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So how do you enter?
You must have a garage set up showing you have an N54 based vehicle. Entries without a setup garage with picture will not be considered valid.
You enter by posting in this thread. You gain 1 entry for every rep point you earn after your post that enters you in this thread. You earn rep points by making posts and creating relevant threads.
For example, you post you wish to enter in this thread. You have 1 rep point at the time of posting. At the close of the contest, you have 11 rep points. That means you have 10 entries! The more rep points you earn, the more entries you get. Your own effort improves your chances of winning. Does not get any sweeter than that. For details on rep points and how to earn them, see this page: Reputation System
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How long will the contest go for?
Until Christmas Day, Pacific Standard Time (may be extended until New Years Day depending on popularity).
What is the JB4?
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The School Board on Tuesday passed Superintendent of Schools George Tomyn's revised 2013-14 staffing plan, setting in motion a series of budget workshops leading to a final vote on Sept. 10.
The School Board on Tuesday passed Superintendent of Schools George Tomyn's revised 2013-14 staffing plan, setting in motion a series of budget workshops leading to a final vote on Sept. 10.
Tomyn's latest plan calls for 525 fewer positions — 91 district-level and 434 school-level — than his original staffing plan passed in April. The district laid off 261 employees, including all 160 first-year teachers, in May.
To fill many of the vacant teaching positions, the district plans to hire 100 full-time certified substitutes. Those substitutes, who must have a bachelor's degree, are paid $100 per day — $18,000 annually — with no health benefits.
School Board member Nancy Stacy made a motion to remove all full-time substitutes from the staffing plan and turn them into regular full-time teaching positions with benefits. Her motion died on the floor.
Stacy said she learned that many of the positions removed from the plan since April were already vacant, calling it "the district's slush fund" — believing that there were funds attached to the vacant positions.
Tomyn and staff explained how the staffing plan is established and how the budget process works.
Once funding is set from the state, the district then has to adjust the staffing plan based on funding. After seeing that the district funds would fall $29 million short of what was needed, the district revised its staffing plan that was approved Tuesday. Besides the 261 layoffs, Tomyn eliminated 264 wish-list positions.
Tomyn pointed out the approved staffing plan may be tweaked during the next few months. Once the 2012-13 year ends on Sunday, the district then can close out its books, which takes three weeks.
The board will receive Tomyn's recommended budget in late July. The board will then hold at least two budget work sessions in August before a final vote will be held on Sept. 10.
Board member Bobby James also asked the board to consider adding back one of three West Port High assistant principals removed from the staffing plan. West Port is the county's largest school.
James said that West Port is a mega-school, with a population of 2,400 students. He said he believed West Port needs the third assistant principal to manage so many students. Stacy voted against the motion, stating she believes that money could be used to put more teachers in the classroom.
An hour before that vote, Marion Education Association's Chris Altobello, the teachers' union president, also asked the board to reconsider removing the third assistant principal at West Port, as well as at Forest and Lake Weir high schools. The board asked that the third assistant principal at those schools be eliminated to save $200,000.
Stacy questioned Altobello's commitment to teachers by siding with the administration. Altobello said schools need quality administrators.
In this case, Altobello said teacher performance raises are based on classroom observations. He said schools with enrollments approaching 2,000 students need a third principal to help conduct those evaluations.
Altobello said the district's mission statement of "Leading the State in Raising Student Performance" should be changed to "You Get What You Pay For."
Altobello confronted Stacy about her idea last Thursday that employees should clean the school. Stacy said she meant students, not employees, could clean their classroom before they leave for the day.
The board also told a former magnet school student at the meeting that it is no longer considering requiring magnet students to pay fees. School Board Chairman Ron Crawford said state law prohibits the district from charging fees.
During the public comment part of the meeting, a dozen people spoke to the board, including Lynne Colley, a finalist for 2009 Golden Apple teacher of the year.
Colley said she supports the ability of Deputy Superintendent Rick Lankford, and by extension the superintendent. However, she wondered how the board could have allowed finances to get to rock bottom.
She noted that Jim Yancey, who retired as superintendent last November, warned the public for years about how desperate funding was getting. Federal stimulus dollars saved the district in 2009 and 2010, and reserve funding saved the district in 2011 and 2012. All four years, those funding sources totaled $49 million and saved the employees.
"Mr. Yancey warned (us) in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, and now the train is running out of tracks," Colley said, adding the board should have slowed the train down long ago.
The comment led Crawford to raise his voice and fire back, stating Colley's opinion was wrong. That comment drew laughter and hisses. Crawford said Yancey is the one who recommended the budgets that wiped out the reserve funds. He said Yancey said he needed the money for his programs and the budget was approved.
Crawford told Colley that he wasn't trying to make it personal. He said that the state sets the millage and issues the funding. They should complain to the Legislature, Crawford said.
Nancy Noonan, co-founder of Marions United for Public Education, spoke to the board, telling Crawford that the board eventually passed Yancey's budgets. She said the board needs to take responsibility.
Tomyn noted that since 2006-07, the district has reduced district-level staff by 23 percent, district administration by 14 percent and instructional units by 10 percent.
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2013-2014 US Youth Soccer National League teams announced
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– US Youth Soccer is proud to announce the 160 teams that have qualified to compete in the 2013-2014
US Youth Soccer National League
season. The league, entering into its seventh season, is for the nation's top Under-14 through Under-18 Boys and Girls club soccer teams, with each team having an individual proven track record of continued success in US Youth Soccer programs.
New to 2013-2014, the National League has added the Under-14 Boys and Girls age groups and automatic qualification was given to the champions/top finishers of the US Youth Soccer Regional Leagues. Each gender age group will field 16 teams divided into two divisions, and the top two finishers from each division receive an automatic berth to the
US Youth Soccer National Championships
, the oldest and most prestigious youth soccer national championship competition. The four National League representatives will join the four Regional Champions for a total of eight qualifiers per age group at the National Championships in the U-14 through U-18 divisions.
The 2013-2014 National League field includes 50 of the 56 teams that qualified for the 2013 National Championships, 14 of the 16 finalists and six of eight champions.
Last season, 27 National League players were invited into youth National Team camps, and the majority of U-17 and U-18 players have
to play collegiate soccer at some of the top programs in the country.
"The US Youth Soccer National League continues to provide the top competition for boys and girls in the country as each team must prove itself to gain entry into the league," said Paul Luchowski, National League commissioner. "National League teams have claimed 13 of 16 National Championships in the past two years, which speaks to the quality of the teams in the league and the value of the competition. Hundreds of collegiate, professional and national team scouts attend each National League date for just that reason."
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The National League is an extension of the highly successful US Youth Soccer Regional Leagues [Region I (East) Premier League, Region II Midwest Regional League, Region III Southern Premier League and Region IV Far West Regional League] in which the top teams are eligible to continue the path of success into the National League where the ultimate prize is qualifying for the prestigious US Youth Soccer National Championships.
The 2013-2014 National League will consist of 32 of the 55
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, from Region I (East): Eastern New York, Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania West, New Jersey, New York West and Virginia; from Region II (Midwest): Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio North, Ohio South and Wisconsin; from Region III (South): Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, North Texas, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Texas and Tennessee; from Region IV (West): Arizona, California North, California South, Colorado, Idaho and Washington.
The seven game season will begin in Wilson, N.C., alongside the CASL Showcase with the boys playing Nov. 21-24 and girls Dec. 5-8. Under-15 through Under-18 teams will participate in one of two other locations, the first being in Orlando, Fla., alongside the Disney Soccer Showcase, Dec. 27-29 for the boys and Dec. 31-Jan. 2 for the girls. The final play date will be held in Las Vegas, March 14-16 for the boys and March 21-23 for the girls, and be held in conjunction with the Player's College Showcase. All Under-14 teams will complete their seasons in Las Vegas. In 2012-2013, just five of the 16 division titles were clinched and 16 of 32 automatic slots to the National Championships had been claimed prior to the final weekend of play. The complete schedule will be announced in mid-September.
Since its inception, National League teams have captured a combined 26 national championships. In 2008, seven of the eight championship finals slots in the Under-15 and 16 age groups were won by National League teams, which resulted in the League's first four national championships. The League notched four more National Championship titles in 2009 including the Under-15 Boys and Girls, as well as Under-16 Boys and Under-17 Girls. At the 2010 National Championships, League participants took home titles in the Under-15 Boys and Under-17 Girls age groups. In 2011, eight National League teams advanced to the National Championship game and claimed three more national titles. In 2012, 16 league teams qualified for the national final, with seven taking home national championships. And in 2013, 14 of 16 finalists were league participants, with six claiming the national title. For a list of past National League champions and history,
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We furthermore collect information that is sent to us by your web browser, which may include without limitation information that does not identify you personally (such as the date and time of your visit, information about your web browser, etc.). The information we receive in such manner depends on the settings on your web browser. If you have created a user identity on one of your visits to this Property, we may link the information provided by your browser to information that identifies you personally and use it for the purposes described below. Please review the settings of your web browser if you want to learn what information your browser can send or how to change your browser settings. We may also collect limited personal information, such as email address, through web technologies in connection with your use of a Property, as described below.
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We collect information that is typically not personally identifiable through the use of web technologies, including without limitation "session cookies," "persistent cookies," "web beacons" (also referred to as "tracking pixels," "pixel tags," or "action tags"), JavaScript code, and "JavaScript tags." As the Internet evolves, we may implement and use different types of technologies for this purpose. Web technologies may be placed on this site directly by us or by third party providers, and we or third party providers may place web technologies on behalf of the partner whose branding appears on this Property or its service providers and allow that partner to utilize the data collected. This information is used to enhance your use and experience with this Property, for marketing analysis, for targeted and display advertising, and for quality improvement purposes. We may collect your IP address through web technologies.
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- Hagel says he regrets some past comments; struggles at times under conservative pounding
- Obama administration official says Hagel had some difficulty, but "we think he's on his way"
- Republicans hone in on Iran, Israel, troop surge in sharp questioning of Hagel
- Hagel is a decorated Vietnam veteran; says experience influenced life, but does not consume him
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel took on critics at his Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday to become President Barack Obama's next defense secretary, saying he may have been wrong at times in the past but always acted in the nation's best interests.
Facing tough questioning from conservatives, the decorated Vietnam veteran told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he fully supported Obama administration policies on ending combat operations in Afghanistan next year, preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, and ending the ban on gays openly serving in the military.
However, Hagel stumbled at times and conceded toward the end of the seven hours of testimony that past statements on volatile issues such as the Middle East conflict and sanctions against Iran no longer applied or had been poorly expressed in the first place.
"If I had an opportunity to edit that, like many things I said, I would like to go back and change the words and meaning," Hagel responded at one point to a question about a 2003 comment in which he referred to Israel keeping people "like caged animals."
At another point at the contentious hearing, he referred to Iran as a legitimate state, causing Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York to suggest he meant to say it was a recognized government.
"What I meant to say, should have said is - it is recognizable," Hagel said. "It has been recognized, is recognized at the United Nations. Most of our allies have embassies there. That is what I should have said and thank you."
He also appeared evasive early on when confronted by some former Senate colleagues who challenged his nomination because of what they characterized as shifting positions on confronting Iran, supporting Israel and maintaining a strong military amid pressure to cut costs.
Later in the day, Hagel sounded more certain in responding to the repeated challenges by conservatives over what newly elected Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas called his record of "antagonism" toward Israel.
Despite the campaign against him waged by conservatives, Hagel was expected to win confirmation to succeed Leon Panetta as Pentagon chief.
Other prominent political figures endorsed him, including former Sen. Sam Nunn, a conservative Democrat from Georgia and respected defense and nuclear policy expert, and former Sen. John Warner, a conservative Republican from Virginia, where the Pentagon is located and key military installations are based.
In his opening statement and in response to questions, Hagel defended his 12-year record as a Republican senator from Nebraska and what he called a consistent worldview on the role of the United States and its unparalleled military might.
"America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world; that we must lead the international community to confront threats and challenges together; and that we must use all tools of American power to protect our citizens and our interests," Hagel said, adding that the United States must engage the world.
Obama is reassembling his national security team at the start of his second term, turning to Vietnam War heroes for marquee positions: Hagel at defense and Sen. John Kerry to lead the State Department.
The next defense chief will wind down the war in Afghanistan and face fluid issues related to Iran and the civil war in Syria. Emerging terror hotspots in Africa and managing the Pentagon through budget uncertainty are other top priorities.
On specific issues at the hearing, Hagel said he was committed to Obama's goal of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
"I've been on record on that issue. And as I've said in the past many times, all options must be on the table to achieve that goal. My policy is one of prevention, and not one of containment -- and the president has made clear that is the policy of our government," he said.
Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin, D-Michigan, told Hagel that "your reassurance to me in my office that you support the Obama administration's strong stance against Iran is significant."
However, the panel's top Republican, Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, said he would oppose the nomination because of what he called Hagel's past support for policies that he said would appease U.S. enemies.
In particular, Inhofe cited Hagel's backing of direct talks with Iran, an enemy of Israel. Others challenged a Senate vote by Hagel years earlier to oppose unilateral U.S. sanctions against Iran, and a comment about the "Jewish lobby" in Washington that critics said hinted at anti-Israel sentiments.
Hagel, however, pledged continued support to help Israel's military prowess in the region. In response to repeated questions about his commitment to Israel, Hagel cited his Senate record of voting for every aid authorization or other measure supporting Israel.
"I think my record is pretty clear," he said.
In addition, Hagel said the United States was "not going to unilaterally disarm" when questioned about his ties to a group calling for eliminating nuclear weapons. If confirmed, he said, he would maintain "a modern, strong, safe, ready, and effective nuclear arsenal," adding that he was "committed to modernizing" it.
Regarding the possibility of impending budget cuts described by some as potentially devastating to Pentagon operations and the civilian economy it supports, Hagel said he would keep defense forces strong through efficient use of taxpayer dollars.
Asked later about the impact of the possible cuts, Hagel said that "the security of this country is not going to be in jeopardy." But he added that "if this happens, it's going to be a severe problem."
The military faces $500 billion in automatic spending cuts over the next decade absent congressional intervention in coming months to avert or soften them. This would come on top of steep budget reductions already in the pipeline.
If confirmed, Hagel will be the first defense secretary to have served all of his military career as an enlisted soldier. He was an Army sergeant in Vietnam, where he was wounded, and said on Thursday that his war experience was an influence in his life.
"I'm not shaped, framed, molded, consumed by that experience, but it's part of me," Hagel said, adding that he thought it would be a positive to have the defense secretary for the first time be someone "who understands the reality and consequences of war."
A sharp exchange on Thursday came when Sen. John McCain criticized Hagel's opposition to the troop surge in Iraq by the Bush administration and a similar move by Obama in Afghanistan. Both were crucial wartime decisions made by policymakers.
McCain, a former naval aviator and prisoner of war in Vietnam, said Hagel was wrong on both counts. The Arizona Republican said that he and Hagel, who once were close political allies and personal friends, had "fundamental differences" on important issues.
Hagel responded that his questioning of the surge strategy in Iraq was not an aberration.
"I always ask the question is this going to be worth the sacrifice because there will be sacrifice," Hagel said. "Now, was it required? Was it necessary? Senator McCain has his own opinion on that, shared by others. I am not sure. I am not that certain that it was required. It doesn't mean I am right."
Other Republicans on the panel complained that Hagel failed to turn over requested copies of past speeches and financial reports they requested, and he avoided directly answering some questions seeking to force him to declare that previous positions or comments were mistaken.
Hammered during questioning by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, Hagel conceded that he never should have made the comment about the Jewish lobby.
Hagel had three major preparatory sessions for Thursday's hearing, according to an administration official involved in the confirmation process. The official said Hagel chose to "take the high road" by not responding with anger to "political theater."
However, another official acknowledged Hagel had some difficulty, saying "we think he's on his way, but he didn't round the bases today. He could have. He didn't."
A plurality of Americans back Hagel's nomination to succeed Panetta.
According to a CNN/ORC International poll conducted January 14-15 and released two weeks ago, 48% of the public said the Senate should confirm Hagel, with 22% saying no and three in 10 unsure.


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4 Areas of Focus for Competitive Advantage in Banking in 2013
The banking environment for the coming year likely contains equal parts resolution of past challenges and the introduction of new ones. The economy in the United States is showing evidence of a continued recovery, with jobless rates continuing their slow decline and the housing market showing evidence of some recovery. But this recovery is still somewhat tenuous.
At the same time, the weakening of the European economy appears to be continuing. Stopgap measures have been passed over the recent months, but whatever the outcome, it is not likely to be quickly implemented, nor likely to come without significant pain. China, too, appears to have seen somewhat of a slowdown in its previously accelerated growth. Reduced economic activity, with consequent reductions in demand for commodities to fuel that output, may have a knock-on effect on many economies throughout the world.
Returning to the United States, bankers will likely continue to be challenged to find profit in an environment of low interest rates, and thus low net interest margins. Although there appears to be some increase in loan demand -- particularly among middle-market corporate borrowers -- many consumers are continuing to deleverage their household balance sheets and so a broad-based return of consumer loan demand may be unlikely in the coming year.
Finally: regulation. What we have seen is the creation of the most comprehensive set of new regulations in the last 70 years. During the last year in particular, bankers appear to have adopted a "wait and see" attitude about these regulations, as the detailed implementation procedures had not yet been written. Based on the dialogue we've been having with industry executives, I and my colleagues expect 2013 to be the "year of implementation" for the U.S. banking industry, as much of the regulatory uncertainty has been resolved and industry leaders assess their organizational structures and capabilities in the face of narrower margins, increased capital requirements, and consumer protection.
There are a handful of major challenges that most banks are likely to address in the coming year: Thinning margins and capital requirements have combined to compel industry executives to consider re-evaluating their banks' competitive strengths. As a result, there will likely be increased activity around reframing strategic opportunities to identify businesses in which they can compete and win. Another issue is data: Regulators are seeking greater transparency; customers may be seeking a more relevant and targeted experience, and bank managements are likely to look for growth opportunities. Effective data management has been elusive for the banking industry, and with good reason: Technology silos and exploding volumes of data make this a daunting effort. Despite these issues, we look for bank leaders to increasingly embrace the massive effort involved in restructuring their ability to manage and utilize data.
[Read: Big Data, Transparency Among Top Data Management Trends]
Beyond these issues, bankers will likely increase their efforts -- to varying degrees -- in these four areas:
Industrialized operations: As with previous economic downturns some executives have doubled down on cost reduction to protect margins. Unfortunately, previous efforts to streamline through reengineering and outsourcing may have eliminated many of the more obvious opportunities to reduce cost. At the same time, continued client dissatisfaction is forcing bankers to reconsider their approach to service levels. The coming year will likely see increased efforts around the development and delivery of clear disclosures, streamlined and consistent processes, and development of training and compensation to reinforce proper sales behaviors.
Asset protection: As the implications of the passage of Dodd-Frank and its attendant focus on bank safety and soundness become more clear, banks will likely look to move to compliance as a "business as usual" activity, rather than as a series of isolated regulatory responses. More generally, banks will continue to improve their risk management capabilities. One area that appears to be increasing in importance is the need for more effective management of technology-based risk, whether based on aging legacy systems or emerging cyber threats. Bank technology and business leaders should consider taking action to secure the operational stability of their operating platforms in the face of these risks.
Delivery transformation: While not new per se, bankers' interest in the potential for mobile payments is likely to continue to grow in 2013. We have seen a number of initiatives developing among banks, mobile network operators, technology firms, and even emerging innovators. Banks may consider an increase in the level of investment in mobile payments. This underscores the need for industrialization discussed above, as the foundation for delivery transformation is found in the important effort to rationalize and streamline banks' overall technology infrastructure to better support the kinds of front-office digital services that their customers are demanding from them.
Return on capital:: As a follow-up to the strategic assessment mentioned above, many banks have spent the last decade acquiring assets, and entire businesses. It is likely that the pace of divestitures -- and acquisitions -- will reshape the competitive landscape. Alongside these structural changes, banks are likely looking for growth opportunities in their preferred areas of strength. When the economy improves, the corporate and institutional markets may provide some opportunity for revenue growth, and it will be up to each bank to determine where their competitive strengths lie.
In the end, the coming year may merely see a re-attempt at old strategies that were used during previous economic downturns: cost cutting, a focus on more profitable customers, and investments in compliance. We are likely to be able to discern the emergence of a few institutions that really do take on the hard work of legitimate restructuring, repositioning, and rebranding -- perhaps not in all areas, nor all at once. Nevertheless, those few could by their actions and potential competitive success lead the more conservative fast-followers.
Jim Eckenrode is the Executive Director of the Deloitte Center for Financial Services, part of Deloitte Services, LP).


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schwinn810 allows you to extract data (tracks, laps, points, and waypoints) from a Schwinn 810 GPS sport watch with a heart rate monitor. It can optionally feed points to gpsbabel to convert data into other formats like TCX, GPX, and KML. A standalone converter for TCX with split-lap and heart rate data is provided. It should work on any platform as long as there is a driver for the CP2102 USB-UART bridge from SiLabs and python-serial.
ExtraWatch is a real-time counter and live stats module for Joomla!, Wordpress, Drupal, Magento, and Prestashop. It allows you to view information about your visitors and bots in real-time from the administration back-end. It details IP addresses, countries of origin, geographical location, which pages they are viewing, and browser and operating system. It creates daily and all-time stats from these data plus unique, pageload, and total hits statistics. Furthermore, you can block harmful IP addresses, see blocked attempts, evaluate trend charts, and create goals based on many parameters. In the front-end, it displays top countries, and user and visit information for certain periods of time.
DeTraS provides several tools to track development activities by registering applications that developers use on an X11 session. It also allows you to send collected data to a server and takes care about your privacy. The idea behind DeTraS is taken from Timeline, a shell script written by Nat Friedman.
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ActivDesk adds a powerful and feature rich help desk system to your Web site. It was created to streamline customer communications and support with a ticketing system. It was created to be user friendly in every aspect. It is highly customizable to be completely re-brandable so that it can fit the look and feel of your Web site. It eliminates spam and related problems. It also comes with built-in knowledge base functionality to turn resolved tickets into knowledge base entries, and has many more features.
WWW-Analytics-MultiTouch is a tool and a Perl library for multi-touch Web analytics. Unlike typical last-session attribution Web analytics, multi-touch gives insight into all of the various marketing channels to which a visitor is exposed before finally making the decision to buy.
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- When:
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- Where:
- Baytown, TX
- Category:
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Import Face-Off
October 26, 2014
Royal Purple Raceway. Baytown, TX - http://www.royalpurpleraceway.com/
10/26/14 from 11am to 6pm. Car show registration from 9am to 12pm, judging begins at 11, awards ceremony around 5:30. Race registration starts at 9am, heads up qualifying at 11:00 and 12:00. Eliminations around 1.
Car/truck/bike show, 1/4 mile drag racing, Usaci double points stereo crank it up contest, burnout contest (time permitting), vendors, pit midway, and live DJ.
All spectator tickets and competitor registration forms can be bought on the day of the show at the front gate. Visit the link below to purchase your tickets in advance. Use promo code "IFO" to receive $3 off spectator admission and $5 off competitor registration (race or show). All who purchase tickets in advance will also receive a free trial subscription to PASMAG: http://tickets.thefoat.com/ImportFaceOff
Spectator $20 ($17 with flier at gate) *fliers printed off computer OK to use - right click on flyer image, print (B&W OK). Coupon only good for spectator admission.Children 10 and under FREE
Car Show Entry $30 (does not include free passenger pass). *Note, IFO only charges $30 per car show entry, not $50 to $60 like other events that claim to give a "free" passenger pass.
Test and Tune Drag Racer $30 (open to any make/model)
Competition Drag Racer $30 (imports and sport compacts only)
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Seating for Black-Eyed Susan Day and Preaknes Day: Children under the age of 5 don't need a ticket as long as they don't occupy a seat. If the child under the age of 5 does require a seat, you will need to purchase a ticket for that seat at full price.
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Smoking is prohibited in all seating sections.
Smoking is permitted on both the Clubhouse and Grandstand Apron areas in designated smoking areas only.
General Admission (GA) tickets grants access to the building ONLY on Preakness Day. GA does not offer live views of the racetrack or access to the Infield. If you want to view the race live you must purchase a reserved seat or an Infield ticket.
General Admission tickets on BLACK-EYED SUSAN Day allow access for live viewing with open seating in the Concourse. No Infield admission is included with GA tickets.
Yes. You enter through the Infield Tunnel.
Black-Eyed Susan Day the gates open at 9:30 a.m.
Preakness Day the gates open at 8:00 a.m. for the Infield, and the Facility; 10:00 a.m. for the Village, Turfside Terrace and Clubhouse Turn Reserved.
1. ROGERS AVE. will be closed to all vehicle traffic from Winner Ave. to Northern Pkwy. from 10:00 p.m. Friday, May 15th until 9:00 p.m. Preakness night, Saturday, May 16th (Pedestrian foot traffic only).
2. WINNER AVE. will be one-way Northbound from Hayward Ave. to Rogers Ave. beginning at 10:00 p.m. Thursday night, May 14th until 9:00 p.m. Preakness night, May 16th.
3. WINNER AVE. will remain two-way from Rogers Ave. to Northern Pkwy. until 5:00 p.m., Preakness night, May 16th.
4. WINNER AVE. will become one-way Northbound from Rogers Ave. to Northern Pkwy. beginning at 5:00 p.m. Preakness Day, May 16th until 9:00 p.m. Preakness night.
5. HAYWARD AVE. will be one-way Eastbound from Park Heights Ave. to Winner Ave. beginning at 7:00 a.m. Preakness morning, May 16th until 3:00 p.m. Preakness Day.
6. HORSEMEN: A temporary one-way entrance for automobile traffic to the Hayward Stable Area entrance will be created through the Press Lot behind Barn E, accessible via Winner Ave. beginning at 7:00 a.m. Black-Eyed Susan morning, Fri., May 15th, until 9:00 p.m. Preakness night Sat., May 16th.
IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR HORSE VANS SHIPPING INTO THE HAYWARD AVE. STABLE GATE ON PREAKNESS DAY: Horse Vans will not be permitted access to the Hayward Ave. stable area after 8:00 a.m., on Preakness Day. If a horse van enters the Hayward gate after 8:00 a.m, they will be required to stay in the stable area until after the last race.
* Traffic Patterns may be subject to change.
When traveling to Pimlico on Preakness Day, please remember to allow yourself sufficient time for convenient access and plan to come early!
Umbrellas are NOT permitted on the grounds as they can scare the horses.
The Maryland Racing Commission requires that all winning tickets and credit vouchers must be cashed within one year of their issue. These can be redeemed in person at any Maryland Intertrack or by the mail. Tickets should be sent registered or certified mail to: Laurel Park, Post Office Box 130, Laurel, Maryland, 20725. ATTN: Mutuel Department.
NOTE: If you bought your winning ticket in another STATE and TRACK outside of Maryland, that's where you MUST cash your winning ticket.
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More than 40,000 surnames currently used in Italy. Most of those surnames have a foreign origin, as for instance, HASSAN, an Arabian last name.
With every surname, you'll find an access to external links, clicking on these links you'll be able to see where surnames are located in different Italian regions, according to the GENS searcher, and display the percentage according Cognomix.
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BioJava aims to provide a comprehensive set of Java components for the rapid development of applications in Bioinformatics. It contains interfaces for representing Sequences, Features, and other important bioinformatics concepts. It can also read and write sequence data in a variety of common formats and communicate with Ensembl databases and with DAS and BioCorba servers.
C-XSC 2.0 is a C++ class library for eXtended Scientific Computing. It provides real, complex, interval, complex-interval, and multi-precision data types. There are also vector and matrix classes corresponding to these scalar types. The interval data types are very useful for verified numerical computations.
Cactus is a general, modular, parallel environment for solving systems of partial differential equations. The code has been developed over many years by a large international collaboration of numerical relativity and computational science research groups and can be used to provide a portable platform for solving any system of partial differential equations.
Calc is arbitrary precision arithmetic system that uses a C-like language. It's useful as a calculator, an algorithm prototype, and as a mathematical research tool. More importantly, calc provides a machine-independent means of computation. Calc comes with a rich set of builtin mathematical and programmatic functions.
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CwMtx is a library written in C++ that provides the matrix and vector operations that are used extensively in engineering and science problems. A special feature of this library is the quaternion class which implements quaternion math. Quaternions are very useful for attitude determination in 3D space because they do not suffer from singularities. Furthermore, successive rotations and transformations of vectors can be accomplished by simple quaternion multiplication. Attitude dynamics can be expressed in a very compact form using quaternions


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WAIMEA BAY, Oahu/Hawaii - (Friday, December 2, 2011) – It's a rare international sporting event that can have no set date, be held just eight times in a span of 27 years, and still gain strength. But the lifeblood of the big wave Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau lies in what one man's life represented: the best that surfing and Hawaii have to offer the world.
The story of Eddie Aikau, a Hawaiian hero who saved and inspired lives as Waimea Bay's resident lifeguard and big wave charger, continues to touch generations. It's a story that is told anew each December, when the opening ceremony for the event in his honor takes place on Oahu's North Shore, as it did yesterday.
The Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau is a one-day big wave surfing event that only runs when, and if, waves at Waimea Bay reach a minimum height of 20 feet. It was last held in December of 2009. It is a tribute to Aikau, who rode the mountainous waves of Waimea Bay in the late '60s and early '70s and saved lives as its first full-time lifeguard. He was lost at sea in 1978, west of the Hawaiian Islands during a voyage of the Polynesian sailing canoe, Hokule'a. Hokule'a capsized in heavy seas, stranding her crew. Eddie insisted upon paddling for land to get help, but was never seen again.
"There will be waves," said Hawaiian kahu (priest) Billy Mitchell, in a voice that traveled to the far reaches of the bay. "But those of you here today know that this is about much more than that.
"Eddie had a passion. He had a passion about living and loving the ocean. Whether you surf or you don't surf, you are drawn to people like Eddie in life. People with big mana (spirit). We have to remember, and we cannot forget, someone who lived this way. Eddie never left people behind. It was his way. We need that in this life, especially now. It's a way to surf; it's a way to live.
"This event is Eddie's story, and it is a ripple in the ocean to travel around the world."
The holding period for the Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau started, December 1st, and runs through to February 29, 2012. The defending champion is California's Greg Long. Past champions are Denton Miyamura (Hawaii), Keone Downing (Hawaii), Clyde Aikau (Hawaii), Noah Johnson (Hawaii), Ross Clarke-Jones (Australia), Kelly Slater (USA), and Bruce Irons (Hawaii).
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ddrescueview is a small tool that allows the user to graphically examine ddrescue's log files in a user-friendly GUI application. The Main window displays a block grid with each block's color representing the block types it contains. Many people know this type of view from defragmentation programs. The program is written in Object Pascal using the Lazarus IDE. It can be compiled to run on Windows, GNU/Linux, and probably OS X too. The downloads include binaries for the respective target platform and the project files (source code).
The ERPXE project simplifies the process of installing and customizing a multi-boot PXE server. Over 100 different plugins are available for download, including Windows, WinPE, Hiren's Boot CD, Acronis True Image, Symantec Ghost, FOG, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, openSUSE, Gentoo, RIP Linux, Slackware, Backtrack, PartedMagic, and many more.
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Aspose.Words for SharePoint allows you to convert documents within the Microsoft SharePoint applications. It supports multiple document formats like PDF, DOCX, DOC, RTF, MHT, TXT, XML, ODT, EPUB, and XPS. It is designed to be used with Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (standard and enterprise). You can also use different valuable options during conversion setup like converting files in subfolders or saving destination folder options.
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Aspose.Pdf is a .NET PDF component to write PDF documents without using Adobe Acrobat. It supports form field creation, document, text and page properties, color space, text, heading, and attachment settings. It lets you create PDF documents by using its API with XML templates and XSL-FO files. It also converts HTML, XSL-FO, and MS Word to PDF. Other features include image formats and security features, hyperlinks, the ability to add footnotes, automatic fitting to content in a table, decimal Tab stops, HTML tags, and keeping paragraphs together when breaking pages.
Aspose.Tasks is a non-graphical .NET Project management component which enables .NET applications to read, write, and manage Project documents without utilizing Microsoft Project. With Aspose.Tasks, you can read and change tasks, recurring tasks, resources, resource assignments, relations, and calendars. Aspose.Tasks works well with both WinForm and WebForm applications.
Catharsis.NET.Domain is a .NET library which provides commonly used types of domain business entities such as articles, blogs, comments, downloads, and a FAQ to speed up the development of typical business applications. It includes domain entity types declared as partial classes (can be extended if necessary), a set of common domain-related interfaces, like INameable and ITaggable, and a set of extension methods for IEnumerable/IQueryable sets of domain entities.
Catharsis.NET.Web.Widgets is an ASP.NET MVC tag library that provides useful social media widgets that be be included on your Web pages. Web widgets are implemented as C# POCO objects that implement System.Web.IHtmlString and provide a convenient fluent interface. Extension methods for System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper are provided for ease of rendering. It supports Cackle, Disqus, Facebook, Google, IntenseDebate, Mail.ru, RuTube, Surfingbird, Tumblr, Twitter, Vimeo, VKontakte, Yandex, YouTube, and the VideoJS player.
Catharsis.NET.Commons is a library of extensions for many common .NET types. It can significantly speed up your daily .NET development tasks, relieving you of writing boilerplate code. It implements the popular fluent-kind interface approach and allows many tasks to be performed in a single line of code with joined method calls.
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Heathcott overcoming struggles, AFL pitchers
Not all of it has been good.
But things are starting to turn around for the player who was the New York Yankees' first-round pick (29th overall) in the First-Year Player Draft in 2009, and he appears to be headed in the right direction.
The most encouraging sign of late is the selection of the Scottsdale Scorpions outfielder as the Arizona Fall League's Player of the Week for Week 4. His Scottsdale teammate, Bobby Casseveh (Los Angeles Angels), has been named the AFL's Pitcher of the Week.
In two games last week, the 6-foot-1, 190-pound Heathcott hit .667 with a league-leading three triples, 13 total bases, four extra-base hits, six RBIs and an OPS of 1.444.
Entering Monday's games, the left-handed hitter was hitting .295 overall with five runs, one double, three triples, nine RBIs and two stolen bases with a .415 on-base percentage and a .455 slugging percentage.
In 2012, he split time between the Rookie League Yankees of the Gulf Coast League (on injury rehab for five games) and New York's Class A Advanced affiliate in Tampa with a combined .302 average, five home runs and 29 RBIs. In four Minor League seasons, he has hit .275 with 12 homers and 76 RBIs.
The Yankees have placed Heathcott in the AFL for a reason. He has the potential to play in the Major Leagues, by 2014, according to some estimates. He is listed by MLB.com as the No. 5 prospect in the organization.
Yet he is the first to acknowledge, "I have a lot of work to do."
He was a two-sport star in baseball and football in high school in the Texarkana, Texas area, but family difficulties and alcohol issues caused him to spiral out of control. The Yankees helped him rid himself of some of those burdens.
Heathcott also accepted Jesus Christ into his life in 2010 and that has been a big steadying influence, but he admits, "I'm still rough around the edges."
As for his alcohol abuse, he said, "I have had a great accountability group, a lot of support.
"I started praying every day. I thought it was selfish at first, praying for success, but it's all about understanding Him and Him you. If He puts me in a position to hit, wants me to do that, it will happen. I figure there is a reason why I am here."
Heathcott also has had to overcome injuries. He has had two separate surgeries on his left (throwing) shoulder. The second surgery slowed him considerably at the start of the 2012 season.
His hitting approach is a work in progress.
"I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my swing," Heathcott said. "If you see me in [batting practice], you would think I'm nothing but a pull hitter. But I think I can go to other parts of the field. I think I have some power, maybe 15-20 home runs, go for the extra bases."
Scottsdale Manager Carlos Mendoza has worked with Heathcott in the Yankees' system. This fall, he has put Heathcott in various spots throughout the batting order. Heathcott also has been working with hitting coach Phil Clark of the Cleveland Indians.
"He has been playing pretty well. He has been swinging the bat well," Mendoza said. "He has been more patient, waiting for his pitch to hit, and putting a good swing on it. Overall, I would say he is a lot more mature both on and off the field."
Heathcott has played mainly in center field during his Minor League seasons, but he also has played some right field in the AFL.
"We have a lot of outfielders we want to take a look at. We still want to get him his time, so we have put him out in right field. The experience will help him," Mendoza said.
Does Heathcott ever think about the enormity of it all, being drafted by the highest-profile team in the Major Leagues and trying to succeed in that environment?
"The fact that I was drafted at all was big enough, a blessing in itself, but I was drafted by the team that people put the most attention on," Heathcott said. "Knowing Christ has changed my views. I wake up in the morning and realize how blessed I am to be able to take BP, just to go out and play baseball. The days can get pretty long, but it's worth it."


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Heat is lost through foundation walls, crawl spaces and concrete slabs. Foundations should always be insulated, preferably on the outside to reduce the risk of condensation and make the mass of concrete or block walls part of the conditioned space. An insulated foundation becomes part of the house's thermal envelope, contributing to energy conservation and creating a more comfortable environment.Insulating a Basement on the Inside
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Build forms from plywood or aluminum
Initial costs are higher, but they save the trouble and expense of replacing forms made from dimensional lumber
Wood forms made from 2x12's can only be used a few times and are usually too soiled to be recycled
Reuse forms as much as possibleModular forms are made for most foundation applications Keep as much material out of the landfill as possible can reduce landfill costs Clean and stack used forms after use and reuse them on another project
Use insulated concrete forms
Combine insulation and concrete to form one wall
Polystyrene blocks are stacked to create a foundation wall and concrete is poured into the void for rigidly
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Many companies make ICFs. There are blocks that are made from recycled woodchips and mineral wool. Most are made from polystyrene
Install a perimeter drain at the base of a foundation wall
A perimeter drain gathers water that might otherwise damage the foundation wall, and channels it away from the foundation.
A perforated pipe wrapped in landscaping felt and placed in a bed of crushed rock located around the footing of the foundation
Insulate foundation walls and slabs with rigid foam
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