one menu."
GNOME may be sufficiently customizable to make this happen again on individual computers, but "if the screenshots are any indication, this will not be a default choice," he pointed out.
'The UI Treadmill'
It's possible that, just as Windows users face "the wintel treadmill and 'the ribbon,' perhaps we in the FLOSS community have the UI treadmill," blogger Robert Pogson suggested. "It just never stops that new ways of accessing IT come along."
The fact is, however, "I don't need or want ever-newer user-interfaces," Pogson added.
"I have several display managers and several window managers in Debian," he said. "I don't need more, just as I am satisfied with one head. One of something is pretty useful; a bunch just get in the way."
'It's a Good Thing We Have Options'
In short, it's no wonder Canonical has adopted Unity, hairyfeet said.
"Unity may not be great, but at least Shuttleworth might be able to have a little control over it and keep the thing from getting torched by the developers every time stability sets in," he opined.
On the other hand, "how appealing is a Unity desktop shell after 'removing screen elements that are rarely used in mobile and netbook computing,' but that desktop and regular laptop users are accustomed to?" Hudson asked, quoting the project's description.
"Some people like to complain about there being too many distros and too many desktop environments, but Unity shows that it's a good thing we have options," she concluded. "The sad part is that people will continue to try Ubuntu, see it doesn't work for them, and conclude that 'linux sucks!'"
Maybe what's needed instead for Linux newcomers is "what the EU mandated for browsers: an install window that offered five choices, randomly shuffled," Hudson suggested. "Maybe we could call it 'Project Canterbury'?"


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Top-seeded U.S. Coast Guard Academy rallied in the fifth game to post a 30-28, 30-24, 30-32, 17-30, 15-12 win over No. 2 MIT in an all-NEWMAC NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball New England Regional Final on Saturday. The Bears (26-2) will meet up with Juniata College in the Elite Eight which will be held in Salem, Va., on Nov. 16. The Engineers (33-6) made their furthest trip in the NCAA Tournament since they lost the title game in 1984 while Coast Guard will be competing in its first national quarterfinal in any sport.
In the opening game, MIT built a 9-6 lead which was erased by a four-point run from Coast Guard. The Engineers responded by tallying 12 of the next 16 points for a 21-14 advantage. The Bears answered with a 10-1 run to take the lead for good and win the first game.
With the second stanza tied at six, a kill by Alex May sparked a scoring spurt that gave Tech an 11-6 lead. Following a service error, Coast Guard went on a run that evened the contest at 11. After trading points, MIT scored five consecutive points to go ahead, 17-12. Like the last game, the Bears continued to attack, outscoring the Engineers, 18-7, down the stretch.
Coast Guard carried the momentum into the third game as it established a 20-13 advantage. Tech chipped away at the deficit to narrow the margin to two (21-19). Following a Coast Guard timeout, the Bears won the next point but MIT took the next two to trail, 22-21. Coast Guard tacked on three consecutive points to force an MIT timeout. Coming out of the break, the Engineers went on a five-point run to go ahead, 26-25. The Bears evened the game and had a chance to regain the lead, but the potential go-ahead point was replayed due to an injury to an MIT player. The Engineers broke the tie and went up, 28-26. Coast Guard tallied the next three points to set-up match point. MIT denied the Bears the immediate victory by taking the next point. Coast Guard regained the lead (30-29), but the Engineers rattled off three unanswered points to deny the Bears a sweep.
MIT controlled the ball in the fourth frame as it raced out to a 20-6 lead. The scoring during the final stages of the game was evenly balanced, but Coast Guard could not avoid playing a decisive fifth game.
Both teams traded points to open the final frame until the Bears went ahead, 5-4. The alternating scoring continued until Coast Guard led at the changeover (8-6) and then extended its advantage to five. After a timeout by MIT, the Engineers regained serve on a service error, which sparked a run that cut their deficit to one (11-10). The Bears answered by taking the next three points, but their rally ended on a service error. Tech closed the gap to 14-12, but it would not be enough as the Engineers' last attack attempt sailed out of bounds.
May posted a match-high 29 kills to go along with a .323 hitting percentage and 12 digs for MIT. Katie Rowe recorded 16 kills as Frances Rogoz contributed 12. Briana Stephenson paced the blocking corps with six stops while Carrie Buchanan anchored the back row with 30 digs. Rose Zhong collected 23 digs as Lindsay Hunting finished with 13. Amanda Morris distributed 61 assists, setting an Institute record for assists in a season with 1,413, and notched 14 digs.
Nicole Gurr powered Coast Guard's attack with 27 kills while tallying 13 digs. Kimberly Jung registered a double-double with 28 digs and 16 kills while Corinne McCormack chipped in 18 kills. Christine Rostowfske totaled 59 assists and 14 digs while Megan Durbin and Leanna Minton both posted 12 digs.


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by Evalyn Segal
Robert Scheer, progressive author, political journalist and founder of the website Truthdig, spoke at Rossmoor (a Northern California senior citizen community) a couple of weeks ago.
He dwelt on the mean-spiritedness of current American politics and the right wing's efforts to destroy the justice, domestic tranquility and general welfare envisioned in the Preamble to our Constitution. Republicans have let themselves be taken over by Tea Partyers who are hell-bent on instituting a corporatist system of government ruled by Wall Street banks and multinational corporations and serving the interests of only the richest one percent of the nation.
Here's what Gail Collins, New York Times columnist, said in an article ("The Long Stagnation") she co-authored with David Brooks on Oct. 5: "The Tea Party … is just the latest manifestation of the right wing's refusal to accept the idea of Democrats [who purport to represent the interests of the other 99 percent] running the government. Every time one gets elected, there's this crazed right-wing upheaval."
And, shameful as it is to say, the Tea Party-bewitched Republicans, many from the South and Southwest, are especially determined to block any hope of successful governing by a Democratic president who is an uppity darky. Scheer spoke at some length about Barack Obama's ineptitude as president. He is so anxious to show his skills as a compromiser that he gives the store away before negotiations with his opponents even begin.
Some of his giveaways and retreats: He has maintained the Bush Administration's national security apparatus that allows for the suspension of civil liberties. He bailed out Wall Street's greediest firms while failing to push for effective prosecution of their criminal behavior, which triggered the current Depression.
He failed to push for real financial reform on derivatives, hedge funds, securitised mortgages and other demonic "financial instruments," and was afraid to back Elizabeth Warren as chair of the Financial Consumer Affairs
Bureau because Republicans would oppose her. (So let them oppose her! Why not fight back?)
He agreed to extend the Bush-era tax cuts (why didn't he fight?) and caved to Republican extortion during the debt ceiling negotiations (why didn't he fight?). He failed to protect homeowners from losing their homes to predatory banks. He pignored his campaign pledge to support and pursue card check as a union-organizing method; he failed in his pledge to increase the federal minimum wage.
He took Single Payer off the table before negotiations with the health insurance industry even began and promised Big Pharma that he would not press for the right to negotiate quantity drug discounts for government health programs.
He did not seriously address climate change or fight for an energy policy that makes ecological sense. (Some of this list is paraphrased from an email I received in September bearing the subject, Invitation to Challenge Obama in the Democratic Primaries. My reply to the email is below.)
After Scheer's talk, I asked him why the Democratic Party was not planning to have open primaries to select a different Democratic candidate for the presidency in 2012. Scheer's answer, as near as I could understand, was that it was customary for a party to support its incumbent president for a second term. Then Scheer went on to say that, of course, Obama would lose in 2012.
What? The Democratic Party is that eager to commit suicide? They're going to back a candidate who "everyone knows" is going to lose, because it wouldn't be polite to promote someone else in his place?
In my reply to the Invitation to Challenge Obama email, I said:
"What I don't understand is why your purpose is to push Obama a little bit leftward, and not to actually nominate someone progressive and stiff-spined to run in 2012.
"Obama is very smart, and possibly his heart is in the right place even if his arms are extended to Wall Street, but he is temperamentally unsuited to be president in these times. … Why don't we make it clear to Obama that it's time for him to declare that he's content to be a one-term president, and to withdraw as a candidate for the 2012 nomination?
"That would leave him free to spend the next 15 months, until the January 2013 inauguration, actually fighting for measures that will help the despairing working and middle classes, without having to worry that it might lose him votes.
"Why don't we suggest to him that he run for the Senate again at the first available opportunity? If only he had stayed there, matured, learned the ropes, he could have grown into a superb Senator, one for the history books. He still could. As for who the Democrats could pick to run in Obama's place? Just let the vacancy be announced, and there will be no dearth of qualified candidates coming forth, including some who might stand a better-than-even chance of beating the Republican candidate."
Evalyn Segal, a long-time resident of Mt. Airy, recently moved to Northern California.


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Just want to say thanks again to Joe DeCaro for posting on the blog as I go through some things. Going in today for a procedure. Have been in a lot of discomfort lately and hoping this will help. I will keep trying to post whenever I can.
In the interim, some thoughts have been going through my mind I'd like to share with you.
1) I understand selling bricks on the walk ways surrounding to Citi Field. It's the norm these days outside the new stadiums. It brings in some cash, but hardly dents the expenses of a team. You're certainly not going to sign a front line pitcher selling bricks. You're not going to do it either by selling parts of the outfield wall. I know the Mets won't pass on an opportunity to bring in some money, but this really looks desperate, which, of course, the Mets are … it is embarrassing, really. What's next, having players stand outside the gates this summer holding tin cups or tip jars?
2) Saw a nice write-up in the papers where Carlos Beltran was in town to honor a a long time Mets fan and friend who passed away. He presented the man's children with Mets jerseys. I don't know why it was Beltran wasn't fully appreciated here, but he is arguably one of the best position players in franchise history and was always a gentleman. He represented the Mets with class, but wasn't always treated well by the front office, media and fans. It will be a long time before the Mets see another like him.
3) Prince Fielder talked to the Nationals and Rangers, and both could be ideal landing spots. If the money is comparable, you would have to think Texas would be ideal for him because the Rangers are already a good team; the Rangers have a band-box of a ball park; the weather is ideal for hitting year round; the Rangers offer more protection in the line-up; and the American League has the designated hitter. Yes, there are a lot of good reasons why he should lean toward Texas, just as Albert Pujols logically should have been thinking about staying in St. Louis. But, logic has nothing to do with it and it will come down to the largest check.


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The following dates have been established for processing transactions affecting the 1999-00 fiscal year:
The payroll schedules for June and July 2000 have been modified due to the impact of the account code conversion. For more on this topic, please refer to Agency Addressed Memo #11, dated March 24, 2000.
1. Monthly payroll requisitions must be received by the Bureau of State Payrolls no later than 12:00 p.m. on June 21, 2000.
2. Biweekly payroll requisitions must be received no later than 12:00 p.m. on June 23, 2000.
3. Notice that the supplemental payroll previously established to process on July 5, 2000, has been moved to process on June 27, 2000. Supplemental payroll requisitions must be received by the Bureau of State Payrolls no later than 12:00 p.m on June 26, 2000. Note that there will be no opportunity for EFT cancellations due to the compressed timeframe.
4. Notice that an additional Class C payroll has been scheduled. Transactions must be entered into the Employee Travel System by 5:00 p.m. on June 22, 2000.
5. Awards payroll requisitions must be submitted to the Bureau of State Payrolls no later than 12:00 p.m. on June 27, 2000.
All payrolls and related transactions submitted in accordance with this schedule will be processed as 1999-00 transactions. Payroll warrants that are issued from accounts with insufficient cash or budget will not be released until such shortages are resolved. We strongly recommend that agencies closely monitor account balances in order to avoid delays in paying employees at the end of the fiscal year.
1. Vouchers presented to the Comptroller's Office for payment by 5:00 p.m. on June 30, 2000 will be processed as 1999-00 disbursements.
2. Disbursement transactions below the voucher audit threshold must be input into Departmental FLAIR by 6:00 p.m. on June 29, in order to be processed as 1999-00 disbursements.
3. Vouchers input into Departmental FLAIR on or before June 29, but not delivered to the Bureau of Auditing by 5:00 p.m. on June 30, will be deleted from the Comptroller's pre-audit file. These vouchers will have to be corrected in FLAIR and resubmitted as 2000-01 vouchers.
4. Departmental FLAIR will not process disbursement transactions entered on June 30 because the vouchers would not be available until after the June 30 dead-line. Departmental FLAIR will generate a Transaction 58 for all vouchers producing disbursements. Consequently, all disbursement transactions including purchasing card and invoice tracking entered into Departmental FLAIR on June 30 will have to be re-entered. FLAIR will purge the voucher print file on the night of June 30 to ensure that no vouchers will print on July 1, 2000.
5. Batch disbursement transactions processed through Departmental FLAIR must be presented to the Bureau of Production Control by 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 29, in order for the resulting voucher schedules to be available for printing on the morning of June 30. Batch transactions processed on file transfers by the State University System (SUS) must be received by FLAIR on the night of June 28 in order for the vouchers to be available for printing on June 30.
6. Expense tape batch input into the Central Accounting System must be delivered to the Bureau of Production Control by 1:00 p.m. on June 30, 2000. The supporting documentation must be received by the Bureau of Auditing by 5:00 p.m. on the same day.
7. No SUS accounting file transfers will be accepted on the night of June 30, 2000. FLAIR will accept only Property update transfers the night of June 30.
1. The Treasurer will receive bank deposit slips that have been validated by 2:00 p.m. on June 30 via facsimile or hand delivery until 5:00 p.m. on June 30 for processing if the Treasurer receives a confirmation and the deposit is entered into a "T" status in FLAIR prior to 5:00 p.m. on June 30. At 5:00 p.m. on June 30, unverified receipts on the Treasurer's file will be rejected (placed in "R" status) back to the agencies by the Treasurer. On the night of June 30, Departmental FLAIR will purge all outstanding cash receipts records from the cash receipts file. FLAIR will produce a report for each agency that had outstanding records purged. Agencies will need to make correcting entries in Departmental FLAIR for all records purged from the cash receipts file.
2. Cash receipts may be input on June 30, transmitted to the Treasurer, and verified on June 30. Supporting documentation that is validated by 2:00 p.m. on June 30 must be delivered to the Treasurer by 5:00 p.m. on June 30 in order for the deposit to be posted to 1999-00 fiscal year. The Treasurer must be able to read the bank validation on the deposit slips.
3. Those agencies depositing through the Treasurer's Concentration System must deliver a bank validated deposit slip on deposits made before 2:00 p.m. on June 30 to the Treasurer by 5:00 p.m. on June 30. No deposits, except for wire transfers, made after 2:00 p.m. on June 30 will be receipted by the Treasurer in the 1999-00 fiscal year.
4. Cash receipts transactions for current year refunds must be verified by the Treasurer by 3:00 p.m. on June 28 in order for the resulting JT-2 to be available for printing on the morning of June 29 and be delivered to the Bureau of Auditing by 5:00 p.m. on June 30. Expense refunds verified by the Treasurer on June 30 will remain in the Refund account (001800).
5. Cash refunds in Clearing Accounts must be cleared to the Treasurer by the close of business on June 28 so that they may be transferred to the Treasurer and verified on June 29. Expense refunds cleared from Clearing Accounts after this time will remain in the Refunds account (001800)
6. Please review all uncleared Clearing Fund deposits by requesting the Immediate Detail of Clearing Funds Deposits report through the CP function. A report of Clearing Funds not cleared is also available in the standard logon.
7. The Treasurer's last day of processing debit memorandums for returned checks for agencies will be on June 27 for the 1999-00 fiscal year. The Treasurer's last day of processing debit memorandum for returned EFT transactions will be on June 30, for the 1999-00 fiscal year.
All expense warrants returned for cancellation that are received by 5:00 p.m. on June 30, will be processed as current year business. Please note that payroll warrants for cancellations are retained by the agencies and must be added and approved online by 5:00 p.m. on June 30. Agencies should review their accounts to ensure that the appropriate prior year cancellation revenue category code, 003700, has been established.
Proposed or provisional settlement agreements must be received by the Bureau of Auditing, Room 434I, Fletcher Building, or the Bureau of State Payrolls, Room 364, Fletcher Building, not later than 5:00 p.m. on June 12 to allow time for review and approval. Previously approved proposed or provisional settlement agreements attached to payment vouchers received by the Bureau of Auditing by 5:00 p.m. June 30 will be processed as 1999-00 disbursements.
Timely resolutions of settlement agreements is encouraged and recommended; however, settlement agreements must be submitted with sufficient detail and in a form sufficient to enable a prompt pre-audit. Those settlement agreements with voluminous detail that may hinder timely processing of other settlement agreements should be considered for processing as Certified Forward items. All settlement agreement payment vouchers not meeting the requirements of Bureau of Auditing, Voucher Processing Handbook, Chapter 1, page 10, or the Bureau of State Payrolls' Payroll Preparation Manual, Volume 5, Section 4, will be returned for rescheduling as charges against FY 2000-01 appropriations or certifications forward, as appropriate. Any questions relating to this process and/or documentation requirements should be directed to the Bureau of Auditing or the Bureau of State Payrolls.
1. Because of the heavy workload experienced at year-end, it is our intent not to accept manually prepared vouchers from agencies. Requests for exceptions to this policy should be directed to the appropriate Bureau Chief. Your cooperation in minimizing these exception requests will help us to close out the fiscal year in a timely manner.
2. All functions of FLAIR will be operational for the entire day on June 30. However, please realize that no disbursement transactions entered on that day will produce vouchers. FLAIR will purge the voucher print file on the night of June 30 to ensure that no vouchers will print on July 1, 2000.
3. Statewide document number will be reset to begin with the number x1000000001 on July 1, where x denotes the data base on which the number is used. The number in the first position is incremented each year to avoid duplication of statewide document numbers across fiscal years.
4. Departmental FLAIR will be available on Saturday, June 24, 2000. However, all work will be processed as Monday input as usual.
No changes are known for the Certifications Forward process on June 30, 2000. Below is a summary of the Certification Forward information:
1. As was done in prior years, the CFI (Certified Forward at June 30, 1999) and NCFI (Certified Forward at June 30, 2000) fields will be available in FLAIR. Certifications forward at June 30, 2000 will be processed based on the NCFI. All items marked for certification on or before June 30, 2000, will effectively be marked in both the CFI and NCFI. FLAIR will read all subsidiaries on the night of June 30, 2000 and set the NCFI to a blank.
2. At the agency's request, FLAIR will reset the NCFI-C on all non-FCO state fund items (except those in SF-8) on the accounts payable and/or encumbrances subsidiaries at 6:00 p.m. on June 30, 2000 for certifications forward, and agencies must "unmark" those items not to be certified. Receivables and memo encumbrances without a vendor will not be automatically marked.
Agencies should request automatic marking of subsidiary files in writing by Monday, June 5, 2000. Letters should identify which subsidiaries, if any, should be marked and be mailed to:
Mr. Raymond B. Marsh, Director
No subsidiaries will be marked for requests received after June 5, and telephone requests absolutely will not be honored. The letter should also include a request for FLAIR to create an FCO Certifications Forward file from your Projected Information file records, if you so desire. Otherwise, these records will have to be built manually as part of the FCO Certification process. FCO Certifications records from last year have been purged from the file and are not available for update.
3. For those agencies not using the FLAIR automated marking, certifications forward may be manually marked in one of the following ways:
a. Enter the "C" on the appropriate 60, 80, or 90 transaction (NOT 6S, 8S, or 9S subsidiary updates) as part of the original input. Use this method only after June 30, 2000, because FLAIR will reset the NCFI to a blank on that night and any markings prior to that action will effectively be lost. After June 30, transactions 60, 80, or 90 which carry a "C" will update NCFI (Certification Forward at June 30, 2000) regardless of PPI. However, to record the balance as of June 30, 2000, the appropriate PPI must be entered.
b. Call the items up on subsidiary inquiry/update screens and update them with a blank PPI to carry the "C" in a single update mode. Subsidiary inquiry screens will show both the CFI and NCFI fields.
c. Call the items up on the 1S-X screen and update them to carry the "C" and the date received for accounts payable in a multiple update mode. 1S-X may only be used for items which have no 1999-00 activity.
4. To "unmark" items that will not be certified forward, the item should be retrieved using the appropriate subsidiary update with a Blank PPI, or the IS-X screen (if there has been no current year activity), and erase the "C" in the CF field. This will remove the "C" from the NCFI.
5. Memo Accounts Receivable and Memo Encumbrances without Vendors may not be marked for certifications forward.
6. NCFI will be retrieved from the appropriate subsidiary Payment/Receipt in 1999-00, but may be overridden before processing.
7. As was done last year, Fixed Capital Outlay will be certified forward through the FLAIR Certified Forward system. Consult the EOG Office of Policy and Budget for instructions in this area. In keeping with the policy of prior years, no FCO accounts will carry a certified forward indicator, but instead, will utilize the year indicator to identify appropriations to a specific year.
8. Certified forward processing must run before you close the year and cannot be run on the night of your year- end closing. This process is requested through the PE function. Certified forward information will be transferred to EOG upon request to the FLAIR Help Desk by the agency.
Requests must be called into the Help Desk by 2:00 p.m. on the day that you wish the transfer to occur. Only subsidiary records with positive balances will be processed and reflected on the certified forward reports. The certified forward processing and EOG transfers are separate, independent processes and must be scheduled/requested as such. If you close the year without first completing the certified forward processing, the transaction 07s to record GLs 122xx, 131xx, 134xx, 911xx, and 931xx, will not be recorded.
9. You do not have to run certified forward processing before you can pay items to be certified. The prior year, or June 30, 1999, subsidiary file balances are utilized for certified forward processing, but the current year on-line subsidiary function continues with updates to current year balances. Records with prior year balances will not be purged while you are in dual-year processing.
Each agency can assist with closing the 1999-00 fiscal year in the following manner:
1. Make every effort to submit substantially all of your vouchers to the Bureau of Auditing by Friday, June 23.
2. Carefully check cash and appropriation balances in all accounts to ensure that sufficient amounts are available. This will eliminate delays or rejections of payments due to funds shortages.
3. Agencies using selected operating accounts for consolidating salary payments must adjust these accounts to reflect the correct salary disbursements before the close of the fiscal year. Transfers of salary charges must be made to the applicable accounts to eliminate year-to-date negative disbursement balances.
4. Carefully review year-to-date disbursement balances in all accounts to ensure that appropriations are not over-expended and that negative disbursement balances do not exist. Generally, accounts must not be closed out showing negative year-to-date disbursement balances.
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Unfortunately, when it comes to this weekend we do not yet know which players will succeed. Of course we still want to talk about something, so this puts the entire focus on value. Teams "reach" if they take a player earlier than an arbitrary big board, and they get a steal if they draft them later. Many critics of this grading process will jump to point out that the particular big board itself was simply conjecture and did not actually represent that a player would have been available where he was mocked. I suggest that this overlooks a bigger issue, however, which is that reaching a bit or getting a good deal is fundamentally not nearly as important as getting the right players.
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Humans weren't alone in being displaced earlier this week by the effects of Hurricane Sandy. Video images of flooded subway stations in Lower Manhattan revealed the extent of damage inflicted by the storm surge - flooding that would have surely forced thousands of rats out of the subways and into more populated areas. This has experts worried, and they're warning that these rats may start to spread diseases like leptospirosis, hantavirus, typhus, salmonella - and even the plague.
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Tim Tebow Scores In the Game of Love with Gorgeous Brazilian
Tim Tebow is no longer playing the field.
The hunky New York Jets' back up quarterback is finally stepping out in public with new girlfriend, actress Camilla Belle.
First reported by TMZ, the NFL player has scored in the game of love with the gorgeous Brazilian beauty.
The two were spotted on Tuesday in Jacksonville, Fla. in a group outing with friends.
Witnesses said the duo was cozy and affectionate, holding hands and touching throughout the night.
Tebow is notoriously known for his strong Christian beliefs.
Having trademarked his signature move, a kneeling prayer known as "tebowing," the footballer has also been open about his desire to stay pure before marriage.
Belle was most recently linked to Joe Jonas, who too spoke openly about his faith while wearing a purity ring.
While Belle is less outspoken about her faith, the Latina was raised in a strict Catholic household.
Aside from Belle, Tebow has been linked to a bevy of A-list celebrities including Taylor Swift and Olympian Lindsey Vonn.
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Tahir - Get Ready lyrics
Uhh, ahh, uhh
{*heavy breathing*}
Uhh, ahh, uhh, yeah
{*heavy breathing*}
Cuz if you ain't ready (ready)
You better, get ready (get ready)
Cuz if you ain't ready (ready)
You better, get ready (get ready)
Cuz if you ain't ready (ready)
You better...
Wake up - time to move
Put on ya shirt, put on ya shoes
Go all out, ain't nuttin to lose
Pick all the chains, break the rules
Let's ride soldier, build ya skills
Tell me how we gon' get free for real
No game, this war we got to win
Get in where ya fit in, come on then, nigga
Learned a lot, seen a lot, grew a lot, cut my locks
Strong as ever, new and improved
In my heart I know we can't lose
But we got to hustle, ride the wind
Dead'll struggle, Dead'll win
Knew the strategy, know the enemy
Focus energy, one community
North, east, west, south
With or without the gold in ya mouth
We bout to roll out like gangsta white wall
For the love of the people, we fight for the cause
Now walk wit us, lace yo' chucks
Lemme see them black fists, raise 'em up (c'mon)
Get ready cuz Bush tryna push
These anti-terrorist laws that's meant for us
[Lyrics from: https:/lyrics.az/tahir/-/get-ready.html]
Ay, this for the strugglers, nine-to-fivers
All the hustlers, call the grinders
On a mission, every person
Organizin, puttin work in
Get ya paper, it's on and poppin
Time to ride out for somethin proper
Drop them coppers, we don't need 'em
Trained to beat 'em, bang for freedom
City blocks, country roads
Every ghetto, get ready to roll
Keep on livin, keep on learnin
Till we free it's self-determined
Tell ya folk, holla dawg
So we can get this power dawg
Stick together, sew ya up
RBG throw it up!
Been here, still here, in here, this real here
No fear, we ain't scared
Better beware, we pre-prepared
Comin with the same team this year
Stic. here, Ta-hir
Fist in the air, this our year
Holla if ya heard me!
[Chorus 2]
Nigga this that RBG's
We keep it off the heez'
Still hollarin "Let's Get Free"
Buck wit me, who ready?
Nigga this that RBG's
We keep it off the heez'
Still hollarin "Let's Get Free"
Buck wit me, who ready? c'mon c'mon!
*beat falls out and returns*
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Former Employee Of Federal Court Contractor Sentenced For Bribery And Perjury
Falsified Drug Tests of Federal Defendants in Return for Bribes and
Then Lied to a Grand Jury Investigating the Accusations
Greenbelt, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Lauren Jeannette Diggs, age 51, of Rockville, today to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for a bribery conspiracy and making false statements to the grand jury, in connection with a scheme to accept bribes from individuals charged or convicted of federal crimes to falsify urine tests.
The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge Stephen E. Vogt of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Chief Mark A. Magaw of the Prince George's County Police Department.
"Lauren Jeannette Diggs took bribes to falsify drug tests of federal criminal defendants, then committed perjury before the grand jury investigating the allegations," said U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein. "Providing false information to courts and grand juries undermines the integrity of the criminal justice system."
From July 27, 2009 through December 30, 2010, Diggs was the primary alcohol and substance abuse counselor for ADR, a company that provides alcohol and drug treatment services, at ADR's Forestville facility, where she also supervised urine tests on female clients. U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services in Maryland contracted with ADR to test the urine samples of individuals who were on pretrial release, supervised release, parole or probation for the presence of controlled substances. When ADR clients completed their substance abuse and mental health treatment programs, ADR provided them with discharge summary certificates. U.S. Probation relied on the urine test results and certificates prepared by ADR to supervise individuals charged with or convicted of federal crimes, and to prepare reports to the U.S. District Court or the Parole Commission, who in turn relied on the reports to make release and sentencing decisions.
According to her guilty plea, starting in January 2010, Diggs asked co-conspirator Christopher Womack, who was employed at ADR as a urine technician, and others to ensure that certain ADR clients would not have their urine samples accurately tested and reported to U.S. Probation in exchange for money from ADR clients. Diggs introduced Womack to her bribe-paying clients and explained her bribe pricing schedule to Womack. After she was fired from ADR on December 30, 2010, Diggs continued to assist Womack in providing fictitious certificates to ADR clients in exchange for money, and received proceeds of bribe payments from Womack.
Many of the federal defendants who paid bribes had significant criminal histories and had been in fact ingesting controlled substances while on supervised release. In total, Diggs and Womack accepted more than 100 individual bribe payments.
During 2012, the Grand Jury in Greenbelt was investigating the bribery scheme, including Diggs' participation. Subpoenas were issued in June 2012 requiring Diggs and Womack to appear and provide sworn testimony before the Grand Jury . On June 11, Womack called Diggs to discuss their anticipated testimony. Diggs attempted to persuade Womack to provide false testimony, saying:
"There ain't nothing else to tell them m—f—!... They have no f— proof.… You don't know s—. Deny! Deny! Deny!... If you don't remember no other f— word you remember that g—d— word. Deny!... Cause that's what the f— I'm gonna do."
Diggs appeared before the Grand Jury on July 2, 2012 and made false statements, claiming that she did not know anyone at ADR who had received money in exchange for not requiring ADR clients to take court-mandated urine tests, or in exchange for providing discharge certificates. Diggs also denied that she had spoken to Womack since her discharge from ADR.
Three days later, in a telephone conversation on July 5, Diggs again attempted to persuade Womack to provide false testimony to the Grand Jury. Diggs said:
"Yo, that grand jury is nothing…. It's nothing. It's easy. Deny. Deny everything. You haven't seen me…. Anything that's asked, deny."
Christopher Womack, age 44, of Forestville, Maryland, pleaded guilty to bribery and was sentenced to three years probation of which nine months are in home confinement
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein praised the FBI and the Prince George's County Police Department for their work in the investigation. Mr. Rosenstein thanked Assistant United States Attorney James A. Crowell IV, who prosecuted the case.
Mr. Rosenstein thanked District of Maryland Chief U.S. Probation Officer William Henry for bringing the allegations to the attention of federal law enforcement.


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The most widespread oppression in the world today is the oppression of Christians by Muslims. And yet, for some reason, the world's foremost human rights crisis is rarely noticed, let alone opposed. Raymond Ibrahim, author of a new book titled Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians, has tirelessly tried to draw attention to the catastrophe that has befallen Christians living in predominantly Muslim countries in recent years. Ibrahim offered an overview of the situation at the Middle East Forum:
A mass exodus of Christians is currently underway. Millions of Christians are being displaced from one end of the Islamic world to the other. …
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom recently said: "The flight of Christians out of the region is unprecedented and it's increasing year by year." In our lifetime alone "Christians might disappear altogether from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Egypt."
Most of what we now think of as the "Muslim world" was inhabited by Christians long before Islam came into being. Now, in one country after another, Christians are being exterminated. Syria is the most recent case in point:
In October 2012 the last Christian in the city of Homs—which had a Christian population of some 80,000 before jihadis came—was murdered.
It is notable that the Muslim war on Christianity is not limited to Arab states or the Middle East:
Iraq, Syria, and Egypt are the Arab world. But even in "black" African and "white" European nations with Muslim majorities, Christians are fleeing.
In Mali, after a 2012 Islamic coup, as many as 200,000 Christians fled. According to reports, "the church in Mali faces being eradicated," especially in the north "where rebels want to establish an independent Islamist state and drive Christians out… there have been house to house searches for Christians who might be in hiding, church and Christian property has been looted or destroyed, and people tortured into revealing any Christian relatives." At least one pastor was beheaded.
Even in European Bosnia, Christians are leaving en mass "amid mounting discrimination and Islamization." Only 440,000 Catholics remain in the Balkan nation, half the prewar figure.
Islam is, in its most fundamental teachings, intolerant of other religions. The story is the same, whether in Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, the Ivory Coast (where, as Ibrahim notes, Christians have been crucified), Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia or Sudan. Ibrahim places today's oppression in the broader sweep of history:
Often forgotten is that, in the 7th century, half of the world's entire Christian population was spread across what is now nonchalantly called the "Muslim world." Then Islam, born in the deserts of Arabia, burst out in a series of world-altering jihads, conquering and slowly transforming these once Christian nations into Islamic nations.
In order to evade sporadic persecution and constant discrimination, over the centuries most Christians converted, while others fled. A few opted to remain Christian and live as barely tolerated third-class subjects, or dhimmis, according to Sharia law.
They eventually experienced something of a renaissance during the colonial and post-colonial era, when many Muslims were Westward-looking.
But today, with the international resurgence of Muhammad's religion, these remaining Christians are reaching extinction, as Islam's 1400 year mission of supremacy and global hegemony continues unabated—even as the West looks the other way, that is, when it's not actually supporting it in the context of the so-called "Arab Spring."
Maybe next time President Obama holds a press conference, a reporter will ask him whether he is concerned about the Muslim oppression of Christians, and whether his administration's policies are contributing to that oppression.


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Based on consultation with a wide range of mental health experts and therapists who informed us of the lack of scientifically rigorous studies that support the effectiveness of therapies to change sexual orientation, a review of literature written by experts and major medical and mental health organizations, and based upon reports of the negative and, at times, deleterious consequences to clients of some of the interventions endorsed by JONAH, the Rabbinical Council of America decided in 2011, as part of an overall statement on the Jewish attitude towards homosexuality, to withdraw its original letter referencing JONAH. Despite numerous attempts by the RCA to have mention of that original letter removed from the JONAH website, our calls, letters, and emails remain unanswered. As Rabbi Shmuel Goldin, president of the RCA, stated in 2011, "We want it taken down. JONAH said it was a letter of support, but if you read the letter it is not. They took an informational statement and reprinted it, and the use of that as an endorsement is an error."
Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, Chancellor of Yeshiva University and author of the 1974 Encyclopedia Judaica Year Book article, "Judaism and the Modern Attitude to Homosexuality," the first contemporary article to address the issue from the perspective of Jewish law and philosophy, had originally commended the work of JONAH. In response to the negative reports about JONAH's activities and concerns expressed to him by respected mental health professionals, Dr. Lamm withdrew his endorsement of JONAH.
Rabbi Shmuel Goldin
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
BIG Brown Spider (hairy face, white spots, striped legs & large abdomen)
These spiders are actually shades of brown and not the silver gray color in these two close up pics below - the color looks different then reality because the flash on the camera washed out the browns, so when trying to ID this spider go by the markings and not the color.
There are two spiders (the ones pictured here) living together in the same crack above the door, and the interesting thing is they let other spiders live right near them too - although I imagine sometimes things can get out of hand and the big ones might eat their smaller friends. It happens to us all, at least metaphorically.
8 comments:
- Kittie Howard said...
Cool! But I'm not sure Love Thy Neighbor applies as spiders do eat other spiders, yipes!
- August 31, 2010 at 1:54 PM
- Gratuitous said...
Hard to tell without more visual details, but if you didn't see a web and its two front legs were extended forward like a crab, then it's probably a Banded Huntsman, as they like to hunt and forage. Bonus: they love to eat yummy cockroaches.
- August 31, 2010 at 10:19 PM
- Leslie's Gone Oko said...
ha Kittie- some fellow neighbors were empty shells, some still living.
Gratu -
It did have legs out front and it didn't have a traditional web, although there was some web like junk stuck in the cracks - it wasnt easy to tell if it was theirs or if it was the few other spiders living next door that made it.
I like that name.... !
- August 31, 2010 at 10:26 PM
- Gratuitous said...
O. M. G. You got me thinking about names, and after all this time I finally got your "Leslie's Gone Oko" rhyme with "loco." Better late than never?
- August 31, 2010 at 10:37 PM
- Leslie's Gone Oko said...
Gratu! Ha.
Maybe you are the first to get it.
Oko is pronounced "OH-KOH" which sounds like LOCO. :)
- September 1, 2010 at 12:14 PM
- Stephanie Rogers said...
We have two of these here as well! They're barn spiders aka the "charlotte's web" spider. I just tried to get a photo of one of mine but I have a crap point-and-shoot camera - gotta get a digital SLR!
- September 2, 2010 at 10:10 AM
- Leslie's Gone Oko said...
Hey Stephanie!
I have a cannon EOS REBEL, but sometimes it's really picky about taking pictures of tiny things, especially when they blend it. I find that I am always wishing for a MEGA macro zoom lens, just for bugs :)))
GUess I'll put that on my list to Santa Claus. lol
I would love it if they would write somthing like "swell donkey" !
- September 2, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- nlmobley said...
I also have one one of these spiders that is living right outside my front door and hides behind the old wasps' nest during the day and only comes out at night...I would really love to know the real name of this spider.
- October 16, 2010 at 11:31 AM


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We might as well get it out in the open and say, yes, our car does look oddly similar to the legendary Project X, the Popular Hot Rodding project car that began in the 1980s, but that will eventually change. Over the course of the next several issues, expect this 1957 Chevy Bel Air to go through a series of transformations that will showcase some of the performance parts available for '55-57 Chevys.
Our '57 project car was purchased from a reader in northern California last year in an effort to bring more Tri-Five coverage to our readers. From what we can tell without opening the engine, the car has a worn-out small-block with a lumpy camshaft, rusty headers, and a dirty carburetor. Other aspects of the project include dinged and dented trim, a trunk that won't close, and a confused ride height. The brakes and all the suspension parts were melded together with road grime accumulated over the decades and many of the fasteners needed extra motivation to break loose. It seems to us that 1950's cars have much more grime than we're used to, but when this project is complete none of that will matter.
Thanks to the sloppy stock suspension and steering, the '57 was pretty much undriveable when it got unloaded in the fall of 2013. There was so much play in the suspension and the ancient drum brakes were so sketchy that no one felt safe driving it. Lucky for us, a company right up the road from our offices in Irvine, California, offers a complete line of parts for Tri-Fives to remedy our problems: Performance Online (POL).
The first stage in the performance upgrades includes a brake and suspension package from POL. After scouring their extensive catalog, we found three part numbers that cover the frontend of these cars pretty well (see sidebar). Instead of flimsy, squishy stock pieces from the 1950s, you can now easily replace them with solid, new components that will change the feel of your Tri-Five. We wanted to address the handling and braking first on this project since that's what it needed the most, and with POL offering affordable kits for these iconic cars, it made sense to showcase some of their basic kits that can take your tired Tri-Five and turn it into a more fun (and safer) hot rod.
1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Front End Revamp
'55-57 Frontend Rebuild Kit (PN SFKP5557D)
Lowering springs available
Steering parts
3-way adjustable shocks
Tubular Upper and Lower Control Arms (PN S2SK5557)
Eliminates deflection
Billet cross-shafts
Includes ball joints
'55-57 Bel Air and Fullsize Disc Brake Conversion Kit (PN SWBKD5557)
2-inch drop spindles
Zinc-plated, drilled rotors
Fits small wheels for stock replacements
1. Here's a shot of the basic pieces we ordered from Performance Online (POL). POL also offers front and rear sway bars (PN SBK5557) for Tri-Fives that would need to be retrofit. We suspect the sway bar combined with the stiffer control arms will really help the car's terrible body roll.
2. With drum brakes at all four corners, we weren't going to win any braking contests. At the Source Interlink Media Tech Center in Irvine, California, Jason Scudellari tackled the task of upgrading our Tri-Five.
3. Detaching the steering started with the tie rods. For those thinking about building a 1950s project here's a tip: prepare to break a sweat getting some of these old pieces apart.
4. The stock tie rod steering arms get reused on the 2-inch drop spindles. Jason unbolted them and set the pair aside.
5. Next, the stock rubber lines were detached. These made way for new stainless steel pieces from Performance Online.
6. The control arms are stamped steel stockers from 1957. Besides having squishy rubber bushings, we imagine they flex a considerable amount during aggressive cornering. With POL's tubular versions however, we expected to hug the road much better.
7. A side-by-side shot with the old and new coil springs shows the 1.5-inch drop we opted for the '57. When combined with our drop spindle, the nose-in-the-air ride height will definitely be fixed.
8. The tubular upper and lower control arms from Performance Online feature polyurethane bushings and a clean black powerdercoat.
9. Here, Scudellari lifts the POL coil springs into the frame cups. They come in shiny black powdercoat and are available for small- and big-blocks.
10. Once the drop spindles were in place, Scudellari installed the new discs. The discs measure 10.75 inches, so while they aren't the largest available, they do fit behind 14-inch wheels and are worlds better than the worn drum brakes.
11. With how grimy the bolts were under the '57, it was nice to be able to replace the nasty stock hardware with clean, new fasteners.
12. For those that want larger disc brakes on their Tri-Five, Performance Online also offers a 13-inch disc conversion kit (PN SWBK13D5557).
13. Performance Online's stainless steel braided brake lines were used to finish the brake installation.
14a-b. The front sway bar attaches to the lower control arms and then a bracket is retrofitted to the frame by drilling a couple of holes and cinching it up with the supplied hardware.
15. With the '57's frontend redone, we'll move on to the rear suspension where tired leaf springs and blown air shocks from another era are still in place. Look for details on restoring the rear suspension on this project in an upcoming issue.
16. To continue the updated theme; we added a set of set of one piece 17x7 Vintage Series Cragar wheels that feature a Matte Gray center and a 4.250-inch backspace. Our street rubber of choice is 225/50ZR17 Falken Azenis FK453 tires.


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