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1998 Ford Mustang GT Custom
Nathan Fogle's Daily Driven '98 Mustang GT Balances Both Show And Go In A Unique And Innovative Way.
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As you browse through the pages of MM&FF, you see mostly high-horsepower-making street cars and tricked-out race cars. It's rare to see featured cars sporting the likes of suicide doors or a RideTech air suspensions, however, there are exceptions. Nathan Fogle's '98 Mustang GT is a great example of such.
Though the first few years of its existence were likely boring, Nathan's steed later found new life in the hands of an aspiring custom car builder-Brian Stitt, who happened to be Nathan's long-time friend.
Nathan and Stitt, now owner and operator of BS Creations in Mansfield, Ohio, were students at Wyotech in Laramie, Wyoming, when Stitt bought the GT at a local dealer in 2000. Both were studying automotive collision and refinishing, specializing in custom paint and body modifications.
When the two finished school, Stitt brought the car back to his home state of Ohio, where the car was wrecked and repaired twice. Stitt later took the GT on the Hot Rod Power Tour, where he sold the car to a guy from Georgia. "He just had to have the car," Stitt tells us.
A few years later, the car found its way back to Ohio, where it was purchased yet again by Stitt, who was by then off and running with BS Creations. The coupe was used as a shop car over the next couple of years. In 2006, Stitt sold the GT to Nathan, who was working at a local body shop. Working evenings and weekends, the pair began transforming the old beater into an all-around slick street machine.
The obvious focus of the build was the appearance, and there's no mistaking the skill level and attention to detail that went into the body modifications and paint. Though both are not seen often on Mustangs, Nathan and Stitt opted for suicide doors and a RideTech air suspension. Nathan and Stitt added Cervini's Stalker II front and rear bumpers, a 4-inch cowl hood, and prepped the body for paint.
After picking the colors, Stitt began laying out the paint scheme. He created faux-checkered flags on the bare metal of the quarter-panels, which were later covered with blue candy clearcoat.
With the black basecoat on the majority of the exterior, the next step was the flames. Stitt laid out the retro-style, long-fingered flames by hand, and filled them with glycol-green candy and a marbleizing compound. "This was not the first flame job, though," says Stitt. "I had two other similar paint schemes on it over the years." He then airbrushed the tips of the flames with a chameleon-like hue to add depth and uniqueness. After a couple coats of metallic blue were applied to the remainder of the roof, hood, and decklid, the entire vehicle was covered in clearcoat.
Stitt and BS Creations applied the same level of skill and attention to detail to the interior of Nathan's coupe. The seats were already covered in black and blue tweed, a result of an upholstery class that Stitt and Nathan took during their education at Wyotech. Stitt painted various interior trim pieces to match the toxic-green exterior, and incorporated the air suspension gauge and controls in the dash and console with custom bezels.
The underhood features a stock bottom end with a pair of Patriot Performance II cylinder heads, Comp Cams sticks, and more custom painting by Stitt. Nathan ported and installed a ported PI intake, complete with a 75mm FRPP throttle body. He upgraded the ignition system with MSD coils, FRPP wires, and NGK spark plugs, and added long-tube headers and a Flowmaster exhaust system. With a shot of Zex nitrous oxide, Nathan estimates his Pony makes a little over 400 rwhp through the T-45 and 8.8-inch rearend.
Along with the installation of the RideTech air suspension, Nathan and Stitt swapped the stock gears for a set of 4.11s, added Cobra front brakes, and finished the look off with a set of Bullitt-style 17s wrapped in BFGoodrich rubber.
A 400hp daily is certainly not an innovative achievement, but when you couple it with the handy work of Nathan, Brian Stitt, and BS Creations, the combination is undeniable.
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Your Definitive Guide To The Paleo Diet
We've all heard of the trendy diets. Atkins. South Beach. Oreos Only. But none of them work. Also in most cases they seem to kill you.
But the Paleo Diet is more than just a trendy diet. It's a trendy diet that's popular right now. And it works. How do I know? Simple. I've never seen a fat caveman. Just yesterday I went to the Natural History Museum in New York City and none of the cavemen I saw there were fat. In fact they were all thin, fit, and statues.
And yet, like any diet, it's hard. In this grueling global economy most of us have jobs that force us to sit at a desk for up to one and a half hours. Something a caveman could never handle. So to help you get started we've answered the top ten frequently asked questions about the Paleo Diet.
1. What can I eat?
If a caveman could eat it, you can eat it.
The Paleo Diet consists of meat, vegetables, fruits and certain kind of nuts, because cavemen only liked certain kind of nuts. They did not like peanuts. So you can't eat peanuts. They did like almonds, but only a few almonds every day so you can only have a few almonds every day. Like the caveman. Also they didn't like corn, so lay off on the corn. Drinking olive oil and eating raw fat is encouraged.
It can be confusing, so we've included this handy chart to help you remember what you can and can not eat:
2. Why the Paleo Diet?
Our modern diet, full of trans fats, sugars and salts, is the root of many modern 'degenerative diseases' such as diabetes, obesity and HIV/AIDS. We are the descendants of a hunter-gatherer society. For thousands of years humans survived by eating only the things they could kill and forage: vegetables, animals, and Doritos on your cheat day. It's time to go back to our genetic roots.
3. What is the preferred protein on the Paleo Diet?
Sabertooth tiger meat. Nah just kidding. They're extinct. Regular tiger meat.
4. How do we know what Cavemen ate?
Most of what we know comes from conjecture. The rest of what we know comes from the movie Encino Man. So make sure that every day you eat from one of the five major food groups: Milk Duds, Sweet Tarts, Corn Nuts, Microwavable Burritos and Wheez the Juice.
5. I really want to eat a Quizno's Sub, but I know that cavemen didn't eat subs. Am I allowed to build a time machine and travel back in time a hundred thousand years and start up a Quizno's franchise so that I can start selling cavemen Quizno's and then because of that I will be retroactively allowed to also eat Quizno's?
Yes. That is allowed in the Paleo Diet.
6. What if I can't give up my bread, pizza or beer?
Bread is only allowed on the Paleo Diet if you refer to it as 'Caveman Bread'. Now it is a bread FOR cavemen. Same goes with Caveman Pizza, which is now pizza for cavemen. Beer is fine regardless. Look at a picture of a caveman and tell me that dude wouldn't drink beer.
7. You've really never seen a fat caveman? What about Fred Flintstone?
Fred Flintstone was fat. But he was fiction. Don't be an idiot.
8. Can I eat Dairy?
No. All cavemen were frightened of cows.
9. Aren't I going to be eating a lot of fat?
Yes. But the GOOD kind of fat. The Paleo Diet makes a clear distinction between what is a 'Good Fat' and what is a 'Bad Fat'. 'Good Fats' found in oils, meat and nuts include monounsaturated fat and polyunsaturated fat. In processed foods live the 'Bad Fats': saturated fat, trans fat and Guy Fieri. Cavemen knew all of this.
10. Why will I lose weight doing this?
The human body is very mysterious. It's an ongoing argument between dieticians about what diets work, how often you should eat and whether or not you can trick your metabolism. There's no definitive 'proof' that any diet works. That being said, it's pretty hard to find food doing this diet so you'll lose weight.
And that's it! Welcome to the Paleo lifestyle. Throw out your Atkins! That's a scam diet that only allows you to eat meat and vegetables. The Paleo Diet is the real deal. A new, revolutionary diet that only allows you to eat meat and vegetables.
Remember the Paleo mantra: Trendy diets come and go but a caveman will live forever.


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The Capstan Original Navy Cut flake is golden matured Virginia tobacco, according to English tradition pressed and fermented.
After opening of the rectangular tin the Original Navy Flake appears as rather large (7.5 x 4.5 cm), from light to dark brown mottled slices. The tobacco develops a slightly sweet, strong smell of ripe Virginias. The slices have a stable consistency with optimal humidity. The Original Navy Cut is a little darker and smells a little sweeter than the Gold Navy Cut, which is due to it's longer aging time.
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Including glimpses of Sleeping Beauty in her glass coffin, the rings of Saturn, and a roadside Texas BBQ, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life bears a variety of forms — and invites as many reactions. You may feel amazed or muddled, softly spoken to or simply abandoned while watching it; in any case, you shouldn't wait for the DVD. Better than a masterpiece — whatever that is — The Tree of Life is an eruption of a movie, something to live with, think and talk about afterward.
The film begins with the O'Briens (Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain) receiving news of their teenaged son's death, their grief echoing through perplexing shot sequences and sparse dialogue. It's enough to confirm the scuttlebutt that The Tree of Life will be the most unorthodox Hollywood drama in many moons — and then the film's perspective switches to Hubble for a vision of the birth of the universe. From a nebulous In the Beginning... to the first articulations of life on Earth and the reign and extinction of the dinosaurs, this silent, self-contained sequence was conceived in collaboration with pre-CGI-effects legend Douglas Trumbull, fresh out of retirement. The image of a beached plesiosaur craning its neck to contemplate the fatal wound raked across its side lingers on, symbol of a wounding and disorienting work. It's the big-budget experimental film George Lucas never had the stones to make.
Snap forward to the 1950s, the middle-class suburbs of Waco, and the O'Brien family in an earlier, happier moment. Jack (Hunter McCracken), the eldest of three preadolescent brothers, emerges as the axis of the film, the process of his education and acculturation to the edge of puberty documented in a headlong style that lifts sometimes to singing montage. (Usually the crediting of five editors would be reason to panic; Mr. Malick's film has very little truck with what's usual.)
Scenes occur as if bobbing on the surface of a family's collective consciousness. We're transported intermittently to a future where the boy Jack has grown up into a crabby Sean Penn, daydreaming from a glass rectangle in downtown Houston, a contemporary America to make Thomas Jefferson pack it in. In large part, the film can be read as occurring in the mind of adult Jack returning to his birthright of memories: the indivisible combination of Mom, Dad, God, and backyard.
Chastain's mother is transparent with virtue, the idealized home-front sweetheart dreamed of in Malick's The Thin Red Line but now stretched gauzy over feature length. A less worshipfully written part gives Pitt more to do. Though more fondling and affectionate than our revised image of the flat-top Eisenhower-era patriarch, Mr. O'Brien badgers his sons with lessons in Looking Out for No. 1 and backyard boxing. Venting a bellyful of frustrated ambition, he talks covetously about the folks on the hill, brags about his worthless patents, and finds an outlet for unrealized musical aspirations by playing the church organ. This provides some of the classical music that fills Tree of Life, much of it liturgical, fitting Jack's growing, paralleled disillusion with his father and the Father — "Why should I be good if you aren't?" he's asking both.
Though markedly faithful to Darwin, Malick's film begins with a quotation from the Book of Job, imagines Heaven, and features Mother pointing to the sky to deliver the lesson: "God lives there." Like anything ambitious, The Tree of Life will be called "pretentious," but its characters address the gauche subject of the eternal, naturally, through the Judeo-Christian lingua franca instead of via a vague, enervated "spirituality." In this, it is quite direct and accessible.
With his cosmic realism, Malick vividly remembers youth's intimate yet huge idea of God, and Tree of Life's Genesis overture recalls the viewer to a child's awed first conception of the vastness beyond his proscribed world. Thus prepared, you have fresh eyes to see suburbia as, yes, a miracle. Throughout Tree of Life, the close touch of DP Emmanuel Lubezki's Steadicam brings forgotten childhood rites near: roughhousing, betrayals of confidence, the clandestine thrill of being alone in a strange house, a child's frank curiosity toward the diversity of off-limits human types including town drunks, cripples, and the black boys at that BBQ.
In his evocation of lost-Eden childhood, Malick shows the wisdom of C.S. Lewis' An Experiment in Criticism: "If we are to use the words 'childish' and 'infantile' as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those characteristics of childhood which we become better and happier by outgrowing," Lewis wrote. "Who in his sense would not keep, if he could, that tireless curiosity, that intensity of imagination, that facility of suspending disbelief, that unspoiled appetite, that readiness to wonder, to pity, and to admire?" It is because the 67-year-old director can get so much of that onscreen, and much more besides, that he's one of the few American filmmakers operating on the multiplex scale that makes movies feel like undiscovered country.


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Correspondence, writings, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia relating to Chicago Mayor Carter Henry Harrison IV (1860-1953), and his family, particularly his wife, Edith Ogden Harrison, and his father, Chicago Mayor Carter Henry Harrison III (1825-1893). The collection also includes a number of letters, autographs, and miscellaneous other documents from famous people that were not originally directed to Harrison or his family, but which Harrison kept as collectibles.
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Dimensions: L 7.4 mm x W 4.9 mm x H 3.5 mm. Uses: Pendant for Ring Gold or Silver Mounting. Gemstone: Australian BLACK Opal Solid. 0.76 cts Australian Black Opal Solid Stone, Lightning Ridge. Absolute Opals and Gems Pty Ltd, (Australia) are second generation Gem-Stone Miners, Cutters and Wholesalers, proudly specialising in Australian Black Opal straight from the mines to us.You will find us located in the heart of the busy mining town of Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, approx. 750 km or 468 miles, north west of Sydney, Australia.
Lightning Ridge, or the Ridge, as it is fondly referred to by locals, is renowned for the largest production of quality Black Opal in the World! The illusory mystique of The Ridge has lured many a hopeful miner over the past 100 years to try their luck at finding the "big one". While some lucky miners have fortuitously struck it rich, others continue the search resolute in there quest for that elusive prize: top quality "red on black". SHOULD YOU VISIT THE RIDGE BE SURE TO VIEW OUR DISPLAY ROOM AT 66 MORILLA ST, LIGHTNING RIDGE, NSW 2834, AUSTRALIA.
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When, what appears to be payable material is found, we lower a mechanical digger down the shaft. Truck and blower then into the Agies. The dirt is extracted by a "blower" which, in reality, is more akin to a giant vacuum cleaner. When the truck is full, it is taken to an "agitator"- a modified cement mixer where the extracted dirt is washed for the duration of the weeks mining activity. Up to 10 truckloads of dirt go into each batch of wash, which accumulates and wears down to a much smaller concentrate by the end of the week.Rough Opals from the Tailings. Then, we manually sort through the concentrated tailing and pick out the gems, often none, but once every few years hard work is rewarded by discovering a pocket of truly beautiful gems. Then it is off to the cutting and polishing room. We hope we can welcome you to our unique town one day!
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If you have been a reader for awhile you know the rules, if you are new to the site this is how we handle all accusations of rape.
Do not make any assumptions on either side until all the facts come out.
Here is what we know now.
A University of Miami football player has been arrested for allegedly raping a women on campus Wednesday, according Coral Gables Police.
The player has been charged with sexual battery.
"The University of Miami has become aware of the serious charges made against a student athlete, and he has been suspended indefinitely from the football program," UM said in a released statement.
Simply put if the accusations are true the player whose name has been withheld should be thrown under the jail and if they young lady is lying she should be prosecuted for making a false accusation.
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As the victim was sleeping, [Brown] pulled off the victim's blanket and got on top of her," the arredste report stated. "He then removed the victim's underwear."
The woman told Brown to stop, but he continued and had sex with her against her will, she told police.
When approached by police, Brown denied the allegations, but when presented with evidence, he changed his story and admitted to having sex with the woman, police said.
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Not sure if this is intentional, but it is really, really easy to get ambushed by doors. I'm not really sure how to open a door without giving a bot on the far side of it a free attack.
In my opinion the only intuitive way for multiplayer to work is if every player gets a turn, with enemies being buffed or there being more enemies to compensate.
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Gray Morrow was one of the fantastic "realistic" science fiction/horror artists. Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Morrow made his professional debut with an advertising agency in Chicago. He then worked for Timely, where he made an adaptation of 'Conan - The Elephant Tower', which remained unpublished. Serving in Korea during the war, he discovered oriental art and became the main pin-up artist for his company. Back in civil life, he was introduced to Cracked magazine by Angelo Torres in 1958. He subsequently was one of the anonymous artists for Gilberton's Classics Illustrated line and the illustrator of several of Stan Lee's western comics for the Atlas line.
Morrow eventually focused on illustration and did many illustrations for Galaxy, IF, and other digests in the science fiction genre. He also did many paperback cover paintings and independent comics projects. He returned to comics in 1964, when he became one of the regular artists (covers and interior) for the Warren magazines, Creepy, Eerie and Blazing Combat.
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Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s he worked for company's like DC, Marvel and Archie Publications. He was also hired to assist on syndicated strips like 'Rip Kirby' (by John Prentice), 'Prince Valiant' (by Hal Foster), 'Big Ben Bolt' (by John Cullen Murphy), 'Secret Agent X-9' (by Al Williamson) and 'Friday Foster' (by Jorge Longaron). He took over the 'Buck Rogers' strip in 1979 and illustrated the 'Tarzan' Sunday comic strip from 1983 to 2001. In the 1990s Morrow additionally worked for Rip-Off Press, Dark Horse and Hamilton.
One of his greatest works was the 1978 trade paperback graphic novel, 'The Illustrated Roger Zelazny.' Gray Morrow died on 6 November 2001, commiting suicide after suffering from a long illness. An overview of his career was published in the book 'Gray Morrow: Visionary', by Mark Wheatley and Allan Gross, in 2001.


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Unfortunately, it was not meant to be. On 4 February, 2016, the second Cannabis Social Club of Belgium, Mambo Social Club, was acquitted by the Antwerp Court of Appeal of 'incitement to' or 'facilitation of drug use', but convicted of possession of cannabis. The judge did not want to go along with the argument of the defense that this cannabis was meant for the personal use of the members of the association, and therefore acquittal would be the only possible conclusion.


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Hyper-realistic. Pure fun. And FREE. Real Racing 3 sets a new standard for mobile racing games – it really must be experienced to be believed.
Trailblazing new features include officially licensed tracks, an expanded 22-car grid, and over 45 meticulously detailed cars from makers like Porsche, Lamborghini, Dodge, Bugatti, and Audi. Plus, racing with friends gets kicked into another dimension with the reality-bending Time Shifted Multiplayer™ (TSM) technology.
Featuring Real Racing's largest roster of cars yet, don't miss our new manufacturers like Porsche, Lamborghini, Dodge, Bugatti, and Audi. Take the wheels of over 45 intensely detailed racers and test your skills on an authentic 22-car race grid – for the first time on mobile.
In another first for the Real Racing series, burn rubber on a full lineup of real tracks in multiple configurations from top locations around the world, including Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Silverstone, Hockenheimring, and many more.
Like nothing you've seen before, our innovative new Time Shifted Multiplayer™ lets you race anyone, anytime – even if they're offline! Every career event is filled with fully interactive AI-controlled time-shifted versions of your Game Center or Facebook friends, as well as other players from around the world.
Compete in over 900 events like cup races, eliminations, endurance challenges, and drag races. Upgrade your car parts to maximize performance. See the action through a variety of camera angles and fine-tune the controls to your personal preference.
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Tornadoes are some of the deadliest, most devastating natural phenomena on Earth — but most of us probably have a lot of misconceptions about them. The actual science of tornados is much stranger, and scarier, than you ever knew.
Can a butterfly really trigger a tornado? How dangerous is "Tornado Alley," really? Here are ten things you probably didn't know about twisters
10. The term "Butterfly Effect" was actually conceived of by a meteorologist studying weather models. For the uninitiated, the Butterfly Effect is a concept from chaos theory that states a small change in conditions in a nonlinear system can give rise to enormous changes in that system in the future. The most widely recognized theoretical example of the butterfly effect states that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil could lead to a tornado in Texas a few weeks later.
The term, and hence the connection between butterflies and tornadoes, was coined by meteorologist Edward Lorenz in the 1960s, when he discovered that small-scale changes to the starting conditions of a computerized weather model could give rise to wildly disparate (and unpredictable) weather scenarios.
9. It's worth pointing out that butterflies don't really cause tornadoes; rather, the butterfly flapping its wings is said to be part of a larger set of conditions affecting the atmosphere that might ultimately lead to a tornado. In fact, they could just as soon belong to a set of conditions that delay a twister's occurrence, or even stifle one's formation entirely.
8. That said, the butterfly effect isn't all about uncertainty; in fact, NASA uses the butterfly effect to direct the flight path of spacecraft. According to Rutgers biophysicist Troy Shinbrot:
The first example that I know of was the International Cometary Explorer. They used the fact that the butterfly effect applies to trajectories in the solar system. With tiny amounts of hydrazine fuel, they created little puffs that steered the spacecraft halfway across the solar system to meet up with comet Giacobini-Zinner That's how they achieved the first ever scientific cometary encounter.
7. Tornadoes can travel in packs. Such an event is known officially as a "Tornado Outbreak," and is characterized by the formation of at least 6—10 twisters by the same weather system. Maryland actually experienced an outbreak just a few days ago, seeing at least nine confirmed tornadoes over the course of Friday. (As a point of reference, the state's record for most tornadoes in an entire year is 24.)
6. The largest tornado outbreak in history actually occurred last year. Occurring in late April, the storm system persisted for over 3 days, spanned 21 states, and spawned an unprecedented 358 confirmed tornadoes (that's over 20 percent of the total number of tornadoes reported across the U.S. for all of 2011). All told, the outbreak claimed over 300 lives, and caused an estimated 11 billion dollars in damages.
5. For as destructive as it was, last year's outbreak wasn't actually the most violent. See, there's some debate over how to rank tornado outbreaks. Some choose to classify them by the total number of tornadoes. Others rank them according to duration, damages incurred, or lives lost. But when it comes to overall intensity, that title goes to the Super Outbreak of 1974.
Last year's outbreak lasted about four times as long as 1974's, and caused three times as much damage, but the Super Outbreak is unprecedented in its sheer number of large, powerful, and far-traveling tornadoes. On the six point Fujita scale (or "F-Scale," which ranges from F0—F5), 1974's Super Outbreak featured 6 tornados of F5 intensity and 24 were F4. That means that in an 18 hour period, the Super Outbreak gave rise to at least thirty tornadoes with wind speeds in excess of 200 miles per hour.
4. The strongest winds on Earth are thought to occur inside tornadoes. It's difficult to measure them exactly, but atmospheric scientists believe the fastest wind speeds ever were found inside a 1999 tornado in Oklahoma, and clocked in at 318 miles per hour.
3. According to NOAA, wind at those speeds can rip a well-constructed home from its foundations and sweep it away in an instant. An F5 tornado (with wind speeds in excess of 260 miles per hour) has enough oomph to strip a tree of its bark. Even F4 tornadoes have enough power to level houses and pitch vehicles through the air like die cast Hot Wheel cars. Case in point: the semi truck featured here pirouetting in the sky with the lightness of a feather.
2. Tornadoes have been observed on every continent save for Antarctica, but an overwhelming majority of the world's twisters actually take place in a dog-leg shaped region of the United States, aptly dubbed Tornado alley. Why the hell would anyone ever live in Tornado alley? because, all things considered, Tornadoes are actually pretty rare. According to Science News' Sid Perkins:
A typical twister damages an area of only about 13 square kilometers. In a country that boasts almost 9.4 million square kilometers, that leaves a lot of undamaged real estate.
New models suggest that in [Tornado Alley], which stretches from western Iowa down through Nebraska and Kansas to southern Oklahoma and then over Arkansas and Louisiana to southeastern Mississippi, any particular spot can expect on average to wait from 4,000 to 10,000 years between roof-ripping twisters.
1. The deadliest tornado on record? The Daulatpur-Saturia Tornado. It occurred in Bangladesh in 1989, and claimed an estimated 1,300 lives. Bangladesh is one of a handful of places outside of North America where Tornadoes are common.


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Kareo Launches Free Cloud-based Electronic Health Record
Small practice EHR combines mobile technology and clinical knowledge base acquired from Epocrates with Kareo's medical office software platform
IRVINE, CA – Kareo, Inc., the cloud-based medical office software and services provider for small medical practices, serving over 17,000 medical providers, today launched Kareo Electronic Health Record (EHR). This new application is available free of charge as a stand-alone application or integrated with Kareo Practice Management and Kareo Billing Services, providing a seamless user experience and instant data exchange across applications. Kareo EHR offers small medical practices an intuitive and intelligent way to deliver care and engage patients through native iPad and iPhone applications or with a web browser. Kareo acquired mobile technology and a clinical knowledge base from Epocrates and leveraged these assets in developing its new EHR.
"More physicians in the US practice medicine in small practices than any other way, yet the demands of managing a small practice continue to grow. Small practice physicians need smarter and more mobile technology to help them care for their patients and optimize their businesses," said Dan Rodrigues, founder and CEO of Kareo. "Our customers asked us to develop an electronic health record to complement our practice management and billing services solutions. With Kareo EHR, small practice physicians can now take advantage of an intuitive solution designed for how they deliver care and run their practices. Best of all, Kareo's EHR is available for free and without ads or any long-term commitments."
Kareo EHR was designed to support how small practice physicians deliver care and interact with their patients and can be used through native mobile applications or a web browser. With mobile use, physicians can restore the natural doctor-patient interaction that desktop-based EHRs have come to inhibit, while demonstrating savvy use of technology in delivering care. Kareo EHR offers a simple and intuitive interface physicians can use to quickly build notes via clinical knowledge base pick lists or with integrated voice recognition. Regardless of device or location, all care team participants have critical, up-to-date patient health information at their fingertips. Health information can be instantly exchanged electronically, including e-prescribing medications, ordering and viewing lab work, and sharing information with patients through the embedded patient portal. Kareo EHR streamlines workflows through its integration with Kareo Practice Management providing users single sign-on and instantly synchronized data, including appointments, billing codes, and all critical patient information. Kareo EHR is certified for use, as a complete EHR, by providers to demonstrate Meaningful Use and to qualify for up to $39,000 in 2013 incentives offered under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Kareo acquired core EHR technology originally developed by Epocrates and combined it with Kareo's medical office software platform to build the new application. Included in the acquired technology, was a comprehensive clinical knowledge base that enables documentation and treatment orders for the top 100 primary care conditions and previously unreleased mobile device technology designed to deliver efficient note taking on tablets through intuitive swipe, tap, and touch actions. The overall development effort was led by Dr. Tom Giannulli, Kareo's chief medical information officer, practicing physician, and original inventor of much of the acquired technology. The combination of Dr. Giannulli's leadership, Epocrates technology, and Kareo's software platform enabled the creation of a breakthrough EHR application for small practices.
"Adopting an electronic health record is especially challenging for small practices because most EHRs were not built with their needs in mind," said Tom Giannulli MD, MS, chief medical information officer at Kareo. "Our cloud-based solution gives small practices the promised benefits of EHR technology and eliminates the challenges of implementing complex and expensive on-premise software. It was our goal to build Kareo EHR to support the physician's need to deliver high-quality care while ensuring the utmost in practice efficiency."
Kareo EHR is available free of charge, with no long-term commitments, no expensive implementation or ongoing support costs. Physicians simply sign up and get started. Kareo coaches are available to help physicians take full advantage of the features of Kareo EHR and free support is included for all users. Application upgrades are delivered automatically allowing physicians to instantly utilize new functionality and meet emerging industry demands, including supporting the requirements of each subsequent stage of Meaningful Use. Kareo EHR is advertising free and clinical data are owned and controlled by the practice. Kareo's EHR is made available for free in an effort to build trust and earn physicians' business in other practice areas. Should they decide to upgrade, physicians using Kareo EHR have the ability to purchase and instantly integrate Kareo's full software and services suite at any time.
Kareo has built a market leading position in delivering intuitive, integrated, affordable technology and services to support the business needs of small medical practices. The launch of the best-of-breed, no cost Kareo EHR immediately delivers these same benefits to physicians on the clinical side of their practice. Small medical practices now can rely on a single trusted partner to deliver all of the cloud-based technology needed to manage essential clinical and business components, enabling optimized practice efficiency and an increased focus on patients not paperwork. Kareo EHR is available now at www.kareo.com.
About Kareo
Kareo is the only cloud-based medical office software and services platform dedicated to small practices. At Kareo, we believe that, with the right tools and support, small practices can do big things. We offer an integrated suite of products and services designed to help small practice physicians get paid faster, run their business smarter, and provide better care. Our Practice Management software, Billing Services, and free, full-featured EHR help more than 17,000 medical providers more efficiently manage the business and clinical sides of their practice. Based in Irvine, California, Kareo's mission is to help providers spend their time focused on patients, not paperwork. For more information, visit www.kareo.com.
Kareo EHR (formerly Caretools EHR) is a Complete EHR and is 2011/2012 compliant and has been certified by and ONC-ATCB in accordance with the applicable certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This certification does not represent an endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or guarantee the receipt of incentive payments.
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Chances are, when patients check out of a hospital for home or another health care facility, they will end up back in the hospital within a month if they have not worked out the details and logistics for ongoing care. Too often such planning falls by the wayside, resulting in frequent hospital readmissions.
For the federal government, the cost to Medicare alone totals more than $17 billion each year for return trips to the hospital, to say nothing of the difficulties for the patients themselves. (pdf) The Affordable Care Act's (ACA) proposed cure for this condition is for hospitals, healthcare workers and patients to make greater use of technologies that monitor health remotely, ensuring patients receive proper medical care to avoid additional hospital visits.
The Obama administration introduced the ACA in 2010 to move health care away from a fee-for-service model to one that promotes preventative care and overall wellness. Beginning this October the ACA will reinforce this approach by penalizing hospitals with chronic readmission problems by cutting Medicare reimbursement payments to those facilities. This policy initially targets patients suffering from three health conditions—heart failure, pneumonia and heart attack—but penalties will apply to additional conditions beginning in 2015.
About one in five Medicare patients return to the hospital within a month after discharge. Although some hospital readmissions are unavoidable—the odds are higher for the elderly and those with chronic conditions—many result from the lack of transitional care and long-term support, says Mary Naylor, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing who has researched the most common reasons for rehospitalization. Among frail, older adults these include stroke, hip fracture, sepsis and urinary tract infection.
Technologies most likely to help hospitals lower readmission rates and limit penalties include so-called "telehealth" systems that connect patients with physicians, nurses or other care managers after checkout, microchipped pills that indicate whether patients take their medicine as prescribed and software that improves the management of electronic health records (EHRs).
Telehealth has matured beyond the ability to simply gather and transmit patient information over the Internet and wireless networks. Newer technologies include touch-screen devices and software that guide ongoing care. Bosch Healthcare's wireless T400 Telehealth System for discharged patients, for example, addresses dozens of medical conditions, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure and diabetes. Patients enter their vital signs into the T400 daily, and the device transmits that data to their health care provider for review and response.
Other remote health monitoring systems have patients wear sensors that wirelessly collect, store, analyze and transmit health-related data. One of several approaches is the Wearable Wellness System from Italy's Smartex, essentially an undershirt with embedded sensors and a processor that can monitor heart and respiration rates. Although not as fashionable, the Metria wearable sensor, from Vancive Medical Technologies, a medical division of Avery Dennison, can be adhesively bound to the body to measure heart rate, respiration, sleep duration and activity levels.
One person who sees a great need for use of telehealth technology in patients with chronic conditions is Richard Della Penna, a former physician with Kaiser Permanente and chief medical officer at Independa, a company that sells software and services designed specifically to help the elderly live independently. "If a health device is able to capture data that predicts when a person with, say, heart failure is starting a readmission trajectory, and someone quickly responds appropriately to the incoming data, only then may readmission rates be impacted," he says.
But some warn that sensors and the like, despite their potential for good, could backfire by creating more work for physicians and other health care workers. "A big challenge is addressing the huge amount of data that is obtained through monitoring," says Mary Rodgers, professor and chair of the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. "It has to be analyzed, points of concern have to be
identified, and communication has to occur." Other challenges include protecting patient privacy, determining who will pay for the technology and ensuring that different wearable sensors can communicate with the variety of smartphones and computers trying to read the data.
Doctor's orders
In addition to monitoring the patients themselves, physicians are looking for ways to assure that discharged patients take their medications as instructed. "There are many ways this can be done, but the bottom line is that mobile technology has been shown to improve patient adherence to prescribed treatment plans," says Marc Mitchell, a pediatrician and lecturer on global health at Harvard School of Public Health. This technology might someday include smart caps for medicine bottles that would automatically inform a clinician when a prescribed medicine is taken (or at least if the bottle was opened), he adds.
In August 2012 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the use of electronic chips in medications, giving Proteus Digital Health the green light to embed ingestible sensors in pills to help doctors, nurses, pharmacists or other health care workers to monitor patients' medicinal intake. When swallowed, the sensor—a microchip made of copper, magnesium and silicon—transmits a signal to a patch worn on the body, which then sends physiological data such as heart rate, temperature and activity/rest patterns to a patient's smartphone. Patients control the information the system collects and can choose to share it with their clinicians or caregivers. The microchip ultimately passes through the digestive system.
Electronic health records
For years EHRs have been promising to transform the health care industry by making patient health information available anywhere, anytime—an important part of helping health care workers to stay on top of patients discharged from hospitals. Unfortunately, it has been a slow transition. In addition to being expensive—for starters, creating and managing digital records involves computer and network upgrades to ensure patient privacy—EHRs require doctors and nurses, for in particular, to become more accustomed to interacting via computers and mobile devices with other health care professionals as well as with their patients.
In 2009 the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) gave EHRs a shot in the arm by allocating more than $20 billion to encourage hospitals and health care facilities to digitize patient data and make better use of information technology (pdf). By 2012, 72 percent of office-based physicians were using EHRs, compared with 48 percent in 2009, according to a December report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Yet many physicians are not using EHRs to their full potential—such as digitally ordering prescriptions and refills. To help solve these problems the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently allocated $18 million in ACA funds to further EHS adoption and use.
The ACA's looming Medicare payment penalties could induce hospitals and their staff to take fuller advantage of EHRs and a variety of other technologies to keep closer tabs on discharged patients. Says Independa's Della Penna: "We now have the tools to merge the boundaries between hospital and home."
Home Is Where the Health Is: Obamacare Positions "Telehealth" Tech as a Remedy for Chronic Hospital Readmissions
Mobile devices, microchipped meds and digital health records are among the tools available to keep patients and clinicians connected during convalescence
Chances are, when patients check out of a hospital for home or another health care facility, they will end up back in the hospital within a month if they have not worked out the details and logistics for ongoing care. Too often such planning falls by the wayside, resulting in frequent hospital readmissions.


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Markoff gets ahold of an internal Google memo, throws in some Davos scenery and a few very interesting and fresh facts, and voila, the Times has a piece on The Coming Search Wars.
The Google Might Be The Next Netscape meme is warmed over, as is the MSFT Might Integrate Search Into Longhorn concept. Might? Will….The IPO As Disruptor idea is also given a curtain call. This piece proves once again that the Times can't get enough of Google stories. Or, more to the point, we as readers can't get enough.
Regardless of whether the typical outside-the-Valley reader cares, Markoff has some really good stuff in here. Eric Schmidt on MSFT's open source views:
"Based on their visceral reactions to any discussions about 'open source,' " Mr. Schmidt wrote in his e-mail message, "they are obsessed with open source as a business model."
Good anecdote about keeping people:
For the moment, though, Google's lead seems formidable. Last year, Rick Rashid, a Microsoft vice president in charge of the company's research division, came to its outpost in Silicon Valley to give a demonstration of an experimental Microsoft Research search engine. Shortly afterward, however, Mike Burrows, one of the original pioneers of Internet search at Digital Equipment who later helped design Microsoft's experimental search engine, quietly defected. He joined Google…..
…Microsoft has already begun a recruitment campaign aimed at demoralizing Google employees, several Google executives said. Microsoft recruiters have been calling Google employees at home, urging them to join Microsoft and suggesting that their stock options will lose value once Microsoft enters the search market in a serious way.
Alsop (who backed TiVO) claiming victory over MSFT (just watch out for Comcast…):
In other words, rivals have fought Microsoft and lived to tell about it. "At TiVo, we managed to stare down that $40 billion barrel," said Stewart Alsop, a venture capitalist who helped finance the creation of TiVo's digital video recorder, which allows TV viewers to easily record hours of video programming for viewing at other times. "We dodged that particular bullet," Mr. Alsop said, when Microsoft "shut down Ultimate TV and got out of the business."
An interesting new project I had not heard of:
Google has embarked on an ambitious secret effort known as Project Ocean, according to a person involved with the operation. With the cooperation of Stanford University, the company now plans to digitize the entire collection of the vast Stanford Library published before 1923, which is no longer limited by copyright restrictions. The project could add millions of digitized books that would be available exclusively via Google.
And new information on how many computers Google has, a stunning increase from the 10,000 CPU estimate bandied about (I find that nearly all of Google's statistics are one to two years old, from how many folks work there to how many searches they do each day. It's way more than 200 million, which is what the article is saying still).
Google has been quietly developing what industry experts consider to be the world's largest computing facility. Last spring, Google had more than 50,000 computers distributed in over a dozen computer centers around the world. The number topped 100,000 by Thanksgiving, according to a person who has detailed knowledge of the Google computing data center.
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There was a high majestic fooling
Day before yesterday in the yellow corn.
And day after to-morrow in the yellow corn
There will be high majestic fooling.
The ears ripen in late summer
And come on with a conquering laughter,
Come on with a high and conquering laughter.
The long-tailed blackbirds are hoarse.
One of the smaller blackbirds chitters on a stalk
And a spot of red is on its shoulder
And I never heard its name in my life.
Some of the ears are bursting.
A white juice works inside.
Cornsilk creeps in the end and dangles in the wind.
Always--I never knew it any other way--
The wind and the corn talk things over together.
And the rain and the corn and the sun and the corn
Talk things over together.
Over the road is the farmhouse.
The siding is white and a green blind is slung loose.
It will not be fixed till the corn is husked.
The farmer and his wife talk things over together.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.I would like to translate this poem


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What's new in DALEX v 0.4.9?
This article is originally published at http://smarterpoland.pl
Few days ago a new version of DALEX was accepted by CRAN (v 0.4.9). Here you will find short overview what was added/changed.
DALEX is an R package with methods for visual explanation and exploration of predictive models.
Here you will find short overview with examples based on Titanic data.
For real world use cases:
Here you will find a conference talk related to credit scoring based on FICO data.
Here you will find an example use case for insurance pricing.
Major changes in the last version
Verbose model wrapping
Function explain() is now more verbose. During the model wrapping it checks the consistency of arguments. This works as unit tests for a model. This way most common problems with model exploration can be identified early during the exploration.
Support for new families of models
We have added more convenient support for gbm models. The ntrees argument for predict_function is guessed from the model structure.
Support for mlr, scikit-learn, h2o and mljar was moved to DALEXtra in order to limit number of dependencies.
Integration with other packages
DALEX has now better integration with the auditor package. DALEX explainers can be used with any function form the auditor package. So, now you can easily create an ROC plot, LIFT chart or perform analysis of residuals. This way we have access to a large number of loss functions.
Richer explainers
Explainers have now new elements. Explainers store information about packages that were used for model development along with their versions.
Latest version of explainers stores also sampling weights for the data argument.
A bit of philosophy
Cross-comparisons of models is tricky because predictive models may have very different structures and interfaces. DALEX is based on an idea of an universal adapter that can transform any model into a wrapper with unified interface that can be digest by any model agnostic tools.
In this medium article you will find a longer overview of this philosophy.
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ABSOLUTE ZERO: Crashing Icons
Based in Miami, this is a very interesting American band, ploughing its own furrow - whose accent is what they call 'prog' over there, but whose language is more complex by far. Pip Pyle adds a seasoned sophistication - in fact I think this is a great environment for him, he shines - but the whole ensemble is way past the foothills and keeping the oxygen packs handy. An excellent first CD, in a style that, features densely composed, layered, slightly post 5UU-school music - with some sung parts, high level rock/abstract improvisation. virtuoso playing and excellent clean, powerful production. In fact close and intelligent attention to detail - compositional, performative and sonic - is its hallmark. These are long-considered, sustained pieces. A fine debut.
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National Bulk Equipment Inc. (NBE) announced it has completed the acquisition of General Processing Systems Inc., makers of ProductSaver packaged material reclamation systems.
The acquisition of General Processing Systems Inc., located just west of Chicago, brings to NBE three new product lines that will each serve as complimentary product offerings to the full line of NBE bulk material handling systems.
"The ProductSaver product lines provide two primary advantages for processing and packaging operations," said Todd Reed, president of NBE. "ProductSaver systems reduce process material loss levels, beyond what even inline systems can do. And, ProductSaver systems are recognized for making significant contributions to sustainability scoring initiatives.
"ProductSaver packaged material reclamation enables processing and packaging operations to recover not only packaging material but also the contents from packages that may be off-spec, mislabeled, or for other reasons, unsalable," Reed added.
"We are very pleased with the way the NBE existing customer base has quickly recognized the total process contribution ProductSaver systems can make to their operation," stated Dave Denhof, general manager/EVP of NBE. "Jeff Swiatlo, former president of General Processing Systems, is now directing the sales activity for the ProductSaver line, and his extensive applications knowledge and market experience have already identified many new customer and market opportunities for NBE. NBE will continue to move forward with a very tactical acquisitions strategy. ProductSaver is a great addition to the capabilities and resources of NBE."
For more information on ProductSaver, visit www.nbe-inc.com/productsaver. For more information on National Bulk Equipment Inc., visit www.nbe-inc.com.


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Quality Control is one of our passions, we believe in producing high quality material that can help streamline procedures, whilst saving time and money for laboratories of all sizes and budgets. With an extensive product offering comprising third party quality controls and calibrators, interlaboratory data management, external quality assessment, and calibration verification, you can count on Randox to deliver trustworthy results time and time again. Just ask one of our 60,000 users worldwide.


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Title: Frozen
Author: L.A. Casey
Genre: Contemporary, Romance, New Adult, Romantic Comedy
Publisher: Montlake Romance
There's one must-have toy this Christmas, and Neala Clarke has told her niece Charli she'll get it for her. Never mind that she's got less than a week and it looks like everywhere is sold out. She's promised Charli a Fire Princess doll—and Neala is a woman of her word.
Darcy Hart is a people-pleaser. So when his adorable six-year-old nephew, Dustin, asks for a particular doll at the last minute, he says yes. Luckily for Darcy, there's one left in stock at the local toy store. Unluckily for Darcy, he's not the only person who wants it—and his rival is the one woman who's immune to his charms.
Neala and Darcy have loved to hate each other since they were kids, and they're both willing to do whatever it takes to get that doll. This can't possibly end well for both of them…can it?
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Justin laughed, and it annoyed me.
This wasn't funny.
"Care to explain why you're being a dick and laughing at me?" I quizzed.
Justin chuckled. "Why does everyone make Neala out to be something she isn't? She's probably the sweetest girl I know, and just happens to have an attitude every now and then. Sounds like every woman I've ever met, if I'm honest."
I gawked at my brother.
"Neala Clarke is the Devil in disguise, brother. You had better realise that. Sweet is thelast word I would use to describe her . . . She is evil incarnate."
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Mozart Symphonies 2 - SCO & Sir Charles Mackerras - MusicWeb International
When I reviewed this team in a concert last January I said that few things can bring a smile to the face like an evening spent in the company of Sir Charles Mackerras. Happily the same is true of this CD, coming on the heels of the orchestra's fabulously successful and wonderfully played recording of Mozart's last symphonies. Many of us hoped that Linn would follow that earlier issue with more from Mozart's symphonic canon, and after listening to this CD I find that the hunger for more has only increased, so rich is the experience on offer here.
Mackerras has spent a lifetime getting inside Mozart's music and for much of that lifetime his discoveries have been made with his beloved Scottish Chamber Orchestra. This is a team that knows each other and the composer inside out and, while Mackerras brings his lifetime of experience to enrich this music, this CD is what it is because of the warmth, trust and affection between conductor and band. That's apparent first of all in the beautifully warm string playing that characterises Symphony No. 29. Its gentle contours are shaped with love and affection but it always surges forward purposefully, not least in the bustling first movement: listen out for the cheeky horns in the coda, a distinctive Mackerras touch. There is plenty of room to breathe in the second movement, however, taken here at a more upbeat pace but still sounding lovely because of its characteristic string playing. This gives way to rhythmic bounce and jollity in the menuet before an exhilarating finale. In all of these symphonies, as in the previous recording, Mackerras observes every available repeat.
I don't think I've ever heard the Paris symphony sound quite so overtly majestic as it does here. The opening is surely the grandest, most self-confident beginning in Mozart's symphonic output, not surprising when he was writing it to gain the favour of the Paris audience. The natural brass and timpani bring the extrovert character to the fore and, while the second subject is well contrasted, the sense of scale is maintained right to the end. The Paris audience was unhappy with the symphony's original slow movement so Mozart wrote an alternative, the one we are more used to hearing today. Both are included here, and the original has rather more forward momentum than the one we are used to, but both have their appeal. The perpetuum mobile of the finale is every bit as exciting as the rush of the first movement. The under-rated No. 32 is given in its version with trumpets and timpani, and excitement is the key note here too, though there is plenty of room to linger in the central Andante. Timothy Jones' excellent booklet notes tell us a lot about this symphony's unusual form, as well as providing excellent contextual background and analysis for all the works.
The Haffner's first movement bristles with energy while the slow movement is full of understated poise. The menuet restrains the bluster and the finale is whole-scale fun writ large, especially in some of the string figurations of the coda.
The Linz, my favourite Mozart symphony, is full of restrained grandeur, though the slow introduction sounds a little thin. The pace and energy of the Allegro sets the pulse racing and the period-style playing gives an edge to the music which makes it all the more immediate. The slow movement sways with magisterial grace and makes the most of the troubling plunges into the minor key. The menuet is lithe and flexible and the finale is tremendously exciting, especially in the frenetic repeated quavers of the coda.
All told this is top-notch stuff from a winning team. Linn's recorded sound is exemplary and this issue deserves to earn as many awards as its predecessor.


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13 year-old Arnold Hutton is the son of a bound man, but he has been educated with the master's son as part of a test by John Wycliffe, who believes that the poor can be educated just as well as the rich, which was previously unheard of. Arnold is deeply inspired by Wycliffe, and young readers will learn about this influential man as Arnold and his friends work to protect him from spies. Will they be able to save him and his English translation of the Bible from the enemies he's made from speaking the gospel?
The second study in this series covers AD30 to AD1799, also known as Resurrection to Revolution. This edition covers from the Roman Empire to the French Revolution, when God is turning the tides of human destiny in miraculous ways. The church of Jesus Christ explodes throughout the world; uncharted regions are explored, distant cultures are united, religious wars burst into flame; technology, medicine, philosophy and art sweep nations into bitter turmoil and proud independence. Through it all, God is moving behind the scenes to accomplish His purposes, inviting kings and peasants alike into His kingdom.
Diana Waring is once again publishing her History Revealed! program and we are thrilled! Diana Waring embodies the concept that learning should be alive for students, enjoyable, and memorable in both approach and content. Her foundational perspective is that Gods redemptive presence is visible throughout all ages and all history. The goal of History Revealed! is for students to discover history from a Biblical worldview, and to explore history through a curriculum that honors your God-given design. This means learning and expressing what youve learned in a way that best fits you and who you are.
It is designed to guide students through a study of world history from a Biblical perspective. The curriculum does this by providing numerous learning opportunities which include: reading, discussing, researching, music, art, architecture, science projects, cooking, journalism, drama, mapping, graphic design, vocabulary and more. Designed as a multi-learning style program, the units in these courses are based on a four-week cycle through the four basic learning styles, and each course includes 9 units. All the activities and projects during each of these weeks utilize one of the four different learning styles feeler, thinker, sensor, and intuitor making this curriculum easy to use with any child, teenager or even adult who wants to study history from a Biblical perspective. Extensive lists of books (including descriptions) help students discover and explore history. This series gives evidence that history the way the Bible tells it is correct, and is divided into 3 periods: Creation to Christ, Resurrection to Revolution, and Napoleon to the Korean War. From students to teachers, high school to college-bound, professors to 10-year olds, the praise and acclaim for this series is very widespread; crossing not only state lines but also international borders.
The Teacher Guides feature suggested monthly schedules, activity explanations, teacher helps, weekly assessment suggestions, and topic suggestions for research and reading. Small-format student pages are provided in their entirety, to help keep you and your student on the same page. Icons help to mark teaching tips, discussion questions, and opportunities to engage students spiritually. Each icon is accompanied by a shaded box with instruction and/or information. An Appendix contains maps with the answers to workbook mapping activities. All other materials which were previously found in the appendix are in the student pages and small format in the teacher edition.
The Student Manuals contain introductory articles for each unit to provide an overview of that period of history, lots of options for hands-on projects and topics for further research, book lists organized by age group, discussion questions, and self-evaluation questions at the end of each phase in every lesson.
People who have had the opportunity to hear Diana Waring speak live at a homeschooling convention have experienced an amazing thing - theyve told me so. Its impossible to not be drawn in by the enthusiasm, the incredible depth of knowledge, love for the subject, and the dynamic style which characterizes Dianas seminars and workshops. That same experience can be at your very finger-tips with the What in the World? CDs. Diana presents the history of the world in 3 different volumes. These 4-disc sets describe people and events based upon archeology and research. Through listening to her recordings you will hear and envision Gods influence throughout the periods of history. These CDs correspond to the curriculum and tracks are rearranged to align with Usshers chronology. Although central to Dianas curriculum, the CDs can also be used as a supplement to other history programs or for the history buff who just wants to informally learn a little more.
Test Kits cover the material taught in Phase 1 of each unit. Each test includes matching, essay and short answer questions.
New for 2016 are Essentials Packs. These include: Student Manual, Teacher Guide, What in the World CD Set, and Test Kit plus three NEW components: Rubric Set, Quick Start Guide, and Basic Lesson Plan. Designed to give you a jump start in the prepping, planning, and grading aspects of these courses, these new components are attractive and easy to use. The Quick Start Guide provides an overview of History Revealeds four phases: Introduction, Exploration, Hands-on, and Expression as well as an introduction to package components. The Basic Lesson Plan has two options 3-Day (1.5 2 hour sessions) and 5-Day (30-60 minutes sessions) providing a daily plan for each. The Rubrics Set is the crowning gem. One of the hardest aspects of a nontraditional learning approach is knowing how to establish grades. This set provides guidelines for students (to know what to focus on) as well as parents/teachers. With rubrics for research projects, linguistic presentations, cultural/science projects, art projects, music presentations (and more), youll feel comfortable and capable of giving a fair and encouraging grade for all aspects of these courses. Diana Warings multi-sensory and biblical worldview approach to world history has been loved and appreciated for years. These Essential Packs have added a whole new layer of user-friendliness.
Additional resources that complement the program include: True Tales CDs, Digging Deeper CDs and an Elementary Activity Book. True Tales are 3-CD sets which allow you to experience a guided tour of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern History as Diana Waring skillfully tells fascinating stories of people and places of long ago.
The Digging Deeper CDs present facts from history and specifically church history. For younger students, there is an Elementary Activity Book. A fun activity book, for grades K-4, parallels units for older students, making the study of history easily accomplished with multiple children at different grade levels. Bursting with pictures to color, maps and mazes, crafts, science experiments, recipes, crossword puzzles, word scrambles, coded messages, somewhat silly songs to sing, goofy games, and many more fun things, parents and children alike will greatly appreciate history set at a simpler level. All instructions for activities are included right in the book. Much of the teaching for this book is found in the audio set, What in the World?, which the author suggests you use to gain an overview in your study. When and what to listen to is listed in the Teacher Guide and Student book, but you could probably figure this part out for yourself and eliminate the need for the additional purchase.
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We offer packages of all resources for each time period in several different bundles as well as book packs of recommended literature.


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The 4 Hottest 'Dancing with the Stars' Dancers – Hunks of the Day
Most of the time we forget about all the sexy professional dancers on 'Dancing with the Stars' because of all the B- and C-List celebrities soaking up all the spotlight. And yes, William Levy is pretty hot, but what about Derek Hough and Maksim Chmerkovskiy? They've got it going on as well. Take a look at some of the hunks you may have overlooked.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Maksim Chmerkovskiy doesn't have to do much to stand out from his partner Melissa Gilbert. Yeah, we love her for being our favorite character on 'Little House and the Prairie,' but come on! Chmerkovskiy has abs! Plus, he also has a charitable side. He's one of the founders of Dance Team USA, the non-profit organization that seeks to promote recruit, support and train potential ballroom dancers.
Derek Hough
Maria Menounos seems all too comfortable with her dance partner this season. But who wouldn't be when that dance partner is Derek Hough, one of the hottest dancers we've ever seen? Not to mention he has one of the best-looking bodies. This guy has a leg up on the competition already, being that he's the only dancer on 'Dancing with the Stars' to win three seasons. Maybe it's because America just can't get enough of him.
Mark Ballas
Mark Ballas often falls out of the spotlight when put next to Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Derek Hough, but he has his own thing going on. When he donned a pair of board shorts — and only a pair of board shorts — for this pool party sponsored by Nivea and Esquire, everyone's mouths dropped. Ballas is seriously packin' a six pack. We knew dancing was a great form of exercise, but… woah!
Tristan MacManus
We're so incredibly jealous of Gladys Knight, but we suppose that the legendary singer gets only the very best. And by best we mean that Irish hottie Tristan MacManus. This stud was born and bred in Dublin, something that women secretly see as a plus. What can we say? It's the accent… and slowly budding chest hair.


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As car legends go, few have had their flames as passionately fanned as the Nissan Skyline. Despite extensive research proving only seven Americans have seen one on the street, and four have actually driven the mythical machine, it's astounding how often its tale is told. We're reminded of a particular Jonathan Gold restaurant review, in which he tells of intercepting scratchy CB conversations between truckers about a taqueria hidden somewhere in East Los Angeles. It's allegedly home to the world's most perfect torta. Gold never reveals if he found the mythic Mexican sandwich, or if the restaurant is anything more than a Hoffa-like figment of Teamster lore. And I'm glad. The reality could never hold up. That, in a nutshell, sums up my feelings vis-a-vis Nissan's decision to bring its Skyline replacement to America. The
get here already upcoming GT-R may whip a Porsche Turbo's ass around the 'Ring, but in time, we'll learn its flaws. Luckily, previous-generation Skylines remain automotive apocrypha to us Yanks, forever shrouded in imagination and painful thumb blisters. And now dear Jalops, you get to vote one into the Fantasy Garage.
Like many hot Japanese domestic market rides (Evo, WRX),
Electronic Arts' Polyphony Digital's Gran Turismo is usually credited with alerting the American pistonhead's inner hoon to Nissan's world beater. We remember the Skyline from back when Mario was riding karts. In fact, the Skyline has been the stuff of dreams for several decades. In 1957, the Prince motor company released their first luxury car, the four-door Skyline. Powered, or rather underpowered, by a 1.5-liter straight four, the first Skyline was capable of reaching a grand total of 87 mph. Saving its bacon (in our mind at least) is the fact that the Skyline was available as both a wagon and a 'camino. And later as a coupe and a convertible. But pay no mind to its humble beginnings.
In 1966 Prince merged with Nissan-Datsun. In 1968 the company released the C10 Skyline, a rather handsome looking sedan still powered by a 1.5-liter engine (G-15), though power was up to 94 hp. In 1969, the Skyline GT-R came to market complete with a 2.0-liter DOHC straight-six good for 160 hp. The US spec Porsche 911 S was making 170 hp in 1969 (thought the Euro-spec model was good for 190 hp). Meaning the GT-R was seriously fast, especially for a JDM vehicle.
Later Nissan came out with a coupe version and, combined, the two body styles racked up 1,000 racing victories by the time they went out of production in 1972. Nissan blamed the car's fate on the oil crisis. The final iteration of the original Skyline (known as the KPGC110 2000GT-R) sold only 197 copies and was never raced. We know the C10 Skyline GT-R is a long shot for the Fantasy Garage and has as much chance of making it as Clay Aiken does finding a nice girl, but we're giving you the chance to vote on it for one simple reason: To battle the C10's notorious understeer, racers took to grabbing the handbrake while in motion. And just like that, drifting was born.
After mucking about for most of the 70s and 80s (though the C211 GT-ES was the first turbocharged Japanese car), Nissan big time bellied up to the bar in 1989 with the eighth-generation Skyline, the R32 GT-R. If being the first truly mega-performance Skyline counts for anything, than this is the car to go in the Fantasy Garage. Let's start with the engine.
The 2.6-liter RB26DETT (the RB prefix may or may not have stood for "Race Bred") was designed to produce 500 hp in racing tune. As sold, the RB26DETT with its twin-ceramic intercooled turbos, noisy recirculating blow off valve and DOHC four-valve heads put out 276 hp. Like most of our Fantasy Garagers, the R32 GT-R actually stonked closer to 320 horses, but because of Japan's lingering "gentleman's agreement," all cars sold on the island nation could be sold producing no more than 276 hp. However, Nissan colored the governor in the control lines yellow so owners could easily yank it out once they left the dealership. Long story short, the R32 was bloody fast. And with a little bit of tweaking, 600 hp is easily achieved. With some severe wrenching, 1,340+ hp was attainable (that's one megawatt for you metric types)!
Unlike last week's Buick GNX, which was also underrated in the power department, the Skyline was designed to do much more than go straight fast. Its all-wheel-drive system known as ATTESA E-TS was ridiculously advanced for the time. Lead engineer Naganori Itoh followed the mighty footsteps of Porsche's 959. Therefore the ATTESA E-TS was essentially a rear-drive system (constant power to the rear diff) with a transfer case mounted at the back of the gearbox to supply torque to the front wheels if slippage is detected at the rear. Just like in the 959, a chain-driven, multi-plate wet clutch pack routes power through a central differential when called for. The GT-R also featured Super HICAS electronic four-wheel steering. The cars were light, too.
The result of all this technology is the stuff of legend. At the time of its release the 'Ring record was 8:45 set by a Porsche 944. The R32 GT-R did the deed in 8:20, totally shattering Porsche's record and humiliating the Germans at the same time. From 1989 to 1993 the R32 GT-R entered 29 JTCC (Japanese Touring Car Championship) races and won 29 times. The R32 GT-R also dominated Australia's Great Race (the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000) winning in 1991 & 1992. The controversial 1992 race, which was stopped due to rain, was particularly memorable. Leading at the time of cancellation, Skyline driver Jim Richards was declared winner and subsequently booed on the podium, prompting the Kiwi to call the Aussie fans, "a pack of arseholes." Known simply as "Godzilla," no vehicle before or since has been so dominant. What a car.
1995 saw the introduction of the R33 GT-R. Bigger, heavier and more refined. Enthusiasts were not pleased. In truth, the dumpy-looking R33 GT-R was nominally better than its predecessor in every meaningful way, most complained that it was not as driver focused. So, Nissan fixed the problem, and fixed it good.
Meet the 1996 NISMO 400R. Only 99 were made and they cost an arm and two legs. However, they left the factory producing more than 400 hp (some sources claim as much as 450 hp) thanks to the venerable RB26DETT. Only now, it was bored out to 2771 cc and fitted with upgraded pistons, connecting rods, crankshaft and intercooler. The 400R's zero-to-60 time was in the 4.5 second range and top speed was rumored to be north of 200 mph. The suspension, AWD and AWS (all-wheel steering) systems were also improved and downforce-generating body work was added. Possibly as important, the 400R looked the part.
But forget all that. Here is why you want to vote the NISMO 400R Skyline in: The specialist-tuned 400R was the first production car to lap the Nurburging Nordschleife in less than 8 minutes. If we're being honest, there is some controversy surrounding this record as Jaguar's XJ220 had unofficially lapped the 'Ring in 7:46. Still, the fact that a hopped up Nissan can be mentioned in the same sentence as a half-million dollar hyper car is reason enough for us.
Happily, Nissan came roaring back to form in 1999 with the tenth-generation R34 Skyline. The new car had an improved and shortened chassis, a Getrag six-speed (up from five gears on all previous cars), improved suspension, a splitter and diffuser and red valve covers. The last of the great Skylines also came equipped with an LCD screen that displayed such need-to-knows as turbo boost pressure, lap times and lateral g-forces. The final Skyline also looked much more sporting, finally shedding the wolf in sheep's clothing disguise favored by its predecessors. Oh, and the shocks, steering and brakes were improved.
The R34 was also available in a seemingly endless variety of specifications. The GT-R V-Spec II had NACA ducting, brake ventilation, a carbon-fiber hood and more body kit. The M-Spec (the M literally stood for "Man") featured heated leather seats and softer suspension. The GT-R V-Spec II, with radio, AC, rear wiper and sound insulation deleted, had a blueprinted N1 motor plus a 300 kph speedo. The ultimate R34 was of course the NISMO Z-tune. Nissan only produced 20, and each car was good for 500 horsepower and 400 lb-ft of torque. Nuff said. Happy voting.
[The Jalopnik Fantasy Garage appears every Tuesday. Readers vote the cars in or out. The idea is that we'll have 50 cars in our Fantasy Garage, the world's greatest mechanic and endless wads of cash. Would you like to nominate a car for the Fantasy Garage? Write email@example.com with the subject line "Fantasy."]
The Jalopnik Fantasy Garage, So Far:
RUF RT12 | Maserati Quattroporte Executive GT | 1978 Aston Martin V8 Vantage | Honda 1300 Coupe 9 | 1931 Daimler Double Six 50 Corsica Drophead Coupe | Ferrari 288 GTO | Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 | 1970 Buick GSX 455 | First Generation BMW M Coupe | Bugatti Veyron 16.4 | Ford GT | Citroen SM | Porsche 928 | Jensen FF | DeTomaso Vallelunga | Audi Quattro S1 | Buick GNX
Jalopnik Fantasy Garage: Buick GNX; Nissan GT-R at Goodwood: Porsche May Have Something to Worry About; The Jalopnik Fantasy Garage [Internal]