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|GM Hikaru Nakamura
Hikaru Nakamura is the strongest American chessplayer since Bobby Fischer, and represents the US in the strongest tournaments in the World. Once upon a time, Hikaru tagged along to tournaments
with his father, the popular coach and NM Sunil Weeramantry and whiz
kid older brother Asuka. Quickly, Hikaru rose to the top,
over-shadowing his talented brother. He became the youngest master in
American history at 10, and the youngest American GM at 15 (breaking
Bobby Fischer's record).
Follow Nakamura's ranking at 2700chess.com. After winning the 2012 US Chess Championship, Hikaru reached #5 in the World for the first time and has since broken into the top two.
Hikaru once said in an interview "there is no point of taking draws." He plays for blood, and because of this, he's a chess sponsor's dream.
As a young prodigy, Hikaru favored aggressive openings like the Sicilian Najdorf, 1.e4 and the King's Indian Defense (the same openings which Bobby Fischer was loyal to all his life). In the summer of 2002, Hikaru started to broaden his opening repretoire. He added 1.d4 and 1.c4 to his repretoire. In 2005 though, Hikaru went to a radical extreme. Several times, he tried the strange queen foray 1.e4 c5 2. Qh5?!-against strong GMs.
His first major international breakthrough was at the 2004 World Championship in Libya. Hikaru advanced through the brutal knockout tournament three rounds, into the sweet sixteen. This was further than anyone could have imagined. Despite his professional level, Hikaru has never had an official coach. Hikaru is a valuable team player though- he was a key part of the 2006 (Turin, Italy) and 2008(Dresden, Germany) bronze medal Olympic teams and the 2010 silver medal World Team Championship squad.
Soon after his amazing result in Libya, Hikaru became the 2005 U.S Champion. He was only sixteen years old at the time. Nakamura also won the 2009 Championship in Saint Louis, Missouri, taking home the largest prize check in the tournament's history for $40,000. He won in 2012 and again in 2015, in the first year that fellow top-ten player, Wesley So also participated.
The stunning Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis made such an impression on Hikaru that he moved there in 2010, just before that year's US Championships. Now when Nakamura is not globe-trotting to elite international events, he can often be found at the CCSCSL. Hikaru also plays for the 2010 expansion US Chess League team, the Saint Louis Arch Bishops.
Nakamura had the best result of his career so far at Tata Steel Chess in January 2011, coming out ahead of World Champion Vishy Anand, former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik and World #1 rated player Magnus Carlsen. GM Ian Rogers annotated some key moments in a CLO article on the event, including the following crushing win against the Grunfeld.
is easily the best blitz player in America. Minutes after a winning the
two week long 2005 U.S Chess Championship, he was playing blitz chess
with a top U.S. rival, Gata Kamsky. In 2006, he was at it again with
blitz legend Maxim Dlugy. Both times, Hikaru accumulated crowds who
were as taken as a rapt audience at the climax of a James Bond movie.
Nakamura also defeated World #1 (as of January 2010), Magnus Carlsen in a November 2009 blitz battle. Hikaru is the highest rated player on the Internet Chess Club, with hundreds of other Grandmasters at his heels. He plays under the nickname, "Smallville", his favorite T.V show.


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Pete Thamel's heart's gone all pitter-patter over Northwestern AD Peter Roby, in part for Roby saying stuff like this:
And he took Louisville officials to task for hiring Petrino earlier this month. At Petrino's previous job at Arkansas, he got fired after having an affair, hiring his mistress and then lying to his bosses about the whole sordid mess. (In the most precious moment of that debacle, Petrino showed up at a press conference in a neck brace.)
In his comments, Roby didn't address Petrino and Louisville specifically when mentioning ethics among power schools. But everyone knew what he was talking about. To Roby's credit, he didn't hesitate to expound on the Petrino hire afterward when asked by SI.com.
"We keep telling (coaches that) they have to be men of integrity and character," Roby said. "Yet (Petrino) gets another opportunity and is going to make $3.5 million. It's like he didn't pay any price for all the embarrassments he caused to the institutions where he was at, to his family, to the NCAA and to the member schools. We all get painted with that brush."
… He added about the Petrino hire: "What does that have to do with education? What does that have to do with leadership? We're supposed to be leaders of young men. What messages does it send to the rest of the people on the campus?"
Before you snicker at this (Roby's upset that Petrino didn't pay a price with his family? How does he know and what business is it of his anyway?), consider the NCAA's most famous foray into integrity and character, the Penn State sanctions. Now what Jerry Sandusky did was monstrous and in no way compares with putting a mistress on the company payroll, the fact is that we're still looking at a difference from the NCAA's standpoint that's a matter of degree than of kind. There were no rules that Mark Emmert was following or enforcing, unless you want to accept the language stretching he did as a fig leaf to justify the need… no, make that the desire, to be seen as weighing in with the strongest disapproval of Sandusky's behavior and the institution that employed him for many years. Roby doesn't have anything to point to either. He just wants to send a message.
I doubt the NCAA has the stomach to take up his suggestion – how many schools have hired coaches with ethical baggage? But that sure doesn't mean Roby's paving anything new with his good intentions.

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The Attack on Yale
"God and Man at Yale, written by William F. Buckley, Jr., is a savage attack on that institution as a hotbed of 'atheism' and 'collectivism.' I find the book is dishonest in its use of facts, false in its theory, and a discredit to its author."
The recently published book, God and Man at Yale (Regnery, $3.50), written by William F. Buckley, Jr., a 1950 graduate of Yale University, is a savage attack on that institution as a hotbed of "atheism" and "collectivism." As a believer in God, a Republican, and a Yale graduate, I find the book is dishonest in its use of facts, false in its theory, and a discredit to its author and the writer of its introduction.
The American Idea: A Proposition (November 2007)
"Ours are loyalties to an ideal, not to a revelation."
Aweigh (July/August 2004)
A master and commander decides, after a lifetime on the water, that he will no longer go down to the sea.
Bush for President (October 1988)
Employment is up; inflation is down; and success as a social ideal now commands prestige. Why repudiate the politics that have brought us to this felicity?
Mr. Buckley's thesis rests on two propositions: first, that Yale is currently anti-Christian and anti-capitalist; and second, that Yale's alumni have a right and duty to insist that it teach "Christianity" and "individualism" as he defines them. Let us consider the method and evidence with which he tries to establish these notions.
Beginning with religion, Mr. Buckley asserts that Yale has a weak department of religion, a high degree of apathy in the student body, and a number of un-Christian and anti-Christian lecturers in other fields. Even if all this were true, it would not make Yale anti-religious, for the weakness of religious teaching has been a national phenomenon for decades, and so has religious apathy among young men. And it is well to note that on Mr. Buckley's strict definition of a Christian such men as Jefferson, Emerson, Lincoln, and Yale's own William Howard Taft would fail to qualify.
But in fact there is no need to grant Mr. Buckley's claims. What he has done is to take the flimsiest of evidence or no evidence at all, and ignore whatever goes against his thesis. Thus on the basis of a single hearsay quotation—ripped from its context and quite unverified—he condemns as anti-religious a teacher whose profoundly religious influence I myself know from classroom experience and personal friendship. Similarly, in the teeth of the massive testimony of faculty and students alike—and quite without proof—he asserts the ineffectiveness of the saintly man who is Yale's chaplain. He makes no mention of the fact that not one of the ministers or chaplains at Yale, of any faith, agrees with his analysis; he never considers the generally agreed opinion of these and other observers that Yale is more religious than the rest of Protestant America and more religious than it was a generation ago. Most remarkable of all, Mr. Buckley, who urges a return to what he considers to be Yale's true religious tradition, at no point says one word of the fact that he himself is an ardent Roman Catholic. In view of the pronounced and well-recognized difference between Protestant and Catholic views on education in America, and in view of Yale's Protestant history, it seems strange for any Roman Catholic to undertake to define the Yale religious tradition (and Yale has thousands of Catholic alumni and friends who would not dream of such a course); it is stranger still for Mr. Buckley to venture his prescription with no word or hint to show his special allegiance.
If possible, the economic section of Mr. Buckley's attack is still weaker. A part of this attack consists of the same sort of personal "evidence" against individuals that he uses in his religious chapter. The insidious character of this sort of innuendo and quotation from lectures lies in the fact that no outsider can readily check the context in which the statements were made. Fortunately a large part of Mr. Buckley's case rests on the theory that Yale students are enormously influenced by the views of those who write their introductory textbooks in economics, and he devotes a long section to an "analysis" of the "collectivism" of four books which have been used in recent years at Yale. Here any man who has access to a library can check him up, and this "analysis" deserves detailed attention.
Mr. Buckley acknowledges that outright Marxists and Communists are exceedingly rare at Yale; he mentions none in this book. What he is attacking, and what he finds in the offending textbooks, is the more subtle menace of "collectivism," a term which remained undefined throughout his book. But let us see what he regards as evidence of this menace in the texts. First we find that these textbook writers consider nineteenth-century individualism "impractical of application" in contemporary America. This dangerous view has been repeatedly expressed by Mr. Herbert Hoover. Then Mr. Buckley complains because a quotation he has lifted discusses the excesses of capitalism (excesses which he himself admits, at least in large part); but he omits other quotations, from the same book, in which the over-all success of the American economic system is bluntly and vigorously asserted.
Next we find him distressed because the texts in question argue that the great inequality of wealth and income should be avoided in a healthy society. Is it ignorance or trickery that leads him to neglect the fact that this "collectivist" view dates back to Aristotle, has the support of his own Church, and is roundly endorsed by one textbook which he praises?
He then goes on to accuse the textbook writers of "egalitarianism." An inspection of the books shows that not one of the authors supports a full leveling of incomes, and among the quotations Mr. Buckley has omitted we find this: "'Equality' has generally been regarded as undesirable; such a goal is fundamentally inconsistent with the American focus on the advantages of aggressive private initiative based on income incentive."
The next inequity is that the textbooks used at Yale support a progressive income tax. This of course has been the law of the land since 1913. But Mr. Buckley feels that the writers of these books (whom he quotes indiscriminately as if they were all members of a single panel) place undue reliance on the tax, and part of his "evidence" is the fact that one of the texts wants to raise 60 percent of federal revenue in this way; he then misquotes the recommended tax rates and fails to inform the reader, first, that on incomes between $20,000 and $100,000 the recommended rates would be a substantial reduction of those in force when the book was written (let alone now); and second, that the whole recommendation was based on the views of the Committee for Economic Development, which was led at the time by such great "collectivists" as Paul Hoffman of the Studebaker Corporation and Beardsley Ruml of Macy's. He fails to mention that three out of four of the texts he attacks urge changes in the income tax laws to encourage venture capital.
Another claim is that these texts do not defend the institution of private property. In support of this claim Mr. Buckley enters a single quotation in which it is argued that majority opinion probably does not consider "free enterprise" to be as basic a right as the four freedoms. The quotation is evidently supposed to indicate hostility to free enterprise, and it is therefore somewhat surprising to find that the author in question went on, in a passage ignored by Mr. Buckley, to present with evident favor three detailed and practical arguments for the institution of free enterprise: that it works, that it is "a central causative factor in the growth of political liberties," and that it satisfies a basic human urge. This total reversal of the author's intent is a measure of the honesty of Mr. Buckley's method, and the sample could be multiplied a dozen times.
Finally, Mr. Buckley comes to the late Lord Keynes. He argues that the texts he denounces are slavish in devotion to Keynes, whereas in fact all four contain major differences from Keynes's position—just as Keynes himself constantly revised and modified his own distinctively capitalist views. The error is unimportant except that it shows Mr. Buckley's ignorance of what he is denouncing. Moreover, the central object of his attack—the policy of fiscal adjustment to prevent a boom-and-bust cycle—is "collectivism" only if Senator Robert Taft is a collectivist, for it has his clear public endorsement.
Mr. Buckley finds radical the views of a leading conservative economist, the late Henry Simons; if he bothered to study it, he would find the same kind of "radicalism" in the work of such men as Hayek, whom he ignorantly praises as a supporter of his sort of individualism. Mr. Chamberlain, in his introduction, makes the same error; it simply is not true that Mr. Buckley's individualism is like that of Lippman's Good Society or that of Frank Knight (if Mr. Buckley read Lippmann and Knight, he would be horrified). In the end Mr. Buckley's indictment of Yale's economics texts turns out to be a self-indictment. This chapter shows him to be a twisted and ignorant young man whose personal views of economics would have seemed reactionary to Mark Hanna.
The worst is yet to come. Having made his "case" against Yale, Mr. Buckley has the appalling effrontery to urge that only those who will support his basic position should be allowed to teach subjects that relate to religion and economics at Yale. He goes on to argue that the alumni have a right and duty to enforce this view—unless they are themselves sympathetic to atheism and collectivism. His personal view of what a university should be is of course his own business, but in urging alumni control of Yale's educational policy he is absolutely wrong, both on the law and on the Yale tradition. His basic argument is that because the alumni pay the piper, they should call the tune. This argument has no more validity than a proposal that the religious teachings of the Roman Catholic Church should be dictated to the Pope by the Roman Catholic laymen who pays his bills. Of course any alumnus who disapproves of what Yale is doing may urge changes, and equally of course he may cast his vote as he pleases for the minority of elected members of the Corporation. Obviously also he can always send his money and his sons to other institutions if he pleases. Moreover, Mr. Buckley makes a fair point when he says that most alumni know too little about Yale—although he is totally wrong in his charge that this is the fault of the University authorities. (The principal evidence for this charge is that Mr. Buckley himself was once discouraged from making a speech to a large alumni audience.)
But these considerations do not add up to the conclusion that the alumni as a body have any right or duty or capacity to set the educational policies at the college. They never have and never should. The Yale tradition is one of unusually close and effective cooperation among students, faculty, and alumni, but that tradition is based on an understanding of respective rights and obligations which is entirely different from Mr. Buckley's theory.
The book winds up with a violent attack on the whole concept of academic freedom. It is in keeping with the rest of the volume that Mr. Buckley does not seem to know what academic freedom is. He leaps from one view to another, as suits his convenience, and his view of the facts depends entirely on their usefulness to his argument. He is upset because the Harvard Alumni Magazine gave more space to Mr. Conant and Mr. Grenville Clark, to defend academic freedom, than it gave to a certain Mr. Ober to attack it, but he himself never does any Yale defender of this cause the justice of an accurate statement of his position. He totally fails to understand the vital difference between standards for hiring a professor and standards for firing him, and he has no conception whatever of the basic requirements for attracting and holding distinguished scholars. His theory seems to be that because ex-President Seymour once said he would not hire Communists, he should therefore have fired everyone who would not teach his own religious and economic views. This is one view of a free university; fortunately it is not Yale's or Mr. Seymour's.
In summary, Mr. Buckley's basic technique is that of a pretended firsthand report on the opinions and attitudes of Yale's teachers and textbooks, in which quotations and misquotations are given whatever meaning Mr. Buckley chooses to give them and not the meaning their authors intended. This method is dishonest. In addition there is a constant effort to assert that both Mr. Buckley's views and his suggestions for reform are somehow true to Yale's ancient tradition and virtues. This claim is wholly false. Mr. Buckley in fact holds views of a peculiar and extreme variety, both on economics and on the organization of a university, while his religious orientation, honorable and ancient as it is, emphatically differs from that of Yale.
In attacking Mr. Buckley's book, I do not wish to say, or seem to say, that Yale is perfect. Obviously she is not, and those who love her know that like any other great institution she has problems and weaknesses. Nor would I assert that Christians and conservatives have nothing to worry about at Yale. As an American institution she shows the difficulties of our land and time, and two among these, certainly, are the place of religion and the balance of political and economic belief and teaching. It is possible that Yale should have a stronger and more effective teaching of religion, and that she would benefit from the appointment of a strongly right-wing economist. It is also possible that her immediate needs are different, or even opposite. These are fair questions, of the sort which University officers must constantly and carefully consider, and anyone who troubles to look will find that these questions get the best attention from the distinguished men who are responsible for the University. No Christian or conservative should suppose that this particular book offers him either a genuine case against Yale or a useful method of advancing his views. I can image no more certain way of discrediting both religion and individualism than the acceptance of Mr. Buckley's guidance.
God and Man at Yale has the somewhat larger significance that it is clearly an attempt to start an assault on the freedom of one of America's greatest and most conservative universities. In this sense it is in some degree a sign of the times. It is reported that Mr. Buckley's father is sending a copy to every Yale alumnus, and in a few angry and uncritical circles it may get a hearing it does not deserve. Certainly it will put the Yale authorities to an absurd amount of trouble in making answers to questions based on a set of charges that ought to be beneath contempt.
Yet it is unlikely that all this will do much lasting damage. I will conclude with three predictions: first, if any large group of alumni, however rich and angry, ever tries to force upon the Yale Corporation any fixed and required line of teaching, they will be firmly but politely told to take their money elsewhere; second, if the Corporation ever accedes to such attempts to enforce upon the University any prescribed line, the best of Yale's faculty and student body will leave New Haven for good; third, neither of these things is likely to happen—and least of all in response to the crusade of William Buckley, Jr.


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This week on Heritage Bible Radio, we're continuing in our study of the book of Revelation. We're starting Revelation chapter 13. Chapter 13 introduces "the beasts" who arise from the sea and the earth.
Heritage Bible Radio is a Ministry of Heritage Bible Church where Jim Harris is the teaching pastor. You can join Jim each weekday at 4 am, 8:30 am, and on Sunday at 7:15 am. Every day Jim works to devote his radio time to some portion of the Word of God so you can know God and serve him better.


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New online training course launched - Supporting early development for children with Down syndrome from birth to 5 years
DSE has launched a second online course, focused on development from birth and early intervention through the preschool years. The course looks at many aspects of early development, including play, cognition, speech, language, number and motor skills.
Presented and led by Professor Sue Buckley, the course includes 10 modules, each of which includes a video presentation, handouts and an assessment. The video presentations can be viewed, handouts downloaded and assessments completed at any time.
The course offers convenient access to up-to-date information and practical guidance for early years professionals supporting children with Down syndrome aged from birth to 5 years, including health visitors, early years teachers and assistants, speech and language therapists, advisory teachers, educational psychologists and outreach/advice staff and volunteers at organisations supporting young people with Down syndrome. The course will also be valuable for the parents of children with Down syndrome seeking detailed advice, based on the latest research.


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ThriveX is an open world, sandbox survival game where your objective is to survive and thrive in this hostile environment. Hunt, explore and craft to survive! Use your building, crafting, exploration, battling and survival skills to stay alive at all cost.
You are stranded on a lost island and to your horror you have no idea how you got there. It almost feels like apocalypse. Explore the vast island and forest, and salvage anything that may help you survive before night comes! Are you a survivor? Survivors only last.
– Dynamic building system
Build small shelters or huge buildings, to protect yourself at night
– Explore world
Roam around the nature filled world, hunt wildlife and collect loot for crafting and survival resources.
– Travel the seas
Explore the oceans in boats to find new islands
– Explore the world
Find new deserted islands, volcanoes and more
– Caves and dungeons
Discover and explore the hostile dungeons for a wealth of valuable resources
– Crafting & Inventory
Craft and store all your collected items and raw materials and use them to your advantage. Craft tools which can be used for mining, woodcutting and even combat.
– Battles / Battling
Battle and kill anything in sight for resources.
– Realistic world / Day & Night cycle
Enjoy the realistic environment as you explore and thrive on this island along with seasons and weather.
– Nature
Explore the forests, spooky woods, beaches, coasts and deserts biomes of this stranded island.
– Resources
Collect resources and food but be sure that it is safe to eat. Scavenge food and raw meat from animals
– Survive
Survive whatever the cost. There are many diseases and hazards which should be avoided. Survivors survive.
– Health
Make sure you eat enough food and stay warm. Make a fire to help you survive. Make sure you rest enough and be sure to pick a safe spot to rest. There is also lots of new aspects of survival that make this a realistic fun survival simulator. Such as, Oxygen, swimming, drowning, radiation poisoning, poison, weapons, tools and temperature & much more..
Are you ready for the adventure?


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Bestop PowerBoard NX Running Boards
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Get the easiest-to-install powered running board out there, and get back onto the road in no time. The Bestop PowerBoard NX is backed with a 3-Year/36,000-Mile Warranty.


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In a previous blog post, I described how to use the Microsoft Windows 7 Disk Management tool to shrink an existing hard drive volume: "Quick Tip: Shrink a Hard Drive Volume in Windows 7." Once you have shrunk a volume, you can then establish a new partition on the newly empty space and create a new logical hard drive for your Windows operating system. Here are the steps to make that happen.
This blog post is also available as a TechRepublic Photo Gallery and TechRepublic download. The article was originally published in January 2011.
Disk Management
As in the previous post, the first step is to start the Windows 7 Disk Management tool with elevated administrative rights. Click the Start menu button and type diskmgmt.msc into the search box and then right-click the diskmgmt.msc entry to get to the Run as Administrator item in the context menu, as shown in Figure A.
Figure A
Open the Disk Management Tool with administrative rights.
Clicking Run as Administrator will load the Disk Management Tool, which will look something like Figure B. As you can see, we have some empty space to work with after shrinking the volume previously.
Figure B
There is empty space to fill.
Right-click on the empty area to get the context menu and then navigate to the New Simple Volume menu item, which will start the appropriate wizard (Figure C).
Figure C
Start the New Simple Volume Wizard.
Click Next on the Welcome screen (Figure D) to start the process.
Figure D
The Welcome screen starts the process.
You can take the empty space and divide it into several drives, but in our example, I am going to use the remaining space for the new simple volume (Figure E).
Figure E
Specify the volume size.
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On the next screen in the wizard you are asked to assign a drive letter or path to the new volume (Figure F). You have three choices:
- Assign the following drive letter: Windows has suggested the next available drive letter. This is the default and will most often be the preferable choice.
- Mount in the following empty NTFS folder: Instead of using a drive letter you can mount the drive to a folder. This essentially makes the drive look like and operate like a folder in Windows.
- Do not assign a drive letter or drive path: You will have to assign a letter or path later in order to make the drive usable for storage.
We'll just stick with the default and make a new drive E.
Figure F
Assign a drive letter or drive path.
The screen in the wizard deals with formatting our new drive (Figure G). In general, you should choose to format this drive under the NTFS file system; however, you can also choose to use FAT32. The other default setting should not be used unless you know have a specific reason to change the allocation size.
You should give your new drive a label to help you distinguish the new drive from other drives on your system. A quick format will take less time, but it will not find and mark bad sectors on your drive that could cause problems later.
NTFS drives have built-in compression systems that are essentially seamless to users and can be a good choice if storage space is a premium.
Figure G
Set the formatting options.
The last screen in the wizard (Figure H) gives you a summary of your choices and the opportunity to step back and make changes. When you are satisfied with your choices, click the Finished button.
Figure H
Click Finish to create your drive.
When the formatting is complete, you will have a new drive visible to Windows 7 and ready to store your files (Figure I).


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My Sunday school class went nuts over this casserole! So much so, that there was not one piece left to photograph when I got home from church.
Trust me, it was GOOOOOOOD! This would be a perfect weekend brunch for ya, its nice and hearty and will make the man in your life weak in the knees.
Creamy Sausage Breakfast Casserole
- 1 package Pork Sausage, Any Kind You Like. 12 Ounces
- 8 Tablespoons Butter, Divided
- ½ cups All-purpose Flour
- 4 cups Milk
- 1 – 3 oz packet Bacon Pieces
- ¼ teaspoons Black Pepper
- 1 dozen Eggs
- 1 can Evaporated Milk (5 Ounce Can)
- ½ teaspoons Salt
- 2 – 8 oz. cans Refrigerated Biscuits, Flaky Buttermilk Kind Cut Into Quarters (It is VERY important you get no more than 16 oz. of biscuits on the top of this dish or you will have doughy biscuits!)
Heat oven to 350 degrees (F).
In a large saucepan, crumble and brown sausage. Drain off fat and set aside. In the same large pan, melt 6 tablespoons butter. Add flour and milk, whisking until smooth. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly until mixture thickens. Add sausage, bacon pieces and pepper. Set aside.
In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, evaporated milk and salt. Melt remaining 2 tablespoons butter in large skillet over medium heat. Add egg mixture and cook until softly scrambled.
Pour 1/3 of sausage mixture into lightly greased 13 x 9 x 2 pan. Top with egg mixture. Repeat layers. Top with remaining sausage mixture.
Place cut biscuits on top of the casserole with points facing upwards. Bake uncovered for 20 – 25 minutes or until thoroughly heated and biscuits are golden brown.
You have to make this over the weekend….think biscuits with homemade sausage gravy, except BETTER! I served it with a Cinnamon Butterscotch Cake, which uses 2 pudding mixes and is OH-SO moist and FABULOUS!!! You must go check out the recipe here. You won't regret it!
I'd normally put a photo up right here, of the cake, except it was DEVOURED by my class and alas, there were only crumbs left when I got home. I didn't figure you'd want a picture of crumbs!
MMmmmm! Is it breakfast time yet?!
Have a great weekend!
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How Can Families Be Healthier?
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Involving the whole family is the best way to promote better eating habits and healthy activities for your kids.
A whole-family approach simply means that everyone — parents and kids alike — works together as a team to achieve good health and well being. As with any team, there's a leader or coach — and that's you!
- Lead by example. Adult family members are important role models for healthy eating and exercise. Talk about why you eat fruit as a snack, take an exercise class, or go for walks.
- Start 'em young. Don't wait until your child is at an unhealthy weight to institute good eating and activity habits. It's much easier to maintain a healthy weight than to lose pounds later.
- Be active together. Make it usual for the family to be active, not sedentary. Being active as a family allows kids to expend energy in a positive way, and adults get the health benefits, too.
Cook together. It may not be possible to do it every day, but invite kids into the process of preparing food. Little kids can learn math skills by measuring and they'll begin to understand the chemistry of cooking. They'll also gain an understanding of healthy ingredients.
Older kids will enjoy having the authority to choose and prepare foods they like and will be more likely to eat what they've made. It might even inspire them to make healthy choices on their own.
- Eat together. Eating a meal as a family sends the right messages about nutrition. Kids will see their parents eating healthy food and may want to try new foods. They'll also see mealtime as a time for socializing and sharing. Parents get a chance to offer nutritious food, note their kids' likes and dislikes, and talk about daily triumphs and troubles.
Family Goals Chart
If you're trying to build healthier family habits, a goal chart is a good way to keep score. A chart, posted on the refrigerator or other highly visible spot, can remind family members to pay attention to eating and exercise habits.
Choose family goals, such as exercising every day and eating fruits and vegetables. Keep track of and praise those who meets their goals. And when the whole family achieves the goals, do something fun together to celebrate.
Click here to print a family goals chart.
Note: All information is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor.
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A lovely tea and like many higher quality green teas the right temperature is crucial.
This is so that the flavour can be fully appreciated.
I find that the best temoerature to do this is 70 degrees Centigrade. The first infusion gives a floral taste along with a hint of nuttiness no vegetal taste like other green teas.
The second and third infusions I would brew at 80 degrees C as this brings out greater flavour and what flavours the floral notes are much more vivid and the taste of the floral notes linger.
The steeping times range from 3 minutes to 5 minutes for further infusions.
I would say this is a lovely tea and is deserving of attention to details such as temperature and steeping times to enjoy.
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(Apparently embedding is disabled because Youtube won't allow it to be embedded, rather than the uploader. Insert formless obscenities here.)
In fact, I think there are probably a lot of movies that would be better without dialog. Off the top of my head, I'll nominate: Ken Russell's Salome, which is gorgous to look at but absolutely intolerable to listen to, and The Cell. I guess 2001 would work pretty well too, since it's almost silent already. I think you could make a pretty good go of Bill and Ted this way, too.


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Funeral arrangements set for Illinois State Police trooper
CHICAGO -- Funeral arrangements have been set for an Illinois State Police trooper killed when a semi-truck slammed into his squad car in Chicago's northern suburbs.
Trooper James Sauter was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash on Interstate 294 near Northbrook Thursday night. Authorities say his car was idling on the roadway shoulder when the truck hit it from behind, causing both vehicles to burst into flames.
Visitation is scheduled for Monday at Morraine Valley Church in Palos Heights. His funeral will be held at the same church on Tuesday morning.
Sauter joined the Illinois State Police in June 2008.
State Police Director Hiram Grau said the 28-year-old left a "legacy of courage, honor and duty."
The semi-truck driver was hospitalized for burns to his hand.


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Castrol Syntec Top Car Challenge - Challenge Met
We Walk Tall And Carry A Really Big Supercharged Stick
Last year we fielded a 14-year-old daily driver Mustang Cobra in the inaugural Castrol Syntec Challenge. It was a game move, putting up a lightly modified '94 Cobra against a bunch of mega-dollar cars representing other magazines, and we did well to finish fourth. However, like the editors of the other five magazines involved (Super Street, Import Tuner, Eurotuner, Honda Tuning and Modified Magazine), Big Steve wanted to step up our game this year. And so Carlos Cortez's '07 Mustang Shelby GT500 convertible got the nod.
Carlos' car's main attraction is nuclear thrust. The GT500s are no slouch off the showroom floor, of course. With Carlos' ride wearing the first Vortech VTS supercharger upgrade, it packs a Herculean hit that's guaranteed to make almost any competitor run and hide from contests of brute force.
Of course, the Castrol Syntec Top Car Challenge is far more than a drag race. The contest includes a dyno evaluation, emissions test, 180-mile endurance drive, 0-to-60 acceleration, 80-to-0 braking, power-to-weight calculations, and a fastest-lap shootout on the road course. Therefore our GT500 was further prepped to enhance its all-around game (see "Maxed Out" on page 64 in our Oct. '10 issue and "Topped Off" elsewhere in this issue).
Because the Castrol Syntec Top Car Challenge is far more than a drag race, testing the participants is a three-day affair, opening with a dyno test at K&N Performance in Riverside, California. A best-of-three power pulls are made on K&N's Superflow chassis dyno, followed immediately by an emissions test.
Once everyone has their chance on the dyno's rollers, the Top Car entourage hits the road and rumbles through street and highway traffic, on the three-hour grind up to Buttonwillow Raceway Park in California's sweltering central valley. At Buttonwillow, Day 2 is dedicated to testing in the standing quarter-mile, 0-60 acceleration, and 80-0 braking. Day 3 is spent lapping Buttonwillow's "big track" in search of the single-fastest lap.
Points are awarded mainly, but not completely, as a percentage of the best competitor's performance, which makes it impossible for competitors to keep tabs on how everyone is doing. Furthermore, while some results are plainly evident to anyone watching, others, such as the officially clocked lap times, are known only to the officials, and they keep those a secret for a couple of months so the news doesn't leak out early and spoil the fun.
We certainly had the power this year, and as long as the brakes stayed close to their operating temperature, our Shelby GT500 had fabulous braking, along with good emissions and unimpeachable street-car credentials. If we have to call something an Achilles' heel for our combination, it's definitely the car's excessive weight and limp chassis.
I'll finish by saying I love road racing, but that particular discipline of motorsports asks a lot of a street car. It's impossible to brake or corner anywhere as hard and as repeatedly on the street as is the norm on the track. The qualities that make a great track car also contribute a lot to having a punishing street car. But the perceived catch-22 is that great street cars usually tend to fall apart on the track. Our Top Car challenger dispelled that theory.
In the final analysis, I'm jealous of Carlos' ability to take his GT500 (and its sledgehammer performance) for a long, spirited cruise through the canyons of SoCal, tunes playing, fresh air blowing, and massive power burst always at the ready. His ride is a fabulous street car with wonderful driveability. And by bettering its competition in outright power, and finishing a close second in the acceleration and braking tests (and being just a touch below emissions standards with long-tube headers), this GT500 definitely is a winner with us in its intended street environment.
On the Dyno
Dyno day was Wednesday on the Superflow chassis dyno at K&N Performance. Top Car Challenge rules allow each entry to make three pulls with five minutes to cool down between runs.
For Carlos Cortez's Shelby GT500, Technical Editor KJ Jones elected to make two runs back-to-back, then ice down the 5.4's Lysholm twin-screw supercharger and intake tract for 10 minutes, figuring the two quick runs would warm and thin the oil, then the longer cool-down would allow cooler inlet air temps.
This proved to be a great plan, as Carlo's beast ripped off two perfectly repeated 650hp passes, and followed up after the ice treatment by cranking out an additional 15 hp to post 665 ponies at the feet. Only the turbocharged Toyota Supra could come somewhat close to that figure, whining out a respectable but distinctly second-place 590 horses.
A brief cool-down immediately followed each car's power passes on the dyno, followed by a 2,500-rpm emission test. Lasting 90 seconds, the sniffer didn't encounter anything it didn't overwhelmingly like about our Shelby, despite its long-tube headers, lack of catalytic converters, and potent fuel.
On the Road
The cruise portion of the Castrol Syntec Top Car Challenge was a non-entity for Carlos' Shelby GT500. A low-mileage bolt-on car, the GT500 ran the six different freeways, surface streets, and grinding stop-and-go traffic in 100-plus-degree heat with the AC cold as ice. An on-board data logger showed the water temperature seemingly glued to 185 degrees, and mileage measured 18 mpg for the 180-mile, approximately three-hour grind.
And we should emphasize Carlos' Shelby is absolutely a street car (one heck of a street car, we might add). No rattle-trap shaker, the GT500 is a 3,700-mile cruiser devoid of squeaks or rattles. The stereo blast tunes; the stock AC is, if anything, an over-achiever; the stock seats are cushy leather; and above all, it can drop its top for open-air enjoyment.
Stop and Go
At Buttonwillow Raceway Park, the first point of business was evaluating the dragstrip performance for each 'Challenge entry. The facility uses a portable dragstrip setup (complete with staging beams, a Christmas Tree, and 60-foot and quarter-mile time and speed), which was set up on the long back straight of the relatively flat and slightly technical road-racing circuit.
Our Maximum Motorsports crew disconnected the GT500's front sway bar for better weight transfer, the tire pressures were let down in back to 18 psi, and Tech Editor Jones slid behind the wheel. Three runs were allowed, with KJ opening via a wheel-spinning 12.07-second rodeo ride. As KJ put it: "It was a little on the edge, sideways, with just a haze of the tires in Third gear."
Knowing a little softer was the answer, KJ toned down the launch and shifts, but backed up to a 12.24. As anyone with experience in high-powered, high-torque cars with stock-type suspensions can attest, a beast like this is not easy to drive. Luckily, KJ has the skills, and on the final pass managed to find what he calls "the perfect storm," which resulted in a beautiful run to 11.76 at 124 mph.
"Carlos' car pulls like a freight train," says KJ. "Without being allowed to do any type of burnout, making a good, clean dragstrip pass isn't easy in this Shelby-especially with street tires on a surface that has not been prepped in any way. I had to process everything really quickly on each pass, because before I knew it, the car had pulled right to that point where the tires were starting to spin."
Along the way, onboard timing equipment gave the 0-to-60 time at 3.9 seconds. Together, the quarter-mile and 0-to-60 runs highlighted the Shelby's muscular strength. Only the Nissan GT-R could best it, thanks to the Japanese car's combination of good power, lighter weight, and far superior all-wheel-drive traction and electronic launch control.
All brake testing was done by a designated test driver and run from 80-to-0 mph. Everyone was surprised just how well the GT500 did, perhaps because they recall last year's '94 Cobra with its unbedded brake pads and excruciatingly long stop from the same speed.
The GT500's giant Brembo brakes and Hawk HPS Plus street pads anchored the big convertible in an eyeball-popping 173 feet! That's a lot better than in 2009, and a dramatic illustration of the importance of pad bedding.
On the Track
Lap times were set on the third and final day of the 2010 Castrol Syntec Top Car Challenge, with an hour of open practice before a 15-minute, officially timed session. The single-fastest lap is tallied, with double points awarded to the winner because traversing a road course (in the least amount of time) encompasses all aspects of a car's performance; testing a vehicles balance and finesse through transitions the more specialized tests miss.
Before hitting the track, the Maximum Motorsports crew swapped the Hawk HPS Plus street brake pads for gnarly Hawk DTC-60 race pads front and rear. After the pad change, I took the car out on the deserted roads around the racetrack to bed the pads, which gave me an introduction to the Shelby's hairy power.
On the road the car was a joy; an easy-riding, power-crazed unit with noticeably more tone in the handling than that of factory-suspended GT500s. The only squawk was a flat spot in the throttle right off idle, but it was a momentary thing, and with 124 mph in the quarter, it wasn't hurting power delivery any.
Still, just one little squirt of the throttle and we knew we were in for a tough hour and 15 minutes on the track. And we were. Carlos' car has the power of a Trans Am racer but without the precision of a full tube-frame chassis, stiff suspension, and dedicated racing slicks. Furthermore, at 4,300 pounds in on-track trim (car with driver), Carlos' car is bending under the three-quarter tons more weight than the purebred racer.
In an effort to provide some stability to this difficult situation, Maximum had tuned out much of Ford's built-in understeer with geometry and alignment settings, but left plenty of push in via sway-bar tuning. The result was an inherently honest car (it never tried to turn around and bite us) but with so much understeer in the fast sweepers that only minimal power could be used.
On top of that, the dead spot in throttle response just above idle was right where we needed a whiff of power to pick up the front end in mid-corner. That meant either we understeered wide, started to power oversteer (so much torque down low), or simply had to crawl through the turns using almost no throttle at all. None of those are a way to set a fast time.
As you might imagine, this made for a two-fisted, lurching bronco that was difficult to keep in that narrow range where the car was balanced and the tires were giving all their grip. It was our version of the tightrope that KJ walked during his time behind the wheel in the drag test.
Just to make sure we earned our pay, the brakes, which provided excellent stopping power and modulation, faded to the floor in a couple of laps, and the usual lap or so of cool down had almost no effect. Only bringing the car into the pits and bleeding the brakes would restore raceable braking-for another couple of laps.
Some fiddling with shock settings-and most importantly-swapping in a smaller front sway bar, allowed us to put something of a flowing lap together by the end of our timed runs. Unfortunately our 2:05 best was light years behind everyone else, who hovered in the 1:57 to 1:58 range. However, on the plus side, Carlos' car was 7-seconds-a-lap faster than last year's ride.
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It's that time of year again!
Not for The Bachelor – that's still two months away – but for The Bachelor spoilers that annually give away major details before the season even starts! Woo hoo!
What can we expect from the 2013, 17th season of ABC's not-at-all-scripted guilty pleasure, starring Bachelorette finalist Sean Lowe? Read on to find out!
The man, the myth, the Bachelor spoilers legend Reality Steve has done it again. The constant thorn in Mike Fleiss' side has Sean's final four and more!
In fact, we even know who wins the final rose and if they're engaged!
Who are the lucky ladies? Follow the jump for photos and details …
In alphabetical order by first name, Sean Lowe's top four are:
AshLee Frazier! Yes, which the capital "L" in the middle. Obviously.
She's 32 years old and hails from Houston, TX. AshLee is a Personal Organizer for "Love It! Organized." Her dad Bruce Frazier, is a pastor. Good fit for Sean!
Catherine Giudici! From Seattle, she's a Visual Designer at Amazon.
Desiree Hartsock! A fashion designer for Serenity Bridal in Newport Beach, Calif., she likes riding horses, according to Steve. That's always nice.
Lindsay Yenter! She's from Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
What do you think, based on the cheesy ABC head shots? Does Sean have good taste? We'll post more information and details as they become available.
Sean Lowe's hometown dates with these four ladies were filmed October 27-November 1, with the rose ceremony cutting the field to three last Friday.
The final three are now in Thailand for overnight dates and the final rose ceremony.
It's unclear as of now who made the final three, but when we know, so will you.
UPDATE, 11/30/12: The results are in, and the lucky winner has been revealed.
After Sean Lowe narrows the field to the final four women reported above:
- Desiree Hartsock is eliminated after the hometown dates.
- AshLee Frazier is eliminated in the final three.
- Lindsay Yenter is the runner-up this season.
- Catherine Giudici wins the final rose.
- Sean Lowe proposes to her.
- They're engaged.
"Technically I will not be vindicated until the finale airs," sayeth Reality Steve, "but I'm not worried in the least bit about being wrong about this. It's not wrong."
"Sean is engaged to Catherine and you will see that play out in March."
We'll post more details of how they get to that point soon. Until then, all we can do is sit back, watch it play out and be entertained despite knowing the outcome.
UPDATE, 1/3/13: In case you're curious, the season reportedly plays out this way:
Episode 1 Eliminations: Ashley H, Paige Vigil, Lacey Latka, Lauren Marchetti, KeriAnn Miranda, Kelly Dutton, and Ashley Palenkas.
Episode 2 Eliminations: Diana Willardson and Brooke Burchette. Katie Levans left during the group date cocktail party.
Episode 3 Eliminations: Kristy Kaminski and Taryn Daniels. Kacie Boguskie is eliminated before rose ceremony begins.
Episode 4 Eliminations: Amanda Meyer, Leslie Hughes (sent home during her date).
Episode 5 Eliminations: Robyn Howard (ceremony), Jackie (sent home on date).
Episode 6 Eliminations: Sarah (eliminates herself after the group date), Selma, Daniella.
Episode 7 Eliminations: Tierra LiCausi (has a meltdown and leaves before ceremony), Lesley Murphy.
Episode 8 Elimination: Desiree Hartsock (after hometown dates).
Episode 9 Elimination: AshLee Frazier (after overnight dates).
Episode 10: The Women Tell All Special. Always a good time.
Episode 11 Elimination: Lindsay Yenter (final rose ceremony).
Reportedly, this went down as most past final rose ceremonies have; both approached Sean, he bid Lindsay farewell and proposed to Catherine Giudici.
UPDATE, 1/29/13: Through the first four weeks at least, the elimination of the first group of women has played out exactly according to this report.
For the next three weeks, intel is somewhat sketchier, but we would be very, very surprised if the final four women were not the ones reported above.
UPDATE, 2/5/13: As reported above, Robyn and Jackie are out, while Daniella McBride is still around. As is Tierra LiCausi, who's becoming a nightmare.
Don't expect her to last until the hometowns, fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your perspective), but she has at least one more episode to wreak havoc.
Speaking of which, The Bachelor is back on tonight with its a first-ever Tuesday 9 p.m. episode. Because two hours a week. Not enough. We need FOUR.
UPDATE, 2/6/13: For Sarah, Selma and Daniella, the dream is shattered. For Tierra, Lesley, Lindsay, Catherine, AshLee and Desiree, it lives on.
With five episodes to go, we're pretty confident of the above results' accuracy. We'll be updating you with any details or corrections as it plays out.
UPDATE, 2/12/13: Looks like the intel and predictions rang true again. Lesley was eliminated, while Tierra basically eliminated herself by losing it.
UPDATE, 2/19/13: Phew. It was close there for a minute, but Desiree got the axe, sending AshLee, Catherine and Lindsay on to the overnight dates.
If you've read the spoilers above, you know how things supposedly play out. We'll know for certain in the coming weeks, and update you as needed.
UPDATE, 2/26/13: AshLee's gone after a heartbreaking ending. That leaves Lindsay and Catherine to vie for the final rose on the March 11 finale.
UPDATE, 3/5/13: The Women Tell All offered a few surprises – most notably AshLee accusing Sean of lying about his feelings for Lindsay and Catherine.
No changes to the reported ending of the season, however. So we ask you, readers, with one week remaining in what has been a truly epic season …
Was it the right call for Sean to send AshLee home?
Who would you want to win of the final two? Vote:
UPDATE, 3/11/13: Yup, Catherine Giudici it is. After The Bachelor finale, it seemed like it was in doubt … but if you read this, it never really was.
In the end, despite all the hype over the letter, it played out just like past seasons, with both of the final two both appearing at the final rose ceremony.
Lindsay Yenter was rejected. It was sad. Sean Lowe then gave his final rose to Catherine Giudici. It ended up being a love letter that she wrote.
He proposed. She said yes. And they are engaged. Congratulations to Catherine Giudici and Sean Lowe, and our hearts go out to Lindsay Yenter.
Was it the right call? Did he blow this? Comment below!
What do you all think? Will Sean and Catherine last?


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This is a guest post by Brianna Laugher. Brianna is a software developer who appreciates significant whitespace. She is also known around the web as pfctdayelise.
I have spent the past weekend in Sydney attending PyCon AU, the second Australian conference for the Python programming language. It's only the second time this conference has been held, but attendance grew by 50% (from 200 to 300) and to my mind, the programme was noticably better as well. (I might be biased though, as I appeared in it.)
However by far the most cheering aspect to me was the extent to which the organisers made efforts to make it a women-friendly event. They had diversity grants to attract women who would not otherwise be able to attend. They had a code of conduct, announced it each morning, and reiterated it when they informed delegates that they had had to enforce it. They announced a 'women in Python' breakfast as part of their schedule. And they invited two women keynotes: Audrey Roy of PyLadies, and GF's own Mary Gardiner of the Ada Initiative, both organisations that support women in software development, more-or-less broadly.
Their efforts paid off: women's attendance increased from 10 last year (5%), to 35 this year (11.6%).
It made a visceral difference to my experience: instead of glancing around and finding myself the only woman in a room, this year there was always women in my line of sight. It was so nice to talk to many different women from all over the country and find out how they are using Python. It's so nice to have conversations where you know for sure that you are ordinary rather than exceptional. I mean literally, being viewed as an exception. It's so nice to know you can confess all you don't know, without feeling that you might be [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Stereotype_threat ruining the reputation of women everywhere].
After there was a lightning talk about the Girl Geek Coffees network, @fphhotchips opined,
While I understand that there are many issues with women in IT/SE, I wonder if so many groups for women results in exclusion.
It's not clear to me what kind of exclusion @fphhotchips is concerned about. Men missing out on their fair share of geeky conversations with women? That would be disappointing I suppose, although those conversations can happen at any time during the conference. But the flipside is an order of magnitude more important: most women in software developer roles in Australia miss out every single day on the chance to see themselves reflected amongst their peers and their seniors. Reflected in numbers that cannot be reduced to an enumerable number of individuals: that is, the feeling of 10 is different to the feeling of 35. More, as they say, is different.
Maybe once a month, at a "girl geek" event, or once a year at a women-focused event at a conference, can technical women enjoy relief from a mental burden that they may not even consciously realise they are carrying. It is not the world's hugest burden by any measure, but it exists, and can keep us self-silencing, self-doubting, and generally takes away our energy from changing the world, or at least making the next release deadline.
When the burden is lifted, we can enjoy a brief respite called freedom. Freedom to admit mistakes. Freedom to not have to wonder if someone reacted some particular way because you're a woman. Freedom to compliment someone on their cute bag without being seen as frivolous or invoking an unwanted reminder to others that you are a woman. Freedom to enjoy the norms of speech that women more commonly (but not exclusively) follow, like turn-taking. Freedom to make a (radical!) feminist comment without hurting anyone's ego. Freedom to not represent 50% of the population. And I am not even getting into the much heavier burdens that some women bear, with actively hostile workplaces, harassment, the need to conceal aspects of themselves for their own safety.
Freedom to look around and see people like you. For some of us it comes around more often than others. If you see an event for women happening and feel left out, just chill out and remember we'll soon enough be back to our usual distribution. And remember that we, as presumably you do too, want most of all to not need to hold such events. And when we are more, we will not.


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What is a Lease-Purchase Driver?
Lease-Purchase drivers (LPDs) are drivers who often have experience driving for a carrier or company but are interested in taking a step toward greater independence and eventually taking outright ownership of their equipment. Lease Purchase drivers have more control over work hours, jobs accepted, and routes driven than Company Drivers, but not as much control as Owner-Operators.
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Team Drivers
The information below provides insight into how working as a Team Driver may meet your expected lifestyle, work into your long-term career plans, and provide the working environment you seek.
What is a Team Driver?
A team driver is a driver operating with a partner who shares driving duties and other tasks with the other partner. Delivery is much faster than utilizing a single driver, as Hours of Service regulations can be met for one driver while the other is resting. Team drivers often consist of spouses driving together or partners in an owner-operator situation. Likewise, an owner-operator may hire on another driver for the sole purpose of serving as part of a two-man team.
In some cases, a team can be formed by two individuals who may own a truck together or when one works for the other driver. But more frequently team drivers are the result of carrier or company programs that pair up drivers to provide the benefits a team arrangement offers. Of course, these teams must be carefully selected and monitored. People do not get along for a variety of reasons. A team that gets along well, communicates, and has similar goals and expectations of the job is going to be far more efficient and productive than a team that does not like driving together.
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There is nothing as important to team driving as the personal relationships built between the partners. Aside from the personal characteristics needed to be a good truck driver, a Team Driver must be able to work day-in and day-out with a partner. You'll likely recognize that a team driving arrangement complicates and trumps any other issue you may run into in terms of personal characteristics.
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What characteristics does a reefer/refrigerated driver need?
Along with the personality traits need for most driving positions, reefer drivers need to realize and accept the level of responsibility involved in hauling refrigerated products. Depending on the product, a reefer may carry products with a total value of hundreds of thousands of dollars to retailers that rely on a steady supply of refrigerated items to meet consumer demand. Delays in shipments hurt the carriers as well as the retailers.
Often, reefer drivers will be responsible for offloading a certain number of boxes or cargo at various locations. A level of strength and endurance is necessary, as is a conscious effort to protect the product from breaking, being crush, or otherwise damaged.
What endorsements are needed to haul refrigerated goods?Reefer drivers can typically perform their jobs with a CDL appropriate for the truck being driven. No specific endorsements are normally required unless the trailers use atypical refrigeration systems involving hazardous materials.
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We've all heard the saying, ``you are what you eat''. What you may not realize is that this saying applies just as well to the axioms you've ``eaten'' all the years of your life. Let's begin with a little metaphor.
Suzy lives in a city. Every breath she breathes is laced with particulates: factory smoke, powdered asbestos from all of the cars' brakes, dust, car exhaust. The food she eats is loaded with sodium and nitrites and fat, the meat comes from animals that are routinely fed antibiotics and hormones that bring about premature menarche in her and cause boys in her class to have low sperm counts. Suzy has no choice; she is only eleven years old and lives with her parents. Her parents have little choice about living in the city, as they make a living there. Still, by the time Suzy grows up she'll have small but permanent damage to her lungs and other organs, and maybe the seeds of cancer in some of her damaged cells.
Tommy lives in the country. The air is fresh but he breathes in huge quantities of pollen and mildew spores. His house (unknown to his parents) has dangerous levels of radon gas. The family garden is surrounded by treated landscape timbers and he gets a steady dose of heavy metal poisoning from his daily salad. His father regularly doses the garden with malathion and sevin dust to keep off the bugs, and naturally they eat a bunch of that as well. By the time Tommy grows up he'll have just as much damage as Suzy, maybe more.
In neither case do Suzy or Tommy have any clue that they are breathing in and eating death as well as life with every breath and bite. Neither do their parents - or rather, to the extent that they do have a clue that this is happening they don't care as it is beyond their control and the benefit (breathing, eating) exceeds the risk (dying eventually of causes that may or may not have anything to do with the damage they experienced from the environmental toxins in their lives). It's just the way people live, and we'll all die eventually anyway.
Consider instead the axioms that Suzy and Tommy and Raj and Maryam and Yin and Saul are fed from the moment they open their eyes. These axioms are the memes of the culture in which each of these kids live and are brought up.
Suzy is fed raw Catholicism - an unhealthy dose of guilt for things she's never done but is nevertheless blamed for by God (obsession with original sin); a perception that as a woman she is inferior to men as men were made directly and first by God, it was Eve (made from Adam's rib) who took the fruit, and consequently women cannot be priests or stand as close to God as men can. She is taught that if she lives a good life by the precise definition of the church then when she dies she will go to ``heaven'', which is just like here but you can have fun all the time and never are hurt, and otherwise she will very likely be sent to ``hell'', which is sort of like the inside of an active volcano, and you burn alive for eternity without ever actually dying so that the pain can stop.
Suzy is taught that non-Catholics (even other Christian non-Catholics) are ``outsiders'' and although it is rarely said openly, outsiders have at best a snowball's chance in - hell - of avoiding being sent there, unless they possibly knuckle under and acknowledge that Jesus is their King at the very last of last seconds in which case they get sent along with the other forgiven sinners to ``purgatory'', which is sort of like here but living in a housing complex where there is nothing to do but work and be miserable, but at least it isn't forever and eventually you get to go to heaven where you can work for the ones that got there right away because they were Catholic and Forgiven and Saints and the like.
Suzy is taught that the one thing You Must Never Do, the sin beyond all forgiveness, is to question the holy scriptures that lay all of this out with its lovely set of rules and regulations, benefits and punishments. She is taught that above all, the authority to decide what is and what isn't holy scripture and what are the current set of rules and what is and isn't are manifest eternal truth is carefully vested in a closed group of men (and only men) whose whole lives have been devoted to the preservation of the entire structure of these rules, their own power, her obedience, and more.
Suzy's church has special terms it applies to church members who openly question scripture - they are called ``apostates'', or ``blasphemers'', or ``heretics'', and the church has in the past been known to do their best to bring hell to earth in dealing with them, with things like torture, imprisonment, maiming, execution, and being burned alive just routine fare over dealt out to the apostates over the centuries. Even heathen were historically accorded (slightly) better treatment as they don't know any better. They were only burned alive and tortured if they were given a fair chance to convert and failed to; otherwise they were made into good Catholics and often as not given jobs working as slaves for better Catholics digging gold and plunder from their native lands.
There are significant benefits to membership in the church and compliance with its rules, and I don't mean to suggest in any way that the Catholic Church is itself evil. It is beyond mundane concepts of Good and Evil, as it is itself a complete set of memetic axioms that define a Superorganism, complete with mechanisms for defense, growth, reproduction, in competition with other similar Superorganisms. Suzy is but a single ``cell'' in the Superorganism that is the Catholic church - protected and nourished if she is a good cell, punished or expelled or even killed if she is a bad cell. As a good cell, Suzy gains the comfort of a personal relationship with a conceptualization of God, a tiny bit of freedom from the fear of death and pain (or at least a measure of the support and strength required to endure pain and face ultimate death), many celebrations and festivals, a place to marry and a place to bury.
The church does many good things for Suzy as well as for Suzy's community, even the non-Catholics, because many of its cells are just plain good people who never think too deeply about the core structure that holds the church together, about its defenses. Suzy is further blessed in that the church she is being raised in was never more open to change and question than it is today - it is even likely that in her lifetime the world will see woman priests, maybe even a woman as Pope, although that would require what amounts to a memetic revolution within the church itself and therefore is strongly opposed by the specialized human ``white cells'' that guard the purity of the church's memetic structure.
Tommy, however, is being raised a Baptist. This is sort of like a democratic version of Suzy's Catholic church, with no pope, with elections that go down all the way to the people who make up the church, with a whole lot of rules and rituals either thrown out or modified and simplified. Baptists are all apostates or heretics as far as Catholics are concerned (and of course vice versa) but both are Christian and they share a lot more memes than they differ on. Its not that both groups won't get into heaven, probably, it is more a question of which group will be in charge once they get there, as the Bible openly promises that the meek and compliant will become Kings and Queens in heaven. This is an interesting vision to hold in America, where there are no Kings and Queens at all (or if you prefer, where we are all equally Kings or Queens of our own selves and little more). Democratic or not, Tommy is taught that even though he might well be asked to go fight and die to preserve our democracy against Kings and Tyrants around the world, he must bow his knee to Jesus and acknowlege him his feudal King and Lord and do his liege duty to him by following the word of God as laid out in the Bible.
He is carefully taught that the world was created in seven days (all physical and scientific evidence to the contrary notwithstanding), that women are a form of chattel who exist to ``obey'' their father and eventual husband who is naturally King in his own household and a wee bit closer to God (just like the Catholics), and that the one sin beyond all sins is to question the Bible and all of the rules laid out therein, as that is to question the memetic/scriptural basis of the church itself. Shooting a man, sleeping with another man's wife, lying, cheating, stealing, even sleeping with another woman's husband or a sheep, all of these are forgiveable if you abase yourself before Jesus and pray forgiveness, but questioning Jesus himself or the rights of the Church to interpret the Bible for him is a one-way ticket to eternal fire.
Again, Tommy gains many benefits from his position as a cell in a Superorganism. He gets to see and play with his friends and neighbors in Sunday School, there are other social events, it is a place for marrying and burying and sometimes Tommy learns important moral lessons there that really do help him live a better life. It is a place where his parents can get a helping hand in time of need, and a place where they can donate help to others in need. Tommy, too, comes to learn of God there, even if his vision of God greatly resembles a sort of stern Santa Claus surrounded by clouds accompanied by a slightly effeminate man with long blond hair, blue eyes, and white robes with the coolest birthday ever. Of the Holy Spirit Tommy learns only a bit, that it can work some kind of magic and heal the sick and help you win the lottery if you ask it just right in a prayer.
Raj is being raised in a small village in India as the oldest son of a moderately well-off Brahmin. As such, he from an early age has been instructed in the rites and duties of Hinduism, and has been reading the Vedas, especially the Upanishads, when he isn't out playing hooky with his friends. He reads aloud from the Geeta, which is purportedly the conversation between Krishna (avatar of God in human form not unlike Christ) and Arjuna in the middle of a battle where Arjuna is about to mow down his cousins and their armies like sheep in a great war over just who gets to be King(s) of the World. He learns that cows are very sacred and that killing even for food is a very bad thing but that killing people who kill cows or who might want to kill you or killing to conquer a kingdom that is rightfully yours might well be exceptions to the above.
When Raj is in the right mood, he learns much more. Even though he is taught that there are many, many, many, many gods, three of them MAJOR gods (Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva), he is paradoxically also taught that there is but a single God, the principle of brahman, and that this God is not only in all things, it is all things, the underlying Unity from which all diversity springs. He is taught that his soul, his spirit, his Atman is a spark of this eternal and infinite consciousness, and hence cannot be created or destroyed. He is taught that his soul has cycled through many lives before this one, and that he has gradually been learning how to see and understand God. He is taught that this cycle he has a good chance to complete it and remerge with the infinite, as he has been born a Brahman, only one step down from God.
Raj is actually not taught that non-Hindus are doomed to anything quite like Christian hell or that Hindus attain anything quite like Christian heaven, rather that hell and heaven are right here on earth and are a natural part of the cycle of rebirth, so that a man might well experience both during each lifetime. His is a life already enmeshed in eternity, and there is therefore time for all souls to remerge with the infinite, there is no hurry. However, Raj is taught to defend his faith and to respect its scriptures with just as much zeal, bloody zeal if necessary, as Tommy.
He too benefits tremendously from his membership in a Superorganism. His religion (via his caste) utterly defines his place in society and the domains in which he can reasonably attain emminence and status. His particular caste is the highest caste and gets certain perquisites, and as always, it provides him with many festivals, wonderful stories, moral lessons, a place to be married or buried, and the rituals that provide us with the spiritual balance essential to a happy life.
Maryam similarly is dosed with the memes of the Superorganism/religion of Islam, Yin with Bhuddism (liberally laced with Zen and Taoist precepts), Saul with Orthodox Judaism. Islam and Judaism are equally vehement about defense of scripture; both place strong restrictions on its members and require significant sacrifices of individuality, but these sacrifices serve to strengthen the memetic structure of the Superorganism and fend off change. They also serve well to defend the Superorganisms against the significant threats from the stronger and larger Superorganisms, all of which are always seeking to absorb new cells by ``converting'' humans so that they adopt the new memetic beliefs. One group's apostate is another group's convert - humans are in a manner of speaking the ``food'' of religious superorganisms.
It is hopefully rather obvious that all of these children are being fed large doses of axioms (for most of the most fundamental memes of all churches are axioms, in particular the axiom set outlined above for religions in general) along with their daily Post-Toasties or equivalent. In no case are the children permitted, let alone encouraged, to question the axioms they are being fed. Raj has no more chance of becoming Christian than Tommy does of becoming Hindu, barring a chance encounter with the ``predator cells'' of a religious Superorganism (generally missionaries or itinerant priests) who attempt to exploit surpressed dissatisfaction with one memetic set by replacing it with another.
There is no reason for anyone to believe that one of these axiom/memetic sets is, in fact, correct. All of them are presented as being the divinely inspired work of good men (and a very few women). All of them ``document'' miracles done by their gods, their saints, their angels, even their daemons (miracles are the standard works of ``magic'' that are required to establish Godhood or the higher touched-by-divinity grades of Sainthood). All of them contain a moral code; in fact, within tweaks pretty much the same moral code once one leaves off the parts that involve specific religious rituals. Killing one's neighbor, screwing one's neighbor or his wife or a hapless sheep, stealing from one's neighbor (all presumed to be members of the same Superorganismic faith) are all verboten, with special exceptions granted to and by the priesthood. Failing to follow the religious rituals, attacking the religion itself, or being of another faith are all common bases for exception, in some cases to the extent of being open invitations to rape, pillage and burn as long is it is the heathen you're raping, pillaging, and burning.
In no case (certain advanced levels of Hinduism and certain ecumenical movements in the other religions aside) are individuals ever encouraged to examine their own personal axioms or especially the axioms of their religion to see if they make any sort of sense, to see if they even are consistent. On the contrary, each faith has specialized individuals whose sole reason for existence appears to be preventing precisely this from ever happening. They are the white blood cells of the body of the Superorganism, and the defend that body by expelling any sort of ``cancer'' with whatever degree of violence appears necessary. Weak religions that lacked these defences have literally been wiped out by stronger religions that had them, so no successful religion (with the possible exception of Bhuddism, although Bhuddism is not, properly speaking, a religion and I'd hate to put even Bhuddism to the sword to the extent required for a full test) lacks them.
This is, I think, a terrible shame. We live in an age of democracy and personal responsibility. The decision of just what axioms we wish to live by is the most important single decision an individual makes in their lifetime, as it shapes that whole lifetime. People are drawn, in a very natural way, towards God, but a single look at any of the world's religions suffice to convince one that they are as a general rule clueless about God. They are all about scripture and memetic structure supporting the Superorganism; God as a subject of actual unbiased study is beyond them.


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RUNS THE GAMUT FROM A TO B: Julie Walters (left), Meryl Streep and Christine Baranski lounge around in the ABBA musical 'Mamma Mia!'
A big fat Greek wedding offers excuse to revisit the songs of ABBA in 'Mamma Mia!'
By Richard von Busack
WHATEVER ELSE you think of ABBA, you have to respect great cross-programming. Mamma Mia! opens just as the world's boyfriends and husbands are going off to see their secret boyfriend Batman. If everyone allergic to bats wants to have lukewarm Swedish mayonnaise squished into their ear holes, who the hell am I to object? The ABBA era began as a spin-off of "schlager" (hit) music, a genre of soft international-style pop. The sound was refined by a quartet of Scandinavians into Euromusic, slightly heightened with minor chords, denatured Latin beats and ESL lyrics. One line references "a surge of the well-known sadness," which sums up both the calculation of ABBA's music and my response to it. The band was a piece of spotless machinery that outsold any other industry in Sweden, even though the product bore the same relation to Motown as a Volvo does to a Pontiac Firebird. ABBA's hits seem mostly to recall the mildly good time the singers had on Mediterranean vacations. Thus a canny DJ could mash Eric Idle's monologue as "Mr. Smoketoomuch," about the unspeakable Spanish package tour, with ABBA's "Fernando."So: the lovely but dim 20-year-old Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) invites three men who might have been her father to her wedding as a surprise to her mother, Donna (Meryl Streep.) Mom runs a ramshackle hotel on the Greek island of Kalokairi. Coincidentally, two members of Donna's former band (Julie Walters, Christine Baranski) have arrived for the wedding with the three contenders for the parenthood. Both mother and daughter believe they're hiding the men from each other: the mildly depressed Harry (Colin Firth), the globetrotting sailor Bill (Stellan Skarsgard) and the dashing architect or something Sam (Pierce Brosnan).
Director Phyllida Lloyd is a London stage vet who is stark blind to the synthetic quality of the Villa Donna set and Julie Walters' way-too-close-to-the-camera mugging. When we get away to the beaches and the other side of the island, Mamma Mia! achieves a little of the lyrical and mythical quality it seeks. Brosnan is the most unlikely singer ever to emerge from Ireland, yet his rapport with Streep proves again what an underrated actor he is. When he gives his old flame Donna a look and tells her simply that he's back on the island "because you know what it meant to me," the film suddenly got a little of the romantic mist it's conjuring.
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Streep is endearing in comedy. She has been an expert song-saleswoman ever since she did "He's My Pal" in Ironweed. Standing on a cliff, she gives "The Winner Takes It All" Streisand-level force. Baranksi performs the gay-bar anthem "Does Your Mother Know" in the vein of Jane Russell's "Ain't There Anyone Here for Love?" in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and it went over with the lads in the audience just as well. Here and there are times when this twee musical isn't as bad as it sounds.
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Lawyer: Mom of abducted Ind. boy who turned up in Minn. wasn't homeless when in-laws took him
BROWERVILLE, Minn. – The lawyer for an Indiana mother whose in-laws reportedly abducted her son nearly 20 years ago is refuting claims that she was homeless and living in her car at the time.
Attorney Richard Muntz says Lisa Harter spent only three days living in a car. He says a judge had given her custody of the boy on weekends in 1994, but the paternal grandparents took him to Minnesota before she could get him.
Authorities recently found the boy, Richard Wayne Landers Jr., living in Browerville. He had changed his name in 2006 to Michael Jeff Landers.
Muntz says Harter is eager to talk to her son but that hasn't happened yet.
The father, Richard W. Landers Sr., says he also wants to see his son again.


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Nappy Roots - Roun' The Globe
The whole damn world is country...
The whole damn world is country...
[Skinny Deville]
Aww man, the grass done got green the other side of the fence
So I hopped my ass over to see if I was convinced
Fast paced city life, but country livin's a sinch
Man Ima cop me a Caddy say to hell with the Benz
Benz, Benz, twenty inch rims
I can't leave the vertical grill back at the ringe
Got a "Phat" farm with cows and whole lotta land
Twenty acres to my name son we ain't benn there since
[B. Stille]
Meanwhile up in the D where they hollowin up dope
And thugs blow weed in the park when the club close
In Mil-waukee the beats is petro
Off in D. C., the streets is ghetto
Let's roll - to Cali where they chief the best 'dro
And drive cars so big you can't reach the pedal
Never had a glass of purple juice for breakfast
'Til I took my ass to Houston, Texas, that's country!
The whole damn world is country
Been all around the globe from Monday to Sunday
Y'all the same folk we see in Kentucky (it must mean)
The whole damn world is country
Been all around the globe from Monday to Sunday
Y'all the same folk we see in Kentucky (it must mean)
The whole damn world is country
[Big V]
Copped a Jag they was sportin, Jordans and Waltons
Went in for the cajun, and winded up stayin'
In Kentucky it was meth but Miami they was basing
Rap my ass off in nyc I'll see ya at the Bassment
Hit va, where they do nothing but cook
Carolina, Indiana, Alabama, Savannah
Boston, Denver, and all points between
Tennesse, Florida, ain't nothing but hell ya
[are. Prophit]
Now shake it, bounce, sit back and let ya hair blow
Spanish chicas waving, hasta luego
Pearl white drop, weather's bueno
They say opposites attract, I'm a moreno
(whispered: ???) so clear
(whispered: She's a fine lady. Can I make you mine?) my dear
Shy girl, all she wanna do is work her tongue
Top of the hill, take the breath from her lungs
(Country boys been overseas)
Toppin it off, London, Germany
[are. Prophit]
Now shake it, bounce, sit back and let ya hair blow
Ladies make ya hands clap like bueno
Now shake it, bounce, sit back and let ya hair blow
Holla atcha boy, hasta luego...
I'll first say a prayer for those in combat
Might could throw somethin on the grill when you come back
Might could take a trip to the 'Ville and in fact
We can all get loose on the 'Ports, and of course
Hit Churchill Downs and throw some on a horse
Or we can hit them Saint Claire waters
You ain't seen country till you been through Georgia
God durn, they still got girls with perms (dang)
Big cars, big wheels is the biggest concern
[Ron Clutch]
My old Kentucky home, I was
Born and raised on catfish and corn, collard greens and fatback
There's country in the mud, don't care where ya stay
Ya got country in ya blood if ya love and that's that
Circled the globe, met the important and paid
Now I know for a fact that...
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