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Louisville sophomore Kevin Ware spoke on his basketball-playing future for the first time since suffering a gruesome leg injury that left teammates crying and the sports world shocked.
"This is a minor setback for a major comeback," Ware told the New York Daily News on Monday. "I have to have the right approach to it. (Doctors) told me things are gonna be good for me. This is not a lifetime injury where I can never play basketball again. ... But getting to where I want to be and where I need to be is gonna take some time."
INTERACTIVE: What's ahead for Louisville's Ware
LOUISVILLE: Cardinals turn tragedy into victory, reach Final Four
PHOTO: Touching image of Ware from hospital bed
With 6:33 remaining in the first half of Louisville's Elite Eight clash with Duke, Ware jumped up for a block before landing awkwardly on one leg. Two bones in his right leg broke through the skin below his knee — leaving his leg flailed in an unnatural direction. The horrific scene caused teammates and coaches to break down.
GAME STORY: Louisville topples Duke
"I jumped and my leg felt kind of funny," Ware told ESPN.com. "When Coach (Pitino) tried to help me up, he gave me a funny kind of look. I'm looking at him and then I look down and I see my bone sticking out. It wasn't a hurt feeling. I just went into shock. In the moment, you don't know what's wrong with you. You're just looking, thinking, 'How did this happen?' I never watched the replay. I never want to."
REACTION: CBS analyst struggling with injury
Coach Rick Pitino, who had tears in his eyes and said he "almost threw up" on first reaction to seeing Ware's leg, said on Monday on a Final Four coaches teleconference that Ware was in "great spirits" Monday morning and "on crutches walking." Pitino said he expects Ware, a native of Atlanta, to be watching the team play on the weekend.
Ware had a steel rod inserted in his leg during a two-hour surgery late Sunday night. The only time he cried in the hospital was when he saw his teammates emotionally supporting him. "Those are my brothers. I love them to death," he said.
Ware went on to describe the aftermath of his injury when he ordered his team to win. Via ESPN.com:
"Seeing Chane [Behanan] cry as hard as he ever cried, and Russ [Smith], coach, all of them, I just looked at Coach P and said, 'You gotta pull yourself together. Tell the guys to come over here. They came over and they were still emotional but I meant it. I told them, 'Don't worry about me. I'll be fine.' I just had to block the pain out and put my situation on hold. I never back down for a challenge and to me, that's what this is. Just another challenge. I'll get through it. I wanted them to know that."'
Ware's mother, Lisa Junior, was not present at the game and told the Daily News she felt "distraught" in response to the injury.
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text: From January 21-26, Astros players, coaches and executives traveled far and wide through Texas and Oklahoma to connect the team with its fan base. CAREavan stops were centered on the club's three community pillars: military support, cancer research, and youth baseball and softball. Astros FanFest capped off the week with a baseball festival at Minute Maid Park.


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First, let me congratulate you all on keeping this great resource up and running. I realize it requires a substantial time investment on your part and it is greatly appreciated!
I am a relative novice at multi-level SEM and wanted to get your thoughts on an error message that I am getting when running a model in Mplus.
The model I am running is as follows (Type=twolevel; estimator=muml):
Within level: 3 constructs each measured by 3 continuous indicators (the 3 constructs are allowed to covary but no directional relationships are specified).
Between level: No between-level factors are specified—3 observed independent variables are utilized to predict the between level random intercepts (my focus is on testing the relationship between the observed independent variables and the cluster means).
Number of level 2 (between) units=30 (unbalanced groups)
Number of level 1 (within) units=300
After running the model, it converges and I get the needed parameter estimates. The problem is that I am also getting an error message which reads" WARNING: THE RESIDUAL COVARIANCE MATRIX (PSI) ON THE BETWEEN LEVEL IS NOT POSITIVE DEFINITE."
So, my questions are:
1. Is this NPD error message a result of my small between level sample size (n=30)?
2. What are the implications of this message as it pertains to the validity of the parameter estimates I get? (In other words, what statistically valid conclusions can I reach if I do nothing to correct this problem?).
3.Is there anyway of correcting this problem that does not involve constraining my between level covariances to 0?
I've run multiple variations of the model and cannot seem to circumvent this problem. Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Saturday, April 02, 2005 - 8:40 pm
It does not sound like you are using the most recent version of Mplus. If you were, you would be getting an error message that would point you more directly to the problem. You should check for negative residual variances of your factors. If you do not have these, you should ask for TECH4 to see if you have variables with correlations greater than one. You need to take this message seriously as it points to a problem with your model. It is often the case that there is less variation on the between level and that you may be able to obtain fewer factors on the betweem level. 30 clusters should be sufficient although the minimum.
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Eighty million yellow wristbands worn as symbols of hope now represent duplicity.
Seven yellow jerseys worn as mantles of a champion now represent fraud.
Who is Lance Armstrong? Tour de France winner, cancer survivor, heroic conqueror of mountains and adversity. But we always had suspicions, and finally we know the truth: Armstrong is a con man.
People who still think otherwise are deluding themselves the same way Armstrong deluded them.
There's a saying among athletes that only dopes get caught for doping. And only dopes believe stories that are too good to be true. Armstrong doped and duped with equal precision.
"We were good actors," Armstrong teammate Tyler Hamilton said. "We had two faces."
Nike terminated Armstrong's contract Wednesday, citing "insurmountable evidence" that Armstrong "misled" his sponsor for a decade. When Nike disowns one of its stars, particularly one whose Livestrong brand adorns 98 different products, you know he is poison. Nike stood by Tiger Woods when he was revealed to be a serial adulterer and Kobe Bryant when he was charged with sexual assault (charges later dropped). Nike re-signed Michael Vick after he served prison time for animal cruelty.
But Nike wants nothing more to do with a defiant cheater who often played the cancer card when deflecting criticism, evading questions and belittling doubters. He used to say any insinuation that he put toxins in his body again after undergoing cancer treatment was insensitive to what he and other patients went through.
Livestrong? Armstrong was living a lie.
In the Hall of Shame, Armstrong's hubris ranks as more rancid than that of Barry Bonds, a mean, paranoid jerk. Armstrong can be a jerk, too, albeit a charismatic one. But the Armstrong myth was not just fostered by dishonesty but by the deep emotions of his fans. Bonds produced disgust. Armstrong broke hearts.
Minutes before Nike blacklisted Armstrong, he announced his resignation as chairman of the cancer awareness foundation he created in 1997 and built into a powerful charitable force. He said he didn't want Livestrong to suffer "negative effects from the controversy surrounding my cycling career."
Armstrong, 41, was stripped of his seven Tour titles and banned from competition for life by the United States Anti-Doping Agency after an investigation proved he was user, leader and enforcer of systematic, sophisticated doping practices on his U.S. Postal Service team, USADA said.
Armstrong decided not to challenge the findings or cross-examine his accusers in an arbitration hearing. USADA released a dossier last week with nearly 1,000 pages of sworn testimony from 26 witnesses, lab reports, emails and financial records.
The report pieced together the fragments that have eroded Armstrong's granite reputation through the years. Armstrong used performance enhancers EPO, human growth hormone, steroids and oxygen-boosting blood transfusions. He pressured teammates to do the same or find another job. He stored drugs in his refrigerators in Nice, France, and Girona, Spain. He eluded testers by planting lookouts at team hotels, sneaking masking agent IVs into his room, being unclear about his whereabouts, hiding syringes and covering up a positive result. He made $1 million in payments to a creepy, nefarious physician known in cycling as "Dr. Blood."
It's Not About the Bike was the title of his autobiography, or should we call it a work of fiction? He described the struggle, determination and tenacity that enabled him to come back from life-threatening testicular cancer and win the most grueling event in sports a record seven consecutive times. It wasn't about the bike; it was about Lance and his journey, a beacon for those reading the book during chemotherapy sessions or while lying in a hospital bed.
Turns out it wasn't about the bike, or the purity of Armstrong's will. It was about breaking the rules and relying on synthetic substances to beat everybody else.
The most damning revelations come from 11 of Armstrong's teammates. He has depicted Floyd Landis and Hamilton as ax-grinders, but he cannot discredit the poignant confession and apology of George Hincapie, his trusted lieutenant through every mile.
When Dave Zabriskie succumbed and took his first injection, he went home and cried. He had pursued cycling as a healthy alternative to a troubled upbringing by his drug-addicted father and pledged never to take drugs. Other riders endured similar soul-searching but made the same choice as Armstrong.
The deceptions went drip, drip, drip like blood into veins, until they were absorbed and accepted as a necessary evil.
Of three common defenses of Armstrong the first asserts all pro riders were doping and a doped Armstrong was still the best on an "even playing field." You could use the same rationalization to cheat on an exam or loot during a riot, but unethical behavior is still unethical. And Armstrong had more means (including funds from the postal service) than many teams to acquire drugs and hire doctors.
The second excuse, Armstrong's refrain that he never tested positive, is bogus. He did at least once, and lied about a saddle sore that never existed. Positive tests aren't necessary to prove doping. Bonds, Hincapie and Marion Jones are among those who never tested positive, either.
Third, Armstrong has helped raise $500 million through his foundation. He visits patients. He lobbies legislators. Give him a pass.
Armstrong is not a villain, and he has done more good for people than harm. But remember that Bernie Madoff gave millions to charity. A Ponzi schemer depends on suspension of disbelief by investors. Armstrong was not robbing people's life savings. But he did spin a phony narrative. He adamantly denied that he used drugs. He bullied or sued whistle-blowers.
He raised many millions on the pretense that made him famous -- overcoming cancer and applying his will to survive to the Tour. Except that those inspirational alpine climbs -- a French cyclist once described his shock at seeing Armstrong speed past him as if he was descending rather than ascending -- were fueled by a will to cheat.
A truly courageous Armstrong could have confessed, used his high profile to pull cycling from its overdosed depths and waged a global campaign against doping.
Instead, he punched his reeling sport in the gut. Instead, we observe the fall of another American hero. Wasn't it last autumn that the Joe Paterno legend began to rot?
Perhaps Armstrong will persist in his denials, as the pitiful Pete Rose did, and end up a Las Vegas casino greeter. He's banned from his goal of winning Hawaii's Ironman Triathlon. Anheuser Busch no longer wants him for commercials. His brand is as useless as a flat tire.
The long con is over. Americans are always eager to forgive a repentant sinner. He should do what he chose not to do as an athlete: come clean. ___
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Pentagon Secure In Move Towards BYOD
Last week, it was announced that Cisco is launching "Public Sector BYOD Thursdays" in which you can expect Cisco subject matter experts to discuss the latest happenings relevant to Public Sector around the Bring Your Own Device trend (BYOD).
One of the main concerns often cited when it comes to adopting a BYOD strategy in the workplace is the ability to maintain tight security. With countless personal devices transmitting critical, confidential and sometimes classified data, BYOD environments demand structured protocols for device registration, policy control, communication transmissions and information sharing.
Developing these policies is completely doable, with the right processes and infrastructure in place. To watch the process in action, we can look to the Department of Defense (DOD), which on June 15 released its own mobile device strategy—a document that lays the groundwork for making secure employee mobility possible at the agency. One of the goals in this mobile device strategy is to see if BYOD is feasible for wider adoption within the organization.
As employees continue to want to use their own devices for work, the Pentagon wants to move towards a BYOD culture both to stay relevant and cut costs, according to an article in GovPlace. Authorizing the use of commercially available devices saves the burdensome monetary and time expenses the DOD would incur if it developed its own hardware, the article said. But perhaps even more importantly, BYOD keeps the DOD current, with its employees using the same tools and cyber-communication strategies as enterprise, GovPlace noted. Incorporating these modern evolutions and emerging technologies is crucial to keeping the government on the same page as the population it serves and protects.
If the very agency that controls our nation's security is ready to adopt a secure BYOD strategy, it seems the time has come for all areas of government to consider following suit. As we watch the republicans and democrats vying for the top office in the nation during the debates, we can reflect on what it's like to be on the cutting edge of democracy … why not stay on the cutting edge of technology, too?
Stay tuned for next week's post! Hint: It may be a little cloudy.
*Cisco is also currently on the road talking about all things BYOD[n1] . Find out if it's coming to a city near you.
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Joe grew up in the greater Seattle area, attended college here and then traveled south to study at the highly regarded Brooks Institute of Photography in Los Angeles. Considered the top school of its kind in the United States, Brooks has a reputation as a place that is hard to be admitted and even tough to graduate.
Serving as Staff Photographer, Joe also is the Videographer and creative directory for many of the company's websites and print materials. In addition to shooting highly refined still images he oversees acquisition of stock photographer, and creation of panoramas and videos.
Joe's work for the company takes him to great destinations and provides an opportunity to shoot resort, community and area photos as well as the real estate, lodging and architectural photos requires for this job. His photos are recognizable for their vibrant colors and clarity. He has an eye for the unusual and turning what could be a pedestrian commercial image into a work of art.
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Grow your own produce all year round. It's a great lifestyle choice and very rewarding. Our hot houses are designed for backyard propagation and growing of vegetables and plants from seeds, cuttings or seedlings.
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ASOS Trying to Sell Dinosaur Tails BUT NO ONE is SOLD
Just when you thought you'd seen it all online, think again! ASOS have delivered "the goods" with these extremely bizarre strap-on dinosaur tails.
First they sold weird 'Unwrap Me' body bows but now the online fashion e-tailer is selling dinosaur tails. The tails sell for around AUD $50 and come in a variety of colours from black to a shiny green version.
According to Dailymail, those wanting to purchase one of the large, black, scaly tails you will have to wait as they have already SOLD OUT!
But don't worry - there is still a green 'shinosaur' version available to purchase.
It doesn't stop there with the quirky tails, ASOS are also selling a black cat tail (AUD $33), a leopard tail and a wolf and fox tail (AUD $44).
I don't think the reaction was expected when ASOS started promoting these on Facebook.
'Not sure what I've been buying on ASOS to make them think I want a dinosaur tail lol???,' one user posted on Twitter.
Not sure what I've been buying on asos to make them think I want a dinosaur tail lol????? pic.twitter.com/u6ZKRVvxKn— Chaaaa (@CharlotteEris) August 24, 2016
'Should I be worried that ASOS is promoting this tail at me? (it is an absolute bargain tbf),' someone else added.
'Finally! A fashionable dinosaur tail for all occasions! Thanks @ASOS!,' another user said delightedly.
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'Seriously Kelly? I may as well call YOU the unelected networks tsar'
Plus: 'Why do PC manufacturers even bother any more?'
Quotw This was the week that hard-working Reg hack Kelly Fiveash came in for some flack over her presentation of Steelie Neelie's latest comments on the lack of IT skills in Europe.
Kroes said in a speech at CeBIT that the European Commission had put together a €1m coalition to address the issue:
This coalition is not about reinventing the wheel. It should be about building on existing success. I want people to be open in their commitments, join forces where they see the chance, and recognise we need to do things differently.
Quite simply, facing hundreds of thousands of unfilled vacancies, we cannot continue as we were; and we must all do our bit. I know it needs us all to invest resources: but the payoff will be for everyone.
This is serious: it matters to our people, to our global competitiveness, to our very future. But the European Commission can't do it alone. We can only reach our goals if all of us work together.
The hack's suggestion that this oratory may be slightly overstating the gap in IT skills and that his boss was an "unelected digital czar" were not appreciated by Ryan Heath, spokesperson for Neelie Kroes, who commented:
Seriously Kelly?
I may as well write an article about you calling you the "unelected networks tsar" at The Register.
By the way she was giving an off-the-cuff speech based on a few scribbled bullets, and there is a more detailed speech from 4 March - which a basic Google search would have found for you on http://ec.europa.eu/rapid
And no we aren't as dumb as you imagine, which happens to be why a long list of the biggest ICT companies in the world want to be a part of the effort: because they know there really is a skills gap and numbers of IT graduates are shrinking right when they need to be growing... kind of like your levels of research and courtesy need to grow.
This probably all sounds very harsh - but so is your article - and we are trying to make a real effort, without any cash at our disposal, to help people who need a job. So please reflect a little on that.
This was also the week when not one but two Linux-spawning penguins were mouthing off and there are no prizes for guessing who one of them was. The other one was Gnome co-founder and current Xamarin CTO Miguel de Icaza who likened the current Linux landscape to Chernobyl.
Icaza said in a blog post about how he loves Apple now:
To me, the fragmentation of Linux as a platform, the multiple incompatible distros, and the incompatibilities across versions of the same distro were my Three Mile Island/Chernobyl.
He also revealed how he hardly bothers with Linux anymore anyway because he's become a dyed-in-the-wool fanboi - apparently this is not the "easy path" - so hasn't booted up his penguin/gnome workstation in months:
Computing-wise that [vacation to Brazil I took my Mac on] turned out to be very relaxing. Machine would suspend and resume without problem, WiFi just worked, audio did not stop working, I spend three weeks without having to recompile the kernel to adjust this or that, nor fighting the video drivers, or deal with the bizarre and random speed degradation that my ThinkPad suffered.
While I missed the comprehensive Linux toolchain and userland, I did not miss having to chase the proper package for my current version of Linux, or beg someone to package something. Binaries just worked.
Linux just never managed to cross the desktop chasm.
If you did guess that Linus Torvalds was the other chatty penguin this week, congratulations. He was discussing how he might make a Chromebook Pixel his main computer, which seems nice... but wait. During this Google+ post on how Pixels are great, he still managed to use the forum as a way to say that all other PCs were terrible, oh and Pixels aren't that great either:
One thing that the Chromebook Pixel really brings home is how crap normal laptops have become. Why do PC manufacturers even bother any more? No wonder the PC business isn't doing well, when they stick to just churning out more crappy stuff and think that "full HD" (aka 1080p) is somehow the epitome of greatness.
I'm still running ChromeOS on this thing, which is good enough for testing out some of my normal work habits (ie reading and writing email), but I expect to install a real distro on this soon enough. For a laptop to be useful to me, I need to not just read and write email, I need to be able to do compiles, have my own git repositories etc...
Self-proclaimed "cyborg" Steve Mann is in a similar position to Linus Torvalds, he really likes Google Glass, just like Torvalds digs the Pixel, but he has his reservations too.
He said:
On one hand, it's immensely satisfying to see that the wider world now values wearable computer technology. On the other hand, I worry that Google and certain other companies are neglecting some important lessons.
It's not so much how your brain processes information thrust mere millimetres from your eyeballs, but more about how you feel when you take the glasses off:
Virtual-reality researchers have long struggled to eliminate effects that distort the brain's normal processing of visual information, and when these effects arise in equipment that augments or mediates the real world, they can be that much more disturbing.
It's astounding to me that Google and other companies ... haven't leapfrogged over my best design (something I call 'EyeTap Generation-4 Glass') to produce models that are even better. Perhaps it's because no one else working on this sort of thing has spent years walking around with one eye that's a camera. Or maybe this is just another example of not-invented-here syndrome.
Meanwhile, the file-sharing links site that thinks piracy is fine as long as it's not used against it, The Pirate Bay, announced that it was upping cyber-sticks for the politically balmier climes of
South, North Korea. The site said:
Today we can reveal that we have been invited by the leader of the republic of Korea, to fight our battles from their network.
This is truly an ironic situation. We have been fighting for a free world, and our opponents are mostly huge corporations from the United States of America, a place where freedom and freedom of speech is said to be held high. At the same time, companies from that country are chasing a competitor from other countries, bribing police and lawmakers, threatening political parties and physically hunting people from our crew. And to our help comes a government famous in our part of the world for locking people up for their thoughts and forbidding access to information.
We believe that being offered our virtual asylum in Korea is a first step of this country's changing view of access to information. It's a country opening up and one thing is sure, they do not care about threats like others do. In that way, TPB and Korea might have a special bond. We will do our best to influence the Korean leaders to also let their own population use our service, and to make sure that we can help improve the situation in any way we can. When someone is reaching out to make things better, it's also ones duty to grab their hand.
It took the interwebs mere minutes to uncover their ruse, which didn't stop them from popping out two days' later to explain that it was a "prank".
And finally, an Apple employee has broken rank with the Cupertino Collective to actually admit something the fruity firm put together isn't totally smack-your-face awesome. Speaking about iDevice video output, the anonymous hero said in a comment on a blog:
Certain people are aware that the quality could be better and others are working on it. For the time being, the quality was deemed to be suitably acceptable. Given the dynamic nature of the system (and the fact that the firmware is stored in RAM rather then ROM), updates **will** be made available as a part of future iOS updates. When this will happen I can't say for anonymous reasons, but these concerns haven't gone unnoticed.


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Saus serves up Belgian street treats
Nestled on a bustling street, just steps from Union Oyster House and Faneuil Hall, is Saus. Opened during the 2008 recession by three locals ousted from their jobs, they shared a common love for Belgian's national treat of pommes frites, or French fries. Tables are squeezed together with cute Tin Tin décor in a brightly lit space, highlighting its menu of Belgian snack food.
The pommes frites come in three sizes with several dipping sauces to choose from. Fries are served in a paper cone. Pommes frites are cut and fried to order, served with sauces made in-house. For our meal, we sampled the white truffle ketchup. Paired with the delicious crispy fries, the truffle ketchup was a great match for the deep-fried potatoes and best eaten hot. Continue reading


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The Museum received a check from the foundation in the amount of $25,000, along with a pledge for an additional $25,000 in 2012.
The Stemmons Foundation was established in 1963. Among the many contributions to charitable organizations in Dallas, the foundation has a strong history of support for cultural and educational institutions. The Stemmons family has a legacy of many accomplishments that have contributed to the growth and prosperity of Dallas. John M. Stemmons, through the foundation and his civic leadership, continued the work of his father, Leslie A. Stemmons, an influential businessman in early Dallas.
The Museum is very grateful to the Stemmons Foundation for its endorsement and support of its construction and relocation project in Frisco, Texas.
About the Museum of the American Railroad
Founded in 1963, the Museum of the American Railroad is a not-for-profit Texas corporation dedicated to celebrating the heritage and exploring the future of railroads through historic preservation, research, and educational programming. The museum has collected artifacts and archival material from the railroad industry to exhibit and interpret their significance in American life and culture. Exhibits and general programs are provided year-round. Educational programs are available to local schools and universities through study trips, in-class programming & outreach, and online resources. For more information about the Museum's move to Frisco and current programs, visit www.museumoftheamericanrailroad.org


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Ravenswood School for Girls
Building a metropolis explores the development of urban society and our part in its growth and expansion. Through its expressive form, the relationship between humanity and the metropolis is deconstructed. I opted for fragmentation in the ink drawings to contrast with the linearity of the video, as a way of rendering the loss of identity and certainty within metropolitan constructs. This stems from extensive research into existentialist theory during the creation of the body of work. The initial ink on paper approach soon flourished into other media (eg video used to capture the inking process, to encapsulate urban construction).


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Word has just come in that The Atheist Experience's time slot is, for the first time in its 12 year run, being shaved from 90 minutes to one hour. I haven't yet heard when this change will go into effect.
There's already a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth about this on Facebook, but apparently there's nothing we can do. I don't think we're being targeted or anything. What's probably going on is a change in ChannelAustin policy by which they're trying to cut back on longer shows in order to fit in more programs per day. Either way, it sucks, and it's going to take some real adjusting.
One thing that's going to have to happen is some real ruthlessness in dealing with tedious, rambling callers, like that "collapsing wave-form" dude from last Sunday. And hopefully our atheist fans will at last get the message that, while we love them dearly, it's preferable to use the email address, and not a phone call to the show, to tell us what an awesome job we're doing. We should be more strict about demanding a caller make his point within, oh, 30 seconds, or we'll have to let him go. Since I don't inhabit the host's chair any more, I can't promise the regular hosts will agree this should be the practice.
If I may be allowed to air a personal gripe? If you're wondering why I don't have any more details about this, it's because I found out about it, just half an hour ago, from a Facebook post by Matt. While I know it's important to let the fans know right away, I think it would have been oh, what's the word a courtesy for the cast and crew to have been informed, personally, ahead of time.
In any event, the show will go on! We aren't ones to let something as petty as having our time slot chopped by a third to stop us speaking truth to power and all that! You can expect the same spirited blasphemy and hard arguing and hilarious Jeff Dee tirades you've been getting all these years. It will just be in a more concentrated package. We love and appreciate the support of all our viewers, new and old, all through the years, and we plan to be around for many, many more years yet!
Addendum: Matt has sent us all an email explaining the changes and apologizing for what's turned out to be an honest goof. There has in fact been email discussion going on the last couple of days about all this, but it's been taking place on the ACA board's private email list, and wasn't being shared with the TV list, which Matt assumed was being done. Several of us on the crew are not on the ACA board, and I guess that got overlooked. So, consider feathers unruffled.
The new time slot goes into effect the second Sunday of October (we're being pre-empted on 10/3 by the fucking Mormons again), and we'll be back in the big studio we were using ten years ago, which the guys have been trying to get for a long time in order to accommodate our ever-expanding studio audience. So kudos to them for managing that. For more details as they're revealed, just keep checking the website.


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At the Detroit Autorama there are more than the obvious ones
This year we want to give recognition to the following awards: Best Ford in a Ford, sponsored by Ford Racing and presented by Street Rodder; the Driven Award, sponsored by Lokar Performance and presented by Street Rodder; and two Editor's Choice awards, presented by the AutoRama World of Wheels Extreme (the traditional rods that reside in the basement and sponsored by Ol' Skool Rodz).
Best Ford in a Ford
Larry Lyke of Novi, Michigan, took home the Best Ford in a Ford honors presented by Street Rodder Editorial Director and Editor Brian Brennan. The 1934 Ford Tudor sedan built in a resto-rod theme with gennie headlights, cowllamps, and bumpers was clearly an outstanding example of a Ford-powered Ford.
Equipped with a Ford 302 (345hp crate motor) that's backed by a Tremec five-speed (matched to a Centerforce clutch) on the way back to a Currie-prepped Ford 9-inch rearend. The engine is topped with an Automation Tri-power, GT-40 aluminum heads, Sanderson headers, MSD ignition, and chromed Ford Racing valve covers. The wiring comes by way of a Ron Francis wiring kit and the potent small-block is cooled by a Walker radiator and a Cooling Components' two-speed fan. The all-steel original body is sprayed in a two-tone maroon and black by Cas Schulty of Motor City Steel.
The chassis sports a Super Bell 5-inch drop I-beam axle, four-bar, Aldan coilover shocks, and Totally Stainless bolts and fasteners. The rubber comes by way of Coker mounted to wires. The BFGoodrich Silverton radials are P185/70R15 in front and P255/70R15.
Driven Award
Brian Paul of New Baltimore, Michigan, brought out his fenderless '29 Model A sedan (5-inch chop, 3-inch channel) to Detroit and was surprised and elated to take home the Driven Award, sponsored by Lokar Performance Products and presented by Street Rodder Editorial Director and Editor Brian Brennan.
The fenderless Model A is jam-packed with a '56 330-inch Desoto Hemi fed by an Edelbrock 650-cfm EnduraShine carb topped with a '56 Caddy air cleaner. This hot rod is a load as it is filled with a T5 five-speed, real 45-fin Buick brake drums, and folding roof that allows a bird's-eye view into the interior. The twin bomber-style bucket seats made out of aluminum are all business. A unique gauge treatment is the use of an old Appleton spot housing that now wraps the speedo used along with the original Model A instrument cluster.
While there are plenty of traditional hot rod goodies, like a drilled I-beam front axle and split wishbones, you get a hint something is up with the underslung frame and the inboard-mounted Indy-style coilover shock absorbers. The rearend is a 12-bolt Chevy held in position with NASCAR truck-arm control bars.
The red painted Artillery-style wheels feature trim rings, chromed lug nuts, and a bullet center cap. Of course, the cheater slicks in back and bias-ply in front provide plenty of vintage appearance. Plenty of bodywork, like the chopped roof line and the sectioning, require other modifications, such as the taillights mounted into the body three-quarters of the way up the rear sheetmetal.
Editor's Choice: What a Pair!
Detroit is really two shows in one. There is the Detroit Autorama that we have all come to enjoy, celebrating its 59th anniversary this year, but over the past five years or so something new has taken shape and shows signs that it will be here for some time to come.
There's a basement at Cobo Hall and it is here where the Detroit Autorama began decades ago. For many years the basement sat empty and dark until the idea was hatched to hold something special. How about a place where traditional hot rods could have a show within a show, a place that they could show off their cars and have their awards? (The basement trophies, which Brennan and Geisert handed out, were designed and crafted by artist Keith Coleman.) It's just an escalator ride away from upstairs and all of the "bling" associated with high-profile car shows. Well, it has proven to be a success. This year the basement cars were referred to as the Autorama World of Wheels Extreme sponsored by Ol' Skool Rodz.
Street Rodder has enjoyed the good fortune to be involved with the award presentation since the first year but recently SR's presence has blossomed into two awards; both are Editor's Choice, one handed out by Street Rodder Editorial Director and Editor Brian Brennan, and; a second presented by Street Rodder Senior Editor Eric Geisert.
First up was the '41 Ford pickup belonging to Jerry Warnack of St. Claire Shore, Michigan. His Editor's Choice was presented by Brennan for his pickup that features a modified hood to accept '39 Ford trim, has a stroked small-block Chevy sporting 383 inches, a TH350 tranny, and a 3.42 posi-equipped Ford 9-inch rearend.
The interior sports black and white vinyl over a Glide Engineering bench seat with 3 inches cut out of the riser—giving more of a "down low" ride for Warnack. The stock dash maintains factory gauges restored by Classic Instruments and converted to the obligatory 12 V while a tilt steering column from Flaming River finished off the interior.
The Lobeck chassis sports a disc (front) and drum (rear) braking along with a Mustang II IFS, and the rear is outfitted with coilover shocks and Pete & Jakes ladder bars.
Next on the Editor's Choice award list was the channeled '31 Ford Model A coupe belonging to Jeff Knudsen of Holland, Michigan. Presenting Jeff's award was Street Rodder Senior Editor Eric Geisert.
Knudsen has enjoyed modified cars of all types for 30-plus years but his interests usually center on vintage sports cars. You wouldn't know that by looking at his channeled '31 Model A—his first American hot rod with a Z'd frame (4 inches in front and 8 inches in the rear) coupled with a no-chop profile.
Jeff's Ford is powered by a '57 265-inch Chevy bored 0.060 over and topped with an ultra-rare Nicson 2×2 manifold and a pair of Rochesters. Inside a leather interior greets the driver as does a boat steering wheel and seats from a '58 Alfa (now how many hot rodders can say that!?).
Alexander Brothers Award
As prestigious and well known a car show award as there is, the Alexander Brothers award (for Larry and Mike Alexander legendary customizers from the Detroit area) is given to a custom that best typifies how the A-Bros. work would translate today. (Mike is finalizing his Magnus Opus for next year's Detroit Autorama to be in competition for the coveted Don Ridler Memorial Award; which both he and his brother have won in the past.)
This year Mike selected a black and gray '70 Buick Riviera belonging to Keith Dupuie of Leonard, Michigan. Paul and Carl Arft handled the fabrication while all mechanics were trusted to James Elsarelli.
The car sports the original body trim, upholstery, and engine—a 455ci monster. On the custom side—let's face it, it's a custom—the top was chopped 3 inches, '52 Buick grille mounted upside down, shaved tail, custom air suspension, and custom exhaust.


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Bede Griffiths called John Main "the most important spiritual guide in the Church to day". This accolade does not just refer to his teaching on meditation, but also to his essential theology, which supports this way of prayer.
His theology resonates with that of the Christian Desert Fathers and Mothers of the 4th century CE and with the early Christians in general. I would go as far as to say he would have fitted in perfectly with the monks of that time, especially Evagrius, John Cassian's main teacher. In the third year of these 'Weekly Teaching' I will focus on John Main's teaching and theology and will draw parallels, where appropriate, between him and the early Christians.
All the concepts about God for both John Main and the early Christians rose out of their experience of prayer. This is summed up by Evagrius of Pontus, one of the important Desert Fathers of the 4th century CE: "A theologian is one who prays and one who prays is a theologian." How did they then experience God? One of the first important figures in the early days of Christianity is Clement of Alexandria (150 -215), who expressed it as follows: God is "beyond all speech, beyond every concept, beyond every thought", and if he felt obliged to put a name to that experience, the best description he could give is: "The notion of pure being is the closest you can come to God."
John Main totally agreed with these expressions: "We know we cannot analyse God. We know we cannot with finite minds understand the infinitude of God". He too saw God as "present being", as "the ground of our being", "the energy that is love….God is, God is love, God is now."
How did they see the relationship between God and humanity? This is expressed clearly by Origen (186 -255), the successor of Clement as Head of the Catechetical School in Alexandria, as follows: "Every spiritual being is, by nature, a temple of God, created to receive into itself the glory of God." He went further and stressed: "Men and women are created in the 'image of God' and our human vocation is to manifest 'likeness to God' through our manner of life." John Main voiced this as follows: ""Jesus has sent his Spirit to dwell within us, making all of us temples of holiness: God himself dwelling within us." He further stresses that 'God is the root from which we are sprung…We are created in his image, share in his value and worth as children of God…We know that we are and that we are in God and that in him we discover our essential identity and unique meaning….we know we share in the nature of God."
For the early Christians and John Main prayer meant re-entering into the life of God: "Our daily meditation is nothing less than a return to this fountainhead of life where our spirit becomes wholly immersed in the Spirit of God, wholly alive with his life, wholly loving with his love."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent review board on Tuesday presented to Congress its report on the Sept. 11 attack in Libya that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, findings the Obama administration hopes will bolster its assertion that diplomats took all reasonable measures to anticipate and respond to the violence, and end months of finger-pointing and recriminations over whether the deaths could have been avoided.
Diplomats and intelligence officers alike have spoken about the rising risk in Benghazi and growing debate over how to improve security before the attack, set against Ambassadors Chris Stevens' decision to keep the Benghazi diplomatic post open and even visit there on Sept. 11.
Late that evening, militants overran the lightly defended U.S. Consulate, setting fire to it and ultimately killing Stevens and information specialist Sean Smith. Militants later fired mortars at the CIA safe house where survivors had taken refuge, killing Americans Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, both former Navy SEALs working for the CIA who had come to help rescue the diplomats.
Retired Ambassador Thomas Pickering and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Adm. Mike Mullen led the independent review, studying cables, video and intelligence and interviewing some survivors. Their review will also include their recommendations on how to keep it from happening again.
The classified section of their report was sent to Capitol Hill on Tuesday afternoon, a State Department official said. As it was being transmitted, the department began to implement its recommendations, with a team of senior diplomats convening to look at how to execute them.
An unclassified summary of the report is expected to be made public on Wednesday. On Thursday, the State Department's two deputy secretaries will testify in open sessions before House Foreign Affairs Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was to have appeared at Thursday's hearing but cancelled after fainting and sustaining a concussion last week while recovering from a stomach virus that dehydrated her. Clinton is under doctors' orders to rest.
The secretary of state is required by law to convene an Accountability Review Board when U.S. officials are killed overseas in the line of duty. The secretary is not, however, required to make its findings public or send classified details to lawmakers. Still, Clinton has pledged to share as much detail as possible.
ARB inquiries are designed to look at security procedures before and during the incidents in question, and make recommendations on how they can be prevented in the future. Previous boards, notably the ones established after the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, have found broad fault across all branches of government, including Congress, but have not targeted individuals for blame.
The Benghazi report is widely expected to draw similar conclusions, finding that security was clearly lacking at the mission but that blame for that rests within the government bureaucracy and that there is no way to prove that additional protection could have stopped the attack.
The Benghazi incident became politically heated in the last weeks of the tight presidential campaign, with U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice criticized for saying in television interviews that the attack was part of a protest over an anti-Islamic film that had started in Cairo earlier that day. Her comments came days after the administration had intelligence pointing to a militant attack. The political fallout is not within the review board's mandate and its report is not expected to mention the controversy, except possibly in passing.
But the incident also sparked debate on the larger question of how U.S. diplomats and intelligence officers can do their jobs in unstable environments, as al-Qaida spreads across Africa, without also expanding their security. Diplomats have said that overreacting to the attack could produce what some are calling a "Benghazi effect" that would wall them off from the people they are supposed to be engaged with.
Though called a consulate, the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi was so small it was only lightly staffed by a skeleton crew of diplomats and guarded by a local Libyan force. Its small size was partly because there was not yet much diplomacy to do in a city still rebuilding after the revolution that toppled Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi, but also because the consulate's role was in part to provide cover for the larger intelligence gathering mission in the region.
Most of the roughly two dozen Americans based in Benghazi worked for the CIA, some helping the State Department track and buy up the tens of thousands of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile systems known as MANPADS — man-portable-air-defense-systems — that have made their way from Gadhafi's arsenal to the open market, trying to keep them out of the hands of al-Qaida sympathizers throughout the region. That work included developing a network of tipsters in the port city who would watch for weapons shipments headed out of the country.
The officers were also trying to track al-Qaida's recruitment efforts in Benghazi and the small city of Darna, a couple hundred miles up the coast. Since the fall of the Gadhafi regime, Darna has become a hotbed of militant groups, such as al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and the militant group Ansar al-Shariah, the lead suspect in the Benghazi attack, according to two U.S. officials briefed on the intelligence. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
The drone that flew over Benghazi the night of the attack to give policymakers back in Washington a view of the violence had been patrolling over Darna, officials said.
Some Libyan militiamen did respond during the attack, the officials said, but not in numbers sufficient or with enough organization to repel the mob. It was the CIA rescue team that came in, guns blazing, to rescue the diplomats, while a second pick-up team of two special operations troops and CIA security personnel flew in on a hastily chartered plane from Tripoli, convinced Libyan militiamen at the airport to give them transport and rushed in to help protect the diplomats, who by then had reached a CIA safe house in the town, where they were attacked again.
The combined CIA teams held off a brief gunfire attack at the second location, so the militiamen fired mortars at the building, killing the two ex-Navy SEALs who were part of the CIA security team. The combined CIA team returned fire and the mortar fire ceased, and they were able to get the diplomats to the airport.
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Oh,no....not another quiz ! ?
Yes, friends.....it is time for a quiz. This one is something of a character study , kind of. The names have been eliminated to protect the well.....errr.......I'll leave it at that. Am I insinuating that the person(s) possibly although not necessarily referred to in the quiz are factual ? I'm not telling you.......you'll have to guess, just like you'll have to figure out the proper answers to the questions. First of all, I would like to explain the photo above. I never do this usually-I think the photo is mostly there to convey a mood or perhaps an inside joke that maybe .000135 % of the readers of this blog might get. There's no joke in this photo today. The book is one that I have been writing in for over 33 years. It contains the spoke lengths for a variety of hub/rim/cross combinations. Why don't I use the online spoke calculators available you might ask ? Well, I guess I see other folks getting wrong spoke lengths from these calculators enough that actual documented tested data in a book might save me a step or two. Call me primitive.....I don't even take credit cards at my business. O.K. on to the quiz.
The theme of today's quiz is what kind of person might your framebuilder be if **********. There are many types of folks hanging up a shingle proclaiming that they are framebuilders.......some of them actually are . The rest are, well....lets just say that maybe they ought to have a different job.
If your framebuilder takes your deposit ( and maybe a few others ) and does not actually build the frames that have been ordered......ever.......he is :
A. Just a poor guy trying to make a buck.
B. Just a poor guy trying to steal a buck.
C. Just a poor guy succeeding in stealing a buck.
D. Kind of a pathetic poseur/criminal
E. Maybe has fallen on hard times.
F. Maybe has not fallen on hard times and isn't a framebuilder at all.
If your framebuilder does not return your phone messages and/or emails he is:
A. More important than you, stupid.
B. Probably overwhelmed with his position as king of the dung heap.
C. Wants to cultivate an air of mystery.
D. Needs to heal from the interactions with his fellow humans for a time.
E. Had his phone turned off.
Say your custom frame has an issue that has nothing to do with how you ride or maintain your bike and the framebuilder refuses to service the bike. His/her possible reason(s) are :
A. There is no stated warranty , butthead.
B. Too busy making more frames for folks like you except that they don't actually ride so they have no complaints about the bikes.
C. The customer is always wrong.
D. There's a Jersey Shore marathon this week/month/year.
E. He/she has left no forwarding address and is off to parts unknown.
Your framebuilder teaches other folks framebuilding because :
A. He/she is not threatened by new talent and actually wants to help.
B. He/she/it needs the money and orders are down.
C. There's some sort of sick satisfaction in teaching what one has regarded as a sentence.
D. It's a chance to have people listen to you for once.....
E. Somebody has to carry on this stuff.
What if your framebuilder tells you that you'll get your frame in 5-6 weeks and after nearly a year you still haven't gotten your frame and you payed all the money up front. His/her reason is :
A. Can't be bothered at this time, there's work not to do.
B. Can't be bothered at this time , there's lots of bickering to do with other numbskulls online.
C. Can't be bothered at this time , I have seven blogs......whoops-
D. Can't be bothered at this time , there's a Jersey Shore marathon again.
If you finally get your frame from your builder and the rear wheel does not center....not even close-I'm talking totally cacked , the frame has not been chased, faced, tapped, etc. seatpost won't fit and you told the builder the actual brand of post you were going to use , the builder would describe the parameters of precision as :
A. Tolerance of +/- 2 mm.
B. Tolerance of one hair past a freckle.
C. Tolerance of two fifths of Jack Daniels.
D. Tolerance of "Did I build this ? It doesn't look like my work..."
E. Tolerance of "Just had a bad day......aw hell, I'll fix it."
Say your framebuilder is creative, causes a stir at the bike shows and really has some interesting original ideas that fly in the face of convention in almost playful disregard. What if the buying public does not support this talent and after some time he/she is forced to quit and get a day job. The upshot is:
A. Yee hah ! Don't have to worry about that one any more !
B. Well, he/she did it to him/herself being so damn clever......
C. Probably didn't have enough stainless on them there frames.
D. Maybe we all lose as this particular talent won't be able to fulfill his/her artistic contribution to the craft at large.
Last question. This one is bound to ruffle some feathers but I hope all will see the good natured aspect of the humor contained.......or not. Feel free to hate me.
Framebuilders are creating little guilds or groups to:
A. Have some fun.
B. Create standards that protect builder and client alike.
C. To attempt to elevate themselves above other builders for the sake of ego gratification.
D. To get together for Jersey Shore marathons.
E. Because everyone's doing it.
F. There's power in numbers.
G. Mainly out of boredom.....
H. Because we all really can't quite get along.
Thanks for reading....please don't firebomb my shop-I can burn it down myself.
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Somebody's been lurking on the Velocipede Salon forums!ReplyDelete
Best framebuilding blog post I've read since...everReplyDelete
Paul I joined for:ReplyDelete
D. To get together for Jersey Shore marathons.
I. So I could be given a hard time by my peers.
I haven't been invited because of:ReplyDelete
A. Personality
B. Philosophy
C. My friends
D. This blog
E. Live too far south and/or west
F. I don't watch Jersey Shore....
- AnonymousFebruary 9, 2011 at 10:07 AM
I want to stop pretending to build bikes so I can have a reason to buy one of yoursReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 19, 2011 at 12:20 PM
you sir are hysterical.ReplyDelete
Aaah, if only more people thought that way. From now on there will be no more anonymous comments....you'll have to have a name, just like me.ReplyDelete
OK. This one's for one of the finest, innovative framebuilders who ever lived and who ekes out a living somewhere not too far north of San Francisco.ReplyDelete
Your framebuilder has built some of the most innovative, most beautiful, and finely crafted frames in the world for over 30 years, yet the orders are entirely too few and far between.
A. He needs to "upscale" his marketing.
B. He needs to work on his "people skills."
C. He needs to cultivate his mystique.
D. He needs to sell his frames for half of what they are really worth.
E. Who wants to buy a frame from an old fart like that anyway?
Aah, this is almost too mean spirited for me. O.K. You want to play ? Here goes:ReplyDelete
By posting your own quiz question you should :
A. Walk a mile in this builder's shoe
B. Maybe get to know him a little better
C. Start your own blog and steal the quiz idea like I did...
D. Understand that the business of building frames can promote antisocial behaviour.
My profuse apologies.ReplyDelete
I guess the irony in my quiz was not so obvious as I thought. It was meant as an homage to this particular framebuilder and a sarcastic comment on the personality cult that seems to place more emphasis on a slick presentation and a glib personality than on honesty and great work.
You know....that's the way it sounded to me. I was just busting your balls for no good reason. The builder is wondering who you are....for that matter , so am I !ReplyDelete
Maybe that's best answered with a story...ReplyDelete
34 years ago two young bike mechanics decided to try their hands at framebuilding. Hanging in the shop where they worked, among a whole slew of high-end frames was one frame made by Bruce Gordon. Both aspiring young framebuilders spent a lot of time studying and admiring that frame. Among the Jacksons and the Hetchins and everything else THAT FRAME was the holy grail.
Aspiring young framebuilder "A" went on to become a great framebuilder in his own right. Aspiring builder "B" never even finished his first frame and has been begging, bartering, and even buying his bikes from framebuilder "A" ever since.
I am aspiring framebuilder "B": You are, of course, framebuilder "A".
Ahh, all is revealed. Maybe you didn't build a frame but you have two victories this 'cross season and I have only one !ReplyDelete


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NVIDIA has announced a hybrid technology for PC platforms -- Hybrid SLI -- that addresses the issues of increasing graphics performance and reducing power consumption. The technology will be incorporated into a variety of graphics and motherboard desktop and notebook products that the company is rolling out for both AMD and Intel desktop and notebook platforms.
First disclosed in mid 2007, NVIDIA Hybrid SLI technology is based on the company's GeForce graphics processor units (GPUs) and SLI multi-GPU technology. Hybrid SLI enables NVIDIA motherboard GPUs (mGPUs) to work cooperatively with NVIDIA discrete GPUs (dGPUs) when paired in the same PC platform. Hybrid SLI provides two new technologies -- GeForce Boost and HybridPower -- that allow the PC to deliver graphics performance for today's applications and games when 3D graphics horsepower is required, or transition to a lower-powered operating state when not.
For lower energy consumption and quieter PC operation, HybridPower lets the PC switch processing from a single GPU or multiple GPUs in SLI configuration to the onboard motherboard GPU. HybridPower is most useful in situations where graphics horsepower is not required, such as high-definition movie playback on a notebook platform or simple e-mail or Internet browsing on a desktop. It is also beneficial for users who want a quiet operating state with reduced thermals and noise. For notebooks, HybridPower can also dramatically extend battery life by up to 3 hours. When a game or application is started that requires the additional 3D horsepower, the PC can automatically transition back to the discrete graphics cards and power up the 3D capabilities all transparent to the end user (i).
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Exuding an air of paradise with its exotic palm-fringed beaches, clear turquoise waters, majestic mountains, verdant jungles, and beguiling Mayan ruins, the laid back way of life and relative obscurity to the tourist market makes Honduras an ideal holiday getaway for those who enjoy getting off the beaten track.
Honduras has all the right ingredients for a tourist hotspot: pristine beaches, great hotels, and a rich cultural history. Despite this, the country has scarcely registered on the Western radar in the past, other than 1998 when it was ravaged by Hurricane Mitch. These days it is enjoying a boom in popularity as a relatively unknown, unspoilt and undeveloped destination, recognised for its Ecotourism opportunities, affordable scuba diving, mountain treks and river rafting, as well as its appeal to the rich and famous eager to escape the prying eye of the paparazzi.
Toucans pose alongside orchids in the humid cloud forests and mountains, while banana plantations cover the rest of the aptly named 'Banana Republic', famous for its banana cake, banana pancakes, fried plantain, and banana chips. Many ancient Mayan and Lenca ruins can be found hidden away from civilisation in lush jungle landscapes, ready to enchant the most seasoned of travellers. One of the country's most breathtaking Mayan archaeological sites is the Copan Ruins, a UNESCO World Heritage Site set in a verdant valley in the far western region of Honduras, reminiscent of something out of an Indiana Jones movie.
In contrast to the wild beauty of nature, Honduras has a number of cities where you will find many modern amenities, including Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, and La Ceiba. And colonial towns like Gracias and Comayagua have scenic examples of Spanish architecture including forts and castles.
The once-thriving port of Trujillo has an intriguing pirate history and exquisite tropical beaches, while the region known as the Mosquito Coast, which extends towards the Nicaraguan border, is the largest tract of tropical rainforest north of the Amazon and is one of the most popular spots in the world for ecotourism. The country also boasts 373 miles (600km) of Caribbean white sand beaches, and the offshore Bay Islands such as Utila, Roatan, and Guanaja are an extremely popular destination, particularly for divers and snorkellers. There is plenty more to discover in this exciting country, however, and the warmth and hospitality of the Honduran locals is bound to lure first time visitors back time and time again.
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Revised start times for tonight's CBS programs: 60 Minutes (7:21pm ET), Amazing Race (8:21pm ET), The Good Wife (9:21pm ET) and CSI: Miami (10:21pm ET) due to CBS Sports live coverage of the PGA Tour's Northern Trust Open.
^^ THAT is hysterical!!
If no one see my comments on the episode in the other thread, I'll move them over.I believe the only other time we ever had a preview of the season like that was back in the TAR 5-6-7 period, when we got three full Races aired in 11 months. I don't recall CBS ever doing that on any other occasion.
And I now officially deem the Rachels: The Red Queen and the White Queen! Let their battles begin!
Quote from: georgiapeach on February 19, 2012, 08:41:34 PM^^ THAT is hysterical!!
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Yamaha has teamed up with lighting experts Koizumi to create these home theater speakers with built-in lighting. Each unit has three 25W halogen lamps that are remote control-dimmable down to 20% brightness, designed to reduce the contrast between your TV picture and the wall behind to "ease the burden on your eyes." So, a kind of one-color, non-reactive ambilight then, but the effect they produce is pretty subtle and saves you from installing moodlighting.
The 47-inch high units have a 70Hz - 35kHz response, and will cost around $1,250, but there's no info on availability. [Yamaha and Akihabaranews]


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Johnson County native to pilot war plane at this weekend's air show
August 19, 2011
Update: A stunt plane crashed, killing its pilot, Saturday afternoon at the Kansas City Aviation Expo and Air Show, prompting show officials to cancel the rest of the day's events. Tickets will be honored at Sunday's show, according to KCI airport spokesman Joe McBride.
A Johnson County native and Kansas University graduate will be at the helm of a high-powered plane during the headline act of this weekend's Kansas City Aviation Expo and Air Show.
U.S. Air Force Capt. Joe "Rifle" Shetterly, who graduated from Olathe North High School, is part of the Air Force's A-10 Thunderbolt Demonstration Team.
The A-10's will be one of numerous sights — in the air and on the ground — at this weekend's show. Gates will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Wheeler Downtown Airport, 250 Richards Road in Kansas City, Mo. Flying demonstrations begin at 11:30 a.m. each day.
The A-10 Thunderbolt II, also known as the "Warthog," is known for its role in destroying ground targets in support of ground combat troops.
Shetterly and other A-10 pilots will put on a booming, pyrotechnic display simulating the aircraft's destruction of enemy targets.
Making the hometown performance even more special for Shetterly is the fact that his father, Greg Shetterly, will also be performing during this weekend's show in his One Design aircraft.
"This is really special for me," Greg Shetterly said in an announcement from the Air Show. "I sent my son off to the Air Force as an amateur (pilot) and they sent him back an expert. He has become my mentor as an aerobatic pilot."
In addition to the A-10 demo, this weekend's show will feature numerous military and civilian in-air performances, plus ground displays and activities for the public.
Planned acts include the U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team, the U.S. Air Force Academy Gliders, a vintage Russian MiG17, multiple aerobatic acts and — on the ground — the Flashfire Jet Truck and a P-51C Mustang with an interactive exhibit commemorating the Tuskeegee Airmen, the first black fighter pilots to serve in the U.S. Army Air Corps.
The show is put on by the Mid-America Youth Aviation Association, a not-for-profit group that provides educational aviation and aeronautical opportunities for youth.
"We are extremely excited about this sensational lineup and especially that our headlining performer is one of our hometown heroes," Ed Noyallis, the association's executive director and chairman, said in a statement. "We are very pleased to once again bring a world-class air show to the great fans here in Kansas City."
For a complete schedule and more information about the show, visit kcairshow.com.
General admission tickets are $30 at the gate, with upgrades available for additional cost. General admission is free for children ages 15 and younger when accompanied by an adult.
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Lisa Heffernan of Bedford and Mary Dell Harrington of Larchmont were recently named to People Magazine's list of "25 Women Changing The World."
The two women are the founders of Grown and Flown, an online community of more than 200,000 parents with children of kids ages 15 to 25.
The site, and accompanying Facebook group, covers everything from high school to college to social media, midlife adjustments and lessons learned from other parents.
Both women are writers who in past incarnations, have worked in television and media, on Wall Street and in politics.
The two founded the site when their sons were on the threshold of walking out of their thresholds.
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Today, Walmart reported weak results in the third quarter.
Sales were up 1.3 percent, compared with the 2.7 percent that analysts expected. Walmart noted higher gas prices — because customers are paying more for fuel, they're not going on as many shopping trips.
But Walmart is facing a scary reality: the ailing finances of its core customers, said Brian Sozzi, chief equities analyst at NBG Productions.
"I don't believe it's a market share loss issue, rather the fundamental health of this particular customer group is concerning," Sozzi said.
In other words, Walmart's attempts to beat out competitors like Target and Kmart this season won't matter much if its customers aren't spending in the first place.
Walmart CEO Mike Duke told Women's Wear Daily that his customers are among those most affected by concerns about the fiscal cliff.
"They are middle-class Americans and those aspiring to join the middle class," Duke said. "Our customers are working hard to adapt to the 'new normal,' but their confidence is still very fragile. They are shopping for Christmas now and they don't need uncertainty over a tax increase."
The numbers Walmart reported back up Sozzi's view: traffic is nearly flat from a year ago. The picture is also bleak at Sam's Club, with executives saying that customers aren't shopping as much and are trading down to cheaper items when they do.
Walmart's holiday depends not on its ability to offer the best merchandise or sales, but on the financial health and confidence of its consumers.
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NEW YORK – M. Slavin & Sons, a retail and wholesale fish market, violated federal law by creating a hostile work environment for male employees, including physical and verbal sexual harassment and offensive and degrading comments based on race and national origin, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.
According to the EEOC's suit, some of the owners and managers of M. Slavin & Sons subjected male employees, particularly black employees, including both black Americans and at least one immigrant from Africa, to ongoing harassment. The misconduct included groping their buttocks, putting fish hooks into their buttocks and unnecessarily rubbing their bodies into the employees when passing them by. The owners and managers also made numerous crude, obscene sexual and/or racist comments. One owner used the term "n----r" and another manager made comments such as "African b-----d" and "Let me see you run like you are in Africa."
In addition to the Brooklyn location which was the focus of the EEOC charge and investigation, the company operates other locations, including Hunts Point Market in the Bronx, Rhode Island and Virginia. The original complainant, the named harassers and the class of claimants all worked at the Brooklyn location.
The lawsuit also alleges that employees left these positions because of the harassment and that the man who originally complained faced retaliation. To punish him for complaining, the EEOC said, managers instructed other employees not to speak to him, yelled at him when he spoke to others, assigned him more frequently to garbage duty and sent him home when he did speak to others.
All this alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex (including sexual harassment or pregnancy) or national origin and protects employees who complain about such offenses from retaliation. The EEOC filed suit, CV 09-5330, in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, only after attempting to reach a voluntary pre-litigation settlement.
Sunu P. Chandy, a senior trial attorney in the EEOC's New York office, said, "The stunning facts of this case remind us of an ugly time in our nation's history. The actions of these white owners, who subjected particularly men of color to horrendous physical sexual harassment and racial comments, must be challenged. When the employees said that they would fight back against the abuse, the owners consistently told them that no one would listen to their complaints and that no one would believe them. This suit shows the owners were wrong."
Spencer H. Lewis, Jr., director of the EEOC New York District Office, said, "The EEOC is determined to stop sexual harassment whether faced by men or by women. The objectives of this lawsuit will be to obtain fair compensation for those employees who suffered harassment and to implement policies that will help prevent discrimination."
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I have discussed many times in this blog how finding a female ancestor's new married name led to breakthroughs on the family line. Most of us automatically think of that when we suddenly "lose" tracking of a woman. What hasn't come naturally for me yet is anticipating multiple marriages. Maybe two marriages is the max my mind thinks of. I am still floored by how many people remarried over and over again. Even well into their senior years.
I found "Le-Anna" Simpson as an 18-year old woman living with her widowed mother in Washington, D.C. in 1900:
Her 9- year-old sister Lucinda was living with their grandmother, also in D.C. In Susan Simpson's 1910 household, Leanna is gone. She was not found on any 1910 census.
A marriage search turned up Leanna's 1912 marriage to "Verbee H. Peaker" in D.C. But the couple didn't appear in 1920 or any subsequent census in that city. Hmm. I thought for sure I'd find them with that unique name.
I searched for a remarriage under the name "Leanna Peaker" and I indeed found another D.C. marriage for her in 1929 to Clarence H. Hackett. That couple was not found on any subsequent census in D.C. Why is she marrying in D.C. but not showing up living in D.C.?
I expanded my census search to Maryland, as I know that people flowed pretty freely with work and school between Maryland and D.C., especially Baltimore. To my surprise, I found a "Verb Peaker" and wife "Laura" living all the way on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, in Kent County! They lived near a small town called Galena:
A probate case located for Verbee Peaker's death in 1925 confirmed this was my Leanna. The probate file contained a rare gift: a handwritten note from Leanna, noting that she was away at Hampton Institute getting her teacher's certificate and would need to know the date to be back for court:
Verbee's illness, death and funeral were noted in the Afro-American newspaper. Leanna was remembering him two years later:
Since Leanna was living in Kent County in 1920, I decided to take a look at her next marriage and sure enough, she is in the household with 2nd husband Clarence H. Hackett in the same small town of Galena in 1930 (listed as wife "Annie") and 1940:
Her first husband Verbee left Leanna a small piece of land he apparently inherited and she married Clarence when his wife died.
But the story isn't finished yet.
Yes, my dear sweet cousin Leanna had to do it again. She got married a third time, in 1948 to the brother of her first husband Verbee, Robert Morton Peaker. She was 63 years old and he was 67. It looks like he was living right next door to his brother so I guess (when his wife died) they figured they might as well grow old together;)
My guess about her marriages occurring in D.C. is that the requirements for marriage in D.C. may have been easier or cheaper than those in Kent County. Or maybe since that was Leanna's hometown, she felt she should marry there.
Leanna does not appear to have had any children with any spouse that survived. I am continuing the research of her and her spouses in all the other records, land, court, military etc. and fleshing out her life as best possible. But this is a great lesson to remind us to keep on searching those marriage records for "lost" women. They may surprise you.
The icing on the cake to this story is that all these years I've had a family picture from my dad's childhood in Jacksonville, FL. At the time, the name of the woman seated alone had been lost to history and was given to me as "a cousin, from Galena, MD":
I remembered that name because I'd never heard of the town "Galena" before. I'd long since abandoned the notion that I would find out the identity of that cousin.
And thus—she has been revealed. Cousin Leanna, nice to finally meet you!


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Day one is brutal.
We stay the night before setting off in St-Jean Pied-de-Port, a lovely village near the French-Spanish border at the foot of the Pyrenees, full of narrow cobbled streets where two cafe au laits and two chocolate croissants for breakfast costs five euros. It fits our budget nicely!
Twenty-seven kilometres up and over the Pyrenees is one of the bigger days on the 775km trail.
I've been contemplating today's climb for months - about going 'vertical' on day one. Much of the other 35 or so days are relatively flat.
But not this one, and I'm no climber.
'Just imagine it's Mt Maunganui' is my mantra - what I conjure up to combat the mental struggle ahead.
And the first four-and-a-half hours are perfect - a few small climbs, plenty of rain but no snow. The scenery is breathtaking.
It's not crowded, alternating between path and road, passing through a few small villages, we see only a handful of other pilgrims.
For a while I even wonder if the big climb will come, or if we'll just follow a valley through the middle.
Of course I don't really believe this, but it's amazing what the mind does.
At the 21km mark I start to go and at 22km my energy levels slump - 'the climb' arrives and life as I know it takes on a whole new dimension.
Lisa sees it and goes for the chocolate - I just haven't eaten enough. But it's too late.
'Just imagine it's Mt Maunganui' isn't doing it for me, and I'm gone.
I think about the The Tour de France - it comes through these parts. Lisa's Lance Armstrong and I'm The Pack. I need EPO.
And I think of Lisa Tamati, NZ's ultra-distance runner, about our vast reserves of untapped energy. I'm searching for mine, I'll take anything.
My heart is racing and I'm worried about a heart attack. It's pissing down and I don't even notice.
I won't give up but it's a devastating hill - 3km, and steep. Up, and up and up... and the end's nowhere in sight.
At some stage in the late afternoon, I get the 100 metre call from up ahead. All nightmares come to end. I make it, and collapse.
I'm lying prone atop the Pyrenees, with views in all directions. Overwhelming relief floods in. And it occurs to me we've crossed the border, we're in Spain. Voila!
Our hostel in Roncesvalles is 1500 metres straight down the mountain on the other side and 30 minutes later I'm in it, asleep.
Later, I'm revived for the pilgrim dinner, three courses including including vegetable soup and bagette, trout and chips and yoghurt for dessert, with unlimited red wine. Nine euros.
The gradient for day two is a 500m decent over 22km, and day three to Pamplona is flat.
It's just what I need.
Route marker: 27km down, 748 to go.