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Big Rapids, Mich. - The Ferris State University men's and women's tennis teams returned back to action on Tuesday (March 11) against highly-regarded Valdosta State (Va.) in non-league action, but both teams suffered setbacks at the VSU Tennis Courts in Valdosta, Ga.
The Bulldog men's team dropped an 8-1 decision against the nationally 14th-ranked Blazers while the women's squad fell 9-0 to 20th-ranked VSU in afternoon action.
In the men's match, the Bulldogs picked up their lone win of the day at the number one singles flight as Laurent Galarneau recorded a 6-0, 6-3 triumph for FSU. However, Valdosta State swept the doubles round and took the bottom five singles positions to earn the triumph.
Meanwhile, the Blazers recorded the sweep on the women's side with all six singles wins coming in straight-sets. FSU's number two doubles tandem of Janie Sell and Sydney Berens narrowly fell 9-8 (7-4) for the closest match of the women's contest.
Both Ferris State teams continue their spring break trip on Wednesday (March 12) as they face Flagler in non-conference action at St. Augustine, Fla. The men's match will get underway at 10 a.m. (ET) with the women's tilt to follow at approximately 3 p.m. (ET).
Complete results of both matches can be found below:
MEN'S MATCH - #14 VSU Men's Tennis 8, Ferris State 1
Mar 11, 2014 at Valdosta, Ga. (VSU Tennis Courts)
|Singles competition
|1. Laurent Galarneau (FS) def. Francisco Yim Kim (VSUMT) 6-0, 6-3
|2. Mario Navarro Bayo (VSUMT) def. Aaron Dial (FS) 6-0, 6-0
|3. Joachim Schemm (VSUMT) def. Laurent Mailloux (FS) 6-1, 6-2
|4. Gereon Heitmann (VSUMT) def. Otto Keresztes (FS) 6-4, 6-3
|5. Niklas Herbring (VSUMT) def. Jose Calero (FS) 6-3, 6-3
|6. Sebastian Jasyk (VSUMT) def. A Giacomazzi Serafim (FS) 6-1, 6-2
|Doubles competition
|1. Francisco Yim Kim/Niklas Herbring (VSUMT) def. Laurent Galarneau/Aaron Dial (FS) 8-4
|2. Mario Navarro Bayo/Sebastian Jasyk (VSUMT) def. Otto Keresztes/Laurent Mailloux (FS) 9-7
|3. Joachim Schemm/Gereon Heitmann (VSUMT) def. Jose Calero/Will Huntington (FS) 8-4
WOMEN'S MATCH - #20 Valdosta State 9, Ferris State 0
Mar 11, 2014 at Valdosta, Ga. (VSU Tennis Courts)
|Singles competition
|1. Michelle Fischer (VSUWT) def. Ana Jan (FSW) 6-3, 6-2
|2. Laura Ubeda (VSUWT) def. Gabrielle Demchenko (FSW) 6-0, 6-0
|3. Jennifer Rink (VSUWT) def. Janie Sell (FSW) 6-1, 6-0
|4. Sabrina Schmidt (VSUWT) def. Sydney Berens (FSW) 6-1, 6-1
|5. Julianna Boehm (VSUWT) def. Rebecca Beloungea (FSW) 6-0, 6-0
|6. Joanna Lario (VSUWT) def. Anne Smudz (FSW) 6-1, 6-0
|Doubles competition
|1. Michelle Fischer/Sabrina Schmidt (VSUWT) def. Ana Jan/Gabrielle Demchenko (FSW) 8-1
|2. Jessica Tuggle/Moriah Hibbard (VSUWT) def. Janie Sell/Sydney Berens (FSW) 9-8 (7-4)
|3. Laura Ubeda/Julianna Boehm (VSUWT) def. Rebecca Beloungea/Anne Smudz (FSW) 8-0


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On Tuesday night, young Melbourne supporter (and kayaking buddy) Verity Thompson sent me a link through Facebook messenger, to the website of Chemist Warehouse, which featured a disembodied 'virgin pussy' – a replica vagina of a young girl with 'realistic hymen' just waiting for a man to 'pop'. Many people send me links to horrible things most days and while I (and Collective Shout) don't have the resources to action everything, this product demanded a response. I shared with my activist colleagues and, within hours of us taking to social media about it, the product was removed from Chemist Warehouse's site. While this once again demonstrates the power of collective action, we have to ask: why did Chemist Warehouse think this product was OK for them to flog in the first place? Where are its corporate ethics? And where is the Pharmacy Guild in all of this?
Here's how News.com, Daily Mail and Smart Company reported on our win.
Chemist Warehouse pulls Virgin Pussy Palm Pal 'realistic hymen' sex toy from its website after backlash
Campaign group Collective Shout slammed the retailer for stocking the product.
"Since when have chemists become defacto sex shops? Chemists are supposed to be selling products with medicinal and health benefits, not promoting pedofilic fantasies and eroticising young girls for profit," Melinda Tankard Reist, co-founder of Collective Shout, told news.com.au.
Ms Tankard Reist said she had seen similar sex toys before, including a "Lolita Teenage Vibrating Vagina" and "realistic" sex dolls made to look like nine-year-olds, but never at a chemist.
"We see a lot of horrible things in our line of work as you can imagine, but this is incredible. For a company that might want to be seen as having corporate social responsibility, this seems like a radical departure," she said.
"Don't they care about the wellbeing of girls in the community? Why would they want to contribute to these fantasies of young girls existing to be 'popped' or 'deflowered'?"
'You are encouraging rape culture and paedophilia': Chemist Warehouse comes under fire for selling 'virgin' sex toy
Chemist Warehouse removes virgin sex toys following social media backlash and activist campaign
Caitlin Roper from Collective Shout told SmartCompany this morning the product sexualises girls and was clearly inappropriate for a chemist to be selling.
"We come across some pretty awful things in the course of some of our other campaigns, but I think with this one I was really genuinely surprised to see this item sold by a chemist under the guise of sexual health," Roper says.
"I thought, what does aiding men in their sexual fantasies for children have to do with their health or wellbeing? We have campaigns to shed light on this epidemic on child sex abuse in schools and churches, but as a culture we continue to sexualise girls and present them as sexually appealing and even available."
See also: 'Child sexual abuse thrives in a culture that eroticises it', MTR, Sydney Morning Herald

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One Fort Smith resident predicted that everyone will be "green" and wearing a smile Saturday in downtown Fort Smith.
The 2014 Garrison Avenue Pub Crawl will be held from 5 p.m. to midnight Saturday, March 15 at participating downtown bars and restaurants and is expected to draw the interest of thousands of local residents and out-of-town visitors alike, said Bill Neumeier, owner of Papa's Pub & Pizzaria.
Venues participating in the 22nd annual event include Papa's, Varsity Sports Grill, Webby D's, Bravo Italian Restaurant, Arlie Muck's Tavern, Kinkead's, Old Town Grain & Feed Co., Hero's Food and Spirits, Rooster's Bar and Grill, R. Landry's New Orleans Cafe and La Huerta Mexican Restaurant, among others, he said.
"It's going to be a really fun thing to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, with Cadillac Jackson playing at 7 p.m. at Webby D's," Neumeier said. "We also have Arlie Muck participating for the first time this year, so it's going to be something new and better."
Participating venues will sell commemorative cups for $5, which allows the cup holder to purchase $2 22-ounce drafts, he said. The event, which is held to provide participants with a "fun" evening while simultaneously promoting the downtown Fort Smith area, will include various other food and drink specials, Neumeier said.
"People will see an Irish band and maybe a leprechaun on Bravo's patio, and a lot of other venues will be doing their own thing for this, as well," he said.
"And it's fun because we get a lot of traffic from Fayetteville," Neumeier added. "This is Fort Smith's Pub Crawl – and great St. Patrick's celebration – and it's good that we get a lot of people from out of town to join us. It's going to be a fun time that people definitely won't want to miss."
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Sandré R. Swanson served three successful terms as a Member of the California State Assembly. He was the Chair of the Assembly Labor & Employment Committee and was a vocal advocate for growing the middle class with sustainable jobs. Mr. Swanson also served on the Assembly Budget Committee, Sub-committee on Education Finance; Assembly Committee
on Utilities and Commerce and was the Speaker's Appointee to the State Workforce Investment Board.
Mr. Swanson is passionate about the plight of troubled and at-risk youth.
As Chair of the Assembly Select Committee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color, his committee's work is widely used by the State today in its strategies for assisting young people. As a result of this work, in 2014 Mr. Swanson was invited to the White House by President Barack Obama and was requested to participate in the President's "My Brothers Keepers " initiatives.
During his tenure in the Assembly, Mr. Swanson passed landmark legislation dealing with the atrocities of human trafficking—which he calls "modern day slavery." His legislative work assisted with the development of programs for job training, housing and counseling for the victims of human trafficking—some as young as 12 years old. Several of his laws are prominently referenced on the California Attorney General's web site. District Attorney offices are using these laws across our State to successfully prosecute human trafficking criminals in California today.
Following his work in the legislature, Mr. Swanson served as Deputy Mayor for the city of Oakland, California.
He worked successfully on growing the City's economy by developing small businesses and jobs. Before his election to the California State Assembly, Mr. Swanson served five years as Chief of Staff for Congresswoman Barbara Lee. Before that, he worked for 25 years as the District Director and Senior Policy Advisor for Congressman Ronald V. Dellums. He also served as Chair of the Alameda County Employee's Retirement Association, Chair of the Oakland Civil Service Commission, and Chair of the Oakland Re-Use and Redevelopment Authority.
Early key endorsements of his campaign for the California Senate include key legislators currently representing the people of the 9th Senate district. They include the incumbent, Senator Loni Hancock, Assemblymember Rob Bonta, Assemblymember Tony Thurman and his campaigns Honorary Chair, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and more.
Mr. Swanson is a native of Oakland he and his wife Anita have four children and five grandchildren.


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Algae doesn't need to be the bane of your existence. The simplest way to get rid of algae is never to get it in the first place. If you maintain the appropriate free chlorine (FC) level at all times, algae will never be able to get started.
The earlier you catch algae, the easier it is to get rid of. When algae is just starting, the water will have a dull appearance and the FC level will start falling more quickly than usual. If you catch algae at this point, it usually only takes a single application of chlorine to wipe it out.
Once you have a serious algae problem, there are two crucial things to understand about getting rid of it. First, algae is constantly growing. If you skip a day before you have gotten rid of it all, it starts growing right back. Skip a couple of days, and any time and chemicals you invested up to that point will be wasted.
When you first start fighting algae, it is a race: you need to kill the algae faster than it grows back. The earlier you catch an algae bloom, the easier it will be to kill. Or, if the algae is already well established, the harder you hit it at the beginning, the faster the entire process will go. Once you have algae on the ropes, things get a lot easier. At the end, you need to be thorough to make sure you got it all.
Second, the FC level you need to target depends on the cyanuric acid (CYA) level. The higher your CYA level the more FC it is going to take. If you don't have any idea of your CYA level, you risk either not using enough chlorine, and failing to get rid of the algae, or using too much chlorine, and causing metal corrosion and shortening the life of your vinyl liner (if you have one). If your CYA level is too low, most of your chlorine will be lost to sunlight, instead of fighting algae. If your CYA level is too high, you will need huge amounts of chlorine, which rapidly becomes impractical.
Fighting Algae:
- Make sure you have enough chlorine on hand and enough time to get a good start on killing the algae. It is best to use either bleach or liquid chlorine.
- SLAM your pool; see SLAMing Your Pool for details. Try to do the first several cycles of testing FC and adding chlorine to shock level at hourly intervals, so you get a good start on killing the algae.
- While SLAMing, brush the entire pool every day.
- Monitor the filter and backwash/clean it as needed. DE filters are most likely to require frequent attention.
Once the algae is dead it will often turn gray or milky white. It can still take the filter a week, or more, to clear up the water from this point. You should see a visible improvement in the water each day. If you don't see a daily improvement, the algae might not all really be dead, or there might be a problem with your filter.
Algaecides rarely help and often cause problems. Copper based algaecides can cause unsightly copper stains that are difficult to remove, and can turn blond hair green. Linear quat based algaecides can cause foaming and bad smells. Polyquat based algaecides can be used as a preventive measure, but are ineffective at fighting algae once you have it. Polyquat is particularly useful when you are unable to maintain the FC level, such as over the winter or during an ascorbic acid treatment.
Reducing the phosphate level can help prevent algae. However, maintaining the proper FC level, which you really ought to be doing anyway, works just as well and costs far less. Don't be misled by aggressive sales tactics into buying an expensive phosphate treatment that you don't need.
For a more thorough write up on fighting algae, and directions on dealing with a pool that has been abandoned for some time, see Turning Your Green Swamp Back into a Sparking Oasis. To learn about adding borates to your water to help prevent algae see So you want to add borates to your pool–Why and How.


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Countdown to Care: Winners and Losers
By Elaine Ryan , June 26, 2013 06:54 PM
In the mad rush to pass budgets for the fiscal year beginning July 1, the health care of hundreds of thousands of hard-working Americans is at stake - and time is running out. As I write, only about half of the states have agreed to expand Medicaid, which will extend health coverage to residents who earn about $15,000 a year or less. The closer we come to July 1, the greater the wins and harder the losses:
Key Winners:
- 300,000 hard-working Arizonans will now have access to health care through the state's AHCCCS (Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System) program. Just last week, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer won approval for her Medicaid Restoration effort. AARP Arizona praised the governor and the coalition of bipartisan legislators who voted in favor of restoring Medicaid, saying, "With the expansion of Arizona's AHCCCS program, these Arizonans will now be able to get the care they need, it will keep our rural hospitals open and also avoid overcrowding in our hospital emergency rooms."
- Millions of low-income Californians will have access to the health coverage they need, including 395,000 50 to 64-year-olds. Lawmakers in California wrapped up their budget prior to a June 15 deadline, and sent it to Gov. Jerry Brown with expansion of the state's Medi-Cal program. AARP California commended state leaders, saying, "This landmark legislation will provide millions of low-income Californians with the health coverage they need. It will help 50 to 64-year-olds who have lost their jobs, are struggling to find new ones and can't get affordable health care."
- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie included Medicaid expansion in his budget, and the state legislature included it in the version they passed this week. Nearly 270,000 New Jersey residents will now be eligible to receive health coverage.
The tough political environment surrounding health care reform has hampered Medicaid expansion in some states as they wrap up their budgets.
The Losers:
- Lawmakers in 16 states have said they will not expand Medicaid, meaning more than 6 million Americans who would be eligible for health coverage cannot get it. Those states are: Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Undecided include:
- 400,000 hard-working men and women of Michigan are counting on Gov. Rick Snyder and the state legislature. The Michigan State Senate adjourned without voting on a Medicaid expansion bill that passed the House earlier in June. Gov. Snyder called on the Senate to "take a vote, not a vacation."
- 500,000 Ohioans are waiting to see if the state legislature will pass Medicaid expansion. Ohio Gov. John Kasich strongly supports extending health coverage to residents who make about $15,000 a year or less.
- While Gov. Tom Corbett initially opposed Medicaid expansion in Pennsylvania, his administration has been holding talks with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. AARP Pennsylvania has urged the state legislature to support Medicaid expansion. Nearly 500,000 Pennsylvanians could be eligible for health care under Medicaid expansion.
To stay up-to-date on our Medicaid expansion campaign, sign up for the AARP Advocate newsletter or visit your state web page. We'll be reporting more on those Undecided states in the weeks and months to come!


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This isn't the first time that the block association's office, located at 84-20 Jamaica Avenue, has been hit with tickets and fines for garbage that had been dumped in front the building.
"It's kind of an ongoing battle," said association president Ed Wendell.
Wendell, only half-jokingly, said that DSNY want's proof that the garbage did not belong to the block association after the "evidence" had already been removed.
"These tickets were written in the middle of night," he said. "You don't even have a chance to see the garbage."
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio wrote a letter on behalf of the block association requesting that DSNY look into the incidents, as well as a change the policy.
"It is my understanding that there are rules regarding when a property owner can be ticketed for failure to shovel snow in front of their property, such as not being required to shovel snow from a snowfall that stopped after 9 p.m. the night before," the public advocate's letter read. "I ask that DSNY create similar rules regarding when property owners can be fined for garbage improperly disposed of, so that people are not given tickets unfairly."
Following the letter, the block association received a phone call from DSNY asking how they would be able to remedy the ongoing issues.
Councilman Eric Ulrich spoke about creating legislation that would put an end to these types of practices.
"When we find loopholes in the law," Ulrich said, "that the city uses to nickel and dime residents and small business, we have to close those loopholes, that we eliminate them all together."
The councilmember noted a law that states DSNY can only give out tickets to homeowners two hours during the day, and the community has to be notified of those. However, the same doesn't apply to commercial properties.
"In this instance they are saying that 1, 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning is when they were giving out those tickets and that is unacceptable," said Ulrich.
"Small businessmen and women on Jamaica Avenue, on Myrtle Avenue, on Woodhaven Boulevard, they cannot be held responsible for maintaining the front of their property when they're not there in the middle of the night," he added.
Ulrich said he believes small business owners should keep their portion of the community clean, but that the current policy is unfair.
"We will be introducing legislation that holds the Department of Sanitation as accountable as it does for homeowners," he said. "We're going to make sure that they do that for businesses as well. We are going to change the law. I promise you that."


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Highlander Festival
Kelso Highlander Festival
Saturday, September 14th & Sunday September 15th
Tam O'Shanter Park
Kelso, WA 98626
When: September 2019
Experience a whole weekend of Scottish & Celtic culture, with the Avenue of Clans, Scottish craft & food vendors, Scottish music & dancing, as well as Highland Games.
At beautiful Tam O'Shanter Park on Saturday, September 8th, 2018 the festivities begin, starting at 7:00 am with a Fun Run/Walk 5K road race. The Sons of Norway Hall in Kelso is holding a Norwegian Waffle and Pancake Breakfast on Saturday only. Please join us there for breakfast before heading over to the park. At 9:00 am the Highland Dance Competition, Silent Auction and Highland Games begin. At 10:00 am please join us for the annual Highlander Festival Parade. Also beginning at 10:00 am join us for the Kelso Garden Club Flower Show . At 12:30 the Opening Ceremonies & Parade of Clans begins on the field. The Silent Auction ends at 4:00. The entertainment continues all day Saturday with music by: Men of Worth, Rogues End, and pipe bands from Ft. Vancouver and Clan Gordon. This is located under the covered area.
There will not be a baking contest this year. Thank you to all past judges and contestants for entering your baked goods and making it a success for so many years.
At 8:00 AM please join us for the Kirkin' of the Tartan Worship Service at Tam O'Shanter Park and again at 10:00 AM at the Kelso Methodist Presbyterian Church in Kelso at 206 Cowlitz Way. There will be a special tea reception following the Kirkin' at 11:00 in the Fellowship Hall. There will be bagpipers and a Highland Dancer performing.
The Highland Games will begin at the park at 9:00 AM with those hardy lads and lasses tossing the caber and throwing the stone. There will be entertainment in the afternoon at the park with the Wicked Tinkers, and Men of Worth.
The Kilted Classic Golf Tournament starts with registration at 8:00 AM at the Longview Country Club. Contact Mike Fowler 360-749-4925
The Kelso Rotary will be holding their Annual Duck Race in the afternoon raising money for charities and scholarships.
Get your Highlander Festival Buttons, on sale July 5th, for only $1.00 each and you could win many prizes which have been donated from various merchants in Kelso.


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There are lots (lots being relative since the whooping crane world is actually fairly small) of facilities, teams, and organizations that work with whooping cranes as well as terms specific to whooping crane projects and it's not always easy to keep them all straight. Having been a part of the whooping crane world for so many years I tend to speak and write using abbreviations and acronyms for these different organizations and terms. However since not everyone else knows what they mean I thought it would be helpful to write a little guide or dictionary of sorts. Also that way, in future updates that I write I'll feel okay about using these abbreviations and not confusing people.
WC = Whooping Crane(s)
LDWF = Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries – lead agency responsible for current whooping crane reintroduction effort in the state of Louisiana.
LA = Louisiana – the actual state or reference to WC chicks being raised for the purpose of eventually being transferred and released in LA.
WLWCA = White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area – LDWF owned and managed property, current location of release site for reintroduced WCs.
WCRT or RT = (International) Whooping Crane Recovery Team - "Responsible for making recommendations on what is needed to be done for the species to recover. This international team consists of 5 representatives from Canada and 5 from the U.S. appointed by the Canadian Wildlife Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, respectively. The team is co-chaired by the whooping crane coordinators of the two countries. In 1995, the separate recovery teams from both countries were joined as an international team. This makes sense since only with actions carried out cooperatively in both countries can the species recover. A Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of the Whooping Crane governs recovery actions that are outlined in a recovery plan written by the team." (http://www.bringbackthecranes.org/whoweare/index.html, International Whooping Crane Recovery Team Fact Sheet)
"The Team is responsible for providing policy recommendations to the Regional Directors of both agencies and writing the plan to recover the species. Its primary goals are to take action to fully protect the Aransas/Wood Buffalo natural flock, and to establish two additional flocks in order to remove the species from the Endangered Species Act." (http://www.bringbackthecranes.org/whoweare/powerofpartnerships.html)
USFWS or FWS = United States Fish & Wildlife Service or Fish & Wildlife Service – " 'The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's mission is, working with others, to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife, and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.' We are the only agency of the U.S. Government with that primary mission. The Service helps protect a healthy environment for people, fish and wildlife, and helps Americans conserve and enjoy the outdoors and our living treasures. The Service's major responsibilities are for migratory birds, endangered species, certain marine mammals, and freshwater and anadromous fish." (http://www.bringbackthecranes.org/whoweare/index.html, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Fact Sheet)
AWBP/Aransas = Aransas Wood Buffalo Population – the one truly wild population of whooping cranes. These birds breed in the Wood Buffalo National Park in the Northwest Territories of Canada and migrate south to the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge on the gulf coast of TX to spend the winter. Once down to 15 birds in the winter of 1941-42, all WCs that are alive today are descended from those 15 birds.
NWR = National Wildlife Refuge, as in Aransas NWR, Necedah NWR, Chassahowitzka NWR, or St. Marks NWR
ESA = Endangered Species Act – WCs were listed as threatened with extinction in 1967 and by 1970 endangered. Both listings were "grandfathered" into the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 (International Recovery Plan, 2007).
NEP = Non-essential, experimental population – also known as the 10j rule. In 1982 this amendment to the ESA was created to allow an endangered species to be reintroduced without the full legal restriction of the ESA in order to encourage landowner support. This designation allows more flexibility by not impacting the land management ability of private landowners. All current WC reintroductions operate under this rule, only the AWBP WCs are considered fully endangered.
PWRC = (USGS) Patuxent Wildlife Research Center – largest captive whooping crane facility, and one of the five captive breeding facilities, located in Laurel, MD. This is where the chicks for the LA reintroduction are hatched and raised.
ICF = International Crane Foundation – second largest captive whooping crane facility and also one of the five captive breeding facilities, located in Baraboo, WI. This is where I worked for almost 12 years and where I learned all about WCs.
WCEP = Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership – made up of nine founding partners (federal, state, and non-profit) with the goal of reintroducing and establishing an eastern migratory population (EMP) of whooping cranes. Within WCEP there are currently two different release techniques:
DAR = Direct Autumn Release – Technique started by the FWS and ICF in 2005. Whooping crane
chicks are hatched and raised at ICF using the costume/isolation rearing technique. After six-eight
weeks the chicks are transferred to a field facility where they continue to be reared before being
released in the fall/autumn with older previously released WCs from whom they learn how to
migrate south.
UL = Ultralight – The technique of teaching and training WC chicks to follow and fly behind an
ultralight airplane in order to teach them a migration route from central WI to the gulf coast of FL.
Birds released using this technique are often referred to as UL birds or UL WCs. These chicks are
initially hatched and raised at PWRC before being transferred to a field site in WI for continued
training prior to being led on their first fall migration.
EMP = Eastern Migratory Population – refers to birds/population associated with WCEP, birds in that project are reintroduced into the eastern US and are taught or learn to migrate.
NMP = Non-Migratory Population – refers to a population of birds that do not migrate – they live year round in a particular area, as in the FL NMP reintroduction project and the current LA NMP reintroduction project.
Calgary = Calgary Zoo but more specifically the Devonian Wildlife Conservation Center (DVCC) and the Nat Christie Foundation Whooping Crane Breeding Facility also known at the Zoo Ranch, located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Calgary Zoo has a pair of WCs on display but the DVCC/Zoo Ranch is a separate private/off-exhibit area where additional pairs of whooping cranes live and breed. This facility is one of the five captive breeding facilities and is the third largest. Calgary ships their whooping crane eggs into the US – to PWRC or ICF, so they can be incorporated into one of the two current reintroduction projects.
ACRES and SSC = Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species and Species Survival Center – "The mission of Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species and Freeport-McMoRan Audubon Species Survival Center is to safeguard endangered animals for future generations through innovative scientific programs that accelerate reproduction and preserve the earth's genetic heritage. Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species, which opened in 1996, is a facility of Audubon Nature Institute." (http://www.auduboninstitute.org/conservation/saving-species/research-center)
Similar to Calgary there is a display pair of WCs at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans but ACRES/SSC also located in New Orleans is a separate private breeding area, part of which is dedicated to housing and breeding WCs, making them the forth captive breeding facility.
SA = San Antonio Zoo – the fifth and final and currently the smallest captive whooping crane breeding facility located in San Antonio, TX.
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This website started as a partnership in 1997 between Ian Kemp and Kevin Tiller. Between 2000-2005 it had been operated by Kevin Tiller (Ian Kemp moved to New Zealand and started [http://www.coolrunning.co.nz CoolRunning New Zealand]). Since 16th December 2005 it has become a non-profit incorporated association - '''CoolRunning Australia Inc'''. See our [http://www.coolrunning.com.au/nonprofit/cr-incorporated.jpg certificate of registration]. (Find out [http://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/
This website started as a partnership in 1997 between Ian Kemp and Kevin Tiller. Between 2000-2005 it had been operated by Kevin Tiller (Ian Kemp moved to New Zealand and started [http://www.coolrunning.co.nz CoolRunning New Zealand]). Since 16th December 2005 it has become a non-profit incorporated association - '''CoolRunning Australia Inc'''. See our [http://www.coolrunning.com.au/nonprofit/cr-incorporated.jpg certificate of registration]. (Find out [http://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au//.html more about incorporated associations here]).
As such we aim to be transparently organised and [[CoolRunning Policies and Reports | make all policies available for public scrutiny]].
As such we aim to be transparently organised and [[CoolRunning Policies and Reports | make all policies available for public scrutiny]].
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About CoolRunning
The main purpose of CoolRunning is to provide the sort of information that grassroots runners would want from a running web site in Australia : the latest race calendar, race results, news articles, contact details for every running club, links to other running web pages, and a place to meet and discuss with other runners.
We tend to specialise in the "Fun Run" scene - 10kms, Half-Marathons, Marathons, Little Athletics, but we do cover some track and field and ultramarathon running is well represented too. We want a site that is National rather than being based in any one town or on any one running discipline. However the emphasis is clearly on Australian running.
We want a web site where you can find out all the information you need as quickly and easily as possible - that way you can get what you want and then get back out there and do some of your own running ! The key aspect of any web site, is of course, relvance and timeliness and you'll find that more often than not, CoolRunning is updated on a daily basis.
We have built this site very carefully to ensure that the pages load as quickly as possible on the vast majority of web browsers that are in use today. We purposely require no additional browser plug-ins and do not use frames or rely on excessive use of graphics.
We are independently owned and are therefore free to bring you information from an un-biased perspective. The costs for the site are paid by hosting web pages for running clubs or running races and advertising.
Sure, there are sites about running written by journalists, and unfortunately there are running sites built by people who know nothing about running. However, within the small CoolRunning team we run or organise and help at races every weekend of the year or we are on the committees of running clubs and of course, we run every day ourselves.
We built CoolRunning because its the type of web site we want to read ourselves !
Feel free to Help Make CoolRunning Better.
CoolRunning Organisation
This website started as a partnership in 1997 between Ian Kemp and Kevin Tiller. Between 2000-2005 it had been operated by Kevin Tiller (Ian Kemp moved to New Zealand and started CoolRunning New Zealand). Since 16th December 2005 it has become a non-profit incorporated association - CoolRunning Australia Inc. See our certificate of registration. (Find out more about incorporated associations here).
As such we aim to be transparently organised and make all policies available for public scrutiny.
Current committee
- President: JoggerKev
- Secretary: Don Juan
- Treasurer: Moondust
- Ordinary Members: Sook54, Ellie80, Action
- See our contact details here.
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- Various CoolRunning Policies, Reports & Procedures
We welcome any comments or suggestions - please contact us.
Historical background
by Kevin Tiller
1995 (and before)
Prior to 1995, the World Wide Web was quite a new phenomenon, mainly limited to the computer and scientific fields. But the Web flourished during the year, mainly among computer professionals who were dabbling in their part-time hobbies. Towards the end of the year, two fledgling web sites were created : one for the Australian Running Calendar (started by Ian Kemp from Wollongong) and the other was for the first running club to have their own web page, the Sydney Striders (by Kevin Tiller, Sydney). We were both employed in the IT industry and started looking for other running web sites in Australia, but didn't find any.
Another person was looking for Australian running web sites was Kevin Molloy, an IT professional originally from Sydney, but now located in Boston, USA. He found Kevin and Ian's sites but could see that Australia was far behind the US as there were no others, and certainly no nationally-focussed site like Coolrunning USA. In March, he came to visit his family in Australia. Kevin Molloy was an old work mate of Merri Mack, who was best friends with Wendy Downes, then-President of the Sydney Striders. Wendy, Merri and Kevin Molloy came to Kevin Tiller's house one Sunday afternoon to have a chat (Wendy and Merri had barely even seen the Striders site before - all very new technology). Kevin Molloy was very animated in explaining about this great web site he had started with a mate : CoolRunning. He suggested I do something like that in Australia. It sounded great but I was too busy with my own projects : the Striders site, and had recently added a new one for the Australian Ultra Runners Association.
As the year progressed, both mine and Ian's sites became more advanced and competant looking, as everyone was quickly learning about this new medium. In fact, more Australian Running web sites were being launched, not really in droves, more like dribs and drabs.
By the start of 1997, there were many more sites but these were either dedicated to individual running clubs or are purely local/regional in content. It was obvious that there needed to be a good web site that catered for all runners as a whole, and was nationwide in scope - this would clearly entail a lot of work for somebody.
Kevin Molloy was coming back again to visit his family and discussions had started up again for a CoolRunning Australia. It was obvious that 1997 would be the year that somebody somewhere would get the energy to start a nationwide site. I guess the competitive juices started flowing and I was growing to like the idea that I could do this thing.
When Kevin Molloy was in Sydney we discussed a lot of options, but it was fundamental that the site needed a good calendar - but that was already being done excellently by Ian Kemp, down near Wollongong. We decided to ask Ian to let us host his site as part of CoolRunning. When Kevin Molloy explained the concept, Ian liked the idea and said that he would like to be a co-partner.
The original plan, agreed in a Sydney pub at the Rocks in March 1997, was to launch a bare-bones site in August. We would be like a "sister" site to the US version, loosely based on the same principles and often sharing ideas or computer code, but still separate entities in their own right. If you have browsed the web much, you will see a lot of content from America, and we don't need to replicate that here in Australia, we want our own Australian version !
Anyway, there was a flurry of activity and the site was launched on 16th April 1997, way ahead of schedule. (We don't have a screenshot of the site from the first day, the oldest one we have is from 8th January 1998)
During 1997 and 1998, both Kevin Tiller and Ian Kemp managed CoolRunning - Ian's speciality being the calendar and a small group of Little Aths websites that he was maintaining. Kevin managed "design" issues and other features. More often than not, Ian was the driving force behind the website as Kevin's day job kept him overly occupied. However during 1999 Ian moved to New Zealand with his family and then started CoolRunning New Zealand.
By 2000, Ian was too busy to help out on CoolRunning Australia so by default the site became solely managed by Kevin Tiller, who's day job was still keeping the site operating on a bare bones level. If truth be told, he received many more kicks in the rear than pats on the back for his efforts, and even considered quitting CoolRunning to work on other running projects.
Gradually, Kevin became more organised and committed to CoolRunning Australia and finally stumped up some money on a good MessageBoard system in August 2001 after 2 or 3 less than successful attempts. Having the latest threads display on the homepage seemed to work well and traffic to the site started to balloon - possibly helped by the wider spread of the web and email. Also, he started to use Blogger in July 2001, a new software application to make frequent postings and archives very easy to do, and he started to post news items to the homepage on a much more frequent basis.
CoolRunning was becoming increasing popular, and Kevin started to commit serious amounts of time on the site, and gradually felt the tide was turning - more people were appreciative of the site than not, and coverage of news, calendar started to improve. Other people became interested in helping out. The first "helpers" were recruited to work as moderators of the MessageBoards : Action and Pastyboy, followed soon after by Tim.
During 2003 CoolRunning seemed to be growing more and more popular - could there possibly be a committed runner in Australia who hadn't heard of the website ? It seemed unlikely. After much discussion, and design, CoolRunning brought out a series of running gear so that other CoolRunners could spot each other at races - this seemed to increase even quicker the number of runners flocking to the site
The website grew apace and was continuing to add new sections, the Australian Running Guide being one of them, and helping to encourge DIY journalism with the blogging craze. There was a great community spirit developing amongst the runners.
During the tail end of 2004 and into 2005, the inevitable happened : how could one person be solely responsible for a website that had grown so large, whilst still holding on to a full time job, a family with 3 small kids plus one big mortgage, and still call himself a runner ? Kevin made an announcement in April and followed up with part 2 in November titled End of an Era @ CoolRunning, that after much thinking, CoolRunning should be managed as an incorporated association, a non-profit making entity - and the effort shared by a group of runners with the same aims in mind. At this time also, the CoolRunning calendar was upgraded to use the software developed by Mick Corlis of the Australian Mountain Runners Association, using a database and making it a lot easier to edit and update and make different views of the data (there are approx 50 people that can make changes to the calendar now, some who events have to be approved, but also many trusted users that can add and modify events directly).
CoolRunning has proceeded as a non-profit organisation with a barebones commitee in place, trying to put some support structure in place. Combined with our helpdesk ticketing system, the aim is to reduce a dependency on any single person - so that Coolrunning can keep going into the future with a revolving stream of volunteers, keeping the site operational on a daily basis.
16 April 2007 was CoolRunning Australia's 10th birthday, see the CoolRunning's 10th Year Retrospective article.
The Future
What lies ahead in the CoolRunning story ? Stay tuned in the coming years to find out !


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Physics, University of California at Los Angeles , 1990
Physics, University of Virginia, Graduated Summa Cum Laude, 1983
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Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy. Iowa State University, 2006-present
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Faculty Improvement Leave in Grenoble, France as Researcher in C.E.A. and Adjunct Professor in University of Grenoble, 1999-2000
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ACC Weekly Five: 07.02.12 EditionPosted by KCarpenter on July 2nd, 2012
- ESPN: Rodney Hood, the impressive freshman guard from Mississippi State, has made his decision. Hood is going to be a Blue Devil, helping to ensure that the reliably-loaded Duke backcourt remains one of the conference's best for years to come. As a transfer, Hood will sit out the coming year, but he will have three years of eligibility after that. It's a great pick up and the latest salvo that shows that Duke will continue to be a potential destination for discontented guards across the country (cf. Seth Curry).
- News & Observer: North Carolina State has named its first Hall of Fame class. While the Hall is designed to honor collegiate athletes and coaches from many different programs at NC State, basketball is certainly given its due in this inaugural class. Legendary coaches Everett Case and Jim Valvano are to be honored along with the greatest ACC basketball player of all time, David Thompson. NC State's women's basketball program will also have two inductees, longtime coach Kay Yow and the program's all-time leader in points and rebounds, Genia Beasley. It's a good start to enshrining the traditions of one of the most storied basketball programs in college basketball.
- CBS Sports: The Virginia Cavaliers struck decisively to win a recruiting battle early. Devon Hall, a four-star point guard in the 2014 high school class, has not only committed to Virginia but he has also reclassified to the class of 2013. The Cavaliers could certainly use some help at this position and Hall looks like the kind of player who could potentially contribute as soon as he sets foot on campus.
- Charlotte Observer: Former ACC players did well in the NBA draft last Thursday, with eight players selected across the two rounds. North Carolina had four first round picks led by Harrison Barnes, while Duke's Austin Rivers and Miles Plumlee were also selected in the first round. One of the finest moments in the draft came with the rousing applause and standing ovation when Florida State's Bernard James was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers (though a trade with Dallas actually will see James with the Mavericks in exchange for Tyler Zeller going to Cleveland). Meanwhile, Mike Scott's selection by the Atlanta Hawks may go down as one of the savviest value picks of the draft. Of the notable ACC players who went undrafted, the conference's leading scorer, Terrell Stoglin from Maryland, didn't hear his name called on Thursday night. Stoglin had a number of pre-draft workouts with NBA teams and it seems likely he will get invited to one or more training camps, though that likely doesn't lessen the sting.
- News & Observer: Lorenzo Brown's knee surgery apparently went well. His medical team repaired a partially torn right meniscus and Brown is only expected to miss between two to four weeks, though head coach Mark Gottfried stressed that they are in no hurry to get Brown back on the court before he has had a chance to fully heal. Considering how scary the phrase "knee surgery" can be in college basketball, this is nothing but good news for Brown and North Carolina State.


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TAUNTON — As the year's overdose statistics hit home last month, community leaders convened a public forum to ask why this is happening in the Silver City. As the numbers continue to climb, many are still asking what can be done to stop the growing plague of addiction.
The numbers are clear. Fatal and non-fatal overdoses in Taunton have skyrocketed this year. The totals for the first three months of 2014 now resemble the totals from all of the previous year.
Since that citywide forum, the rate of overdoses in the city has not waned and elected officials like Taunton Mayor Thomas Hoye Jr. — just back from Washington where he lobbied for increased resources to address the problem — don't see an immediate solution.
"There is no quick fix," said Hoye, adding that the state is heading in the right direction by expanding substance abuse services. "It's an issue that just affects so many families. It's an issue that certainly they are losing sleep over during the last several weeks."
The latest available figures on overdoses in Taunton showed that heroin has claimed nine lives in the city in less than three months.
In this city of around 56,000 residents, there have been 132 heroin-related overdoses reported to police in 2014.
Hoye said it's become obvious that a potent strain of heroin laced with the narcotic pain reliever fentanyl being sold across Southeastern Massachusetts is contributing to the high overdose numbers.
"Unfortunately, it's resulted in many deaths," said Hoye, adding that it's heartbreaking to read recent stories about young people's overdose deaths.
Hoye offered condolences to the families involved.
Taunton police Chief Edward Walsh said the city's 2014 overdose statistics tower over similar periods of times from previous years.
Walsh said the city's preexisting heroin and opiate addiction problem has been exacerbated by the fentanyl-cut heroin.
Walsh also said that, for whatever reason, the heroin in Taunton is sold at very cheap prices. He said that a "hit," or small bag of heroin, now goes for around $4 and that he often hears dealers give away quite a bit free to get users hooked.
"I think there is a high demand," Walsh said. "I think the number of heroin users has remained somewhat consistent in last couple years. I don't think there has been great increase per se. I think there has always been high level of opiate abuse here. A lot of factors contribute to that."
Walsh said part of the equation is that the entire concept of hard drugs in Taunton changed during the last 10 years.
"We used to deal with crack cocaine mostly, and heroin was a fringe drug," he said. "Some people used heroin, but they were the hardcore druggies."
Walsh said the increased use of the "highly addictive" pharmaceutical painkiller oxycodone during the last decade in the city has often led users in Taunton to the cheaper, more powerful breed of heroin available on the streets.
Taunton has also attracted heroin buyers from throughout New England. A report released in 2010, in the wake of a multi-agency drug investigation called Operation Diesel, revealed that a group of men drove from Vermont to Taunton to pick up cheap, potent heroin at the former Fairfax Gardens public housing development.
Walsh said that his department often finds dealers from outside the city. He said accessible transportation routes, including Route 24 and Interstate 495, may play a role, but he believes it is more related to the low cost, ample supply and high demand created by addicts who already live here.
"We found out that Taunton was a regional center for distribution of heroin," Walsh said. "Sometimes people were taking it back to their own communities to sell it. We found also heroin distribution is very diffused in Taunton. ... Junkies sometimes will buy a 'finger,' or large quantity of heroin, and go back to sell it friends."
Walsh said that Operation Diesel disrupted that distribution of heroin in Taunton temporarily, resulting in 60 arrests, but that other suppliers soon filled the void to meet the demand in the city.
Walsh said while Taunton has its heroin problem, the city's upfront approach to handling the issue this year might make it appear worse than it is.
"It's happening in other communities, maybe even worse, but people aren't discussing it," he said.
Walsh also said that the preconceived notions about the city's heroin users are often wrong.
"Today's users aren't the people who you think they are," said Walsh, explaining that not all heroin addicts are homeless or unemployed. "Heroin users are your next-door neighbors."
A Marine veteran and Taunton native, James Cohn was 30 when he died of a heroin overdose on Feb. 4, according to his younger brother Darrell Cohn.
He said James was found dead in Fall River after an apparent heroin overdose.
"I say starting point must have been over-medication," Cohn said. "He got hurt a couple of times. ... Apparently it led to heroin. For an addict, it's very easy to go from painkillers to heroin."
He said his family was grateful to everyone who reached out to them after his brother's death. He explained his thoughts on why heroin may seem like an appealing option for users, linking it to the hopelessness he associates with a depressed economy.
Cohn said the lack of readily available jobs in the Taunton area leaves some people looking to escape a bleak reality by using hard drugs.
"Basically, with an addict, it doesn't matter what programs you put in place, they have to want to help themselves," Cohn said, adding that part of his brother's problem was landing a job after getting in trouble with the law. "People, when in social despair, turn to vices or escapes."


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How well do you know the Code? Think you can spot violations the original installer either ignored or couldn't identify? Here's your chance to moonlight as an electrical inspector and second-guess someone else's work from the safety of your living room or office. Joe, who has a knack for finding shoddy electrical work, did the dirty work and found this mess. Now it's your turn to identify the violation.
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As defined in Art. 100, festoon lighting is "A string of outdoor lights that is suspended between two points." Because this particular installation was set up for a street festival, we can cite a violation of the rule in 590.4(F), which states, "All lamps for general illumination shall be protected from accidental contact or breakage by a suitable luminaire or lampholder with a guard. Brass shell, paper-lined sockets, or other metal-cased sockets shall not be used unless the shell is grounded." We can clearly see that these lamps are unprotected and would drop glass directly on anyone that was standing under them if they were to break.
Now, let's turn our attention to the conductors. Although it's too hard to see in this photo, there might also be a violation associated with the conductors used here. As noted in 225.24, "Where outdoor lampholders are attached to pendants, the connections to the circuit wires shall be staggered. Where such lampholders have terminals of a type that puncture the insulation and make contact with the conductors, they shall be attached only to conductors of the stranded type." If these conductors were of the solid type, then this rule would be violated.
One other rule to keep in mind on conductor covering is 225.4. This rule states, "Conductors for festoon lighting shall be of the rubber-covered or thermoplastic type." However, there is an exception to this rule, which states, "Equipment grounding conductors and grounded circuit conductors shall be permitted to be bare or covered as specifically permitted elsewhere in this Code."


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Editor's note: HOT ROD staffer Thom Taylor is a renowned designer of custom hot rods. He prefers to keep a low profile, but I asked him to write this story from the unique perspective of a guy who dreamed up a car from scratch, then watched as it became reality. —DF
If you want to design cars, and your talent, drive, and sense of humor are sufficient to get you into design school, instructors will warn you that the opportunity to design an entire car—as you see it in your mind—will not happen. There are myriad obstacles that wedge themselves into the process of creating a car, whether it be a one-off, such as Ashley Webb Taulbert's roadster before you, or a car to be mass produced. The list of obstacles could fill an issue of HOT ROD.
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The obstacles should have been exponentially compounded with the three knuckleheads involved in the process of creating this car—all stubborn and cock-sure, with Ashley's father, Dan, leading the parade. Dan Webb has built numerous cars over the years, including the Ridler Award winner for 1991, his '32 highboy roadster. He's notable in Detroit for the cutaway engines, cars, and components he creates for Ford Motor Co., working at his home shop in Burton, Michigan, with his right-hand man Tracey Aitken. He can be difficult. I've seen him be difficult—I mean in your face, off-the-wall difficult—but he and I just seem to click. He's one of those souls, like the late hot rod artist Dave Bell, who maintains a huge mental library of jokes, delivered at will. Always entertaining, Dan's one of the most talented people I have met in a life full of meeting talented people.
The same holds true for the second guy, metal fabricator Craig Naff, though his personality is the complete opposite of Dan's. Able to form sheetmetal or aluminum and make it look like it was stamped, he quietly works away in his home shop in Woodstock, Virginia, perfecting whatever it is he's laboring over. He came to prominence doing the stitch-and-fab rolling sculpture that is CadZZilla, but he's done too many other cars over the years to count, including one of the Great Eight contenders at the Detroit Autorama just last year.
And then there's me. I don't have to delve into my dysfunctional background, because I'm writing this. Plus, my shrink says I can't possibly get ahead in life unless I believe I am perfectly awesome.
Dan drove and coordinated this exercise from the beginning. First, he had the money and expertise to fabricate most of what you see. Second, he knew what he wanted to a certain degree, and if he didn't know, he knew where to find it. And lastly, he had the personality and fortitude to see it through to completion—something not everybody possesses. Think about all of those stalled projects you know about collecting dust in garages and shops. Completing the buildup of anything can be a big deal.
Dan and I talk often on the phone, and over the years have marveled over Indy car and engine designer Harry Miller's output of amazing race cars in the early 20th century. In our minds, Miller has never been matched in machining skills and component designs, especially with his race cars. We wondered what Miller would be up to if he were alive today, and what he'd build if he were into hot rods.
Doing a hot rod the way we imagined Miller would was the underlying thread in this project. It would have to include some aspect of the distinctive Miller nose, but also needed the look of a track roadster amped up on amphetamines. Early sketches were just too far out for Dan, but as a designer, I will sometimes start at the whacked-out range of the spectrum and work my way back to some form of reality.
One element Dan likes and wanted to see as part of the design is the upper part of a '32 Ford roadster, and how it ties into the doors. I decided to take that literally and imagined a fabricator using the cowl, doors, and quarters from a '32 roadster as a start. If you look at the finished car, you can see the majority of the doors and cowl look like they came right off a Deuce roadster, though Dan created these from 18-gauge flat sheetmetal. With the '32 elements and the Miller-esque grille dictating the design, and knowing that Dan wanted a track roadster–looking car, I started to visually fill in the blanks.
The taper in the frame is exaggerated, as are the tires and wheels. We knew we wanted 20-inch wheels for the rear to get the satirized rake, and we both chose a rather arbitrary 100 inches for the wheelbase, which in my scale drawings was shortened to 98 inches, ultimately ending up back to 100 inches for the final version. The hood length would be more than enough to accommodate the four-banger Dan had in mind for a motor.
It took relatively few revisions of the sketch before we hit on a direction, and a final rendering showing the car in black was drawn—then it was on to the scale drawings. I have found over the years that, while there are many designers plying their trade, few have the ability to take a design and put it into four views with sections drawn every foot or so, giving the metal fabricator a guide from which to work. Without that, a completely scratch-built body can turn into a disaster. I have been involved with numerous projects in which there was neither the time nor the money for this step, and for the most part I haven't been happy with the outcome—and for some I won't even take the credit/blame. When you have people as talented as Dan and Craig turning your vision into a reality, it's best to give them as much information as you can—and the best information, in my estimation, is that four-view scale drawing. A car owner might spend what could be in the millions of dollars to see a design become reality, so detailed drawings ensure there can be no deviation. If it's a lower-priced project—like this particular roadster—there may not be funds to fly the designer back and forth to check on the shapes during the buildup, so with the four-view details, the designer is really on the sidelines once the drawings are completed.
Once Dan was happy with the design, we had the scale drawings blown up and he began fabricating the frame on his frame table. Having the wheels and tires, engine, and dimensions gives a basic framework to work around, requiring little guesswork for the end product. It's a shame that the body can't be easily removed to display the frame—it's a piece of art unto itself. Tapered crossmembers feature belled lightening holes. The rails were made of 0.090-inch chrome-moly plate, all TIG-welded.
With paper drawings, the next step would usually be to create a section buck over which the body maker starts hammering sheetmetal. With digital, it's even easier to get your sections with the output tied into a cutter that precisely follows the digitally drawn sections, even notching them for attachment to a spine or central backbone. I wasn't doing that back in the early 2000s when this project was first started, but have relied on it in recent times.
For this project, Dan didn't use a buck. With the body mimicking the characteristics of a '32 Ford so closely, and with the full-scale drawings, Dan started working metal to form the cowl, then the doors, and ultimately the floor and trans tunnel. His tools of the trade include a planishing hammer, Pullmax, English wheel, and a lot of cursing. Once the main body was created it was attached to the frame and shipped off to Craig for the hood, seats, and forming of the rear section—which Dan welded and finished due to time constraints with the '05 SEMA Show fast approaching and Ford having a space reserved in its booth for the car.
Craig also created the nose in stainless steel plated in polished nickel. Dan and Craig told everyone it was "German silver" because it is virtually impossible to form real German silver to the extent that was necessary to create the nose, and so they wanted to jerk around some of the other body builders and fab guys. It's a fabricator thing, I guess. Additionally, he whittled the flowing windshield posts exactly as I drew them.
For go, Dan wanted the smallest four-banger he could find—one that would look like something from Harry Miller's shop today. He stumbled across a Zakspeed 2.3L collecting dust in a friend's shop. These started life in '80s T-Birds here, and Merkurs in Europe. The forged pistons were machined with valve reliefs for the Zakspeed twin-cam head. It was a work of art, but this engine had seen better days. As Dan describes it, "Tortured to death—a real piece of junk." Yet he liked how exotic and compact it looked, deciding it would look better if he spun the head 180 degrees to get the exhaust on the passenger side. So now the intake ports house the exhaust valves, with the intake-valve pockets sleeved for the exhaust valves. Says Dan, "It sounds difficult and we expected it to be, but it was so easy we thought we made a mistake."
<img src="http://enthusiastnetwork.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/sites/21/2013/01/hrdp-1302-07-dirty-secrets-of-car-design-ford-zakspeed-ford-four-cylinder.jpg" alt="04. The Ford Zakspeed 2.3L Ford four-cylinder is rated at 400 hp. The cam cover, pulleys, and miscellaneous brackets were all machined by Webb. Different finishes include gun bluing and assorted shades of black anodizing—notice that none of the finishes are polished aluminum or chrome, a pleasant departure." class="wp-image-358691″ />
Compression is 12.5:1, the cams are reversed side to side, and it will easily spin to 7,500 rpm. The induction is a one-off EFI set up by FAST. Dan converted the engine to a dry sump utilizing a Peterson oil pump to lose height, allowing it to sit low in the saddle. He machined the new pan and also the cam covers with bucket actuators. Horsepower is right at 400. "It sounds like an angry mosquito," Dan says with a laugh. Also note the XRP hoses and fittings, "just like the IndyCars use."
The transmission is a Tremec T-5, directing power to a one-off quickchange Dan designed on CAD before Tribal Motor Works machined it from billet aluminum. Strange floating axles are attached to floating hubs machined by Dan. Brakes are twin Strange calipers gripping 14-inch rotors from JMA Tool. Hand-made friction shocks dampen the corners. A Top Fuel dragster rack-and-pinion unit handles steering.
Is this thing cartoony? Sure! Is that what we wanted? You betcha! Is it polarizing? I'm not sure, but what I know is that the designs I have done over the years that satisfy me the most tend to be polarizing. I get more enjoyment over people's reactions when they are strong one way or the other. I'm not insulted if somebody doesn't like something I've designed—it's not a verdict about me—it's just how the car strikes him or her.
And what about Ashley, the recipient of the roadster? She's grown up around Philistines like myself all of her life. As Dan says, "She's got a lot of car-uncles." A single dad, for better or worse Dan's dragged Ashley to every car show with every car-dude he knows since Ashley was a small child. "She's always been involved with what I've done, and all I've done is cars," says Dan unapologetically. She knows everyone in the hot rod world and has an eye for what's good and what's not. Continues Dan, "I kept her involved throughout the build. She wrenched on the car and rubbed out parts. I feel it gave her value seeing something go from nothing to something." Ashley recently married GM Engineer Corey Taulbert, and they finished his '32 high boy in time for their honeymoon. Corey's got a tough road ahead as Ashley's "car uncles" are poised if he makes a wrong move with her.
I finished the rendering of Ashley's roadster right before visiting an ailing Gray Baskerville, and brought a copy with me to leave with him so he could give me his thoughts the next time I saw him. He loved it and said it should get built. Unfortunately we never got that second together as he died a week later. I think it meant a lot to both Dan and Ashley that Gray was as enthusiastic as he was about the car. That's the other buzz about designing cars—bringing a little pleasure and entertainment to others who enjoy cars as much as we all do.
Second Opinion: Mike Ring of Ring Bros.
"We've never built hot rods—they all look the same to us, you know, different colors and different wheels. For me old cars just don't stand out. When we first saw Ashley's roadster at the SEMA Show we didn't know Dan or Ashley Webb. But seeing this car we really took notice. I couldn't relate it to anything I had seen before—it was simple yet cool. It was so clean—there's no frills. Like the grille or the windshield posts, being handmade and all, I thought it was amazing. The whole car is amazing.
"Later, when I met Dan, I was surprised that he didn't put himself on a pedestal. You can tell one of his cars—the cars he builds are the cars he builds—they have his certain style to them. We are all attracted to certain cars, and for Dan he brings his unique spin on them. The difference between Dan and other builders is that he can do it without customers—he's building these cars for himself so he builds what he wants."
Third Opinion: Troy Trepanier, Rad Rods by Troy
"I first met Dan in 1992 at Cobo Hall at the Autorama. He's done more SEMA projects for Ford than just about anybody—besides all of the cutaway engines and components. Actually, he does a little bit of everything at his shop in Michigan. We're always kidding each other—we have the same type of personality. One year he presented me with a ribbon—for 14th place!
"The thing I respect most about Dan is not his car building, though it's amazing, but how he's raised a smart, personable and respected daughter. We need that in this industry. He's kept her involved. We don't talk much about cars when we get together; we talk about our kids because I have three. People see the car stuff but don't see the personal side. He's done a great job of splitting two worlds—he's maintained a good leg in the industry while raising a great kid.
"The styling of his cars is just bitchin'. What he's doing with cars like the Golden Submarine where he's reimagining history is cool, along with re-creating history with cars like the [So-Cal] streamliner and the Remington Lakester. As builders we want to create our own history, so it's cool that he's re-creating old history while doing his own stuff. I have had the pleasure of hanging out with Alex Xydias, and we were at a book signing once and he was really excited about the streamliner Dan was re-creating. I think it's all bitchin'."
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BEAULAVILLE -- A house in the 1100 block of Haw Branch Road was completely destroyed after a fire started in the roof area of the structure.
"The call was dispatched to fire departments around approximately 12:30 a.m.," Onslow County Fire Marshal Brian Kelly said.
The homeowner, his girlfriend and her two children were in the house when the fire started, according to the fire marshal.
"No one was injured in the fire," he said. "The occupants noticed the fire and evacuated the house. They had attempted to extinguish it but were unsuccessful."
Kelly said the house was a total loss. "The fire started in the roof area. It was accidental in nature. There was no foul play, it was not intentionally set."
Back Swamp, Fountain Town, Nine Mile and Richlands fire departments responded to the scene.
When fire crews arrived, flames and smoke were visible on the outside of the house, according to Kelly.
"Basically, the fire had broken through the roof. It had been burning for some time in the attic area and vented itself."
Fire crews were on scene until approximately 6 a.m. "With it being in the attic, there were some hotspots that were troublesome to put out," Kelly said.
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Coco�s Mexican Restaurant is in the shopping complex just west of Walmart in Destin, between Bealls department store and Radio Shack.
DESTIN � Coco�s Mexican Restaurant is in the shopping complex just west of Walmart in Destin, between Bealls department store and Radio Shack.
The food
Coco�s opens bright and early each morning for breakfast, offering eggs, omelets, breakfast sandwiches and burritos as well as fruit plates and pancakes.
If your taste runs to something a bit more international, give the huevos rancheros a try.
Lunch at Coco�s begins with a big basket of warm tortilla chips and a bowl of very good salsa. The salsa does have a bit of heat, but it�s just right with the salty taste of the tortilla chips.
There are 13 items offered on the lunch menu. My guest chose the shrimp chimichanga.
A large flour tortilla was filled with grilled shrimp and fried to a crispy brown. It was served with rice, beans and a guacamole salad and sour cream.
The chimichanga is also offered with steak, shredded beef or chicken as well as with grilled chicken.
My choice was the beef supreme burrito. This burrito is topped with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream and guacamole.
The meat was well seasoned and the combination of tastes with the addition of rice and beans was very good.
Other items offered at lunch include tacos, chalupas, enchiladas, huevos rancheros, taco salad, fajitas, quesadillas, nachos as well as chilaquiles and carne asada.
Appetizers offered with dinner service include several bean and cheese dips, guacamole, cheese sticks and stuffed jalapenos.
In addition to many of the items offered at lunch, dinner entrees include chile relleno and several other salad and seafood dishes.
If your taste runs toward vegetarian dishes, Coco�s offers vegetarian burritos, fajitas and quesadillas.
The children�s menu includes tacos, burritos, enchiladas and quesadillas. If your child prefers, Coco�s also offers chicken fingers and fries.
Coco�s offers Pepsi products as well as domestic (Miller and Budweiser) and Mexican beer (Bohemia, Corona, Modelo, Pacifico Clara, Tecate, Dos Equis), wine by the glass and margaritas on the rocks or frozen.
The atmosphere
Coco�s is painted a bright, vibrant green with dark wood tables and chairs and Mexican d�cor on the walls.
It is not a large space.
There are six four-person tables, one six-person table and four bar stools.
Nevertheless, there is sufficient space between tables to maintain a conversation.
There is background music that adds to the sense of privacy.
The service
Service at Coco�s was friendly, helpful and attentive, but not intrusive.
A final taste
If you�re looking for good Mexican food at reasonable prices, check out Coco�s Mexican Restaurant for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Coco�s Mexican Restaurant
14091 Emerald Coast Parkway, Unit C
7 a.m. � 9 p.m. daily
Breakfast 7 � 11 a.m.
Lunch 11 a.m. � 2 p.m.
Dinner 2 � 9 p.m.
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Handicap accessibility
Children's menu
Price range
Appetizers $3.25 - $12.50
Salads $4.25 - $8.99
Entrees $7.95 - $14.95
Breakfast $4.99 - $7.25
Lunch $6.95 - $11.95
Children's entrees $3.99
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Over the years The Bulletin of Popular Information became less of a seasonal guide as longer articles by staff and contributing writers were added and frequency of publication was reduced. In 1941, Arboretum director Elmer Drew Merrill changed the publication's somewhat cumbersome title to the simpler Arnoldia, the name which has stood for 70 years. Now a quarterly magazine, Arnoldia contains articles on a wide range of topics including botany, horticulture, ecology and conservation, plant exploration, and landscape history. Arnoldia also reports on the growth and development of the Arboretum's collections, including ongoing research and plant introductions, and provides profiles of interesting, unusual, and historically important plants. Both The Bulletin of Popular Information and Arnoldia are available to browse and search online as digitized files.
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