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I've landed back in the big smoke and returned to my poorly tended blog intent on giving it some TLC. And so without further ado (and for those of you who have not already read these articles/interviews and reviews) here are a few of the favourite things that I've been typing away at for the last few weeks…more as a historical document than anything…It's quite long so feel free to flick through.
A Man Apart – Written for FEST 16th July 2010
In 2008 Steve Lambert punched a journalist. The journalist in question, Chris Wilkinson, had refused to participate in The Factory, Badac Theatre's controversial Holocaust piece that sought to give its audience an immersive and near-real—too real, some suggested—experience of the Nazi gas chambers. Two days later Wilkinson was assaulted on the street.
Lambert's PR has told me that it isn't appropriate to ask him about this, and while it's true that the incident occurred two years ago, there is still an obvious undercurrent of violence in Lambert's attitude to theatre. While others deem it appropriate to work with young people at The Pleasance through mediums like rap as a means of expression, Lambert is "much more into the idea of getting them into a room and getting them to punch the fuck out of their energy and just see where it goes". I'm not sure it's going to go well.
As Wilkinson himself has said, this is not the first time that an artist has attacked a journalist for a critical response to their work, but with statements such as "Without violence we have nothing" on Badac's website, Lambert's case seems more serious. But this doesn't seem to sit true to the man sat in front of me in 2010, although the signs are there that this obsession with aggression hasn't disappeared: "a lot of theatre is about a repression of violence. You can't repress something that isn't there. I just choose not to repress it – I choose to explore it.'
What is never in doubt as we speak is that he demands complete commitment from both his company and his audience; when you come to him you have to do so with utter heart and soul. It is a holistic approach that was fostered in Poland. After a few frustrating years as a jobbing actor and three interesting ones as a bookie, Lambert hopped on a bus at Victoria and ended up in Warsaw. It changed his outlook on theatre permanently. "You all of a sudden realise that theatre is actually a craft. Here it is viewed as a vehicle to go onto telly, to go onto other things but [there] the training is that you're learning a craft that is like a life long thing, that you're always going to be learning a craft."
Lambert returned and was quickly bored with the "kitchen sink drama" around him. Wanting to create work inspired by Jerzy Grotowski, the innovative Polish director, he set up Badac. He was never going to compromise. "If you're setting up a company, I wasn't going to do it on anyone else's terms." Physically and psychologically demanding, Badac's intense style comes from a suitably "extreme" source: Antonin Artaud's The Theatre And Its Double, the bible for half the radical playwrights of recent decades. "The very first chapter is called 'Theatre and The Plague' and all of our work is about me trying to understand that chapter."
It's all beginning to sound a bit militant but he surprises me: "I know it's not everyone's thing. I've got nothing against comedy or musicals – it all goes into the tapestry of theatre." So you don't think that everyone should think the way you do then? "No but it is about saying to them we've created something. Either join it or don't join it."
He seems to be aware that he's seen as an artist whose ego is out of control and is at pains to show that nothing could be further from the truth. "I think that with some of the subject matter that we tackle if you approach it as a vehicle to sell yourself it's not going to work. It will be very superficial and have no depth."
It is this belief that drew Palestinian poet Ghazi Hussein to a company known more for its physicality than its lyricism. Hussein was repeatedly imprisoned and tortured from the age of 14 for being, as I am told, "guilty of carrying thoughts." In 2009 he approached Lambert after seeing The Devoured, Badac's equally harrowing although slightly more conventional one-man show at last year's Fringe. "He liked the fact that our work really tries, whether it fails or succeeds. Nevertheless it goes in with an energy and a commitment and an honesty that we're trying to do it, we're trying to our nth degree to bring this out and show his words."
The Cry uses poems Hussein wrote in prison, but will still very much be a Badac show. "The way we're approaching it is the energy and drive behind it more than it being as a poem. A couple of them are delivered as screams, a couple of them are delivered as pleading. The emotion that actually created it is more important than the text itself. People talk about light and dark, the way you've got to have quiet moments and loud moments. But to me you can move that barrier up and you can have completely intense theatre and it will have different levels. Its just that those levels are really high."
Whether all this will work remains to be seen. But Lambert's audacious company certainly stands out in the comparatively safe Edinburgh program. Wilfully confrontational, his work assaults theatregoers' sensibilities in a way few companies would attempt. Let's just hope no journalists are injured this time round.
Bunny – Written for FEST 12th August 2010
With writing credits that include Skins and Shameless, Jack Thorne is known for writing snappy lines for disenfranchised teens. Quick, clever and encased in an urban poetry that both delights and resonates, he packs each sentence with a punch. No word is wasted, no repetition accidental, he has a track record of crafting pithy dialogues and Bunny is no exception.
Brought to Edinburgh by lauded new writing theatre company Nabokov, Bunny is a dynamic production of a sharp text. Rosie Wyatt's Katie bounds into vivid and jabbering life in front of a cartoon background that mirrors her story frame for frame. Jenny Turner's guileless illustrations and Ian William Galloway's deceptively low-fi video design echo both Katie's childish energy and adult knowing.
In a breathless metropolitan drawl, Katie describes an accident with an ice cream that leads to a manhunt. We watch as she slips down a rabbit hole through a sequence of remarkable occurrences. Thorne's skill is to make each choice both the stuff of fantasy and totally acceptable; you are complicit with Katie through each decision and judgement.
Wyatt is engrossing as the lost girl at the centre of this journey. She is a bundle of teenage confidence and insecurity; one moment she's a woman, the next a child, she plays each inflection of Thorne's script beautifully.
There is a tangible undercurrent of desperation in Bunny that raises the stakes at each stage of this adventure; everyday situations take on the mantle of cruel victories and with a thrilling potency, the ordinary becomes extraordinary.
Flamenco Without Frontiers – Written for FEST 16th July 2010
Listening to Paco Pena's softly lilting mellifluous Spanish tone it is hard not to feel transported to a place of warm contentment. But whilst this virtuoso of the flamenco scene wants to create sensuous music, he is also determined to prove that this melodic artform can be used to discuss social issues too "If you're honest with yourself you can't ignore certain things, it's not that I have a political point to make but I love people, wherever they come from. Flamenco is a legitimate form of music, which has a lot, or rather combines a lot, of elements from different cultures; it is a music of people. If there is a problem right in front of me, my music is moved."
There is a fluidity when you speak to Pena that verbally matches his technical elegance as one of Spain's most brilliant guitarists. An eclecticist who has taken his solo performances from the hot coasts of Costa Brava to full blown theatrical explosions that infuse the echoey spaces of Carnegie Hall and the rounded vaults of the Royal Albert Hall, Pena has never been one to sit on his laurels. His new piece for the Edinburgh International Festival, Quimeras, continues in his exploration into the possibilities of this traditional Spanish musical style.
"I never wanted to be a solo guitarist at all, I just wanted to participate in the whole flamenco scene – I've always loved the singing and the dance" Indeed for a lauded soloist Paco Pena charmingly seems to bypass any egotism constantly reference his fellow artists and collaborators; he is a participant in a much larger act. This holistic artistic interest is just one of the things that Pena shares with his collaborator on Quimeras, Artist Director Jude Kelly. It is a partnership that has born a number of shows, with their Flamenco Sin Fronteras currently playing at Sadler's Wells. A powerful mixture of music, dance and stage play, their work sweeps a strong warm Spanish breeze into the air conditioned British stages playing host to The Paco Pena Flamenco Dance Company this summer.
A passionate believer herself in the potential for dialogue between artforms the collaboration is a fruitful one "Jude Kelly can sense and feel my ideas in a way that she then makes her own and she interprets [them] in her own medium which is the staging of them" Although the initial inspiration for a project undeniably comes from Pena it is also a fully developed dialogue between the two "…we talk a lot, she suggests things like any director would do in order to highlight what I'm thinking, she doesn't interfere but her contribution is very sensitive and very musical; she communes very strongly."
At a time when immigration is at the top of the European political agenda the timing of Quimeras could not be more perfect. Pena speaks passionately about the right that immigrants have to try to make a better world for themselves and their families, sadly noting that their dreams often turn out to be false, crude and tragic "[Quimeras] will try to bring to life the journey of one or several of these people, creating situations along the way that reflect good and bad aspects of their dreams, the reality of their lives and the interconnection with the people on the other side of the frontiers they cross."
It is a subject that has been with him for a long time "I grew up in a place where a lot of immigrants have passed by so I have been immersed in it for all my life." Pena grew up in Andalucia where the proximity of north Africa meant that there is always an intense traffic of people crossing in one direction or the other. At 6 years old he began to learn the guitar and after 6 years of "soaking in everything musically that I could" he was performing professionally at 12. After a productive period working in Spain in the late 1960's he moved to London; it is a move that he counts has being one of the most important parts of his career "…because I have been out of Spain so much I have been exposed to unexpected artistic propositions and activity in the arts".
Many of these opportunities have allowed him to take flamenco music to an audience previously unaware of its existence outside of a Spanish construct (he once played on the same bill as Jimi Hendrix). It is a process of enlightenment that has worked both ways "…[so whilst] you project your roots and culture in this music you are sharing…at the same time you have been enlightened by so much that you see around you that gives you an edge over someone who hasn't been out in the world in the same way."
It seems clear that this cosmopolitanism has given his music this elusive edge over others. Even in the face of his indisputable expertise it seems it is his passion for bridging flamenco with diverse musical genres (including classical, jazz, blues, country and Latin American) whilst maintaining a healthy respect for it's traditions that is the real reason for his success "It is because I am constantly moving forward, I never sit still…I've done many shows so you push ahead with your ideas and then they inevitably become more ambitious and accomplished in style".
He chuckles "It is also probably because I am very old!" There's the trade mark Pena humility again.
Bo Burnham – Written for What's On Stage 15th August 2010
My ex-girlfriend used to have a fetish where she dressed up as herself and behaved like a complete bitch all the time.' Simple but blisteringly sharp this is only one of the insights from the desperately cool world of Bo Burnham, a 19 year old prodigy (his words) of the You Tube generation.
Like a Dadaist poet, Burnham's understanding of the potential alchemy of random association is inspired. Words, Words, Words incorporates Songs, glitter, Haiku, triangles, dog jokes, torn newspapers, sardonic silences; each moment is tightly choreographed whilst giving the sense of free falling through Burnham's subconscious. With pitch perfect deadpan delivery he's not afraid to face awkwardness as well as laughs which adds an edgier performance art feel to his set.
For all this his tools are fairly traditional. A series of comedic songs and punchy one-liners, he's working within conventional structures. It's all the more wonderful then that he's creating something so unique from them.
Keepers – Written for What's On Stage 16th August
Keepers is a sweet tale of two Thomas' who have taken on the mantle as protectors of sailors against the capricious whims of a roaring ocean. Set in an isolated lighthouse The Plasticine Men's whimsical production details the touchingly symbiotic relationship between the two men.
With the aid of only a light, two chairs and a ladder, director Simon Day has masterfully crafted ingenious ways of representing both the cramped conditions within this tiny fortress and the enormity of the floating enemy outside.
Performed with physical flair by Martin Bonger and Fionn Gill, the central relationship at the heart of this story is infused with an palpable tenderness. Lawrence Williams' sound design is outstanding, as is the level of synchronicity between performance and sound.
Keepers perhaps loses its way towards the end, but this is a genuinely touching show, given to us by all involved with infinite care.
Decky Does A Bronco – Written for FEST 12th August 2010
"I am the master! I am the master!" Decky pelts after Chrissy, his erstwhile arch-nemesis/best friend, looping a giant rope round his head. David watches on with amused irritation whilst Barry looks contemptuously at the lot of them. He is nearly in secondary school, after all, and the rest of this motley crew are a mere nine-years-old.
This is the world of Decky Does A Bronco, a vivid, dangerous, playful space that is slowly penetrated by the violent adult reality which encompasses it. A set of swings forms the focus of these youngsters, a monument to their prowess in the great art of "bronco-ing". To bronco is to jump off a swing at great speed looping the links over the frame – a right of male passage in this Scottish council estate.
The physical prowess of the cast is cleverly underplayed but clear for all to see. Our boys clamber about the swing frame like monkeys, each ascension a victory, each bronco a badge of honour.
Douglas Maxwell's play is now beginning to feel a bit dated. Created by Grid Iron in 2000, the central story of a tragically shortened childhood was probably more of a rarity then. Now it feels predictable.
Performed in a park, there is a rawness to Decky Does A Bronco that mirrors its external surroundings; you couldn't cage this in a proscenium arch theatre. Frustrating then that its narrative should seem so traditional.
Beautiful Burnout – Written for FEST 18th August 2010
In a festival more renowned for its breadth of choice than its universally high standards, the National Theatre of Scotland is as close to a sure-fire bet as you can find. With worldwide hit Black Watch tied neatly under their belts, they have teamed up with movement specialists Frantic Assembly to create the masterful Beautiful Blackout, a sophisticated and thrilling look at the world of boxing.
Set against the backdrop of strict guru Bobby 'I'm God' Burgess, Beautiful Burnout follows five boxers as they go from ordinary street nobodies to masters of the ring. Bryony Lavery's script offers an insight into the dynamic world of amateur and pro boxing, charting each power play with an envious lightness of touch.
She revels in the glory and potential glamour of the sport with poetic monologues that carry tones of religious devotion. This is mirrored in Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett's luscious movement sequences performed against the pumping orchestrations of Underworld. It's an exhilarating performance, if a tried and trusted story of the tragedy implicit in such a violent world.
The cast are at their physical peak and there is a palpable sense of bodies being pushed to their limits and back again. But Lavery's easily anticipated plot gives them little to play with in terms of emotional muscle, falling instead into two dimensional stereotypes, with the show's conclusion feeling frustratingly overwritten.
It all looks and sounds incredible, however, and for all its predictability, Beautiful Burnout is a holistic feast for the senses.
Des Bishop – My Dad Was Nearly James Bond – Written for FEST 22 August 2010
Des Bishop smiles cheesily from his poster, dressed in black tie and looking slightly like a used car salesman: it doesn't bode well. But My Dad Was Nearly James Bond defies expectation to be a deeply moving and amusing monument to Mike Bishop, Des's terminally ill father.
Having grown up mercilessly teasing his dad about his bit-part roles in classic '70s movies, Bishop has found his position in relation to his father reversed; it is his father who now seeks to undermine Bishop Jnr's attempts at being responsible. With this show, he's turned his father's filthy sense of humour into a testament to the man of whom Bishop is so obviously proud.
A mixture of quick Irish wit, American confidence and English self-deprecation, Bishop is a potent force on stage. His smooth delivery is peppered with well-placed pauses in a show that seems both natural and expertly executed.
His jokes pack a mean punch but he's not afraid to have periods of nothing but family reminiscing. You feel like you know Bishop's family, which raises the emotional stakes and draws you into this tribute. Aided by some period '70s slides we get a palpable sense of his relations: his powerhouse mother, his mischievous brothers and, of course, his ridiculously good looking father.
Beginning with a photo montage of Mike modelling, ending in a standing ovation, this show could be construed as a manipulative exercise in plucking heartstrings, but instead feels powerfully honest and full of raw emotion.


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Posted 18 November 2011 - 10:44
Bob Mills' car - described as a Mk 111 had type 600 suspension fitted from new and can definitely be viewed as a one off of sorts - Bob was one of Garrie's right hand men at the Elfin Works and as I understand it, the car was built on the premises, after hours with Garrie's blessing a couple of years after the Mono had been superceded by the type 600. I'm assuming that it and the Milton car may have been built up on tubs that were on hand after they got going with the type 600s and 300s for that matter. I guess the Mills "Mk3" is a" Friendly Foreigner".
Posted 18 November 2011 - 11:12
By late 1966 the mk2C rear suspension had evolved and I suspect Clough had the rear modified during this
period. The next owner was Tony Maw and I agree with Paul Hamilton that the posted photo was taken as the car was
being crated for shipment to South East Asia. The car is currently owned by Graham Hoinville.
The "crashed" Mono is post 97 is MD6755 which was Garrie Cooper's third Mono. The next owner was Deane Clough.
The Mono mentioned in post 90 - Alfredo Costanzo at Warwick Farm in 1971- is MD6756 , which was originally owned by John Ampt.
Brian Lear
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Posted 18 November 2011 - 21:12
I recall seeing that incident unfold in the braking area approaching the Northern hairpin at Mallala. It was quite a scary sight watching that car cartwheeling down the track and off into the dirt on the outside of the track. With that image in mind it is amazing to see how limited the damage was.
As I recall it started as a consequence of a touch between Clough and Cooper. That Queens Birthday meeting in 1968 was all a very long time ago.
Posted 24 November 2011 - 08:50
Here's another couple that I reckon are easier, sorry about the photo quality, I've increased the contrast and mucked around with what was a fairly badly overexposed slide.
Posted 24 November 2011 - 11:36
"The 1967 season will see many new competitors in this category. Of last years 'names' only Mike Champion, Ian Cook, Glyn Scott and Garrie Cooper are still running 1 1/2s - Harvey, Bartlett and McEwin have gone on to 2 1/2s. Perhaps because they are running Elfin Monos, the most popular of the twin-cam 1500s, the majority of the 1 1/2-litre boys are southerners.
Elfin Monocoque
Elfin refer to this car as the Type 100. It is a very slim monocoque reminiscent perhaps of a Lotus 27 on first sight, but altogether smaller and sharper. Great effort has been given to reducing drag, and to this end both front and rear suspension units were originally placed inboard and operated by pushrod struts from the wheel hub carriers.
A further item of design was Elfin's method of of locating the rear wheels to the rear of the monocoque unit, which ended before the bell-housing: a trailing wishbone with very wide base at the chassis end, replaced by the orthodox radius arm and single transverse kink for the top member of the suspension.
This caused a few raised eyebrows and has recently been the subject of modification, both unofficially and officially (in the new Mk 2 and Mk 2b type 100 in the last case). The Mk 2 also has many other detail chassis changes. If the Elfin Mono is, in fact, a tricky car to drive, the Mk 2 series will presumably be better - and the Mk 1 is obviously being driven by some talented pilots.
The finish of Elfin cars has always been of world class and their workmanship is legendary. The Monocoque- at least as far as this writer is concerned - is also one of the most successful racing cars from a simply styling point of view, managing to be at once both a delicate lightweight masterpeice and a deadly serious high performance machine.
Garrie Cooper's present car is Mk 2b, with outboard front coil/shocks and an Elfin/Hewland four speed gear box. It runs Firestone tyres on 7 1/2" and 9 1/2" Elfin 13" wheels. The engine is an Elfin-built Lotus twin-cam unit, still with a cast crank, and is modified to yield 160 h.p. at 7500 r.p.m. The car was completed in April '67, and has so far had one race, finishing third. It is painted red and silver, and, like all works Elfins, uses BP fuel and oil.
Ian Cook's Mono is his second, the first of the Mk 2s. Engine output is the same as Cooper's, as are wheel sizes, although Cook uses Dunlops. Weight of the wheels is quoted as 11 lbs rear, 8 3/4 front! This car uses a five speed Elfin-built gearbox. Cook has won the '66 Lucas-Davison Championship, and is equal first with Clive Millis (in Cook's last year's Mono) in the '67 scoring so far. Cook has owned this car since December '66, buying it from Garrie Cooper. It is painted very dark blue and is supported by BP.
Clive Millis is demonstrating that the Mk 1 is still a very competitive car. Claimed power is only 145 b.h.p. The gearbox is the usual four-speed close ratio VW as converted by Elfin, and wheel sizes appear to be the same. This car is painted black, with a yellow and green nose band, and is also BP supported. Before being bought by Ian Cook it was owned by Granton Harrison. Millis began racing with an MG special, moved on to an FJ Holden, then a Lynx (which could have been Kevin Bartlett's) then back to an FJ, which was written off at Calder in 1965.
John Walker and Stan Keen are at present not very well known outside South Australia, but both plan to contest the Gold Star series this year. Walker's car ( in the published article the accompanying photo by Rod Gibb shows inboard front shocks) is a Mk 2, completed in September '66. It has a claimed 160 b.h.p. from its twin-cam Ford motor after Elfin modification, has the four speed box, and has equalled the Mallala time set by the Mk2b. Sponsored by Gilbert Motor Bodies, it is painted green and gold.
Stan Keen's is a Mk 1, similarly equipped to Walker's although having 10 b.h.p. less. It has, however, lapped Mallala in the same 1:20.0. This car uses Dunlops too, and the four speed gearbox. It is painted red and silver, and Keen himself pays all the bills. The car was first owned by Malcolm Ramsay, and until the t/c head was fitted had used both downdraft and conventional pushrod 1500 Cortina engines.
In Victoria, there has been no stronger Elfin supporter than Jack Hunnam, who now runs a Mk 2, though without the success he has had with some of his earlier cars. His Mk1 chassis, less engine, appeared at the May Warwick Farm meeting using a 1500 Lancia V-4 in place of the original 1100 Ford, entered by Jim McGuire and driven by Noel Riley.
Yet another twin-cam Mono is Dave Collins', which he bought from Bob Jane. This is a Mk1 with all the good gear, and Collins has made a promising beginning in such a demanding machine."
Edwardstown Elfin Works circa April 1967 - Dad's photo (not part of the original article shows Garrie's Mk 2D, I'm pretty confident that it's the car completed in April '67 and the newly completed 300 next to it tends to confirm it).
Edited by SJ Lambert, 26 November 2011 - 02:06.
Posted 24 November 2011 - 12:52
Not something any kind of mechanic would do, after all.
Posted 24 November 2011 - 13:33
I wouldn't make any bets on the shocks being 'upside down'...
Not something any kind of mechanic would do, after all.
I'm pretty sure they're inverted......
Edited by SJ Lambert, 09 December 2017 - 08:58.
Posted 24 November 2011 - 14:08
The irrepressible Brian Rawlings, probably at Elfin at that very time, later uses some of this material in one of his 'Mileage Marathon' entries. He related with glee about how the boffin types would look over each entry, and they all stopped and looked at his, in particular this tapered tubing section that was a part of its frame.
"Where did you get the tapered chrome moly tube?" they would ask.
Brian, of course, had to be honest with them. "That's not chrome moly," he'd explain, "that's Namco!"
And so they all went away believing there was some mysterious new material in use here.
That's probably where Garrie got the stuff too.
Posted 26 November 2011 - 03:41
Garrie's Mk2 Prototype MB 6550 showing front top arm attachment point forward of the lower arm attachment point.
Posted 29 November 2011 - 11:26
Posted 16 December 2011 - 07:50
Ian Hobbs has supplied this shot of Mel McEwin's Mono - Stobie poles identify the setting as Mallala - we're strongly inclined to 1965 as the year, anyone care to nominate the meeting date??
My quest for colour shots of the Hotchkiss Mono continues too. It may have been a similar colour to this one...........
Edited by SJ Lambert, 22 December 2011 - 13:24.
Posted 22 January 2012 - 13:00
You are right Ray, Noel Riley was the first driver of Jim McGuires Elfin Lancia. Brian Page came along a bit later. (I believe Brian was able to contribute a bit of finance to the project.) Here (Hopefully!) are a couple of photos that I took of the cars first shakedown runs at Warwick Farm's Club Circuit. (In a previous life I helped Noel with his Honda sports car and I went along with he and Jim on this day.) I think that I have some more slides from that day. However they are somewhere in a 'safe place' hopefully I can find them and scan them.
Posted 27 January 2012 - 18:43
What was the engine capacity?
Cheers James
Edited by SJ Lambert, 27 January 2012 - 20:27.
Posted 01 February 2012 - 13:35
Thanks Alan , they're fantastic! Would love to see any more that you are able to turn up!!
What was the engine capacity?
Cheers James
I'm pretty sure the engine was a 1400 V4.
Regards AlanH
Posted 08 February 2012 - 08:05
The colour is dead wrong! His was a pale blue. But he was at Mallala on June 14 with a newly-fitted Twin Cam, while October 11 he ran it again. All of which seem to be some time before he fitted the modified nose.
Thanks for the vote of confidence, Alan, and I'm sure Carmen was there too?
Posted 13 February 2012 - 01:31
The car is as mentioned in Graham Howard's article reproduced in post #105.
The photo is courtesy of the Paul Dallwitz Photo Collection. (Thanks Paul, for letting it appear here!!)
Just getting back to the Mel McEwin car Ray (post #111), it's thought that that shot was taken early in the car's career before it was fitted with a Twin Cam head (I agree that I've certainly seen shots of it looking a great deal lighter in colour when sporting the Twin Cam).
The shot where it has the push rod motor does seem to reveal the "repaired" nose that I think you may have mentioned much earlier................
Edited by SJ Lambert, 13 February 2012 - 01:42.
Posted 13 February 2012 - 22:04
Ray, the color in that pic is way too dark. The FC in the background is also way darker than it should be.
I'm trying to find the date for the McEwin Mallala pic... if it is Mel's car...
The colour is dead wrong! His was a pale blue. But he was at Mallala on June 14 with a newly-fitted Twin Cam, while October 11 he ran it again. All of which seem to be some time before he fitted the modified nose.
Thanks for the vote of confidence, Alan, and I'm sure Carmen was there too?
Posted 14 February 2012 - 09:46
Originally posted by SJ Lambert
.....Just getting back to the Mel McEwin car Ray (post #111), it's thought that that shot was taken early in the car's career before it was fitted with a Twin Cam head (I agree that I've certainly seen shots of it looking a great deal lighter in colour when sporting the Twin Cam).
The shot where it has the push rod motor does seem to reveal the "repaired" nose that I think you may have mentioned much earlier.
No, that's not the altered nose. I just wish I could put my hands on a pic of the car as it was at that time, it was running a Twin Cam and it ran at both Oran Park and Lakeside like it... that I saw. Undoubtedly elsewhere as well, maybe Calder or Sandown.
And it was a very light blue. That photo shows a green car that's not so light at all. I will say here and now that this is not Mel's car.
Posted 14 February 2012 - 10:11
I understand that it was presented in a "duck egg" (very light blue) for a time and it's that light blue that one thinks of when having Mel's car in mind, not the green shade in post #111.
Posted 14 February 2012 - 10:37
I don't know whether this was a race or testing day, but I see that full advantage is being made of the available shade!
I've already put this one up on the Mallala thread, but as it features two Monos I reckoned it could get a run here too! I wonder whether the fellow propped on Garrie's Mono is Bill Pile or not?? Did he use Golden Fleece fuel in those days??
Posted 14 February 2012 - 10:43
And doesn't Graham Howard's story say that John Walker's car was green and gold?
Posted 14 February 2012 - 10:57
Edited by SJ Lambert, 14 February 2012 - 10:57.
Posted 17 April 2012 - 09:59
Monos at Mallala, Garrie Cooper in car #2, is car #23 Bill Pile? John Walker splitting them on the grid, while awaiting his Mono, maybe. There's another Type 100 further back too.
Edited by SJ Lambert, 17 April 2012 - 10:01.
Posted 18 April 2012 - 13:23
the Cooper car #6441?
Monos at Mallala, Garrie Cooper in car #2, is car #23 Bill Pile? John Walker splitting them on the grid, while awaiting his Mono, maybe. There's another Type 100 further back too.
Posted 18 April 2012 - 13:40
Edited by SJ Lambert, 18 April 2012 - 13:46.
Posted 18 April 2012 - 20:44
The Racing Car News report on the January round of the Joseph Lucas-Lex Davison Series, the true home of the Elfin Mono, puts Bib Stillwell on pole and in the race with an Elfin.
Is this right? I don't recall it... and if so, which Elfin Mono was it?
Posted 19 April 2012 - 10:03
Posted 19 April 2012 - 11:43
From memory I read somewhere that Bib was keen on taking on the sales of Elfins in VIC? Perhaps a guest drive but what chassis #
I'll ask around, but can't shed any light on Stillwell in a Mono at this stage, I can only presume that if he was behind the wheel of one that it was a guest drive..............
Posted 19 April 2012 - 13:55
I posed a question in the 'Personal Photos' thread about Calder in 1965...
The Racing Car News report on the January round of the Joseph Lucas-Lex Davison Series, the true home of the Elfin Mono, puts Bib Stillwell on pole and in the race with an Elfin.
Is this right? I don't recall it... and if so, which Elfin Mono was it?
How about this for a good theory ? - he borrowed it from Granton Harrison and crashed it at that Calder meeting. Substantial damage sustained, particularly to the front. Borrowed it because his Brabham hadn't arrived -
Sounds more than plausible to me. Elfin Register says Bib drove it, chassis M6445, on 24 Jan 64 (though I suspect it's a typo and should say Jan 65) and another TNFer also confirms it.
Posted 20 April 2012 - 08:37
My little car I had for about 8 years,had so much fun in her,historics,hill climbs and 1/4 mile sprints,great little car once i worked out what oil to run in the VW 36hp box.
best bonus was i made a lot of friends in the historics,sadly many are no longer with us.
Posted 20 April 2012 - 09:39
This engine might possibly have gone into the Harrison car....
Posted 20 April 2012 - 12:42
Originally posted by SJ Lambert
How about this for a good theory? He borrowed it from Granton Harrison and crashed it at that Calder meeting. Substantial damage sustained, particularly to the front. Borrowed it because his Brabham hadn't arrived.....
I think that's more than a theory, isn't it?
Granton Harrison was trying to help Elfin along, I gather. This is brought out also by Tania in her part in our book in relation to the 2.5-litre Repco-engined car driven by Malcolm Ramsay.
.....Sounds more than plausible to me. Elfin Register says Bib drove it, chassis M6445, on 24 Jan 64 (though I suspect it's a typo and should say Jan 65) and another TNFer also confirms it.
Yes, the clash with Bob Jane saw Bob as the survivor and Bib in a severely maimed car. I would wonder how serious Bib was about becoming Elfin's Victorian distributor when he had a Brabham on order... and the factory was just 400 miles away anyway.
I see it purely as Bib wanting to get some points on the board to help ensure he would win the prestigious series. I wouldn't mind betting that he already had his engine and it was in that car.
Which brings me to the picture above...
The clutch suggests that's a much later engine.
Regarding engines in Monos, I can think of the Lancia engine, I seem to recall that Jack Hunnam ran an 1100 pushrod engine. Dean Clough? I don't have any material with me to check, but there certainly wasn't many without Twinks.
Posted 20 April 2012 - 15:00
Edited by SJ Lambert, 02 May 2012 - 11:04.
Posted 20 April 2012 - 23:34
Posted 22 April 2012 - 11:54
Of all of them I should have thought of that one!
Posted 22 April 2012 - 13:18
Alan Grice's car has been categorized as a Mk2 by all and sundry (though it's my suspicion that there was very little about it that was not Mk1. The earliest shots I've seen of it seem to show long front suspension arms indicative of a Mk1 tub. Perhaps, as it was completed after Garrie's Mk2 prototype it's become known as a Mk2...... ) and of course, it's original motor was one of my favourite Elfin ingredients..... A downdraft Holbay unit!
So, we could include Gricey's Mono with the Mk1s if we want to!
Posted 24 April 2012 - 19:52
But I can tell you that Gricey's car didn't have the swept-back rear wishbones.
Posted 02 May 2012 - 08:34
Here's one Dad prepared earlier, new castings have been turned out in magnesium in the classic Elfin Monocoque wheel pattern style again of late and Dad is at work turning them up to finished specs again.
Apparently the same foundry has also been producing a number on Brabham patterns to.
Edited by SJ Lambert, 02 May 2012 - 10:30.
Posted 02 May 2012 - 20:43
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Posted 26 August 2012 - 09:54
Looks like it's racing number is #30.
Posted 27 August 2012 - 01:18
The "new Mono at Calder" is M6443 pictured at its debut on 30/8/64. It appears to be powered by a pushrod engine pending
the completion of a twin cam.
Hunnam usually ran with number 30 on his cars.
The RCN report of this meeting quotes "Hunnam had his beautiful new monocoque Elfin on the grid but still had some bugs to sort out on the car as he only arrived back from Adelaide a few days before the meeting"
Brian Lear
Posted 27 August 2012 - 02:52
Thanks for that, I was pretty sure myself that it was that car. Did Jack ever install a Twin Cam engine into that chassis? The Howard article that I've reproduced intimates that his move (up from an 1100) to a twin cam came with his next chassis, 6654.
Posted 27 August 2012 - 08:56
His lap time in winning the Lucas-Davison opening round in January 1965 was a 49.3, not much slower than Jane and Stillwell had done (48.4) in practice, while a photo of the car at the March meeting shows the car to have carburettors on the right hand side.
Posted 22 October 2012 - 22:52
are those Firestones? biggest tread blocks I've ever seen on a race car....
Max Freeland - a happy chappy...
Edited by 275 GTB-4, 28 October 2012 - 23:02.
Posted 05 December 2012 - 03:28
Putting motor size to one side how do you tell the differance between a Mk1, Mk2, Mk2d & Mk3 or any other Mk. ????????
Here's a list describing the salient features of the Monos as they evolved. Ian Hobbs put it together with some assistance from Brian and I.
Posted 08 December 2012 - 09:48
Jack Hunnam Elfin Mono, Calder Raceway circa 1966-1968?
Image kindly supplied by Ray Sinclair.
Jack Hunnam has passed on in recent months according to the Elfin Owners and Drivers Club Newsletter.
As already mentioned here, Jack was the first protaganist to race a Mono, debuting his first chassis M6443 at Calder on 30 August 1964.
This, his second Mono (pictured) has been circulating very quickly at Sandown recently.
Edited by SJ Lambert, 11 December 2012 - 03:53.
Posted 22 January 2013 - 07:38
Stillwell on pole, Ampt alongside and then Jane on the outside. It says Stillwell's in a Brabham in the caption, I think we know better, don't we?
Posted 22 January 2013 - 12:35
Looks like Hunnam in his behind Jane as well.
Edit - David Blanch has corrected the caption error.
Edited by SJ Lambert, 23 January 2013 - 12:09.
Posted 12 February 2013 - 02:42
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There are lots of books about PHP and there are lots of books about
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My main issue with this book is its disjointedness: there are seven
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Intarsia is for everyone!
I just finished knitting a Breacan Swing Coat, designed by Gwen Bortner for our Interweave Knits Fall 2010 issue. I wanted to knit this jacket partly because I haven't really worked with intarsia much before, and I love challenging myself and expanding my knitting skills. You can read more about the process of knitting this jacket in my Project Diary (coming soon), but I wanted to share some tips with you about working the intarsia in this project.
While intarsia is fairly simple to execute, getting the fabric to have that smooth, finished feel that we all love about knitting can be a little tricky. The first few rows of my jacket are a little iffy—gaps in the fabric and stitches that look uneven (and no, I don't have a photo of those rows; I like to pretend they are just fine). But then I remembered something: Intarsia works best if you twist the yarns before you begin knitting with a new color.
By "twist the yarns," I mean wrapping the new yarn around the old yarn, then dropping the old yarn and knitting with the new yarn. This helps keep the old yarn tucked in nice and close to the new yarn, eliminating the ugly gaps and working to keep the stitches even.
At first, I tried to work with the yarns wrapped up into little bobbins, but this gave me some trouble. My bobbins kept getting twisted around one another, so I'd have to put down the work each time to untangle them before I could knit. Eunny suggested just using long lengths of yarn, and pulling each end through as I came to it, to keep them untangled. Here's a video of Eunny demonstrating keeping your yarns in control, using finger bobbins and long lengths of yarn (the intarsia-specific part starts around 2:30).
Intarsia is a great way to work different colors into your knitting. I love colorwork of all kinds, but intarsia can give you a different look than traditional stranded colorwork. In addition to the Breacan Swing Coat, there are some great Interweave Knits projects that utilize intarsia in fresh and exciting ways.
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March 8, 2013 – Austin, TX. Online registration is now open for the 2013 Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference, scheduled for 21-24 August 2013 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Register at http://www.fgsconference.org by 1 July 2013 for an early-bird discount. This year's conference theme is "Journey through Generations," and the local hosts are the Allen County Public Library (ACPL) and the Allen County Genealogical Society of Indiana (ACGSI).
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Quick jabs: Austin Trout flattered after signature win over Miguel Cotto, David Price keeps winning and more
Austin Trout (above) staked his claim for supremacy in the 154-pound division with Saturday's win over Miguel Cotto. So Canelo Alvarez next, right? Probably not. (AP)
Some quick jabs ...
• Count Austin Trout among those not surprised that Golden Boy may try to move forward with plans to match Saul Alvarez with Miguel Cotto next year. In the aftermath of Trout's lopsided decision win over Cotto, Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer would not rule out an Alvarez-Cotto fight.
"It's flattering," Trout told me on Sunday. "They obviously want no part of Austin Trout. But at some point, they are all going to have to face me."
Trout told me that he knew he had Cotto after the third round, when he noticed that Cotto was moving a lot after getting hit.
"That's not Cotto," Trout said. "He boxed with Manny Pacquiao when he was in trouble. Against me, he was starting to move, bouncing around on his toes. When I was watching film the only time I saw him do that was when Pacquiao had him hurt."
• British heavyweight David Price -- who knocked out countryman Matt Skelton in the second round last weekend -- says he wants his next fight to be in the U.S. And he already has an opponent in mind: Tony Thompson, the former title challenger who was knocked out by Wladimir Klitschko last July. According to Thompson's trainer/manager, Barry Hunter, no one from Price's team has contacted him about the fight. However, Thompson came back to Hunter's Washington D.C. gym two weeks ago and mentioned an interest in fighting Price.
Hunter told me he still wasn't sure he was interested in continuing to work with Thompson. He said he was very disappointed with Thompson's effort against Klitschko and needs to see him work for a few weeks in the gym to see if he still has it.
• Hunter says one of his other fighters, Lamont Peterson, is in the gym and is only a couple of pounds off the 140-pound limit. Peterson has a mandatory IBF title defense against Kendall Holt, but that fight has yet to be scheduled. Hunter says he is hoping he and Holt's promoter, Gary Shaw, can schedule Peterson-Holt for late January, preferably in the D.C. area.
• Buckle up for Gabriel Rosado-Gennady Golovkin on Jan. 19 in NYC. It's going to be a war.
• Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer said welterweight Victor Ortiz -- last seen getting his jaw broken by Josesito Lopez last June -- is recovering well and will be ready to return to the ring early next year. "He's doing much better," Schaefer said. "He had some infections to deal with but the swelling has gone down and he is going to be ready to go in March or early April."
Schaefer said Ortiz "did not want any tune-up fights" and in addition to a rematch with Lopez said a fight with WBA welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi at the Barclays Center was a possibility.
• The more people I talk to, the more I think Floyd Mayweather's next fight will be against Robert Guerrero. I don't get the feeling Mayweather wants to fight at 154 -- Alvarez's weight class -- and Guerrero is a marketable fighter coming off an impressive win on HBO. It just seems like the right fit.
• Boxing press conferences are a joke. On Saturday, I attended a presser to announce the Feb. 9 fight at the Barclays Center between junior welterweight titleholder Danny Garcia and Zab Judah. During the press conference Garcia's father/trainer, Angel -- a known agitator -- took some shots at Judah. Judah took offense and before long a melee broke out, with members of Judah's entourage (who should not have been there in the first place) storming the dais. The brawl effectively ended the press conference and prevented several reporters from speaking to the fighters.
And this fight needed as much local press as it could get: Though plenty of lip service was paid to Judah's Brooklyn roots, he has never been a draw at the box office. By popping off like that, Judah and Garcia essentially cost themselves money.
• Had a chance to catch up with U.S. Olympic gold medalist Claressa Shields this weekend for a story that will run later this month in Sports Illustrated. Shields told me she has not made a decision yet on making another Olympic run, and had an interesting reason why.
"I'm not really recognized," Shields said. "I got a lot of credit for being the first woman Olympic gold medalist. I feel like if one of the men won gold they would have these endorsements or a huge signing bonus. It's just different for the women. We weren't showcased like we should have been. A lot of people who were watching couldn't find me on TV. I think I should get more credit. I have already done the hard work, I shouldn't keep doing it without reaping the rewards. So I have not decided on what I am going to do. I'm going to do what is going to help keep food on the table."
• Shameless plug time: Pick up SI this week for my column on why fighters' unwillingness to seek out the biggest challenge has created a watered-down era in boxing.
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Since the cranes were released in March, they have been quite the travelers. The birds moved around quite a bit in the early part of the summer. The drought that has plagued a large portion of the state encouraged the birds to move around in search of habitats they use for foraging, loafing, and roosting. With the progression of summer, the birds have started to settle down, allowing for the characterization of habitats cranes use throughout SW LA.
Tandi Perkins, a research associate studying the cranes under Dr. Sammy King at LSU, developed our sampling protocol. As we have mentioned in other blog entries, each of the birds is fitted with a transmitter that allows us to monitor their movements throughout the state. The transmitters generate data (GPS coordinates) 3 times daily. Each week Tandi downloads the GPS coordinates generated by the transmitters and selects the location points to characterize what type of habitat cranes are in and how they are using it.
If the points fall on private property, then the landowner must be contacted and permission to access their property must be obtained. Once permission is obtained then Sara, Tandi, or myself venture out in the field to start collecting data.
Once at the site, the variables to be measured include:
General habitat observations: What is the habitat type? Is it a crawfish farm, rice field, or in the marsh?
Vegetation characteristics: What is the dominate vegetation? What is the average height of the vegetation and how dense is it? These variables are collected at each of the 4 cardinal directions and from "plot center" (where we place the pole in the ground). We use a Robel pole and yardstick (see the attached photos of the orange and white pole); this allows us to measure all vegetation and hydrology characteristics uniformly.
Hydrological characteristics: Again, using the Robel pole and yard stick, we measure the water depth at plot center and in each of the four cardinal directions.
Presence of Whooping cranes and other waterbirds: Are the cranes still in the vicinity? If so, we conduct a behavioral study of any cranes present, which in a nutshell means we watch each bird for 5 minutes and document all behavior within that time frame. We have to be careful and keep a "safe distance" as we do not want to disturb the cranes and certainly do not want to alter their behavior due to our presence. If the cranes aren't present at the time of sampling, then we make note of other types of waterbirds that utilize that same type of habitat.
The information collected at these sites is extremely important. This knowledge will help us understand what cranes need throughout the year and what we need to do to try and provide it so that they will be successful here in SW LA.
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FDA declares the drug "non-approvable". Ouch! So much for that $600 million. Said another way, the about 2.4 cents I posited below in 2008 Schering EPS, just became about one single little penny, in added EPS — for the foreseeable future at Schering. How much has been spent, thus far, to garner that one shiny penny? I dunno. Yikes.
This afternoon, Schering announced that it had received EU approval for sugammadex, its new anesthesia drug. That is good news for the besmirched pharma-company. It just won't amount to much, any time soon, in my analysis. Here is something I just wrote, albeit for another purpose. I'll clean it up a little, later — but you'll get the gist of it, right now:
The fact is today's EU approval of Bridion®, or sugammadex, won't be enough — enough to cover the 2008 hole Vytorin has created.
Last year, in June of 2007, pre-acquisition Organon had this to say — putting its very best face on sugammadex's market potential (press release), to lure Schering to pay-up, on acquisition:
". . . .Organon said the global market for the drug is estimated at 400 million euros ($537 million) and could be higher. . . ."
So, Global sales of let's call it $600 million (we see a weaker dollar now) — and, let's say it has a 30 percent margin (probably a little too generous, but so what?), then its gross WORLDWIDE contribution to pre-tax earnings (and ultimately, after-tax EPS) will be around $180 million.
But wait! — suggamadex is not approved in the United States — and may not be, until 2009 (if one reads the FDA tea-leaves carefully), so. . . .
Let us also assume that Europe will be about 30 percent of the gobal market (again, very generously!) — then the gross contribution of sugmamadex will be around $54 million, max, in 2008.
Spread that $54 million over 1.637 billion common shares outstanding (last SEC Form 10-Q), and the pretax EPS is 3.3 cents a share — after tax (assuming a 28 percent tax rate) it would be. . . .
2.4 cents per share of 2008 EPS — the 2008 Vytorin "hole in earnings" or EPS, is something like 42 cents a share of 2008 EPS (doing the math, here, from Merck's Q1 2008 projection of $700 million of Equity Income fall-off due "solely" to the Cholesterol Joint Venture's mishaps).
So, my best guess is that sugammadex (while a nice little pick-up) will not really matter — it won't "move the needle much" even when the US approval ultimately comes — it won't be nearly enough to "right the good ship Schering-Plough". QED.
Financial Analysis/Math is an acquired skill-set, folks. At a 12 times Schering-Plough P/E Multiple, then, that 2.5 cents yields 25 cents in share price increase (today's open) — but then we must net that, against over $4.80 ($0.42 times a P/E Multiple of 12) "in the hole" [mostly owing to the uncertainties — still to come], due to ENHANCE-Vytorin fallout. And this stock skids sideways, rather than climbs (like now). But what do I know?


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State highway planners are trying to pull a fast one on Austin. At different times they talk to the public about five separate toll projects in southwest Austin, but they rarely connect the dots. The reality will be a massive 12-to-16 lane, partially tolled highway loop from I-35 south of Austin west to Mopac and north to Lady Bird Lake and beyond.
Once it's completed, and the traffic floodgates open, we can kiss Austin's quality of life goodbye. As traffic expert Mike Brown says, if South Mopac is connected to I-35 by constructing the proposed SH 45 SW, then traffic on Mopac will "explode" and you simply cannot add enough lanes to Mopac to accommodate all of the traffic. (continue reading here)
Send an email message to Governor Abbott and other state and local officials today.
Have your neighborhood or civic group pass a Keep Mopac Local resolution like this one.
Donate to support the Keep Mopac Local coalition – fully tax-deductible.
The federal lawsuit filed in February by two former Austin mayors, the Friends of the Wildflower Center, Save Barton Creek Assn., Save Our Springs Alliance, Susan and Jerry Jeff Walker, and others now heads toward a likely hearing on preliminary injunction in mid-October. TxDOT's partner, the CTRMA, awarded a construction contract for the SH 45 SW portion of the 45SW/Mopac toll loop on July 27th. CTRMA lawyers say their current plan is to begin clearing the toll road right-of-way on or soon after October 24th.
Absent a preliminary injunction from the court, this construction would be allowed to proceed – starting with the cutting down of hundreds of trees, many of them decades old oaks and ash juniper. These trees provide important habitat for the endangered Golden-cheeked warbler, a migratory songbird that nests in Central Texas woodlands and nowhere else in the world.
In August TxDOT sought to legalize this destruction of warbler habitat by requesting to come under the county wide endangered species permit jointly held by the City of Austin and Travis County. That request was rejected by the City, and, as reported by the Statesman, TxDOT now says it will forge ahead regardless of harm to the endangered songbird.
The primary claim in the federal lawsuit is that TxDOT and CTRMA improperly "segmented" the environmental review of the 45SW/Mopac toll loop expansion into three separate studies so as avoid a comprehensive analysis of the environmental impacts of and potential alternatives to the three-part project. However, a second claim is that building SH 45 SW requires federal approval that has not been secured because of the resulting harm to the endangered songbird and the listed-endangered Austin Blind and Barton Springs salamanders.
Plaintiffs in the case won the first round on September 6th when U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel denied the Defendants' Motions to Dismiss the case. Read the Statesman story and the Austin Monitor coverage at the links. The court's order is here.
This is just the first round. Next Judge Yeakel will decide if Plaintiffs are entitled to discover agency documents relevant to TxDOT's decisions to chop up the toll loop into four separate pieces for purposes of environmental analysis. TxDOT and CTRMA have opposed all discovery of agency documents which they have not deemed part of the official "administrative record."
While CTRMA pushes for a late October start date, it still does not have approved financing from the Texas Transportation Commission. CTRMA also does not have an approved TCEQ Water Pollution Abatement Plan for the SH 45 SW construction.
The best way to keep up with new developments as they unfold is to sign up for the Save Our Springs Alliance email news list here.
Send an email message to Governor Abbott and other state and local officials today.
Have your neighborhood or civic group pass a Keep Mopac Local resolution like this one.
Donate to support the Keep Mopac Local coalition – fully tax-deductible.
The citizen campaign to stop the backdoor conversion of Mopac into a second I-35 continues to gather steam. In late February citizen leaders and civic groups working with the Keep Mopac Local coalition filed suit in federal court to stop the toll loop project without required federal environmental studies and approvals. Read the lawsuit here and the press release here.
The suit was filed by citizen activist Shudde Fath; Austin music community stalwarts Susan and Jerry Jeff Walker; aquatic biologist Dr. Laurie Dries; former Austin mayors Carole Keeton and Frank Cooksey and civic groups Save Barton Creek Association, Friends of the Wildflower Center, Mopac Corridor Neighbors Alliance, The Friendship Alliance of Northern Hays County, Save Our Springs Alliance, and Clean Water Action.
The lawsuit against TxDOT and its toll road partner, the CTRMA, will not likely be resolved until late fall or possibly early next year.
More recently, Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt wrote a stern letter to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service urging them to inform TxDOT and the CTRMA of their obligations under the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. In previous letters analyzing the situation, USFWS made it clear they agreed with this perspective, but used sufficiently mushy language for TxDOT to ignore the Service's position.
We'll now see if USFWS will be a bit more blunt on the matter. It should be, armed with the new information that Golden-cheeked warblers have returned to mapped warbler habitat on and immediately adjacent to the proposed route for SH 45 SW Phase I. City biologists have confirmed the presence of warblers with multiple observations. TxDOT funded research by biologists for Texas A&M predict even more birds are or will be nesting on and along the SH 45 SW right-of-way (without the road, of course). The harm that will be done to the listed "endangered" songbirds triggers a legal mandate to secure Service approval for "incidental take" of songbirds prior to construction. So far, TxDOT has ignored this legal mandate. The new information and the lawsuit should change this matter.
Two other developments have arisen to give pause to TxDOT's governing board in moving forward in the face of these mounting legal problems. There is a growing anti-toll road movement among both Republic and Democrat state officials that makes it harder for the Texas Transportation Commission and Governor Abbott to continue debt-financing of unpopular toll roads. There is also now a push to "untoll" SH 130, so that it will serve its role of relieving congestion on I-35. This is a much preferred option over pumping more than a billion dollars into converting Mopac into an I-35 relief route passing through established neighborhoods in central south and north Austin.
There is also a growing call to protect the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center from the noise, air, water, and visual pollution that would come with building the 45SW/Mopac toll loop and diverting 30,000 cars and trucks per day past the Wildflower Center. The Friends of the Wildflower Center group (not affiliated with the University of Texas or the UT-owned Wildflower Center) is standing up to protect the Center from the proposed toll loop. The group consists of former Wildflower Center board members and current Wildflower Center volunteers and donors. This action by true friends of the Wildflower Center is necessary because UT is not authorized to take action against its sister state agency, TxDOT.
For more information check out the Friends of the Wildflower Center website and take a minute to send a message to Governor Abbott to protect Lady Bird's legacy.
Tell TxDOT to Study and Build Alternatives to SH 45SW and Proposed Mopac Freeway Intersections
TxDOT and the local toll road authority ("CTRMA") are pressing ahead with 3 separate environmental studies and required public input processes: one on the proposed 45 SW; one on a proposal to build the freeway main lanes and overpass bridges at Mopac & La Crosse and at Mopac & Slaughter; and the third one on expanding South Mopac north of Slaughter all the way to Cesar Chavez, north of the Colorado River by adding up to two additional tolled lanes in each direction.
Mike Brown of Metro Analytics tells the truth about SH45.
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FamilySearch's family history centers are frequented by millions of genealogy enthusiasts. Patrons use the centers' computers, Internet, and microfilm readers to do genealogy research. "Once you start moving beyond your parents and grandparents in your personal research, I cannot imagine keeping track of your family tree and research efforts completely by hand or in paper files anymore," said Paul Nauta, manager of Public Affairs for FamilySearch. "Great software programs are available that make it easy to build, organize, manage, share, and view your family history," Nauta added.
The challenge is deciding which software programs might be best for the user's needs. People who want to purchase a commercial program for home use can sample software applications in centers to help decide which to purchase for home use. FamilySearch is working with software developers to make relevant desktop applications available for free for use in family history centers. Some of the products are genealogy management software, while others provide advanced tools for editing and searching personal or online databases, or expanded options for printing or viewing family tree data.
Center patrons that use any of the featured products at home will now have the convenience of using the same product in their local family history center. FamilySearch also offers its own genealogy management software (Personal Ancestral File 5.2) for free through www.FamilySearch.org. Following are the new products available for use in centers:
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Health Information Technology, A.A.S.
Health Information Technology combines a profession in health care with information technology. It is the only health science program at BCC that does not have direct patient contact.
HIT professionals play a key role in the planning, implementation, and management of the electronic health record (EHR).
As a Health Information Technician, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality of medical records, checking them for completeness, accuracy, and appropriate entry into computer systems, in a multitude of health care settings. You might specialize in coding diagnoses and procedures in patient records for billing and reimbursement or research. This program also includes a professional practice experience (clinical) in a health care facility.
This program is designed for students planning on entering the workforce immediately, and for those looking to upgrade skills or to change direction. It awards the Associate in Applied Science ( A.A.S.) and prepares students to transfer if they wish to pursue a Baccalaureate Degree in Health Information Management.
Advantages of Taking The Program
Outcome MeasuresThe following HIT program outcome measures are for academic year 2015-2016:
Employment Opportunities
HIM professionals also work throughout the entire healthcare industry in settings that span the continuum of care and are employed in any organization that uses health information, including:
Graduate of associate degree programs in health information management are known as health information technicians. Common job titles held by associate degree health information technicians in today's job market include clinical coder, coding manager, clinical data collection and reporting specialist, cancer/other disease registrar, data integrity specialist, documentation specialist, imaging specialist, reimbursement specialist, financial services liaison, instructor/trainer. Job titles along with job functions will change as employment settings continue to rely on information systems and technology.
Students who successfully complete the program are eligible to take the Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) Exam.
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"The instructors, the curriculum, and the practical experience I received from the BCC Health Information Technology program were integral to my success in obtaining an exciting and rewarding job I am passionate about. The coursework and the associated labs are relevant to and are the perfect preparation for a career in the ever changing landscape of HIT."
"I am so proud to be a graduate of the HIT program at BCC. I truly believe that completing the program gave me an advantage in the Health Information field. Not only did I receive an exceptional education at BCC, but I was also able to gain valuable practical experience and professional connections through the required professional practices. The instructors and administration were endlessly dedicated to supporting the students and furthering their education and understanding in any possible way they could. The fact that the program is taught by an entirely adjunct faculty helped bring real-world experience and detail into the discussions and material of every lecture and lab. Smaller classes facilitated the bonding and friendship between classmates and even the instructors. Although the HIT program is an aggressive and technical one, with the support and encouragement of the staff and fellow classmates, I was able to graduate with honors, take advantage of the early-testing option for the RHIT exam and pass, as well as transfer to SUNYIT to continue my degree in HIM seamlessly!"
"As a returning student, my decision to enter into Health Information Technology has been extremely rewarding. While healthcare has many different types of directions, choosing just one area of study was difficult. That's when I realized that Health Information Technology was for me. It taps into everything! Understanding medical language and classifications of diseases to auditing and analysis of medical information are only a few areas that an HIT student learns. There are many new opportunities for this field and I am excited to say that it took me just six weeks after graduating this past May to accept full-time employment, right here in Broome County!"
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WWE DVD recap: Viva La Raza - The Legacy of Eddie Guerrero (Disc Two)
Nov 13, 2008 - 12:11 PM
-Chris Jericho recalled Eddie Guerrero hooking up with Chyna on the air and said that was when his personality came shining through. He also told a story about traveling with Eddie and said they bickered so much that they were better off not traveling together. This led to Jericho vs. Guerrero from the Apr. 3 2000 edition of WWE Raw. This was the match that featured Chyna attacking Jericho and leaving the arena with Eddie.
Powell's POV: I'm disappointed they didn't bother to address Eddie's departure from WCW. For that matter, they also glossed over his pre-ECW years on the first disc. I forgot how funny Jerry Lawler was when he used to say Latino Heat.
-Matt Hardy talked about how cool Guerrero was in and out of the ring. "Eddie definitely worked on the fly," Hardy said. "He worked off the crowd. If the crowd was red hot, he would give them what they wanted... If the crowd was dead and it was slow, he would take his time and build into what they need to get that crowd into a frenzy. And Eddie was a master at understanding that. He was a master of psychology from a standpoint of you listen to what the crowd does and you gauge from the crowd." Hardy's comments led to a June 8, 2000 Smackdown match between Eddie and Matt.
Powell's POV: Really good comments from Hardy. These comments say a lot about Eddie and Hardy, as it's obvious that he's a true student of the game.
-Lawler said Eddie was a mirror image of his uncle Hector Guerrero. He said Eddie was a great showman. "I think Eddie Guerrero made a mark," Lawler said. "He made a lasting impression." Lawler said there are times when the winner and loser of a match doesn't matter as much as the match itself. He used these words to describe the match between Eddie and Rob Van Dam from Backlash 2002.
-Jeff Hardy said he was star struck the first time he met with Eddie "and later on working with him was amazing." Jeff said Eddie was a good man and he learned a lot from him. He said Eddie went out there and gave his all every night and he tries to emulate that in his own career. Jeff added that Eddie knew every hold, move, and submission. "He had everything," Jeff said. "He had every quality that creates a perfect wrestler and that's what Eddie Guerrero was." Jeff's comments led to his Judgment Day 2002 match with Eddie.
-Edge recalled there being high expectations for his feud with Eddie. He said they had a few matches that were good, but they didn't quite live up to their expectations. He said it really clicked when he faced Eddie on Smackdown in a No DQ match. "It was so gratifying," Edge recalled. "We were both perfectionists. And that's just the way Eddie was wired, and I loved that about him and I appreciated that about him. He was a pro and he wanted the best."
Edge recalled taking the same flight home the next day and they were both physical wrecks. He said he asked Eddie what did they do to each other. He added with a smile that it was worth it. Edge recalled the standing ovation that Eddie received even though he was working as the "protagonist." Edge said Eddie looked defeated, but he was still getting up and the fans respected that. Of course, this led to their match on the Apr. 29, 2002 Smackdown.
-Chavo Guerrero told a story about actor/director Rob Reiner coming backstage after a show and telling him and Eddie how much fun he had watching their match. He said it looked like they were having fun and that made him have fun. He said Team Angle (Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas) was tough because they were All-American wrestlers who were really pumped up. He recalled winning the tag titles at Madison Square Garden. "You can't top that," Chavo said. "That's storybook right there." This led to a match between Los Guerrero and Team Angle from Backlash 2002.
Powell's POV: Props from Martin "Meathead" DiBergi? Very cool.
-John Cena made his first appearance. He said some of the promos he cut on them were vicious and he didn't think you could get away with it on TV. He said Eddie and Chavo both let him know when he overstepped his boundaries. Cena recalled the first lowrider Eddie used in WWE. He said it was a green 1963 Chevy Impala convertible. Cena said he bought the car two years later and now Chavo has the car. Cena previewed his parking lot brawl match with Cena from the Sept. 11, 2003 Smackdown.
Powell's POV: Hilarious rap from Cena before the match. He was embellishing when he said you couldn't get away with saying some of the things he said back then on television today unless he was referring to WWE in the PG era, but he really did push the envelope.
-Chavo Guerrero Sr. recalled Eddie's younger years. He said he really didn't have anyone to train him like the others did. Chavo Sr. said Eddie earned it. He said they were always competitive with each other because that's what their father taught them. He got teary eyed as he said Eddie became a master in the ring. He started crying as he stated that he missed him. Chavo Classic's comments led to Eddie vs. Chavo Jr. from the Royal Rumble 2004.
-After the last match, they cut to the end of Eddie pinning Brock Lesnar to win the WWE Title. Vickie said she wishes she could have been there. She said he was on Cloud "29" and was living a dream. There were shots of Eddie hugging Vince McMahon backstage and of his name plate being attached to the title belt. This led to the actual match with Eddie facing Lesnar at No Way Out 2004.
Special Features
-All six Los Guerrero vignettes are featured, including the outtakes.
Powell's POV: I despised these vignettes when they originally aired because they were so stereotypical and corny. I wanted them to take a more serious approach with Eddie's character, but instead we got them lying, cheating, and stealing. The outtakes are typical stuff with Eddie and Chavo cracking up whenever they flubbed lines. Overall, a solid disc with some great comments from the WWE personnel. It still bothers me that they didn't dedicate time to his departure from WWE with The Radicalz. Check back later today for a recap of the third disc.
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Who remembers drinking slushies as a kid? That vibrant, refreshing, fruity hit on a hot summers day… I needn't say any more…
IVG had relatively small beginnings when it started as a side project by the CEO of a law firm. Since its conception in 2016 the E-liquid manufacturer has exploded in popularity, now selling their products to millions of customers in over 60 countries worldwide! They are now one of the worlds leading brands offering a wide range of flavour intensive E-liquids.
What are VG and PG?
VG/PG indicates the ratio of Vegetable Glycerin (VG) to Propylene Glycol (PG) that makes up the e-liquid. VG is a thick liquid that is known to bestow a sweet taste upon the juice that contains it. PG, on the other hand, has a much thinner viscosity and no taste. PG produces the feeling of a "throat hit", which VG does not. There are various ratios of VG/PG found throughout the e-cig market. Some with very high VG for creating lots of vapour, some with higher PG for "stealth vaping". So, depending on which vape setup you have/ what your personal taste is, the decision is completely up to you. Here is some information on the VG/PG content of this particular e-liquid;
The VG/PG content of this liquid is 70/30
This mixture of VG/PG is arguably the most popular among the sub-ohm vape users as coils with a lower resistance (<1.0 ohm) tend to vaporise the e-liquid faster, meaning less "throat hit" is needed from the PG, and so more VG can be added to bring with it added sweetness.
The typical levels of nicotine contained in e-liquid are as follows;
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In the UK, 20mg/ml is the legal limit for the nicotine content of vape juice. It is also against the law to manufacture and distribute any nicotine containing e-liquid in a bottle of more than 10mL in volume. To get around this, some manufacturers started to sell what is known as "shake 'n' vape" or "short fill" e-liquid. This is where they sell 0mg/mL liquid of greater volume (most commonly 50ml – 100ml), in bottles that have space for the customer to add their own "nic shot" shot of nicotine.
Here is a useful table to help you calculate the amount of nic shots you will need to add to your 0mg/ml shake 'n' vape or short fill e-liquid in order to achieve your desired nicotine content.
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Who We Are.The Center for Embedded Systems (CES) is a research collaboration between academia (Arizona State University and Southern Illinois University Carbondale), industry (leading electronics companies throughout the world) and government (the National Science Foundation).
Research Impact. CES's research focuses on the technologies that enable sensing, communications, computing, and control in everyday things. When a patient's wrist sensor sends a real-time report to a doctor's cell phone, embedded systems make it happen and people's lives are better. CES conducts the fundamental research that helps companies put these types of improvements to work in these application areas:
What We Do. CES was founded by the National Science Foundation as an industry/university cooperative research center (I/UCRC) in 2009. The center conducts industry-university research projects that are funded by its industry members, the NSF and the two participating universities. CES provides research support for students and faculty, sponsors internship programs, and administers a relevant embedded systems curriculum. Industry members share the intellectual property resulting from all research projects.
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Europe's PS Plus update gives free Fallout 3 DLC, KZ3 beta update
Sony has updated the European end of PlayStation Plus with some nifty Fallout 3 DLC for free and some news on the Killzone 3 beta and a Split/Second: Velocity demo.
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Split/Second DLC outed by Play pre-order program
Play.com has outed DLC for Disney's racer Split/Second with its pre-order program for the game.
Black Rock: Split/Second is the "Modern Warfare 2, Uncharted 2" of racing games
Black Rock's Jason Ried has said Split/Second is up there with Modern Warfare 2 and Uncharted 2 in the racing game stakes.
Split/Second gets screen explosion
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