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WHEELING - Eagle Manufacturing soon will hire about 25 additional employees as it prepares to roll out a new spill containment system for oil and gas drilling rig sites, according to its chief executive officer, Joe Eddy.
The recent growth of Eagle Manufacturing, which produces hundreds of hazardous materials safety products at its plant on Charles Street in Wellsburg, is just one example of how drilling in the Marcellus and Utica shale formations can benefit the area economy not just by bringing new ventures to the area, but by providing work for established ones as well, Eddy said Tuesday during the Ohio Valley Oil and Gas Association's Boomtown Panel 2.0 at Wheeling Park's White Palace.
The event brought together oil and gas industry representatives, vendors and prospective vendors to network and discuss how the shale boom is impacting the region.
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PANEL DISCUSSION — Joe Eddy, chief executive officer of Eagle Manufacturing in Wellsburg, participates in a discussion Tuesday during the Ohio Valley Oil and Gas Association's Boomtown Panel 2.0 at Wheeling Park's White Palace. -- Ian Hicks
"We've added 25 employees in the last year, and a lot of that has been to support this industry," he said.
Eddy, who worked for more than 30 years in the oilfields of Texas and elsewhere before joining Eagle Manufacturing in 1996, is confident the drilling boom is here to stay.
"We're in a time that we've never seen before. ... I think this is a 30, 40, 50-year boom," he said. "We're going to have ups and downs regionally, but we all have a part to play in this."
Robert Rikeman, vice president of logistics for Rice Energy, a Canonsburg, Pa., company with offices in St. Clairsville, agrees. He said his company has leased enough mineral acres in the Utica shale to build 200 well pads.
"We've built three. This isn't going anywhere. ... We didn't spend $300 million (on leasing) in Belmont County to not be here for a while," Rikeman said.
The panelists agreed that for companies looking to break into the oil and gas industry as vendors or contractors, dependability - 24 hours a day, seven days a week - is a must. Those who are willing to do whatever it takes will be the ones who get the work, he said.
"You need to separate yourself from the competition. You need to figure out what makes you different from the next guy," said Bob DeJaegher, vice president of energy services for Kelchner Energy Services in St. Clairsville, who has also worked on Consol's natural gas operations. He said at one time he was receiving 100 calls per day from vendors interested in doing business.
But competition sometimes must give way to cooperation. Overbooking and being too proud to ask for help from someone who can provide the same services can be a vendor's downfall in the industry, the panelists said.
"I've seen it time and time again, where companies bite off more than they can chew," Rikeman said.
Greg Cook, CEO of Mustang Oilfield Services in St. Clairsville, moved back to the area from the South a few years ago to be closer to family. He decided to try to capitalize on the drilling boom and bought four trucks to haul water.
Today, he has a dozen water trucks and provides other transportation services to the industry. He said it's hard work, adding he serves as his own on-call night shift supervisor. He feels like he has to scratch and claw for work sometimes, but he puts in the hours because he knows that's what eventually is going to make him the one that drilling companies call when they have a need.
"I probably get two full nights of sleep a week because there's always something wrong. ... It can be exhausting and it can be frustrating," he said.
The benefits can be indirect too, Rikeman said. He said one of his company's fracking jobs gets lunch for 60 people catered from the same place every day, all because the owner approached them and said he wanted to feed them.
"He's making a fortune out of a little pizza shop in Uniontown," he said.


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A family forgot to pay a $75 fire protection fee to their small Tennessee town. Then their house caught on fire and firefighters stood by as it and all their possessions burned to the ground. Here's the sad news report.
Don't screw with municipal government! (Also: "This has been a heated issue for quite some time," says the anchor. Heh. Sob.)

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According to the police report, Harston was charged after a Warren County grand jury found enough evidence to bind the case to circuit court.
An already accused bank robber was charged with another count yesterday in connection to a Bowling Green bank robbery.
47-year-old Steven Harston was arrested and charged last month for the June 2012 American Bank and Trust robbery.
Now, a second count of robbery has been added for the First Security Bank robbery in January.
Harston is being held in the Warren County Regional Jail on a $250,000 cash bond.
"You can expect additional charges forthcoming. Right now, we are verifying his criminal history. I think at the very least you will see him charged with being a persistent felony offender to be used as a sentence enhancement, and other charges may be forthcoming," says Warren County Commonwealth Attorney, Chris Cohron.
If convicted of these charges, Cohron says Harston is looking at life in prison.


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Birmingham, Ala.- UAB's power proves to be too much for the Niners in Conference USA play on Friday night, as Charlotte falls to UAB with back-to-back 8-0 losses. Charlotte drops to 16-24 on the season and 7-12 in C-USA play. With the doubleheader win, UAB moves to 29-19 and 13-6 in league play.
Charlotte struggled at the plate in the doubleheader tallying seven hits and no runs. Three Niners tallied a hit in the double header. Samantha Slade (Apex, N.C./ Apex HS) and Jessie Fennell (Blaine, Tenn./ Grainger HS) went 2-4 apiece at the plate, while Jackie Kleinsmith (Santa Maria, Calif./ Righetti HS) picked up three hits going 2-2 in the nightcap.
UAB jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. Caitlin Attfield led off the game with a triple to center field. Attfield would come around to score on a single to left field. Kristen and Megan McGrath grabbed singles in the inning to plate another run for a 2-0 cushion.
Charlotte's Fennell picked up the Niners' first hit in the top of the third inning with a base knock to left field.
The Blazers used a three run third inning with a M. McGrath solo home run followed by a single and another Blazer home run to build a comfortable 5-0 lead. UAB posted another three run inning in the bottom of the fourth off K. McGrath's two run homer. Mary Warren followed that up with a solo shot to give the Blazers an 8-0 lead.
Sam Slade singled to lead off the top of the fourth inning. Jackie Kleinsmith picked up the final hit for the Niners with an infield single. Back-to-back punch outs stranded the Niners in scoring position.
The night cap was a different story for the Niners in the early innings only allowing a run through the first three innings.
Jackie Kleinsmith picked up the first hit for either squad in the top of the second inning with a base knock through the left side of the infield. Kleinsmith would pick up her second hit of the contest and third of the night with a single up the middle in the top of the fourth. Sam Slade would pick up a hit through the right side of the infield, but a double play wiped away the chances for the Niners to scratch across a run.
The Blazers would post four runs in the bottom of the fourth and three runs in the bottom of the fifth for a walk-off 8-0 victory.
Lexi Betancourt (Garner, N.C./ West Johnson HS) picked up the loss in game one of the series falling to 15-12 on the season, allowing eight runs off 10 hits in 3.1 innings. Mackenzie Hauser (Lexington, N.C./ North Davidson HS) pitched the final 2/3 of the fourth in a scoreless outing.
Chelsea Lisikatos (Cold Spring, N.Y./ Haldene HS) falls to 0-7 on the season picking up the loss in the night cap tossing 4.1 innings allowing eight runs off nine hits.
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6 Insane Schemes Attempted at the Dawn of Space Travel
The Soviet Union pretty much defined crazy when it came to space exploration. But they were hardly the only ones: Many other proposed space projects around the globe were, to put it mildly, pants-chewing, horse-screwing, face-tattooing psychotic. Like ...
#6. The Zambia Space Agency
In the 1960s, there were three main groups trying to win the space race. There was the Soviet Union, which was quick out of the gate with the first satellite and man in space, but faded in the stretch to land someone on the moon. There was the United States, which was more or less neck-and-neck with the USSR. And of course there was Zambia.
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Zambia: fucking awesome since forever.
What? You don't remember Zambia's contributions to the next frontier?
That's understandable: Zambia's National Academy of Science, Space Research, and Philosophy didn't have little niceties like "financial backing" or "minimal safety conditions." But they did have Edward Nkoloso. Nkoloso was a schoolteacher who saw the space race and thought, "Looks like fun." So, practically on a lark, he grabbed a bunch of bored soldiers, a woman (dubbed "Spacegirl," no less), and two of the most ambitious felines he could find and began to train them with the best facilities their meager U.N. financial support could afford. Which, considering the U.N. never agreed to fund them, wasn't much.
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Who needs money when you've got moxie?
For weightlessness training, they went into the "anti-gravity simulator," aka the aspiring astronauts stuffed themselves into an oil drum and rolled down a hill. And when that was out of commission, just cutting the ropes on the swing set right as they hit their apex would work, too. They relentlessly drilled handstands, because, possibly due to a translation error, Nkoloso thought that was the only way they could walk around up there. However, Nkoloso did manage to put together preliminary rocket designs that actually didn't look half bad. And "not half bad" is more than good enough to venture a risky space launch, apparently, so the agency planned one for Independence Day 1964.
So who forgot to tell you about the poor African country that established the first colony on Mars? Nobody: The academy occupied a strange limbo between serious ambition and wacky cult. Most sensible Zambians thought they were nutjobs, with only a select few influential government employees ever lending them much credence. Inevitably, with all of their fictional money falling through and his only female astronaut now pregnant and out of training (Spacegirl, no! You seemed so dedicated), Nkoloso's academy collapsed in 1964. Not dissuaded by his many massive, laughable failures and his shameful wasting of other people's money, Nkoloso went into politics not long after.
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And something beautiful perished from the Earth.
#5. The Huge Doughnut in Space
In 1975, Stanford designers proposed a doughnut-shaped space station to simulate artificial gravity. Not a bad idea, right? If it's good enough for 2001: A Space Odyssey and a doughy fried pastry, it's good enough for space. NASA approved the plan, and by the summer of 1975, the space station, code named Stanford Torus, was the frontrunner. So they turned their attention to the artificial gravity, sunlight, food, and water required to support the 10,000 people who would live there.
Wait, what?
Apparently the guys from BioWare are plagiarists.
Uh, 10,000 people? We wanted to go from zero manned space stations to a friggin' celestial city in one step? Yep. And it was looking good, too -- if not from real-life testing, then at least from the bitchin' stoner's-dorm-room-caliber concept art.
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Incredibly, this isn't an Air album.
Everything was going groovy ... that is, until somebody thought to ask about the ludicrous typo in the budget.
Even with the Soviet and European space programs working together with NASA, launching all 10 million tons of construction material would take decades, and that's with rockets being launched every week. Total cost: $200 billion! That's in 1975 dollars, too, which today would translate to approximately ... everything. All of the money that was ever printed or that would potentially be printed in the future, forever and ever, amen.
Worth it. Totally worth it.
It was an insane number, is what we're saying here.
With pressure building to develop the much cheaper Space Shuttle program, the city-size doughnut in space lost a bit of its luster.
Perhaps some glaze would bring it back.
#4. The Soviet Union Tried to Bring Warfare into Space
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There have been many space stations launched into orbit, and most of them had peaceful intentions and were used for important scientific inquiries, like "Dude, how hard is it to put socks on in zero gravity?"
Then you have Salyut 3.
The first Salyut was cooler, but whatever.
Lobbed into orbit by the Soviet Union in 1974, Salyut 3 was equipped with an army of cameras to take photos of U.S. military installations and other targets of value. But that's fairly standard Cold War antics, right? Well ...
The Soviets were paranoid enough to think someone might somehow attack the station, so they equipped it with an anti-aircraft gun to shoot down potential enemies and space invaders. That's right: This battle station was fully armed and operational.
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Luke Skywalker probably could've taken it out with a golf club.
Fortunately, the gun was never used, save for the time they test-fired it and destroyed a satellite. Since then, no space station has again been armed, but your inner nerd can rest at ease knowing that, no matter how anticlimactic it may have been, there was at least one real-life space battle in our history.
If you still need consolation, perhaps this photo of a prototype starfighter will help:
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One real space dogfight would've almost been worth the nuclear annihilation of all mankind.
That is not a movie prop: Some Western intelligence agencies are convinced that the Soviet Union was developing the world's first and, so far, only space fighter, because they feared the Space Shuttle (yes, THAT Space Shuttle, the friendly metal orca of the skies) would be used as an orbital bomber and they needed a way to shoot it down. It may have even had two successful test launches in 1987 (although the Soviets insist they were just testing their own shuttle) before it was sensibly canceled.
There goes stupid sensibility, getting in the way of awesome again.
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GENESEO, N.Y. – President Barack Obama plans to nominate SUNY Geneseo graduate Jennifer Prescod May-Parker to fill a long-standing U.S. District Court judge vacancy in North Carolina's Eastern District.
May-Parker, currently chief of the Appellate Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office in that district, would become the first African-American U.S District Court judge in the 44-county region of North Carolina that spans from Raleigh to the coast. She would be one of two sitting black federal judges in the state.
May-Parker graduated from Geneseo in 1988 as a philosophy major and went on to earn her law degree at the University at Buffalo in 1991. She began her career by serving as an assistant district attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office from 1991-98.
Federal district judges are appointed by the president after confirmation by the U.S. Senate and they receive lifetime terms.
May-Parker and her husband, Claudius May-Parker, a 1989 Geneseo graduate, established the May-Parker Academic Achievement Annual Scholarship at Geneseo in 2005, available to an Educational Opportunity Program student with an interest in law or physical therapy.
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BELLAIRE - Dan Marling's tenure as village administrator for Bellaire has been short.
Marling was officially elevated to the recreated position in early December after council voted to do away with the board of public affairs and return to the use of an administrator.
In that short time span, Marling, with the cooperation and assistance of village employees, has gotten a lot accomplished with more to go.
Marling spoke during the Belmont County Commissioners' meeting Wednesday and gave council a brief recap on that, noting he hopes to make it a monthly visit to keep in contact with the commissioners and keep continued cooperation flowing between the two government entities.
He also touched on work being done within the village.
"We've got seven of our goals completed with five still pending. Of course, those are the big issues, but we're chipping away," Marling noted.
"The council committees have been working well. We've been meeting a few times per month (for each committee)."
The utility committee met early Thursday and made some progress in how to deal with a number of outstanding water bills in the village. The committee, along with Marling and solicitor Joe Vavra attended.
"We were able to get through about 12-13 different cases," Marling said.
He also reported that the installation crew will begin again Monday in getting the new water meters installed throughout the village.
He noted work crews have been handling water leaks and breaks in the city. An outside contractor was brought in to identify the few major leaks and a plan of attack has been formulated to handle those.
It begin when a pizza delivery driver from Bridgeport was robbed at knife point in the area of Washington St.
Then early Wednesday morning, there was a drive-by shooting on Franklin St. that resulted in a multi-state, high-speed chase ending in the Elm Grove section of Wheeling.
"It's been a hectic week," Kovalyk said. "We've also arrested 17 people on warrants. There were a couple of domestics, a theft, some drug arrests.
"We've had 34 incidents thus far in February and that's not including traffic stops."
Kovalyk reminded those in attendance to take extra caution on the roads Friday morning with the anticipated icy roads expected to have hit between 3-10 a.m.
Kovalyk also reminded council that 2013 marks the eighth straight year his department has gone without any type of pay increase, stating he felt it was an injustice to the police department.
A collection drive is being held for items that will be sent to U.S. soldiers overseas. Items being accepted include shaving cream, razors, shower gel, iTunes gift cards, used DVDs and other items. Items can be dropped off at CCRC, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the chamber office and the village municipal building.
Bennett also noted that the birth records for Belmont County from 1909-1920, along with the death records from 1904-35 and 1936-75 are in book form and are available for purchase at the chamber office.
The ceremony will coincide with the National Imperial Glass Collectors Society's annual convention that runs from June 6-8. The museum in Bellaire will be celebrating its 10th anniversary during the re-dedication as it first opened June 3, 2003.
The next regular meeting of Bellaire Village Council is set for Thursday, March 7 at 6 p.m. inside council chambers.
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Amazon Kindle D01200 Touch eReader WiFi 3G 6in E-Ink (pre-owned) for $39.99
This is a FLASH sale. 1 item at a time. Use F5 ALOT. Look at condition! Look at Missing Items. Another will load as soon as someone adds the current one to their cart. There will be various conditions. If you do not like one, wait for the next.
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decent price but be careful. item description clearly says it has "significant scratches and scruffs" and is pre-owned. it does not say where those scratches and scruffs are. could be screen, could be case. Caveat Emptor on this one.
True true, but cowboom seems to have a 15 day return policy that includes shipping. That sounds pretty reasonable. If the damage is extensive, just ship it back to em.
@imtexmex: Do not buy that one. Wait for one with a better grade. You did read the post that says it is a FLASH sale, right? FYI, anything with a 5 or above is usually quite good.
I bought two of these same ones a few weeks ago for $35 each ($42 after shipping and tax). I kept the better one (both were very good and I would have been happy with either), and sold the other one on Craigslist for $90. That was exactly like cowboom paying my $5 to take a free Kindle.
Use cowboomer.com to get the one you want.
There's one with "light wear" out there, missing the USB cord and charger.
I also bought one last week, grade 6. It is in PERFECT condition - couldn't believe that it was ever used. I think the screens are pretty durable and most people keep theirs in a case.
OH Sh$&!!! Wish I read the above comments BEFORE I bought one graded 4!!!!!!! Oh we'll I will wait and see if its garbage I will sent it back!
I bought a quality level 5 a few weeks ago for $35+$5 shipping.
I really had to look to find anything, just a little scuff on one side of the very bottom, like it had been dropped on the sidewalk from a foot up. Screen was perfect, border around the screen was perfect, charged normally, no screen issues in terms of clarity of text, and I'm still running on the initial charge, having read 175 pages on it so far and using both 3G and WiFi to download a couple dozen books over a few days (50% battery life left).
So, all in all, super satisfied with it. If this thing is considered a 5, I can't imagine how immaculate a 6 or higher must be.
another one that bought these a week or so ago for $35+$5ship. Box was definitely oversized, but kept it safe. Was graded at 5, but had no scratches on screen, no dents on corners, and no visible scratches on the rest of the unit. Only downside was that the battery was completely drained, leading me to think it was dead. I sold my paperwhite and bought this, so the major differences is that this older kindle processes pdfs much slower, and reading manga is less sharp, but still legible (except when the font size drops).
@coppertrial: Why did you sell your paperwhite? Just curious
I bought this deal when it was 35+5, but they sent me a non-3g version and when I complained about it they offered a return or partial refund. Make sure it's a 3g version.


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The 9 Most Mind-blowing Disguises in the Animal Kingdom
#4. Moths Pretending to be Spiders
Metalmark moths of the Brenthia genus find that the best way to avoid getting killed by spiders is to wear the enemy uniform.
Indiana Jones found the same technique useful with the Nazis.
Most spiders don't seem like that much of a threat to something that can simply fly away, but nature threw them a curve ball when it invented jumping spiders.
To deal with the threat of agile spiders, this moth can make itself look like one of the spiders that hunt them. How does a moth with wings mimic an arachnid with eight legs? As you can see above, it's not perfect, but spiders are idiots.
When a metalmark is confronted by its arch nemesis the jumping spider, it arranges its wings to mimic the spider's pose, looking like a bigger, meaner, spider gangster. Depending on the racism of the attacking spider, it will either back right off to avoid conflict, or just cross to the other side of the street.
#3. Bugs Pretending to be Plants
Believe it or not, there is an insect in the above picture. One sure-fire way to hide yourself in the forest is to just become part of the morass of inanimate plant matter that's spread all over the place, and leaf insects are so adept that they even mimic leaves that have been partially eaten by caterpillars for added realism. Some zoos won't even bother displaying them because people think that the exhibit is empty.
Then we have its cousin, the stick insect, which sways back and forth to mimic the sway of branches in the breeze.
And the dead-leaf butterfly:
All of which leads us to the conclusion that you shouldn't touch anything in nature if you don't want it to skitter up your shirt sleeve. Also, you don't need much of an imagination to apply for the job of "person who names insects."
#2. Plants Looking Like Bugs
Flowers need bees to spread their pollen, so one of their most important tasks (and they don't have many) is to find ways to appeal to the bee demographic. Most achieve this by shilling tasty nectar, but the Bee Orchid of the west Mediterranean has found a method that doesn't affect its bottom line. As they say in the industry, sex sells.
The color, shape and texture make this flower look like a female bee, and it also releases pheromones to attract the male bees. Soon, the males begin to awkwardly stumble over pick-up lines and flip through their PUA handbooks. During the furious dry-humping that ensues, the bees wind up covered in pollen, which they will then transfer to the next bee flower they try to inseminate.
Other orchids display the shape and coloration of different insects too, like these wasps, which seem to be trying to initiate some kind of gang bang.
#1. The Mimic Octopus Imitates Whatever it Damn Well Wants
So the mimic octopus can spread out two tentacles to look like a snake (specifically, a toxic sea snake). That's pretty cool, right?
But now here it is imitating a foul-tasting flatfish:
And here it is doing its impression of a shrimp with the touch of death:
Other animals are lucky to evolve just one good disguise, maybe two on a good eon. Thaumoctopus mimicus on the other hand is the first animal ever discovered to take on the shape and behavior of many different animals for different situations. The above is just a small sample. It's also been known to play a seahorse, stingray, anemone, starfish, lionfish, crab and probably Cthulhu.
Inhabiting only the naturally murky waters off the coast of Indonesia, this tentacled ninja is so good at not being an octopus that it eluded human discovery until 1998. Even now, it could be anywhere. In fact, before you click away from this article, you might want to take a hard look at that mouse your hand is resting on.
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My dishwasher attaches to the cabinets on the side via a screw. This hole has become a little stripped, is there a way to fill it in and then screw in to it again? I can't change the location of where the dishwasher attaches.
Clean out the hole of debris and then carve a tapered peg from another piece of wood that will start into the hole. Fill the hole with wood glue and then pound in your peg. Let it dry overnight and then cut off the remainder of the peg flush with the surface. At this point you can drill a new pilot hole for your screws.
If you are lacking a wooden peg or the skills to make one use round wooden toothpicks. Coat the toothpicks with woodglue. Place as many toothpicks in the hole as will fit. Gently tap in one more with a hammer. Break off any bits of toothpick that protrude from the hole. After the glue has dried, reinstall the screw.
If you have access to the inside of the cabinet you could replace the wood screw with T-nut and a machine screw.
You would need to drill the hole to fit the T-nut and place the T-nut on the inside of the cabinet.
Again, this only works if you have access to both sides of the cabinet wall.
I agree with using wooden pegs, matchsticks, or toothpicks to fill the holes, but rather than wood glue I recommend epoxy because it's better at filling spaces, and doesn't need clamping to form a strong bond. I'd use something like a small screwdriver to fill each hole with epoxy, liberally coat the peg/matchstick/toothpicks with more epoxy and pound them in, cut them off flush, then stick a piece of tape over the hole to keep the epoxy in place until it hardens. (Clean up the mixing surface and tools with alcohol.)
The quickest and easiest solution:
Use a bigger screw.
A larger diameter screw of the same length will fill the hole.
I have done this to hold my own dishwasher in, and in numerous other scenarios. I know a lot of cabinet material is crappy particle board which is not very durable.
Also, in cases where you are not worried about the screw coming out the other side (door hinges for example), a longer screw will work as well (and better).
Tap a plastic wall plug into the hole, the sort you'd normally use in brick or concrete walls, or a screw in wall plug if it's a cavity wall.


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I am under the understanding that a toy top will weigh less when it is spinning. The Russians made a spinning type transport back in the 70s to lessen its payload over the tundra. Is this an effective way to beat gravity?
A top can offer stability like in a gyroscope, but it does not in any way reduce the mass of an object.
Some applications of a gyroscope are useful for transport, however. The popular Segway scooters use them to measure how far/fast it is tilting forward or backward and drives the wheels to compensate.. Similarly, motorcycles take advantage of the gyroscopic motion of their wheels to stay upright. Over the tundra, I could conceive of a gyroscope being used to keep a sled tilted up so that it is heavier on the backside and thus doesn't get caught toe up in the snow, but it would not reduce the mass at all. On the contrary, the mass of the gyroscopic device is just more to haul around.
To a certain extent yes, if you take aerodynamics into account. Specially made top can deflect air to provide a lift force. Exaggerated example is a helicopter. A better example though is Frisbee.
But it's not because the mass reduced or something is done to gravity, it's just a force exerted by surrounding air.
By the way, George, provide a reference to that Russian transport so we could see what's the matter with it.
Scientist Bruce DePalma did extensive research on just this matter. Google him. I seem to recall he determined that mass is polarizable, can be made to resist acceleration more in the axial direction than in any of the lateral directions. Mass being only definable in terms of resistance to acceleration, it sems to follow that this can be so when you think of having released some of the local spin... Freed it to turn the whole top.
Searl showed me an experiment wherein he had placed a second steel bearing pin in the top of a typical pear shaped toy top. He wound the string... Tossed it with regular pin down, wide end up. It spun fine. Then he performed the same experiment with wide part down. Immediately, the toy top toppled and inverted itself so it agin spun smoothly with the wide HEAVIER part up.


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Monday, 11 January 2010
Morbid warnings on cigarette packs could encourage some people to smoke
Jochim Hansen and colleagues first measured how important smoking was to the self-esteem of 39 student smokers. Example questionnaire items included 'smoking allows me to feel valued by others'. Next, the smokers were divided into two groups: one group looked at two cigarette packs that featured death-related warnings, such as 'Smokers die earlier'. The other group looked at cigarette packs that featured death-neutral warnings, such as 'Smoking makes you unattractive.'
Fifteen minutes later all the students reported their attitudes to smoking; the questionnaire included items such as 'Do you intend to quit smoking?'. Among the students for whom smoking was important to their self-esteem, those who looked at packets with death-related warnings subsequently reported more positive attitudes to smoking compared with those who looked at death-neutral packets. The exact opposite pattern was found for students for whom smoking was not important for their self-esteem.
In other words, for smokers who derive a self-esteem boost from smoking - perhaps they see it as a key part of their identity or they think it makes them look cool - a death-related cigarette packet warning can have the ironic effect of making them want to smoke more, so as to buffer themselves against the depressing reminder of their own mortality. The findings suggest that for these kinds of smokers, packet warnings that target positive beliefs about smoking (e.g. 'Smoking makes you look unattractive') could well be more effective.
'To succeed with anti-smoking messages on cigarette packs one thus has to take into account that considering death may make some people smoke,' the researchers concluded.
Hansen, J., Winzeler, S., & Topolinski, S. (2010). When the death makes you smoke: A terror management perspective on the effectiveness of cigarette on-pack warnings. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46 (1), 226-228 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.09.007
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These findings are also pretty consistent with Aronson's internal justification theory. The greater the possible danger the greater the internal change in value/commitment needed to continue the dangerous behavior. It's insane how cigarettes can really be THAT addictive.ReplyDelete
Related to this tertially; I weighed 310 pounds before I started my first serious weight loss program, and I can absolutely attest to how much you justify your risky behavior to yourself in in your mind. What convinced me to lose weight was actually the realization that it would NOT solve all my problems-- apparently somehow I'd convinced myself that quitting food was "the easy way out".ReplyDelete
I actually heard about this the other day on the news, and yet you reported it in January...ReplyDelete
Anyway, I never found those images did any good, at most they disgusted smokers, but I doubt the majority even once thought about quitting because of them. But the fact that some people care more about the way they look than about their health is pretty disturbing
I don't believe that smokers will refuse smoking because of those threatening pictures. It's possible that some non-smokers will not start smoking because of them.ReplyDelete


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Lucas Goodrum's defense attorney is asking the judge in Goodrum's murder trial to move the case out of Warren County, and away from the South Central Kentucky area.
The change of venue request came amidst a flurry of 18 motions filed in Warren Circuit Court Tuesday.
In the motion, defense attorney David Broderick says the intense pre-trial media coverage coupled with the results of a public survey conducted by the defense show it would be impossible to seat an impartial jury panel in Warren County or surrounding counties.
Broderick's survey says 97% of respondents were familiar with the case, and more than 60% say they have followed it closely.
Goodrum is accused of raping and murdering WKU freshman Katie Autry in her dorm room on May 3, 2003.
Goodrum's capital murder trial was set to begin March 1st in Warren Circuit Court, presided over by special Judge Tom Castlen. But both sides will be back in court on February 10th for another pre-trial hearing, where Castlen may rule on whether or not grant the change of venue motion.
Castlen has already raised the possibility of delaying the trial until November because of pre-trial publicity, and jury selection concerns.
Among the other motions filed Tuesday were requests related to the questions asked of potential jurors, a request to exclude all of the photos of Autry taken in the emergency room and during an autopsy.


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1933 Dodge Truck - The Real DealWritten by on April 1, 2003 There's Nothing Common About Ron And Carol Green's '33 Dodge Pickup
As musclecar enthusiasts, we already have a built-in penchant for old iron. It's the styling, drivelines, mystique, and history that combine to form an emotional magnet with an irresistible tug. That pull is even stronger the older and more unique the vehicle. Ron and Carol Green's '33 pickup is a prime example. In the modern rodder's world-filled with Ford bodies and Chevrolet muscle-a stem-to-stern pre-war Dodge like the Green's is more than a breath of fresh air-it's a veritable hurricane. Of course, not only is the Dodge-powered-Dodge thing downright appealing, the quality workmanship and svelte presentation are, themselves, first-rate assets.
Ron and Carol found the ideal platform from which to build their pure-Dodge rod. The '33 model year represented the first significant makeover of the Chrysler-owned Dodge Brothers light-duty trucks, notably marked by the more graceful fender treatment and sloped grille. When the Greens acquired this truck, it was already heading towards "rodification." Unfortunately (or, perhaps fortunately), the quality of workmanship was way off the mark. With a '40 Ford coupe and two '34 Plymouth rods already in the garage, Ron knew exactly where he wanted to take this truck.
Enlisting the talent of Custom Auto Restoration Services (CARS) in Baraboo, Wisconsin, Ron mapped out the modifications and handed the plans to Tony Bumbar and the crew of CARS (the previous owner had already boxed the frame and dropped in the always-desirable Mustang II IFS and 8-inch rear-axle assembly). Additional suspension and handling work included ECI front disc brakes pumped by a Corvette master cylinder, original-style rear leafs, a Flaming River rack and pinion steering system, and an Ididit steering column. For rolling stock, Ron selected Stockton wheels (15x6 front and 15x8 rear) wrapped in Daytona whitewalls for that true nostalgic touch.
Turning to the body, Ron decided to take a somewhat conservative approach in order to maintain the truck's uncommon profile. Major modifications included filling the top; adding fiberglass fenders and running boards manufactured by Coach & Chassis Works; and installing a custom tailgate, header panel, and bedcover. Coach & Chassis Works was also tapped for the grille and bumpers. Ron again veered from the stock path by adding Snake Eyes headlights and Model A Ford taillights. Wrapping up the exterior is a Dupont Vanilla Shake topcoat accented with subtle pinstriping.
Inside, the Green's '33 pickup continues the conservative modified tack. Custom UltraLeather seats with tan and navy seat inserts and door panels combine with the navy carpet and ivory with gold trim Autometer gauges to deliver a clean and classic look. Ron topped it all off with a Mullins steering wheel and Vintage Air A/C system.
Although the truck is a heart-stealer from any angle, what really tripped our trigger is the fire under the hood. Here Ron opted for a '58 Hemi. The unusual V8 was rated at 315 ci, but Ron wanted a little more "go" built into the mill, so he sent the heads to Performance Heads of Madison, Wisconsin, where they were opened to work with DeSoto pistons. Now the Hemi boasts 341 ci, which is fully taken advantage of thanks to a reground cam, Street Demon carb, Mallory Unilite ignition, Sanderson headers, and 2.5-inch Flowmaster mufflers. Backing it all is a column-shifted GM 700-R4 slush box.
In a hobby full of automotive inbreeding, it's tough to find a street rod that holds close to its origins. It's even tougher to find Dodge rods that fall into this category. Throw an early Hemi into this mix, and you see why Ron and Carol Green's '33 pickup spurs so much excitement. Like we said, it's the real deal.


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In 1994, Derek Jeffrey loaned a friend his camcorder to use at a wedding. Normally wedding videos are the sorts of things you let sit and get dusty in a closet along side the juicer you bought from HSN and grandma. On this day, however, they decided to watch the wedding video at the wedding reception, possibly because the bride had that memory condition from the movie Memento and couldn't remember what had happened earlier that day.
If that was the case, she was likely doubly confused when, instead of her nuptials, she and her guests were treated to a tape of a naked geriatric man's sexual conquest of a bull terrier named Ronnie.
Not Ronnie (probably).
Seems Derek had neglected to take the tape from his video camera and the camera man hadn't bothered to fully rewind to tape over it. When he was brought to court on charges of bestiality, his first defense was that he meant to erase the film, also known as the "I wouldn't have done it if I thought I'd get caught" defense, which rarely works.
Jeffrey went on to explain how it was an honest mistake. He said that he only made the tape after he and his buddies watched a porn involving people and animals. He then borrowed his neighbor's dog, presumably by not mentioning he wanted to defile the animal, and attempted to prove to his friends that the interspecies romance could be faked using camera tricks. And apparently this bit of myth busting required him to be completely naked.
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Columbia College will celebrate 10 years of educational excellence on Thursday, May 10, at both of its Georgia campuses. The Columbia College-Hunter Army Airfield celebration will take place from 10 a.m. to noon at the Hunter Army Airfield Education Center, Building 1290, located at 165 Markwell St., Hunter Army Airfield, Ga. The Columbia College-Fort Stewart celebration will take place from 2-4 p.m. at the Army Education Center located at 100 Knowledge Drive, Suite 147, Fort Stewart, Ga. All faculty, staff, students and area alumni are invited to attend.
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Dr. Arnie Klein declared on May 2 that he did not betray Michael Jackson by saying publicly that he had a homosexual relationship
with someone in "Arnie's" office. It seems he supplies not only women (Debbie Rowe), but men too...how convenient.
Just what we want in our doctors. And then to say he did not betray Michael's confidence. No wonder he has death threats.
I thought doctors, like priests took an oath of confidentiality. May God have mercy on his soul.
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A Butler County Jail Deputy was arrested for having sex with an inmate at the Butler County Jail.
According to the charges filed, Charles Chaney engaged in consensual sexual intercourse with an inmate at the jail on Jan. 14.
According to County Attorney Darrin Devinney, Chaney was placed on administrative leave upon report and was then terminated from employment.
His next court appearance is Feb. 4.
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Brooke Borton talks about a journal she uses to write life-lessons she wants to share with her children. Read more about Brooke and the end of her post.
Every now and then, when I feel I have something important to say, I write my thoughts down in this lovely handmade journal I was given by a friend years ago, when I was pregnant with my oldest daughter.� I call it my "life book," and I write each entry in the form of a letter to my kids.� It took me a while to start writing in it, but since I did, I haven't stopped.� Every subject is given its own "chapter," and topics range from starting school to my favorite recipes, to more lesson-based subjects like being on time and taking care of your pets.� I'll share some of these chapters periodically and hope you can identify with them, and maybe start a life journal for your own children.� This week's excerpt—Chapter 13 in my life book—is honesty.
Chapter 13: On Honesty
If there is one thing that I could say has caused the most heartache in my life, it would be the trouble I have had being honest and those moments I chose dishonesty over truth.� I could give many reasons why I chose dishonesty—it is a choice—but in the end, I caused myself and those I love far greater pain by hiding the truth than if I had just told the truth in the first place.
This doesn't mean there won't be scary consequences for the truth, but lying adds insult to injury.� It underestimates the capacity of the other person to forgive you for whatever it is you think you need to hide.� It robs you of the opportunity to learn through natural consequences.� It can cause you to always be on guard because sometimes you forget what you lied about and have to tell another lie (or rather, make the choice to lie again) to cover up or explain inconsistencies.
Most of all, it injures those we care about and respect.� When you lie to someone, no matter what it's about, you are basically taking from them their freedom and right to make wise decisions based on the truth.� I repeat:� you are taking away their human right to choose how they will (or should) respond to something they probably need to know.� If you tell the truth in the first place, and the truth happens to be hurtful to this person, you will learn from the experience no matter how they choose to react.� They could choose to forgive the truth and work through it with you.� They could also choose to forgive the truth, but set boundaries to keep you from hurting them again (or yourself, if you are a child or younger loved one).� They could also decide they are so hurt by the truth that they don't want to continue contact with you, for a while or forever.
All of these are rational responses to truth, and every person, even you, has the right to choose any one of them in response to a truth that might injure them.� We as people have no right to take these choices away from others, especially when many times the truth, as hurtful as it may be, doesn't lessen how much that person loves and cares for you.� This is why your dad and I try to remind you that no matter what you may do, or tell us about yourself, we will always love you the same.� Whether it's a truth that deals with a life decision you are making, or a truth about a mistake you have made, our love and concern for you will never be reduced, no matter what it is.
As parents we try to affect appropriate consequences for things you may say or do that are hurtful, but consequences are healthy and necessary to mature into an adult.� Even if a consequence may seem harsh or unfair at the time, when it is over (and in the duration), we are still here for you and we are still loving you all the same.� Uncomfortable consequences do end—remember this.
People who consistently remove the right of others to respond appropriately to truth will live lives without the consequences necessary to love others deeply, change bad habits, let others love them deeply, or lead them to make better, wiser decisions (learning from their mistakes).� Honesty allows you to be one whole person, all of the time.� It gives people the choice to love (or leave) you based on who you really are—not who they merely think you are.� And in the end, even if the leaving part is painful, time will heal you and it will heal them, even if you never speak to them again.
Just know that Mama doesn't want you to ever feel like you have to live a double life or lie to keep my love.� My love is always there for you.� It may come in the form of a spankin' if you lie, but it is ALWAYS there.� That it something I was unsure of growing up, and even as I became an adult—would people still love me if they knew the truth?� After admitting many of my mistakes and uncovering my untruths, I have learned something huge—that yes, YES, they will still love me.� YES, I can survive and still be a good person even if they choose not to love me.
I love my babies very much.� This is the most important truth you will ever know.
How do you talk to your kids about honesty?
Brooke Borton enjoys life at home with her husband, two girls ages 5 and 7, a newborn baby boy (as of April 30, 2013), and two cats. She and her husband celebrated their fifth anniversary in October, shortly before her 30th birthday, and their favorite holiday is (of course) Halloween. She attended Adrian College and JCC, studying English, Spanish, and nursing, and plans to pursue her degree again only after her tenure in the ever-busy position of stay-at-home mom. Brooke has worked in various professions including retail management, fast food, medical transcription, and medical reception, and managed her own photography business for three years before making the choice to stay home indefinitely with her young girls. She thinks the best way to learn is through trial and error and �just jumping in.�


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There are two schools of thought on when the Exodus occurred, the "early" date of 1440BC, and the "later" date of 1290BC. How was each date arrived at, and what is the evidence for each?
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The method of deducing each date, along with the difficulties associated with each method, are documented at cresourcei.org
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The older date (1440 BC) is primarily based on the assumption that the Bible is a reliable historical document, with the passage of time based solely upon dates and time periods given from within Scripture. Example:
The more recent date (1290 BC) is primarily based on external archaeological and external evidence.
These are not the only evidences for each date. It should be noted that there are various assumptions and difficulties with either date. I am not about to list them here, as they are all well documented on the page I linked to above. Suffice it to say that the evidence for each is seen as tenuous, at best by those that hold the opposite belief.
Also, in the sections above, note that I said that each position is based primarily on either internal Biblical evidence or external evidence. That does not mean the position is based only on those two things. Each position is just as much based on an understanding of the difficulties of the opposing view.
Which date we hold to is likely to fall along the lines of how much we trust the Bible for historical accuracy, and how much we trust our interpretation of it, as well as where we draw the line on literalism. (Many of the arguments for a more recent date point out scenarios where a given time span can be interpreted as something other than the direct literal reading. Sounds like another debate about dating certain events that we're all quite familiar with.)


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Only Enterprise and Datacenter versions of Windows Server 2003 can.MaxTheLimit wrote:I've heard folks mention they've managed some tweaking to get it to read the full 4 gigs, but I've yet to see proof. From my understanding it is impossible without 64bit OS.
MaxTheLimit wrote:@FFox - Do you have a link to some reading describing a little bit more about this? All I've been able to find thus far is a site saying that it does support 4 gigs of ram. Do you put much credence into people saying they've been able to go into their BIOS and managed to read 4Gigs of ram in Windows XP 32?
Search is a lost art apparently.titan wrote:Talk about kicking...
... a dead horse.
Flying Fox wrote:Search is a lost art apparently.titan wrote:Talk about kicking...
... a dead horse.
Give Dan's article another read. It talks about the remapping feature in a somewhat easier to understand manner. Basically, to maintain compatibility, that hole in the 3GB-4GB range will create a hole in your 4 gigs of physical address space. So to get that back you need to remap the hardware MMIO to even higher up beyond your 4 gigs. That, combined with a 64-OS, will let you see all 4 gigs.MaxTheLimit wrote:Yes I've been looking at these threads a lot lately. Though I was thinking more along the lines of an official tech sheet explaining those whole thing in a slightly more official term. I generally can pick apart the correct and incorrect posts, but to be sure I like to get right to the gritty details. I will be looking to upgrade to upgrade to 4gigs soon and I want to make sure I cover all my bases AND understand why I'm doing what I'm doing by having almost ALL correct information about the subject. As I understand with my 64 bit OS I will still need to enter the BIOS and enable the option. Not too much else will be an issue as I'm not running a 32bit OS. But I'm looking for a little more tech info, and sifting though the posts of people going back and forth can be a little frustrating. Thank you very much for helping BTW.
Agreed. One time I was looking for that thread but didn't know the title, and so it took me a few searches to find it.Nitrodist wrote:If it's any consolation, "Dude, where's my 4GB?" is a very, very inaccurate title that doesn't really mean anything to the average reader trying to find out information about the memory barrier.
I would say incompetence is an easier explanation. Most people don't really know what they are doing.MaxTheLimit wrote:However I see mention for people using standard Windows XP Pro 32bit. Saying simply by enabling memory remapping. They say it shows up as a full 4 gigs. I know this cannot be true. It doesn't work that way for the reasons stated many times over (so I won't go into it). The misinformation is really what gets me. Lying and causing many people to be confused out there just to make it seem like you have accomplished something seems wrong to me. Immoral even.
Hey, at least he will see ~3.2 gigs and will be better than a 2 gig system. Not going to help if he only has one memory hogging application running though.MaxTheLimit wrote:Poor Johnny newb is going to go out with his windows XP and 4 gig kit and be so upset it didn't work. He'll go to the guy that told him it would work. He'll throw his hands up and say "you must have don something wrong".
Intel tried that with the Pentium Pro (slow running 16-bit instructions) and got bitch slapped. Users of x86/Microsoft computing seem to value backward compatibility more than anything else, compared to say the PPC/Apple (at the time it was PPC) crowd. If Microsoft did that they will be called strongarming and all sorts of bad stuff.SuperSpy wrote:If say, Microsoft, in 2004, had said "Our next-gen OS is going to be 64-bit only, you have 3 [lol Longhorn delay] years to comply." We would never be having these conversations. Dell/HP/etc. would have all their machines configured with Vista x64 and, by extension, all the hardware manufacturers (at least those that wanted the juicy contracts with big vendors) would have finally gotten around to actually writing x64 drivers. Then, we wouldn't have to deal with all of this insanity stemming from running 64-bit hardware on a 32-bit OS.
It works for most applications, but there will be that odd one that uses some undocumented functions and/or installs a driver breaking it.SuperSpy wrote:I mean correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the WOW system in Vista x64 totally compatible with existing applications? If so, why not switch?
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Success in one area of life won't necessarily translate to success in another, but the basic principles still apply: You have to be willing to go through all the steps and learn what it takes to be masterful.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Taking the point of view that you should know something already will only stop you from learning. Better to admit what you don't know and gather experience than to unnecessarily stumble around in the dark.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Your direct and assured action will be necessary. Hesitate, and you'll lose power. Wait, and it will only get harder and harder to influence the situation. Act now.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). When you really think about it — and you will today — miracles abound. You believe this because you've seen the evidence, and you continue to produce more evidence because you believe it.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). How would your life change if you made happiness your No. 1 priority? The answer to that question may inspire you to change your schedule slightly.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You do trust the wisdom of the ages, but even more beneficial is the timely value you find in what specific people tell you. You'll take to heart the stories and advice of friends and family.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The line between respect and attraction is easily blurred these days. You'll avoid murky relationships and messy situations when you stay clear about your feelings.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). To someone who doesn't know you very well, it seems like you are all smiles and acceptance. But woe to the one who crosses your lines. After all, what good is a boundary that is not enforced?
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (April 17). You make a hobby of shocking and impressing people this year. Your ideas are bold. The execution of those ideas is sometimes brilliant; other times, a brilliant fail and a good story. May brings strange luck. June brings the chance to glue broken relationships back together. July features social and professional growth. Aquarius and Virgo people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 30, 1, 33, 2 and 15.
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We're a little late to this one (busy 'n' that), but yet another footballm'n has in fact entered the whisky world. Following Haig Club's signing of 'Sir' David Beckham, SPEY have now snapped up his old England team-mate Michael Owen! (Meanwhile, Sven has wine covered - surely it's only a matter of time before we're hit with a Rio Ferdinand Cognac...)
I'll cover the interesting history of SPEY whisky below, but first allow this to sink in for a second: Michael Owen is the Global Brand Ambassador for a single malt Scotch whisky.
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2006 Grand National Roadster Show -- SaturdayWritten by on January 17, 2006
Nobody said it was going to be easy and thankfully we don't have to make the decision. This year's GNRS America's Most Beautiful Roadster class is filled with 12 worthy candidates. They range from completely hand-built (and most likely never to be driven) works of art to some very well detailed drivers (one of which was driven to the show). For all of you that have been waiting in anticipation to see the roadsters that the GNRS judges are going to have to weed down to just one here they are
When John Buck took over the promotion of the GNRS almost a year ago he wanted to make the show even better and reached out to us for suggestions. After the great weather at the 2005 GNRS, we felt that an outdoor show could bring even more excitement. To Buck's credit he actually listened to us. The weather was perfect again this year helping to push the Cruise-In into a huge success. Some of the finest drivers from the Southwest showed up and gave the spectators more reasons to hang out and check out more cars. If this year was any indication next year's Cruise-In promises to be even better.
In addition to America's most beautiful hot rods, the Grand National Roadster Show is the place where you're likely to run into some of the heroes of this hobby's past and present. There are probably a few heroes of the future walking up and down these aisles too.
Variety may be an understatement while trying to describe the many different styles of cars in attendance at the show. No matter what your favorite style of car build, it's likely to be found within one of the six exhibit halls here at the Fairplex.
The Suede Palace saw just about as much traffic as the other indoor buildings filled with the glossier cars. It was a great place to hang out Friday and Saturday night and listen to the Hot Rod Trio. Saturday during the day you could watch pinstripers apply their art to everything from flat panels to cell phones.
For the most part the hot rods and customs in attendance showcase some great mechanical engineering and exterior design (there were only maybe one or two that were downright scary.) With a little more publicity and word-of-mouth it should turn into one of the must-see gatherings in the years to come.
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Fred Bogardus' '35 Ford is a one-off creation wrapped in an eye-grabbing dark purple over yellow two-tone combo.The `glass body sits on a Total Cost Involved chassis with a four-bat in back and a Mustang II up front.Power comes from a 302/AODE combo. The Colorado Custom 16x8 and 18x8 wheels are wrapped in Nitto rubber.Gil Losi's '32 Ford "Ratster" is an all-steel Marcel creation covered in a dark grey matte finish with bold red and white striping.
The wedge shaped roadster with its laid-back windshield looks like its going 200mph even standing still.A peak under the hood keeps the 200mph theme going thanks to an Imagine Injection fed LS1. Ron Mangus is responsible for the custom interior.Mike Young's traditional-style '31 Ford was built in his own garage and driven to the GNRS for a shot at the big trophy.
After taking home the Ridler award in 2005, Ken Reister's Chip Foose-built '36 Ford takes a shot at the America's Most Beautiful Roadster title in '06.Jack Kiely's "Blue Velvet '37 Ford sits atop a full aluminum chassis with a late-model Corvette transaxle.
Extensive plating covers almost everything including every piece of the engine, all chassis components complete to the brake rotors and even the chassis rails themselves.As one of the nation's premier pinstripe artists plenty of fine brushwork is to be found on this retro-modern ride.James Hunt's '29 Ford is a real world street rod that he has driven daily for years and recently blew apart for a fresh rebuild.The smooth black paint covering the Brookville body and original fenders is one of the highlights of this full-fendered ride.
Andy "The Rodfather" Brizio, was sharing some stories with Zane Cullen, builder of Rich & Terri Stadelhofer's '32 Cabriolet.Granting TV interviews is part of the job for hot rod personalities at the GNRS. Pete Chapouris from So-Cal Speed Shop takes his turn.
Alex Xydias, hot rodding pioneer and founder of So-Cal, spent hours autographing copies of his new book, which chronicles the history of the hobby going back to the `30s.


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Up From the Dumps: Liberty National Golf Course
Hosting the Barclays tournament this week, it was once just a landfill with a view.
Jersey City, N.J.
Paul Fireman, then the chairman of Reebok International, describes his 1998 decision to buy the stinking, toxic landfill that is now Liberty National Golf Course as a "moment of insanity."
"There were broken down buildings and dumpsters, abandoned trucks and cars. It was an eyesore," he said Thursday at a table in the clubhouse during a rain delay at the PGA Tour's Barclays tournament at Liberty. "But it had a major attitude about it. The location was iconic. How could you not want to do something with this property?"
The chief selling point, of course, was the Statue of Liberty rising from New York Harbor scarcely 2,000 yards away. And behind Lady Liberty, the fairy-tale Manhattan skyline. Could there be a more dramatic setting for the kickoff event of the FedEx Cup Playoffs?
Fireman said he bit on the project as a kind of escape from the corporate "warfare" of running his global shoe and apparel giant. (He sold Reebok to Adidas in 2006.) "Some people read books, some people buy a boat, some people go on vacations. To me the escape was looking at design plans for a course and bringing people together to make it happen," he said.
In an earlier conversation, Fireman had told me he spent 80% to 90% of his time at Reebok in the design studios and on marketing, rather on the numbers side of the business. Golf courses similarly appeal to his artistic side, he said, though he has never claimed to be anything but an amateur when it comes to course architecture.
As a hobby, starting in the early 1990s, Fireman acquired, built or rebuilt eight other courses, one on Cape Cod and five in Puerto Rico. Keeping the crew he had assembled for those projects busy was one reason he succumbed to the temptation to buy the landfill in New Jersey. Another was imagining his grandparents, one from Russia and one from Australia, sailing past the land when they immigrated to America through Ellis Island roughly a century ago.
What he didn't know, but probably should have, was how expensive it would be to make Liberty National work. That was the "insanity." Remediating the land, which took half a decade, required capping the waste, trucking in 2 million cubic feet of fill and clearing endless regulatory and environmental hurdles. By the time the course opened in 2006, it had cost $250 million, likely making it the world's most expensive golf course.
And then, after the Barclays was played at Liberty National in 2009, he had to remediate the land, in a sense, a second time. Some of the pros at that event were unkind to the course. "They took a perfectly good landfill and ruined it," was the most famous (anonymous) remark.
The PGA Tour advised Liberty that if it wanted to continue as one of the four rotating sites for the Barclays beyond 2013, when its contract ends, it needed to make some changes. The other courses in the rotation are Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, N.J., where the Barclays returns in 2014; Plainfield Country Club in Edison, N.J. (2015); and Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, N.Y. (2016).
So Fireman pulled out his checkbook again. He rehired the original architects, Tom Kite, the 1992 U.S. Open champion, and Robert Cupp, to make extensive alterations, including completely rebuilding five of the greens and altering 13 fairways.
The pros' reception this year has been much better. "They made some really nice improvements," said Tiger Woods, one of the headline complainers in 2009. "I think it's one of the best venues we play on Tour," said Rory McIlroy.
The owner said he is pleased. "It was never about making money, not that I wanted to lose money," he said. The club itself, after stalling during the recession, now has 175 members, with a current full initiation fee of $250,000, and could top out at 250 members or so next year, Fireman said. The average member age is a surprisingly young 42. He said he expects a residential tower near the clubhouse, a delayed part of the original plan, to break ground within a year. "If that plays out like we hope it will and I break even on the whole thing, I'd be thrilled."
Fireman, 69, fell in love with the game as a boy in Brockton, Mass., a small, blue-collar city 25 miles south of Boston. The club where he caddied, Thorny Lea, had an unusual charter requiring a third of the members to be Catholic, a third Protestant and a third Jewish, he said. He was taken under the wing of a Massachusetts state amateur champion named Ed "Smiley" Connell, who showed him respect even as a kid caddie.
"My experience there at Thorny Lea was the strongest, most fundamental thing in my life, even more than parental," he said. "I thought that golf had integrity, so I wanted my life to have integrity. And it showed me the value of respect and mutuality among people, that no one should be treated differently." He said he abhors cliques and snobbish behavior in golf—even at clubs with $250,000 initiation fees—and that he tried in his business life to embrace and empower people from all walks of life.
His persistence at Liberty National, he allowed, might have had something to do with giving back to the game for what the game gave him as a youngster. "I'm going to put my money back somewhere, and this is something I love," he said. "It's a lot better than a tombstone."
Would he do it again, given the wild cost and time overruns? "No," he said without hesitation. "But that's true of a lot of people about a lot of things."
In 1992, Fireman assembled a crew to run in the 635-mile Newport, R.I., to Bermuda yacht race, without knowing much about sailing. "It was miserable. The wind, the rain, 12-foot seas coming over the bow, no sleep, we were sick," he said. He would never do that race again, either, he said, despite his boat having won its division. But you could tell by the way he told the story that he was glad he did it once.
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Proposed license fee hike gets mixed reviews
April 24, 2013
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Belmont County Commissioners held the first of two public hearings Tuesday to discuss a proposed $10 increase in license plate fees....
i bet that every elected official drives a high priced car or truck!! it was our tax money that paid for it!! because of the taxes i am over paying i cant afford a nice vehicle for myself,maintenance,gas,insurance & plates!! who can afford to do any extra traveling other than work & home???
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Maybe you should start fining these stores aroung here that sell drugs a little stiffer fines.It's a shame for the people who live on small Soc Sec checksthat get a VERY SMALL raise every couple years and then find that it is taken for something like this. Cars don't destroy bridges TRUCK do!
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LifeLongOv- good points!!! So tired of these people reaping the benefits while the locals foot the bill.
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What about a temporary resident tax ? One that applies to all the RV's behind Doan Ford, the one's parked here and there ALL over the county's back roads. The ones that will be living in the MF trailer camp, and elsewhere....
You see, they get police protection, fire and ems service,travel our roads, but don't pay any real property taxes.
Furthermore, every one of those shale vehicles have out of state tags.... Why not make them pay for a "special use" county permit ? The same for the coal trucks.
Sorry BC Commissioners, and Fred Bennett, but try living within your means....
WE taxpayers have to, we don't have the luxury of going to our employers and self imposing a raise to make ends meet.
Yet, you politicians feel entitled to do the same to your employers,...which is US VOTERS and taxpayers.
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They say less than 3 cents a day.Than surely they can cut back on there on perks, and save enough money to offset these repair costs.
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what are these elected officials going to do when we the poor people have to move out to a place where we can afford to live?? when the realestate don't sell because the people can't pay taxes here in belmont county?? when they have a majority of the taxable property is empty & the county takes it for back taxes!! what will they do then?? empty homes don't pay taxes or buy license plates.
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I really wish that these people, who are supposed to be representing us,would live just one month on the income that many Belmont countians have. I struggle each month to keep up with my bills, eat as cheaply as I can manage, stay home with little pleasure or extravangances and yet those who have ample income and the bit of power awarded to them have no empathy at all. I would venture to say that senior citizens and low income families ar ethose who least use the roads and bridges and yet thye are affected more than anyone by proposed raises in licensing.Does no one have an understanding of this? I actually get physically anxious when I have to think about how many more corners can I cut.
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I don't live in Belmont, but when my county steals this idea from Belmont, I will be telling them NO! The roads and bridges in this region have been in poor condition for DECADES. This problem didn't develop last week. I think the money problem is because of too many overpaid layers of government. Time for some furloughs at the lower levels. I agree with several here who say that we the people haven't the money to spare.
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I will say it again!! remember all these people next election!! they won't listen to those people that are spelling it out to them that we can't afford anymore fees,what are the people on fixed incomes going to do?? what about people that work part time?? remember next election!! lets encourage someone on a fixed income or a minimum wage job to run for these seats in our county!! who else can set a budget & save money better than someone with a low or fixed income??
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It wasn't long ago I heard a commissioner brag about what great shape belmont county was in.The best shape in years.So what happend.The roads and bridges didn't fall apart over night. Where is the $$$ going.
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I'm with you Bossman. it's total bullcrap. These bridges can't take the weight of the water trucks and the heavy equipment haulers not to mention the coal trucks that travel them. all of these trucks and by the way half them have bald tires and bad brakes should have to be inspected to operate in this county regardless of out of state plates. The inspection will help insure safety and they can pay for the bridges with there fee for their inspection sticker. Most of us will not make one cent from these corporations operating here. why should we have to pay higher fees? BTW that's their new word for taxes. The commissioners new they were coming. they have been communicating with them. they need to communicate something else to them. they are responsible for their needs and damages.
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We pay enough for licenses. I agree that those big companies should be footing the bill. They seem to have money to burn. I don't have any land to get rich from. But I have to endure the inflated prices because of this flood of out of staters THAT DON'T live here. But we have to pay more???? BS!!
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I love the way these AH politicians say thing like "it's only 83 cents a day" They are all children of unmarried parents!
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As mentioned, TAX the coal trucks, oil/gas trucks, frack and water trucks, also "fleets" FedX, UPS, etc.
Make rhe ones tearing up the roads pay for the repair bills.
Mayor Vincenzo "speaking as a private citizen" ????? LOL
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I was just wondering, before we used to get $3600 (or equivalent of and granted kinda limited on what we could use) per year. Now however, that has been chopped down to $1800/year. Even at the discount of all the services for MSDN subscribers, this seems that we are getting less than we were before. Am I missing something?
Also, if we have switched to the new subscription model and we've had websites live already (before the switch) are we in the drawing?
@hjavaher: Yes all active MSDN customers with existing Windows Azure deployments will be included in the drawing :-)
You are right that the MSDN value statement of changed from $3600 vs $1800 and I can understand how this looks like a reduction in value at first glance, however a direct comparison between the old and new offers is misleading. We found that most customers were challenged in getting the full value of the old offer as to use the full monetary allocation customers had to use a specific mix of services together. In practice customers used a sub-set of the services and hit an individual service limit well before they could capture the full value of the offer. For example, in the old model, a customer might hit the virtual machine quota while still having significant unused quota on database or cloud services. That's why in the new model we introduced the flexibility to spend your entire quota on any service in any mix which increases significantly the practical value. In addition we introduced a 33% discount for running Windows Server, stopped charging for virtual machines that were not running, and changing the billing granularity to a minute all of which mean you have more practical dollar value in the new offer.
@Scott Woodgate:Thank you Scott, That clears a lot of things up. I didn't know that we had limited amount on each services and though it was basically one server until the 3600 was over. Thanks
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It is an interesting analysis to see how the male form is conceived aesthetically within two very different contexts and mediums. The seventeenth century painter Guido Reni, and the Italian-Australian fashion photographer, Bruno Benini, were very different individuals. Nonetheless certain characteristics of both men are of comparative interest. Reni and Benini were both Italian. Guido was born in Bologna, home to Europe's first University and a hub of seventeenth century artistic activity; Bruno, in the picturesque Umbrian town of Massa Marittima, sixty-five kilometres south-west of Sienna. Guido and Bruno's depictions of the nude have also both been interpreted by some in erotic terms.
The sensuality of Guido's semi-naked saint, caught between pain and in an ecstasy that transcends the pain of martyrdom, has been seen as erotic by popular art historian Simon Schama. In his series The Power of Art, Saint Theresa's ecstasy by the sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini is even conceived as tantamount to orgasm. None of the male nude photographs by Benini were included in the recent Benini exhibition, Creating the Look: Benini and fashion photography (30 July 2010 – 18 April 2011).
I believe we do a certain injustice to both depictions of the naked form in seeing it predominantly through these post-Freudian eyes. The sensual and sexual are rather contained within both these pictures via conformity to particular aesthetic cultural discourses. In Reni's case, this is embodied in an intimate expression of Classicism and in Bruno's of twentieth century Modernism. For a pre-Freudian, seventeenth century audience, the key to Reni's painting was perceived in the action of the pose. Somewhat related to what the Frenchman Andre Felibien, derivative of Aristotle, called, The Unity of Action. This encapsulated a theoretical belief in pictorial clarity that required the thoughts and intentions of an individual, to be conveyed in the action of the body. Thus the saint's tilted head, the gaze of his eyes and the contraposta of his torso, are all subtly crafted to lead the viewer's thoughts beyond the transience of both sensuality and pain, to a meditation upon the constant and the eternal. The painting is thus carefully set up as an aesthetic paradox between the visual and the intellectual.
In quite a few of Bruno's pictures the body is viewed reductively. This originated with the photographer Alfred Steiglitz, who in the 1930s began photographing parts of the body in isolation. This was a transition from the Formalism of Modernist painting to the camera lens. As such, the body in many of Bruno's photographs becomes an abstracted quasi-architecture. The sensual and erotic are explicitly contained within the confines of an expression of shape for its own sake.
In both pictures we are not simply looking at a naked figure. The erotic and the sensual are not free agents rather both are culturally prescribed, and thus contained, by differing aesthetic discursive agendas.
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Game on the Line? Maybe Kobe Bryant Should Pass
No one can figure out why the superstar fraternity of the Los Angeles Lakers is losing more games than it wins. Here's one reason: It would help if Kobe Bryant made the occasional last-minute shot.
The five-time NBA champion has largely been obliterating opponents this season, averaging 27 points per game while making 46% of his shots. But in the final minute of close games, Bryant has performed more like former teammate Shaquille O'Neal at the free-throw line.
Bryant has made just 25% of his field goals when his team has been tied, or ahead or behind by three points or fewer, in a game's last 60 seconds. His final-minute failures cost his team most recently against the Suns last month, when he put too much zest on a left-handed layup that would have tied the game with 25 seconds left.
Meanwhile, the title of "Captain Clutch" should go to Cleveland's Kyrie Irving, according to the National Basketball Association's new in-depth statistical website, which is set to launch on NBA.com Friday. Irving has sunk 11 of his 17 field goals in these late-game situations, even after missing a potential game-winning shot against the Spurs Wednesday.
On the other hand, Indiana might want to find a late-game alternative to Paul George. In the 21 close games that the Pacers forward has played in this season, he has attempted 12 last-minute field goals. He's missed them all.
George hasn't totally fizzled in these situations. He has made four free throws.
—Stu Woo