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Installing A Blower System On a Corvette - Force-Feeding A C6
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Installing A Blower System On a Corvette - Force-Feeding A C6
The A&A Corvette supercharger kit for C6s includes a Vortech V-2 SQ compressor, an adjustable bypass valve, and A&A's unique bracket/pulley design, which offers excellent belt wrap (the amount of the blower pulley that is in contact with the drive belt) to all but eliminate the chance for slippage. Not seen in this photo is the large heat exchanger for the air-to-air charge cooling system.
The kit comes with a 3.8-inch supercharger drive pulley that enables about 10 pounds of boost. That's great for street-driven vehicles that will be tuned for pump gas. The company also offers smaller- and larger-diameter pulleys that alter the maximum boost; smaller pulleys increase boost, but sometimes at the cost of pump-gas driveability.
To facilitate the task of "pinning the crankshaft," the steering rack must also be removed. A&A Corvette also recommends removing the factory power-steering cooler in order to make room for the supercharger kit's plumbing. See the main text for more information on the pinning process.
In order to mount the intercooler and its related plumbing, as well as other components of the supercharger kit, the Corvette's front fascia must be removed. It involves carefully pulling out a number of delicate plastic push pins, as well as the removal of the front wheels.
There are two major things to note in this photo. First, at the 5 o'clock position on the crankshaft hub, the pin to lock together the crank and balancer/pulley is installed. Second, at the bottom right of the balancer/pulley, threaded into a drilled-and-tapped hole in the front of the oil pan, is the required oil-return port that links to the supercharger head unit.
When drilling and tapping the oil pan, white lithium grease should be used on the end of the bit to hold shards released during the drilling process. Keeping this debris out of the oil pan is vitally important. Some installers even drill the initial hole in the pan prior to draining the oil, allowing material to flow out with the old oil.
With the oil pan drilled and tapped, the oil-return line is connected to it and held out of the way until the supercharger itself is mounted to the engine.
Next, the rear portion of the supercharger bracket is installed in place of the factory belt tensioner. That's fine, because the A&A kit includes its own tensioner to be mounted on the bracket.
With the front part of the bracket attached to the supercharger head unit, the assembly is mated with the rear bracket. Trimming a bit of material from the factory water pump is necessary to ensure adequate clearance for the water pump.
When the supercharger is securely in place, the oil feed and return lines are installed. Shown here is the return line being installed. Not shown is the feed line that runs from a port in the cylinder block to the head unit. Proper attachment of both with Teflon tape on the fittings' threads is imperative to prevent leaks. Because the Vortech blower uses engine oil circulated through it, its lubrication is refreshed every time the engine oil is changed.
Some trimming of factory components was necessary in our case in order to mount the intake and discharge plumbing for the blower and intercooler. It included trimming the tabs at the top of the radiator. The aluminum material is easy to cut-almost too easy, so care must be taken to be precise with a cutter and/or grinder.
Another component to be trimmed is the passenger-side lower apron, near the factory brake cooling duct. A larger hole must be cut into it to provide routing room for plumbing from the blower to the heat exchanger.
Next, the large heat exchanger for the air-to-air-style intercooler is hoisted into place in front of the radiator. The air-to-air design speeds the kit's installation, as it doesn't require a separate cooling circuit that goes with the typical liquid-to-air intercooler design.
Here, a 90-degree silicone hose is shown feeding into the side of the heat exchanger. It's the discharged routing from the supercharger, which blows through the intercooler to reduce air temperatures and provide a more powerful, denser air charge at the engine. The denser charge also minimizes the chance for detonation in the Vette's relatively high-compression LS2. Note, too, the location of the bypass valve, which bleeds off excess boost when the throttle closes.
After all the intake and discharge hoses are plumbed under the hood, the rest of the engine work involves adding new, colder-range NGK TR-6 spark plugs and replacing the fuel injectors with the 60-lb/hr units that come with the blower kit. An engine with higher-capacity fuel injectors shouldn't be started until the ECM has been updated to reflect their presence, or big problems can occur.
Rather than replacing the factory in-tank fuel pump, the A&A Corvette kit comes with a Kenne Bell Boost-A-Pump system that increases the voltage to the factory pump and effectively "supercharges" its output. It mounts in the driver-side rear fenderwell. The inner fender liner is removed and re-installed over the system, for a hidden, well-protected installation.
Here's the completed installation of the supercharger kit. The close-out plate, with its OEM-looking black finish, looks great under the hood and is wholly appropriate for the premium feel of the Corvette. Stuffing all of the kit's plumbing into the nose of the Corvette wasn't exactly a cakewalk, but no major problems developed, and the general fit and finish of were excellent.
A custom calibration for the engine controller was performed by Stenod Performance upon the completion of the kit's installation. Stenod's techs tuned it not only for the supercharger, but for the additional engine modifications as well. These included L92 heads, a "blower" camshaft, an LS3 intake manifold, headers, and more. Then, it was onto Stenod's Mustang dyno to evaluate the shop's many hours of labor.
On the rollers, the supercharged LS2 delivered a stunning 508 hp at the rear wheels and 439 lb-ft of torque. And remember, this was through an automatic transmission and on a conservative-reading Mustang dyno. Peak numbers aside, that's a whopping 170hp/110-lb-ft jump over the baseline 338hp/329-lb-ft numbers. Talk about bang for the buck!
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Firefighters in UK's Eden Valley countryside had to do an unusual job when rescuing a cow stuck in a tree.
Phillip Armstrong, a farm owner near Penrith, was counting his cattle when he realised one was missing, newsandstar.co.uk reported.
The animals had been sheltering by trees in part of his field which led to an embankment overlooking a river.
Noticing a damaged fence, Armstrong walked down the embankment but looking up, he saw his one-year-old cow stuck between two trees. Below the 317kg-animal was a drop of nearly 20 metres.
"When you see part of your livelihood like that it isn't good,"Armstrong said.
The pedigree daisy shorthorn heifer named Moorriggs Sparkle III had stopped struggling to get free by the time firefighters and a vet appeared on the scene.
"It had given up trying but was in a state of shock," the vet said. "It had no major injuries. If it had, it would have been kinder to put it to sleep."
Putting the cow under heavy sedation, the firefighters then used a sling and heavy plant equipment to stabilise Moorriggs and brought her down safely.
Impressively, Moorriggs suffered only minor bruising and is now back on her feet with the rest of her herd.

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LAGOS, Nigeria — A human wave of more than 20,000 surrounded the Muslim faithful as they prayed toward Mecca Friday, as anti-government demonstrations over spiraling fuel prices and corruption showed unity among protesters despite growing sectarian tensions in Africa's most populous nation.
While violence sparked by religious and ethnic divisions left about 1,500 people dead last year alone in Nigeria, some hope the ongoing protests gripping the oil-rich nation will bring together a country that already suffered through a bloody civil war.
"It shows that Nigeria is now coming together as one family," said Abdullahi Idowu, 27, as he prepared to wash himself before Friday prayers.
Labor unions, meanwhile, announced Friday they would halt their five-day strike for the weekend, allowing families stuck largely inside their homes to go to markets and rest. Union leaders also plan to meet President Goodluck Jonathan and government officials on Saturday for new negotiations, just ahead of a promised labor shutdown of Nigeria's oil industry.
Nigeria, which produces about 2.4 million barrels of crude a day, is the fifth-largest oil exporter to the U.S. While the country has a several-week stock of oil ready for export, the threatened shutdown Sunday could shake oil futures as traders remained concerns about worldwide supply.
The strike began Monday, paralyzing the nation of more than 160 million people. The root cause remains gasoline prices: President Goodluck Jonathan's government abandoned subsidies that kept gasoline prices low Jan. 1, causing prices to spike from $1.70 per gallon (45 cents per liter) to at least $3.50 per gallon (94 cents per liter). The costs of food and transportation also largely doubled in a nation where most people live on less than $2 a day.
Anger over losing one of the few benefits average Nigerians see from being an oil-rich country, as well as disgust over government corruption, have led to demonstrations across this nation and violence that has killed at least 10 people. Red Cross volunteers have treated more than 600 people injured in protests since the strike began, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Friday.
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The Chinese Evolution
Books on China by American journalists (including Nation contributors such as Edgar Snow, Agnes Smedley and Orville Schell) have at times played a crucial role in shaping American perceptions of the world's most populous country. The heyday of what might be called "Whither China Reportage," in the mid-twentieth century, saw the appearance of classic works such as Edgar Snow's Red Star Over China (1936), Agnes Smedley's Battle Hymn of China (1943) and Theodore White and Annalee Jacoby's Thunder Out of China (1946). What had been a steady stream slowed to a trickle under Mao (1949-76), but the flow resumed early in the Reform period (beginning in 1978) with the publication of widely read forays into Whither China Reportage such as Fox Butterfield's China: Alive in the Bitter Sea (1982) and Schell's To Get Rich Is Glorious (1984). And in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen protests and the June 4 Massacre, the genre underwent an even stronger resurgence.
Among the many books on China published since Tiananmen, none has had a bigger impact than Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn's China Wakes (1994). After Tiananmen, Kristof and Wudunn claimed, the PRC presented the world with "two faces"; their mission was to figure out which was the true one. Should they be "portraying China" as an "evil empire" run by a "disintegrating dynasty" or as a country that, by opening itself to capitalism, was "raising the living standards of its citizens" with astounding speed? Should they focus on "people like Professor Peng Yuzhang," an intellectual jailed for his role in the 1989 protests, or on "people like Ye Hongcheng," a villager who had "toiled as her ancestors had done" for decades, then turned entrepreneur and struck it rich to the point that she could employ sixty laborers? Kristof and Wudunn concluded that China had to choose between its "two faces" and become either the next South Korea or America's next great Communist enemy.
One can only hope that the Manichean portrait in China Wakes will be eclipsed by the far more subtle one presented by Peter Hessler's Oracle Bones. Hessler's stylishly written book provides the kind of nuanced analysis we need badly now, with the return in updated guise of both disorting old China dreams (driven by visions of the enormous number of Chinese who could buy our goods and embrace our values) and distorting old China nightmares (driven by visions of the threat that these same people, and their autocratic rulers, could pose to all we hold dear). Oracle Bones demonstrates just how outdated the rhetorical questions posed in China Wakes have become.
Hessler, who first came to China in 1996 at the age of 27 to teach English in Fuling, a small city in Sichuan, and who is now The New Yorker's Beijing correspondent, belongs to a generation less burdened by the intellectual framework of the cold war. To make sense of today's China, he argues, we need to understand that it has been following a unique trajectory, and that it is inhabited by more than just the four basic types of people who most interested Kristof and Wudunn: successful entrepreneurs; people the reforms were leaving behind (such as the villagers who ended working for Ye Hongcheng and residents of unusually poor parts of the country); dissidents; and the officials who persecute dissidents.
Hessler writes on a range of topics, from the rise of popular nationalism and the extraordinary velocity of urbanization to factionalism within the Chinese film industry and unrest among the country's Uighur Muslims, but he does not offer a sustained, systematic answer to the "whither China" question. His approach is more personal and anecdotal, conveying its insights through the stories of people he has met. Some of his interview subjects make repeated appearances, such as a young teacher, referred to throughout by his chosen English name of "William Jefferson Foster," who shares with Hessler his colorful opinions on topics ranging from dating to international politics. But these men and women (several of whom, like William Jefferson Foster, were students of Hessler's in Sichuan and have since moved to other parts of China) are not presented as "types," and their stories make it abundantly clear that China has far more than two faces--and that one can easily be misled by appearances in contemporary China. Indeed, among Hessler's central concerns is the proliferation in China of objects, activities and organizations that are jiade (fake or phony), a term he uses, appropriately, to refer to everything from counterfeit designer clothes to names for people and groups that do not correspond with what they actually do.
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Hessler first achieved prominence with the publication of his 2001 memoir, River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, a highly praised account of his experiences as a teacher in China. The memoir-like style of sections of Oracle Bones makes it feel at times like a sequel. In less expert hands, this approach could have raised complaints from readers eager to hear more about China and less about the author's own adventures in Beijing. Yet Hessler's narrative gamble pays off. This is partly because he is merely one character among many others, never writing from a position of feigned superiority or omniscience. It is also because he has spent a great deal of time cultivating relationships with his subjects, earning the trust of people who have reason to be wary of American journalists. One of these subjects is Polat, a Uighur Muslim who brokered deals, sometimes very shady ones, between local and Central Asian traders in Beijing. When Polat immigrated to the DC area, Hessler periodically visited him, and among the many things they discussed was the difference between the anti-Muslim prejudice that Polat routinely encountered among Han Chinese in Beijing in the 1990s and the subtler forms he sometimes faced from Americans in this country in the wake of 9/11, on account of his Middle Eastern appearance.
The timing of Oracle Bones could hardly be better. There are certain moments when Americans become unusually interested in China and this is one of them, as even a cursory survey of recent mainstream magazines shows. In December 2004 Business Week ran an extended report on "The China Price," claiming the phrase had become, for American companies, the scariest in the English language. In 2005 Newsweek, Time and U.S. News and World Report all published special issues on China. In June 2005 Robert Kaplan's "How We Would Fight China" was the lead story in The Atlantic Monthly, while a photo of Yao Ming, the Chinese NBA star, graced the cover of the September/October 2005 edition of Foreign Policy. Some of this press coverage gives a sense of the PRC as a country undergoing complex changes, but very little of it provides as rich a portrait as Oracle Bones of the ways that individual Chinese are living through, responding to and influencing these transformations.


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July 05, 2011 10:57 AM
Like the rest of us, Quincy Wilson was touched when he watched the
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Quincy thought one good deed deserved another, so he got on the telephone with WVU teammate Grant Wiley last January to see what they could do for Henry's family. What they came up with was a free football clinic for area youths and a benefit basketball game to help the Henry family (Chris has three small children).
"I said, 'Let's do something simple like have a football camp and grab some guys and play a basketball game.' That's kind of how the idea started rolling," said Wilson.
So Wilson got on his cell phone and started calling all of his teammates. The guys he didn't have numbers for he looked up on Facebook. The response was overwhelming.
Pat White, Steve Slaton, Major Harris, Adam Jones, Owen Schmitt, Rasheed Marshall, Reed Williams, Ryan Mundy and Pat McAfee are just a handful of the former players committed to be in Morgantown on Tuesday, July 12 to either work the free football clinic at Pro Performance Center or play in the celebrity basketball game at Morgantown High later that evening.
"I just told people to come. If they want to play basketball, that's great," Wilson said. "I've got people coming to work the free clinic. I just reached out to everybody and asked them to come, and once they get here we will handle it from there."
More importantly, Wilson said he was able to get the blessing of Henry's family. Some of his family members will be at the basketball game next Tuesday night.
"I wanted to get Chris' mom on board and make sure we had some of his family members here," Wilson explained. "She was tickled that we wanted to do anything."
Wilson has secured sponsorships to help offset some of the costs, including the usage of Pro Performance Center for the clinic and the Morgantown High gym for the basketball game.
"It will be a great way to get kids over to Pro Performance Center to see all of the great facilities they have over there," Wilson said. "And all we have to pay for is the cleanup at Morgantown High after the basketball game."
The Morgantown High band will run the concession stand at the basketball game and will use that as a fundraiser, says Wilson. In addition to the game, there will also be a silent auction and Wilson is hopeful of being able to raise several thousand dollars for the Henry family.
"One hundred percent of the proceeds will go to his family for whatever they choose to do with it," Wilson said. "We will present them with a check at halftime."
Wilson said he wanted to start things off slowly with something simple, but he said depending upon the response they get from this year's inaugural event, he is willing to consider taking this on the road to different cities throughout the state in the future.
"I wanted to start this off easy but eventually we could do events in Martinsburg or Charleston or wherever," Wilson said. "I went through the whole process of registering this as a charity and now this is where we are at."
Registration for the free clinic for kids ages 7-14 begins at 8 a.m. Wilson said he plans on breaking the kids up into different groups to give them an opportunity to work on different aspects of their game.
"We will do a warm up and then we will do a little speed stuff. After that we will do an individual period like a regular practice," Wilson said. "We will do running back drills, the receivers will catch the ball and the quarterbacks will throw. Then after we break from lunch, the kids working on offense will switch to defense and vice versa.
"We want to make it fun for the kids; I don't want it to be stagnant. I want everyone staying active, interacting and having a good time," he added.
Later that evening, the celebrity basketball game will begin at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 and can only be purchased at the gate.
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MANTEO, N.C. (AP) – The Cape Hatteras National Seashore superintendent who was in charge when the divisive beach access rules were written is retiring at the end of July.
The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk reported (http://bit.ly/JkW9rn) that Superintendent Mike Murray told his staff in an email that he's retiring. His job includes overseeing the seashore, the Wright Brothers National Monument and the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site.
He has worked with the park service for 34 years, including more than six at Cape Hatteras. He came to the Outer Banks from the Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts in December 2005.
A plan to balance recreation with the preservation of protected species went into effect in February on the Hatteras seashore.
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> When the file is placed in /var/www/cgi-bin it works.
> Meaning, when I open a browser and key in
> http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.cgi
> I see "Hello There".
> When placed in /home/ja/public_html/cgi-bin it does
> not work. When I key in
> http://localhost/~ja/cgi-bin/test.cgi
> I have gotten either of two responses
> 1. the script text
> 2. an error msg: "Forbidden You don't have
> permission to access /~ja/cgi-bin/test.cgi
> on this server.
I've never done this, but based upon the Apache
configuration file syntax, this should be possible.
Note: this might be close but not exact.
Edit httpd.conf (mine's in /etc/httpd/conf)
Got to the line that says: ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
Below it add a new line that says: ScriptAlias /cgi-ja/
Below that should be a directory tag: <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
with the cgi permissions. Clone that tag block for your new
"/home/ja/cgi-bin" directory.
To execute ja's scripts, prefix the HTML action tag with "/cgi-ja/".
> I've tried changing cgi to pl, which had no effect.
> Have also messed with /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
> without success. That's not too surprising.
> I don't know what I'm doing. But it didn't stop
> me from hacking away.
> Google and tldp.org did not turn up anything that
> helped. Neither did an Apache book I have.
> A detailed, simple tutorial would be nice.
> ---
> Jim
> # ---------- test.cgi
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> use CGI qw(:standard);
> use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser/;
> print header();
> print start_html("Testing");
> print h1("Hello There");
> print end_html;
> # ---------- permissions for test.cgi
> # edited for readability
> #
> Script started on Mon Feb 10 10:25:51 2003
> ]0;ja@localhost:~[ja@localhost ja]$ ls -l
> drwxr-sr-x 6 ja apache 4096 Feb 7
> 16:23 [01;34mpublic_html[00m
> ]0;ja@localhost:~[ja@localhost ja]$ cd public_html/
> ]0;ja@localhost:~/public_html[ja@localhost
> public_html]$ ls -l
> drwxr-sr-x 8 ja apache 4096 Feb 7
> 11:33 [01;34mcgi-bin[00m
> ]0;ja@localhost:~/public_html[ja@localhost
> public_html]$ cd cgi-bin/
> ]0;ja@localhost:~/public_html/cgi-bin[ja@localhost
> cgi-bin]$ ls -l test*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 ja apache 190 Feb 9
> 17:27 [01;32mtest.cgi[00m
> Script done on Mon Feb 10 10:26:39 2003
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Nope. I dont see a way to do it in *NIX land or other OS from my
experience. The system(s) has(have) to be "secured" before the docs
created/composed on the system can be "secure".
The local sysadmin can arrange for local access to memory, and can trojan
any application. SSH does *nothing* for securing a host. The only thing
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insecure network." The assumption is that you have both hosts secured from
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Do you ever feel confused about some of the terminology being used when discussing speech and language? Check out this handy handout:
Language is different from speech.
Language is made up of socially shared rules that include the following:
Pragmatics (Social Language) involves using language for different purposes, changing language according to the needs of the listener, and following rules for conversations.
Speech is the verbal means of communicating. Speech consists of the following:
When a person has trouble understanding others (receptive language), or sharing thoughts, ideas, and feelings completely (expressive language), then he or she has a language disorder.
When a person is unable to produce speech sounds correctly or fluently, or has problems with his or her voice, then he or she has a speech disorder.
More on Fluency...
Fluency is the smooth flow of speech. Most children will develop a smooth speaking pattern. However, the rhythm or flow of speech can be impaired by pauses, interjections, hesitations, repetitions of sounds, words, parts of words, or phrases, or blocks or prolongations of speech. Sometimes, physical symptoms, such as blinking or facial grimaces may accompany this behavior.
There are many reasons a child's speech may be "bumpy:"
•A child may be nervous or excited about speaking to new people.
•A child may repeat words or parts of words to "stall" while he/she thinks of a word in English, or translates from his/her first language.
•A child may be going through a normal period of "developmental disfluency," which affects 25% of young children. This often happens when a child's language is blossoming and the brain is working faster than the mouth can say the words.
•Rarely, the child's difficulty speaking significantly interferes with the child's ability and/or desire to speak. When the child's first language is not English, this occurs in the child's native language as well as in English. In these cases, the child may have a speech fluency problem that requires attention from the Speech-Language Pathologist.
Source: ASHA.org
Go to the ASHA link for information about each grade level. Lots of great information will be found there!
Speech and language skills are essential to academic success and learning. Language is the basis of communication. Reading, writing, gesturing, listening, and speaking are all forms of language. Learning takes place through the process of communication. The ability to communicate with peers and adults in the educational setting is essential for a student to succeed in school.
Children with communication disorders frequently do not perform at grade level. They may struggle with reading, have difficulty understanding and expressing language, misunderstand social cues, avoid attending school, show poor judgment, and have difficulty with tests.
Difficulty in learning to listen, speak, read, or write can result from problems in language development. Problems can occur in the production, comprehension, and awareness of language sounds, syllables, words, sentences, and conversation. Individuals with reading and writing problems also may have trouble using language to communicate, think, and learn.


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B.Tech Evening in Kerala
June 7 : Director to Technical Education, Kerala has invited applications for admission to the Evening Degree Courses in Engineering in Kerala for Diploma holders. The Course extends over four academic years. Classes will be conducted normally in the evening on all working days and on holidays, if necessary, in accordance with the syllabi of the concerned Universities.
The list of institutions and courses offered are as follows:
1. College of Engg, Trivandrum (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical & Electronics, Electronics & Communication, Computer Science & Engineering)2. Govt Engg College, Thrissur (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical & Electronics, Chemical, Electronics & Communication, Computer Science & Engineering)3. T.K.M.College of Engg, Kollam (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical & Electronics) 4. Government College of Engg, Kannur (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical & Electronics, Electronics & Communication)
The Specialization in Diploma Branch and Equvalancy for B.Tech Admission will be as follows:
Diploma in Applied Electronics, Electronics, Medical Electronics, Electronics and Avionics, Telecommunication Technology, Electronics and Instrumentation, Electronics and Medical Instrumentation, Electronics Production Technology, Medical Instrumentation, Power electronics, Biomedical Engineering- B.Tech Electronics & Communication Engineering
Diploma in Civil, Architecture, Quantity Survey and Construction management- B. Tech Civil Engineering
Diploma in Mechanical, Automobile, Tool and Die, Wood and Paper Technology – B.Tech Mechanical Engineering
Diploma in Computer Engineering, Computer Application and Business Management, Computer Hardware Maintenance, Information Technology- B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering
Diploma in Electrical, Instrument Technology- B.Tech Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Diploma in Chemical Engineering – B.Tech Chemical Engineering
Applicant should be Indian National employed in Kerala and should have passed Diploma in Engineering/Technology awarded by the State Board of Technical Education or equivalent. Applicant should be in permanent professional employment with at least two years of professional experience after passing the Diploma Examination in any (i) Government organizations (ii)Quasi- Government Organizations (iii)Industrial firms duly registered under Co-operative Society's Act (iv)Public or Private Limited companies registered under Companies Act (v) Private-aided Polytechnics and Private-aided and un-aided Engineering Colleges in the state and. Employment for a period less than 6 months will not be reckoned for experience. One year Apprenticeship Training under Apprenticeship Act will be taken in lieu of experience on production of certificate issued by the head of the organization.
In the absence of eligible candidates with the condition specified above, those with prescribed qualifications and two years common working experience in Government/ any established organization in the State will be considered. Relevant proof in respect of EPF/Welfare Fund Subscription details should be attached. In this case no weightage for service will be given.
Application is to be submitted online at www.dtekerala.gov.in latest by 10th June 2009. Prospectus can be downloaded from www.technicaleducationkerala.gov.in or from www.cet.ac.in.
The print out of the filled up application form along with a Demand Draft of Rs. 250/- (RS.125/- for SC/ST), preferably from State Bank of Travancore/Nationalized bank, drawn in favour of the Director, Dept. of Technical Education, Trivandrum payable at Trivandrum and documents specified in the Prospectus, should reach The Principal, B.Tech (Evening) Courses, College of Engineering, Trivandrum-695016, by registered post or by hand delivery latest by 5 pm on 15th June 2009.
Institutional allotment will be done based on the rank and the candidate's preference to the institution and will be published at the institutions as well as in the websites www.technicaleducationkerala.gov.in and www.cet.ac.in. Allotment letter can be downloaded from the website www.cet.ac.in.
If the number of candidates opted for any branch in an institution is less than half of the sanctioned intake, the course will not be conducted at that institution.
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[Federal Register: December 30, 1994]
[Docket No. 93N-0462]
Abu Quamruzzaman; Debarment Order
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing an order under section 306(a)(2) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the act) (21 U.S.C. 335a(a)(2)) permanently debarring Mr. Abu Quamruzzaman, 178-10 Wexford Ter., Jamaica, NY 11432, from providing services in any capacity to a person that has an approved or pending drug product application. FDA bases this order on a finding that Mr. Quamruzzaman was convicted of a felony under Federal law for conduct relating to the development or approval, including the process for development or approval, of a drug product; and relating to the regulation of a drug product under the act. Mr. Quamruzzaman has notified FDA that he acquiesces to debarment and, therefore, has waived his opportunity for a hearing concerning this action.
EFFECTIVE DATE: November 18, 1993.
ADDRESSES: Application for termination of debarment to the Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305), Food and Drug Administration, 12420 Parklawn Dr., rm. 1-23, Rockville, MD 20857.
Management Branch (HFA-305), Food and Drug Administration, 12420 Parklawn Dr., rm. 1-23, Rockville, MD 20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tamar S. Nordenberg, Center for Drug
Evaluation and Research (HFD-366), Food and Drug Administration, 7500
Standish Pl., Rockville, MD 20855, 301-594-2041.
- Background
Mr. Abu Quamruzzaman, a former Vice President of Quality Affairs of Biopharmaceutics, Inc. (Biopharmaceutics), pled guilty and was sentenced on October 14, 1993, for making a false statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of a Federal agency, a Federal felony offense under 18 U.S.C. 1001. The basis for this conviction was Mr. Quamruzzaman's material false statements made in an abbreviated antibiotic drug application, prepared by him for submission to FDA, for Biopharmaceutics' product Clindamycin Hydrochloride 150-milligram capsules. The material falsehoods included misrepresentations (1) about the batches from which samples were submitted for human bioequivalency testing and stability testing and (2) about in-process tests that were not conducted during the manufacturing process as required, but rather were conducted later using product samples stored in bulk.
Mr. Abu Quamruzzaman is subject to debarment based on a finding, under section 306(a) of the act, that he was convicted of a felony under Federal law for conduct relating to the development, approval, and regulation of a drug product. In a letter dated November 18, 1993, Mr. Quamruzzaman notified FDA of his acquiescence to debarment, as provided for in section 306(c)(2)(B) of the act. While a person subject to debarment is entitled to an opportunity for an agency hearing on disputed issues of material fact under section 306(i) of the act, Mr. Quamruzzaman, by acquiescing to debarment, waived his right to an opportunity for a hearing and any contentions concerning his debarment.
- Findings and Order
Therefore, the Interim Deputy Commissioner for Operations, under section 306(a) of the act, and under authority delegated to her (21 CFR 5.20), finds that Mr. Abu Quamruzzaman has been convicted of a felony under Federal law for conduct relating to the development or approval, including the process for development or approval, of a drug product (21 U.S.C. 335a(a)(2)(A)); and relating to the regulation of a drug product (21 U.S.C. 335a(a)(2)(B)).
As a result of the foregoing findings and based on his notification of acquiescence, Mr. Abu Quamruzzaman is permanently debarred from providing services in any capacity to a person with an approved or pending drug product application under section 505, 507, 512, or 802 of the act (21 U.S.C. 355, 357, 360b, or 382), or under section 351 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262), effective November 18, 1993, the date of notification of acquiescence (21 U.S.C. 335a(c)(1)(B) and (c)(2)(A)(ii) and 21 U.S.C. 321(ee)). Any person with an approved or pending drug product application who knowingly uses the services of Mr. Quamruzzaman, in any capacity, during his period of debarment, will be subject to civil money penalties. If Mr. Quamruzzaman, during his period of debarment, provides services in any capacity to a person with an approved or pending drug product application, he will be subject to civil money penalties. In addition, FDA will not accept or review any abbreviated new drug applications submitted by or with the assistance of Mr. Quamruzzaman during his period of debarment.
Any application by Mr. Quamruzzaman for termination of debarment under section 306(d)(4) of the act should be identified with Docket No. 93N-0462 and sent to the Dockets Management Branch (address above). All such submissions are to be filed in four copies. The public availability of information in these submissions is governed by 21 CFR 10.20(j). Publicly available submissions may be seen in the Dockets Management Branch between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Dated: December 20, 1994.
Linda A. Suydam,
Interim Deputy Commissioner for Operations.
[FR Doc. 94-32140 Filed 12-29-94; 8:45 am]


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UPDATE: We found Patrick Sharp. He appears to be transparently an advocate of White Supremacy. He and the GSU White Student Union are associated with the "Traditionalist Youth Network," an organization that openly espouses racial supremacy and Neo-Naziism. Maybe he's not so harmless after all. Read about it here.
It is well known that the college freshman is among the most pitiable and revolting species of the animal kingdom. Much like the Click Beetle, these poor young souls spend much of their day clumsily falling upon their backs, then sadly wriggling around, unable to get themselves out of their own mess, until some reasonable adult comes along to turn them back onto their legs. Confused and desperate for attention, these poor children sidle themselves with massive amounts of credit card debt, get roped into porn, and annoy everyone around them with their own tragic psuedo-intellect. Those lucky enough not to embarrass themselves into a hermetic existence often go on to turn into productive members of society.
This bring us to the tale of one "Patrick Sharp," who is apparently going around the campus of GSU handing out some dumb leaflets he made on his dorm-room HP laser jet (thanks mom and dad!), advertising a "White Student Union" (membership: 1 [Patrick Sharp]). Somehow, his dumb little fliers made it to the Atlanta Journal Constitution which, let's face it, will publish just about anything. Alt-weekly Creative Loafing launched its own piece, misleadingly titled "White Student Union coming to Georgia State University." Again, people, as far as we know, this is just one dude handing out some leaflets to get attention! Why are our primary media outlets heaping so much legitimacy and weight upon this kid? Surely, the page-views you garner through over-hyping some weird kid's attention-quest is outweighed by the damage done by validating this dude's meaningless enterprise?
Sharp's rationale is total "freshman philosophy major" stuff. He basically regurgitates the standard BS that I, and my fellow white people, often hear when forced to visit cranky old relatives over the holidays. ("If blacks can say nigger, why can't I?" "Black History Month? There ought to be a White History Month!" etc.) Says Sharp,
"If we are already minorities on campus and are soon to be minorities in this country why wouldn't we have the right to advocate for ourselves and have a club just like every other minority?" said Sharp, 18, who is from Birmingham, Ala. "Why is it when a white person say he is proud to be white he's shunned as a racist?"
Yawn. Whatever, bro. We've heard it all before. We get your psuedo-philosophical argument. Sure, in a vacuum, if there is a "Black Student Union," why can't there by a "White" one, right? The reason is that most of these Black organizations were founded during a time when black folks were legally excluded from white society, and had to form these sorts of organizations in order to survive. When you go around saying you're going to create, essentially, a "white's club," the image that will immediate come into your classmates' eyes (both white and black) is one of the KKK and other, historically real clubs that were designed to "celebrate white culture," as you purport to want to do. You're offending people and making yourself look like a real asshole, and for no gain to yourself. Might as well take out a big 'ol hand-cannon and shoot yourself squarely in the foot.
Patrick, my friend, hear me out: I understand your thinking, and will give you the benefit of the doubt that you're not trying to be hateful. You're trying to do something clever and make some kind of philosophical point. But you're making yourself look like an idiot, and are isolating yourself from the classmates who might be your best friends for life if you give yourself a chance. You're also creating a Google-trail that is going to haunt you throughout your working life. It's too early in life to jump down a rabbit hole you might never come out of. Don't be a dumbass, my white brother.


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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – "Push the Sky Away"
Nick Cave is getting old. All of the press surrounding his twenty-first century output wants to make sure you remember this. Especially if you're talking about Grinderman, a project whose entire aim appears to be re-creating Cave as a sort of Tasmanian Devil of depravity, a maniac raging and sputtering at the twin wells of pathos and weakness inherent to his character. But, as usual, the standard critical discourse on an artist fails to take into account anything that would call the prescribed narrative into question. Grinderman has been much perceived as an unforeseeable, utterly shocking turn for the now fifty-five year old rocker to make. There is certainly some truth to this. 2001′s No More Shall We Part was a turn towards a more baroque, folk-influenced sound, one particularly suited to drawing out the poignancy and tenderness the irascible Cave has always been capable of. This tendency began even earlier, with his record The Boatman's Call, one of rock's all time great break-up records, and perhaps Cave's most human work. Of course this step towards tenderness was also regarded at the time as a sign of aging. In fact, it seems more or less everything Cave has done since the Birthday Party has been tied up, in one way or another, with his maturing process. Obviously we're all beings in time, but perhaps its the sense of Nick Cave as an almost Biblical personality that we look for signs of him growing as ancient as he has always seemed.
What this narrative fails to take into account is that the Grinderman style depravity has been there since the beginning. Sonically, the group falls far closer to Cave's old project, the singularly outrageous and debased post-punk of The Birthday Party than The Bad Seeds. Nick Cave has made a career out of putting the basest and most frightening aspects of the human experience under a microscope. His career then, is maybe better understood as a constant push and pull between the sort of dignified tenderness of records like The Boatman's Call and the raging, unstoppable id of Grinderman, rather than some strange arc that sees him constantly evaluating the process of his own aging. To attempt to understand Cave's music in that sort of autobiographical sense is in the end an unproductive exercise, because that's not how he writes. We can take the Grinderman project as a genuine expression of Cave's mental state, but this gets us nowhere. Rather, the ideal way to understand Nick Cave's output is as being obsessed with the various sorts of decay inherent to the human condition, and aging is perhaps the greatest and most powerful of these. None of it has really been about Nick Cave feeling his age, but rather using his improved understanding of that aging process to add to his arsenal of weapons with which his characters inevitably find themselves cut down.
So why then, did I take the first half of this review to give an overview of Nick Cave's career and attempt to refute the standard critical discourse around him? Well, because this time, the ravages of aging do indeed seem to be central, in a way that they never have before. Sure, advanced age was indeed a factor in Grinderman, but there was so much else in it, so much violence and lust, sex and terror, that to reduce it somehow to being simply a document of the aging process sold the album woefully short. Cave's work, despite often being frighteningly direct in its method of conveyance, revels in complexity. His finest albums have been the ones where his sad humanist and rampaging monster sides are in some degree of balance (see: mid-decade masterpieces Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus and Dig Lazarus Dig). However, on his newest work, Push the Sky Away, the man crazy enough to give his vicious libido its own side project, the guy who could spend the nineties dating one of the few music personalities as intimidating and mercurial as him and then, upon the dissolution of their relationship, write a career-defining album out of it, doesn't really show up. Push the Sky Away is mostly the moody, scene-setting Nick Cave, the Nick Cave that shies away from pyrotechnics and moves instead further into esoterica.
The most genuinely frightening fact about Push the Sky Away is that, for perhaps the first time in his career, Nick Cave is making music that could perhaps best be described as "tasteful." For any longtime Cave fans, this is about as disturbing an adjective as could possibly be ascribed to the man. Sure, there are plenty of albums that don't rely on Grinderman's buzzing onslaught, but even at his most restrained, there's typically something immensely darker just beneath the surface, an obliteratingly powerful rage or lust or despair. Push the Sky Away seemingly does away with that, Cave's perspective the most distant it's been in his entire career. So missing all these quintessentially Cave touches, it must be one of his weaker efforts, right?
Well, no, not really. Considering the incredibly deep catalog the Bad Seeds have, not even considering albums by The Birthday Party, Grinderman, and Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' soundtrack work, I can't see this rising above the middle of the pack, but that's right now, and the pleasures of this album have only just begun to reveal themselves. It certainly isn't the best album with which to introduce someone to The Bad Seeds, but it's also anything but weak. It's clearest recent antecedents are songs like Abattoir Blues' "Cannibal Hymn,"Lyre of Orpheus' "Spell," and much of the more downbeat material on Dig, Lazarus, Dig, especially the dreamy post-apocalypse of "Moonland."
That song is perhaps the key to understanding the material on Push the Sky Away. Where "Moonland" takes place in a surreal postapocalypse, Push feels like an album-length hazy fever-dream on the night before the world ends. Burning trees reaching towards the sky recur lyrically throughout the album, and there's a pervading sense of encroaching doom. Miley Cyrus is dead in a Toluca Lake hot tub, Nick Cave is walking a fetus on a leash, and the only logical conclusion that can be drawn is that things are horribly not right, and our days are numbered. Anything that makes half a gesture towards the surreal ends up labeled "Lynchian," but the descriptor truly applies to this album, with its numerous damsels in distress, inscrutable but vivid imagery, and a pervading sense of something being off, the way it only can in a dream. The only escape seems to be at the bottom of the ocean, another recurring motif. There's a humidity to this album, rolling in off an ever present ocean.
Musically, there's none of the raging that has appeared at least sporadically on much of Cave's work over the last decade, and the tempo is decidedly relaxed. But the crawl of "We Real Cool," anchored by a growling bassline, evokes the same nocturnal menace of the famously minimalist poem after which it is named. "Mermaids" uses a similarly dragging tempo to create distance, loss, and in addition to the ever-present oceanic imagery, contains a classic Cave line in "I believe in the rapture/for I've seen your face." Mermaids and a rolling ocean appear more in the quiet, intimate, aptly named "Wide Lovely Eyes" and the lascivious, hazy "Water's Edge." It seems Warren Ellis has stepped up to the position of Cave's right hand man following the departures of original Bad Seeds Blixa Bargeld and Mick Harvey, and his violin is everywhere, hallucinatory and droning on "Water's Edge" and melodic and ascending in "Jubilee Street."
"Finishing Jubilee Street," a meta narrative of the sort Cave has recently favored, is the album's only real misstep, it's shambling repetition fairly effective in itself, but after a long series of slow songs, is a little exhausting. However, it's followed by the astounding "Higgs Boson Blues," an epic that takes place at the literal crossroads of fading cultural legend (Robert Johnson and the Devil) corrupted pop ephemera (the aforementioned Hannah Montana) and terrifying and incomprehensible science (the song's narrator is driving to Geneva, the location of CERN). It is in this song that the album's themes of nightmarish pop culture apocalypse are made most clear, and it's a Cave song for the ages.
The album closes with the elegiac, gorgeous, incredibly subtle title track, and where some Cave albums leave an impression like a boot to the face, this one is more ephemeral, just like the dreams that populate the record. Will it be remembered as a defining album for Cave? Probably not. And, with all the slow tempos and lyrics full of distance and death, one could certainly take it as confirmation of all that "getting old" talk. But there's a better truth out there, and that's that Push the Sky Away is simply further proof that Nick Cave is endlessly inventive at exploring the myriad manners in which all things decay.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. --- The Chattanooga Mocs 2012-13 basketball schedule was announced Wednesday day by head coach John Shulman pending approval by the University's Faculty Athletics Committee. It features 18 homes dates as well as games at Kansas, LSU and Georgia Tech.
After opening with nearby Tennessee Temple on November 12, UTC travels to Lawrence, Kan., to face 2012 national runner-up Kansas on November 15 in famed Phog Allen Fieldhouse. That begins the CBE Classic for the Mocs which brings six games a few days later to McKenzie Arena.
Chattanooga hosts a sub-regional for the CBE Classic November 18-20. It features a round-robin with Louisiana Tech, Southeast Missouri and Troy coming to the Scenic City. There will be two games per day with each team guaranteed three games.
After a November 24 date at Kennesaw State, UTC returns home to open Southern Conference play with Davidson on December 1. It's one of six home games during the month as 10 of the first 13 contests on this year's slate are in McKenzie Arena.
The Mocs face their second Ohio Valley Conference foe Eastern Kentucky on December 8. It's the beginning of a home-and-home series with the Colonels as UTC returns the game in 2013-14 in Richmond.
It's off to LSU from there for a December 11 matchup in Baton Rouge, La. It will be Chattanooga's first game against the Tigers, leaving Texas A&M as the only SEC school the Mocs have never faced.
Mercer (Dec. 16) and Reinhardt (Dec. 21) wrap up the pre-holiday portion of the schedule before UTC student-athletes get a few days off to spend with their families. They return for the 23rd Dr Pepper Classic as High Point, the Mocs first round opponent, Austin Peay and Utah Valley State visit the Roundhouse December 28-29 for this holiday tradition.
Chattanooga ends the non-conference portion of its regular-season schedule on January 2 heading south to face an old ACC friend. Georgia Tech returns to the lineup for the first time since February 2011. It will mark three times in four years the two meet on the hard court.
The trip to Atlanta is the start of a four-game road swing with seven of the next nine coming away from Choo Choo city. The Mocs return to conference play at Samford (Jan. 5) followed by two games in Charleston, S.C., at The Citadel (Jan. 10) and College of Charleston (Jan. 12).
UTC returns home to host Appalachian State (Jan. 17) and Western Carolina (Jan. 19) before a trio on the road. Trips to Elon (Jan. 24), UNCG (Jan. 26) and Georgia Southern (Feb. 2) lead into a strong home stretch.
Six of the next seven are in the friendly confines of McKenzie Arena. The Citadel (Feb. 7) and College of Charleston (Feb. 9) are followed by Samford (Feb. 11) and Furman (Feb. 14) for a stretch of four-games-in-eight days in Chattanooga. Make it five-games-in-10 total with a trip to Wofford on February 16.
The regular season concludes with four key SoCon North matchups. The Mocs host UNCG (Feb. 21) and Elon (Feb. 23) before closing the year at Western Carolina (Feb. 28) and Appalachian State (Mar. 2).
The SoCon Championship returns to the Asheville Civic Center March 8-11. The champions of North and South Divisions receive first-round byes along with the next two best records in SoCon play.


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$7,400: the most you will need to pay back for a 2-term academic year.
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SAVOR Nashville 2014 by Nashville Lifestyles
This year, Nashville Lifestyle's Savor Nashville features a two-day food and wine extravaganza! On Thursday, May 29, guests will be able to enjoy a gourmet dinner prepared by James Beard award-winning chefs from around the country at the Hutton Hotel! The James Beard Awards are like the Oscars of the food world, so to be nominated is not only a huge honor, but also tells you that the food here is going to be worthwhile.
Check out the participating chefs with their menu item and wine pairing:First Course — Frank Bonanno of Bonanno Concepts, Denver, CO
House-made coppa, prosciutto, fresh mozzarella, arugula, gnocco fritto
Paired with La Marca Prosecco, NV
Farro ragout, sprouted grains, harissa, carrots, sheep's milk, currants
Paired with Domaine de la Tournelle Savagnin, 2011
Torchon of Hudson Valley Foie Gras, rhubarb and almond
Paired with Sauternes, Chateau l'Ermitage, 2010
Pistachio raviolis with brown butter
Paired with Sequoia Grove, 2012
Smoked Cobia "pozole," sherry blistered tomato, guanciale, hominy
Paired with Latour Marsannay, 2011
Pork, ricotta gnudi, peas, tonno del chianti, veal sugo
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Upside down Key Lime pie
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On Saturday, May 30, there is the Challenge to the Chefs Brunch which is always an exciting time to taste a lot of snacks from local chefs. Karl Worley from Biscuit Love Truck will return to defend his title – and he will have some stiff competition with this field! The event takes place from 10 am – 12 pm at The Bridge Building.
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At their Tuesday morning meeting, county commissioners agreed to slash in half for the next six months the monthly lease payment paid to the county by CrystalAir, the fixed base operator at Apalachicola Regional Airport.
Commissioner Pinki Jackel moved to reduce CrystalAir's rent from $5,000 monthly to $2,500 for six months, and require the county be paid three cents for every gallon of gas sold. The motion passed 4-1, with Commissioner Noah Lockley opposed.
Jason Puckett, spokesman for the FBO, told commissioners fuel sales the airport have been less than expected since CrystalAir took over in Oct. 2012. He said records reviewed at the time the lease was signed were misleading.
"Not a lot of folks make a fuel stop here on their way to somewhere else," he said. "We have tried to market (the airport) with tourism. All we're asking is that you make it equitable and fair."
Puckett said the airport had gotten a reputation for poor service in the past that his firm is fighting to overcome. He said CrystalAir is making progress toward improving customer relations.
Commissioner Smokey Parrish said he was surprised to learn that annual fuels sales of $60,000 only covered the cost of the annual lease. He said the sluggish economy played a role in the lack of business at the airport. He said much of the business community was concerned the airport remain open.
Puckett said there are problems renting the existing hangers to generate additional income, referring to a large county-owned hanger that has remained largely empty since it was constructed a few years ago.
"If that corporate hanger was in my hometown of Thomasville (Ga.), it would be rented," Puckett said. "There's not much industry of that size here, yet."
Commissioner Noah Lockley asked why CrystalAir had run out of fuel over Memorial Day weekend this year. "That was a perfect storm," Puckett said. "Nobody wanted to have fuel available more than we did."
He said military vehicles employed during Project Emerald Warrior consumed an unexpected amount of gas, leaving the airport short of fuel, and that a family emergency had left the normal fuel provider unable to make a delivery on short notice.
He said CrystalAir had posted the shortage online to avoid inconveniencing pilots. "I think we handled it very efficiently," he said.
Puckett said CrystalAir plans to cut staff to reduce costs but has an aircraft mechanic on call 24-hours daily.
Commissioner Pinki Jackel asked if fuel at the airport is competitively priced. Puckett said it was, but Alan Feifer, a pilot, disagreed. He said fuel at the airport is priced at $5.60 a gallon while fuel in Quincy is $4.90.
Feifer said the airport is not being marketed effectively. He said it is not advertised in aviation magazines or at online websites for pilots. He said traffic at the airport has dropped by 50 percent over the last 10 years.
"Marketing is what's missing," said Feifer.
Puckett said comparing the two airports was "like apples and oranges" because Quincy is an unattended airport.
Feifer said service at Apalachicola's airport is excellent "but you're going to run into a pricing issue with most people."
Jackel said that "if you're going to have a 70-cent difference in price you need to make adjustments."
She suggested people might be happy to pump their own gas to pay less. Puckett said most visitors to the Apalachicola airport are well-to-do and expect service.
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Museum of Flight
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Seattle is one of the most important cities in the world of aviation and the home base of the Boeing Company, one of the world's leading aircraft manufacturers. You can find out more about the city's unique and fascinating history in aviation at one of its best museums, the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field. The museum is especially enticing for families with young children, who can climb in and around various aircraft. Also recommended is the Red Barn, Boeing's original airplane factory, which features exhibitions chronicling the history of flight. The nearby Great Gallery also holds vintage aircraft, offering travelers a unique look into Seattle's prolific technological history. One of the most popular attractions is an older version of Air Force One, the American presidential airplane.
Travelers laud the museum as one of the finest sites in Seattle, with a variety of exhibits to keep the whole crew engaged. "We spent many hours browsing all sorts of great displays. This is one of the best museums for aviation I have ever been to," one TripAdvisor user said.
The Museum of Flight is located near Boeing Field-King County International Airport and is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and stays open until 9 p.m. the first Thursday of every month, free of charge. Tickets to the museum cost $19 for adults and $11 for kids ages 5 to 17, however admission to the Museum of Flight is included if you purchase a Seattle CityPASS. For more information, check out the Museum of Flight website.
Nearby Things To Do
Pioneer Square5.8 miles away
Seattle Art Museum6.3 miles away
Seattle Aquarium6.4 miles away
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Sound Ordnance B-8PTD powered car subwoofer
The Sound Ordnance B-8PTD compact powered subwoofer lets you add bass to your car audio system with minimum fuss. Its slim chassis fits in places larger subs won't, and its built-in amp helps simplify your installation. Check out this short video to learn more about this great little powered sub.
Kicker Redline Series amps and subs
Kicker's Redline series of amps and subs, which includes the popular CompR and CompRT subwoofers plus their KX amplifiers, gives you the sound and performance you expect from Kicker car audio gear.
Sealed and ported subwoofer boxes
When you add bass to your system, choosing the right subwoofer box is as important as the sub itself. Since sealed boxes feature a different overall sound than ported ones, it's important to consider your listening habits before making a purchase.
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A group of advisors evaluates the difference between subs in sealed boxes and in ported boxes.
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The first step to choosing a subwoofer actually begins with the enclosure and how you want the sub to perform. In this video we'll tell you about the different types of subwoofer enclosures available, and find out which one best fits your vehicle and your needs.
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Powered subs include all the elements of a subwoofer system — subwoofer, amplifier, and enclosure — in one easy-to-install package. Here's a look at how you install a typical powered subwoofer.
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Getting loud bass in your car isn't just about power - where you place your sub in the trunk can make a huge difference. We decided to find out for ourselves just how much of an effect placement has on the quality of a sub's bass.
Improve Your Sound by Adding an Amp and Sub
In Part 2 of our Car Stereo Proving Ground series, we added a bass system (subwoofer and amp) and an amplifier to the speakers. Anyone who's ever done this won't be surprised to hear that the music opened up and sounded better. What really impressed us? Read on....
Alpine's BassLine subwoofers will add some serious rumble to your vehicle's sound system, but they won't break your budget. These subs also live up to Alpine's reputation for making subs that bass lovers want.
Mathilda's Rockford Fosgate P2 Subwoofer
A few weeks ago, we installed new speakers and an amp in Mathilda's car. Once she got used to how great the upgrade sounded, we came back to add an amp and subwoofer. We installed a Rockford Fosgate P2 sub and then asked Mathilda to share her thoughts on the added bass. We think she likes it.
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MINNEAPOLIS J.J. Barea will sit for Friday night's game against the Pacers at Target Center, and when the team flies out to Chicago afterward, Barea will remain behind. The point guard suffered a left mid-foot sprain during the fourth quarter of Wednesday's win over Orlando, and for the past two days, the team has been vague about his status. It's still not clear when Barea will return, but we know this much: He won't be in Chicago for the Bulls game Saturday, and he'll be evaluated Sunday to see if he can fly to Dallas for Monday's game against the Mavericks. With Barea out, Timberwolves coach Rick Adelman said he'll lean on Malcolm Lee and Will Conroy as Luke Ridnour's backups. In an ideal world, Adelman would likely prefer to play Ridnour as much as possible, but given his back problems throughout the preseason, it will be necessary for Conroy and Lee to eat up some minutes. Adelman also said he's uncomfortable moving Alexey Shved to point guard, citing matchup problems, amon...
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Degraded Forests in Eastern Africa
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Forest degradation as a result of logging, shifting cultivation, agriculture and urban development is a major issue throughout the tropics. It leads to loss in soil fertility, water resources and biodiversity, as well as contributes to climate change. Efforts are therefore required to try to...
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It was a year of contradictions and confusion for the fashion-minded as designers and retailers opened a grab bag of trends, hoping to recharge a lagging interest in shopping and dressing.
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Caputo Rosso - IN UK?????
Does anyone know where to get the Caputo Rosso flour in the UK
Im getting the normal Molino Caputo from Nifeislife and ive emailed them about Rosso but not even a reply...https://www.nifeislife.com/advanced_...=flour&x=0&y=0
Does any UK members know where??
And has anyone used the Wheat flour Pizzeria Caputo Manitoba..whats it like??
Re: Caputo Rosso - IN UK?????
I think you can get it from the following site:
Nifeislife.com - Shop for Italian Food
I ordered this a while ago and it is great for Pizza.
Wheat flour 00 Pizzeria Caputo
Good Luck
Re: Caputo Rosso - IN UK?????
thats what im using at the mo it tastes great but the better flour is the
caputo 00 Antipo rossa - see link
cant find it anywhere in the UK
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