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1968 Plymouth Valiant - Weekend Resto
We bought a '68 Plymouth Valiant and made it car-show ready for a total outlay of $4,300. Here's how we did it …
Those Occupy Wall Street folks just might be onto something. The 1 percenters have all the fun while the rest of us get nada. The hot rodding world certainly has its equivalent. The 1 percenters build sky-is-the-limit checkbook cars, while the rest of us window shop eBay and Craigslist. Sigh. Maybe one day. Screw that! Don't stand around in some imaginary car guy unemployment line—we say, occupy Goodguys! Occupy Super Chevy! Occupy the Car Craft Summer Nats! Why should check writers have all the fun?
We decided to do something about it. We figured the best way to get the fence sitters out of the car guy unemployment line and into the cruisin' lane was to prove that you can get into the game and be a real player for small bank. We spent real money on a real car and real parts—and you would be astonished to know what kinds of cool comments we've gotten on our '68 Valiant since we pulled off this fantastic feat.
The Car
One tip to duplicating our low price of admission is that we started out with a long list of possible car candidates. Had we actually been looking for a '68 Valiant, we surely would've paid more, but we were open to any car—the only "must haves" were that it needed to be locally owned, domestic, two-door, no convertible, no rust, driveable condition, mostly straight body, and '60-72 model year. We searched for three months, looked physically at a dozen cars, and cherry picked the best deal when it came up. Three strategies saved us from overspending on project car fodder: we weren't obsessed with finding a specific car model, we weren't hell-bent on a V-8, and we placed fanatical importance on a straight, rust-free body with salvageable paint. That last one may seem like a costly concession, but it actually saves a bucket of money on body and paint. Framing those principles was the knowledge that a killer-looking wheel/tire package and the right stance can make practically any car look good.
When searching for a car, time is on your side—despite pressure from sellers telling you otherwise. That cash may be burning a hole in your pocket, but resist the urge to buy rust in the shape of a car. Can't find anything nice at your price? The longer you take to add to the spending pot, the larger your cash kitty will grow, and the nicer your project can be. We started out with a $1,700 pot, but by the time we found our Valiant three months later, we had $2,500 stashed.
Patience and responsible buying habits do pay off. We found a remarkably nice Slant Six '68 Plymouth Valiant for $2,800 and talked the seller down to $2,500. To the good, it was virtually rust free, it was a running car with no major mechanical issues, the interior was surprisingly well preserved, the paint was all there, and the body was mostly straight. On the negative side, there are numerous electrical issues, it's a Slant Six, and there is some slight road rash on the front left fender. We figured those negatives would be easily worked out over time, as long as we could drive it over the short term. As for the parking lot scrapes on the front left fender—they're small enough that they serve to add charm. At least paint still covers them and they are darned hard to see in photos.
The Game Plan
Some gearheads might put the first priority on building a nasty motor with a snotty attitude. We've done that before, in fact it's our normal mode of operation. Lay rubber first, worry about what it looks like later. Since we have the luxury of other cars that already pound the pavement with big cubes and massive pound-feet, we thought starting with the looks could be cool for a change. Buy the car, do a quick rehab, and get into the cruisin' lane ASAP. When cash is thin, you don't want to have to keep laying out Benjamins month after month, year after year, with no seat time in return. Our plan: have fun with the mon.
Part two of the plan was reliant on how successful we were with part one. We've done enough body and paint special issues to know that we wanted to bypass that huge time suck and start the love rubbing. Big rust or body damage was a no-go, but older oxidized paint, we figured, could be brought back to life. When we saw the chalky single-stage paint on the Valiant, we were pretty sure we could bring it back from the dead. When we found evidence it had been repainted a long time ago the same color as the factory paint, we knew we had a lot of material on the car to work with. Bingo! We could bypass sanding, prepping, primering, and painting, and essentially go straight to the final cut and polish.
We'd seen enough badass Mopar A-Bodies to know our Valiant was just a wheel/tire swap and torsion bar adjustment away from a killer rake. Over the years, we'd formed an opinion about how we might address a Mopar A-Body if we had the chance to nab one. And while it's been proven that A-Bodies make great Pro Touring cars, we wanted something that hearkened back to a simpler era. After all, these are uncomplicated cars. It's not supposed to look like a radar-guided cruise missile, it's granny getting groceries with a concealed carry permit. In our mind, there was never any question about rolling stock—Coker Tire in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was already on speed dial, and satin-black 15-inch steelies with redlines is what we craved.
Most importantly, we wanted to get everything done fast. Deadline pressure notwithstanding, hot rodders don't like waiting around. Like everything in the now generation, it's all about instant gratification. We could draw this out over months or years, but why wait when we can deliver the punch line right now? We decided to do our Valiant's restoration in just 48 hours. Some of the stuff, like the interior, powertrain, brakes, and suspension would just have to wait. We just want to get rolling in style as quick as possible, so let's get it on!
The Stance
The wheels and tires make or break the look of any hot rod. You've gotta get the right rolling stock, they have to fill the wheelwells right, they can't stick out, they can't be too buried in the wheelwell, the front can't be too high or too low, and the back can't look too high or too low. All too often, guys just buy the wheels and tires without researching, then throw 'em on, and crack a beer. News flash: Unless you just get lucky, that procedure looks like crap. For criminy sakes, if you're going to spend real coin on wheels, at least make 'em look right?
Fortunately, with a Mopar we got to dispense with the sometimes risky guesswork of cutting coil springs. All Mopars have an adjustable torque arm front suspension, which means you can crank one bolt on each front lower control arm and lower or raise the suspension. GM and Ford guys would kill for something like this. Considering how cool and easy that is, we're absolutely mystified that more Mopars don't sport a killer stance. Who knows, maybe they're going for that high-floodwater-comin' look.
Moving along, we researched our wheel and tire sizes on the Moparts.org and ForABodiesOnly.com forums before buying wheels and tires. If you're already into Mopars or just getting into them, let's face it, there is no better place to go for your online A-Body tech fix. But be forewarned, if you post on their forum, the Moparts.org people will not cut you any slack if you're a dumbass—they're in your face, and they're deadpan honest. Don't go snooping around there with no Chevy—that's as bad as picante sauce from New York City. ForABodiesOnly.com is a little more family friendly, and they've actually got a specific section devoted to A-Body wheels and tires. We gathered enough good info from both forums to inform our selection of 15x8 Coker steelies in the rear, and 15x6 Coker steelies in front. (Unless you go custom offsets, there is no choice in backspacing, and only the larger 5x4.5-inch bolt pattern is available.) We also gathered tire size data, paying particular attention to the larger sizes that were being used successfully with stock wheelwells, and chose 225/60R15s for the rear and 215/65R15s for the front—both in Coker's beautifully reproduced BFG Silvertown redline radial. All together, our Coker rolling stock (tires, rims, hubcaps) set us back $1,592. We do suggest one thing, however, when placing an order with Coker: Some items aren't always on the website—like our O.E. Mopar hubcaps ($55 each). We recommend you phone a Coker product specialist after browsing the website, that way you won't miss anything.
Being a Slant Six, the Valiant sports the low-performance 5x4-inch bolt circle. Nobody makes cool wheels for this, so don't even try looking. No worries though. We got the large bolt circle wheels and mounted them to the Valiant using Trans-Dapt hub adapters designed for the purpose. Be mindful that these aren't high-performance parts—they're designed for light to normal road use. Don't plan on hitting the autocross, dragstrip, or road course with them, as the stock spindles and bearings will not be able to handle the extra shear load. They are, however, perfect for cruising, and that's what we intend to do until we upgrade our spindles and axles.
We got our rolling stock all together, and headed down to Picture Car Warehouse in Northridge, California, for our first day of rehab. We washed the grime off with Mothers California Gold Car Wash, mounted the spacers and Coker rolling stock, lowered the front ride height, addressed clearance issues with the fender lips and such, straightened some bent trim, and restored the grille with a Dupli-Color spray bomb.
Paint Rehab
Day two of our weekend resto was spent at Classy Cars Auto Detailing in Huntington Beach, California. You have two choices here: Use the techniques shown here by proprietor Jeff Jeppesen and burn your own elbow grease (in which case you'd only be out $95 or so for the Mothers car care products we used), or you can take your diamond in the rough to Classy Cars and let them work their paintless auto restoration magic while you take a stroll on the beach. (Easy there, Captain Check Writer.) Jeppesen quotes approximately $1,000 to do a job like ours, which may seem like a lot, but just know that he leaves no stone unturned—it will look nearly as good as a new paintjob when he's done, or he won't do it. What we particularly like is that before quoting a job, Jeppesen will test individual products and techniques in small areas of the paint to see what products are best and what results are possible. Unlike a paintjob, you actually get to see the end result before any of the work is done. Jeppesen is a big proponent of Mothers car care products because they flat-out work. When your livelihood depends on being able to work magic on a daily basis, the stuff in the bottle better deliver the results, or you're out of business.
Of all the Mothers products outlined in our story, we were most impressed with Mothers Professional Foam Pad Polish, which before our unbelieving eyes transformed a chalky 30-year-old repaint into a crystal-clear shine. The key was using a high-speed buffer at 1,200 rpm with a waffle-shaped foam polishing pad. When preceded with the Mothers California Clay Bar system and followed up with an application of Mothers Pure Brazilian Carnauba Wax, our Valiant could walk the walk with pride at any car show or cruise in the land.
All together, we spent a total of $4,324.30 on the car, the Coker rolling stock, Trans-Dapt wheel hub adapters, Mothers detailing products, and Dupli-Color spray paint. What we now have is a cool-looking boulevard cruiser that turns heads and elicits comments wherever it goes. It's not the fastest thing on the road with a Slant Six, but we are in the game and rolling chill for basically chump change. The cool thing is, you can do it too—we just gave you the road map. Don't let the 1 percenters have all the fun—get out there and occupy Goodguys!
Win Cool Mothers Stuff!
Lucky for you, we videotaped the entire rehab process on the Valiant and edited it into a cool 11-minute video. See Editor Hunkins, Steve Dulcich, Picture Car Warehouse, and Classy Cars Auto Detailing all in one action-packed episode! Just log on to www.YouTube.com/PopularHotRodding and look for the video named "1968 Plymouth Valiant—Weekend Rehab." The first person to watch the video and tell us what interesting thing we found in the Valiant's engine compartment gets a nice selection of Mothers car care products! Just email firstname.lastname@example.com before October 12, 2012 with the winning answer and your mailing address!
|What To Get
|'68 Plymouth Valiant Slant Six
|215/65R15 BFG redline radial reproduction
|Coker Tire
|$246 ea.
|225/60R15 BFG redline radial reproduction
|Coker Tire
|$228 ea.
|Mopar 15x6 steel wheel, 5x4.5-bolt pattern
|Coker Tire
|$106 ea.
|Mopar 15x8 steel wheel, 5x4.5-bolt pattern
|Coker Tire
|$106 ea.
|O.E. Mopar hubcap
|Coker Tire
|$55 ea.
|Wheel hub adapters, 5x4 hub to 5x4.5 wheel
|$61.95 pr.
|Mothers California Gold Car Wash
|Mothers PowerBall Mini
|Mothers California Clay Bar System
|Mothers Pure Carnauba Wax
|Mothers Billet Metal Polish
|Mothers Professional Foam Pad Polish
|Chrome spray paint
|Satin black trim paint


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HP may have a PCIe flash-based gen-8 ProLiant coming that will be a TPC benchmark record-breaker.
This tempting nugget of possible news comes from an HP blogger.
Your humble El Reg hack was looking into flash usage by HP and came across this claim in an HP Connect blog entitled Gen8 Dynamic Workload Acceleration: Solid State Optimisation and Data Protection. It discusses the performance of HP's recently announced ProLiant Gen-8 servers.
The blog includes this sentence: "As a result of this technology [Dynamic Workload Acceleration] HP ProLiant recently achieved the #1 TPC-C benchmark[3] in the industry."
That seems unambiguous. I looked at the bottom of the blog to follow up the footnoted reference and found this PDF.
Following up the (apparent) hot link gets a "HTTP Error 404.0 - Not Found" message. Odd.
Looking in the TPC C results webpages I found an HP ProLiant DL385 G7 listed at number 10 in the top non-clustered results list with 1,207,9782 tpmC. An HP Integrity Superdome is listed higher at number 3 with 4,092,799 tpmC. An IBM Power 595 Server model 9119-FHA tops the list at 6,085,166 tpmC. No ProLiant G8 tpm-C topping result here.
So what is HP on about in this blog?
The ProLiant DL385 G7 tpmC result [PDF] is dated 27 August 2010 and it used 38.4TB of 10K SAS disk storage and 30.72TB of 120GB SSD storage.
What I think we might have caught sight of here here is an all-flash ProLiant DL385 G8 (not G7) result, using PCIe flash and not SSD flash, which beats the current non-clustered tpmC result record held by the IBM Power 595 Server model 9119-FHA. Wouldn't that be a coup for HP?
Of course your humble hack could just be making a mountain out of an HP blogger's mole hill. After all, it would make the ProLiant Gen 8 faster than the Integrity Superdome system - oops - and the blog's third paragraph talks of "6G embedded SAS controller ... that moves from traditional SAS 15k hard drives to SAS SSD", the point being it's SAS SSD and not PCIe flash.
There's something screwy going on here. We're checking with HP just in case. ®
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So I was hit by this brasero bug. No way to burn a CD on any of my Lucid computers.
gnomebaker is not working either. Hmm.
If found a workaround in andrew.46's tutorial on ubuntuforums:
- Get your CD drive(s) information:
$ sudo cdrdao scanbus Cdrdao version 1.2.2 - (C) Andreas Mueller <email@example.com> SCSI interface library - (C) Joerg Schilling Paranoia DAE library - (C) Monty Check http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/drives.html#dt for current driver tables. Using libscg version 'ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1' 0,1,0 : PIONEER , DVD-RW DVR-K16RS, 1.35
Please read Andrew's tutorial for the details.
- Create a
$ sudo touch /etc/cdrdao.conf
- Edit the file to place the following:
#---- cdrdao.conf ----# write_buffers: 128 write_device: "0,1,0" write_driver: "generic-mmc" read_device: "0,1,0" read_driver: "generic-mmc" read_paranoia_mode: 3 write_speed: 8
The write_device and read_device lines should match your own drive(s) specification(s). I only have one. The other parameters are explained in Adrew's post.
- Start copying and burning the CD
$ sudo cdrdao copy
When necessary, cdrdao will prompt you to remove the original CD and insert a blank one in the drive.
- All done!
I do not know when this bug will be fixed, when the appropriate packages will hit the repositories, but in the mean time, I'm not left without any burning option.. Many thanks Andrew :)


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We take time out from our election coverage to note the 25th anniversary of the stock market crash of 1987. I have a long account of the myriad causes and aftermath of the 508 point crash (22 percent of the Dow at the time) in The Age of Reagan, including thefnitwit comment of Al Gore that "The voodoo chickens of Reaganomics have come home to roost."
Here's a few excerpts:
The interplay of the various causes of the Great Crash of October 19, 1987 remain obscure and contested up to this day, and require some leisurely background to appreciate. Some factors are better understood in hindsight, but as with most startling events, the full inventory of antecedents is complex and extensive, most often yielding to the overused simile of "the perfect storm." And beyond the data and the theory, there is the social and cultural importance of Wall Street. The bull market of the mid-1980s was more than just an indicator of the nation's revived prosperity; it became a totem of yuppiedom and a talisman of consumption. The most junior securities analyst required at least a 3-series BMW, and the Wall Street-luxury nexus became the chief evidence for the "decade of greed" slogan popular on the left. By coincidence, filmmaker Oliver Stone, fresh off his Oscar triumph with one of the last Vietnam demonology movies, Platoon, was readying for release at the time of Black Monday a new film called Wall Street, whose central character, a humorless update of J.R. Ewing, argued that "greed is good." His name was Gekko, after the lizard, just to make sure no one missed his reptilian nature. . .
Looking back afterwards, the harbingers of a stock market breakdown become easier to make out. The stock market could not maintain its level in the face of rising interest rates and extreme valuations; the Standard and Poor's 500 Index was trading at 22 time trailing earnings at the market top in August, far out of line from its historic range. A study in the Harvard Business Review would later conclude that the market was 17 percent overvalued at its peak. Market volatility started noticeably increasing, with 40 and 50 point swings in the course of a trading day—the equivalent of 200 points nowadays. At the market peak in August, big institutional buyers—mutual and pension funds—were net buyers of about 2.8 million shares a day. But by mid-September, the funds had become net sellers, shedding 300,000 shares a day. By mid-October institutional funds were dumping shares, with daily net sales accelerating to 4.4 million shares.
Right after Labor Day, the New York Stock Exchange's president Gerald Corrigan said, "the storm clouds were visibly gathering." A few prescient observers at the time saw the clouds forming and sounded the alarm in real time. Commodities trader Paul Tudor Jones had been saying since late 1986, "There will be some type of decline in the next 10, 20 months, and it will be earth-shaking; it will be saber-rattling." Robert Prechter, an advocate of the esoteric Elliott Wave hypothesis of market behavior, said on October 5 that "The overvaluation of stocks is more extreme than the 1929 high." The legendary investor Philip Fisher—Fisher had gone through the Great Crash of '29, after having famously predicted that stock prices would go still higher—told Forbes magazine that the stock market looked to him like 1927 or 1929. The advance cover date of the Forbes issue where his remarks appeared was October 19. A little known stock adviser named Elaine Garzarelli advised her clients to sell everything a week before October 19; she would be little known no longer. But as the signs of a market meltdown accumulated, the market would stage robust rallies that lulled investors; on September 22, the Dow rallied for 75 points, a record rise at the time.
During the week of October 5,the Dow fell 150 points, starting off a roller-coaster that set the stage for Black Monday. Volatility increased the following week. On Monday October 11, the Dow fell 11 points, but it rallied Tuesday by 37 points. Kidder, Peabody reassured its clients: "The long-term bull market remains intact. On an intermediate-term basis, early 1988 should still witness 2900 on the Dow Jones Industrial Average." On Wednesday, October 13, the trade deficit figure for the previous month was released; it was $1.5 billion higher than expected. Bond yields spiked above 10 percent for the first time in two years. The Dow fell 95 points, at that time the largest one-day drop ever. On Thursday, the market seemed steady until the last half-hour, when a wave of heavy selling drive the Dow down another 57 points. It was the 4th busiest day in market history. The Dow had now declined in eight of the past nine trading days.
Reacting to the trade deficit numbers, Treasury Secretary James Baker had said, late in the day on Thursday, that the U.S. could "accommodate further adjustments" in the value of the dollar, meaning that the U.S. was willing to let the dollar's value fall further. Baker's comments reinforced market suspicions that further weakening of the dollar was the unofficial policy of the Reagan administration; a falling dollar would put more upward pressure on interest rates. Friday was another debacle on Wall Street. After trading evenly for most of the morning, at lunchtime the bottom fell out. The Dow fell 108 points—another new record— dropping the last 50 points in the final half hour of trading. 338 million shares had traded hands—also another new record.
The market turmoil got the attention of the White House. Late in the day Reagan met with Greenspan, Baker, Treasury Undersecretary Beryl Sprinkel and others to take stock. Reagan expressed his concern that the money supply was too tight. As he recorded in his diary, "Alan [Greenspan] doesn't agree & believes this is only an overdue correction." Over the weekend, Baker returned to his dollar-bashing theme, telling "Meet The Press," "We will not sit back in this country and watch [trade] surplus countries jack up their interest rates and squeeze growth worldwide on the expectation that the United States somehow will follow by raising its interest rates." On Sunday the 18th the New York Times ran a story quoting a "senior administration official" (Baker adamantly denied being the source for the story) saying the U.S. would allow the dollar to decline against the West German mark. Unrest in the Persian Gulf added further to Wall Street jitters. Late in the week Iran had fired on an American oil tanker. Over the weekend the U.S. Navy destroyed two Iranian oil platforms in retaliation (the platforms had been used a staging areas for the Iranian attacks on Gulf shipping).
Many individual investors who had flocked to the market during its bull phase panicked and jammed the phone lines at mutual fund companies. Fidelity received 80,000 calls. Joseph Nocera wrote: 'The people who ran the likes of Fidelity and Schwab and Vanguard knew—absolutely knew—what was going to happen next."
The turmoil and declines of the previous week left the markets deeply shaken at the open on Monday morning. The Dow fell 68 points in the first half hour of trading; 11 of the Dow 30 stocks were unable to open because of severe imbalances between sell and buy orders. With no buyers, over 200 stocks—one-twelfth of the NYSE's listings—could not open for trading. At 11 am the market appeared to have stabilized, down "only" 200 points. Then the new chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, David Ruder, blundered. At the completion of a speech in Washington, Ruder, besieged by reporters wanting comment on the market turmoil, mused aloud about halting trading on the NYSE. His comments hit the trading floor shortly after 1 pm. Ruder claimed later to have been misunderstood, and even though the SEC quickly issued a statement saying it was not going to close the markets, the psychological damage was done. (This was not a new idea for Ruder; he had mentioned the idea of a trading halt to combat volatility in a speech on October 6.) The afternoon was a one-way rout. The system for handling large orders seized up under the huge volume, and computer screens on the trading floor went blank. Many trades cleared at prices far from the price in effect when the orders were placed. Orders for sales of more than 100 million shares were never completed at all, and the trading tape, which can handle 900 trades a minute, ran two-and-a-half hours behind.
Some evidence suggests that selling by individual investors drove the magnitude of the crash; the volume of large trades (25,000 shares or more) by institutions was only 2 percent higher in October 19 than the average of the preceding 50 trading days. But a larger factor in driving the market over the cliff was an innovation that was supposed to protect investors against this very risk—"portfolio insurance" in the form of index futures options. Starting in 1982 the Chicago Mercantile Exchange began selling a new financial product—futures options on the price of various stock indexes. Index options were thought to be a perfect hedge against losses. Owners of large stock positions with big paper gains could hedge against the prospect of large decline in price by selling a futures contract on the price level of one of the major stock indexes, such as the S & P 500, and thereby lock in gains. Index option prices would rise and fall with the level of the index itself, naturally. These index option contracts were highly leveraged, and there quickly developed a thriving index arbitrage practice whereby traders would exploit differences implicit in the index option price and the prices of the underlying stocks in the index. Movements in the options index price or the price of the stocks themselves put reciprocal pressure on the other, resulting in increased volatility, especially on what became known as "triple-witching day," when index options expired and had to be settled. This dynamic was the origin of computerized program trading; computers would shift massive amounts of money from index futures to the underlying stocks, depending on which was cheaper at the moment.
While in theory index options should have helped to smooth the market during ordinary conditions, their highly leveraged nature meant they increased risk of a market meltdown in any episode of extraordinary volatility or market panic. On October 19 automatic computer trading programs flooded the market with billions of dollars in index option sell orders, but with no buyers the prices collapsed and pulled down the prices of underlying stocks. It was the financial equivalent of a runaway nuclear war by computer rather than human decision. Reflecting later on the problem of computerized trading, Greenspan would later say: "The market plunge was an accident waiting to happen." One of the market reforms enacted after the October 19 crash was limits and halts on computer trading in conditions of extraordinary volatility.
When the dust settled at the end of the day the Dow finished down 508 points on 604 million shares of volume, closing at 1739, down from 2516 just 11 days earlier. It was a 22 percent loss in one day, representing a half-trillion dollars in market capitalization. Forty stocks declined for every one that rose; normally a three-to-one ratio is considered a rout. The one-day figure understated the damage: along with the previous Thursday and Friday, the Dow had lost 769 points—a third of its value—in three days. By contrast, the Great Crash of 1929 had taken the market down 13 percent. And the crash was global. As the market closed in New York, the contagion spread to the markets opening in the Far East. In Hong Kong the main stock index dropped 45 percent, and the stock market closed for the rest of the week. Japan's stock market dropped 15 percent; Australia's market plunged 20 percent, and the London stock market fell 12 percent. Many investors fled to Treasury bonds, but gold jumped $10 an ounce to a five-year high.
Blue-chips became black-and-blue chips: Westinghouse lost one-third of its value; Exxon one-quarter; IBM one-quarter. The value of Sam Walton's share of the company he founded, WalMart, fell $1.1 billion. George Soros lost $800 million. Securities firms feared a classic run on the bank from panicky account holders. Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette posted uniformed security guards outside its New York office, fearing violence from customers. Alan Greenspan was on a commercial airline flight to Dallas during trading hours; when he deplaned he was relieved the hear that that market had fallen "five-oh-eight," assuming it meant 5.08 on the Dow. "Some people are talking of panic," Reagan wrote in his diary that night. . .
Not surprisingly the first order of business at the White House the next morning was another meeting between Reagan and his economic advisers. Greenspan was still in Dallas, where he issued a short statement first thing Tuesday morning to reassure the market of the Fed's "readiness to serve as a source of liquidity to support the economic and financial system." He then cancelled his morning speech and returned to Washington on the first available plane.
The panic Reagan worried about nearly came to pass on Wall Street the following day. History—and Reagan's diary for October 20—records that the markets settled down and the Dow rose 102 points, providing some measure of relief to Washington and a nervous public. Neither the White House nor the public learned until later that, in fact, October 20 was more unsettling than the 19th had been, as the stock market came within a hair's breath of collapsing and shutting down. Financier Felix Rohatyn told the Wall Street Journal that "Tuesday was the most dangerous day we had in 50 years; I think we came within an hour" of the disintegration of the market.
The immediate problem at the end of the day Monday and at the market open on Tuesday is that many securities firms and specialists (the firms on the trading floor who perform the all-important function of making a market for individual stocks by buying and selling from their own inventory) were facing margin calls on account of the fallen value of their now-swollen holdings, and, according to market rules, needed to settle their accounts within five business days. Many firms lacked sufficient cash to do so. But banks that normally extended credit to brokers and specialists were reluctant to step into the breach. Specialists and brokers were stunned when their banks said Monday night and early Tuesday morning that they wouldn't make new loans. Some specialist firms faced immediate insolvency; as a result, a few were forced into "shotgun" mergers with larger firms. One small specialist firm that faced immediate insolvency, A.B. Tompane, merged overnight with Merrill Lynch; the deal was completed at 3 a.m. Tuesday morning.
Despite the Fed's promise of liquidity, the market opened slowly, with many leading blue chip stocks taking an hour or more to begin trading. Initially the Dow Jones average was up an encouraging 200 points, but this gain quickly evaporated as specialists and securities firms tried to unload the large unwanted positions built up the day before. As buy orders dried up, blue chip stocks ceased trading one by one like a row of falling dominoes. Merck stopped trading at 9:52 am; Sears at 11:12; Eastman Kodak at 11:28; Philip Morris at 11:30; Dow Chemical at 11:43. Some blue chips had not opened at all. Stocks that remained open were trading sporadically and in small volumes. With so many stocks closed, the American Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange halted options trading. By noon the Dow was off 100 points and market watchers feared it was about to drop over the cliff and fall another 200 points.
Rumors swept trading floors nationwide during the lunch hour that the New York Stock Exchange was going to close. In fact the NYSE's president and senior executives were meeting to decide whether to take such a dramatic step. Behind the scenes, several securities firms—Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers were said to be among them—were calling the SEC in Washington and urging the SEC to close the exchange (the SEC does not have the power to do this, but could presumably ask the president, who does). White House chief of staff Howard Baker encouraged the markets to stay open. The NYSE's president, John Phelan, recoiled from the thought of closing the market: "If we close it, we would never open it."
At about 20 minutes before 1 pm a sudden turnabout occurred that traders later described to the Wall Street Journal as "a miracle." At the Chicago Board of Trade, buy orders started flooding in for the MMI (Major Markets Index), the only major index option still trading. Within five minutes the prices of the MMI swung from an implicit 60-point discount to the underlying value of the stocks in its index to a 12-point premium. The Wall Street Journal described it as "the equivalent of a lightning-like 360-point rise in the Dow." As with many market events, where this flood of buy orders came from is not fully known, but circumstantial evidence pointed to a small number of sophisticated buyers acting deliberately to force the market back into positive territory. News of the surge in the MMI reached the trading floors in New York at the same time several major corporations announced major share buybacks. Several banks reversed their earlier position and now agreed to extend credit to specialists and brokers. Shortly after 1 pm, most blue chips stocks reopened for trading; the crisis was over. The Dow ended the day up 102.2 points—a record move at the time, once more on record volume of 608 million shares. Gainers outnumbered decliners 1,398 to 537. Wednesday October 21 was even better: the Dow rose 186 points; 1,749 stocks posted gains.
Now back to the election.


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Hsuan, Juliana; Prockl, Günter (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Purpose - 3PL services are more or less individually designed bundles of logistics operations that are provided on the basis of a long term relationship between logistics service providers and their clients mostly in industry and retail. The appropriate degree of the individuality is however subject to a trade-off between the creation of complexity to reflect individual customer needs and the realization of synergy effects by the replication of common elements and the multiplied utilization of relevant resources for different customers. The appropriate mix of the more individual elements and the more common elements is seen as a major success factor for the design of the service propositions. Design/methodology/approach - The explorative paper is combining major elements and frameworks from different interdisciplinary research streams, such as modularity and service design and adapts them to the subject of third party logistics. Findings - As a major result the paper is providing a conceptual model for the systematic and formal description of modularity and individuality in the configuration of third party logistics services. The model thus serves as a tool to classify and categorize degrees of complexity that are embedded in TPL settings. Research limitations/implications (if applicable) - As our research is still in the exploratory stage, we do not offer empirical findings. Practical implications - Our findings can help firms to better understand the critical factors in their current TPL service offerings and how to replicate or (re)design the new services offered. Depending on the level of complexity of the TPL services, firms need also to consider the implications of the replication and/or (re)design on the configuration of the supply chain, especially downstream. Originality/value - The paper crosses disciplinary boundaries and combines relevant research streams to provide a sound foundation for the categorization and classification of TPL services and for new service design/development (NSD) and supply chain configuration. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8813
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Abstract: Purpose - Container shipping, due to its boundary crossing nature, is generally seen as an international business. A first look into the physical networks of the industry has shown that container-shipping companies operate however rather differently, with different motives for internationalization, and infact show different patterns to their international development. However, there are other important transactional and market-oriented considerations, and overall dynamics that need to be examined before concluding on the internationalization levels of container shipping companies, and the industry. The purpose of this paper is to further investigate the patterns of internationalisation by the examination of the more demand-oriented considerations. Design/methodology/approach - In order to answer the research question, the paper focusses on the examination of the front-end activities and structures like sales office networks and the overall extent of market presence. For this the fundamental sales networks of the companies were considered as a key indicator, and the port networks of the 20 largest container-shipping companies in the world (by TEU capacity) were analyzed. Findings - The resulting data set allows an examination on each company's overall network at various geographic levels, and a direct comparison of the networks of the companies. It shows that not all shipping companies are highly international. It also shows that market share and total capacity are not necessarily a good indicator for the worldwide presence of a company. Research limitations/implications (if applicable) - The paper adds yet another piece to the interesting puzzle on internationalization patterns of container shipping companies. However, for a complete picture on the internationalization process further work will be required that is based e.g. on the development pattern of single companies and that may also take more the dynamic aspects and comparisons into account. Practical implications - Preceeding work provides insights that are directed towards the port networks and thus toward the more back office oriented resource architecture and the more geographical aspect of physical coverage. By reorganising the focus on the sales network of the single container shipping companies, this paper presents findings that are also applicable to the front end, towards the customer, The comparison of both views is promising interesting insights such as ownership structures and entry modes along with the specific location commitment as a basis for strategic considerations. Originality/value – In the academic literature there is not much to find on the internationalization process and the dominating internationalisation patterns related to container shipping. The paper makes an important contribution in this regard by considering the different aspects of the international shipping networks and by bringing these closer to extant frameworks on internationalization. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8812
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Dortmund (AWe) – Messe Westfalenhallen Dortmund GmbH had planned to hold the trade fair Inter-tabac ASIA on the 27th and 28th of February 2014 in Bali. The company had obtained the required permits for this pursuant to the provisions of the Indonesian Ministry of Industry and Trade, which regulates international fairs and conferences in the country. Despite this, the trade fair must now be postponed. The police of Bali have instructed this in writing.
The organiser, Messe Westfalenhallen Dortmund GmbH, received the message during the night from the 20th to the 21st of February (German time) via its local event partner – less than a week before the fair's start. The company has made intensive efforts to clarify this matter. Experts and institutions contacted have also been unable to resolve the matter. The responsible provincial government was not available for discussion.
Westfalenhallen is upset by this current development. Press officer Dr. Andreas Weber says, "This is not how you treat a foreign event organiser." The justification for the decision contains questionable arguments. Bali is not a tobacco-growing region and is therefore unsuited for a tobacco trade fair is the gist of just some of the statements. The entire development smacks of politically motivated arbitrariness.
"The industry does not deserve the postponement of Inter-tabac ASIA," Weber regrets. With Inter-tabac ASIA, Messe Westfalenhallen Dortmund GmbH had brought a high-calibre trade fair to Bali to which only trade visitors aged 21 and above would have been admitted. Now, a new event location and venue are being sought for Inter-tabac ASIA to take place.


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Fans have created a timeline of the Harry Potter series from a single piece of information in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. At Nearly Headless Nick's deathday party in that book, his death is stated to have been on 31 October, 1492. Since the celebration was commemorating the five-hundredth anniversary of Nick's death, this seems to say the scene takes place on 31 October, 1992. This timeline is reinforced in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when the graves of James and Lily Potter confirm that they were born in 1960 and died on 31 October 1981.
For the sake of convenience, this dating system will be used by the Harry Potter Wiki for all Harry Potter articles.
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There are numerous contradictions in the timeline, though it should be noted that, in the FAQ section of her website, Rowling herself has admitted having difficulty with managing mathematics, so perhaps perfect internal consistency is not to be expected. In addition, considering the Harry Potter universe is a fantasy world, it's possible that certain dates may differ between it and the "real world".
Despite its problems, this timeline is extensively used by fans and Warner Bros.'s timeline of the series (featured on the DVDs for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) contains dates that were interpolated from this dating system (such as Harry's birthday being on 31 July 1980 and his first defeat of Lord Voldemort being on 31 October 1981.) However, several anachronisms have crept through in the movies, such as featuring the destruction of the Millennium Bridge in the film version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, even though the novel (and the film) are supposed to take place a couple of years before the bridge was built. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the Dursleys are seen to have a flat-screen TV, which were not commonly available in the mid-1990s. In addition the Dursley's car, shown in the same film, bears a 2006 year registration plate.
A short film with the movie series cast, The Queen's Handbag was produced in 2006 as part of the 80th birthday celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II. The skit violates the dating convention by having the characters reference the event, even though for them it should still be the mid-1990s.
Problems with timeEdit
Often when dates are given, they are given with a day of the week that does not match with the said date as it in actual history. Just one such example occurs in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban when Sybill Trelawney refers to 16 October as Friday, despite 16 October 1993 being a Saturday. This is usually explained on the grounds of it being simply artistic licence on the author's part.
There are also contradictions within the books themselves in this area. For example, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, both 1 September and 2 September are given as Mondays and, in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Buckbeak's trial is set on 20 April, but careful parsing of the text reveals that it could have happened no later than February.
Also, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire it is said that the Champions were chosen on Saturday 31 October, but 31 October was a Monday in 1994. However, it was later stated that 22 November was a Tuesday, which it was in 1994.
Historical problemsEdit
Although the series, according to the timeline derived from the Chamber of Secrets reference, is set in the nineties, the book often seems as though it is set more in the present time. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Cornelius Fudge uses a male pronoun to refer to the "predecessor" of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. According to the above timeline, this should occur in the summer of 1996, when the Prime Minister was John Major, whose immediate predecessor was a woman (Margaret Thatcher).
It is possible, however unlikely, that Fudge could be referring to a more distant predecessor, as Thatcher took office before Fudge supposedly became Minister for Magic. (Although one could imagine a scenario in which Fudge was delegated by the Minister for Magic to meet with the Prime Minister while he, Fudge, was in an inferior office.) Additionally, the personality and history of the Prime Minister portrayed appears to more closely match that of Tony Blair than of John Major. An article in the Daily Mail notes that Rowling is close to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown (often viewed as a rival to Blair's leadership of the Labour Party), and that she might have been attempting to show Blair's worst side. If the books were set in sync with publication date of Philosopher's Stone, then this event would occur in 2002 (after Blair became Prime Minister).
A similar problem involves Nicolas Flamel. Flamel was mentioned as being 665 at the time of the first book, but Nicolas Flamel was a real historical figure and would not have reached that age until 1996, around the time the first book was published. The rebuttal for this is that the date the "real" Nicolas Flamel was born does not correspond with the Nicolas Flamel of Harry Potter.
Another problem exists regarding Rubeus Hagrid's tenure as Hogwarts' gamekeeper. It is implied throughout the series that Hagrid was given that position within a few years of his expulsion from school in 1942. But in one scene of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Molly Weasley reminisces about Ogg, Hagrid's predecessor; since Hagrid's years as gamekeeper appear to overlap with Molly's years at school, it seems unlikely that she remembers a previous gamekeeper. However, it's possible that Hagrid did not become a gamekeeper immediately after being expelled, but rather started out as Ogg's assistant. This is plausible given that when Harry thinks he will be expelled for flying on the broomstick without permission in his first year, he wonders if he would be allowed to stay on as Hagrid's assistant.
There is at least one anachronism in the books. In a letter Harry writes to Sirius in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, he mentions that his cousin Dudley owns a PlayStation. According to the timeline, this would be in the summer of 1994, but that gaming console was not launched anywhere until December of 1994, and even then only in Japan. However, considering his parents gave him whatever he wanted, they could have gone out of Britain to get it, as well as utilize special connections. Alternatively, Harry might have confused the PlayStation with a similar console. Given the fact that most wizards are ignorant of how Muggle technology functions, the latter theory seems plausible, although Muggle raised wizards knew much more about Muggles than the average wizard.
Another mistake occurs in dealing with the attendance of Bellatrix Lestrange and Severus Snape at Hogwarts. Sirius Black makes mention of Snape and Bellatrix's attendance of the school overlapping at a certain point; however, this is impossible, as Bellatrix attended the school from either 1962 to 1969 or 1963 to 1970, while Snape started at Hogwarts in 1971. Sirius could have meant that Snape and Bellatrix ran with the same kind of crowd, rather than actual crowd, or maybe one of them had to repeat a year.
Another contradiction is that Merlin could not have both been in King Arthur's court and have attended Hogwarts, as King Arthur ruled from late 5th century to early 6th century, while Hogwarts was founded c. 993 AD, approximately five centuries after King Arthur's reign. At the time of Hogwart's founding, the King of England was Æthelred II (c. 968- 1016), and the King of Scotland was most likely Kenneth II (971-995), or, less likely, Constantine III (995–997).


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A third approach to learning is known as cognitive learning. Wolfgang Köhler showed that a protracted process of trial-and-error may be replaced by a sudden understanding that grasps the interrelationships of a problem. This process, called insight, is more akin to piecing together a puzzle than responding to a stimulus. Edward Tolman (1930) found that unrewarded rats learned the layout of a maze, yet this was not apparent until they were later rewarded with food. Tolman called this latent learning, and it has been suggested that the rats developed cognitive maps of the maze that they were able to apply immediately when a reward was offered.
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Spencer rolled out with his homies again and got a bunch of skate photos out at some Oregon Coast Skate Parks! The coast here in Oregon is a lot different than California shores, it is cold, windy, but I still love it!
We headed up north from Portland and crossed over in Longview, Washington. Along the way we came across Clatskanie, Oregon which has a fun undercover skatepark. They have an 8 or 9 foot halfpipe and we had to hit it up. Austin shreds so he was boosting all sorts of good stuff in the pipe.
We had to stop off in Astoria to skate the park and to grab some brews at the Rogue Brew house out on a pier. It was AMAZING. But then we got back to the skating!
The skatepark in Astoria was sick. It had fun little stuff and big gnarly stuff. A super gnarly deep end in the bowl actually. Austin and Joe pretty much shut down the park. They were shredding way too hard and I feel like the locals got kind of discouraged. BUT we figured that out soon and so we started trying to interact with everyone more to get them skating as well. There was a group of punks off to the side yelling at people and threatening kids. I think it stoked everyone out that we weren't being jerks and that we were sticking up for everyone else who was just learning. I hate when people just hang outside of skateparks and try to cause trouble, it is totally unnecessary. The only rough thing about this park is the concrete! Cheese grater concrete for days! After sliding around back into tranny a few times I was wishing I had some wheels that would have withstood the beating a bit better. Something like the Abec 11 Fernando Yuppie Powerslides, I couldn't flatspot those things and usually I can do that with ease!
From Astoria, Oregon we made our way down to Seaside, Oregon. I love that place and it has grown a lot since I was last there! The park is better than that weird indoor one they had before too. We got to Seaside kind of late and everyone was pretty burnt out but we managed to get a couple tricks in. Again, Austin decided to get gnarly and back lip side the deep end of the big bowl. I don't know how he does it.
After the Seaside session we decided it was time to roll out and find a place to camp. We stopped by Safeway, grabbed some late night supplies, and barged a campsite. We got lucky cause normally that kind of stuff doesn't fly at a full campsite without a reservation but in the morning the rangers didn't care. Someone who had reservations never showed up so it wasn't any skin off their backs! Plus I am pretty sure the ranger who spoke with us was Tommy Chong.
The next day was super rough for me. I was a little under the weather due to certain beverages I felt I needed to consume the night before. Plus I went to bed at like 2am and woke up at about 8:30am. We woke up and headed to Nehalem, Oregon to hit up this weird little park. It is an undercover ramp that goes from about 5 feet to 9 feet. I passed out on the deck for a bit in my Poler Nap Sack cause i needed to recoup. Afterwards I pulled out the camera and got some pics of Austin getting crazy. Joe was killing it too but he wanted to get video so he was filming a lot the whole time.
Austin Pretty much nails all his tricks within a few tries. He got a sick backside nose grab here too but I took the photo kind of weird. What the heck, I will upload it too!
Not my best lens choice but the trick was SICK!
Driving back up to Cannon Beach from Nehalem only takes a couple minutes but you climb in elevation very fast! I ended up snagging this shot of Manzanita, Oregon on the way up!
I don't know how easy it is to tell how tight the tranny on here is but this wall is about 6 feet tall and the only transition in wall is about 2 feet at the bottom. It went straight up into over-vert. Joe is good at jenky situations like this and so it only took him a few tries to start rolling away from every fs slash. However, before he rode away from them his board decided to attack me. I was on my knees getting a low angle and his board shot out straight into my kneecap. Luckily it hit the meat rather than the bone but my God it got nice and swollen. As I sit here writing this with my leg bent it still hurts and I have a sweet bruise from it. Kinda sucks.
From there we were all pretty beat so we just rolled back home. It was SOOOOO nice to post up in my own bed for the evening. But the next day I went out to skate the hood river, oregon park so I really didn't give my body any proper rest. Oh well, I guess thats what being a skater is all about right? Right!


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2014 cornerback Chris Lammons doesn't plan on working out at Friday Night Lights — he brought his cleats if he changes his mind — the 5'9'' Fort Lauderdale prospect has arrived at FNL primarily to learn from Florida defensive backs coach Travaris Robinson.
"Just looking at the defensive schemes that [Florida] runs, just talking football basically," Lammons said of his plans today with "T-Rob."
He has a unique relationship with two other south Florida prospects, fellow CB Quincy Wilson and wide receiver Ermon Lane. Wilson is on record saying all three want to play together.
"I'm close with Ermon, but I don't know about Ermon. I know about me and Quincy, I know we got good chemistry on defense because of playing on the same 7-on-7 team. Just looking at him, I know that he will make plays," Lammons said. The bond between all three developed while they played on the South Florida Express Elite 7-on-7 squad that got all the way to the finals of the NFA 7-on-7 National Championships in late June. At the end of the day though, Lammons acknowledges that he's making his college decision on his own.
"[wherever Quincy Wilson goes] it's not going to affect my decision at all. I've got to go to a school and be what I've got to be," Lammons said.
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In his mind, it's an open race among his top-5 schools with no clear leader: South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida and Miami.
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Today we made a skull in 3ds max. I made other 3D models before, but this is by far the best I've ever done.
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Which program do you prefer doing your modeling in? I've tried using sketup from google but I really don't like it that much my friend was going to teach me how to use 3dsmax but he hasn't gotten around to it as of yet and it seems like it might be a bit much to learn too.
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It's Christmas time again! No, 2012 hasn't gone by that fast.
"Thirteen days after Western Christmas, on January 7th, the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates its Christmas, in accordance with the old Julian calendar. It's a day of both solemn ritual and joyous celebration." [Quote Source: Russian Crafts].
I've mentioned in a previous post that my grandmother, although baptized Greek Catholic, and raised in that faith, had joined the Russian Orthodox church (St. Nicholas) as an adult. This was long after she arrived in America and settled in Pennsylvania.
As a result, we always had two Christmases in my family. Because it was more universal, our family would have a big celebration on December 25th, which included the secular traditions of a Christmas tree and Santa Claus, but also observe the January 7th Christmas with my grandmother. In later years, when my grandmother's health was failing and she could not attend the services in person, she often listened to them on the radio (there was a church that did a broadcast). We would listen with her.
Observing the religious rituals meant we also got to enjoy the wonderful foods of the Vilija (Christmas Eve) supper twice as well. More mushroom soup, more bobalky, more pirohy, more everything….yum! My poor grandmother (and mother too) seemed to be cooking for four weeks straight! But those were very special times!
As it happens, January 7th is also my Auntie Sr. M. Camilla's birthday (see my very first "Catholic Gene" post "My Auntie: Christ's Career Woman and Our Family Historian"). She would have turned 94 today.
Luckily, I have a freezer, and a microwave, so today I will be heating up the remainder of the mushroom soup and pirohy I stashed away after December 24th, and will play my Slovak Christmas carols one more time. And I will remember my grandmother, and my Auntie–two of the most faithful people I have ever known–as I once again celebrate the true meaning of Christmas in my heart.


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