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You don't need to be an investigative reporter to know that new hires announced by Channel 4 and Channel 7 highlight the areas both news departments are seeking to upgrade.
After a lengthy search, Channel 4 has found the missing piece for its investigative team in a Buffalo native and former Buffalo News reporter who has a 2012 Pulitzer Prize on her resume for her work with the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Meanwhile, Channel 7 has finished its reboot of its morning show by hiring a 2012 SUNY Buffalo State graduate.
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Rose Ciotta, a Buffalo native who left The News years ago to work for the Philadelphia Inquirer, joins Channel 4 as an investigative reporter Aug. 5. Investigative reporting is an area the station has long said it planned to upgrade and accentuate.
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Schlaerth noted that Ciotta's investigative series at The News included one on the abuse of emotionally disturbed youth in a West Seneca facility.
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As senior projects editor, Ciotta was part of a large Inquirer team whose seven-part series investigating violence in Philadelphia's public schools won a Pulitzer for public service in 2012.
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Desiree Wiley will be a multimedia journalist and a traffic and lifestyles reporter for "Good Morning," the simple name of the station's new morning program that premieres in three weeks.
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I just want to know if someone wants to start learning about web development with Ruby & Rails where should he start from if his background as following:
Now, where the beginning should be from? Ruby language for example? then what?Is there a book that teach how to build a site with Ruby, Rails and MySQL?
Zed Shaw's Learn Ruby The Hard Way is a good starting point: http://ruby.learncodethehardway.org/
Envy Labs has had immense success with CodeSchool.Gregg is a big name in our local Ruby/Rails community.
The best resource I have seen are the official rails guides http://guides.rubyonrails.org/Thorough, well maintained documentation on all the latest features.
I agree that Learn Ruby the Hard Way is a great resource, it's where I went to pick up Python. I also suggest SitePoint's Rails book, in their bookstore. It was a good read, and a good introduction to Rails concepts. For an introduction to Ruby, if you enjoy printed resources, the Pragmatic bookshelf series is great as well. Their book "Learn to Program" is a very basic but well written introduction to programming concepts in general, but using Ruby through-ought the book.
ya there are many books available . Even there are many links available on the internet which have a full guide for ruby-on-rails-development.i was searching by and i found a book named rubymine. i found it at a link in stack overflow.
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Ok so I was told to come here by the people at http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:Jacce#Bad_mod so please don't ban me.
The mod Jacce banned the people at 184.108.40.206 and 188.8.131.52 for what he says was, 'nonsense,' and what other people say was, 'unnecessary.' It definitely wasn't nonsense because I understood what they were saying and whether it was necessary is an opinion. The point is that they did not do anything bad. And this site's rules at Narutopedia:Blocking policy say, 'Users should not be blocked simply for making bad edits.' So Jacce broke the rules when he banned people who were only trying to help. And then after he banned them Jacce protected the pages they edited from more editing because of what he says was, 'excessive vandalism.' The Kazekage page has been edited four times in the last month and only one was vandalism. 1/4 isn't excessive. The Tsuchikage page has been edited two times in the last month and neither was vandalism. 0/2 isn't excessive. The only thing excessive is that Jacce protected the pages for six months because of one edit.
When I told Jacce that he shouldn't have banned these people some other people came and defended him by saying that it was no big deal that these people were banned because their bans will end in a few days. If you were banned because someone thought you were breaking the rules when it's actually the person that banned you who's breaking the rules would you brush it off as no big deal? Do you think it would be fair to be sent to jail and then have your jailers tell you you didn't do anything wrong but you still need to serve your full term? And then the person White Flash says that Nazism isn't so bad because other websites are even bigger Nazis. Not only is that extremely insulting but it sounds like an admission of guilt.
So I think that Jacce and other mods should stop misusing their mod powers by banning people who didn't do anything wrong and by preventing people from contributing for six month time frames as a response to one well meaning edit. I don't think whether or not the stuff these people added was important or whether or not they added it in the right place matters because they only wanted to be helpful. And wanting to be helpful is never bad. If you keep scaring away people that only want to make this site better then you're going to be left with people that White Flash says aren't Nazis but are only kind of Nazis.
Thank you for listening and please don't ban me because I want this site to be better.22.214.171.124 (talk) 22:01, June 22, 2012 (UTC)
I admire the admin involved here. His actions were proven, correct and thoughtful whenever I've seen one of his edits. I may be wrong, but are the suspicious trivia facts these two: "His chakra cannot be sensed by any ninja in the land He also Taught Particle Jutsu to the 3rd Tsuchikage." and "Gaara is one of the few Byronic Heros in the anime along with Itachi."?
As i can recall, we've had thousands of these (maybe unnecessary) trivia facts, but the users weren't blocked because of them. Maybe there is something more involved here? --Vecanoi (talk) 22:14, June 22, 2012 (UTC)
- Yes those are the edits. Adding something that's not necessary isn't bad if they're only trying to be helpful. The rules say they shouldn't have been banned unless they kept adding the same thing which they didn't do because they were banned after the first time they added it.22.214.171.124 (talk) 22:21, June 22, 2012 (UTC)
- I've never said Nazism is okay. You are now trying to change my words, I said other Admins led their Wikis with Nazism they're more worse than what you said "Oh I see. When someone gets sent to jail for a crime they didn't commit they should be like, 'Oh it's no big deal because I'll get out in a month.". -White Flash-(Talk)- 22:30, June 22, 2012 (UTC)
This forum is ridiculously unnecessary. IP user 18.104.22.168 you're blowing the issue— whether it be justified or no in your, or any one else's opinion— way out of proportion. This is all because of the way you arbitrarily came here and attacked someone from our community but not just anyone, one of the long-standing members that a lot of people here respect and even admire. You expected the community to respond in another manner other than outrage. Wait until Jacce gets on and he can address you directly instead of creating forums and blowing things out of proportion. One incident doesn't mean the person is misusing their power. He's been an admin from as early as 2009 I think someone would've noticed this by now. With that, I'd ask the rest of the community to ignore this forum and carry on with your work.--Cerez365™(talk) 22:47, June 22, 2012 (UTC)
- It's other people making a bigger deal out of this. I told Jacce that he made a mistake and then other people came along and defended him. And then they told me to make a forum here which is what I did. Just because Jacce is a mod and just because he's been editing for a long time doesn't mean he can't make a mistake sometimes. You don't need to make excuses for him.
- And this has been an issue before. Look at this link http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:Jacce/Archive_4#Blocks This site's banning policy was specifically written because Jacce was being too free with his banning privileges and now he's being free with it again. He should stop banning people for first offenses because it's in the rules and because sometimes (like this time) he blocks people that he shouldn't.220.127.116.11 (talk) 23:05, June 22, 2012 (UTC)
The edits made by mentioned IP:s are similar to hundreds of old edits. All they do is causing trouble and extra work for good users. Some are made in good faith, others with ill intent. Most IP just pop up, leaves an edit and disappears again, a short block rarely hurts anyone and it prevents the vandals from doing damage. And a note in the log makes it easier to find range vandals.
The problem with IP users is that it is difficult to sort one timers from vandals. When an account user does those edits it is easy to just leave a message on their talk page, an IP can be used by dozens of different people.
The policy about blocking didn't do much difference. The only change was that vandals could cause trouble before being stopped. This wiki is constantly attacked by vandals, all I'm trying to to is save the users from unnecessary work. Jacce | Talk | Contributions 06:00, June 23, 2012 (UTC)
- The mod Dantman says that a short block rarely helps anyone either if you read what he told you in 2009. The rules should be updated to say that anyone can be blocked no matter what their intention was if they do something that bothers registered people because that's how this site works and the fact that the rules say otherwise is just confusing people like me.
- And I want to know why you make pages uneditable for such a long time? Six months is a long time to be preventing anything especially when it's just because of one person.22.214.171.124 (talk) 18:50, June 24, 2012 (UTC)
- Maybe because of the fact the page is constantly vandalized therefore should be protected. -White Flash-(Talk)- 18:54, June 24, 2012 (UTC)
- For the first comment, time has passed and things has changed. Jacce | Talk | Contributions 18:58, June 24, 2012 (UTC)
It's a common saying that prevention is better than cure. I don't know about others but I'd much prefer the article being protected from IP users for six months than users having to constantly undo the vandalism that they cause. You may not have specifically done anything but IP vandals make it bad for all of you. There's nothing excessive about a six months protection on an article that would rarely need updating. The page was free to be edited by registered users which more times than not aren't here to vandalise the articles. If you feel that you wanted to contribute then then simply create an account or leave a message in the talk page if you don't want to do the former.--Cerez365™(talk) 19:03, June 24, 2012 (UTC)
If things has changed then update the rules. You're a mod and you can change those things. And no those pages are not constantly vandalized because if you look at the Tsuchikage page it's only been edited twice in the last month and neither was vandalism like I said before. I think you should look up vandalism in a dictionary because when I look it up it says, 'deliberately mischievous or malicious destruction or damage of property' and there's nothing deliberately malicious about these kinds of edits. And just because these pages rarely need editing doesn't mean they don't need editing sometimes because if you look at the Kazekage page there's a grammar mistake in the trivia part where it's got conflicting use of 'was' and 'were' when it should only be one or the other. And the Mizukage page was protected for six months today even though there's an unnecessary comma in the lead paragraph where it says, 'The Mizukage's building, is the,' and should say, 'The Mizukage's building is the.' But because the page is protected I have to point these out somewhere else which just causes, 'extra work for good users,' like Jacce said which recreates the problem by trying to solve it. I shouldn't need to use an account for things like this because that flies in the face of how sites like this are supposed to work.18.104.22.168 (talk) 19:18, June 24, 2012 (UTC)
"I've never been more for excluding unregistered people from the site" Cerez' edit summary. Just to comment on this in case it's taken seriously, I don't believe one article is grounds for punishing all unregistered users. It's one thing for Jacce to ban out would be vandals, quite another to cut off everyone on account of 126.96.36.199 there. I mean even I, a registered user would suffer for that as I occasionally edit while forgetting to sign in. --Hawkeye2701 (talk) 00:57, June 25, 2012 (UTC)
No one's taking anything out on anyone because of one person. It just doesn't make much sense to me to carry on this argument. Jacce is a sysop and if he sees fit to up the protection level of an article for x amount of time, I don't see a reason to argue with that. Other than that, persons are able to request that the article be unprotected and even in some instances, the article is unprotected after the issue surrounding it is resolved. Not because the article is protected for x time means that the protection will remain for the duration. And like I said before, if you have edits that need to be done to an article while it's protected, use the talk page or else request to have the article unprotected and go from there. That's what everybody else does when they want to edit protected articles, don't see why IP users should be any different.--Cerez365™(talk)18:44, June 25, 2012 (UTC)
- I requested edits in my last post and look nobody has done anything yet. I have reason to argue with six months protection because there's no reason to do so the pages aren't edited very often and when they are it's not vandalism so protection doesn't accomplish anything other than preventing potential good edits. And even if there was vandalism going on it wouldn't need to be six months because a month is a long time too without being unreasonable. If you look at the Raikage page it's only been protected for a month so what is it about these other pages that needs six months and pages like Raikage that only needs one month because I don't see any consistency. And Jacce is avoiding the issue about banning he says the banning rules are out of date but he won't change them either when that would be really simple for him because he's a mod.188.8.131.52 (talk) 19:11, June 25, 2012 (UTC)
- Technically you didn't request anything and if you were, it should've been done on the talk pages or made more clear in you post. In any case the changes have been made.--Cerez365™(talk) 19:40, June 25, 2012 (UTC)
- So when someone brings a problem to your attention that they cannot fix themselves it doesn't occur to you to do it for them unless they specifically ask you to in the proper place? I'd kind of hope that you would fix the problem as soon as you were aware of it no matter how it's brought up although if you weren't aware of it because you didn't read my whole post I can understand.184.108.40.206 (talk) 19:58, June 25, 2012 (UTC)
- Technically you didn't request anything and if you were, it should've been done on the talk pages or made more clear in you post. In any case the changes have been made.--Cerez365™(talk) 19:40, June 25, 2012 (UTC)


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Many of the organs that produce hormones are, in turn, controlled by other hormones. Aging also changes this process. For example, an endocrine tissue may produce less of its hormone than it did at a younger age, or it may produce the same amount at a slower rate.
The hypothalamus is located in the brain. It produces hormones that control the other structures in the endocrine system. The amount of these regulating hormones stays about the same, but the response by the endocrine organs can change as we age.
The pituitary gland is also located in the brain. This gland reaches its maximum size in middle age and then gradually becomes smaller. It has two parts:
- The back (posterior) portion stores hormones produced in the hypothalamus.
- The front (anterior) portion produces hormones that affect the thyroid gland (TSH), adrenal cortex, ovaries, testes, and breasts.
The thyroid gland is located in the neck. It produces hormones that help control metabolism. With aging, the thyroidmay become lumpy (nodular). Metabolism slows over time, beginning at around age 20. Because thyroid hormones are produced and broken down (metabolized) at the same rate, thyroid function tests usually show results within the normal range.
The parathyroid glandsare four tiny glands located around the thyroid. Parathyroid hormone affects calcium and phosphate levels, whichaffect the strength of the bones. Parathyroid hormone levels rise with age, whichmay contribute to osteoporosis.
Insulin is produced by the pancreas.It helpssugar (glucose) go from the blood to the inside of cells, where it can be used for energy.
The average fasting glucose level rises 6 to 14 mg/dL (milligrams per deciliter) for each 10 years after age 50. This is because the cells become less sensitive to the effects of insulin.
The adrenal glands are located just above the kidneys. The adrenal cortex, the surface layer, produces the hormones aldosterone and cortisol.
- Aldosterone regulates fluid and electrolyte balance.
- Cortisol is the "stress response" hormone. It affects the breakdown of glucose, protein, and fat, and has anti-inflammatory and anti-allergy effects.
Aldosteronerelease decreases with age, which can contribute to light-headedness and a drop in blood pressure with sudden position changes (orthostatic hypotension). Cortisolrelease alsodecreases with aging, but the blood level of this hormone stays about the same. Dehydroepiandrosterone levels also drop, although the effects of this drop on the body are not clear.
The ovaries and testes have two functions. They produce the reproductive cells (ova and sperm). They also produce the sex hormones that control secondary sex characteristics, such as breasts and facial hair.
- With aging, men sometimes experience a slightly decreased level of testosterone.
- Women have decreased levels of estradiol and other estrogen hormones after menopause.
Overall, some hormones are decreased, some unchanged, and some increased with age. Hormones that are usually decreased include:
- Aldosterone
- Calcitonin
- Growth hormone
- Renin
In women, estrogen and prolactin levels usually decrease significantly.
Hormones that remain unchanged or only slightly decreased include:
Testosterone levels usually decrease slightly as men age.
Hormones that may increase include:
- Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)
- Luteinizing hormone (LH)
- Norepinephrine
- Parathyroid hormone
- Aging changes in immunity
- Aging changes in organs, tissues, and cells
- Aging changes in the female reproductive system
- Aging changes in the male reproductive system
- Menopause
Minaker KL. Common clinical sequelae of aging. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2011:chap 24.
Review Date: 9/2/2012
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc.


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Tom Saffell was involved in pro baseball for over 60 years
By Minor League Baseball | September 17, 2012 1:13 PM ET
"Few people in baseball will amass a longer, a more unique or a more storied career and life than Tom Saffell," Minor League Baseball President Pat O'Conner said. "His military career was impressive and a well-kept secret to many. Tom lived the baseball life as a player, manager and executive at virtually every level of the game.
"More impressive than his career accomplishments was his heart. He was truly a gentle man. Saffell always had a smile on his face and a kind word to say about everyone. He led the Gulf Coast League through generational-type changes with a steady hand. He will be missed as an accomplished baseball man and a friend to all."
According to Bill Ventolo, his longtime GCL assistant, Saffell got pneumonia after having surgery on his left hip, which he broke last month after tripping over a chair in his home.
"He looked like he was recovering," Ventolo said. "The hip operation went great and it was healing, but then he contracted pneumonia."
Saffell began his baseball career in 1941 in the Appalachian League with the Newport Canners and Kingsport Cherokees. After hitting .231 in 23 games, he returned to his native Etowah, Tenn., and worked for a railroad company.
His playing career was then put on hold because of World War II. Saffell flew 61 missions as a fighter pilot with the 405th Fighter Squadron of the 371st Fighter Group from bases in France and Germany in 1944-45.
After World War II, Saffell resumed his career in the South Atlantic and Carolina Leagues in 1946. He went on to play in 17 more seasons, including parts of four years (1949-51, 1955) with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He also appeared in nine games with the Kansas City Athletics in 1955.
Saffell then managed in the Minor Leagues in 1961-62, 1965 and from 1969-72. He piloted the 1961 Grand Forks Chiefs to the best record in the Class C Northern League, appearing in nine games and batting .500. He was named the 1969 Midwest League Manager of the Year for leading the Appleton Foxes to a league best 84-41 record.
Saffell thought his career in baseball was over after managing the Gastonia Pirates in 1972. Eight years later, he became GCL president, not knowing how much, or how little, he would enjoy it.
"But I got this job and I didn't really think I would like it when I first got into it," Saffell recalled in 2010. "But, after I got into it, it just grew on me -- working with these kids and seeing them develop and working with these young umpires and seeing them develop -- it's really satisfying to an old [guy] like me."
Saffell also mentioned two years ago that he never had a written contract to run the GCL during his tenure as president.
"I went to the meetings and didn't know if I was going to be president, or not," he joked.
After a 30-year run as league president, the championship trophy of the GCL was named the Thomas J. Saffell Trophy, in his honor.
"I think it's a wonderful thing, one of the best things that happened to me in baseball," Saffell said.
Saffell was also honored by Minor League Baseball as the 1999 King of Baseball, for his longtime dedication and service to the game, and in 2005 as the Warren Giles Award winner, for outstanding service as a league president.
O'Conner presented Saffell with a Presidential Citation, a special award designed to recognize exemplary service on behalf of Minor League Baseball, at the 2009 Baseball Winter Meetings™.
Not many people were aware of Saffell's condition, which explains why it took several days for word of his passing to reach the baseball world. Funeral arrangements, including a memorial service in Sarasota, are pending.
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Macon, Ga. - The men's B group recorded their second consecutive win in the Team Time Trial event to lead off the SECCC Conference Championships hosted by Mercer University this past weekend, and Caleb Welborn and Corey Meyer each had podium finishes in the Road Race as the Tornados wrapped up their conference slate for the spring.
The men's A group started the two day event for the Tornados, coming in fifth overall with a time of 40:31:61, 3:22:35 off the pace of leader Mars Hill to open the day's proceedings. The BC men's B group recorded the win later in the morning, defeating teams from Lees-McRae and Florida State, crossing the line with a time of 41:23:28 to give the Tornados their first win of the day.
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'Minnesota made it 3-1 early in the third when Miller accidentally shoveled the puck into his own net. Brent Burns got credit for the goal by virtue of being the last one to touch the puck. The Sabres came storming back, however, with yet another third-period pally. Mair got the comeback started by deflecting home a Nathan Paetsch shot from the point. Vanek scored his 8th goal of the season only 46 seconds later to tie the score 3-3. The two sides hung on through the remainder of regulation and Roy stuffed it past Backstrom — his first goal of the season — to win it in the extra frame.'
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A new study by a Montana think tank has found a strong positive correlation between personal income in rural Western counties with the amount of protected federal land in or near those counties.
Headwaters Economics, an independent research organization, reported that 24 percent of personal income in Utah's Kane County, for example, can be explained by the presence of national monuments and parks and other public lands with special designations. That's $7,731 per person for that county in the heart of the Colorado Plateau's redrock wonderland with1.1 million acres under federal protection.
In neighboring Garfield County, the figure is $4,789 in per-capita income connected with protected lands, or 17 percent of personal income, according to the study.
Findings like these run counter to the viewpoint by some state and county leaders in Utah who say "locking up" land with wilderness and monument designations thwarts rural economic development by keeping out drilling, mining, logging and roads. This sentiment helped win passage for HB148, last year's bill calling on the federal government to cede ownership of Utah's public lands to the state.
The goal of that law, however, is not to strip scenic landscapes of protection, but facilitate dialogue on how best to manage public lands in the West, according to Kathleen Clarke, director of Utah's Public Lands Policy Coordination Office.
"The report confirms what we already know. The public lands are incredibly valuable to our state for many reasons," said Clarke, who led the federal Bureau of Land Management during the second Bush administration. Utah's cherished landscapes have been appropriately shielded from development, but the state also harbors world-class energy deposits that are hard to tap because federal land managers take guidance from Washington, D.C., rather than local communities, she said.
"The state has no intention of taking pristine lands and converting them to energy opportunities," Clarke stressed. "There are benefits that come to the state in terms of economic opportunities when we have those critical lands in conservation. That's a given. What we haven't looked at are what are the impacts [of landscape conservation] on the rural quality of life."
Headwaters' Bozeman, Mont.-based economists concede protected lands impede high-paying industries like wood products and mining, but protection carries indirect economic benefits that are hard to measure.
The biggest is their ability to attract talented people to relocate in towns like Kanab or Moab, bringing with them businesses and income streams from investments, Social Security and other non-labor sources.
The Internet and e-commerce enable many entrepreneurs to live where they choose, and the ability to recreate in untrammeled scenic landscapes in the rural West is a big draw.
"We can't make the argument that protected federal lands in and of themselves are a sole driver of economic growth. It's a contributing factor," study co-author Patricia Gude said. "There are many factors for growth, like access to markets, transportation infrastructure, educated workforce. Protected public lands fit in that larger picture."
The study found that non-metro counties' per capita income, on average, is $436 higher for every 10,000 acres of protected federal lands within their boundaries, according to Headwaters Executive Director Ray Rasker.
"Today's analysis gives businesses, local officials, and community leaders a better understanding of one way that protected federal lands provide their county with a competitive and economic advantage," said Rasker, lead author on the report.
Headwaters examined 286 non-metro counties with protected lands in the 11 contiguous Western states. Traditional industries are becoming less important in these counties, the report says. Agriculture accounted for 5 percent of employment in 2010 and resource extraction combined for 2 percent, while services accounted for 61 percent.
According to "West Is Best," a Headwaters report released in November, Utah's 20 percent growth in employment between 2000 and 2011 was the nation's best showing. Population grew by 26 percent, but personal income grew by 31 percent, a fact the authors attributed in part to Utah's world-class recreation. But an energy boom probably helped this picture.
During this period, Utah gained 279,927 jobs, with the great majority coming in the service industries, such as real estate, health care, finance and insurance. Mining and drilling accounted for 7,667 of these jobs.
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"It's in the state's interest in having a diversified economy. Individual sectors tend to rise and fall over time. That's why we have clusters looking at medical devices, biomedical, energy, but also the outdoor industry," said Alan Matheson, Herbert's environmental adviser. "When the governor released his outdoor vision last week, he talked about recreation as an important sector in Utah's economy."


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CULTURE EXCHANGE: In today's fast-paced column we have a lot of ways (two, actually, but still ...) to revel in your own rich cultural heritage (and here we're making a reckless assumption that you're African-American or Jewish) or to expand your cultural horizons by a few leagues (switching now to the equally undocumented assumption that you're non-African-American and non-Jewish) this weekend as a brace of big heritage fests are coming to Long Beach's shoreline.
We will start alphabetically with the African-American Festival happening all day Saturday and Sunday at the Aquarium of the Pacific.
This is the 10th annual version of the ever-growing festival and now there's so much going on that we can't even begin to go into the sort of great detail you deserve. For the sprawling list of events, check www.aquariumofpacific.org, or, better, just swing by the place and take your chances with whatever's going on.
No matter what, you're sure to find African-Americana of all sorts, including, generally, music, art, storytelling and food. Maybe you'll hear the street jazz of the LA LA Mardi Gras Second Liners or gospel music by the St. Stephen's Baptist Church choir.
There's break dancing and popping performed by the locals from the Homeland Crew, interactive drum circles, "spokenyoga," and, for the hungry, soul food and Cajun fare. It all goes from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days in and around the Aquarium. It's thrown in with the regular price of admission: $24.95; $21.95 for seniors 62 and older; $13.95 for kids 3-11; free for 2 and under.
JEWLICIOUS: The annual Jewlicious Festival has outgrown its former home at the Alpert Jewish Community Center this year and moves aboard the Queen Mary for a three-day bash starting today. There's some serious Jewishness going on at this fest, with prayers and meditation and services for Reform, Conservative and traditional adherents.
Saturday is the big event, with a $20 concert featuring the Aggrolites and other musical guests, plus comics Todd Barry and Moshe Kasher. Throughout the days, you can check in with a variety of seminars ranging from "Jews and Cannabis" to a "Gourmet Kimchi Workshop." Or, this one: "Yep, Jews Work in Hollywood."
Once again, there's way too much to list here. Swing by www.jewliciousfestival.com to get the entire schedule (downloadable to your smart phone or other cunning devices).
PEARL 45: Pearl 45, the great Long Beach-produced poetry periodical that's been around since we were blathering nursery rhymes, is back again, celebrating its 45th issue with a local all-stars reading from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Historical Society of Long Beach galleries at 4260 Atlantic Ave.
There are few poets of note left off the line-up that's headlined by Pearl 45's featured poet Clint Margrave, reading from his collection "The Worst That Can Happen Is You Die."
The balance of the readers, however, can hardly be called an undercard. Among them are some of our career favorites, including the dean of 'em all, Gerald Locklin, plus Jeff Epley and Frank X. Gaspar, David Hernandez, Donna Hilbert, Patricia Cherin, Fred Voss and, even, more. It's a $100 value, but it's free.
FINALLY, FOOD: Maybe we shouldn't be typing on an empty stomach, because we're having a hard time writing about tonight's Coquelicot Wine Dinner at the Skyroom at the Breakers downtown.
The dinner is a five-course feast with each course paired with one of the winery's new releases. We're talking Trio of Oyster (with a 2009 Riesling), fresh diver scallops with grilled radicchio and lemon basil (2009 Sauvignon Blanc), pork belly (2009 Saniovese), bison short rib (2007 Mon Amour) and mini espresso brulee tartlets - they must be on the smallish side to be both mini and tartlets, but presumably you're about to explode by Course V. Dinner is served at 7:30 p.m. The price is $65 per person.
FRIDAY PLAYLIST: This is our last Black History Month Playlist and not a moment too soon. We were really starting to run out of black musicians, as even a cursory glance at today's list will show. Buncha nobodies: Aretha Franklin, Smokey, the Tempts, Brother Ray. Plus, your President. Next week we can get back to whatever the kids are listening to these days.
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3. "Ain't Too Proud to Beg," The Temptations
4. "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honeybunch)," The Four Tops
5. "Promised Land," Chuck Berry
6. "Ooh Baby Baby," Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
7. "Didn't It Rain," Mahalia Jackson
9. "You Don't Know Me," Ray Charles
10. "After the Love Is Gone," Earth, Wind & Fire
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Mount Saint Mary College will host "Family Run Businesses – The
Good, The Bad and The Ugly" on Tuesday, April 2 from 6 to 8 pm in
the Kaplan Family Mathematics, Science and Technology Center
atrium, 330 Powell Ave., Newburgh, NY.
The forum, sponsored by the college's division of business, is
free and open to the public.
Visitors will learn the intricacies of running a family
businesses from panelists: Chip, Peggy and Sawyer Kent, owners,
Locust Grove Fruit Farm in Milton, NY; Eric Najork, COO of the
Collection Bureau of the Hudson Valley; and Peter Berman, CEO, The
Ruby Group of construction companies in Goshen, NY.
Family run businesses present owners with a unique set of
challenges, as well as advantages.
Mount business professor Moira Tolan notes recent research by
the Greater Washington D.C. Family Business Alliance reveals that
family control can be efficient, since families may be able to
positively affect the resource inventory and usage of their firms,
apply a long-term perspective allowing for unique strategic
positioning, have fewer human resource problems, and drive
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According to the Conway Center for Family Business, 35 percent
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the full spectrum of American businesses, from small businesses to
major corporations. Their output represents 50 percent of the U.S.
gross domestic product. The mean age of family control in a
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Family run businesses are responsible for employing 60 percent
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1955 Chevrolet Bel Air
- Stock #
- 132711
- Body Style
- Hardtop
- Engine
- Exterior Color
- Silver
- Interior Color
- Black & Gray
- Miles
- 3523
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Over the last two years, we've sold some top-notch custom 1955 Chevrolets. The killer True Blue Pearl 1955 210 we sold back in August for $110K was the nicest we've ever had… Until now. With its thoroughly massaged body, fire breathing LS6 Corvette motor and completely custom chassis, this magazine featured '55 Bel Air is without a doubt, the nicest 1955 Chevrolet we've ever seen. Forget all that stuff about concours correct, factory authentic Sunday snooze mobiles; the goal here was to create the BEST 1955 Bel Air on the planet, and in our opinion, the mission was accomplished! Featuring completely custom components that have been specifically fabricated or heavily modified to impress judges and excite passengers alike, this serious 1955 Bel Air show car has scored major trophies and won many fans at hot rod shows across the country. If you're looking for a sizzling custom car that features the absolute best of everything, you've come to the right place.
Combining a few very well executed modifications with inherently cool Chevy design traits, this lean and mean '55 Bel Air is the kind of show stopping masterpiece that has the ability draw you in from 200 yards away. The car's all original, completely solid California body is expertly finished in a two-tone GM Artic White and GM Light Tarnished Silver paint job that has been re-cleared, completely wet sanded and buffed to a crystal clear shine that is close to perfect as possible. Today, that glowing white and silver finish does a spectacular job of showcasing the cars super straight lines and the body's exceptionally tight panel gaps create solid door closing sounds that would sound just right floating across a modern Cadillac showroom.
One thing about classic car guys who build their dream car is they're uncanny ability to methodically plot, plan and execute even the minutest details; and the guy who built this spectacular '55 Chevy probably spent weeks doing just that. At the front of the car, a smoothed, filled and flipped front bumper is bolted to a custom shaped front pan below a custom fabricated billet grille. Above that grille, the car's nosed and filled hood exchanges its retro jet-bird hood ornament for a clean, modern look which showcases its excellent lines. At the back of that hood, a like-new windshield sits in front of smoked Vintage Auto side and rear glass that, along with the doors, is highlighted by new mirror-like stainless trim. On the sides of the car, new deluxe Bel Air front fender trim fades into a point on the car's shaved doors, and classic straight Tri-five stainless quarter panel spears divide the pristine white and metallic silver paint. At the back of the car, a fitted and smoothed Chevy Nomad bumper sits below a shaved trunk that is bordered by completely clear chrome trimmed Bel Air tail lights.
As visually stunning as this 55 is, the engine compartment ups the ante considerably. Lift the hood and you'll find a completely blueprinted and clearanced 2005 LS6 Corvette engine that's dressed in the same squeaky clean silver as the exterior of the car and 100% detailed with the best chrome pieces and polished accessories on the market. Built by Superior Automotive Engineering in Anaheim California, this hot 347 small block Chevy has been stroked to 383 cubic inches, creates a killer 11.54 to 1 compression ratio and dynos at a cool 520 horsepower and 531 ft./lb. of torque. At the front of the motor, a body-matched Dominator Street Rods dual snorkel intake pipes cool air around a completely polished Ron Davis aluminum radiator that's equipped with a vertical overflow container, a Spal electric fan and a custom fabricated fan shroud. Once air enters the intake, it flows through a Street and Performance air filter into a factory LS6 throttle body that sits on top of a factory LS6 intake manifold, a Comp Cams Extreme RPM High Lift camshaft and an Eagle forged steel crank. That crank turns Eagle connecting rods that push forged J&E domed pistons with J&E custom rings toward completely ported and polished factory LS6 heads that have been rebuilt with Serdi valves, Comp Cams roller rockers, Comp Cams beehive springs and Comp Cams titanium retainers. Fire comes courtesy of a GM factory multi-port electronic fuel injection system that combines fuel from GM LS6 injectors pump with spark from MSD ignition wires thanks to a 1999 Camaro wiring harness and custom program by Superior Automotive Engineering. Cooling is provided by a Meziere electric water pump, oil comes courtesy of a Melling high pressure oil pump and a completely blueprinted oil system, and exhaust is handled by Street and Performance ceramic coated shorty headers. Between the engine and the radiator, a polished Street and Performance accessory drive system turns a chrome AC compressor beside a chrome 120 amp Street and Performance alternator, and at the left side of the motor a chrome CPP brake booster sends fluid to all four corners of the car.
Paint and body work that's as slick as your grandma's fine crystal: check. An awesome small block Chevy engine that's drenched in horsepower: check. A top-notch customized undercarriage that uses the best components on the market to make this car drive as good as it looks: Absolutely! Behind the LS6 engine, a custom fabricated boxed frame holds a lap top tuned 4L65E 4-speed automatic transmission in front of an Inland Empire heavy duty aluminum driveshaft. That driveshaft is connected to a Currie custom polished nine inch rear end that holds a Currie 31 spline axle, an Eaton Detroit Truetrac Posi-traction differential and pavement shredding 4.11 gears. In front of that drivetrain, a freshly built Classic Performance Products front suspension includes custom reinforced control arms, two inch drop spindles, a one inch sway bar, Bilstein gas charged shocks and a custom reinforced Borgeson 605 power steering box. Behind that drivetrain, a custom fabricated mini-tubed four link rear suspension includes Bilstein gas shocks, Detroit Truetrac subframe connectors, and a four inch drop courtesy of Bilstein 350 lb. springs. In the middle of the car, a ceramic coated, custom bent 2.5 inch true dual system sends spent gases to a Magnaflow X-pipe and Magnaflow dual chamber mufflers that hang just in front of a custom stainless fuel tank which feeds an AC Delco electric fuel pump. At the corners, a complete Classic Performance Products power four wheel disc brake system squeezes single piston slider calipers around 11 inch front and 10 inch rear vented rotors; and spectacular looking Schott two piece forged billet 'Velocity' wheels wear 225/40/18 front and 295/40/20 rear Nitto z-rated radials.
Like the rest of the car, this Bel Airs completely custom, sculpted leather cockpit is nothing short of amazing! Designed and installed by Elegance Interiors it wraps four modern Lexus bucket seats and traditional tri-five Chevy panels in high quality two-tone leather that still smells trim shop fresh. In front of the passengers, a classic '55 Chevy dash features stitched two-tone leather around silver-faced Classic Instruments gauges, an MP3 compatible Pioneer CD player and a fully restored Bel Air speaker that's complete with a custom clock. Above the seats, a tightly sewn two-tone leather headliner centers around a custom dome light, and below the seats, German square weave wool carpet is protected by custom cut color-matched floor mats. At the center of the car, a full length center console that runs from the dash all the way to the cars fully integrated package tray includes both controls for a Vintage Air climate system and a slick Lokar shifter with a body matched shift knob. At the sides of the car, custom sculpted leather door panels hang billet door handles above chrome power window switches, fully integrated arm rests and great sounding Pioneer speakers. Connecting the driver to the road is a polished Flaming River 'Waterfall' steering wheel that sits on a tilt steering column above awesome looking billet pedals. Behind the cockpit, a fully finished trunk contains more sculpted two-tone leather panels above another piece of well-fitted more German square weave wool carpet.
This car's show history is extensive, and its list of features and awards is extremely impressive:
• National Street Rod Association's Street Scene magazine
• Five page spread in the September 2011 issue of Chevy High Performance
• 2010 Outstanding Elegance Award at the 51st annual, invitation only Blackie Gejeian Fresno Autorama
• 2011 ISCA (International Show Car Association) International Class Championship
• FIVE ISCA Best in Class awards
• TWO ISCA Outstanding Engine awards
• ISCA Outstanding Custom award
• ISCA Outstanding Undercarriage award
• FIVE Goodguys Rod & Custom Builders Choice picks (One in 2009 and four in 2011)
• Super Chevy Shows Best Tri-Five award
• 2011 Texas Lonestar award at the Dallas Autorama in Dallas, Texas
Included with the sale is a nine page breakdown of the entire build that lists almost every specification of the car and a copy of the 2011 Chevy High Performance magazine in which the car was featured.
Dream cars like this are always about passion, because you just can't make economic sense out of them. With a highly detailed build that would take a second mortgage on a mansion to duplicate, this Bel Air is way out on the far side of amazing, and the lucky guy who buys it will probably get tired of collecting trophies and answering questions at car shows. You'd be hard pressed to find a nicer tri-five custom, and with modern reliability, performance, and ease of maintenance, this very well could be the ultimate Bel Air. Call today!
- Year
- 1955
- Make
- Chevrolet
- Secondary Make
- n/a
- Model Name
- Bel Air
- Secondary Model
- n/a
- Vehicle Type
- Passenger Car
- Hobby Segment
- Resto-Mod
- Mileage
- 3523
Engine / Transmission
- Engine Type
- Gasoline
- Engine Size
- Engine Number
- n/a
- Heads
- n/a
- Fuel Specification
- n/a
- Fuel Delivery System Type
- Electronic Fuel Injection
- Transmission Type
- 4 Speed Automatic
- Transmission Spec
- Transmission Number
- n/a
- Entertainment System Type
- AM/FM Single CD
- Battery Location
- n/a
- Battery Shut Off
- n/a
- Battery Charger
- n/a
- Power Steering
- Yes
- Air Conditioning
- Yes
- Interior Color
- Black & Gray
- Seating Type
- Bucket
- Seat Material
- Leather
- Shifter Type
- Floor
- Center Console
- Yes
- Body Style
- Hardtop
- Doors
- 2
- Safe Body Color
- Silver
- Paint Type
- n/a
- Stripes
- No
- Front Suspension Type
- Coil Spring
- Rear Suspension Type
- 4-Link
- Axle Specification
- Currie 9" 4.11 Posi
- Front Wheel Specification
- Rear Wheel Specification
- n/a
- Front Tire Specification
- n/a
- Rear Tire Specification
- n/a
- Front Brakes Specification
- Disc
- Rear Brakes Specification
- Disc
- Spare
- n/a
- Exhaust Type
- Dual Exhaust
- Muffler Type
- MagnaFlow
- Restoration Status
- Restored
- Mileage Since Restoration
- n/a
- Awards Summary
- n/a
- Historical Documents Summary
- n/a
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Getting back into semi-serious TF2 play.
I..... has the community actually gotten this bad?
@Portal Maniac: YOU CAN SHOOT AS AN ENGI?!
OT: Also had fun times with my main in EQ2. Hilarious invulnerability and all that.
Sweet Jesus titty cinnamon fuck
Being a mage character, in tandem with Deadly Dragons installed, almost made Alduin on the Throat of the World impossible.
@oppp7: It's hilarious though. He was an Engie that would walk around our base with his shotgun out.
Skyrim, went through a Dwemer ruin to get the cogs for that one guy who I'm pretty sure is trying to make Keening.
Don't be so absurd. Only the Dwemer themselves knew such powerful crafting and magickal secrets to make something to control the heart of a god.
You're half right though :3
More Skyrim, currently mashing my face on the keyboard at how hard it is to keep my 'no fast travel' rule in check.
I just want to get Keening, why are you making me go on tonnes of fetch quests D:
Started Arena at last.
Probably not gonna play many more games today or tomorrow since I'm feeling sorta sick. Not seriously, at least.
@SirBryghtside: Trust me, it will all be worth it for that sexy 40 seconds or so
@Portal Maniac: You should have taught him
OT: Got my celestial dragon in Guild Wars. I'm not sure why though.
After finally getting Keening, had an urge to play Morrowind - playing as my first mage, did a bunch of Guild quests. Was fun, but I need better spells - still running off bloody Fire Bite :/
Oh, and the main reason I stopped playing Skyrim for now is this.
Look at the compass.
I hate Falmer...
Finished up some stuff in Guild Wars. Got to help a noob today. All my sin needs is 2 more white dyes and his armor (and him in general) will be complete.
I also painted him multiple colors, took screen shots, and made a shitty MS Paint cutout picture of him as several Power Rangers. It's now my background.
Skyrim: No-lifed that game to insane amounts and now have an almost level 77 character.
Where'd my January go? ._.
More Skyrim - beat Alduin (the first fight), and am doing the truce quests this time round.
I think that's a good enough excuse to find out what horses are like :D
Random Guild Wars schinanigans. The game started collapsing in the wake of their update though. Currently running a scan to speed this thing up.
Completed Skyrim as my lesbian mage character. Postmortem?
The reason I keep calling her the lesbian mage character is because that was my original character idea. Just to mess around after the semi-serious roleplaying of Danzil Stormweaver. And so I created Lucy, who completed the College, and then the Companions so she could marry Aela the Huntress.
And doing that... it changed things.
Seeing as Aela could follow me around, I decided to use her to check out what the companion system was like. And she saved my neck so many times that despite her 3 lines of dialogue, plus a yawn, I started to feel a weird kind of connection to her. My lesbian mage was still very much a lesbian mage, but it was less about being a lesbian and more about loving Aela.
So when it came to Season Unending, I let her rest at home, after months of service. I rode my horse to the edges of Skyrim, before meeting the Greybeards at High Hrothgar to settle the truce. And when I returned, I took her with me, on one last adventure, to fight Odahviing. We succeeded, and I had to venture on my own.
And it was only when I was in Skuldafn, getting roundhouse kicked by Draugr, I realised just how dependant I was on her.
But I persevered. I got to the portal, I beat Alduin, just to see her face again. And once that was done, I was on the peak of the Throat of the World, with Paarthurnax. I had a small hope that she would run up to me, meet me at the top of the mountain as she had when I left the jail at the end of The Forsworn Conspiracy... but she didn't. The dragons said their piece, and I went back to High Hrothgar to talk to Arngeir.
Again, he went into his speech. Again, I flashbacked to Azura. But this time, halfway through, I heard a familiar yawn from behind me.
Oh god what did that scan do to my computer. Either Windows defrag or Spybot S&D did something to TF2 and I'm getting lag now. Used to just be framerate issues, but that's probably my laptop.
@SirBryghtside: Chet, you really gotta stop playin' high, man. Shit's messin' with your K/D.
Finally got a hat drop in over a year. It was the french hat for spy, which is good since my name is Failspy but I didn't have a pure spy hat yet. Also crafted one a bit before that, which was just that sandvich box for heavy.
I have returned to the glorious world of Vvardenfell, thanks to the Morrowind Overhaul project thing FINALLY going 2.0 and becoming AUTO INSTALL. Sexy in a sex can made of sextacular sex-like objects.
Currently doing combo-work for both the Tribunal temple and House Hlaalu. Currently getting my stronghold papers underway.
Pox Nora stuff since the next expac is probably in the next few weeks.
@Portal Maniac: Try playing a dedcated healer.
And then speed run.
Forcing myself to finish Ocarina of Time, and am at the final boss's gate. Fought him once, and ran out of magic points that you can't regenerate. Had to sit there while he killed me three times.
@SirBryghtside: You generally want to have 1-2 magic potions because of that. I'm not sure why that mechanism was put in there either.
OT: Fun times with Pox Nora. God damn they need to revamp the gold system...
Played TF2 on 2Fort. Been playing SHIT lately.
So I was bouncing anywhere from shit to mediocre with pretty much battle-Gunslinger-Widowmaker Engie and the Attendant-Flaregun Pyro.
Got the Sticky Jumper for 1 rec. Proceeded to screw around on the trade server for about half an hour.
Oh, and I finally managed to snag Pok�mon Trading Card Game on eBay for around �5. That's going to keep me occupied for a while :D
Played mostly Pox Nora. New expansion today (any minute now), so kinda excited.
And for the people who don't care about Pox Nora (aka everyone but me): TF2 with no item server. People who say it's like the console version have never played the console version.
This thread is now augmented.
Blah blah blah Pox Nora...
Beat the Science Club in Pok�mon Trading Card Game. It's definitely as good as I remember.
>Sees Minecraft 1.2 is out
Wait... HOLY SHIT SIGNATURES ARE GONE! How did I just notice this?
OT: Pox Nora expansion trading retardation. God I suck at this.
Minecraft. With MOBS ENABLED
@oppp7: Didn't even notice. Signatures are nothing more than unnecessary space that no one even gives a toss about.
Completed Ocarina of Time after about 2 1/4 years.
It was alright.
Same stuff as usual. Might go play something new but not sure what. Anyone know any interesting freeware games?
Played tf2 during a lecture.
Pokemon stuff. Trying to get a good moveset on my Seadra. Requires me to breed it from a Dragonite if I want outrage. Or a Remmoraid[sic] if I want signal beam. Plus I'd have to do this for Horsea and Kingdra (the latter requires an item that can get me a legendary in generation 4). In the end it was decided to leave the decision up to a future me (AKA fuck this bloated shit).
And now for 5 FPS TF2.
The last thing I seriously did was just some TF2 idling for teh lulz.
Really, I've just been too busy reading to play games. Partially for my English class, and partially because I find what Michio Kaku writes about is so damn fascinating.
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