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Why I Believe Fascinating Diamonds is Awesome Best Diamond Wedding Sets Online
I had such a hard time try to find a diamond ring for my engagement. I tried my closest jewelry store and merchant, but I just couldn't find the ideal ring. It was all beautiful, but none of them felt just right for me. Imagine me looking for months…just for one ring!
It wasn't until a friend phoned me and asked me to test out fascinatingdiamonds.com. She explained the site did custom made rings and was much cheaper in comparison to other jewelry stores. I found that Fascinating Diamonds is a jewelry store based in nyc. They have a little part of the store where they let the customers design and bedazzle their own rings for them. At first, I really thought the entire thing was a scam. I had over $4000 dollars to invest and I was not willing to lose that much money. However, I have been searching for months, so I decided to give this one a try. Best Diamond Wedding Sets Online
The Site Really Lets You Customize Your Ring
Initially, I was really skeptical of businesses that sell customized products online because:
- I felt the whole thing was a scam; and
- Even if they were not, I felt like they've limited templates.
But this site had far more templates than I thought. Their website has a huge array of things to select from. I got to pick my own ring design, my own metal band, and my own diamonds! I even got to select the colours, which was really remarkable. I originally wanted a silver solitaire ring with a excellent emerald cut. While I was tinkering around with the choices a bit, I decided to change my mind and go with a round cut and a bronze band instead. It had been easy to do that here and play around with the diamond shapes, colours, and styles until I got everything I wanted. Plus, their site is pretty simple to use! I found it tricky at first because I'm not too familiar with customizing products. But really, it's like playing a game of SIMS in which you make your own character. In cases like this, I made my own ring. Best Diamond Wedding Sets Online
The Diamonds Are GIA Certified
I did a little research on diamonds before I decided to tackle this online store. I discovered that it was best that my diamond ring was GIA certified to ensure that it will shine the brightest and last the longest. This actually caused a lot of stress on my part since I was purchasing online. I mean I knew so little about online stores, much less ones that allow you to customize your ring. I was very worried because I believed that the diamonds were fake. But, early on, I had been informed that all the diamonds there are actual and GIA certified. And it really showed when I received my custom ring, all shiny and beautiful.
You Can Measure How Much You Spend
Their custom made ring actually saved me a few million bucks. I believe their rings cost a general average of $2000 at most. For rings with round diamonds at the least. I still think it is a huge economy considering that other retail stores ask for more than that sometimes. At least you have a concrete reason as to why your ring prices the way it does. The purchase price of a ring depends a lot on the kind of metal the ring is, the diamond's shape (or diamonds if you plan on using more than one gem in your ring), and the 4Cs of the diamond itself: carat weight, cut, color and clarity.
Unlike retail shops, Fascinating Diamonds actually lets you look at the costs of the diamond gem, the ring, and the overall style as you're constructing the ring. This can let you make affordable choices without sacrificing the quality you want. By way of example, I wanted to buy a ring with a round diamond that has an superb cut. However a round diamond with an excellent cut can easily cost from $600 to $1000. That's only 1 part of the ring. Best Diamond Wedding Sets Online
How did I decide? The site tells me that a round excellent cut diamond with 0.35 carats, an E color grade, and a clarity grade of VS1 can cost you $1007. Meanwhile, another exceptional cut diamond with 0.4 carats, a color grade of I, and an SI1 clarity grade cost you $603. The artists behind the site ensured that nobody would see the difference. The choice became so easy for me. If it sounds too technical for you, do not worry. The staff is very accommodating; they will actually give you a rundown on what you need to know in case you ever get stuck.
Their Service is Remarkable!
The jewellery artists behind Fascinating Diamonds are amazing! They were so meticulous in the way they managed my requests, big or small. Sometimes, they'd even throw in their own suggestions and choose the style that'll fit me best. This was unlike any other experience I had with retail shops. They handled all of my questions so well.
It was understandable that they do, however, considering that they customize your ring to satisfy your needs. They also ship outside of New York, also! Since the store's based in New York and I'm not, I was expecting that the shipping might last longer than usual. But the whole interaction was so smooth and I was really pleased with my ring when it arrived. Best Diamond Wedding Sets Online
What You Need To Know First Best Diamond Wedding Sets Online
I believe it's best if you do a little research on rings prior to customizing your own. There's a lot you will need to know about jewelry first before getting into this, particularly when you want to check into how much you are spending.
While the artists were accommodating, I honestly think that this can't be for somebody who's hasn't done their research on diamond rings beforehand. It's also a lot simpler if you already have a certain style in mind. But then again, it was fun playing around with the styles and the colors it was easy to change my mind.
Conclusion Best Diamond Wedding Sets Online
For somebody who knows what they need but can't find it everywhere, fascinatingdiamonds.com is the perfect place for you.
But if you're a little indecisive about what you really want, it's also the perfect place to explore what you like and what you do not like.
It's really like one of those video games where you choose exactly what you get. It was an awesome experience for me and I could not be happier with the results.


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Guaranteed Reserve Forces Duty (GRFD)
This program consists of three types of Guaranteed Reserve Forces Duty (GRFD) Scholarships: GRFD dedicated ARNG (Army National Guard) Scholarship, GRFD dedicated USAR (US Army Reserves) Scholarship and GRFD Scholarships where the cadet can assess into either the NG or USAR.
This program allows individuals to be on scholarship, provide guaranteed service in the ARNG or USAR and requires the student to participate in the Simultaneous Membership Program (SMP). Scholarship money can be used for either Room and Board or Tuition and Fees. If Scholarship money is used towards Room and Board, Federal (in addition if applicable State, re: ARNG).
Tuition Assistance can be used in conjunction with Scholarship money to pay for tuition. Room and Board amounts are taxable monies paid directly to the Cadet and are determined by an average or aggregate of the area. If Scholarship money is used for Tuition and Fees, then Federal/State Tuition Assistance cannot be used for room and board.
High School Seniors and current undergrad/ graduate students with two or more years can apply.

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Most ads these days, especially Super Bowl ads, are what my old boss would call borrowed interest -- dependant on a pop culture reference for its storyline or main joke . Most people agree that VW's little Darth Vader spot was the best Super Bowl ad from last year. But that wasn't a particularly original spot -- they just dressed up a kid like a movie character and shot him doing stuff.
That didn't stop people from loving the ad anyway, and so here now is Honda capitalizing on the trend by hiring Matthew Broderick to do a 150-second sequel to "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," swapping the Ferrari for a CRV. Does this work? Is this spot any good? Let's answer a few questions:
Does Broderick re-enact Ferris' brilliant phony sick voice? He does! The "movies bring so much joy" line is a winner. And he does it to get off of work, which is a logical way of updating the whole gag. Also, you should note that Broderick is NOT playing Ferris Bueller in this spot. He's playing himself. I bet there were 75 differing legal reasons for that.
Did they grab the right to "Oh Yeah" for this spot? Ohhhhhhhh yeahhhhhhhh. You couldn't do a Bueller tribute without Yello.
Is Ben Stein in this ad? Alas, no. Broderick is the only Bueller alum featured here. No Stein, no Alan Ruck, no Mia Sara, and no Jeffrey Jones. Jones is currently a convicted sex offender, so you can understand why he might be unavailable. Still, I wish Stein had been around to deliver the "Broderick? Broderick? Broderick?" line instead of the valet.
Did John Hughes direct this ad? No. He's passed away, alas. Duties here fell to "Old School" director Todd Phillips, who throws in some deft tributes to the original movie: Ferris' towel head wrap, the opening of the curtains, the boss spotting him in the car next door, the reckless valet, the fourth wall coda at the end, and Broderick having a serious moment with an item in a museum. Phillips remembers the movie as well as you and I do, and those little flourishes make the spot.
Does Broderick go to a Cubs game? Nope. He's in LA, so he goes to a horse race. The Bears win.
Does he sing on a parade float? He does! No Beatles or Wayne Newton though. And no sweater vest! Gotta give him the sweater vest.
What does the SOCHOIC license plate mean? It took me a second, but with the aid of Spencer Hall, I got it: SO CHOICE. Of course. Brilliant.
Does this ad actually work? The car is all but incidental here, but you expect that out of a Super Bowl ad. There's one awkward selling moment here, with Broderick telling another CRV driver that they have excellent taste in automobiles, which is heavy handed. Regardless, people love that movie, and so they'll probably love this spot.


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Division II Francis Marion University (S.C.) knocked off defending Division I national champ South Carolina in a baseball game on April 11. FMU's student paper is a weekly, and even though the edition chronicling the big win wasn't published until this week, the upset was still enough to merit front-page, above-the-fold treatment. Readers can really feel the excitement.
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Aluminum gate The Mont-Tremblant
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All our products can be modified since we offer a great range of concepts that can easily be adapted to your taste.
A meeting is required to plan a virtual simulation and therefore create a gate that really suits you.
All our products can be made of steel but it that case a galvanization is required to guaranty resistance to rust.


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Yankton Gets $2 Million for Wastewater Project
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - Sen. Tim Johnson says Yankton has been awarded more than $2 million in federal funding to improve its wastewater collection and treatment system.
Johnson says the funding will help Yankton improve its wastewater system to recover from last year's flooding.
The project is funded from a disaster program administered by the U.S. Economic Development Administration.
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More than eight years after San Francisco's mayor told city clerks to ignore state law and issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, and four years after gays and lesbians first won and then lost the right to wed in California, the burning question of who can marry in the state - and perhaps the nation - has reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
After weeks of indecision, the justices granted hearings Friday to supporters of California's Proposition 8, which defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman, and the 1996 federal law known as the Defense of Marriage Act. That law withholds federal recognition and spousal benefits, including joint tax filing, Social Security survivor payments and immigration sponsorship, from married same-sex couples. According to researchers, there may be 100,000 or more such couples in the nine states where same-sex marriage is legal, and in California, where 18,000 couples wed during a brief period of legality in 2008.
The cases will be heard in March or April, with rulings due by the end of June.
They will be argued before a court widely regarded as the most conservative in many decades - but one that includes justices who have ruled twice in favor of gay rights.
A 1996 ruling struck down Colorado's prohibition of local gay-rights ordinances, finding that the ban was unconstitutionally based on antagonism toward gays and lesbians. In 2003, the court overturned state laws against gay sexual activity as a violation of privacy and personal autonomy. Both rulings were written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, who may hold the deciding vote in the marriage cases.
Neither of the earlier cases set standards for reviewing other antigay laws or mentioned same-sex marriage, which was not yet legal in any state.
Times have changed
But times, and public opinion, have changed - most visibly in Maine, Maryland and Washington, whose voters on Nov. 6 became the first in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage in statewide referendums.
One constitutional law professor, David S. Cohen of Drexel University in Pennsylvania, said Friday that the court "has to be aware of the trend, and will not rule against equality, knowing what the future holds."
But the growing acceptance of same-sex marriage rights could also lead the justices to conclude that gays and lesbians are gaining enough support in the political system that they need no special judicial protection.
While the Supreme Court has agreed to decide the constitutionality of both Prop. 8 and the federal DOMA, it's not clear that either ruling will resolve the broader issue of whether the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the laws gives gays and lesbians equal marriage rights in all states.
The court could reach that issue, particularly if it upholds one or both laws and decides that states and the federal government can refuse to recognize same-sex unions. The justices could also take the narrower approach of the federal appeals courts that struck down both Prop. 8 and DOMA without deciding whether same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry.
Prop. 8, approved by 52 percent of the voters in November 2008, amended the California Constitution to overturn a May 2008 ruling by the state Supreme Court that legalized same-sex marriage.
In February, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Prop. 8 had withdrawn rights from a historically protected minority for no apparent reason other than moral disapproval of homosexuality - an unconstitutional act, the court said, under the Supreme Court's precedent in the 1996 Colorado case.
On Friday, Andy Pugno, chief counsel for the conservative religious coalition called Protect Marriage that sponsored Prop. 8, said the Supreme Court will now be able to "uphold the will of more than 7 million Californians who voted to preserve the unique definition of marriage as only between one man and one woman."
Theodore Olson, lawyer for the American Foundation for Equal Rights and two same-sex couples who challenged Prop. 8, countered that the court's review "brings us closer to the day when every American will be able to equally enjoy the fundamental freedom to marry."
Setting things in motion
The court's order also resonated in San Francisco, where then-Mayor Gavin Newsom defied the state's ban on same-sex marriage in 2004 - authorizing nearly 4,000 weddings that were soon nullified by the state Supreme Court, but setting in motion the legal case now before the nation's highest court.
"I have every confidence that come summertime, we will once again be on the right side of history," said City Attorney Dennis Herrera, who has joined the suit against Prop. 8.
The ban on same-sex marriage remains in effect while the case is on appeal.
Also still in effect is the Defense of Marriage Act, despite rulings by a half-dozen federal courts, including two Bay Area judges, holding it unconstitutional.
Those courts have concluded that the federal government, which has historically respected states' definitions of marriage, discriminated against gays and lesbians by denying them benefits from state-recognized marriages.
The Supreme Court granted review in the case of Edith Windsor, an 83-year-old New York woman who was ordered to pay more than $363,000 in estate taxes after the death of her wife, Thea Spyer. Windsor would have been exempt from the tax if the federal government had recognized their marriage.
The court also left open the possibility of avoiding a decision in either case by asking for arguments on whether backers of the two laws - Protect Marriage for Prop. 8, and a House Republican-led group for DOMA - have standing, or the legal authority to defend the measures in court.
Protect Marriage stepped in after California's top officials, including then-Attorney General and now-Gov. Jerry Brown, declined to defend Prop. 8. House Republicans intervened after President Obama withdrew support from DOMA and sided with the law's opponents.
Lower courts have ruled that both groups have standing to defend the laws. If the Supreme Court disagrees, it could dismiss the cases without ruling on the merits - an action that, in the Prop. 8 case, would clear the way for same-sex marriages in California.
The cases are Hollingsworth vs. Perry, 12-144, and U.S. vs. Windsor, 12-307.
What's next
Hearings: In March or April, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in the state, and the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which denied federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples.
Ruling: Rulings are due by late June, the end of the court's 2012-13 term. If Prop. 8 is overturned, gays and lesbians will be allowed to marry in California. If DOMA is struck down, as many as 100,000 couples will be entitled to federal benefits.
In the meantime: Prop. 8 remains in effect, barring same-sex marriages in California and denying state recognition to such marriages performed in other states or countries after the measure passed in November 2008. DOMA also remains in effect.
Bob Egelko is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com San Francisco Chronicle staff writer Marisa Lagos contributed to this report.


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UAE announces establishment of the Federal Tax Authority under Federal Law
Another milestone along the journey to VAT implementation
Press reports about the passing of the Federal Tax Procedures Law by the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) Federal National Council reported today and yesterday evening are correct. This law, when enacted, will set the framework for the interaction between the Federal Tax Authority (FTA), the people and the taxable persons in the UAE. It is another milestone along the journey to VAT implementation.


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Windows BCD
From Syslinux Wiki
There are two ways to have Syslinux coexist with Windows 7 or Windows Vista. The traditional way, of course, is to mark the Syslinux partition active and use chain.c32 to boot Windows:
# Windows 7 on partition hd0,1 (hda1) LABEL win7 MENU LABEL ^Windows 7 COM32 chain.c32 APPEND hd0,1
However, Windows 7 and possibly Windows Vista, is known not to hibernate properly in this configuration. For that case, or for those who prefer to minimize the impact on Windows, Syslinux can be booted from the Windows boot manager, BCD.
To do that, you need to install Syslinux normally, and then install NeoSmart EasyBCD. Create a new boot entry of type Linux/BSD > LILO/eLILO. Although Syslinux is not LILO, they work identically for the purpose of EasyBCD.
It is currently unknown if you need to re-run EasyBCD if you update Syslinux.


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Send Stuff In: Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Mail: HOT ROD, 831 S. Douglas St., El Segundo, CA 90245
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Spark Plug Indexing
My question is about spark plug reach. I recently removed my intake, and while looking at one valve that was near max lift, I could see the electrode was at least 1/8 inch in the threaded hole. I removed it and measured how deep my spark plug hole was-it was almost an inch. I'm using a very early pair of CNC-ported and bowl-blended Patriot aluminum heads. How far should the electrode protrude into the combustion chamber?
Also, do you index your spark plugs? Do the OEMs index plugs? If there were free power in indexing your spark plugs, you'd think the OEMs would all do it.
My motor is a 355 small-block Chevy running 10.5:1 compression, a Comp Cams 286H-10 single-pattern cam, 1.6:1 roller rockers, an Edelbrock Air-Gap intake (fully ported and gasket-matched), and a Proform 750-cfm carb. The exhaust is Sanderson full-length headers dumping into a 2.5-inch MagnaFlow cross-pipe and mufflers. Spark is provided by an MSD Pro Billet distributor with a 6AL box. The front of the motor is buttoned up with a Meziere electric water pump and electric fans.
Jeff Williams
Northern California
There are two considerations: first, the depth of the plug in the hole; second, the orientation of the side electrode in the combustion chamber. Ideally, the top of the spark plug's male threads should be flush with the top of the hole's female threads (even with the chamber roof, neither protruding beyond the hole nor recessed below the top of the hole). But due to normal machining variations on the male and female threads and the fact that the axis of the spark plug hole is rarely perpendicular to the chamber surface, this can vary slightly-generally some small portion of the threads ends up exposed. Also due to manufacturing tolerances and where the lead-in thread begins, an individual plug's side electrode final orientation within the combustion chamber after tightening will vary from plug to plug and chamber to chamber.
A significant mismatch between the spark plug and hole thread can cause detonation-promoting hot spots. If the plug protrudes too far into the chamber, piston interference is also a possibility. If the plug is recessed into the hole, this could shroud the spark, calling for more ignition lead than normal.
Today, nearly all domestic aftermarket aluminum heads are machined for 3/4-inch-reach, 5/8-inch hex, 14mm, gasketed spark plugs (Champion Y series or equivalent). A good heat-range starting point for a normally aspirated, high-performance small-block Chevy running on pump gas would be a Champion RC12YC, an Autolite 3924, or a competitive equivalent. These are projected-nose plugs. Blown, power-adder, full-race, or any applications using high-dome pistons should consider colder and/or nonprojected tip configurations.
Whether the side electrode requires special orientation or indexing within the chamber is controversial. Everyone agrees that it is sometimes necessary to control electrode orientation on extremely high-compression engines using pop-up pistons-not to gain power but to keep the dome from contacting the side electrode and closing up the plug gap. The advent of angle-plug heads and (for racing) extremely small-volume combustion chambers has minimized the need for this.
In the past, some maintained there was power to be had from (depending on the theorist) pointing the open end of the side electrode toward the chamber's squish area or toward the exhaust side. Again, with modern quick-burn chambers, the current thinking is there's usually no discernible power difference, but the final arbiter is, of course, actual dyno testing of the individual combination.
If desired, specific plug electrode orientation can be controlled by using varying-thickness spacer washers, available from Moroso and other aftermarket sources. Moroso PN 71910 is a flat washer assortment for gasket-seat, 14mm spark plugs. For 14mm, tapered-seat spark plugs, use Moroso conical washer assortment PN 71900. Remember that adding washers moves the plug backward deeper in the hole, which as noted above could call for more ignition lead. Finally, look into using E3 spark plugs, which use a patented Edge-to-Edge electrode design that eliminates the need for indexing.
Champion Spark Plugs (Federal-Mogul Corp. )
Southfield, MI
E3 Spark Plugs
Ponte Vedra, FL
Moroso Performance Products Inc.
Guilford, CT
203/453-6571 (general) or 203/458-0542 (tech)
Pinion Angle
At times, I read in HOT ROD about the pinion angle needing to be 2 to 3 degrees. I am going to build a set of upper control arms for a '75 Chevy Caprice because I raised and leveled the rearend of the car 2 inches and it always did have a misaligned pinion-to-driveshaft angle. Now the pinion is sitting at a really negative down angle. The shocks are within an inch or so of being fully extended. Is there some reason I shouldn't make the pinion line up exactly with the driveshaft?
John J. Pellegrino
Blairsville, PA
You don't want everything totally lined up. U-joints need a slight amount of angularity to work right. If the trans output shaft, the driveshaft, and the rearend pinion flange are all exactly in line, the needle bearings will brinell into the cross because they can't roll freely. Instead, the trans output shaft and the pinion should be slightly offset, yet still parallel to each other in the same plane. The amount of allowable total offset between the driveshaft and U-joints varies: Low-speed shafts such as a steering column intermediate coupler can work with fairly high angles, but for long-term reliability on a high-speed driveshaft installed in a street car, the experts at Wenco suggest a total offset angle of no less than 1 degree and no more than 5 degrees. For example, if the total offset of the driveshaft is 5 degrees, to maintain everything in parallel, the U-joint angles at the trans end and the pinion end both need to ideally be 2.5 degrees. In the real world, the angles at each end can usually deviate 1 degree without serious vibration.
Note that the angles discussed above are in reference only to the trans, the rearend, and the driveshaft that connects them, not any angle relative to the ground. However, the rearend pinion and driveshaft angles in relation to the ground can be important for proper chassis reaction in a dedicated racing application. A drag race-optimized rear suspension usually wants a nose-down pinion angle at rest because the pinion nose tends to rotate upward under hard acceleration. Nose down means that the pinion angle relative to the ground is less than the driveshaft angle relative to the ground. It does not necessarily mean that the pinion nose actually points downward in relation to the ground; in some instances the pinion nose relative to the ground will statically point up, but it's still considered nose down if the driveshaft angle relative to ground remains higher than the pinion angle relative to ground.
Achieving correct pinion angle and driveshaft angularity may require shimming the engine/trans mounts, rotating the rearend pinion nose, shimming the spring perches (on a leaf-spring car), and/or rear control arm changes (on a four-link, as in your projected adjustable arm project).
Sears Brands LLC
Hoffman Estates, IL
Wenco Industries Inc.
Van Nuys, CA
800/622-4585 or 818/785-0643
440 Chrysler Into Early Coronet
Where can I locate motor mounts to install a 440 Chrysler engine into a '65 Dodge Coronet? The car now has the 318 wide block in it. I would really like to get bolt-in mounts that will fit the pads that are in the frame.
Don Friday
Luther, MI
A Chrysler B/RB big-block fits the '63 to '65 B-Body (includes Coronet) by using the same insulators and K-member as the 318. Only the engine brackets differ. Schumacher offers the bolt-in, factory-style replacement brackets for this swap, as well as other swap-related parts like headers and conversion transmission mounts. Remember that the big-block rear auto trans or bellhousing mounting pattern is different from the 318 polysphere or LA small-block motor.
Schumacher Creative Services
Seattle, WA
Disc Brakes For Chevy Pickups
I am building a '71 Chevy C10 for the street and strip. The hubs have a 6-on-5.5-inch bolt pattern with drum brakes. I can't find many wheels that I like with that bolt pattern. Can I get the spindles and brake system off a newer truck to get a five-lug bolt pattern and disc brakes? If so, can I use the ball joints and tie-rod ends for the '71? If not, please tell me what my options are.
Scott Keenan
Matteson, IL
Front disc brakes were standard factory-installed equipment on all '71-and-later Chevy pickups. During your truck's lifetime, someone either put an earlier frame under a '71 cab, put the later cab on an earlier frame, or installed the front crossmember and drums from a '67 to '70 onto the later frame. Regardless, you have a mismatched combination. For the purposes of this discussion, I will assume the front end actually installed on your truck is in fact the '67 to '70 version.
The most popular five-lug retrofit is the '73 to '87 C10 1/2-ton, two-wheel-drive, truck front disc brake setup. It is widely available, and the heavy-duty versions are better designs than the two-year-only '71 to '72 setups. Starting in the late '70s, some (but not all) of these trucks came with lighter-duty brakes than previously. You want the heavy-duty steering knuckles and rotors with a 5-on-5 lug pattern (ID by rotor thickness: 11/4-inch-thick rotors for the heavy-duty option; 1-inch-thick rotors on light-duty models).
There are several ways to go on this conversion, from simple to complex:
At the basic level, grab the late steering knuckles (spindles) and everything that attaches to the spindles from the later donor truck. The knuckles will bolt to your existing early upper and lower control arms by using the corresponding late-model ball joints from the donor truck.
Alternatively, grab the late-model upper and lower control arms with the knuckles and brakes attached. The entire assembly will bolt on to your early frame.
For a high-end conversion, Golden State Parts says it is possible to adapt a '73 to '87 crossmember (plus everything that attaches to the new crossmember, including the steering linkage, suspension, and brakes) to the '67 to '70 frame. Some attachment holes for the late crossmember are in a different location, but you can drill any necessary new holes in the old frame after first carefully centering the replacement unit in the same location as the original crossmember.
If retaining the original crossmember (options 1 or 2 above), some alterations to the steering linkage are required. The original '67 to '70 outer tie-rod ends have 5/8-inch threads; the late-model truck tie rods have 11/16-inch threads plus a different taper on the ball seat that attaches the tie rod to the steering knuckle. Classic Performance Products (CPP) sells custom hybrid billet steel tie rod adjuster sleeves with 11/16-inch lefthand threads at one end and 5/8-inch righthand threads at the other end. Several different lengths are available. With this setup, use your original outer 5/8-inch tie rods as the inner tie rods.
You will also need a disc brake-compatible master cylinder, a power booster, and a proportioning valve from either a '71 to '72 truck or the donor vehicle. It is best to change this out as an assembly, as there were several different pushrod lengths available as well as different suppliers (Bendix or Delco Moraine). At worst, an aftermarket adjustable pushrod may be needed.
If you don't want to piece together all these parts from multiple sources, CPP offers integrated kits with a variety of brake and suspension options, including dropped spindles. More detailed information on Chevy front disc brake retrofit options can be found by searching the discussion threads at www.67-72chevytrucks.com.
And don't forget to have the rearend's axle-shafts redrilled to the 5-on-5 pattern to match your new front end.
Classic Performance Products
Anaheim, CA
800/522-5004 (orders) or 714/522-2000 (tech)
Golden State Parts
Carson City, NV
800/235-5717 or 775/886-7000
5.3L LS Truck Motor
I have an '02 LS truck motor, which I think is the same in all aspects to the 5.7L LS1 and LS6 except for the slightly smaller bore size and top end. I am looking to obtain 11:1 to 12:1 compression and keep it naturally aspirated and fuel-injected. I want it to stay dirt cheap and swap as many used parts as I can.
Are there any parts from an LS1 or LS6 that will benefit me? Everybody swaps out the heads to a set of LS1s or aftermarket heads, but can these truck heads be machined to give the same benefit? The sodium-filled valves in the LS6 are nice, but they are really a luxury.
To reach my compression goal, are pop-up pistons my only option or is there a stroker kit available? Would going one way or the other affect reliability? If the 6.0L LS truck crank is longer, can it be used as a stroker crank? How much power and rpm can the stock 5.3L short-block handle?
This engine will be going in a stripped roadster for Saturday night stoplight bashing. I have a four-speed ready. I am building an aluminum intake with the eight individual stack design similar to what Kinsler and Enderle have designed but with a few differences. It looks supercool-and for only $600 in materials compared with, um, $3,500 for what?
I was also planning on using a Comp Cams Mutha Thumpr cam for that really mean sound and probably get the top end package of rocker arms and pushrods from Comp as well. I plan to install long-tube headers. I would like the motor to rev way high if it can stand it reliably. I was thinking to achieve output in the 450hp range, but hopefully much higher.
Jonathan Bednarz
West Texas
All production LS-style engines except for the 4.8L and 7.0L have the same 3.622-inch stroke (see table), so there's no benefit to installing a 6.0L crank into your engine. The 4.0-inch stroke forged crank used in 7.0L LS7 Corvette engines has about a 1-inch-longer front snout that's designed to work with the LS7's larger, dry-sump oil pump; however, the LS7 crank can be made to work with a normal wet-sump setup by either installing a fabricated 1-inch spacer in front of the LS7 balancer (use an LS7 crank balancer bolt) or by machining the snout to reduce its length by approximately 1 inch (use an LS2 balancer bolt). This conversion also requires a standard LS engine crank gear (PN 12556582), a standard LS oil pump (PN 17801830), and a standard LS2 timing cover (PN 12600325). Aftermarket stroker cranks are widely available that alleviate the need for all this hassle, but whether it's the rare and pricey production LS7 forging or the aftermarket unit, it kind of defeats the purpose of a budget 5.3L buildup. (Kind of like wasting your time stroking an old-school 305 when you can start with a 350.) Note, too, that the really good rectangular-port heads out there capable of feeding large-cubic-inch motors require at least a 4.0-inch bore size. If you want to build a large-displacement LS for a reasonable amount of money, start with a 4.0-inch-bore, 6.0L, cast-iron block.
The most cost-effective enhancement for an existing 5.3L, cast-iron block is to turn it into a 5.7 by overboring the 5.3's stock 3.780-inch-od cylinders to the 5.7L's 3.898-inch size. The School of Automotive Machinists (SAM) sonic-checked a stock-bore 5.3L block for me. It reports "the 5.3L block has 0.270- to 0.290-inch thickness between the cylinders and 0.360 to 0.390 everywhere else." This means after overboring, you'll still have a minimum 0.211 inch of wall thickness remaining, more than enough for hard-core performance use. Big overbores like these won't work on the 5.3L aluminum blocks that began to appear in 2004. They can't be overbored more than 0.010 inch.
The Gen III 5.7L LS1 and 5.3L (LR4, LM4, LM7, L59) heads have virtually identical intake and exhaust ports (200cc intake/70cc exhaust runner volumes). The 5.3L has a smaller combustion chamber (61.15 cc versus the LS1's 66.67 cc) and a smaller intake valve (1.9 instead of 2.0 inches). LS2 and LS6 heads have 210/75cc runners and 64.45cc chambers. All 5.3L and LS1/LS2/LS6 heads use 1.55-inch exhaust valves. LS1 and LS2 heads have standard-weight valves, while the LS6's received lightweight valves.
LS1/LS2/LS6 heads bolt on to 5.3L engines, and the larger intake valves will clear the smaller, stock, 5.3L cylinder bores. In fact, GM installed LS2 heads (casting No. 243 or 799) on some '07-and-later 5.3s (RPO L33). Admittedly, factory production cams are wimpy in the lift and duration departments, so I also had SAM install a head with 2.02-inch intake valves on a stock-bore 5.3; it reports that at 0.700-inch lift, there was still 0.070 inch remaining valve-to-wall clearance.
Many 5.7L builders actually prefer the 5.3L heads for their smaller, compression-ratio-enhancing combustion chambers. They add the larger intake valves and do a through-pocket port and gasket match to come up with a great, relatively inexpensive, cathedral-port head combo. There are 9-second 5.7L cars out there running heads like these, according to SAM, which is heavily involved in the LS racing scene.
The weak link in the stock LS valvetrain is the marginal pushrods. The rollerized stock rocker arms are plenty stout and lighter than most aftermarket rocker arms. Unfortunately, the stock valvetrain is a net lash (nonadjustable) design. Quality aftermarket pushrods should be used to replace the stock pushrods, and-since they can be ordered in custom lengths-also correct valvetrain geometry on aftermarket hydraulic roller camshafts without the need for an adjustable valvetrain and pricey aftermarket roller rockers.
Idle quality may be a problem with the individual-runner intake and Mutha Thumpr cam. Traditionally, this meant running the fuel-injection in pure Alpha-N mode (throttle position sensor metering only) with a hand-mapped fuel table. But FAST should soon have a direct-port version of its self-learning EZ-EFI system ready; one option is said to be Alpha-N metering but with self-correcting feedback through a wide-band O2 sensor.
These new-gen motors like to rev, and they will make outstanding power. The stock rods with ARP bolts are easily good to 500-plus horsepower. The stock hypereutectic cast pistons are good to 500 hp normally aspirated on good gas, assuming no detonation. The stock cast crank will withstand 750 hp . . . for a while. Collectively, 7,000 rpm is easily possible on a stock short-block. I have seen even otherwise stock 5.3L engines with a good tune-up and a milder aftermarket cam than your projected Mutha Thumpr make more than 430 hp, so you should have no problems hitting your performance goals.
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The first two Monoglam dolls are still available. I've not seen this in a while - dolls not selling out. Are people waiting for a sale, hurting for funds or do they just not like the dolls enough to shell out the bucks? Perhaps the hats, which will be offered as a separate package of four, should have been included.
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The Marina City Council will deal with a sensitive subject Tuesday — possible fees for appeals in mobile home rent cases and related fees.
The city manager is slated to make decisions by Dec. 17 on the first batch of petitions for base rent increases filed by three mobile home park owners under the city"s new "rent stabilization" law.
The law, which was supported by many mobile home residents who argued they could ill afford steep rental increases, provides for a formal appeal by a hearing officer if either side is unhappy with the manager"s decision. And the appealing party is responsible for the costs.
"It should be apparent that the appeal process could easily cost many thousands of dollars," a council report says.
The decision the council still needs to make is to set up the process for collecting the appeal fees. An initial deposit of $15,000 likely would be reasonable, the council report says.
The law also allows the city to charge residents who occupy mobile home spaces a monthly fee to cover the administrative costs of enforcing the ordinance. But the council has yet to set the fee. The city of Watsonville recently took such a fee to voters, who agreed to a $5 monthly fee.
The council report suggests $3.50 a month per space would raise about $10,000 a year and cover estimated administrative costs.
At earlier hearings, advocates for mobile home residents questioned the need for the administrative fees, arguing they would punish the very people the city is trying to help with the rent control law.
Setting the fee too high would undermine the intended purpose of the ordinance by forcing residents to sign long-term leases with park owners at higher rents, advocates argued.
Also Tuesday, the council will consider:
· Approving Marina"s participation in a new Peninsula regional police violence and narcotics team. The city would contribute a full-time detective to the team.
· Moving one of two proposed electric vehicle charging stations from the UC Monterey Bay Education, Science and Technology Center to the city library.
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·What: Marina City Council meeting
·When: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday
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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. - Everybody seems to be lining up these days for a piece of Juan Pablo Angel.
The New York Red Bulls striker probably played his last regular season game for his club Thursday night as a 2-0 victory over New England Revolution gave them the Eastern Conference regular season crown. After the game, Shalrie Joseph said he would love to see the Colombian in Foxborough. FC Dallas head coach Schellas Hyndman has made it clear there is a place in Texas for him. This is all on top of recent reports from ESPN's Allen Hopkins that four clubs have already been in discussions with Angel about 2011 – DC United, Seattle Sounders, the LA Galaxy and the Colorado Rapids.
Yes, that's right, the Colorado Rapids. The seemingly least fashionable team in the MLS has been in discussions with one of the most prolific strikers in the history of the league.
"It's good that the club as a whole is seeing the route and progress we are making," Gary Smith told MLSsoccer.com this week. "We have to keep adding better and more productive players."
Ángel has scored 58 goals for the Red Bulls since 2007, scoring at least 12 goals in every one of his MLS seasons. His production has dropped off recently, however, with the striker failing to score from the run of play since July 31 against the Houston Dynamo.
"Over the next two years, he will be scoring goals wherever he is," Smith said of Ángel. "He's like [former Manchester United and England striker Teddy] Sheringham in that his movement is impeccable and his techniques are so efficient. For both of them, their games are based on wonderful movement and intelligence."
The question for Colorado is where Ángel would fit in. The Rapids recently traded with New York for Macoumba Kandji and the Rapids see him as a long-term prospect. With Omar Cummings potentially being snapped up by foreign suitors this offseason, Kandji would serve as a replacement.
Conor Casey signed a multi-year deal at the start of this season which could take him to the end of his career in Colorado. The bench is well stocked with strikers in Ross Schunk, Quincy Amarikwa and Andre Akpan. Smith said the coaching staff feels the latter two are "improving all the time." Schunk has been out injured all season.
Smith said he wasn't worried for now about having too many forwards on the books. The real issue was quality. He would have no problems even using a rotation system to give his starting forwards a rest when needed, citing the example of Dominic Kinnear at Houston. Kinnear would rotate Brian Ching, Nate Jaqua and Dwayne De Rosario as needed, and his system won two MLS Cups for the Dynamo.
For now, Smith's and Ángel's focuses are on the playoffs and there won't be any substantive discussions until the offseason.
The Rapids take on Real Salt Lake tomorrow night for their final regular season game. A win there and the Rapids could even be playing Ángel and New York in the playoffs.


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The Germantown Friends Schools boys were able to capture victories in all three of their matches in the 2012 segment of the season, including wins over the other two members of the Friends Schools League who play the sport.
After wresting a non-league road match from host Lawrenceville School, 5-4, on December 6, the Tigers blanked visiting Shipley, 9-0, five days later. Last Tuesday GFS pulled off another FSL sweep, cruising past Friends Central, who started its squash program just a year ago. Although the win at Lawrenceville came by the narrowest margin of the three matches, it was the most impressive achievement, coming against a Big Red program that is long-established and very well funded.
Senior number one Max McCafferty won his bout 3-1, and in a key match, fellow upperclassman Sam York ground out a 3-2 victory in the five spot.
Germantown swept the number seven, eight, and nine matches, 3-0, thanks to freshman Felipe Sanz, senior Drew Wallace, and sophomore Satya Butler.
After rolling past Shipley, the Tigers hosted another Friends League school at their home digs at the Germantown Cricket Club. Facing a recent start-up team in Friends Central, it was just as well that GFS was playing without its regular number one and two, McCafferty and his ninth-grade brother, Calvin. Both were up at Harvard University competing in the 2012 U.S. Junior Open Tournament.
For Tuesday's home match, all of the other Tigers bumped up two rungs on the team ladder, so senior David Sneed ascended to the top spot, where he breezed by Jeremy Siegel of the Phoenix the straight games, 11-3, 11-2, 11-3. Sneed is the only one of the four Germantown seniors who has finalized his college plans, selecting Wesleyan University.
Due to a shortage of personnel, Friends Central had three different players engaging in two matches apiece. Before facing Sneed, Siegel bowed to the Tigers' sophomore number two, Ben Caraballo, 11-3, 11-3, 11-0. The visitors' Drew Winig played at number three, where he lost to sophomore Anand Butler (Satya's brother), 11-2, 11-1, 11-4, and at number four, where he fell victim to York, 11-2, 11-2, 11-0.
FC's Jason Brill did double duty in the fifth and sixth matches, where his victorious opponents were Wallace (who won 1, 1, 3) and Sanz (2, 0, 3). At number seven, Satya Butler overcame Alec Shimell (2, 3, 3), and Tigers freshman Silas Shah prevailed in the eighth spot (1, 2, 5) over visitor Will Ayres. Rounding it out for GFS was sophomore Matt O'Connor, who won his number nine match against Bill Koutcher of the Phoenix (6, 3, 0).


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Get Together Foundation announces its 7th Annual Charity Event Wednesday July 3 starting 6pm at The Canyon Club in Agoura Hills. Each year 100% of the door goes to 4 deserving charities. Tickets are a $20 donation. VIP packages with dinner included are available. You can call Get Together Foundation at 818-727-7884 for more information.
This year's event features live entertainment featuring: Pacific, The Bear Bros, Midnight Train & The Flailingtons. The night will be filled with amazing music by artists that bring their incredible professional experience to the audience creating a small club experience like no other.
Pacific a fun, energetic, jam band made up of a group of six talented S. California musicians paying tribute to America's quintessential sound that will bring you to your feet to dance and sing all night. Pacific comes with the tight professional sound of a big concert band rockin' out all of your favorite classic tunes.
Bear Bros. are Marc Mann – guitarist with Electric Light Orchestra, keyboards for Oingo Boingo) & Grammy Award winner for his guitar work alongside Eric Clapton & Paul McCartney in "Concert for George" – AND Paull E. Rubin – lead guitarist and vocalist for Pelikanesis as well as recording engineer and producer of over 50 CD projects with diverse local artists ranging from Sprout to Foggy Dew.
The Midnight Train All Stars have played with or recorded on some of the most prolific recordings of our lifetime. Singer Gia Ciambotti has done back up with Bruce Springsteen, Lucinda Williams, Natalie Cole & Chicago just to name a few. Drummer Gary Mallaber known best for his work with Steve Miller but has also worked with Eddie Money, Bruce Springsteen & Van Morrison and the list goes on.Bassist Lothar Struff started touring with Paul Williams in 1979 and has been with him ever since
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The Humble Weekly Sale celebrates Open Source, with 8 fantastic open source DRM-free games (4 available paying more than $6) all of them available for every platform and OS (including Linux and Android!).
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- NEO Scavenger (early access): NEO Scavenger is an early access game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. In each turn you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.
- Offspring Fling!: Offspring Fling! is a game about a poor forest creature that has misplaced all of her children. She'll have to fight her way through over 100 levels of action puzzle platforming to get them all back home.
- Planet Stronghold: Planet Stronghold is a sci-fi role-playing game with a turn-based combat system. You take the role of a young, new recruit that somehow gets assigned to the most well-known, and well-defended, human outpost in the whole galaxy: Planet Stronghold.
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- Anodyne: Anodyne is a 2-D puzzle-adventure game where you play as Young and explore his uneasy subconsciousness. Armed with a good ol' broom, Young sets off to protect the Briar from The Darkness. The game balances exploration with puzzle-solving as your broom goes from weapon to dust-shifting device.
- Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten: Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten is a tower defense/RPG hybrid that focuses on three things: tactical depth, customization and story. That means no random encounters, no spikey-haired emo kids, no forced time sinks and no tedious or repetitive battles.
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I am about a 3.5 player and would like to play singles during the week. Anyone interested?
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Teresa, I'm about the same level and have Mondays available...assuming the rain clears by then. Let me know if you'd like to play Monday around noon.
It seems you sent this to me on the 18th of Jan? Odd how I missed it. Would you be interested in playing this Monday (Feb-6at noon? If so where? I live in SLO.
That would be great..I could be at Cal Poly or Sinsheimer at 1200.
Lets plan to play at Sinsheimer at noon on Monday. I look forward to it.
Hey Teresa, I'd love to play. I'm rite around your level, Sinsheimer works great for me
Are you available to play next week in the morning? If so what days.
See you at noon Monday at Sinsheimer, my email: firstname.lastname@example.com , cell 5507790
Teresa, this shouldn't be a problem for our noon time at Sinsheimer, but I have a repairman who is going to work on my fridge and is scheduled to be here at 10. However, if there is a problem, do you have a contact phone for me just in case?
hey there! I am a 3.5 level male player. I will be in Paso Robles from the 20th-23rd if you wanted to play! My cell number is 951-314-0348 or my email is email@example.com I look forward to hearing from you. SHAY
Thanks for sending me an email. Paso Robles is a little too far for me to go. I hope you are able to find some fun people to play with there.
Hey there! I am a 3.5 male and will be in Paso Robles from March 31- April 6. If you want to play please let me know! My email is email@example.com or 951-314-0348 Thanks! SHAY
I don't mind coming to SLO to play at all either :)
Not sure if you're still looking to play during the week, but I'm available M-F from 5:30 onward. Would really like to get something going on weekdays, as everyone seems to only have weekends available...let me know.
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African artist Baba Wague Diakite is an illustrator first and foremost, but he paints his colorful images onto cermaic tiles, plates, bowls and teapots. His colorful art is a blend of native Malian folklore and his own unique style. Inspired by his family's storytelling tradition, he paints animals as if they are posed mid-story.
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A multicenter team of researchers within the NIH-funded Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network (CTSN), led by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, have found end-stage heart failure patients who receive a surgically implanted left ventricular assist device (LVAD) heart pump may also benefit from a single dose of millions of powerful cells injected directly into their heart during surgery.
The CTSN, whose Data and Clinical Coordinating Center is at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, conducted the clinical trial in collaboration with the Cardiovascular Cell Therapy Research Network.
Allogeneic mesenchymal precursor cells (MPCs), are a subpopulation of adult mesenchymal stem cells, which when harvested from a healthy donor's bone marrow can be selected and expanded in the laboratory into hundreds of millions of MPCs.
At the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2013 on November 18, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai's research team presented the new findings for this novel, first-ever randomized, double-blinded multicenter trial assessing the safety and efficacy of injecting a single dose of 25 million MPCs directly into the heart muscle of advanced heart failure patients receiving an LVAD for either bridge-to-transplant or as a destination therapy.
Study results show one dose of the MPC therapy may contribute to improved heart muscle recovery in advanced heart failure patients who received an LVAD. In their study, researchers reported that 50 percent of patients who received MPCs were able to tolerate temporarily turning down their LVAD heart pump, compared to 20 percent of the placebo patients. In addition, no patients developed serious side effects that may be associated with the stem cell injections.
"These clinical trial results provide important data about the safety and potential efficacy of a single MPC injection at the time of LVAD implantation," says the study's lead author Deborah D. Ascheim, MD, Associate Professor of Health Evidence and Policy and Cardiology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, who serves as Co-Director of the Data and Clinical Coordinating Center based at Mount Sinai for the NIH-sponsored Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network (CTSN) who conducted the clinical trial study.
"These mesenchymal precursor cells have shown their potential to safely facilitate early heart tissue repair in advanced heart failure. We look forward to investigating the benefits of this cell therapy further," says Dr. Ascheim.
The thirty LVAD patients enrolled in the clinical trial were randomized 2:1 at 11 clinical sites to evaluate the single dose injection of MPCs. Patients were assigned to either receive an injection of 25 million MPCs, or a placebo. All patients were followed until a heart transplant was received or until one-year.
The CTSN has eight core clinical centers across the country. It's Data and Clinical Coordinating Center, based at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, leads each of its clinical trial's design, methodologies, ethical research concerns, study data, analysis, and data reporting.
The company that makes this experimental MPC therapy is Mesoblast, Inc.
This study was presented at the AHA Scientific Sessions as a Clinical Science Special Report (Abstract 19673): Intramyocardial Injection of Allogeneic Mesenchymal Precursor Cells in Left Ventricular Assist Device Patients.
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The System includes approximately 6,600 primary and specialty care physicians, 12-minority-owned free-standing ambulatory surgery centers, over 45 ambulatory practices throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, and Long Island, as well as 31 affiliated community health centers. Physicians are affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, which is ranked among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institutes of Health funding and by U.S. News & World Report.


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Alan Turing didn't live to see his 100th birthday. Yet thanks to his pioneering work in computer science, cryptanalysis and artificial intelligence, his immortality is assured. And as Andrew Hodges explains in his seminal biography Alan Turing: The Enigma, Turing led a life that was the stuff of dreams. And nightmares.
Turing was born 100 years ago today, on June 23, 1912, to an upper middle class couple in London, England. His scientific and mathematical prowess was evident from an early age, and it led him to King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a degree in math in 1934.
He became a fellow the following year, and it took only one more year for Turing to write his name in history. For it was in 1936 that he published his first masterpiece, On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem.
That's an imposing title, referring as it does to the "decidability problem," one of the philosophical problems of pure mathematics outlined by German mathematician David Hilbert. And the paper itself was equally imposing, as it was heavily influenced by Austrian-American logician Kurt Godel's famous incompleteness theorem, and therefore probed deeply into mathematical logic.
Yet the paper also introduced two key concepts that would ensure Turing's immortality: The Turing machine, a set of instructions for calculating — or what we would today call an algorithm, or even more familiarly, a computer program; and the Universal Turing machine, which interprets and follows such instructions — or what we would today call a computer.
So by 1936, Turing had already outlined, in some detail, both the modern computer and modern computer software. They were only in his head, of course, but Turing had no intention of keeping them there; rather, he had every intention of making the then-non-existent computer a reality.
And those aspirations were aided by Turing's code-breaking work with the British Government Code and Cypher School, which was headquartered in an ugly mansion with an ugly name — Bletchley Park. Having begun part-time work in 1938, he started full-time employment at Bletchley Park in 1939, one day after the United Kingdom declared war on Germany.
Among other things, Turing and his colleagues worked on deciphering secret messages encrypted by the German machine known as Enigma. Turing himself focused on the German U-boat messages, which were largely regarded as unbreakable — at least until Turing put his mind to breaking them.
But unlike Turing's earlier work, not everything at Bletchley Park was in his mind. Rather, Turing and fellow mathematician Gordon Welchman developed the Turing-Welchman Bombe, an electromechanical device that aided in breaking the Enigma messages. The Bombé was not a full-fledged computer, but it did involve the marriage of mathematics and electronic technology and was therefore an important step on the road to the computer.
That road appeared near an end after the war, as Turing was appointed senior principal scientific officer at the British National Physical Laboratory, with responsibility for "building a brain" — that is, developing a computer. Turing's proposal for an Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was accepted in 1946, and he began work on programming languages shortly after. Yet for a variety of reasons, the ACE was never built.
Turing therefore returned to Cambridge in 1947, and then moved on to the University of Manchester in 1948. And it was while in Manchester that Turing wrote his second masterpiece, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, which laid the foundations for the philosophy of artificial intelligence.
The paper also introduced the Turing Test, which Turing suggested could answer the question "Can machines think?" Although several variations of the test exist, Turing first proposed a variation of an old parlour game called the imitation game.
The game is played with three people: a man, a woman and an interrogator.
The interrogator stays in a room separate from the other two, and must determine, through a series of typewritten questions and answers, which is the man and which the woman.
Turing then proposed that a computer take the place of the man, and he concluded that the computer is effectively thinking if the interrogator is unable to tell the difference between the computer and the man.
The test is still conducted today, albeit in slightly different form, although there is intense debate about whether it is an appropriate method of determining if machines can think. But there is no debate about the importance of Computing Machinery and Intelligence, which remains one of the most frequently cited philosophical papers more than 60 years after it was published.
Likewise, there is no debate about the importance of Turing's groundbreaking work. For his early work he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1945, he received the Order of the British Empire for his work during the Second World War, work that, according to some estimates, saved millions of lives.
Yet much of that work remained secret during Turing's life; in fact, two papers he wrote while at Bletchley Park were only released in April of this year.
Not so for his personal life, and in particular his romantic life, as Turing was never secretive about his homosexuality. This proved to be of little hindrance in the liberal confines of King's College, but it was a different story in Manchester.
Indeed, after reporting a break-in at his house, Turing freely admitted that he had previously been sexually involved with the burglar — an admission that led to Turing being charged with gross indecency under section 11 of the Criminal law Amendment Act 1885, the same law that led to Oscar Wilde's imprisonment.
To avoid Wilde's fate, Turing agreed, in 1952, to chemical castration through estrogen injections.
Yet it proved to be something of a death sentence, for just two years later Turing was found dead at age 41, the victim of an apparent suicide by cyanide poisoning.
Amazingly, the law that played a role in Turing's death was not repealed until 1967.
More amazing still, the British government did not apologize for its treatment of Turing until 2009, when then-prime minister Gordon Brown said Turing was "tried for being gay" and concluded "I'm very proud to say: we're sorry. You deserved so much better."
It's easy to wonder if Turing could have predicted such progress, where persecution has given way to praise. But then, much of that progress is directly attributable to Turing himself.
For like all good visionaries, Turing didn't merely predict the future; he created it.


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Paris Hodges, cousin Kesi Goree help Southampton win LI Class B title
Southampton girls basketball keeps it in the family.
With a set of twins and two sisters with another cousin on the team, the Mariners rely heavily on their natural bonds, and Thursday night's Southeast Regional semifinal / Long Island Class B championship was no exception.
In the fourth quarter with Southampton down by one, Paris Hodges, her sister Noel, and their cousin Kesi Goree combined for eight points and Cassidy Guida scored five more with her sister Carley helping to spread the floor, as Southampton came from behind to defeat Cold Spring Harbor, 42-35, at Hofstra.
Southampton (15-4) earned its second consecutive Long Island Class B championship and will play powerhouse Irvington (20-2) in the Regional final Friday night at Hofstra at 6. Cold Spring Harbor finishes 18-4.
"We've all been playing with each other since third grade. We're a family," Paris Hodges said. "We know each other's go-to move . . . We're just a team. It's the best."
Added Noel Hodges: "It's just chemistry."
With the Seahawks leading 32-29 after three quarters, Paris Hodges opened the fourth with a baseline jumper to cut the Cold Spring Harbor lead to one and then gave Southampton its first lead of the game with 5:47 left as she cut to the basket and finished to make it 33-32. Noel Hodges made it a three-point game on a give-and-go with her sister, and Goree's putback made it 37-32 with 4:23 left.
After Cold Spring Harbor cut the lead to three, Cassidy Guida nailed a three-pointer from beyond the men's three-point line at the top of key to all but seal it, putting the Mariners up 40-34 with 1:38 to go.
Southampton outscored Cold Spring Harbor 13-3 in the fourth quarter.
"That's my role on the team. They count on me to be the shooter," Cassidy Guida said. "I just knew I had to keep shooting."
Southampton coach Rich Wingfield said the Mariners also switched from a man to a zone defense in the fourth quarter, bringing 5-8 Dominique Taylor off the bench to provide a defensive spark.
Taylor made an impact, finishing with 11 rebounds, four points, a block and a steal.
"We went to a zone and played bigger and put Dominique Taylor in," Wingfield said. "And we can't say enough about her."
Added Goree: "We picked up our defense. We were in man-to-man, but they're a great driving team so we went to a [zone] which is new to us, but we executed and it worked."
Noel Hodges (nine points) brought the Mariners back in the third quarter after Kelly Vassallo had put the Seahawks up by five early in the period. But with the score tied in the closing seconds, Katie Durand (eight points) hit a three-pointer from the wing as time expired to give Cold Spring Harbor the three-point advantage heading into the fourth.
Cold Spring Harbor consistently attacked the basket in the first half and led 13-10 after one and 21-20 at halftime.
Paris Hodges had 10 points and seven rebounds and Goree finished with eight points, 10 rebounds and four assists. Southampton will now look to avenge its 30-point defeat to Irvington in last season's Class B Southeast Regional final.
"We're a whole different team than we were last year," Goree said. "We're ready to really show what we can do."
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Viewpoints : coming in to Leh in late October I was surprised , after the descriptions of the "flattened" Leh , to see the entrance gate standing. The path of destruction below the gate is impressive. Standing above it it´s nearly impossible to find any clues of what happened after the cloudburst on August 6th. The old town centre , where people woke up in amazement when the rains hit… and went back to sleep ,unaware of what happened in Maney Tselding , is virtually untouched. Walking around the royal palace the only possiblle traces I could find was a stretch of the paving laid out by the Tibet Heritage Fund damaged , and some broken steps leading to the court of the gompa below the palace. There was talk of a damaged wall in the palace , but I never manged to find it.The Hill Council had posted a map showing a secondary mud flow across the polo ground above the bazaar street , giving me concerns for the people I used to stay with on my first visits to Leh. Again , no traces left by this time.
Walking up from the market to my Changspa guest house presented familiar views. The Changspa bridge was torn down in the 2006 rains , and this time it held. The banksof the stream have been undermined in a few places , and were being reinforcedduring my stay until it became too cold for cement to cure : this should be finished by next spring.
Walking down below entance gate area became a reversal of my work role , starting in some ways to act as the next of kin : I knew it would feel better afterwards , but still hesitated. Present situation : the bus station area was cleared long ago , at the southern edge you can still see a line of houses which just has been clerared – this is where rocks and cars were tossed in by the mud flow.Higher up you find a line of stalls replacing the old shops. The Maney Tselding residents has been given new plots far away from any possible future floods , but this also place them far away from any possible trade , so the tented stalls will probably become a permanent situation – the Hill Council has banned construction in the area.
Maney Tselding was where the mudflow path started to hit in Leh. Further down it struck the Sonam Norbu Hospital , the BSNL telecomminication centre , and the aiport. In the beginning it hit a mani wall that literally got it´s last block of reconstruction in November.
In the media presentation Maney Tselding became the representation of what happened in Leh , the camera eye rarely moved from there – see for example this news spot , which actually is a little better than many since it includes (without commenting ) the untouched bazaar street. The common factor is the incredible amount of pictures and video from within a one or two block radius : pictures of this single house , like this from Nana Ziesche ( yes , thats´s a car in the foreground ) got a huge coverage at the time.
This coverage , concentrating on striking imagery ( including the excavation of bodies ) is a a sore subject today with many Ladakhis , at times getting close to anger. It also gives little chance for understanding even for people who have been to Ladakh : there were for example forum discussions saying on one hand that of course mud brick buildings had no chance to withstand events like this ,and on the other hand some pointing out pictures like this where traditional buildings had survived next to crushed modern , reinforced concrete buildings. Both views are fundamentally flawed in my opinion : there are practically no buildings that have a chance to withstand forces that toss buses trees and rocks the size of small cars . The only possible protection is understanding where you won´t come in the way of these forces , which is a form of knowledge linked to traditional building in Ladakh.
Today the building in the previous picture has been cut down to the intact parts : the foremost room is the storage room for a glass workshop , the guest house behind is not working yet but in the same block the carpenter shop is up and running. The Google Earth view , based on imagery from October shows the boundaries of this media landscape – which is also where all my pictures in this post come from.
(Bus station to the left , the house in picture # 6 just where the roads turns right , entrance gate at the top of the picture. )
This the Leh-only report : obviously this leaves out what happened in Choglamsar and many other places in Ladakh . It also shows the last remaining tents in central Leh, also shown in the Google Earth picture. Most of the emergency tent camps closed already in September , the housing efforts will be covered in a later post.


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Sliding Practice
For the second straight day, hitters faced live pitchers (as opposed to coaches or pitching machines) during batting practice. That was on the schedule from 11:25 a.m. until 11:50 a.m. Then, coaches took turns throwing BP as Day 9 of spring training was held.
The day also included fundamentals, defensive discussions and the usual conditioning and long tossing programs. Oh, some pitchers got to practice sliding under Perlozo's instruction. Then again, some pitchers will probably never get a chance to slide in a game.
Same schedule is on tap for Tuesday, 10 a.m. start. Then, the Phillies play Florida State University at 1 p.m. at Bright House Field on Wednesday. Thursday will be a shorter day with the annual golf tournament, a fun event, in the afternoon. Friday will be the final workout day.
The Grapefruit League scheduled starts on Saturday afternoon with the Yankees visiting Clearwater.
**Minor league managers, coaches and instructors report on Tuesday.
**Shane is taping an MLB brand campaign TV/digital spot after today's workout.
**FOX will have a crew here on Wednesday; ESPN on Friday.
Big News
According to the merchandise department at Citizens Bank Park, the Phanatic Beanie overtook the foam finger as the number one souvenir in 2011.
In the sale of jerseys and t-shirts, Lee was # 1, followed by Halladay and Pence.
Spring Training Memories
Dave Hollins (3B, 1990-95; 2002)
"1988 in Yuma, AZ, with the Padres minor league players. We stayed at a Motel 6. Can't remember my uniform number but my teammate was Andy Skeels, a catcher. Being from Buffalo, this was my first time in the desert. Boy, was it hot."
For more Alumni memories check out www.phillies.com/alumni.


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Angeles City is in the province of Pampanga in Central Luzon, the Philippines. A lively city, it is known for its energetic night scene and casinos, as well as for its many historic buildings, scattered around the city. Fly to Angeles City with Cathay Pacific for frequent and punctual flights and excellent on board service.
Things to do in Angeles City
Visit Bale Matua, which dates back to the 1820s, Camalig, Santo Rosario Church, and Bale Herencia. The Museum of Angeles is a top place to learn more about the city's past, as well as the Salakot Arch, the Holy Family Academy Building, and Fort Stotsenburg. The nightlife is a major draw for many visitors; Field Avenue is one of the liveliest places for nocturnal fun.
Travel tips for Angeles City
Jeepneys run around the clock, offering an affordable and convenient way to travel around the city. Taxis mainly run around the inner-city areas; they are not generally used for travelling further afield. If you visit for the Philippine International Hot-Air Balloon Fiesta, between January and February, you'll see a myriad of colourful balloons floating through the skies. Other major festivals of interest include the huge street party of Tigtigan Terakan keng Dalan and La Naval Fiesta, both held in October. Book your flights to Angeles City with Cathay Pacific today.
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Makeover Chocolate Layer Bars
Total TimePrep: 35 min. Bake: 15 min. + cooling
Makes40 bars
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1-1/2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons baking cocoa
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1/3 cup butter, softened
- 1/3 cup reduced-fat butter, softened
- 2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 3 tablespoons fat-free milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup butter, cubed
- 1/3 cup fat-free milk
- 1/4 cup baking cocoa
- 3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, applesauce and vanilla until well blended. Combine the flour, cocoa and baking soda; add to the creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition.
- Pour into a 15x10x1-in. baking pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool completely on a wire rack.
- For creamy layer, in a small bowl, beat the butters, confectioners' sugar, milk, and vanilla until fluffy, about 4 minutes. Spread over top of cake.
- For frosting, in a small heavy saucepan, combine the sugar, butter, milk and cocoa. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring frequently; cook and stir 2 minutes longer. Remove from the heat; stir in chocolate chips until melted.
- With a hand mixer, beat frosting for 2-4 minutes or until thickened. Gently spread over the top. Store in the refrigerator.
Editor's NoteThis recipe was tested with Land O'Lakes light stick butter.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 175 calories, 8g fat (5g saturated fat), 27mg cholesterol, 94mg sodium, 27g carbohydrate (21g sugars, 1g fiber), 2g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1-1/2 starch, 1-1/2 fat.
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Feb 3, 2013
Diabetic friendly???? Around 30 carbs in one piece?? Not only is this not friendly to a diabetic, it could be dangerous w/ all this sugar.
Nov 10, 2012
Agree - 40 servings. Must be very small servings. Whoever posted picture shoul show the actual serving size as well as give actual dimensions of serving.
Apr 4, 2009
40 servings? give me a break, that's crazy, no one will cut them that small. I too had trouble with the layers, will try the suggestion.
Jan 5, 2009
I too had problems with the layers but then I started putting the whole pan in the fridge after adding the white layer and letting it get good and cold. Then I quickly add the chocolate layer on top and spread that VERY fast. Back in the fridge. Comes out.
Dec 12, 2008
This is delicious but I always have trouble with the white and chocolate layer so I started swirling the two on the top. It's easier and it looks pretty also.
Sep 17, 2008
It doesn't mention cooling the chocolate frosting at all, and when I put it on top, it seemed to work at first, then it heated the creamy layer and it all slid off the sides of my poor cake!


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April Bloomfield's Devils on Horseback
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This week we're sharing what we consider to be April Bloomfield's greatest hits, many taken straight from the menu at The Spotted Pig. At the 'Pig, Bloomfield does drinking snacks right, and these Devils on Horseback are the ideal way to soak up whatever you're sipping.
Bacon-wrapped prunes would be wonderful on their own but in typical Bloomfield fashion, she takes it a step further by plumping the prunes in tea and Armagnac, and stuffing them with tiny bits of tender poached pear. These are the kind of snacks that go fast; doubling the recipe might be a good plan.
What Worked: Sweet and salty, these Devils on Horseback are the kind of drinking snack we want to have around all of the time.
What Didn't: Nada, these bacon-wrapped prunes are pretty much perfect.
Suggested Tweaks: We could see subbing in dates or perhaps even apricots for the prunes in this recipe.
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Pink is a combination of red and white. The shade of pink is determined by how much red is present. Shades of deep pink, such as magenta, are effective in neutralizing disorder and violence. Some prisons use limited deep pink tones to diffuse aggressive behaviour. Pink is the color of universal love. Pink is a quiet color. Lovers of beauty favor pink. A pink carnation means "I will never forget you".
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Nox - Lean In My Cup
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IN GEAR: General Motors' full-year profit fell 36 percent to $4.9 billion in 2012, partly because of one-time tax changes. Revenue rose 1 percent to $152.3 billion.
SHARING THE ROAD: GM made $6.9 billion in North America, and its U.S. factory workers will get $6,750 profit-sharing checks. International operations rose 16 percent to $2.2 billion thanks to record sales in China. GM lost $1.8 billion in Europe because of the troubled economy and tough market there.
CURVES AHEAD: GM is under pressure to cut costs in Europe and improve sales growth in the U.S., where it's lagging the industry.


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The Kitsap Splat racquetball tournament drew more than 50 competitors from as far away as Bolivia and Columbia to the Bremerton area on Nov. 3-4.
The tournament was hosted by Bremerton Tennis and Athletic Club, a nonprofit, member-owned club that opened in 1970.
The club regularly hosts tournaments for both tennis and racquetball. Julie Jablonski, the club's manager, said many of the tennis tournaments they offer throughout the year are sanctioned by the United States Tennis Association, but this is the first time they've had a professionally sanctioned tournament for racquetball.
Adam (Rocco) Vega, one of the club's members, had the idea for the event and set out to bring the plan to life.
"I wanted to bring a sanctioned tournament to Kitsap County because we had not had any," Vega said.
Vega's father, a competitive racquetball player, died a few years back. When Vega began work on the Kitsap Splat, he looked for a way to commemorate his father through the event.
A nod to Vega's father can be found in the tournament's logo, a picture of Wile E. coyote holding a racquet.
"We loved watching Wile E. Coyote together when I was a kid," Vega said. "It was something fun that I could do to remember him."
The event's name comes from a type of shot in racquetball called a splat, where the ball comes off the side wall and hits the front wall, making a "splat" noise.
The event drew more than 50 competitors. There were a number of local entrants, but many competitors came from abroad to compete in the sanctioned competition.
When players compete in a sanctioned tournament, their results at the event influence their professional standings, so players were competing for more than just prize money and bragging rights.
The tournament offered prize money in every division, which Vega believes is a state first for a sanctioned tournament.
Jablonski said the club has actually hosted much larger tournaments than the Kitsap Splat. The club's racquetball league has more than 80 players that compete every Tuesday.
Jablonski said even though their numbers are often higher, the Kitsap Splat had excellent turnout for a first-year tournament.
She attributes much of that turnout to the club's facilities and hospitality.
"Not many clubs host like we do," Jablonski said.
Bremerton Tennis and Athletic Club has four racquetball courts along with areas for spectators. Competitors were offered catering by Outback Steakhouse of Bremerton and Juanito's Taco Shop.
The club is the home court of Grace Hughes, one of the world's top-ranked female racquetball players. According to Jablonski, Hughes both plays and teaches at the club.
Hughes was participating in a sanctioned tournament in Mexico at the time of the Kitsap Splat, so was unable to attend the local tournament.
Gear Box, a racquetball equipment company, was responsible for bringing in many of the international professionals to compete in the tournament, like Sebastian Franco, who ranks 33rd in USA Racquetball Association's national ranking. Franco won the men's singles open bracket, beating the highest ranked player in Washington state, Jeff Star.
"(It was) fabulous to see that level of play," Jablonski said. "It was simply exciting."
Despite the tough international competition, Jablonski said local players performed well. Vega and his partner, Steven Dark, placed third in the men's doubles open bracket.
Vega competes each year at a number of tournaments throughout the state and said the level of competition was "about as good as Washington will see throughout the season."
Jablonski said the club hopes to host the same tournament again next year, once again sanctioned by USA Racquetball Association. Now that the tournament has established itself as a success, she said, they hope to see more local turnout next year.
Thursday, November 22, 2012
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