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The never-ending PietÃ
The New Yorker website has a photo of a Pakistani woman grieving over her murdered daughter, a worker in a polio vaccination clinic in a Karachi hospital. It instantly reminded me of the terracotta statue of the grieving Madonna crafted by Niccolo dArca in the fifteenth century, located in the church of Santa Maria della Vita in Bologna. The Piet, the compianto, never ends.
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Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.
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Though I concede that it is wrong to murder anyone-the fact has also to be brought out that it is understandable that the taliban in tribal pakistan does not want to participate in a US promoted vaccine program. These are vaccines made by the same people who are dropping bombs on men, women and children in their tribal regions and by people who call the deaths of all women and children" collateral damage." If the US is willing to kill civilians and does so with impunity with bombs,then why not believe that they have no problem using medicine and the cover of bringing them health to bring them sterility or worse?If the wives and children are all rendered sterile or dead-that would end that war on terror for us.Why would a tribal pakistani trust western brought vaccines? And they are aware of the fact that under the pretext of vaccines ,the US obtained the whereabouts of Osama. So mixing war and medicine is something the US has already admitted to doing.Why would or should the vaccine program be trusted by tribal people who are simultaneously being killed by these "promoters of health"?They might be illiterate, they might have backward penal codes but that does not make them stupid-these tribal taliban people.
Well, of course, by this logic I guess we should expect that mothers will continue to grieve over their children, but surely one may be allowed to regret this harsh inevitability and not try to explain it away?
Precisely, and sooner of later there will be such an image of a tribal mothergrieving her child dead of polio. I think we're talking beyond politics here.
I'm not" explaining it away" but the issue of mixing warfare with medicine is one that needs to be acknowledged and addressed.It's highly unethical if not illigal and one of the understandable upshots of such an immoral policy is both increased polio victims and other causualties of war such as this womans daughter.Whether a tribal mother grieves a childs death to polio or a US drone strike or for being killed as a collaborator with those who are believed to be harming not helping people-they are all casualties of war.[and all victims of illigal violations of the laws of war too].YOU may be[conveniently] talking beyond politics but none of the victims in tribal pakistan are beyond politics.
A politics that has no sympathy for the grief of parents over murdered children is not worth much, and why you should come to the defense of killers, not--mind you--of perfidious Americans but of their own people, is beyond me. I didn't post the photo to make a political point.
As I understand it, the United Nations was operating the polio vaccination project throughout Pakistan (and other countries where it is still endemic). The CIA ran a fake hepatitis B vaccination campaign to gather intelligence about the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. But did the Taliban not understand that these were two separate efforts? Did it truly believe the polio vaccine was really a clandestine effort to sterilize or harm Pakistani children? Or does the conflation of these separate vaccine operations suit the purposes of the Taliban? Confusing the issue allows the Taliban to sow political discontent toward Pakistani President Zadari, who has made the polio vaccination program a personal mission and who has difficulty controlling the Taliban in certain regions. It gives them an excuse to target activist Pakistani women. Whether the U.S. was morally justified in covering its recon efforts against Osama bin Laden with a fake vaccination operation is certainly worth looking at. Bur surely, Taliban's using it as an excuse to further terrorize a population already beset by violence, disease, and poverty--while claiming to protect that population--is heinous.
The politics I was referring to is the politics of our use of drones to kill people in tribal pakistan as well as under the guise of helping people via a vaccination program we spy on our enemies.The effect of this mingling of warfare with medicine is as it is being played out there;the people do not trust our intentions hence they will not cooperate with a vaccination program.Whether they are simply paranoid or whether we are indeed trying to render them sterile I can't say for certain. And neither can they. But I definitly understand why they want no part of our vaccination program as we can't be trusted to not be spies and as we are in fact killing them with bombs.If we can kill them with bombs, why would they not believe that we are not above rendering them sterile with vaccines or even killing them with vaccines?Perhaps just going there warning them that if they don't comply[with our vaccines swhich perhaps would render them sterile] they'll see their children die of polio was itself a threat we used against them and yet still they dared to resist. Of course they resist and when their children die of polio we say what you guys in above posts are saying"see-now you're going to see your children die of polio!"[that'll show you for daring to not submit to our "health care"].We don't sound very sympathetic to them when we proclaim like the above posts that they will see their children now die of polio -that'll show them!.I don't know that they have no sympathy for the grief of parents that they kill.We also kill and claim that we have sympathy for the parents of those we kill. Doesn't stop us from killing them whatever-our stated sympathies.If your enemy is bombing you and has used vaccine programs for warfare-why should you be trusted that -this time it's different?If you are bombing people on the one hand ,then come and claim you want to promote their health-again why are you credible?Yes killing "health care" workers is heinous indeed-so is droning pakistani villagers of men,women and children-whatever their affiliation. What is also heinous is what we have wrought by mixing war with medicine; we have poisoned[literally even,perhaps] the well of good will of the first- do -no harm- sacred medical profession. That is why it is illigal and unethical to mix war and health care.Once you do that you lose credibility and more people will suffer and die as a result of your illigal and unethical mingling of warfare with "health care".Perhaps that is the intent anyway.Eliminate tribal backward pakistanis-by whatever means necessary;drones, tainted vaccines,or when they resist tainted vaccines-polio itself. Either way the game is to eliminate tribal pakistanis and to not be held accountable for crimes committed against them.
I think it is really important to keep military/intelligence functions completely separate from relief/aid activities. That's what protects the Red Cross workers, Peace Corps Volunteers, etc, from harm. When I was in the Peace Corps, there was rule that a returned Volunteer couldn't join the military until several years after they completed their Peace Corps service, and there was an even longer period before one could obtain employment with an intelligence agency. This was so as not to undermine the mission of the Peace Corps or put volunteers in danger. That doctor who was a spy for the CIA did great harm to all of his colleagues.This in no way excuses the horrible actions of the Taliban, who have waged a relentless war of terror against women wherever they have a presence; and no one should try to claim that this evil act is the fault of anyone but the terrorists themselves.Thank you for posting this. I'll remember this poor girl and her family in my prayers.
The similarity in the 2 pictures is almost eerie. Since Niccolo did not (I hope) have a live model to work with, he must have been very observant. His work emphasizes the agony rather than the sorrow that I've usually seen in renderings. Wonder which came first for Mary.
Irene, I did not know about those rules for relief workers. Thanks for offering that info.I find Niccolo d'Arca's Mary more compelling and human than most others, especially when put beside the grieving Pakistani mother. I like to the the Blessed Virgin in heaven is not above outrage over the deaths of innocents whether they are killed by drones or religious nuts.
The actions of the taliban are horrible .Still when it comes to distrust of vaccine programs they are being rational.It is us in expecting them to trust us on vaccines while we have a concerted and stated policy of killing tribal pakistani taliban [and everyone in their wake is deemed acceptable collateral damage.]that are irrational in claiming they should allow us to inject all of them to keep them healthy.As is our expectation that they should ignore the fact we used vaccine policies as part of our nefarious plot-from their perspective- of murdering Osama.Our enemies-even the taliban can be wrong and morally reprehensible in one or many regards yet right or good in others. We have no problem acknowledging this when criminals commit atrocious crimes -yet when it comes to our enemies -it's a totalizing good and evil propaganda that we resort to.I don't know the truth of why they kill women;we are claiming it is to keep women from being educated. They claim that it is not about opposition to education but for collaborating with the enemy[those who drop bombs on them].I don't know the answer but I don't trust our propaganda machine to be accurate. Though it may be.I don't support executing collabortors as these taliban did to these duped aid workers.Those are heinous war crimes indeed.Did we only pick women to be aid workers ?So that if there were to be retaliation it would suit our propaganda that they were killed for being "activist" women?[See they're pure evil-lets go kill em all- or sterilize them-with vaccines if need be].I wonder. Unfortunately such executions of perceived collaborators is part of the horrors and heinous acts of war.A war that is in fact instigated by us with a policiy of committing war crimes on villagers with illigal and unethical drone strikes.Up there in tribal pakistan they feel under existential threat from us and their central government and years of drone strikes against them are valid reasons for believing we are out to anhiliate them.Therefore I do side with the taliban on their opposition to western imposed vaccine programs for the reasons stated above- coming from us they can't be trusted to be benign. That the pakistani president supports these vaccine programs is no comfort to these tribal people who are very well aware that the pakistani president gives a green light to drones strikes against them.if anything his support of vaccine programs is more evidence that they may be tainted to harm them[like drone strikes harm them].
Rose-Ellen, please stop defending these people. You say, "you don't know why they kill women". Or throw acid in school girls faces. Or bomb ice cream shops and music stores. These actions have nothing at all to do with American foreign policy. And there is plenty of information on the internet from Afghan and Pakistani Women's organizations (groups with no particular love for the US) that fully document the many atrocities that the Taliban commit against women and girls.
I ask that the discussion return to the point of the thread which was not political but religious and human and esthetic. I had no idea when I made the connection between the two images of who the grieving mother was, what side she might have been on, who might have killed her child or why. If I had seen the same image of a grieving mother in Newtown or in Rio or in Jerusalem or anywhere else, the same association would have come to mind and I would have offered it, along with my association of this woman with the grieving Madonna, for whatever comments people might have cared to make.
I stand by my statements.yes they hold backward mores toward women-as we too once did and even with out enlightened mores many heinous crimes are committed against women and children right here.These murders were not about their backward mores about women but about retaliation for collaborating with policies that they believe are harming them[sterilization or worse]. I also believe that they are a traumatized people-tramatized by their poverty and years of wars of invasions and occupations and illiteracy.And for years of drone strikes by us. Good that women there want to reform their culture. Doing it by collaborating with people who are killing them with drone strikes-is, however a rational reason to expect retaliation.I notice we don't get the names and faces of women and children killed in drone strikes.That is white washed with the phrase collatteral damage.The atrocious deaths of these women are likewise collatteral damage.[the result of our wars against them which made them distrust our vaccine program].I did not see the above article as being apolitical as no mention was made of their belief that the polio vaccines are tainted and designed to harm them which is why they oppose them and why they retaliated against the aid workers who were pushing them.Instead it was presented as part of their backwardness and their war against women.That is dishonest and therefore false propaganda.The pieta picture could have been presented as a legitimate critique of war crimes and of our policy of mingling health care with war- but it was not presented as anything other then a rationale for continuing our policy of killing the taliban for being backward[anti-science] and anti-women.That is dishonest war mongering propaganda-the way I see it.
Ms. Caminer: You wrote: "The pieta picture could have been presented as a legitimate critique of war crimes and of our policy of mingling health care with war- but it was not presented as anything other then a rationale for continuing our policy of killing the taliban for being backward[anti-science] and anti-women.That is dishonest war mongering propaganda-the way I see it."You're seeing what isn't there. Show me in my initial post where I said or did anything that offers "a rationale for continuing our policy of killing the taliban for being backward[anti-science] and anti-women.." I made no mention of the Taliban, much less did I identify them as the killers of the woman's daughter; I said nothing about their views on polio vaccines nor about anyone's backwardness or war against women. If the child killed had been a son, the same simple purpose of my thread would have stood: the universality and perennial character of grief, illustrated in the two remarkably similar images. That's it. That's all. You're attributing to me motives and implications that are your own fantastic creations.P.S., probably added in vain, since you think I'm lying about the point of my initial post: I still haven't read the New Yorker piece which this photo accompanied.
Your comment about Fr. Komonchaks motivation in posting the picture of the grieving mother in Pakistan is not fair. Yet, I do not think that your comments are off-topic or irrelevant. The picture lends itself to a political discussion, because it is representing a tragic result of a political situation. Had the picture been of a mother of one of the murdered children in Newtown CT a discussion of gun control laws and ways of dealing with mentally ill people would have ensued.The short article in the New Yorker (available online) from which the picture was taken makes some of the points that you have made. Perhaps, it would be better if in your comments you had taken it down a notch.
I meant to direct my comment to rose-ellen caminer.
The image of pain. I agree with Mark about the eerie resemblance between the two images. It calls to mind the expression: "the mask of agony". I have to wonder whether the journalist asked for the woman's permission before posting it, for her pain to be thus exposed to the entire world.
Agree that it's amazing how similar the two faces are. I don't think they're masks. I think they are true images of what a real face of a real parent looks like when a child is destroyed. An older part of the brain takes over, older even than the mammalian brain, perhaps as old as the reptilian brain, and the howl that comes out is much older than language.
Of course you're right, there was no mention by you of the Taliban and of you favoring our policy of killing them with drones.I based what I said on your referencing that the murdered woman worked in a "polio vaccine clinic." That has been the narrative used in the mainstream media concerning the killings of these workers. The salient point was ommitted-that the polio clinic is thought to contain tainted vaccines designed to harm the tribal pakistani recipients[by rendering them sterile as part of a plan to eradicate them all].That little word "tainted" or believed- to -be- tainted when omitted in the narrative -however brief the sentence is -changes the whole dynamics of how we perceive people who resort to killing people in retaliation for administering polio vaccines.One furthers a view of them as irational-inhuman almost.[war propaganda] The other does not.People who would kill vaccine workers because they believe the vaccines workers are administering harmful drugs to them speaks of the effects of our wars against them.It is not as if the taliban are killing people because all else being equal they just don't believe medicine can keep their children from being sick[anti-science]and anyone who does deserves to die or all else being equal simply because they are anti women.Though that is the main stream media's narrative and by omitting the relevant facts yourself that narrative gets promoted as true.Killing people who they believe are administering tainted vaccines ,speaks to the reality of being a tribal pakistani in a war torn area where the stated US and pakistani government policy has been to kill with drones as many taliban people as they can.Anyone else killed is considered acceptable collateral damage by the killers[US military and pakistani central government].Add to that the salient but also omitted fact that vaccine programs have indeed already been used to further our war plans and the taliban knows that-also needs to be taken into account when we're being told of their willingness to target vaccine workers in what they perceive is a war against them that include the use of tainted harmful vaccines.Thanks, Helen,as you point out -nothing happens in a vacuum.When a massacre of children occurs -we reach for a proper [human] narrative to explain such evil. My point is the Taliban -as equally human though they may be backwards morally and perhaps paranoid they are not irrational and-deserve the same honest attempt at a wholly human explanation.That is not a justification for murder any more then examining the role of our gun culture or psychotropic drugs used on young people or proper treatment for the mentally ill-is a condoning of the massacre of children.And we are very careful when dealing with massacres and other atrocious crimes committed here to attempt a wholistic analysis of even the most heinous acts. My point was we are so quick to have a knee jerk reaction towards our enemies.The omission of the reason they give for killing workers plays into this black and white good vs evil perspective that has allowed the attacks against pakistani villages to continue for all these years.That is why I labeled it war propaganda.The pieta shows the evil of war, war crimes [committed by the taliban who killed the workers] and of the evil of mixing medicine and warfare.That your sentence omitted the salient point that from the killers[taliban] persepctive these were not benign polio vaccines clincs but clinics where harm was being administered to the people is why I jumped all over you,Fr. Komonchak.It smacks of what the main stream pro war media does all the time.
Come off it, rose-ellen. You're accusing JAK of being pro-war just because he sees a similarity between a Pakistani woman and Mary the Mother of Jesus. You're turning your hypothetical thought ('maybe JAK is noting the similarity because he is anti-Pakistan and pro-war') into a purported fact ('JAK is pro-war'). Sheesh.
To repeat, Ms. Caminer: The thread was not initiated by "the main stream pro war media," but by me and because I was struck by the similarity between two images. Nothing more. You have imported, quite beyond reason, a whole set of other considerations. This is something you are passionate about, but you should not require everyone else in the universe to play roles in your play, much less attribute to them motives that never darkened their minds or soured their hearts.
rose-ellen caminerI think you have made your point and, as I pointed out, it would have been much better if your had taken it down a notch.
Gerelyn: I think you are exactly correct. Of the even more atavistic statue of Mary Magdalene carved by Niccolo, as she rushes in horror towards the dead body of Jesus laid upon the ground, it was said that it was "a scream in stone." As the photo of the twentieth-century mother grieving over the death of her child shows, there is something archetypical in the madonna's agony.
Joe, your objection to Rose's amplifying the subject is ok as you are making a different point. At the same time Rose may be more relevant and necessary than you for making a more important point. While your intention is worthy hers is perhaps more so. While the Contributor initiates the thread, other posters can and should enlarge the subject when greater or equally important stakes are in play. It is not that she is totally off the subject. I will bring this to the other thread also.
Colm Toibin's new novel, "Mary", is about Mary's grief. I gather it's far from theologically sound, but it does, apparently, present a view of her as deeply anguished and angry. For many people this is a apparently a revelation. She's not presented as that simple, simpering girl in the spotless blue and outfit. After Sandy Hook it surprised me that none of the religious lamentations that I read ever mentioned that Mary herself might understand the grief of the parents whose innocent children had been murdered and she might help them to cope. That tells me that Toibin's book is necessary in spite of its faults.
Then don't label "a polio clinic" that which more accurately should have been called a disputed polio clinic.Taking at face value the government/ media line that this was a polio clinic as oppossed to what the taliban claims is a sterilization clinic[and all that follows from that belief of theirs] is promoting or at least ignorantly repeating the war against tribal pakistanis' government line.Perhaps because you see them in the same light as our prowar government sees them-as an evil backward enemy hence nothing they say or believe need concern us ethically-you are indiffent to their claims and cannot understand why I would take the claims of these backward enemy seriously. That is part of the one sided narrative that results from war which I believe you have succumbed to by disregarding their claim that the polio clinic was not just a polio clinic.And by treating my insistence that their belief that these polio clinics were not just polio clincs as a pesky minor off point side bar. Using the term polio clinic and omitting that it is from their stand point a disputed polio clinic is like labeling something a glass of kool aid and omitting that it is a glass of cool aid coming from the hands of jim jones,say.[though that's not a good analogy really as thanks to jim jones' kool aid-the word kool aid itself has come to mean spiked- with- poison.]If we had a less compliant media-maybe the term "polio clinic" would and should come to be a euphymism for a sterilization program against people we want to eliminate.it is archetypal - the madona's agony.it's archetypical of all profound suffering and you picked a real appropriate real life image of the carved pieta.
I assume that in this expression "mask" means that the particular features of the individual lose prominence and yield to the universal face of agony.
Hi, Claire:Imho, the expressions on the faces should not be called masks. Nothing is hidden. Nothing is concealed. Nothing is protected. Nothing is disguised. Definition of mask from the great WordNet:NounS: (n) mask (a covering to disguise or conceal the face)S: (n) mask (activity that tries to conceal something) "no mask could conceal his ignorance"; "they moved in under a mask of friendship"S: (n) masquerade, masquerade party, masque, mask (a party of guests wearing costumes and masks)S: (n) mask (a protective covering worn over the face)VerbS: (v) dissemble, cloak, mask (hide under a false appearance) "He masked his disappointment"S: (v) mask (put a mask on or cover with a mask) "Mask the children for Halloween"S: (v) disguise, mask (make unrecognizable) "The herb masks the garlic taste"; "We disguised our faces before robbing the bank"S: (v) mask (cover with a sauce) "mask the meat"S: (v) mask, block out (shield from light)http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=mask&sub=Search+WordNet&o2=...
Thank you, JAK, for counterposing the images. Striking, anguished beyond measure, primal, I feel bereft of sufficient words. Gerelyn captures much at 12/29 4:39 PM.In light of Sandy Hook, yesterday's feast of Slaughter of the Innocents, how appropriate to ponder Mary's experience.If I may, the images have a resonance of what might have been for me last month when my son went into cardiac arrest on the street while jogging. By the grace of some people seeing him, a fire station down the street, six minutes of rotating CPR by a rescue crew, two defibrillator shocks, and a hospital nearby, he survived. But fewer than 5% do. Deo gratias. The pain of what was averted is in those Pieta faces.
Gerelyn: I think that the phrase "mask of agony" does not mean that the agony is being concealed but that a face utterly expresses the agony. It's used, for example, of people whose face is contorted by the agony they're suffering or displays the suffering in which they died. I note that your list of meanings for "mask" does not include their function, in many cultures, not to conceal but to reveal, as, say, in rituals or in plays. Think also of the theatrical masks of comedy and tragedy--the latter, of course, involving an agon, whence "agony".
Carolyn, I'm so glad he survived the frightening ordeal. Thanks be to God! --------Joseph, you're right. (I love masks, making masks, reading about masks, wearing masks, talking about masks, etc., etc. I love commedia dell'arte masks, etc., etc. The importance of masks cannot be overstated.) I hope you will click the link to the great WordNet and see what's really there in the definition. What I copied and pasted here did not include the many additional links within the definition to hypernyms, hyponyms, etc.
A father's Pieta? A brother's?Reading of Adam Lanza's father reclaiming the body of his son -- even if estranged or with whatever painful history that may never be known -- seems as tragic in another way...Picturing him attempting to have a funeral service (with minister/priest? who said... what???) and either having him buried or cremated... with the other brother looking on and knowing how despised/pitied Adam is... that would be as likewise challenging to capture... and I ache for him and the brother also....
David, I have regularly prayed for the remainder of the Lanza family since this happened. I can't imagine anything worse than the senseless killing of a child ... unless it's your own child who's done the killing.
Though I concede that it is wrong to murder anyone . . . Nice that you concede that much Rose.After all the blathering (from all political sides), this sort of tragedy is sadly just one more reason why we should get our troops out of the area asap. We certainly will not solve the deep social/moral problems of Afghanistan or Pakistan and frankly, as Rose's post suggests, we have enough of our own moral/social problems we should be tending.
As for the Lanza family, Jean is correct that prayer is important. In addition to the withering blow the murderer inflicted on the families whose children he slaughtered, he also did terrific damage to his own family. Can you imagine being a cousin of that maniac, or living/working in that area with that now-dreaded last name? If (for example) you sold cars for a living and your boss knew someone who lost a child that day at Lanzas hand, well you might as well change your name, find another job, and probably move to another town.


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Plymouth Barracuda Bracket Racer - The B3 BomberWritten by on October 1, 2007 Contributors: Patrick Hill, Greg Clark Our Barracuda Project Gets Some Finishing Touches And Heads To The Track For Testing
Project B3 has come a long way since we began our build several months ago. If you've been following our project, you'll remember our goal was to build a bracket race car that would run consistent 10-second elapsed times in the quarter on a budget of about $10,000. In previous issues, we've shown how to stiffen the car up with frame connectors and torque boxes, installed a legal rollcage, built the engine, and lightened the car by adding fiberglass body components and polycarbonate windows. We've also finished the front and rear suspension of the project, getting the car ready to hook hard and run consistently.
In this issue, we'll finish the car by plumbing the fuel system, wiring the electrical system, finishing the interior, and installing the engine and transmission before heading to the track for some test passes.
When building a race car, or a street car for that matter, expenses can easily get out of hand. We've stuck pretty close to our budget so far during this build, but the finishing items, such as wiring, braided fuel lines, a fuel cell, and the rest of the components needed to complete our car, were going to quickly add up and blow our budget. While we were hunting for used parts to finish our project, we ran across a deal we couldn't pass up. While we don't take any pleasure in benefiting from someone else's misfortune, when friend and fellow racer Rebecca Mendito suffered an unfortunate accident and totaled her Duster, we purchased the remains of the bracket car to salvage the fuel lines, fuel cell, wiring, switches, and other components needed to complete our Barracuda. Luckily, the transmission was unhurt in the accident, so we pulled it from the wrecked Duster to freshen up and use in our project vehicle. we purchased the wrecked Duster for just over $1,000, then sold the rollcage to another local racer for $250, and the rear ladder bar suspension and 831/44 differential to another racer for $850, leaving us the rest of the car to salvage, along with a little spare cash to help our budget.
Though the wrecked Duster will provide lots of used parts for our Barracuda, there are some areas where we feel only new parts will suffice. In the fuel system, we'll be using a new Holley high-volume electric fuel pump and regulator along with the fuel lines, filter, and fuel cell we salvaged from the Duster. Though the transmission from the wrecked car looked ok and already had a manual valvebody, we'll have Tod at Inline Performance Specialist freshen it up and check it before installing it with a new Dynamic 8-inch converter with a 5,000-rpm stall speed. This converter, along with our 4.30-geared Dana 60 rear differential and the suspension components we installed in previous issues, should provide hard launches and the sub-1.50-second 60-foot times we'll need to get our car into the 10s.we had our hands full in the interior of our Barracuda. The door panels and dash were shot, and the carpet was nonexistent. Additionally, we stripped the car of its heater box, seats, factory gauges, and other unnecessary equipment to save weight. Since we want this car to have a finished look, we'll be installing new carpet, door panels, and door sill plates from the Paddock. To make the dash presentable, we decided to have Emo at Emo's upholstery recover the dashpad, and we painted the dash black to match the rest of the interior. The fiberglass race seat was salvaged from the Duster and used as well.
To get the car to the track, we'd need wiring, an electronic-ignition system, and gauges. Since we had the salvaged Duster at our disposal, the wiring was easy. We simply stripped the wiring from the Duster and transferred it over to our Barracuda, cutting or lengthening wires as needed to fit our car. For ignition, we decided to use MSD's new Digital 6 electronic ignition controller with an MSD billet distributor. The Digital 6 is one of MSD's latest ignition controllers and incorporates a built-in, two-step rev limiter that can be adjusted quickly with a small screwdriver and doesn't need the removable "chips" common to other MSD ignitions. It also has the feature of an ignition retard, which we'll utilize if we ever run nitrous oxide on this car.
To keep track of the engine's vital signs, we chose Sunpro gauges and mounted them in the factory dash that we modified ourselves. The Sunpro instruments are accurate, less expensive than most gauges on the market, and the black face gauges really fit the retro-look we're going for with this car. The tachometer incorporates a shift light as well-a necessity for accurate shifts in a car that will be bracket raced. Speaking of shifts, our shifter will be a Hurst Quarter Stick that we salvaged from the Duster.
With the parts accumulated to finish our car, we got to work assembling our Barracuda. This is always a time-consuming part of any build, but don't get in a rush. Taking your time during assembly, cleaning and painting each part as it's installed is what separates an average car from a nice one. Once our car was assembled, we started the engine and tested the functioning of all the car's systems.
Since everything checked out ok, we headed to Bradenton Motorsports Park to test our bracket car on their quarter-mile dragstrip. Any time you test a new car at the track, it's a good idea to take it easy. For our first test session, we simply eased the car down the track for a couple of passes to seat the transmission clutches and bands, check the steering and brakes, and get a feel for the car's handling. Once confident everything worked properly, we made some hard 60-foot passes to check how the car launched. During our first hard launch, the car drifted left, meaning the left rear tire was spinning. We corrected this by tightening the right torsion bar, which loads the left rear tire. With our car launching straight and pulling hard, it was time for some full passes.
While we had an idea that our car would run somewhere in the 10s in the quarter-mile, our first pass had us pretty excited. The car not only ran in the 10s, it ran low-10s as it clicked off a 10.39 at over 128 mph on its first pass. By bumping the ignition timing to 36 degrees and jetting the carburetor to 96 jets front and rear, we achieved a best pass of 10.28 at 129 mph during our first test session, achieving our goal of 10-second timeslips.
During our next test session, the car's owner and driver, Amy Coleman, stepped in and clicked off a string of low-10s in the quarter. A week later, Amy entered her first bracket race at the Lakeland dragstrip, winning four rounds to earn a win and a $500 paycheck in the Pro class! That's what we consider a successful project.
While this project definitely exceeded our performance goals, we aren't finished with it yet. Look for future articles on the B3 as we make chassis and engine changes to optimize this bracket racer. And if you happen to be bracket racing in the southeast, look out for Amy and her 'Cuda, they've already proven to be a winning combination.
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We hated hearing that friend and fellow racer Rebecca Mendito had wrecked her '70 Duster bracket car after a blown engine oiled down the slicks. Fortunately, she walked away with only minor injuries, and we bought the car to salvage parts for our Barracuda.Since our transmission came from a wrecked vehicle, we had Tod at Inline Performance check it thoroughly before installing our Dynamic 8-inch converter and putting it in the car.NHRA rules require a flexplate with an SFI safety rating so we installed one in our car. This is another used part we inherited with the Duster.Since the flexplate and converter only install one way, we painted them before putting the transmission in place, ensuring we get the bolts aligned correctly the first time.The heart of our fuel system will be this Holley HP 150 electric fuel pump. This pump will deliver more fuel than we'll need for this application, so fuel starvation won't be a problem, even if we add nitrous later.We'll be mounting the fuel cell we got with the wrecked Duster in the spare tire well of our Barracuda's trunk, so we welded a frame for the fuel cell between the car's original framerails. Don't forget that a plastic cell, like ours, must be grounded and have a metal skid plate to meet NHRA rules.We mounted our Optima red-top battery in the trunk of our race car for better weight distribution. The more weight over the rear tires, the better the car will hook up. the battery needs to be held down with 31/48-inch minimum diameter threaded rod to be NHRA legal. A quality dry-cell battery is mandatory since we won't run an alternator on this car, so we chose Optima.Since our battery and fuel cell are mounted in the trunk, we fabricated a rear firewall out of .032-inch aluminum to meet the NHRA rules.
Since the rules state we must have a neutral safety switch, we wired a factory starter relay into our electrical system.When wiring a car, be sure to protect each circuit with a fuse. We picked up this fuse block at the local auto parts store for less than ten bucks.We wanted the interior of our race car to have a finished look, so we ordered new door panels, sill plates, and carpet from the Paddock.Carpet will reduce noise inside the cockpit of our race car, as well as improve the aesthetics. Our carpet from the Paddock fell right in place, though we had to cut relief holes for the rollcage bars.To mount our gauges, we first removed the original instruments from the back of the dash, and then painted the dash panel with silver and black spray paint. We then cut a piece of polycarbonate panel and affixed it to the back of the dash panel where the original instruments mounted.To mount the racing seat we salvaged from the Duster, we fabricated seat tracks from pieces of steel L-angle.Seat position is extremely important in a race car, so we had our driver sit in the seat to ensure she could reach all the car's controls while driving. We then mounted the seat permanently to the car's floor.With our car nearing completion, we decided to do the rough bodywork and get our car in primer before our first test session. After cutting the rust out of the driver-side quarter, we fabricated a sheetmetal patch and welded it in place.Since we'd just built the car and really didn't know if it would go straight or not, we decided to test it at Bradenton Motorsports Park before taking it to the paint shop. This way any suspension tuning could be performed prior to putting paint on the car. Also, just in case of a mishap, we didn't want to scratch the new paint.
Timeslips don't lie, and this one is from our very first full pass. We were pleasantly surprised that our combination easily achieved our goal of 10-second elapsed times, and with a little tuning, we managed a best pass of 10.28 during our first test session.Since our car met its goal of 10 seconds in the quarter, we deemed it worthy of paint and took it to J.D.'s Paint and Body for a race-quality paint job.J.D.'s crew quickly went to work straightening the panels of our Barracuda, prepping it for the '06 Go Mango color that Amy picked for her car.Since tire clearance at the front of the rear wheelwell is always an issue on A-bodies, we had J.D. cut and radius the front of the wheelwell for more clearance.With the quarter-panel cut away, new metal was added to form the lip of the wheel opening. This modification gives our 28-inch-tall Mickey Thompson slicks plenty of room to grow during the burnout, and probably gave us enough room that we could run a 30-inch-tall tire if we wanted.With the bodywork complete, the car is rolled into the booth where J.D. applied multiple coats of Diamont paint, transforming the car from a primered wreck to a stunning race car.Knowing we needed to get back to the track for testing, J.D. and his crew got our car back to us in record time (for J.D.).For the rest of our second test session, Amy practiced her burnouts and reaction times, and made multiple full passes down the quarter-mile. The best elapsed time of the day was 10.26 at 130 mph in the 85-degree Florida heat, and the car ran very consistently. All of Amy's practice paid off. The week following our test session, she entered a bracket race at Lakeland Motorsports Park and ended up earning $500 by winning the Pro class!
When we got to the track, we decided to optimize the tuning of our car by making several jetting and timing changes. This combination loves fuel, and every time we increased main jet sizes the car went quicker and faster in the quarter-mile. We eventually ended up with 98 jets in the front and rear of our Holley 1050 Dominator.Another important part of tuning a race car is trying different tire pressures. Amy found that 12.5 psi in the 28x10.5-inch Mickey Thompson slicks optimized 60-foot times. Her best 60-foot time during this test session was 1.44 seconds.

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On 9/8/2011 3:10 PM, Brice Goglin wrote:Hello Terry,The way info objects would be attached to a Socket object I assume it would be ok to just attach such an object under Solaris but not not for the other OSes. Since one can look for the named object and it is either going to be there or not :-).
Indeed there's nothing like this as of today. We talked about it in the past but it's not very easy to implement on Linux (see below) so we forgot about it until somebody complained.
Adding infos would certainly be fine. I think it should rather be "CPUType" and "CPUModel" since existing infos have no underscore in their name if I remember correctly. You could also set object->name to a combination of type and model. Socket looks like the right object to put this. Maybe even use "Model" and "Type" as the info names then?
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Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) During Pregnancy - Topic Overview
Most pregnant women have symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), especially heartburn, at some point during pregnancy. These symptoms may begin at any time during a pregnancy and often may become worse as the pregnancy progresses. Heartburn is common during pregnancy, because hormones cause the digestive system to slow down. The muscles that push food down the esophagus also move more slowly during pregnancy. Also, as the uterus grows, it pushes on the stomach and sometimes forces stomach acid up into the esophagus.
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Treatment for pregnant women with GERD is similar to treatment for other people who have GERD, focusing first on lifestyle changes and nonprescription medicines. You can make changes to your lifestyle to help relieve your symptoms of GERD. Here are some things to try:
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- Chocolate and mint can make GERD worse. They relax the valve between the esophagus and the stomach.
- Spicy foods, foods that have a lot of acid (like tomatoes and oranges), and coffee can make GERD symptoms worse in some people. If your symptoms are worse after you eat a certain food, you may want to stop eating that food to see if your symptoms get better.
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- Use nonprescription antacids such as Rolaids or Maalox for relief of heartburn symptoms. Antacids that contain sodium bicarbonate should not be taken by pregnant women, because these antacids can lead to fluid retention. Antacids that contain calcium carbonate (such as Tums) are okay to take.
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Mercedes RamírezRuiz's curator insight, August 28, 2015 11:25 AM
Se veía venir. A lo mejor ahora lo entienden los creadores de Juegos. Porque cuando tengo que ver cada 10 segundos como mi personaje cambia en mi juego de rol, porque lo que es el personaje femenino es un puñetero parche, siento que siguen sin entenderlo...
Brad Tollefson's curator insight, July 18, 2015 1:12 PM
Klynt, Racontr, Korsakow, Popcorn Maker, Treehouse and Storygami, give filmmakers the ability to create interactive elements for their films, without the need for a programmer to build them...
Vivalist's curator insight, August 16, 2015 5:36 AM
Sherlock Holmes & the Internet of Things is a prototype of the Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab that experiments with shifts in authorship and ownership of stories while exploring the ethical and political implications of IoT (Internet of Things).
The Internet of Things is positioned to be the largest deployment of connected devices, dwarfing PCs, tablets and smartphones combined. The opportunity this presents for laying storytelling over the physical world is exciting. Stories that can aid the discovery, personalization and connection of people to places and things. With any new emergent form of storytelling comes the need for a grammar. So what will a 21st Century re-write look like?
Makhekhe's curator insight, August 29, 2015 7:53 AM
this could be a model for many social development projects for the youth of south africa
Dr. Pamela Rutledge's curator insight, August 15, 2015 11:00 AM
Effective VR means constructing a "new" environmental experience independent of "reality." (Truly we need better words to differentiate these things). AR overlays reality and reality isn't controllable so it will continually be a noncooperative participant in the creation of presence and immersive experience. Successful AR installations needs a shift in conceptualization of what it can do and the purpose of juxtaposing information over reality. Is it integrative or does it provide a portal for experience? Is immersion really the goal? #mediapsych
Richard Platt's curator insight, August 15, 2015 3:22 PM
Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe, who outlined the reasons for keeping the realities divergent. In short? Augmented reality isn't advanced enough yet to match what Oculus can do with immersive VR, and they don't expect it to be for a long time yet. "It is a different market because it's a different user experience," Iribe says. "You see the real world and [rendered models will] appear holographic for a long time, because matching the lighting of the real world through the glasses is incredibly difficult. You have an incredible perceptual system that can detect when things aren't quite right." While that's a problem Microsoft may have to address with its own upcoming AR project, Hololens, Iribe thinks the industry may see a half-way point hybridising VR and AR.
Vivalist's curator insight, August 16, 2015 5:26 AM
He says. "It won't show you video [via external cameras] because that won't be comfortable, but it'll scan in local space."
It seems to me like some techs already starts to emerge allowing just that (http://www.ximmerse.com/#!stero-camera/c1k4c) but I guess he knows what is talking about right :)
"You see the real world and [rendered models will] appear holographic for a long time, because matching the lighting of the real world through the glasses is incredibly difficult. You have an incredible perceptual system that can detect when things aren't quite right."
Brad Tollefson's curator insight, July 18, 2015 1:10 PM
The game was developed by students at New York University's Game Center, and can be downloaded for Mac or PC.
Jayne Courts's curator insight, July 9, 2015 4:55 AM
I hope not. Buy from a professional and don't go for free pre-made templates and make your website LIVE http://humaninterfacepublications.co.uk
Diego Levis's curator insight, July 9, 2015 11:33 AM
El ¿inevitable? camino a la estandarización y homogenización que impone el rumbo actual de la web y de la sociedad de la Pantalla.
Decir utilizando los medios expresivos que nos ofrecen (no graciosamente) las grandes empresas del sector telemático
Art Jones's curator insight, July 7, 2015 9:52 AM
What to employ storytelling to engage your audience, then implement these easy to follow story formula ideas.
Brad Tollefson's curator insight, July 24, 2015 1:08 PM
"A brand is a story that is always being told."
Dr. Pamela Rutledge's curator insight, August 15, 2015 11:12 AM
Nice example of how visual "packaging" makes something you probably already know fun and interesting. Good thing, too. Storytelling is a critical skill because it is how the brain understands and stores information. And maybe each variation of presentation using image or language lets you hear it a little differently each time. Lurking psychological principles: repetition increases learning; frequency increases liking and personal relevance or salience; image engages instinctive, faster and more emotional processing than text alone.
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Anna Washenko: "There are a lot of amazing classic games in the Internet Archive that will take some trial and error to get working. These tips will help you get started."


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Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano has announced the winners of the 2012 Chancellor's Employee of the Year Award:
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- Timothy May, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Integrated Teaching and Learning Lab (ITLL)
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This annual award is presented to University of Colorado Boulder staff in recognition of and appreciation for exceptional job performance and distinguished contributions to the campus community. The award includes a prize of $1,500 (subject to payroll taxes) and a commemorative gift. The 2012 awards will be presented at a private reception in late November.
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Our mission as a chaplaincy includes the support and nurture of faith development and ethical growth of all members of the SMU Community through reflection, study, both corporate and private worship, critical discourse, prayerful social action and community service.
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Lily Sloane was a 21st century Human female who worked with Zefram Cochrane in his effort to build Earth's first warp-capable spacecraft, the Phoenix. A survivor of the third World War, Sloane resided in Bozeman, Montana as early as the 2060s.
On April 4, 2063, the missile silo where Sloane and Cochrane were constructing their warp ship came under fire by a Borg vessel from the 24th century. Despite the unwillingness of her partner, Sloane sought to protect the Phoenix from what she believed to be an attack from the Eastern Coalition. In the aftermath, Sloane remained in the missile silo where she encountered Starfleet Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Lieutenant Commander Data, there to repair the timeline. Armed with a Calico M960 submachine gun, Sloane opened fire on the two officers, believing them to be members of the Eastern Coalition. Sloane was, however, felled by theta radiation leaking from the damaged Phoenix and transported aboard the orbiting USS Enterprise-E by Doctor Beverly Crusher.
Once aboard, Sloane was treated for severe radiation poisoning, but was revived by the medical staff when the Borg overran the Enterprise sickbay. Retreating to a Jefferies tube, Sloane slipped away from Doctor Crusher and her team, eventually coming across Picard. She held the Captain hostage until he was able to convince her that she was not in Montana anymore. Relinquishing the phaser to Picard, Sloane accompanied the captain in his effort to retake the ship.
Escaping from a group of Borg drones, Picard and Sloane entered the ship's holodeck. Dressed in satin, Sloane danced with Picard as Dixon Hill, attempting to blend into the holographic scenery.
Finally returning to the bridge of the Enterprise, Sloane was present for a heated exchange between Picard and one of his officers, Lieutenant Commander Worf. Following the captain into the adjacent observation lounge, Sloane chastised Picard for his actions, comparing him to Captain Ahab of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, despite the fact that she had never read it. Sparring verbally with the captain, Sloane was able to convince Picard to relent and follow Worf's recommendation to engage the ship's auto-destruct system.
Sloane departed the Enterprise along with the remainder of its crew in an escape pod bound for Gravett Island. She later reunited with Picard and his command crew, as well as Zefram Cochrane, back in Montana on the night of April 5, 2063. There she witnessed Cochrane making his historic First Contact with a group of Vulcans. (Star Trek: First Contact)
Personality Edit
Lily was outspoken and a little high-strung, yet was a capable judge of character, being the first to recognize Captain Picard's emotional demons.
Background information Edit
Lily Sloane was played by Alfre Woodard.
In early drafts of the film, her character was called Ruby, a photographer and X-ray technician who was instrumental in helping Jean-Luc Picard repair the damaged Phoenix. The name was instead used for one of the Dixon Hill characters seen in the film.
External linksEdit
- Lily Sloane at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website
- Lily Sloane at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works