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Trek designs, manufactures, and sells high-performance bicycles. The most popular categories are mountain, touring, and racing bicycles. Based in Waterloo, Wisconsin, the company employs 1,600 people and has distributors in 65 countries. Trek wanted to move its Ascend retail management system to a cloud-based system to reduce support costs and make it easier to maintain. Trek chose Windows Azure because it offered full compatibility with the Windows development environment and separate infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments. By reducing its reliance on external IT support and data centers, the company expects to reduce its IT hosting costs by $15,000 a month and has cut server upgrade time from 2–6 weeks to just two hours.
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I know, wp_head() is important, but it inject so much crap into the header, i like to get it out... and just add manually the 2-3 line of code i need..
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So, I have been fighting these guys for like a day and a half, and so far I have only captured Lightning. So here's my question, since its easier to kill Amodar first, what if I get him first then Lightning? Does the tamable monster depend on which one I kill last or doesn't it matter?
I killed Lightning first both times just because that guy is an absolute tank and got both of them. Helps if you have that mog extra to make turning enemies to crystal easier.
Kill Amodar first if you want Lightning's crystal vice versa for Amodar's.
I killed Amodar and received his crystal first. It does not matter which order you kill them in. Personally I found the battle easier killing Amodar first because he can cause a lot of status ailments.
I have reason to believe that by killing one of them first, you negate the possibility of retrieving his/her crystal/rare item. This aroused my suspicion when I was desperately trying to get Lightning's crystal and item. I always destroyed Amodar last, and kept on getting HIS things, so I decided to finish him off FIRST and right off the bat I received both Lightning's crystal and item.
Of course it must also help to be on Normal like I was, and this is just a hunch.


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DSLRs do have their drawbacks: They're bigger, heavier and usually more expensive than point-and-shoot cameras. A good beginner DSLR starts at about $500, while entry-pro DSLRs cost about $2,000 and up. Mirrorless cameras are a different breed altogether; they have interchangeable lenses like a DSLR but are small enough to fit into a jacket pocket. These cameras are faster than DSLRs and have electronic viewfinders.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19). The person pressuring you believes that his or her personal agenda is more important than your comfort. When none of the options please you, you can always decide not to decide.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Remember what you wanted so badly? Now you have it, and you want entirely different things. You can appreciate the cycle, wherever you are in it. Your wishes keep you rolling forward.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). The wonderful parts of life are often offset by something dismal. This is the way of the world, and you deal with each scenario as it comes, interpreting it in your own poetic way.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Instead of trying to cope with the circumstance, you want to change it. You'll take on what you can. You may have a hard time accepting the fact that not everything is within your control.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You have great feelings for beauty now, and you'll appreciate the seemingly disordered aspects of it. You'll direct people's attention to things they wouldn't have noticed, and this is a kind of mitzvah.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Power can be a phantom. Its sources are not always apparent. Keep this in mind as you assess your opposition and strategize your own rise to power.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). As valid as your concerns may be, it's not important that each one gets addressed now. Helping others who are in need will give you the benefit of perspective.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). In the heat of the moment, your conversational partner will try to prove a wrongheaded point. Let it go. To argue would be proof that you care to be considered superior, which is wrongheaded in and of itself.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Your golden productivity hours will be in the morning. Do a job at 9 a.m. when your mind is fresh. At 9 p.m., the same job will take you twice as long to complete.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Things that look good "on paper" look even better when carefully arranged within the electrified framework of a popular social media sight. The reality of such things may be nonexistent. Stay alert.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The egos involved at work may slow everyone's progress. There are politics to be played here. People who think a lot of their own contributions want full credit before they move forward.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You don't like to be tricked by anyone, but especially not by a business, because that shows ill intent on many levels. People who do not stop a wrong from happening are culpable, and you'll do what it takes to deliver justice.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (May 21). It's not about being the most talented or outstanding; heaven's will is carried out through your simple, unassuming ways. You will be praised, paid and rewarded, but that won't matter to you nearly as much as the good that comes from your loving actions. June is romantic, October adventurous, November lucrative. Cancer and Leo people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 5, 21, 31, 50 and 43.
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Which pro sports team is your most hated?
Figuring that a majority of people probably have either a hatred for the Patriots, or a hatred for the Giants, I was wondering if we opened it up to all sports, which pro sports team is your most hated?
[Predictions: NY Yankees, Boston Red Sox, NE Patriots, Dallas Cowboys]
Personally, I can't stand any Pittsburgh team and I hate Montreal, so
NFL: Steelers
NHL: Penguins/Canadiens
MLB: Phillies
NBA: meh.
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I'm not an NBA team why you hatin'? :P. Haha, I actually feel the exact same way about NBA.
NFL - Patriots
MLB - Red Sox
NHL - Bruins/Penguins (actually, in this case I hate the Penguins much more than the Bruins)
are you noticing a your predictable pattern? I do love me some Sam Adams, though :)
@meh3884: Being from Boston, we're used to this.
I have to admit that after last year's shameful events at Fenway I'm now on the Red Sox haters bandwagon. They sucked and showed their loyal fans just how much contempt they had for us by mailing it in during a pennant race, tossing the best manager the team ever had under the bus in the process.
Most hated teams:
NFL - Pittsburgh Steelers
MLB - NY Yankees
NHL - Montreal Canadiens/Vancouver Canucks (tie)
NBA - Miami Heat, but honestly, the whole league is a joke now.
Yankees, no question. I don't like basketball at all, but I still hate the Yankees more than all of basketball.
I believe the Cowboys and the Yankees are the most hated teams in all of American sports. People will watch them on television hoping to see them lose....
@durkzilla: I have to join you on that, what were they thinking? Francona was an outstanding manager, respected throughout baseball regardless of anyone's feelings about the Red Sox.
Any team, any sport from New York. City, State, County, Burroughs, whatever.
NFL - Ravens, with the Patriots in a very close 2nd place
NHL - Flyers
MLB - Haven't cared about baseball since I was a kid.
NBA - Never cared about basketball.
NFL- Ravens and Steelers, I live in Cleveland.
MLB- Yankees, but i don't really care that much.
NHL - Red Wings
NFL - I don't even like football, but I'm from Texas so...Redskins.
NBA - don't care
MLB - don't care
MLS - Chicago Fire
Seria A - S.S. Lazio
NFL: The entier NFC North, outside Green Bay. Then, in no particular order: Indianapolis Colts, New York Giants, New York Jets, Kansas City Chiefs, and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
NHL: Pittsburgh Penguins
MLB: Chicago Cubs
NBA: All of them
MLS: That's still around?
WNBA: See Above
Of course, I know, it's not pro, but, my absolute, most hated team:
NCAA: Minnesota Golden Gophers
NHL - Avalanche. Scum buckets.
NFL: Patriots
NBA: All of them
MLB: Yankees
NHL: Don't watch
NHL: Penguins. (I can't think of another team that has been rewarded more for years of sucking.)
NFL: Don't care. I'll cheer for the Packers but don't hate any of the other teams.
All other team sports: I'd have to watch them to form any sort of opinion.
@ganzhimself: Just because they don't get paid over the table doesn't make NCAA a pro sport, at least not in football.
NFL: Patriots/Giants
MLB: Yankees/Cardinals
NHL: It doesn't snow here, don't care.
NCAA: OUSucks, the land thieves, or as they call themselves, the sooners.
NFL: Raiders
MLB: NY Yankees
NHL: NY Rangers
NBA: Couldn't care less
NFL: The strike didn't last long enough
MLB: NY Mets (2012 World Series: Yankees vs. Cubs, wish there could be two winners.)
NHL: They beat each other up enough
NBA: It's on TNT, is it even a real sport?
NCAA: Ohio State (GO BLUE!!!!!)
Yankees, period.
Though I don't care for the NBA at all, but that is because their season seems to be about 17 months long normally - and now "shortened" to only 13 months for this season! Screw them and the horses they rode in on.
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I'm trying to make a multiplayer game but am a newbie to server side programming except that I know a little PHP. I learnt about this technique called long polling where the server can wait for fresh data to be available and then send it. How does one do long polling using PHP? Are there any libraries available. I'm already using ZendAMF, so how do I make zendamf and long-polling to co-exist?
While you can, theoretically, write the server-side application to use the common request lifecycle (request -> processing -> response -> stop) fronted by a HTTP server, like you would would with a website, this approach tends not to be practically feasible for most games.
When writing a game, you will probably want to look into a shared everything design, as opposed to the shared nothing, stateless design used for a webpage. The reason for this is that you will want to be able to scale to a number of concurrent users for any given session (a match in Counter Strike, for example) where the game logic depends on a shared state.
Running one instance of PHP for every user will tie up a lot of resources, as well as force you to push the game state outside of the PHP process, neither of which goes very well with either scalability or performance.
Your best bet is likely to write a stateful, event-based application that is then run in PHP deamon mode. You would bypass the web server, and deal with network programming directly.
On the client side (I do not have any experience using ZendAMF), you simply make a call with a very long timeout value, and as soon as you get a response, you make another call with another long timeout. The "long-polling" happens on the server.
On the server long-polling simply means that when your client application makes a "get" (or "post") to a PHP page, that page simply does not
There maybe libraries available that help with this, but it shouldn't be necessary unless your situation is quite complex.


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From the publishers: "William Shakespeare famously wrote that 'a face is like a book,' and common wisdom has it that our faces reveal our deep-seated emotions. But what if the reverse were also true? What if our facial expressions set our moods instead of revealing them? What if there were actual science to support the exhortation, "smile, be happy?" Dermatologic surgeon Eric Finzi has been studying that question for nearly two decades, and in this ground breaking book he marshals evidence suggesting that our facial expressions are not secondary to, but rather a central driving force of, our emotions."For your chance to win a copy, simply tell us what you'd say to a friend or colleague to convince them that they should read the BPS Research Digest. The writers of our five favourite answers will each receive a copy of the book. The competition closes Friday evening. Please leave an email address (or weblink) for us to contact you. Good luck!
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I would say: "Learn about psychology anytime and anywhere, in an easy, trsustful, and fast way, specially when you don't have the time to sit and read a book about the subject. Beside the topics posted are the most original and interesting ones!!"ReplyDelete
I would tell them that "reading the BPS Research Digest gives you up to the minute knowledge needed to think outside the box and challenge past and present ideas" - for all my buddies at university it is a must, and provides interesting ways to tackle exam questions :)ReplyDelete
i would say stop wasting money on dubious research as quoted in the tabloids and start reading the BPS Research Digest where you can obtain the latest and greatest evidence based pyschology research ... not only that you might even be lucky enough to soon have a friend with a wait for it (DRUMROLL) shiny new copy of "THE FACE OF EMOTION" :-)ReplyDelete
I would say that College and other Formal Learning Experiences will never substitute the opportunity to take part on a community where people exchange freely knowledge everyday. Come to our community and be part of our discoveries.ReplyDelete
I already tell my friends that BPSRD is a fabulous place to get tantalizing and relatively uncomplicated peeks into that vast store of psychological exploration out there plus pathways for further analysis. OK, I actually just tell them that it's a very cool site.ReplyDelete
However, it's frustrating that when trying to "go deeper" I bump up against some paywall or other. Completely out of my unconnected and empty-pocketed reach.
But I am thankful for the treasures Dr. Jarret serves up. It gets me much closer than I'd otherwise be.
BTW, Jie Xin, I would gladly endure the "pain of reading research articles" if only I could.
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This is exactly what I HAVE said to all my friends who do and don't study psychology at college: "just read this every 2 weeks or so and then we can have decent conversations." This is usually in response to "I don't understand half the stuff you talk about".ReplyDelete
I would suggest that the BPS Research Digest is an excellent resource for useful and well-sourced research at the fore-front of modern psychology. It is easily accessible and reaches right to the heart of findings that are coherent with contemporary society, making a thoroughly interesting read.ReplyDeleteReplies
I'd tell them that they'd be absolutely ridiculous not to as it is a fantastic resource of psychological research. It is also brilliant for students like myself ;)ReplyDelete
BPS: healthy brain candy. Read it.ReplyDelete
Hey man! you like psychology right?ReplyDelete
Check out http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.co.uk/
....It's full of cool s#!t! x
I would talk about something that they can relate to and that they are interested in to make sure that they sit up and take notice. I have told many of my friends how I always read the BPS research digest without a miss. Some seem interested which is good. I would say to my friends and colleagues it is fantastic for whatever topic your wanting to find. It is a good source as when you want to look for previous studies they are readily available and when your struggling to find topics what other place to look at than here. For any student studying Psychology like myself can be guaranteed this site rocks!ReplyDelete
- BPS Research Digest PR agent3:39 pm
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Are you annoyed by all these suspicious psychology articles without any scientific evidence behind them, as if they'd be written by the same person who also invents horoscopes? Then try reading BPS Research Digest and shine with your up-to-date knowledge of some valid stuff!
BPS Research digest does the hard work of separating fact and fiction for you.ReplyDelete
It brings much needed critical thinking to bear on sensational and hyped
research findings.It restores credibility of psychology as a science.All this with the additional bonus of readability.It is how science needs to be popularized.
BPS Research Digest is fantastic for a daily dose of evidenced based knowledge. Current and topical articles are expertly summarised into bite sized portions. So learning is swift (great for those of us who get sleepy while reading) and barely susceptible to distraction (especially good for those of us who struggle to ignore the next new 'shiny' that grabs attention).ReplyDelete
- Dan2:08 pm
As an assistant clinical psychologist hoping to start training this year, I would tell my colleagues (and frequently do) that there is a website that:-ReplyDelete
a) Never uses the phrase 'scientists say' or 'researchers argue', as science reporters do in newspapers.
b) Look at the evidence, rather than using rhetoric.
c) Keeps you abreast of new and interesting developments in ALL areas of psychology, not just clinical.
d) Brings it to you before anyone else does.
e) Stimulates interest in new areas of psychology, or ones that may have been dormant or long dead....such as statistics!
f) Is interesting and readable to all - not just those with a degree in psychology!
Who doesn't want to learn about the latest insights into how and why we think and behave the way we do? This blog is better than the science section of the NY Times, which my friends and I often find ourselves reading despite its repetitive nature and often dubious claims. Also the links lead to all sorts of fascinating psychological stuff. (And it's the perfect place to go learn something interesting when procrastinating from studying!)ReplyDelete
Well, I'd say all of this, obviously! Accessible, trustworthy, and user-friendly: it's a gem. On my compulsory-reading list for anyone who works with people or with imaginary people. Or who is a person. Or wants to become a person.ReplyDelete


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Obuma wanted to be the first president to bring Americans together - he failed to get the Muslim fundamentalists to love us, to fix our deplorable economy, to have an honest, open, transparent administration and to be the first black president - at least he got that half right.
He's counting on those he gives entitlements to, like the woman in Cleveland yelling she was in line for her second Obamaphone, food stamps and welfare check. Disgusting. I'm happy to know he is flushing my tax money down the toilet.
His latest deceitful act: He illegally waived a federal law that states a 60-day layoff notice must be sent to government contractors when downsizing. They will be laid off on Jan. 1, so they get their pink slips on Nov. 1. So, his highness told companies like Lockheed to suspend sending the notice until after Nov. 5 and that the government will pay any penalties and fines. My lying president takes my tax dollar and breaks the law. Yet, many voters know nothing of this tactic he evoked, and think this bum is worthy of a second term.
After our ambassador in Libya was murdered and our embassies in Cairo and Libya burned, (an act of war) he said a few words about the death of four Americans then went on to Las Vegas for a fundraiser. Then for five days he gets his staff, U.N. ambassador and press secretary to outright lie to us that the misguided Muslims were upset over some dumb video made in July. The regime reporting this tragedy is either inept, stupid or covering up.
Many polls show he's leading in swing states. The lame media wants him to win so they skew their demographics by polling 10 percent to 12 percent more Democrats - of course the entertainer-in-chief appears to be leading.
Who would you vote for? Someone who gives you cradle to grave (with Obamacare, they will decide when you get buried) entitlements or someone who gives you the opportunity to work and get ahead?
A judge in Pennsylvania ruled against voter identification. I visited six national parks last month and to get a reduced rate for seniors I had to show my identification. Liberals say it's voter suppression. No it's not - it's common sense to make sure the person voting is the person they say they are. But liberals don't want that to happen because they won't be able to have organizations like A.C.O.R.N. stuffing the ballot box with dead voters or people voting multiple times.
Valarie Jarred, Obama's mentor and most influential staff member, more powerful that his chief-of-staff, has proven she is a classroom radical, confused, naive and dishonest. Valley amigos, don't ask for examples, I would need 1,500 words at least.
We are still giving $10s of billions to his Arab Spring friends. Want those governments to get in line with us? Tell them we will be sending their money to Israel until they get their acts together.
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Well I've deployed a site column from my xml definition and upto now it's been fine. I then checked my content type (after some unexpected errors) and it's removed itself from the content type and is nowhere to be seen in site columns. I then tried to create the column again through the UI (after numerous deployment attempts) but it says it already exists!?
My question is - where can I find it or how can I remove it?


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What did you watch and/or notice in your own very first ballet performances, before you learned to know and see "more"?
I'm still learning to watch ballet, just like Jaana Heino.
My first perfomance was the Bolshoi doing Romeo and Juliet. My seat was way off to the side which made watching the far end of the stage difficult. Consequently when the principals were distant I tended to watch the nearby dancers. Nowadays I sit closer to the center and devote more attention to the principal dancers.
I also spent some time looking at the audience. I still do that.
Initially I didn't pay much attention to the steps. Later on I did, but found it less interesting than watching the whole dancer. Of course, I've barely studied the steps. Just a little introduction from the little book "Basic Ballet: The Steps Defined" by Joyce Mackie.


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Richard S. Chang
Recent and archived news articles by Richard S. Chang of The New York Times.
In Print and Bound for the Road
The topics of the seven books reviewed here range widely, so readers may find something of interest, for themselves or as a Father's Day gift.
June 1, 2014, Sunday
MORE ON: Automobiles , Books and Literature
Reading for Enthusiasts of Every Level
A clever racing history meant for young children and adults; an account of Mustang's first five decades; and a travelogue of a biker's world journey are among six recently published automotive books.
December 8, 2013, Sunday
An Artist's Truck That's No More Than It Needs Be
A 1972 Dodge Power Wagon that once belonged to Donald Judd, a pillar of the Minimalist art movement, is now in the hands of a New York furniture designer. Judd had even painted the truck.
November 4, 2012, Sunday
After 25 Years, Walter Röhrl Plots His Return to Pikes Peak for Commemorative Climb
The two-time W.R.C. champion is scheduled to drive up the 14,110-foot peak in a 1987 Audi Sport quattro S1, the same car he used to set a record 25 years ago.
June 27, 2012, Wednesday
MORE ON: Colorado , Audi Division of Volkswagen AG , Porsche AG , Automobile Racing , Automobiles
Father's Day Reading: Gentlemen, Start Your Kindles
Some books about cars and motorsports can be very specific and some very broad. Here, in time for Father's Day gift buying, is a selection of five recent titles that encompass just such a range.
June 3, 2012, Sunday
MORE ON: Automobiles
Father's Day Reading: Gentlemen, Start Your Kindles
FORMULA ONE AT WATKINS GLEN 20 Years of the United States
June 3, 2012, Sunday
Linsanity to Make Its Mark on Volvo Cars
JEREMY LIN, the New York Knicks' breakout point guard, shared a podium with executives from Volvo Cars in Manhattan last week to announce a marketing partnership. The deal is the first major sponsorship for Lin since he came off the end of the...
March 25, 2012, Sunday
Linsanity to Make Its Mark on Volvo Cars
The point guard for the New York Knicks will market the Swedish automaker's vehicles in the United States and select Asian markets.
March 20, 2012, Tuesday
A Kit With Few Instructions Inspires an Improv Act
Steven Kaplan's B.R.A. CX3 kit car, a replica Morgan three-wheeler, didn't come easy. But after a six-year building effort, he now rides through his Queens neighborhood in style.
March 4, 2012, Sunday
In Brooklyn, a Man of Many Vans
Kevin Cyr has painted portraits and customized die-cast models of the dinged, rusted and graffiti-covered work vans of New York.
February 23, 2012, Thursday
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A Car Show Like No OtherWritten by on December 1, 2000 Rusty, Crusty, Clean, and Straight--St. Ignace Has It All
The straits off Macinac Island connect Lake Huron with Lake Michigan and separate Michigans somewhat more remote and less-populated upper peninsula from the lower part of the state. This northern waterway was a major avenue for fur traders and explorers in the U.S. and Canada for 200 years. In recent times, St. Ignace, Michigan (located on the Interstate 75 business loop), has become the site of one of the most unique car shows in this country. Theres a little bit of everything, automotively speaking, and a whole lot of hospitality that brings famous faces and personalities together for a joyous vintage car and truck celebration.
This years guest of honor was Keith Crain, chairman of Crain Communications. Mr. Crain was just one of the many famous names that made up a list of whos who in our industry. There were many well-known custom-car builders, aftermarket industry personalities, and plenty of auto industry design and marketing executives. Plenty of awards were also presented to those well-known names and faces who attended a special brunch hosted by Nostalgia Productions. More about that in a minute.
Hot Rod magazine Senior Editor Gray Baskerville and I took a red-eye flight from L.A. to Detroit, where we picked up a candy-apple red (to match our eyes) PT Cruiser at the airport. We drove north to the auto-holics anonymous meeting via the ever-expanding Great Lakes Motor Works (a shop owned by Mike Stowe) in Boyne City, Michigan. Mikes a great car guy who has made himself a solid reputation for quality construction and neat rides. His shop now trains new blood in the art of custom fabrication and restoration. Mikes buttery-pearl 49 Pontiac convertible was featured in the February 2000 issue of Rod & Custom, and was the Kress Reavie Memorial award recipient in 1999.
Arriving in St. Ignace on Thursday evening put us an invitation or two behind the rest of the crowd, as organizer Ed Reavie had already rolled out the red carpet by inviting guests to his homewhich is often mistaken for an automotive memorabilia museum. There was also an evening ferryboat ride for those whove always wondered what the underside of the Mackinac Bridge looks like. One nearby attraction visitors to St. Ignace should not overlook is a trip to Mackinac Island, where motorized cars aregasp!not allowed. The architecture alone is entertaining enough to make the laid-back island one of the most popular vacation attractions in the Midwest. The charm of strolling through the dockside shops and the accessible walkways is a most enjoyable slow-motion contrast to our typically hectic lifestyles.
Back at the car show on Friday, a steady stream of special-interest cars and trucks started rolling into town. As soon as hotel accommodations were secured, lawn chairs were parked alongside State Street (the one major artery through town), to allow front-row seating for viewing the constant parade of neat vintage iron.
When youre Ed Reavies guest, you have to work to buy a meal. Nostalgia Productions hospitality is legendaryas are the names of the recipients of the prestigious awards. Among others, here are some of the awards presented: the North Hall of Fame, the Media Hall of Fame, the Race Car Hall of Fame, the Concours d Elegance, the Governors Award, the Kress Reavie Memorial Award, the Sam Barris Memorial Award, and the Media Hall of Fame (Corporate). Theres also a six-pack of specially crafted awards created by the talented Ridler Award-winning builder Dan Webb.
What is so special about this gathering is the opportunity to put faces to the names youve read about for years. Names like Mike and Larry Alexander, Joe Bailon, Gene Winfield, Wally Parks, Norm Grabowski, Bill Cushenbery, Linda Vaughn, Ken Posies Fenical, Roger Lindamood, Chuck Miller, Frank Livingston, Jack Walker, Troy Trepanier, Don Big Daddy Garlits, and more. Among these living legends are also the talented and dedicated men and women who have carved their names onto the auto industrys list of movers and shakers. Among those in attendance were Executive Vice President Tom Gale of Daimler/Chrysler, Executive Director of Design Jerry Palmer of General Motors Design Center, and Angelo Giampetroni of Ford Motorsports.
Gray Baskerville was honored with a multitude of awards, including the outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award. Yours truly was honored with a Hall of Fame North award and a Dan Webb Artist of the Year awardwhich may partially explain the popularity of this event! While many warm and fuzzy feelings were being shared by guests and hosts alike at the Guest of Honor brunch, outside the parade of rolling iron was starting to clog State Street and spill over onto the side streets. The little town of about 4,000 people swells to about 100,000 guests and spectators, all intent on seeing as much of the action as possible. This event is, after all, in the backyard of auto-oriented cities such as Detroit, Pontiac, Flint, and Warren. The auto-holics are gathering, hungry for their high-octane taste, and for a fill of vintage tin.
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These '40-'41 Ford panel trucks are too cool and slightly larger than the sedan delivery. This true-blue buggy is very straight. It has the standard, versatile twin rear doors that can be held open in two positions.Amy and Doug Gettleson from St. Clair Shores, Michigan, brought their rare '38 Dodge panel delivery to the party. The fully ornamented and delightful old Dodge is powered by a 350ci Chevy small-block.This is a different kind of highboy than I'm used to. It looks clean and straight, two of the things that capture my attention. Almost anyone with a neat old ride can come and have fun in St. Ignace.Well, rusty and crusty caught my attention, too. You simply have to have a sense of humor when it comes to old trucks, especially one with as much character as this Chevy. The coolant was steaming, and the engine was leaking oil so bad a drip can had to be placed under the engine anytime it stopped. But the owner was having fun.Check out the script on the side of this dark-teal Chevy truck. Also take a peek under the hood to see the blower on top of the engine. Lots of neat custom touches: frenched headlights, V-butted windshield, molded exhaust covers, and what appear to be widened rear fenders.Certainly one of the most unusual vehicles on display was this white 4x4 '51 Mercury station wagon. Obviously a custom creation, but nicely done. Notice the chrome spotlights and the suicide rear doors. Are we having fun yet?Bob Westrate from Kalamazoo, Michigan, made the trip in his '59 Chevy pickup—the trip was easy, indeed. It's powered by a 427ci big-block engine and is nicely nosed and lowered.How rare is a '47 Mercury pickup? Pretty rare! This one belongs to Taisto Eilomag of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The Canadian pickup sounded as though the original flathead engine was still ticking like a watch.
Another fully ornamented '39 Chevy JC pickup belongs to Ralph Blocksma of Middleville, Michigan. The Buttercup Yellow hauler is powered by the industry standard 350/350 engine/trans combo. Chevy went to a two-piece glass windshield and a heavy horizontal grille—notice the Chevy script on the top grille bar—in 1939.Hot Rod's Senior Editor Gray Baskerville is going from full-throttle to fast idle after more than 30 years on the staffs of Hot Rod and Rod & Custom. He'll still be involved with the mags but will now be more selective about his assignments. Gray was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from our gracious hosts. And no, he's not moonlighting as a tow truck operator.It's alive! This '40 sedan is reportedly Bob McCoy's old Tudor—the one that lead the way with flame graphics over the fenders and hood. We realize it isn't a truck, but we couldn't bypass the chance to show what is believed to be one of Hot Rod's Top 25 all-time best hot rods.Here's a pickup concept for the guys who want the thrill of high-speed motoring, the wind in their face, their best friend behind them hanging on for dear life, and lots of luggage room as well. How to get them all?—how 'bout a Boss Hoss Vortech- V-8-powered trike with a slightly narrowed and shortened pickup bed in back. This GM show-bike project was a fun one—production is, however, rather doubtful. Better swap those Firestone Wilderness HTs before hitting the wide-open spaces.Steve and David Herald of Millington, Michigan, like to travel topless in their two-tone '72 Chevy half-ton. A 402ci Rat motor lurks under the hood.Dan Webb, one of the country's most talented and capable builders, has a shop in Burton, Michigan. This custom cycle is a project for himself; it's a way to display his company's skills with metal fabrication and have some fun, too. Look for some wild OEM projects from Dan to make the scene by the time this issue hits the newsstands.Does Arne Sand's sturdy '67 Dodge stake bed truck turn your crank? It does ours. (You can drop off that load of lumber at my place, Arne.)


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GEARY COUNTY, Kan. (WIBW) -- A teacher at Grandview Elementary School is being called a hero for her quick actions to save one of her students from choking.
The scary ordeal happened Thursday at the school in Grandview Plaza, located a few miles east of Junction City.
Stephanie Chabon, who teaches 4th grade, was getting ready to administer state assessments to her class when nine-year-old Connie Nellis started choking on a mint each of the students received before their test.
"I felt scared. I felt that if they didn't get it out that I might die," Connie said.
Chabon says she reacted on instinct as she rushed to the little girl's side.
"They had their math manipulatives on their desks and they always get a little mint before the test. I was getting ready to give directions and all of a sudden Connie jumped up and she was giving me the sign that she couldn't breathe and I ran over and gave her the Heimlich maneuver and it just took two times and it came right up. She smiled and thanked me and went to get a drink of water," she told WIBW.
Connie got right back to business after the incident and sat down to take her test.
"She got right to work like nothing had happened and so we just continued on," Chabon said.
Connie's mother, Angel Nellis, is a patrol sergeant for the Junction City Police Department who works the night shift. She got the call about her daughter's choking scare just as she was waking up.
"After I got off the phone with the school, I thought, 'That could have been a really, really bad phone call.' I was very, very thankful. I came up to the school and spoke to the principal and the teacher and thanked them personally and hugged my daughter very tightly," Sgt. Nellis said. "I think teachers are the heroes that we should be looking up to."
Chabon says she's been taking first aid classes since college and gets re-certified each year.
"I would do it all over again. Whenever students need help like that you have that background and you know that those classes that you've taken are going to pay off and you can immediately jump up and take care of your student if you need to," she said.
"She saved my life and I thanked her," Connie added.
Principal Lynn Inkman praised Chabon, saying: "It was just a very calm, quick reaction to the situation.. We do everything we can to keep the kids safe every day. We watch out for their safety, their well being and do the education piece as well but it's part of the whole child that we're trying to work with so Stephanie was just a shining example of that and we were very glad for that."


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(This is a spin-off of a recent question here)
In fiddling with the answer to that question I came to the set of sequences
$\qquad \small \begin{array} {llll}
A(1)=1,A(2)=1+2a,A(3)=1+2a+3a^2,A(4)=1+2a+3a^2+4a^3, \ldots \\
B(1)=1,B(2)=1+3a,B(3)=1+3a+6a^2,B(4)=1+3a+6a^2+10a^3, \ldots \\
C(1)=1,C(2)=1+4a,C(3)=1+4a+10a^2,C(4)=1+4a+10a^2+20a^3, \ldots \\
\ldots \\
\end{array} $
with some indeterminate a .
We had the discussion often here in MSE, that interpolation to fractional indexes, say A(1.5)=?? is arbitrary, considering, that an initial solution composed with any 1 -periodic function satisfies the condition. But here the embedding in a set of sequences, which are constructed from binomial-coefficients might suggest some "natural" interpolation, such as for
$\qquad \small K(1)=1, K(2)=1+a, K(3)=1+a+a^2, \ldots $
the interpolation $\small K(r) = {a^r-1 \over a-1}$ seems the most "natural" which even can smoothly be defined for a=1. This observation made me to refer to "q-analogues" $\small [r]_a $ in my answer in the initiating MSE-question, but it's not obvious how to interpolate the shown sequences of higher orders A , B , C (I think they're not related to the "q-binomial-analogues" , for instance ).
Q: So what would be some "natural" interpolation to fractional indexes for the sequences A, B, C, and possibly in general for sequences generated in the obvious generalized manner?
Agreeing mostly with Henning's ansatz I got now the general form as
$$ A_m(n) = {1 \over (1-a)^m} - \sum_{k=0}^{m-1} \binom{n+m}{k}{a^{n+m-k} \over (1-a)^{m-k} } $$ I do not yet see, whether some examples of fractional indexes agree with the solutions of all three given answers so far, for instance: given a=2.0 what is A(1.5), B(4/3), C(7/5)? With my programmed version I get now $\qquad \small A(1.5)\sim 9.48528137424 $
$\qquad \small B(4/3) \sim 11.8791929545 $
$\qquad \small C(7/5) \sim 18.4386165488 $
(No interpolation for fractional m yet)
[update 2] the derivative-versions of Sivaram and Michael arrive at the same values so I think, all versions can be translated into each other and mutually support each other to express a "natural" interpolation. [update 3] I had an index-error in my computation call. Corrected the numerical results.


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Excellent tutorial, although abit too verbose and detailed for people experienced with Linux. I would expect most people interested in making packages would at least have experience with terminal commands! But that's just a minor point.


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Beyond "Self-Image" (Part Two)
A while back, I wrote an article on the oft-revisited issue of how to deal with a negative "self-image." I suggested we're actually at our most joyful and empowered in moments when we're not conscious of any self-image, or mental picture of ourselves, at all. In my experience, self-images, whether negative or positive, are a source of frustration and distraction. I'll expand on this issue here by discussing ways to transcend our self-images, and allow our full awareness to enrich what we're doing in each moment.
When your attention is on your self-image, it's as if, while you're doing whatever activity you're doing, someone is videotaping you and you're watching the video on a screen. In other words, it's like you're watching yourself doing what you're doing in real time, as you're doing it. If you're having a conversation with someone, and your attention is fixated on your self-image, it's as if you're simultaneously having the conversation and observing it from a third-person view. Not surprisingly, this diverts your attention from what you're doing and makes you less effective at accomplishing your goals.
For example, a while back, when I was rock climbing with some more skilled climbers, I'd occasionally worry about falling on relatively easy courses in front of my friends. In other words, I was paying attention to the image I was projecting to my fellow climbers while I was trying to climb the rock. Of course, watching this mental movie distracted me, and had me fall in exactly the embarrassing ways I wanted to avoid.
Sometimes, we get so accustomed to holding our attention on our self-images—to trying to get a sense of how we look from the outside as we go about our lives—that we forget we're doing it. Recently, a friend told me a story that nicely illustrated this point. She's been taking a yoga class for a while, and for a long time she was frustrated with her lack of progress at mastering the poses she's learning. This changed when, one day, her yoga instructor half-jokingly reminded the students to pay attention only to their own movements, and not to how they looked to others.
When her teacher said this, my friend suddenly realized how self-conscious she'd been about the way her yoga poses appeared to others in the class. She'd become so accustomed to worrying about how others saw her that she'd started doing it constantly and unconsciously. Once she gained this awareness, my friend started practicing holding her full attention on nothing but her movements. Ever since, she's been surprised at how quickly she's been learning.
My friend's experience calls to mind psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's theory in his well-known book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. People enter a state of flow, or peak performance and fulfillment, when their attention becomes so focused on what they are doing that they temporarily forget they're the ones doing it. They lose all concern, in other words, for others' opinions of them and what they can get for themselves by doing the activity. As Csikszentmihalyi puts it, in a flow state,
One of the most universal and distinctive features of optimal experience takes place: people become so involved in what they are doing that the activity becomes spontaneous, almost automatic; they stop being aware of themselves as separate from the actions they are performing.
Similarly, because my friend shifted her focus away from how her yoga poses looked to others, and brought it entirely to her body's movements, she greatly improved her performance.
How do you become aware of those moments where your fixation on your self-image is harming your joy and fulfillment in life? One meditation technique has helped me develop this awareness, and it's pretty simple. I sit in silence with my eyes closed, and carefully observe the thoughts that arise. At certain moments, my thoughts become absorbed in my relationships with other people, and I find myself wondering what another person thinks or feels about me. In other words, I wonder what image I've projected to the other person in my interactions with them, and thus focus my attention on my "self-image."
I've noticed that, when I place my attention on my self-image, I feel a mild, ugly sensation in my upper back, just under the shoulder blades. It's not just distracting for me to focus on how I'm appearing to others—it's actually unpleasant, and has a specific uncomfortable feeling associated with it. When I'm going through my daily routine, I've got too much on my mind to notice those moments where I slip into "image-consciousness." But when I'm sitting alone in silence, those moments stand out very clearly.
As I practiced, during meditation, noticing when my concerns about my self-image came up, I started becoming able to observe when my attention would fixate on that issue during my daily life. I began noticing that the same unpleasant sensation I'd felt in my back while meditating arose in specific situations out in the "real world."
When I went to the gym, for instance, I started noticing that ugly feeling creeping into my back—probably because, like my friend the yogini, I was unconsciously fretting over how my body looked to others. The good news was that, as with my friend, my image-consciousness quickly began to dissolve when I became fully aware of it. By becoming conscious of the situations where I'd start fixating on my self-image, I've brought much peace and focus to my life.
To do this exercise, simply find a quiet place where you can sit undisturbed and close your eyes. As you sit there, your thoughts may drift to what the people in your life think of you, and how your actions and inactions may have affected their opinions. When this happens, notice any sensations you experience in your body. Perhaps you will feel tingling, tightness, pain or something else. These sensations, you'll find, are signals that your mind is drifting into self-consciousness—that you are putting your attention on your self-image.
As you reenter your daily life, pay attention to how your body feels in the various situations you find yourself in. On occasion, you'll likely notice the same sensations you felt during meditation coming up. When you feel one of these sensations, gently remind yourself that you are becoming absorbed in your self-image, your appearance to others. This awareness is often enough to loosen your self-image's grip on your attention, and return you to a state of composure and concentration. As meditation teacher Rohit Mehta says in The Secret of Self-Transformation, "to see the self-image for oneself in the mirror of life is to see its destruction."


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January 14, 2013
{pantone palette}: camellia rose 17-1930
19 comments:
- Chloe Moon said...
I adore pink! Those peonies are really beautiful and the macaroons are so cute in that shade! =)
- January 13, 2013
- Brenda's Wedding Blog said...
This board is gorgeous. I love that shade of pink and the cake is simply amazing!!!! Personally I think pink is the perfect pre-wedding girl party color ;)
- January 14, 2013
- Ms. Dainty Doll said...
Gorgeous colour, so sweet xx
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- January 14, 2013
- Lynelle said...
Beautiful! I'm the author of the flower girl book, CAMELLIA THE FABULOUS FLOWER GIRL. The title character is all about pink prettiness!
- January 14, 2013
- Lena at A Crimson Kiss said...
I know bloggers say this stuff all the time, but I actually gasped when I saw this board–it's gorgeous!!
- January 14, 2013
- Sara said...
Love this shade of pink! It's so girlie :-D makes me smile.
- January 14, 2013
Dreamy and divine!! So lovely.
- January 14, 2013
Really love it. Especially the cake and those blooms.
- January 14, 2013
- Wedding Splendor said...
This is the baby girl, Barbie pink any bride to be would go crazy about but I wonder how a groom feels about choosing the wedding color this pink...
- January 15, 2013
- Punctuation Mark said...
this is such a beautiful color.. i love the possibilities of how you can use it
- January 15, 2013
- Sarah said...
looks so fabulous with pink! love the pink wedding shoes and cakes most.
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- January 16, 2013
- Jenna said...
This is the perfect shade of pink. I'm in love.
- January 16, 2013
Beautiful, Chrissy!
- January 16, 2013
- Wedding Organisers in Bangalore said...
Love that pink shade, it is so pretty.. Love the pink shoe.. Everything looks so chic and girly..
- January 21, 2013
- Tessa Moore said...
So beautiful. I love pink so much.
- January 23, 2013
- Leon said...
Outstanding. Nice set of pink items. I am sure these would be very popular amongst ladies.
- January 23, 2013
I. love. this.
- January 24, 2013
- workboy53 said...
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- January 29, 2013
- Nicole How Divine said...
Amazing cake, amazing colour theme! I adore these heels, the macarons just look too yummy! Love this palette!
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Published: Sunday, December 9, 2012 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, December 7, 2012 at 3:28 p.m.
Make a record of memories
What: Scrapbook class
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What to expect: You'll learn some of the newest techniques and layouts to preserve photos and other mementos from the area's scrapbook enthusiasts.
This is perfect if you want to give a loving gift from the heart and present the person you love with a creative keepsake of memories.
Cost: Free, but bring your own supplies.
Information: 868-3050 or www.terrebonne.lib.la.us/
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What: Yoga classes for expecting mothers
When: 2-3 p.m. Dec. 18
Where: East Houma Library, 778 Grand Caillou Road
What to expect: Learn safe and healthy exercise techniques to get you ready for a new baby. Devi Guerrero will instruct a safe and healthy way to exercise.
Cost: Free
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What to expect: A step-by-step online tutorial will show you how to download free, full versions of books via the Internet.
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If I cut the onions and vegetables in the morning, they dry up till evening. Is there a taste change when you eat cooked vegetables, which dried out over 8 hours (before cooking)?
I don't think the water change will be very significant. If you were to lay them out flat so the surfaces dried a bit, they might sear and brown more easily (because that effect depends on moisture reduction in the first millimeter or so of the vegetable so that it can go above 212 F). The other thing that can be a factor is that once a vegetable is cut, some enzymes are released from the cells that can cause changes. Whether that effect will make any substantial difference depends a lot on which vegetables you are talking about.
8 hours in still air is probably not going to be enough to thoroughly dry your vegetables. If you live in a very dry climate and the veggies were sitting uncovered in front of a fan the entire time then you might have actually dried them.
So your title is asking a different question than your description.
Description: If you live in a very humid climate then you might be more concerned about spoiling than drying. They may have become a little limp so it makes a difference how you plan to cook them. If the veggies are going to be diced and sauteed and used in something else then they will probably be fine. If they are going to be their own side- like steamed asparagus- then the texture may be decidedly un-fresh.
Either way- the flavor will be normal or close to it.
Title: Actual dehydrated veggies are different altogether. They have had most of their water removed. This concentrates flavors and changes them. They are sweeter and more intense. Their texture is also firmer and ranges from crisp to rubbery to almost normal depending on how much they are rehydrated.
If you're eating them raw, or if they tend to oxidize (like avocado, for example) then yes, you may notice a difference.
Otherwise, you're just losing a bit of water. No big deal.


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Historically, most search engine optimization experts have said that placing keywords in your domain name was the most important element of SEO. Do you believe this is still true or has Google changed their criteria?
Historically, most search engine optimization experts have said that placing keywords in your domain name was the most important element of SEO. Do you believe this is still true or has Google changed their criteria?
One of the main advantages of having the primary keyword in the domain name of the website is that even if some other websites link to the website using just its URL, your website will still get the benefit of the keyword as its anchor text. Having keywords in the domain name also helps to improve the click thru rate (CTR) as the URL with the keyword gets bold in the search engine results; and therefore the website gets more attention of the searchers.
Those are good points. It would be great if you could put keywords in your domain name. Just make sure not to overdo this, otherwise you could end up registering a long domain name.
Rachael makes a really good point about being descriptive with your domain name. Your website URL has the potential to be one of your most important marketing tools, and not just the search engine marketing aspect.
I agree that having keywords in your domain name is important. In fact, it is preferable to choose any extension if you can't find a .com or .net for your website's name. A .info will be just as efficient if you have popular keywords in your domain name.
What about .biz? That's one of the newer ones and I would assume it's meant for sales sites although anyone could register it. Actually, it's not that new, but it hasn't been in existence nearly as long as .com, so it should be much easier to get a domain name with your keywords with a .biz suffix.
A .biz id can be used. Again it is how you market the products/services online and the keywords rankings matter.
With keyword rich domain names it is possible to get instant traffic to your website. You will also find software applications on the internet that will help you in terms of finding an appropriate domain name that contains your main keyword. With a keyword rich domain name, you will see faster results with your online marketing activities.
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COLUMBIA, Mo., May 28 - Dr. Ahoo Tabatabai, assistant professor of sociology, has been awarded the 2014 Columbia College Trustees Award for Teaching Excellence. This annual award honors a full-time faculty member who has demonstrated consistent excellence in the classroom and teaches rigorous classes with high academic expectations.
"Dr. Tabatabai is highly regarded by her students and colleagues," said Dr. Terry Smith, executive vice president and dean for Academic Affairs. "She works diligently to engage her students and inspire them to think critically about gender and family roles in society."
Each spring, the college's Student Government Association nominates three faculty members who they consider to be outstanding teachers. The president, dean for Academic Affairs and the president of the faculty association make the final selection. The winner was announced at the annual Honors and Awards Convocation in April. Tabatabai also received a cash award.
Tabatabai earned a bachelor's degree, a master's degree in women's studies and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Cincinnati. She joined Columbia College in 2011 and currently teaches courses on family, gender and narratives of identity.
Founded in 1851 in Columbia, Mo., Columbia College has been helping students advance their lives through higher education for more than 160 years. As a private, nonprofit, liberal arts and sciences institution, the college takes pride in its small classes, experienced faculty and quality educational programs. With more than 30 campuses across the country, 18 of which are on military installations, students may enroll in day, evening or online classes. The college is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Columbia College educates more than 31,000 students each year and has more than 80,000 alumni worldwide. For more information, visit www.ccis.edu.


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Can anyone help me understand this seemingly odd behavior of how the shell parses the redirects..?
$ cat > test.txt
Line 1
Line 2
$ ls -i dummy.txt dummy2.txt
ls: dummy.txt: No such file or directory
ls: dummy2.txt: No such file or directory
$ cat test.txt > dummy.txt > dummy2.txt
$ cat dummy2.txt
Line 1
Line 2
$ cat dummy.txt
Interesting! I would have expected the output from
cat test.txt to be redirected into
dummy.txt and then the shell would read
dummy.txt as the input for
dummy2.txt. But somehow the shell parses it differently...
So how does the content of
test.txt be taken as the input for
dummy2.txt, by bypassing
dummy.txt altogether?
Note: Same result in bash and ksh..


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From time to time, we have Manhattans while hanging around the apartment. We never buy Maraschino cherries though, so they're never quite right to me. This past Christmas, I was thinking about what I could make and give away. I usually do something chocolate or even cookies, but this year I wanted to do something … Continue reading


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For some reason the rubbish website shows that the Shoreditch stop is just off the Ivory Coast. Any idea where it actually is?
The National Express website is presumably the one you mean, where it shows it off the African coast.
However, if you look further down the page, it says:
Bethnal Green road on Google Maps clearly shows the road running west-east, with the Overground station indicated on the same map.
Hope that helps!
From the coach tracker section of the website, you can see a map with a photo. It's a Google map, and Google shows the bus stop on the map.
The A9 coach stops on Bethnal Green Road, just north of the Shoreditch High Street Overground station. The stop is at the very end of Bethnal Green Road as it terminates onto Shoreditch High Street. SDC is the first stop north of Whitechapel on the way towards Dalston Junction.
The A9 stops on the north side of the street on its way east to Bethnal Green and onwards to Stanstead. It stops on the south side of the street (station side) on its way to Liverpool Street and Whitechapel.


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Two divers were nearly gulped up by humpback whales while they were swimming in the ocean off Morro Bay, Calif., in San Luis Obispo County.
Shawn Stamback and his friend Francis Antigua were in the water and wearing scuba gear when two hungry whales suddenly rose up from the ocean, opened their massively wide mouths, and swallowed a school of sardines.
Stamback said the whales were so close he could have reached out and touched them. He believes, however, that the giant ocean mammals intentionally avoided gulping him and his friend.
The shocked divers swam back to their boat unscathed. Their whale of a tale was all captured on video, and Stamback uploaded it on YouTube Saturday.


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March 13, 2012
Safe House shows off Cape Town sites
Hollywood put the spotlight on Cape Town early last year when it came to Cape Town to film the big blockbuster Safe House. The movie, starring Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds, was originally due to be filmed in South America but the story was adapted to suit Cape Town once the producers and director realised that our environment and industry were more conducive to their needs. The film, which opened in South African cinemas in February, has caused a lot of excitement among those who love the Mother City. We took to Facebook to get your thoughts on Safe House and the Cape Town sites in the film.
Safe House centres on a young CIA agent (Ryan Reynolds) who is tasked with looking after ex-CIA agent turned criminal (Denzel Washington) in a safe house. But when the safe house is attacked, he finds himself on the run with his assignment. The film sees the stars make their way around the city of Cape Town, and includes shots of some of the city's most well-known sites. From a thrilling car chase on Western Boulevard, to a restaurant scene with Table Mountain in the background, to an action-packed soccer match at Cape Town Stadium, Safe House is full of shots featuring Cape Town.
Our Facebook fans gave the film, and the city of Cape Town, rave reviews and had a lot to say about how proud they were to see the city they loved on the big screen. "Brilliant… a must see! I'm so proud to be a Capetonian," said Karen Hickson Mulder. Chad Christian, who grew up in Cape Town, shared his love for the city from abroad. "I've been living in the UK for the past seven years. I miss the Mother City so much… and even if the film didn't get great reviews it's the location that matters to me! Cape Town Rocks!"
It wasn't just Capetonians who shared their joy about the film and Cape Town. We got love from all over the world, with past visitors saying how much they are looking forward to visiting again after watching the film. "I watched it twice, just to see the street scenes again, and see which [streets] I didn't manage to cover during my last visit to Cape Town. Gosh I miss Cape Town!" said Lai Chee Kean.
If you haven't seen the film yet, watch the trailer below to whet your film appetite.
Some fun facts about Safe House:
- The safe house to which Denzel's character is sent was built on a makeshift soundstage at the 3 Arts Theatre, one of the oldest theatres in Cape Town, and took nearly three months to complete.
- The production made use of South African talent wherever it could, including for scenes with large crowds involving sometimes up to 4 000 extras.
- One of Ryan's favourite spots to eat was Mzoli's Place in Gugulethu. "It was so nice to be part of that community – to listen to the music and pick your raw meats and then they cook them. You can't help but be in a good mood when you're in Cape Town," said Reynolds.


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John Calipari is 102-14 in his first three seasons as the head basketball coach at the University of Kentucky. He has led the Cats to two Final Fours and the 2012 NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship. As the 53-year-old gets ready to tip off the 2012-13 season, he took time out to sit down with WAVE 3 Sports Anchor Kent Taylor to talk about a few different subjects.
KENT TAYLOR: How did you celebrate winning the national championship?
JOHN CALIPARI: I was just asked the question about how – when I was on the court – the first thing I was looking for was my wife. It's funny how wives basically run your house (and) raise your family while you're off coaching. My wife doesn't want to be in the limelight, won't go to dinners, functions. Everybody always says, "Why doesn't his wife come?" She's invited to everything, she's like, "I didn't buy into that. I'm here and I don't want to do it." I just went and grabbed her and said, "Hey, we can get on to the business of coaching kids now."
TAYLOR: Was there a sense of relief?
CALIPARI: No, because I've coached at Massachusetts and Memphis. (If we hadn't won, people would ask), "Why didn't he win national titles?" Excuse me? I mean – what? Being here now for me is a different deal because five different guys have won national titles here. No one has won at another school; only here, all five. So, it's kind of like you come here, you get a chance to win a national title. In that regard, it was like, okay, that thing is done, let's just get down to the business of coaching kids.
TAYLOR: How do you get away? What is a guilty pleasure for John Calipari? What is on your DVR – did I see somewhere that you watch "Storage Wars?"
CALIPARI: I did, I did. I watch "Pawn Stars," which is really good. You wonder why you watch it, it's the characters in there. I'm trying to keep up with the politics right now, what's happening. The politicians and congressmen are like coaches, they kill each other, which kills the category. I was a marketing major. First thing I learned in marketing: Do not kill the category. You can't kill the category. We coaches, we kill each other, everybody is the worst human being, everybody is cheating, everybody is doing it, so now everybody thinks we all cheat and we're bad human beings and we don't care about kids. Congress, what are they rated? Twelve percent? Just don't kill each other. So I do watch politics and try to learn from it. It's hard to say just pick up and leave, because my wife says, "Where are you going? You haven't been here." I'm like, yeah, but everything I've done is for everybody else, I'd like to just be able to step away. …So it's not as easy as you think just to step off the gas. TAYLOR: You have said that this is about a 10-year job. Does it feel like it's been 10 years?
CALIPARI:Here's what's really funny: We go in to show a highlight tape to recruits, and in it is my first press conference. Now, if you all want to take that picture of me there – it's only three years ago – and look at me now, you're going to say, "Oh my gosh!" In three years it's like you're President of the United States in this job. You age, like, by fives. When I tell you it's a 10-year job, that's about what it is, but it may be shorter than that, it may be a little longer than that. You don't come here and say I'm going to be here, how Coach Rupp did it, but it must have been a different time. Now, I'm having fun.
TAYLOR: What energizes you, keeps you going?
CALIPARI: What you find out when you're coaching here at Kentucky, it's not so much the business of coaching you're in, you're in the business of helping families. We've had 15 players drafted. We've had 7 players graduate, get their college degrees. We had a 3.2 grade point average last year, the year before we had a 3.0. When they tell you they don't go to class, they don't care, there is no relationship there, it's not true. Keep saying it and maybe you'll make it true – it isn't true. I'm going in homes, generational poverty, done. Can you imagine? I'm in a position to help a family end a generation of poverty. Generational lack of education. I'm in a position to say, "That ends here." Teaching them to be fathers, teaching them to be men. Being here is a totally different deal and I'm enjoying because of what we're able to do for other people.
TAYLOR: How tough of a decision was it not to play a home game in Louisville for the first time in years?
CALIPARI: It was hard. We'd like to play in the YUM! Center and I understand why Louisville wouldn't want us in their building – it's the state's building, by the way – but that's okay. So we won't play in Louisville. I'm not scheduling for America, but I am scheduling for our fans. This is a players-first program. We have to do what is in their best interests first. It is a players-first program, so when we schedule, it's got to be about them.
TAYLOR: Is Nerlens Noel a better shot blocker than Anthony Davis?
CALIPARI: I don't think so, but I hope he is. If he is, my goodness. He didn't get the eight weeks with us because he reclassified, had to finish up some academic stuff before he got here. Willie Cauley, though, and Nerlens together, if they're ever out there together – 7-feet, 6-feet-11, long, active athletes – that becomes crazy. Those two together would be way longer than our team a year ago, with Terrence (Jones) and Michael (Kidd Gilchrist) and Anthony (Davis) and Kyle Wiltjer. This team is longer. Now, we have no experience.
TAYLOR: Have you ever had a team this inexperienced?
CALIPARI: Of the 72 (Bowl Championship Series) schools, only one has no starter back that played a game, no games started; that's us. Kyle never started a game. Now, he led us in scoring a couple of times, but he never started a game. We're starting from way behind everybody else.
TAYLOR: You're more qualified to answer this question than anybody. You played Louisville and Indiana both twice last season. Which one should be the preseason No. 1?
CALIPARI: I don't know, but they're both really good. I've been a Peyton Siva fan since I saw him in the Derby Classic playing better than Eric Bledsoe, and I said that kid can really play. The big guy has gotten better, they're really good. Now you go to Indiana and you talk about their big guy, I mean he is really talented, that's going to be a great, do they play? I think we should schedule that game. That game for America should be scheduled. Those two going against each other would be a great match-up. They're both well-coached, they're both really good teams. We were fortunate to beat both of them last year, obviously lost to one, but we also came back and beat them. They've got everybody back. I'm more concerned about my team and just trying to do what we can do to be the best team we can be.
TAYLOR: Could we see all three of you in Atlanta for the Final Four?
CALIPARI: Would that be funny? I just have a feeling our path to Atlanta will be a little tougher, but that'll be fine.
Photos By Victoria Graff | Contributing Photographer
Kent Taylor is a sports anchor for WAVE 3. See more of his work at www.wave3.com or by tuning in to the NBC affiliate.


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LA CROSSE, Wis (WEAU) -
The emerald ash borer has been detected in western Wisconsin.
The small destructive beetle is responsible for killing millions of ash trees all around the nation.
It has been sighted in the La Crosse County, and recreational director Jay Odegaard says it may be just a matter of time before there is an outbreak.
"When it gets here and hits hard were going to lose a lot of trees," said Odegaard.
The city has decided to host a workshop Tuesday, May 15th to answer all questions people might have about the bug.
The workshop will be held at the Black River Beach Neighborhood Center 1433 Rose St. from 5:00pm to 7:00 pm.
Small "D" shaped holes in the bark, and many shoots coming from the sides of the tree are signs that it may be infected.
The emerald ash borer will invade any type of ash tree.
In the La Crosse County it's estimated that 35% of the trees are ash trees.
Once a tree is infested it can take up to 3 years to die. The standard way to treat an infested tree is to chop it down and to dispose of the wood.


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NASCAR Sprint Cup Engine - Ford's Sprint Car Resurgence - Open WheelWritten by on December 8, 2009 In The World Of Sprint Car Racing, Fords Have Been A Non-Factor For Years.Roush Yates Engines Plans To Change All That In A Hurry.
Ever wondered how NASCAR Sprint Cup technology would translate to other racing series? Yes, hot rodders with deep pockets have been putting old Cup motors in their cars for years, however they've always been detuned to make them more manageable on the street.
But what about applying all the tricks Sprint Cup engine builders have learned to another class of race cars where all-out performance is still demanded? Despite all that technology, how would it hold up to racing on dirt tracks? Or can these engines, which are routinely rebuilt after every race, withstand a season's worth of punishment?
Interestingly, a number of factors converged in the right time and at the right place so that we can find out. Roush Yates Engines currently builds all the race engines for every Ford team competing on NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series. It also builds Ford engines for the Nationwide and Camping World Truck series and has recently branched out into several other non-NASCAR racing series such as USAC.
Roush Yates also leads the way in the development of Ford's new FR9 race engine that is scheduled to see competition on racetracks by the time you read this. The new FR9 engine uses a completely new block, crank, cylinder heads, and even intake, so that means Roush Yates is facing a large inventory surplus when the new race engine is phased in.
The solution, of course, is to find racing homes for many of the components that still have useful racing miles left in them. The aluminum cylinder heads, intakes, and valve-train work well when mated with aluminum Windsor blocks to make big-inch Dirt Late Model motors, but that leaves the short-deck, cast-iron blocks with no home. At least, that is, until Roush Yates engine builder Jeremy Anderson volunteered his time to help a buddy rebuild is Sprint Car race engine.
"That engine was a Chevrolet, and the guy was competitive," Anderson says, "but as I was going through the engine I kept seeing ways that we could make it a lot better. In a lot of areas it was 15 years behind what we were doing with Sprint Cup race engines."
After that rebuild, Anderson felt he could build winning Ford Sprint Car engines based on the components used in Roush Yates' Cup program. It turns out that the Windsor block and short-throw racing crank are a near-perfect fit for 360 cubic-inch Sprint classes using American Sprint Car Series (ASCS) style rules. So Anderson developed a brand-new Sprint Car motor using a NASCAR Sprint Cup block, crankshaft, connecting rods, and more.
"We put our first motor together in February of 2009," Anderson says, "and it was competitive right away. But we stuck with what we have learned from decades of Cup and Nationwide Series racing, so much of the development had already been done, in a sense."
And the proof that this engine is effective in 360 Sprint racing came quickly when Sprint Car driver Chuck Hebing won an Empire Super Sprints race in one of the engine's first outings.
"That win was gratifying because Fords haven't been a popular engine choice in Sprint Car racing in a long time," Anderson says. "And this is a way racers can get a motor that's more than competitive against what's out there for a great value. This new Ford motor makes really good power, and it has a flat power curve that makes it very forgiving with gearing choices."
Dyno results are included here, but the big number is 715 horsepower at 8,500 rpm to go along with an incredibly flat torque curve, very similar in performance to the Roush Yates motor in Project DLM. Anderson says that the engine should be able to maintain those power levels for a complete season of racing between rebuilds-after all, the Cup motor was designed to last for a 500-mile race plus practice and qualifying.
As you can guess, we were quite intrigued by this new motor and jumped at the chance when Roush Yates' own Doug Yates invited us to take a closer look. It is definitely a very interesting piece, and one that should be capable of producing victories. Take a look at what we found . . .
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Another part of the extensive prep of the block is drilling oil galleries in order to install oil squirters aimed at the underside of each piston. The steady stream of oil helps pull heat out of the lightweight pistons. Also, all the casting surfaces have been completely polished to improve oil flow back to the pan, remove stress risers, and eliminate the possibility that a piece of slag can break loose and score a journal.The cam tunnel is cut for a big 55mm camshaft. High-rpm engines use stiff valvesprings which can cause a standard-diameter camshaft to actually twist and throw off the valve timing events. Roller cam bearings are also used for extra protection.The Pankl connecting rods are hard-coated along with the pin, and the big ends have been resized to make sure they are round. The pistons are a custom forging from CP with a 10.5cc dome to provide approximately 15.0:1 compression. Notice that the piston has been hand buffed to remove any potential heat risers that could cause detonation. Finally, the ring lands are cut for a 1mm, 1.5mm, and 3mm ring pack. Anderson says they are pricey at around $600, but they are worth it because they significantly cut down on parasitic friction.One of the nicer features of the 6.0 inch long Pankl rods are the EDM-cut holes which send oil to the wristpins. This prevents galling in a dry-sump oiling system and also allows the elimination of a bronze pin bushing to cut weight.The cylinder heads are ASCS-spec Windsor heads. They've been outfitted with titanium valves from Del West sized at 2.080 for the intake and 1.600 for the exhaust. They've also been chromium nitrided for improved wear characteristics. Roush Yates has cut the decks to get the combustion chambers down from 64 cc's to 54.Valvesprings are high-end PSI units held in place with titanium keepers, which have also been coated to dramatically increase their service life. Anderson says the valvetrain was chosen based off of NASCAR Nationwide Series R&D and works well across a wide rpm range.ASCS rules say that the first portion of the port up to the "ASCS" stamp in the runner can be worked, so Roush Yates developed a CNC program specifically for these heads to maximize airflow.Here's an interesting problem just for Fords. Sprint Cars spin the external oil pump off the nose of the camshaft using a hex adaptor. But the timing gear bolt on a Ford goes through the center of the cam. To fix this, Roush Yates drills and taps all the camshafts with three bolt holes (Chevy style) along the perimeter so that a hex adaptor can be installed as you can see here on the custom camshaft from Comp Cams.Most Sprint Car motors use a gear drive timing setup, but Anderson says their tests have proven that gear drives can transmit power-robbing harmonics. Anderson uses a timing chain setup for the Fords using Roush's Hy-Vo timing chain. It is hard to see here, but it is much heavier duty than the standard double roller timing sets most of us are used to. It needs to be because it not only spins the camshaft, but also the five-stage oil pump, the power steering pump, and the fuel pump.
This is the inside of the timing cover which is cut from billet in the Roush Yates shops. It utilizes a tensioner (the white "finger") which takes the whipping motion out of the timing chain that can happen when the driver stands on the throttle. This should help stabilize the valvetrain even further.The billet crank is right out of the Cup program. The short 3.400-inch stroke slows piston speed at TDC, which helps build cylinder pressure during combustion and, in turn, makes power.Roush Yates went with a Jesel aluminum shaft-mounted rocker system which should provide maximum stability. Lash adjusters are included (unlike Cup rockers) to ease maintenance. The pushrods are 3/8-inch one-piece units with 0.080 wall thickness.The lifter bores are opened up from NASCAR-mandated 0.875 inches to 0.905 to accept solid roller lifters. Notice the aluminum tops which help keep the weight down on these trick lifters while still giving them enough height to clear the lifter bores.Most Sprint Cup motors don't use a damper, but Roush Yates uses one after finding it didn't hurt power and helped smooth things out. It also provides a place to etch timing marks which makes accurately setting the ignition timing much easier. The damper, by the way, is the same one that Roush Yates has used in its Nationwide Series plate program.One difference Anderson mandated for the fuel injection system is to move the injectors from the outside of the runners (which you can see are plugged in this photo) to the inside. This requires welding on new bungs, but it points the injectors directly at the back of the intake valves and helps keep the fuel atomized as it enters the combustion chambers.Anderson said one of the goals was to make the engine system a complete unit to make life easier for racers. For example, the oil tank is attached to the engine as you can see here, so everything can be removed as one unit.
Here's a shot of the water pump, which attaches to a cage off the timing cover and is driven by the spinning damper.The Dyno Sheet-Engine builder Jeremy Anderson was admittedly a little hesitant to hand over the dyno sheet for Roush Yates' new Sprint Car racing engine. "I've spent a lot of time building Cup engines, and it's hard to get used to sharing this information we used to consider top secret," he says. Still, we have the numbers in our grubby little hands, and now we're sharing them with you. The averages were 607 horsepower and 504 lb-ft of torque.