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Power Smokers of Hollywood
David Shaw
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It happened more than 25 years ago, but Jerry Weintraub--like many men--still vividly recalls his first cigar.
Weintraub is an entertainment mogul: a movie producer (The Karate Kid), a personal manager (Dorothy Hamill), a political fund-raiser (for former president George Bush), even an occasional actor (The Firm), but he started as an agent and then a concert promoter. In the late 1960s, he was negotiating to promote the Biggest Star of Them All: Elvis Presley.
"I went to Vegas to meet with Elvis' manager, Col. Tom Parker. We talked at what was then called the Hilton International [Hotel] . . . at the roulette wheel," Weintraub recalls with a chuckle. "When we finally made our deal--a very big deal--Colonel Parker reached in his pocket, pulled out a cigar and stuck it in my mouth."
Parker was almost 60 then, Weintraub not yet 30, and as Weintraub waited for a light, Parker said, 'Son, if you're going to be a big promoter and a big producer, you have to learn to smoke cigars.' "
What kind of cigar did Colonel Parker give him?
Weintraub laughs.
"It wasn't a good one."
No surprise. The colonel was notoriously tightfisted legendary for such pre-Presley ploys as painting sparrows yellow and selling them as canaries (or selling footlong hot dogs that stuck out at each end of the bun, but had no meat in the middle). But Weintraub took Parker's advice and became a cigar smoker anyway.
Now Weintraub can afford good cigars on his own, and he smokes eight or 10 a day--Cohiba, Punch, Montecristo ("the No. 1 or 2 unless I'm playing golf, then it's the No. 3 'cause it's shorter. After lunch or dinner, I like a robusto or a Churchill.")
Weintraub has four homes--in Beverly Hills, Malibu and Palm Springs, all in California, and Kennebunkport, Maine (not coincidentally, George Bush's vacation home), and he keeps a humidor in every one.
"I think cigars are wonderful," he says. "I think they're a way of life. I love the taste and the feel of a good Cuban cigar; I love having one in my hand."
The image of the movie mogul with a cigar in hand has long been a staple--indeed a stereotype--in Hollywood. Jack Warner. Darryl Zanuck. Harry Cohn. Sam Arkoff. Carl Laemmle. Ernst Lubitsch. They all smoked cigars, brandishing them as symbols of success and power. In the motion-picture business, as elsewhere, smoking a good cigar was often an unmistakable way to say to the world, "I've made it."
In the 1990s in Hollywood, a time and place when cities like Los Angeles are passing laws that ban smoking (and making cigar smokers in particular feel as if they're just a half step above child molesters on the social ladder), cigars are making a comeback in the corridors of power. When Weintraub passes the humidor--in his office or after a dinner party at home--there are lots of takers. And he and his guests are far from alone.
In fact, 20 or 30 movie folk are generally among the more than 150 cigar smokers who crowd Arnold Schwarzenegger's Schatzi restaurant in Venice the first Monday night of every month for dinner, cigars and Cognac. Schwarzenegger himself is a cigar smoker, as are many other big-name Hollywood actors--Sylvester Stallone, Don Johnson, Bruce Willis, Bill Cosby, Dan Aykroyd, James Coburn, James Belushi --not to mention the panatella princes of the geriatric set, Milton Berle, 85, and George Burns, 98. (Hillcrest Country Club, where Burns is a longtime member, posted a sign prohibiting cigar smoking last November, then changed it a day later, after Burns protested. The new sign reads: Cigar Smoking Prohibited for Anyone Under 95.) "Entertainment Tonight" even did a segment on "Stars and Their Cigars" last year.
But it's with the directors, producers, agents, lawyers and studio executives--the behind-the-scenes, behind-the-camera movers and shakers of Hollywood--that cigars are making their biggest comeback.
Some of these men are reluctant to talk about cigar smoking at all, apparently figuring that the very sight of a cigar engenders such animosity that they don't want to call attention to themselves as members of what one director calls the brotherhood of the stogie. Sid Sheinberg, president of MCA Universal, referred calls about his cigar smoking to the MCA public-relations office, where a spokeswoman said he wouldn't be available to speak to Cigar Aficionado. A spokesman for director Martin Brest (Scent of a Woman, Midnight Run, Beverly Hills Cop) said flatly, "He wouldn't be comfortable talking about this."
Others in Hollywood, equally image-conscious, insist that cigars aren't really elite symbols of success and power after all; cigars are actually "more democratic than plutocratic," one agent insists. But such plutocrats as Sheinberg and Mike Medavoy, former chairman of TriStar Pictures, are cigar smokers, as are superstar directors Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation), Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, Valmont, Hair) and Sydney Pollack (The Way We Were, Tootsie, Out of Africa) and a number of agents at Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and International Creative Management (ICM), the twin goliaths of the movie business.
Lou Pitt, Schwarzenegger's agent at ICM, has been smoking cigars for 15 years, but he concedes that "the quality of my tobacco has improved dramatically" since he hooked up with Schwarzenegger. He used to smoke Dunhills, Royal Jamaicans and Pleiades; now it's Cohiba, Romeo y Julieta and Montecristo.
Fred Specktor, a CAA agent whose clients include Robert De Niro, Danny DeVito and Joe Pesci, says Medavoy got him started as a serious cigar smoker about five years ago when they traveled to London with their wives, and a maître d' came around with a humidor after dinner in a restaurant. Medavoy encouraged him to try one, and "I liked it; I started bumming cigars from Mike, then I started buying them myself."
Specktor's CAA colleague, Robert Bookman--"Bookie" to his intimates--was also turned on to cigars by a professional acquaintance, an attorney named Arnold Burke.
"We had lunch one day in 1976 at Musso & Frank (a Hollywood landmark), and when Arnold lit up a cigar afterward, I made a pejorative comment about his nasty habits," Bookman recalls. "He asked if I'd ever smoked a cigar. I said no. He suggested I reserve my judgment until I tried one, and he insisted we make another lunch date right then. He said he wanted to go to a restaurant near the old Dunhill store in Beverly Hills, where he kept his cigars in a locker. He said he'd take me there after lunch and introduce me to my first cigar.
"He did--and I've been hooked ever since."
Like all the other movie machers interviewed for this story, Bookman smokes Cuban cigars--Punch, Montecristo No. 3, occasionally a Cohiba Exquisito on the way back to his office from lunch. ("It's the perfect size for a short walk.") On his birthday every year, Bookman enjoys a Romeo y Julieta Fabuloso.
Like virtually all cigar smokers everywhere, Bookman has problems finding a place to smoke in peace. He often goes to Le Dome restaurant in West Hollywood, where, if anyone complains, the owner, Eddie Kerkhofs, asks the complainer--not the smoker--to move. Or leave.
Bookman also smokes at home. "My wife has been remarkably understanding," he says. Andrew Bergman, the director of Honeymoon in Vegas, The Freshman and the forthcoming Cop Tips Waitress $2 Million, is similarly blessed. "My wife likes cigars," he says. "Her father was a cigar smoker."
Bergman, who began smoking Robert Burns Tiparillos as a 20-year-old college student in the early 1960s because "I saw my history teacher do it, and President Kennedy did it," had his favorite cigar-smoking experience in an airplane, of all places.
He and his producer/partner Mike Lobell were on an Alitalia flight to Venice about a dozen years ago, and they'd just had a "wonderful dinner and great espresso. It was like no airline meal I've ever had, before or since. It was so perfect, it just cried out for a cigar, so we asked the stewardess if there was any possible chance we could light one up. She said, "But of course." It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. A real epiphany. And no one complained."
Now, Bergman says, not only can't he smoke on airplanes, he doesn't even try to smoke in restaurants anymore. "I can't deal with the hatred," he says. "I don't think the response would be as negative if you started vomiting in the restaurant."
When he was shooting The Freshman, Bergman says, he, Lobell and Ken Adam, the production designer, smoked so many cigars that they had to have a separate trailer. "No one else would stay in the same van with us. We had to communicate with everyone else by phone, van to van."
But when he's actually on the set, he has no such problems.
"I'm the boss," he says. "Nobody bitches."
John Milius and Ron Shelton take a similarly imperious view of their directorial imperatives.
"I started smoking cigars when I was 13," says Shelton (director of Bull Durham, White Men Can't Jump and Blaze). "Other kids snuck behind the woodshed to smoke cigarettes; for some reason, I smoked cigars. In retrospect, they were pretty awful. But I've come to appreciate and smoke good cigars--my favorite is the Montecristo No. 2--and any time a day goes by that I haven't smoked a cigar, I feel like something's missing."
Shelton usually smokes one a day, after lunch or dinner, unless he's writing or directing; then it's more. And if someone on the set complains?
"I've learned not to work with them. There are few ground rules for working with me; one of them is that I'm going to smoke cigars."
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With all due respect your reasoning above is total nonsense. You believing God doesnt exist in no way means that He magically no longer exists and you magically no longer belong to Him. Youre like the child who pretends his Father doesnt exist in order to avoid a spanking.
Note that I wrote "myself" unlike you who is arrogant enough to use the words "we/all".
I am confident in my position, not arrogant. If God didnt exist though why would someone being arrogant be a bad thing? You atheists love to borrow your morality from us Christians, the only problem is that the very God you claim doesnt exist must exist in order for you to make any sense of the morality you borrowed from us.
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on ebay now! NEW unscratched, no chips or splatter .. shade 12 found in boxes of old welding eqiup... pics on ebay!
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Ao weld cool cobalt blue lens
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I think my friend might have one, but I want to say gold not blue?
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Ao weld cool cobalt blue lens
For a shade 10 blue lens I guess it's for tig welding... That's what I use . It is worth 450-550$ .. I have a shade 12 I could sell but I want 375 and it has a little spatter and a chip in the upper left corner none of the blemishes matter you can see great out of it
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cobalt blue lenses are neither exotic nor expensive Sellstrom makes them in shades #6 and #10 for about $32...
Be aware that blue is not suitable for TIG welding... it will not filter out ultraviolet... the blue was intended to filter out the bright orange of molten metal in a foundry, glassblowers molten glass and some gas welding where an orange sodium flare occurs...
they would be dangerous to the eyes if used for electric arc welding like TIG, MIG or stick, where lots of ultraviolet is produced...
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Sellstrom now offers cobalt blue protective eyewear, faceshield, welding goggle and 2x4 filter plate lens (in both shade 6 and 10) to meet your unique work environment needs. Cobalt blue products diffuse the orange glow that strong sodium emissions generally produce, allowing the user to see and perform more efficiently. These products would be ideal in gas welding applications for aluminum and cast iron as well as in metal, gas and glass furnace operations. All cobalt blue products meet and/or exceed ANSI Z87.1 Standards.
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I may be the wife but I'm not dumb!
Just to let u honey I may only be the wife but I'm not dumb and I be been around the industry long enough to know that the ao (American Optic) cobalt blue lens that I'm looking for and referring to is both highly sought after and "exotic" as u called it. The reason for the high prices on the lenses is bc they are so rare and very hard to come by someone who is even willing to part with theirs! They don't make the original lens I'm speaking of anymore. I'm not looking for a knock off or blue lens googles, I want to find him a true ao cobalt blue shade #10 welding lens that is in good condition
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Adware is not freeware, right? Never has been, has it? In the beginning, adware makers did try hard to make it a norm to brand their merchandise as free, but they were kicked out and laughed out of court, so to speak (the court of public opinion in this case). Since then, adware is adware, free is free, and we've been living happily ever after.
So why is is suddenly acceptable to call Android adware "free"? 99% of "free" apps on Android Market are adware, though you wouldn't know it from the market descriptions, screenshots or any blogs that recommend the software. Even Wikipedia apps show ads, though I doubt any of the proceeds go to the Wikimedia Foundation.
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American Lung Association Lauds Next Generation of CDC's "Tips from Former Smokers" National Tobacco Education Campaign
(March 28, 2013)—
New set of "tips" address additional lung-related health issues affecting millions in the U.S.
Editor's Note: American Lung Association President and CEO Harold Wimmer released a video statement in support of the "Tips from Former Smokers" campaign.
WASHINGTON – The American Lung Association applauds the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for building on the success of its "Tips from Former Smokers" national media campaign with the launch of a new round of hard-hitting ads inspiring smokers to quit through firsthand stories from individuals suffering from life-shattering smoking-related lung diseases and disabilities. Many of the new ads address important issues and audiences that were not included in the first campaign.
The CDC's first "Tips from Former Smokers" campaign, launched in 2012, made an immediate impact on prompting smokers to quit. Compared with the same 12-week period in 2011, overall call volume to 1-800-QUIT NOW, a number smokers across the country can call to get help quitting by phone, more than doubled during the campaign's 12-week run. Additionally, online visitors to www.smokefree.gov increased by more than fivefold. Even more are believed to have made quit attempts on their own, or to discuss quitting with their healthcare providers. Similar results are expected for the launch of this new round of the "Tips" campaign.
"The 'Tips from Former Smokers' campaign has been wildly successful at highlighting the serious and immediate dangers of tobacco use and inspiring smokers to quit," said Harold Wimmer, president and CEO of the American Lung Association. "We are glad to see the CDC build on that success with messages that address even more smoking-related health conditions, including lung cancer, that are prevalent in a diverse group of Americans."
Like last year's inaugural Tips campaign, this iteration again features real people who are living with a variety of smoking-related diseases. This round of the campaign features health conditions that were not addressed in the first campaign, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma in adults, and smoking-related complications in persons with diabetes. It also highlights individuals from diverse ethnic and social groups such as American Indians/Alaska Natives and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.
Additionally, the campaign highlights the impact on family members and caretakers of those with lung disease caused by tobacco. An especially powerful piece features an African American woman who cared for her mother with lung cancer when she was only in high school—and was inspired to quit smoking years later after realizing that her own daughter is the same age she was while watching her mother die.
Smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death and disease in the United States, killing more than 440,000 Americans each year. More than 8 million Americans are living with a smoking related disease, and every day more than 1,000 youth under the age of 18 become daily smokers.
Lung cancer is the leader cancer killer of both men and women, responsible for almost 160,000 deaths each year. Although the number of lung cancer deaths among men has plateaued, the number is still rising among women. African Americans are more likely to develop and die from lung cancer than persons of any other racial group.
While generating impressive results, the CDC's paid media campaign is miniscule compared to the amount of money the tobacco industry spends on product marketing often targeted at kids and teens. The tobacco industry spends over $22 million dollars a day marketing its products.
"The tobacco industry is trying to cover up the truth with its mountain of marketing dollars," said Wimmer. "The 'Tips' campaign is making a difference with limited resources by showing the real effects of tobacco use on real people. The Lung Association stands in strong support of this historic media campaign, and we hope the CDC continues this campaign for years to come."
The Lung Association has been successfully helping smokers quit for more than 30 years with our Freedom From Smoking® program. In addition, the Lung Association's Not-On-Tobacco® (N-O-T) program is designed for smokers aged 14 to 19 who want to quit and is America's most popular smoking cessation program for teens. For assistance with quitting smoking or for additional questions about lung health, please call the American Lung Association's Lung HelpLine at 1-800-LUNGUSA (1-800-586-4872).


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Different Varieties Of Oysters: Overview
While our list of oyster varieties spans five pages and may seem long, there are just five types of oysters available in the U.S. These five are known by multiple names: Flat Oyster (also called Belon and European), Kumamoto, Pacific, Virginica (also called Atlantic or Eastern oyster). Because the terroir significantly impacts the taste and texture of the oyster, Pacifics and Virginicas are named after the area in which they are harvested. Thus, most of the names in this glossary are Pacifics and Virginicas grown in various locales.
Many people enjoy oysters both raw, "on the half shell," and cooked in a variety of preparations. Those who enjoy them raw appreciate the different flavors of oysters grown in different terroirs, just as wine connoisseurs appreciate the difference a terroir has on a grape varietal. Oysters can be wild or farmed (cultivated or cultured). Cultivation ensures a steady, year-round supply to people who have chosen to pursue the business full-time.
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Fun fact: The song, Yesterday was an original song from a dream that Paul McCartney had. He apparently did a lot of work to make sure he wasn't remembering the tune from something he'd actually heard to prevent an accidental case of plagiarism by cryptomnesia.
I had a pretty big, long dream. One part involved this... I guess magician guy who had this adorable apple snail, and the beginning of his first trick was to punch a few nasty-looking holes in the poor thing's shell, which I at once read as a case of animal cruelty. Luckily, this magician managed to keep the snail "alive" by turning it into a toy chikorita. ...Yeah, this was a weird one.
But this was only a very small part of a really long dream with a pretty complicated story. At one point, I did something involving these jelly candy cutouts or... something, and it ended up resulting in this very tall Japanese business owner and his two accompanying tall Japanese businessmen going to pay me a visit to file against me for infringing their copyright on their design of something (there were a lot of details in this one which were kind of missed). So my sister told me she had some idea to get me out of getting pressed by these businessmen, and the plan involved going to the factory which consisted of a bunch of machines on a bunch of docks that formed a ring, and then running around the machines and messing them up. My sister went about taking blocks of cheese from the cheese machine and throwing them on the floor, then went to a machine that generated what looked like really long chocolate bars and making off with as much of the chocolates as she could carry, and telling me to do the same. And at some point in this apparent heist, we had to jump across parts of the docks to land on big blue platforms like you might see in Wipeout, only my sister couldn't jump them, so I had to push the platforms closer together to help her across.
Doing all this just predictably left us with more potential trouble with the businessmen (I was definitely beginning to question the mechanics of my sister's "plan" by then), and it got worse in one part of the dream where we had to explain to our parents (and a few people accompanying them) what was going on. Somehow, my sister almost gave away what we did, but managed to save it in a way which only would work if I convinced them that when my sister started to tell them what happened in the factory, she was really starting a sentence to the effect that I swore. So I had to convince them that I'd accidentally said a swear word in Japanese when practising Japanese, to which I was told I should probably only practice Japanese indoors so as to not accidentally offend anyone. I knew that in reality, I hadn't been practising any Japanese, so I was pretty ticked off that my sister had pretty much forced me to lie.
After that part, the dream ended up changing the protagonists from myself and my sister to a pair of brothers family who had temporary stay in Japan, and were, according to one part of the dream, actually part bird (I don't even know). The two brothers were lucky to hear from their mother that they were about to leave back for their home that day, so they only had to keep the business owner (who by this point was approaching with what looked like tall, baseball-bat-wielding thugs) away from their parents until they were out of the country. To add to their luck, the mother, in some whim of apparent housewife spontaneity, had re-painted the door to their apartment, and the family dog before leaving the apartment, so the brothers released the dog into the apartment building. The business owner, who couldn't find the apartment due to its door looking different, was shocked to see the dog, who one of the thugs noted in dismay, was the "same colour" as the business owner (the dog had been painted black and white, I'm not quite sure what the meaning of this was). The business owner gave a mortified reaction to the dog, which leapt at him. I don't remember if there was anything more to this part of the dream than that.
The dream ended with the family on the beach. The brothers must have told their parents what had happened, because I remember the mother mentioning the two were "grounded until Christ returns". I think they might have been absolved before the dream was complete, I think with some occurrence involving a boat on the water the beach was near? I just don't remember now.
It was a very weird dream, I can give you that.


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Halloween is almost here and I can't wait to raid...I mean CHECK my kid's candy stash. In the meantime, I made my own Halloween candy, cookie-style. I'd originally planned to use a skull cutter for this design, but after sketching, I realized my jack o' lantern stencil was too big for the cutter I had in mind. Instead I went with a candy corn. Before decorating I traced around the bottom of the cutter with a food safe marker to map out … [Read more...]
Halloween Candy Bucket Cookies
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Looking for an easy and impressive autumn cookie design? Try decorated pumpkin cookies. This classic shape is great for beginner and advanced decorators alike. To make these cookies you will need: Pumpkin orange piping and flood icing {I mixed tulip red, egg yolk yellow, and a touch of warm brown} Green piping and 20-second icing Begin by outlining the pumpkin segments as shown below. Based on the cutter I chose to divide the … [Read more...]
Silly Spider and Bat Cookies
Usually, Halloween cookies are some of my favorite to make but this year I was a little short on inspiration. Then I saw these adorable spider cookies by SugarNosh Treats and suddenly an idea I'd been toying with fell into place. I made every cookie on this platter with the cutters below. The baby rattles can be purchased here and here, the bat was a Target find, and the "MOM" cutter is a Wilton model that sat untouched in a bin for two … [Read more...]
Easy Zombie Cookies with Flour de Lis
I'm a little behind on the Halloween treats, so today my sweet friend Samantha, of Flour de Lis is here to show you how to make these easy and adorable zombie cookies! I am not sure if you have noticed, but zombies ARE actually taking over the world. I mean they are everywhere! TV shows, movies, games, 5k's, there are survival guides and bubble gum and I am pretty sure last time I drove through Oregon, one of them pumped my gas! On a side note, … [Read more...]
Easy Eyeball Cookies
When I was little, my mom used to buy children's sing along tapes for the car. When I grew up I swore I would never be that mom. I was WAY too cool for that. I had my kid's early introduction to the musical legends of our time all planned out...until I had my own car full of children TALKING LOUDLY ALL AT THE SAME TIME. For some reason, Bob Seger isn't quite the same with a mini-airhorn tattling in your ear. Now I'm the mom who buys … [Read more...]
Antiqued Label Cookie with Lizy B Bakes
Today I have a very special treat. One of my favorite cookie bloggers, Lizy B Bakes is here for a visit. As a long time fan, I was pretty excited to see what Lizy would send my way. Once again, she knocked my socks off. Follow along as Lizy shares her awesome technique for creating antiqued Halloween label cookies. Hi. My name's Lizy B and I am a label-a-holic. It's true. Well....wait. That makes me sound all organized and … [Read more...]
Twenty Cookie Ideas for Halloween and Fall
Looking for fun cookie ideas that are perfect for Halloween and fall? Well don't worry, I've got you covered. Here are twenty {actually more} fun projects perfect for the months ahead. I hope you're inspired! Witch Boot Cookie Pops Royal Icing Owls Gold Speckled Acorn Cookies Simple Sunflower Cookies Perfect Jack O' Lantern Cookies Owl in Pumpkin Cookies Halloween Cookie Pops Via The Bearfoot Baker Royal Icing Pumpkins Vampire Teeth … [Read more...]
Potion Bottle Cookies
If cookies could have a theme song you'd be reading this to the tune from The Wonder Years. If it weren't for a little {or a lot} of help from my friends, we wouldn't even be talking about them now. They started out like a lot of my cookie ideas, as a completely different cutter. From the moment I saw them I was imagining new shapes. Like potion bottles. All it took was a little trimming. If you don't have these cutters, that's okay. … [Read more...]
Cookies with Kids {Simple Jack O' Lanterns}
Ahhhh...the life of mom. Busy, busy, busy, and sometimes {or maybe often} a little {or a lot} behind. Especially this year. It worked out that I was going to be out of town during Halloween, so before I left, I wanted to do something fun with my kids. Since I'm always decorating cookies that they can't touch, I thought it would be fun to let them help for a change. When it comes to cookie-ing with kids, it's not about perfection. … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Royal Icing Accents
Royal icing pumpkins are widely available this time of year in stores and online, but they're inexpensive and easy to make yourself. All you need is: Stiff orange royal icing {my recipe is HERE} Stiff green royal icing Any type of star tip {I used a #18} A #2 tip Prepare cookie sheets by taping waxed paper to them with painters tape. Start by forming the body of the pumpkin. The tip should be at about a 45 degree angle to … [Read more...]


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The Allen County Solid Waste Management District provides recycling and other mostly free services funded in large part by a "tipping fee" imposed on waste buried in county landfills. But what would happen to those services should fees drop because an increasing amount of trash is being taken out of the county for disposal?
The growth of Earth First, a 4-year-old company that uses landfills in Kosciusko, Jay and Huntington counties, has posed that very question – one that Earth First says it is willing to answer by paying Allen County tipping fees even though it does no disposal here.
Although the amount of those fees is still being negotiated – District Director Tony Burrus said it could amount to about $1.35 per ton – Earth First President Gregg Walbridge said he is willing to support the district's programs and expects a resolution soon.
The company already has more than 300 commercial and 5,000 residential customers and recently won the municipal waste-disposal contract in New Haven, adding another 4,600 homes. Earth First is also building a $1.5 million, 8,000-square-foot transfer station on Allen Martin Drive, further expanding its capacity. But because the county's only landfill is operated by rival National Serv-All, the company uses disposal facilities in other counties, paying tipping fees there.
But that reduces revenue for the district, which in turn could impose service fees on communities that send their waste out of county and now receive those services at little or no cost. Earth First's willingness to pay local tipping fees could keep those services free, and make it more competitive when seeking additional contracts.
It didn't win the district's contract for providing recycling trailers, however. On Tuesday the board agreed to retain Serv-All for up to five more years, at a cost of about $18,500 per month.


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3,046 Ahmanson Theatre Tips
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Don't go unless you love strange avant gardestar this tip starred
There are several places to eat at the Music Center. The Spotlight Café is a carry out with sandwiches, soup and salads. There are also two sit-down restaurants with good food.star this tip starred
or, add your own...star this tip starred
If you park in the Music Center parking it is $9 for the whole night and it leads you right up to the theater. Lot's of room and easy access from the street.star this tip starred
The new Grand Park has Music Center security guards patrolling all the levels of the park. You can park anywhere around the park and walk up to the Music Center in safety. It was a nice thing to do on a pleasant evening.star this tip starred
Allow extra time to pick-up will call tickets as the lines at the Ahmanson Theater are long and slow.star this tip starred
The weather was chilly. So do bring a sweater. . I wore a blazer with a long sleeve shirt and jeans. .star this tip starred
Botega Louies on 7th and Grand. Varied menu. Very good food. Bar area tables too small for plate sizes served. Attentive waiter Nate.star this tip starred
Music Center Parking is reasonable and very convenient.star this tip starred
Area restaurants and plentiful and of high quality. The restaurant at the venue, while not outstanding, is very convenient and will enhance the overall experience.star this tip starred
The weather was mild.. I wore a sweater..star this tip starred
I ate at the Taqueria right outside of the theater.star this tip starred
On a tight budget? Do as I did and visit the Tacos Arizas taco truck on your way there or home. It's about 2 miles west of the Ahmanson on Logan, just north of Sunset in Echo Park. Delicious carnitas, pastor and asada. Ask for radishes and carrots if you like them as they no longer have them out for customers to grab their own, but they'll give them to you if you ask.star this tip starred
Metro Red Line train stop at Civic Center station makes Music Center visits so easy.star this tip starred
don't forget to jot down parking area. We forgotstar this tip starred
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Eat at Border Grill, $5 parking nad they will free shuttle you to and from Ahmanson. Church and State, free parking and an quick $5 Uber to Music Center.star this tip starred
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At the same time, governments are seeking – quite rightly – to ensure their tax systems generate the revenues they expect. But equally they want to remain competitive internationally. In combination, these developments have fuelled a widespread perception that large corporations are not paying their 'fair share' of tax, in turn contributing to a loss of trust in tax systems themselves.
It would be useful to look at some elements of the current debate from a different perspective. All too often, we hear people call for 'fairness' or 'morality' in tax policies without defining what these terms actually mean. The discussion also tends to focus almost exclusively on corporation tax, which makes up only a small proportion of a company's Total Tax Contribution (TTC) – a more complete and useful measure of taxes paid as it takes into consideration value added tax (VAT), goods and service tax (GST) and employment taxes.
However, a more fundamental problem is that the debate as currently framed confuses two components. The first is the tax system itself; are the rules by which people pay tax fit for today's world? The second component is the way taxpayers behave within that system; for instance, how are taxpayers complying with the rules? Though both issues are related, they need separate responses.
There's no question that taxation has become an increasingly important focus of attention in our clients' boardrooms. As our 17th Global CEO Survey confirms, the need to manage the total costs of tax – both tax payments themselves and the cost of compliance – is seen as an increasing challenge: 70% of CEOs cite the impact of tax and its potential to affect growth as a concern, up from 62% in the previous year.
This shift reflects the fact that our clients are dealing with a growing range of issues and risks in the tax arena. Addressing these issues requires not only proficiency in the technical aspects of tax, but also a solid understanding of the business context – and the commercial and reputational impacts – of any decision they take. Clients know their tax affairs can affect their brand as well as their reputation, and are being closely watched by an expanding array of stakeholders – from shareholders, to NGOs, to the public and the media.
As tax advisers, our role is to help our clients navigate through the complexity of the applicable rules and make informed decisions with respect to the tax risks they face. And to do this while balancing their diverse responsibilities to multiple stakeholders both within and outside their organisations. Businesses need to think through how their tax profile would be perceived by all stakeholders if the glare of the media were to be turned on it. This test should not shape a client's tax policy – but if a company cannot articulate clearly why it's taking a particular approach, then it's a sign that the approach itself may be the wrong one.
Drawing on – and enhancing – the insights and experience we build up through our client work, a further vital aspect of our role in the tax arena is supporting governments in the developing world as they endeavour to create and manage tax regimes and operations that are fit for today's world. Particularly in emerging economies, this role includes advising on the development of tax policy and the efficient administration of tax systems.
In developed economies, our role with governments focuses more on helping to provide policymakers with insights on the potential impacts of decisions they may take. This activity takes many forms in different countries. In Australia, for example, the PwC Australia tax reform site has proven to be very popular. A related video – highlighting the country's ageing population, growing government debt and threat to the provision of benefits, and which calls for improvements to the tax system – has had more than 104,000 hits on YouTube. This all underlines the Australian firm's leading role in the public and government debate on reforming the country's tax system.
Another good example is in the UK, where our 'Paying for Tomorrow' initiative is contributing to the debate on how the UK tax system needs to change for the modern and future economy. This is about undertaking a fundamental review of the tax system and how it will sustain future government revenues. The initiative was launched in June 2014 with a 'Citizens' Jury', at which 22 representative members of the British public spent two days considering the shape and structure of the UK tax system, bringing to bear their own perspectives on tax 'morality' and 'fairness'.
The findings from the Jury – such as its call for the integration of income tax and national insurance, a radical shake-up of value added tax (VAT) and the setting up of a new independent advisory body to reduce the influence of political short-termism – have been reported across UK print, online and social media. This has given a voice to people who wouldn't normally be heard in a debate on public policy. Other aspects of the 'Paying for Tomorrow' initiative include a business forum and a student competition. For its part, PwC UK ultimately produced a paper bringing together its collective thinking on tax reform.
The third major strand of our tax work globally is collaborating with multilateral organisations in their efforts to help build a new and better international tax system. An important development in this context is our involvement in the review by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) of 'base erosion and profit shifting' (BEPS) – a term referring to the reduction of a company's tax liabilities through the interaction of different countries' tax rules.
We're closely monitoring the OECD on BEPS and other initiatives. We want to see changes that will rebuild public trust in the tax system while enabling global trade and business to thrive. While the BEPS review is ongoing, and the findings are only now beginning to emerge, our clients are already taking its potential impacts into account when making business decisions for the medium term.
We are helping clients prepare for these outcomes. In our view, the changes that business will face post-BEPS will come from three different places: first, international rules, such as tax treaties; second, changes to national tax laws; and third, behavioural change among tax authorities, such as greater information-sharing and a more robust approach to where value, risks and profit are actually located. We're helping our clients plan ahead for all these types of change.
A further aspect of our work with multilaterals is enabling better communication with national tax authorities. This role is showcased in the accompanying case study about the meeting we facilitated between the OECD's Business and Industry Advisory Committee and China's State Administration of Taxation.
The efforts to build momentum for the reform of tax systems globally are gathering pace. If we're to help sustain this progress, it's vital that we're seen as acting fairly, openly and consistently with all stakeholders, and are therefore trusted by all parties. An important enabler of this trust is the way we, as a global network of firms, hold ourselves consistently to account through our Global Tax Code of Conduct, originally implemented in 2005 and revised in 2013.
Ultimately, our vision for tax globally is to have a system that builds public trust while encouraging – not hampering – global trade. Turning this vision into reality will demand unwavering commitment from all participants, and difficult trade-offs in every country. But clear progress is being made – and we're determined to play our part in helping tax systems globally complete the journey.


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How to do this in jquery...(simple)
I'm trying to fade in an image rather than just switching immediately as it currently does.
This is the actual line that switches to the new image:
document[Banner.name].src = Banner.pathURL + Banner.imageSrc[Banner.startPic-1];
The context of it being used:
Banner.startPic++; if(Banner.startPic > Banner.numPix){ Banner.startPic = 1; } document[Banner.name].src = Banner.pathURL + Banner.imageSrc[Banner.startPic-1];
I tried:
$('#'+Banner.name+'').attr('src',Banner.pathURL + Banner.imageSrc[Banner.startPic-1]).fadeIn(2000);
you would use this:
if you were targeting the ID of the image, but it appears to me that you are targetting its name, which I believe would look like this:Code:$('#'+Banner.name)
not sure about the rest of your function, but that may be a startCode:$('img[name='+Banner.name+']')
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Thanks for clearing up the syntax, I didn't know you could do it like that second part.
Still can't get it working and have a second issue so I'll just post the whole shebang:
The lower part that loops through "p" was my attempt at pagination, but when you click any of the 7 numbers it only sends the last one....even if you click 1, 2, 3, 4 it sends "setpic 8".Code://2 banner objects var banner = { id: 'ChangingPix', numPix: 4, pSpeed: 5000, startPic: 1, width: 633, height: 680, url: '', BannerImgs: ['1.gif', '2.jpg', '3.jpg', '4.jpg'] } var bodySlider = { id: 'bodySlide', numPix: 7, pSpeed: 5000, startPic: 1, width: 1000, height: 288, url: 'http://pugetsoundtraining.com/Portfolio/images/', BannerImgs: ['reel_1.jpg','reel_2.jpg', 'reel_3.jpg', 'reel_4.jpg', 'reel_5.jpg', 'reel_6.jpg', 'reel_7.jpg'] } function MakeBanner(obj){ //Constructor var Banner = { name: obj.id, numPix: obj.numPix, startPic: obj.startPic, width: obj.width, height:obj.height, pSpeed: obj.pSpeed, imageSrc: obj.BannerImgs, pathURL: obj.url, init: function(){ setInterval(Banner.update, Banner.pSpeed); }, update: function(){ Banner.startPic++; if(Banner.startPic > Banner.numPix){ Banner.startPic = 1; } //$('#'+Banner.name).attr('src', Banner.pathURL + Banner.imageSrc[Banner.startPic-1]); //didn't work //$('img[name="'+Banner.name+']"').attr('src', Banner.pathURL + Banner.imageSrc[Banner.startPic-1]); //Didn't work document[Banner.name].src = Banner.pathURL + Banner.imageSrc[Banner.startPic-1]; //This works }, setPic: function(p){ Banner.startPic = p; Banner.update(); console.log('setpic'+ (p)); }, } for(var p=1; p < 8; p++){ var newdiv = document.createElement('div'); //Create new div newdiv.setAttribute('id', p); //Set ID newdiv.style.position="absolute"; //Set Position newdiv.style.width = 30+'px'; newdiv.style.height = 30+'px'; newdiv.style.left = 650+ 25*p+'px'; newdiv.style.top = 1300+'px'; $(newdiv).css("fontSize",30); newdiv.innerHTML = p; $(newdiv).click(function(){ Banner.setPic(p); //ONLY SENDS 8, not 1-7 }); document.body.appendChild(newdiv); } Banner.init(); }
The actual site is here: www.leefromseattle.com The bottom banner is the one I'm trying to generate, there's another one right above it I'm trying to rewrite myself....but just trying to get the functionality down before I take it out...
Anyone see anything?
it sounds like a problem with function closure (the thing I was talking about in your "which way is better " thread). I used to have a good link that explained the whole thing, but can't find it now - have a google and see if that helps.


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Kosher Appetizers
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Adapted from Barefoot Contessa Foolproof, by Ina Garten
My friend Eli Zabar always inspires me. He makes these almonds at his wonderful store, Eli's Manhattan, and they're so delicious that I tried them myself. Marcona almonds from Spain are expensive, but they're really worth it.
1 pound roasted, salted Marcona almonds
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Sprinkle with the fleur de sel, toss, and set aside to cool. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Yield: 6 to 8 servings
*KosherEye note: Kirkland Brand OU kosher certified Marcona Almonds are available at Costco.
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Clubessential is pleased to announce the release of the Axis Editor 4.0 to all Clubessential clients.
After collecting and acting upon suggestions from over 1,000 clients, the administrative tools have been refined and polished, to simplify online member communication efforts.
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(Indianapolis) – The Indiana Arts Commission (IAC), Indiana Historical Bureau (IHB), and Indiana Department of Administration (IDOA) jointly announced today that sculptor Jon Hair has been selected to create bronze busts of two African-American legislators as part of the Indiana State House permanent historic sculpture collection.
The busts will portray James Sidney Hinton (1834-1892), the first African-American elected to the Indiana General Assembly, and Julia Carson (1938 – 2007) who had a long career of public service, culminating in her tenure as a U.S. Congresswoman for Indiana from 1997 to 2007.
"I very much admire these two individuals who accomplished so much," said Hair upon accepting the commission. "It is an honor for me to capture their likeness, which I hope will inspire people to make their own contributions to Indiana history.
Among his body of work, Hair has fulfilled commissions for several of the historically black colleges and universities, including Livingston College, North Carolina A&T State University, and Fayetteville State University. He also has created life sized bronzes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks. Hair has completed many other major public art commissions since he began his career as a sculptor in 2000, including "The Boilermaker" at Purdue University and the "Olympic Strength" monument at the U.S. Olympic Training Center.
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The Indiana General Assembly directed a black history display in the Indiana State House. The Indiana Department of Administration and its partners, with the concurrence of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus, determined that this public legacy project should be created and installed in the Indiana State House.
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EDIT:although there's a lot of description of my car the longblock was the only part i built and installed in the 4 days before leaving omaha in the following , just so it's clear i didn't build a complete car or have 20k to throw away in one year..this has beena work in progress for 10 years now.. I got the car as a 12k mile 1 year lease termination..and in the last 2 years the complete driveline has been replaced with upgraded parts as well
Well, several different things went on all at once for me this Christmass/New Years week.
I had hydrolocked my car's engine back in September and just around christmass I finally got the block, crank, Rods and pistons back from the machine shop and began assembly a day or 2 before christmass day.
Went through **** as i was set for a departure date of 12/28/08 to go to TX to get hitched to my woman who would have already been my wife if the USAF hadn't changed a date on us.
Anyway... The car ...
97 Mitsubishi Eclipse - 4G63T engine 9:1 forged Wiseco pistons, Eagle H-Beam Rods, ACL race bearings, 264/272 camshaft combo, Ti retiners and brian crower valve springs, Converted to run on E85 (this stuff's better than C16 all day at 1/4th the price easy) And swapped out the heavy steel flywheel for an 8lb unit from Fidanza, it's aluminum iwth a replaceable friction surface so it would hoipefully never need replaced, only serviced.
All controlled by a Haltech engine management system..Not to mention the thousand other little things and the To4e 57 trim turbo (soon to be a holset HX35), Spearco front mount intercooler and gobs and gobs of other little engine bolt-ons.
The transmission.. Team Rip Engineering Stage 2.5 W/ Quaiffe ATB Limited slip diferential
Before the parts added in this post the car was running all the same external mods not mentioned , this includes the tranny.
My previous best was a 12.08x @ 119 MPH spinning slicks all through 2nd gear. Going out and oping to break deep into the 11's this year and get kicked from teh track for not having a roll cage yet (the only reason i'd ever like to be kicked off the track from racing)
BUilt this in 4 days and put the motor in in time to get to TX on the 30th, see my woman, and get hitched. ANd since the car was done it wasn't even on my mind and she didn'thave to hear about it (win - win situation)
After spending 6 days with my now "official" lovely wife, i drove back from lacklund AFB in san antonio TX, to my front door in omaha straight through 957 miles, and made it in 13.5 hours ( 2 full hours under mapquest's ETA while following their directions - another win.. i love racing the clock )
Now that i'm back, i'm tucking wires, cleaning up and changing the things i felt needed tweaking while driving it this week. I have this strange lack of recolection of the "3rd leg" on the oil pump pick-up (since my friend took the pan from the old motor and swapped it onto the new short block i can't recall for sure if the 3rd bolt was ever put on and torqed) So i will be double checking tomorrow... Also busted a hole in my flex section in the exhaust so that will be fixed tomorrow too...
Then hopefully in the next few month before i move i will go break 450HP to the wheel on all turbo...then i want to crack anywhere past 500 WHP with no more than the addition of a 75 - 100 shot of laughing gas... All these new mods with all new suspension and driveline should make my car very very fun this summer..Best part is that it looks about as stcok as they come (only lowered about an inch) and the only give away is the intercooler shining in the mouth of the bumper
HOpefully i'll get pics up soon.. And I wil post dyno vids and sheets when i make it.
Oh... Forgot to mention .. Old HP figures on a mustang dyno at the wheels
PUmp gas 92 octane 332hp/312lb.ft torque ...Then the same combo on E85 and way over working the turbo (and i mean way past efficient) boasted 431hp 396lb/ft .... Trying to get teh 450whp with out stressing the new compressor...
i'll update as i can.. and thanks for all teh help and suppor that came from this place and it's members!!!!
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Built an Engine, Got Married and made it back home!Dynasty 200DX
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01-08-2009, 03:18 PM #2Member
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pretty nice setup, and congrats on the new ball and chain.
How do you like e85? I'm considering it, but there is only one place locally I can get it. I'm not sold on running it if I can't get it all over.Millermatic 180 Auto Set
E85 is like nothing you've ever ran.. More torque, more timing and leaner AFR's with out detonation. I get a better timing curve on E85 than i do on C16 with a J&S safeguard knock sensing system monitoring the engine for noise/knock, i can on average gain 3-5* advance over the C16 setup and run a full point leaner on AFR (on c16 my car likes 11.5 - 12:1, on E85 it likes 12.5:1 all day at 30psi and has even ran as lean as 13.2:1 without detonating
I can't say enough good about ethanol, you'll need to upgrade your fuel flow by at least 30% to stay at the same power level you currently are at, but your torque numbers will skyrocket and you can extract a tad more top end HP by adding timing and leaning her out a bit
My last motor was 7.8:1 CR and i was getting 27-30* advance on a hemispheical head at 28 - 30 psi, and i didn't have to "build up" to that timing. I have 23* dialed in at peak torque and before at every pressure area above 10psi (and more timing at 10 adn under). A lot of turbo cars can only deal with 9 -10 degreesat their peak torque areas as they are more prone to detonating there but E85 just shines through. I havent' put this engien on e85 yet, but that's what it was built for by using 9:1's on a high boost turbo application..
They say when running ethanol or methanol that 10:1 is the new 9:1 as far as what you can run static without issues of detonating. And at a buck fifteen a gallon the stuff just can't be beat. I was a skeptic, then a full blown corn juice addict
i'm only back on pumo fuels becasue my car doesn't like cold starts in sub zero weather adn it doesn't take aslong for the car to come up to temp on petrol.
Even alcohol injection is kick A$$... I was running near similar boosts and timing with just the addition of that in the beggining, I could do a 3rd gear highway pull, stop and get out and the methanol injection would have the intake manifold frosted over from it's heat absorbtion
When i started running it i only knew 2 places to buy it in town, and it was worth planning my weekly fill up around getting off on the right exit friday evening after work, now stations are popping up everywhere that have itDynasty 200DX
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01-10-2009, 08:59 AM #4Senior Member
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Im not sure(meaning I dont know at all) about E85 but methanol requires EXTREME cylinder pressures to detonate. You can have 12:1 compression on a car with an overdriven 14-71 blower. Ethanol has less oxygen in it than methanol so Im sure its less tolerant and requires more exact tuning.Who do you call when the lawmakers ignore the law?
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And to be honest, E85 is one of the most forgiving fuels I've ever tuned on. IT requires a lot more ignition advance to take advantage of it's slow burn, but will hardly detonate at all (unless your tune is way way off course)
I've gone as lean as 13:1 under high boost (~25psi) with ignition timing in the 23-27* areas and still did not detonate. MY pump had run out of flow. I had thought it was injectors and had just upgraded them to 1kcc/min units from 720cc/min ones only to find it was the pump ( but i had a new one waiting to go in as i knew they both needed upgrading). Now i have the better pump installed and am working on a dual pump setup as well, placing them in parallel instead of in-line with each other so i can up the volume quite a bit to be able to handle the new goals and feed the nitrous system when it's on as well.
I now have a new ECU (haltech E6x, upgraded since this post due to static electricity killing my prior e6k unit) and it is mapped with 2 sets of maps (one for alcohol one for pump fuel) and i can switch them by simply grounding an input via a toggle switch. On the previous ECU i had to load the computer with the corresponding map when changing fuels. Now i just flip a switch and to boot, i have a trim knob on the column that's able to globally adjust fuel +/- 12% or 50% (depending on what i set it to do) i usually keep it at 12%, this allows me to temporarily compensate for "mixes" of fuels during the transition from one to another.
I'm in the process of securing a new turbocharger better suited towards a daily driven car but still capable of my power requirements/goals of 4-425 on the turbo alone ( a 20g with a Garrett T3 exhaust flange on it). Then i will use somewhere between a 75 and 100 HP worth of laughing gas to break the 500HP mark on the chassis dyno.
So all in all when it's finally finished and fine tuned i plan on no less than 400hp on e85 daily and being able to break the 500WHP mark with a blast from the bottle.
EDIT: So far everything on this engine has been performing better than i expected which is good! My current turbo has the inducer blades rounded off from the water the motor took on that bent the rod in the last one causing this whole build. And even though i have the wastegate all the way down (15psi) and now have a positive track diff (Quaife LSD) I'm still spinning the tires in 3rd gear on the streets at anywhere near 3/4 throttle it's a fun ride to say the least. This summer with the laughing gas, a set of new M&H Racemaster slicks and a tank full of E85 i plan on breaking deep into the 11's and then being told i have to build a roll cage if i want to race anymore at an NHRA sanctioned track
I figure I'll dial it down and sandbag until i get my launches perfected then I'm going to crank up the wick and let'er go!
I've run numerous 12.0xx passes on my old setup and i should easily kill those numbers this season as long as i can drive it properly. I'm going to be happy with 11. anything, but am really really hoping to break 11.30's or faster at 125+ mph, since I've already done a 12.08 at 119mph with an open diff and a completely stock motor internally with nothing but a bunch of bolt-ons (turbo and management included)
Now I've got everything from a built trans, head , short-block, new fuels, new computer, new cams, motor mounts..etc..etc... too much to list, but it should shatter the old numbers with easeDynasty 200DX
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01-16-2009, 04:39 PM #6Junior Member
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I'm assuming this is a GSX with those kind of numbers...sounds great.
I've thought about tuning with e85 on my setup, but dont have the time to get to the dyno/street tune/ BS. I dont know if my fuel system would support it or not. I have a walbro 255lph pump, 8an ss feed lines, 7/8" bored fuel rail (golden eagle), 750cc RC's, 1:1 FPR, and 6an return. Should do it...I pushing mid 60% duty cycle at 360whp on 93 octane (11lbs boost) on a frank 2.4L k20/k24 with 10:1 c/r.
Theres a guy I know with a t67 on a log manifold on a 2.0L (K20a2) pushing +600whp on e85
27 degrees at 25lbs with 13:1 a/f and no knock is insane...what kind of resolution does that Haltech EMS have??
Also, do the 4g63's have a pilot bushing? Asking for a buddy, I havn't looked at his car yet, but he said he's getting tranny whine after he reinstalled his transmission.
01-16-2009, 04:52 PM #7Junior Member
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heres one of the top guys with a k20
793whp 533wtq
NandoFab/St00pidfast Stage 8 kit
Full-Race undivided single wastegate manifold
Precision PT67 p-trim dual ball bearing .70AR comp. .81AR turb
Hondata KPRO
33 psi
Dynojet 224
Jason Herrera (St00pid)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFurSMQgBqM . Hes currently over 830whp
A link to some of the other guys dynos (which dont mean crap if you dont know how to drive )
They still dont have any thing on the 4g63 platforms (eclipse, talons, evo, etc.)
I"ve got a built TRE stage 2.5 trans with a quife LSD in it now so even street tires are hooking better than i was while "peg-legging" on slicks
i've got a friend whith a GSX pushing just over 700AWHP now and that thing is a beast.. i just talked him into an E85 conversion as well
That fuel setup is plenty, there's a guy pushing 445 hp from an 18g-6sl2 turbo on a galant VR-4 and a single wally adn a set of 750 injectors.
I was able to get to the 25-27psi range on 720s (depending on how lean i wanted to be) but i try and stick in the 11.5 - 12 range just for safety.
one thing i'm noticing though is that this high compression motor does NOT like richness. at low 11's mid to high 10's for AFR it would pop, miss and spit on the first two gears (not to mention go through them in a hearbeat) but now that i've leaned it down to the 11.8 - 12.0:1 range it's revving cleanly in all gears while i make my pump gas map. AS soon as the weather is warm i'm going back to E85
If you do decide to run a few tanks of E85 change your fuel filter after the third tank as it will be close to clogging from all the crap the alcohol cleans from your fuel system ( i bought a cleanable unit from fuel-lab) I'm only running one wally 255hp in tank, and have -6 lines to the rail and -6 retunring from the AFPR. I am going to be adding a second 255 in tank as soon as i figure out teh best way to do it without spending 200 bucks on AN fittings (i'm trying to find some good tubing to make my own hangar and "Y" pipe all remaining in tank)
So you got picks of your dual setup? I don't want to run them dual in line, i want parallel pumps to optimize flow, not just flow under pressure.
part of my living is made tuning and fabbing stuff for cars (most if it really) and i pretty much have to stay on top of trying the newest things (like an e85 conversion ) to aid in the never ending quest for "more power" from the customer.. i can truely say E85 is a dream fuel (about 1/6th the cost of c16 and more effective at detonation resistance with high timing and more forgiving at leaner AFR's)
I could go on and on about it,, i mean i thought alcohol injection was the ticket until i tried my first tank of E85.. and i was hooked! Don't get me wrong alky injectionis still great and i'll still turn it on when i'm running pump fuels but it's nothing compared to what filling up with some good old corn mash wil do for your car (providing you've got an ECU or some means to take advantage of it)Dynasty 200DX
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