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Location: Winter Park, Florida, USA
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2000 2:44 pm
Post subject: Fear ROCKS!!!
This is one of my favorite movies of Mark's. The roller coaster scene is absolutely magnificent! (*wink*) It is my lifelong DREAM to meet Mark. I have liked...wait...LOVED him for as long as I can remember and I always will.
Stacy K. ORECK!
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2000 6:53 pm
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My first date with my boyfriend of nearly four years was to see Fear. I think it's a great movie to watch with a potential new boyfriend because afterwards you can ask if he feels Mark's behavior (as the character) towards "Nicole" was justified, and if he says yes......you can weed him out then so you'll have one less psycho to deal with later. As you can see, my boyfriend thought he was nuts.
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2000 9:53 pm
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I never really though of that Maggie, but that is totally true! Next boyfriend that comes along is coming straight over to watch fear! Thanks for the advice!
Stacy K. ORECK!
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Location: Canada
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2000 12:56 am
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K?! This is just the one movie of Mark's that i have never seen!! And that SUCKS!! I wanna see it!! Anyways..it seems like you guys recommend it, so the next time i get to the movie store..its what i'm renting!! Oh BABY..he has got the sweetest smile and set of buns!! He's got my vote!!
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Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2000 4:48 pm
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To Mark's Sweetie, I have seen this movie! I bought it a while back and its soooo good. Yes, I do recommend it for anyone who ahs not seen it yet. By the way, I recommend ALL of his movies! I f-i-n-a-l-l-y got The Big Hit, the final addition to complete my set of Mark Wahlberg movies! It's REALLY good!
Stacy K. ORECK!
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Location: Muskogee, OK, USA
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2000 10:32 pm
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Here's an idea. If you have Mark's films on VHS, like I do, wait until they invent a DVD recorder, and then record all the tapes onto DVD discs. They finally came out with CD recorders, so it follows that the same will occur with DVDs, too. I'm sure they will come up with a way to connect vid machines to DVD players, also. Then just buy a bunch of blank DVDs and record. At least, that's what I'm hoping for! I have 6 of his films right now, with 2 more coming (on order) next month. I'm waiting for "The Corruptor" and "The Basketball Diaries" now.
Then of course, I'll be wanting the 3 that will debut this year!! It never ends!!
If Mark starts putting out 3 films a year, it will be hard to keep up! But fun trying!
BTW, I got most of my tapes from Amazon.com.
If you're looking, that is.
Annie M
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Posts: 269
Location: Queens, New York
Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2000 1:26 pm
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I'm not sure if Fear would be a "date movie" though. Not just the psycotic part but also cause of the "rollercoaster" part. Isn't it akward to see that with a boyfriend or a girlfiend? Just my view BUT i LoVe that movie!!
~Steph - - One of Mark's BIGGEST fans =)
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Location: Muskogee, OK, USA
Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2000 9:15 pm
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On the roller coaster scenes, I think it depends on how well you know the other person, as in how involved you are with him/her. It might be awkward for a first date, but not after that.
FEAR will always be one of my faves, since it is the film that really introduced me to Mark. (I had previously seen part of Rennaisance Man, but did not know him then.) I think the fascination w/FeAR, is that he looks so ****ed sexy and you can see how strong he is, and in some of the scenes w/Reese he is so sweet. Then the other shoe drops and the psycho comes into play. It is always hard to think of someone who looks innocent as being awful! I think David McCall is one of his most fascinating characters. Plus, like I say, Mark just is so yummy looking!!
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Location: Muskogee, OK, USA
Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2000 9:35 pm
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P.S. Now I have all 8 of his films!! (got B-ball & Corrupt./ Waiting for 3K!!)
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Location: San Antonio, tx
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2000 1:17 pm
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Hey- I'm new to this MB, and you guys are so cute about everything- I just love it! Anyway, someone said that they had "all 8 of his movies." Does that include Teen Vid II?
Just wondering
Love ya lots
Nigel-the Chick!
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Location: Winter Park, Florida, USA
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2000 3:43 pm
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OMG! Is there a MW video I don't have?! I guess so. What is the videa and where can I find it? QUICK!
Stacy K. ORECK!
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2000 4:03 pm
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here's all the video's mark has been in:
-Teen Vid II - a magazine but on video instead of paper (has a short interview w/ Mark in San Fransisco - you can get it off eBay.com or any other auction sites as far as I know)
-Music for the people (it has videos from his album, interviews, live concerts, and a making of his video 'i need money')
-The Marky Mark Workout (yes he actually has a workout vid - very hott!!)
-The Substitute (made for tv movie - mark's first acting experience)
-Renaissance Man
-B-ball Diaries
-Boogie Nights
-The Big Hit
-The Corruptor
-Three Kings (coming soon - I don't know the exact date it will be available in stores)
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Location: Winter Park, Florida, USA
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2000 2:25 pm
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Just so you all know- three kings is already ut on video! My cousin works at Blockbuster so I already got a copy, but as far as it being for sale legally- I have no clue. I know it is available for rental for sure though.
Stacy K. ORECK!
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Annie M
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Posts: 1683
Location: Muskogee, OK, USA
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2000 11:53 pm
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Tigerlily is right. And I have everything she mentioned!! Took me 3 months to get all that, too. Well, 'cept for 3k, which I will buy a.s.a.p.
ALSO, there is yet another video she did not mention. I am in the process of buying it now, and I don't know what it is called, but it has footage of Mark playing basketball for--I think-- MTV, a charity event or something like that. This was way back in like 1991 or so. I'm hoping to have it in a couple of weeks, and I will let y'all know what it is about.
All of the vides he is in were worth my time, effort and money, and it hasn't been cheap either!! But who cares!! IT'S MARK!!
Annie M
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Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba,Canada
Posted: Sat May 13, 2000 6:52 pm
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You girls forgot about Mark's workout Video!!!
I'm curious if you girls ever seen his You Gotta Believe music video!!
when he was in his prime (body condition)!!!
I idolized him and wanted to have a bod like him! I purchased the workout vid.. and I even was able to talk to him on Much Music back in 1992! (which i still have on video)!
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Government is the problem
Government is the problem
I believe America has just two major problems — government takes too much in taxes and spends too much for too little that benefits all citizens. Wait a minute, that's one problem: government.
And how do they get away with it year after year? Again, one problem is masquerading as two — a tax code, indecipherable by any but the most advanced tax attorney, and an unaccountable Congress that writes the tax laws. Yep, same problem, government.
This year, let's lobby our congressional charlatans to simplify the tax code to eliminate the ridiculous breaks available only to those with the cash needed to hire high-priced advisors. For example, the super pack ripoff exposed by TV satirist Steven Colbert for which he won a Peabody award for investigative journalism.
Also, let's demand our august legislators inform us, quarterly, what they voted for or against and why, and what the anticipated impact of their vote will be on their constituents. If they can't perform this minimal service to the country, they gotta go. Otherwise, we will get the same posturing and pretense that was the hallmark of the do-nothing 112th Congress until the country resembles a backwater fiefdom run by whoever has the most men at arms.
Jim Cartwright, Canfield
Stealing students not an answer
Do not steal is one of the bedrock principles upon which all major religions and civilized societies agree. The members of the South Range Board of Education, however, have no problem being thieves. They just call their theft a less innocuous name: "open enrollment."
Next, they attempt to justify the theft of money from neighboring districts by convincing South Range residents that it will save them from having to pass a new levy. The argument is disingenuous. A new levy will be required in a few short years, but by that time Superintendent Dunham will have his 30 years in and will be collecting his inflated pension. I say it is "inflated" because his $10,000 personal pension contribution is paid for by the taxpayers of the district,.
Additionally, board president John Fromel apparently misspoke (politicians never lie) when he insinuated in the article that significant cuts were implemented before open enrollment was instituted. The Cadillac health care plan, which was costing the district $122,726 a month as of October 2011 remains intact. The supplemental athletic contracts that pay teachers between 7 percent and 20 percent of their base salary to coach athletics remain in effect. The district employs three principals in a building that could function with two. Finally, only in the public sector would a wage freeze be referred to as a "cut."
Open enrollment may have been inevitable for South Range. We will never know for sure. The school board lacked the courage to implement some of the painful decisions that might have avoided open enrollment or convinced voters to pass additional operating millage.
Rich Ferenchak, North Lima
More concessions than 'Cadillacs'
In a recent editorial, The Vindicator attacked the Youngstown school district for providing employees with a "Cadillac" health insurance plan for which they pay "peanuts." The editorial reflects only one side of this story and presents only a partially-informed and inaccurate opinion on this issue. Both the editorial and your apparent source ignore the huge sacrifices and concessions that mostly low-paid workers have made to maintain their admittedly good insurance benefits. In fact, these employees have paid not peanuts, but quite dearly, to keep their insurance plan.
AFSCME represents approximately 336 non-teaching workers in the Youngstown schools — primarily bus drivers, education assistants, custodians, and clerical workers. The majority of these employees are paid between $15,000 and $20,000 per year. Because the schools have laid off employees or refused to replace retiring workers, there are about 100 fewer employees in these positions than there were in 2007.
In four of the past six years, these employees have voted to accept wage freezes. In 2010 and 2011, when they received wage increases of only 1 percent, those increases were more than off-set by other economic concessions. During the same period, inflation increased by approximately 12.8 percent, so employees' real wages have dropped considerably. Moreover, these employees have agreed to further wage freezes for 2013 and 2014. Employees accepted these tough sacrifices in difficult negotiations solely to preserve their current health benefits. The employees also are paying 10 percent of the total cost of their insurance plans, so if costs increase, so will their share.
The editorial states the district's self-insured plan is underfunded. While this may be true according to some analysts' suggested guidelines, in fact, the district had done a good job of estimating and paying its actual insurance claims. Therefore, the underfunding figure the editorial cites is speculation unsupported by the evidence of past claims.
The Academic Distress Commission has accepted happily the wage and benefit concessions which employees have made to keep their good health care benefits. They now should not try to welsh on their share of the bargain by demanding employees give up the insurance benefits they have sacrificed so much to maintain.
John J. Filak, Youngstown
The writer is regional director, AFSCME Ohio Council 8.
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It is a sorry state of affairs when your city government looks at its citizens as a cash crop to be farmed for the profits of some distant corporation. With the $afety of its residents in mind, the city will agree to plant devices to entrap drivers and produce an income for the city and its partner in crime.
While safety is touted at the company's web sites as their mission and goal, it is not safety that sends their highly paid representatives to your city to sell their machines. The reason they come to your town is not public service, but to take money out of your pockets and your town and put in the wallet of someone else. Your money is an incentive to pass out citations. More citations, more profits. It is unethical and immoral.
The machines are designed to be inconspicuous, not be obvious, to sit unnoticed by drivers. This smacks of speed traps and cops fattening the town coffers by passing out tickets. This smacks of a very cynical view that your city leaders have of you. If safety was the main concern, the devices would be bold and visible for all to see, to tell one and all that it is important to obey the law and be careful. Instead we have machines designed to be hidden, to entrap and produce fines, not encourage safety. That is spelled $afety. It is not safety that drives this deal, it is money — yours becoming theirs.
Shame on your city leaders for selling you out. Rebel against this in principle and action and remember this on Election Day.
David M. Conner, Youngstown
Dramatic differences in sentences
Please explain why it is that if you shoot a gun and kill a little boy you get life in prison, but if you run a stop sign and kill a father with two children you get 90 days in jail and probation. Also, how is it that you can run a man down while he is taking a walk, and all you get is probation?
In both cases a weapon was used, it is just that one of the weapons has four wheels.
Tom Clark, Youngstown
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CRESTVIEW � It was better late than never for Greg Watson.
He applied for the Crestview High School boys basketball coach position last fall and was offered the job. However, he couldn�t get out of his contract at Belgreen High School in Russellville, Ala.
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i was packing my lunch for work (ok, ok – it's a paid internship) when my wife, seated in the living room, read aloud what the general assembly's almost-final budget bill does not include.
i stood in the kitchen.
"master's pay, merit pay, tenure, and no raises."
she then said, "basically, if you do a good job, you get to teach another year."
* * *
it's a strange thing, as a middle-class, white american, to feel my way of life is being attacked by a power that refuses to understand the heart of me. my initial internal reaction was embarrassment – as if i should be ashamed to have been a teacher, ashamed to be married to a teacher, and ashamed of loving teaching.
but then, as i secured the top of my tupperware (leftover chicken pot pie, if we're wondering), I came to my senses in a poorly lit kitchen.
the embarrassment is not mine to have, nor my wife's, nor that of teachers in this state.
i am not embarrassed to think molding students for greatness is a calling.
i am not embarrassed that I always ended up slightly giddy when discussing color and symbolism in The Great Gatsby.
i am not ashamed to know that teachers are not and never will be parts of a machine.
* * *
i almost found and find myself at a point of muttering, "it doesn't even matter anymore," out of defeat or emotional exhaustion.
but that, i think, is what the general assembly hopes all teachers will mutter to themselves.
yes, of course these measures will help ease the financial strain on the state budget, but there is a difference between fiscal responsibility and an assault on public schools. if the currently-successful public schools eventually do not function, which i believe is the only reason the general assembly has proposed changes this drastic, our state will suffer long-term.
master's pay was an incentive for teachers to become better educated. tenure (i do not pretend to think tenure is a system without flaws) allows job security for veteran and experienced teachers. raises help teachers eat and live in townhouses with one less roommate.
* * *
one of my most consistent messages to my students was that of hope – i (maybe too) often wrote or said, "there is always hope." i believe it now just as firmly as i did then.
i hope that our teachers make noise, and i hope it happens inside and outside the classrooms. i hope they march, i hope they dance, i hope they vote. inside the classroom, i hope they teach with ferocity. i hope they are as insulted as i am and prove that they will not be broken,
that their resolve outweighs that of a group of agenda-driven men (i'm an agenda driven man, thank you) in downtown raleigh.
and, if this budget comes to pass, let it be known that teaching will become an even higher calling in this state. one of the noblest.
teach on.
members of the general assembly,
do what you will and try not to be upset when the public schools of north carolina don't fall into the ocean.


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A kiteboarder was stuck by lightning on land, kite on the ground, on Monday outside St. Augustine, FL. I understand he was preparing to return to the water but had not launched his kite at the time of the strike. He is recovering in hospital currently. He may be the first kiteboarder who has suffered a direct lightning strike worldwide or at least that I have heard about. It is possible there have been others however. Lets hope the man has a full and rapid recovery. The health effects of lightning strikes to survivors can be quite severe. There have been those they had strikes nearby which they felt through ground transmissions.
"Kite-flying man struck by lightning on Florida beach
VILANO BEACH, Fla. -- Authorities say a man who had been flying a large kite is in stable condition after being struck by lightning on a northeast Florida beach.
The St. Johns County Sheriff's Office says Weltzien Falk of St. Augustine was flying the kite with his son Monday afternoon on Vilano Beach.
Deputies tell The St. Augustine Record ( http://bit.ly/SZpJSf) that Falk's son, Kai, said he saw a flash of lightning and felt a tingle. Then he saw that his father had fallen to the ground.
Falk had been wearing a harness with metal rings that attached strings to the kite.
A bystander performed CPR on Falk until rescue workers arrived. Authorities say Falk had burn marks on his left shoulder. His son was not injured.
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Animal health, well-being and conservation is integral to the health of our global ecosystems. Many zoos play an important role in ensuring the health and survival of a great number of animal species, as well as help educate people about their importance.
The zoo science program at Friends University is widely acclaimed due to its content, faculty, and proximity to and affiliation with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums-accredited Sedgwick County Zoo.
Friends University has had a special relationship with the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita for more than two decades. Students in the zoo science program take traditional college courses at the university while also taking specialized courses at the zoo and getting practical experience working with zoo personnel in and around animal exhibits. The result is a four-year bachelor of science degree that contains a liberal arts-based biological science framework with practical zoological experiences built in.
Courses for the zoo science degree program offered at the Sedgwick County Zoo include zoo keeping techniques, zoo animal training and enrichment, introduction to zoo animal health, and others. Only students enrolled in the zoo science degree program may take these courses. Most zoo science courses meet in the Cargill Learning Center at the zoo, but they often include time with animal exhibits and off-exhibit areas.
To offer our students the best experience possible, admission into the zoo science program is limited. We have a two-step admission process: stage one is admission to the university, and stage two is admission to the program itself. Since demand for the program is always high, admission to the program is competitive and based on factors such as grade point average, standardized test scores, existing experience, and other factors.
As a senior in the zoo science program, Michael Clifford worked with conservation teams in South Africa to see first-hand how they preserve territories, helped with anti-poaching operations, and had the opportunity to work with animals that had never before seen people.
It was amazing. I got to work with a number of zoos in South Africa. I had the privilege of learning how African zoos are operated. I got to learn from them as well as share my knowledge of zoos and animal husbandry that I learned from my experiences in U.S. zoos and at Friends University.Michael Clifford, Zoo Science Graduate
Program Outcomes
- Be able to effectively communicate scientifically.
- Be able to use the skills developed within the program to solve real-world problems more effectively than when they entered the program.
- Demonstrate an ability to work as a member of a team in a career-oriented environment.
- Form professional relationships with instructors and mentors in the zoo profession.
Course Requirements
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Working in a zoo is most often a labor of love, not a path to fame or fortune. Despite the modest pay, there is always competition for available animal keeper positions at any good zoo. And with the training and experience that comes from the zoo science program, a motivated person can gradually move to more senior positions within the zoological professions.
Become a Zoo Science Major
Step 1. Apply to Friends University
Step 2. Once accepted to Friends, apply to the Zoo Science program.


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Many surprising things have happened in the world of telecommunications and IT during the past few years. High on the list are three well-documented and ongoing trends: the rise of smartphones and tablets in the enterprise, the popularity of Google's Android and the consumerization of IT. As Android continues to make inroads into business, more and more apps are being developed that can help busy executives in their day-to-day activities. We've collected 15 popular business and productivity apps for busy executives from the Android Market.
Cloud Apps: The Seven Deadly Sins Applications are the heart and soul of winning new cloud business, securing recurring revenue and ensuring customer satisfaction.
A Humorous Look at the Consumerization of IT CA Technologies' "CHIEF & CHUCK" take on the consumerization of IT.
Nine Benefits of Email Monitoring Knowing what is going on with your email communications is vital.
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Ludlowe High closed today due to wind damage to roof
Fairfield Ludlowe High School is closed today (Friday, Feb. 1) because of "significant" wind damage to a portion of the school's roof early Thursday.
In a letter to parents, Headmaster Greg Hatzis said winds during the overnight storm blew off a section of the rubber membrane on the roof above a main hallway in Warner House, allowing rain to enter the building and damage at least 10 of the 15 classrooms in that wing of the Unquowa Road building.
Hatzis said that over the course of Thursday morning, "the situation worsened quickly." By then, however, students were already on their way to the high school.
"We directed all students who had classes on the entire second floor to the gymnasium" while a damage assessment was conducted, Hatzis said.
At no time were any students or staff in the part of the building that was damaged, Hatzis said.
After officials determined they could not relocate all of the students in the 15 classrooms, school was dismissed at 10:15 a.m.
Contractors and the insurance company were called to the site, and a mitigation and remediation plan is being put together.
"We are also working closely with the town Building and Fire departments to ensure all areas are deemed safe to occupy the building again," Hatzis said.
A plan also is being developed to relocate the classrooms once the building is reopened.
The damage at Ludlowe High was described as "significant" by First Selectman Michael Tetreau, who said the condition was declared an emergency so that work could begin immediately on fixing the roof.
While he had not received any price estimates, Tetreau said it is expected the roof repairs will be costly.
In the wake of the storm, communications regarding schools early Thursday were complicated by the fact that the Education Department's central office on Kings Highway East lost power.
The town's alternative high school on Biro Street also was closed Thursday because of a power outage.


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Street Evil - Proving Every Car Is Cooler With a License Plate
Let's see: no radiator, no water pump, a tall-deck big-block, and twin 88mm turbos for a grille; come on—there's no way this car can be driven on the street. But, builder Ed Umland swears owner Rich Feicheer drives this 1934 Ford on a regular basis. Seriously? Seriously.
You're right to be skeptical. We've been wrong about Ed and his crazy talk before, like when we featured his twin-turbo 1937 Ford in "Couperageous" (Mar. 2013). Back then, he told us his 1,200hp coupe could run the quarter-mile in the 9s with seamless street sessions. We called B.S. But, he proved us wrong at HOT ROD's first Flog Test, so perhaps we should look into his latest proclamations further.
Despite appearances, Feicheer's '34 Ford coupe does have a radiator—it's tucked into the trunk. As for the lack of a water pump, the FAST XFI fuel-injection system not only controls the 16 injectors, it also manages an electric water pump, adjusts the turbo boost, air shifts the transmission, turns on the radiator fans, and controls the trans brake for those times Feicheer gets the urge to squirt down the quarter-mile. But, Feicheer's not seeking serious times. We mean, he didn't ask Umland to build him a seriously competitive drag coupe. If this car is as docile on the street as Ed claims, it can't be the opposite on the strip. Or can it?
The coupe has been an all-consuming project for Umland, who owns Eddie's Chop Shop (EddiesChopShop.com) in Sacramento, California. It was an old dirt car Feicheer dropped off at Umland's to be transformed into a hot rod he could drag race. But there are always problems transforming a frog into a prince—in this case, problems such as the doors being welded up with no doorjambs left. And that was the good part. The old warrior had been passed around over the years in numerous attempts to revive it, with all of the fixes instead taking it further into Never-Never Land.
Starting with the dual-purpose dream Rich Feicheer had for the car, Ed got him to see things his way before commencing on such an ambitious project. Superchargers are no good in Um-Land. Turbos are the main course for anything approaching a street/strip application, especially when Feicheer's goal was to run in the 9s.
You can't cram all your heart's desires into a single car, but Ed is accommodating. "So once I talked Feicheer into doing the turbo deal, he said, 'I want to run 8s with the car,'" Ed says. "And then he said 7s."
"You can only be good at one thing, and we wanted it to be good at doing two things." — Ed Umland
Don Zimena at Motor Machine in Carmichael, California, put together the 598ci big-block Chevy starting with a Dart tall-deck block and Big Chief heads. A Callies forged crank and rods were used with JE pistons, a Crane cam with 0.768-inch lift, and 291/295 degrees of duration with a 115-degree lobe separation. A bright-red MSD front-mount beltdrive distributor visually announces the torque monster has arrived. A Mallory Firestorm dual-sync cam and crankshaft position sensor is now plugged into the hole the distributor once occupied.
Eddie's Chop Shop fabricated the car's intake, intercoolers, and headers. That Moon tank in front holds ice water to cool the air coming out of the turbos. Eddie's Chop Shop also did all of the turbo plumbing.
Needing a transmission that worked well for both the street and strip, Umland called on Jim Galatioto at ATO Transmission in Rancho Cordova, California, to build a TH400 with billet-steel shafts and aluminum drums. "When you want to go with something nice on the street, yet still be able to handle tremendous torque on the track, the torque converter can be tricky," Ed says. Continental Torque Converters built a 10-inch converter.
The car came with a Winters quick-change rear, which is the weak link in this application, but surprisingly even after multiple 4,400-rpm launches it's still alive. "When it breaks, we'll do something about it, but I like that it lets you change to helical-cut gears for street use; the rearend gets quiet and the car just idles down the road so nice," says Ed.
By using reproduction '34 truck framerails fitted with chrome-moly crossmembers, the chassis and cage are certified to 7.50 seconds. Anything quicker would demand a complete chrome-moly frame. "We chose to keep the stock framerails because we wanted the car to be a hot rod and not a full-blown race car," says Ed.
To package those two 88mm Comp turbos, Ed decided to swap the radiator to the rear, ditch the grille, and fake onlookers into thinking it's either an unfinished car—or a serious race car, which it kind of is. "You need a big radiator to cool that much horsepower, and it just wasn't going to fit in the front, so putting it in the back solved that problem," Ed says. Plus, he doesn't like '34 grilles anyway. What? "I hate that look. The engine is hanging way out there, and then you add the turbos to the front and by the time you add a grille in front of all that, it looks like crap."
Of course, cooling your car from the other end creates a whole encyclopedia of problems. Ed says he gets calls about just this situation. "The problem with most cooling issues is guys place a mechanical fan 6 inches from the radiator," says Ed. "The fan is going to draw air from the path of least resistance, so if the fan is 6 inches from the radiator, it's just going to pull the air that's behind the radiator and not draw anything through it. It's the same premise in the back of the car." There's no ducting on the '34 per se, but the two electric fans are attached to a sheetmetal shroud helping to draw air through the louvers in the Steve's Auto Restoration decklid. The natural airflow around the trunk allows plenty of air to flow across and through the radiator surfaces.
As for the notoriously heat-generating turbos, Ed's not worried. "That's one of the good things about turbos. They only make heat when you're on them making boost, unlike a Roots-type blower which constantly makes heat. On a car like this you don't need boost on the street, so it's just a low compression motor."
Though the body had an ancient chopped top, it needed to be re-chopped. Ed did the honors, as well as rebuilding the door openings and jambs on both sides and rebuilding the tops of both doors. The usual patch panels were needed, and at the rear, Ed cleaned up the panel below the decklid and then created the rolled pan. Once the basic body was sorted out, Ed's team created the dash, door panels, and firewall with his signature quilted sheetmetal work, and then he added the removable modular floor. He wanted to be able to yank the transmission, which can come out without pulling the body or even removing the seats. Ed says, "Rick is running the car hard, so I wanted to be able to work on stuff pretty easily on the track." He also fabbed the cool bomber-style seats.
Another trick on the inside he's especially proud of is the "Lenco-style" door and window opening mechanism. "I didn't want to add heavy door mechanisms, so I built this neat bellcrank assembly with a push/pull lever that closes the windows and opens the doors," Ed says. The door opener and window crank pivot on the same point, and when the door panels are finished, most of the mechanism will be covered.
"If all the tubing used on the '34 were placed end to end, it would reach from California to Maine." — Ed Umland
So is the coupe finished? Yes and no. It sure seems like a real car, even though it's faking it as a half-finished drag hag. Ed says the plan was to paint the car all along, but he likes to sort out complicated projects like this before getting into expensive paint and finish. But everybody likes it the way it is, including Feicheer.
"We ended up with a car that's certified to 7.50, and it's still very streetable," says Ed. The car's best times on the local quarter-mile are 8.3 seconds at 167 mph. "That's with the boost turned down as low as possible, otherwise the car blows the tires off."
Future plans for the car now include Bonneville. It seems Feicheer got the salt bug after Ed and he ran a T roadster at Speed Week. So now they're looking for a class they can slot the coupe into for next year. This racing coupe will likely end up competing in the racing trifecta of dirt, asphalt, and salt before long, if Ed can find the time between projects and if Rick can find time between cruising Sactown in this crusty, fast competition coupe.


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When Mike Manikowski, the economic development director of Ontario County, N.Y., goes on business retention or recruitment calls, there's one person he rarely leaves behind: the county's CIO.
Manikowski and CIO Ed Hemminger work as a team to promote a technology-driven development strategy for the county, which is located in western New York's Finger Lakes region.
"He's a very collaborative guy, very enthusiastic, and he's a shaper of public opinion," Manikowski said about Hemminger. "He'll go speak to any community group, whether its four people or 400."
To boost broadband infrastructure in underserved parts of the county, Hemminger and Manikowski led county efforts to create a fiber ring. The county established and helped fund the nonprofit Finger Lakes Regional Telecommunications Development Corp. -- with Hemminger as CEO -- to build the fiber ring by 2010 and lease extra capacity to other entities.
Ontario County's story is still a rarity. A CIO seldom becomes the region's chief technology officer -- a de facto role Hemminger took -- who plans how infrastructure investments can boost economic development. But some experts believe there's a leadership vacuum waiting to be filled by confident and ambitious public-sector CIOs.
"More economic development organizations are noting the importance of a strong regional IT infrastructure, but some of it is just lip service," said Robert Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation in Washington, D.C. Atkinson said CIOs "should be up on the bridge, not down in the engine room."
The space is available, and there's nobody better situated than a public-sector CIO to fill it, Atkinson said. IT executives should avoid a narrow focus -- like deciding which server software version to use -- and instead pursue a broader vision of what IT can contribute to their jurisdictions' goals. Too many CIOs have defined their role narrowly, he said. "They tend to think of e-gov as internal to government, rather than in terms of e-society, and there is a big, big difference."
Hemminger agrees. "It is up to CIOs to take the initiative and get involved," he said. "When you see economic-development start to thrive, you get a warm, fuzzy feeling because you know you are starting to really make a difference in the big-picture stuff, and that is a fun thing to do."
Two years ago, Riverside, Calif., Mayor Ron Loveridge didn't hesitate asking city CIO Steve Reneker to become the executive director of SmartRiverside, a technology-focused economic-development effort.
"You walk into Steve's office, and there is a picture of him at the summit of Mount Everest," Loveridge said. "It's a perfect illustration of his incredible ability and determination to get things done."
Launched a decade ago, SmartRiverside has two primary objectives. The first is digital inclusion -- getting computers, Internet access and technology training to 20,000 families by 2010. The second is to engage technology business CEOs in how the city can foster the local, high-tech economy.
Loveridge thought Reneker was a natural fit to lead the effort because he made the commitment to a citywide Wi-Fi initiative and previously worked for Dell.
Two years ago, a local high-technology task force outlined how it thought SmartRiverside could help retain and recruit high-tech companies. Reneker sees his job as addressing its suggested actions, including implementing wireless technology citywide.
The toughest aspect of the executive director role, Reneker said, is balancing it with his full-time job as CIO. He estimates that he spends 50 percent of his time on SmartRiverside. He has made that possible by hiring a strong lieutenant in chief technology officer (CTO) Leyden Hahn, who oversees daily city IT operations. Also, most of the city's IT operations are outsourced, so Reneker believes he can set the strategic vision and spend more time on SmartRiverside, including the Wi-Fi network project that he manages.
Another key milestone, he said, was the recent opening of a technology park that has five tenants and also an incubator established by the city and county to encourage entrepreneurs from the state university system. In 2008, SmartRiverside inaugurated a high-tech expo and conference it plans to make an annual event.
CIOs can play a bigger role, Reneker said, but "it depends on city executives with the vision to understand they have a resource internally."
Competing with Austin, Texas, Tokyo and Beijing
The decision to build a fiber-optic ring in Ontario County, N.Y., began in 2005 with an analysis of where fiber already existed in the county. "We found five separate phone companies and two cable companies, and the service was quite fragmented," recalled Hemminger. "In the northern part of the county, broadband access was OK. In the southern part, we had almost none."
County leaders asked themselves if there was enough demand for leased fiber to make their effort self-sustainable -- they decided there was. County supervisors also changed a law that allowed the formation of the nonprofit Finger Lakes Regional Telecommunications Development Corp. in October 2005.
Photo: Ontario County, N.Y., CIO Edward E. Hemminger
The startup is fully funded by the county's prepayment for 25 years of service and franchise payments from a company that was building a gas pipeline through the county.
Potential users include phone and Internet service providers that won't have to lease fiber from competitors, as well as local banks and colleges.
"The goal is to become globally competitive, not just with Austin, Texas, but also with Beijing and Tokyo," Hemminger explained. "It's important that telecom is not an impediment to doing business here. We have a phenomenal quality of life here, and with world-class telecom at the doorstep, companies will start considering us for data centers and locate here and connect to other sites and other companies."
Digital El Paso
One technology executive whose job description has grown to match his natural inclination toward teamwork is Peter Cooper, CTO of El Paso County, Texas. "This is not just a techie job," he stressed. "It has evolved into a good combination that includes collaboration with other government entities, higher education and groups that affect economic development in general."
Cooper has been a key player in the Wi-Fi project Digital El Paso, which started with a two-square-mile area that includes downtown El Paso and some low-income residential neighborhoods stretching to the Mexican border. The group meets monthly to exchange ideas and has grown to include clinics, nonprofits, schools and businesses, Cooper said. The effort is also a digital-inclusion project in which El Paso Community College takes donated PCs and refurbishes them for low-income families.
Cooper also recently chaired a high-tech business expo organized by the El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. "Rather than just vendors, we got a number of regional tech projects to showcase what they are doing," he said. "We tried to do more to promote El Paso and some of the smaller tech efforts you never get a chance to hear about."
Developing State Interest
Most state-level technology executives tend to be a traditional CIO who focuses on internal operations. But Virginia has both CIO Lem Stewart, who oversees the state's internal IT agency, and Secretary of Technology Aneesh Chopra. "When Virginia created [my] office, it was explicitly part of its core mission to focus on growing the tech economy," Chopra said.
Chopra has several public policy tools at his disposal. For instance, the Commonwealth Technology Research Fund invests in promising startups to accelerate research and development activities across the state. "There's a commercialization gap on innovations coming out of our public universities," he explained, adding that the "gap funding" from Virginia helps startups attract private capital.
Photo: Aneesh P. Chopra, secretary of technology, Virginia
Chopra also has actively participated in the Chesapeake Crescent Innovation Alliance that's designed to stitch together the economic prospects of six major research universities in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Can state CIOs take responsibility for both day-to-day operations and the type of strategic activity that Chopra tackles? Blending policy and operations roles may pose a challenge in terms of time, energy and focus.
Whether the CIO should get involved may depend on the executive branch itself, Chopra believes. Is the administration properly nurturing innovation in all its forms? Who in the executive branch goes to bed at night worrying about innovation and nurturing the tech economy? Is the CIO involved in transforming health care and education? Are they thinking about electronic health records? "It's an open question," Chopra said, "whether a state CIO should be involved at that level or not. But if a governor has technology innovation as a top priority, somebody has to be accountable for delivering on it."


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Aimone-Martin Appointed to Commission, March 20, 2001
SOCORRO, N.M., March 20, 2001 -- Catherine Aimone-Martin, a professor of mineral engineering at New Mexico Tech, recently was appointed to the New Mexico Coal Surface Mining Commission, a nine-member board which meets to adopt, amend, and repeal state regulations concerning coal surface mining activities.
In past years, Aimone-Martin has served as a board member of both the Santa Fe County Mining Plans Review Board and the U.S. National Committee for Rock Mechanics. She also has been called upon on numerous occasions as a consultant on geotechnical engineering projects and is a recognized throughout the mining and construction industries as an expert on blasting applications.
Aimone-Martin has been a faculty member at New Mexico Tech since 1981.


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Carla offers customers a simple, intuitive way to manage their travel at their point of need – on a platform they're already using. That completely eliminates any need to make a separate phone call, download a new app or visit the company's website.
This journey would reach its destination at supersonic speed. Building Carla's underlying platform in the AWS Cloud offered the development pace and processing performance Avianca needed. Plus, the company could scale during peak periods without affecting customer experience. And they could dynamically manage Carla's dialogue during customer interactions.
In just six weeks, Carla was ready. She offered cutting-edge customer service through domestic check-in, itinerary checking, flight status updates, weather conditions, simple translations, and other useful reminders.
Best of all, Carla's natural style of conversation would mean travelers never felt they were talking to a machine. With her pleasant tone, instant responses and ability to answer follow-up questions, she sounds just like a real person – but one that's on call 24/7.
"Carla enables us to connect with our more than 28 million customers in a simple, intuitive way, offering helpful services on a platform they use daily and is one of the first virtual assistants to be launched in Colombia."
After just one month, Carla had helped more than 1,000 Avianca customers simplify their business and leisure travel. Through nearly 4,000 different conversations, she was offering an easy and intuitive way to check-in, confirm itineraries, and do much more. That's a fantastic new experience for travelers. But Carla had an equally impressive impact on business performance too. Waiting times were cut by half when Carla was used to check-in. That's the kind of result a business sees when the idea of the digital core takes flight.


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Get Your Bedrooms Ready: Our Newest Contest is Coming Soon!
We're on the hunt for the most beautiful bedrooms in the world — and we want to see yours! Apartment Therapy is thrilled to announce our first ever My Bedroom Retreat contest, launching this March.
The grand prize winner will receive a brand new adjustable bed, courtesy of the lovely folks at Leggett & Platt, our contest sponsors. We'll begin accepting entries on February 25, so in the meantime, get your bedrooms ready for their close-up.
We'll want to know what you love about your bedroom, as well as any tips you have for creating a beautiful and organized bedroom. Together, we want to create a trove of gorgeous bedroom inspiration.
So now is the time to get your bedroom in order, whether it's a little light organizing or finishing that project you've been meaning to tackle. In a couple of weeks we'll share some of our favorite tips on photographing interiors, so stay tuned!
(Images: Nadia's "Our House Is a Very Very Very Fine House"; Mary Helen and Graeme's Compact, Composed Mix on the Upper East Side; A Look Inside the Home of Marjorie Skouras, Lighting Designer; Claudia's Cosmopolitan Co-op; Crystal's Dramatic Home in San Francisco.)


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Wearable tech is getting even more creative.
If smartwatches or glasses aren't your thing, how about a wrist band that can control your computer, smartphone apps, or video game console?
That's what the MYO wristband does. It measures electrical activity in your muscles and translates that into directions for your gadgets and apps. This isn't just some pie-in-the-sky idea either. You can pre-order one now for $149.
Take a look at this video of the MYO in action:


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When it is running at its peak, A Newbie's Guide to Publishing gets over 30,000 hits per day.
This traffic means nothing to me personally. I don't care about fame for fame's sake. I don't care about what people think of me. I'm as immune to detractors as I am to those who offer praise, and I get plenty of both. It's nice to be thought of, but that's not what lights my fire.
This traffic means nothing to me financially. The majority of those who read this blog are writers, not fans. Readers don't care about the publishing industry. While I have, on occasion, used this platform to promote a book, it is almost always linked to a point I'm trying to make, an argument I'm trying to present. I don't have paid ads on this blog, or my website. A Newbie's Guide doesn't generate any direct income for me, and any indirect income is unverifiable.
This traffic means nothing to me altruistically. While I know this blog has helped many writers by informing, persuading, and inspiring, it is impossible to be directly connected to that many people. I get dozens of "thank yous" a week. It's flattering, but I stopped taking it personally a long time ago. I don't write this blog to help people, or make the world a better place.
But I do care about traffic. I want as many people to visit this blog as possible. Not for my ego or my bank account. Not for any cause celebre or romantic notions of fighting the system.
This blog exists as a tool to help me learn.
There is a certain amount to be personally gained from writing persuasive essays, from presenting arguments using logic and facts, from sharing information. Doing so helps me improve my debating skills and hone my position and distill my thoughts.
But everything I write is already in my brain. That's not the way to learn. Knowledge comes from seeking outside sources of information, from looking at other points of view, from being forced to defend an argument or position from an attack that hadn't been considered, from changing viewpoints as new information or better logic presents itself.
I go looking for that information. But there's also another way to obtain it. Namely, to host a forum, and let the information come to me in the form of comments.
This blog would not exist without the commentors. And if you're a regular visitor, you know how long these comment threads can go on. How many blogs get 600 comments in a single thread? How many people leave a message saying "I learned just as much from the comments as the post"?
I read every comment. I hardly ever reply to praise, or thanks. But I do reply to those who disagree, who try to disprove whatever point I attempted to make in the blog post. I also respond to whiny, anonymous pinheads.
We'll get back to the pinheads in a moment.
A Newbie's Guide to Publishing allows me to make arguments, then refine them in the comments section. I learn from the comments. I'm made more aware, more knowledgeable, more informed. The commentors make me step up my game, which makes me think harder, which makes me experiment more, which ultimately benefits my career.
When I benefit, other writers seem to benefit. It's a nice, efficient, reciprocal relationship. Everybody wins. Even the pinheads who can't stand me. They get to feel superior and self-righteous, and they come here and take anonymous potshots at me, and then I get to humiliate them, and people come to watch the trainwreck. They form camps, polarize opinions, and discuss the topics here and elsewhere. Some of that discussion trickles back to me. Some of it I benefit from.
Are you getting where I'm going?
I could treat everyone graciously, with respect. I could discuss issues and make arguments without getting personal. I could act like a level-headed adult and never be provocative. I could trade being outspoken for being genteel.
Do you think I'd get as many blog hits? Do you think I'd get as many comments? Do you think the points I make would be as widely discussed and debated if I presented them in a more courteous way?
If so, point to another blog that averages 100 comments per post.
There is a whole sub-section of folks in the entertainment and news-entertainment industries that draw big crowds not only because of what they stand for, but how they say it. Radio shock jocks. Right wing political commentators. Controversial talk show hosts. They biggered their platforms by being opinionated loudmouths who don't care what people think.
Sound familiar?
The more traffic I get, the more comments I get. The more comments I get, the more I learn.
In short, I learn more by calling people pinheads. It attracts a larger crowd, draws more minds to the topics I discuss, and I improve as a result.
People take me to task for tone quite a bit. I see three reasons for this.
1. They can't attack my main arguments, so they have to focus on my attitude.
2. It makes certain people feel morally superior (Perhaps some of them use disrespect as a tool like I do, to learn from it, but I haven't seen any evidence of that.)
3. The targets in many of my blog posts are ignorant, greedy, brainwashed liars who present their poor arguments respectfully. If you are on the side of these pinheads (and therefore are yourself a pinhead) you become defensive when your stupidity is laid bare to the world. Pointing fingers at my tone is a defensive, ad hominem reaction.
While being attacked for my tone is distracting, the distraction is outweighed by the benefits of a larger audience. I don't mind being attacked if it leads to me learning.
Here's a terrific blog post called Tone Argument as Logical Fallacy. I have no idea who this blogger is. They haven't blogged a lot, or in a while. But this is a clear and concise explanation of tone that boils down to this: "I can call you an idiot and 2 + 2 still equals 4."
So why am I blogging about this at all? If I don't care what people think, why do I need to show the world why I do what I do? Why would I inform the pinheads who take me to task for tone that they're helping me out?
Because now, when someone brings up my tone in some discussion, I can simply link to this post. Then, hopefully, we can get over my tone and begin discussing the points I made.
When I debate, I am always as gracious as the person I debate. That may sound incorrect, considering how I skewer people on this blog, but my skewerings are always based upon dismantling an opponent's argument and revealing it to be stupid. If you say something stupid on the Internet, you open yourself up to justifiably being called stupid. But if you want to engage me one-on-one, I'll be as nice as you are, even if you are acting stupid.
My intent is not to convert writers to Joe's Way of Thinking. It's great that a bunch of writers are making money, some for the first time, because of my blog. It's great that more and more writers are realizing how shitty the legacy publishing world is. But those are all secondary benefits to me.
I'm here to learn. And I don't learn from people who agree 100% with everything I say. I learn from those who disagree. Or partly disagree. Every so often some anonymous poster says something that makes me reconsider my views. That's why I allow anonymous posting. Though it is entertaining to bitchslap the offended, which brings more traffic and thus more attention to the issues I present, this blog is not meant to persuade anyone but me.
Could I persuade more people to do what I do if I was nicer? Sure. But how is it in my best interest to persuade more people to do what I do? Wouldn't I learn more from angering the establishment so much they begin working hard to think of ways to prove me wrong?
I am purposefully controversial, intentionally disrespectful, and use tone in a precise, deliberate way that benefits me.
So suck on that, pinheads.
And if you want me to stop saying you're stupid, stop acting stupid. If you really hate me, that's the way to hurt me. If you stop saying and doing stupid things, you'll effectively reduce my audience. Your vocal hate makes me stronger.
But it's my guess you're too stupid to know that.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
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ECHL Game Night: 3-22-13
Florida Everblades 2 vs. Cincinnati Cyclones 6
W Alex Hutchings, FLA: Did not play
Season totals: 40 GP, 14-20-34, E, 30 PIM
D Charles Landry, FLA: 0-0-0, -3, 1 SOG, 0 PIM
Season totals: 46 GP, 4-11-15, +1, 27 PIM
F Maxime Langelier-Parent, FLA: Did not play
Season totals: 3 GP, 2-1-3, -3, 5 PIM
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D Daniel Milan, FLA: Did not play
Season totals: 42 GP, 2-6-8, +5, 56 PIM
D Pat Nagle, FLA: Did not play
Season totals: 31 GP, 14-9-3, 3.02 GAA, 787 S / 882 SA (.904 SV%)
Florida was able to trim a 2-0 deficit late in the second period but Cincinnati responded with another strike before the second intermission and two more goals in the first half of the final frame to put the game out of reach for the hosts. The Everblades outshout the Cyclones 36-28 for the match with the bulk (20) of those chances generated in the second period. With the loss, Florida dropped to fourth-place in the South Division, though it holds three games in hand on Gwinnett and two on both South Carolina and Greenville. Charles Landry was the Lightning's lone prospect in the lineup with Dan Milan a scratch and both Alex Hutchings and Pat Nagle previously recalled to AHL Syracuse. Florida (34-22-11, 79 PTS) and Cincinnati (41-18-8, 90 PTS) take the ice again Saturday night.
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SOCORRO, N.M., May 2, 2003 - David W. Love, Nelia Dunbar, and William C. McIntosh, geologists at the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR), in cooperation with Isleta Pueblo geologists and New Mexico Tech alumni John Sorrell and David Pierce, will present their geoscience research at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Section of the Geological Society of America (GSA). The meeting, hosted by the Department of Geosciences at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, will be held May 7 to 9, with 250 geoscientists in attendance.
The presentation to be given by the New Mexico Tech geologists, titled "Volcanic debris from the Jemez Mountains constrain the age, sediment-source history, and deformation of fluvial facies of the ancestral Rio Grande (upper Santa Fe Group), central Albuquerque Basin, New Mexico," details the stratigraphy of the Rio Grande basin.
The talk will focus on the variety and ages of volcanic materials from the Jemez Mountains, including ash, obsidian, pumice, and rhyolitic tuff, that were transported by the Rio Grande and deposited throughout the Albuquerque Basin.
For more information on the 55th Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Section of the GSA, visit the GSA's website at http://www.geosociety.org/sectdiv/rockymtn/03rmmtg.htm. For more information about the NMBGMR, call (505) 835-5410, or visit the Bureau's website at http://geoinfo.nmt.edu.


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Last month, there was a big scam on Facebook where scammers were spreading a fake Costco gift certificate with the text "Get Costco Gift Card for FREE! (limited time only)". It looks like the scam has started to spread again using "$500 Costco Gift Card", "$100 Applebee's Gift Card Giveaway", "$100 Subway Gift Card", "$1000 Walmart Gift Card", "$50 Walgreens Gift Card", "$50 Grocery Gift Card", "$100 MC Donald's Gift Card" and "$100 KFC Gift Card" among others.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Given the seriousness of the incident that occurred following the conclusion of UC Santa Barbara's men's soccer match on Sunday, the student-athlete involved has been removed from the team, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Mark W. Massari announced Monday. Massari also stated that, regardless of the outcome of Wednesday's game at Sacramento State or Saturday's game at Cal Poly, UCSB will forego any opportunity for postseason play this season. Finally, as head coach, Tim Vom Steeg has been suspended for the game at Sacramento. Assistant coach Greg Wilson will serve as acting head coach.
UCSB athletics administration collaborated with Big West Conference on these actions.
"I hold everyone in our program responsible for representing the University in a positive manner at all times, top-to-bottom," Massari said.
"The Big West Conference regards the sportsmanship of our coaches and student-athletes and the safety of our game officials as the highest of priorities. As such, I fully support the UCSB administration's proactive response to Sunday's unfortunate incident," said Big West Conference Commissioner Dennis Farrell.
By not advancing the postseason, the Gauchos' streak of 10-consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances will end. The 10 appearances included a 2006 National Championship and an appearance in the 2004 College Cup final. In the stands, UCSB has led the nation in attendance each of the last five years and is expected to do so again this season.


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- Wearable gadgets like smart watches are billed as the next big thing in technology
- However, China's tech counterfeiters appear to shun the category
- Business expert Alf Rehn says this is a warning signal for market players
- "Knock offs" act as bellwether for electronics consumption, he says
From futuristic Google Glass headsets to smart watches like Samsung's Galaxy Gear, wearable gadgets are billed as the next big thing in technology.
But China's tech counterfeiters -- notorious for having a nose for what's hot and what's not -- appear for now at least to be giving wearable technology the cold shoulder in what one expert calls a "serious warning signal" for market players.
CNN reporters approached wholesale companies and retailers at one of China's biggest electronics trading districts to learn how the "knock-off" business works.
"There are no copies for sale. Only originals," said the managing director of wholesale company that specializes in mobile electronic devices in Shenzhen, a factory town in China's southern Pearl River Delta region.
"Maybe we'll have them (fakes) in a few months. I don't know, interest is low."
China's thriving market for counterfeit electronic goods has been a headache for global hi-tech firms including Apple, HTC and Samsung, as illegal cut-price copies of much sought after products eat into their profits.
But, one might argue, if there is one thing worse than being copied, that is to be ignored. And that seems to be the case with Samsung's new Galaxy Gear smart watch -- one of the first wearable devices to be made commercially available and as such an indicator for the emerging category.
A visit to the shops of Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei commercial district -- a tightly packed group of malls surrounded by high rises that form the epicenter of China's trade in electronic knock-offs -- suggests demand for Samsung's smart watch is ice-cold.
"You won't find any copies of the smart watch here. I've never seen or heard of any," said a young man who was busy shipping off boxes, that he said were filled with counterfeit mobile phones, at a local logistics center.
"Thinking about it, I've never even seen anyone wear one," he added.
The launch of Samsung's Gear seemed like something of a victory against its big rival Apple, which is rumored to be launching its iWatch sometime this year, but the device was conspicuous by its absence in Huaqiangbei's market halls, logistic companies and workshops.
"I've never seen a knock-off Gear in this whole town," said a young woman working in a shop full of Samsung products. Her shop is one of the few outlets that sell the real Gear but she said "they don't sell well."
"[Counterfeiters] don't care about the Gear as consumer demand is too weak," said another shop assistant in his early twenties, who was selling a number of what he said were real Samsung products, but not the smart watch. "We don't sell it anymore. It was not popular."
Priced at around $300, Chinese consumers find Samsung's new gadget too expensive, he added.
Out of 20 shops visited by CNN, not one sold fake Samsung Gear smart watches and none could offer leads on where to find copies. All these 20 shops sold the smart watch, out of hundreds perhaps thousands, of market booths that didn't sell Samsung's Gear.
However, many of the same shops openly promoted copies of Apple's latest iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy Note III -- models also launched in September -- suggesting the counterfeiters are quick to copy if they see market potential.
Warning signal
The lack of copy versions of the Gear is a "serious warning signal," according to Alf Rehn, a management professor at the Åbo Akademi University in Finland, who has spent years studying the global piracy phenomena.
"Piracy is all about benefiting from buzz -- create something good enough that looks like the real deal, and make money off those who are not willing or able to pay for the authentic item but who still want to be 'with it.'
"Without the buzz, there's no need for the counterfeit, and it seems like Samsung's smart watch hasn't quite gotten the buzz going.
"This doesn't mean that the Galaxy smart watch is a complete bust, rather that it primarily speaks to a small group of gadget enthusiasts who will pay to get the real deal, rather than to the mass market.
"So this isn't necessarily a disaster for Samsung, but definitively a serious warning signal as the Shenzhen crowd is the bellwether for electronics consumption."
It's not uncommon for top-selling products to be on the market before launch of the original; there were pirated iPhone-lookalikes on the market months before the first iPhone launched, Rehn added.
Likewise, unpopular products are unceremoniously dropped by pirates who simply cannot afford to get stuck with the inventory; there are stories about how new Nokia models basically were discontinued by counterfeiters before the genuine article even made it to market, according to Rehn.
"This is a warp-speed market economy, where every product faces an 'up or out' decision on a daily basis. Competition is brutal," he added.
In an email to CNN, Samsung said that Galaxy Gear received "positive consumer feedback globally" and that 800,000 units were sold in the first two months after its release.
However, Samsung's head of Open Innovation Center, David Eun, told a conference in November that the Gear is still a "small green tomato" that has not yet matured into something special.
China's pirate community seems to agree.


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Fox News' Karl Rove Problem In A Nutshell
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It's becoming increasingly clear that Fox News' employment of a "political analyst" who doubles as an adviser to a GOP super PAC is a major ethical problem.
During a regular Fox News appearance last month, Karl Rove -- who cofounded the GOP super PAC American Crossroads -- launched a series of attacks on Democratic senate candidate Bob Kerrey. Rove's attacks directly echoed ads his super PAC had been airing in Nebraska against Kerrey, but Rove did not disclose Crossroads' heavy investment in the race to Fox viewers.
Rove, the longtime George W. Bush advisor turned Fox News analyst and Wall Street Journal columnist, helped cofound the American Crossroads in 2010. After being active in the 2010 midterms, Crossroads has devoted itself to defeating Obama and helping Republicans in various congressional races in 2012. Rove clearly sees his role as a media figure as a means to help achieve Crossroads' goals.
Last month, Greta Van Susteren hosted Rove on her Fox News program to discuss the then-upcoming Wisconsin recall election. To her credit, at the start of the segment, Van Susteren asked Rove to disclose a potential conflict of interest, saying that Crossroads "makes contributions to different issues around the country. Just so that we're absolutely clear, you're here as a Fox analyst. But do you have any money in this race at all, in this recall race?" Rove assured Van Susteren that while he had personally donated to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Crossroads was not involved in the race.
A few minutes later, the conversation shifted to the GOP primary in the Nebraska senate race. Van Susteren did not pause again to ask Rove if Crossroads had money invested in the race (which it does), and Rove certainly didn't volunteer the information, even though he had been asked earlier in the segment about a possible Crossroads conflict of interest. Rove then used the opportunity to trash Bob Kerrey, the Democratic candidate in that race, while lauding Deb Fischer, the winner of the GOP primary.
Rove described Fischer as a "terrific general election candidate" and a "great addition to the" U.S. senate. Citing "some pals out there," Rove said that she is known by local state senators as "effective, tough, smart, easy to get along with, really focused on her job," and "a really fine person."
After Van Susteren noted that Kerrey is a "war hero" who is "very popular in the state," Rove quickly pivoted to attacking Kerrey for leaving Nebraska and "living in New York City and contemplating a run for mayor." According to Rove, "that's not a way to get ahead in Nebraska politics, by moving to the big city and turning your back on the folks back home."
Rove's attack on Kerrey moving to New York and supposedly "turning [his] back on the folks back home" echoes Crossroads' attack line against Kerrey. In January, Crossroads announced a $30,000 statewide radio ad campaign targeting "carpetbagger Bob Kerrey" for having lived in New York City. The ad, just like Rove did on Fox, mocks Kerrey's flirtation with a run for mayor of that city. (Attacks on Kerrey for having moved to New York City continue to be a staple of Crossroads' ads focused on the Nebraska Senate race.)
Though Crossroads only made a statewide ad buy in Nebraska, thanks to Rove's platform on Fox, he was able to take the ad's attacks national without Crossroads having to spend a dime (actually, he was technically being paid to do so).
Previously, Fox News has aggressively promoted ads from American Crossroads targeting president Obama, often without noting Rove's connection to either Crossroads or the network.
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Graphics Trends is a shop that has earned its stripes by servicing the most demanding of clients. Find out how this graphics printer combines the latest technologies and a drive to satisfy in order to remain a leader in a high-stakes market.
By Lori Leaman
Printing grand-format graphics and promotional pieces for the entertainment and transit markets can be very demanding and challenging, especially in southern California, where competition is abundant and high-tech equipment is the norm for most graphics-printing operations. It takes a no-holds-barred way of thinking to compete in a market like that. Read on to discover how Paramount, CAbased Graphic Trends mixed a gung-ho attitude with investments in advanced technology to keep its screen-printing and digital-imaging business several steps ahead of the other players in the area.
A quick entry into screen printing
Kieu Tran, a graphic designer and graphic artist, founded Graphic Trends in 1982. He ran the one-man operation, which offered a variety of graphic-design services exclusively, until one day his best customer walked into the shop and asked Kieu if he could screen print signage. "Sure!" Kieu replied. And with a can-do spirit—but no screen-printing equipment on hand—Kieu immediately went out and purchased his first press, an M&M single-color clamshell. He then had to hire someone to help him screen print the signage. Kieu and his company were officially in the business of screen printing.
One year later, the two-man operation moved into a 1500-sq-ft building located across the street from Kieu's home. Graphic Trends continued to grow, expanding its list of clients, job orders, and staff to support the increase in work. In 1993, the company moved into a 12,000-sq-ft facility and added an American Husky 52 x 80-in. press and a gas dryer. A few years later, Graphic Trends added 60-in. x 23-ft and 60-in. x 18-ft UV dryers. The company beefed up its prepress operations with the addition of a Sefar 92 x 160-in. screen stretcher in 1999.
By 2000, Graphic Trends had grown to a staff of 40 employees with an equipment line that included two M&M single-color presses, an American Husky press, a Sakurai 33 x 44-in. press, an M&R long-stroke, and three M&R Patriots. Later that year, Graphic Trends added an M&R five-color inline system, an OYO Liberator XR 5400, and more space to its facility, which brought the building size to 20,500 sq ft.
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