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Football: Teammates now opponents for Connecticut All-Star game
It will be an unusual feeling for Woodland's Jeremy Clark and Rahmi Rountree, as they go against their ex-Hawks' teammate Eric Collodel Saturday in the Connecticut High School Coaches Association's Hall of Fame Military Bowl at Rentschler Field.
Clark, a guard, and Rountree, a receiver, are playing for the Marines team while Collodel, a defensive lineman is on the National Guard squad.
"It's going to be pretty strange," said Clark. "Growing up and playing football with Eric for over four years we built a bond. Now, being on opposite teams it's got to be weird. Eric is always out there to win. He's a hard-nosed, aggressive player. His motor is always running.
"It's great to have Rahmi as a teammate again. He always wants to get better. Even though he is from a small, Class S school, he is just as good, if not better, as anyone else."
Clark has seen time at left guard and center during practice.
"You need to know every position on the line and quickly," said Clark.
Trend-setter: In only his team's fifth season at the varsity level, Marines quarterback Brennen Diaz of Oxford nearly led the Wolverines to the Class S playoffs in 2012 with an 8-2 record.
"I'm really happy with what we were able to accomplish as a team, and though I would have liked to go a little further, we grew by leaps and bounds," said Diaz, the Republican-American Red Zone Defensive Player of the Year. "I feel the next Oxford class will raise the bar and continue that success."
As for representing Oxford in the All-Star game, Diaz is humbled.
"For me, I'm not just representing my community, but my family and high school and what we are all about," said Diaz, who will play at Western Connecticut State University in the fall.
Appreciation: When Crosby's Nygel Gladney steps on Rentschler Field for the Marines as a linebacker, it will mark the first time he ever was in a major stadium as a player or even spectator.
"It's going to be the best feeling walking through the tunnel and playing in the game and I plan on making the most of the opportunity," said Gladney, who will attend Mount Ida College. "This has been my best experience playing football."
Getting defensive: Naugatuck's Mick Pernell had a spectacular senior as an offensive player, rushing for 943 yards and 16 touchdowns, along with 37 receptions for 819 receiving yards and 12 TDs and accumulating 1,983 all-purpose yards and 31 total TDs. On the National Guard team, he's playing on the defensive side at corner back.
Headed to Taft in the fall, Pernell says he's up to the task.
"It will be fun," said Pernell. "In high school, we always played man-to-man. But here, we are playing more cover 2 and other (defensive formations). It will give me a chance to work on things for the fall."
National Guard teammate and inside linebacker Myles Pompei-Grove of Holy Cross, is pulling for Pernell.
"Mick's going to be looking good for Saturday; he's a clutch performer," said Pompei-Grove.
After seeing limited varsity time as a sophomore and junior, Pompei-Grove made rapid progress as a senior at Holy Cross to earn a starting spot.
"I filled the role that I've been asked to do," said Pompei-Grove, headed to Curry College. "I've always tried to be the best that I can be. It's been a stepladder process. At Holy Cross, (coach) Mike Giampetruzzi instilled in us to always stick by your teammates. He taught me about dedication and commitment. I was given the opportunity and made up for lost time."
Also on the National Guard squad are quarterback Mike Nicol of Wolcott, defensive lineman Mark Wildman of Housatonic-Wamogo, receiver Dillon McMahon of Derby. Other area members for the Marines are outside linebacker J'hmel Trammell and tight end Rashaun Finney, both of Ansonia, linebacker Nick Spitz and defensive back Nathan Bonafonte, both of Southington. Woodland head coach Tim Shea is coaching the offensive line for the National Guard and ex-Wilby coach Chris Eckert, now at Cromwell, is coaching linebackers.
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Could you share how to post large images with the link to other photo site step by step? Thanks.
Hasselbladfan, this camera is slow to write to the memory card (one could probably say very slow), and you just have to get used to it and live with it. Those of us who have used other Sigma foveon cameras have already gotten used to it; this wasn't anything new. But the quality of the images from the DP2M leaves us very ready to tolerate the slow pace. One feels very fortunate to have this camera in hand. --Barbara
Been printing with Epson ABW lately....I am close to making the plunge and converting my Epson 3800 to Piezographic inks by Cone Color....anyone gone this direction??Handheldf7.1iso 1601\320thFoveonic
Over the last 10 years, I've taken over 2000 images in this location, averaging around 70 per trip. Today, I got less than 30. Fumbling with controls, the use of manual focus and waiting for the camera to be ready for the next image were major contributors to this result.
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COPPERAS COVE (January 17, 2013)--A man and his girlfriend pleaded guilty in Waco's federal court Thursday to charges stemming from the September 2012 robbery of a bank in Copperas Cove.
U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith set John Russell Lightner and Michelle Portwood for sentencing on March 13.
Lightner pleaded guilty to a superseding indictment charging bank robbery and Portwood pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact.
In a criminal complaint presented Thursday state Lightner and Portwood on Sept. 27, 2012, conspired to rob the Fort Hood National Bank, located at 210 Constitution Drive #B, in Copperas Cove.
The complaint further states that at approximately 10:12 a.m., a man armed with a handgun entered the bank and demanded money from the teller after he presented her a note.
After the teller turned over approximately $2,455 in cash, the robber then fled, but later was seen getting into the passenger seat of a small, light colored four-door vehicle.
Investigators eventually were led to a residence at 1702
Sherman Drive in Killeen, where the set up surveillance and soon were able to identify a suspect that resembled the robber.
Killeen police later stopped the suspect vehicle and arrested the driver on an outstanding warrant.
The driver, identified as Lightner, later admitted during an interview that that it was he who entered and robbed the bank in Copperas Cove on.
Lightner said he robbed the bank because Portwood, his girlfriend, was behind on her rent and needed the money.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Iran is steadily improving its missile capability and could be able to test a missile that could reach the U.S. shores within three years, according to a new Pentagon report assessing the status of the Iranian military.
"Iran has boosted the lethality and effectiveness of existing systems with accuracy improvements and new submuntion payloads," which allows missiles to drop explosives over a wider area causing more destruction, according to the report.
The missiles were part of war game exercises conducted by Iran last week. Iran's government said it was testing missiles capable of hitting U.S. bases around the Middle East.
"During the war games, long-range, medium-range and short-range missiles will be used and will be fired from different points across the country," which an Iranian spokesman said was designed to test the precision and efficiency of the warhead and missile systems.
The Pentagon report was created in April, ahead of the most recent Iranian war games, so intelligence from those exercises was not included in the report. Additionally, U.S officials could not confirm the accuracy of the Iranian statements about the latest exercises.
The latest report did cite Iranian war games held in 2011 in which Iran launched several missiles, "including a multiple missile salvo."
The 2012 report was signed by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and sent to defense committees on Capitol Hill last week. It said regular ballistic missile training continues throughout the country and continues to develop missiles that can hit Israel and Eastern Europe, including an extended-range Shahab-3 and a medium-range ballistic missile, called the Ashura, that can fly more than 1,200 miles.
The report repeats what has been stated publicly by the United States, that over the last 20 years Iran has "placed significant emphasis on developing and fielding ballistic missiles," that could threaten the United States, coalition and partner countries around the Middle East and to project power in the region.
The report also maintains that Iran is still capable of testing a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile by 2015, "with sufficient foreign assistance."
The United States and NATO have begun to field an anti-ballistic missile shield in the southern and eastern parts of Europe to protect from such a threat.
But weapons analyst John Pike said the missile shield is not fully operational.
"You know 2015 is very soon. Certainly if you believe the 2015 forecast, Iran would have that ballistic missile before the United States has a defense against it," Pike, weapons expert at GlobalSecurity.org, said on Wednesday.
Regarding Iran's continued desire to develop a nuclear weapon, the report reiterated already released information and positions the United States has held, but tied Iran's nuclear desires to Iran's ballistic missile ambition under the topic "Iranian Capabilities related to Nuclear and Missile Forces." That emphasized the over-arching threat the United States sees: Iran ultimately putting a nuclear weapon on an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Iran has also claimed to have deployed anti-ship, short-range ballistic missiles that can identify and maneuver toward ships as they fly, according to the report. After Iran's continued saber-rattling and the country's threats to close the Straight of Hormuz, the United States moved a floating base for naval special forces into the Arabian Gulf, as well as four anti-mine ships.


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Has anyone been watching/following E3?
I caught a little bit of it on G4 last night but haven't had time to follow. Anything new and exciting to report?
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I'm sorry, I have nothing to add, but I am interested in what everyone else knows. Thanks for posting this question. I think I will switch it on now!
God of War Ascension looks amazing! Makes me want to buy a PS3.
By the way, everyone should tweet to #E3onG4 as you watch. You can win prizes or get your tweet shown on live TV!!!
Wii U coming this holiday - http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/05/nintendo-confirms-wii-u-shipping-this-holiday/ No price tag yet though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mZvlpA7knsQ Virtual overview for Wii U
I'm still trying to understand how this thing is going to work, lol.
Also don't forget to enter the G4 sweepstakes here:
i wish i were there instead. they always make the best announcements in E3 every year. all the coolest, latest stuff
I have.
@wootfast won't stop talking about how much he wants this game.
I'm very interested in the Wii U but I'm awaiting the price tag. I have a feeling it's going to be major overkill if it's close to what was rumored at last E3.
Nothing new that hasn't been posted already.


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Autism and Asperger's: Grossly Overdiagnosed?
One of our most popular printables on FamilyEducation.com is a "Characteristics Checklist for Asperger's Syndrome: Social Interactions" (one of several Asperger's characteristics checklists on our site). Thousands of parents check it out each month, wondering (frantically) "Could my child have Asperger's?"
The answer to that question may change by next year, when the definition of autism will probably narrow, leaving out some people with "higher-functioning" forms of autism, such as "mild" Asperger's or P.D.D.-N.O.S. So, hold your horses on making any assumptions based on those checklists.
On the surface, this might sound great. The stat (by some estimates) that 1 in 100 kids have some form of autism is way too high? Awesome! The trouble is, many families rely on the current definition of autism to get support (from schools, insurance companies, etc.) to treat their child's disorder -- whatever the "label" might be.
As this recent NYTimes op-ed by a psychiatrist points out, Asperger's or the idea of having "a touch of Asperger's" is tossed around fairly loosely these days. Some people have speculated that everyone from billionaire Warren Buffett to author George Orwell to scientist Albert Einstein has/had Asperger's to some degree.


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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - Harrison Central had its confidence shook during last week's Ohio Valley Athletic Conference Basketball Tournament.
The Huskies were routed twice and finished fourth in Class 4A, so head coach Justin Clifford gave his team a few days off to re-group.
The strategy evidently worked.
The Huskies' second season got under way with a 58-50 victory against Beaver Local Friday night inside the Health and Physical Education Center on the campus of Ohio University Eastern as Division II sectional play opened.
"Our feelings got hurt last week," Clifford said. "To be totally honest, we probably had the best week of practice we've had all season leading up to this game and that's a tribute to the older guys on this team. When you play now, it's survive and advance and we survived."
Harrison Central (15-7) will return to OUE on Tuesday to meet Buckeye 8 rival Indian Creek, which swept the Huskies during the regular season.
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Harrison Central 58, Beaver Local 50
BEAVER LOCAL: Hilliard 1, 2-4 4; Lyder 5, 0-0 10; Fetty 2, 0-0 4; Hudson 8, 2-3 19; Mick 5, 0-0 13; Campbell 0, 0-0 0; Cornell 0, 0-0 0; Underwood 0, 0-0 0; Chamberlain 0, 0-0 0; Totals: 21, 4-7 50. 3-pointers: Mick 3, Hudson.
HARRISON CENTRAL: K. Mitchell 0, 0-0 0; Kowalski 2, 8-8 13; Watt 6, 3-7 18; R. Mitchell 5, 2-3 12; Pelegreen 3, 7-8 13; Olmstead 1, 0-0 3; Rutter 0, 0-0 0; Yoho 0, 0-0 0; Evans 0, 0-0 0; Totals: 17, 20-25 58. 3-pointers: Watt 3, Kowalski.
The Beavers, who finished their season at 12-11, were certainly feisty throughout, especially in the second half.
It looked as if Harrison Central was on the verge of pulling away in the third quarter. The Huskies owned a 29-20 cushion at the intermission and the lead swelled to as many as 13 in the third, but the Beavers got it going from there.
"We made some plays in the third quarter to get us back in the game," said Beaver Local head coach Jake Walgate.
Most of those plays came on the defensive end as the Beavers forced the Huskies into upwards of six turnovers in the third, most of which led to run-out chances in transition.
Senior Troy Hudson, who came into the game needing 15 for 1,000 in his career, scored nine in the third quarter to fuel the rally. He finished with 19 points, leaving him with 1,004 for his career.
The Huskies were able to keep the Beavers at bay thanks to a pair of big triples in the period by Nate Olmstead and senior leader Fletcher Watt. Senior Nick Pelegreen had a conventional three-point play as well for Harrison, which took a 42-37 lead into the final chapter.
"Beaver is a skilled basketball team that has guys who can score," Clifford said. "Coach Walgate has done a nice job with that team this season. We knew they wouldn't go away, but we had some guys step up for us."
Beaver knotted the game twice in the fourth at 44 and 46, but were never able to get the lead. After tying the game at 46, the Huskies were able to turn up the defense. They forced a turnover on three consecutive possessions, and converted all into points.
"We talked about guarding better," Clifford said. "I didn't think we guarded as well as we usually had in the OVAC games. I think we got away from what we did and I take blame for that, so we got after it this week in practice."
With the game tied at 46, Watt got an off-balance leaner to drop and talented sophomore Austin Kowalski drove into the paint and knocked a shot down, making it 50-46.
"When we needed a play, Austin made one for us," Clifford said. "He made a few turnovers, but he's fearless in a good and bad way. I'll take those kinds of guys."
Thanks to free throw shooting by Kowalski and Pelegreen, the Beavers never got any closer than 51-47 the rest of the way.
"We got the penetation we were looking for, but I think we waited a little too long to kick it out and it got us into some bad opportunities," Walgate said. "If we're going to take credit for getting back into the game with it in the third, we definitely have to try it in the fourth. It just turned out to be our downfall."


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The Indian Ring-necked Parakeet makes a great pet for those willing to provide the regular handling and socialization necessary to maintain its friendly personality and tameness. With a life span of 25 years, having these birds as pets is a long-term commitment. Also, with a tendency to be very vocal and quite loud, they do best in homes that can tolerate a noisy pet.
These magnificent birds mature to about 16" in length, largely due to the length of their tail feathers. These elaborate tails can extend up to 7" outward, females usually 6" outward.
The standard plumage of these elegant, beautiful birds is green, although many other variations, like Lutino (yellow), albino, and blue exist also. The male has a black neck ring with pink and pale blue outer rings. The female's rings are generally very pale and more difficult to see. The coloring of an immature Indian Ring-necked Parakeet is similar to the female's with immature males exhibiting the neck ring at sexual maturity. To sex an Indian Ring-necked Parakeet before sexual maturity, surgical or DNA sexing is required.
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For $m,n,k < \omega$, consider the equation
$X \to (\omega \times k)^{m}_{n}$
What is the smallest $X$ known to satisfy it?
Baumgartner-Hajnal theorem gives a satisfactory answer for $m=2$, but it fails badly for $m>2$, and actually I hardly managed to find anything in the literature concerning $m>2$. The only bound I know is the one given by Erdos-Rado - $\beth_{\omega}$. So $\aleph_{\omega}$ works assuming $GCH$. Can it be proved to work in $ZFC$? Any improvements and/or references are very welcome.
Also I would be happy to hear any results for the same equation with $\omega$ replaced by an arbitrary ordinal $\lambda$.


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5 Psychology Studies Every Awkward Teenager Should Read
#2. Yes, Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do (But This Is Statistically Inevitable)
The average teenager's mind is overwhelmingly consumed by three thoughts: "When can I rub my genitals again?" "How can I find someone else onto whom I might rub my genitals?" And, trailing in third place, "How popular am I?" No matter how much eyeliner they slop on or how many holes they punch through themselves in an attempt to demonstrate that they're the polar opposite of popular, in the back of every single teenager's mind is a nagging concern that all of his or her friends rank higher on the popularity scale than they do.
Now, let's do a little exercise -- and you can participate even if your teen years are so far behind you that you've seriously considered investing in a shotgun to keep the damn kids off your lawn. Go to Facebook and count up how many friends each of your friends has, then calculate the average. Guess what? That number is almost certainly higher than your number of friends. Oh shit, you're unpopular! You may as well just go build yourself a cabin in the remote wilderness and brush off your manifesto-writing skills! Right?
Who cares what it looks like? Who are you going to have over anyway, loser?
Not exactly. It turns out that pretty much everyone can do this exercise, no matter how popular they are, and they will always find that the average of their friends' friends turns out higher than their number of friends. How is this possible, you ask? Blame the unholy witchcraft that is statistics.
What your average teenager unconsciously tallying up his or her friend list doesn't realize is that this simple experiment is flawed from the get-go, for the simple reason that those friends you're measuring are inclined to be popular, because they're friends with you. Think about it. The more popular someone is, the more likely it is that they're your friend. If they're not popular, they probably aren't friends with you, and therefore weren't included in your count. As a result, your friends' weighted number ends up averaging more friends than you.
"Then, if you murder Chad, you'll go up at least four places on the list."
Keep in mind that this paradox can be applied to many other aspects of life. The people you date have all had more dates than you have, because the ones who don't date didn't date you. All the kids on Xbox Live are absolute thunder-pricks because the ones who aren't don't end up screaming profanity into your ear. Just remember that it's nothing more than a fluke of statistics, and if you let it get you down, those asshole mathematicians win.
#1. People Care Far Less About Your Screw-Ups Than You Think They Do
Put yourself back in your teenage shoes for a minute. Maybe some nice Air Jordans, or perhaps some sparkly platform shoes, depending on just how far back in time you have to travel and just how fancy you happen to be. Now imagine that those shoes cause you to trip and fall on your way to homeroom, resulting in a teen-comedy-movie-worthy mushroom cloud of books and papers -- right in front of a crowd of gawking fellow students. You just know that by lunchtime, everyone's going to be talking about it, whispering and snickering about how you're just about the biggest dork in school, second only to that kid who managed to accidentally set fire to the local swimming pool.
But wait a minute. What if someone told you that within 10 minutes, the number of people who remember what seems to you like the worst moment of your high school life is going to be approximately one, and that one person is going to be you? Because someone is telling you that, and that someone is science.
"You can trust us. We have lab coats."
Back in 2000, researchers conducted a series of experiments to determine to what degree people thought their behavior was noticed by others. The research consisted of forcing test subjects to wear Barry Manilow T-shirts in front of observers (because science is a cruel motherfucker sometimes), then state how many of the observers they thought had noticed it, as well as putting them into a group of people tasked with making a decision and having them report on how they thought the others would rate their contributions.
The results were fairly conclusive: When made to wear an embarrassing T-shirt, test subjects predicted that twice as many observers had noticed the shirt than actually had. When put into a group brainstorm, subjects believed that others would judge them more critically and rate them as making more speech errors and offensive comments than they actually had. Paradoxically, subjects also believed that they had spoken more often than they did, and that they would be rated higher by the others on the general awesomeness of their contributions.
"And what do you think, guy in the stupid shirt who we'll all laugh at forever?"
In short, people thought their mistakes pretty much defined them in the eyes of others, when in fact everyone else cared very little about whether they wore a bad shirt or made a shitty suggestion. Scientists called this the "spotlight effect," referencing how a typical person believes they're always in the spotlight, when in fact everyone else in the room is far too busy being aware of their own imaginary spotlight to give any fucks about what's going on under yours.
While this unfortunately means that others are probably going to forget about your positive contributions almost as soon as you make them, it also means they'll forget about your colossal fuck-ups just as quickly. And let's face it, your average teenager is probably less concerned about being remembered for correctly answering that one teacher's bonus question than for the Gym Shorts Incident.
Unless it makes it to YouTube. In which case, good luck finding a new school in another country. On another planet.
So add up all of this and it becomes clear that adolescence is just the pile of shit and friendship bracelets you're required to spin your tires in for a while before they let you out onto the open road that is the rest of your life. If you spend your time there trying to succeed at being a teenager, you may never get around to succeeding at being a human being.
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A man who hammered art from metal, a determined young woman whose name was to become a household word and a crusading newsman whose tragic death became a focal point for Hispanics. What do they have in common? Only that they all passed this way. We all know that the North Coast of California has long attracted interesting people. Some people come here already famous, choosing the area as a kind of hideaway. Others come and go and then become famous. Here, in this small anthology of interesting people, there are some of each. By some people's measure of lifetimes, Harry Dixon was almost through with his illustrious career when he came to Santa Rosa in 1950. He was 60 years old and he had enjoyed considerable success as an artist and craftsman. But this was not Harry's way of looking at the world. He lived 17 productive years here, making his contributions to the artistic and cultural life of the city and now, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, Santa Rosa, his "last hometown," will celebrate his life and work. Harry married Florence Howard, director of the state Department of Employment office in Santa Rosa, in 1953. They built themselves a studio adjoining their little house on Lance Drive, just off West College. That was out in the country in those days and Harry liked the rural aspect of it. He liked to identify himself on the telephone as "This is that Old F..t from out West College way." He had a fey sense of humor and a nice way with people and those of us who were young and aspiring in those days found him delightful. He had tales to tell of the San Francisco art community in the first half of the century. Photographer Dorothea Lange made photographs of Harry at work/ She was his sister-in-law married to his brother, Maynard, the eminent Western artist. Harry's tales evoked images of San Francisco's artistic "family" in the pre-Depression years, of Imogen and Ansel and Diego Rivera painting murals at Coit Tower. Heady stuff for 1950s Santa Rosa. Harry's medium was metal. He hammered out the most amazingly graceful and beautiful things in his little studio, using his old tools that spoke their own stories of his famous workshop at #3 Tillman Place in San Francisco where customers could order anything made from metal in the unmistakable Dixon style. He preferred copper and brass, but could work in iron when asked. Or silver. He was supposed to be retired when he came to Santa Rosa but artists never retire and Harry kept hammering away. Working on a commission from the city, he created the Lotus Blossom and sundial which are the centerpiece of Burbank Gardens. He also crafted the iron cross that hangs about the front door at St. Luke's Lutheran Church. Dixon's life and work will be celebrated next month at the Sonoma County Museum with a centennial exhibition (Jun 22 is the 100th anniversary of his birth) of selected pieces from the Dixon collection, which has been donated to the museum by his widow, Florence. She became a skilled jewelry maker and metal worker in her own right, and still lives at the Lance Drive home.
You may be surprised to learn that Laura Scudder is no Granny Goose. Nor is she a Betty Crocker. The woman who worked very hard to build a potato chip empire was no mythical trademark personage; she was very real. During the World War I years, she lived in Ukiah where she and her husband ran a restaurant. Last year civic officials in Monterey Park, where she built her first potato chip plant, honored Scudder's memory. A past president of the Monterey Park Historical Society, Joseph Blackstock, prepared a dissertation on Scudder's life and works which appears in the January-February issue of the Californians magazine (now published in Sebastopol). Ukiah has planned no parties, placed no plaques, but historians there are well aware of her Ukiah sojourn. The stout woman with the big hat and the purse tucked firmly under her arm whose picture appeared on the billboards advertising her potato chips was younger in her Ukiah days. But no less determined. When she and her husband, Charles, came to Mendocino County from Seattle, they were still looking for that "start" in life that would carry them to success. Both were hard workers. Charles was a New Jersey farmer who had met Laura, a Philadelphia native 21 years younger than he, when he was a patient in the hospital where she was a nurse. When Blackstock interviewed Ukiah old-timers in 1970, he found several who remembered Laura and her good food. The Little Davenport Café, on the south side of Perkins between State and School streets, was a handy drop-in for the courthouse crowd which may or may not have been as colorful then as it is now. At any rate, the counter was often crowded with lawyers and the restaurant filled with lawyer talk. And this suited Laura very well since she was, after home-cooking hours studying law from books she borrowed from customers, preparing herself for the state bar exam. She was pregnant with a third child when she too the train to Sacramento from the exam. And passed. But she never practiced law. In 1920, the Scudder family moved to Monterey Park and built a service station. IN 1926, she opened a potato ship plant in a brick building next door to the station. She started making peanut butter during the Depression, remembering it as a "health food" protein for the elderly in her nursing days. When she added mayonnaise to her list, she raised the chickens that produced the eggs on her own farm. Laura Scudder and her family sold the business in 1957. She died in 1959. The last sale of Laura Scudder's products division was in 1987 to Borden Inc. –for $100 million.
The third person in today's unlikely trio wasn't here very long, not much more than a year, as I recall. When, two decades later, he was honored here – it was for his successes elsewhere and because of his tragic death. The man is Ruben Salazar. When he was in his 20s, at the start of his journalistic career, he worked here as the Press Democrat's bureau chief in Petaluma. He had been a prize-winning reporter in El Paso. In Petaluma he performed the obligatory tasks – covering the City Council, writing the hometown news. From here he went to the San Francisco News, in that newspaper's last days, and finally to the place where he could start his life's work. At the L.A. Times, in 1950, he began writing about Mexican-Americans and what it's like to be part of an underprivileged ethnic minority. This summer will mark the 20th anniversary of his death, a dark milestone in the struggle of Latinos for recognition and respect in this country. Salazar, born in Texas of Mexican ancestry, was then a columnist for the Times, writing about Latino affairs, and the news director of KMEX, a Spanish language TV station in Los Angeles. He was covering the riots in East L.A. in August of 1970 when a tear gas missile from an officer's riot gun, a weapon intended for use on barricades and not people, hit him in the head and killed him. Salazar, whose championing of his people had made him a leader in life, became a martyred hero. There was anger and grief and outrage at his death – and at the three hours he lay undiscovered in the bar while the riots continued outside. But there was a heavy sense of irony also. Violence was so far from Ruben's style. His pen was mightier than a sword. When, in 1979, Sonoma State University students chose his name for the school's new library building, his old friend Scott Thurber, a former PD columnist wrote of him: "Ruben Salazar was one of the nicest guys I've ever know. And the gentlest; he was the personification of non-violence. But he was eminently capable of anger and when he was angry he was a formidable man who cried out in print against inequities-whether they involved mistreatment of prisoners in the El Paso Jail, secret meetings of the Petaluma City Council, or the massive problem that obsessed him in his last 10 years: The shabby treatment of Mexican-Americans, their high dropout rate and illiteracy ration. These were his concerns. The library is a fitting tribute.
Laura Scudder
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Harry Dixon at work in his Santa Rosa studio, ca. 1957. Sonoma County Museum
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#7 - Compare other Cinderellas to Ashton's
Posted 19 July 2004 - 07:09 PM
Posted 21 January 2005 - 05:11 PM
I know this topic has be dead for a while, but here goes. Besides Ashton's I've seen:
(7) For those who have seen other versions of Cinderella, compare them to Ashton's.
-the Strukhova video with the Bolshoi (a very young Maximova is 'Spring' in this one ).
-the East Berlin Comic Ballet video (Tom Shilling's choreography) - Tai Chi is performed in the waltz instead of choreography for Cinderella and the Prince .
-San Francisco Ballet's production (an old PBS Great Performances broadcast).
-ABT's -- Baryshnikov's version with giant cat, and the one with D. Walker's designs. Both productions were okay but not as good as Ashton's.
-Paris Opera Ballet (Nureyev's production): Sylvie Guillem as Charlie Chaplin and the Parisians go Hollywood. OK concept but it didn't work for me.
Live performances? Perm Ballet (Vinogradov's production). The issue I have
with this production is that the end of Act 1 looks dangerously similar to "Giselle" Act 2 when the Fairy Godmother appears and works her magic - (choreographic plaigarism)? I tried the Paris production live too; looked much better on video IMO.
Ashton's production is great and has a wealth of wonderful original choreography, but the sisters are too much pantomime for me. I think the original Bolshoi
production (Zakharov's), although very Soviet and very pedestrian, is in concept and execution, the best IMO. I especially love how the coda in Act 2 is done. I wish Ashton would have included the prince's journey and search for Cinderella, and not just finding her 'in the morning.' To me that always seemed too easy an ending with no obstacles for the two to overcome.
Posted 21 January 2009 - 05:42 PM
I know Ashton did want it to be a Petipa hommage but I think he missed the boat and I don't like the English Pantomime stepsisters (yes Petipa's ballet had some great men as women roles--Carabosse being the most famous--but this comes from a different tradition altogether). Prokofiev dedicated his score to Tchaikovsky and, while it is much more dissonant, and angular than what we'd ever get from Pyotr, I really hear a lot of Sleeping Beauty in it. Sleeping Beauty reflected through a dark, cracked mirror 50 years later, anyway ;) I think it's one of Prokofiev's finest works, even over Romeo and Juliet (it's funny the score divides peopel so sharply--ballet goers seem to be even more divided on it than they are on Glazunov's Raymonda another score I adore but lots of people don't seem to get and find tuneless).
I wish we had a good document of the Bolshoi's production on stage, or even an ok document of the Kirov's (we sorta do) though the film, as cheesy as it is, has a lot to recommend it. It's a little disappointing to me that neither the Kirov nor the Bolshoi has a traditional, grand, Cinderella in their repertoire anymore, though I've heard positive and negative things about both of their current productions. I guess the original Bolshoi Cinderella was never quite the certified classic that Leonid Lavrovsky's Romeo and Juliet has been (I know many will disagree with me but I hope the Kirov never loses their production of that). (Oddly the Bolshoi doesn't seem to have Lavrosky's NOR Grigorovich's, nor indeed any production of Romeo and Juliet, which I so associate with them, in their current repertoire!)
My first exposure to this ballet was when I was 11 or 12 and first getting really into ballet and the Kiev ballet came to our little city with their production. I really can't from an adult perspective say if the production (very traditional in the Soviet style) was any good but at the time I thought it was the best thing I'd ever seen live, and immediately went out and bought the CD of the score (I was surprised, and still am, at how few good full recordings of the score exist).
Posted 21 January 2009 - 10:17 PM
My exposure to Cenderella goes to the Cuban version, which is done on Strauss' score. I don't ADORE it, but neither dislike it. It is all about waltzes, waltzes and more waltzes.
(7) For those who have seen other versions of Cinderella, compare them to Ashton's.
Posted 16 February 2009 - 01:27 PM
(7) For those who have seen other versions of Cinderella, compare them to Ashton's.
-The Paris Opera Ballet video starring Sylvie Guillem and Charles Jude in Nureyev's production is the Cinderella I've grown up with. I love its modern setting, challenging choreography, and Guillem who is excellent in the title role.
-While Ashton's Cinderella is a lovely traditional production, and Antoinette Sibley absolutely sparkles in the video (a pity more of her partnership with Dowell was not filmed), I'm never drawn in by it. The pantomime stepsisters are too much for my taste. I don't understand why Cinderella is a servant when there is no ruling-with-an-iron-fist stepmother. And I miss the Prince searching the world for the glass slipper's owner.
-The Bolshoi version with Raisa Struchkova and Gennadi Lediakh captures the mood of Prokofiev's dark score well with its lighting, special effects, creepy gnomes announcing the hours, and very spiteful stepmother and stepsisters. While a bit dated, it is charming.
-Vasiliev's production performed by the Kremlin Ballet has the magic and warmth I found lacking in Ashton's. Ekaterina Maximova and Andris Liepa not only are beautiful dancers, but give well-drawn interpretations of Cinderella and the Prince.
-The only live Cinderella I've seen is the Bolshoi Ballet in Yuri Posokhov's version with Svetlana Zakharova. I think because I have seen and loved Nureyev's production for years and years, I found this one marvelous. I liked the concept with the Storyteller having a hand in moving the story along, set in a sort of surreal world. The choreography was wonderful for the most part. Sergei Filin as the Prince was the highlight of the performance.
Posted 24 February 2009 - 07:38 PM
Posted 30 July 2010 - 08:18 PM
The Russian variations with Raisa Struchkova and Gabriella Komleva and the Berlin Comic Opera's variation with Hannelore Bey where the sister's roles are danced by women and where it is their personalties that are ugly and not their faces - make the story far more plausible and follows the fairy tale's story line much more closely. The version with Komleva includes a lot more solo time for the sisters at the ball, unfortunately in this version the Russian Directors were enamored with inserting artistic borders around the perimeter of a lot of segments of the film footage which really detracts from viewing the dancing, particularly as these where filmed in the 4:3 screen format. One other element that makes both the Komleva and the Bey versions less plausible is the fact that both these dancers appear too aged for the role.
The more modern versions such as Cinderella by Nureyev, Aschenbrodel by the Vienna Ballet (to Johann Strauss's music), and even the doll variation by Lyon Opera (despite the periodic and very annoying insertion of crying baby sounds) are all very good too. However, I confess that I still prefer the Russian storyline, so of all the versions available on DVD, my favorite is the version with Raisa Struchkova. I just wish they would remaster it. By the way, I recently attended a performance of Cinderella by the Russian National Ballet and their presentation was everything I could have hoped for. The two sisters, played by females, danced marvelously and were pretty but decidedly unpleasant to Cinderella who also danced beautifully and was pretty and plausibly young for the role. The wicked stepmother was played by a male dancer who was excellent in the role and never over played his part so that it detracted from the ballet, and the prince's search round the world was included unlike Ashton's version. Unfortunately their performance is not available on DVD, but if they ever do start selling one, that would become my new favorite.
Posted 30 July 2010 - 08:36 PM
If anything, I think it was Helpmann's portrayal of the toxic sister that upstaged the protagonists.
Posted 31 July 2010 - 09:41 AM
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Posted 31 July 2010 - 10:01 AM
Posted 02 August 2010 - 01:52 AM
Elsewhere I have a great fondness for Vladimir Vasiliev's Cinderella that I saw danced by the Kremlin Ballet in Paris with Vasiliev himself in drag as the step-mother wearing an outrageous mini skirt. Nureyev's version also features the step-mother played by a man: perhaps men are more suited to these grotesque roles.
Posted 02 August 2010 - 06:46 AM
I thought that Olivier Wevers was brilliant this year in "Sleeping Beauty" this year. To me, the high point of his portrayal of Carabosse (in the Peter Wright version) was when she returned upstage left with the spindle. Wevers gestured to Aurora what could have read as "Come here, my little pretty", but instead made a simple, straightforward, commanding gesture. It was as if it were the first time that anyone had been direct with Aurora and treated her like a person instead of a princess, and it was irresistible. Still, whenever I've seen a man portray Carabosse, it always looks like pantomime to me to some extent, and I prefer a strong, proud, beautiful woman turned bitter. For whatever reason, when a man plays Madge, I don't feel the same way.
My beef with Ashton's version of "Cinderella" is that unlike in "La Fille Mal Gardee", where Widow Simone and the chickens might upstage the protagonists for a while, the pantomime overwhelms the rest of the ballet, and because the Helpmann sister doesn't die, I always am left feeling that Cinderella is going to have to deal with her manipulation forever, even though there were palace guards, and email and the telephone hadn't been invented. (A different "Happily Neverafter" than Cinderella and the Prince bickering.) That's how toxic she comes across to me, and Prokofiev's bittersweet score reinforces this.
Posted 04 August 2010 - 04:13 PM
Edwin Denby thought Ashton stole the show, quite unintentionally of course - "the sort of accident that happens to geniuses," as Denby wonderfully put it (from memory).
Ashton hit the nail on the head with his portrayal of the emotionally abused stepsister. Of course, that didn't stop her from treating Cinderella badly.
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7 Hilariously Failed Attempts at Politically Correct Toys
#3. Pink Ribbon Barbie
In 2006, Mattel (again) had the nutty idea that they should honor breast cancer fighters/survivors with a special Pink Ribbon Barbie and donate a percentage of the profits to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, which is so noble that 17 bald eagles exploded when you read that sentence.
So What's the Problem?
Imagine creating a doll whose sole purpose was to honor people born with flipper arms, but instead of crafting actual flipper arms for your doll you give her the most beautiful arms mankind had ever seen and a withering, condescending smile to beam back at the mutated horror-children she is meant to honor. This Barbie is kind of like that.
Mattel's approximation of someone with cancer.
Women battling breast cancer frequently lose their hair from chemotherapy and, in extreme cases, end up having one or both breasts removed as a last ditch effort to save themselves from the disease.
So "honoring" survivors with a fully coiffed pink princess and two gigantic, perfect boobs, who's on her way to the Healthy Lady Ball didn't quite sit well with a few people.
What makes this more confusing is the fact that the creator of Barbie, Ruth Handler, was a breast cancer survivor herself. So why was Mattel--who had the nerve to mass produce a doll with a fetus inside of it--too squeamish to make a toy actually depicting the symptoms suffered by the very woman who created it?
Oh right, because nobody would've fucking bought it.
#2. Preemie Cabbage Patch Dolls
Following the phenomenal success of the Cabbage Patch Kids, Coleco chose to expand the doll line in a new direction, wisely targeting the whimsical joys of life-threatening premature births.
The Cabbage Patch Preemie dolls featured smaller bodies than their full-term counterparts, tiny diapers and baldish heads that smelled like they'd been rolled around in baby powder for seven hours.
So What's the Problem?
You know what's not all that cuddly? A one and a half-pound infant fighting for its fragile life in a coffin-shaped incubator with more tubes and machines attached to it than Weapon X. Don't forget the bandages that keep the light out of its underdeveloped eyes, or the little heating beds it has to lay in because it can't maintain its body heat. Toss in some weeping parents and a couple of nurses probing and prodding its frail little body and you've got the must-have toy of the season.
Coleco didn't even remotely try to emulate actual premature babies, which was probably for the best because other dollmakers have and this is what they ended up with:
Transforming delicate babies into big, fat-headed Cabbage Patch dolls is hardly endearing to preemie parents, but Coleco stepped up to the plate with this brilliant commercial, telling us once and for all that all it takes to keep a premature baby alive is a shitload of cookies:
#1. Oreo Barbie
Sigh. Yeah, we had a sneaking suspicion that we weren't done with Barbie.
In 1997, Mattel joined forces with Nabisco in a cross-promotional effort that delighted fat little girls nationwide. And to prove once again that Mattel has the racial sensitivity of a package of Handi Snacks, they picked the one cookie in the universe that could ever be construed as offensive, ever.
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Marketed as a toy that girls could feed their Oreos to after school (what?), Mattel manufactured both white and black dolls each sporting clothes that had "Oreo" written all over them as if they had just been attacked by a crazed team of Nabisco executives armed with magic markers. Early plans to pair the white doll with Ritz and stencil the word "Cracker" all over her clothes were nixed before production.
Cracker Barbie.
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"Oreo" happens to be a derogatory term used within the African-American community to describe a black person who, on the inside, really wants to be white. Get it? Because an Oreo is a chocolate cookie with white filling. It's the kind of thing it would take the whitest toy design team in the world to miss.
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The Oreo Barbies were yanked from stores and discontinued, immediately turning them into sought after collectibles and leaving us with the riddle of what ethnic group Mattel will offend with their next promotion.
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[Washington, DC] -- The Minister of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Call and Guidance, Shaikh Saleh bin Abdulaziz Al-Ashaikh, has stressed the Kingdom's need to revise sections of some university and school textbooks that "promote excessiveness". Shaikh Saleh Al-Ashaikh has given the Council of Dawa (Call) and Guidance one month to formulate a program for combating excessiveness at mosques, dawa centers and Qur'anic schools. He urged council members to develop and set out clear plans to successfully confront extremism.
Shaikh Saleh Al-Ashaikh stated: "Authorities at universities, the Presidency of the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques and other educational agencies need to revise some of the activities and syllabuses, because it has been observed that some textbooks of universities and schools under the Qur'an memorization societies and under the presidency contain material that promotes excessiveness."


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(CNN) -- Mitt Romney has named former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt to lead his presidential transition team should he win November's general election, the Republican presidential candidate's campaign confirmed Monday.
"Governor Romney has asked Governor Leavitt to lead the Readiness Project. This is exactly what the bipartisan legislation signed into law by President Obama in 2010 encouraged candidates to do," Romney's campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul wrote.
Saul was referring to the Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of 2010, which allowed the General Services Administration to provide candidates with resources - including office space and equipment -- for a presidential transition ahead of the general election. The intent of that measure was to render the transfer of power between presidents as efficient as possible.
Appointing a transition team before the general election is a common practice among presidential candidates, meant to ensure no president-elect is caught off guard with the requirements of becoming commander-in-chief.
Obama appointed John Podesta, former President Bill Clinton's chief of staff, to lead his transition team well ahead of 2008's general election.
Leavitt, Romney's pick to lead a potential transition, was elected governor of Utah in 1992, and went on to hold the office for ten years. He was governor of the state when Romney headed the Salt Lake City Olympic Organizing Committee in 2002.
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Proper Engine Block Preparation - The FoundationWritten by on October 20, 2011 Proper block prep is essential to maximizing horsepower and durability in your race motor
No matter what kind of rules are written to keep the costs of racing down, there are some facets of stock car racing that are going to be expensive no matter what you do. This is particularly true when it comes to the engine. Even if you're racing a crate engine class, any engine is a complex piece of machinery with lots of moving parts which require an extremely precise fit and finish. That type of stuff just costs money.
If you race in a built motor class, the up-front costs are likely even higher. But the costs almost always evens out in the long run because the higher quality parts you will normally use in a built race motor will be a higher quality than you will find in most crates—this is true even if you're building a Pure Street race engine—so they will last longer, perform better, and be much less likely to blow up at the worst possible time.
The key to saving a buck when it comes to your racing engine is to do at least some of the work yourself. After all, your time may be valuable, but at least nobody is charging you for it. So whatever you can take off of your engine builder's plate and do for yourself is that much more that won't be reflected on the bill.
Of course, there are some things that are best left to the engine builder with a dedicated machine shop and all the cool specialized tools that come with it. In this article, we'll take an in-depth look at preparing the engine block for a race engine build. Some things require specialized machining equipment, which should be left to your trusted engine builder. We'll take a look at exactly what these are, what they should cost and how they will help your engine perform at its best. We'll also take a look at which steps are critical and which you can sometimes get by without, but honestly, if you're attempting to race at your highest level, doing everything you can to make sure your engine block is absolutely perfect is always a good idea.
And then there are some operations that don't require anything more than handtools. You may want to consider doing some of these yourself, either before or after you take the block to your engine builder. Almost all the steps we'll discuss are valid whether you're prepping a brand-new block straight out of the speed parts catalog, attempting to salvage an old soldier out of the junkyard, or simply going through a rebuild.
For this story we spent a lot of time at KT Engine Development which was kind enough to share with us the typical costs for most of the steps involved. Your local engine builder may have a different pricing schedule, and in fact, KT Engines owner Ken Troutman says he often charges less than the prices quoted depending on the shape of the block, but these should be considered an industry standard.
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After a brief survey, here's what we've determined are average prices for some of the most common tasks when it comes to prepping an engine block.
|Teardown and Inspection
|Bore and Hone
|Add Torque Plates
|Deck the Block
|Line Hone
|Install Cam Bearing and Plugs
|Final Wash
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Not all stress cracks are visible, even after the engine has been thoroughly cleaned. Here, KT Engines' Nate Allmond mag checks the block for cracks before we begin the machining process. Common areas for cracking are in the lifter valley and on the decks between either the cylinder bores or the cylinder bores and coolant holes.A precautionary step that should be taken on just about every rebuild is a quick line hone of the main journal housing bores to make sure they are still square. But before you can do that the caps must be "clipped" or cut down slightly. This makes the main bores smaller so that there is material for the honing bar to cut away and square everything back up.If the main housing bores aren't parallel, it can create tight spots for the crankshaft. The worst case scenario is a spun main bearing, but more likely is simply unnecessary friction as the crank spins. It's not death to an engine, but it's wasted horsepower and if you're going to the trouble to build a race engine you might as well ensure you're getting all the power possible to the rear wheels.High compression race motors need all the help they can get to avoid head gasket failures. Heat cycles can cause the deck of the block to warp, so the block should be decked even on rebuilds to make sure the deck surface remains flat and square to the crankshaft centerline. Here, Kevin Troutman sets up the block in the machine before cutting a few thousandths of an inch off of it to square everything back up. Even when you have a brand-new block this step will likely be necessary because you'll want to cut the decks down as much as possible in order to maximize compression.Previously, the block had the standard 4.00-inch bores and we planned to use the more common 4.030 piston size. Before boring the cylinder larger, KT Engines owner Ken Troutman measures the pistons to verify the size.After verifying the piston size, Troutman bores the cylinders to 4.025 inches. The remaining 0.005-inch is left to be removed during the honing process. It may seem silly to go to the trouble to bore the cylinders an extra 0.030-inch since it only adds approximately 5 cubic inches, but it's the gain in compression ratio that we're really after.Before honing, Kevin Troutman chamfers the edges at the top of the cylinder bores. This helps, making installing the pistons in the bores with the rings in place easier and also removes a sharp edge that can potentially be a cause for detonation. You can chamfer the bores later, but if you make a mistake now and scuff a cylinder wall it can usually be fixed during honing.Ken Troutman hones the bores to the final size in three stages. Each stage uses a different type of honing stone so that we wind up with the best bore finish and proper crosshatch pattern for good oil control. We can't tell you which stones should be used because the best options vary depending on many factors including the type of block material, piston and ring choice, and even the honing machine being used. Notice also that the block is getting honed with a torque plate bolted on top of the block. The torque plate mimics the stress a block will see when a set of heads is bolted in place. This helps ensure better bores when the engine is complete. It's usually a few extra bucks to get the block honed with torque plates in place, but we consider it money well spent.Now we're getting into the area where you can get the block back and start doing some work yourself. Here, the outer edge of the bosses for the oil galleries are rolled back with a grinder to create clearance in a more race-ready double-roll timing chain. If this isn't done, the edge of the gallery bosses will rub the back of the chain. This is also a good time to chamfer all the other edges on the block (especially around the edges of the deck). Remember, if you do any of this work yourself, you'll need to thoroughly clean and wash the block to ensure no steel shavings are left behind.
After thoroughly cleaning the block it's time to reinstall the plugs. It's always a good idea to spend a couple extra bucks to get a plug kit that uses brass freeze plugs. Race cars almost always use pure water in the coolant system, and brass plugs won't corrode like steel ones will.To help seal the edges of the freeze plugs—and make sure they stay in place despite the vibrations and stress of racing—apply a bead of red Loctite around the edges of the plug.You can use a large socket, but one of the easiest ways to drive in freeze plugs is with a seal driver kit like you see here.Make sure to use liquid thread sealer on all the gallery plugs to reduce the chance of an annoying oil leak.Installing the cam bearings requires a special tool (we're using one from Goodson), but if you plan to build your own engines, it's a good investment. Chevrolet small-block cam bearings are stepped in size, so you have to make sure you get the right ones in the correct position. The correct placement is marked on the flap of the box, as you can see here. Notice that the fifth bearing housing bore is larger than the bores for number three and four.We've added machinist's dye to help it show up better in the photo, but you can see that the part numbers are also stamped on the outside of the bearing.Finally, carefully drive the bearings into the housing bores in the block. Make sure the oil hole in the cam bearings is centered in the oil gallery groove so that the cam gets plenty of oil when the engine is at speed. Don't try to install cam bearings without the proper tool. It ensures the bearing is pressed in place square to the housing bore and without crimping the shoulders of the bearing.Here's a step that's only necessary in special circumstances. While working on this story, Ken Troutman also repaired a block with a broken main cap for another customer. A stock block with two-bolt main caps can normally withstand up to 450 horsepower reliably, but if you're building a 500-plus-horsepower motor or have to repair a broken cap, it may be a good idea to upgrade to four-bolt mains. This requires boring the mains to the proper size (which is shown here) and then honing. But remember, this is only necessary in special circumstances. CT


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Setting Up an Outlook 2007 E-Mail Account from Home
After you sign up with an ISP (Internet Service Provider), you can set up Outlook 2007 to send and receive e-mail from your e-mail account at home. Although any individual Internet e-mail account requires setup only once, you can set up as many accounts as you need.
If you're a corporate user, your system administrators may not want you to mess around with account settings at all — or may have special arrangements and settings they want you to use when you work from home. Either way, it's best to ask first.
If you're on your own, you should probably call the tech support line from your online service or ISP to get all the proper spellings of the server names and passwords. (Don't forget to ask whether they're case-sensitive!)
To set up an Internet e-mail account through Outlook 2007, follow these steps:
1. Choose Tools --> Account Settings.
The Account Settings dialog box appears.
2. Click the E-mail tab.
The Email Accounts setup page appears.
3. Click New.
The Add New Email Account dialog box appears.
4. Fill in the blanks in the New Email Account dialog box.
Be careful to enter the information accurately — especially your e-mail address and password. Otherwise, your e-mail won't work.
5. Click Next.
A configuration screen appears, and Outlook begins trying to automatically configure your e-mail account. You get one of these two responses:
• If it succeeds, the Congratulations screen appears and you can click Finish to complete the process.
• If Outlook is unable to automatically configure your e-mail account, continue these steps.
6. Click the check box labeled Manually Configure Server Settings.
The Server Type dialog box appears.
7. Click the radio button for the server type that your e-mail provider requires.
Most home users choose E-mail.
8. Click Next.
A new configuration screen appears.
9. Type the settings that your e-mail provider requires.
Again, each e-mail service differs, but most of them can tell you how to make their e-mail work with Outlook.
10. Click the Test Account Settings button.
The Test Account Settings dialog box shows you what's happening while Outlook tests the entered settings to see if you got everything right.
If you type one wrong letter in one of your e-mail settings, your messages won't go through. The computers that Outlook has to send messages through (called servers) are terribly literal, so it's good to find out whether your setup works while you're still tweaking your settings. If the test fails, try retyping some entries (and then clicking the Test Account Settings button) until you get a successful test. When the test is successful, the Test Account Settings dialog box says "Congratulations! All tests completed successfully. Click Close to continue." So that's what you should do.
11. Click Close.
The Test Account Settings dialog box closes.
12. Click Next (or press Enter).
The Congratulations screen appears. Take a moment to feel the thrill of success.
13. Click Finish.
You can set up more than one Internet e-mail account, so each member of the family can have a separate address. You also may want to have different accounts for business use and personal use. Perhaps you just want to set up separate accounts so you can send yourself messages. Whatever you like to do, the process is pretty much the same.


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Nutritional Health for Women
Fats are a necessary building block of nutrition and are broken down into fatty acids. The most essential fatty acids that must be supplied by foods are linoleic and linolenic acid, essential for transporting the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K. Fatty acids also help in energy production, the chemical balance of hormones, and nerve and brain function. In the body, fat cushions vital organs, including the eyes, liver, and heart, and also provides insulation against heat loss. Fat is also a very efficient long-term storage site for fuel, providing nine calories per gram.
Fat's bad reputation comes from its high calorie content, which can lead to obesity if eaten in large amounts. Saturated fats found in meat and poultry have a legitimately bad reputation because they contain harmful cholesterol. What contains "bad" cholesterol, however, seems to change almost daily. It used to be thought that eggs, high-fat cheese, and butter fats were very bad for the heart, blood vessels, and arteries. Now these products have been found to also contain healthy fatty acids that are beneficial when eaten in moderation (one egg and one or two servings of butter fat foods a day). The greatest risk of "bad" fats are due to trans-fatty acids and saturated fats, which increase risk of cardiovascular (heart and blood vessel) disease and stroke. Trans-fatty acids found in stick margarine, shortening, and many snack foods are processed oils that become unhealthy in the chemical processing they go through. Saturated fats are found in high amounts in fatty meats, especially pork fat and rinds, beef fat and lard, and chicken fat and skin. Processed meats, including sausages, hot dogs, and pepperoni, should be avoided as much as possible, as they not only contain very high amounts of saturated fats, but also nitrates, a cancer-causing chemical.
Saturated fats can be avoided by choosing lean cuts of meat (sirloin and tenderloin), avoiding poultry skin and fat, and avoiding foods made with lard or beef, pork, or chicken fat. Full-fat dairy products should be eaten in moderation due to their higher content of saturated fats. Butter is somewhat controversial. Because it is a saturated animal fat, until recently, butter was considered unhealthy, and stick margarine was thought to be a healthier alternative. However, current research reveals that stick margarine is actually the worst type of spread (it is a trans fat). In contrast, butter has been found to contain conjugated linoleic acid, a healthy essential fatty acid. Therefore, eating a serving of butter a day is fine and is a much healthier choice than stick margarine. For those with high cholesterol and heart disease, using soft "buttery spreads" containing monounsaturated or polyunsaturated fats is the best choice, especially soft spreads containing plant products that assist in lowering cholesterol. (Take Control, Benecol, Smart Balance).
The most important research has shown that healthy fats, such as omega-3 fatty acids and monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, actually protect the heart from disease by raising the level of the good cholesterol, HDL. This makes certain fats some of the heart-healthiest foods. Heart-healthy fats include peanut butter, avocados, nuts, olive and peanut oil, and fish oil. Omega-3 fatty acids have also been shown to prevent some cancers.
Cutting all fats out of your diet is never recommended, especially for active athletic women, because fats are an essential part of hormone functioning, vitamin transport, and disease protection. Fats also promote a feeling of fullness and satisfaction from meals, reduce cravings for unhealthy foods, and allow carbohydrates to be digested more slowly, stabilizing blood sugar levels. Fat-containing foods such as meat, poultry, and dairy products provide natural sources of necessary nutrients especially important to women: iron, folate, and B vitamins in meats and calcium in dairy products. Fats should make up 20 to 30 percent of your regular diet.
Healthy Fats
|Monounsaturated fats
|olive, safflower, canola, peanut oils, nuts, seeds, avocados, olives, very lean meats and poultry
|Polyunsaturated fats
|cold-water fish, sunflower, corn, soybean, safflower, flaxseed, grapeseed, cottonseed, sesame, walnut oils, soy products, wheat germ, whole grains
Healthy Fats That Are Good Sources of Omega-3 Fatty Acids
- Soybean oil
- Flaxseed oil
- Flaxseeds
- Walnuts
- Walnut oil
- Fish oil
- Canola oil
- Cold-water fish, including salmon, sardines, lake trout, tuna (albacor, bluefin), oysters, squid, mackerel, swordfish*
- Omega-3 enriched eggs
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From The Active Woman's Health and Fitness Handbook by Nadya Swedan. Copyright © 2003 by Nadya Swedan. Used by arrangement with Perigee, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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For 11th Anniversary, a Simpler Ceremony
New York marked the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks Tuesday with a simpler ceremony than in years past, marking a shift in the way the city remembers the 2,977 people lost that day.
No elected official spoke. Family members read the names of the dead, accompanied by music, on the 9/11 memorial plaza between the waterfalls now marking footprints of the two towers.
While there was no master of ceremonies and no speeches or readings were planned, many family members made tearful statements—in English, Spanish and Italian—as they named their own loved ones.
"We miss you Sunday mornings, when you would wake us for breakfast," said Allison Adams, speaking to her late husband, Patrick. "We miss that."
"Cheers, Dad," said Peter McGinley.
"Your crazy Irish spirit lives on, Ma," said Larry McGovern.
Last year's 10th anniversary was a major milestone that coincided with the opening of the 9/11 Memorial. President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush attended the nationally televised ceremony.
The 9/11 Museum was supposed to have opened in time for this year's anniversary. But construction on the project has been held up by a dispute between Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the governors of New York and New Jersey.
Monday evening, city and state officials announced that they had reached a deal to resolve the nearly year-long impasse. The Port Authority, which is controlled by the two governors, will resume construction on the museum as soon as the end of this month.
Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said he had spoken with Mr. Bloomberg and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo about the deal reached on the eve of the anniversary to resume construction on the 9/11 museum.
"They feel it's going to move forward," he said. "Let's hope that they can keep to the schedule."
In the midst of the political struggle over stewardship of the memorial plaza, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum foundation, whose chairman is Mr. Bloomberg, announced this summer that elected officials wouldn't have speaking roles in this year's event.
The decision, foundation officials said at the time, was intended to eliminate politics from the solemn proceedings.
Officials still turned out en masse, as they have in years past. Mr. Bloomberg, Mr. Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn were among those who attended.
Elena Leon of Union City, N.J., was pleased this year that the scaled down ceremony would not include speaking roles for politicians, said Stephanie Gonzalez, who translated for her.
"Last year there were too many," Ms. Leon said. "They should have focused more on the people who passed away," like her husband, Jorge Luis Leon.
"It's going to be a little more private this year," she said. "It's going to mean a little bit more this year."
Elsie Goss Caldwell walked toward the family entrance gate on Greenwich Street shortly before 8 a.m., carrying a photograph of her son, Kenny Caldwell, who was a 30-year-old accountant at Alliance Consulting Group in the north tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
Ms. Caldwell, who lives in Philadelphia and runs a tax preparation business, said her son was one of those who made phone calls out to loved ones from the burning towers that morning.
"As a mom, I know he was scared, but he took time out to call me and tell me he loved me," she said.
Ms. Caldwell, like others on the way into the ceremony, said she was not bothered by the absence of political speakers, or the smaller scale of the memorial events this year.
Asked how one dealt with the other 364 days of the year, Ms. Caldwell said, "You don't."
"Because my son was never found, I wasn't really able to say goodbye to him, traditionally," she said. "So last year, when I came and saw the memorial for the first time, it was very overwhelming, because it was almost like, now I know where he is."
Construction on the museum has been at a near standstill since last September. Now, it's unlikely to be complete before next year's anniversary.
For Solange Schwalbe, who worked as a safety monitor on the cleanup effort at Ground Zero for five months, the delay means she can't commemorate the terrorist attacks the way she did for many years—at the cross-shaped steel beam found at the World Trade Center site.
The cross, which holds deep meaning for many rescue workers, was moved from a nearby Catholic Church to an underground part of the museum in July 2011. It has remained off-limits to the public ever since.
Ms. Schwalbe, who noted that she isn't religious, said she and other workers for many years gathered at the cross at 8 a.m. on the anniversary. They also celebrated Christmas midnight Mass there, she said.
"The fact that they took that away is devastating," she said. "The cross was a place for us to go."
Others said they no longer feel the need to mark the anniversary by attending a formal commemoration.
Blake Allison was once a regular attendee of the Sept. 11 commemoration in Boston. Mr. Allison's late wife, Anna, was a passenger on one of the hijacked planes that crashed into the World Trade Center.
But back in 2009, Mr. Allison said, he stopped attending every year.
After years of formal ceremonies and bonding with the families of other victims of the attacks, "I wanted to do something different," said Mr. Allison, who lives in rural Lyme, N.H.
Mr. Allison has remarried, and he and his wife, Nancy, "took our dogs and went for a long walk up in the White Mountains. This year, I guess something similar."
Mr. Allison said he still feels the onset of a kind of depression as the anniversary approaches. On Monday, he said, he had been cutting the grass at his home in Lyme, thinking about the attacks that took his first wife's life.
But he also said he understood how the commemoration of the day will change—even fade—with time, noting that roughly "15 years of children" now live who have no real recollection of the day, comparing its retreat into history books to that of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
"I think that closure isn't the right way to think about it," Mr. Allison said. "It never really goes away. But at least you learn to put it somewhere that it's not in your face all the time. It's not a raw wound."
Ted Mann contributed to this article.
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Certificate in Public Scholarship
Certificate in Public Scholarship
The Certificate in Public Scholarship brings together a crossdisciplinary cohort of UW graduate students and faculty interested in:
- public scholarship that engages in cultural practice and inquiry
- campus-community partnerships across all sectors of higher education
- digital and multimedia publication, exhibitions, performance, and other innovative modes of disseminating scholarship
- community-engaged research, teaching, and service
- professional development for careers inside or outside of higher education
The Certificate's unique portfolio- and project-based curriculum enables fellows to integrate their scholarly and social commitments in the context of their intellectual and professional development. An extensive faculty advising network supports project and portfolio development.
Graduate students of good standing in any program at the University of Washington are eligible to apply. Upon admission, students become Certificate in Public Scholarship (CPS) Fellows, are assigned a portfolio advisor, and pursue a self-directed 15-credit course of study that includes a practicum project.
The Certificate in Public Scholarship is a partnership of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at UW Bothell, the UW Graduate School, and the Simpson Center.
Questions? Contact CPS Co-director Miriam Bartha at email@example.com.