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An autopsy was ordered.
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Project Max Effort Cougar - The Ultimate Track Day 9-InchWritten by on December 1, 2010 Speedway Engineering Builds A Bulletproof Rearend For The Project Max Effort Cougar.
Rendering by CorteX Racing
Most people think there isn't much that can be done with a solid axle to increase handling characteristics. There are dozens of variations and theories for suspension systems to plant it, but the housing itself-well it's just an archaic piece of technology that holds the axles and gears, right? That may be what sports car types who favor IFS would have you believe, but it's actually far from the truth. Remember, NASCAR still runs only solid axle rearends for both circle track and road race series, and trust us, those guys don't have just any old 9-inch in the rear.
That's why we got in touch with Speedway Engineering in Sylmar, CA: to find out the best ways to increase lateral grip on a solid axle. Speedway Engineering has been building hot rod, and pro-level rearends for over 35 years and many big-name NASCAR teams trust them for precision, like Richard Childress Racing (RCR). Specs on NASCAR rearends are guarded like national security matters, and have to be precise enough to pass a laser-guided inspection.
So what's so special about these rearends? It's all about the camber and toe settings. Camber and toe in a rearend? Absolutely! Just as front tires entering a hard corner perform better with some static camber and toe, so do the rear tires, and those numbers have to be perfect; the tolerance is less than a .003-inch variance to meet Speedway's standards. Have you ever welded on a rearend housing? It's warped. We can't tell you how much, since every housing reacts differently, but we'll guarantee you that you've changed the factory settings significantly. As a matter of fact, rubbing your hand on one spot long enough on an axle tube can cause as much as 1/10th of a degree change. That's not much, but you get the idea. That means Speedway has to control warpage all the way through the build process to make sure customers and race teams get what they pay for.
Though they have standard housing configurations, when you order a rearend from Speedway, it's essentially a custom-fabbed housing every time. The shop has a blend of high-end equipment and extremely experienced eyes that are hands-on with each housing. There's no automated welding here, just artists like Juan Alaniz, who lay a flawless bead. As shop foreman Frank Farell likes to say, "He can weld anything except a broken heart and the crack of dawn, but give him enough time and he could probably figure that out too." We believe it, just look at his work in the photos. Pure art.
There are a few proprietary points that we can't show you, such as exactly how Speedway dials in the negative camber and toe in their housings and the multiple stages of stress relieving that ensure that a housing's settings don't change during shipping.
This rearend isn't for every car. While the tires may love it in the corners, it's certainly not ideal for planting the tires for drag racing, and it will wear tires out a little faster, but no faster than a few track days. Nevertheless, if you've got bucks invested in your chassis and suspension and are looking for more grip through the corners, you couldn't possibly do better.
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Step one is to create the centersection by tacking it together in this simple fixture. Speedway uses this method since it allows them to create custom packages, plus they have more control over how precise the centersection is. For example, our Cougar's is a Superlite center with a heavier-duty 10-gauge cover, which is necessary for our upcoming suspension package.After ensuring it's correct and on centerline, the housing moves to the welding fixture. Here, Juan Alaniz lays a continuous MIG bead around the housing inside and out-no stopping allows for consistency. After finishing a faster and lighter bead on the inside, the housing has to cool naturally as any artificial cooling-even a fan-will exacerbate the normal warpage.Using this simple but highly effective fixture, Alaniz sets the ring into place and welds it solid. He'll also give it a few well-placed taps with a hammer to help minimize the machining necessary afterward.Speedway has really tight tolerances for their housings and to ensure the billet steel ring gear flange is a true 3/8-inch thick without adding unnecessary weight, it's lightened on the backside.After cooling, the housing heads over for machining to eliminate any warpage from welding, and to ensure the ring is perfectly flat. Amazingly, only a few hundred thousandths are removed-that's why Speedway can say their ring is the thickest and strongest available. Holes will also be drilled in the ring here for the studs.The housing is then flipped over and a specially configured program for Max Effort's housing cuts perfectly located holes for our drain, fill, vent, and oil cooler bungs.To rough-in the notches for the axle tubes, a plasma cutter makes quick work of the steel. From here it'll be hand-ground and finished to perfection.Once the notches are finished, the housing gets line-bored to ensure the axle tubes enter perfectly on centerline.Our rearend will be using -1 degree of camber and 1/64-inch toe-in per side. It's aggressive, but still perfectly streetable. What we can't show you is the proprietary process by which Speedway dials it in with their snouts. Here Alaniz welds the hubs solid after using a fixture for placement as Brian Kelley turns the housing slowly for him.
Here's our completed Cougar rearend, sans its strut braces for now. Beautiful, huh? We're going to hate hiding it under Max Effort. Want one? Our rearend is a truly unique piece and only available through CorteX Racing. This basic design will fit many Fords from the '60s to the '80s, but they can be custom tailored for almost any car.Remember what we said about welding causing warping? All those brackets have tweaked our housing pretty good, so Kelley uses weld and quench to pull it back into spec on this fixture with multiple digital levels. After this, the housing gets a third round of stress relief, then back on the fixture to make sure it's still perfect. If not, the process repeats until it is.


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marychicagoland: In related Bavarian news, a 16 year old Afghan teen living in Laim, Bavaria has been arrested in connection to the Ali Sonboly Munich attack. He apparently knew about the attack but did not inform authorities and he may have played a part in the Facebook post that lured teens to the mall. Looks like they're wrong again about it being a lone wolf attack. There has been a rumor that Sonboly converted to Christianity. That falsehood was started by the Interior Minister (of Propaganda) Maizière. Washington Post has him quoted as saying "Maizière said the use of David as a first name could suggest that the killer had converted to Christianity from Islam." "Could suggest"; no verification, no facts, no reference to the fact that the name David is not exclusively Christian, and no truth to that rumor started by a politician. I don't what is a bigger threat-the politicians that lie to their citizens or terrorists.


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The Google Base Guide (from the Google Base Help Discussion Group) "strongly suggest[s] that you update your Bulk Uploads to include the new Google Base attributes. Doing so will not only help to ensure that your bulk uploads process correctly, but will also add additional structure to your data," according to the post from October 23.
While I switched to the Google Base attributes back in July (a month after Google recommended to do so) and have been recommended the same for all merchants, I'm not sure this has been the best advice.
Unfortunately, the Product Search OneBox results at the top of Google's main search engine results page (SERP) lists Froogle items, not Google Base items. In other words, all the work everyone has done to switch to the Google Base format and optimize for Google Base is great, but Google Base gets no traffic. Merchants who didn't make the change have been much better off.
So the question to the Google Base Guide is…when are the Google OneBox results going to reflect Google Base listings as opposed to Froogle listings? News came out of the PESA meeting in SF last month that Google would start pushing Base listings, but so for, I haven't seen any changes. And in case you weren't sure…the holiday shopping season is here…now.


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Tesoro has been aggressive in expanding its crude-oil sources to bring down costs at its refineries along the West Coast, home to the vast majority of its operations. Tesoro and other US refiners have been steadily increasing their use of a domestic oil supply, bolstered by recent advances in drilling technology.
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Tesoro Corp. is looking for ways to bring more Canadian
crude oil to its West Coast refineries via rail cars or barges
in a plan that might ultimately affect Alaskan oil exports, CEO
Greg Goff said Thursday.
Tesoro has been aggressive in expanding its crude-oil
sources as a way to bring down costs at its refineries along
the West Coast, home to the vast majority of its operations.
Tesoro and other US refiners have been steadily increasing
their use of a domestic oil supply strongly bolstered by recent
developments in drilling technology.
San Antonio-based Tesoro could use barges to bring heavy
Canadian crude oil to the US Pacific Northwest and then ship
the crude oil via rail to its California refineries, Mr. Goff
West Canadian crude oil is heavily discounted because a lack
of pipelines keeps it from easily reaching markets, creating a
supply glut.
As more of it travels via rail or barge to the West Coast --
home to 17% of the total US refining capacity -- the consumption
of Alaska North Slope crude oil in that region could start to
decline, Mr. Goff said. That, in turn, could lead to ANS crude
oil being exported abroad, an analyst from Tudor Pickering Holt
& Co. noted.
ANS crude oil is one of the few exceptions to the US ban on
crude-oil exports.
"It depends on the amount of crude available to the West
Coast but it could have an impact with ANS," Mr. Goff said
during a conference call with investors.
Tesoro consumed 40,000 bpd of crude oil from North
Dakota and 5,000 bpd of Canadian light oil at its refinery in Anacortes, Wash., which
displaced ANS and foreign crude oil, a Tesoro executive said
during the call.
Tesoro plans to run its refineries at 90% of capacity on
average in the first quarter, up from 89% in the fourth
quarter. California fuel sales were improving from the low
levels brought about by a slow economy, Mr. Goff said.
Maintenance work was scheduled to
end at its refinery in Wilmington, Calif.,
during the first quarter, Mr. Goff said. Maintenance work at its Anacortes refinery would end early in the
second quarter.
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A South Korean traditional gate guard beats a drum during the reopening ceremony of landmark Sungnyemun gate in Seoul. Five years after an arsonist destroyed it, the stone-and-wood southern gate to the old walled capital of Seoul has been painstakingly restored to its late 14th century glory by a small army of master craftsmen using traditional tools.
Jakub Koucky (R), a graduate from Jedlickuv Institute, in a wheelchair, is helped by a climber during the first ever attempt to rappel from Prague's Congress Center at an event to mark the institute's 100th founding anniversary in Prague, Czech Republic.
A supporter is silhouetted against a giant flag of Malaysia's opposition Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party as he waves the party's flag ahead of the upcoming general elections in Pekan, Pahang state.
A crescent moon rises above a backfire started into the Santa Monica Mountains off Potrero Road near Newbury Park, California as a fire ignition flare is fired from the road.
Cars are seen on a flooded parking lot after the overflowing of the Ouche river caused by recent heavy rainfalls in Dijon, central eastern France.
Worshipers hold candles in the Christian Orthodox Holy Fire ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old city.
Tottenham Hotspur's Jermain Defoe (L) challenges Southampton's Steven Davis for the ball during their English Premier League soccer match at White Hart Lane in London.
Desirae Masterson from Indianapolis, Indiana, with her hat covered in a plastic bag to protect it from the rain, shares a mint julep with her husband Ray before the running of the 139th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
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#2. Doctors and Hospitals
If you're anything like over 25 percent of Americans in any given year, you get depressed every now and then, maybe even depressed enough to be counted among the 10 percent of Americans who are on antidepressants. The fact that such a large number of people from the civilization that invented beer hats are blue enough to medicate themselves is sad enough, but the bad news isn't over yet.
For one thing, those cool pills your doctor prescribes for your permanent case of the Mondays might not be the best medication for your symptoms. They might just be the ones he was paid to shill, in a roundabout way.
"Hey, man, do those pills come in heroin flavor?"
The Sellout:
While doctors cannot actually take money in exchange for prescribing a certain company's drugs, they can be invited to conferences and put up in expensive five-star hotels. And as people who rarely get to lodge anywhere but the backseat of a Chevette in a Kmart parking lot, we can assure you that five-star hotels can make a man do a lot of things. We'd shiv a three-legged dog for a stay at a Motel 6, so it's not hard to see how luxury digs might persuade a guy to shell out some happy pills.
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"Run over a child? Sure, does it have to be my car?"
As for the conferences themselves, doctors are bombarded with information about new drugs and medical equipment, and this exposure makes it worth it for medical companies to pay millions to attend. Or, better yet, to hire the doctors themselves to do the speaking as consultants.
There's a reason Getty has like a thousand of these pictures.
In 2004, the U.S. government sued a company called TAP for providing kickbacks to doctors for prescribing their medications over others. The defense contended that it was "standard practice and not illegal to offer freebies." And they won. There seems to be a fine line though, because in May of 2011, another company lost their court case for doing almost exactly the same thing. These wins are rare though, and are in fact so difficult to obtain that recently the government changed tactics and is now going after the doctors themselves.
"No, you're not under arrest. You just have to wear them during surgery."
#1. Science
When most of us think of the college experience, we think of illegal hazing and roofie avoidance, not the mundane stuff that goes on behind the scenes. Which is why we probably forget that universities aren't just host to ragin' keggers -- they're also often behind medical breakthroughs and new technologies. For every couple of frat boys testing the limits of vodka/energy drink consumption, there's a Dr. Brainiac on the cutting edge of some world-changing something.
If you're one of those saps in the lab, you've got to get the funding for your rabbit-man hybrid experiment from somewhere. Your options are limited: you can apply for a government grant, or you can apply for a private grant. Money doesn't grow on trees, and researchers need money to research.
Dr. Janice McScience discovers the circle, made possible with funding from people like you.
But what if you're, say, a villain company? And universities all over the country are looking for the fastest way to plot your downfall? You know, like how lots of researchers are trying to come up with "green" energy technologies that will drive the oil companies out of business? Do you think they'll be as likely to trigger your demise if you're giving them over $800 million for research? You bet your ass they're not.
The Sellout:
Big oil companies like BP, Chevron and Conoco have donated at least that much money to colleges across the country. Not just any colleges -- colleges that were studying alternative energy sources and ways to curb greenhouse emissions.
Birds and Oil: A Study of Their Symbiotic Relationship.
For example, since 2002 ExxonMobil has donated over $225 million to Stanford to fund research to "study technology to curb greenhouse gas emissions." Of course this gift came with a planet-sized catch, the caveat being that the panel that considers research proposals by the faculty be made up of oil industry people, and that each panel member be named "Tex" or "Rusty."
"The cowboy hat tells me your research on why electric cars murder babies needs to be funded."
In 2007, BP funded a $500 million research center for green technology at UC Berkeley. At least one professor went on record as saying he would find his own damn funding rather than be subject to the demands of BP. Today he's making amazing breakthroughs in the squirrel-powered rickshaw industry.
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KILLEEN (February 4, 2013)--A Killeen police officer who was hospitalized after he suffered head injuries when a stolen car other officers were chasing struck his patrol unit has been released from the hospital, but the teenage driver arrested after the chase remained jailed Monday in lieu of $100,000 bond.
The injured officer, whose name was not available, has been released from Scott & White Hospital in Temple and is doing well, police said Monday.
Meanwhile Charles Raul Torres, 19, remained in the Bell County Jail Monday, charged with evading arrest or detention with a motor vehicle used as a deadly weapon.
The chase started at around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday after an officer spotted a stolen Hyundai Azera in the 200 block of North W.S. Young.
When the officer attempted to stop the car, the driver sped off and led officers on a chase through a neighborhood north of Rancier Avenue and onto Cole Avenue where the Hyundai struck the patrol unit.
The chase ended a short time later when the stolen car crashed in the 1500 block of Duncan.
The passenger remained in the car, but the driver tried to run.
He was captured about a block from the crash.
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) _ Bruce Weber is willing to admit that he's not exactly pleased with the way Kansas State's Big 12 schedule worked out.
The double round-robin format means each team will play 18 games from the first week of January through the first week of March. To fit it all in, teams will only get one week during that stretch when they play just once _ the closest thing to a bye that they'll get.
The 18th-ranked Wildcats had theirs after their very first game.
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Rockwell Collins is buying Arinc's SKYLink broadband and plans to reintroduce it under its own eXchange brand. According to the agreement, Rockwell Collins will supply the airborne broadband hardware and after-sales support and Arinc will provide the Ku-band satellite service. Arinc will continue to handle SKYLink system sales and
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The seventh European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition, which took place in Geneva in May, broke all records, with attendance up 15 percent from the 2006 event to more than 11,000 and 354 exhibitors, an 18-percent increase. Orders inked at the show-firm and optional-had a total value of nearly $1.7 billion.
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Signature Flight Support's new $13 million fixed-base operation (FBO) at Boston Logan International Airport is up and running. The two-story, 13,000-square-foot facility includes passenger and crew lounges, administrative offices and a private VIP center with separate street and ramp-side entrances for visiting dignitaries.
August 1, 2007
Some parents are booking jets to fly their children to summer camp rather than sending them off by bus, according to two New York-basedair charter companies. Revolution Air assigned more than 20 aircraft to the task in June, and Blue Star Jets has reported making "more and more" such flights.
August 1, 2007
Nemacolin Falling Rock, a woodlands resort in the Laurel Mountains south of Pittsburgh, has been awarded AAA Five Diamond status, a designation held by fewer than 90 North American hotels and resorts.
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Is Seattle Too Civilized to Win Big in College Football?
The most striking thing about a football game here at the University of Washington is what surrounds it.
Fans arrive not just by car and foot but by yacht. From the grandstands of Husky Stadium, they can see the rippling waters of Lake Washington and the crown of Mount Rainier. The school's acclaimed medical center sits across the street among spires of evergreens, part of an institution ranked among the nation's top 20 public schools. In the distance rises the skyline of Seattle, one of the world's most dynamic and forward-thinking cities.
In such a setting, a question pops into one's head—a question that also suggests a potential problem with Washington's football ambitions: Are these people really willing to do what it takes?
By any standard, Washington's team is decent enough now: The 16th-ranked Huskies are 4-1 heading into their season-defining home game Saturday against No. 2 Oregon (4 p.m. ET, Fox Sports 1), which has beaten Washington nine straight times. An upset would go a long way to giving Huskies fans what they seem to want: to once again contend for national titles.
But visits with dozens of fans, boosters, administrators and alumni on a recent game weekend suggest that behind this exalted ambition there's something that might stand in the way of intergalactic college football domination: perspective. The highest priority here may not be winning.
Most college title contenders toil in rural towns with few distractions and little else to holler about. They play in front of fans who are ambivalent about off-field shenanigans and in some cases, academics. Husky fans seem to see themselves differently—at least this time around. If they're going to win football titles, they're going to do it without compromising their dignity.
When the Huskies were at their peak, it almost wasn't fair. They owned Oregon, their border-state rival. They appeared in three consecutive Rose Bowls and shared the 1991 national title with Miami. (The Huskies also claim a 1960 championship.) Along the way, the school parlayed its success, becoming one of the first athletic departments to require a donation for prime seats. Fans snapped those up—happy to pay a premium to mingle in a club designed by alumnus John Skilling, the chief structural engineer for the World Trade Center.
Then came a blow that felled Washington's program like a Douglas fir. A ruling that boosters had given illegal benefits to players led to harsh sanctions in the early 1990s, including a two-year bowl ban that spurred coach Don James, the Huskies' all-time wins leader, to resign in protest. A string of ill-fitting coaches dragged the program to its nadir, an 0-12 record in 2008.
Almost as bad was the unthinkable change taking place 4½ hours south. Oregon's 1994 victory over Washington helped secure the Ducks' first Rose Bowl berth in decades and stir the interest of an alumnus by the name of Phil Knight. The Nike co-founder has since given hundreds of millions to build Oregon's unsurpassed athletic facilities, helping the Ducks—a longtime nobody—become a college-football powerhouse.
"We don't have that one crackpot eccentric CEO that puts his money where his mouth is," Washington booster Jim Kenyon said. "I'm a pragmatic guy. I don't hate anybody. This is college football. I admire it, frankly."
Kenyon, a real estate developer, was among those implicated in the 1993 sanctions, which he called a "witch hunt" and which forced his separation from the football program for a few years. Kenyon now is active with the Tyee Club, Washington's booster group. (It is named for the largest of king salmon.) He says the Huskies are running a tight—even uptight—ship.
Washington's booster base is more sheepskin-inclined than some others. Fifty-eight percent of the people who sit in Husky Stadium's donor sections are Washington alumni, compared with 43% at Alabama and 39% at Oregon. These are fans who want sports to supplement the value of their degrees, not detract from them.
Ron Crockett, a prominent Washington alum and booster, is proud to have donated as much to academics as athletics. He helped raise funds for the stadium's $281 million renovation, unveiled this season. The largest gift to the project, and the biggest in Washington athletics history, was $15 million. It was anonymous.
"The citizens of Seattle certainly support the upper part of campus [the academic side] as much as the lower part—even more," said Washington booster Bruce Nordstrom, the retired chairman of the department-store chain.
The university exudes a quiet influence. Last month, at the Huskies' home game against Arizona, NCAA president Mark Emmert strolled into school president Michael Young's pregame reception, wearing a purple Washington sweater. Emmert, an alumnus, was previously Washington's president. Woodward was his right-hand man.
None of this is to say that Huskies fans don't like success. They are eager to see whether fifth-year coach Steve Sarkisian can improve on three straight 7-6 seasons. Sarkisian has acknowledged that he sped up Washington's offense this year in part to prepare his defense for the Ducks.
But it is clear that the Huskies' exchange of fortunes with Oregon was a rude slap—and the impetus for the current push for greatness.
Washington fans' annoyance has surfaced in the release of hundreds of rubber ducks into urinals at the teams' respective stadiums ahead of the game. It also flared in a 2010 radio interview in which Scott Woodward, Washington's athletic director, said Oregon's academics had become "an embarrassment" and had suffered as the Ducks' sports teams rose.
Woodward, in an interview, said, "Sometimes I say things I shouldn't say and that I don't have the appropriate platform to say."
Jeff Sims, a 1993 graduate tailgating under a tent before the Huskies' rain-soaked win over Arizona, explained the Oregon rivalry this way: "Seattle is the most passive-aggressive city in the nation, and only Oregon brings out the aggressive."
Some Washington fans say Oregon bought its national profile, but the Ducks also hired brilliant strategists. The combination has placed Oregon in league with the Southeastern Conference, whose teams have won the past seven national titles.
Kenyon said he wasn't sure whether Washington could ascend to that level again, but even the longtime booster doesn't live and die with what happens on the field. Seattle isn't the South. "My nickname's not Bubba," he said.
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New Woodland football coach is 'living a dream'
BEACON FALLS — Had Tim Phipps known his football coaching career would have taken him to this point, he probably wouldn't have been so bummed out each time a school passed on him.
Woodland High this week chose Phipps to become the third head coach in program history, succeeding Tim Shea, who's now a Post University assistant.
Phipps, 39, is the last remaining coach from Chris Anderson's original Woodland staff from 2001. He's been with the Hawks every day since, but he almost left on multiple occasions.
The most recent close call came in January 2013, when he appeared set to become Naugatuck's new head coach before the school did a 180 and picked Craig Bruno.
That disappointment, along with other times he fell short, compelled Phipps to pain-stakingly prepare for what he called a "no-brainer" of an opportunity.
"I couldn't take anything for granted," Phipps said. "I started interviewing for head jobs in 2009, and the big thing is that you have to be as meticulous in your planning as you would be for any opponent. That helped me out, especially with the interview for this job."
When Shea resigned in May, he said he was leaving the program in good hands — likely because Phipps, one of the most respected assistant coaches in the Naugatuck Valley League, was waiting in the wings. Now Phipps will finally get to lead the program he helped to start.
"On one hand, it's a surreal moment for me," said Phipps, a history teacher at Woodland. "But on the other, I'm very happy. I can't believe it's happened to me, but I've recognized what's going on. I know it's very rare to be able to teach and coach in the same school."
Phipps, an Ansonia native and Prospect resident, played under Jack Hunt at Ansonia in the early 1990s and later volunteered as a coach under Hunt for a pair of seasons.
Phipps and Anderson figured to be the top two candidates for the position. A source said that Anderson pulled out of the running earlier this month. That left Phipps, the only remaining coach from Woodland's original staff, as the obvious choice.
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His longevity with the two-time defending Naugatuck Valley League Copper Division champion makes his appointment as head coach even more special, he said.
"I've been here since 2001, and this is home to me," Phipps said. "I'm living a dream right now, but I'm wide awake to the responsibilities that I'm going to have."
Phipps started as the quarterbacks coach and special teams coordinator under Anderson and has been the offensive coordinator since 2008.
Phipps will continue to call plays while the rest of his staff, including defensive coordinator Chris Moffo and special teams coordinator Cody Kingsley, will remain.
"They've all agreed to stay on, so I'm very happy about that," Phipps said. "You have to trust in your staff. That was one of the big things that's led to the success of the football program. The previous coaches let their assistant coaches develop their own styles."
Woodland will have to retool its offense after the graduation of quarterback Tanner Kingsley, one of the leading passers in state history. Phipps presided over spring practice earlier this month and said his squad is off to a good start.
"We've got competition at quarterback for the first time in years between Pat Hale and Mike Kenney, and we have (running back) Sean McAllen back," Phipps said. "I'm thrilled to death with our offensive line. I think it's rare when you find a group of kids who love being linemen, and that's what we have right now. Jake Laliberte and Max McSperrin have started for three years, and Alex Varhol and Will Flormann are two-year starters."
When Woodland begins practice in August, the pressure to uphold one of the NVL's most successful programs over the last decade might start to set in.
"I do feel pressure, but it's not for me personally," Phipps said. "I just need to run this program in a manner that lives up to the tradition set by guys past. I want guys like Mike Stankus, Pat Krakowski, Jared Katchmar and Shane Kingsley to say that we worked as hard as they did."
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Is one permitted to talk during the communal Torah reading?
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While it proceeds to list leniencies/exceptions, the Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 146:2 states initially that it is prohibited even to speak Divrei Torah even in between aliya's (i.e. while the Torah reading has paused).
One leniency is for one for whom "Torah is his occupation" but the M.B. 9 cites the Elya Rabba (who cites many Rishonim) that no one today is technically included in this category.
Some permit one to study Torah quietly. Some permit one to study if there are ten people (a tzibur/congregation/minyan/etc) listening to the reading, but even then it must be done quietly (M.B. 8)
According to all opinions (M.B. 11) one may read Shnayim Mikra v'Echad b'Targum (2x in the Torah and 1x in the Aramaic translation) during the Torah reading since one is covering the same material.
There are some other issues but I see no basis to discuss other matters which are not related to Divrei Torah, even between aliyos.
Likewise the above leniencies are inapplicable to certain readings such as parshas "Zachor" or parshas "Parah" (see M.B.12, 13).
Needless to say in an area such as this where there are so many different opinions and variables one should discuss the issue with a competent Rav.
Consult your local Orthodox Rabbi.
The other answer already gave reasons to forbid. I'll give a broader picture as to why one might permit.
The basic gemara in question regarding speaking during leining or between one aliyah and the next is in Sotah 39a:
The bolded phrase is כיון שנפתח ספר תורה, once the sefer Torah is 'opened'. This might refer to unrolling, or to actual reading. If actual reading, then there is no prohibition even of devarim beteilim, non-Torah speech, between aliyot.
The Aruch HaShulchan (who some people follow rather than the Mishnah Berurah) writes in Orach Chaim 146 -- the same siman cited in the other answer:
To translate:
In terms of studying other material during leining, there is the gemara in Berachos 8a:
The peshat in the gemara, IMHO, is just what Soncino writes:
That is, the common folk need to hear the public reading of the Torah. But we can learn at a more advanced level, and should learn gemara. This rather radical approach was at odds with expectations, as well as the statement in Sotah, that even in matters of Torah it is forbidden to speak, and so many Rishonim limited this statement in various ways. See a listing in Aruch Hashulchan. For example, that this is only once he had already fulfilled Shnayim Mikra; or only one on the caliber of Rav Sheshet; and to limit this radical approach, people tend to adopt all of the restrictions simultaneously.
Returning to the topic of #1, about speaking bein gavra legavra, consider the following:
That does not mean that one should talk. But on the other hand, it is more complicated than simply saying (as in the other answer) that:
There is a basis, and there is reason to judge others favorably.
Halachically Speaking Volume 3, Issue 3 discusses this. It brings many sources for further study.
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If I put a ping pong ball in a vacuum, would it pop? If so, at what point would it happen? Any standard table ping pong ball is acceptable.
Probably not - but without knowing the details of the specific ping-pong ball it's hard to tell.
The interesting part about the question is scaling laws. In a vacuum there is a pressure of one atmosphere (15psi or 10tons/m^2) acting outward on the inside of the ball.
BUT there aren't all that many square meters (or even square inches) on a ping-pong ball so the actual force is really quite low.
A sphere is a good shape for resisting this force, the most likely failure is the glue seam that holds the two halves together. And a ball has to survive the force of being hit pretty hard by a bat so the glue line is reasonably strong.
The answer to your question is "no". A quick web search for "ping-pong vacuum" yields a wealth of experimental evidence, in the form of articles with photographs about cannons that operate by putting ping-pong balls in vacuum and selectively releasing the vacuum.
Here are some videos of demonstrations. Note that the balls don't pop before being fired.


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This August, the Oasis game came to the UK for the first time and was played in Silvertown, a corner of Newham in East London. I attended the training program and project weekend, along with several other Lush employees and a handful of other participants. This is my personal diary from the experience.
Donating to charities is a comfortable way to tell yourself that you're "doing your bit". Being somewhere in person – now that's a different story. How much easier it is to allow a certain sum of money disappear from your bank account every month to "good causes" than to actually get your hands dirty.
I don't see myself as an activist. The thought of chaining myself to a fence does not fill me with excitement (I merely wonder "how do they go to the toilet?"). Volunteering for any kind of direct action seems like an alien, unknown experience. And to finish off the excuses my internal dialogue has been dishing up, I have no useful skills for volunteering work. I'm not a social worker, builder, campaigner or green hero. By the standards of the Bigger Picture, my work is airheaded – I'm a perfumer. I've spent my whole life selling, marketing, creating or applying potions and lotions. It brings joy to individuals, yes. Does it make money for the people I work for? Absolutely. Does it make the world a better place? Well, yes, in many ways - but not in the grand way I have always imagined the Heroes of Activism go about things. They travel to disaster areas and build bridges or climb on top of coal power stations. They throw rancid butter onto the decks of whaling boats. I'm not cut out for that. I'll just peer at them admiringly from afar.
I might have gone on to believe that I was unsuitable for any kind of volunteer project, but something happened. Ruth Andrade, our environmental guru at Lush showed us a video made in Brazil, her home country. Ruth is a powerhouse of a character; a true inspirational leader. Spending any amount of time with her simply leaves you a changed person. It is impossible not to be influenced by her in some way.
In the video, Edgard Gouveia Júnior from ELOS institute explained a new concept: what if we could change the world by playing a game? What if we could approach a difficult situation with a different attitude? What if everyone could find a way to contribute, regardless of what kind of skills they have? What if we didn't treat people in disaster zones or poverty as victims? What if we found a way to connect to them and work with them and leave behind a lasting legacy?
This was the Oasis game concept, first born in the favelas of Brazil. Architecture students ditched their indoor classrooms and took their desks outside – amongst the people whose lives their work would be influencing. They involved the community directly and the results were breathtaking. This seemingly small step led to a whole movement that has been around the world in the last 12 years and spawned several side projects.
After intense preparation, the Oasis participants are each given roles best suited to their skills. The names for these roles sounded more like classes in a role playing game: Oracle, Time Keeper, Lighthouse, Guardian Angel, Gnome, Hunter, Messenger...
I had goosebumps by the end of the presentation. Maybe there was a way for someone like me to contribute after all.
A few months later, Ruth brought us exciting news: the Oasis game would be coming to UK for the first time. It would be played in Newham, an area in the shadow of the London City Airport and 2012 Olympic Games frenzy. Expensive private property developments aimed at rich commuters are muscling in on previously council-house territory. The local residents are like a dirty secret, airbrushed from the gleaming façade of the city. A group of determined activists, calling themselves the Momentum Project, has already started to change things little by little, by hosting community events and trying to convince locals that "you don't have to move out of your community to live in a better one". Partnering with the Oasis game meant a much larger group would be there to create a short burst of intense activity and hopefully, a lasting legacy.
I asked Ruth if she would let me participate. Apologising for my lack of volunteering experience, not really knowing exactly what the training and the project would involve, but convinced that if I didn't throw myself in it now I would never have the guts to. To my astonishment, Ruth not only said yes, she seemed delighted that I had asked.
We were told to pack for six days and be ready for hard work. The Dutch branch of the ELOS institute was organising this game and we received a comprehensive welcome pack and instructions on what to bring in advance. It certainly dealt with the logistical side of things but nothing could have prepared us for the actual experience itself.
On the first night, arriving at the Ibis budget hotel (accommodation which turned out to feel not unlike sleeping in a large bathroom), I did feel a sudden flash of doubt that I had made a mistake. The lobby was populated by people who looked every inch the eco warrior, world-traveller, activist and hippie hero. Just in case you haven't worked it out by now, I really don't. At 40 years of age I was also the oldest person in the room. When waiting for our training to start at the Asta community centre next morning, I tweeted: "The Oasis training is about to start. A room full of young volunteers… and me."
The facilitators were Rodrigo from Brazil, Niels from Netherlands and Conchi from Spain. Unlike any other training course I've been on, they took control of the room in a very calm and subtly manipulative way, coaxing things out of us and getting us to agree to seemingly bizarre activities. Instead of long-winded explanations and theory, we were coached to find our own answers. Instead of asking us who we were, they asked us how we were feeling.
We spent a long time that first day finding ways in which to connect to each other and to ourselves. As New Age as that sounds, this methodology was the foundation without which the Oasis game simply wouldn't have worked. I had decided to accept whatever would be asked of us and to be very open to new ways of doing things. This attitude paid off. Over the next six days I learned a great deal about teamwork and about myself.
Our modern work environments often teach us to fall back on old routines. We often focus on the "how" instead of the "why", and we often completely ignore the people involved in the process; the real human experience that we all share, but try our best to push out of the way when there's work to be done. We also tend to focus on what there is to fix, rather than what we can create.
By asking us to throw ourselves in and embrace whatever happened; by not giving us the answers and asking us to get rid of the superficial layer that we are all so focused on in our normal daily lives, we learned ways in which to find the right thing to do. Going out to knock on the doors and striking up conversations with strangers in an unfamiliar area wasn't quite as daunting. We had to be ready to spend the next few days making these connections and fuel a small local miracle.
It was a little frightening at first. Usually, one would set off to work on a project like this with far more theory and planning. We obviously trusted that our facilitators knew what was going on under the surface, and that they knew what they were doing. But still the first couple of days felt a bit like going to a new place blindfolded, and having to work out where you are and what to do without any further instruction.
The most bizarre thing about this methodology was that although the pace we were learning and moving at during instruction seemed slow and serene, the amount of work we accomplished in six days would have taken most people a month. By skilfully reading us and tapping into us, we were coached to skip many of the steps that one would normally assume this type of project had to include. I was left wondering how many days, weeks, even months of my life I have wasted in meetings and presentations that ultimately just served to add extra padding to otherwise simple concepts. It occurred to me that perhaps we are frightened of simplicity.
There are seven steps to making the Oasis game happen:
- The Appreciative Gaze: Appreciative way to observe the local community. A way to focus on what's there and what about it is beautiful. Getting rid of your prejudices.
- Affection: Encouraging the creation of genuine connections between people based on common values and trust.
- The Dream: To create a space where people can express their most true and ambitious dreams for their community. Not focusing on the negative or problem solving, but focusing on something real that can be achieved now.
- Care: The careful planning of projects and strategies so that they include the community's collective dreams in all of their diversity. The right ones are good for yourself, good for your neighbour and good for the planet.
- The Miracle: The actual project, where members of the community and Oasis participants make one of the dreams into a reality together. This part used to be called "Action" but at the end of every game, the locals used to say "it was a miracle".
- Celebration: Coming together at the end of the journey to share the joy of working together. A party!
- Re-evolution: The legacy of the game; a new cycle of expanding dreams and to discover the potential within.
During days 1-to-4 we focused on the first four steps. Every day started with a vegan breakfast and a song and a dance. We were taught different dances and different songs and always with the minimum instruction. "Just watch what I do", said Rodrigo. We did, and we danced. The first time many of us seemed a little clumsy or nervous but over the week dancing became an important part of our daily routine. It was a metaphor for working together; it made us closer and raised our heartbeat, ready to go out full of energy. Sharing the laughter from failed steps or silly moves was all part of the plan. We weren't meant to become professional dancers, we were meant to enjoy the process and gain something from it.
On the first day, we practiced the Appreciative Gaze by walking around the community blindfolded, gently guiding each other and trying to get an impression of our surroundings without the prejudice that using your eyes as the primary source of information often brings. We learned that sometimes you see better with your eyes closed. We learned to trust each other fast. We learned not to worry about looking very silly.
The local kids responded to us first. Some of them followed us on the first day when we were out with blindfolds.
We went out again, this time with our eyes open and found beautiful things. We tried to find the people behind the beauty. By the end of the week, we had a small but devoted crew of local children who helped us literally drum up attention when we turned our volume up a notch and went to shout on the streets to broadcast the time and location for the community meeting we were organising.
The last time I went out to shout on the streets was an anti-nukes demonstration back home in Finland in the 80s. Yet by the time we were ready to get the megaphone out and march through the streets of Newham to draw attention, I was first in line to join the crew. Shouting shoulder to shoulder with seasoned activists seemed perfectly natural. We wore fluorescent vests and chanted: "Asta centre, six thirty; share your dreams, six thirty!"
Curtains were parted. Doors were opened. Dreams were gathered. People who had said they wouldn't come sneaked in to see what the fuss was about. Once the spark caught, the community woke up and took ownership and they were the ones that made it all happen.
We realised that we were all facilitators and that we were merely nudging things that were already there to wake up and spring into action. Cautious but curious people from all walks of life filled the community meeting room, and started building models of what they would like to create during the coming weekend. Suddenly the whole thing was theirs. Suddenly it was the most natural thing in the world. Suddenly they believed it could happen. There was a palpable shift that night from our hands to theirs. Some of us cried a little. Possibly out of relief.
Just like sometimes it takes a child to point out the obvious, or a new employee to question long-held beliefs in an organisation, we, total strangers to Newham, were able to gently coax out a small transformation. It felt so simple yet profound. If more people around the world could find a way to energise each other this way, what could be possible?
In many of the locations where the Oasis game has been played, there is a real lack of infrastructure so the projects often focus on creating that, and there usually aren't many objections from local councils and town planners. But even in England, where people assume that they can't change their environment because of bureaucracy, those assumptions should be challenged. Once the community is mobilised, it's surprising what can be done.
The Silvertown community chose to transform a derelict outdoor terrace on the side of the Asta centre. They turned it into a usable, shared area with a dance floor for street dance practice; tables, chairs, a garden and a pizza oven.
One of the talented young men, Hilton, had expressed a very specific wish: to have a piano there. Lotte from our group had popped in her piano-shaped pencil sharpener to decorate one of the models. Since we would have to source all the materials locally and obtain as much as possible through donations and abandoned scrap, a piano seemed a touch too ambitious, but we were all secretly hoping that one would magically appear.
On the morning of the project itself, we were all energised, but also somewhat nervous. How many people would come? What if we couldn't deliver the dream?
Our roles were assigned. Throughout the week, I'd been broadcasting our activities using the Momentum Project's social media channels, preparing the presentation to the community and keeping our chaotic notes and flipcharts in some kind of order. When the little cards with descriptions of the roles were taken out on the morning of our first project day, none of us knew which ones we'd adopt yet.
The descriptions were read out and willing, suitable candidates selected. Gnomes looked after greenery and recycling, the Messenger would register and document things and tell others about what was happening… wait, that was me! I volunteered to be the Messenger. I had already been one and didn't know it.
One of the biggest jobs for the actual project itself was to source a myriad of materials, preferably from the local community, and for free. We had several task forces out to carry in abandoned tyres, do a bit of guerrilla gardening, knock on doors and ask to borrow tools and approach local businesses for small donations. I had brought my car and ferried people to pick up paint brushes from a local hardware store, went to B&Q to pick up the play-sand they had kindly donated, and drove to a skip and dug out damaged bricks from it. Once the community members themselves were mobilised, materials and donations started pouring in and we soon had enough to get started.
I used Freecycle to find some missing elements and we had a small budget for electrical necessities such as plug sockets. It was my task to find an electrician and after scouring the Yellow Pages for one that lived locally but being unable to get hold of anyone, I took a break to clear my head in the kitchen. Yvonne, a local community member who'd attended some of our meetings was there, helping Agatha, our cook who'd been feeding 30 people for a week, always smiling.
I had a chat with them and when I mentioned that I had been unable to find an electrician, it turned out that one of Yvonne's neighbours was one and he could be persuaded to help us for the steep price of a chicken chow mein. I grabbed Yvonne and we headed to the local Chinese take-away.
Amina from our group came to me with spectacular news: after we'd spread the word that we were looking for a piano, she had actually found a lady called Karen via Gumtree who just happened to have a piano languishing in her shed and was willing to donate it!
When the piano arrived, Hilton, whose wish it had been to get one, immediately put it to the test. Even out of tune, hearing this young man suddenly turn out a perfect piece of moving classical music in the middle of the chaos that was the project weekend was inspiring. So inspiring, in fact, that I had an idea: what if we could wheel the piano outdoors and film him playing on it, on the streets of Newham?
Amina had an even better idea. Unbeknownst to me, she had worked as a children's music coach. She wanted to get a group of the local kids together and do something with them. Amina's choir practice and the kids' songwriting formed a memorable thread throughout the weekend, and culminated in a one-off live performance that was captured on video at the start of our sixth stage of the Oasis game: the Celebration.
Pizza oven, dance floor, giant mirror, bathtub full of play-sand, a whole new garden area, tables and chairs, lots of colour: the Oasis gamers and the community worked hard for two days and transformed a previously derelict space.
Every hour new people drifted in, curious about what was happening. Parts of the community that would never have imagined working together, now did. We had a spread of ages and ethnic backgrounds, and everyone pitched in. Like our feeble attempts at learning a new dance, but really bonding through stumbling along together, the community formed new bonds and connections by pushing to get this project done within the time allocated.
There was love and laughter and it was clear that something other than painting fences was happening beneath the surface. The journey was always the point. It mattered that we listened to the community's dreams and that they all felt personally involved and committed. It didn't really matter what we would build together just that we would build it together.
The final stage had begun.
Further information:
A Lush video of the Oasis Newham week, including Hilton, Amina and the song!
Photo credits: Mara Verduin, Alessandro Stellari and Pia Long
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What are some kavanos should one have in mind when sharpening a challa knife on Erev Shabbos? I'm sure I heard that there are kavanos but never learned what they are.
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I once heard someone ask Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam Zatzal of Bobov - what Kavanos one should have when he puts on his Tallis? He responded the main Kavana one should have is that he is not hitting the person beside him with the Tzitzis when he is wrapping himself in the Talis. Based on this I would say the Kavana one should have is not to hurt anyone nearby, including himself when he sharpens the knife.
The custom to sharpen one's knife on Erev Shabbos comes from the Kolbo (Siman 31) and Sefer Chayei Olam from Rabbeynu Yona (Siman 309) and is quoted by the Beis Yosef (OC 250 "V'yashkim") and Rama (250:1). The Rama explains that it is considered honoring Shabbos to prepare for the meal, and the Mishna Berura (S"K 5 based on Rokeach) adds that if the knife is blunt and does not cut well it could G-d forbid lead to fights in the house.
The Kolbo writes that it the Sifri derives this from the verse (Iyov 5:24) "You shall know that peace be in your tents" [although it is not in our copies of Sifri], and the Chayeh Olam learns it from the verse (Shemos 16:5) "They shall prepare that ("es") which they bring in". The word "es" is similar to (Yeshayahu 2:4) "le'itim ve'limazmeros" - "plowshares and pruning hooks"; since they are sharp instruments similar to knifes we derive the obligation to prepare the knifes on Erev Shabbos.
The Sefer Korban Shabbos (Perek 1 Siman 7) explains the Kabbalistical meaning behind sharpening knives on Erev Shabbos. Shabbos corresponds to the seventh millenium where evil will be banished from the world, and the food we eat on Shabbos symbolizes the Divine revelation we will then receive. Food cut with a blemished knife is a source for evil (as it creates ne'vaila), and therefore on Shabbos when evil has no power it is not fitting to eat from such a knife.
Based on the above, I would suppose that the simple kavana should be to get ready for Shabbos and to avoid strife in the house, and a more Kabbalistic kavana that the forces of Shabbos will be banished on Shabbos.


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Chicken Tortilla Crisps
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Each chicken tortilla crisp can be as spicy as desired. So know your crowd, and adjust the chili powder accordingly!
Serves: 32 appetizers
- 4 flour tortillas (8-inch rounds)
- 1 cup shredded cooked chicken breast (about 5 ounces)
- 1/2 cup bottled chunky salsa
- 2 teaspoons chili powder
- 1 1/2 cups shredded nonfat or reduced-fat Cheddar or Monterey jack cheese
- 1/4 cup sliced black olives
- 1/4 cup sliced scallions
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons nonfat or light sour cream
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- Coat 2 large baking sheets with nonstick cooking spray, and arrange 2 tortillas on each sheet. Bake at 350°F for about 6 minutes, or until lightly browned.
- While the tortillas are baking, place the chicken, salsa, and chili powder in a small bowl, and stir to mix well. Set aside.
- Remove the tortillas from the oven, and sprinkle 1/4 cup of the cheese over each tortilla. Top each tortilla with a quarter of the chicken mixture, 1 tablespoon of olives, and 1 tablespoon of scallions. Sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of the cheese.
- Return the tortillas to the oven for 5 to 7 minutes, or until the cheese is melted and the tortillas are crisp. While the tortillas are baking, place the sour cream in a small serving bowl. Cut each tortilla into 8 wedges, and arrange the wedges on a serving platter accompanied by the sour cream. Serve hot.
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Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz chaired the weekly Cabinet session held at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah today.
At the outset, the Cabinet reviewed reports on the latest regional and international developments and renewed the Kingdom's positions toward each of them. The ministers welcomed the declaration of the 138th session of the Arab League Council condemning the continued massacres and crimes against humanity being committed against the Syrian people and calling for an immediate cessation.
The Cabinet also expressed its appreciation to all the states and organizations that participated in the Consultative Group Meeting of Donors for the Republic of Yemen, which was held in Riyadh last week. It noted that $6.369 billion was pledged to help Yemen overcome its political and economic crises and to meet its development needs.
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Down 29.7 Percent: Polk Foreclosure Numbers Decreased In November
Published: Thursday, December 12, 2013 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at 10:25 p.m.
LAKELAND | Local foreclosure activity slowed in November.
Polk's total filings (default notices, scheduled auctions and repossessions) fell 54.6 percent on an annual basis in November, and were down 29.7 percent from October, according to RealtyTrac.
Nationally, foreclosure filings sank 38.3 percent from November 2012 and declined 15.3 percent from October. U.S. foreclosure starts were at a 95-month low.
"While some of the decrease in November can be attributed to seasonality, the depth and breadth of the decrease provides strong evidence that we are entering the ninth inning of this foreclosure crisis with the outcome all but guaranteed," said Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac. "While foreclosures will likely continue to stage a weak rally in certain markets next year as the last of the distress left over from the Great Recession is dealt with, it is highly unlikely that there will be a foreclosure comeback that poses any major threat to the solid housing recovery that has now taken hold."
Florida's filings decreased about 23 percent on an annual basis and were down 15.4 percent from October. Florida still had the nation's highest foreclosure rate, with one in every 392 homes receiving a filing in November.
In Polk, 201 homes received their initial foreclosure notice in November, compared to 351 the year before, and 259 homes in October.
A report this week from CoreLogic said there were approximately 879,000 U.S. homes in some stage of foreclosure as of October, down 31 percent from 1.3 million homes the year prior. Core Logic officials said the rate of serious mortgage delinquencies was at its lowest level in almost five years.
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I'm experimenting around with my postgis2.0 database. I want to create a basic table to store all my point data and in the process,I realized that the coordinates are in different CRSs. So naturally I'm wondering now if the
the_geom column can contain a variety of CRSs - or Im confined to a single CRS per table.
To visualize it a bit, Is the following possible?
point_id | the_geom |
1 | (geom_string1) <- CRS EPSG:4326
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....managing obscure nations, so you don't have to
Return of the tash...
A couple of months ago, I started a journeyman career with a twist - it was to focus solely on international management. My original plan was to make extensive use of additional leagues and competitions through xml files and to add and remove leagues as I went from nation to nation. Alas, I learned too late about the issues connected with the Add/Remove Leagues feature so I've decided to restart with a new set-up that will allow me to travel the globe managing obscure nations without the need for any new leagues.
Dustin Powers:
"Nobody knows where he came from or how a Sunday League footballer came to be an international mangement sensation... "My alter-ego for this FM journey is Dustin Powers, a super secret football manager (so secret that nobody ever knew he existed, hence his 'sunday League' rep...) At least in international management, he doesn't have to deal with any other 'agents'
The Aim
Starting with the more obscure nations of international football, I hope to work my way up to more prestigous jobs with the ultimate aim of winning a World Cup. I may pick up a few continental and regional titles on the way as a bonus.
The plan is to only manage national sides, whether the full team or youth sides (I may also put myself in charge of the youth teams if I fancy a crack at an extra tournament). I'm also planning to start somewhere really small (somehwere New.... ) and then see if I can work my way up.
The Set-Up
This has all been made possible by the sterling work of two contributors to the editors forum, namely Unknown Hacker, who has created a series of downloadable leagues which I will be making use of, and Poop, who created a whole bunch of extra international competitions which will add some extra incentive to my time with smaller teams.
The following 'big' leagues have been loaded: England down to BSS/BSN (I hoping for a few players with Caribbean second nationalities to come through), France down to CFA (due to the number of African players/regens), Holland (ditto African/Caribbean players), MLS, South Africa and Australia (they'll hopefully attract some talent from nearby smaller nations).
I've also made use of xml files to load leagues from Angola, Antigua, Azerbijan, Bahrain Botswana, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Faroe Islands, France, Gabon, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Kazahkstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Montenegro, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Oman, Phillipines, Qatar, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Surinam, Tahiti, Thailand, Trinidad, Uzebkistan, Vanatau, Vietnam and Zambia! (Quite a list but I've run tests and I'm confident my computer can handle it).
The following extra international competitions have also been added:
Africa - CECEFA Cup (tournament for Central and East African teams), Cosafa Cup (for Southern African nations), WAFU Cup, Amilcar Cabral Cup (both for different 'zones' of Western Africa), UNAF U23 Championship (U23 tournament for North African nations). All of these cups also have U20 versions, which have been added.
Asia - SAFF Championship (for South Asia), ASEAN Championship (South-East Asia with additional U23 and U19 editions), Gulf Cup (for nations in the Persian Gulf - also has an U23 version), HK-Macau Interport (an annual clash between Hong Kong and Macau), Marianas Cup (an annual clash between Northern Mariana and Guam), West Asian Games, East Asian Games and South-East Asian Games (all multi-sport events with U23 football tournaments)
Europe - Baltic Cup (annual round robin between Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with U21 and U19 editions),
North/South America - Pan-American Games (U21 tournament featuring teams from both continents), Inter-Guyana Cup (an annual clash between Guyana and French Guyana) and Super-Clasico de las Americas (a two-legged clash between Brazil and Argentina)
Oceania - nothing extra here!
Intercontinental - Arab Nations Cup, Mediterranean Games (U23 tournament), Coupe de l'Outer-Mére (tournament for French overseas territories), Lusophony Games (for Portugeuse-speaking nations), Isliamic Solidarity Games, Indian Ocean Island Games, CIS Cup (U21 tournament for former Soviet countries and neighbouring nations) and Jeux de la Francophonie (U21 tournament for French-speaking nations)
That should keep me busy!


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I used my Avid syringes on a set of M988s for my trail bike...
Has some extra attachments from a Reverb bleed kit so I clipped the brass nipple off the end of one syringe attachment and used an old Hayes bleed nipple spring to attach the syringe on to the caliper bleed nipple. Using the Avid bleed method....pull a vacuum at the caliper w/ the lever closed to pull out all the air and degassed the fluid from the line and caliper. Then closed the caliper bleed nipple (but leave the syringe attached) after pushing in as much fluid as the syringe/system will allow. Then I pulled a vacuum on the lever to get the MC's air bubbles out and also pushed as much fluid into the system as allowed before buttoning up the MC/lever. Deviated from the Avid steps here...opened the caliper and fine tuned the bite point/feel at the lever to match the front w/ rear. This step took a bit of fussing, but I managed to get the lever to feel identical to my '11 Codes (both the Codes and M988s are on Goodridge lines).
Next project is to pair a M820 4-pots caliper to the M988's MC for the front end of that trail bike This might be a pretty interesting setup for those lighter and/or weight conscious DH riders...?
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Traffic Patrols Ramped Up for Holiday Weekend
Published: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 10:50 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 10:50 p.m.
The Florida Highway Patrol is increasing its presence on roadways during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
Troopers said they will be looking for impaired drivers, speeding and motorists following too closely.
The Lakeland and Bartow police departments also have said they will increase patrols during the weekend.
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GENESEO, N.Y. - Faculty members at the State University of New York at Geneseo have elected 76 students to the college's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest and most widely known academic honor society. Students from the junior and senior classes are selected each spring for membership into the organization.
Geneseo is the only undergraduate SUNY college with a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, one of only 280 chapters in the nation. The Geneseo chapter was created in 2004.
The following students were elected from the senior class (all hometowns are in New York unless noted otherwise):
Christy Allen from Clifton Park; Christopher Bartell from Rochester; Lea Bellomo from Northport; Michael Bennett from Clinton; Sarah Bradley from Schenectady; Amy Breimaier from Tallman; Cassarah Brown from Syosset; Eleanor Bryan from Jefferson; Clare Campbell from Cazenovia; Katherine Choiniere from East Berne; Rebecca Cogan from Ontario; Isobel Connors from Snyder; Michelle Costanzo from Rochester; Alicia Dezik from Hamburg; Joseph Diaz from Pearl River; Andrew DiMartino from Scotia; Kevin Duquette from Schenectady; Jessica Ee from New York City; Tyler Ellis from Palmyra; Marissa Evarts from West Islip; Vei Chen Fan from Hong Kong; Michelle Fevola from Melville; Brittany Frankel from Red Hook; Patrick Gallagher from Warwick; Alicia Hardenburg from Portland; Brian Hartle from Saratoga Springs; Ashleigh Hebert from Stormville; Geoffrey Henderson from Half Moon Bay, Calif.; Alissa Herman from West Newton, Mass.; Emily Herman from Victor; Shane Hunt from Carmel; Noelle Jankowiak from West Seneca; Caitlin Klein from Smithtown; Alanna Klose from Fredonia; Jean Koch from Lakeville; Benjamin Krolikowski from Stony Brook; Ching Lam from Brooklyn; Sarah Laudico from Elba; Ryan Levy from Geneseo; Nicole Loiacano from East Amherst; Jeffrey Lovitz from Katonah; Kun Ma from Inner Mongolia, China; Kevin Manzella from Fredonia; Abby Mayer from Hamburg; Anna Mellace from Rome; Anissa Moore from Malone; John Morrissey from Buffalo; Joseph Mort from Rochester; Karyn Muir from Honeoye Falls; Kristina Nikiforova from Mt. Kisco; Kathleen Nowak from Snyder; Sarah Orbesen from Chittenango; Carla Pennello from Rochester; Jennifer Picalila from Johnson City; Kristen Pyles from Rochester; Michael Radi from Honeoye Falls; Shanna Reulbach from Webster; Dennis Ruppe from Watertown; Max Schulte from Buffalo; Kristin Shumway from Potsdam; Mark Simeone from Islip Terrace; Mark Sperrazza from Sauquoit; Rachel Svenson from East Aurora; Erika van der Kloet from Camillus; Colin Waters from Rome; Edward Watts from Mt. Kisco; Ben Wickizer from Mercer Island, Wash.; and Yong Yang from Ridgewood.
The following students were elected from the junior class (all hometowns are in New York unless noted otherwise):
Michael Arena from Rochester; Justin Christy from Greenwich; Adele Costa from East Northport; Kerisha Hawthorne from St. James, Jamaica; Ellyn Jameson from Penn Yan; Jennifer Nortz from Lowville; Kevin Palmowski from Syracuse; and Michael Siegenthaler from Verona.
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COLUMBUS - Earlier this season, one of Ohio State's football players was asked which of his teammates was the smartest guy on the team.
He did not pick Terrelle Pryor, Dan Herron, DeVier Posey, Mike Adams, Solomon Thomas or Jordan Whiting.
Now we know why.
Those four Ohio State junior starters, plus Thomas and Whiting were revealed to be in violation of NCAA rules on Thursday.
So, unless an appeal by Ohio State gets a game or two knocked off their punishment, all except Whiting will miss the first five games of next season for selling OSU memorabilia and taking discounts from a Columbus tattoo parlor.
Rumors that some OSU players could be in trouble had been circulating for a couple of days before the suspensions came down with stunning abruptness Thursday.
The players will be able to play in the Sugar Bowl but will have to sit out the Buckeyes' first five games in 2011 against Akron, Toledo, Miami (Fla.), Colorado and Michigan State.
Pryor, a three-year starter at quarterback and a potential Heisman Trophy candidate, sold his 2008 Big Ten championship ring, his gold pants charm for beating Michigan in 2008 and a Fiesta Bowl award.
Herron, the team's leading rusher, sold his football jersey, pants and shoes. Adams, a starting offensive tackle, and Posey, the team's No. 2 receiver, sold their 2008 Big Ten championship rings.
So, what will the fallout be from this be? And what have we learned?
The most obvious fallout is the effect it could have on Ohio State's 2011 season.
Right after that is the possibility Pryor, Posey, Herron and maybe Adams could decide to test the interest the NFL has in them a year sooner than expected.
Ohio State wasn't expected to be hit hard by underclassmen declaring for the NFL. Pryor and Posey had said they wanted to return for their senior season. But that could change now as they consider the possibility of missing almost half of next season.
All this has shaken Ohio State's football program and its huge fan base.
This is the heaviest NCAA sanction placed on OSU in recent memory. The long-term effects on Ohio State's reputation probably will be neglible. But in the short term, it could put a crack or two in the pedestal OSU places itself on.
For many fans, it must be dismaying to realize there are some Buckeyes players who don't love Ohio State as much as they do. It must be disappointing to learn some players are in it much more for themselves than they realized.
There was lots of revelation and non-revelation to go around in this distasteful episode.
The NCAA displayed a reluctance to torpedo a big-money game by allowing the suspended players to suit up in the Sugar Bowl before beginning their punishments.
Ohio State, on the other hand, showed no reluctance to give some cover to the players.
Athletic director Gene Smith said the players sold the gear "with the right intent, to help their families" and talked about economic times being tough. Coach Jim Tressel tried to ease the fall, saying the coaches hadn't done a good enough job educating the players that they couldn't sell things.
Obviously, I don't know the state of the finances of the players' families. But, unlike some students and their families struggling with tough economic times, they are getting a college education, worth around $100,000 for free.
As for the players not knowing this was a violation, mark me down as skeptical.
Not too many years ago, an OSU player talked to me about how they had been warned not to sell their game tickets for a profit. Another time a different player told me he and his teammates couldn't play fantasy football because it might be considered gambling.
If they had been warned about those situations, it's hard to believe the suspended players had no clue selling their uniform or championship rings was a problem.
Ohio State will get through this. But it will dominate the conversation about the Buckeyes at least until late next season.


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I'm trying to write a script that will create an entry in the messaging menu that shows your to-do list. This way, each item would be a shortcut, and clicking on an item would mark it as done.
I know how to add an entry to the menu, and I know how to add shortcuts below it. My problem right now is having them update in real time. As it is, if edit
/usr/share/applications/foo.desktop to include more shortcuts, my messaging menu entry for foo only updates after I log out and back in again.
How can I change that? Is there a command I can run to update the messaging menu? Is there some other workaround?


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22 Oct 2009 12:42 AM #31
The 0.1RC1 release is almost there - in the meantime, I have synced the public SVN. For those who are interested - you can view a few stats over at http://www.ohloh.net/p/conjoon or browse through the source at http://wiki.conjoon.org/browser/trunk.
People who are working with Zend Framework might be interested in the way conjoon deals with batched requests made by the Ext.Direct API: http://wiki.conjoon.org/browser/trun...ExtRequest.php is the source of the plugin that is capable of managing Ext.Direct requests, without exposing the backend API to the client.
7 Dec 2009 8:31 AM #32
conjoon V0.1RC1P available
Releasing 0.1RC1 took some time due to migrating to Ext 3.0.3 and Zend Framework 1.9.4. However, I'm very proud to announce the immediate release of conjoon V0.1RC1P - which is a build-only, preview release for V0.1RC1.
There are some known issues regarding IE7 and IE8, but we didn't want to let you wait any longer - visit http://www.conjoon.org for more informations.
7 Dec 2009 4:08 PM #33
Thanks Thorsten !
Is there any chanlog ? What's new ? IMAP support ?
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7 Dec 2009 10:45 PM #34
Kick Azz app!
I love how polished it looks.
Is there a way to create an email-connector for gmail / hotmail / yahoo with your Email module?
I'm imaging an email front-end that allows me to view my emails from multiple providers in one place. And when I click reply, I want that email to be routed through the original provider (hotmail via hotmail, gmail via gmail... etc.) Can this application do that?Perfection as a goal is a nice idea that can point one in a specific direction. However, since "perfection" is an ever changing (evolving?) and moving target, one must admit that perfection can never be obtained...
When in doubt, check the d4mn source code!
And here are my terms...
- I don't care if you use my source code. (Known as "Code.")
- I don't care if I get any monetary compensation.
- I do care to receive credit for Code provided. So, please keep my name in the comments for Code provided.
- Code is provided without warranty "AS-IS" and I claim absolutely no warranty nor liability to the quality, security, and run-ability on any platform.
- By using Code, you accept all risk inherit with Code regardless if Code has known and yet to be discovered bugs.
- You are welcome to change and improve the Code to best meet your needs.
- I don't care if you use the Code in a commercial or open-source project.
- You are not required to contact me prior to using the Code.
Simple. Enjoy.
8 Dec 2009 4:11 AM #35
Thanks for the feedback.
Yeah there will be IMAP support in the 0.2 release, so stay tuned.
As for the changelog - I have not found any changelog generator yet and I have been to lazy to collect all the changes that were made - I'm 600 changesets ahead from the last version so you can tell that a lot of improvements and bug fixes have found their way into this release. I also focused a lot on performance so the caching options would be one of those enhancements. Oh, and the twitter client rocks. You should go check it out.
There are a lot of programming goodies in the source but this is mainly something for the dev itself to find pleasure in, such as the Zend framework handling stacked requests made by the Ext.Direct-API using some plugin galore. It paves the way for future development though, so more exciting news are about to come!
In the meantime I have updated the download section with a new version, 0.1RC1Pr935, as users have encountered some issues when working with *nix machines. Everyone is recommended to update to this version.
16 Dec 2009 3:11 AM #36
conjoon 0.1RC1Pr937 available
An updated version (0.1RC1Pr937) fixes some minor issues and is available from the download page.
18 Dec 2009 5:22 AM #37
Greetings from the conjoon headquarters! Today we celebrate the annual conjoon release party!
And cheers to the Ext Team for releasing 3.1!
18 Dec 2009 5:58 AM #38
Thorsten, congratulations!!!https://moduscreate.com/wp-content/t...es/favicon.png
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21 Dec 2009 7:11 AM #39
Thx Jay - my friends surprised me with a complete collection of conjoon merchandising articles - glad you posted the link to the Ext logo a year ago!
8 Jan 2010 1:16 AM #40
conjoon 0.1RC1 available
I'm proud to announce the first release candidate for conjoon 0.1 - namely conjoon 0.1RC1. It features Ext 3.1 and is available from the download page at http://www.conjoon.org/downloads


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I'm a newbie to Ubuntu, and I'm using 11.10.
I used
super boot manager and
boot manager, and I messed a lot with burg, grub and plymouth till that whatever I do there will be no change to burg theme and plymouth theme.
So, I removed
super boot manager
boot manager and reinstalled
super boot manager, but it give me an error when I hit
install burg button.
How to remove and reset everything about
grub and
plymouth so I can set a theme for them?