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At some point last fall, I found myself so starved for entertainment that I actually watched a University of Massachusetts football game. I'm not sure how I even stumbled across this contest on my television; I think I may have accidentally pirated a closed-circuit feed from a public-access station in Sudbury. This particular UMass football game was being played at the New England Patriots' 70,000-seat stadium in Foxboro, because UMass's on-campus stadium is currently under construction, due to what might be the most ill-advised attempt to move from the FCS to FBS in recent history. Either way, the visuals were striking, and it took me a moment to figure out why.
There were no people in the stands.
I mean, there were a couple of random windbreaker-wearing phantoms here and there in the camera shots, but I think those might have actually been other camera operators. The stadium, at least on my television, appeared as a vast concrete wasteland. And for a second, I actually panicked. I found myself wondering: Was there a bomb threat? Mass food poisoning? Is this is some kind of network experiment? Did zombies incubate at Hampshire College?
Perhaps there is a UMass football fan, somewhere, who might read this and insist that things are not quite as bad as they appeared on my screen. Still, things are not exactly great. I imagine being a UMass football fan is a lonely and often soul-crushing existence, but take heart in knowing that you have provided inspiration and justification for the following list of the least-hopeful FBS college football programs in the country.
Please note: The criteria here is not strictly based on record, or on recent bowl history; the criteria is based on the entirely subjective notion of which team, in each conference, I'd least like to be a fan of at this juncture of my existence. Some benefit of the doubt was provided to teams that are relatively new to the FBS (but not enough to benefit UMass).
American Athletic Conference: Connecticut
Three-Year Record: 13-23. Average 2013 attendance: 30,932. Stadium capacity: 40,000.
Hey, remember when the Huskies made four straight bowl games under Randy Edsall -- including the 2011 Fiesta Bowl, where they were summarily mauled by Oklahoma? Yeah, I don't really, either. Three years of Paul Pasqualoni did a pretty solid job of obliterating any sense of optimism in Storrs. Perhaps new coach and baking enthusiast Bob Diaco can alter the attitude here, but he can't shift the unfortunate fact that Connecticut is a basketball school in a basketball region whose best all-time player is a former backup running back for the Indianapolis Colts.
Runner-Up: Memphis (12 victories over the past five seasons)
Atlantic Coast Conference: Virginia
Five-Year Record: 21-40. Average 2013 attendance: 46,279. Stadium capacity: 61,500.
It's kind of astounding that the answer here isn't Duke -- I suppose that fact alone lends hope to every team on this list -- but Virginia, under once-coveted coach Mike London, has been more consistently mediocre for a longer period of time than any of the other conference schools whose fan bases traditionally only get excited about recruiting power forwards. Virginia did sign three five-star recruits in the offseason, but it's not impossible to imagine the Cavaliers' only two wins this season coming against Richmond and Kent State, and even those are not locks. Where art thou, Moore to Moore?
Runner-Up: Wake Forest (23-38 over the past five seasons)
Big Ten Conference: Maryland
Five-Year Record: 24-38. Average 2013 attendance: 41,278. Stadium capacity: 54,000.
Do you remember when Randy Edsall departed Connecticut for Maryland in perhaps the least-interesting coaching hire of the past five years? Well, so far it's turned out pretty much like everyone expected: Maryland went 7-5 last season before losing to Marshall in the Military Bowl. Given their impending money-grab move to the Big Ten -- and despite the fact that they have one of the best receivers in the country in Stefon Diggs -- I can't imagine there's another team that won more games than it lost last season yet still inspires so little excitement about the future.
Runners-Up: Illinois*, Purdue (both 23-39 over the past five seasons)
Big 12 Conference: University of Kansas
Five-Year Record: 14-46. Average 2013 attendance: 37,884. Stadium capacity: 50,071.
There are fewer major-conference programs in the country with lower expectations than Kansas; the whole "college football" enterprise in Lawrence is really just a bridge to the Maui Invitational. But the Jayhawks have been so bad in the past four years that they've actually managed to fall short of those low expectations, with 39 losses since 2010 -- the most over a four-year stretch in school history. Something to look forward to: The Charlie Weis implosion, when it comes, may actually melt clocks.
Runner-Up: University of Kansas (they're that bad)
Conference USA: UTEP
Five-year record: 20-40. Average 2013 attendance: 28,375. Stadium capacity: 51,500.
Do you know who UTEP's football coach is? Apparently, neither does this Sporting News college football preview I'm reading, which mistakenly lists Larry Coker as coach even though Coker is at Texas-San Antonio -- which is not (at least right now) a terrible program. UTEP, on the other hand, hasn't won a bowl game since 1967. After nine middling seasons under noted Destiny aficionado Mike Price, the Miners hired alum Sean Kugler last season, and promptly lost ten games.
Runner-Up: Southern Mississippi (three different head coaches in the past three seasons, one win in the past two years)
Mid-American Conference: Massachusetts
Two-year record since moving up from FCS: 2-22. Average 2013 attendance: 15,830. Stadium capacity: 68,756 (Gillette Stadium)/17,000 (McGuirk Alumni Stadium).
In an attempt to become at least marginally competitive, the Minutemen hired veteran coach Mark Whipple, who spent six years at UMass when they were an FCS contender in the late '90s and early '00s. This is the program's last season in the MAC; next year, unless a miracle occurs, they'll likely become an independent, and will probably continue to struggle until they retreat back to the FCS, which is where they almost certainly belonged in the first place.
Runner-Up: Eastern Michigan (18 consecutive years without a winning season)
Mountain West Conference: New Mexico
Five-Year Record: 10-51. Average 2013 attendance: 23,537. Stadium capacity: 39,224.
I admire Bob Davie's attempt to step out of the broadcast booth after many years and revive a moribund program, in part because it meant someone else would get to hear Bob Davie speak on Saturday afternoons. But this list of New Mexico football coaches who either didn't succeed at all, or were marginally successful before departing for a job where they could be more successful (Marv Levy!), is pretty astounding.
Runner-Up: Hawaii (4-20 the past two seasons -- seriously, what is up, Norm Chow?)
Pac-12 Conference: Colorado
Five-Year Record: 16-45. Average 2013 attendance: 38,463. Stadium capacity: 53,613.
Few programs have sunk so precipitously from national-championship contention to utterly irrelevance -- over the course of less than a generation -- with the hapless aplomb of Colorado. And while there is at least a shred of hope under second-year coach Mike MacIntyre, the Pac-12 is so deep and so good that it may take Colorado another generation to contend again. The good news: It's Boulder, so everything is beautiful and everyone is too stoned to care.
Runner-Up: California (1-11 in the first season under no-huddle guru Sonny Dykes. See also: Beautiful and stoned, above.)
Southeastern Conference: Kentucky
Five-Year Record: 22-40. Average 2013 attendance: 59,472. Stadium capacity: 67.942.
The Wildcats finished with the No. 22 recruiting class in the country, and if they were in any other conference in the country, that alone might be reason for hope. But Kentucky plays in the weaker of the SEC's two divisions, and I'll still be shocked if they finish any higher than sixth out of seven. The upside for coach Mark Stoops is that John Calipari is an outstanding smokescreen.
Runners-Up: Mississippi State (marooned in the second tier of the life-threatening SEC West), Arkansas (in the same position, but with Bret Bielema)
Sun Belt Conference: Idaho
Five-year record: 18-44. Average 2013 attendance: 14,744. Stadium capacity: 16,000.
The obvious answer here is Georgia State, which went 0-12 in its first FBS season and may go 0-12 again. But we should cut them some slack, so let's go with the Vandals, who -- despite having the most compelling SmartCar-sized stadium in the FBS -- haven't had a coach with a winning record since the '90s. Idaho has already been banned from the postseason for a low APR score, which is sort of like banning a sturgeon from a Volvo dealership.
Runner-Up: Georgia State (no FBS wins, ever)


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by IAI. The ISP is a program to augment on-going scientific activities in
research, training and education, data and information collection, climate
modeling as well as a limited number of workshops. 39 Grants are being funded
under the ISP with a duration of up to three years. The ISP Grants are
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Pence Issues Mourning Period For Fallen Officers
Today Governor Mike Pence declared an official period of mourning to honor the extraordinary loss of three Indiana law enforcement officers in the line of duty in the course of one week.
Flags were lowered in Tipton County on Monday as Tipton County Deputy Sheriff Jacob Calvin was laid to rest. The Governor ordered flags to be lowered across the state of Indiana during the period of mourning, which extends through the final services for Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Office Perry Renn and Gary Police Officer Jeffrey Westerfield.
"Every Hoosier feels the loss of these fallen officers and stands with their families and communities during this week of heartbreak. It is altogether fitting that every community in Indiana show solidarity, support and prayers for these officers and their families during this time," said Pence. "As such, I am ordering the flags to be lowered to half-staff statewide in honor of the sacrifice each of these officers made while serving their fellow Hoosiers in the line of duty. I urge every Hoosier to remember the service and sacrifice of these men and their families during this official period of mourning."
Later today Pence will travel to Lake County where he will meet with the family of Gary Officer Jeffrey Westerfield.


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This Friday and Saturday, The New Beverly presents two of Robert Mitchum's finest noirs, Out Of The Past and Crossfire! These films are must sees for any aspiring Noir buff and both feature stellar casts.
Out Of The Past is the lovely Jane Greer's finest film moment, playing one of the genre's touchstone femme fatales Kathie Moffatt. Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Virginia Huston and kiddie star Dickie Moore round out the cast.
Father who knew best, Robert Young, leads the ensemble for Crossfire. The film also includes Gloria Grahame and Robert Ryan, giving his full throttle, maniacal best.
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Adobe Bridge is good at making and applying adjustment profiles to large numbers of files however saving your changes on to the file without versioning it is less than strait forward.
Adobe Bridge is good at making and applying adjustment profiles to large numbers of files however saving your changes on to the file without versioning it is less than strait forward.
Here is the deconvolutionated approach. [[Apply bridge adjustments to tif files]]
Here is the deconvolutionated approach. [[Apply bridge adjustments to tif files]]
=Additional Info=
=Additional Info=
Revision as of 16:04, 7 November 2016
For quality control measures to take during the capture process, see Checking Work By Object. This page refers to the more formal quality control process that happens in preparation for upload.
- 1 Overview
- 2 First QC Check
- 3 Second QC Check
- 4 Additional Info
The Quality Control (QC) process is iterative, and involves at least 2 staff members.
The person whose digitization is being checked performs the first round of QC: run the QC script and make repairs, rerunning it until there are no errors; and THEN do a capture-by-capture review (images: an eyeball check; audio: an auditory check). For both types of material, check metadata item numbers against the items themselves.
Do *not* wait until you have hours of QC to do, because after the first hour, you will make mistakes. This is time consuming and very detail oriented.
After the first round of QC, when you think you have it perfect, pass it to a coworker, who will go through the same process but who will give YOU the feedback to make all the repairs. Continue this cycle until the results are perfect in the view of both team members.
See Scans_folder for instructions on relabeling the Scans folder to show its progress through QC.
First QC Check
Throughout this process, please follow the folder renaming process outlined in Scans_folder.
QC Script
- The script we use in QC can be found on the Share drive here: S:\Digital Projects\Administrative\scripts\qc\ filenamesAndDupes.pl
- This program will check for correct and sequential filenames per the collection number in a Scans folder and its corresponding Transcripts folder (if there is one) as well as check for duplicate filenames. It will print out a report in the "output" folder.
- If it shows errors, please rename the files accordingly and also check the metadata and tracking data to make sure the filename is OK in those spreadsheets. When you are done with the report file this script created, please delete it.
- After you have corrected the errors, RUN THE SCRIPT AGAIN. If the script still finds errors, correct those and run it again. Keep running the script until it does not show any more errors.
- The script also asks you if you want to make FITS -- leave this to second QC or after.
- You should be able to run this program by double clicking on it. You might need to associate the file type with Perl the first time you use it.
- Note: Mass digitized content and Scrapbook content have separate QC scripts. See Quality Control Scripts for additional information.
Visual Spot Check
Once you've run the script and fixed any problems, please check images.
- Open every object folder with Adobe Bridge.
- Look for the things listed in this Quality Control Checklist
Prep for upload
Follow the preparation for upload processes as outlined in Preparing_Collections_on_the_S_Drive_for_Online_Delivery_and_Storage. The person performing the recheck for your quality control work is to ALSO verify that these folders are set up properly, and that all necessary files are there and named correctly, before upload scripts are run.
Pass the collection to a coworker so he or she can go through the process again (as the Second QC Check).
Please follow the folder renaming process outlined in Scans_folder.
Second QC Check
The Recheck takes place in the Completed folder.
- Content should have been prepped for upload, according to the instructions in Preparing_Collections_on_the_S_Drive_for_Online_Delivery_and_Storage.
- Please follow the folder renaming process outlined in Scans_folder.
- A reference guide with materials common to our pipeline and their optimal exposure values. Material_exposure_reference_guide_for_Second_QC
QC Script and Visual Spot Check
A second person reviews only each 20th image (for many-image items) or one image per item. Otherwise, the second person goes through the exact same process.
Checking Upload Preparation
The person doing second QC also checks to see that the collection has been properly prepared for upload.
- Verify that all necessary documentation is there, named correctly, and that the folder structure is correct as well.
- Check all .xml, .txt, and .xlsx files for proper filenames and extensions.
- order is always like this: coll#.batch#.m0#.[log.]extension
- log files and collection info xml files do not need m0#s
- old-style metadata will also omit the m0#
- for collections without batching, omit the batch number
- Open files (or preview in Windows Explorer) and look for anomalies and inconsistencies, misspellings, and missing data, etc.
- Metadata
- Make sure the box and folder number are included and correct in the spreadsheet, as they are necessary to linking items into the EAD.
- Ideally, no additional fields such as "Notes" are in the Metadata file. "Notes" as such should be deleted or moved to the appropriate row in the log.txt file.
- Make sure the Format column in the Metadata file has not been altered to the Time format. If a tab delimited metadata file is opened via Excel (especially by right clicking the file and choosing to open in Excel), the format column if like: 3 p., 4 p., etc. Will get interpreted as 3:00 PM, 4:00 PM, etc. If then resaved as .txt, times will have been saved instead of page #s. The way around this is to have Excel open first, choose Open. Open your text file and while you are being interrogated by Excel about how to import, set the Format column as "Text".
- Metadata
If errors are found, see below. If everything is hunky-dory, please congratulate the person who performed the work on doing a GREAT job (and tell the supervisor! We love to hear this, and it will be reflected on their annual reviews!) and rename the folder Scans_Store_# (appropriate number in place of the #), and tell the person responsible to go ahead with uploads.
Remember: Results of scripts must be clear, and all content completely approved, before you can relabel the directory as Scans_Store_# (appropriate number in place of the #) and clear the content for upload.
Errors found in Second QC check?
Obviously, if errors are found *after* text exports and MODS files are made, then the Excel file needs to be corrected and the text and MODS files remade.
In addition, if errors are found, the person performing the second QC check notifies the supervisor, as this indicates a need for retraining. The supervisor will ensure the entire set of content is reviewed as if in an initial QC check described above.
If the content is being passed to a supervisor, the directory would be relabeled as Scans_Review_#.
Using Bridge to fix tifs
Adobe Bridge is good at making and applying adjustment profiles to large numbers of files however saving your changes on to the file without versioning it is less than strait forward. Here is the deconvolutionated approach. Apply bridge adjustments to tif files
- Check that the content of the audio matches the Title.
- Check that the time codes on the metadata match the starting and stopping time of the audio file
- Also check that the duration of the file noted in the Format Column matches the duration of the time codes. (You'll have to do some math but that's okay it's good for your brain.)
- Listen for general quality of the audio file. A lot of extra noise or distortion is from the physical condition of the reel so there might not be much you can do about it.
- That's it!
Additional Info
Commercial QC Software
Click here to access a quick guide to settings/preferences for Adobe Bridge.


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Wednesday's 1-0 victory against Borussia Dortmund was the second time Arsenal have won on German soil this year. Fans and media alike have wasted no time in indulging in some jingoistic chest thumping. The commentators shrieked in delight as the final whistle blew at the Signal Iduna Park. From the ensuing sycophancy and string of positive results, one may immediately get the impression that Arsenal have finally arrived and are now set to win some silverware this season, with some even going so far as to give the title of 'best player in Europe' to Aaron Ramsey.
While Arsenal are genuine contenders for the Premier League title this season and even look to be the best team in England by some distance, are they ahead of the likes of European teams such as Dortmund as well? While Arsenal's defensive performance in Signal Iduna Park, which gifted them 3 points, deserves praise, a closer examination of both games against Dortmund tells a different story as to who were the better side overall.
In the first game at the Emirates, Dortmund produced a textbook away performance with what was a bit of a smash and grab 2-1 victory as the stats revealed that Arsenal and Dortmund were fairly even. Arsenal had 9 shots on target, while Dortmund had 8. The return game, on the other hand, at first almost seemed like a complete reversal, as it was once again the visitors that took the spoils in a similar smash and grab fashion despite being subdued for certain periods. However this time out, the home side completely dominated the visitors. Dortmund had an astonishing 15 shots on goal while Arsenal could only muster 4. Despite the recent plaudits and jubilation surrounding Arsenal's exploits last night, Borussia Dortmund were arguably the better side when taking both games and statistics into account.
The game was replete with squandered chances for Dortmund that went begging while the Gunners looked vulnerable. Dortmund also came up with two away goals and if the two matches were to be a knock out tie, the yellow-blacks would have been the team that progressed. Although the latter statement may not be too much to read into, the fact is that Dortmund came off as the better side over the two encounters. The truth, however, is likely to be overlooked by the latest hype surrounding last night's result in the context of the rise of this current Arsenal side. Lofty expectations for the Gunners are justifiable at least domestically, but not in Europe.


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Modern Quilts Traditional Inspiration. Delving back to the traditional styles that first sparked her passion for quilting, Denyse gives these twenty quilt patterns a modern spin with bold, beautiful fabric choices.
There's nothing fussy about these patterns, but they aren't necessarily of the "quick and easy" variety either. Instead of shortcuts, these quilts embrace the patience, skill and craft of quilting. As Denyse herself says in the introduction, "I hope you can embrace the idea of quilting as a 'slow craft', and enjoy the opportunity to engage in a satisfying, contemplative pastime that offers rewards relative to your efforts." What a lovely sentiment for the go-go-go pace of our times!
But please don't let this measured approach intimidate you! These quilts are appropriate for almost all skill levels, from ambitious beginner to advanced expert. Some of our favorite examples include the striking "Courthouse Steps" (pictured above), which seems to glow from within and the intricate "Ocean Waves" (pictured below), which is delicate yet modern. Every project is thoughtfully explained with simple, straightforward directions and includes templates and helpful illustrations.
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1964 Plymouth Hemi Belvedere Super Commando - The Second Coming Of The Super Commando
Rico Petrini's '64 Hemi Plymouth
"The 426-III cu. in. engine . . . is designed for maximum acceleration from a standing start. Wide open throttle bursts with the 12.5:1 and 11:1 ratio engines must be limited to 15 seconds to prevent engine damage." Chrysler Service Bulletin No. 64-19, December 14, 1963
There are certain watershed marks in the history of musclecars that just can't be ignored. Bench racing sessions about when the first musclecar was built will continue until the last machine has slid into a pile of rust dust, but the popular vote skews toward 1964. GM was cranking out V-8 A-body cars like the 389 GTO, and Ford had its High-Riser 427, but if you want to talk image and sheer unadulterated mystique then we must speak in reverent hushed tones about the 426 Hemi. Those massive chrome valve covers and that dual four-barrel induction system were nothing less than testosterone ingeniously cast into a reciprocating mass of passion and horsepower. There are rare instances in American industry when the engineers are on the same page as the marketing guys. That's when great things happen. In this case, it was the '64 Plymouth Super Stock package called the 426-III.
Plymouth and Dodge were locked in an internal battle to crank out some of the most serious bald-faced race cars ever to leave the factory floor. The hero cars were the aluminum front-end machines. These flyweight Plymouth Savoys and Belvederes were built with a collection of lightweight aluminum stampings taking the place of stock hoods, front fenders, bumper brackets, and dust shields. They came with 12.5:1 compression 426 Hemi engines and were immediately given deity-like status by the Mopar faithful. But these princes of the pavement are not the stuff of our story.
Behind the media and enthusiast clamor for the aluminum front-end cars was barely a handful-the estimated number is 35-of quietly produced street cars without the lightweight pieces, but still stuffed with power. These were a bit of an enigma-a mystery that even many Mopar faithful know little about. They were equipped with the same race Hemi with 12.5:1 compression and benefited from stronger rods, as well as a wild set of factory cast-iron exhaust manifolds that fuel the debate as to whether they better suited the description of factory iron manifolds or true headers. All this fit under an aluminum hoodscoop and in between real steel fenders. To the unpracticed eye, even the interior looked stock, complete with a bench seat and the factory pushbutton shifter.
This is the world into which Rico Petrini entered. Best friends have a lasting impact on us, sometimes good, sometimes bad. Jim Bisetti was Rico's buddy during the late '60s and owned a '64 EE-1 blue 426 wedge-powered Sport Fury. The pair used to terrorize the streets around the San Francisco peninsula with the four-speed streeter, which included several trips to Half Moon Bay Drag Strip. But just as our favorite cars sometimes don't survive the test of time, so it was that Jim passed away in December 2000. That's when Rico decided to build a car in his best friend's memory and began the search for a '64 Plymouth.
The quest ended at the Mopar Spring Fling event in Los Angeles in 2001 when Rico came across a black '64 Plymouth Hemi Belvedere. After securing the car back in his hometown of San Mateo, California, Rico discovered that not only was the car originally the same color as his buddy's '64, but far rarer than it had been presented. The original Hemi was long since gone, but after careful investigative work and help from Greg Lane and many others, Rico learned that this car was indeed one of the rare steel front-end '64 Super Commando cars, a detail that somehow had evaded the previous owners. With a car this exceptional, there was no alternative but to restore it back to its original state. Anything else would have been, well, blasphemous.
The restoration demanded a full court press that included a rotisserie media blasting, meticulous cleaning, and painting of the entire car inside and out by Gordon Anderson at his shop in San Carlos, California. While this was going on, Rico commissioned Canadian Tim Banning, who owns and operates For Hemis Only, to build a properly configured and stock-appearing Hemi engine befitting the car's stature. The emphasis here is on "stock-appearing." While everything on the outside looks like it just rolled off the Lynch Road, Michigan, assembly plant in June 1964, Tim's engine buildsheet tells a different story. The major things missing included the stock block, heads, and headers, but the effort began after the appropriate castings were located. Stock stroke on a Hemi is a short 3.75 inches; Tim stretched that figure slightly with an Eagle forged-steel 4.150-inch arm, also adding a wider yawn with 4.313-inch pistons and Eagle rods to create a 485ci monster. This forged-steel version of male enhancement added to the engine's aural command presence, so it wasn't much of a compromise to pull the compression back from 12.5:1 to a more pump-gas-friendly 10.0:1, especially considering the massive iron '64 vintage Hemi head castings. This also gave Tim a little leeway with the camshaft, and he opted for a Comp Cams mechanical flat-tappet grind.
But for the true believers, it isn't the aluminum cross-ram dual four-barrel intake or the stock Carter AFB dual carburetors that make them take note. That's reserved for the dump side of the combustion process. It's those massive cast-iron exhaust manifolds that generate the most acknowledgements for factory-original star quality. Rico quickly discovered that these factory exhaust manifolds were not just original for the car and outrageous, but damn near impossible to find. So when the Hemi community began to beat the jungle drums in search of these cast-iron icons, it wasn't long before Jim Kramer of Kramer Auto had found a complete set of manifolds. That's when Rico found himself talking with John Arruzza of Arruzza's Performance in Trinity, North Carolina, who not only had the manifolds but was just waiting for the correct car to come along before he would sell them. It was as if the transaction were preordained.
Now that the Belvedere is completed and making the car show circuit, Rico finds himself retelling the story multiple times a day, much like a rock star who must bang out his signature song a couple of thousand times throughout his career. But Rico's OK with that, mainly because the car is both somewhat public and worthy of the attention, but also because it's a tribute to a high school buddy who helped shape his life. It's those highly personal stories that you never tire of repeating.
Tech Notes What: It's a very rare steel front-end '64 Plymouth Hemi Belvedere Super Commando. Owner: Rico PetriniHometown: San Mateo, California, near San Francisco, where in 1964 the face of flower-power and rock 'n' roll was just beginning to emerge.
Short-block: While the Super Commando 426 Hemi that sits in the engine compartment is not original, that didn't stop Rico from making it look as authentic as possible. Tim Banning, owner of For Hemis Only (FHO) in Ontario, Canada, performed all the machine work and assembly, which started with a correct '64 Hemi NASCAR K block. To add a little punch to this not-so-strict rebuild, Tim added an Eagle forged 4.150-inch-stroke crank along with custom CP forged pistons at a milder 10.0:1 compression hooked to a set of Eagle 6.86-inch, full-floating H-beam rods. Of course, this invited the use of a Comp Cams mechanical lifter camshaft with 241 degrees of duration at 0.050-inch tappet lift and 0.563/0.545-inch valve lift.
Heads: As with the block, these castings have been around the block a few times, requiring furnace welding to repair some previous welding repairs. After the heat work, Tim installed new bronze guides and performed a complete porting operation adding 2.25/1.90-inch Manley stainless steel valves and Comp double-wound springs. The heads were also equipped with Stage V stainless steel 1.6:1 intake roller rockers and forged exhaust pieces actuated by Smith Brothers custom pushrods.
Induction: Hemis only look right with twin four-barrels in the intake side; this particular piece is an FHO-repaired aluminum cross-ram outfitted with the original 735-cfm Carter AFB 1111/416-inch throttle bore carburetors restored by Dick Katter.
Exhaust: While it's rare that special attention be paid to the exhaust system, in the case of these special Super Commando Hemi cars, Chrysler engineers realized the value of a low-restriction exhaust system, building what most enthusiasts would call a custom factory header package consisting of four individual primary tubes exiting into a 3-inch collector intended to run uncorked on the dragstrip. The remainder of the exhaust system plugs into the collector at a restrictive 90 degrees using a large-for-the-day 211/42-inch exhaust system reproduced by Accurate Exhaust.
Transmission: The Hemi cars came with either a Chrysler A833 2.66 First gear four-speed or, as in this case, with a TorqueFlite with "5,600 rpm upshift speed and high capacity components," per the factory service bulletin. According to Rico, the factory also modified the pushbutton shifter on the dash, placing the Drive button at the bottom and deleting the Park lever altogether. The Hemi converter in Rico's Plymouth stalls at 2,800.
Rearend: Back in '64, the 831/44-inch rear axle assembly was still the hot selection since the Dana 60 wouldn't appear for another two years. The smaller 831/44-inch includes a Sure Grip limited slip that would have originally connected to either 3.90 or 4.56 gears but for the street now spins a bit more conservative 3.55s. The entire rearend is stock, right down to the tapered axles that Rico says are "a pain in the ass."
Suspension/Brakes: Here, Rico chose to retain as many of the stock components as possible, including the OE torsion bars, Super Stock leaf springs, factory steering box, front and rear 11-inch drum brakes, and original single-reservoir master cylinder.
Wheels/Tires: Standard tires and wheels in '64 for the B-Body Plymouths were 7.00x14-inch Rayon tires. As an option you could get an 8.00x14-inch tire and steel wheel package. Rico chose to widen a set of stock wheels to15x8 to give the Belvedere a more aggressive stance. The rear tires are a pair of BFGoodrich P275/50R15 drag radials, a far cry from those rock-hard stockers.
Interior: If you've ever wondered what the interior of your grandmother's car looked like, this would be it. Gordon Anderson replaced most of the wiring while South City Upholstery replaced most everything else with fresh M1B light blue stock supplied by SMS.
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'Insane' Texas-built water slide tallest in the world
SAN ANTONIO — Everything is bigger in Texas, even the exports.
The Verrückt, soon-to-be the world's tallest water slide at a towering 17 stories, or nearly 170 feet tall, was built in New Braunfels and will open later this year at Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, Kan.
Thrill-seeking visitors, after climbing 264 stairs, will plummet down the monster four-at-a-time in a raft and will reach a speed of about 65 mph, according to Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resort's website.
The Verrückt was constructed from railroad tanks that were cut and welded to form a slide. The sections were then shipped to Kansas to be put together.
The 601-foot-long fiberglass slide, that includes an uphill section, will be featured in a documentary by the Travel Channel.
The former Guinness World Record holder is Kilimanjaro at Aguas Quentes Country Club in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which stands 163 ft 9 inches and was built in 2002.
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Sunday, June 6, 2010
15 comments:
- AnonymousJune 6, 2010 at 7:34 PM
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS ONE!!! I hate the stinky fish Marlins! Keep 'em coming!ReplyDelete
i love this one!!!!! a lot of mets fan are down on frenchy this year, but i'm still a supporter. i like his hard nose approach to the game and he is a truly nice guy.ReplyDelete
All things aside, these become more brilliant. Excellent work sir. Go Mets.ReplyDelete
Thanks all. Check out the NY Daily News tomorrow.ReplyDelete
There's going to be an article about this Blog! Thanks to you all!
The Daily News is just the first stop of many for @RocknRollArtist!ReplyDelete
Love the "Frenchy Fries Fish"! So creative.
Keep up the great work and keep them wins comin!
Seriously - someone needs to frame this and get it to Frenchy as incentive to keep it up...great work, as always, Joe!ReplyDelete
You captured Frenchy perfectly.ReplyDelete
Time for Jerry to start talkin about NL Manager of the Year. Three games over .500 with this team and this rotation?
Your blog is my first visit every morning!
i can't find the article in the daily news!!!ReplyDelete
Great art! Love your site!ReplyDelete
Yes, to be honest, I truly believe that Frenchy could be THE fan favorite (slightly ahead of Ike), if he could produce offensively. He clearly has the most fan-friendly demeanor of any player on the team.
I like D-Wright, but he is too Leave it to Beaver for me.
Frenchie leads a fan friendly list followed by Ike and Rod.
This art collection is one of the best I have seen. I hope you publish this in a comic style book or something like that.ReplyDelete
As for Thomas here, don't you think you are asking for a little much coming from an artist? Artwork has little boundarys. The edginess is was makes it that much more powerful.
Keep it up Joe!
fine work as always... although you spelled Francoeur wrong!ReplyDelete
Sorry for the misspellings but I do these kind of quick. I will fix it when I get a chance.ReplyDelete
Thomas, I did not mean for the piece to be offensive. I'm sorry that you feel that way.
I am a good catholic and would never do anything I felt sacrilegious. I just felt he was crucified. Not like the Lord Just crucified.It was never meant to parody the crucifixion of Christ.
Haha thanks for fixing the spelling Joe. I figured if you were putting out a book in the future you would hate to see a misspelling after it was already printed. We are your spell-checkers and editors!ReplyDelete


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 44 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
Sparkle Pup, an online gift basket business specializing in pet fashions and accessories, needs a logo.
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Cute, stylish, upscale
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Spakle Pup (http://www.sparklepup.com) will be an online store selling upscale pet treats, fashions and accessories stylishly packaged and sent to your door.
The logo design should be cute and stylish. Some ideas are a dog with a present (package) as its body or a present with dogs on top or to the side of it. I would like some "sparkle" element to be incorporated, perhaps the dog is sniffing a sparkle or starburst? The design could incorporate a basket of some kind rather than a gift, such as the dog holding a gift basket in its mouth. Someone else suggested a dog's silhouette with a starburst as the background. I'm very open to suggestions. I would love for you to be creative.
The site colors have not yet been determined and this logo will be the basis for the colors, so open to ideas. Leaning towards brown paired with pastels however. Brown with light green (not citrus), brown with light blue perhaps? Pink always works well with dog fashion, but I wouldn't mind more of an "edgey" look. No reds please.
Target audience: Mostly fashion conscious female dog owners between the ages of 30 - 50 or any pet owner that likes to pamper their dog.
I look forward to working with all the designers who participate. Finished logo must be all original work only. Please no submissions containing clipart or copyrighted material. Full ownership of copyright must be transfered to me. I will require a written agreement to be signed giving full ownership of the logo.
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- Triumphant Thassarian's Plate
- 10,045 Armor
+487 Strength
+806 Stamina [+42]
- Meta Socket
Red Socket x3.
Yellow Socket x2.
Blue Socket x2.
- Equip: Improves defense rating by 338.
Equip: Improves dodge rating by 275.
Equip: Improves parry rating by 238.
Equip: Increases your hit rating by 96.
- Triumphant Thassarian's Plate (5 pieces)
- [Thassarian's Faceguard of Triumph]
[Thassarian's Chestguard of Triumph]
[Thassarian's Legguards of Triumph]
[Thassarian's Pauldrons of Triumph]
[Thassarian's Handguards of Triumph]
- (2) Set: Decreases the cooldown on your Dark Command ability by 2 sec and increases the damage done by your Blood Strike and Heart Strike abilities by 5%.
(4) Set: Decreases the cooldown on your Unbreakable Armor, Vampiric Blood, and Bone Shield abilities by 20 sec.
- Combined stats. Numbers in [brackets] indicate socket bonuses
Triumphant Thassarian's Plate is the middle rank of the Thassarian's Plate set, the Alliance death knight Tier 9 tanking set. The lower set is Conqueror's Thassarian's Plate, the upper set is Triumphant Thassarian's Plate (heroic).
The Horde equivalent to this set is Triumphant Koltira's Plate.
- See also: Thassarian's Battlegear set or Koltira's Battlegear set for the melee versions of this set.
Source Edit
The parts of this set are Item Level 245, and are purchased with Emblems of Triumph along with a [Trophy of the Crusade]. The trophy is a drop from each boss in the 25-man Trial of the Crusader. It is also found in the Argent Crusade Tribute Chest gained after defeating Anub'arak in Trial of the Crusader's Heroic mode.
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iLvl 232
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iLvl 245
The Item Level 232 versions ("... of Conquest") require only 2/3 as many emblems, and no additional item.
The Item Level 258 versions (heroic "of Triumph") are purchased with a [Regalia of the Grand Vanquisher]. This regalia item is gained solely from the Argent Crusade Tribute Chest, and only during the 25-man heroic mode version of Trial of the Crusader.
All three versions count towards satisfying the set bonus requirements.
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The Washington Times
March 17, 2013
Sen. Rand Paul won the 2013 Washington Times-CPAC presidential preference straw poll Saturday, and Sen. Marco Rubio was a close second, easily outdistancing the rest of the field and signaling the rise of a new generation of conservative leaders who will take the Republican Party into the 2016 election.
Mr. Paul won 25 percent of the vote, and Mr. Rubio collected 23 percent. Former Sen. Rick Santorum was third with just 8 percent, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — who was not invited to speak at the three-day Conservative Political Action Conference — was next with 7 percent, and Rep. Paul D. Ryan, the GOP's vice presidential nominee last year, was fifth with 6 percent.
Mr. Paul's victory puts him in the footsteps of his father, former Rep. Ron Paul, who won in 2010 and 2011.
"I've been standing with Rand since I came out of the womb," said Austin Alexander, a 26-year-old consultant from New York who voted for the senator in the straw poll and who volunteered for the elder Mr. Paul's campaign in 2012. Mr. Alexander said he believes the GOP is moving in the direction the Pauls espouse.
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
That Would Be A 81MM Mortar Carry Tube, Alex.
6 comments:
- Crazy Cacher said...
That is definitely an intersting cache container! Have not seen anything like that yet in my travels. I do love to discover the many different containers that people place out there though. Feel free to check out my new blog that I just started a couple of weeks ago for geocaching. I am hoping to have it really up and running within the next month or so. Happy Caching!
- January 31, 2009 at 8:35 PM
- TheAlabamaRambler said...
Using such a container is begging for a visit from the local bomb squad... and they CAN bill you for their efforts. I would avoid this one.
- January 31, 2009 at 9:13 PM
- CarolinaCacher said...
Using military containers in urban areas is asking for trouble. If you are hiding them in the deep woods, you should be OK. With the advent of "Lock-And-Locks" and other semi-clear containers, it is only prudent us use them instead of military containers in urban areas.
- February 1, 2009 at 8:05 AM
- P.J. said...
I would wonder what people would think if they found this one, as others have posted. If it's deep in the woods and away from the "scared" people around, I think it would be pretty wild. Seems like a good container.
I'm going to probably buy some more lock-and-locks for my next hides, though. I have a couple smaller ones painted and ready to go, but with the stickers on them!
Would be cool to find one of these out in the middle of nowhere though!
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- February 1, 2009 at 9:54 AM
- Chris P said...
I was one of the inquiring folks, after viewing your video... I was looking online tonight and they are out there but much more than $7 especially after you pay shipping. I will check with my local surplus place... While I can see the point of some of the concern.. this size of container I would be thinking of a cache out in the woods anyway. Very cool! I was also thinking oen could make a similiar size tube with PVC and fittings. I have seen this once and was very cool. Regards
Chris In Denver,CO.
- February 1, 2009 at 8:35 PM
- Chris said...
That's a container. Wonder though, how geocaching containers became connected with the military?
Have to agree with Carolina. Thought about going after a cache is a pretty visible area in front of a public utility facility. Ammo can? Public utility? Not me.
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Ah, springtime. The birds chirp, the grass brightens, and weirdos thaw out and begin to yap. Loudmouths like top evangelical personality and radio host David Barton, who thinks the movement against net neutrality goes back to the 17th century. Okay!
Speaking out against net neutrality as a somehow socialist tenant, Barton quacked the following:
That's a Biblical principle, that's a historical principle, we have all these quotes from Ben Franklin, and Jefferson and Washington and others on free market and how important that is to maintain. That is part of the reason we have prosperity. This is what the Pilgrims brought in, the Puritans brought in, this is free market mentality. Net Neutrality sounds really good, but it is socialism on the Internet.
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Chris Brunt thinks it is only natural West Brom and Northern Ireland colleague Jonny Evans is attracting interest given his quality and experience.
The Baggies have rejected a bid from Manchester City for their 29-year-old captain, who graduated from the academy of their cross-city rivals Manchester United.
News of Pep Guardiola's interest in Evans was met with bemusement by some, yet Brunt knows first hand about Evans' ability having played alongside him both domestically and with his country.
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"But it's between Jonny and the club. There's not really a lot anyone else can do about it. We'll just see how it goes."
Evans has sat out West Brom's first two Premier League games this term, with boss Tony Pulis insisting it is due to a nagging hamstring issue rather than anything transfer related.
His colleagues have coped just fine without him, though, having recorded back-to-back 1-0 victories to start their top-flight campaign and Brunt knows there is little West Brom, or any club can do, about interest in their best players.
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"The transfer window's open and Jonny's a good player. I suppose when you are playing well, it attracts interest from other teams. It's no different at any other club.
"Look, I'm sure whatever the outcome is, everyone will move on. Football is one of those games where you've got to move on quickly.
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|1920 U.S. Federal Census
Things have been crazy busy with the Easter holiday and de-cluttering the house so we can put it on the market, so I was debating whether or not to put up another census form today. I hadn't created it yet, and it takes a little bit of time (I'm a perfectionist and like to be as close to exact as possible on these things), but as I woke up this morning thinking that I would simply turn out a quick Tombstone Tuesday with some research thrown in there, I saw a comment from Michelle Goodrum from "Turning of Generations" fame. Her comment on my 1910 census letting me know that she's enjoying the forms was all it took to get me going. Up to this point I was really wondering if they were useful to anyone (apart from me, that is)!
Thank you, Michelle, for getting me back on track! Now on to the 1920 census!
I've been really enjoying the US Census Bureau's website recently. I love the historical information they give for the decade the census was taken, and I love the fact that they usually have the instructions for the census takers (always a good thing to know!).
An interesting tid-bit I found from the Census Bureau was:
"The results of the 1920 census revealed a major and continuing shift of the population of the United States from rural to urban areas. No apportionment was carried out following the 1920 census; representatives elected from rural districts worked to derail the process, fearful of losing political power to the cities. Reapportionment legislation was repeatedly delayed as rural interests tried to come up with mechanisms that would blunt the impact of the population shift. Congress finally passed a reapportionment bill in 1929. The bill declared that the House of Representatives would be apportioned base on the results of the 1930 census."
Want to check out the report on Mines and Quarries from the 1920 census? How about the Agriculture report? Manufacturing? Well, you can check out the reports on these and more on the Census Bureau's website here.
There's so much great information out there to help you understand the time period your ancestors lived in, and it's so important to remember not to think of their world as ours is today. Sometimes we forget that...I know I do.
So now you've got another census form that you can download, input your ancestor's information into and save right to your computer. Remember that you can access this census form that I created by clicking on any of the "1920 census" links in this blog, or by clicking here. The form when it opens in Google Docs always appears to have more than one page, but rest assured that when you download the form, it will be in one piece.
The form is locked so that you can tab from one blank to another without accidentally erasing the form itself. I did notice one quirk in the form. I placed the "Notes" section at the top in this form. Each time you tab across and hit the "Notes" section, it spits you back to the first row. I have no idea why it does this (any suggestions to fix it are greatly appreciated!), but it's something to keep in mind when entering the information in that top set of cells. The bottom set works fine though!
If you notice any other issues with the form or have trouble accessing it, please let me know and I'll do whatever I can to fix it. The other input-able forms can be accesses by clicking on the "tag" labeled "FORMS" on the left-hand side of the blog. Confused? I think I am too at this point. I need to stop writing this post while sitting in on my son's Boy Scout meeting!
Until next time, good luck finding your ancestors in the 1940 census and tending those roots!
UPDATE: The links to the 1920 form were apparently bringing up the 1910 census form I created. The link has been changed, so you'll get the right form now! Thanks, Pam, for letting me know!


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Braving the hot Los Angeles summer sun and throngs of cosplayers, I found myself at this year's Anime Expo, a festival that celebrates all things related to anime. So it's no surprise that I would find Autumn Games and Reverge Labs on hand to show off their PSN/XBLA fighter, Skullgirls. Early reveals of the game have shown that the game has a distinct art style, and unique characters provided by art director Alex Ahad. The build on hand only had three playable characters, but the amount of depth present in those three characters alone shows that the team at Reverge knows exactly how to build a better fighting game. And really, this is what happens when you have fighting game fans building a their own fighting game and cherry-picking some of the best aspects of fighters released in the last decade. After just a few matches I'm ready to claim that Skullgirls is on track to replace Street Fighter 4 as my game of choice when I need to take it to fisticuffs.
The playable characters on hand included Filia with her parasitic hairpiece Samson (appropriate name choice? I think so), who's got a penchant for rush-downs and cross-ups. First impressions leave me feeling like she's got moves inspired by Milia Rage from Guilty Gear and Morrigan from Darkstalkers. Then you've got Cerebella and Vice-Versa, a powerful combo that will remind players of Zangief from Street Fighters and Potemkin from Guilty Gear; she specializes in grabs and slow lumbering attacks that dish out a great deal of damage. Last up is a new character recently unveiled, known as Peacock. Immediately people are going to draw comparisons to characters from old time cartoons, and they aren't too far off. Everything about Peacock screams Steamboat Willy with a touch of madness from Animaniacs. As for how she plays, Peacock is accustomed to zoning, keeping enemies at bay and making it generally difficult for them to get in. Her move set is hard to peg down, but you can feel inspirations from Hsien-ko from Darkstalkers and Strider from Marvel vs Capcom 2. What's most interesting about her are all of her nods to other video game characters. For example her gun attack, performed with a typical fireball motion, will cause a sword to appear when using medium punch. This sword can look like Sol Badguy's weapon from Guilty Gear, or even Final Fantasy 7's distinct Buster Sword.
Gameplay feels like a great big mash-up of some of the best features in fighting games. You've got the tagging system present from the Marvel vs Capcom games, along with the Delayed Hyper Combo mechanics, allowing for tag-outs in the middle of super moves. Then there is the character ratio system from Capcom vs SNK 2, allowing you to have up to three weaker characters to give yourself some variety, or one really powerful character, which really shows if you're just using Cerebella. She can decimate an opposing team with just a few attacks. The core gameplay feels immediately similar to Darkstalkers, which is great because fans have been clamoring for a new entry in the series for years. Skullgirls will easily fill that void. With a free-form combo system that encourages experimentation, you'll be surprised at what can be made to work. For example, I managed to pull a DHC from Peacock's laser beam super in to Filia's dash super which then lead to a ground bounce in to an aerial combo attack, drawing impressed reactions from the growing crowd. Sure it was flashy and an absolutely waste of meter, but it was fun as hell to experiment to see if it would work. And if my incredibly rookie skills can pull that off, I can only imagine what top tier play will look like. In a bid to prevent infinite combo attacks, Skullgirls has a combo-breaker mechanic that will allow users to break free of infinite loops.
For having only three characters available, there is an immense amount of promise in this early build of Skullgirls. What's even more impressive is how great the game looks. Videos posted online don't really do this game any justice, you just have to see it in all its sixty frames per second glory to really understand the amount of work that's going in to this game. You can tell they are going all out for the sound department as well, with a soundtrack crafted by the amazingly talented Michiru Yamane of Castlevania fame. Even the voice acting is receiving a boost from some of the best in the business with Christina Vee confirmed to be the voice of Cerebella. Reverge Labs obviously has the chops to produce what looks to end up as one of the best fighting games of the year. With a release date planned for later this year, they'll be revealing more of the roster at future events like EVO in Las Vegas at the end of July. We'll definitely be keeping our eyes out for what looks to be one of the most entertaining and visually unique fighters to come out in some time.
Note: This preview took place at Anime Expo, an event sponsored by the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation (SPJA) who offered a complimentary pass to this event.
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BEIJING, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- China needs a greater dose of democracy, said Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who retires from the job at the end of next year.
The country of 1.3 billion people has been a Communist dictatorship since the overthrow of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek and his nationalist government in 1949.
But the age of absolute Communist power and a steadfast centralized government is fading, Wen told delegates at the three-day World Economic Forum meeting of business leaders in the Chinese city of Dalian.
Reforming the party and the Communist Party Leadership were "urgent tasks," said Wen.
"To do this the party must not represent the government and change the phenomenon of absolute power and excessive concentration of power," he said. "Thus, the party's and the country's leadership system must be reformed."
China has limited democracy in the form of village councils with elected officials. This could be expanded, he said.
"If people can rule a village well, they can manage a county well, even rule a town well," he said during his opening speech to the Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions -- often called the "Summer Davos" after the Swiss ski resort of the same name where the Forum's annual winter economic meeting takes place.
The comments were made during Wen's opening speech, which focused heavily on the state of the Chinese economy and China's ability to do what it could to help stabilize a shaky world economy, especially in Europe and the United States.
Wen's democracy comments go unreported for the most part in China's media, which is mostly state run, a report by the BBC said.
Wen, the third most powerful Chinese leader, has made similar comments before but his latest statements go further, the BBC report said. It could be his attempt to ingrain his legacy as a reformer and nudge the next generation of leaders toward change.
However, he might have an uphill struggle as the Communist Party appears nervous over the so-called Arab Spring uprisings and toppling of dictatorial regimes in northern Africa.
The Communist government continues to round up and imprison people, such as artist Ai Weiwei, who call for more democracy.
The contemporary artist, sculptor and architecture collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron as the artistic consultant on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics.
He was released in June after three months in prison ostensibly charges of tax evasion, although he is a known dissident, calling for more open democracy within government.
Wen's comments have from time to time made it into China's media, even as long ago as 2006. Xinhua reported a visit he made to Beijing Normal University in which he said China should create a democratic atmosphere that can ensure people's rights to vote and make more decisions for themselves in their daily lives and in their work.
"We must enable everybody to fully grow up in an environment of equity, justice and freedom," he said.


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Committee Membership Information
Study Title:
A National Strategy for Advancing Climate Modeling
Primary Board:
Study Director:
Dr. Chris Bretherton
- (Chair)
University of Washington
Chris Bretherton is currently a Professor in the University of Washington Departments of Atmospheric Science and Applied Mathematics, where he teaches classes on weather, atmospheric turbulence and cumulus convection, tropical meteorology, geophysical fluid dynamics, numerical methods, and classical analysis of ODEs and PDEs. He directs the University of Washington Program on Climate Change, which organizes graduate courses, seminars, a summer institute, and research on climate science and its relevance to our society and future. His group developed the parameterizations of shallow cumulus convection used in the cutting-edge versions of two leading US climate models, the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Atmosphere Model, version 5 (CAM5), and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Atmosphere Model, version 3 (AM3). They also developed the turbulence parameterization used in CAM5, and have versions of both schemes for the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) regional modeling system.
Dr. Inez Y. Fung
University of California, Berkeley
Inez Fung is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science and the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Since 2005, she has also been a Founding Co-Director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment. Inez Fung has been studying climate change for the last 20 years. She is a principal architect of large-scale mathematical modeling approaches and numerical models to represent the geographic and temporal variations of sources and sinks of CO2, dust and other trace substances around the globe. Dr. Fung???s recent work in climate modeling predicts the co-evolution of CO2 and climate and concludes that the diminishing capacities of the land and oceans to store carbon act to accelerate global warming. Inez Fung received her S.B. in Applied Mathematics and her Sc.D. in Meteorology from MIT. She joined the Berkeley faculty in 1998 as the first Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences and the founding Director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center.
Dr. Lai-Yung R. Leung
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
L. Ruby Leung is a recognized leader in modeling regional climate and the hydrological cycle. Her research focuses on understanding and modeling of regional climate variability and change, land-atmosphere interactions, orographic processes, and aerosol effects on the water cycle. She has led important efforts in defining research priorities and needs in regional climate modeling and coordinated community efforts to develop capability in community mesoscale models to simulate regional climate. Her research on climate change and aerosol effects has been featured in Science, Popular Science, Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, and many major newspapers. Her research crosses scientific disciplines to advance the state of the art in predicting climate change and its regional impacts.
Dr. James J. Hack
National Center for Atmospheric Research
James J. Hack directs the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS), a leadership computing facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory supporting transformational science. He identifies major high performance computing needs from scientific and hardware perspectives and puts forth strategies to meet those needs as machines evolve to the petascale, able to carry out a quadrillion calculations per second. An atmospheric scientist, Hack also leads ORNL???s Climate Change Initiative. Dr. Hack became a research staff member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he worked on the design and evaluation of high-performance computing architectures. In 1984 he moved to the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a National Science Foundation-sponsored center, where his roles included Senior Scientist, head of the Climate Modeling Section, and Deputy Director of the Climate and Global Dynamics Division. He was one of the principal developers of the climate model that ran on NCCS supercomputers to provide more than one-third of the simulation data jointly contributed by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation to the most recent assessment report of the United Nations??? Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the group that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.
Dr. Shawn Marshall
University of Calgary
Shawn Marshall joined University of Calgary???s Department of Geography in January 2000, following Ph.D. and Postdoctoral research at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Since earning a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Physics at the University of Toronto he has been on a progressively geographical path, with Ph.D. work in Geophysics and Postdoctoral work in UBC??s Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences. His research interests are in glacier and ice sheet dynamics, ice-climate interactions, and paleoclimatology.
Dr. James A. Edmonds
Joint Global Change Research Institute
Jae Edmonds is a Chief Scientist and Laboratory Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory???s Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration with the University of Maryland at College Park. His research in the areas of long-term, global, energy, technology, economy, and climate change spans three decades, producing several books, numerous scientific papers and countless presentations. He is one of the pioneers in the field of integrated assessment modeling of climate change. His principal research focus is the role of energy technology in addressing climate change. He is the Chief Scientist for the Integrated Assessment Research Program in the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy. He has been an active participant in all of the major assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Dr. Larry L. Smarr
University of California, San Diego
Larry Smarr is the founding Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), a UC San Diego/UC Irvine partnership, and holds the Harry E. Gruber professorship in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at UCSD???s Jacobs School. At Calit2, Smarr has continued to drive major developments in information infrastructure-- including the Internet, Web, scientific visualization, virtual reality, and global telepresence--begun during his previous 15 years as founding Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Smarr served as principal investigator on NSF???s OptIPuter project and currently is principal investigator of the Moore Foundation???s CAMERA project and co-principal investigator on NSF???s GreenLight project.
Dr. Robert E. Dickinson
The University of Texas at Austin
Robert E. Dickinson joined the Department of Geological Sciences in August of 2008. For the previous 9 years, he was Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and held the Georgia Power/ Georgia Research Alliance Chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the 9 years before that he was Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Regents Professor at the University of Arizona, and for the previous 22 years a Senior Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1988, to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2002, and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006. His research interests are in climate modeling, climate variability and change, aerosols, the hydrological cycle and droughts, land surface processes, the terrestrial carbon cycle, and the application of remote sensing data to modeling of land surface processes.
Dr. James W. Hurrell
National Center for Atmospheric Research
James (Jim) W. Hurrell is Senior Scientist in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division of the Earth System Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is a federally funded research and development center that works with partners at universities and researchers to explore and understand the atmosphere and its interactions with the sun, the oceans, the biosphere, and human society. Jim joined NCAR after earning his doctorate in atmospheric science from Purdue University. Jim???s research has centered on empirical and modeling studies and diagnostic analyses to better understand climate, climate variability and climate change. Jim has been involved in assessment activities of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Jim has been extensively involved in the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) on Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR), including roles as co-chair of the Scientific Steering Group (SSG) of both U.S. and International CLIVAR and membership on several other CLIVAR panels. His current position at NCAR is Chief Scientist of the Community Earth System Model (CESM). Jim has given testimony on climate change issues for congressional subcommittees and has received numerous prestigious honors and awards in his field of atmospheric science.
Dr. Daniel J. Jacob
Harvard University
Daniel J. Jacob is a Professor of atmospheric chemistry and environmental engineering at Harvard University. The goal of his research is to understand the chemical composition of the atmosphere, its perturbation by human activity, and the implications for climate change and life on Earth. His approaches include global modeling of atmospheric chemistry and climate, aircraft measurement campaigns, satellite data retrievals, and analyses of atmospheric observations.
Dr. Venkatramani Balaji
Princeton University
V. Balaji heads the Modeling Systems Group serving developers of Earth System models at GFDL and Princeton University. With a background in physics and climate science, he has become an expert in the area of parallel computing and scientific infrastructure, providing high-level programming interfaces for expressing parallelism in scientific algorithms. He has pioneered the use of frameworks (such as the Flexible Modeling System: FMS, as well as community standards such as ESMF and PRISM) allowing the construction of climate models out of independently developed components sharing a technical architecture; and of curators (FMS Runtime Environment FRE) for the execution of complex workflows to manage the complete climate modeling process. The Earth System Curator (US) and Metafor (EU) projects, in which he plays a key role, have developed the use of a common information model which allows the execution of complex scientific queries on model data archives. V. Balaji plays advisory roles on NSF, NOAA and DOE review panels, including the recent series of exascale workshops. He is a sought-after speaker and lecturer and is committed to provide training in the use of climate models in developing nations, leading workshops to advanced students and researchers in South Africa and India.
Dr. James L. Kinter, III
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmospher Studies
James L. Kinter is Director of the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA) where he manages all aspects of basic and applied climate research conducted by the Center. Dr. Kinter's research includes studies of climate predictability on seasonal and longer time scales. Of particular interest in his research are prospects for prediction of El Ni??o and the extratropical response to tropical sea surface temperature anomalies using high-resolution coupled general circulation models of the Earth's atmosphere, oceans and land surface. Dr. Kinter is also an Associate Professor in the Climate Dynamics Ph.D. Program and the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences department at George Mason University, where he has responsibilities for curriculum development and teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on climate change, as well as advising Ph.D. students. After earning his doctorate in geophysical fluid dynamics at Princeton University in 1984, Dr. Kinter served as a National Research Council Associate at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and as a faculty member of the University of Maryland (teaching faculty 1984-1987; research faculty 1987-1993) prior to joining COLA. Dr. Kinter has served on many national review panels for both scientific research programs and supercomputing programs for computational climate modeling.
Dr. Richard B. Rood
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Richard B. Rood is currently a Professor of atmopheric, oceanic and space sciences at the University of Michigan. His current physical-climate research is focused on bridging the study of weather and climate. He is funded by NASA to study dynamical features as objects and to develop new methods for analyzing climate models. He is also funded by the Department of Energy to study sub-scale mixing processes in climate models. In addition, he has funding to study urban heat waves, human heat health warning systems, and how to govern open source / open innovation communities. He is a co-investigator on Michigan's NOAA-funded Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments Center.
Dr. James S. Famiglietti
University of California, Irvine
James S. Famiglietti holds a joint faculty appointment in Earth System Science and in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, where he is the Founding Director of the system-wide UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling. He holds a B.S. in Geology from Tufts University, an M.S. in Hydrology from the University of Arizona, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and Operations Research from Princeton University. He completed his postdoctoral studies in hydrology and climate system modeling at Princeton and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Before joining the faculty at UCI in 2001, Dr. Famiglietti was an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, and was the Associate Director of the UT Environmental Science Institute. He is the past Chair of the Board of the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI), and past Editor-in-Chief of Geophysical Research Letters. His research concerns the role of hydrology in the coupled Earth system. Areas of activity include the continued development of the hydrologic components of climate models; climate system modeling for studies of land-ocean-atmosphere-human interaction; and remote sensing of the terrestrial and global water cycles, including groundwater depletion and freshwater availability. Famiglietti is currently leading the Community Hydrologic Modeling Platform (CHyMP) effort to accelerate the development of hydrological models for use in addressing national and international priorities related to water, food, economic, climate, and national security.
Dr. Thomas L. Delworth
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Thomas L. Delworth is a Research Scientist and group leader in the Climate Change, Variability and Prediction Group at NOAA???s GFDL. His research is largely focused around decadal to centennial climate variability and change through the synthesis of climate models and observational data. On these time scales the behavior of the climate system is a mixture of natural variability combined with the response of the climate system to changing radiative forcing induced by changing greenhouse gases and aerosols. Understanding the natural variability of the climate system on decadal scales is critical to their ability to detect climate change, and to understand the processes responsible for observed change from the global to the regional scale.


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Home Frequently Asked Questions - Applications Seeking Permission to Appeal to the Court of Appeals
Q: When should the application be filed?
A: An application for leave to appeal to the Court of Appeals pursuant to CPL section 460.20 must be filed within 30 days after service by the adverse party of a copy of the intermediate appellate court order sought to be appealed. Please note that a motion for reargument of the appeal filed in the intermediate appellate court does not stay the 30-day time period in which to file an application for leave to appeal to the Court of Appeals.
Q: What if the 30 day time period has elapsed?
A: CPL section 460.30 governs the making of a motion for an extension of time, but such a motion must be made within one year after the expiration of the time for seeking leave to appeal. The motion shall be addressed to the full court in compliance with Rules 500.20 (g) and 500.21.
Q: Who is responsible for filing the application for the defendant?
A: The Rules of this Court and the Appellate Division require counsel assigned or retained at the intermediate appellate court to file an application for leave to appeal if the defendant requests. However, the defendant may file the application pro se.
Q: Is there a form for filing the application?
A: No handbook or form for filing leave applications exists. The application should be in letter form outlining the grounds on which the appeal is being sought. The letter must bear an indication of service upon the adverse party. A formal affidavit of service is unnecessary. Additionally, the letter must indicate the names of all co-defendants in the trial court, if any, and the status of their appeals, if known; that no application for the same relief has been addressed to a Justice of the Appellate Division; and whether oral argument is requested.
Q: To whom is the application addressed?
A: The application is addressed to the Chief Judge and sent to the attention of the Clerk of the Court.
Q: May I choose the Judge to whom the application will be assigned?
A: No, the Chief Judge directs the assignment of each application to a Judge of the Court through the Clerk of the Court.
Q: What papers are filed with the application?
A: Along with the application letter, a copy of the order and decision sought to be appealed and copies of each brief filed in the intermediate appellate court must be submitted with the application.
Q: How many copies are required?
A: The Court requires only one set of papers on an application for permission to appeal.
Q: How long will it take for the application to be decided?
A: There is no set time for an application for leave to appeal to be decided.
Q: If the application is denied, may I seek reconsideration?
A: Yes. Requests for reargument or reconsideration shall be in letter form addressed to the Clerk of the Court, with proof of service on the adverse party, and shall be assigned to the Judge who ruled on the original application. Unless otherwise permitted by the assigned Judge, such requests must be made within 30 days after the original application was decided.
Q: How do I request a stay?
A: CPL 460.60 governs applications for a stay, which must be made to the Judge to whom a leave application has been assigned. The request may be made either in the letter application for leave to appeal or by separate letter with proof of service of one copy on the adverse party. The request must indicate whether the relief sought has previously been requested, whether the defendant is incarcerated or at liberty and, if at liberty, the conditions thereof and any surrender date.
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