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What if a group of committed philanthropists created a "Giving Pledge" initiative for theater?
To put the question in context, in 2009, Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffet created an initiative called "The Giving Pledge" which asks billionaires to pledge half of their wealth to charity. In meetings with prospective donors, they said that "We live in an exciting time for philanthropy when innovative approaches and advances in technology have redefined what's possible." In expressing their own philosophies of giving, many of the potential donors saw their giving as part of "venture philanthropy," a participatory philanthropy that aims to be at the cutting edge of investing in new ways of addressing the problems of society such as poverty, health care, and education. So far over sixty people have signed the pledge, and Fortune magazine estimates that this initiative alone will add up to $300 billion to philanthropy in the coming years. When you add the potential of other wealthy people to give, the transfer of wealth from aging Baby Boomers, and the just developing potential of Internet giving, there are startling possibilities for a new age of individual philanthropy, perhaps the most important since the time of Mellon, Rockefeller, and Carnegie.
Given the actual potential of such a new age, I am imagining that $10 billion might flow into the arts if the arts can put forth the kind of bold, forward-looking initiatives that might attract these investors (that would be only 3% of what Fortune estimates could come from the "Giving Initiative"). Some ideas of what such initiatives might be are an:
- International Institute for the Arts – one of the greatest needs the arts have is for an infrastructure for the coming global arts world. Historically, funds for international art have mainly been considered part of government diplomacy to showcase U.S. art around the world. These funds have always been small and now have been cut to almost nothing. Private efforts are trying to foster more international exchange but these efforts are also small. What if three billionaires put forth a billion each to fund an International Institute for the Arts which would become an exciting initiative for investing in new global art from exchanges to festivals to labs for gathering artists from different countries to create art together. Income from the $3 billion endowment could generate between $150 and $300 million a year, depending on how successfully it was invested, and could change the face of global art, an attractive possibility for investors. One of the investors might even be from another country like China since the "Giving Pledge" initiative is being extended abroad. We would be better positioned globally if our federal government led such an initiative but that is unlikely in the near future plus it invites the kind of political meddling that always bedevils the NEA.
- Arts Education Web Project – with the technical abilities of the Web, it should now be possible to create interactive video or other programs that could bring the arts to students (and adults) all over the world at very little cost. Imagine a wonderful production of Hamlet that could reach students in many countries in different languages where students could talk with the artists and with each other about the play online or even go on stage online. The Metropolitan Opera's videos of live productions that can now be seen in movie theaters are just a hint of what could be done. Since so much of the new wealth in the country comes from the technology industries, there could be great interest in revolutionizing the world of arts education so that it was no longer restricted by cost or location. This wouldn't mean that students wouldn't experience live art but live art and working with artists in real time would be one facet of a much greater world of arts education.
- Arts Trust of America – there has been talk for years of establishing the equivalent of a private NEA but it has never seemed feasible, in part because most of the suggestions have involved continual fundraising on an annual basis to support it (the equivalent of annual Congressional funding for the NEA). But again, what if three billionaires gave a billion each to endow a private arts trust which would not be dependent on fundraising or politics? There are many ways such a trust could be structured and many values it could promote. My suggestion would be for an Arts Trust whose prime mission was to invest in the nation's artistic capital – such as direct investment in artists, in their work, in new ways for artists to work together (and across disciplines), and in new forms of organizations to present their work. Such a Trust might be structured so that it had an administrative core surrounded by two working advisory groups; an advisory group of artists to establish artistic goals and standards and an advisory group of entrepreneurs to generate new ideas about ways to invest in artistic capital and ways to broker new connections between artists and institutions and artists and audiences. All three groups could then be represented on a governing board, maintaining the collaborative integrity of the Trust. There could also be a larger council with representatives from existing arts institutions, training schools, major funders, service and advocacy organizations, international groups, and new technological fields. This would broaden the expertise available to the Trust while enriching the dialogue and creating useful connections with these groups. Again, with careful investment, such a Trust could generate between $150 and $300 million a year.
These are a couple of suggestions for new ways of investing in the arts. As of now, the arts do not seem to be a high priority for many of the actual new donors, and, so far, the arts have not shown the kind of big thinking and innovative strategies needed to attract their interest. It will be tragic if this new era of philanthropy passes us by.
Jaan Whitehead is a trustee and former board chair of SITI Company, an ensemble theater company led by Anne Bogart. She has served on the boards of Arena Stage, Living Stage, The Acting Company, the National Cultural Alliance, TCG, and the National Council for the American Theatre. She has also served as Executive Director of Theatre for a New Audience and Development Director of Center Stage. Prior to entering the theater world, she taught political philosophy at Georgetown University. Two of her essays on the challenges facing the arts in a commercial society have appeared in American Theatre magazine, and she is co-editor of The Art of Governance: Boards in the Performing Arts.


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Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
Random House, 2003 - History - 490 pages
The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history's towering leaders
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of "the Greatest Generation." In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique one—a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together (113 days during the war) and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children.
Born in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth and twenty-first, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. Sons of the elite, students of history, politicians of the first rank, they savored power. In their own time both men were underestimated, dismissed as arrogant, and faced skeptics and haters in their own nations—yet both magnificently rose to the central challenges of the twentieth century. Theirs was a kind of love story, with an emotional Churchill courting an elusive Roosevelt. The British prime minister, who rallied his nation in its darkest hour, standing alone against Adolf Hitler, was always somewhat insecure about his place in FDR's affections—which was the way Roosevelt wanted it. A man of secrets, FDR liked to keep people off balance, including his wife, Eleanor, his White House aides—and Winston Churchill.
Confronting tyranny and terror, Roosevelt and Churchill built a victorious alliance amid cataclysmic events and occasionally conflicting interests. Franklin and Winston is also the story of their marriages and their families, two clans caught up in the most sweeping global conflict in history.
Meacham's new sources—including unpublished letters of FDR's great secret love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the papers of Pamela Churchill Harriman, and interviews with the few surviving people who were in FDR and Churchill's joint company—shed fresh light on the characters of both men as he engagingly chronicles the hours in which they decided the course of the struggle.
Hitler brought them together; later in the war, they drifted apart, but even in the autumn of their alliance, the pull of affection was always there. Charting the personal drama behind the discussions of strategy and statecraft, Meacham has written the definitive account of the most remarkable friendship of the modern age.
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Most of architecture we design is for humanity. What if the design can support both humanity and wildlife? What if we give back the ground to nature? Hence, the design purpose is to increase spaces for not only humanity but also wildlife simultaneously.
The design scheme is inspired by Banyan tree, the king of forests. As we've known, Banyan tree is the great murderer killing most trees in forests, yet it is the great giver providing habitat and food to most animals. Even though Banyan tree is categorized as a parasite plant, it is peculiarly special. After it slowly leeches and consumes all nourishment from another tree, the tree will be killed and then create interior space that's covered up with Banyan tree's limbs and roots as structure. This space will become homes for little animals and its enormous branches will create shades and provide food to all creatures. 'Contributing one life is worth lots of life.'
In this project, the Banyan tree's growing process is adopted as the main concept proposing how human could develop our world and sustainably grow up into the futuristic era.
The new structure will be introduced as a special parasitic creature. When it's attached to any existing buildings in any cities, people will slowly move to the upper space for better lives. The new urban fabric will expand, while the old buildings will be abandoned eventually. Afterwards, nature will gradually take back the Earth's surface and animals will get their natural habitat back.
The design aims to increase both humanity and wildlife habitat at the same time. The proposed structure will be developed on the higher surfaces, above high-rise buildings. Its form should be light and low dense, in contrast with today's high-rise, so that the ground level would not be decadent and finally died. There will be sunlight and fresh air for every creature. With the new structure, people will leave the ground floor to expand new lives on sky surface, while trees and animals live on Earth's surface where belong to them. Should it be the time we give back the land to our mother nature.
To avoid using the Earth's surface, horizontal, vertical and underground transportation tubes are introduced in order to connect between living units and communities, personal and public spaces. The existing buildings that are abandoned will be cut to create the opened space for public activities where human and animals may stay close to each other.
In addition, the deserted high-rise where humans evacuate from can be boundaries creating zones between wild animals and mankind. With the sense of living together but staying not too close to, the zoning will protect humans from wild animals and protect wild animals from humans. This could be the way how metropolitan people stay close to nature again, recalling the former times when people and animals were neighbours.


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The Sarasota area has activities for everyone. As always with our perfect weather there are some sporting events including a fishing contest and triathlon with an open swim. For those looking for some culture there is a play at the Asolo Rep's Cook Theatre. Yet, we all must not forget that human trafficking is very prominent and must be stopped. So, take a look at some of our featured events and enjoy another weekend in our lovely city.
May 20, The Art of Freedom, Sarasota
Human trafficking is the second largest & fastest growing criminal industry in the world. Help us to put a STOP to this crime and raise community awareness. Please share this post. Join us for our annual fundraiser "Fighting against all forms of trafficking & its prevention" Speakers Dr Brook Bello founder of More Too Life & Mary Francis Bowley of Wellspring Living. Performers Kandy & Iain of Suncoast Sessions, raffle, art auction, appetizers & wine. Reserve your seats now! Tickets $50 - $65 Location: Florida Studio Theater, 1241 N Palm Ave Information: www.moretoolife.org or 941.730.6460
May 21, Fish United Way, Parrish
5:00 AM - 12:00 PM Florida Power and Light Company (FPL) will host this year's second "Fish United Way" tournament benefiting the region's United Ways at the FPL Manatee Power Plant cooling reservoir in Manatee County. Location: FPL Manatee Power Plant Cooling Reservoir entrance 23650 State Route 62 Parrish Information: fishunitedway.com or 941.484.4811
May 21, Sweeter Than Justice, Sarasota
7:30 PM The regional premiere of Robert Lipkin's Sweeter Than Justice, featuring Don Walker, Amanda Schlachter and Joseph Parra. Playwright Robert Lipkin says, "At its core, the play explores why the line between good and evil, heroes and villains, is so often blurred, and why the healing power of love and friendship is too often subrogated to the intoxicating power of vengeance. The play takes you back to 1963 for a clearer view of who we are today." Location: Asolo Rep's Cook Theatre Information: PageToStageProductions.com. or 941-359-0099
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As part of efforts to improve health information management in the nation's hospitals, PFIZER Nigeria and East Africa Region has completed the e-pharmacy project at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba.
The company, in a statement in Lagos, stated that with the provision of the e-pharmacy, which is equipped with facilities that support internet connection for efficient drug information service, the hospital is now prepared for the transition from a paper-based system to an electronic health system.
The Director, Corporate Affairs and Communication, Pfizer Specialities, Mrs. Margaret Olele said with the completion of the pharmacy, LUTH's pharmacy would be able to store large databases of patients' drugs needs and also collate pharmacy-based data such as patients history checks and prescription costs.
Olele said, "This will definitely improve the quality of medical care. The scheme would increase patients' access to quality medicine and improve health care systems in our communities.
This has set the standard for a simplified health system. "The journey started in 2011 and we are happy to see it to fruition. With this upgrade, there would be easy access to information, more accurate prescriptions, it will lower health care costs, reduce paperwork and give pharmacists more time to spend with their patients."
Also, the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Prof. Akin Oshibogun said the ICT-equipped pharmacy initiative was a cost effective approach towards reducing delay in treatment at the hospital. He said, "The e-pharmacy has advantages for both the hospital and the patients. This upgrade is an amazing progress in our care of patients. It is a cheaper and more effective way of handling cases.
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Lorri Unumb, vice president of state government affairs for Autism Speaks, travels the country advocating for families and individuals facing the challenges of autism. This is her ongoing series "On The Road For Autism Reform."
The best part of my job is meeting amazing autism families all around the country. During my time in North Carolina recently, I have heard so many inspirational stories from all corners of the state, and I want to share them during these last few weeks of the legislative session. Each day, I will share a post written by a North Carolina family who is working to help pass autism insurance reform this year. Some of these families desperately need coverage for their own child; some of them are working solely for the benefit of others. These people inspire me every single day.
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I'm so excited that our state may very well follow the lead of the 37 states that have already enacted a law requiring health plans to provide coverage for diagnostic and treatment services for autism spectrum disorders.
This bill is extremely close to my heart as my eight-year-old son, Thatcher, has autism. He was diagnosed a few months after he turned two years old. The first 15 months of his life were perfect, and he met all of his milestones. We had no clue how autism was going to rock our world to its very core and change every dream we had planned for our family. Like a thief in the night, autism came and kidnapped the son I had and left a child I no longer knew and could not seem to reach. He lost the sparkle in his eyes and seemed to live in a fog. By 18 months old, my baby had lost all his words, would not play with toys nor interact with his family any more.
My husband and I are both college educated and work hard to provide for our family. We assumed when we received his diagnosis that autism would be covered under our insurance plan just as if he had been diagnosed with diabetes or any other major health issue. I was shocked when I found out that our insurance would not cover the therapy that has proven to help children with autism.
As I researched the cost, I soon realized that there was no way our family could come even close to providing my son with the very thing that could change his life. I will never forget the day I walked out of ABC of NC Development Center in Winston-Salem (which provides services such as those that would be provided through the autism insurance bill), knowing that they had the ability to help my son but that we could not financially give it to him. I sobbed as I sat in my car wondering how I would explain to him one day that I had found a place that could help pull us out of the autism ocean we were drowning in, but I walked away. I left that day and decided I would fundraise my life away to get him services from ABC of NC. And that's just what we did! Spaghetti fundraisers, silent auctions, golf tournaments, Christmas tree fundraisers, t-shirt fundraisers and the list goes on. Our extended families also rallied around us and gave us all they could financially.
Our son did receive services from ABC of NC for four years, and I can tell you that the services he received there have radically changed our lives forever. When my son entered into ABC of NC, he had NO WORDS and no longer interacted with any of our family. When he was hurt, I never knew. When he had an ear infection, I would only figure it out after his eardrum would rupture from the infection. However, after receiving evidence-based therapies, my son can tell me exactly what he wants, when he wants it, and how he wants it! He can touch his ear and say "boo-boo" when it's hurting, ask his brother to "jump trampoline with me," and most amazingly, he can say, "Mommy, I love you"! After 4 years we had tapped out all of our resources and could no longer send him to ABC of NC. I know that if we had insurance that covered ABA therapy, he would be even further along in his autism journey. My son lives in a world that doesn't understand him and in a world that he doesn't understand; yet with the therapy, we can begin to bridge our worlds together! Our family will never be what I dreamed when I was pregnant with Thatcher, but after seeing the results of his therapy, we have begun to dream new dreams.
All families should have this opportunity. I don't want a hand-out. I believe that everyone should work hard for what they need and want, but I also believe that insurance companies should no longer be able to overlook us and say that these kids' lives aren't of value. If we want these kids to grow up and be contributing members to our society, we MUST help them receive the treatment they so desperately need. I hope the General Assembly will pass this bill for Thatcher and children like him because their lives are valuable, too! I'm so hopeful that North Carolina can pull together and support this legislation. Together we can start changing the lives of the children of North Carolina, ensuring a better and brighter future for our great state!
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Even though he has now been gone for longer than his 32 year life span, Magic Sam continues to epitomize the "west side" school of Chicago blues musicians. His finger-plucked fleet-fingered long lines, screaming bends and squeezed chords, hand vibrato, driving rhythms and trademark tremolo added up to an explosive package which still draws constant attempts at replication from his many disciples. The quavering melisma in his voice and its counterpart guitar tremolo combined to give his music an ethereal undulating quality. Nobody rocked the blues any wilder than Magic Sam did, especially in front of his home crowd in Chicago. Complete notes enclosed by Dick Shurman
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This year, I have decided to take my Christmas decorating in a more rustic direction. I am using muted tones and more natural elements to accent my home for the holidays. I have also decided to do it within a very narrow budget. While home decor and crafting are my passion, Christmas is a short season and I would rather spend my dough under the tree than on it.
So I have given myself a budget of about ten bucks for crafting this December. It sounds tiny, but honestly, I have accumulated so many supplies over the years, this gives me a real reason to use some of them up!
I haven't felt at all deprived and it's forcing me to flex my creative muscle!
Last year, I was bored with the advent calendar my mom gave me, so I made an advent calendar out of dollar store treat bags. It was cute and it would've been in the budget this year, but its primary colors are decidedly not rustic! So I hit Pinterest and fell in love with the look of this pin that used newspaper to create the countdown packages.
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I dated each cone using a red or black marker and to add a little festivity, I stamped a snowman, Santa or sleigh scene the front of each one, using supplies from my art cabinet. I arranged them in a basket that usually sits on my desk collecting junk mail and catalogs, but I think my paper cones look much prettier inside...and I got myself a new centerpiece in the process!
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> Jensen Healey & Jensen GT Tech > Engine & Transmission > Still Searching for an answer...
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|Posted: 04-17-2005 02:58 am
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Jim Weatherford
I think some may remember the severe whitish smoking that JH 13046 is doing. I've had it to two referred mechanics and nobody can tell me anything about what'[s causing it or how to fix it. My next thought is maybe I have a head gasket problem despite good tests. I'm gonna get a oil sample in the morning after church and send it off to a lab for analysis. That should be able to tell me if I have water in the oil or antifreeze or… Dose anyone know where I'm gonna send the sample?
What bothers me is that #13046 runs well despite the smoking, the smoke has no identifiable odor, doesn't feel oily and no smell of any kind yet the smoke is like a military style smoke generator. I don't mind having the heads rebuilt or whatever it takes, however I don't want to spend the money and be right back where I am now.
|Posted: 04-17-2005 04:06 pm
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|There are only four things that your engine ( Lotus in a Jensen Healey) could burn and smoke like that.
1- oil; the smoke would be bluish and your oil level would drop eventually; your spark plugs will have an oily residue at the electrodes and there will be an oily film at your exhaust pipe. Oil could come from valve guides or piston rings that are worn out, the engine breather if it's connected anywhere in the intake system, a clogged air intake
2- water: the smoke would be very white, there would probably be bubbles in the coolant in your radiator, your coolant level would drop. Water would come from bad head gaskets, cracked or warped heads or block or cracked or perforated liners
3- Gasoline-you need to burn this in orther for your car to move. kidding aside, if you are burning too much gasoline in your engine, the spark plugs will have a faint smell of gasoline, you'll make a smoke that's whitish/gray and if you have an oil sample inspected, you'll find gas in the oil; in very severe cases of very rich situation, the plugs will foul, will not fire and you are able to smell the fuel in the oil and in the plugs without any difficulty. Too much gas is usually asociated with rich setting of the carburator jets, leaky bowls, too much pump pressure, dirty or otherwise clogged air cleaner, throttles not in sinc., etc.
4- Brake fluid- if the rear seal in your brake master cylinder is deffective or otherwise leaking and the front seal of the vacuum booster is not up to par, the vacuum diaphragm inside the brake booster will send the brake fluid thru the vacuum hose to the intake manifold and into the combustion chamber of the engine to be mix with the gas/fuel mixture and burned; you'll see a wetness behind the master cylinder in the firewall, the inside of the vacuum hose will be moist and the level of the brake fluid will drop inside the master cylinder reservoir
Hope this will help you some what with your dilema
|Posted: 04-17-2005 09:01 pm
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Jim Weatherford
Your time, information and reply is much appreciated. I have a lot to do. I'm going to go over to the shop and pull an oil sample and go from there. Again, many thanks.
|Posted: 04-17-2005 09:42 pm
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Mark Rosenbaum
|Since you detect no odor, I'd suspect first coolant, then brake fluid via the path Ricardo mentions, with oil at the bottom of the list assuming the crankcase is not overfilled. I'd also add a couple of notes to his comments:
For (1) - if an engine has bad intake valve guides there is usually a pronounced puff of oil smoke from the exhaust pipes, immediately upon startup. If the smoke is definitely oil and it takes a few seconds to begin, suspect the oil control rings.
For (2) - coolant is also present within the intake manifold so check the joint between the manifold and head. Depending on the brand and percentage of antifreeze in the coolant, the characteristic sweetish odor is usually but not always detectable.
Finally, just as weird possibilities, you might check:
(A) Is the hose from your windshield washer accidentally hooked up to one of the vacuum ports on the carbs or intake manifold?
(B) If you have a vacuum-controlled water valve in your heater hose line, is the valve perhaps defective and allowing coolant to be sucked into the engine?
|Posted: 04-22-2005 04:16 am
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Jim Weatherford
|Thanks all for your thoughts and comments. I was able to make an observation last Sunday. I started Black Beauty up and she ran smooth as silk drove around the block... "no smoke! When she warmed up, the smoke became quite thick and ugly, when I applied throtle the smoke deminished. I went back over tonight and she did exactly the same thing when she get hot she smokes, before the temp get up, smooth running and no smoke! Oil levels were normal. Any ideas on this?
I also got oil sample and waiting for the kit, but I'm sure it will come back clean and in normal condition the oil was very clean and almost clear (synthetic), no discoloration, no metal, no goo, nothing.
|Posted: 04-22-2005 12:15 pm
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Brett Gibson JH5 20497
|Jim, you dont say if your loosing oil or anti freeze, but lets say your oil is OK and coolant is the culprit because the smoke is white, logic say's you have to be burning something, Ric came up with alot of very good things for you to check, so now we also hear temp's an issue so throw expansion and contraction into the mix, one of the first things to get hot when you start up is the head but on the other score what ever has coolant in it will heat up slower around the coolant contact area's, bear with me Jim I'm talking to myself as I'm typing this, so it seems to point in the direction of head intake manifold issues, the easiest thing to check first would be a compression check, if that looks good then the head gasket is OK, then I would do a pressure check of the cooling system to see if that holds it pressure, I'm thinking this is were you will run into trouble and if you do one of the first things I'd look at would be the inlet manifold gasket, after that then I would lean towards a crack in either the manifold or head ...............
Hope my ramblins help .................. Brett
|Posted: 04-22-2005 02:21 pm
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Mark Rosenbaum
|It sounds like a fluid (probably coolant) is getting into the cylinders only if the cooling system is under pressure and there's a high vacuum in the intake manifold. A quick check would be to remove the radiator cap from a cold engine, start the engine and let it warm up, and see if smoke occurs. If there is no smoke, or far less smoke, then the problem may be a bad intake manifold gasket, internally leaking manifold casting, or internally leaking cylinder head. If the radiator cap is then reinstalled and a few minutes later you again have smoke, it's pretty likely that the basic cause has been identified.
If you're really unlucky, you might have some sort of coolant leak between cylinder head and coolant jacket, or between block and cylinder liner, but in either case I'd expect to see combustion gases in the coolant. To test for this, modern diagnostic auto shops add some chemical to the coolant that reacts with combustion gases. It's a pretty conclusive test, and the cost should be only about $100 or so -- about the same as a JH head gasket.
Last edited on 04-22-2005 10:36 pm by Mark Rosenbaum
|Posted: 04-22-2005 04:36 pm
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Jim Weatherford
|Thanks again, I see I have my work cut out. My compression is 125 X4 across all cylendars and the leak down was normal again as I was told. I am not loosing oil or coolant. So... I'll follow the threads and do some testing. Thanks again.
|Posted: 06-26-2005 03:43 am
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Jim Weatherford
|I changed to synthetic motor oil, I was incorrect before and running nonsynthetic oil. I changed the oil and now I have no or very little shoke, of course synthetic doesn't smoke, so I have not solved the problem despite extensive testing as advised.
The car continues running very well and I do drive it for short periods of time and always keeping an eye on the oil and coolent levels and I don't push it hard at all. Until I have a job, I'm not going to be doing anything right now.
I am taking Black Beauty to the "Red, White & Blue" annual car show this Sunday at the Orange County Worship Center in Santa Ana. Show starts at 3:PM Hope to see some of you there.
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|Posted: 06-27-2005 03:30 am
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Paul Koehler
Could you have a slow/small leak of oil from the exhaust cam cover, dripping oil onto the header? When the engine temp gets hot enough, the oil that has leaked onto and down the header pipe (it doesn't stop when the car is turned off), will start to burn off, and might even enter cockpit via the shift lever opening.
It might be worth a 30 second look, just to exclude the possibility.
|Posted: 06-27-2005 12:21 pm
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Brett Gibson JH5 20497
|Jim, on my way to the 2005 Nationals in Philly this past week my car started to smoke after driving about two hours, and the further I went the worse it got, killed alot of mosquitos though, turned out as the engine got hotter and hotter ( no over heating ) the rubber cam cover gasket near the header started to sqeeze out allowing oil to drip onto the header, just had to let it cool off and loosen up the cover and push it back into place, any chance you might have this problem ???
|Posted: 06-27-2005 05:08 pm
|12th Post
Jim Weatherford
|Guys, Thanks again for all the thoughts and ideas, I have some checking to do and I'll let you all know. Again, many thanks. Jim
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The 90210 actress, who is currently expecting baby number four (!), was seen soaking up the sun while on a mini-vacay in Malibu with her 3-year-old daughter Stella, and was wearing some Sanuk yoga mat sandals. Showing off her adorable bump, the 38-year-old star proudly strutted her stuff poolside in an orange two-piece while reading Jenny McCarthy's book Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth about Pregnancy and Childbirth.
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While listening to Simon Carley on risk at #SMACC2013 I had one of those thoughts.
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First I hope any serious poker players can forgive my over simplifications of a wonderful game. I also hope everyone can forgive my extreme stretching of this metaphor.
So why is medicine like a poker game?
It's about prediction and probabilities, sometimes we are accurate and can be quite sure of ourselves but sometimes we get caught out by a surprise card or unlikely diagnosis.
In emergency medicine we often concern ourselves with the dangerous diagnoses, most poker players consider these options and likelihood their opponent will draw them. If you have played against a person/disease many times you can be more confident that you will be able to judge their strength or recognise their tells.
In both luck plays a role that both doctors and card players are uncomfortable with. Everyone will have a "bad beat" where you are confident that you have the correct response or reaction but something unlikely/rare happens and you lose. This leads to both groups having superstitions and sayings which are similar.
"You play the man not his cards" sounds a lot like "It matters more which patient has the disease than which disease the patient has"
Like poker, medicine can be played at a number of stakes. Is it a life and death situation or just trying to rid someone of a minor irritation.
Texas Holdem
Medicine is most like Texas holdem (heads up).
I'll explain why with an explanation of how it's played and the similarities.
Heads up poker is played against one other person. You have your own cards and there are a number of communal cards which you make your best hand from. In this way a poker hand reflects a medical consultation information is slowly revealed and you attempt to gauge your position and certainty.
The rounds are as follows:
Pocket cards:
Firstly you are given two cards, an initial impression. You know from a glance if this patient is sick or not. Your system 1 is firing on all cylinders. You may get an instant diagnosis from the end of the bed, ?pocket Aces.
But you also know when you don't have an idea. You know it will be hard or perhaps you just don't want to play this hand.
Everyone makes their bets, some times this is easy. The patient is dry start some fluids, pain relief/Raise. Other times you don't want to initiate much treatment until you have more information/Check.
In medicine you can't really fold. unless you take the next chart (don't be this person).
The flop:
Three cards are turned over. This equates well with the history, it's where the money is. Based on what you know about the patient and you impression most times you can have a very good idea about how you are placed. But there is some difficulty. Many diseases are difficult to tease out, are you being bluffed by your opponent. Previous experience with the opponent/disease can help you here. Are they likely to play passively or do they often show their strength?
The Turn:
This is the physical exam. (might be giving too much credit here)
This adds to what has come before. The reaction to this, tells/focal signs often increase your confidence in your diagnosis. But again it can leave you feeling unsure. But often it makes minimal difference, your impression can remain unchanged based on presence or absence of some signs. This is also often when you take a little time to think of any other possibilities you may have forgotten, a few extra questions whilst examining.
The River:
The investigations. Everything is back, all the information you are going to get is there.
This confirms or refutes your previous thoughts. You often know where you stand are you "the nuts" ?
But everything can change and swing based on one investigation/the final card. Is the bloody D-dimer positive?
Then the final rounds of betting, are you all in for one diagnosis or are you still unsure of yourself? Often you know your badly placed (Pt is sick) but you can't be certain of why.
Finally the hands are revealed; in medicine like in poker you may never find out if you were right. Your opponent may never reveal their cards.
The best you can hope for is to learn from your mistakes, minimise your losses and be ready to play again.
But remember, in the end the house always wins.


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"While U.S. electricity demand is on the rise, many U.S. states face closures of old coal and nuclear power plants, so we see huge potential in meeting that need with distributed solar power, especially in the Eastern U.S. where states are aggressively investing in solar photovoltaics," said Panos Ninios, True Green Capital managing partner. "We're excited to partner with SunPower, a U.S.-headquartered industry leader that is uniquely positioned to excel in the commercial solar market with its differentiating solar solutions, and its proven experience deploying them for commercial, industrial, and public customers across the nation."
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Each player starts with some random facts/habits about himself/herself. As you are tagged you need to post the rules and your responses on your own blog. At the end of your post, you need to choose some people to tag, list their names and, of course, leave them a comment, telling they have been tagged and they need to read your blog for more information.
Greg's interpretation of this meme is very much in his style, and is a great read. Go check it out.
I will do my best to complete the meme in a way that reflects who I am, so it will inevitably turn bilingual. For instance, you will notice my alphabet has 27 letters, as opposed to the 26 you are used to. That is because I am using the Spanish alphabet, which is what I learned when I was growing up.
1- A: Awareness is key. I start off with a cliche, but it is one I truly, deeply subscribe to. One of my goals in life is to learn better what makes me tick; to understand the patterns of my behavior, the triggers to my moods (both high and low). By stepping outside myself and examining my behavior, I get more attuned to my perception of the world. It helps ground me.
I am not necessarily as interested in finding out the why of my behaviors. It is something I may never know. Some people are fond of going back in time and analyzing their personal history. I say memory is a construct, often unreliable, and the significance of a small, trivial occurrence may escape the adult mind obsessed with finding the great markers of the past. Also, two people may go through similar life experiences and react in completely different ways, so the past is not necessarily a guarantee of present behavior.
2- B: Boricua. I am a proud boricua and always will be. But although it may have points in common with other people's, my definition of what a boricua is applies only to myself. My experience as a Puerto Rican growing up middle class on the island, with college educated, liberal arts oriented folks, is very different from that of someone who grew up in New York or Chicago, different from contemporaries of mine who grew up poor, wealthy or Christian; and different from my daughters' experience growing up middle class in Texas. It is also different to the experience of my nieces, who both grew up and still live on the island. The differences are due in part to location, economics, and moment in time. Also, to a certain extent, to personality.
3- C: Cámara, por favor. When I was growing up in Puerto Rico in the 1970's, every afternoon after school I would watch Cine Recreo con Pacheco on WAPA TV, channel 4. Pacheco (real name Joaquín Monserrat) was originally from Barcelona, Cataluña. He came to Puerto Rico by way of Cuba and remained on the island to become a popular children's TV personality. He was Puerto Rican TV's closest thing to Mr. Rogers, someone warm and kind to the children, beloved by generations. He basically acted as an MC for the afternoon cartoon hour, but he had kids as guests of the show, and every day he read letters and showed pictures mailed to him by audience members, taking the opportunity to impart some lessons in the process, like on this clip, where he cautions kids to not fly kites near power lines. At the end of the clip you'll hear Pacheco say his catchphrase cámara, por favor, which was the cue to segue into either commercials or cartoons.
4- Dios (God). I don't believe in God, such as the major religions portray him. I am not presumptuous enough as to assume there is absolutely nothing. The most I can do is accept that I can't possibly know with certainty whether there is a divinity or not, and try to develop a sense of spirituality that is grounded (pun intended) in this world.
6- F: Fuck. Fuck, fuck fuck fuck. Fuck! There is no point to this opening, other than to show I am quite fond of saying fuck. It's my blog and I'll curse if I want to. The truth is curse words serve a function as a means of expression that no watered down version can substitute. It is important to learn what are the appropriate environments to use the various kinds of jargon we speak. I don't use curse words at work, for example. But outside of work it's every mouth for itself.
7- G: Gabriel. He's my husband, my partner, my equal.
8- H: Home improvements. We are currently getting quotes and applying for a home improvement loan so we can rip out the carpets and replace them with bamboo floors. We have been warned by some people that the percentage of home buyers in our area that like bamboo floors is not very high (depending on who you listen to, it's either 10% or 35%). Still, I will not consider any other wood. At least bamboo grows faster and regenerates; the same can't be said for the trees they cut down to make those beautiful wood floors home buyers are so fond of.
Isla del Espanto (Dreadful Island or Frightening Island), on the other hand, is the way locals turned the official slogan on its head. A play on the similarity of the sound of the words encanto and espanto, it is used to highlight the many ills and things that go wrong on the island.
11- K: Kangaroo. The kangaroo is one of my favorite animals. Some day I hope to go to Australia and see kangaroos in the wild.
12- L: Lili. My sister's name is Liliana. Her nickname is Lili. My sister and I are not as close as I would like. I know I should seek her out more, and I feel bad that I don't.
13- M: Mallorca. Besides being the common name of a popular pastry in Puerto Rico and one of my favorites ever, Mallorca (English spelling Majorca) is also the biggest of the Balearic islands in the Mediterranean, a part of Spain. The pastry I so adore is original from the island from which it borrows the name we know it by in Puerto Rico.
It is believed that most of the Spanish immigrants who came to Puerto Rico were from Cataluña, Asturias, Galicia, the Balearic islands, the Canary Islands, and the Andalucía region in Southern Spain; this last region in particular has a very strong Arab heritage. Together with immigrants from other countries, as well as the large African slave population (most of which came from from the Gold Coast, Nigeria and Dahomey); and the Taíno Indians (who seemed to stick around longer than traditional historical narrations suggest), they comprise our genetic makeup.
14- N: Nanowrimo. It starts tomorrow. Yikes! What have I gotten myself into?
15- Ñ (sounds like GN): El Ñame is my favorite fake news site (in Spanish, from Puerto Rico).
16- O: Oprah. I am at work, so I don't watch. But even if I was at home, I would not watch her show. Just because everybody else does. I refuse.
17- P: Plany al mar (lamento al mar). In the early seventies, years before it became fashionable to speak of global warming or being ecologically conscious, the magnificent Joan Manuel Serrat wrote this very beautiful, sad song. Sung in his native Catalan, it is a lament on the state of his beloved, increasingly depleted and polluted Mediterranean Sea. On a separate clip prior to the song, Serrat translates the lyrics of the song into Spanish and speaks about the inspiration to write it. I listened to this song growing up, its haunting melody never failing to move me to tears.
18- Q: Queso de Bola. A large number of Puerto Ricans (on the island at least) are quite fond of aged Edam cheese from Holland. I am sure it's a Spanish heritage thing. Back home you can walk into any supermarket and buy Edam, but in Texas I can never find it. When I find Edam cheese it is not from Holland, it is not aged, or both. People here seem to be more fond of Gouda, and you can find aged Gouda here. But I don't like it as much.
19- R: ROI. I hope when I am old and infirm my daughters will take care of me.
20- S: Sonia. My mother's name is Sonia. She turns 68 next month. I still have a hard time wrapping my head around that fact. In my mental image of my mom, she is stuck in age sometime around the early nineties, not long after my father's passing.
21- T: Toño. My brother's name is Antonio. His nickname is Toño (pronounced Togno). My brother is going through a bit of a hard time lately. After 20-something years of marriage, his wife and him have separated. The relationship is over, but they are on good terms and have not gone ahead with divorce plans yet. Although it will come. Lately I have been in touch with him to express my love and to let him know I am there for him no matter what.
22- U: UPR (la iupi). I am a proud alum of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus, class of 1990. I very much enjoyed my college years. It was a time of awakening and exposure to mind opening ideas and people. Sure, not everything was perfect. But the good outweighed the bad by far.
23- V: Volatile. Although in English the term volatile seems to be mostly used in the realms of science and economics, in Spanish we use the term volátil to designate someone who has quite the mutable character. It is not quite exactly the same as saying someone is unstable, though. It's more like being quick-tempered.
24- W: Working. It's what I should have been doing instead of writing this. Deadlines keep looming, people!
25- X. Xenophobia. When people try to justify xenophobia by saying it's an evolutionary trait, it kinda sickens me.
27- Z: Zoologist. It's what Paula says she wants to be when she grows up. She loves animals. When Flower died on Meerkat Manor, Paula was inconsolable. By the way, those meerkats are dropping life flies lately. As soon as Paula came to me crying last Friday evening, I knew something was wrong. "Who died now?"- I asked. "Mozart"- said Paula between sobs. Flower, Kinkajou, and now Mozart. Kinkajou's death did not affect Paula much, but she was as attached to Mozart, the survivor, as she was to Flower. She sure is learning a lot about the reality of life in the wild.


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On 06/13/12 10:45, N. D. wrote: > > Hi, > Since recently I have been using Skystar USB HD with my vdr > box. However I have some strange issues with 11817V on Astra 23.5E. > Femon reports that there is a lock and sound comes but the image is > completely garbled. I am starting to suspect that there might be > something wrong with the driver, because I have no trouble with the > other transpoders. Maybe it is the combination of fec=5/6 and 8psk on > the said transponder that is the reason for this. Other transponders > with fec=3/4 and 8psk are OK. The same setup with an HVR-4000 works > fine. > > Kernel: 3.3.4 > > VDR: 1.7.27 > > Could someone who owns a Skystar USB HD and has access to Astra 23.5E > share his experience? Is this a driver issue a problem with vdr or is my card > faulty? > > If someone would be kind enough to test this with his/hers hardware, there is > a FTA channel on the problematic transponder: > > > > Planeta > HD;SatelliteBG:11817:VC56M5O35S1:S23.5E:27500:1001=27:1002=@3:0:0:5410:3:3206:0 > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >
Hi, few months ago on this transponder was nearly 30% of null PID packets broadcasted, but now it seems to be much better (less than 1Mbps). Also multiplexing of this transponder was not equal within time - there was chunks of packets of PlanetHD multiplexed with chunks of other SD channels mixed packets. Maybe the buffers for USB are not big enough to memorize such chunks? But I didn't done measuring for some months, so the situation may be different now. You can see bitrates of this transponder at http://www.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.php?mux=11817&pid=5410&live=70&lang=en . The bitrate of this channel is nothing special, with maximum about 11 Mbps, the peak of 20.2Mbps at 22.5. was maybe a joke. Regards, Ales _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list email@example.com http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr


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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Bruce Springsteen doesn't imagine his three children, ranging in age from 16 to 20, would be that interested in a new HBO documentary on his 1978 album "Darkness on the Edge of Town."
Maybe they will later, since the movie is partly for them.
"Do you really want to watch your dad, watching thousands cheer your parents?" he said. "Nobody wants to see that. Watching people boo your folks, that would be something worth coming to see."
For his fans, the film "The Promise: The Making of 'Darkness on the Edge of Town'" is an intriguing peek, supplemented with home video from the time, into the creative process of a music legends at a key time in his career. Burdened by a management lawsuit and brooding over newfound fame at age 27, Springsteen and his E Street Band produced a taut treatise on growing into adulthood within a faltering economy. The film debuts Oct. 7 at 9 p.m. ET.
Getting there was anything but easy. Springsteen wrote and discarded far more songs than he used — fans will be able to hear many of them later this fall — as he whittled the band's sound from expansive to lean and made sure the disc hung together creatively.
One night a bleary-eyed Springsteen forced poor Max Weinberg to repeatedly hit his snare drum, searching for a sound he imagined in his head but could never quite get on tape.
"Madness has its rewards — if in the end you don't destroy yourself," Springsteen said. "I had an idea but a lot of it, looking back now, probably could have been dispensed with and everyone would have been left with a little more of their sanity. But that was how we made those records. I believed at that time that you had to work hard at something. I didn't trust anything that came too easily."
That may have tortured a few band members but the attitude made him think hard about what he wanted to say and made for well-constructed songs.
"I wanted them to last and they did last," he said. Along with the title cut, the album features "Badlands," ''Prove It All Night" and "Racing in the Street."
Sheer luck made this video document possible.
A friend at the time, Barry Reebo, frequently followed Springsteen and his gang with a video camera, back to when the rocker played small clubs. No one thought twice when Reebo hung around the studio during the "Darkness" sessions. He didn't use big lights. Sometimes it seems the musicians forgot he was there.
After reforming the E Street Band a decade ago following a hiatus, Springsteen began thinking about video archives of their work, particularly for younger fans who knew nothing of their epic late 1970s performances.
Reebo hadn't sold his footage, and Springsteen was surprised at all he had. He struck a deal, and filmmaker Thom Zinny made "The Promise" by mixing the old tapes with current recollections from Springsteen and his band.
"We caught the band at a very pivotal moment — immediately post-success, and I'm in the throes of trying to figure out what I'm all about, trying to figure out what that success meant," he said.
Success was fine, but he mistrusted it. He felt safe among the places and people he grew up with in New Jersey.
"I felt there was a story there, the late '70s in the United States, what they call the Carter recession," Springsteen recalled. "I thought there was an interesting and unique story in my neck of the woods that wasn't being alluded to or told very much in American rock music. It was being told in England by the Clash, but not so much in American rock music."
He pursued it with an almost maniacal sense of purpose.
"We were in the studio for a long time not because we were interested in making records, but because we were interested in making purposeful records," he said. "We were interested in making essential records."
Family was also on his mind. He didn't feel he really knew his parents and what they went through — the song "Factory" was about his dad's blue collar life — and "The Promise" exists in part so Springsteen's children will have a document of how their father handled the curiosity of his own teen years.
The "Darkness" album came three years after "Born to Run," a lifetime in that musical era. For much of that time, Springsteen was prevented from releasing music due to a lawsuit involving his former manager, Mike Appel. Appel was a big music fan with his own vision for Springsteen's career, and the lawsuit was strictly about control, Springsteen said.
Appel even appears in "The Promise" and issues what could be interpreted as an admission that he had been wrong. "I had strong ideas," Appel said. "In the end, you have to say, 'Mike, who's the artist?'"
Springsteen laughs when he's asked if he's ever gotten an apology. "No," he said. "I've never asked him to and he doesn't have to. We're very good friends."
It's a season of "Darkness" for Springsteen. On Nov. 16, Columbia will release two products centred on the period. One is "The Promise," a two-CD set of material recorded then that never made the original 10-song album. It contains 21 songs, including "Fire," which became a hit for the Pointer Sisters, and "Because the Night," which Patti Smith took, added some of her own lyrics and turned into the biggest hit of her career.
The songs likely formed the bones of an album never made between "Born to Run" and "Darkness."
A more extensive package, formed to look like the notebooks Springsteen used for song lyrics at the time, contains those two CDs and a remastered version of "Darkness on the Edge of Town." It also contains three DVDs with the HBO documentary and four hours of concert footage.
The material includes an entire 26-song Houston concert from 1978, and a 2009 recording of Springsteen and his band performing the "Darkness" album in its entirety at an empty Paramount Theater in Asbury Park, N.J.
Springsteen described his recording process at the time as "making a huge splatter painting and standing back and editing and shaping the way I wanted it to come out."
The outtakes "really hold together as a body of work because they all came out of the same sessions, the same sounds and tones. ... It's an interesting bunch of music that I hope the fans enjoy."
EDITOR'S NOTE — David Bauder can be reached at dbauder"at"ap.org
HBO film captures key moments for Bruce Springsteen
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Bruce Springsteen doesn't imagine his three children, ranging in age from 16 to 20, would be that interested in a new HBO documentary on his 1978 album "Darkness on the Edge of Town."


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Notebook: Turning Our Eyes To The Championships
May 11, 2010
By Adam Geigerman
Special to NCAA.com
The Bucs Sail to Victory in South/Southeast
The No. 1 ranked school in the nation held on to its superior standing by out stroking their Sunshine State Conference rival, No. 7 Lynn by one.
The men from Barry have maintained their top-spot ranking throughout the spring through their outstanding golf games, especially when the stakes were the highest. The Buccaneers victory in Wilson, N.C. was their first-ever Super-Regional title. The Bucs are trying to regain their 2007 form that brought them a National Championship.
They shot a 7-under par team total of 845, guided by the stoic swingmanship of Carlos Velez. Velez finished the tournament tied for second with a 208 (-5), followed by Chris Carlin's tie for fifth and Guillermo Pumarol's tie for 20 rounded out the top three Bucs. Barry did have its scares throughout the Super-Regional Tournament though, as they sat in a dead tie with Lynn after round two at 4-under par.
"It really feels good," Barry coach Jimmy Stobs said. "The guys fought really hard. They feel good and they should. They worked really hard to achieve this," added Stobs about the difficulty of outplaying a field with such nationally ranked depth.
The South/Southeast Region Tournament featured 11 of the nations top-25, as chosen by the Golf World/NIKE DII Coaches Poll. Of those 11 in the South/Southeast field, 9 were ranked 12th or higher, including the top four schools: No. 1 Barry, No. 2 GCSU, No. 3 Florida Southern and No. 4 North Alabama. The stacked field just bludgeoned each other in and out of contention, as only the top-5 finishers at the Super-Regional could move on to compete for the National Title.
The Buccaneers will be leading the way from Wilson, N.C. to Noblesville, Ind., for the championship followed by regional runner up No. 7 Lynn, third place winner and No. 3 Florida Southern, fourth place finisher and No. 10 ranked Nova, and finally the fifth place qualifier Queens College from North Carolina.
The competition in the South/Southeast Regional was more drama-drenched than a season of As the World Turns, and by the looks of the five teams that survived, the battle for the National Championship will be stifling.
How the West was Won
The California desert hosted a battle of beautiful golf swings between West Coast collegiate titans, including the nations No. 5, 6, 16, 20, 21 and 22 ranked schools. No. 5 Chico State and No. 6 Stanislaus represented the power of the California State University web of college golf power as they projected their top-10 national rankings onto the 20-team field at the Classic Club in Palm Desert, Calif.
Stanislaus and Chico both earned trips to Nationals by claiming the third and fourth finishing positions, respectively at the NCAA Central/West Super-Regional. The outright winners of the Central/West region were the gents from No. 16 Sonoma State.
The Seawolves were the image of consistency throughout the regional tournament as all of their golfers blasted final round scores below 75. All five Seawolves, including individual medalist Janssen Todd (-2), Ryan Carter(E), Jeremy Wendelken and Patrick Bauer (+5), and Alex Marry (+7) finished within the top-30 scorers.
Besides the Seawolves, Stanislaus and Chico State, the teams from Western New Mexico and Monterey Bay - another Cal State extension - sustained the intense competition of the Central/West region to continue on to nationals.
There's Nothing Mid About the Midwest Region
The Midwest/South Central Super-Regional tournament took its toll on the 20 best schools from that area of the country, crowning the No. 11 ranked school in the country, Central Missouri (+40), with the victory and a punched ticket to the National Championship in Noblesville, Ind.
The field of the Midwest/South Central region was loaded with metaphorical landmines, in the form of high-powered competition, specifically the six teams that were nationally ranked inside the top-25. The field featured some of the nations high-ranking squads like region champions Central Missouri, No.'s 13 and No. 14 Abilene Christian and St. Edward's, No.'s 18 and 19 Dallas Baptist and Indianapolis, and No. 23 Midwestern St.
Out of those top-25 teams, only one - Central Missouri - made it out alive. Only the regions top-5 finishers are to advance to the National Championship Tournament. Those teams are Wayne State (+41), Ferris State (+44), Bellarmine (+45) and Cameron State (+46), who finished second through fifth, respectively. The three-day regional tournament gave the Golf World/NIKE DII Coaches Polls reason to doubt their ranking system as only one of the ranked, favorites won their way into the competition for the national championship.
The Beasts of the East Don't Need National Rankings
The East/Atlantic Regional Tournament took place in Daniels, W.V. and didn't need a single ranked competitor, according to the Golf World/NIKE DII Coaches Poll, to add explosiveness to the National Championship.
None of the 20 teams representing the East/Atlantic region were ranked nationally by the coache's poll, but that didn't stop the guys from Concord University's golf team from waxing the opposition by 11 strokes. That's just what they did, as the next closed team, runner-up Indiana University of Pennsylvania finished with a 40-over par, as opposed to Concord's 29-over par.
St. Thomas Aquinas took home a distant third place as they stroked a 53-over par. They jockeyed for the only tightly-contested position with fourth place finishers Ohio Valley University (+54). The fifth and final slot for nationals was filled by Clarion University (+60).
The representatives from the East/Atlantic region will surely be the underdogs against the victory-tradition laden programs from the other three regions. One thing the East has shown though, is their relentless fight and willingness to take on anyone through the battle against par on 18 holes of championship golf.
The winning fomula
The best 80 men's golf programs in the NCAA's Division II microcosm of athletics came together in four separate regional tournaments on May 3-5. There were schools that won their way in by a mile, and those that made it by the skin of their teeth; some were forced to win their respective conferences for the opportunity to play another day, while others sat so high on their regional totem poll that at-large bids were never in doubt.
The format of the NCAA DII men's golf championship is a simple one. Qualify for the Super-Regional tournament by developing a ranking high enough to land in the top-20 in your specific region, or simply win your conference title. Those are the only two ways to earn entry into the NCAA Super-Regionals. Once a program qualified for the Super-Regionals, then they must finish in within the top-5 of that tournament in order to survive into the National Championship Tournament in Noblesville, Ind., to begin with practice rounds on May 17.
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There is a very bad situation here were people in the community are neither keeping thier trust nor keeping to thier word.
Alhumdillah my husband works and Mashallah has a very kind heart and when people ask him for either money or to borrow our books (islamic which are not cheap) the brothers (who all most all of them do not work and count on the government to provide for them), do not pay him back, or they may pass on his books to other brothers with out my husbands knowledege, My husband is far to busy to be trying to round up all of these amenis and also he finds it hard to ask.
I feel like asking the brothers when they call up to return our things but
my husband would not like this nor really do I feel that it is right however what should we do?
Praise be to Allaah.
Know that Allaah will never cause the reward of anyone who does a good deed to be lost, and al-qard al-hasan (a goodly loan lent for the sake of Allaah) is the best type of deed that will bring a person closer to Allaah.
But if your husband knows that a particular person will not fulfil a trust or will take a long time to repay a loan, there is no sin on him if he declines to lend him money or books.
But if a person is in difficulty and has no money, it is better to give him more time and treat him with kindness. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
"And if the debtor is in a hard time (has no money), then grant him time till it is easy for him to repay…" [al-Baqarah 2:280].
If you ask for your husband's rights, or if he asks for them himself, there is no sin on him for that, because it is his due, but he should be kind and considerate. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "A man died and it was said to him: 'What did you used to say (do, i.e., in your lifetime)?' He said: 'I used to engage in business with people, and I used to give the rich time to repay their debts and I used to deduct part of the debt for the poor'. So he was forgiven." (Reported by al-Bukhaari, no 2216).
The person who borrows something has to give it back. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning);
"Verily, Allaah commands that you should render back the trusts to those to whom they are due…" [al-Nisa' 4:58]
It was reported from Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "Whoever takes people's money with the intention of repaying it, Allaah will help him to repay it; whoever takes people's money with the intention of wasting it, Allaah will destroy him." (Al-Bukhaari, 2212).
Know that nothing is lost with Allaah, and that you will get back what you have lost in this world. You will receive hasanaat (good deeds) on the Day of Resurrection when people will be most in need of hasanaat. And Allaah is the source of strength.


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Growing number of Koreans saying no to marriage
According to a recent survey by Statistics Korea, around 40% of Koreans don't think marriage is a big deal. This number reflects a jump from 2010, when around 34% said marriage is really optional, and a continued overall upward trend of people being indifferent or against the issue.
The survey asked women and men over the age of 13 what they thought about marriage, and the number of women who said "Marriage is good, but not getting married is okay too" was much higher (43.2%) than men (34.4%). If you were to break it down by age group, 30-somethings were the most indifferent at 50.7%, and the 60+ age group was the most for it at 20.8%.
Netizens surprisingly seemed to back these results, with some saying the following:
"It's hard for me to live by myself. It's way to much to think about marriage."
"The funny thing is that the more money a woman makes, the more inclined she is to live the bachelorette life."
"You can only get married if … you have money."
"Get rid of this fantasy about marriage… If someone is lonely and then gets married, will they really stop being lonely?"
"The conditions for a society where marriage is possible are not in place."
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Jerry Bridges Quotes About HeartQuotes about: Heart
God's Word must be so strongly fixed in our minds that it becomes the dominant influence in our thoughts, our attitudes, and our actions. One of the most effective ways of influencing our minds is through memorizing Scripture. David said, "I have hidden Your Word in my heart that I might not sin against You" (Psm. 119:11).
In order to trust God, we must always view our adverse circumstances through the eyes of faith, not of sense. And just as the faith of salvation comes through hearing the message of the gospel (Romans 10:17), so the faith to trust God in adversity comes through the Word of God alone. It is only in the Scriptures that we find an adequate view of God's relationship to and involvement in our painful circumstances. It is only from the Scriptures, applied to our hearts by the Holy Spirit, that we receive the grace to trust God in adversity.
Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centred than God-centred. We are more concerned about our own "Victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sin grieve the heart of God. We cannot tolerate failure in our struggle with sin chiefly because we are success oriented, not because we know it is offensive to God.
In the deceitfulness of our hearts, we sometimes play with temptation by entertaining the thought that we can always confess and later ask forgiveness. Such thinking is exceedingly dangerous. God's judgement is without partiality. He never overlooks our sin. He never decides not to bother, since the sin is only a small one. No, God hates sin intensely whenever and wherever He finds it.
Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God. If we would trust God for our persecuted brothers and sisters in other countries, we must be diligent in prayer for their rulers. If we would trust God when decisions of government in our own country go against our best interests, we must pray for His working in the hearts of those officials and legislators who make those decisions. The truth that the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord is meant to be a stimulus to prayer, not a stimulus to a fatalistic attitude.
Jerry Bridges
- Born: December 4, 1929
- Died: March 6, 2016
- Occupation: Author
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