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Defender Rio Ferdinand will leave Manchester United this summer after 12 years at the club.
Ferdinand has lost his place in the United first team over the last couple of years due to a series of injuries and because of the emergence of Phil Jones, Jonny Evans and Chris Smalling.
Ferdinand's contract expires this summer and he has revealed he will not be signing an extension.
The 35-year-old former England captain will therefore leave Old Trafford although he has no desire to retire and is now looking for a new club.
In a statement on his website, Ferdinand said: "I have thought long and hard over the last few months about my future, and after 12 fantastic years playing for what I regard as the best club in the world, I have decided the time is right for me to move on."
Ferdinand moved to Old Trafford from Leeds in July 2002 for a then British record transfer fee of £29.1million, which also made him the world's most expensive defender.
He won the Premier League title in his first season at the club and went on to lift the trophy five more times in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2013.
Ferdinand also won the Champions League in 2008 as the Reds beat Chelsea on penalties in the final in Moscow, as well as two League Cups and a Club World Cup.
His statement continued: "I joined Manchester United in the hope of winning trophies, and never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined how successful we would be during my time here.
"There have been so many highlights, playing alongside some great players who have become good friends, winning my first Premier League title and also that fantastic night in Moscow are memories that I will cherish forever.
"Circumstances didn't allow for me to say goodbye the way I would have liked but I'd like to take this opportunity to thank my team-mates, staff, the club and the fans for an unbelievable 12 years that I'll never forget. Winning trophies I dreamed about as a kid came true at this great club.
"I am feeling fit and healthy, ready for a new challenge and looking forward to whatever the future holds for me."
Ferdinand made 454 appearances for Manchester United and earned 81 caps for England before announcing his international retirement in May last year.
His partnership with Nemanja Vidic was integral to the Reds' title-winning teams in 2007, 2008 and 2009 and both were named in the PFA Team of the Year at the end of each campaign.
Ferdinand signed a one-year extension to his contract this time last year but has found first-team opportunities harder to come by this season, making just 14 Premier League appearances.
The decision to let Ferdinand go ignores the advice of interim manager Ryan Giggs, who insisted earlier this month the defender could still make a useful contribution and should be offered a new deal.
There were no hard feelings, however, as United said on their official Twitter account: "#mufc would like to thank Rio Ferdinand for his long and distinguished service, and wish him well for the future."
Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville reacted to the news of Ferdinand's departure on Twitter.
He said: "So it looks like Rio and Vida allowed to leave at once!!! A conveyor belt has become a cliff!"
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Body parts from more than 1,000 wild tigers have been seized over the past decade, crimes that are adding to the extinction crisis faced by the species whose numbers are estimated at around just 3,200 worldwide, a wildlife monitoring network reported Tuesday.
"Parts of between 1,069 and 1,220 tigers were seized in 11 of the 13 tiger range countries — or an average of 104 to 119 animals per year," TRAFFIC said in a report ahead of an international meeting later this month to protect the species.
India was highest on the list, followed by China and Nepal.
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"Given half the world's tigers live in India, it's no real surprise the country has the highest number of seizures," report author Pauline Verheij said in a statement.
"With parts of potentially more than 100 wild Tigers actually seized each year," she added, "one can only speculate what the true numbers of animals are being plundered."
Tiger smuggling ranges from from complete skins, skeletons and even whole animals — live and dead — to bones, meat, claws, teeth, skulls, penises and other body parts, TRAFFIC said. The parts are used by various cultures for decoration, in traditional medicines and even as good luck charms.
"Clearly enforcement efforts to date are either ineffective or an insufficient deterrent," stated Mike Baltzer, leader of WWF's Tigers Alive initiative.
"Not only must the risk of getting caught increase significantly, but seizures and arrests must also be followed up by swift prosecution and adequate sentencing," he said.
Besides poaching, the other main pressure on tigers is habitat loss.
Some 100,000 tigers are thought to have been around a century ago, TRAFFIC said.
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Another amazing shoot with Macklemore! Goes without saying, but The Source Man of the Year cover is a pretty big issue in the hip hop industry. I'm so happy for Macklemore and all the amazing things that have happened this past year for him and Ryan Lewis. The first portrait shoot I did with the guys was 2 days before The Heist came out. This shoot was just two days after The Heist World Tour came to an end, and that really put it in perspective for me just how far these guys have come in such a short period of time. Although, that's not really accounting for the years of hard work they put in before the world started paying attention. Well deserved if you ask me. Now go get em at the Grammy's!
Below are some of my favorite images from this shoot as well as some fun behind the scenes pictures. We have a behind the scenes video in the works as well, so stay tuned for that. Enjoy!
And that's a wrap. Thanks to my great crew for making this big production come together so smoothly. I think we wrapped around 1:30 am, but everyone hung in there tough. Behind the scenes pictures by the wonderful Olivia Lazer. Makeup by Katya Gudaeva. Styling by Cara Aeschliman. Production by Taylor Reed and Pat Vong. Retouching by Gigantic Squid. Assisting by Gregg White. And thanks Macklemore for the hat!


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Fact check: Measuring Merkley's record
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THE RACE: U.S. Senate
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An ad from a Koch-backed group labels Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley an ineffective leader because he "wrote only one bill that became law" in six years. This kind of claim is an attack ad staple, but it betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the ways of Congress.
First-term senators, like Merkley, typically get their names on very few bills that stand a chance of becoming law, and even then, the bills usually are relatively minor.
By the ad's measuring stick, virtually every senator who came into office at the same time as Merkley has been a slacker. Two senators have had two sponsored bills each that became law. Merkley was one of four who had one. Four of the senators — including the only two Republicans who took office that year — have had none.The claim also ignores proposed bills that Merkley sponsored that didn't pass as stand-alone legislation but were incorporated into larger bills. And it overlooks a number of amendments that Merkley proposed that ended up being part of bills that ultimately passed.
Freedom Partners, a conservative group that has current and former Koch Industries officials on its board, has invested heavily in the Oregon Senate race, which pits the incumbent, Merkley, against the Republican challenger, pediatric neurosurgeon Monica Wehby. The ad is part of a reported $3.6 million ad campaign from Freedom Partners in Oregon. The election is on Nov. 4.
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"We work hard," the narrator in the Freedom Partners ad begins. "We deserve leaders who work just as hard for us. But Sen. Jeff Merkley? In six years, Merkley wrote only one bill that became law. Just one."
That one bill was the relatively obscure S. 1448. Introduced by Merkley in July 2009, it sought to authorize a handful of Oregon Indian tribes to obtain a 99-year lease for trust land. The bill was described by tribal attorney Brett Kenney as a noncontroversial proposal that didn't appear to have any legislative detractors. It passed the House and Senate unanimously and was signed into law by President Obama in late 2010.
American Enterprise Institute scholar Norman J. Ornstein warned, however, that measuring a first-term senator's record based solely on a count of sponsored legislation that became law is fundamentally flawed.
Most bills that pass are sponsored by committee chairs or the committee's ranking member of the minority party, Ornstein explained, or sometimes subcommittee chairs. Those positions are largely based on seniority. Merkley currently chairs two subcommittees, the Senate Banking Committee's Subcommittee on Economic Policy and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's Green Jobs and the New Economy Subcommittee. But he wasn't appointed to either position until February 2013.
Unless you are a committee chairman or the committee's ranking member of the minority party (currently Republicans in the Senate), Ornstein told us, you are unlikely to have your name attached to a bill, unless it is a minor bill. The statistics back him up. Of the 37 Senate bills that have been signed into law in 2013 and 2014, 23 were sponsored by either a committee chair or ranking member of the committee. The rest were sponsored by subcommittee chairs or ranking members of subcommittees, or by the Senate majority or minority leaders.
In the backup material Freedom Partners supplied to us for the ad, the group noted that when Merkley came into office, Democrats controlled the White House and both chambers of Congress, and had a supermajority in the Senate. They also noted that Oregon's senior senator, Democrat Ron Wyden, authored and passed six bills during Merkley's tenure. That's true, but it only serves to reinforce Ornstein's point. Wyden has been in the Senate since 1996 and has much more seniority than Merkley. Wyden currently chairs the Senate Committee on Finance.
We looked at the legislative record of all 10 senators who, like Merkley, came into office in January 2009. Two of them, Democratic Sens. Tom Udall of New Mexico and Mark Warner of Virginia, have had two sponsored bills become law. Four, including Merkley, had one. And four others — including the only two Republicans to take office at that time — have had none.
Since taking office, Merkley has sponsored 227 bills, amendments and resolutions. That ranks him fourth among the 10 senators who took office in January 2009, based on our analysis. Merkley ranks in the middle of the pack with regard to the number of pieces of sponsored legislation that got committee consideration, floor consideration or passed one chamber of government.
But Ornstein warns that those types of quantitative measures can be misleading.
"This is in no way an effective way to measure the effectiveness of a senator," Ornstein said. Having only a small number of laws with your name on them "doesn't mean you are not having an impact on legislation or the legislative process."
For example, he said, Sen. Al Franken's name isn't on the Affordable Care Act, but Franken introduced an important amendment on medical loss ratios, requiring insurers to spend 80 percent to 85 percent of premiums on medical care (rather than administrative costs). When former President Bill Clinton touted the Affordable Care Act in his speech at the Democratic Convention in 2012, he highlighted the fact that "individuals and businesses have already gotten more than a billion dollars in refunds from insurance companies because the new law requires 80 to 85 percent of your premium to go to your health care, not profits or promotion."
Franken, who came into office six months after Merkley in 2009, hasn't written any stand-alone bills that have become law.
Some bills don't pass as stand-alone legislation, but later get folded into larger bills. For example, in July 2009 Merkley proposed the Small Business Jump Start Act of 2009, a bill that sought to increase a tax deduction for start-up businesses. As a stand-alone bill, it was referred to a committee and died. But Merkley later added it as an amendment to the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, which was sponsored by former House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank and became law.
Similarly, Merkley's bill, the Bank On Our Communities Act of 2009 — which sought to create a $30 billion fund to provide capital to community banks for small-business loans — also stalled as stand-alone legislation. But it was folded into the Small Business Jobs Act as an amendment.
Other examples include Merkley's Crowdfund Act — a bill that sought to limit how much small investors could put into crowd-funding sites — which was added as an amendment to the JOBS Act in 2012, and Merkley's Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2013 — a bill that sought to provide loans for communities to repair their water systems — which was added to the Water Resources Development Act of 2013.
Merkley's campaign provided a number of other examples, but you get the idea.
Merkley also authored the so-called Volcker rule, a key provision of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act — a bill that President Obama called "the toughest financial reform" since the Great Depression. Named after Paul Volcker, a former Fed chairman and Obama economic adviser who proposed it, the rule places restrictions on certain banks and financial firms on proprietary trading — that is, it limits the ability of financial institutions to invest their own money in stocks, bonds and other products for their own profit. Politico called Sens. Carl Levin and Merkley "the two top advocates of strengthening the 'Volcker rule' throughout the Wall Street reform debate." And while the Volcker rule amendment didn't pass, a compromise was forged in conference committee that Merkley and Levin called "a victory." Merkley touted the controversial rule as one of his top achievements in Congress in an interview with the Huffington Post in January.
Merkley was also part of a small group of Democratic senators who spearheaded important changes to the filibuster rule, to help expedite executive- and judicial-branch nominations.
Ornstein said that if you talked to committee and subcommittee leaders, "they'd tell you that Merkley is a very effective lawmaker." We at FactCheck.org take no position on that, of course, but we caution readers not to put much stock into a claim about the effectiveness of a first-term lawmaker based on the number of sponsored stand-alone bills that have become law.
Obamacare and higher premiums
The narrator in the Freedom Partners ad also attacks Merkley for his support of the Affordable Care Act, which it refers to as Obamacare.
"He promised to fix Obamacare," the narrator says, "but last year, our premium increases were the highest on the West Coast. This year, they're going even higher."
On screen, the ad shows a graphic claiming rates have gone up 55 percent for people aged 27, 24 percent for people aged 40, and 31 percent for people aged 64. The ad cites a Forbes article about a study of insurance premiums by the conservative Manhattan Institute.
Although the ad, without qualifiers, seems to suggest that rates have gone up by these amounts for all Oregonians, the Manhattan Institute study looked at the changes in insurance rates in the individual market after passage of the Affordable Care Act. The individual market is for those who buy insurance on their own as opposed to through an employer. About 267,000 Oregonians, 7 percent of the state's population, purchased their own insurance in 2012, according to the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation.
We have written previously about other qualifiers people ought to consider when weighing the Manhattan Institute analysis. For example, the analysis looked at the five least expensive plans before and after enactment of the ACA, but did not adjust for the fact that the ACA requires certain minimum benefits, which many individual market plans didn't meet. By and large, the post-ACA plans are more robust (whether purchasers like or want that or not).
The Manhattan Institute analysis also didn't include premiums for catastrophic plans, which could offer a cheaper option to those 27-year-olds. Nor did it account for subsidies, which the Manhattan Institute estimates will be available to 45 percent of uninsured Oregonians, or 303,690 people.
As for the claim that "this year" insurance premiums are "going even higher," Freedom Partners points to an Associated Press story that reported that Moda, the insurance company with the largest share of the individual market in Oregon, will increase rates by 10.6 percent on average in 2015. That's accurate, according to an Aug. 1 report from the state's Department of Consumer and Business Services, but the report also noted that a number of other companies will be reducing rates in 2015.
Although the rate changes vary by insurer, as well as age, location, number of family members and plan choice, Oregon's Insurance Commissioner Laura Cali stated in a press release that "the approved rates are lower on average than in 2014, reflecting the effect of competition and Oregonians' expanded access to health coverage." We caution, however, that that's not a weighted average, meaning the rates of smaller insurers were counted equally with those of larger insurers. A spokesman for the department said a weighted average was not calculated because people can select any plan they wish in the market exchange.
A table showing sample rate changes in 2015 by company and plan can be viewed here.
By Robert Farley, FactCheck.org
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Writing about sex and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) is fascinating, frustrating and fun. It's fascinating because I get to read the results of research and studies about the sex lives of ordinary people. It's frustrating because year after year I am reminded that ordinary Americans know almost nothing about STDs until they are diagnosed with one; and it's fun because when my roommate comes home and announces that he has crabs and gonorrhea, I get to decide whether or not I want to write about his little visitors and how he acquired them. I can sum up that story for you by quoting him directly: "I'm a slut."
Now let's pretend for a moment that my roommate really is a slut . . . um, I mean, well, let's just call him "sexually generous" for the sake of this article. Like a lot of people, he may not even know about the variety of sexually transmitted diseases lurking out there. So this month, let's review some of the most common sexually transmitted diseases.
A bacterial infection that can affect men or women (roughly 800,000 times a year in the U.S.). It's passed from person to person during vaginal or anal intercourse or oral sex -- so it can be found in the vagina, anus, urethra (that hole in the head of the penis) or throat. Pregnant mothers can pass it to their baby during birth, causing eye infections.
Symptoms in men: Discharge from the head of the penis or anus; pain or itching at the head of the penis; swelling of the penis (occasionally); painful urination. Discharge from penis may happen and then stop without treatment, but you are still infected. If gonorrhea infects the throat, there are usually no symptoms other than a sore throat feeling. Gonorrhea is more likely to be spread to the throat by penis/mouth sex than by mouth/vagina sex. In the anus (butt), there may be a white discharge on stool, pain, spasm or itching.
Symptoms in women: Discharge from the vagina; lower belly pain, especially during sex; pain during urination; unusual vaginal bleeding with cramping.
How serious is gonorrhea? Men can sometimes develop epididymitis, an infection of the testicles (balls), a painful condition that can also cause sterility. Women can also become sterile, develop pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and manifest damage that can lead to a tubal pregnancy.
Gonorrhea should be treated with antibiotics by a doctor or clinician. Avoid having sex during treatment and for one full week after treatment. Encourage your sex partner(s) to be examined. Gonorrhea can be avoided by using a condom during anal, vaginal or oral sex. Though typically curable, some drug-resistant strains have been discovered.
Like gonorrhea, it's caused by a type of bacteria that can infect men or women. It's passed from one person to another during anal, oral or vaginal sex, and sometimes kissing.
Syphilis goes through four stages of infection: Incubation -- when you are first infected; no symptoms and it may take up to 90 days for a blood test to show the disease. Primary stage -- painless sores or ulcers show up on the penis, vagina, mouth or anus . . . it may go away on it's own, BUT you are still infected and can spread the disease. Secondary stage -- sores or skin rashes, especially on the hands and feet (they will go away without treatment, but you are still infected and can spread the disease). Latent stage -- no symptoms, but the syphilis bacteria remains in the body and, left untreated, can lead to heart disease, blindness, brain damage or death.
Treatment for syphilis involves antibiotic injections (typically penicillin) to kill the bacteria. You will have to repeat blood tests until cured. Avoid having sex until you are cured. According to the Centers for Disease Control, syphilis is 30 times more likely to affect black Americans than whites due to poverty, lack of access to healthcare and drug use.
Want to avoid syphilis? Use condoms and avoid having sex with partners who have sores or ulcers on the penis, vagina, mouth or butt. Less common than gonorrhea, syphilis affects over 100,000 Americans a year.
With four million cases diagnosed annually, chlamydia is the number one sexually transmitted disease in America. Affecting men and women, chlamydia is a bacterial infection passed person to person during vaginal, anal or oral sex. It can also spread to the eyes by touching fluids from the vagina or penis and then rubbing or touching your eyes. Pregnant women can pass it to babies during delivery (usually showing up as eye or lung infection). Chlamydia is known as the "silent epidemic" because three quarters of the women and half of the men with the disease have no symptoms. When there are symptoms, they look like this:
Symptoms in women: Pain and itching of the vulva (external female genitalia) or vagina; discharge or unusual bleeding from vagina or anus; pain during urination or sex.
Symptoms in men: Discharge from the head of the penis or anus; pain or itching of the head of the penis; pain during urination.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that all sexually active women 25 and younger be routinely screened for chlamydia. Current CDC guidelines suggest screening women ages 20 to 24, especially if they have multiple sexual partners or do not use condoms. The American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists advise screening only high-risk women ("high-risk" means sexually active in this case). None of these organizations seems particularly concerned about men getting screened, something I find inexcusably backward and sexist. And remember, whether symptoms are present or not, infected individuals remain infected and can pass chlamydia to others. Left untreated, it can cause pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) or sterility in women and infertility in men.
So what's the test and treatment for chlamydia? Diagnosis (I hate this part!) usually involves a cotton swab test taken from the urethra of the penis in men (imagine a Q-Tip in the head of the penis), or from the cervix in women. Fortunately, a urine sample test is being developed. Chlamydia is curable with certain types of antibiotics. Condoms can help prevent transmission.
Genital Warts
Also known as "condyloma," genital warts are caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV). In men, warts may appear on the penis and around or inside the anus. In women, the warts may appear around the vagina or on the cervix and around or inside the rectum. So as you might have already guessed, they can be passed though either vaginal or anal intercourse. But since this virus can live on skin around the penis, vagina or anus, it's far easier to transmit than a virus such as HIV because it can be passed skin to skin during sex. Some experts claim that if you've had unprotected (no condom) sex with more than two people in your life, then you have probably already been exposed to this wart virus. And it's possible to be exposed to the virus for months or even years before warts appear.
How serious are genital warts? For most people, they're just ugly and the virus is not dangerous. However, during vaginal intercourse or butt sex they may bleed due to the friction involved. More importantly, the wart virus can cause changes in the anus or in the cells of a woman's cervix. Women should have a yearly Pap smear test even if no warts are visible and men should check regularly for warts.
Lots of treatment options exist for genital warts: topical creams, freezing, burning, laser treatment or surgery. Warts may (but not always) return because the virus remains on the skin. You can remove the warts, but you will always have the virus; there is no cure, but vaccine research is underway.
One last important note about HPV: condoms will only reduce, not eliminate, the risk of getting warts because the virus can be on the skin near the vagina, penis or rectum and not just on the sex organs. Obviously, if warts are visible you should avoid sexual contact until they're treated.
Genital Herpes
Caused by the herpes simplex virus (HSV) -- and there are two types of HSV. HSV-I usually causes fever blisters or cold sores on the mouth. HSV-II usually causes sores on the genitals (vagina, penis, anus and the skin around those areas). HSV-1 is common and most people are exposed in childhood. HSV-II infection typically happens in adolescence or adulthood. Both can cause genital herpes. Both can produce sores in and around the vaginal area, on the penis, around the anal opening, and on the buttocks or thighs. HSV-I (the mouth one) can be passed to the genitals of a sexual partner by oral sex occasionally. HSV-II (the genital one) is usually passed to the genitals of a sex partner by the infected person's genitals. It's very rare for the HSV-II to be passed to a sex partner's mouth. Unfortunately, HSV-I and HSV-II can be passed even when no actual sores are present. This happens because of something called "asymptomatic viral shedding." In other words, the virus can be present on the skin without symptoms.
Like other viruses, HSV remains in your body for life. It hibernates in nerve roots when it's not causing symptoms. Those symptoms can include swollen glands, fever and achiness in addition to blisters or open sores. The sores can last 2-3 weeks, weeping a clear secretion, then scabbing over and healing. Herpes outbreaks can happen over and over again. Research indicates that genital herpes outbreaks may be linked to stress, fatigue, lack of sleep, menstruation and genital friction. Tingling and itching of the genital area or pain in the buttocks or legs may signal an outbreak of blisters or sores. Some people will experience yearly outbreaks and others may experience them only from time to time.
Clinicians can swab an active lesion or draw blood to confirm infection with HSV. There is no cure at this point, but several drugs are available to treat genital herpes and the results have been good. Vaccines are also in development. If there are signs of a herpes outbreak or visible sores, you should avoid having sex. Condoms offer some protection, but it's best to avoid the sores until they have completely healed, not just scabbed over.
All of these sexually transmitted diseases are considerably more common than HIV. However, whether bacterial or viral, these are genital diseases with one thing in common: they increase the risk of HIV transmission.


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I decided to be a librarian in late 2006 at the urging of my mother in law Jill. She had been a librarian for many years and spoke of her work very passionately. With a simple poke and a simple "you know, you'd be good at this library thing", I was off to attend Clarion University of Pennsylvania in January 2007.
When I was a kid visited the Northland Public Library in Pittsburgh, PA on a weekly basis. I remembered two things about my time there: they had rabbits in the children's area and they had the best selection of books on whales in the whole wide world. Oh yeah, and I thought it was a super fun and magical place. To me, that's what libraries needed to be.
My time in library school was good but I always fell out of place. I wanted to have fun! I wanted the library to be this amazing place full of wonder, joy, exploration, and full of heart! Instead, I found myself writing out cataloging records by hand or presenting papers on teen literature. I got something out of that but…there was another side.
Enter Tame The Web in early 2008.
Instead of talking about what goes in the 250 field in a bib record , Tame The Web was talking about things I could relate to: What Kind of Conversations can you have? My Library is…A Rock Show! I could relate to this. It was full of wonder, joy, and exploration! This was real. This was people connecting with people.
Since those days that's been my focus with being a teen librarian. In order to succeed and give the community what they want, I realized that connection had to come first. All of those other things: collection development, cataloging records, and all of the other stuff I learned in library school were very important and had their place but first and foremost….IT'S ABOUT PEOPLE. I feel like it has worked out pretty well for me and the communities that I've served.
This taught me something else that was somewhat unexpected: there is so much value in connecting with your professional community. Through library blogs, Twitter, and other social networks, I have met a number of people that not only do I now call my friends but also who have given me so much professional advice and aided in my growth as a librarian and as a person.
All because of a blog that was started ten years ago. I don't know if Michael thought about these kinds of things when he started Tame The Web, but they happened. And I thank him for that. What may have seemed like a ripple at the time has now created a very positive and helpful tidal wave.


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Wilwood Forged Superlite Internal FSLI Brake Caliper Lug Mount
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Product Specifications Rotor Compatibility Rotor Width: 0.81'' Maximum Rotor Width: 0.84'' Minimum Rotor Width: 0.75'' Maximum Rotor Diameter: 13.06'' Minimum Rotor Diameter: 11.75'' Brake Pad Specifications Brake Pad Type 1: 7420 Brake Pad Type 2: N/A Brake Pad Type 3: N/A Total Pad Area (in/sq): 8.2'' Total Pad Volume (in/sq): 4.9'' Piston Specifications Piston 1 Bore: 1.75'' Piston 2 Bore: 1.75'' Piston 3 Bore: N/A Piston 4 Bore: N/A Total Piston Area (in/sq): 4.80'' Mounting Specifications Mount Type: Lug Mount Side: Universal Mount Center: 3.5'' Mount Hole Size: 0.45'' Mount Height: 2.85''
Superior Design, Unequalled Performance!
Wilwood's Forged Superlite Internal (FSLI) Brake Caliper series has been the pinnacle set-up in short track, late model, modified and open wheel competition. And with the word getting around about the Superlites outstanding performance and durability in the circle track world. People have successfully adopted the Superlite series into road-race, off-road, rally/sport driving competition. The new FSLI model series is the latest innovation to this Superlite family of calipers. It has been redesigned with internal fluid ports that eliminate the external fluid cross-over tubes, along with any potential problems that could arise from a damaged tube. The transfer tube has been replaced with two additional bleed screw assemblies which allows this group of symmetrical piston bore models to be mounted either right or left in a leading or trailing position.
FSLI and FSLI/ST calipers provide the pad wear performance advantages of differential bore pistons with the option for ultimate heat protection using Thermlock pistons in the ST models. Differential piston bores compensate for leading-edge mechanical loading and temperature variances across the pad face to reduce pad taper wear in sustained high temperature applications. Thermlock pistons in the FSLI/ST models block heat transfer from the pads and reduce temperatures in the caliper, fluid, and seals by up to 25% over standard stainless steel pistons. This is the go-to calipers for all types sustained hard braking competition cars.
The FSLI and FSLI/ST models use the latest innovation to the Superlite family of calipers. They have been redesigned with internal fluid ports that eliminate the external fluid cross-over tubes, along with any potential problems that could arise from a damaged tube. The transfer tube has been replaced with two additional bleed screw assemblies which allow this group of right and left hand oriented differential piston bore calipers to be mounted in either a leading or trailing position.
The most noteworthy feature of all the FSLI caliper models is the exceptional strength and reduced weight of the forging. With assembled weights just at 4.4 pounds, the caliper body design in itself is a product of computer generated solid modeling and stress analysis technology. Each caliper features closed end bridges with a radial transition down to the main body and piston bore housings. The elimination of machined steps and sharp shoulders in this critical critical area provides a measurable increase in overall body strength and resistance to deflection under load. Every FSL body is stress-flow forged from a premium grade aluminum alloy billet. Stress-flow forging realigns the metal's internal grain structure to flow within the contour of the caliper body. This process eliminates the stresses and interruptions to the internal grain structure that occur when machining a straight block billet.
FSLI calipers use high strength steel main bridge bolts in tension and a supplemental center bridge bolt to provide maximum resistance and strength against deflection and body separation under load. The center bridge support also provides positive pad retention with quick access when it's time for service. Clamping force, structural deflection, and volume displacement tests have proven the superior strength and efficiency of the FSL. Simply stated, there is no better way to build a stronger or more efficient one or two-piece aluminum caliper body at equal or lower weight.
FSLI calipers feature all of Wilwood's latest refinements and proven performance features including replaceable SRS stainless steel bridge plates. SRS plates extend caliper life by preventing wear at the bridge abutments otherwise caused by pad edge gouging. Spring tension in the SRS plates also eliminates pad rattle and helps to dampen the vibration harmonics that can contribute to squeal under braking. Other standard Wilwood features include high-temperature, square faced o-ring seals for positive sealing, controlled piston retraction, and long service life in high heat conditions. Machined stainless steel pistons are used in the standard models (FSLI) to resist corrosion, retard heat transfer, and eliminate backside deflection under pressure. Two-piece bleed screw assemblies provide long, reliable service life and are easily replaced if necessary.
FSLI calipers are a direct replacement for all Wilwood Superlite and similar competitive brand calipers with 3.50'' centered mounting tabs. Calipers are available in the popular 1.88/1.75'', 1.75'', 1.62'', 1.38'', 1.25'' and 1.12'' piston sizes for 0.81'', 1.10'' and 1.25'' rotor widths. FSL calipers use the same 7420 type bridge bolt brake pad used in all Superlite 6 piston calipers. The full range of PolyMatrix pad compounds is available to match brake response and heat range to any application.
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After graduating from Hartsburg-Emden High School and Lincoln College,
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Mildred and her husband, Wilbert farmed west of Lincoln for forty years
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