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Discussion in 'General' started by almere, Dec 2, 2012.
When 3.0.5 will be release (stable) ?
just about ?
We will release a 3.0.5 RC this week and the final a few weeks later if no major issues were found.
And where is RC ?
ehhmm... UP ?
We are constantly working on the software and we will release software when we feel that it is stable enough. A few issues were found as you can see in the bugtracker and we decided to fix the before we release the RC.
Our goal is to release stable software and we will not release a RC that has known issues. If you want to get a software on a given date, then you can just checkout the software at any date you want from our svn stable branch, the software is as stable then as if wo would have released it on that day.
Is it the right way to do it?
cd /tmp
svn export svn://svn.ispconfig.org/ispconfig3/trunk/
cd trunk/install
php -q update.php (or php -q install.php to instal)
The above commands would checkout SVN trunk and not the 3.0.5 release branch. To get the 3.0.5 release, use these commands:
cd /tmp
svn export svn://svn.ispconfig.org/ispconfig3/branches/ispconfig-3.0.5
cd ispconfig-3.0.5/install
php -q update.php (or php -q install.php to instal)
I updated my test server (Thanx God) from SVN repository and here it is:
When updating DNS records:
Which value did you enter in the xfer field?
DNS -> Click at zone -> try to click at "Records tab". I didnt make any changes in DNS Zone tab.
Screen attached
Ok. I've fixed that in svn.
I guess you might understand now why it does not make sense to release software too early...
Hi Till,
Just updated. Works fine. Thanx
P.S. How can i become a developer at ISPConfig ?
Write me an email to dev [at] ispconfig [dot] org with the following details:
- Your forum username
- Your sourceforge.net username (if you have an account there)
- Your real name (I prefer to know that when I hand out login details to our svn)
I will send you asvn login then and add you to the dev group here at howtoforge.
Separate names with a comma.


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Venezuela's Maduro Endures Rough Inauguration Day
Caracas, Venezuela – The man picked to lead Venezuela's socialist revolution for the next six years could have had a better inauguration day.
Hours before President Nicolás Maduro's swearing-in, his government announced it would allow a full audit of the razor-thin vote that the opposition says he won by fraud, which analysts said was likely a bow to both domestic and international pressure.
Then the massive crowds that used to pack the streets for late leader Hugo Chávez failed to appear.
Finally, a spectator rushed the stage and interrupted Maduro's inaugural speech, shouting into the microphone before he was grabbed by security.
It was an inauspicious start to the first full term of the burly former bus driver laboring in Chávez's shadow and struggling to inspire the fervor that surrounded the former lieutenant colonel during his 14 years in power. Maduro, who has the support of the Chavista bases, needs all the momentum he can muster to consolidate control of a country struggling with shortages of food and medicines; chronic power outages; one of the world's highest homicide and kidnapping rates.
Addressing a dozen heads of state including Presidents Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia, Raul Castro of Cuba and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Maduro promised to address crime and purge the country's popular social service programs of corruption and inefficiency, although he mentioned few specifics.
Alternatively striking conciliatory and incendiary tones, he expressed willingness to deal with the opposition, although the government has made a series of similar promises that it hasn't acted on.
"I call the country to a revolution of socialist efficiency, to fight red tape, corruption, laziness, to fight backwardness, the culture of lethargy ... we'll turn these six years into a miracle of economic prosperity," Maduro said. "We will guarantee peace in this country, only us, and I say that with modesty ... I'm ready to talk even with the devil."
Venezuelan government officials appeared confident there will be no reversal of the result by an audit that's only slated to begin next week and could drag on well into May. Many independent analysts agreed. Still, the announcement of the audit by the government-controlled National Electoral Council was a surprise reversal for a government that insisted all week that there would be no review of Sunday's vote and took a hard line against the opposition — including the alleged brutal treatment of protesters.
The announcement late Thursday night came moments before the official start of an emergency meeting of the union of South American leaders, Unasur, to discuss Venezuela's electoral crisis. The leaders wound up endorsing Maduro's victory after their meeting in Lima, Peru. Analysts said that appeared to be in exchange for his concession to the audit.
"The democratic legitimacy of Unasur as a group and of each one its members would be placed in doubt if Venezuela refused to accept a recount," said Alexandre Barros, an analyst with the Early Warning political risk group in Brasilia, Brazil.
Opposition candidate Henrique Capriles said the audit will prove he won the presidency. And even if it leaves the vote standing and calms tensions, the recount will strengthen the opposition against a president whose narrow victory left him far weaker than Chávez ever was, analysts said.
"The regime has no intention of modifying the existing situation," said Vicente Torrijos, a political scientist at Colombia's Universidad del Rosario, suggesting it won't let the audit force them from office.
Still, he said, "I think this is a weak government, incredibly fragile, and it's an unsustainable regime."
The International Monetary Fund said this week that it expects Venezuela's economy to contract 0.1 percent this year compared to 5.5 percent growth in 2012 and to have the region's highest inflation at 27 percent, forcing an inevitable cutback in the public spending that was key to Chávez's popularity.
On Friday, the first day of a long holiday weekend, administration's red-clad backers were fervent but marched in relatively small numbers through the capital, dancing and blowing trumpets, led by riders on horseback and even massive bulls yoked in pairs. Opposition backers leaned out of their windows banging pots and pans in protest as government backers shot fireworks.
As Maduro addressed the crowd inside the National Assembly building, a spectator rushed the stage and pushed him away from the microphone, startling millions watching on national television with a shout that sounded like "Nicolas, my name is Jenry!" before the intruder was tackled and dragged away.
The broadcast cut away, then returned to the lectern and Maduro, who continued his speech.
"He could have shot me here," Maduro said, dressing down his security detail before continuing with his address.
Prosecutors said in a written statement that a man they identified as Yendri Sánchez González, 28, had been detained and would be charged with unspecified crimes for interrupting the swearing-in. They offered no further details.
Maduro, 50, was declared the winner of Sunday's election by a slim 267,000-vote margin out of 14.9 million ballots cast. That did not include more than 100,000 votes cast abroad, where more than 90 percent were cast for Capriles in an earlier election against Chávez last October.
Venezuelans voted on computers that issued paper receipts used to confirm the accuracy of the electronic vote. Authorities checked 54 percent of the electronic vote against the paper receipts and registers containing the names, signatures and fingerprints of each voter.
The National Electoral Council said just before the start of the meeting in Lima that it would audit 46 percent of the vote not already scrutinized on election night. An electoral official told The Associated Press that the new process, to start next week, would replicate the one from election night.
Capriles has alleged a series of vote irregularities, some of which would be turned up by a new audit, such as charges that there was damage to 3,535 voting machines, representing 189,982 votes, and that voting rolls included 600,000 dead people. He said that many of those irregularities took place in polling locations that weren't audited on election day.
Capriles had demanded a full vote-by-vote recount but said he accepted the ruling.
"We are where we want to be," Capriles told a news conference. "I think I will have the universe of voters needed to get where I want to be."
Some analysts saw the possibility that the audit could turn up enough irregularities to throw the election result into question and spawn turmoil.
"It opens a sort of Pandora's box," said Edgar Gutierrez, an independent political analyst in Caracas.
Maduro had never rejected the audit publicly, and it was possible pressure from the military or more moderate members of his ruling clique were a factor. Maduro heads a faction believed to be more radical.
"This is a concession to Capriles, but it is also a way of calling his bluff. It is exceedingly unlikely that such an audit will show a different result," said David Smilde, a Venezuela expert at the University of Georgia.
A petition to halt Maduro's inauguration had been rejected earlier Thursday by the country's highest court.
"This government will continue to govern until this thing gets resolved," Capriles said. "It's a history of chapters."
Based on reporting by The Associated Press.
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Little Rock Writing Project member Sally Crisp shares this letter to President Obama with #blog4nwp.
Dear President Obama,
You are a writer, and I am writing – with hope and confidence – to ask for your support for writers. Today's students need to learn to write for school, for college, for work, for life. They need to learn to write on computers, on paper, on phones, on the web, on blogs, on Facebook, on platforms that are still to be invented. They need to learn to think and write, just as you do every day and just as all the writers who support you in the White House do and all the writers who support you as you communicate with the citizens of the United States and with the leaders and citizens of other countries do.
All American students from pre-K through college need to learn to think and write more and more and better and better. I am certain you want this for all students, just as you do for your smart and beautiful daughters.
With 200 sites across the country, the National Writing Project is a decades-old, proven program which prepares teachers to teach students to write for now and the future – their own futures and our country's future.
Think of the power and the potential goodness of a country where all citizens are well prepared to read and think and write. Please support our future writers: ask Congress to reinstate funding for the National Writing Project.
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Gov. Jerry Brown has always sought to be a transformational leader. In his first stint as governor, three of his appointees to the California Supreme Court were indeed transformational, but perhaps not in the way Brown had hoped.
In a historic move, the state's voters removed Chief Justice Rose Bird and Associate Justices Cruz Reynoso and Joseph Grodin from the bench.
Once again, circumstances have conspired to offer Brown the opportunity to impact the philosophical makeup of the state's highest court, which had been made up entirely of Republican appointments when he took office.
He is doing just that, but this time the older and wiser Brown thankfully seems to be searching for exceptional scholars rather than staunch ideologues.
That is clearly on display with the nomination Tuesday of Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar to replace Justice Marvin Baxter. Cuéllar is a distinguished Stanford University law professor who has worked in the public sector.
In 2011, Brown appointed Goodwin Liu, then a UC Berkeley law professor, to the court and still has one more vacancy on the seven-member court, as he must replace retired Justice Joyce Kennard.
The 41-year-old Cuéllar has been teaching at Stanford since 2001, and one colleague described him as "certainly to the left of the middle of the American political spectrum" but added that he is "fundamentally a pragmatist." His legal scholarship, especially in the area of administrative law and immigration, is widely acclaimed and highly regarded.
But Cuéllar's personal story is as compelling as his scholarship. He was born in Matamoros, Mexico, and as child he legally crossed the border every day to go to a Catholic school in Brownsville, Texas.
When he was 14, his parents received their green cards and relocated to California's Imperial Valley. He became a U.S. citizen as soon as he was able in 1994. He has always excelled in school, receiving a bachelor's degree from Harvard College, a law degree from Yale Law School and a doctorate in political science from Stanford.
Cuéllar also served as a special assistant for justice and regulatory policy in the Obama White House in 2009 and 2010, co-chaired the Obama transition team's immigration policy working group, and worked in the Clinton administration's U.S. Treasury Department from 1997 to 1999. He is married to U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh.
His nomination still must be approved by the state's three-member Commission on Judicial Appointments and then by the voters on the Nov. 4 ballot. Both should be mere formalities.
Brown had received significant pressure to appoint a Latino to the bench. Cuéllar is an exemplary answer to those requests, and his life experience should enhance the court's understanding of the complex issues that face California.


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pcm wrote:FWIW, I think the only reason we're having this conversation is because the team came out the other night with a willful single-mindedness, and played a solid determined game with everyone obviously on the same page. We saw this when Crosby went down as well. Malkin stepped up and lead the team like a maestro. Having 2 generational talents on the same team, who play the same position, is a HUGE challenge. It almost seems like the team plays a more focused game when 1 is leading the way.
I'm not advocating we trade Malkin for this reason, but if he were to come to a point in his career where he saw he'd be better off leading his own team, then you have to trade him. And I don't think it'd be the end of the world... (or the Penguins' reign as perennial contenders.)
We're only having this convo because it's fun to speculate. Nothing more, nothing less.


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We want to take the headache out of deploying and using Big Data solutions. And today, through a strategic partnership with Hortonworks, a leader in Apache Hadoop development, implementation, support, operations and training, we will do just that.
Together, Rackspace and Hortonworks will offer customers an enterprise-ready Hadoop platform built for the cloud that will alleviate the time and hassle of manually deploying a Big Data solution.
Gartner predicts that Big Data will drive $232 billion in IT spending through 2016, so it was only natural to look for ways to take the time and complexity out of Big Data implementations for our customers.
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This Is Not Our First Hadoop Rodeo
Rackspace is an early adopter of Big Data. We have been using Hadoop since 2008 for mission critical uses – our Email & Apps division processes billions of emails annually to troubleshoot and diagnose customer issues, meanwhile our billing department analyzes cloud usage data daily to generate customer invoices.
We also have customers today that deploy Hadoop clusters on dedicated hardware at Rackspace with support from Hortonworks.
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Running Hadoop is complex and time-consuming. Being able to do it in the cloud in an easy yet open way is awesome. And having it backed by our Fanatical Support is even better.
Together, Rackspace and Hortonworks will offer customers an enterprise-ready Hadoop platform built for the cloud that will focus on eliminating the complex, time-consuming, manual processes required today for implementing a Big Data solution. Rackspace and Hortonworks will work toward developing an OpenStack-based Hadoop solution for the public and private cloud.
An Open Match
The Hortonworks Data Platform packages the open source Apache version of Hadoop. That, coupled with our use of OpenStack, will provide our customers with open technology solutions to solve their Big Data needs. This aligns perfectly with our vision at Rackspace of an open cloud future that thwarts vendor lock-in, and allows customers to confidently invest in technology for the long term.
By joining forces, we intend to turn Hadoop into an on-demand service running on the Rackspace open cloud and in clusters on private cloud infrastructure in our data centers or the customer's data center.
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Rackspace and Hortonworks will team up to offer Hadoop on OpenStack public and private clouds. We plan to release an OpenStack public cloud-based Hadoop service in early 2013 that will be validated and supported by Hortonworks. This will give our customers the ability to create a Big Data environment in just minutes. Additionally, our customers will be able to engage Hortonworks to support running Hadoop on Rackspace infrastructure and Hortonworks will offer guidance and support to customers deploying Hortonworks on Rackspace Private Cloud Software in their data centers. Hortonworks will also join the technical certification programs for Rackspace Private Cloud Software and the Hortonworks Data Platform.
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We just wanted to say thanks to everyone who participated in the Scattante Stories Giveaway! We received an amazing array of stories of people enjoying their Scattante bikes, from the funny to the inspiring. We were humbled that our bikes have made a difference for so many of you, and choosing just one winner was an agonizing decision.
But there could only be one winner in this contest, so we had to choose one of these great stories to win our grand prize. So congratulations to our winner, Gil from California!
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Assemblyman John D. Ceretto has announced that the New York State Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation has agreed to illuminate the Lewiston plateau dog park to provide a safe, well-lit area in which residents can walk their pets after work. The lighting of the dog park began Wednesday.
Ceretto made the request regarding the lighting of the park after several residents contacted his office regarding the availability of the park after dark. State Parks has agreed to provide lighting for the park on weeknights from 4 to 8 p.m., until further notice.
"The lighting of the Artpark dog park will provide a safe and fun environment in which residents can walk their pets after work," Ceretto said. "I applaud the NYS Parks for the quick steps it took to provide a valuable service to Lewiston residents and park visitors."


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Presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain in recent weeks has put much time and effort into an attempt to bolster his credentials on a core issue of US politics: the domestic economy.
He's issued an economic plan more detailed than any he's talked about before. He's toured hardscrabble towns in an attempt to convey compassion for those worried about the future of their paychecks. He's used space provided him by the continuing Democratic slugfest to address an issue on which experts have long considered him to be weak.
It's a stab at political rebranding that may be long overdue, say some experts. But they add that it might be difficult for Senator McCain to craft an economic message that appeals both to the GOP's tax-cutting faithful and to the independents and moderates that the Arizona lawmaker needs to attract to win in November.
"McCain is trying to distance himself from Bush on the economy, but the eventual Democratic nominee will do everything they can to make him look like he's changed his first name to 'George,' " says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
If "McCainomics" can be described in a sentence, it might be this: traditional GOP tax-cutting, with a dash of populism sprinkled on top.
To begin with, McCain would make President Bush's tax cuts permanent, rather than let them expire in coming years, as current law calls for. Critics say this is something of a switch for a lawmaker who opposed the tax cuts as too expensive when they were proposed.
He would eliminate the Alternative Minimum Tax, which has eaten into the incomes of middle-class Americans. This move would cost $60 billion a year, according to campaign estimates.
McCain would double the personal exemption for dependents from $3,500 to $7,000, reduce the corporate tax rate from 35 to 25 percent, and establish a permanent new research-and-development tax credit. At the April 15 speech outlining his economic plan, he also called for the elimination of the federal gasoline tax this summer – a move that, strictly speaking, the next president would have to go back in time to accomplish.
McCain's tax cuts (excluding the gas tax holiday) would cost some $200 billion a year, according to his campaign. They would be offset by eliminating pork-barrel projects from the federal budget, freezing nondefense discretionary spending for at least one year, and reducing the growth of Medicare spending, among other moves.
As for the populist part, McCain railed against the extravagant salaries and severance deals of CEOs in his April 15 speech. Since then, he's toured small towns hard hit by the economic downturn and praised their work effort and role in the US economy. At the same time, he said increased government spending is not the answer to their woes.
Government "can't do your work for you," McCain said on April 23 in Inez, Ky. "And you've never asked it to."
Nationally, McCain is known for his security credentials, not his economic ones, note political analysts. McCain famously once said that he did not know much about the economy, notes Cal Jillson, a professor of political science at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
"He and his people decided they needed to address that [misstep]," Professor Jillson says.
In the Senate, McCain has been known for his opposition to what he sees as wasteful government spending and a traditional green-eyeshade approach to balancing the federal budget. At the start of the campaign, he indicated he'd balance Uncle Sam's books by the end of his term in office. Now, with his tax-cutting agenda fully outlined, he appears to have pushed back the potential date for black ink to the end of a possible second term.
Campaign officials say that McCain's tax proposals are offset by his budget initiatives. Budget hawks differ, saying that the savings from eliminating earmarks is exaggerated, among other things.
"The numbers don't come close to adding up," says Robert Bixby, head of the Concord Coalition, a budget watchdog group in Arlington, Va.
Not that the Democratic candidates have been any more rigorous in pursuit of fiscal prudence, according to Mr. Bixby. He says both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have proposed extensive, and expensive, healthcare plans, without fully preparing the public for their budget impact. "All the candidates have the same basic problem: They give specific policies that they will do, while providing only vague promises about how they will pay for them," Bixby says.
But it is the Republicans who currently control the White House – and that is a problem for McCain, in terms of economic policy. Voters tend to hold an incumbent party responsible for sour economic times during an election year.
McCain's task is to propose economic policies that appeal to Republican voters, without appearing as simply Bush, Part 2.
"If the recession is not short and shallow, it will be extremely difficult for him to win," says Professor Sabato of the University of Virginia.


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According to the report released by FRAC, Utah ranks last in the nation for the percentage of students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunches and who also participated in the breakfast program. The study, based on data from the 2011-2012 school year, shows that only 33.9 percent of Utah students who qualified participated in the school breakfast program, compared to 70.2 percent in New Mexico, the state that had the highest participation rates. Utah was also the only state that did not see an increase in the number of students that participated.
FRAC is a non-profit organization that works to develop public and private policies "to eradicate domestic hunger and under-nutrition," according to their website. According to the group's report, higher numbers of students participating in the school breakfast program "supports health and academic achievement for low-income children." FRAC's data suggests that students who participate generally demonstrate better behavior, resulting in fewer classroom disruptions. They also experience fewer absences, and demonstrate fewer emotional and behavioral problems, according to FRAC.
The report states that nationally 50.4 percent of low-income students who participate in school lunch also participate in school breakfast. According to Luann Elliott, the director of the Child Nutrition Programs at Utah's State Office of Education, one of the reasons for Utah's low participation rates may be the fact that the state does not require all schools to serve breakfast.
Debbie Rappe, director of the child nutrition program for Grand County School District, said she was not surprised by the report. Rappe said her records show that participation in the breakfast program at Grand County schools is even lower than the state average. She said the percentages vary from year to year.
"Some years it's really good," she said. "This year it's gone down."
At Helen M. Knight Elementary School, Rappe said, 32.6 percent of free-lunch participants also eat breakfast at the school. Only 14.5 percent of students who participate in the reduced-lunch program participate in the breakfast program. Those numbers are even smaller at other schools in the district, she said. At Grand County Middle School 30.4 percent of free-lunch participants and 19 percent of reduced-lunch participants eat breakfast at the school.
Rappe said she believes the timing of the breakfast meals at the schools is one reason more students don't participate.
"At HMK a large percentage of those students ride the bus to school," she said. "They get in late and it's hard to eat before class."
Rappe said some teachers allow students to come to class a few minutes late in order to make sure they have had the chance to eat breakfast at the school.
Rappe said she works hard to ensure that the breakfast and lunch offerings are appealing to the students, and she also discusses the school breakfast program with all of the parents who have children who qualify for the free/reduced meal program.
"There are things like the Grab 'n Go program that we can do, but most people don't want to deal with that mess in their classroom," Rappe said, referring to a program that involves providing meals on carts in the hallway that students can take with them to eat.
The report from FRAC recommends several ways that states can increase the number of students who are served through the free breakfast program. The group states an ultimate goal of having 70 percent of qualifying students participate in every state. In addition to mandating that schools offer breakfast and expanding outreach, FRAC also suggests offering free breakfast to all students regardless of income levels, as well as building breakfast into the classroom schedule.


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Sprint Abandons Pursuit of T-Mobile, Replaces CEO
Sprint ends its pursuit of T-Mobile US Inc. in the face of stiff opposition from regulators and will replace its CEO Dan Hesse with billionaire entrepreneur Marcelo Claure. WSJ's Andrew Dowell joins Simon Constable on the News Hub to discuss the details. Photo: Getty
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When G-Power, an aftermarket tuner crazy about BMW performance, claims to have created the "Hottest road-legal BMW M3 in the world" we take notice. For those unfamiliar of who G-Power is reference the M5 Hurricane RR (video below) first driven by Motor Trend. Insane power, aerodynamic improvements and weight reduction is the name of the game for each upgraded BMW the company gets its hands on.
The G-Power M3 GT2 R is the newest offering from the BMW tuning company. It is worked from bonnet to boot in order to squeeze out the most performance and remove the most amount of weight. With 720hp on tap (300hp over stock) and 516 lb-ft of torque (221 lb-ft over stock), the GT2 R has the capability of reaching 0-62mph in 3.7 seconds, 0-124mph in 9.5 seconds and a top speed in excess of 205mph.
For reference, let's compare this M3 GT2 R to the M5 Hurricane RR. The M3 (V8) makes 720hp and the M5 (V10) makes 800hp while the M3 makes more torque at 516 lb-ft compared to the M5s 510 lb-ft. The M3 goes from 0-62 in 3.7 seconds, while the M5 makes it there in 4.35. But need we remind you, the M5 is quite a bit heavier weighing in at 4050 lbs. while the M3 comes in at 3306 lbs. Either way you go, both these G-power tuned Ms will take you from 0-wow in no time at all.
The GT2 R uses a SK III "Sporty Drive" supercharger system to achieve extra ponies, which was also used on the G-Power BMW V10. But this supercharger is different from the SK III used on the M5/M6 because it requires additional height in the engine bay. The forged pistons used in the GT2 R are developed through G-Powers tech partner Mahle in addition to specially crafted connecting rods. The crankshaft is also modified, increasing the displacement of the supercharger by 15% from 4-liters to 4.6-liters. A custom cooling system increases the capacity of the oil and water-cooling circuits. A titanium exhaust system discharges exhaust gases quickly and with minimal backpressure. The system also features free- flowing 100 cpsi metallic catalytic converters.
Weight reduction comes in the form of carbon fiber, lots of it. A full carbon-fiber body kit featuring a front skirt, all four wings, rear skirt, front lip, hood, a multi-part rear spoiler, and carbon racing bucket seats, all reduce weight and in the case of the rear spoiler, improve downforce. The carbon fiber hood is also multi-beneficial in terms of weight reduction and heat removal from the engine compartment.
This lightweight M3 rides on Clubsport coil-overs and weight-optimized 20-inch G-Power Silverstone RS forged wheels. Helping to stop the 720hp beast are G-Power ceramic brakes on the front and rear that work in conjunction with 6-piston brake calipers (front) and 4-piston brake calipers (rear).
The GT2 R wouldn't be complete without interior upgrades (other than the carbon seats). A G-Power leather trim package is available, which offers leather and alcantera touches throughout the cabin with orange and blue stitching.
All of this go-fast performance does come at a price. A completed G-Power M3 GT2 R will cost you approximately $259,000 or 195,310 Euros (compared to the M5 Hurricanes base price of $315,000). But if you would rather spec out your M3 with only some of the available options, here is a pricing breakdown:
G-Power SK III supercharger with complete exhaust: $55119 (plus install)
G-Power GT2 R carbon fiber body kit:$39,702
G-Power carbon fiber hood: $4,764 (plus install)
G-Power Silverstone RS wheels plus tires: $15,880
G-Power Ceramic brakes: $19,136 (front) and $15,587 (rear)
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Muck & the Old School Wall - Spud and Scrambler are still searching for the Golden Hammer. When they see school teacher Ela's class practicing their Chinese dragon dance in costume, they think the dragon is real. They decide to follow it in hopes of locating the Golden Hammer. D
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We had maybe the closest Choose Your Eternity poll yet in our last Project Car Hell, with the DeSoto Firedome now leading the Studebaker Provincial by 144 to 141 votes. Perhaps that's because old non-Big-Three wagons are always cool and always hell, in roughly equal measures. Today we're going to shoot for another close race, with a pair of offerings from our favorite Chicago-based manufacturer of farm equipment. That's right- it's Scout Hell Day! Will it be the old-timey Scout 800 or the not-so-newfangled Malaise Scout II? Thanks (and a Project Car Hell Tipster T-shirt- and, yes, I know I've got a bunch of you tipsters on backorder) go out to kleinlowe for sending us the info on these fine machines!
You figure the IH Scout was a nice simple machine, built to be repaired out in a cornfield with baling wire, so where's the hell? Just buy a case of Milwaukee's Best (plus the Extra Large spool of baling wire) and you're ready to turn the most decrepit basket-case Scout into a poor man's Post-Apocalyptic Survival Vehicle, right? That's why this '67 Scout should be as easy to whip into shape as selling your corn crop to the hurriedly-built ethanol plant in the next county! There's no price, and no description other than "Does not run," but the seller thinks you should know it's a "Good hunting machine." Maybe it has an engine, maybe not... but your local junkyard offers hundreds of engine choices, from that sweet Nissan V8 out of an Infiniti Q45 to a Mopar Slant Six. It's in Minnesota, so
horrific rust is an absolute certainty you might discover a bit of corrosion here and there, but you can always melt down your baling wire to make sheet metal!
Maybe you like to go into your Hell Projects with a somewhat less hazy idea of the excrement-smeared punji stakes that lay in your path, or perhaps you just prefer the thumb-nose-at-Malaise spirit of the late-70s Scout II. Either way, this 1978 Scout II meets your requirements. As tipster kleinlowe says: "He's practically done nearly almost some of the work to get this baby up and running and is already eager to bail. Chicken." Another Minnesota machine, this one has had some- but not by any means all- of its rust replaced with new sheetmetal. It has a 304 engine, which may or may not run (and don't think that it's the relatively easy-to-find AMC 304, folks; that there engine is an IH-only unit), and you get some extra parts... and no title. But don't think about the endless months of trying to replace rusty metal faster than new rust can form, or the time you'll spend arguing with DMV clerks. Think about how much fun you'll have slogging through the mud in this baby!


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Zara Phillips has revealed she is not a fan of spending time working in her garden.
The royal, daughter of Princess Anne, admitted she is "not a big gardener" as she attended the Chelsea Flower Show earlier this week.
Despite not being a fan of gardening, Zara did explain she feels gardens are important for children and for future generations.
"All kids grow up in a garden playing, so I guess it does play a part in their lives"
The 32-year old made the comments as she visited cousin Prince Harry's garden. Harry's garden was a star attraction this year, the B&Q garden was to promote his charity Sentebale and received royal visits from the Queen and Prince Charles.
Along with the monarch and Harry's father, Zara spent time at the garden, when asked what she thought of gardening the olympic winner revealed: "I'm not a big gardener but I do like to look at a nice garden".
Zara, is married to rugby player Mike Tindall who earlier this week praised Prince William and The Duchess of Cambridge.
The rugby player speaking at a charity golf tournament revealed he thinks Prince William and Kate Middleton, as she was known before her marriage, will be great parents.
"Willy, sorry, Prince William, will be outstanding while Kate is a natural mother," the ex-England captain said on Tuesday.
"I'm so happy for those two. They'll be great parents." he told the Daily Mirror.


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This Sunday is St. Patrick's Day, a holiday that seems to be celebrated by many more people than just those of the Catholic faith.
What is it that draws so many folks: the upbeat, celebratory atmosphere; the life of St. Patrick; or the sanctioned opportunity to join with friends in enjoying spirituous libations?
Sunday the Rev. Jewell Kutzer will speak to the Palatka Unitarian Universalists on exploring the many sides of the story of St. Patrick.
All Souls Unitarian Universalist services are each Sunday at 11 a.m. at Hammock Hall, 429 Kirby St., Palatka.
Information: Rev. Kutzer at 824-9931.


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Have kids under the age of 7? In need of a ME day? CONGRATULATIONS YOU QUALIFY
While the kids are learning "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", you can be learning how to make something twinkle twinkle on your little finger. In this interactive Ring Making Experience, you learn to forge a custom ring from a straight piece of 925 Sterling Silver!
This workshop is sponsored by The Den Toronto to give back to the community and keep art alive.
If you have a dependant under the age of 7 then you qualify for this discounted workshop.
Join our newly added afternoon class, or weekend workshops & connect with like-minded individuals in learning how to #playwithfire.
*Regular Price $275
*In this workshop you have the time to make 3-4 personalized rings or bangles
*Sterling Silver Materials up to 2.5g included
*Gold Plating and stone settings are available
*Gold is not available with this promotion
Attire: Please bring the following: hair tie, glasses (contacts not allowed), closed toed shoes.
As artists, we like to share our art with the world. These D.I.Y. workshops allow local, talented jewellers to share their passion, design and create works of art with you. After attending one of our workshops or events, you too will gain an appreciation for the handmade craft-makers of the world.
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A Study to Evaluate the Use of Memantine In Combination With Anti-HIV Drugs to Treat AIDS Dementia Complex (ADC)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00000867
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : August 31, 2001
Last Update Posted : June 10, 2013
- Study Details
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- No Results Posted
- Disclaimer
- How to Read a Study Record
The purpose of this study is to determine the safety and effectiveness of memantine, an experimental drug, in improving AIDS dementia complex (ADC).
The symptoms of ADC can be improved with zidovudine (ZDV). However, ZDV therapy has been associated with significant toxicities, and the effectiveness of ZDV seems to decrease during the second and third years of therapy. The effectiveness of other antiretroviral drugs as treatment for ADC is not known, so it is important to explore alternative therapies.
|Condition or disease
|AIDS Dementia Complex HIV Infections
|Drug: Memantine
|Phase 2
The signs and symptoms of the AIDS Dementia Complex can be alleviated by zidovudine (ZDV). However, ZDV therapy has been associated with significant toxicities, particularly bone marrow suppression. The efficacy of ZDV appears to decrease during the second and third years of therapy. It is not known whether this reflects cumulative toxicity. In addition, the efficacy of other antiretroviral agents remains uncertain. Hence, adjunctive therapy for cognitive and motor symptoms of AIDS is important.
Patients will be randomized to one of the following 2 arms:
Arm 1 receives memantine plus concurrent antiretroviral therapy; Arm 2 receives placebo plus concurrent antiretroviral therapy. The initial dose of memantine is increased each week for the next 3 weeks, unless a maximum tolerated dose is reached. Following a 16-week evaluation period there is a 4-week washout prior to re-assessment. After the washout period, all patients, including those formerly randomized to the placebo arm, are given the opportunity to receive an open-label, 12-week administration of memantine. [AS PER AMENDMENT 4/6/99: The open-label phase is extended by 48 weeks to a total of 60 weeks of therapy. Patients who did not receive the initial 12 weeks of open-label treatment are eligible still for the 48-week open-label treatment phase.]
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Enrollment :
|120 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Phase II, Randomized, Double Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Memantine for AIDS Dementia Complex (ADC) as Concurrent Treatment With Antiretroviral Therapy
|Study Start Date :
|December 1996
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|July 2001
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria
You may be eligible for this study if you:
- Are HIV positive.
- Have been diagnosed with AIDS dementia complex (ADC).
- Have an estimated IQ of at least 70 (before the onset of ADC) or the ability to read at a 6th grade level.
- Have impaired mental skills.
- Are age18 or older.
Exclusion Criteria
You will not be eligible for this study if you:
- Have a history of a neurologic disease unrelated to HIV infection.
- Have a history of chronic seizures or head injuries.
- Have a history of central nervous system infections.
- Have certain cancers.
- Have any psychiatric illness.
- Have an active AIDS-defining opportunistic infection.
- Are pregnant or breast-feeding.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00000867
|United States, California
|UCLA CARE Center CRS
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90095
|Ucsf Aids Crs
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94110
|United States, Florida
|Univ. of Miami AIDS CRS
|Miami, Florida, United States, 33136
|United States, Hawaii
|Queens Med. Ctr.
|Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 96816
|Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Leahi Hosp.
|Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 96816
|United States, Illinois
|Northwestern University CRS
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611
|Cook County Hosp. CORE Ctr.
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
|United States, Kentucky
|The Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington A2405 CRS
|Lexington, Kentucky, United States, 40536-0226
|United States, Massachusetts
|Bmc Actg Crs
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02118
|Beth Israel Deaconess - East Campus A0102 CRS
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
|United States, Missouri
|Washington U CRS
|St. Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110
|United States, Nebraska
|Univ. of Nebraska Med. Ctr., Durham Outpatient Ctr.
|Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68198
|United States, New York
|SUNY - Buffalo, Erie County Medical Ctr.
|Buffalo, New York, United States, 14215
|Beth Israel Med. Ctr. (Mt. Sinai)
|New York, New York, United States, 10003
|Mt. Sinai Med. Ctr. (N.Y.) A1801 CRS
|New York, New York, United States, 10029
|Mt. Sinai Med. Ctr. A0404 CRS
|New York, New York, United States, 10029
|Univ. of Rochester ACTG CRS
|Rochester, New York, United States, 14642
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Hosp. of the Univ. of Pennsylvania CRS
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
|United States, Washington
|University of Washington AIDS CRS
|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98104
|Study Chair:
|Bradford Navia
|Study Chair:
|Richard Price
Publications of Results:
Other Publications:
|Responsible Party:
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00000867 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|August 31, 2001 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|June 10, 2013
|Last Verified:
|June 2013
Keywords provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID):
Drug Therapy, Combination
Administration, Oral
AIDS Dementia Complex
Anti-HIV Agents
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
AIDS Dementia Complex
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Neurocognitive Disorders
Mental Disorders
Antiparkinson Agents
Anti-Dyskinesia Agents
Dopamine Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists
Excitatory Amino Acid Agents


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If you're leading the IT department for a small- or medium-sized business (SMB), you may feel your tech budget is never large enough. You probably look with envy upon your large-enterprise counterparts who are in the position to buy boatloads of computers every year and, through their sheer volume, hold sway over the software and services markets. IT budgets at small and medium-sized companies have been especially hard hit by the recent economic downturn. But, a recent study from research firm IDC reveals that the collective IT spending by small- and medium-sized businesses is on the rise. The IDC study forecasts IT spending by SMBs in the United States, and compares it with spending estimates worldwide. Total IT spending is presented for 2012-2016, with the baseline year of 2011, and subtotals are provided for small businesses (fewer than 100 employees), lower midsize companies (100-499 employees), and upper midsize companies (500-999 employees). Details on spending totals are provided for key hardware, software, and services technology areas: PCs and peripherals, systems and storage, networking equipment, packaged software, and IT services. The study also forecasts the total number of SMBs.
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Wing's CVS support requires the cvs command line executable to be installed separately from Wing. Please see http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/ for information about CVS. The cvs executable may either be in your path or set it with the CVS executable preference in the Version Control / CVS preferences group.
The CVS support works best if usernames and passwords are handled by another program such as ssh-agent, pageant, or another ssh agent. For details on this see Setting up SSH.
If this is not possible and you must use the obsolete pserver authentication mechanism, you will need to issue the cvs login command once from the command line before starting Wing.
CVS defines the following commands, in addition to those documented in Common Version Control Operations:
This operation will dispose of any local changes and revert the local files to match the current revision in the repository.


text: Nestled on the East Coast of Nosy-Be, Manga Soa Lodge is situated amongst a tropical garden and offers panoramic views of the Indian Ocean. The lodge features an outdoor pool, restaurant and a private beach area. With a private entrance, the elegant bungalows are decorated with Indonesian and local furnishings, and feature a terrace with sea views. They are spacious and have a lounge, small refrigerator, fan and private bathroom. At Manga Soa Lodge the restaurant offers traditional dishes, as we...ll as international cuisine. Guests can relax by the poolside or explore and enjoy an array of activities ranging from cycling, fishing and snorkelling. Free WiFi is available in public areas and the 24-hour front desk can assist guests with arranging an airport shuttle upon request. The Fascene Airport is within 6 km.Read more


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Hometown: Bakersfield, Calif.
Residence: Oak Ridge, N.C.
Spouse: DeLana
Children: Keelan Paul
With 25 career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victories, including wins in such crown-jewel events as the Daytona 500 and the Brickyard 400, Kevin Harvick has proven to be an elite driver in NASCAR's elite series. In addition to his impressive performance on the Sprint Cup side, Harvick also has two NASCAR Nationwide Series championships, 40 Nationwide Series wins and 14 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series wins.
But after spending his entire Sprint Cup career with Richard Childress Racing – a span of 466 starts beginning in 2001 that resulted in 100 top-five finishes and three top-three results in the championship point standings – Harvick moved to Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) in 2014 to drive the No. 4 Budweiser/Jimmy John's Chevrolet SS.
While Harvick's surroundings have changed, his laser-like focus has not. He still wants victories, but a Sprint Cup championship is what he covets most. His move to SHR, which won the Sprint Cup title in 2011 with driver/owner Tony Stewart, was made in pursuit of a championship.
The determination Harvick displays today was set into motion when he was 5 years old, thanks to a go-kart he received from his parents for his kindergarten graduation. The now 13-year Sprint Cup veteran from Bakersfield, Calif., hasn't slowed down since, as Harvick has built an impressive record that includes more than 75 wins across NASCAR's top-three series – Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck.
After gaining experience behind the wheel of his go-kart, Harvick began racing at local tracks at age 7. For 10 years, he was a force on the karting circuit, earning seven national championships and two Grand National championships.
With an impressive resume of wins in the karting ranks, Harvick made the move to full-bodied stock cars. He competed at local racetracks in the Late Model division starting with the 1992 season. In 1993, he won the Late Model track championship at his hometown track – Mesa Marin Speedway in Bakersfield.
He advanced to the NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Tour full-time in 1995, earning Rookie of the Year honors and finishing 11th in points. Harvick also made his first career Camping World Truck Series start in 1995. On Oct. 15 at Mesa Marin, he started and finished 27th in his family-owned No. 72 truck.
Harvick drove four more Camping World Truck Series races for his family-owned team in 1996. In 1997, he took over the wheel of the No. 75 Spears Motorsports entry in the Camping World Truck Series for the second half of the season, scoring two top-10 finishes.
In 1998, Harvick kept a busy racing schedule as he drove the Spears truck full-time in the Camping World Truck Series while also competing full-time in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West. Harvick's commitment to his racing career paid off as he won five races en route to the K&N Pro Series West championship.
Harvick moved to Jim Herrick Racing in 1999 and drove the No. 98 truck to 11 top-10 finishes and a 12th-place point standing in the Camping World Truck Series.
Harvick's hard-charging style and success behind the wheel caught the eye of NASCAR team owner Richard Childress. Harvick was selected as the driver of Richard Childress Racing's No. 2 Chevrolet in the Nationwide Series for the 2000 season.
In his first full season, Harvick scored three wins and finished third in the championship standings while claiming Rookie of the Year honors. Along the way, he gained a reputation for being aggressive on the track, but off track his affable attitude and ever-present smile earned him the nickname "Happy."
Harvick was to compete full-time in the Nationwide Series in 2001 while making select Sprint Cup starts, driving Childress' No. 30 Chevrolet. But his career path was forever altered when Hall of Fame driver Dale Earnhardt lost his life in an accident on the final lap of the Daytona 500 on Feb. 18, 2001.
Following the tragedy, Childress appointed Harvick to assume driving duties for the famed GM Goodwrench Chevrolet – renumbered from No. 3 to No. 29 – on a full-time basis beginning with the series' second race at North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham while simultaneously competing for the Nationwide Series championship.
Harvick quickly proved he was up to the daunting task of following a legend when, in his third Sprint Cup start, he scored his first win on March 11 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. As the season continued, so did Harvick's winning ways as he claimed the checkered flag in the inaugural race at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill. He earned Rookie of the Year honors en route to a ninth-place finish in the season-ending Sprint Cup point standings.
In addition to his success at the Sprint Cup level, Harvick scored five wins in the Nationwide Series that season as he claimed his first Nationwide Series championship.
Harvick set records in 2001 as he became the first driver in NASCAR history to compete full-time in the Sprint Cup Series and the Nationwide Series. He also became the first driver to earn the Sprint Cup Rookie of the Year title while also claiming the NASCAR Nationwide Series championship.
Harvick's strong performance during his rookie season in Sprint Cup earned him a spot competing against all-star drivers from a variety of racing disciplines in the International Race of Champions (IROC), and the young driver did not disappoint. He scored a victory at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., and tallied four top-10 finishes in the four-race series, which led him to the 2002 IROC title.
Harvick's second season in Sprint Cup also produced his first Sprint Cup pole at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway in July 2002 and a second consecutive victory at Chicagoland Speedway.
While hitting his stride in the Sprint Cup Series, Harvick started another venture. He fielded his own team in five Camping World Truck Series races in 2002. Harvick's team posted four top-10 finishes in five races and scored a victory in November at Phoenix International Raceway. It was Harvick's first Truck Series win and his first win in his equipment – signaling the beginning of Kevin Harvick, Inc. (KHI).
In 2003, Harvick became the first driver to win the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway from the pole position. Harvick posted 11 top-five and 18 top-10 finishes and finished the season fifth in points. Harvick also scored three Nationwide Series victories and one Camping World Truck Series win.
While Harvick was winless on the Sprint Cup circuit in 2004, he went to victory lane twice in the Nationwide Series. In 2005, Harvick earned one Sprint Cup win and four Nationwide Series wins.
Harvick enjoyed a breakout year in 2006. He won five races and scored 20 top-10 finishes en route to finishing fourth in the Sprint Cup championship. That same season, Harvick was on fire in the Nationwide Series, in which he competed full-time and earned his second title with nine victories, 23 top-five and 32 top-10 finishes.
He continued his winning ways in 2007 by edging veteran driver Mark Martin by .020 of a second to win the season-opening Daytona 500. Later that year, he scored another huge victory as he won the non-points NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway and took home the $1 million prize. He finished the season 10th in points.
Harvick also racked up six Nationwide Series victories in 2007. But Harvick the owner enjoyed the most success in 2007 as KHI earned its first Camping World Truck Series championship with driver Ron Hornaday Jr.
While Harvick didn't reach victory lane in the Sprint Cup Series in 2008, he produced strong enough performances to once again make the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup before finishing fourth in the season-ending standings. He also earned one win in the Truck Series at Phoenix.
Harvick started the 2009 season with a win in the non-points Budweiser Shootout at Daytona, but he didn't get back to victory lane the rest of the year. He finished the season with nine top-10 finishes. While Harvick the driver didn't have the best season on track, Harvick scored his second Truck Series championship with Hornaday.
The 2010 season began just like 2009 – with a Harvick victory in the Budweiser Shootout. But that was the only similarity between the two campaigns. Harvick led the 2010 Sprint Cup standings for 20 weeks and battled for the series championship right through the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. He finished third in the standings with three victories, 16 top-five finishes and 26 top-10s.
Harvick finished third in points for the second consecutive season in 2011 by scoring four wins, nine top-fives and 19 top-10s. He also celebrated KHI's third Camping World Truck Series owners' championship. It signaled the end of an era, however, as KHI ceased operations following the 2011 season.
While Harvick's 2012 season saw him score just a single victory, the year was perhaps his most memorable. Harvick and his wife, DeLana, welcomed their first child – Keelan Paul Harvick.
Harvick's focus was undeterred in 2013 despite announcing he and Childress would part ways at the end of the season. He established himself as a contender for the championship. He amassed four victories, including one from the pole at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, scored nine top-fives and 21 top-10s, and finished third in points.
Harvick will start his 14th Sprint Cup season in a new home with SHR co-owners Stewart and Gene Haas, and with a new crew chief in veteran Rodney Childers. But among all the newness remains a steadfast pursuit of excellence.
When he's not behind the wheel, Harvick enjoys spending time with his wife and son, their pets, family and friends. In his spare time, he can be found golfing and hunting.
Harvick is also passionate about his philanthropic activities, which include working with his charity, the Kevin Harvick Foundation (KHF). He and DeLana started KHF in 2010 to support programs that positively enrich the lives of children throughout the United States.
Harvick resides in Oak Ridge, N.C., with DeLana, Keelan and their cats and dogs.
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The Terrebonne Parish Library System has weekly story times available for pre-schoolers and school-aged children.
The Terrebonne Parish Library System has weekly story times available for pre-schoolers and school-aged children.
The story times promote reading aloud, singing and games. Story times, organizers say, are a great way to expose young children to books and reading.
Toddler time for children 19 months to 3 is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays at the Terrebonne Parish Main Library, 151 Library Drive, Houma. Babygarten for newborns to 18-month-olds is scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesdays at the Main Library. Family story time is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesdays at the Main Library.
A family story time is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturdays at the East Houma Branch Library, 778 Grand Caillou Road, and Peek-a-Boo Readers story time at 10 a.m. Wednesdays.
Toddler story time is scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesdays at the North Terrebonne Branch Library, 4130 W. Park Ave., Gray, and family story time scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesdays. Peek-a-Boo story times are scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursdays at the North Terrebonne Branch Library.
Story times are also held throughout the month at the Chauvin, 5500 La. 56; Gibson, 6363 S. Bayou Black Drive; and Montegut branch libraries, 1135 La. 55. For information, call your local branches for dates and times.
The Library System has an app available for library users and digital magazines available for readers.
You can access your library anytime with the myTPL app. The app allows searching for books, DVDs, audiobooks and CDs. You can also request an item and renew an item.
If you see an interesting item somewhere, you can scan it and see if the Library System has it. Also included in the app is access to the e-book collection.
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Celebration VI was my third Star Wars Celebration and my second since joining the team here at TheForce.Net. This time around, thanks to the experience of planning for Celebration V, I was better prepared in advance for the array of activities and responsibilities that awaited me in Orlando. I precisely arranged my schedule, leaving several hours of free time in each day for the unexpected (first rule of Celebration: expect the unexpected!). I mapped out exactly which freebies I wanted to snag and even noted who I needed to look out for so I could meet them in-person for the first time.
While not everything went as planned (I underestimated just how massive the line for Ian McDiarmid?s interview could get and I missed out on the whole fan club patch set), Celebration VI was still a complete blast.
I made it to almost every panel on my schedule, and I wrote up lengthy TFN reports from a few of them. In addition to those panels, I hit a few other events ?? and of course, I stayed social in the evenings. Day One (Thursday) consisted of
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What I left out of that brief recap were the two panels that I had the pleasure to join as a participant. I actually moderated the first one, ?
Star Wars and NASA: Science Fiction and Science Fact
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After the red carpet event, I filed inside with the other members of the press and grabbed a reserved seat in the second row of the left-most seating section. Imagine my surprise when I noticed that I was seated right behind Dave Filoni and right in front of Seth Green, Clare Grant, and Sam Witwer. It was interesting to watch Sam?s reactions to various moments in the Season 5 premiere episode, ?
While my schedule was indeed quite packed, I had the chance to say hello to many of the people who make Star Wars fandom the awesome community that it is. At the Her Universe booth, I talked to Ashley Eckstein, whose passion for
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Even so, there wasn?t enough time to do everything. I missed the Ian McDiarmid and Mark Hamill interviews, as well as James Arnold Taylor?s one-man show and his interview with Carrie Fisher. Scheduling misfortunes meant that I didn?t get the chance to attend Leland Chee?s Holocron panel or the panel about the Essential Guides. I also didn?t run into as many of my ?Internet friends? as I would have liked. There will always be a next time, though.
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So ends an era... Thanks for you help Chris. You will be missed.
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While not unexpected, this is a most depressing blow. God is Not Great helped me get my head out of my ass. Feels like we've lost a friend, doesn't it? At least we can all be sad together.
I can't believe I won't see any more Hitch-slaps. I'm going to have to start downloading youtube debates to make sure these things aren't lost.
I saw him speak when God is not Great came out. It was pretty intense.
Found this: The Best of the Hitchslap
Thanks for the vid. I've now been watching about an hour straight of Hitch and Sam Harris on YouTube. So far, Hitch does it way better. So good.
I find myself truly grieving this loss. Certainly we still have Dawkins and Dennett and Harris, but even among them, Hitch shone. He was astonishing in his encyclopedic knowledge and his facility and access to that knowledge, but most of all in how he used it.
I wonder if any of us will see his like again.
I wonder if any of us will see his like again.
I really hope so. He was our snarling guard-dog.
We need people like him protecting us.
I think that if we fail to learn how to protect ourselves from his example, we also fail to do honor to his memory.
I can't imagine having Hitch's grasp of facts, but I'm not such an old dog that I can't learn a bit here and there.
Something I just culled from the NY Times obituary for Mr. Hitchens:
"It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved," he wrote in his memoir. "In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the defense of free expression."
What. He. Said.
Hitchens lived a life filled with discovery. We all should build on his example. Thanks Hitch:(
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This episode... This episode is a freaking ecchi romp of madness from the looks of things. Also PETTING TIME
Also this ep... Two Totally Awesome Characters
Exhibit A - Guy got his priorities straight:
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Also, in the meanwhile, a certain older brother living the good life with Hina Brioche and Yuki:
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So following the naming conventions, looks like our two new characters are named Valerio Calvados (the male demon lord) and Adelaide Grand Marnier (the female great heroine).
This episode... definitely needs to be seen to be believed.
Btw, this episode features a more conventional Henshin sequence than episode 2:
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Even in the future, nothing works. Lately, it seems like being the demon king confers one with a frat boy mentality. Then you have those like Akatsuki, who are both king and hero, with all that entails. Either way, this new guy is the most evil sealed demon since... Dai Youko. Let's go with that. Nobody in the world of Dog Days is truly evil.
Adele is awesome. Great performance by Eri Kitamura. Though the question must be raised. She's a Hero and therefore, a human summoned from our world. Cou is still mostly squirrelly. What's been going on in Flonyard's history? Have humans been interbreeding with the natives? I suspect Adele might not just be Cou's ancestor, but Cinque's grandma or something. They look fairly similar, and he could open up the seal. It was a pretty airtight seal, too. No accidental demon releasings here.
The gag of Cou and Cinque having their eyes covered up when the demon/hero kings descended was great, and we got to see more of Pastillage. It looks like a fun place to live. Whoever comes around next better be prepared, because four heroes aren't at all easy to take down.
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Looks like the girls are really enjoying having their human friends/heroes with them.
Sink learned something new... this time about a hero king.
Inuyasha deja vu.... well, at least a bit.
Don't know how smart it was to wake that Valeria guy up.
Looks like it was a bad idea since he's the demon king.
Didn't think he was a total perv as well.
He sure was enjoying himself...
This was a packed episode. Hero king and demon king in the same episode.
Looks like those two will be staying for a while after all.
Well, that was interesting..
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That aside, this episode was quite entertaining. Both new characters were very hilarious and the part where the three royals showed how the heroes treated them were adorable. Calvados gives me a vibe mixture of Issei from High School DxD and Sakuma Eitarou from Macademi Wasshoi. Adele is adorable, especially with that big ball and chain.
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edit : oh, and thoses boobs where nowhere big enough for mangatron to be interested i think
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Anyway, the white-sleeves-with-black-gloves look for Adel strongly reminded me of one Yagami Hayate of Nanoha fame.
When the demon king showed up, I was thinking that all the princesses and heroes should have pulled out their holy swords in their true form. After all, defeating demons is what those things were made for.
It's looking like the series isn't going to have any plot-arcs worth mentioning this time around. This season is just for fun times in the animal kingdoms.
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Alcohol Content in Wine
The presence of alcohol is essential to the structure and mouthfeel of wine, but you can have too much of a good thing. I'm writing these words from Shanghai, a fast-developing international wine market, but one whose high-end wines are still dominated by a French influence. Defending their turf, the French regularly and effectively highlight the alcoholic strength of Australian and American reds, many of which leave 14.5% well and truly in their wake. Over this level, alcoholic strengths have the potential to unbalance most wines.
Alcohol is an important wine preservative, and it can make a contribution to flavour. It is warm, spirity, and very slightly sweet. Today its effect as a wine flavour and structural component is even more noticeable than ever. As for its effects as a stimulant...
Reds have become more alcoholic for several reasons. Modern viticultural techniques that expose fruit to the elements appear to accelerate the accumulation of sugar, so genuinely ripe fruit flavours do not appear in grapes until higher sugar concentrations are present. Furthermore, modern winemaking yeasts are converting sugar into more alcohol more efficiently. And, compounding the issue, many opinion leaders are still talking up the virtues of wines that are, frankly, out of balance, frequently dehydrated, and lacking length and brightness of fruit. These 'dead grape' wines, as they could more accurately be described, also have far shorter cellaring lives than wines made from fruit harvested at its peak of ripeness.
As more over-ripe Australian wines made since the hot 1997 season are opened, their flaws are becoming apparent. Frankly, some of us were preaching this back then. In response, more winemakers are talking about balance in the vineyards and adjusting viticultural practices in an effort to achieve the flavours they are seeking with less sugar in the fruit. Furthermore, the companies that make and own the machines that selectively remove alcohol from wine are having a day out.
Different grape varieties deal with alcohol in different ways. Riesling can taste warm and spirity at anything over 12.5%. Its palate structure is typically flat, and alcohol levels above this tend to poke straight through. Chardonnay (in a Burgundian style) can be richer, more voluptuous, and focused on the mid palate, which is where the effect of alcohol is felt. Therefore it can mask the effect of alcohol to some degree. But I query any chardonnay over 14.0%. Sauvignon blanc handles somewhere between, around 13% at max, while Semillon makes a more balanced wine at 12.5% or less.
Cabernet sauvignon is typically leaner in the mid palate, where alcohol is most assertive. However, warmer seasons produce more alcoholic wines that tend to develop more palate richness. Straight cabernets need to be pretty good and concentrated to handle over 13%, while the addition of merlot (with its mid-palate presence) enables blends to handle 14%. Beyond that, I frown.
Shiraz and the other Rhône varieties do have profound mid palate presence, especially in warmer, riper seasons. However, I'm still concerned at the number of 'hot' tasting shirazes with alcohols above 14.5%, which become noticeably hotter after a few years. I have yet to taste a shiraz at 15.5% or over that would not have been a better wine with less alcohol. Oddly, despite its not uncommon fragility, pinot noir can handle 13% alcohol or even slightly above with surprising ease.
It's also worth remembering that some labeling regulations permit a fairly high degree of elasticity when recording the alcoholic strength of wines. That's largely because it's very difficult to get consistent results for the same wine, since the precise measurement of alcohol in wine is a relatively inexact science. Different laboratories frequently arrive at different results for the same wine. So, it's entirely possible that a wine whose label declares a strength of 14.5% could in fact be a whopping 16% by volume, well in excess of what I believe is a balanced level in table wines.
So, examine the tears or legs inside the glass of wine, which can indicate very high alcoholic strengths. Don't reject a wine on this visual basis alone, but don't be surprised if the wine might smell excessively spirity, or taste rather too warm and/or sweet, which are the most obvious effects of an unbalanced measure of alcohol.
Would you sit down to drink a 150 ml glass of port? I doubt it. But you might easily be doing the closest imaginable thing...