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1932 Ford Roadster Pickup - Hot Rod LincolnWritten by Eric Geisert on October 7, 2013 Feature
We all have to start somewhere and for Tony Taormina that was when he spotted a 1932 Ford roadster pickup at a car show way back in 2003. One of the most rare body styles Ford offered that year (some production estimates put the number around 600 units), they are seldom found for sale, which is why Tony, who lives in Reno, Nevada, had such a tough time locating one to purchase. He was, however, able to buy the cowl to a Deuce roadster pickup in Oregon, but there was much more to find.
What he especially liked about them was the cool beltline that ran just under the top edge of the cab—a unique and identifying mark. Looking into it a bit more, Tony happened upon the Benson Ford Research Center in Dearborn, Michigan. Benson Ford is part of The Henry Ford, which includes the Henry Ford Museum and other Ford-related attractions, and it also holds historical records (books, photos, catalogs) of the Ford Motor Company. He ordered a set of original drawings from the Center and, during a five-day seminar in 2004 that was offered by metalbender Fay Butler, he was able to create a set of doors for his project using a Yoder powerhammer.
Tony had great fun working with Butler, whom he believes is not only a true craftsman, but an incredibly patient teacher as well! So after Tony had his doors and his cowl, he still needed the cab, so he contacted Butler to see if he was interested in building one for him. Butler agreed, and soon Tony was on his way to having his dream car.
In 2008, Tony saw the Nov. '08 issue of STREET RODDER that featured Old Speed Hot Rods' roadster pickup on the cover. Slammed on the ground, it was everything Tony wanted for his ride, too, and he contacted Old Speed to build a chassis. Unfortunately, the company went out of business before finishing the car's underpinnings, so Tony turned to Dave Davidson, a racing buddy who owns Vintage Hot Rod Design & Fabrication (VHR) in Chico, California. VHR is serious about their lakes racing heritage, and Dave is a member of both El Mirage's 200 MPH Club and Bonneville's 300 MPH Club.
After meeting to discuss Tony's concept for the pickup, the project started with a strong base: with a 0.120-wall 2x4 custom frame designed and built at VHR. Pegged on the ground, the frame accommodates a '39 Lincoln rearend located with coilovers and long ladder bars as well as a drilled I-beam axle set up with a transverse spring and laid-down shocks (nearly parallel to the ground) that operate via a mini rocker arm assembly. Steering is accomplished with the aid of a Schroeder box whose output shaft pokes out of the side of the cowl. Lincoln brakes are used out back while '41 Ford drums were used up front. To make it a roller, black 16-inch steelies were shod with Firestone rubber (6.00 and 7.50) and then topped with chrome Ford caps.
There are many unique aspects to this hot rod, but one of the best is the Lincoln V-12 engine located up front. First found in 1936 Lincoln Zephyrs, the '36-39 V-12s were 267 inches making 110 hp, which gave the car a top speed of around 90 mph—not bad for a big car in 1936 (later years produced a 292 V-12 as well as a 306-incher).
Running the machine shop end of the business for VHR is John Beck, a longtime lakes competitor and record holder in his own right. Beck assembled Tony's V-12 with oversize (0.030) Egge pistons, a 7.5:1 compression ratio, a custom-ground Isky camshaft, as well as Isky springs and Egge valves. A custom intake for the three Stromberg 97 carbs was made for the motor, and other one-off items were made (such as the fan shroud for the electric fan and the exhaust system) before the S-10 T5 transmission was bolted up.
Bodywork, handled chiefly by VHR's Andrew Calkins, was next and before VHR's David Sapp sprayed out the PPG semi-satin green acrylic urethane over the body and bed, the grille shell was shortened for proportion. To give the ride the look of nose art from a World War II bomber, Nick Knezic (Paradise, CA) was tapped to add the bomb-riding hottie to both sides of the cowl as well as the pinstripe on the hubcaps and around the car.
The handcrafted body and V-12 might be enough for some people, but the interior in Tony's ride merits acclaim all by itself. Carrying on the World War II bomber theme, the roadster pickup boasts more than 4,000 aircraft rivets laid out across various parts and interior pieces.
Among the areas adorned with rivets is the pocket-and-heel step sectioned into the trans tunnel, the door panels and cab back, and around the gauge cluster on the dash. Individual bomber seats are sprayed with flattened green paint, and simple leather upholstery from Don Higgins Upholstery in Chico, California, is used on the seat's base and backpiece. Under the dash is a vintage Sun tachometer and wiring by Jerry Bermudez, and the four-spoke steering wheel was wrapped at Paul's Quality Upholstery in Chico.
After the pickup was completed, it made its debut at the 2012 Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona, California, where it won first in the Altered Rod Truck, Pre-1935 class. But a show winner or not, the car turned out the way Tony wanted it to and, after being involved in the hot rod hobby for 50 years, that certainly made it a winner in his eyes.
Just the Facts
Year: 1932
Make: Ford
Model: Roadster Pickup
Owner: Tony Taormina
State: Nevada
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VHR designed both the pickup's frame and suspension, which uses a rocker arm and laid-over shock setup. The frame and suspension pieces were coated by Platinum Powdercoating in Chico, CA.No airbags on this pickup—it sits this way all the time. Tony Taormina and Fay Butler teamed up on scratch-building the body and bed, and Vintage Hot Rod Design and Fabrication sprayed the satin green PPG color.More than 4,000 aircraft rivets can be found on this hot rod, and most of them are in the cockpit! The wrapped four-spoke steering wheel from Paul's Quality Upholstery controls the Schroeder steering box that exits through the side of the cowl.Check out the kick in the rear! That's how VHR was able to get the pickup down in the weeds. The rest of the chassis is taken up with 12 cylinders of Lincoln Zephyr engine. Once the steel body was fabricated and dropped in place, the project started to come together.Rivets are also found around the gauge cluster, and the subtle pinstriping on the dash is from Nick Knezic, who also created the artwork on the cowl.Check out the kick in the rear! That's how VHR was able to get the pickup down in the weeds. The rest of the chassis is taken up with 12 cylinders of Lincoln Zephyr engine. Once the steel body was fabricated and dropped in place, the project started to come together.The pocket-and-heel step adds some much-needed room for the driver's foot, and a custom shift lever controls the T5 transmission taken from an S-10 pickup.The pocket-and-heel step adds some much-needed room for the driver's foot, and a custom shift lever controls the T5 transmission taken from an S-10 pickup.
More lightening holes are found in the cab's bracing, and the aircraft seatbelts are a nice touch. The aluminum door panels are a nice bit of metalwork, too.A riveted piece of aluminum covers the custom frame found under the roadster pickup, and an electric fuel pump is used to pull gas from the custom tank found in the bed.


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After hearing about some of the features in 12.10, I decided to upgrade my Ubuntu from 12.04 LTS to the newer 12.10. However, when I try to upgrade it, I start the update manager, like always, and I start the distro upgrade, just like I do every time there's a new version, but at the end of the "Setting new software channels" stage, it fails, saying:
Could not calculate the upgrade
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
This can be caused by:
- Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
- Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
- Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
If none of this applies, then please report this bug using the command 'ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core' in a terminal.
What should I do? I understand that I have some sort of "broken" package on my system, but how do I identify and remove the problem?
Note: At the start of the "Setting new software channels" stage, I was presented with this:
Third party sources disabled
Some third party entries in your sources.list were disabled. You can re-enable them after the upgrade with the 'software-properties' tool or your package manager.
Well, it was a real pain, but I actually re-downloaded the 12.04 iso, burned it to a CD (my computer has decided to stop booting from USB,) re-installed 12.04, and immediately upgraded to 12.10. I then went to sleep. When I got up in the morning, it seemed to be stalled on
flashplugin-installer:downloading http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_18.104.22.168.orig.tar.gz.
I checked my internet, but, aside from the occasional packet bursts that keep my computer connected to my Wi-Fi, there was no usage. I think that it has stalled somehow.
Okay, it was about an hour from the time I saw the error till the time I edited this. It's been about an hour since. 2 hours stalling, plus any time that it has been doing this before I checked it - this is a serious problem. (NOTE: it already passed the "point of no return," where it said that there will be no going back after this step has been completed.)
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Nuke the Moon: 5 Certifiably Insane Cold War Projects
#2. Operation Northwoods
The United States just plain doesn't like Cuba. And it's easy to see why: It just hangs out down there, suspiciously close to Florida's personal space, looking like it's about to reach out and touch America's Dong at any minute. That just doesn't sit right with us, man.
No homo.
From 1962 to 1964, the CIA compiled an exhaustive collection of plans to help topple Cuba. Aside from the obvious "country-wide wedgies" and the sinister "tell South America they've been talkin' shit," there were far more disturbing ideas under consideration.
One of the most prominent plans was Operation Northwoods, a proposal to create terrorism on American soil, blame it on Cuba and thus give the U.S. a reason to bomb the living shit out of Castro.
There are nine separate, documented suggestions for home-grown terrorism plots, and they range from blowing up an American ship in Guantanamo Bay, to sinking a boatload of Cuban immigrants en route to Florida. One instance even proposed that John Glenn's rocket should "mysteriously" explode shortly after launch, and that the entire incident be blamed on Cuba. This was probably scrapped when they remembered the memo from Project A119 that implied all astronauts were walking atomic weapons.
"Them cats we fuckin' with put bombs in your mom's gas tank" - Official report advising against attacking Glenn by the esteemed Professor B.I.G.
We should also reiterate at this point that these were not fringe groups we're talking about: The entire operation was approved by all the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Nobody saw a problem with it--except President Kennedy, who thankfully realized the implications of Northwood (i.e. that punching yourself in the face as an excuse to punch somebody else in the face was not a valid military strategy) and ultimately rejected it. Most of the documents involving Operation Northwoods were de-classified in 1997, and are now serving out their life-sentences as conspiracy theorist porn all across the Internet.
#1. Project Horizon
In 1959, the U.S. Army began looking into the possibility of putting a military base on the Moon. And hey, that's not too crazy, right? We're still trying to do that now, aren't we? It sounds perfectly reasonable... until you realize that this was 10 years before we even landed on the Moon.
That's not just putting the cart before the horse; that's putting the cart before the horse, executing the horse, then launching the cart into space so that no future horse will ever hope to see it again.
Pictured: The actual report's depiction of the $6-million base. Not pictured: Any feasible way of accomplishing this.
And the base wasn't even meant for scientific advancement or as a launching point to further explore space: It was specifically and solely to prove that we were the rightful owners of the Moon. That's right: In the year 1959, the United States of America nearly sunk $6-million dollars trying to steal the Moon itself.
But as an even further "fuck you" to a world that probably already got the point (about the fucking) the base itself would also house portable nukes and be surrounded by landmines. What, exactly, was that going to prevent? Was there a serious danger that other countries--who had also never set foot on the planetoid--suddenly just would decide to "go to the Moon" and, once there, "run really fast at the Moon base" so that they might be stopped by landmines?
The brilliant masterminds behind Project Horizon.
Finally, the entire project was supposed to be constructed by exactly two--count them, TWO men--who would assemble the 220 tons of equipment that would be needed for the project.
It takes an average of eight dudes a solid calendar year to build one shelving unit from IKEA, and we were expecting two guys to hand-assemble a giant functioning nuclear base in 1/4 Earth's gravity on a celestial body which no human being had ever previously set foot on?
If the men in question weren't astronauts, we would question the feasibility of that situation. But we all know that if you can't afford millions of dollars of advanced technology, you can always just sub one astronaut and wait for the success to roll in.
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By IGOR GURYASHKIN
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Some of the most iconic sporting moments have taken place on golf courses. It's hard to mistake the iconic final day red adorned by Tiger Woods as he made his way up countless fairways and greens on his way to armfuls of major titles with the occasional fist pump thrown in. One of the places where he won was the PGA Championship in Louisville, that included an opening two rounds playing alongside Jack Nicklaus, making his final appearance a fitting finale given it was Nicklaus who has also designed the very course Woods would triumph on several days later. And so, history comes full circle.
From August 4-10, Valhalla Golf Club at the eastern tail end of Shelbyville Road will play host to the 2014 PGA Championship, one of golf's four majors tournaments, one that sporting greats like Woods have won right here in this very city. But this year is perhaps a little different than other years, further proof that Louisville is fast becoming one of the most fanatical sports towns in the United States. According to tournament director Brett Sterba, this year's tournament has sold out in record time.
"We have accomplished the fastest sales in the 96-year history of the PGA Championship, so it's something great for Louisville and something it can hang its hat on," Sterba said. "We have ticket sales for all 50 states and 13 different countries, and that makes it a national and truly international event. Having somebody come from all 50 states is a big deal. Someone in Alaska bought tickets."
If ticket sales are any indicator of how passionate fans in Kentucky are for sports, then Sterber has seen that in abunance in his time here in Louisville's since he moved over a year and a half ago to help organize this year's staging."Louisville is a market that you would normally place in the top 50, and you would expect a market in the top 10 cities to accomplish these goals, but it's further proof of how a community like this supports special events like the Derby and the PGA Championship and the Ryder Cup," he said.
Perhaps one reason why Louisville's version of the PGA Championship may be the best yet is due to the PGA's core belief in exposing young people to golf. Additionally, encouraging members of the armed forces to attend events is easily enacted so close to Fort Knox.
"Friday, Saturday and Sunday tickets have all sold out," Sterba said. "And the week-long ticket for the event which is called the Wanamaker sold out in two weeks," so the ones left to sell are Monday through Thursday, the practice rounds and the opening day of the championship. But the practice round days are the days when you can come and watch the players work out and get autographs, and they're really fit for juniors.
"One of the beauties of the PGA of America is that we allow all juniors 17 and younger free entry to the event all week long with a ticketed adult (up to four juniors)," Sterba said. "That means they can come with a ticketed adult even on days we have sold out. So you can come with your spouse and bring eight kids, all for less than $50. I think that's a pretty good deal."
The same goes for members of the armed forces, who get free entry on all days.
"All week long, active and retired military get in free to the championship, as well as their spouses, and that's including on days that we're sold out because one of the initiatives that the PGA pushes is trying to give back to those who serve our country and to also help grow the game of golf and expose juniors to the game," Sterba said.
But if Valhalla and the PGA Championship is a dream for countless golf fans around the world, it would not have been possible had it not been for another dream – that of Louisville businessman Dwight Gahm, who for years had envisioned Louisville in possession of a world-class golf facility. So in 1981, Gahm, along with his sons Walt, Gordy and Phil, commissioned another golfing behemoth, Jack Nicklaus, to design and build a course that would envelope 486 acres of Kentucky farmland. But what good was a championship level course without a championship to host? Having completed Valhalla in 1986, Gahm quickly started to petition the Professional Golf Association of America to stage the PGA Championship, one of golf's four majors. The first one was staged in 1996, won by Mark Brooks – his only major, before Tiger Woods triumphed when the tournament returned in 2000.
Right now, the course is still in its most genteel state, with weekday members populating the course and shooting errant balls around the place. There is little sign of what is about to come. But take a drive on a cart with Sterba and it's easy to see how much work goes into staging a tournament of this magnitude. Take the 65,000-square-foot apartment-sized venue being staged at one end of the course, where up to 10,000 fans will congregate to eat, drink and enjoy the action, only to then vanish once the tournament is over.
"People always ask us, 'Why are you here for two years?'" Sterba said with a laugh. "But the answer is that it's not just about those seven days. We have to plan everything. We always say that a major championship experience begins when a person gets in their car. If you have a poor experience because of traffic and we weren't routing people the right way, that affects your day and what you may think of the PGA Championship. So the moment you get in your car to the moment you get back to your driveway, that's your major championship experience, not only the time you spend on-site. And we have to get that right."
For Sterba, once the final putt is sunk on the amphitheatrical final green on a balmy August evening, he has a few months before he has to start packing and readying for yet another move and one more major championship to stage. Another two-year cycle begins, like the ones that have included for him and his wife residences in Chicago, Minneapolis, Charleston, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and, of course, Louisville. But the Cleveland native will have fond memories of Louisville and the people who worship sports so much in the bluegrass.
"Louisville has been quite special, and as a whole, Charleston and Louisville have been the most welcoming of cities to us," he said. "Maybe it's the Southern charm, but when you walk around, people will say 'hi' to you. In other places it just doesn't happen. And it's why we really like it here."
As for now, with only a few months left until the 2014 PGA Championship Sterba has put the finishing touches on Louisville's latest sporting extravaganza. Eight hundred semi trucks will arrive before 250 buses start ferrying the 46,000 attendees, hoping to catch a glimpse of golfing history in the perfect setting.
"We really want people to leave his year thinking that they went to their best sporting experience," he said.
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Those who read my recent post on Mason & Taylor would have also read about their sister pub The Duke of Wellington in Dalston. Though being CAMRA"North London Pub Of The Season" Spring 2010 you may already have had the pleasure. It has as yet been unfeatured and I felt it about time to put this right and do a good deed in the process, with a mention of their forthcoming Winter Ale Festival.
As yet I've only had a chance to get to one of the Duke's Festivals as they always seem to fall when I'm out of town or otherwise engaged; and this one is no exception! So if there's a chance that I can't make it I can hopefully live vicariously through you. Go on. You know it makes sense. With Burns Night on the 25th January the festival will exclusively feature brewers from North of the Border. Expect to sample:
Fyne Ales (Jarl, Highlander, Vital Spark),
Brewdog (Alpha Dog, Rip Tide, 5am Saint),
Harviestoun (Bitter & Twisted, Schiehallion),
Williams Brothers (7 giraffes, Midnight Sun),
Cairngorm (Trade Winds, Black Gold),
Kelburn (Cart Blanche, Dark Moor),
Tryst (Blathan, Raj IPA),
To name but a few!
It's sure to be a cracking event as the list above proves; so get yourself down and have a half for me.
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I'm interested in precisely extracting portions of a PCM WAV file, down to the sample level. Most audio modules seem to rely on platform-specific audio libraries. I want to make this cross platform and speed is not an issue, are there any native python audio modules that can do this?
If not, I'll have to interpret the PCM binary. While I'm sure I can dig up the PCM specs fairly easily, and raw formats are easy enough to walk, I've never actually dealt with binary data in Python before. Are there any good resources that explain how to do this? Specifically relating to audio would just be icing.


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McDIFFITT, Michael Edward, 54, of Toronto, OH, passed away suddenly on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, at his home.
Mike was born on Dec. 20, 1957, in Weirton, WV, son of the late Larry and Betty Williamson McDiffitt.
Mike loved playing the drums especially with his daughter, Andrea. He was employed as a Technician with Deltech Corp. in Newell, WV. Mike was formerly employed by Weirton Steel Corp. where he worked in the Tin Mill.
In addition to his parents, Mike was preceded in death by his father and mother-in-law, Carl and Dorothy Yarosz.
Mike leaves behind his wife, Martha Yarosz McDiffitt and his daughter, Andrea both of the home; his brother, Larry "Crock" McDiffitt of Police Lodge, WV; sister-in-law Judy Ann Yarosz of Toronto, OH; his four brothers-in-law, Steve (Marjorie) Yarosz of Columbus, OH, Gary (Vickie) Yarosz, Carl (Robin) Yarosz and Ron Yarosz all of Toronto, OH.
Visitation and Funeral Service for Mike will be held on Thursday, Dec. 20, from 5-9 p.m. with his service starting at 8:30 p.m. at the J.E. Foster Funeral Home in Toronto, OH. Rev. Michael Bongart will officiate Mike's service and burial will be held at the convenience of the family.
In lieu of flowers the family has asked that memorial donations be made in Mike's memory to the Toronto High School Band c/o Toronto High School Third and Myers St. Toronto, OH 43964.
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Dennis Chaney, with BRADD, says: "From 1982 until December of 2004 the Barren River District has a total of 145 individuals who have developed AIDS."
And the numbers are on the rise.
Chaney says: "In 2004 there were 11 reported cases of individuals who had developed HIV. The year before that, there were only six."
The health department offers education about HIV prevention.
Since the minority AIDS program was shut down in 2003, some in the African American community feel there is a need for more.
Alonzo Webb says, "I feel that we still need a program like the Kentucky minority AIDS program because I think we had great impact within the black community."
He says there's still some sense of denial that HIV could happen to them.
Webb says, "There's still a denial. There's still a denial within the African American community and the community overall."
Although HIV is more prevalent in larger cities both Chaney and Webb say now is the time we should focus on how to prevent it in our area.
Chaney says, "It's hard to determine exactly how a;; the needs can be met for someone living with HIV positive or full-blown AIDS. Social support, mental support, and just the whole emotional well-being of managing that."
Webb says, "We have a rising population within the Hispanic community. I feel there's a great need to reach out to the black and white community."
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As you can see from my posts on the various forums, I love to think "outside the box".
Back in 2009 (or there abouts) I suggested to Nick the Nadir adapter, ring mount pano head and a ring mount adapter kit for the NN3. Nick and his distributors were not as enthusiastic as I was about the ideas. Fast forward to 2010/2011. We now have the Nadir adapter and a ring mount pano head (kind of, sort of, about 98% there). Can a ring mount adapter kit for the NN3 be just around the corner?
There are most likely people out there who get tired of seeing me make stuff. I say "too bad". Making pano gear is a way to combine two of my hobbies: machining and panography. When I put my camera on a pano head I also hold up my micrometer to see how precise I can position the camera. The level of precision I seek is not required. This is, after all, supposed to be fun.
Do not ever be afraid to "think outside the box" and voice your thoughts. How else will new equipment come to market? Take a look at ( web site omitted due to conflict of interests ) See anything new in the last several years? NOPE.
I am in a very fortunate position that I can actually make pretty much whatever I want in order to bring a concept to life. You do not want to know how much the first ring mount pano head with a built in Nadir adapter actually cost me to make, both in materials and time. Lets just say that the retail price of the M1L does not come close. Here is the "proof of concept" for the Nadir adapter: www.dlsphoto.net/Panoguide/1st_attempt.jpg Here is the final product: www.dlsphoto.net/NadarBracket/1.JPG. You have no idea how many steps and variations I went through getting from point A to point B. Most of the stuff I make actually works. Some of it does not.
Keep the ideas coming. There is a company out there that actually listens.


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Any suggestions besides the obvious pencil or highlighting with colours? I am stumped, this was trickier than I thought. It is for a search function/filter if that helps but a universal symbol would be prefered.
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Does it need to be an icon? A number of the editors I use show an asterisk next to the file name in the title bar to indicate that the file has been changed.
What are the things you need to show that have changed? I might make something related to that. Something truly universal can be difficult; I've seen people use a triangle to symbolize a "delta" but that is too mathematical for most people to get.
Whatever icon you select is likely to be specific to a given culture, so consistency is likely to be more important than the actual icon.
Things I've seen used ...
As a side thought: I think highlighting modified fields is a good idea.
Maybe a pencil erasing a sheet of paper?


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STEUBENVILLE - The head of the Western Reserve Land Conservancy says Ohioans can't afford to see their farmlands laid to waste any more than they can afford to turn their backs on the oil and gas industry.
But, left unchecked, WRLC President and Chief Executive Officer Rich Cochran said that's exactly what will happen.
"Land conservation and oil and gas development can be done in harmony," Cochran said during a public forum Wednesday evening at Eastern Gateway Community College. "We've noticed the landowners of Eastern Ohio are really excited to hear there's middle ground, they don't want to have a war fought on their farms."
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PUBLIC FORUM — Rich Cochran chatted with a member of the Western Reserve Land Conservancy at a public forum Wednesday at Eastern Gateway Community College in Steubenville. Cochran, president and CEO of the nonprofit, said conservationists and the oil and gas industry have to find a way to "cooperatively and creatively" co-exist. -- Linda Harris
Cochran said "cooperation and creativity," not extremism, is the answer.
"What we've learned by studying oil and gas development around the world is that it tends to be done in the context of a fight, and when you're fighting you can't be cooperating and creative."
WRLC's strategy for the Utica-Point Pleasant region, dubbed "Uncommon Ground for the Common Good," is, in his words, an "ambitious effort to develop a shared vision for the land area that overlays a world-class oilfield called the Utica Point Pleasant formation" of eastern Ohio.
"There are no real winners when an oilfield becomes a battlefield," he wrote in that report. "In the end, due to the world's addiction to fossil fuels, the oil and gas always gets extracted, the opposition loses, the businesses spend more money to make less money, the local people who were there before the extraction are the only ones left in the end. What are they left with? An old battlefield, destroyed by the battle, on which the environmental and social devastation is sometimes bad enough to create ghost towns overnight.
"Having studied this situation in eastern Ohio for more than two years now, we have drawn the conclusion that if this oilfield becomes a battlefield, we will all lose because during battles it is impossible to be deliberate, planful, cooperative and constructive. Everyone is angry. Things get destroyed. Nothing good happens."
The strategy calls for WRLC to identify essential natural resources as well as areas suited to natural gas development.
"The bottom line of the WRLC plan is to provide for development of shale gas while at the same time preserving and improving our natural surface resources so that after the gas has been extracted, we are left with the natural assets essential to long-term prosperity; productive farmland, clean water and healthy forests," Cochran wrote.
He told Wednesday's audience WRLC, a non-profit, believes "our work can help provide a foundation for an enduring and prosperous community."
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My doctor has asked me to consider a clinical trial as my treatment. Are these trials safe? Could it really be better than the treatment that most people get for pancreatic cancer?
Christina Bach, Oncology Social Worker at Penn Medicine responds:
Participating in clinical trial is a personal decision but also an opportunity to participate in the future of cancer treatment in the present!
All clinical trials must be approved by the institutional review board (IRB) to be certain that they are as free of risk for the participants as possible.
With cancer clinical trials you will always receive at least the standard of care (the established standard treatment for your type of cancer) +/- an experimental drug or dose of a drug to see if it impacts the efficacy of that standard of care.
Clinical trials are safe and well monitored by research specialists at cancer treatment sites. You can learn more about available clinical trials through OncoLink's Clinical Trials Marching Service at http://www.oncolink.org/treatment/trials.cfm
Very few patients actually participate in clinical trials and this participation is SO KEY to understanding treatments, how they work and as well as how to improve survival rates. If you can participate, I highly encourage you to do so.
Ursina Teitelbaum, MD, Medical Oncologist at Penn Medicine adds,
When patients are enrolled on clinical trials, there are many safeguarding mechanisms in place to keep people safe. Our hope is that we can improve upon the standard of care and offer you the opportunity for treatments not conventionally available although there is no guarantee within the context of a clinical trial that it is in fact better. All of our standard available therapies went through this rigorous trials process also. If a patient is fit enough, we always try to offer them the opportunity to enroll in a clinical trial. It is, however, a personal choice and not the right fit for everyone and we will take excellent care of you whether or not you are enrolled in a trial. You can also sign up for a trial and decide it is not for you so it is not a binding contract, just an opportunity.
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|By slapping a battery inside a 20-inch touch-screen all-in-one to make the Sony Vaio Tap 20, the company has given birth to a new PC category with great potential in tech-savvy homes. (MCT)
Every year we roll out our fall list of the products getting the most attention from readers, and every year it ends up being a list dominated by phones. But not this year. No, this time you guys are spicing things up with a surprising mix of products. Here's what's getting your attention right now.
Sony Vaio Tap 20
CNET rating: 3.5 stars out of 5 (Very good)
The good: By slapping a battery inside a 20-inch touch-screen all-in-one to make the Sony Vaio Tap 20, the company has given birth to a new PC category with great potential in tech-savvy homes.
The bad: The touch screen has some frustrating drag, and Sony made a few missteps among some otherwise reasonable sacrifices for portability and price.
The cost: $999.99
The bottom line: A compelling experiment in tablet-desktop hybridization, the Sony Vaio Tap 20 is a great fit for home tech enthusiasts willing to try something new.
Toshiba Portege Z935-P300
CNET rating: 3.5 stars out of 5 (Very good)
The good: The Toshiba Portege Z935-P300 has very good features, performance and battery life for its price and is very thin and very light.
The bad: The Z935-P300's keyboard may be too small for some users and the laptop doesn't feel particularly sturdy, especially the lid and display.
The cost: $779.99 to $876
The bottom line: The Toshiba Portege Z935-P300 is an excellent ultrabook value if you can overlook its few design shortcomings.
Apple iPad Mini
CNET rating: 4 stars out of 5
The good: The iPad Mini's ultrathin and light design makes it seem far more intimate and booklike than the larger iPad, and its cameras, storage capacities, optional LTE antenna and general functionality offer a full iPad experience. The screen's dimensions elegantly display larger-format magazines and apps.
The bad: The iPad Mini costs too much, especially considering the lower resolution of its 7.9-inch display, which isn't a Retina Display. The A5 processor isn't as robust as the one in the fourth-gen iPad and iPhone 5. Typing on the smaller screen is not quite as comfy.
The cost: $329.99 to $549.99
The bottom line: If you want the full, polished Apple tablet experience in a smaller package, the iPad Mini is worth the premium price. Otherwise, good alternatives are available for less money.
Apple iPhone 5
CNET rating: 4 stars out of 5
The good: The iPhone 5 adds everything we wanted in the iPhone 4S: 4G LTE, a longer, larger screen, free turn-by-turn navigation, and a faster A6 processor. Plus, its top-to-bottom redesign is sharp, slim, and featherlight.
The bad: Apple Maps feels unfinished and buggy; Sprint and Verizon models can't use voice and data simultaneously; the smaller connector renders current accessories unusable without an adapter; there's no NFC; and the screen size pales in comparison with jumbo Android models.
The cost: $199.99
The bottom line: The iPhone 5 completely rebuilds the iPhone on a framework of new features and design, addressing its major previous shortcomings. It's absolutely the best iPhone to date, and it easily secures its place in the top tier of the smartphone universe.
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Welcome to the Dragons Den. Youre here because you want to become the owner of a Third Division Scottish Football Club. What you must do is persuade the Dragon (thats me) to part with 50 million of his hard earned to allow you to purchase a club and get it off to a flying start in the game. Can you make the right decisions at the start to take your chosen club to the top of the Scottish game? I wont be giving out any cash unless you come up with a solid business plan.
The Dragon has of course spoken to the SFL and has their full backing for the idea. There are a few provisos though. Each club must have a brand new, all-seater stadium built, along with both training and youth facilities. The SFL have not stipulated a minimum level on the standard of these facilities, but it is hoped they will be of the highest order, for the benefit of the Scottish game.
All of the new chairmen will be young entrepreneurs and are just 30 years of age, and each of these individuals is of varying competence. As such, each has been asked to make a donation to charity which they believe reflects their current and future abilities as owners of football clubs. If the individuals feel they have (in addition to the dragons money) sufficiently deep pockets to be described as sugar daddies, they must lodge a non-returnable bond of 5,000,000 up front. All of this will come from your initial 50 million.
All of the clubs will start with a clean slate, ie, none will have any players, and will be in a position whereby they need to get a whole squad together by the start of the 2007/8 season. The new chairmen can however appoint a manager, who will be a previously unknown individual, and it will cost them to appoint a decent one.
With all clubs starting out as equals, what will the long term effects of this be? Which teams will be able to rise through the divisions? Will they all ultimately replace the top teams in the SPL? Can they possibly challenge the notorious Old Firm of the Scottish game?
There are a couple of things to note for anyone wanting to take part. I want to do this as an experiment; therefore I want you to put some thought into how your club will look and make it distinct from the others. Will starting out with a massive rep see you blow the others out the water? Should you keep a horde of cash in the bank to blitz the other teams? Should you max out training and youth facilities? Will creating a relatively massive stadium lead to eventual success?
Secondly, theres going to be a bit of maths involved .
Note: I imagine this will take a while to sign up, if anyone at all is even interested. As such it gives me time to rattle through Disharmony, so no fears there. Also, once underway I would envisage updates being about twice a year as we want to see fairly quick progress once under way. Also, hats off to canvey!! for the Apprentice idea; and apologies to anyone running a create a team sign up, I hope this is different


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I recently switched a Django project from sqlite3 to postgres. I'd like to read db password from a module placed in a hidden directory.
db.py # DB_PASSWORD = 'mypassword'
How do I import DB_PASSWORD from the db module placed in the hidden .secrets directory? The following doesn't work (ImportError):
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7 Common Survival Tactics (that Will Get You Killed)
#3. When Dying of Thirst, Eat Snow
It's the first snowfall! You throw on your polar bear jammies, grab your mittens and bound outside. You innocently frolic and skip your way through the winter wonderland, hurling snowballs at imaginary foes and just generally cavorting with the reckless abandon of a Disney character. But when the endorphins wear off, you look up and see nothing but an army of identical snow-covered trees. You're lost.
Stranded. Your child-like joy has likely doomed you (again). You're going to need shelter, food and water soon. But wait a sec; you're surrounded by water in convenient powdered form! Well, shove it in, big guy!
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If your goal is to preserve your frozen corpse, packing it with snow is a terrific idea. Yes, the snow will turn to liquid when you eat it, but mostly it'll rob your body of precious heat. Instead, stuff the snow in a container and put in between layers of your clothes (not directly against your skin) so your radiant body heat might melt it without directly leeching the heat from you.
Also, be at least a little discerning about the snow you consume in the woods: That's where the Pope shits. Wait... was that right? We forget how that joke goes.
#2. When Stranded at Sea, Drink Your Own Pee
If the visionary film Waterworld taught us anything, it's that it is totally okay to drink your own pee. So when the bombs start to fall, you don't need to worry about irradiated water supplies; you know to just lean back with a lovely pee cocktail in your hand and let out a sigh of satisfaction, for you've beaten the end of days...
How do you think Arnold did it?
The Result:
...by dying. Funny thing about urine: Your body doesn't want it. That's why your body politely asked it to leave in the first place. More specifically, it's the salt in your pee your body needs out. Salt dehydrates the body and by introducing more of it in recycling your urine, you'll dry up faster than Kevin Costner's career (Caution: Low flying zingers!)
Kevin who now?
Instead of squeezing juice out of your own salty udder, maybe you should hit up that glowing pond after all. Sure, you'll die that way too, but at least it's dignified; nobody will put "drank too much of his own piss" on your tombstone.
#1. When Lost in Desert, Get Water from a Cactus
Jesus, according to that title you're lost in the desert now? What is it with you and traversing into the wild without supplies? Did you feel bloated before taking that treacherous nature hike? Seriously: Bottled water=Not expensive. Fine, let's see if we can keep you from killing yourself, AGAIN. Well, didn't you once hear you can get water from a cactus? Let's try that.
Not from cacti
The Result:
You lop off the top of the nearest cactus to find not aqua, but mushy green innards. Well, that's gross. But that's just like nature, isn't it? Always fuckin' you when you're already properly fucked. Ah well, you must be able to squeeze some liquid out of that, right? You do so, gratefully downing the putrid, life-saving fluid....aaaaand that's when the vomiting and diarrhea begin!
See, the alkaloid-rich mash inside cacti only makes you sick, thus dehydrating you even faster. If you really need water, you could consider constructing a solar still (like the one shown here) which collects water using controlled evaporation and the sun to pull moisture from the ground and...aw, hell, who are we kidding? You're wandering off into the snow, getting in fistfights with sharks, and we actually had to convince you not to drink your own piss up there. You're dead and a half by now. The best you can hope to do is leave a hilarious corpse. Try to die giving the double bird; archeologists finding your corpse in the future will probably get a laugh out of that.
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Is there some kind of "best disk partitioning scheme" for a Linux-based web and application developer machine, in terms of performance, organization or others?
Partitioning doesn't affects performance so much, but file systems and its configuration affects perfomance yes. Look at this benchmark. Little information about mounting options - fstab, especially look at atime options.
Partitioning has nothing with organization files in Linux, because in Linux is everything mounted into one tree.
I recommend one partition for system -
edit: You may make partitions/disks based on files organization and their importance.
For example, you have got projects and documents which are very precious, then you can have them on RAID-ed disks. Also you may have remote disk mounted with ssh/ftp.
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To mount
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On our internal developement virtual machines we use three partitions:
The reason to separate the partitions is to avoid a system halt due to full filesystem. If
On physical machines, where disk space does not matter that much, we divide up additional "partitions" (mostly LVs), including:
At a minumum, I'd do:
1 partion for / 1 partition for /home (this would be most of the space)
I used to make separate partitions for
As for making a
Now, I just have one partition for everything, and I don't come anywhere near filling it up. Personal media (movies, games, shows) go on an external HD, so that I can take it to a friend's house. For virtual machines, which have to be virtual appliances in virtualbox if you want to move them, I like to have a dedicated flash drive for each one.
I've never seen a HD crash, but if it did, I don't think it would matter how the physical drive was partitioned; it would just be dead. The riskiest thing I've ever done with my HD is resizing partitions, which is no longer necessary.


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Today I walked around Philadelphia hitting all of the historical sites I could. Yes, I visited the first AND the second Bank of the United States because that's how I roll. For lunch I stopped by Blackbird Pizzeria, a completely vegan pizza place that sits just south of the historical district on South 6th Street and Lombard. This was actually the second time I ate here (well, third because I came a few years ago when it was Gianna's Grille), but this time I had my camera. I just love the concept as well as the simple yet sufficient menu.
The first time I got a simple pepperoni and cheese slice and a mushroom slice. This time, cherry tomatoes, garlic, and tofu topped with Daiya, and a red onion and sausage slice.
All in all, not bad. I love the big slices and super thin New York style crust. The mushroom slice was a touch greasy, and I prefer the pieces with less Daiya rather than more. My only complaint is that the crust is dry. I like a pliable crust that can be folded to accommodate its thinness. Still, I love the convenience of being able to drop in and choose a variety of pizza slices and will be sure to visit one more time before I leave the city.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Vegan Dad on the Road: Blackbird Pizzeria
Today I walked around Philadelphia hitting all of the historical sites I could. Yes, I visited the first AND the second Bank of the United States because that's how I roll. For lunch I stopped by Blackbird Pizzeria, a completely vegan pizza place that sits just south of the historical district on South 6th Street and Lombard. This was actually the second time I ate here (well, third because I came a few years ago when it was Gianna's Grille), but this time I had my camera. I just love the concept as well as the simple yet sufficient menu.
Posted by Vegan Dad at 6:09 PM
Labels: restaurants
20 comments:
- Carolyn said...
Concur on the less cheese, not more, verdict. Perhaps vegan enterprises have to learn that they do not need to reproduce the excesses of omni cuisine. Too much cheese is just that, too much, whether it is plant or animal based. A topping should not dominate the underlying dish, ever. When I adapt omni recipes, or even when I start with vegan recipes, the cheese component is frequently reduced because it is excessive.
- July 23, 2011 at 8:21 PM
- AikoVenus said...
Ooh that sounds delicious! I'm so glad that there are more and more veggie-friendly restaurants. %%
- July 23, 2011 at 8:40 PM
- isabella777! said...
so u just go all around the country looking for vegan resturanat and reviewing them? if you do LUCKY!!! 2 things one im vegetarian thinking about going vegan but i love cheese so havent made that step yet umm oh and im isssy im going to follow you cuz i thnk wat u do is amazing
- July 24, 2011 at 12:31 AM
- Separatist said...
Just a quick hello and congrats on becoming a Blog of note.
I am extremely jealous of your position!! :(
- July 24, 2011 at 7:18 AM
- vegan.in.brighton said...
I would love to be able to just go & grab a slice of pizza!
- July 24, 2011 at 7:58 AM
- Johanna said...
When we were in Philly, we had vegan Dim Sum to the point of exploding (China Town), and went to Horizon's. Very, very good.
- July 24, 2011 at 8:33 AM
- Valerie Reanne said...
if you are still in philly and would like to cool down with some ice cream, i've heard Franklin Fountain on Market St. (between 1st and 2nd St) has several soy flavors that are really good!
- July 24, 2011 at 12:07 PM
- CHoward86 said...
Thats amazing. I wish there were places like that around here. (West Virginia)
- July 24, 2011 at 1:17 PM
- bourgeois gal said...
I'm a "less is more" with the daiya cheese as well...when it gets a touch crispy, I like it best! If you ever make it to St Louis, try Pi Pizzeria. They have vegan options, including soysage and daiya, which they often overload, so we ask for "light cheese" when we order, and it's really delish!
Thanks for sharing the Philly find!
- July 24, 2011 at 1:26 PM
- Ali :D said...
I love how you can show amazing foods for vegetarians which really shows to us "meat eaters" how vegetarian food has amazing taste and variety.
- July 24, 2011 at 10:31 PM
- "Cottage By The Sea" said...
yummmmmm. Now I'm hungry.
- July 24, 2011 at 10:32 PM
- VeggieLow said...
i know what you mean about dry crust! drives me crazy. if you ever visit the DC area, there is a place called roscoe's in takoma park that has the most amazing pizza crust i have ever had. ever. ever. ever. this is a good post - i go to philly lots and probably walk right by this place w/out visiting! can't wait to check it out next time!
- July 25, 2011 at 8:43 AM
- Kelly said...
Next time you go try the Cubano sandwich- best thing on the menu! I tend not to order pizza when I go to Blackbird, but if I do, the Yukon gold (crust topped with yukon poatatoes, olive oil, rosemary, and salt) is the winner.
- July 25, 2011 at 9:18 PM
- elenareviews said...
I like a healthy meal and I discover now your blog, is amazing! I'll visit again.
- July 27, 2011 at 3:08 AM
- nora said...
THE CUBANO!! I agree with Kelly, its sooo good! also The Couch Tomato which is in Manayunk - about 15 min outside center city has great pizza crust (regular and whole wheat) they have a vegan pizza with daiya cheese thats pretty good.
- July 28, 2011 at 7:05 PM
- Craig Duncan said...
To live in a world where one gets to complain about the dryness of the crust at an all vegan pizzeria. Damn.
- August 2, 2011 at 9:18 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
I know, right? Now that I am back home I would give anything for some dry crust.
- August 2, 2011 at 9:20 PM
- Green Laces said...
Oooh, Blackbird, sweet memories. I was there, together with my vegan kids and husband, just a week before you. We live in Sweden, so we were just visiting for a couple of days. Our six year old ate a whole slice of pizza and didn't utter a word before she had finished it. Haha, lovely.
Love your blog, Dad. /Nina
- August 3, 2011 at 1:04 PM
- A- said...
The owner's daughter is one of my students! Go for the Haymaker (onions and sausage) next time!
- August 3, 2011 at 10:48 PM
- Natalie said...
mmm....love Blackbird and love living within blocks of it - If you haven't tried the fries, you should definitely do so next time, as well as the eggplant grinder sandwich. The Antipasti salad is also fabulous.
I need to go make dinner now before I find myself at Blackbird...
- August 7, 2011 at 7:30 PM


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GUILTY VERDICT — Antonio "Smiley" Johnson, 23, of Steubenville was convicted Thursday of attempted murder, felonious assault, having a weapon as a convicted felon and improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle in connection with him firing 17 shots from an assault rifle on July 2 in the 1500 block of Orchard Avenue. Johnson faces more than 20 years in prison. - Mark Law
Johnson was found guilty of attempted murder and felonious assault. Each of those charges had specifications of Johnson committing the crimes while having a firearm, participating in a criminal gang and firing a gun from a motor vehicle. He also was found guilty of having a weapon as a convicted felon and improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle.
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Pork Crown Roast
Panettone Stuffing
This dish makes a wonderful center piece to any holiday table. Ask your butcher to tie the crown roast for you. In this recipe I make a stuffing from panettone bread, however any stuffing will do.
Serves 8-10, total time:
- 6 quarts water
- 1½ cups salt
- 1 cup molasses
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 4 bay leaves
- 6 cloves
- 1 star anise
- 4 pounds ice
- 1 pork crown roast (8-9 pounds)
- 1 loaf panettone bread (2 pounds)
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ½ cup onion, minced
- ¼ cup celery, diced small
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 orange, juice and zest
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 cup raisins
- ½ cup melted butter
- 2 cups Chicken Jus
Brine the Pork
- In a large soup or sauce pot, bring water, salt, molasses, cinnamon, bay leaves, cloves and star anise to a boil. Pour mixture into a large container (big enough to hold the roast and all of the brine) and add the ice to chill the brine quickly. Add the crown roast and place in refrigerator. Soak the roast in the brine for 12-14 hours.
Make the Stuffing
- Preheat oven to 300°F. Dice the panettone bread into large 1 inch cubes and place on a baking tray in oven for 45 minutes.
- In a large skillet over medium heat, heat the olive oil and sauté the onions until translucent; add the celery and bay leaf and cook for an additional 10 minutes, stirring frequently.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the onion mixture with the orange juice, zest, heavy cream, salt and raisins. Add the panettone cubes, pushing down into the liquid so that the bread fully absorbs the liquid.
Stuff and Roast the Pork
- Preheat oven to 300°F.
- Remove pork from the brine and thoroughly pat dry with paper towels. Place onto a steel rack inside a roasting pan, bone side up. Arrange the roast so that the loins are symmetrically round, creating a bowl.
- Place the panettone stuffing into the top of the crown roast, filling to an even dome top. Brush with melted butter and place a sheet of wax paper over the top, then wrap with a sheet of aluminum foil. Wrap the entire top of the crown so that the bones are completely covered.
- Roast the pork for 1½ hours, until an internal temperature of 140°F is achieved. Remove the foil and wax paper and roast an additional 15 minutes to crisp up the top of the stuffing. Remove from the oven and let rest for 30 minutes.
- Before carving the roast, scoop out the stuffing and transfer to a serving bowl. Cut the roast between each bone to create pork-chop slices. Serve immediately with Chicken Jus.
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Why are firearms questions not allowed?
Why are firearms questions not allowed? Just policy or the "guns taboo"? Is this a restricted firearms question? I thought that more free knowledge, especially for firearms owners, is a good thing? Sorry if just asking this question is against policy, please don't suspend me if it is, I am not trying to stir up trouble.
52 Answers answer
Not sure exactly what you mean but here's a question from the other day.
I was just about to ask the same thing. For those of you who missed it, there was a light discussion going about 15 minutes ago regarding advice in purchasing firearms. There were no deals posted for firearms (that I saw anyway.) I know from last year's question that gun deals aren't allowed. So are gun questions included in that rule as well?
EDIT I just saw that @studerc mentioned that some links were posted within the question, that is probably why, allowing it to fall under the "no gun deals" category.
I feel that the focus of the last question (recently deleted) was actually on where to look for good deals and specs and information regarding proper maintenance and gun safety instead of actual gun deals. Pretty sure that there were only a couple of comments posted, none of which actually involved links to gun deals. They were instead more generalizations regarding gun purchases. Essentially I just gave up on the process of arguing and figuring things out regarding the mods. So inconsistent and annoying to say the least.
It's because they are almost as dangerous as Bucky Balls.
@eraten: Actually, I mentioned that there were only generalized comments, and that no links were provided.
@studerc: Whaaaa? Did you edit your response? I was almost certain you posted something else, or someone else did. I must've swallowed too many Bucky Balls today.
@eraten: Totally did not edit it, haha. But no worries, if the mods have there way with this question, it'll be deleted before noon anyway.
@philosopherott: is a big giant spoon!
Good question! I know I've seen and participated in a number of discussions about guns in one form or another but perhaps it was all in the type of discussion? Hmmm...
@caffeine_dude: ?? big giant spoon???
This might kill the question but maybe @thunderthighs or @inkycatz could helpus. You two are kinda the go to Mod's in my mind.
Edited 11/28/2012 ~13:10Eastern
@philosopherott: I assume this was coming from the Pistol question I asked earlier and it was removed. I figured I would just let it go, but I was curious as well. The two Wootizens that were able to reply before it was tossed were a great help (@studerc & @eraten) so thanks for the replies. But I was looking forward to getting some additional information.
I know I saw a message from @Jumbowoot the Cockatrice overlord, maybe he would help us out. Again I am not trying to stir up trouble I just want to know what can and can't be discussed because I don't want to get banned over something that seems innocent to me (like that last question).
@coondogg97: I saw your post after I submitted mine. I had answers on your Question to and it all seemed ok to me. As a Texas based company I would think that kind of questioning is normal but you never know what I did not see
@caffeine_dude: there is no spoon...
@philosopherott: I guess I missed a few things as well. The only two replies I saw in my mailbox were from the Wootizens that I mentioned.
Thanks anyway for the reply!
That is deep...
Is it possible that because the word "deal" and the word "gun" were mentioned in the question, that meant you were trying to post a "gun deal"?
EDIT: It's really funny (weird) that there is an entire thread devoted to rancid bathroom antics (yuck.) that made it through, but anything firearm-related is taboo.
Questions about firearms are dangerous. I left this thread pulled up and my 5 year old almost died from a freak firearm incident.
Also odd in that Sport.woot has had things like scopes, etc. So clearly firearm accessories are acceptable.
This is something that's been going on for a quite awhile "behind the scenes.." you'd be surprised at how many times legitimate questions with no firearm links, or any other taboo material have been deleted because they are not to the taste of one particular person.
The short answer is: There are one or two mods that are anti-gun.. it really is just that simple.
With that said there are also mods that are just trying to play by the rules, and some firearm-related comments really do break the rules and are worthy of deletion.
(and just to clarify this isn't just a theory I put together myself lol)
And don't get me wrong, I love Woot mods but this is something that should be addressed..
Like you I'm not trying to stir up trouble which is why I've never posted this question myself - I'm actually kind of hesitant to post this comment lol
According to a post made @jumbowoot, who made this comment in a similar firearms thread recently: "There are other places to discuss firearms.." (and then that thread disappeared, much like the earlier one today)
While we realize this may be an unpopular stance with some folks, this happens to be the policy on this particular topic and hope you all understand.
I hope this clarifies the situation somewhat.
Moderation suggests highly sensitive topics like guns, religion and politics do not belong on an online shopping site's discussion. Do you want people Googling gun topics leading them over to deals.woot to chime in?
Don't blame it on someone's personal beliefs or opinions as a matter of enforcement. Why don't people have the ability to moderate themselves and understand that some topics just don't belong here. If you want to talk about it, start your own website
@ryanwb: shooooooooooot, you're crazy if you think that politics gets modded out of deals.woot
@75grandville: And that is the only reason I even posted the question here. I figured with all the scopes and holster's (one was posted this week) I have seen posted I figured a question would be fine and this would be the community that would have some good advice.
@drchops: Yeah, I wasn't really perturbed until I read this post. The gun question is what it is, but the rules should apply across the board. Having a couple of rogue mod's is not good and will do a lot more damage then good in the long run.
@all - Does that work?
@inkycatz: Thanks for clarifying. Again, I have no problem with that answer and absolutely respect it. As long as all the mods are on the same page and the rules don't change on a moderators vacation day I understand the rules.
@inkycatz: I understand the "there are other places to discuss [insert taboo topic here]" thing, but what if I wanted to know what @lotsofgoats, @capguncowboy, or @coondogg97 thinks of a particular [taboo] item or deal? I would already trust these opinions over some random person because of the interaction here. How would you even find out about a new [taboo topic] chat site if it can't even be mentioned? There are no PM options on the DW side, so PMing someone is kludgy at best.
@ryanwb: You don't think that DW draws people in just to talk about poop stories?
@lotsofgoats: I didn't say it is, I'm just saying that smart moderators know what are hot topic items and which are not. This is a deals website and their primary motivation is to get people to this site to buy something, not to discuss politics, guns, etc.... If they are not consistent in the enforcement of this, that's on them which spurs topics such as this to be posted
I don't have much of an opinion about this, but this is what I saw next to @jsimsace 's comment:
It made me laugh, so I thought I would share. Carry on.
@ryanwb: That may be the primary goal of the actual deals portion of DW, but look at the most recently asked questions for community:
Ever hit an animal with a car?
What is your alcoholic drink of choice?
Bathroom thread in question
Thread discussing Galaxy S3
Discussion about Zig Ziglar
Nabigate discussion
Batman question
Marriage question
So the community side is definitely NOT only about shopping/deal. The question then becomes about where is this line in the sand, especially when it gets kicked over and redrawn.
@drchops: and @philosopherott: are the spoons!
Am I the only one who stirs up trouble with a spoon?
@caffeine_dude: I prefer to use the puddin' stick to stir the puddin'.
@inkycatz: i don't mean to be a dolt but what "exactly" is the official policy?
I just want a clear line I am not trying to be a jerk.
It's all Bush's fault, and you're rascist if you disagree. :-P
Funny I just tried to post a deal on "adult toys" and got a message that the site in question was not allowed. Wine - yes. Kids' rifles that shoot plastic - yes - "real" guns - unsure - vibes - no?
Here's my go at it and it's by no means official....
If it's not allowed as a deal, it's not allowed as a question. So, since we don't allow deals for guns, rifles, ammo, etc., there are no questions about them. If you think about it, discussion about guns often leads to links to them and we don't want that on Deals.
The question mentioned above was for a cleaning kit. We do allow fire arm accessories, so that's a legitimate question.
At least, that's how I gauge them.
Like, hate, or indifferent... that's the way it is.
@rogertheriault: correct. unless you find a pg part of that site to land on that has a great deal on a "neck massager." While we have a bit more leeway over here - the fact is that the site tries to be kid-friendly - in the sense that, if your kid lands here looking for a sale on a game, s/he won't be inundated with adult content.
You'll shoot your eye out.
@thunderthighs: Excellent answer - very well put.
Like everything else here no one really knows what's allowed. Sometimes questions/deals slip by the mods for a while. Sometimes questions & deals are deleted, and the author never finds out why that happened. Questions relating to 'why' are often deleted, too.
If there was any semblence of consistency, we'd all have a better understanding of why certain things are deleted. Mods (thank you for your input) generally say (paraphrasing), I'm not sure, but... Therein lies the problem. No one is sure. Official rulings are sporadic.
And, people themselves must search for a specific quote. Or rely upon another member to provide a link that has, perhaps, a vague answer. Not a RULE, per se. Just an answer.
The UNOFFICIAL FAQs are a source of info. Unfortunately, they're still unofficial. After 6+ months.
@thunderthighs: Well put, Makes sense. Bravo.
Of course this popped up in my right column
@thunderthighs: You always rock the forums. Nice response. :)
@caffeine_dude: I would but a spoon can't exactly stir itself!
@thunderthighs: That makes sense to a certain extent, but on the back of that you have to remember over on Sports.Woot there are constantly deals for gun cases, shooting targets, gun cabinets, rifle optics, (and even guns themselves.. Air Guns, but guns nonetheless) etc.. so you can see why it's a little bit confusing :)
And again, I love you guys and completely respect whatever Woot's stance is whether I agree with it or not.. I just think a lot of people feel like they're getting mixed messages.
(And thanks for the response - I know you guys are kind of stuck in the middle just trying to do your jobs so it's appreciated when you stick your neck out to personally respond, you too @inkycatz)
@rogertheriault: Deals on sexually oriented items (toys, lube, etc.) have long been verboten here.
@drchops: I don't see any contradiction in your list and what's already been stated: deals for accessories and not-really-guns are okay, while deals (and questions) about real guns are not okay.
Unless I'm missing some vital point, of course.
@inkycatz: Technically, there are other places to discuss everything. So, not sure that's a reason to delete a discussion about firearms.
Either have a posted policy, or allow people to exercise their 1st amendment relating to things about their 2nd amendment.
@kmeltzer: After you buy Amazon, You will be free to enact posted policies at will. Until then you get to grovel at the capricious whim of Thunderthighs. so sorry
@videowallart: I wasn't aware Thunderthighs owned Amazon.
Moderating based on a whim is lazy. If you don't want people to post about certain topics, it's pretty easy to post that sort of things as a policy. When things disappear based on undocumented "whims" and subjective opinion, it's censorship, not moderation.
Since the Woot sites are all about money why not create a non-linkable, seperate 'gun.woot' site? Have the moderators staffed by people who want to discuss the legal purchase of guns and accesories? It's not like it's too hard.
Personal opinions aside...it's a legal to purchase material item. We're not talking 'weed.woot' or 'crack.woot' are we? Note: for our wooters in Washington you can now legally create a 'weed.woot' :)
If it's 'verbooten' then pull it all...not change day-by-day because of your individual idologies....just saying.
And if you do create a stand alone 'gun.woot' I think you would find there's a good percentage of us, especially in red states, that compete with, hunt with, or just enjoy target shooting. Which, again, is legal...
"Alcohol causes nearly 4 percent of deaths worldwide, more than AIDS, tuberculosis or violence, the World Health Organization warned on Friday." This is straight off Huffington Post (VERY liberal website).
So..Alcohol is ok...but the legal purchase of firearms is not? Yeah, that makes sense.
Link to article : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/11/alcohol-related-deaths-_n_821900.html
@jraxter: The idea of a guns.woot has been brought up at least twice by me, maybe more by others (see links below). As there are a few of us that would be interested it seems like there is a spoken majority against it (unfortunately).
I do not think that it is a fact of legally purchased item but more of liability on Woots part .
I do not like the policy but respect @thunderthighs for an answer, and for being a go to MOD here. Also want to thank @inkycatz for being another go to MOD