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Anthony Weiner's Republican opponents would seem to have one obvious advantage should they choose to challenge the embattled congressman in 2012: their to-date failure to distribute compromising photos of themselves (or parts of themselves) over the Internet.
"Let me think," joked Bob Turner, the 70-year-old businessman who ran against Mr. Weiner last year, when asked about any lewd photos he might possess or have sent to people who were, say, definitively not his wife. "I'm pretty sure I don't."
"No, of course not," said 26-year-old Eric Ulrich, a city councilman from Queens and another rumored challenger, when asked if he had engaged in any inappropriate online banter.
Before a photo of his crotch rocketed around the country and was splattered across various tabloid covers, Mr. Weiner was expected to be a leading mayoral candidate in 2013, and his re-election to Congress was widely considered a given.
Now, facing an ethics investigation of his lewd messages to as many as six young women and a wall of public silence from his congressional colleagues, Mr. Weiner must first survive 2012.
"Look, my constituents have to make the determination," Mr. Weiner said on Monday. "If they believe that this is something that means that they don't want to vote for me, I'm going to work very hard to win back their trust and to try to persuade them that this is a personal failing of mine; that I've worked very hard for my constituents for a very long time, very long hours; and that nothing about this should reflect in any way on my official duties or on my oath of office."
Last November, Mr. Turner captured more than 40 percent of the vote in the Queens and Brooklyn district, a relatively high number for an unknown challenger trying to unseat an established incumbent. And pundits suggest Mr. Weiner could face an even tougher challenge from someone who's won and run before—like, say, Mr. Ulrich.
"He's won in a big chunk of the district," said Jerry Skurnik, a political consultant known for his number-crunching. According to Mr. Skurnik, 50,000 of the 56,000 voters in Mr. Ulrich's City Council district also reside in Mr. Weiner's congressional district, and, among the rumored challengers, Mr. Skurnik called Mr. Ulrich the "strongest."
On Monday, just before Mr. Weiner's tearful, 27-minute long press conference in midtown, Mr. Ulrich stepped outside of his Ozone Park office to discuss the possibility.
"I don't want to talk political stuff in my office," said Mr. Ulrich. "We don't need any conflict of interest rulings against me."
Mr. Ulrich said he had been fielding questions "from both sides of the aisle" about the possibility of challenging for the seat, which would pit Mr. Weiner against something like a right-leaning version of his former self.
The similarities between the two are so striking as to be comical.
In 1992, at the tender age of 27, Mr. Weiner won a six-way Democratic primary and four-way general election to become the youngest person ever to serve on New York's City Council.
In 2009, the ambitious Mr. Ulrich won a five-way special election to become the new youngest councilman, at age 24.
Both enjoy a spirited debate.
The ability to strike at the moral nerve center of a debate had been a hallmark of Mr. Weiner, who became a YouTube sensation when he dressed down fellow New York congressman Peter King on the floor of the House and parlayed his sharp tongue into minor celebrity status on cable news shows.
Prior to attending seminary, Mr. Ulrich said he trained as a member of his school's debate team—a fact even his aides were not aware of. Neither were his opponents, who, during the 2009 special election, found themselves eviscerated by the neophyte, to the delight of a crowded room of voters.
"Eric, you are a Republican party official," one of his opponents, Mike Riccato, said, while reading off of a small notepad.
"But what experience do you have to lead this community in these fiscally challenging times?"
"It's manna from heaven. Thank you, Mike," Mr. Ulrich replied, buttoning his coat. "My experience has been in civics, in communities, has been with people, my whole life."
With the microphone in his right hand, he continued.
"I wasn't always a politician," he said, enthusiastically waving his left hand. "And by the way, being a politician is not a bad thing. I was studying for the priesthood at one time. So I'll have you know! My dear friend! That there is a lot more to being a city councilman than being a businessman."
He spoke above the crowd, which was already applauding.
"Politics is not a business," said Mr. Ulrich. Pointing to the crowd. "These are not your employees!"
Mr. Ulrich went on, leaving his opponents stunned, and the audience electrified.
(About the priesthood: Mr. Ulrich studied for the seminary, but ultimately decided not to continue, and, after winning his Council seat, he got married.)
Both men enjoy the lure of social media, occasionally to their peril.
Mr. Weiner's transgressions are, by now, well-documented; yesterday he admitted that he "panicked" when he mistakenly posted a private photo of his underpants to his Twitter feed, and deleted all his photos, before lying to cover it up in a series of interviews over several days.
Mr. Ulrich deleted one of his own posts last week, when he said he was responding to a barrage of vulgar messages from bike zealots.
After a woman was hit by a van in his district, a young female constituent tweeted that Mr. Ulrich should support bike lanes to help "calm" traffic.
Mr. Ulrich said he was offended the advocates would use this tragic accident to advance their agenda, and he told them as much, using the hashtag "#getalife." When The Observer and another outlet picked up the story, Mr. Ulrich released a statement, backing up his position.
"First of all, I can say with certitude that my Twitter account, to my knowledge, has not been hacked," Mr. Ulrich said, tauntingly echoing the awkward phrasing in Mr. Weiner's initial nondenial.
"With that said," Mr. Ulrich's statement continued, "I cannot believe that anyone would use a tragic incident like the one that occurred on Friday to advance their own agenda. To suggest that a bike lane would have prevented this from happening is simply absurd."
Both Mr. Weiner and Mr. Ulrich plan to keep using social media. In Mr. Weiner's case, admittedly, "not in the same way."
As for Mr. Ulrich, it's a work in progress.
"If the voters of the Ninth District want to make sure the seat is held by a politician who sends inappropriate tweets to young, female constituents, Eric Ulrich is worth a look," said Aaron Pasternak, a transit advocate and bike lane booster.
Mr. Ulrich said he had heard about polling already being conducted in the district, and that he had heard his name was among those being mentioned. (A spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee said the organization was not polling in the district. Mr. Turner said he was also considering whether to run against Mr. Weiner.)
For now, the councilman said he was focused on fighting the ongoing budget battle in the City Council.
"I rebuffed a lot of the talk because I don't want to put a target on my back," he told The Observer on Monday.
A call to his cell phone Tuesday morning went straight to voice mail. Minutes later, he sent a text message.
"If the seat opens up, I might consider running," he wrote. "Right now, the people need someone who can restore their trust and faith in government."


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WASHINGTON, D.C. – UMBC sophomores Krystal Mlemchukwu (Baltimore, Md./Western Tech) and Sherelle Walker (New Freedom, Pa./Susquehannock) each notched double-digit kills as the UMBC volleyball team knocked off Maryland for the first time in program history, Saturday afternoon at George Washington's Smith Center. The Retrievers swept the Terps in three sets, 26-24, 25-23, 29-27.
"I'm super proud of the effort, it was a complete team effort," said head coach Ian Blanchard. "All the way around, there were so many contributions.
"Casey Griffith (King of Prussia, Pa./Upper Merion) played tremendously all weekend and really kept us in our system. It is a great team-win as we really played together as a team."
Following the match, Mlemchukwu was named to the All-Tournament Team. On the weekend, the sophomore middle blocker recorded 27 kills.
Griffith led the Retrievers (1-2) on the backline for the third straight match, picking up ten digs. Senior setter Mallory McIntyre (Winnipeg, Manitoba/St. Mary's Academy) dished out 35 assists while picking up seven digs.
Ashleigh Crutcher paced the Terps (2-1) with 18 kills while Adreene Elliott added 13 put-aways. Sarah Harper and Mary Cushman were each in double-figures for digs with 16 and 12, respectively.
UMBC outhit Maryland .271-.164 for the match and also recorded three service aces to the Terps' one.
The match was close throughout as the teams traded the lead a total of 14 times and were tied on 39 other occasions. The first set was particularly close with neither team time able to build a lead greater than three. Maryland made a surge midway through the set, though, winning eight of ten points to claim a 23-20 lead. UMBC had the last laugh in the frame, however, winning six of the final seven points to earn the set victory 26-24.
The Retrievers looked poised to use that momentum in the second set and staked to a 6-2 lead early on a kill by junior Hannah Schmidt (Catonsville, Md./Mount de Sales). The lead grew to five at 10-5 on one of Mlemchukwu's 11 kills, but the Terps hit back with five straight to level the frame. From there on out neither team won more than two points in a row until UMBC, trailing 23-22, strung together three consecutive points and stole the set, 25-23.
UMBC again jumped out to a lead in the third set, this time building a modest four-point cushion, 12-8, on a Maryland attack error. The Terps staged another comeback and drew level with the Retrievers at 19-19. The Black and Gold regrouped though and gained two set points with a 24-22 lead, but could not put Maryland away. Instead the set swayed back-and-forth until senior Ali Goc (Oshawa, Ontario/R.S. McLaughlin) served up an ace to secure the victory.
"That is some of the best energy I've seen in the last four or five years with this team," Blanchard said. "Hopefully this win generates some positive momentum for the season."
"I knew we could play with everyone this weekend and we really proved that by beating Maryland."
UMBC now opens up its 2013 home schedule with a non-conference contest against George Mason on Wednesday, Sept. 4. Game time at the RAC Arena is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.
- UMBC was previously winless in ten all-time matches against Maryland.
- Griffith has collected double-digit digs in each of the Retrievers' first three matches.
- Walker has now notched double figures in kills in 17 career matches and six of the last seven dating back to last season.
- UMBC has three more matches against in-state opponents this season (9/7 at Loyola, 9/10 vs. Towson, 9/14 vs. Coppin State).

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When you think of KFC most people think of buckets of fried chicken. So what does KFC have to do with Indonesia and why did Greenpeace Indonesia take action against the company on Wednesday?
Well, KFC is one of the most popular fast food chains in the country, with more than 400 stores, and if KFC gets its way, the company will have more than 1,000 stores by 2015. That's a lot of potential rainforest destruction.
In fact, there are now more KFC stores in Indonesia than there are Sumatran tigers in the wild, and tragically, KFC sourcing practices are making the prospects for Indonesia's one remaining tiger species even worse.
KFC is using Indonesia's rainforests in its packaging and napkins. It's heartbreaking to think that Indonesia's precious rainforests will end up in KFC's trash can, but if the company continues to source from Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), this is exactly what will happen.
So to show what KFC really means in Indonesia, Greenpeace Indonesia took action on Wednesday by placing a giant KFC fries packet into an area that was until recently rainforest. We were accompanied by two activists dressed as Sumatran tigers.
The area in question had been recently cleared of its trees by APP suppliers and pulped to make paper products for its customers, one of which is KFC.
This recently destroyed peatland forest area is located in Senepis, Sumatra. In 2004 the region's Forestry Agency proposed a National Park for tiger conservation in Senepis as it recognised the area's importance for Sumatran tiger conservation.
But two APP supplier companies (PT RUJ - Main Jaya and PT Ruas SGP - Suntara Gaja Pati) later cleared some forest areas that were inside the agreed sanctuary boundaries.
The photos say it all. This stretch of rainforest, mapped by conservation experts as habitat for Indonesia's critically endangered tigers, has been completely cleared.
Despite the evidence presented in the 'Junking the Jungle' report, KFC continues to deny it has any links to APP. Perhaps KFC executives should read the writing on their boxes more?
Indeed, when Greenpeace researchers visited a local KFC outlet here in Indonesia they found that its napkin boxes had the logo of one of APP's biggest mills printed on the box!
APP's response attempted, once again, to distract attention from the issues.
Apparently 'Mixed Tropical Hardwood is in everyday life' and therefore it's unfair that APP is being targeted. Whilst it's a sad fact that MTH or rainforest fibre is part of APP's everyday life and products – the point is it that it shouldn't be and doesn't have to be.
APP gives the impression that any MTH in its products is just 'residual' scrap wood or recycled fibre. So how can APP explain these scenes of deforestation, which shows just where its MTH actually comes from?
We Indonesians shouldn't be forced to choose between protecting tigers and forests and eating at KFC. For us, the Sumatran tiger is a sacred national icon and a symbol of bravery. If KFC wants to win back the hearts of Indonesians it must show some bravery too and immediately suspend the company's contracts with APP.
KFC must implement new policies to ensure that its supply chains aren't leading to the loss of our last remaining rainforests and tiger habitat.
Thankfully we are not alone and thousands of people around the world have already taken action. Thank you!
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Sumatran tigers are a symbol of bravery and courage. KFC on the other hand... I don't think anyone would choose greasy, murderous food over these ...
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The push for quicker Sandy recovery continues, and now the pressure is on the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC).
Assemblymember Phillip Goldfeder requested Joe Martens, DEC Commissioner, and the agency expedite all "permits related to recovery projects in the Sandy-damaged communities of southern Queens" to "wherever possible."
"Our families are working around the clock to recover and rebuild from Sandy and every agency on every level of government must do the same," Goldfeder said.
Families throughout Howard Beach, as well as Broad Channel and the rest of the Rockaways, continue to wait on approval for permits from various agencies, including the DEC, Goldfeder said.
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Nice piece by Franz Lidz on form SI managing editor, Gil Rogin, in the New York Observer.
Rogin doesn't pull any punches:
Unawed by reputation, Mr. Rogin assesses sportswriters with cool objectivity. "Frank Deford was very good, but not as great as he thought he was," he said of the 1999 National Magazine Award winner, a fixture on NPR. "You'd ask for 3,000 words and get 5,000, all of them, according to Frank, 'imperishable.' In profiles, he'd pick out a psychological trait and use it like a magic brick to build a house. His stories were well thought out, but artificial."
Mr. Rogin's favorite sportswriter was George Plimpton, whose breezy copy required no editing. He also enjoyed Jimmy Breslin. He once bellied up to a bar with the tabloid fabulist after a prizefight in Las Vegas, and Mr. Breslin showed him his account of the match. Mr. Rogin scanned the first paragraph and said, "Jimmy, this never happened." Mr. Breslin said nothing.
Mr. Rogin scanned the second graph and said, "Jimmy, this never happened, either."
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Picturing Augusta: Historic Postcards from the Collection of the East Central Georgia Regional Library System consists of forty turn-of-the-twentieth century Augusta-related picture postcards selected from the collection Augusta and Environs: Picture Post Cards in Color held at the East Central Georgia Regional Library in Augusta, Georgia. The postcards in this collection depict the commercial development, economic prosperity, and social customs of Augusta and its inhabitants during the opening years of the twentieth century. Furthermore, the picture postcards document the interplay between Augusta, Georgia, North Augusta, South Carolina, and Summerville, Georgia before and immediately following Summerville's incorporation into the city of Augusta in 1912.
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Given a solid sphere of radius R, remove a cylinder whose central axis goes through the center of the sphere. Let h denote the height of the remaining solid. Calculate the volume of the remaining solid.
Given a solid sphere of radius R, remove a cylinder whose central axis goes through the center of the sphere.
5$\begingroup$ The curious thing you will discover, after the smoke clears, is that the answer is independent of $R$! Apart from that, it is a standard solid of revolution problem. $\endgroup$ – André Nicolas Feb 16 '12 at 6:55
1$\begingroup$ It is considered impolite to post in the form "Calculate..." rather than asking a question. Moreover, some hints on what you have tried already would be appropriate. $\endgroup$ – Dirk Feb 16 '12 at 7:11
$\begingroup$ Does this help ? math.stackexchange.com/a/1346/22386 $\endgroup$ – Inquest Feb 16 '12 at 7:17
It takes me a long time to draw a picture with software, so you will have to do it for me. Without your picture, the solution below will have no meaning.
Please draw the top half of the circle with center the origin and radius $R$. This circle has equation $x^2+y^2=R^2$. I am a little allergic to fractions, so temporarily let $h=2k$.
What does our sphere with a hole in it look like? Draw the vertical line that goes straight up from the point $A(-k,0)$ until it meets the circle at a point we will call $P$. Make $k$ fairly large, say at least $\frac{3}{4}R$. That helps with the visualization later. Also draw the vertical line that goes straight up from $B(k,0)$ until it meets the circle at a point we will call $Q$. Join the two points $P$ and $Q$ by a horizontal line.
Now for the hard part! Let $\mathcal{W}$ be the region above the line $PQ$ but below the curve $y=\sqrt{R^2-x^2}$. The hole was drilled horizontally, along the $x$-axis. All that's left of the original sphere is the solid that we obtain by rotating the region $\mathcal{W}$ about the $x$-axis. This solid is sometimes called a napkin ring. Note that this solid has height $2k$. The radius of the hole is the length of the line segment $AP$. So this radius is $\sqrt{R^2-k^2}$. It is kind of funny to talk about height, since this "height," and the drilling, is along the $x$-direction. Too late to fix.
We first find the volume obtained by rotating the region below $y=\sqrt{R^2-x^2}$, above the $x$-axis, from $x=-k$ to $x=k$. It is standard solid of revolution stuff that the volume is $$\int_{-k}^k \pi (R^2-x^2)\,dx.$$ Evaluate. It is easier to integrate from $0$ to $k$ and double. We get $$2\pi R^2k -\frac{2\pi k^3}{3}.\qquad\qquad(\ast)$$
The hole is simply a cylinder of height $2k$, and radius $AP$, which is $\sqrt{R^2-k^2}$. So integration is unnecessary. The volume of the hole $$\pi(R^2-k^2)(2k).\qquad(\ast\ast) $$
To find the volume of what's left, subtract $(\ast\ast)$ from $(\ast)$. The $\pi R^2 k$ terms cancel, and after some algebra we get $\dfrac{4}{3}\pi k^3$.
Recall that $k=\frac{h}{2}$ and substitute. We end up with $$\frac{\pi h^3}{6}.$$ Note that the answer turned out to be independent of the radius $R$ of the sphere!
1$\begingroup$ Last line was probably meant to be " We end up with $\dfrac{\pi h^3}{6}.$" $\endgroup$ – Henry Feb 16 '12 at 8:55
$\begingroup$ @Henry: Thanks, indeed it was. $\endgroup$ – André Nicolas Feb 16 '12 at 14:48
There's a Wikipedia article about this problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napkin_ring_problem
It is solved neatly via Cavalieri's principle.
(Both of these Wikipedia articles were initially created by me.)
The "napkin ring" is generated by revolving the light pink region $\color{pink}{Q}$, shown below, about the $y$-axis. This volume can be found using the washer method. A typical washer, generated by revolving the line segment $\overline{\color{maroon}{p_yq_y}}$ about the $y$-axis, is shown below. The coordinates of the endpoints of the line segment can be found using the Pythagorean Theorem and the fact that the sphere has radius $R$ and the cylinder has height $h$ (so the top of the cylinder crosses the $y$ axis at $y=h/2$).
The volume is $$ \int_{-h/2}^{h/2} \pi\Bigl[ \, \Bigl(\underbrace{\sqrt{R^2-y^2}}_{\text{outer radius}\atop \text{of the washer} }\ \Bigr)^2-\Bigl(\underbrace{\sqrt{R^2-(h^2/4)}}_{\text{inner radius}\atop \text{of the washer} } \ \ \Bigr)^2\, \Bigr ] \, dy= \int_{-h/2}^{h/2} \pi\bigl(\, {\textstyle{h^2\over 4}}-y^2 \,\bigr) \, dy. $$
Note that, as André Nicolas points out, the volume is independent of $R$.
Calculating the integral above, and taking advantage of symmetry, the volume of the solid is: $$ \eqalign{ \int_{-h/2}^{h/2} \pi\bigl(\, {\textstyle{h^2\over 4}}-y^2 \,\bigr) \, dy &=2\int_{0}^{h/2} \pi\bigl(\, {\textstyle{h^2\over 4}}-y^2 \,\bigr) \, dy\cr &=2\pi\bigl[ {\textstyle{h^2\over 4}}y-{\textstyle{y^3\over 3} } \bigr]\bigr|_0^{h/2}\cr &= 2\pi\bigl[ {\textstyle{h^3\over 8 }}-{\textstyle{h^3\over 24} } \bigr]\cr &={\pi h^3\over 6}.
} $$
(It's probably best to read André's more detailed answer and just refer to the diagram if need be. The labeling and orientation of the diagram, though, is different from André's answer (in particular the $x$ and $y$ axes are interchanged). His region $\cal W$ is the region $\color{pink}{Q}$ above. )
$\begingroup$ What software did you use for this illustration? $\endgroup$ – Michael Hardy Nov 4 '12 at 16:48
$\begingroup$ @MichaelHardy I used the javascript library JSXgraph. $\endgroup$ – David Mitra Nov 4 '12 at 17:33
As the volume does not depend on the radius, imagine an cylinder with a radius negligible. The volume will be the volume of a sphere with radius h/2.
2$\begingroup$ The thing is, though, how do you know the volume does not depend on the radius? You don't know it in advance. $\endgroup$ – Rahul Nov 2 '12 at 22:00


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Effective Management Controls and Reporting Policies for the Multinational Company
by ROBERT S. GORAB Partner, New York Office
Presented before Corporate Seminars, Inc., New York—November 1970
MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS (MIS) are essentially com-munication systems. One of the major problems confronting most companies today is the maintenance of sound communications, particularly
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"In 1992, while doing genealogical research via microfilm of old 1874 local newspapers, I came across an extensive newspaper article written by L. M. Park, a 15 year old guard who was stationed at Andersonville almost from the first establishment of the prison. The end of this article says "L. M. Park in SOUTHERN MAGAZINE". "
It is the duty of every lover of justice, when he sees a gross and injurious calumny put into circulation which he is able to refute from direct knowledge, to challenge it at once, and more especially if it is aimed at his own people, and meant to be used to their injury. It is true that in those regions for which calumnies are prepared, they are too generally prepared to the truth, even when the truth is offered; but the duty of affirming the truth is no less stringent on those who are able to affirm it. It is with this view that the following paper is written to correct certain statements which recently appeared in Appleton's Journal, professing to relate facts gleaned during a trip to Andersonville, GA, concerning the Confederate military prison there and the treatment of Federal prisoners. Instead of reviewing the article in detail, I will merely take up, one by one, the principal false statements.
It was my fortune to be stationed at Andersonville almost from the first establishment of the prison until the removal to Millen, GA, or Camp Lawton, and I unhesitatingly pronounce the statement that "the prisoners had to drink the water that conveyed the offal of three camps and two large bakeries off before it reached them" utterly false. The guards drank of the same water that quenched the prisoners' thirst, cooked their food with the same water, the same large stream or creek flowing through the encampment of guards and stockade, or "prison pen" as the Northern writers sneeringly call it. The camps of the guards all faced the stream, while their sinks were far off in the rear, and orders were most strict not to muddy the stream, much less defile it in any way. As to the offal of the bakeries, these being presided over by prisoners on parole, and who did the cooking for the entire prison, I do not believe they would pollute the water their brother prisoners had to drink. As rapidly as they could, the prisoners dug wells; in all some two hundred were dug, and purer, sweeter, cold water I never drank. Being on the staff of Captain Wirz, I had free access to the prison at all times day or night, and whenever I wished to quench my thirst, I went inside the prison and drank from one of these wells.
That "Providential Spring" is an impious myth. I have been in the prison a thousand times and never before heard it so called, except on reading the Herald's account of the anniversary of the Fulton Street Prayer Meeting, when some pharisaically pious old brother recited a long rigmarole about this same "Providential Spring", and said it was planted there in direct answer to prayer. The gist of this spring tale is that when prisoners' sickness and suffering from thirst was at its greatest, all at once this spring burst forth in direct answer to prayer. Was there ever such blasphemy? If such was the case, why does the spring still exist after it has answered its purpose? Do those rocks of Horeb struck by Moses to slake the children of Israel's thirst still exist, and at this late day the water rush forth? It is all a cock-and-bull story, and unlike Sternes, one of the poorest I ever heard.
If my recollection serves me right, there was yet another of these same "Providential Springs" inside the stockade, and that Providence who sends the rain alike on the just and the unjust gave unto the wicked and ungodly Rebels three of these "Providential Springs" and I am sure he did not plant ours in answer to prayer, for we had just as leave drank the branch water.
The Confederate Government has always been harshly assailed for its want of humanity in not having barracks to house the prisoners from the sun and rains. A more senseless hue and cry was never heard. How was it possible to saw timber into planks without saw-mills? There were two water-power mills distant three and six miles respectively, but such rude primitive affairs undeserving the name. The nearest steam saw-mill was twenty-three miles distant (near Smithville), the next at Reynolds, about fifty miles distant; but the great bulk of lumber used, fully two-thirds, was brought from Gordon, a distance of eighty miles. Even if these mills had had the capacity to supply the necessary amount of lumber, it would still have been impossible to have provided barracks for the prisoners, as all the available engines of all the railroads in the Confederacy were taxed to their utmost capacity in transporting supplies for the army in the field and to the prisons. But few even of the officers of the guard had shanties, these few were built of slabs and sheeting, which every one knows is the refuse of the mills. And even though there was no lack of lumber, when we remember that there was but one solitary manufactory of cut nails in the limits of the Confederacy, certainly no blame could be attached to the authorities for not furnishing more comfortable quarters for them. Nearly every building in the encampment was built of rough logs and covered with clap-boards split from the tree and held to their places by poles. The force of these statements is readily appreciated by every intelligent and unprejudiced mind. Besides, is it customary for any nation in time of war to treat their prisoners in a more humane manner than their own soldiers in the field? The inquiry becomes pertinent when we reflect that during the last two years of the war, there was not a tent of any description to be found in any of the armies of the Confederacy save such as were captured from the Federals.
The stockade was built by the negroes belonging to the neighboring farms, either hired or pressed into sevice by the Confederate authorities to cut down the immense pine trees growing on the ground intended for the stockade; and these same trees were then cut into proper lengths and hewn on the spot, then planted in a ditch dug four feet deep to receive them. In this manner was the stockade made. Before it was completed the prisoners were forwarded in great numbers, and it being impossible to keep them in the cars, we had to put them in the completed end of the stockade and double the guard, our whole force kept ever ready day and night for the slightest alarm; for at first we only had the shattered remnants of two regiments, the 26th of Alabama and the 55th of Georgia, numbering in all, some three hundred and fifty men. This constituted the guard. In about ten days thereafter my regiment, 1st Georgia Reserves, composed of young boys and old men, (I was not sixteen) just organized, were sent to take the place of the 26th Alabama and 55th Georgia, so they could be sent to the front for duty. In a few days after our arrival the 2d, 3d and 4th Georgia Reserves, all composed of lads and hoary-headed men, for we were reduced to the strait of "robbing the cradle and the grave for men to make soldiers", joined us rapidly as they could be organized. The author of "Jaunt in the South" says: "When the stockade was occupied in 1864, there was not a tree nor a blade of grass within it. Its reddish sand was entirely barren, and not the smallest particle of green showed itself. But now the surface is covered completely with underbrush; a rich growth of bushes, trees and plants has covered the entire area, and where before there was a dreary desert, there is now a wild and luxurious garden." I have before said the ground was covered with a pine forest, and the trees were utilized to build the stockade. Any one who has traveled south of Macon, GA, knows the pine is abundant, and in fact, almost the only tree. In these forests the ground is covered with wire grass and other grass peculiar to them.
The main reasons for locating the prison at Andersonville after its first being thought the most secure place in the Confederacy from the Yankee cavalry raids, was the abundance of water and timber, wherewith to construct the prison rapidly, and its being the very heart of the grain growing section of the South, which would make it less inconvenient to supply with provisions such a vast multitude.
In the summer of 1867 I set out for New York, being resolved to live no longer in the South where negroes were being placed over us by Yankee bayonets, and in their vernacular, "de bottom rail was agittin' on de top er de fence." I travelled very leisurely and stopped in every city of any note on my route, and kept eyes and ears wide open to drink in everything. I visited the Ohio State Capitol at Columbus, and in the museum of curiosities were some small paper boxes carefully preserved in a glass case, containing what purported to be the exact quality and quatity of ration issued per diem at Andersonville. In one box was about a pint of coarse unbolted meal, and in another about one table-spoonful of rice, and still another box with about two table-spoons of black peas; and in a tiny little box was about one-eighth of a tea-spoonful of salt. Underneath it is all explained, and says among other things: "When rice was given the peas were withheld, but when they had no rice this kind of peas were given instead." It is needless to say how my blood boiled at this atrocious, malicious and damnably false exhibition. No wonder the hatred of the North is kept alive, and the bloody chasm continually widened by such wicked and uncharitable displays as this in one of the largest and most enlightened States in the Union.
I was for three months a clerk in the commissary department at Andersonville, and it was my business to weigh out rations to the guards and prisoners alike, and I solemnly assert that the prisoners got ounce for ounce and pound for pound of just the same quantity and quality of food as did the guards. The State authorities of Ohio ought to blush at thus traducing and slandering a fallen foe, and never in the first instance to have placed on exhibition for preservation as truth this fabrication of partisan hate. No Andersonville prisoner, unless he were lost to all sense of honor and shame, could make such a statement as that the rations were no more than the specimens shown.
It has been charged as a crying shame upon the Confederacy by ignorant humanitarians that the South might at least have given the prisoners wheat bread occasionally; that they rarely ate corn bread in their own land, and that the bread we issued was made of meal so coarse and unsifted that it caused dysentery, thereby largely increasing the mortality. It is well known now that the South depends very largely, and with shame I confess it, on the West for her bread and bacon, and the cotton belt proper makes but little pretensions of raising wheat, for the climate is said is unsuited; so that the region round about Andersonville, being in the very heart of the cotton-growing section of Georgia, such a thing as feeding prisoners on flour was impossible, and the little flour that was obtained as tithes (one-tenth of all the crops raised was required by our Government) was devoted entirely to the use of the hospital. Not only was this true of the territory immediately surrounding Andersonville, but of the whole South. Our armies were unsupplied with flour, and perhaps not one family in fifty throughout the whole land enjoyed that luxury. The guards ate the same bread, or rather meal; the bread eaten by the prisoners being baked by the regular bakers (prisoners detailed for that purpose), while the guards did their own cooking. The meal, however, was the same, and both were unsifted and in truth very coarse. I ate the unsifted meal always.
Another cry of holy horror is raised every time the "Dead Line" is mentioned, as if this dead-line was prima facie evidence that the Southerners were as barbarous and cruel a race as ever blotted the face of the earth. The civilized North, however, had the same barbarous dead-line in their prisons, and in fact originated the device. It was a necessity with us, for we never had at one time more than 1200 to 1500 guards in the four regiments fit for duty, and we had the keeping at one time of nearly 40,000 prisoners. By a concerted plan of onslaught, they could at any time have scaled the walls, captured the guards, and with the weapons of their keepers overrun the entire country, which, all south of Dalton, GA, (100 miles north of Atlanta), was left wholly unprotected save by gray-haired old men and young boys; and the women, children and negroes, who were the only hope for the making of crops for our armies, would have been helplessly at their mercy. This dead line was clearly defined and consisted of stakes driven into the ground twenty feet from the walls of the stockade, and on these stakes was a three-inch strip of plant nailed all around the inside of the prison. They were all notified that a step beyond this line was not prudent, and they were not so unwise as to venture beyond that limit.
Speaking of the number and burial of the dead, the writer of the aforesaid "Jaunt" says: "The authorities at the stockade who had charge of the interment of the Federal dead, did their work rudely, digging pits and burying them in", then he goes on: "It is hard to comprehend the true value of the number 14,000; its magnitude eludes you. Fourteen thousand men form a great mob, or a great army, or a great town. Here you have 14,000 men lying silently in a few acres. Within these bounds men have suffered as greatly as have any since the world began." In reply to this I would merely say, the burial was the work of prisoners paroled especially for the purpose, both the hauling of the bodies to the ground, the digging of the graves and even the records of the names were all done by paroled prisoners. Books and a tent were provided soley for the latter purpose. Owing to the weakness of the guard, paroled prisoners were employed for this duty, as we could spare no men for the purpose; and if the work was rudely or carelessly done, the blame rests with them. As compensation they were given double rations and almost entire freedom. As to the number of dead we admit that it is great, but statistics show that more Southern soldiers died in Northern prisons than Northern soldiers in Southern prisons. In vain have Northern writers tried to disprove this fact.
Great as was the mortality among the prisoners, it was no greater in proportion to the number than that of the guards, which is fully attested by the reports of the surgeon in charge. Besides, it is well-known to every soul that can or does read, that the Confederacy, through their agent, Judge Ould, made frequent and tireless efforts to get the United States Government, through their agent, General Butler, to exchange. But no, the Federal authorities would not hear to it; but acting on the avowed and promulgated idea that the South, being blockaded, could not recruit her armies from foreign lands, while to the North the whole of Europe was opened, they cruelly determined not to exchange, so as to detain our soldiers from again fighting them, well knowing even then we had made our last conscription (17 to 50 years) and when those we had were killed up or in prison, we could of course be overpowered. This was their cold-blooded, brutal policy; and closely did they stick to it even till were almost literally wiped out, while the men they had fighting us were in the most part hired substitutes, drafted men and foreign hirelings.
Farther, as to the mortality among the prisoners, let it be remembered that a majority of the deaths caused in our prisons was want of proper medicines, which we did not have and could not get, except by blockade-running. Had the Federal Government any of the milk of human kindness in its composition, it would have acceded to our earnest request to take cotton in exchange for drugs to administer their own dying soldiers. Their immense manufactories were lying idle for the want of cotton, while we had it but could not use it. But as these self-same drugs and medicines would also be applied to the relief of our own sick soldiers, they determined it would be to their advantage to let all die alike, knowing that the South could get no more men to supply the places of the sick and dying, and these they had imprisoned, and so refused all overtures. After using every effort and exhausting every argument to get an exchange, we proposed as we had no medicines and could get none, except what we accidentally ran in through the blockade from Europe, (they being declared contraband and always confiscated whenever captured by the blockade fleet) we proposed to turn over to them all their sick, without requiring man for man, but giving them absolutely up, if the United States would only send vessels for transporting them. This was done at Camp Lawton (Millen, GA), after the prison was removed from Andersonville for greater security.
From the private journal of a Confederate officer high in command, both at Andersonville and other Southern prisons, I glean the annexed facts, the first bearing directly upon the foregoing: "At one time an order came to Camp Lawton to prepare 2000 men for exchange. The order from Richmond was to select first the wounded, next the oldest prisoners and sickly, filling up with healthy men according to date. This partly went first to Savannah, as arranged, but by some mistake the ships were at Charleston, and the poor wretches had to be taken there; and every one who knew the Southern railroads in those days, and the difficulty or rather impossibility to procure food for such a crowd along the road, will know what those poor fellows suffered. At Charleston they were refused, the commissioner declaring that he was not going to exchange able-bodied men for such specimens of humanity. (The term used was more brutal.) Finding him obdurate, Colonel Ord requested him to take them without exchange. This he refused with a sneering laugh, and the crowd was ordered back. Never did the writer of this witness such woe-begone countenances, in which misery and hopelessness were more strongly painted, than shown by these poor fellows on their return. And the curses leveled against the rulers who thus treated the defenders of their country were fearful, although certainly well deserved. As the stockade gate closed upon them the surgeon in charge said to the writer: "Poor fellows! the world has closed upon more than half of them; their disappointment will be their death-knell." His words proved true. Who murdered these men? Let history answer the question.
Again I extract from the aforesaid journal: The Northerners talk much of the cruelty of the South to Federal prisoners. At one time the unfortunate prisoners were almost without clothing, indeed some hardly had as much as common decency required. The South could not provide them, not being able to clothe their own men. An application was made to Seward. The reply was that "the Federal Government did not supply clothing to prisoners of war." Luckily for the poor fellows, a society in New York took the matter in hand, and several bales of clothing and cases of shoes were forwarded to Richmond, and divided in proportion to numbers, among the prisoners.
A great deal has been said of the cruelty to the prisoners inside the stockade. This so-called cruelty was inflicted by their own men. In every prison a police and a chief, all from the prisoners, was appointed to keep order, see to the enforcement of the regulations, and inquire into all offenses, reporting through their chief to the Commandant. The punishment, such as were used in the Federal army, were ordered inflicted by these men, and some were of such a barbarous nature that they were prohibited with disgust by Confederate officers, who substituted milder and more humane ones; and yet the former were in common practice in the Federal armies, as testified by all the prisoners.
Among the numerous lies invented by Northerners, and actually still believed by some parties to this day, was the story that the Confederates used to hunt and worry prisoners with bloodhounds. Now it is well-known that the breed of bloodhounds is nearly extinct in the South, and the large packs of those dogs alluded to by writers on the subject existed only in their imaginations, the prolific brains of penny-a-liners, whose vile and lying compositions now abound in any so-called respectable New York papers; no public man is safe from their ferocious attacks. Among the various specimens of this dog alluded to by the above named gentry, was the famous bloodhound of the Libby Prison. The writer has often seen this formidable animal, which certainly in his youth must have been as fine a specimen of the kind as could be met anywhere, but unfortunately for the thrilling portion of the accounts of his doings at the time of the war, the poor beast, worn out with old age with hardly a tooth in his head, wandered about a harmless, inoffensive creature. He was the property of the Commandant of Libby, who kept him because he was a pet dog of his father's, and there the brute lived a pensioner in his old age. As to his worrying men, he could not, had he even tried, have worried a child. The other prisons had none, not even as pensioners. Among the records history gives us of using those dogs to hunt men, it is stated that during the Florida war a number of bloodhounds were imported by the Federal Government from Cuba to hunt the Indians out of the Everglades, and that numbers of the natives were worried to death by the ferocious beasts. The writer does not deny that when a prisoner got out of the stockade trying to escape, if no clue could be obtained of his whereabouts, a few mongrel or half-breed fox hounds were used to track him, but the worrying was all done in the correspondent's own brain. However, it suited the times and made the article sell. The only complaint made is that this vile and malicious lie is still, if not believed, repeated by some who use it for party purposes, and thus help to keep up the bad feeling between the North and the South.
So never shake your gory locks or point your guilty finger at the South for the dead who died in Southern prisons. History, with impartial pen will place the guilt and censure of the damning deed at the door of the insulter of defenseless women, the plunder of New Orleans, and the murder of Mrs. Surratt, or as he is admiringly called by his worshippers, "the great Secretary", Edwin M. Stanton and their backers, the members of the United States Congress. History will also declare Captain Wirz to have been as foully and wilfully murdered ers as Mrs. Surratt. Though a rude pro ers fane man, he was never guilty of heartless cruelty while I was under him, a period of over three months, until the prisoners removal to Camp Lawton. The day will come when his memory will be fully vindicated; now the attemp is vain.
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Good advice for keeping yourself and your car cool under pressure
Heat kills power. Heat damages parts. Oh, and heat robs the driver ofhis stamina, reflexes, and concentration. Bad stuff all around, andthat's why we've compiled this list of ways to beat the heat when itcomes to racing–everything from making sure your radiator is workingefficiently, to keeping the air/fuel charge cool, to keeping your drivercomfortable. To do this, we've contacted many of the industry leaders intheir respective categories for hints and tips on keeping excess heat atbay, and they responded with some pretty interesting stuff. Of course,this is still racing, so there is no way we can turn the inside of yourSuper Late Model on an Alabama track in August into a cool dip in amountain stream, but many of these tips can help you keep heat losses toa manageable level.
We're talking about the car's fluids, not yours–lubricants andcoolants, specifically.
It's a well-known fact that when it comes to lubricants and oils,synthetics are less susceptible to thermal breakdown than mineral-basedlubricants. But that isn't the only way you can use your race car'slubricants to lower heat. The primary purpose of oil is to reducefriction. Reducing friction increases horsepower and torque, as youalready know, but it also reduces the heat that is a by-product of thefriction. This is also true in the transmission and rear end, where moreefficient oils can reduce the heat produced from driving the gears.
Royal Purple's engineers also tell us that the motor oil you use canalso aid the combustion chamber seal at the rings. By providing a betterseal between the cylinder wall and the piston rings, Royal Purple saysits oils can lead to a 12 percent reduction in coolant temperature. Asproof, the company says that it performed used thermal imagery testingon a V-twin motorcycle engine to find that the oil temperature can bereduced 25 to 44 degrees F with just an oil change.
When it comes to the coolant in your engine and radiator, additives arealso a popular way to knock the temperatures down. A good example isRoyal Purple's Purple Ice coolant additive. These "coolant boosters"work by reducing the surface tension of the coolant (plain old waterseems to work best), which allows better heat transfer from the metal inthe engine into the coolant, and then from the coolant to the radiator.A secondary benefit from coolant additives like Purple Ice is that theyalso inhibit corrosion and scaling inside the engine, which is importantbecause excessive scale buildup inhibits the flow of coolant through theengine and can lead to hot spots.
The Hard Facts on Coolant Boosters
As part of its testing, Royal Purple performed dyno runs checking enginetemperatures to see how different mixtures of coolant performed. Hereare the numbers they provided us:
50/50 mix of water and antifreeze 228 degrees F
50/50 mix of water and antifreeze with Purple Ice added 222 degrees F
Water only 220 degrees F
Water with Purple Ice added 200 degrees F
The used Nextel Cup parts market is a great thing for Saturday-nightracers trying to find more performance on a budget. But many racers havemade a big mistake purchasing a used radiator out of a Nextel Cup carand installing it into their short-track machine. When racing a slowercar on a more confined racetrack, the airflow to the radiator is goingto be significantly less. Because of this, most radiators built forshort-track racing use fewer fins to promote better flow through theradiator. "For a 1/4- to 3/8-mile track, I would recommend a radiatorwith a fin count in the range of 14 to 15 per inch with a two-row core,"says C&R Radiators' Chris Paulsen. "As you get faster, you can increasethe fin count, but on the lower speed tracks you will get better coolingby making sure you get plenty of flow through the radiator. More finsgives you a chance at better heat dissipation, but if you aren't gettingthe air moving through the radiator it doesn't do you any good."
Paulsen also recommends a regular cleaning regimen to ensure yourradiator remains at peak working efficiency. If you race asphalt, rubberbuildup can be a problem. Soaking your radiator in a solvent bath canhelp loosen up the tiny pieces of rubber that gets wedged between thefins. Just make sure, Paulsen cautions to always cap off the ends of theradiator so that the solvent doesn't get inside the coolant tubes. "Mostdouble-pass radiators use a baffle that uses a high-temp silicone seal,"he explains. "If you allow solvent to get inside the radiator it canattack that seal."
If you are racing dirt, rubber buildup isn't as large a problem, andsolvent doesn't have much effect on dirt. Instead, soaking your radiatorin a soapy water solution will help. After soaking your radiator (eitherasphalt or dirt), rinse it with low-pressure water from a garden hosefrom the back to push any debris out of the radiator in the directionfrom which it came. Never use a high-pressure water hose (the kind youwill find at a car wash) on your radiator because it can easily bend thecooling fins and do more harm than good.
Finally, Paulsen says that radiator stop leak products are a racer'sworst enemy. "That stuff uses a ceramic that coagulates when it makescontact with air to plug any leaks. But racers are always draining theirradiators to either pull it or the engine. As soon as that happens andyou get air in the system, all the stop leak inside the radiator hardensand creates a ceramic insulator inside all the cooling tubes."
In just a few years, coatings have gone from something many racersconsidered to be little better than snake oil, into a tool that's usedjust about everywhere on a race car. Coatings are widely thought of as away to reduce friction, but other blends are great at controlling heat.The trick, according to Tech Line Coatings' Leonard Warren, is tounderstand what you want to do with the heat your race car produces.Coatings, known as thermal dispersants, can be used to help hot parts onthe car radiate heat more efficiently. Tech Line sells coatings designedto be applied to radiators, oil pans, brake calipers, and just aboutanything else you can think of to help them stay cooler. "We have seenthermal dispersants improve the thermal transfer efficiency of aradiator by 20 percent," he says. "I've applied it to an alternator andwatched it drop 30 degrees of operating temperature the next time it wasinstalled on the same engine."
Thermal barriers are an insulator and do the opposite. They can beapplied to headers to keep the heat inside the tube and keep the enginecompartment cooler. You can also mix and match the two. On an intakemanifold, for example, Warren recommends applying a thermal barrier tothe base and cylinder head flange to keep heat from radiating from theengine into the manifold. Then, apply a thermal dispersant to the topand under the runners, if you are racing an air-gap manifold, to helpradiate any heat that the manifold does absorb. This can help keep theincoming air/fuel charge significantly cooler.
Coatings have also become incredibly durable. Warren says one of theareas to apply an engine coating can be inside the combustion chamber. Athermal barrier on the chamber roof and piston floor traps heat insidethe negative space of the combustion chamber. "Many people think acoating inside the combustion chamber will make the metal hotter, but itdoes the opposite," he explains. "It keeps the metal from absorbing theheat from combustion and instead makes the cylinder firing moreefficient. Instead of being absorbed into the cylinder head or engineblock, the heat is used to produce more force pushing the piston downand then goes out the exhaust port."
Thermal Barriers
Like coatings, thermal barriers are used just about anywhere andeverywhere on a car. Thermal barriers come in many forms, but all arefor the same purpose: keeping heat from traveling through that area.Sometimes, it is to contain heat within a small area (header tubes).Sometimes, it is to protect a cooler area from being warmed by a radiantheat source (the driver's compartment).
Design Engineering produces several products designed to keep the heatproduced by your race car where you want it and away from the places youdon't. One of the most interesting products is what Design Engineeringcalls its Protect-A-Boot. These are insulated sleeves designed toprotect the spark plugs' connectors. These are extremely close to theexhaust headers, and if the rubber boots melt or burn in spots, it cancause engine misfires.
The company also produces insulating mats that work well at keepingradiant engine heat from invading the driver's compartment. DesignEngineering's Floor and Tunnel Shield is lightweight and just 3/16-inchthick but can withstand 1,170 degrees of direct, continuous heat whilereflecting almost 90 percent of that heat. When applied to the firewalland floorboard where necessary, this can make a big difference in termsof driver comfort–and safety. After all, air blowing on your driverfrom a NACA duct can only do so much good when the bottom of hisaluminum seat is cooking his backside like a frying pan.
Radiator Fans
Flex-a-lite is one of the leading manufacturers of automotive coolingfans of all types. When it comes to radiator fans to assist cooling, thecompany produces electric fans, clutch fans, and fans designed to bemounted solidly to the water pump, so we asked Lisa Chissus what worksbest for racing.
The answer, as you might expect, is to go with the electric fan wheneverpossible. Electric fans are powered by their own motor so they don't robpower from the engine, and dyno testing has proven that an electric fancan save you 25 hp versus an OE clutch fan. Fan clutches should never beused in racing because they only eat horsepower. If you find that youneed the extra pulling power of a mechanical fan mounted to the waterpump, Flex-a-lite produces flexible fans that essentially "flatten" outat high rpm and pull less power. They also pull less air, but if youhave correctly built your radiator box, the incoming air should bestrong enough to provide adequate cooling by itself.
Whether you decide to use an electric or mechanical fan, Chissusstrongly recommends using a fan shroud of some type. Air always followsthe path of least resistance, she says, so if you do not use a shroud,the fan will simply pull air from inside the engine compartment andlargely bypass the radiator. A shroud seals off the area between the fanand the radiator, forcing the air pulled by the fan to come through theradiator. Shrouds should be designed to cover at least 70 percent of theradiator's surface area.
Stainless Steel = Cool?
Leonard Warren gave us a neat tip when it comes to heat control and theair/fuel charge. It doesn't have anything to do with coatings, but itwas simply too good not to pass along.
"One thing many racers don't think about is to use stainless steelfasteners and insulated washers to connect everything between thecarburetor and cylinder head," he says. "Stainless steel doesn'ttransfer heat very well, but carbon steel does. You can insulateeverything, but if you use regular carbon steel bolts, the heat willjust travel down those like a wick. I know one company that did a testwith all different types of carburetor spacers. They found that nothingprovided much insulation until they switched out the bolts holding downthe carburetor and spacer with stainless steel bolts. If you are using aphenolic spacer but not getting the improvement you expected, it'sprobably because the heat from the engine is just traveling right up thebolts, past that phenolic spacer and heating up the fuel right in thecarburetor. Switching to stainless fasteners will make your phenolicspacer a lot more effective."
Oil Coolers
Since most Saturday-night races are less than 100 laps on tracks thatare 5/8-mile or less, many racers believe they don't need transmissionand rear-end oil coolers. Granted, it is critical to run a rear-end oilcooler if you are running a Nextel Cup race at Atlanta, but your LateModel may be helped by one too.
The friction created by gears meshing in the rear end produces extremelocalized heating. This heat is right between the gear teeth, soshooting an infrared temperature gun on the housing can be misleading. Asimple, belt-driven oil pump and a small oil cooler can make a world ofdifference. Keeping the temperature under control keeps the frictioncreated between the ring and pinion gears from robbing as much power andalso improves the reliability of the locker springs. By pumping the oil,you can also direct the cooled oil directly onto the ring gear as itre-enters the rear-end housing. This provides much better cooling andlubrication than relying on the ring gear to splash into a pool of oilat the bottom of the housing.
Manufacturers such as B&M Racing Performance produce high-performanceoil coolers that not only provide good heat transfer from the oil to airwith minimum size and weight, they are also very resilient in order tostand up to the abuses of racing. B&M produces a stacked-plate cooler,which you can literally stand on without damaging, and a cooler with anintegral fan for providing extra cooling power when needed.
Cool Suits
In longer, endurance-type racing events, it becomes critically importantto keep the driver cool and comfortable. For those situations, whereinsulating the driver from engine heat and providing a continuous flowof outside air simply isn't enough, driver "cool suits" are available.
Cool suits designed for racing typically employ a shirt with severalfeet of surgical tubing sewn in place. A small electric pump continuallymoves chilled water from a cooler through the tubing to keep the drivercool. By keeping the driver's trunk cool, the blood flow cools the restof the body. Other systems provide chilled air, which is blown insidethe driver's helmet. The cool air cools the lungs and, in turn, coolsthe rest of the body. The benefit of this system is that it can keep thedriver's face shield from fogging up, but if the driver is wearingcontacts, the air can also dry out his eyes.
Cool Shirt produces both types of driver cooling systems and even sellsa combination system that provides the driver with both chilled water toa cool shirt and cooled air inside his helmet. When shopping for asystem, Tom Engebretson, Cool Shirt's general manager, recommends makingsure it has a temperature or speed regulator that the driver cancontrol. If not, the driver can become chilled, which can be just asmuch a detriment to concentration. Also, many cool air systems offeroptions to filter the air before it reaches the driver, which is anexcellent idea.
Personal Protection Equipment
Personal protection equipment is just a fancy way to say the driver'sfiresuit, gloves, shoes, helmet, and anything else on his body. Thebiggest complaint about personal protection equipment, in general, isthat in order to protect you from a fire, the stuff makes you awfullyhot and sweaty.
Fortunately, many companies are working on ways to make the stuff moreprotective with less bulk. One of the latest developments is a materialcalled CarbonX that Simpson and other manufacturers of protectiveequipment are including in their products. When used in clothing,CarbonX is capable of withstanding 2,000 degrees F without damage andwon't shrink or char when exposed to direct flame. It's alsocomfortable. CarbonX can be worn next to the skin and possesses goodwicking properties. That means it keeps you more comfortable when yousweat.
The old adage still holds true that more layers in your firesuit willmean better protection, but with the new advancements in technology, theprotection is better than ever before.


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Discussion in 'Past Contests' started by Hammer Vaporizer, Jan 2, 2013.
Not sure what I did wrong?
The problem is flickr is kinda annoying to use. It needs to give you a URL that has ".jpg" at the end of it, or the Insert Image won't work.
imgur.com is the most intuitive/fast image hosting site I've used
Rehosted for 1_gr8_underdog (NOT my submission!!)
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Not because of its visual finish but simply as a result of the emotion associated to some precious value evoked by the symbolic icon used in this concept: freedom.
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And one of my own, but seems kind of lame now that I see it on here...
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A few questions. Help please!
Posted 30 November 2002 - 08:55 PM
I also know that I have "seen" some incidents (this happens once in a great while), and then hear about it on the news. Freaks me out. Could I have a slight (I mean very slight) psychic abililty? Like I said, I know it sounds goofy.....
Another question...about spells. There is one spell I have done, and it worked. I do not do black magic....no way will I ever touch that! I do not believe in black magic.
Is there a spell out there to help someone get to feeling better? My fiance has been sick for at least a month or two now, with a bad cold. During the day he is fine, but in the evening, his poor throat starts to feel bad, and his voice grows hoarse. It pains me to see him feeling like this. All I need is a simple spell to get him better.
If I do by chance have some slight psychic ability, is there a way I can enhance this? I would love to tap into this more. Thanks, sorry for rambling!
Posted 04 December 2002 - 03:10 PM
Also, on the Barnes and Noble website they have "free" classes, of course they reccomend a book for the class and it is useful, one of the classes is a Tarot for beginners I actually signed up but never followed thru with it. You should check it out.
Posted 05 December 2002 - 05:06 AM
Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. --Ovid--
Posted 05 December 2002 - 05:55 PM
Have you bought your deck? I started the the Rider Waite about 20 years ago and have been adding to my collection ever since. When I started out, I used to bring them everywhere with me and even slept with them under my pillow. Interesting dreams but getting familiar with them is important. Also you might try pulling a card a day... ask them what will my day be like...and see if it turns out. The more you work with them, the more "in tune" you become with the cards.
Also, regarding your fiance, you might look at Scott Cunninghams herbal book. you might find something in there.
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Posted 18 March 2003 - 11:57 AM
Is there a spell out there to help someone get to feeling better?
Have you tried Jack Daniels? It works like magic! ;D
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Posted 16 May 2003 - 04:26 AM
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Posted 29 January 2004 - 10:05 AM
[glow=green,2,300]ok...u all know about my story about my uncle in my dream sayin good-bye like it was final...then we got a phone call the next day that my uncle that was in my dream died. okay...it freaked me out a bit. would this be a physic seeing the future kinda thing? or my uncle coming to say good-bye while he was passing away?
I had a dream of my grandparents' passings at least a year before it happened. It was my first time away from home and there wouldn't be anyway for me to see them for at least two years. Both my grandparents were in good health, so I just wrote down the dream without telling anyone.
One night, I was awakened by a weight at the foot of my bed. It was my grandmother. The next morning my parents told me passed during the night.
I didn't lose my mind - I have it backed up on a disk ... somewhere
Posted 29 January 2004 - 02:23 PM
and forces of light,
May *person's name* be alright"
this is a healing chant i learned when i was young, and it works....use it on your fiance, if your fiance is still sick, or ever gets sick....
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