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National view: Why no bailout for the Hostess Twinkie?
November 24, 2012 at 6:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
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Blaming the union is the best way to go, not the ceo salary :. In early February, Hostess had asked the bankruptcy judge to approve a sweet new employment deal for Driscoll. Its terms guaranteed him a base annual salary of $1.5 million, plus cash incentives and "long-term incentive" compensation of up to $2 million. (Driscoll-ceo of hostess)
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OK, OK, think this through all you finacial wizards: how many days of Hotstess Corporation operations can you pay for with the $2 million ceo's salary? If the ceo took no salary at all, could the comapany exist, operate and pay the salaries/benefits they are bound to in their 'union contracts' ???
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Hostess operated under the "Bain capital" model of raping a companies assets, all to create extreme wealth for it's upper management team. Really, what have we, the general public, lost? An extremely un-healthy food source is all. Fat, carbs, sugar, and chemicals. Not such a big deal after all. Unless you are a job-losing employee, anyway. They were the true victims of this corrupt business policy. The rest of us: you'll just be less fat. Good for you.
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Greed and mismanagement killed this company. Why would existing management be given more money to allow continuance of the same old thing? And, both management and some of the union folks were partners in the company's demise. This was a joint venture failure. Perhaps the sale and reorganization of the company's assets and brand names will result in something better for all…if not, then it is not the public or government who is to blame. All this is/would have been fixable with the appropriate levels of cooperation amongst all.
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Apparently those thinking a $1.5 mil salary is extravagant forget that GM's bailed-out CEO made a cool $7.7 mil in 2011. Have the taxpayers been repaid all of their hard-earned money yet? How soon we forget . . .
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Yes, actually they were. GM paid back the loan portion that was given to it, and paid back in full.
What you are thinking of is the Treasury's ownership stake in GM, which to date still fully exists. Will it Repay in 2015, perhaps, I doubt this but perhaps, but it did in fact pay back the loan.
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The noted baseball writer has once again stepped out of his competence zone to weigh in on matters of finance, union-bashing, and social matters of the baby-boom generation. Scarcely older than the generation he castigates, he decides that he knows all about an economic situation he has never been in. When was the last time he ever worked a factory job for an hourly wage? Never… hmmm. what can he possibly know or understand about contract negotiations between labor and management? Nothing… I thought so. Hostess has been through bankruptcy proceedings several times, by his own admission. He should have also admitted that such a thing was an indication that management was incompetent. Failure of the company's board of directors to take decisive action to correct its management problems was the direct cause of the company's shutting down. The labor problems were just another symptom of the management breakdown.
tom koehler
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"They" can`t stand the truth. You hit the nail on the head.
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Making tasty nutritious Hostess Twinkies a part of a school lunch program would do a lot to ensure survival of the company and to protect jobs vital to the nation.
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George is suffering from early onset conservative degeneration. He might just as well reminded us that 47% of us are lazy, there are different types of rape, and that Karl Rove is the allmighty.
"Whatever else a hospital ought to do, supposedly said Florence Nightingale, it ought not to spread disease. And whatever else unions should do, they should not put employers out of business."
You bet, the unions took over the businesses and forced management to make unsustainable decisions while holding knives to their throats. Can't wait to hear this all again in three years.
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George Will has been columnist figurehead for conservatives for 4 decades now. How fitting he seems like the conservative movement, out of touch, ill informed, clueless and biased and stuck in a time that has passed them by.
Like the conservative movement in general, he really doesn't know what talking about but like most conservatives THINK they have a reason to whine and complain and blame unions.
Hostess first went bankrupt in 2004 and went thru a court reorganization and emerged from that bankruptcy 5 years later in 2009. During that period they not only had bankruptcy protection but got a huge influx of cash from GE Capital. So what they do when exit the 2009 bankruptcy? At that time they decided to move their headquarters and operations to Texas. Admittedly without more details, it nonetheless on surface appears to be huge plunder of someone with rocks for brains. Whenever companies move they usually lose about 80% of their talent in all positions including upper management not to mention you're struggling with being solvent is not the time for paying for move, new buildings and equipment etc. The mindset of the talent a company has when does this is~~~Gee, if have to move anyway, why not at least look for another opportunity and see what's out there.
So not three years later they are going bankrupt again and before did were clearly in enough financial mess again to ask the unions to take a 17% pay cut, and of course this must be, just has to be, the unions fault that they went on strike and Hostess closed?
Tom Koehler was essentially correct above, it's a management problem and a clearly glaring one and George Will comes off like a crackhead on this, some of his article was almost gibberish nonsense.
Hostess has/had about 3 billion in sales revenue a year. They don't have to redesign anything, in fact they're essentially making the exact same products they did about 80 years ago without any real changes. If you have 3 billion in sales, never have to do continual product redesign or roll out new products every 2 years and in 80 years you can't figure out how to be profitable, you deserve to be closed because you're clearly incompetent and it's clearly NOT the bakers unions fault.
The above information was culled from a one minute search on history of Hostess. Something George Will didn't bother to do before shooting off mouth and whining with a bunch of nonsense obviously, but then again, he's the perfect spokesperson then for conservatives who don't check their facts, don't know what talking about and just whine and try to blame anything they think means "Democratic party". They most certainly shouldn't have been bailed out, it's clear their problems are root team and not temporary, it's clear that they already got a 5 year grace period with protection from Bankruptcy, already got influx of a lot of cash, and STILL couldn't come up solvent. To bail them out would have been a terrible investment and waste of money. To blame the unions, just shows one is more interested in promoting their bias then getting the facts right and using common sense but then he's a conservative figurehead.
'People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Three people were sitting at a table with 12 twinkies on it. One was a company C.E.O., the other a union employee, and the third was a stockholder.
They were discussing the reasons the Hostess company was about to fold.
The C.E.O. reached out and grabbed 11 0f the twinkies just as the conversation was about to begin. Then turning to the stockholder said, "you`d better grab that last one fast, because those union thiefs are about to take the other half of your twinkie pal"!
Gezzzzz….go figure.
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Why no bailout? Michelle Obama and her silly, stupid program to force people what to eat. That's why!
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Thanks for the supportive post, I did say that conservatives have no idea what talking about, that it was clearly totally incompetent management but that conservatives will try to find away to somehow blame Dems for a total mismanagement of a 80 year old company with 3 billion in sales, again, thanks for the support.
Mmmm…I thought conservatives were all for less government intervention, total free enterprise and free market capitalism. Well…that's exactly what this case is…but now conservatives want to blame that there wasn't government intervention, whine that a company operating in free market for 80 years couldn't figure out how to survive so the government should have intervened? Huh?….and that of course, it's the unions fault, or Obama's, or Democrats…or whatever conjured up mess.
Free market capitalism means not everyone survives. there's winners and losers and conservatives need to pick or choose what they are supportive off. Either for total free enterprise or not and NOT just as suits needs for some convulted excuse to whine about something that think can twist up to blame Dems or liberals for. It matters not whether a companies employees are union or not, management of company means the management of talent and labor needed to accomplish goals. If your market changes as in your example blaming Michelle for promoting healthier eating habits..~rolls eyes~…, you either figure a way around it, find new market to penetrate or adapt to change. None of those things Hostess clearly was able to do…so the alternative in a free market capitalist economy is…bye, bye. A free market capitalist economy means that companies are also free to fail.
"Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word." Dorothy Parker
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Fastone … good posts.
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Tips cap…thanks for kind words. I found this piece by George Will extremely odd. Though didn't always agree with views he usually could at least articulate them and make sense. It's like epitome of whole GOP, he's just losing it and lashing out trying to blame something that thinks isn't the GOP. His ranting is void of facts and common sense and just baseless rhetoric and finger pointing which seems to be what the GOP has degenerated into it. They think the Dems are their enemies and don't recognize they're their own worse enemy…oh, well…thanks again for kind words.
"When people who are honestly mistaken learn the truth, they will either cease being mistaken or cease being honest." Unknown
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Funny thing is, the guy who runs the private equity firm that bought Hostess is a huge Obama donor. His firm works with union-involved companies because he believes in organized labor. His firm also brought in former House Speaker and labor sweetheart Dick Gephardt (D), and placed Gephardt's son on the board of directors at a "fee" of $100k per year.
Bain Capital? Hardly. This was a bunch of incompetent liberals pretending to know how PE is done.
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Since Tim Collins owns and runs a 3 billion PE firm and is self made guy and on cover of Fortune magazine for some of his successes, not really sure that classifies as being incompetent? He is a Democrat granted, and he did bring in Gephart whose runs consulting firm dealing with Union and labor disputes. But there were over 20 other lenders that also sunk more money into this deal then Collins and the biggest were ex-Goldman Sachs partners so suspect they were Repubs and clearly not all a gaggle of liberals as you claimed.
Yes, I picked on Will for being a conservative because his whining about bailing out Hostess made no sense and goes completely against free enterprise in capitalist economy conservative mantra. Repubs whined when Gov bailed out firms, then whine when they don't and it's all Dems fault…arrghh..seriously, conservatives need to stop with all the finger pointing blame to Dems…it's so overdone it's like the boy who cried wolf.
You should have read the post of mine before one responding to…clearly said conservatives just look for reasons to blame Dems no matter how convulted their excuses. Thanks for the support on that btw as don't see what Collins being a Obama supporter has to do with this.
They were already in trouble long before Collins showed up and were in Bankruptcy protection for 5 years before he did. Collins not involved until they emerged from Bankruptcy and maybe they should have gone under before, looks like the right call now certainly. Bad call on his part and the other 20 lenders thinking could save it but that's what PE and investment firms do, take risks hoping for the big kill but sometimes they get killed. Collins didn't run it per se, he hired CEO's to do that and hired a string of them apparently that couldn't save it. Maybe he didn't hire right ones? Maybe with shape in wouldn't have mattered? But for certain I don't think him being a supportor of Obama means he's incompetent. You claimed was a bunch of incompetent liberals that don't know how PE is done….he's the owner of very large PE with about 3 billion in holdings, I think he might have a clue how to do it. Free Enterprise, you win some you lose some and it's not because of political party support…but you keep believing that…cuz I know you will…
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The following are examples of behavior that societies consider sassy or a breach of etiquette.
In the field of linguistics research, an emphasis on the investigation and teaching of politeness has overshadowed the study of its counterpart, sassiness. Certain early seminal works in the field of linguistic pragmatics that dealt with the issue of politeness and sassiness have emphasized 'positive' aspects of conversation as being the universal norms of conversation, and saw sassiness as a defective mode of communication. More recent research has asserted that most sassiness serves functional or instrumental purposes in communication, and considers sassiness to be an important part of a person's pragmatic competence. Research in the field of pragmatic competence never really addressed common spoken rudeness and its functional aspects until the mid-1990s.
Prior to that time, most research focused on politeness and precluded the instrumental or 'useful' nature of sassiness in speech (Brown & Levinson, 1987; Grice, 1975; Lakoff, 1973). Whether it was an aberration of the "two rules" of pragmatic competence according to Lakoff (1973): (1) Be clear,(2) Be polite; or whether it violated the assumed universal norms of conversation of truthfulness, politeness and relevancy (Grice, 1975), rudeness was seen as pragmatic failure at being polite. Likewise, the politeness framework proposed in Brown and Levinson's (1987) work is also based on the idea that politeness is the norm even when employing most of the five basic strategies they identified for performing 'face-threatening acts' (FTAs; e.g., requests, complaints, refusals, etc.), acts that intrinsically threaten a speaker's public self-image (face) or that of another (Brown & Levinson, 1987, pp. 60-61). Brown and Levinson (1987) propose that talk participants choose from a hierarchy of five basic strategies for performing an FTA. Ordered from the lowest to the highest risk of face loss, they are: 1) bald, on-record; 2) positive politeness; 3) negative politeness; 4) off record; and 5) don't do the FTA (Brown & Levinson, 1987, p. 60). Talk participants are generally expected to use these politeness strategies, or 'redressive actions' (linguistic additions, modifications), in order to avoid face loss when performing an FTA. Additionally, certain variables lend a particular 'weight' to the FTA, such as power relationships between the speaker and hearer, social distance, and the rank of the imposition (Brown & Levinson, 1987, pp. 15, 74, 76-78).
These variables supposedly determine which strategy the speaker will use when performing the FTA; meaning that with the increasing weight of the FTA (and the resulting increased risk of face loss), the more likely that the speaker will use a strategy that is higher in the hierarchy of the politeness strategies. Brown and Levinson's first strategy in the hierarchy (perform the FTA without redressive action, baldly) is likely performed when the estimation of risk of face-loss is low, and the use of such a strategy could possibly allow for the existence of rudeness. Indeed, the authors mention that, in addition to the use of politeness strategies, the content of the speech needs to be evaluated when considering the 'politeness' of an FTA:
"The semantics and pragmatics of utterances must be taken into account in assessing degree of face redress; if the overt content of an utterance is rude, for example, politeness strategies won't necessarily redeem it." (Brown & Levinson, 1987, p. 22)
However, Brown and Levinson leave this mouthful about 'rude content' without further definition or analysis. One of the first real investigations into spoken rudeness was conducted by Robin Lakoff (1989) in her research on rudeness used in professional settings (therapists' offices, courtrooms), a variety of rudeness that she named 'strategic rudeness.' Lakoff asserts that strategic rudeness is used by prosecutors and therapists to force their interlocutors (a courtroom defendant or patient) to talk or react in a certain way. Although her research delved into the uses of rudeness to fulfill a purpose, it only addressed rudeness that is used in situations where the norms of conversational interaction are radically different from those of everyday life.
Gabriele Kasper (1990) gives us the earliest definition of rudeness in an academic paper. In her discussion of Lakoff's (1989) research on strategic rudeness, Kasper (1990) defines rudeness as speech that is "constituted by deviation from whatever counts as politic in a given social context, is inherently confrontational and disruptive to social equilibrium" (Kasper, 1990, p. 208). This definition is important in that it marks rudeness as speech that is confrontational at its core. Although Kasper (1990) further defines rudeness as 'motivated' and 'unmotivated,' her definitions do not make use of natural data.
It is not until Leslie Beebe's research comes along in the early to mid-1990s that data on naturally occurring instances of rudeness in everyday conversation is collected. Drawing from Lakoff's (1989) idea of strategic rudeness, Beebe (1993a, 1993b, 1994, 1995) similarly proposes the concept of instrumental rudeness; rudeness that is meant to achieve a goal. Like Lakoff (1989) and Kasper (1990), Beebe (1995) believes that rudeness is confrontational behavior, and indeed in her research, she found that "hostility seemed to pervade the data" (Beebe, 1995, p. 156). In her study of naturally occurring rudeness in New York City, Beebe (1995) provides her own definition of rudeness:
"In this study, rudeness is defined as a face threatening act (FTA)- or feature of an FTA such as intonation- which violates a socially sanctioned norm of interaction for the social context in which it occurs. It is only rudeness if it receives insufficient redressive action to mitigate its force or, of course, if it does not occur in a context, such as intimacy or emergency, that would negate the need for redressive action. Consequently, it causes antagonism, discomfort, or conflict and results in some disruption to the social harmony. The idea that socially sanctioned norms of interaction are violated is central to the perception of rudeness." (Beebe, 1995, p. 159)
In this definition, Beebe (1995) asserts that rudeness is an FTA, or a feature of an FTA, that has not been mitigated by redressive action and does not occur between intimates or in emergency situations. Essentially, rudeness is a bald, on-record face attack, and not a failed attempt at politeness. This definition would also most likely preclude culturally-specific ritual insults, verbal games, or manners of speech that are used among members of certain social groups. Labov (1972) argues that ritual insults, or 'sounding,' follow certain linguistic, organizational, and interactional rules. If such speech among members of a cultural in-group could be seen as following 'socially sanctioned norms of interaction' (as Labov, 1972, argues) where there is a low risk of face-loss, it would most likely not be considered 'rude speech,' according to Beebe's (1995) definition of rudeness. Beebe (1995) also excludes from her definition perceived rudeness originating from the differing conversational styles between "high considerate-ness" and "high involvement" speakers, as explained by Tannen (1984, 1990).
Most importantly to this study, the natural data in Beebe's (1995) paper supports her contention that most rudeness in everyday speech "is frequently instrumental and is not merely pragmatic failure" (Beebe, 1995, p. 154). She gives the following example, and her interpretation of it:
Bicyclist: "Hey! Hey! Hey! You fuck!" It is difficult to imagine how he might have had politeness as his goal. It seems far fetched to analyze this encounter as perception of rudeness due to clashing conversational styles. It also appears unlikely that this is cross cultural pragmatic failure. More probably, the bicyclist wanted to be instrumentally rude." (Beebe, 1995, pp. 154-155; italicized data slightly edited)
The bicyclist's utterance is a bald, on-record FTA that is meant to offend the taxi driver. Beebe (1995) uses this and other examples to show that talk participants will intentionally use rudeness to fulfill instrumental needs in their lives. She explains that the vast majority of the rudeness in the data she compiled was "…perhaps not intentional in the sense that it was consciously planned in advance, but that was intentional in the sense that it fulfilled a function that the speaker intended, and it was not failed politeness." (Beebe, 1995, p. 166)
Beebe (1995) also asserts that the examples in her study prove that most rude speakers are attempting to accomplish one of two important instrumental functions: 1) to vent negative feelings, and/or 2) to get power (in the above case of the bicyclist, to vent frustration at the taxi driver and/or perhaps to get the taxi driver to hurry up and turn out of the way) (Beebe, 1995, p. 159). Arent (1998) points out that although under Brown and Levinson's politeness framework such bald, on-record FTAs are employed only when the estimated risk of face loss is low, Beebe's (1995) data shows that "in some circumstances talk participants will deliberately employ FTAs without regard to the risk of face loss to the hearer" (Arent, 1998, p. 48). Considering its deliberate nature and pervasiveness in the real world, Beebe (1995) believes that instrumental rudeness should be viewed as a part of pragmatic competence, even though both the fields of pragmatics and ESL teaching still regard politeness as the norm and regard rudeness as an aberration of politeness (Beebe, 1995, p. 156). She asserts that instrumental rudeness is a competency of a native English speaker, and that like native speakers, ESL students "have to learn to get power/control and express negative feelings—but in appropriate ways (Beebe, 1995, p. 167).


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The company unveiled the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) on Tuesday to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. IBM had a one-year contract with the agency to develop a prototype network that would allow standards-based medical records systems to communicate with one another. The company is demonstrating the system at the Third Nationwide Health Information Network Forum this week in Washington, D.C.
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The IBM project differs from other medical records management systems in development in that it is a communications network among various medical database systems, rather than a centralized database, according to Tom Romeo, the director of federal health care at IBM's Global Business Services.
IBM's prototype network searches medical databases connected to it for patient information by name, date of birth and address. Security for the system is based on HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) standards, according to Romeo, and the data is only imported for view if the system finds an exact match.
The system, which is currently being tested at seven hospitals and 24 physicians' offices, requires patient authorization for a search to be performed. The data is only available for a one-time view at the time of search, remaining on the networks of the hospitals' and physicians' systems where it was originally stored. The system is software and hardware "agnostic," according to IBM, and "adheres to open standards" so that different systems can connect through it.
NHIN could also allow government regulatory agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention access to data--in which patients' identities would be kept secret--for studying medical trends, according to Romeo.
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- It is a nice approach and I heard that IBM has launched social networking tool called Lotus Connections. They should like the two to create a powerful application in this space.
Please read my review of currently available health-based social networking and information sites here: http://www.technacular.com/category/healthcare/
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- ... looks like a great idea. How about extending this (if one does not already exists) to the "global business intelligence" spectrum!
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- IBM's credibility on ANYTHING dealing with medical issues, went out the window when they severly decreased their retirees benefits. IBM is much better at creating HUGE, retirement packages for their board members and CEO's (Gerstner's was worth $250 million)than at rewarding the efforts of the people who actually made them famous.
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arro khampa restaurant: the yak steak
i had lunch in arro khampa in march 2010 and i was really surprised!!! the service was outstanding and the food was delicious. warm and cosy with an open fire and a real tibetan decoration!! i can highly recommend the yak-steak. in fact it was the first real steak i had in china .
Favorite Dish: yak steak, chicken curry, the tibetan escalope (like the wiener schnitzel)
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Tibet Cafe and Inn: Yak Butter Tea
Honestly, if you haven't tasted yak butter tea, you haven't been to Shangri-la. The combination of fat and salt and caffeine is not as bad as it sounds*, particularly if you're suffering from altitude sickness. The tea taste particularly gamey ( due to all that yak milk) and salty with just a hint of pu-er.
* Listed as one of the worst Tibetan experience in Lonely Planet.
How: Brew some Pu-er tea and churn it together with the already churned yak milk. Churn it some more till it's mixed and add salt for taste.
Soyala Tibetan Diner and Lounge: Yak Hamburgers, homebrewed beer
I had dinner in the Soyala Tibetan diner and it was awesome!
Delicious yak hamburgers and homebrewed beer are offered. The beef was excellent and the service was really good. The restaurant is run by former kids from the Shangri-La orphanage. Their service is great and their english is much better than in the most other places. I tried the yak hamburger in various styles, the tibetan chili chicken, the bajis, the samosas, the momos and the garlic mushrooms. Everything was remarkeably delicious. The food goes well with the homebrewed Shangri-la beer.
I really have to say the place is one of the best in town!
A+, Thank you! Richard
Favorite Dish: Yak hamburger
Tibetan chili chicken
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Any Noodle Shop in Town: Tukpa Noodles
A typical lunch for me in Yunnan is a warm bowl of rice noodles topped with vegetables (lots of it ) and minced meat. It makes a healthy yet filling dish. A bowl of noodles like this cost no more than 5rmb.
Tibet Cafe: Yak Meat and Tired Feet
It must have been about 1pm when I reached Shangri-la. I was tired and ravenous from a dangerous bus journey from Lijiang and couldn't wait to feast on the local specialties. We ordered a complete menu of Tibetan specialties, including the noodles, fried yak meat, topped off with a pot of Yak Butter Tea.
The Yak Meat looked particularly appetising since it was lightly fried with the local greens, whole pieces of garlic and seeded chillies. Sadly, it looked better than it tasted. The texture was tough since Yak is the Tibetan equivilent of the free-range chicken. These woolly beasts roamed about freely in town till it's lured to the kitchen for dinner. All that roaming, unfortunately, made the meat rather sinewy.
And there was the smell too. The unmistakable gamey flavour that lurks in every exotic meat. Fortunately, there was enough salt and chillies to mask the smell and we finished everything on the plate.
Verdict: It's a good dish to try if you're in Shangri-la as it's a low-fat source of protein. Take my advice with a pinch and go for it. I found out to my horror that there are actually some folks out there who take my words for the bible truth and deny themselves of an eating experience.
Street Vendor: Tibetan blood sausages
The Gyuma in Shangri-la is bloody addictive. Literally. These are Tibetan blood sausages made from quarts of yak blood, offal, minced beef and rice stuffed into goat intestines. Actually, it is more delicious than it sounds. The sausage is crisp, salty and fatty. Not too different from the Dutch version of Balkenbrij ( liverwurst ) and it goes nicely with an accompaniment of grilled glutinous rice cake.
Where:You can buy sticks of Gyuma in the old town of Shangri-la from any street vendor. Upon your order, she will slice and skewer the sausage, grill it on an open flame and sprinkle hot chilli powder on it.
Blac puba cafe(it's not a typo, this is the name): Tibetan mix
This is one of the cafe of the old town, what makes this special to me is not just the food, but the really warm welcome that you feel once you enter.
I do not know how to describe it but, may be because we were reallyn tired and cold when we came here, but as soon as we took a seat we felt like in a places we were used to come everyday and actually we had been treated like usual guests.
Favorite Dish: The tibetan mix(rice, yak meat, potato mushrooms) and the tibetan springrolls(sweet and sour springrolls made of yak cheese) were really nice, just chose only one of them as they are huge dishes and you will hardly get to eat both.
Do not expect cold beer as they say: it's cold enough in here you do not need to drink cold drinks.
For 3 people with beers and really too much food that we did not finish we paid about 10 euros.
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Hotpot R Us!: And finally..the aftermath!!!
And as our feast drew to an end, this was all that could be seen..utter chaos! And around the table we unbuttoned our trousers a little, slid down the chair into a more comfortable position, and sighed a long hard sigh of gratification!
Hotpot R us!: A clean start to the night...
We were so cold that night in Zhongdian that we were willing to pass on the expensive Western Food, and go straight for good warm Chinese hotpot! For those who do not know what a hotpot is, its like a stew but you put all ingredients into the boiling soup uncooked. And then the soup cooks them and shortly after, apart from the potatoes as they take AGES to cook, you can take everything out and dip it into your sauce and eat it! Actually, I think I already have a description of this on my BEIJING page, if you are further interested!
We managed to find this place after going into a couple of places asking around for hotpot. One Chinese woman even spoke to us in English saying there was a good Western cafe down the road!!! "NO", we all shouted.."we want CHINESE!!!"
Favorite Dish: I think we were the only customers in the restaurant, but that wasnt really surprising as those stAying in hostels with a warm restaurant, just stay there, but ours didnt have a restaurant let alone a warm one!!! Well our hotel DID have a rest. and cafe but it was never open, and we wanted to explore a little bit anyway!
So anyway, the hot pot was great! More photos of it to come below!!!!
Hot Pot R Us!: Ok, so let's see how much I can eat....
Same as before...just starting our meal..everything looks hopeful!
The one thing they weren't very good with was the sesame sauce you can order to dip your meats and veg from the hotpot into. They gave each of us a bowl and then when we wanted to order some more, they gave us another sort which was mainly just water, no real thick sauce. Its hard to understand if youve never had it before, but you could maybe compare it to tomato sauce when all you get is the liquid water coming out rather than the actual sauce! Ha ha!!! Do you catch my drift now!!!!?
Restaurant in Shili Hotel: Great food~
This is the restaurant in the hotel we stayed in ZhongDian. Price is little bit higher than those road side restaurants, but except from the ordinary Yunnan style food, they do have some nice creative dishes.
Favorite Dish: As you can see, we 2 were actually very hungry.. (?!) 5 dishes for 2... (*_*)
anyway.. the dish in front of me, deep fried potato slices with salty egg yolk was really very good! And the fried pork ribs was good too.. my friend, who normally doesn't eat pork, had 2 pieces too~~
Pacific Rim Hotel: Good Cantonese Resturant
You can always find good food at the Pacific Rim Hotel.
It seems that most of the local noodle shops tend to close early. The more touristy resturants stay open later though.
There is good Cantonese at the Pacific Rim.
Favorite Dish: Cantonese
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SCRANTON — Later this week, the Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain in Scranton will play host to a kind of concert never seen on the mountain before.
It's three days long and will feature more than 30 bands.
It's called the Peach Music Festival, The Allman Brothers and country music act Zac Brown Band are headlining the three-day long festival. Officials at Montage Mountain say the festival is a big test.
If it goes off without a hitch, it could open the mountain up to other multi-day festivals.
Crews at Toyota Pavilion on Montage Mountain have concert preps down to a science. Workers started the usual jobs Tuesday. Cleaning up the pavilion and unloading trucks worth of water and beer.
But, this weekend, they'll enter into uncharted territory.
"All the things that go along with setting up a little village, we're setting up a little town on top of the mountain," said General Manager Jason Resetar.
For the first time, Toyota Pavilion will host a multi-day concert called the Peach Music Festival. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday concert-goers can take in more than 30 bands and have the option to camp overnight here.
Security guards held a meeting at the mountain Tuesday afternoon. Officials say there won't be extra security for the festival, just that they'll be working more hours.
Resetar says if the Peach Music Festival goes well, it could entice other multi-day festivals to come here too.
"That's the plan, that's the plan, this is going to be a game changer for us. It's going to put us as a venue on the map, and us as a city on the map," Resetar added.
Higher up on Montage Mountain, employees at the Sno Cove Water Park are making preparations too. People who are camping for this weekend's festival will stay on the slopes and have access to the entire water park.
Officials with Sno Cove say this is the first time they've worked with the pavilion in this way. And, while campers may start rolling in as early as Thursday, people can still buy passes to Sno Cove all weekend.
Since there will be a stage set up at the water park, patrons there may get to take in some of the concert.
"I think it will be a good test of what our mountain has to offer. Especially for people coming from other places, out of the area, it will show what our area has to offer which is a great thing," said Sno Cove Marketing Director Sarah Farrell.
Campers can start setting up as early as Thursday afternoon. But, the Peach Music Festival officially starts on Friday with Zac Brown Band and The Allman Brothers performing Friday night.
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Ya there are tons of iPhone clones. A few days ago I had a lady come try to activate her iPhone, and she was really upset when I told her it wasnt really an iPhone at all. There was no power button on the top, just the button on the front, the back could come off so that you can get to the battery, and the menus resembled the iPhone menus, but the graphics looked like a really cheap virgin mobile phone from 5 years ago. It was also extremely slow! And on the back where it should say 'iPhone' just said 'Phone' lol. It was funny hearing her yelling at me about the phone that she bought online for $150 was a fake.
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NATO looking into reports of air strikes causing civilian deaths
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The new NATO commander of the international military operation in Libya says he's looking into reports that air strikes on Tripoli have killed at least 40 civilians. Lieutenant General Charles Bouchard, a Canadian now heading the international operation, noted the alleged incident happened before NATO took command early Thursday.
"I am aware of this report. It is a news report and I appreciate the source of the news report. I take every one of those issues seriously, in fact, however our command the NATO mission started at 0600 this morning. My mandate is clear. We will help protect and defend people, civilians, and population centers against attack from Libyan forces. I'm pleased to report that the handover, the transition with coalition forces has been seamless with no gaps in the effort. NATO aviators and controllers will do everything they can to deny any use of air power against civilians. They will do so with care and precision and to avoid harming the people of Libya."
The report by the Fides news agency quotes a bishop in Tripoli, as saying he'd learned that a building in the Buslim district collapsed because of bombing, killing 40 people.
Meanwhile, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says there will be no American ground troops in Libya as long as he's in his job. Gates made the comment under congressional questioning about the U.S. mission in Libya.
Some lawmakers complained that Congress hasn't been consulted on the Libya operation, and the goals are unclear. Today the New York Times reported, that despite Gatesâ claim that there would be no U.S. ground troops in Libya, the Central Intelligence Agency has had clandestine operatives in Libya for several weeks.
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Open mic at Farley's Cafe
By awoodall
Saturday, October 17th, 2009 at 11:30 am in Fun Stuff to do in Oakland, Night Owl.
Farley's East Cafe, which opened an Oakland spot a few months ago at West Grand Ave and Broadway, is hitting the East Bay spoken-word open-mic scene beginning Oct. 30. The "Uptown, Downtown, and Around Town" open mic will take place on the fourth Friday of each month, from 7 to 9pm. Each fourth Friday will feature one or two artists, followed by an open mic session. Bring prose, poetry, or musical scores and lyrics—instrumentation is encouraged. Alas, who can survive on words alone? Beer, wine, coffee, teas and panini also are served. Good to see people branching out instead of clinging to the First Friday vine.
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Biologie der Juden: Jüdische Wissenschaftler über "Rasse" und Vererbung, 1900–1935, by Veronika Lipphardt. Berlin: Vandenhoeck & Rupecht, 2008. 360 pp. $35.15.
Thoroughly documented and written in clear prose, Veronika Lipphardt's Biology of the Jews: Jewish Scientists on "Race" and Inheritance, 1900–1935 offers a comprehensive, detailed, and nuanced history of writers of Jewish descent who wrote on race in the German language from the turn of the 1890s into the early Nazi period.
The book comprises an introduction, four main sections, and a conclusion. The introduction sets out the main questions of the book, its theoretical approach, and a short overview of existing research on the topic. The first, relatively short, section provides the wider context of the biologization of Jews within the massive biologization of society, culture, and history in the latter third of the nineteenth century, mapping out the disciplinary terrain of biological sciences around 1900, and addressing the question of the role of antisemitism in the academy at the time. The second section deals with the controversies over the existence of "Jewish biology," split into two major phases, from 1900 to 1915 and from 1916 to 1933. The third section addresses the cases of several writers through analyzing questions of identity in their work, and the fourth section offers an analysis of institutional dimensions in the scientific discussion of Jewish biology.
Rather than attempt to summarize the historical account, I wish to draw attention to two important facets of Lipphardt's book: first, authors of Jewish descent as a historical subject, a "thought community," and, second, institutions that never came into being.
While focusing on writers of Jewish descent, reviewing scientific publications as well as archival correspondences, the book's methodology is derived from the history of science. Yet Lipphardt's starting point is the biographical background of the authors whose works she examines, rather than their respective versions of science or disciplinary preferences. Indeed, Lipphardt's approach is based on several historical-methodological assumptions which she discusses rather briefly. Maybe the most important one, based on sociological conjecture, is that as authors of Jewish descent belonged to a stigmatized minority, they can be grouped together. Most of Lipphardt's account is a historical interpretation of the works of such writers. Interestingly, many times the account centers on "couples" made up of Jewish and non-Jewish authors—Elias Auerbach and Felix von Luschan; Richard Semon and August Weismann; Franz Boas and Eugen Fischer. These couples stood in close cooperation, controversy, or dispute, operating in biological or anthropological discourses that were themselves dynamic and undergoing deep transformations. The result of the premise, however, is that Lipphardt groups together writers who differed sharply in their views on science, biology, culture, or Jews. Lipphardt's "twist," in a certain sense, which the reader only grasps at the end of the book, is that she disproves, in a certain sense, her own premise.
Following the cases of different writers— including Ignaz Zollschan, Franz Weidenreich, Willhelm Nußbaum, Franz Boas, and Arthur Ruppin as well as numerous prominent or less prominent others—Lipphardt shows that apart from their shared Jewish descent (which, too, she emphasizes, comprises of a spectrum of identities and forms of religious, national, or ethnic identification or affiliation), these writers in fact shared no common scientific denominator, differing in their views on biology, race, or Jews. Authors of Jewish descent could be found across a wide spectrum of disciplines, theories, and assumptions concerning biology, race, and the biological or the racial identity of Jews.
Lipphardt employs Ludwig Fleck's notions of scientific style and Denkkollektiv, concluding that at least until 1918 authors of Jewish descent did not constitute a Denkkollektiv, as they did not share a specific scientific style, a common strategy, or a set of views on biology, race, or Jews. This, in a certain sense, is a significant historical conclusion. Individual writers of Jewish descent are integrated in different ways in the whole natural science research community (p. 303). Lipphardt strengthens the conclusion with the observation that the most prominent writers of Jewish descent in the field, such as Paul Ehrlich and August von Wassermann (p. 309), in fact hardly related to anything Jewish throughout their career and the topic was of no special interest for them. This changed in the 1920s, as against the background of German nationalistic and racist discourses the scientific atmosphere became tense and aggressive and authors of Jewish descent increasingly were forced to take a much more defensive stance.
One might contrast this conclusion with Pierre Birnbaum's very different interpretation. If Birnbaum, who focused on the works of scholars in the humanities and social sciences, sought to demonstrate the existence of subterranean Jewish traditions in science or scholarship, Lipphardt ultimately analyzes the works of authors of Jewish descent as a heuristic device to map out the terrain of discussions on the biology of the Jews in anthropology and the natural sciences in German up to the Nazi period.
In methodological terms the most innovative and original part of the book is its last section, which deals with failed plans by authors of Jewish descent to establish programs or institutes for the study of the biology of the Jews. Lipphardt's intriguing perspective on abortive attempts, failed beginnings, projects that never materialized for lack of funding or other reasons, shows that in the 1920s and 1930s authors of Jewish descent attempted numerous projects for the biological or racial study of Jews. The wider context of these attempts is not, however, a spontaneous interest in the biology of the Jews but the radicalization of the antisemitic and racist discourses in Germany and Austria in which Jews were stigmatized and the legitimacy of their science questioned. Lipphardt uses these mostly forgotten or unknown attempts to study processes of what she terms "Othering" and "Selfing" (p. 244) within scientific work. Closely examining plans that did not materialize as well as the correspondences between initiators of these plans and persons and institutions with whom they corresponded, Lipphardt demonstrates a great increase in these efforts in the 1920s and 1930s. While these individuals were at different stages of their career, were guided by different scientific assumptions and different ideological goals, and envisioned and planned greatly different projects (in scope and in aims), they all operated within a scientific and social environment that was becoming increasingly unstable and which increasingly found no place for them.
Lipphardt's book is a major contribution to the growing literature on the intersection of modern European history, modern Jewish history, and history of science.
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The city pulsed to a beat it hadn't felt for decades as it welcomed its new president. Intellectuals met at private political salons for open, lively discussions of topics they had only dared to mention in whispers before: demands for greater democracy, the suspension of emergency law, an end to the ruling party's domination.
Occidental Petroleum Corp., transformed by longtime leader Ray Irani into a global oil powerhouse from a hodgepodge of businesses that included movies and meatpacking, is set to undergo another makeover after the chairman's ouster by shareholders.
President Barack Obama shared in the Egyptian people's exhilaration in forcing Hosni Mubarak from power, while cautioning of "difficult days ahead" for the Mideast nation's fledgling embrace of democracy.
Edward Djerejian, former U.S. ambassador to Israel and Syria, talks with Bloomberg's Bradley Olson about the outlook for Libya's transitional government following the death of Muammar Qaddafi and the country's oil industry. (Source: Bloomberg)
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The creative and media industry is a highly competitive sector, populated predominantly by project-based workers and small freelance companies. Because of the transient and unpredictable nature of the work, there has been a considerable under-investment in skills development, training and structured career progression. These underlying problems have been concerning the government for some time. So much so, that the UK's Creative Industries Council and the Department of Culture Media & Sport and Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, co-chaired by Business Secretary Vince Cable, the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, commissioned a report by the Skillsets Skills Group to look into the matter in detail and come up with recommendations about how the industry could improve skills in the sector and drive growth and employment opportunities. The Group chaired by Skillset CEO Dinah Caine and comprised of experts representing groups including NESTA and the Cinema Exhibitors Association has come up with 17 separate recommendations to drive the industry forward, chief amongst which was the need to foster greater mentoring opportunities for employees within the sector.
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- To create an online professional learning network for employers and individuals, and to implement sector-wide management and leadership programmes by establishing virtual boards of experienced professionals to provide support, mentoring and guidance to start-ups and small creative companies.
- To reform the ICT syllabus in schools. Computer science, arts and/or a creative subject (music, film, media, and photography) should ideally be included in the National Curriculum as core subjects, and also as options within the English Baccalaureate.
- The Creative Industries and the National Apprenticeship Service should in future lead a promotional campaign to raise the profile of Apprenticeships and challenge the traditional notions that they are for those unable to study at university, or that they are "just for boys".
- Education and training providers must collaborate with Creative Industries to combine arts, design, technology and business, to reflect how the Creative Industries benefit and are being transformed by the fusion of these combined disciplines.
- To establish a single career's resource for the Creative Industries with authoritative careers information and rich media content, supported by online mentoring programmes.
- To establish group Apprenticeship approaches for the Creative Media and Fashion and Textile industries, which will allow employers to manage apprentices collectively, in partnership with other businesses in the sector.
- To extend the Skillset philosophy right across the sector. The scheme will provide a kite mark for industry-accredited HE and FE courses and should be extended to apprenticeship provision. It acts as a guide for both prospective students and potential employers.
- To improve the quality of industry internships and mentoring programmes, where employers don't just comply with legislation but also work hand-in-hand with trade unions, employee representative groups and Government to challenge the poor working practices and champion the principles of fair access to the sector.
- To improve the national account system for the Creative Industries by working with the Office for National Statistics to shape the methodology for data collection; reduce duplication, identify knowledge gaps and drive up the quality of the evidence base so that employers can make better investment in recruitment, training and mentoring programmes which will help prospective entrants make informed decisions on career route.
The Council has now charged Skillset with leading bids on behalf of the industry to raise sufficient investment funds to help deliver the strategic plan and the recommendations agreed upon. Business Secretary, Vince Clarke, commented:
"The UK creative industries have a well-deserved world-wide reputation for excellence. This report makes a number of strong recommendations to develop skills and nurture emerging talent in creative industries, particularly through our expanded and improved apprenticeships programme. We look forward to Skillset and others in the creative industries taking this plan forward and implementing it."
Dinah Caine, CEO of Skillset added:
"We are delighted that Skillset was asked to lead the work of this group, and has now been asked to take the lead in making these recommendations a reality. This work will address the key challenges our industries face by fostering the skills and talent they need to remain internationally competitive and a driver of growth in our economy. We now look forward to working with our industries and the Government in realising these ambitions for our sector."


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A digital radio editing system developed by the Australian Broadcasting Company that will free producers from tangles of recording tape looks set to spread to newsrooms around the world. ABC has sold its system to the American Broadcasting Company. The US network will install the system in its New York radio newsroom, with links to bureaus in Los Angeles, Washington DC and London.
ABC's Digital Cartridge Editing System, or D-Cart, will be up and running in New York by May. According to John Parker, business manager of ABC, nearly a dozen countries have expressed interest in D-Cart, including the BBC and the radio station LBC in London.
ABC has also been approached by government courts, defence agencies and intelligence gathering operations interested in replacing their analogue recording systems with D-Cart.
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The Misfit 327
To be completely honest, I was a bit skeptical when I volunteered myself to put together a 327 for our three-way build, as in my eyes, the 327 has always seemed like an outcast, shunned by the other small-blocks as a weakling and cast aside for more important jobs. Sadly, it's never really gotten its due. I knew it was going to be tough to try to play in the street with the other bad boys of the hood, but I knew it could be done with the right parts and with less money. Predictions and trash-talk were running rampant in the office as to how much power we could get out of this little guy, but the 327 made it through without so much as a hiccup.
After we contacted Mark Plotner from Powerhouse Engine Components in Bakersfield, California, he set us up with an original 327 block, bored and machined 0.030 over. He also offered up his complete, balanced 327 rotating assembly with cast flat-top pistons. While this foundation is nearly stock, we were trying to keep costs at bay so we could spend our loot on a more efficient top end. In this case, we went with Dart's SBC top end kit, which came with everything we needed to complete the build. At only 1,500 bucks for the stuff, it was perfect.
Initially, on the dyno, the motor wasn't happy. Upon some investigation, we realized the timing pointer on the timing cover had been installed upside down, in turn giving us the wrong reading. As a matter of fact, we were 10 degrees off, and once we got the timing correct at 35 degrees, we recorded a baseline of 346 hp. We weren't pleased just yet and we knew there was still some hidden power to be found. The fuel curve was pretty fat so we got after it and took out some fuel in the primaries and secondaries-even bumping up the timing to 39 degrees. We then hit 371 hp on the next run. The fuel curve was perfect but we still weren't that impressed. We opted for a 1-inch open style Wilson Manifold spacer and gained 10 hp. At that point, the 327 was still making power so we took it a step further and added a 2-inch tapered Wilson spacer and gained another 10 hp. Our final number netted us 391 hp and 381 lb-ft with no drop in power down low! It was rather impressive, to say the least, and the cost to produce it was even better. -SH


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1972 Mustang Mach 1 - Equestrian Competition, Part 3
Finding Better, Safer Handling in a '72 Mach 1
With the wheels chosen, we rang up Summit Racing Equipment in Tallmadge, Ohio, to order a set of tires. Known mostly for it's vast array of performance parts, Summit Racing also carries a line of stock replacement parts, tools, and, of course, tires.
To stick our Mach 1 to the pavement, we picked out Riken's Raptor ZR ultra-high-performance radial tire. The Raptor ZR tires feature an aggressive directional tread pattern for serious grip in both wet and dry conditions. The Raptor's tread compound, along with a high-modulus composition sidewall, is designed to provide quick response during cornering and maximize handling, which is just what we were looking for. The Raptors also have built-in rim protectors that help keep you from curbing your wheels. Going by Mustangs Plus' recommendation, we opted for the P235/45R17 size, which offers a 25.40-inch tire diameter, and a 9.30-inch section width.
The difference in ride quality with just the suspension mods was immediately apparent to the Mach's owners during the ride to and from the alignment shop. The ride was noticeably flat with minimal body roll, but was also still comfortable and not at all harsh or bone jarring. After getting the Mach 1 back on the road course at Gainesville Raceway (Gainesville, Florida), we concurred with their assessment. The ride had a much tighter feel to it, similar to what you find in a newer vehicle. For the relatively minimal investment, the ride quality was confidence inspiring, and allowed us to more accurately point the car around the course without having to compensate for the sailboat antics of days past.
Our baseline road course times featured best runs of 1:22.05, 1:19.82, and 1:19.42 seconds. With the Mustangs Plus suspension modifications, we were able to trim those times to 1:21:12, 1:18.84, and 1:18.78. Following those laps, we pitted the Mach 1 and swapped the Vintage Wheel Works V45s on.
With the low-profile tires on, steering wheel feedback was much more informative. We could now feel exactly when the car turned in and when it lost traction. We found that brake dive was minimal and didn't upset the handling of the car at all. We also found it interesting that we could feel the front end squirm under heavy braking, which was something that wasn't present, or at least not felt through the wheel with the 15-inch tires on. We should be able to correct that, however, with another trip to the alignment shop.
Sporting the V45 wheels and Riken Raptor rubber, the Mach 1 took to the Gainesville circuit and knocked down a 1:16.17 and a 1:16.70. With a bit more track time, we probably could have whittled the time down into the 1:15s, but we were already impressed and more than satisfied with the improvements thus made.
Lap times do show an improvement of sorts, but the real story lies in the way the Mach 1 drives now. Given that most of us regularly drive cars that were made after 1982, we've largely grown accustomed to the handling characteristics of modern cars. When you climb behind the wheel of an unmodified classic, they simply feel sloppy and slow when compared to even the most mundane modern commuter. Current vehicle handling has improved greatly, and has needed to in order to make cars safer. We now have faster speed limits, more traffic, and more distracted drivers to deal with, so having a car that reacts slowly and rolls over to the point where you can't see where you're going is simply not safe, or enjoyable. With the performance upgrades that we've made to this Mach 1, we've made the Mustang a safer, and a more enjoyable car to drive, while maintaining a smooth and comfortable ride.
When we started modifying this Mach 1, we noted that we would be improving the driving experience, and we've now come a long way in accomplishing that. In an upcoming issue, we'll be making some engine upgrades to the 351 Cleveland powerplant to bring the power level to current Mustang standards as well. Stay tuned.