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Garage Sale - AFCO 4270LF2 M2 Double Adj. Mono-Tube Coilover Shock, 7 Inch Stroke
Mono Tube Shock Type, Double Adjustable Shock Adjustability
This is garage sale priced because it has been discontinued.
AFCO M2 Double Adjustable Mono-Tube shocks truly are the ultimate track weapons! No other shock on the market today can match the M2's innovative list of features. The M2's ability to keep the tires in compliance with any track surface condition from tack to slick, bumpy to smooth, rutted to washboard, lies in its combination of low friction and quick reacting components.
At the heart of the M2 is the unique bladder design. While other floating piston designs effectively "turn off" while trying to overcome stiction and changes in direction, the M2's gas inflated bladder is able to expand and compress at incomparably high speeds, very slow speeds, very small movements, and large deflection all at the same time with virtually no resistance or friction. The result is a feeling of being stuck to the track rather than riding over it.
Due to its unique design, the adjustments you make with the M2 have a very large effect on handling.
The M2's mono-tube, gas pressure design coupled with its superior valve design and use of gas charged bladder provide real, substantial control of compression and rebound resistances throughout the entire velocity range. This means the M2's adjustments are much more pronounced and provide more sensitive and extended low speed adjustments for increased effective tuning range.
For pavement late models. Includes tuning instructions, coilover kit and dyno sheet.
Includes tuning instructions, coilover kit and dyno sheet.
For pavement late models.
Low Friction
The extreme sensitivity of the M2's bladder design required a complete re-engineer of all the moving components to minimize friction. Starting with an ultra smooth black shaft, all new low friction rod guide, continuing in the piston seals and even the fluid port's contours, every part has been made to operate as freely as possible to give the shock the best response possible. Low friction operation not only benefits the ability to provide control, but also reduces heat build up and provides more consistency.
Swiv-Align Floating Spring Seat
The design of the high tech Swiv-Align spring seat removes nearly all side forces from the shaft and makes the M2's damping smoother and more consistent than other shocks without any added expense.
High or Low Gas Pressure
The M2 remains hyper-sensitive at significantly lower gas pressures than the competition. This gives you the advantage of being able to run a MONO-TUBE shock and achieve TWIN-TUBE shock feel and characteristics. To gain all the advantages a Mono-Tube design offers, the M2 shock is perfectly equipped to handle very high gas pressures and provide precise, effective, and predictable results.
Isolated Compression & Rebound Control
The M2's unique design allows for completely independent rebound and compression control. This gives you the ability to fine-tune for maximum control. The feel of AFCO's M2 100% o-ring sealed adjusters is not affected by gas pressure changes, since they use springs to control detents rather than relying on the pressure of the gas in the shock.
- Stroke: 7"
- Compressed Length: 13.20"
- Extended Length: 20.20"
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The Bulls are on the wrong side of the tiebreaker for the last playoff spot in the East. It might not even matter for Vinny Del Negro's job security, after a very public disagreement with management over Joakim Noah's usage.
As the standings would indicate, every game really matters right now. So why was Noah, one of Chicago's best players (and certainly their "energy" guy) sitting on the bench for all but 12 seconds of both overtimes in a loss to the Nets on Friday?
Noah's battled plantar fasciitis, and been on something of a minutes limit since return. The confusion lies in who's setting this minutes limit, and what it is from day to day. Apparently it was 35 minutes on Friday, and with Noah having reached that in regulation, Del Negro didn't want to send him back out there. Even if not playing him means he won't have a chance to play anyone after Wednesday.
So what happened Friday? A high-stakes game of Telephone, more or less. After regulation, assistant Lindsay Hunter went to GM Gar Forman and asked if they could put Noah out there. Forman called VP of Basketball Operations John Paxson, who gave the OK. The message wound its way back to Del Negro, and...still no Noah.
Noah says he's frustrated. The front office isn't talking. Del Negro calls it a "miscommunication," though you can't blame him for being trigger-shy after he's been chewed out twice in the last couple months by management for exceeding Noah's minutes limit.
Basically, no one's steering the ship in Chicago. The one thing everyone seems to be on the same page about is that there's going to be a coaching search starting very, very soon.
Forman says Del Negro didn't have to pull Noah in OT [Chicago Sun-Times]
No limit on Noah with playoffs on line [Chicago Tribune]


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ISPO SHANGHAI will present the following products and services:
Trade fair details:
|Exhibition name:
|Exhibition dates:
|July 2018
|Opening hours:
|trade visitors: daily 09:00-17:00 h; last day 09:00-16:00 h
|Alternative dates:
|every year
|Founded in:
|Location city:
|SNIEC - Shanghai New International Expo Centre
|Industry sector:
|Sporting Goods, Clothing, Fashion, Accessories
|Exhibition space (mp):
|33 000
|14 593
|Co-located Exhibitions:
|Exhibition Organizer:
|Messe Munchen GmbH
Messegelande / Am Messesee 2
81823 Munchen
Phone: +49 89 949-20720
Fax: +49 89 949-20729
|Supported by:
If you are interested in attending ISPO SHANGHAI trade fair, we are offering all the necessary logistics for your travel.
Individual Program:
|Day 1 (departure)
|Air transport from the main departure city from your country to Shanghai.
|Day 2 (arrival)
|In the morning, arrival in the Shanghai. Meet and greet at the airport. Our local partner will wait for you with your name sign, after you have picked up your luggage from baggage claim, and will escort you with a private transfer to the hotel in Shanghai city.
|Day 3 (exhibition)
|Professional visiting program of the exhibition ISPO SHANGHAI. In the evening, free time to visit the city.
|Day 4 (exhibition)
|Professional visiting program of the exhibition ISPO SHANGHAI. In the evening, free time to visit the city.
|Day 5 (exhibition)
|Professional visiting program of the exhibition ISPO SHANGHAI. In the evening, free time to visit the city.
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|Day 7 (departure)
|Private transfer from hotel to the airport, for the flight back to Europe.
Our services include:
- airline ticket from your main city to Shanghai and return
- private airport - hotel - airport transfers, with meet and greet at arrival
- accommodation in 4* or 5* Hotel in Shanghai, recommended by us (in double occupancy room), with breakfast included
- for visiting the exhibition: registration for each company and every individual visitor, in order to obtain the entry badge
- obtaining of the required visa letter; We only provide the travel service package and not individual invitation letters.
- optional leisure activities
- assistance for Chinese visa formalities (providing of the official documents necessary for obtaining the visa)
Basic necessary documents for obtaining the China visa:
- passport, minimum 6 month validity from the entry date
- color photo, passport size
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Testing Mocha applications with Grunt using Jenkins
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Shell recently announced that they will be building a $6 billion ethane cracker plant near Pittsburgh. This plant will boost employment, economic development, and commercial real estate, while encouraging more shale drilling throughout the region.
The upcoming construction of the new multi-billion dollar Shell ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, PA, means that there are unlimited opportunities for everyone who is involved in any aspect of regional business development. Marcellus Utica Connection is seeking strategic partners to launch marketing initiatives and connect the different industries that will most benefit during this time of unprecedented growth.


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Yesterday, we at the Daily Item re-launched an old favorite: the daily video segment known as "Daily Item After Deadline."
It stars reporters Francis Scarcella and Rick Dandes. I'm the executive producer.
It kind of a twist on the "newsroom reveals its budget for the next day" trend.
Here's where you can watch the first episode.
The daily segment will feature all of the day's major headlines, as well as include some cool features like special guests, on-the-street reporting and weather segments as time goes on.
It will be posted at dailyitem.com each day at around 5 to 6 p.m., depending on how the day's going – for example today it was up after 6, wince it was a super busy day in the newsroom.
Hopefully you'll be tuning in each day, and we'd love to hear from you what you think and would like to see! Let us know on our Facebook page!
Below are some still shots from behind-the-scenes of the first day of production, showing Francis, Rick and Dave Hilliard working the camera:


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Max Roach, a founder of modern jazz who rewrote the rules of drumming in the 1940's and spent the rest of his career breaking musical barriers and defying listeners' expectations, died early today in Manhattan. He was 83.
His death was announced today by a spokesman for Blue Note records, on which he frequently appeared. No cause was given. Mr. Roach had been known to be ill for several years.
As a young man, Mr. Roach, a percussion virtuoso capable of playing at the most brutal tempos with subtlety as well as power, was among a small circle of adventurous musicians who brought about wholesale changes in jazz. He remained adventurous to the end.
Over the years he challenged both his audiences and himself by working not just with standard jazz instrumentation, and not just in traditional jazz venues, but in a wide variety of contexts, some of them well beyond the confines of jazz as that word is generally understood.
He led a "double quartet" consisting of his working group of trumpet, saxophone, bass and drums plus a string quartet. He led an ensemble consisting entirely of percussionists. He dueted with uncompromising avant-gardists like the pianist Cecil Taylor and the saxophonist Anthony Braxton. He performed unaccompanied. He wrote music for plays by Sam Shepard and dance pieces by Alvin Ailey. He collaborated with video artists, gospel choirs and hip-hop performers.
Mr. Roach explained his philosophy to The New York Times in 1990: "You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historic musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting."
He found himself in historic situations from the beginning of his career. He was still in his teens when he played drums with the alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, a pioneer of modern jazz, at a Harlem after-hours club in 1942. Within a few years, Mr. Roach was himself recognized as a pioneer in the development of the sophisticated new form of jazz that came to be known as bebop.
He was not the first drummer to play bebop — Kenny Clarke, 10 years his senior, is generally credited with that distinction — but he quickly established himself as both the most imaginative percussionist in modern jazz and the most influential.
In Mr. Roach's hands, the drum kit became much more than a means of keeping time. He saw himself as a full-fledged member of the front line, not simply as a supporting player.
Layering rhythms on top of rhythms, he paid as much attention to a song's melody as to its beat. He developed, as the jazz critic Burt Korall put it, "a highly responsive, contrapuntal style," engaging his fellow musicians in an open-ended conversation while maintaining a rock-solid pulse. His approach "initially mystified and thoroughly challenged other drummers," Mr. Korall wrote, but quickly earned the respect of his peers and established a new standard for the instrument.
Mr. Roach was an innovator in other ways. In the late 1950s, he led a group that was among the first in jazz to regularly perform pieces in waltz time and other unusual meters in addition to the conventional 4/4. In the early 1960s, he was among the first to use jazz to address racial and political issues, with works like the album-length "We Insist! Freedom Now Suite."
In 1972, he became one of the first jazz musicians to teach full time at the college level when he was hired as a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. And in 1988, he became the first jazz musician to receive a so-called genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
Maxwell Roach was born on Jan. 10, 1924, in the small town of New Land, N.C., and grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. He began studying piano at a neighborhood Baptist church when he was 8 and took up the drums a few years later.
Even before he graduated from Boys High School in 1942, savvy New York jazz musicians knew his name. As a teenager he worked briefly with Duke Ellington's orchestra at the Paramount Theater and with Charlie Parker at Monroe's Uptown House in Harlem, where he took part in jam sessions that helped lay the groundwork for bebop.
By the middle 1940's, he had become a ubiquitous presence on the New York jazz scene, working in the 52nd Street nightclubs with Parker, the trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and other leading modernists. Within a few years he had become equally ubiquitous on record, participating in such seminal recordings as Miles Davis's "Birth of the Cool" sessions in 1949 and 1950.
He also found time to study composition at the Manhattan School of Music. He had planned to major in percussion, he later recalled in an interview, but changed his mind after a teacher told him his technique was incorrect. "The way he wanted me to play would have been fine if I'd been after a career in a symphony orchestra," he said, "but it wouldn't have worked on 52nd Street."
Mr. Roach made the transition from sideman to leader in 1954, when he and the young trumpet virtuoso Clifford Brown formed a quintet. That group, which specialized in a muscular and stripped-down version of bebop that came to be called hard bop, took the jazz world by storm. But it was short-lived.
In June 1956, at the height of the Brown-Roach quintet's success, Brown was killed in an automobile accident, along with Richie Powell, the group's pianist, and Powell's wife. The sudden loss of his friend and co-leader, Mr. Roach later recalled, plunged him into depression and heavy drinking from which it took him years to emerge.
Nonetheless, he kept working. He honored his existing nightclub bookings with the two surviving members of his group, the saxophonist Sonny Rollins and the bassist George Morrow, before briefly taking time off and putting together a new quartet. By the end of the 50's, seemingly recovered from his depression, he was recording prolifically, mostly as a leader but occasionally as a sideman with Mr. Rollins and others.
The personnel of Mr. Roach's working group changed frequently over the next decade, but the level of artistry and innovation remained high. His sidemen included such important musicians as the saxophonists Eric Dolphy, Stanley Turrentine and George Coleman and the trumpet players Donald Byrd, Kenny Dorham and Booker Little. Few of his groups had a pianist, making for a distinctively open ensemble sound in which Mr. Roach's drums were prominent.
Always among the most politically active of jazz musicians, Mr. Roach had helped the bassist Charles Mingus establish one of the first musician-run record companies, Debut, in 1952. Eight years later, the two organized a so-called rebel festival in Newport, R.I., to protest the Newport Jazz Festival's treatment of performers. That same year, Mr. Roach collaborated with the lyricist Oscar Brown Jr. on "We Insist! Freedom Now Suite," which played variations on the theme of black people's struggle for equality in the United States and Africa.
The album, which featured vocals by Abbey Lincoln (Mr. Roach's frequent collaborator and, from 1962 to 1970, his wife), received mixed reviews: many critics praised its ambition, but some attacked it as overly polemical. Mr. Roach was undeterred.
"I will never again play anything that does not have social significance," he told Down Beat magazine after the album's release. "We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we're master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through."
"We Insist!" was not a commercial success, but it emboldened Mr. Roach to broaden his scope as a composer. Soon he was collaborating with choreographers, filmmakers and Off Broadway playwrights on projects, including a stage version of "We Insist!"
As his range of activities expanded, his career as a bandleader became less of a priority. At the same time, the market for his uncompromising brand of small-group jazz began to diminish. By the time he joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts in 1972, teaching had come to seem an increasingly attractive alternative to the demands of the musician's life.
Joining the academy did not mean turning his back entirely on performing. In the early '70s, Mr. Roach joined with seven fellow drummers to form M'Boom, an ensemble that achieved tonal and coloristic variety through the use of xylophones, chimes, steel drums and other percussion instruments. Later in the decade he formed a new quartet, two of whose members — the saxophonist Odean Pope and the trumpeter Cecil Bridgewater — would perform and record with him off and on for more than two decades.
He also participated in a number of unusual experiments. He appeared in concert in 1983 with a rapper, two disc jockeys and a team of break dancers. A year later, he composed music for an Off Broadway production of three Sam Shepard plays, for which he won an Obie Award. In 1985, he took part in a multimedia collaboration with the video artist Kit Fitzgerald and the stage director George Ferencz.
Perhaps his most ambitious experiment in those years was the Max Roach Double Quartet, a combination of his quartet and the Uptown String Quartet. Jazz musicians had performed with string accompaniment before, but rarely if ever in a setting like this, where the string players were an equal part of the ensemble and were given the opportunity to improvise. Reviewing a Double Quartet album in The Times in 1985, Robert Palmer wrote, "For the first time in the history of jazz recording, strings swing as persuasively as any saxophonist or drummer."
This endeavor had personal as well as musical significance for Mr. Roach: the Uptown String Quartet's founder and viola player was his daughter Maxine. She survives him, as do two other daughters, Ayo and Dara, and two sons, Raoul and Darryl.
By the early '90s, Mr. Roach had reduced his teaching load and was again based in New York year-round, traveling to Amherst only for two residencies and a summer program each year. He was still touring with his quartet as recently as 2000, and he also remained active as a composer. In 2002 he wrote and performed the music for "How to Draw a Bunny," a documentary about the artist Ray Johnson.


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This blog post covers many applications which can be used to increase your productivity without spending a single penny.
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Sure, Apple's built its reputation on being the hipster brand of choice, but one of the nice things about Linux is the ability to customize virtually any aspect of the operating system to cater to your workflow and computing habits.
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Stand-up paddleboarders met at Agua Hedionda Lagoon in Carlsbad on Saturday to raise money for cancer research in honor of Hunter "Vegas" Chanove.
Chanove, who graduated from Carlsbad High School with a 4.0 grade-point average in 2011, was diagnosed in October with a rare type of eye cancer called choroidal melanoma, for which there is no known cure.
More than 75 people paddled out onto the lagoon for Saturday's fundraiser, said Luis Chanove, Hunter's father, though it was too early to know how much money was raised.
"It went extremely well," Chanove said. "I'm just amazed at how much this city has come together to help out on this."
Saturday's weather was perfect for the event, with clear skies and coastal temperatures well into the 70s.
Proceeds from the event will be used to support the research of Dr. Jonathan Kim, part of the research team at The Vision Center at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
In a letter to fundraisers, Hunter Chanove, who goes by the nickname "Vegas", said it is an aggressive type of cancer with a high risk of spreading to other organs.
"The moment I heard I had cancer was just mind-blowing," he wrote. "Unfortunately, there is no cure, but there is hope.
"The tumor itself is treatable with radiation, but since this type of cancer is aggressive, there is a high chance it will spread to my liver and different parts of my body."
Luis Chanove said Saturday that two more paddleboarding fundraisers are planned for later this year. The next will be this summer, and then another before school starts.
For more information or to make donations, contact Terrance Green, vice president of development; Children's Hospital Los Angeles; 4650 Sunset Blvd., #29, Los Angeles, CA, 90027, or call his office at (323) 361-1736.


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So far, Konerko is doing well. It's his team that isn't. Could that mean Konerko is on his way out of town in a midseason trade? He won't talk about that, or about his contract, which runs out at the end of this season. As a 10-and-5 player, Konerko could veto any trade.
This is the last year of Konerko's five-year, $60MM contract, so a budget-conscious contender would just have to take on two or three months' worth of Konerko's $12MM 2010 salary without making a long-term commitment. Konerko could fit right in on a team like the Rays — they have a hole at DH with the struggling Pat Burrell, their minor league system is deep enough to spare a decent prospect even for a short-term rental player, and in Konerko, they get a veteran right-handed bat who knows AL pichers well and has lots of postseason experience. Konerko has the right to veto a trade, but he might welcome the chance to join a pennant contender like Tampa Bay.
For links to Tampa's prospects go here.


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Blackmores Evening Primrose Oil + Fish Oil is a source of omega-3 and omega-6 essential fatty acids which are important for the structure and function of cell membranes. They are also essential for nerve function and growth. Essential fatty acids are important precursors of prostaglandins which reduce the inflammatory response.
Features and benefits
- Natural source of omega 3 and 6.
- Important for reducing inflammation.
- Important for structure and function of cell membranes.
- Important for maintenance of general health and well being.
- Important for skin and hair growth.
Adults - Take 1 capsule 1 to 3 times a day with meals, or as professionally prescribed.
Children 6-12 years - Take 1 capsule 1 to 2 times a day, or as professionally prescribed.
Children 2-6 years - Take 1 capsule a day (pierce and squeeze into milk, juice or cereal).
Contraindications and cautions
Always read the label. Use only as directed.
If symptoms persist, see your healthcare professional.
Active ingredients per capsule
Evening Primrose Oil (EPO) 500 mg
providing gamma-linolenic Acid (GLA) 50 mg
Fish Oil (Natural)
Containing omega-3 marine triglycerides 150 mg as: 500 mg
Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) 90 mg
Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) 60 mg
No added yeast, gluten, wheat, milk derivatives, preservatives, artificial colours, flavours or sweeteners.


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Share one frame of fame. The idea behind oneframeoffame.com ist to produce a music video with the support of the web community. C-Mon & Kypski are producing the 'More is Less' music video and are using the help of users and their webcams. By using photographed frames from people all over the world a cool video came together. The music is fun and uplifting and isn´t it a great way to promote an album? I think it is! Almost 6000 Participants and counting..
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Posted by Editoress on 05/3/08
Federal Government Announces New Policy for Hosting International Sport Events ... But Not for Cycling
But will this program benefit cycling?
Unfortunately few cycling events will benefit from this program. The BIDDING process (a requirement to qualify for funding) ups the price for hosting an event and the UCI has a policy of awarding World Championships to non-European venues every 7 years (or so).
For many years cycling enthusiasts in Ontario (and most other provinces with the exception of Quebec) have scratched their heads about the lack of UCI-level cycling events in the province. The 2003 World Championships was to be the catalyst for a resurgence of high level racing events.
Corporate support for non-winter Olympic sports has stalled of late and promoters are turning to government grants to assist them putting together their events.
A recent conversation with a promoter who was turned down for funds to assist in holding a UCI calibre event in southern Ontario revealed he was turned down because the event was not a "BID" event, that is, no other venues/promoters were going for the same date.
Both the federal and provincial government programs have a bid process as part of the requirement for funding, the details of which can be seen below. However, this process completely ignores the reality of how cycling events are awarded by the UCI.
For a non-world championship or World Cup level event, the organizer applies (through the CCA) to the UCI to have their event on a certain date. Assuming it meets the requirements (technical, financial and not conflicting with other events in the same geographic area) then the UCI will approve the event and add it to the appropriate calendar.
Therefore, there is no bidding involved, and thus organizers who are applying for funding under these various programs are being flatly told "you don't qualify".
Now, leaving aside the fact that this is bureaucratic silliness at its worst (let's ignore reality and make the world fit our system...), it also means that organizers are put into financial hardship that other sports don't face, all while trying to achieve the increase in international events that these programs are meant to promote!
From Government of Canada
The Government of Canada recently announced its new Federal Policy for Hosting International Sport Events, which will provide the foundation for a proactive and strategic approach for the bidding and the hosting of international sport events in Canada.
The Honourable Helena Guergis, Secretary of State (Foreign Affairs and International Trade) (Sport), announced the policy in Gatineau April 29th during the 2008 Sport Events Congress hosted by the Canadian Sport Tourism Alliance.
"Hosting international sporting events in Canada provides our athletes and coaches with valuable training and competition experience, and contributes to our goal of becoming a leading sport nation," said Secretary of State Guergis. "A coordinated and strategic approach to hosting sport events will ensure Canada maximizes sport, cultural, and economic benefits for Canadian communities."
The new policy builds on the Strategic Hosting Framework for Hosting International Sport Events, previously approved by the 14 federal-provincial-territorial governments. With the addition of a $14.7 million annual investment to the current base funding of $1 million, this new policy will help the Government of Canada work with national sport organizations, multisport service organizations, and other orders of government to take a proactive approach to bidding for and hosting international sport events in Canada.
The policy will provide an opportunity to adopt, for the first time, a pan-Canadian approach which will significantly strengthen the Government of Canada's investment and leadership in bidding for and hosting events. The new policy, beginning this year, calls for a maximum of two International Major Multisport Games every ten years, one Large International Single Sport Event every two years, 30 or more Small International Single Sport events each year as well as International Multisport Games for Aboriginal peoples and persons with a disability.
The new policy provides a proactive and strategic approach to bidding and hosting while promoting effective, timely and transparent decision-making coordinated with provinces/territories and the sport community. The policy will also require the sport community to develop their strategic and proactive long-term plans with relation to hosting international sport events in Canada and the new funds will allow for better support for all international single sport events.
The Government of Canada is the single largest contributor to sport in this country and supports participation and excellence from the playground to the podium. When the commitment in Budget 2008 is fully implemented, the Government of Canada's investment in the Canadian sport system will grow to an all-time high of more than $164 million annually.
Sport Canada's policy
Sport Canada's Assessment Guide
Guidelines for Completing Economic Evaluations
The Ontario Government's "International Amateur Sport Hosting Policy" has a similar requirment:
The sport event has been sanctioned by an international sport federation that is recognized by the International Olympic Committee, or an International Games Federation (e.g. Commonwealth Games Federation, Pan American Sport Association, World University Games, Special Olympic International), and is awarded through a formal bidding process by the international sport federation or international games federation.
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The inclusion of former NFL safety and convicted rapist Darren Sharper on this year's list of Pro Football Hall of Fame nominees has created a national outcry.
Sharper, a five-time Pro Bowler, pleaded guilty in 2015 to drugging and raping up to 16 women in four states. U.S. District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo sentenced him to 18 years in prison last month.
There is no character clause to be eligible for the Hall of Fame, but that has not tempered a debate that has some Twitter members calling for an NFL boycott in the unlikely event Sharper is elected.
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To be eligible for the nominating process, a player or coach must be retired for at least five years. Several more cuts remain in the process before finalists are chosen.
Messages and emails left with two Hall of Fame spokesmen were not immediately returned.
Sharper was convicted of teaming up with two other men to spike nine women's drinks so they could rape them while the women were sedated in Louisiana, Arizona, California and Nevada.
And some can't believe Sharper's name is listed.
"This is not a character flaw, however. This is something even Sharper described at his sentencing as 'heinous,'" Sporting News columnist Mike DeCourcy wrote after the nominees were released Thursday. "This is not someone who was mean to reporters or undermined his teammates or got in one too many bar fights. This is someone who has acknowledged he drugged women — notice the plural there — for the purpose of forcing himself on them while they were incapacitated."
Fans don't get it, either.
"Darren Sharper has the chance to get in the Football HOF but baseball wants to keep Rose out. I'm confused," one person wrote on Twitter.
Sharper won a Super Bowl during a long career Green Bay before finishing his career with stops in Minnesota and New Orleans.
Several others pro football Hall of Famers got into plenty of trouble.
One of the Hall's most notable honorees is O.J. Simpson, who has been incarcerated in Nevada for the past eight years following a 1995 acquittal on the infamous double-murder. Despite calls for his removal more than two decades ago, Simpson is still a member of pro football's most prestigious club.
And linebacker Lawrence Taylor, who has had a series of run-ins with the law — mostly involving drugs or alcohol — also remains in the Hall of Fame despite pleading guilty to charges of sexual misconduct and patronizing a prostitute who was 16 years old. He was sentenced to six years of probation.


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Here is another life sketch I want to share. This time of John Haines Williams and Sarah Jane Davis. John is the father of David Davis Williams and Mary Jane Williams Davis. He is the brother to my David D Williams. At some point I hope I have more history to write of David D and John Haines' parents, but at this point there are far too many questions. In all honesty, it seems that their parents John Williams and Frances Henneys have had their history confused, merged, and corrupted by some other Williams lines. Until we can sort the real information on our line from the rest, I have delayed writing to keep from perpetuating mistakes and confusion. For example, it appears John Williams died in Ogden, Weber, Utah in 1867. But some have him merged and combined with John Williams who died in 1876, 1870, and 1867. On with the already written history.
I will offer more family information after the life sketch. I do not know who wrote this history.
"John Haines Williams was born February 1, 1829, at Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, Wales, a son of John Williams and Frances Hennys. He was the fourth child of ten children: Frances, Elizabeth, Catherine, John, Mary, David, Sarah, Richard and Joseph. His father was a collier by trade and worked hard to sustain a large family.
"Sarah Jane Davis was born 5 July 1830 at Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales, the daughter of William and Margaret Davis of Kidwelly. She was the youngest of the nine children born in this family: Margaret, Mary, Ann, William, Eliza, John, David, Lewis, and Sarah Jane.
"After their marriage, John and Sarah Jane made their home in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales, where he worked in the coal mines. Here two sons were born, William and David. Upon hearing the gospel and the advantages of life in America, they worked, saved, and made plans for a new home there. Those who emigrated in their party were: John, Sarah Jane, their sons, William and David, his father, John Williams, then a widower, and his two brothers, David and wife and Richard. They took passage from Liverpool, England with a group of Saints in the year 1855, spending eight weeks on the water.
"Landing in New York, they went to Scranton, Pennsylvania to make their home. While living there, the men worked in the coal mines. At Scranton, two more children were born, Thomas John and Ann. The family lived in Scranton until 1859 and then came west, making their home in Ogden, Utah for several years. There Eliza Bell, Sarah, John, and Mary were born.
"When a group of Saints were leaving for southeastern Idaho, John and Sarah Jane and their eight children went with them and settled in Malad Valley. At first, they lived in Woodruff where George and Frances were born. Later they moved to Malad and took up a homestead of three hundred twenty acres at Gwenford. There they worked hard clearing the land of sage by hand to prepare it for planting.
"John Haines was a lover of fine horses and cattle. Many people of the valley bought animals from him. They built a three-room log house and were happy in their new home. Here Joseph, the eleventh child, was born.
"Desiring the best in education for their children and having a desire to share their happiness in the truths of the gospel, Thomas was sent to Europe and labored as an L.D.S. missionary in England and Wales. After his return home he attended school and taught school for many years. This privilege could not be afforded the others after the death of their father.
"Sarah Jane was a very proud, cultured and refined woman, a wonderful homemaker, seamstress and cook. Many enjoyed her delicious home-cooked meals. She had to make bread nearly every day. The Indians were prowlers at that time. They came to her home often, but she believed in the admonition of President Brigham Young; It is better to feed them than fight them. This she did.
"John Haines died on January 20, 1882 at the age of fifty-three. Sarah Jane worked very hard caring for her family. Her daughter, Frances, lived with her until her mother=s death on August 4, 1892. They were both buried in the Malad City Cemetery."
Some more family history information.
John Haines Williams born 1 February 1829 in Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, Wales and died 20 January 1882 in Gwenford, Oneida, Idaho. He was buried 23 January 1882 in Malad, Oneida, Idaho.
Sarah Jane Davis born 5 July 1830 in Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales and died 4 August 1892 in Samaria, Oneida, Idaho. She was buried 7 August 1892 in Malad.
John and Sarah were married in 1849 in Kidwelly.
Their children are:
William Davis Williams born 20 June 1850 in Burry Port, Carmarthenshire, Wales and died 10 May 1916 in Malad. Buried 13 May 1916 in Malad. Married Hannah Maria Thomas (1849-1900) 10 April 1871 in Samaria, Oneida, Idaho.
David Davis Williams born 19 June 1852 in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales and died 27 June 1927 in Samaria. Buried 30 June 1927 in Samaria. Married Rebecca Price Williams (1857-1936) 31 December 1877 in St. Johns, Oneida, Idaho.
Catherine Williams born 4 April 1854 in Llanelli and died 27 March 1856 in Pennsylvania.
Thomas Davis Williams born 3 August 1856 in Hyde Park, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania and died 24 January 1900 in Woodruff, Oneida, Idaho. Buried 27 January 1900 in Samaria. Married Mary Ann Davis (1860-1895) 20 January 1881 in Samaria. He married Agnes Ellen Bowen (1868-1943) 18 May 1897 in Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah (married by Rudger Clawson, later LDS Apostle and member of the First Presidency).
Ann Ellen Williams born 11 April 1861 in Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania and died 26 August 1936 in Malad. Buried 28 August 1936 in Malad. Married Joshua "Jessie" Lewis Thomas (1857-1928) 26 March 1888 in Malad.
Sarah Williams born 3 May 1862 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. We don't know anything more about her.
Eliza Bell Williams born 4 June 1963 in Ogden and died 15 September 1941 in Samaria. Buried 19 September 1941 in Samaria. Married William Lewis Jones (1857-1889) 19 January 1887 in Logan, Cache, Utah.
Mary Jane Williams born 8 April 1864 in Ogden and died 20 March 1903 in Samaria. Buried 24 March 1903 in Samaria. Married Samuel Deer Davis (1859-1923) 10 October 1882 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
John Haines Williams born 18 February 1866 in Ogden and died 9 August 1956 in Malad. Buried 11 August 1956 in Samaria. Married Rebecca Morse (1869-1938) 14 February 1886 in Malad.
George Haines Williams born 15 October 1867 in Woodruff and died 26 December 1950 in Woodruff. Buried 29 December 1950 in Samaria. Married Sarah Elizabeth Morse (1872-1908) 20 September 1890 in Samaria.
Frances Williams born 10 April 1870 in Woodruff and died 18 July 1948 in Woodruff. Buried 20 July 1948 in Samaria. Married Samuel John Williams (1865-1943) 14 December 1898 in Samaria.
Joseph Davis Williams born 15 January 1872 in Malad and died 5 November 1943 in Samaria. Buried 9 November 1943 in Samaria. Married Rachel Morse (1872-1937) 18 August 1896 in Samaria.


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There's a good rule of thumb–you get what you reward.
Here's a summary of current U.S. policy towards big corporations: Invest in the U.S., create jobs, and get sued by the government.
You would think that during a business investment drought, any company that puts big money into the U.S. would be patted on the back. But no…
AT&T is the company which is putting the most money into the U.S….almost $20 billion in capital spending in 2010. AT&T is also planning to bring back call center jobs from overseas. AT&T is also getting sued by the Justice Department to block the merger with T-Mobile.
Frankly, this sends a signal to U.S. companies that getting out of the reach of government regulators by going overseas is the right strategy.


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DWTS J.R. Martinez and Anna Trebunskaya Helped To Salute And Attend CNN Hero Awards
Last night, the CNN Hero Awards, which salutes and honors those everyday individuals who go to extraordinary lengths to serve others and make the world a better place, were held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. Seen arriving on the Red Carpet below is Dancing With The Stars pro Anna Trebunskaya, Dancing With The Stars Season 13 champ J.R. Martinez (who also presented) and his girlfriend Diana Jones. Other famous faces at the event included host Anderson Cooper, Piers Morgan, Chris Colfer, Sofia Vergara, and Rachel Crow. Miley Cyrus and Kid Rock were the musical performers. The 2011 CNN Hero of the Year was awarded to Robin Lim, an American woman who offers free prenatal care, birthing services, and medical aid to Indonesian women.
You can read on last night's awards in more detail at CNN. More pictures there and at Zimbio.com.
I so want Anna's dress! 🙂


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Little roadster with folding hardtop is big fun.
Sports Cars
Editor: New Car Test Drive
$48,650 Base Price MSRP
$57,425 As Tested MSRP
Model Lineup: "BMW Z4 sDrive28i ($48,650); sDrive35i ($55,150); sDrive35is ($64,200)"
Standard Engine: 2.0-liter direct injected twin-scroll valvetronic turbocharged I4
Engine Options: 240-hp 2.0-liter turbocharged inline-4; 300-hp 3.0-liter turbocharged inline-6; 335-horsepower 3.0-liter turbocharged inline-6
Standard Transmission: 6-speed manual
Transmission Options: 6-speed manual; 8-speed automatic; 7-speed dual-clutch automated manual
Basic Warranty: "4 years/50,000 miles"
Assembled In: "Regensburg, Germany"
Model Tested MSRP: "BMW Z4 sDrive28i ($48,650)"
Standard Equipment: "power-retractable hardtop, leatherette (vinyl) upholstery, six-way manually adjustable seats, tilt/telescoping steering wheel with multifunction controls, Bluetooth handsfree connectivity, CD audio, HD radio, iPod, USB, satellite radio capability, automatic adaptive xenon headlights, run-flat tires, adjustable sport driving settings, cruise control, trip computer, anti-theft alarm system, rear pass-through slot"
Options As Tested: "M SportCitrus Yellow Package ($5,750) with 18-inch alloy wheels, aerodynamic kit, increased top speed limiter, leather and Alcantara upholstery, sport seats, M steering wheel, adaptive sport suspension with electronic shock absorber control, anthracite headliner; navigation system ($2,150)"
Standard Safety Equipment: "frontal airbags, side-impact head/thorax airbags, active knee protection, roll hoops; electronic stability control, ABS, EBD"
Optional Safety Equipment: front and rear park assistDestination Charge: $875
Thanks to its retractable hardtop, the BMW Z4 offers the freedom of a convertible with the convenience of a coupe: more security, superior chassis rigidity, more rearward visibility and less susceptibility to pesky weather. While Porsche focuses more on performance and Mercedes seems to emphasize luxury and comfort, the BMW Z4 strikes a happy medium.
The 2012 BMW Z4 offers a choice of turbocharged engines: a 240-hp 2.0-liter turbocharged inline-4 in the new sDrive28i, a 300-hp 3.0-liter turbocharged inline-6 in the sDrive35i, and a 335-horsepower 3.0-liter turbocharged inline-6 in the sDrive35is.
New for 2012 is the Z4 sDrive28i, which replaces the outgoing sDrive30i. The 2012 BMW Z4 comes standard with more features than before (although the base price has also increased), including Bluetooth, a USB port and floor mats. The current-generation Z4 sDrive35i was launched as a 2009 model. The Z4 sDrive35is was introduced as a 2011 model.
The new 2012 BMW Z4 sDrive28i is the base model and the first to use BMW's all-new N20 engine, a 2.0-liter twin-powered turbo four-cylinder that makes 240 horsepower, slightly less than the venerated, naturally aspirated inline-6 it replaces, but with more power available at lower revs, along with 30 percent more torque. As they say, horsepower sells cars, while torque wins races.
Four-cylinders have never been a staple in the BMW lineup; earlier use was limited to a few models with less-than-stellar performance, and Munich's engineers admit it wasn't an easy decision to return to smaller powerplants. But with increased global pressure to reduce emissions, all automakers are faced with the challenge of increasing efficiency while maintaining performance. Several technologies in BMW's new engine enable the Z4 to keep its sporty dynamics while achieving what BMW says will be a 20 percent improvement in fuel economy. For one, the crankcase is about 22 pounds lighter. High-pressure direct injection as well as electronic variable valve timing uses fuel more efficiently than older systems. And the turbocharger, which consists of one turbine directed into two chambers (hence BMW's TwinPower nomenclature), uses engine exhaust to generate an extra boost of power.
Slightly quicker is the Z4 sDrive35i. EPA numbers for the sDrive35i are 18/25 mpg with the manual transmission and 17/24 mpg with the DCT. The sDrive35is delivers even better performance with the same fuel economy.
We found the Z4 offers the nimble, responsive driving character one would expect from BMW. The performance and feel of balanced precision is there in every Z4. Models with the manual transmission and devoid of many of the techno-gadgets including iDrive will make for the most sporty, free-feeling roadster, while heavier, highly optioned Z4s feel more like grand touring machines than sports cars. For car club track days, the high-performance sDrive35is with the dual-clutch gearbox might be the hot setup.
We think this roadster is best suited to someone who values luxury as much as performance. The closest competitors to the 2012 BMW Z4 include the luxe Mercedes-Benz SLK roadster and the Audi TT. For those who want an unadulterated roadster that gives the true feeling of the open road, the Porsche Boxster might be a better choice. But in general, the BMW Z4 does an admirable job combining fun, comfort and style."
"The 2012 BMW Z4 comes in three models, sDrive28i, sDrive35i, and sDrive35is. (In current BMW nomenclature, sDrive refers to rear-wheel drive. However, there are no xDrive all-wheel-drive Z4s.)
BMW Z4 sDrive28i ($48,650), is powered by a 2.0-liter, direct-injected twin scroll turbocharged inline 4 cylinder engine that makes 240 hp and 258 lb-ft of torque. Transmission choices include a 6-speed manual or an 8-speed automatic. Standard features include 17-inch wheels, power-retractable hardtop, automatic adaptive xenon headlights, run-flat tires, leatherette (vinyl) upholstery, six-way manually adjustable seats, adjustable sport driving settings, cruise control, trip computer, floor mats, a tilt/telescoping steering wheel with multifunction controls, anti-theft alarm system, rear pass-through slot, Bluetooth handsfree connectivity, and an audio system that includes single CD player, HD radio, iPod and USB adapter and satellite radio capability.
Options include a premium sound system ($950) and Kansas leather upholstery ($1,250), along with several wheel designs. The Cold Weather package ($850) includes heated seats, a heated steering wheel, storage package and headlight washers. The M Sport package ($3,900) for the sDrive28i bumps the wheels size up to 18 inches and adds an aerodynamic kit, an increased top speed limiter, sport seats, M steering wheel, adaptive sport suspension with electronic shock absorber control and special interior trim. The Canyon Brown package ($2,300) includes full Canyon Brown Merino leather upholstery, sport seats, and Anthracite wood interior trim. A Citrus Yellow package ($2,550) adds black Alcantara and citrus yellow leather interior, sport seats and special interior trim. The Premium package ($3,300) includes auto-dimming exterior and interior mirrors, a universal garage door opener, eight-way power seats with memory funtion and ambient interior lighting.
BMW Z4 sDrive35i ($55,150) has a 3.0-liter, twin-turbocharged inline-6 that delivers 300 horsepower at 5800 rpm and 300 pound-feet of torque from 1400 to 5000 rpm. A 6-speed manual gearbox is standard and a 7-speed dual-clutch automated manual transmission (DCT) is optional. This model gets larger brakes along with standard 18-inch wheels. Cabin upgrades include standard leather upholstery, brushed aluminum trim or ash wood, and automatic dual-zone climate control. Options are similar to those above.
The Z4 sDrive35is ($64,200) features an engine with increased intake airflow and increased boost pressure to deliver even more power. Its maximum output is 335 horsepower at 5800 rpm and 332 pound-feet of torque from 1500 to 4500 rpm. In addition, its engine management system includes an electronically controlled overboost function, which increases torque by another 37 pound-feet, for a temporary peak of 369 pound-feet for up to seven seconds. The sDrive35is comes standard with 18-inch wheels and includes M aerodynamic body kit and adaptive suspension. The sDrive35is comes standard with the 7-speed dual-clutch transmission. Options and packages are similar to those above.
Safety features included on all Z4 models include dual frontal airbags, head/thorax side airbags in the seats, active knee protection, roll hoops, electronic stability, traction control, anti-lock brakes, and tire-pressure monitoring. Manual transmission models also have a hill-holder clutch to prevent the car from rolling backward when the clutch is engaged. The only option related to safety is the front and rear park assist."
Walk Around
"Classic roadster proportions give the Z4 a long hood and short decklid, shoulders over the wheel arches and tapers in three axes. While the Z4 is close to the ground, it is not prone to scraping at every speed bump or mild driveway entrance because the front overhang is shorter than that of many other sports cars. Short overhangs are better for handling.
The BMW Z4 is longer than the Audi TT and Mercedes-Benz SLK, and it's shorter than the Porsche Boxster, though the difference among them is only a few inches. In height and width, they are much closer. We think the BMW looks better with the top down, but it's still relatively sleek top-up, and its closed profile is similar to that of the Mercedes SLR. Gills behind the front wheels carry the substantial badges, and the side signal repeaters are located behind opaque panels in the gills; the BMW roundel is still here, but no longer serves to disguise the turn signal repeaters.
From dead-on at either end with the top down, the Z4 has strong resemblance to a scaled-down version of the 6 Series and the short-lived, Fisker-designed Z8. Sections of the taillights look like horizontal light tubes and appear to ramp up like theater lights when the lights are switched on. Adaptive brake lights deliver more red light when you hit the brake pedal hard than when merely slowing mildly. The center brake light is midway between the rear window and the tail on the trunk lid where it will not interfere with rear vision but will be covered up by an inch of snow. A single side twin-exhaust outlet signals a 28i, while the 35i and 35is have a single outlet on each side."
"The Z4 cabin is immediately familiar to any BMW owner, with many of the Munich builder's hallmarks: Simple white-on-black analog instrumentation, sweeping driver-centric lines, functional controls, and a high level of fit and finish (apart from the molding seams on the map pockets). The controls and optional navigation screen are easy to read, even in direct sunlight.
There is plenty of space for two people in the Z4, the head and legroom being about what you find in a midsize SUV. Though instead of sitting upright, driver and passenger site low with legs stretched out in front. Standard manual seats and tilt/telescoping steering column provide enough adjustment to suit many driver sizes; slender types will appreciate the side bolsters on the seats and larger bodies will be framed as much by the door and console. While they may not look like thick armchairs, the seats offer excellent support over multi-hour drives; the sport seats are a bit more confining for those of wider girths yet superb for a spirited drive. The driver's footwell is large enough for size 13 shoes to comfortably operate three well-positioned pedals and there's a good dead pedal on which to rest or brace your left foot.
Cubby storage has long been the bane of roadsters, but the Z4 fixes this with door pockets that tilt out for access (they also make excellent coin catchers for the change flying out your pants pocket at the first hard bend). A bin ahead of the shifter is good for a mobile phone or pair of sunglasses. Cars without the navigation system get a cubby atop the dash. The armrest lid conceals two cupholders, which can get in the way when shifting on cars equipped with the manual transmission. A third cupholder clips in to the side of the center console on the passenger side, but we find it awkwardly placed and annoying to attach and take off.
The multifunction steering wheel is communicative and feels substantial in-hand. The M Sport wheel is even thicker and easy to maneuver. Ahead of the wheel are a large speedometer and tachometer, with smaller fuel and oil temperature gauges (more useful than coolant temperature) in the bottom. Digital displays in the center list outside temperature, mileage, trip data, and, on automatics, gear indication.
Outward visibility is good, even with the top up. Taller drivers, however, might have to look around the inside mirror on up-and-down winding mountain roads. The three-quarter view right behind the seats is mostly unobstructed because the folding top design includes two small windows.
Climate control responds immediately to an adjustment in temperature. Other controls are easy to reach and well thought out. For example, there is no need to hold the trip odo button to reset it, and some controls are designed as multifunctional with one result from a quick tap and another by depressing and holding. The parking brake is electrically operated by a switch behind the manual shifter, and it does get hot in sunshine, even when on the road.
The top opens and closes in 20 seconds without any fear it will bump you on the head. Once up, the Z4 feels just like a coupe in terms of noise abatement. Raising all four windows (use the master switch on the driver's door) allows conversation at 75 mph with the top down, and most window-down wind noise comes from the area around the seatbelts. There is no wind-blocker panel for between the headrests, as specified in early option sheets, though we have seen photos and it may become available through your dealer.
Cargo room is about average for the class at 8 cubic feet with the top up. The pass-through slot is helpful with storing longer items."
Driving Impressions
"The BMW Z4 is clearly aimed at those who enjoy driving. The retractable hardtop and added features have nudged it a bit closer to grand touring car than sports car. The inline six-cylinder engines rev smoothly to redline.
The shift lever on models equipped with the automatic transmission and the DCT is a bit tricky to figure out and takes a while to get used to. Neutral is the default position and Park is a pushbutton; push the lever forward for Reverse and backward for Drive.
The new four-cylinder engine on our sDrive28i was snappy and able. We noticed the extra torque when passing slow-moving trailers on a two-lane highway, although we did find ourselves wishing for the extra power of the higher-end models when making passes through hilly terrain. The 8-speed manual transmission gave us the gear we needed, and when in Sport mode, didn't give us any unwanted upshifts. But, given the choice, we'd prefer the manual gearbox.
The more powerful sDrive35i gets to 60 mph a tad quicker than the sDrive28i, with plenty of power for street and track alike. It will wind to 7000 rpm but there's really no point with that abundance of torque, and while it's a superb engine it doesn't offer the delightful rev-happy feel the sDrive28i does. EPA numbers for the sDrive35i are 18/25 mpg with the manual transmission and 17/24 mpg with the DCT. We managed almost 24 mpg in a manual-transmission model over some amusing roads and 38 mpg at 72 mph on an 80-mile leg from 4,000 feet elevation down to 700.
The sDrive35is model has a more powerful version of the twin-turbo engine. Turbo boost increases from the sDrive35i's 8.7 psi to 11.6 psi in the sDrive35is. Those changes increase horsepower to 335 and up torque to 332 pound-feet. An overboost mode allows for 14.6 pounds of boost for up to seven seconds. The overboost feature adds another 37 pound-feet of torque for a total of 369 lb.-ft. Aggressive exhaust tuning gives the sDrive35is a great burble. The extra boost cuts 0.3 off the 0-60 mph time, which is an impressive 4.7 seconds. It comes only with the DCT. Fuel economy is the same as in the sDrive35i at 17/24 mpg.
The 6-speed manual transmissions for the sDrive28i and sDrive35i offer soft, progressive clutch take-up for smooth starts whether crawling in traffic or weekend autocrossing. Shift action is light, short and semi-notchy, rather like there's a rubber-edged metal gate hiding under the shift boot. Shifts are quick, clean, and error-free.
BMW's 7-speed DCT dual-clutch automated manual transmission comes standard in the sDrive35is and is optional for the sDrive35i. Also used in the M3, this transmission has clutches, but there is no clutch pedal. Put it in Drive and step on the gas. Around town you will feel like it has a momentary delay between when you press the accelerator from a stop and when the car starts moving.
The DCT can shift faster than a manual transmission, emitting brief burps from the exhaust pipes as it rips through the gears. It's also smart, dropping gears automatically (rev-matching the downshifts) when you brake hard for a corner, but it will shy away from gear changes mid-corner so it doesn't upset the balance of the car. There is a launch control mode for ultimate acceleration, but make sure to read the owner's manual cautions before you take the steps and disappear in a wisp of tire haze.
Brake performance and feel is good across the range. We had no brake issues during a day at the track in the sDrive35is. Nor did we experience fade when tossing the sDrive28i from corner to corner in near-100-degree weather. Since they have more power and weight, the turbocharged sDrive35i and sDrive35is get substantially larger brakes, and that may be a deciding factor for drivers intending to take their Z4 to track events. These models also have wider rear wheels and tires to cope with the added weight and power.
For the ultimate performance, though, the sDrive35is is the clear choice. It delivers performance levels exceeded by only the most powerful, and expensive supercars. We had the opportunity to drive it on a racetrack and there it felt right at home, hunkering down through corners, accelerating willingly, braking with power, and staying flat and balanced. For those hoping for a Z4 M, this is as close as it gets.
We found the Z4 rides commendably well, even on the standard run-flat tires (no spare) and optional Sport Package. Credit the rigid structure, BMW's magical suspension tuning, and the technology involved in the Driving Dynamics Control, which adjusts steering feel, throttle response, and the limits of the stability control system. A sport package adds electronic control of the shocks with Normal, Sport, and Sport-Plus settings. The Normal mode is the most relaxed, and it's the choice for the highway or around-town cruising. Sport and Sport-Plus sharpen the responses and firm up the ride. These modes are meant for more spirited driving. Choose the mode that fits your preferences, mood and situation.
Steering is electromechanical but you'd never tell by how well it communicates what the front tires are doing. Unlike many sports cars, in which it seems that heavy steering was a design requirement, the Z4 steering is light around town, weights up nicely with cornering force and reminds us somewhat of the Honda S2000. The sDrive35is model is a bit quicker and sportier. It can't match the surgical detail of the Porsche Boxster, but nothing at this price, short of a Lotus, does.
With a low center of gravity and near-perfect weight distribution with occupants, the Z4's handling is exemplary. You'd need something considerably lighter, more stiffly sprung, and equipped with fatter or stickier tires to make notably faster progress. The Z4 is not only nicely balanced and goes where you point it, it does so with little drama and it's relatively easy to find where its limits are.
Every Z4 model is fun to drive in its own way. And while the hard top does offer added sound insulation over a traditional soft top, it was still noisy. Both road, tire and wind noise penetrated the cabin at highway speeds. But to some extent that's to be expected in this type of little car.
Putting the top down doesn't change the Z4's behavior thanks to its lightweight aluminum panels. We found that the inside mirror and only the inside mirror vibrated a bit on poor road surfaces, a sign that body rigidity characteristics don't change much top up or top down.
Among the competitors, the Mercedes-Benz SLK also offers a folding hardtop, while the Audi TT and Porsche Boxster use folding cloth tops. The latter are perhaps not as quiet and sealed as a hardtop, but trunk space doesn't suffer as much when motoring top-down. The Audi TTS has the foul-weather bonus of all-wheel drive and a nicely finished cabin, but not the same balance and precision finesse as the Z4. The Mercedes offers many similar amenities but is less a driver's car and more a small version of the SL luxury convertible. The Boxster has better driving precision, with power comparable to the sDrive35i and the driver's engagement of the sDrive28i, but the BMW isn't as painful on the wallet."
"The BMW Z4 reminds us of a more intimate and engaging version of the 6 Series Convertible. The folding hardtop offers the best of coupe and roadster forms with few of the drawbacks of either. The Z4 sDrive35is carries a hefty premium, but it is the most powerful and the best performer. We recommend the base Z4 sDrive28i with its lively engine, especially with the manual gearbox.
NewCarTestDrive.com correspondent Laura Burstein reported from Carmel, California, with G.R. Whale reporting from Los Angeles, and Kirk Bell in New Jersey."
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NEW YORK (AP) Otto Porter had 14 points and eight rebounds to lead No. 15 Georgetown to a 64-41 victory over Texas in the opener of the Jimmy V Classic on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden.
Nate Lubick added 13 points and Markel Starks had 11 for the Hoyas, who led by 18 at halftime. The lead grew to 23 and was never less than eight in the second half.
The Hoyas (6-1), whose only loss this season was to No. 1 Indiana in overtime, scored the first nine points of the game, the last four from Lubick on layups.
Sheldon McClellan had 12 points to lead the Longhorns (5-3), who had their lowest point total under coach Rick Barnes, who took over for the 1998-99 season. Texas had won three straight after losing two in a row.


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Rösti is a Swiss dish made with roughly grated potato, cooked or raw, which are fried until golden. In the beginning, it was a common breakfast eaten by the farmers closer to Bern, Switzerland, but now it's consumed all over the world. The original one consists only of potatoes, but you can use your touch to add flavors using other ingredients, like bacon, onion, cheese, and/or fresh herbs.
It's not difficult to prepare a good Rösti. After using your imagination to choose the ingredients, you shape it into rounds. Then you will need a good nonstick skillet to invert the potatoes easily to sautéed the other side. Most of the time it is pan fried, but it can be baked in the oven too.
The first time I ate Rösti was during a dinner in my friend's house, Fernando. He filled the potato with calabrese sausage and the result was fantastic. Last week, my beloved hubby went to a conference and had his first Rösti. He loved it so much that he asked me to prepare another one for him. This time, I filled it with chicken and Catupiry®, a very famous and delicious Brazilian cream cheese.
Potato Rösti filled with Chicken and Cream Cheese
Braised Chicken Breasts with Rosemary
1 boneless chicken breast diced
1 small onion
1 tomato
2 cups of water
2 tbsp olive oil
In a medium pan , heat the oil over a medium-high flame. Add the onions and garlic and saute until the onions are translucent. Add the tomatoes, salt and pepper. Saute until are soft, about 10 minutes. Add the chicken breasts and rosemery, and simmer uncovered over low heat until cooked, about 30 minutes.
(Serves 2)
gold potatoes Yukon
1 braised chicken breasts
Catupiry or Cream cheese
4 tablespoons unsalted butter or olive oil
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
Boil the potatoes about few minutes avoiding overcooking. Peeled and let cool. Shred potatoes on the large holes of a box grater.Toss with salt in a medium bowl. Season with pepper. Divide into four equal parts.
In a non-stick saute pan melt 1/2 a tablespoon of butter. Spread into a thin layer in the pan add the chicken and cream cheese and cover with another thin layer. Brown for 5 to 7 minutes. Invert the roesti onto pan lid and remove pan from heat. Add additional 1/2 tablespoon of butter to the preheated pan. Slide roesti into pan raw side down and brown for an additional 5 to 7 minutes. Remove to a rack and hold in a warm oven. Repeat previous steps for remaining potato mixture.


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Israeli Minister: We're Close to Reconquering Gaza
Thursday, August 21, 2014 | Israel Today Staff
Israeli Communications Minister Gilad Erdan, a member of the Security Cabinet, told Army Radio on Thursday that the resumption of Hamas rocket fire had brought Israel closer than ever to a decision to fully reconquer the Gaza Strip.
Erdan said that Hamas decided to break the tenuous ceasefire on Tuesday because Israel refused to meet a single one of the terrorists' primary demands during talks in Cairo.
Over the past 24 hours, Hamas and allied terror groups have fired dozens of missiles into southern and central Israel, causing widespread damage and at least one injury.
Israel has thus far confined its response to targeted aerial strikes. But Erdan warned that Israeli military operations could expand dramatically if Hamas continues to attack.
"Will this happen tomorrow? It's not certain, since the price for this will be high, but we are closer today to a ground operation than we have been at any point since the start of the operation," said the minister.
Israel's aerial strikes have also become somewhat less restrained. In the first weeks of the Gaza war, Israeli forces issued several warnings of the occupants of targeted buildings, even if that meant missing the targeted terrorist.
Now, these warnings seem to be coming less frequently, as Israel is more determined to actually eliminate Hamas leaders.
The terror group confirmed on Thursday that three of its senior field commanders had been killed, along with members of their families, in Israeli air strikes.
Israel also targeted the home of Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif with a volley of five powerful missiles. Palestinian sources said that Deif's wife, child and one other unidentified person were killed. Hamas insisted that Deif had survived, but Israeli generals said all evidence pointed to his demise.
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Daniel Boone National Forest
Contact Information
Cumberland Ranger District
2375 KY 801 South
Morehead, KY 40351
Gladie Visitor Center
3451 Sky Bridge Road
Stanton, KY 40380
London Ranger District
761 S. Laurel Road
London, KY 40744
Stearns Ranger District
3320 US 27 North
Whitley City, KY 42653
Redbird Ranger District
91 Peabody Road
Big Creek, KY 40914
Daniel Boone National Forest
1700 Bypass Road
Winchester, KY 40391
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Cave Run Lake is nestled among the rolling hills of northeastern Kentucky. It is located on the Cumberland Ranger District of the Daniel Boone National Forest. This 8,270-acre lake provides flood protection and a clean water supply to area communities. Tourists enjoy the lake for its scenery and excellent recreation opportunities.
Submit your photos that capture your recreation experiences (fishing, hiking, camping, boating, etc) at Cave Run Lake.
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Recreation Areas
Campgrounds: The Twin Knobs and Zilpo campgrounds provide nearly 400 campsites, some with RV hook-ups. The campgrounds also have swimming beaches and group-use picnic areas.
Boat ramps: Cave Run Lake has 12 ramps for boat launching. A fee pass is required to use Alfrey, Claylick, Poppin Rock, Long Bow, Scott Creek and Warix boat ramps. Passes may be purchased at local vendors or at the Cumberland Ranger District office.
Picnic areas: The Billy Branch and Boat Gunnel picnic areas are popular locations near Cave Run Lake.
Trails: Several trails are developed in the Cave Run Lake area. These trails wind through the forest, providing scenic views and glimpses of wildlife.
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Cory Morrow Free Concert TONIGHT!
This is going to be our biggest night all summer at the State Line Patio Concert Series! Cory Morrow is a real Texas Alt-Country star and has a huge fan base. I'll emcee the show starting around 8 pm. And did I mention the concert is free?
Here's a link to Cory's website. Also, if you want to hear a sample of some great non-Nashville country music I've included a sound clip. Just follow the jump to hear it.


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Question: How does a train know where to go?
This question comes up a lot, and although I've answered it in comments or emails or Twitter, I've never given it its own post. But a lot of people have asked, for example, if a train is eastbound at Gateway, what do you do to it to send it to Gresham vs the airport vs Clackamas? Sure you call the signal but how do you get the right aspect(s) to come up for where you want to go? It's not like the trains have a steering wheel.
(Actually it's kind of fun to let kids see the cab of a train at the end of the line and ask them where the steering wheel is. It stumps their parents too!)
It's a trick question. Here's the "steering wheel" of a MAX train:
Route code (and train number, which is blurred out, you don't need to know what train number this was, but in following safety procedures, I assure you the train was stopped at the end of the line – not only was it not moving it wasn't even keyed in), Type 2 thumbwheels
In the cab of each train is a place to set the train number (under normal operating conditions, this won't change over the course of the day) and also the route code. The train number is the train's identifier, and it matches the number visible in the window box – for example, the train in the old header picture of this blog was train 40; the train in the old background image was 71. If Control wants you, they'll call your train number over the radio. If you need something, you begin a radio call to Control by stating your train number.
You can tell what yard a train is from (though not necessarily what yard the operator is from due to reliefs) and what color its route is from the train number. Trains 1-15 are Blue originating out of Ruby, 20-38 are Blue out of Elmonica, 40-53 are Red out of Elmonica, 60-74 are Yellow/Green out of Ruby, and the Mall Shuttle had been train 89 out of Ruby. Trains not regularly scheduled, such as those used for testing or burn-in get numbers in the 90s. There are some exceptions to this breakdown, like train 10 is Blue most of the day but becomes Red at night, 43 begins its day going from Elmo to PDX to Hatfield before becoming a regular Red Line, but this is all pretty much just trivia for passengers anyway, it's not like I'm going to quiz you on this later.
The route code is what tells the train where to go from its current location. Every possible destination on the alignment that can be reached via power switches has a route code assigned to it – not just the ends of each line, but also the yards, sidings, pocket tracks, etc.
Sign at Galleria with 11th Ave route code
In the first picture in this post, a route code of 50 will get a train to either track 1 or 3 in the Jackson turnaround by PSU, whichever is open. Every time an operator places a train-to-wayside call over a call loop, the switches will be set to move the train toward the destination set as the route code, and the corresponding signals will be displayed. Operators are responsible for ensuring the route code is correct for where the train is supposed to go. For Blue and Red line trains, this is pretty easy – the cab that leads going east will be set for Gresham or PDX, and the cab that leads west will be set for Hillsboro or BTC so it does not need to be adjusted frequently (well, it's easy as long as Red line operators don't forget to change the route code from the BTC pocket track on the last trip and end up in there when they need to keep going west…).
Yellow/Green line trains are a little trickier. For trains leaving Ruby to service those lines, depending on which run it is the route code will be set for Expo, the Jackson turnaround, or the Gateway auxiliary track (where the operator will swap cabs and take the train to Clackamas). Then to change color at Jackson, the operator will leave Clackamas (for example) with the route code for the Jackson turnaround, and then once there will set the route code for Expo. When leaving Expo in the other cab, they'll set the route code for Jackson, and then once in the Jackson turnaround, they'll change the route code for Clackamas. Potential errors can happen if an operator forgets to change the route code from 50 when leaving Jackson (if that happens, the train will head back south to PSU from Union Station instead of crossing the Steel Bridge) or forgetting to set the route code for Jackson from the end of the line (so for example, heading toward Clackamas from Interstate Rose Quarter instead of over the Steel Bridge).
Signal aspect review
Signals will reflect what route code is in your thumbwheel. First, here's a quick overview of signal aspects (for more information, I've written a lot about signals already)
A red aspect – STOP
A yellow aspect – clear for one ABS block (that is, the distance to the next ABS signal) on the primary route
A green aspect – clear for two ABS blocks on the primary route
A lunar aspect – proceed with caution, tracks may not be clear (your switches are set but no indication of train occupancy ahead)
The number of aspects that are lit indicates which route you'll be going on (one aspect = primary route, or "A" route. Two aspects = secondary route or "B" route. Three aspects = tertiary "C" route, etc). As an operator, when you're looking at a signal that can display more than one route, you need to know which of those routes corresponds with the route code you have in your thumbwheel.
Back when I was first learning the signals, one of the most confusing parts for me was confounding signal aspects with switch positions, in part because yellow over green signals are referred to as "advanced diverging" and red over yellow are referred to as "diverging" – so that means when you see one of those signals, you can expect switches to be set diverging, right? Well, not necessarily…
For example, at the ends of the lines (here into Cleveland Ave from Gresham TC) a single yellow aspect will actually put you over diverging switches into Cleveland, but a red over yellow is a straight shot in. A signal with two aspects means that you're diverging from the primary route, but not necessarily diverging over switches – it could be that the primary route itself diverges over switches but the secondary route goes straight. I had been thinking about the ABS signals in terms of switches, not routes, and that was a stumbling block for me. A permissive signal indicates that your switches are set for whatever your route code is, but you have to know if that means they're diverging or normal.
Same with this red over white vertical on W1760 at Hatfield – it's a secondary route (2 aspects), but this train will be going straight in, not diverging over the switches. Sorry for the blurry picture but it's the only one I have.. I either need to go out there and get a clearer one or get someone to do that for me.
It's not where you are, it's where you're going
So keeping in mind that an ABS (or ABS-pre-empt combination) signal displays your route, here's an example of what it looks like when you can call the same route from two different locations. Take a look at these signals:
Signal 76: Red over red over green
Clear for 2 ABS blocks to Clackamas TC
Signal 78: Red over red over yellow
Clear for 1 ABS block to Clackamas TC
Both trains that called these are facing east at Gateway – the one looking at signal 76 is in the eastbound main; the one looking at signal 78 is in the pocket track. Both have a route code set for Clackamas TC. And from both tracks, that's the "C" route / 3rd route / tertiary route, which is why both signals are showing 3 aspects. These aspects are almost functionally identical (the yellow on 78 just means that this train's leader is only one ABS block ahead of them, otherwise that would've been a green) even though the train observing signal 78 has two more sets of switches to diverge over to get to the eastbound main to get to Clackamas.
Gateway from above, click for larger
The platforms are in the bottom of the picture – from left to right, that's the westbound mainline, pocket track, and eastbound mainline. Notice that to get over to the eastbound main alignment (which, out of range of the top of the picture, diverges off to Clackamas) a train in the pocket track has to pass over the switches that could otherwise bring it to the auxiliary track, and then over another set of switches to join the eastbound main. Yet its signal aspect at Gateway to get to Clackamas is identical to what a train in the eastbound mainline would get, even though the train in the eastbound mainline doesn't have to worry about those switches.
Where a train is starting from doesn't matter – where it's heading is what will be displayed on the signal.
Lunar on signal 78, eastbound from Gateway pocket track
Lunar on signal 76, eastbound main at Gateway
Similarly, a train with a route code for Cleveland (or the Ruby Yard) going east from the pocket track will get a single lunar aspect on signal 78, just like how a Blue Line train heading east at Gateway will have a lunar on signal 76, even though a train starting from the pocket track has to diverge over switches to get there. The signal indicates that the switches are set for the route code in your thumbwheel, but you have to know if that means the switches are set normal or diverging (because you do NOT take a train at a high speed over these diverging switches!)
Here's another example, eastbound at Beaverton Transit Center.
Signal W760 is for a train in the pocket track (which is typically a Red Line), and W754 is the signal for the eastbound main. A train heading east from the pocket track will have to diverge over switches to get into the eastbound main, yet the ABS signal will show a single aspect indicating the primary "A" route. It doesn't matter where the train is at, it matters where it's going – and for trains in either track here, the only place to go is the eastbound main (primary route), therefore both signals have a single head that can only display a single aspect. There is no choice of route from either track, even though you will be diverging into the main eastbound track if you are leaving the pocket track.
W556 at Sunset, for a Red Line train heading to the BTC pocket track
On the other hand, if you're headed west into BTC, you do have a choice of two routes (along the westbound mainline or into the pocket track), which is why signal W556 at Sunset and the intermediate signals leading into BTC (W616 and W716) can all display one or two aspects for a primary or secondary route. The signals will indicate that the switches are set for whichever of those route codes you have in your thumbwheel.
You know, I don't know how to end posts. I feel like I should assign a 2-page essay on the importance of ensuring you have the right route code in your thumbwheel and how that relates to ABS signal aspects. Show your work.