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Chocloate Milk Is An Easy and Economical Post-Exercise Recovery Drink
Author: Rosanne Rust | November 28, 2017
If you frequent your local gym, you may hear a lot about supplements, bars, shakes and the like. Everyone seems to be a nutrition expert these days. A friend recently overheard a gym member advising another member about the benefits of protein powder. She recommended adding it to apple juice for post-workout nutrition recovery. That sounds unappealing to me (I don't just eat for nutrition, I also like to enjoy the foods and beverages I consume), and while eating or drinking the right stuff after a workout is important, a supplement isn't necessary.
Many who use supplements to enhance the effects of exercise or for recovery from exercise, may argue that they use them for not only the purpose of nutrition, but also for convenience (and may believe the nutrition must occur immediately after activity). Rather than discuss the minutiae of human metabolism, the simple fact is, as long as you replenish your body with proper nutrition within an hour of activity, your body will replace its stores and recuperate.
There are many easy-to-use foods that work just as well as expensive supplements and are convenient, too (cheese and crackers, yogurt, milk, half a sandwich). First, let's look at some basic points about recovery nutrition:
- Within an hour, eat a snack containing carbohydrate and a little protein.
- Hydrate. Don't underestimate how hydration impacts performance. Adequate fluid is essential to an athlete's comfort, safety and performance. A fluid loss of 2 percent or more has been shown to drop blood volume, which causes the heart to work harder and can lead to cramping, dizziness and fatigue.
How Much Protein Do You Need Daily*?
- Strength training: 0.7-0.8 grams per pound body weight (1.6-1.7g per kg BW)
- Endurance: 0.5-0.6 grams per pound body weight (1.2-1.4 g per kg BW)
*Source: The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and American Dietetic Association (ADA)
Many studies have shown that chocolate milk is the ultimate recovery drink. Anecdotally, my husband is a triathlete, and chocolate milk works for him. Consider how chocolate milk compares to popular protein mixes in the following table:
While protein powders provide more protein (and some add vitamins and minerals, which you can get by eating more fruits and vegetables), you actually need to replace carbohydrate and a just bit of protein for recovery. Studies have shown that while protein synthesis occurs after ingesting protein post-exercise, once 20 grams of protein is ingested, synthesis levels off. (This study was based on a 190-pound individual. If you're smaller, you'll need less protein). Also to keep in mind, that protein plays a more important role in strength training recovery as opposed to endurance recovery.
So, plan to drink a 12-ounce glass of low-fat chocolate milk the next time you get home or back to work after a work-out. You can pour it and keep it in a reusable drink bottle to that it's always ready to go. Chocolate milk: It's easy and just as effective as an expensive supplement. Rethink your drink.
American Dairy Association North East is one of 16 state and regional promotion organizations working under the umbrella of the United Dairy Industry Association. It is the local affiliate of the National Dairy Council®, which has been conducting nutrition education and nutrition research programs since 1915. For more information, visit www.americandairy.com.


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Doc won his 15th, Shane hit a big insurance home run, J-Roll and Ryan drove in two runs each, Hunter had another two-hit game and Madson picked up his 20h save. That's the capsule of Monday night's win in Dodger Stadium.
The Phillies beat an old nemesis in Kuroda. Going into the game, the Phillies starting lineup had 10 hits in 70 career at-bats against him. He gave up nine in 6.1 innings.
Hunter had his 42nd two-hit game of the season. He's the absolute correct fit for this club.
Shane Suspension
Just one person's opinion…..not surprised to see Shane tagged with a three-game suspension plus a fine. Very surprised that the Giants' pitcher and catcher were only fined. The decision is a real puzzle. Glad Shane appealed.
Happy Birthday to Chris Wheeler, former pitching coach Claude Osteen and pitcher Kevin Saucier . . . E-Poll and Nielson survey of the most popular baseball players: Doc, #1, Cliff #2, Chase tied for 4th and Howard, #10 . . . J. C. Romero has been released by the Yankees and Kevin Millwood, released by the Red Sox, has been signed by the Rockies. Both were playing the in minor league. Another ex-Phillies pitcher, Arthur Rhodes, was released by the Rangers.
Postseason Meeting
Thirty front office staffers will have their first postseason meeting Tuesday afternoon. MLB annually provides a thick manual about practices and policies for the postseason..
Among the topics for today's meeting: hotels, facility/security, finance, ticketing, publications, media accommodations, broadcasting, hospitality functions, baseball operations re rosters, MLB properties, pre-game anthem and first pitch transportation/parking, scoreboard sponsorships, food, player wives accommodations and community affairs.
Experience of being in the postseason over the last four seasons is a real plus for the staff.
Down On The Farm
Lehigh Valley won, 6-3, at Norfolk. RHP Scott Mathieson (1-1), 1 run in 7 innings; RHR Phillippe Aumont recorded his 3rd save, 1.2 innings, 4 strikeouts. . . Reading was idle . . . CF Jiwan James had a walk-off single in the bottom of the 10th as Clearwater edged Daytona, 2-1. 1B Darin Ruf hit his 15th homer . . . Lakewood bested West Virginia, 10-7. 1B Jim Murphy hit his organization-high 22nd home run . . . Williamsport and Gulf Coast League were rained out.
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I don't really understand the lack of any suspension for Ramirez or Whiteside either. Hitting Shane was clearly intentional and Whiteside's actions of jumping and down were clearly a "c'mon, let's rumble" gesture. I think 3-game suspension for Shane is excessive in light of no suspensions for Giants players.

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They both resent the fact that they have to spend any time with the other. Katya has been there, done it and got the picture, she can't face another interview and thinks the press are scum. Pierre thinks that the starlet is vacuous and irritating, he turns up for the interview without doing any preparation and unsurprisingly its a disaster. He doesn't know or care about her, she has nothing but contempt for him. Then because of a car accident, she takes him up to her appartment and an evening of talking and drinking begins.
Discussion is a way to communicate between human beings. In this film, discussion is used communicate indeed. But it communicates all sorts of things that normally are viewed as unconstructive. Both characters make clear their contempt for the other. He views her as an idiotic pretty head, she views him as an ugly old man, who looks like her father. Both of them though want to control the situation, both of them see social interaction as a competition, an occasion to anialate the other person. What that produces of course for both of them is an agreeable frisson. The old reporter gets to kiss the young starlet, she gets to know that her sexuality charms and delights him.
There is more to it than that though, they genuinely do manage to charm each other because their impressions are actually wrong. Miller is not a braindead fool, but is impressively cunning and witty. Buscemi, she discovers is a guy she can feel attracted to. Their flirting works ultimately because they are in some sense both attracted to each other. When Buscemi says to her that he feels like a father to her, its true. When Miller responds affectionately to him, it has a certain truth to it too.
But neither can retain that for long. Every comment comes with a barb. Every overture or opening is seen as a vulnerability and neither of them actually care about how or whether they lose. The night is rounded off with Buscemi leaving Miller's apartment and a twist in a tale- which you'll have to see the movie to find out. But the essential truth is that this film is a contest where there needed not be a contest, an exchange of fire where there needed not be such an exchange. Whether they sleep together or not comes second to the fact that for a moment they both taste the flavour of intimacy, but both draw back before they can sip.
That drawing back is at times a conscious lie. By telling an untruth, even in a moment of intimacy, the two characters end up betraying that intimacy. By telling an untruth, they reserve the right to opt out of intimacy. Both Buscemi and Miller are lying throughout their conversation- she provocatively kisses him and invents scenarios which aren't true, he tells her stories which are blatantly false. Both are in the utmost degree whores- she is constantly referred to by both of them as a whore, a crack whore, a whore, and he also is a whore, selling his stories to the best bidder. Both of them are for sale- and yet neither of them really have anything they want to buy. Miller's character seems to have no joy in life, no empathy with Buscemi's character. He seems to cynical to find any friendship or emotion which pleases him.
This film is a tragedy for both characters. Part of the reason it is a tragedy is that neither of them could diagnose their own condition. Miller doesn't at the end believe that she has lost anything- she is still the sexy young woman about town. Buscemi may believe he has lost, he might not have got the sexual fulfillment he might have wanted. The real loss though is the opportunity to meet another person's subjectivity and try and understand, neither character can break through the walls to do that, they both have to lie to maintain the illusion that they exist invulnerable within a world they presume cheats them at every stage. Both of them hate humanity and hate themselves. That is the tragedy.
Right at the beggining of the film, Buscemi's character talks to his mute brother. He shows real concern but the brother isn't a human being, it's not fair because the brother can't respond and its not fair because Buscemi can't really engage. Miller acts the same words, for her too its not fair because though everyone loves her, she can't love. This film includes amusing, sexy dialogue, and communication. But despite words upon words upon words, neither of the characters are ready to converse.
Every piece of communication in this film is subject to doubt, every time someone says something you can rely on the fact that they are lying, that their words don't mean what they mean. Every exchange is a feint, a tactic, unreal because of that. You can only really relate to the injured or the mute. These two people present for all their undoubted wit and sexiness, a dystopian nightmare for the human soul, where all conversation is like wrestling.
This film, like Closer before it, is an examination of the worst in human nature, its worth seeing and its worth avoiding the fate of its characters.
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It may sound counterintuitive, but for many speakers, silence is the biggest challenge, the thing that undermines confidence, derails your train of thought, prompts stumbling responses, or causes you to freeze in your tracks, physically as well as verbally. When I asked readers of The Eloquent Woman on Facebook about what it means to be "good on your feet," three professional communicators and coaches pointed out that your ability as a speaker to handle silence is one of the hallmarks of being "good on your feet." Here's what they said:
- Dana Bristol-Smith observed, "People are so afraid of silence! They mistakenly think that if they take a moment to give a thoughtful reply to a question that they are showing a weakness. I think being good on your feet means that you are comfortable enough to present and respond to questions and you know how to handle yourself if you don't know the answer."
- Cathy Carlozzi noted, "I'm working with a client now on a speech and I'm helping her anticipate the questions she's likely to receive, especially the negative ones. And I agree that there's nothing wrong with taking the time to marshal your thoughts rather than shooting from the hip."
- Claire Duffy recommended staying "staying animated, not freezing. Thoughtful silent spots are OK but clamming up is not. I've a client so terrified of 'improv', she can't take a meeting. I just saw a presentation on a fascinating topic but the speaker froze like a rabbit in the headlights when the audience wanted to know more. It's got to stay warm and alive regardless of what you actually say."
To me, dynamic speaking doesn't just involve those high-energy, animated, smooth-talking moments that speakers and audiences crave, but that everyday ability to be comfortable with your silences or those of the audience--and to know what to say when you don't know what to say. No speaker will be able to avoid silences, and no speaker will have the answers to all questions, but you can learn skills to handle them deftly, including:
- time-buying phrases that give you seconds to think when you're thrown off-balance;
- a developed message you can use to reinforce your points and bring the conversation back where you want it to be;
- graceful ways to engage further with the questioner, both to give you more background information and to buy yourself time;
- ways to handle questions when you don't know the answer--and don't wish to speculate; and
- ways to keep your comfort level high when you're in extemporaneous speaking situations, particularly when taking questions.
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Prevent Heart Failure
* Keep your blood pressure low.
In HF(Heart failure), the release of hormones causes the blood vessels to constrict or tighten. Therefore the heart must work hard to pump blood through the constricted vessels. It is important to keep your blood pressure as low as possible, so that your heart can pump effectively without extra stress.
* Monitor your own symptoms.
Check for changes in your fluid status by weighing yourself daily and checking for swelling. Call your doctor if you have unexplained weight gain (3 pounds in one day or 5 pounds in one week) or if you have increased swelling.
* Maintain fluid balance.
Your doctor may ask you to keep a record of the amount of fluids you drink or eat and how often you go to the bathroom. Remember, the more fluid you carry in your blood vessels, the harder your heart must work to pump excess fluid through your body. Limiting your fluid intake to less than 2 liters per day will help decrease the workload of your heart and prevent symptoms from recurring.
* Limit how much salt (sodium) you eat.
Sodium is found naturally in many foods we eat. It is also added for flavoring or to make food last longer. If you follow a low-sodium diet, you should have less fluid retention, less swelling, and breathe easier.
* Monitor your weight and lose weight if needed.
Monitor your "dry" or "ideal" weight is. Dry weight is your weight without extra water (fluid). Your goal is to keep your weight within 4 pounds of your dry weight. Weigh yourself at the same time each day, preferably in the morning, in similar clothing, after urinating but before eating, and on the same scale. Record your weight in a diary or calendar. If you gain two pounds in one day or five pounds in one week, call your doctor. Your doctor may want to adjust your medications.
* Keep track of your symptoms.
Call your doctor if new symptoms occur or if your symptoms worsen. Do not wait for your symptoms to become so severe that you need to seek emergency treatment.
* Take your medications as prescribed.
Medications are used to improve your heart's ability to pump blood, decrease stress on your heart, decrease the progression of heart failure, and prevent fluid retention. Many heart failure drugs are used to decrease the release of harmful hormones. These drugs will cause your blood vessels to dilate or relax (thereby lowering your blood pressure).
* Plan regular doctor appointments.
During follow-up visits, your doctors will make sure you are staying healthy and that your heart failure is not getting worse. Your doctor will ask to review your weight record and list of medications. If you have questions, write them down and bring them to your appointment. Call your doctor if you have urgent questions. Notify all your doctors about your heart failure, medications, and any restrictions.
Consult with your heart doctor about any new medications prescribed by another doctor. Maintain good records and take them along with you on every visit to your doctor.


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We started our business in late 2010 for two reasons… 1) We both lost our jobs in Corporate America and Unemployment was running out and not cutting it with no job in sight. 2) A family member opened a store with a friend who made Goats milk soap but many people where coming in asking for vegan soap. For motivation it would have to be our customers for following us from market to market to purchase from us giving us new product ideas and Fragrance requests.
Late 2010 we started with M&P soap with the "TRUE" vegan soap idea… with fruit, vegetable and herb powders for scent and color, when we added our first fragrance oil Dragons Blood people loved the scent but not our plastic packaging so we quickly changed to CP (Cold Process) within the first month of 2011 with the help online research. We now also carry Eco-Soy Candles, perfume oils, Lotions, Bath Bombs, Bath Salts, HE Safe Laundry and dish soap, Room/Body & yoga mat sprays and many other products
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"Breaking Bad" viewers take the series about a high school chemistry teacher turned meth dealer seriously. So seriously, that one Ohio man has filed a class-action suit against Apple for allegedly cheating fans out of eight episodes in a $21.99 HD or $13.99 standard definition season pass promotion, according to a report.
Noam Lazebnik said in a lawsuit filed Friday in San Jose, Calif. that Apple "engaged in false advertising" by providing only eight episodes of a 16-episode season, according to GigaOm. He claims he and other viewers are owed $22.99 or $14.99 for a "Season Pass" to the AMC program's final season which was split into two parts. Apple provided only eight episodes, or half of the season, rather than Lazebnik's expected 16.
"When a consumer buys a ticket to a football game, he does not have to leave at halftime. When a consumer buys an opera ticket, he does not get kicked out at intermission," the suit alleges. The suit also claims that the last 16 episodes have consistently been referred to as "Season 5".
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Apple hasn't commented on the suit, but so far at least one news outlet is calling it one of the "dumbest" Apple stories, according to AllThingsD -- which nonetheless wrote about it. It is likely that the iTunes deal wasn't crystal clear to users, but $13.99 for all 16 episodes seems like a bit of magical thinking, too.


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Foundation, a history of England from Peter Ackroyd. From a recent Guardian profile:
Ackroyd's trademark insight and wit, and the glorious interconnectedness of all things, permeate each page. One thing that struck me was the realisation that history isn't nearly as linear as we thought. Something is invented, or discovered, or philosophised, and we tend to think that that's knowledge known from then on, but even in this single volume there are endless forgettings.
"Absolutely," comes his fast answer, spoken, as ever, gently and with a strange mix of confidence and self-effacement. "One thing which most interested me was the fact that neglect, or our genius for forgetfulness, occurs at every level of social and political activity. The same mistakes, the same confusions, occur time and time again. It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences – there's no real pattern."
What he discovered, or rediscovered, is that "what underlines that random happenstance are the deep continuities of national life that survive, uninfluenced by the surface events. In this book, I have little chapters on, say, medieval medicine, or punishment, or medieval humour, simply to convey the broad continuities that underlie this bewildering range of events. Continuities of the soil, the land, the earth." And these help create human – English – sensibilities? "Yes. As I said in my London book, it's a sort of territorial imperative, the landscape; the shape of the geology, almost, has a definite though not comprehended effect on human behaviour, human need. So that's one of the things I was trying to explore I suppose."


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CELEBRATING THEIR FIFTH YEAR IN 2013, Giant Loop® has evolved from two adventure motorcycle riders with a single saddlebag available only online, into one of the world's most innovative soft luggage makers.
The 2013 line includes four completely new products, as well as updates across the entire Giant Loop collection. Riders worldwide energize and inspire Giantloop to continually improve, and each design is prototyped and tested in some of the most demanding off-road conditions.
Some of the very best riders in the world use Giant Loop gear, including Baja 1000 winners Quinn Cody and Kendall Norman, off-roadracing legend Malcolm Smith, world-record setting Husaberg Adventure Team, London-to-Sydney riders from Continental Drift, as well as many others. Giant Loop has also received positive reviews in virtually every major US motorcycling publication, as well as Australian, European and South African media.
"We began in 2008 with a hope of opening up new possibilities for riders to explore this magnificent planet, and today we stand proud tohave expanded horizons for a worldwide community of riders."
Heres the GL story in the word's of Harold and Dave...
David Wachs designed the Giant Loop® Saddle Bag for personal use on long-
distance off-road adventures.
" The idea for long-distance, multi-day rides on dirtbikes actually came from our friend Josh Hale who told us stories of his adventures out of Nevada City, CA as a kid back in the late '70s and early '80s. They put all their junk in backpacks and suffered through till they found a campsite.
Another inspiration was a group of dusty old-timers Dave encountered on the old Santiam Wagon Trail just west of Sisters, Oregon sometime around 1994. These wily veterans were on XR 250s and their leader was a quite large man on a suffering DR250. To haul their gear, they use an interesting collection of military baggage, backpacks and duffel bags lashed to the motorcycles. These friendly fellas were heading west over the Cascades after spending a few days at Christmas Valley Sand Dunes and still had 120 miles to get home to Stayton, OR. We thought that was burly, and we were kind of jealous of their trip.
Dave started out with some homemade 'doggie backpack-style' saddle bags custom sewn for his '95 RXC 620. The maiden voyage on this set up was down in Cali on a trip from Ridgecrest into Death Valley up Golar Wash.
"Everything was working OK," says Dave. "The other guys' kits carried quite a bit more gear, but mine was very minimal and my bike handled much more sporty than the others, for sure. Tom Dillenbeck and I swapped bikes (he was on an early 640 ADVENTURE), and that's when I realized the potential of truly long-distance rides with that huge 7.5-gallon tank. On the second day over Lippencott headed for the Saline, my set up slipped onto the pipe. I stopped to see molten number plate plastic dripping onto my bike's swing arm. I got to camp and Ezra found a California Centennial license plate that I wired onto the bike as a heat shield. That hillbilly fix got me through the trip, but it wasn't pretty."
Harold Olaf Cecil joined Dave on an early Giant Loop, constantly fiddling with a
rafting dry bag lashed to a heavy custom rack and road bike saddle bags that had
to be held out of the way to kick start the bike.
Several other versions were built, tested and worked fine but there were still three bags: Two on the sides and a duffel lashed to the stock KTM rack on the back of the bike. Stuffing gear into bags and strapping them to the bike took too much time and required constant attention to make sure nothing was shifting around. The KTM's steel subframe cracked in a couple places and needed gussets to repair. Our buddies' racks were all bent, cracked or worse and none of us left town without backup straps (not bungies) to make those inevitable back country repairs. It became rather obvious that unless we were just going to putt-putt across the desert, we needed a more secure system.
"One morning at camp I was packing my kit and it occurred to me that the solution was a continuous volume connecting all three spaces into one," says Dave. "I didn't need to stuff my sleeping bag into a bag and lash another bag on, it simply needed to be one space – just like my backpacks."
The first of these designs worked flawlessly (although it was a bit small), and Dave put several thousand miles of hard riding on it testing the concept. The second and third versions were much better space-wise, but the concept had proven itself and every trip Dave took illustrated the challenges his friends (like Harold) were dealing with by not having the convenience of our system.
The final version of this idea has many more trips on it, and we are confident that if you embrace the "go light, go fast" theory of off-road adventure riding, you will enjoy the tight, low-riding weight distribution of our system. Dave has been out for seven-day trips and has yet to find himself wanting more space or more stuff. Think about it: You are going to need fuel almost everyday, and it's not like you are traversing the Gobi Desert for the first time ever (although it would probably allow you to do a trip like that). Once you really pare it down to the essentials, you realize that truly, "less is more."
Ride while you can!
Dave Wachs & Harold Olaf Cecil
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GIANTLOOP'S DESIGN VISION - Top priorities for designing motorcycle gear: 1. Rugged enough to scoff in the face of off -road punishment; and 2. Stable enough to stay put while taking the pounding
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Next in line: 3. Waterproof in extreme wet conditions; and 4. Modular and flexible enough to satisfy a broad spectrum of bike types, terrain and gear loads.
With the 2013 line, Giantloop now offer riders more 100% waterproof options — and even more flexibility to customize the best solution for each rider's individual needs. Rather than making the proven outer Bombshell waterproof, Giantloop protect gear inside with waterproof Dry Pods and some of the toughest roll-top Dry Bags made.
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Fred Wilson
October 27, 2009
He was affable, humorous and generally seemed like an all around great guy. Not exactly the typical description you might expect to hear of an artist's lecture in a formal academic setting like a university museum. But then again I'm talking about Fred Wilson, an artist who thrives on the unexpected, and whose lecture I attended this evening at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. I believe it is no small part of Wilson's success as an artist that he is a likable and engaging character. This good-naturedness allows him easier access to a rather privileged world he loves to tinker with, the inner workings of museum culture, in order to produce work that reframes, rethinks and challenges the status quo.
Wilson's work explores curatorial practice itself and often relies solely on existing artworks in museum collections as subject matter which he rearranges and displays in unconventional and compelling ways. Working in this manner allows him to produce startling exhibitions which provoke and confound our expectations of museums, their role as cultural arbiters, and their interpretation and presentation of artworks themselves. This working method has in fact become Wilson's main methodology especially since his exhibition "Mining the Museum" at the Maryland Historical Society in 1992 - a breakthrough event he concedes changed his life forevermore afterwards. After this landmark show, recontextualizing works of art (and in turn our interpretations of them) through bold curatorial juxtaposition became Wilson's signature. Just one look at the well known image from "Mining' of Wilson's display of slave shackles and elaborate silver tea goblets together in the same display case is really all you need to start reconsidering the notions of historical accuracy, authenticity, and truth. History is written by the winners as they say.
In the years since "Mining the Museum" Wilson has gone on to produce other provocative displays in museum and galleries worldwide. Representing the U.S. in the 2003 Venice Biennale afforded an opportunity for international cultural exploration and Wilson fittingly explored how the Moorish culture and Africans exerted and continues to play such a large part in the cultural life of Venice. His large ebony chandelier entitled "Speak of Me as I Am" became a metaphorical exploration of Africans' impact on the culture of this particular city through one of their rich traditions- glassblowing. His large chandelier was rich in form and seductive in its understatement of its medium.
Wilson spoke of how he loves the idea of bringing two differing things together to produce a third thing - namely some unexpected concept or rethinking of the work itself - and this notion is one that continues to drive much of his artistic production. His work reflects his own perspective of course so his reworkings of museum collections still provide a highly personal take on history and how it's been told- a fact the artist readily acknowledges. Yet he does it with such gripping force that it has the effect of stopping you in your tracks.
The fundamental core of Fred Wilson's art is the idea that historical accuracy and representation are not all they are cracked up to be. There's more than one way to organize a show he tells us. And in that telling, Wilson's art explores not only how strongly museums impact and shape our cultural view but more importantly how we consider and understand ourselves.
Fred Wilson, "Mining the Museum" Maryland Historical Society, 1992
courtesy PBS, Art:21 and PaceWildenstein, New York
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Edward S. Clark / Sailing Craft of the Chesapeake Bay Collection - PP160
Collection finding aids of Photograph Collections in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Maryland Historical Society
Not dated and ca. 1941
Prints and Photographs Division, Maryland Historical Society
201 W. Monument St.
Baltimore, MD 21201
Finding aid created by Katherine Cowan with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, January 2000
The creator of this collection was Edward Story Clark (1894-1952) who worked in shipping in Baltimore and elsewhere. A Baltimore native, he moved in the course of his career to San Francisco, New York, and Boston. Clark was active in the Maritime Museum of the Maryland Historical Society, continuing his involvement even after leaving Baltimore.
The number and variety of small sailing vessels employed in the Chesapeake Bay region was partly due to the preponderance of creeks and estuaries navigable only by means of shallow draft vessels. Many later types derived from the log-canoe, itself an enlargement of the type of vessel carved out of a single log. The log-canoe was made from 3 to 5 logs, averaging 25-40 feet in length, and used with and without sharp sails, especially in tonging in the oyster industry.
The skipjack was a common type of sloop. As originally built in ca. 1815-1820, it was an open boat 30-50 feet in length, with a single sharp sail and a jib, a square stern and flat bottom. It may have derived from the log-canoe, although some detect an influence from the sharpie, as well. After the Civil War, a V-bottom form developed. In general, the skipjack could be produced at a lower cost than round-bottomed sloops.
The bugeye, so named because the craft handled so easily it could turn "in a bugs eye", is thought to have resulted from an enlargement of the log-canoe. Developed in the Chesapeake between 1835 and 1850, the craft was common in oystering fleets of the 1870s and 1880s. By the 1940s, the 60 or 70 bugeyes remaining in the Chesapeake were used in the oyster trade or for transporting bulk cargoes such as fruits, vegetables, grain, and fertilizer.
The pungy was a sharp-keel schooner built for the oyster and fruit trade starting as early as the 1840s. The boats draft was 8 or 12 feet, limiting its usefulness to deep water oyster beds. By the 1930s, only six pungies remained afloat in the Chesapeake Bay, including Amanda F. Lewis and Wave.
The scow-sloop resembled a flat barge with square ends and one or two masts. Drawing only a foot to eighteen inches, it was developed especially for use in waters at the head of the Chesapeake Bay around the Susquehanna flats; it was typified by Elsie, built in 1875.
Collection Origin
Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Clark, 1955 (54401).
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 1 box with 2 albums containing 72 photoprints along with clippings and printed ephemera. All deal with various sailing craft on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. The photographs are undated or made in ca. 1941. The clippings and ephemera include published articles, maps, and illustrations, undated or dated 1911-1950.
The sailing craft represented include bugeyes, scow-sloops, pungies, flatties, schooners, ram schooners, skipjacks, and log-canoes. Captions for most of the vessels include a date and geographic location where the vessel was built. The craft are depicted under sail, in dry dock, and at docks. Maryland locations depicted include Baltimores harbor, Curtis Bay, Cambridge, St. Michaels, Georgetown, Oxford, and Crisfield.
Note: Album 1 contains chiefly photoprints with a few non-photographic items; Album 2 contains chiefly clippings and ephemera with 1 photograph. The span dates for the Prints and Photographs Collection refer only to the photographs.
The photographs remain in the albums, and have been given sequential PP catalog numbers.
Container List
1 Box
Box 1: 2 Albums
Album 1
28 x 23 cm.; 53 p.; chiefly photographs with a few clippings; 71 photoprints. Spine label reads: U.S. Chesapeake Bay. Photographs are undated unless otherwise noted.
PP160.1 Thomas Blades or Martin Sylvester and Weldon or Sparkling Sea or John C. White, St. Michaels, Md., 1908. Photograph is in envelope, loose at the front of the album. Photograph by William G. Boettinger of Baltimore.
PP160.2 Chesapeake Bay craft at anchor, Baltimore, Md. Includes bugeye Pinta, and unidentified pungies and bay sloops.
PP160.3 Baltimore waterfront.
PP160.4 Smiths Yard, Curtis Bay, Baltimore, Md.
PP160.5 Pungy Amanda F. Lewis.
PP160.6 Wave.
PP160.7 Pungy Wave.
PP160.8 Ida B. Conway.
PP160.9a-b Ida B. Conway, 1941. 2 items.
PP160.10 Levin J. Marvel, ram schooner.
PP160.11-.12 Edward R. Baird, Jr., ram schooner. 2 items.
PP160.13a-e Ram schooners: Edward R. Baird, Jr.; unidentified; Mabel and Ruth; Grace G. Bennett; said to be Levin J. Marvel. 5 items.
PP160.14 Bugeye Richard J. Vetra and schooner Elsie M. Reichert at Smiths Yard, Curtis Bay, Baltimore, Md.
PP160.15 Sloop Mattie B. Sheppard.
PP160.16 Skipjacks at Cambridge, Md.
PP160.17 Skipjack Rebecca T. Ruark hauled out, Baltimore, Md., 1941.
PP160.18 Skipjack in Baltimore.
PP160.19a-d Skipjacks. 4 items.
PP160.20 Skipjack Ringgold Brothers.
PP160.21 Oyster schooners and bugeyes, Baltimore, Md., 1941.
PP160.22 Unidentified (includes Minnie May?), ca. 1941.
PP160.23 Austrialia.
PP160.24a-c Australia; scow-sloop Elsie; unidentified Chesapeake ram schooner. 3 items.
PP160.25a-d Scow-sloop Elsie. 4 items.
PP160.26a-e Chesapeake Bay schooners: Baltimore docks, 1941; anchored off Annapolis, 1941; Thomas B. Cator; discharging lumber, Baltimore, Md.; Georgetown, Md. 5 items.
PP160.27a-c Schooner Caradora, details. 3 items.
PP160.28 Schooner Columbia F.C.
PP160.29a-b Smith K. Martin. 2 items.
PP160.30 Lola E. Bennett.
PP160.31 Preston Lewis.
PP160.32a-b Bugeye A.E. Parks. 2 items.
PP160.33a-d Bugeye Brown, Smith and Jones. 4 items.
PP160.34 Bugeye M.M. Davis and skipjack Fannie Daugherty.
PP160.35 Bugeye M.M. Davis.
PP160.36 Unidentified.
PP160.37 Edith F. Todd.
PP160.38a-b Edith F. Todd.
PP160.39a-c Bugeye Edith F. Todd, details. 3 items.
PP160.40 Bugeye Russell A. Wingate.
PP160.41-42 Log-canoe, unidentified. 2 items.
PP160.43 Bateau or flattie, Crisfield, Md.
PP160.44 Steamer Peconic.
Album 2
28 x 23 cm.; 97 p.; chiefly clippings and ephemera with 1 photograph. Spine label reads: U.S. Chesapeake Bay.
PP160.45 Skipjack E.C. Collier, Oxford, Md., 1948. Photograph by R.H. Burgess. © 2001 Maryland Historical Society - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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Michelle Embree read these opening words on July 26th for Jessie & Joel and the hair on my arms stood on end. My eyes welled up with tears and I looked around feeling nothing but gratitude for my family, my community at this place in time. My gift has always been to attempt to capture that love we have for one another at these rare times we all gather in one place to celebrate and rejoice be it for the ceremony of love, music, art, performance or just to sit and watch our gardens grow.
For those of you who were there that these images recap the amazing vibes of this weekend. For those of you who couldn't make it that you can glean the magic that was generated and for you who don't know these folks that they conjure inspiration for nurturing love of those you hold close to your heart. I suggest listening to this song while checking these out.
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July 26th 2014
Michelle Embree
We arrive here each of us to become forever A part of this commitment between Jessie & Joel. We arrive here each of us to act not only as witness but as magician.
We arrive here with active responsibility to impart our gifts of friendship. To lend a portion of our memory to the event of this weekend - a portion of our memory to the conscious bond Made between these two persons on this day.
We arrive here to make ceremony in service to the body of love. To seal a bond of union with our presence with our faith that this union will act as an expression of love.
Love is the highest knowledge and when two people commit to love one another they commit to living in service to love through the actions they make toward one another.
Love is the highest knowledge. It comes before any of us, it comes before any of this.
Love is the highest knowledge and some are called to serve this knowledge through union with another. Some are called to create a union that serves as a living expression of love.
Love is the highest knowledge and it is the purpose of those who serve through union to see the other in their highest worth- to see the other as their greatest self. To see the other as healed. As whole, as complete.
Love is the highest knowledge and it has summonsed all of us today. Each and every one of us has been called here to work as magicians to act as witness to the highest worth of each of us.
Today we are called to act in service to the body of love. To see one another in their highest worth is to see in love, in wisdom, in truth.
Look around you- see one another as healed- see one another as whole. See each in their highest worth.
See each as healed, as whole. This is your work as magicians.
This is your gift to give.
See each of you and you and you as whole.
This is your gift.
It is your power and today we all—each of us—are called to use it. To use our power. Our gifts in service to the body of love.
Today we make ceremony for the union of Joel and Jessie. We offer ourselves in friendship. We see you both in your highest worth. We see you as healed. We see you as whole. This is how we know you.
Today we stand with you both as witness and as magician. We commit a portion of our memory to this day evermore and act to seal this bond in time.
Today we see as the highest knowledge must always see. Today we see as the body of love. We see the most beautiful of all things.
We see life.
This glorious pulse.
This ineffable ache.
This valiant struggle to become closer and closer in love.
Today we stand in our highest worth. Today we know ourselves as healed. Today we acknowledge that we are whole. Today we witness union in service to the body of love and by the power vested deep in our beating hearts through the blood of life we bestow our bonding magick's upon this alchemy of soul. Today we see with love and know that it is more than enough.
Love is the highest knowledge and today is lived in its honor. Today we see ourselves and each other in our highest worth. We see ourselves and one another as healed, as whole.
Today we thank Joel & Jessie for their commitment to serve the body of love in union. And we thank you all each and everyone of you for being exactly who you are.


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New data on digital fraud trends
ISMG, Longitude and Javelin research reveals what keeps security teams awake at night – and what they're doing about these fraud trends
By Ellen Joyner Roberson, CFE, Global Marketing Principal, SAS Security Intelligence Practice
Addressing the risks of convenience
Financial services firms and government agencies are evolving to meet our expectations for timeliness and convenience. Now they need to evolve how they protect themselves from the associated risks. As connectivity trends shift, so do fraud trends. For example:
- New EMV chip cards make it technically unfeasible to counterfeit credit and debit cards. The downside: Fraudsters have had to switch tactics, driving a 130 percent increase in new credit card account fraud from 2014 to 2015, according to Javelin research in 2016 Digital Channel Threat Report: Derisking Convenience.
- In 2015, 70 percent of new checking accounts and 80 percent of credit card accounts were opened digitally, Javelin found – a great convenience for customers. Similarly, in most states it's easy to apply online for food assistance, health care coverage or Medicaid programs. The downside: The faceless nature of those digital interactions makes them prime to exploit, with help from static information from massive data breaches.
Few organizations are fully prepared for this changing fraud landscape, according to research by Information Security Media Group (ISMG). In Faces of Fraud: The Analytics Approach to Fraud Prevention, ISMG reported one fraud trend that only 34 percent of survey respondents have high confidence in their organization's ability to detect and prevent fraud before it causes serious harm.
Sixteen percent of respondents said their anti-fraud tools and team just can't keep pace with evolving fraud schemes. Three-quarters of them rated their anti-fraud control as only average or above average. And 37 percent said it's usually customers who detect the fraud, not the agency or institution.
Why have traditional fraud prevention approaches fallen short? According to ISMG survey respondents, it's because today's fraud schemes are too sophisticated and evolve too quickly (56 percent), customers and/or partners fall for socially engineered schemes (56 percent), and so do employees (52 percent).
A trilogy of rising risks
Organizations that have not evolved their fraud defenses with the times have felt the pain in several fraud trends.
Mounting monetary losses. According to ISMG, 41 percent of respondents have seen an increase in fraud incidents, and they are not very speedy about addressing them. More than half of respondents (52 percent) say it takes days or weeks to uncover the fraud; 15 percent don't even know.
Sanctions and fines from regulators. Nearly one in five respondents in a survey of 120 banks say they have been fined by regulators or law enforcement in the past three years, according to Longitude Research in Combating Financial Crime: The Increasing Importance of Financial Crimes Intelligence Units in Banking. The hit is significant; 22 percent of these banks have been fined $1 billion or more.
Tarnished reputations. "Loss of reputation is a higher priority for many banks than limiting actual losses, but it is the most difficult loss to measure," said a senior fraud and financial crimes executive interviewed by Longitude Research looking at fraud trends. In the ISMG survey, 31 percent of respondents said fraud has caused customers to close their accounts and take their business elsewhere.
What is being done – or should be?
All three research studies – from Javelin, ISMG and Longitude – found hopeful news in fraud trends as well. Financial institutions and government agencies are fighting back with stronger investigative teams, better analytical tools and more skilled staff.
Action Step: Establish a strong financial crimes investigation unit (FCIU).
Banks are stepping up their investment in FCIUs. In addition to putting more focus on financial crimes, FCIUs enable banks to collect, share and disseminate intelligence across borders, business lines and silos of risk, where ordinarily that intelligence is not shared.
According to Longitude Research on the banking industry: "The FCIU is a relatively new concept that has gained traction since the global financial crisis." It's encouraging to see that 82 percent of the banks surveyed have set up an FCIU or are planning to. Of these banks, 98 percent say their FCIU is a top corporate priority.
There's still work to be done. Just 11 percent of banks say they have fully established FCIUs across all geographies and divisions. Nearly half (49 percent) said they will have a fully established FCIU within three years.
Action Step: Invest in advanced analytics.
One way leading organizations work to keep pace with fraud schemes is through advanced analytics, such as predictive models, link analysis, machine learning and anomaly detection. These technologies supplement the basic conditional logic and business rules that are commonly used today.
Few organizations are there yet. While 74 percent of respondents to the ISMG survey have implemented fraud detection and transaction monitoring systems, a closer look suggests that these technologies may be rudimentary.
More than half (54 percent) are not currently deploying advanced data and analytics tools such as behavioral analytics, predictive analytics and social media analysis (19 percent have no plans to); 45 percent said their current systems allow for only limited analytics; and 43 percent said they can't get a consolidated view of customer activity across the enterprise. So it's no surprise that nearly one-third of respondents say their organizations lack the technology capacity to properly detect and respond to fraud.
On the bright side, 26 percent say their organizations will invest in big data analytics. Longitude Research confirms this trend; 87 percent of respondents cited big data analytics as the leading technology tool for their bank's FCIU. Other popular analytics tools include advanced search and discovery (80 percent), machine learning (70 percent) and unstructured data mining (70 percent).
According to The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Fraud Management Q1 2016, machine learning is one of the key factors that "now dictate which providers lead the pack." Investments here will undoubtedly help resolve some of the current deficiencies in fraud detection.
Action Step: Build the skills to use those analytics tools.
A bright new analytics platform won't deliver on its promise if the users don't have the training to use them well. Data science is the new, hot discipline, and organizations need to invest in data scientists internally or contract with third-party experts.
Where do you find them? The skills gap is real. In the ISMG study, 42 percent of respondents said their organizations lack the staff expertise – particularly data scientists who can manage the tools.
"It's one thing to find quantitative scientists, but it's difficult to find quantitative scientists who understand a certain government sector or commercial banking," said David Stewart, Director of Financial Crimes Solutions at SAS. Longitude research confirms it: 71 percent of respondents report having difficulty hiring specialized talent for their FCIUs – and it's even more difficult for small or fast-growing banks.
It's not because they're not looking. When they seek to hire staff members, 85 percent of banks look to existing cybersecurity professionals; 84 percent search software companies; 61 percent tap universities; and 50 percent look to the government intelligence community.
They are scouring diverse sources, but demand for analytics talent is so great that good candidates are hard to find and harder to land. Looking to boost expertise from the inside, 94 percent say combating financial crime is a top training priority, according to Longitude.
The war on fraud is gaining momentum, muscle and money
There are challenges and barriers in the war on fraud. ISMG found that two-thirds of respondents still grapple with technical constraints such as controls in different parts of the organization that don't talk to one another. Forty-two percent don't want to add anything that might impede the customer experience. Fair enough. Customers might say they want protections, but in practice they take their business where it's most convenient.
As these fraud trends show, striking the delicate balance between the organization's security and customer convenience will require a resilient and adaptable anti-fraud solution with robust analytics, backed by well-trained personnel in a well-established FCIU.
The good news is that the executive support is there, which means the dollars are there; 98 percent of respondents to the ISMG survey said they expect to see a steady or growing budget for fraud prevention in the coming year. These new funds will be invested primarily in new anti-fraud tools (65 percent) and staff training (61 percent).
Read the full reports from Javelin, ISMG and Longitude for more on fraud trends for financial and government organizations, their current security controls and gaps, and where they plan their biggest anti-fraud investments for the fight ahead of them.


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Limited Late Model Engine - Build Your Own Engine: Dyno Time
Because No Engine Build Is Complete Until You've Heard It Running
Part FiveIt may feel like you are done when you bolt the valve covers on your new engine, but if you can possibly afford it, a dyno session should really be your next step before dropping that engine into your waiting race car. There's a lot you can learn by running your engine for the first time on a dyno instead of in your race car. Yes, you can break in your engine in the car on a test day. The rings will probably seat OK, and if you can keep from loading the engine, the lifters should mate to the camshaft as well. But getting those first runs on a dyno not only helps you verify engine power, they can also make your life a lot easier in the long run.
For example, simple things like oil or water leaks are easier to spot-and easier to repair-when the engine isn't surrounded by the body and framework of your race car. Likewise, all the metering options available on an engine dyno make it infinitely better at tuning for maximum power. The conditions are controlled, and it's easier to minimize variables when you're trying to make back-to-back tests.
Even if you do all the work yourself, many engine builders with dynamometer facilities will rent you time to dyno your engine. The cost may seem steep at first (usually anywhere from $500 to $1,000 for a day's worth of dyno time), but the value comes from knowing exactly how much power your engine makes-and where in the rpm range it makes it, getting the carburetor matched to the engine, and even testing what header design works best. This will also help you with gearing choices right out of the box. Plus, you can avoid the hassles of pulling the engine back out of the car if you hit the track and then discover a problem.
We used KT Engine Development in Concord, NC, for all the machine work on our Limited Late Model engine build, so as soon as the assembly was complete we took the engine back to its shops for dyno validation. There's more to getting a productive dyno session than hauling your engine to the closest shop and handing it over. And since we're talking about real money here, the final edition of this engine-build series will cover not only our dyno results, but tips you can use to make your time on the dyno as productive as possible.
Pictures simply can't do justice to any race engine on a dyno. See and hear our Limited Late Model Chevy make a run for yourself at www.circletrack.com. Click on the videos section on the righthand side.
This may seem obvious, but it needs to be said. The first step when it comes to dyno'ing your engine is preparing it for travel. Make sure all openings, such as exhaust ports, the water neck, and anything else you can find, are covered so that no trash will get into the engine while it is travelling down the road in the back of a pickup truck. Plain old duct tape works best here.
Don't try to travel with the carburetor in place. Pull it and replace it with an engine lift plate, which will make handling the engine a lot easier than a chain bolted to the ends of the cylinder heads. Lift plates can usually be had for about $15 at most speed shops.
We're using Cometic's multi-layer steel exhaust header gaskets which should provide a good seal without having to resort to high-temp silicone. The headers for this test are the same Tri-Y units from Schoenfeld that we used in the header dyno test in the June '08 issue.
Most dyno systems use an O-berg-style oil filter. You can learn a lot about the health of your engine by checking the O-berg after the break-in session (excessive amounts of aluminum slivers can mean you're chewing up bearings or a piston), but it must be thoroughly cleaned of any residue from the previous engine before the dyno session begins.
When filling the engine with oil for the first time, Kevin Troutman prefers to pour a quart each over the rockers to make sure they have plenty of lubrication at startup. We're using Royal Purple's dedicated break-in oil because it is formulated specifically for flat tappet camshafts. Almost all off-the-shelf oils lack the zinc and phosphorus additives that are critical for protecting flat tappet cams because those materials can harm catalytic converters. An oil designed specifically for use with flat tappet race cams is critical to avoid a lobe failure during break-in.
Comp Cams also produces an excellent oil additive that we use with every new race engine. It also helps protect the flat tappet cam lobe and lifters during the break-in process when they are the most vulnerable.
Another advantage of going to a dyno is that a professional engine builder will have the equipment to properly prime the oiling system before starting the engine. Starting an engine "dry" the first time is OK if you have used plenty of assembly lube and the engine fires up right away. But you can't always guarantee that it will. When priming the oiling system, you should have the valve covers off to make sure oil is getting all the way to the rockers.
Although he had already checked the spring pressures when he assembled the cylinder heads for us, Kevin Troutman checks them again. You don't want the spring pressures to be too strong when breaking in a new engine with a flat tappet cam. Ideally, you want the spring pressures to be between 80 and 110 pounds on the seat and no more than 280 pounds at maximum valve lift. Too much spring pressure can wipe a cam lobe (or grind off the nose) during break-in, while too little seat pressure can keep the lifter and lobe from properly mating during the break-in process, which means the cam will possibly fail once you start making full dyno pulls. If the springs you plan to race with are too strong, your engine builder should be able to offer some break in valvesprings as part of the dyno program.
Another priority during the break-in process is getting the rings to seal up. To help this, you want to minimize crankcase pressure. During racing conditions we won't run a breather on the right side of the engine, but for break-in we vented this side too.
Before putting any load or revving the engine, it should first go through a break-in period. First, triple check to make sure everything is correct (throttle linkage, plug wires to the correct cylinders, and so on) so that the engine fires up immediately. Don't let it idle long, because at idle rpms the oil pump isn't providing enough pressure. Check the timing and then allow the engine to run approximately 45 minutes between 2,000 and 2,500 rpm to allow everything to break in. Make sure to keep an eye on the oil pressure, water temps, and listen for any strange sounds.
After break-in, go back over the engine. Look for oil leaks, water leaks, or anything else that can be amiss. Here, Ken Troutman resets the valve lash. It will probably change a couple thousandths of an inch as the cam lobes and lifters mate in together. This is also a good time to check the O-berg filter for chunks of shrapnel that can give you a clue to potential problems before they become big problems. Now, you're finally ready to start making dyno pulls.
On the first couple of pulls we were down on power from where engine builder Ken Troutman thought we should be. He thought our cam might be a bit too large for the application (the duration is 248/252 at 0.050 lift with 0.310 lobe lift), so he gave us a set of aluminum Comp 1.5:1 ratio rockers to switch out for the 1.6 rockers on the exhaust. Dyno pulls after making this change showed that we picked up 5 horsepower at the peak and extended the curve after peak power. Previously, the horsepower curve fell off of a cliff after the engine made its peak number. The smaller rockers proved that the engine can probably do with less cam. Later, we may try swapping out the intakes for 1.5 rockers as well. Another option if the shop you are using to dyno your engine doesn't have extra rockers to loan you is to increase the valve lash (this only works if you are using solid lifters) which will make the engine think the camshaft is smaller.
After making the rocker change we were still down on power, especially in the upper rpm range. After sniffing around a bit, Troutman said he suspected the plugs we were using were too hot and causing pre-ignition. Swapping out to a set with a colder heat range (the plugs are designed to pull more heat away from the tip) picked up 9 horsepower and greatly extended the upper rpm range. This is a perfect example of how important spending some time on the dyno with a professional tuner can be.
Engine builder Ken Troutman of KT Engine Development mans the controls while he puts our Limited Late Model engine through its paces.
Limited Late Model engine dyno graph.


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two birds, one dress.
Posted by Mackenzie on Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Two Birds makes one dress. One dress that you can wear about a million different ways, in a smattering of beautiful colors. Check out their creative website to learn just how to tie, wrap, and twist this dress into shape. Strapless you want? No problem. Oh, you said you need your shoulders covered? Ok, sure.


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These are being whipped together courtesy of the new Liberty Lifestyle fabrics and my impending teaching schedule. I've got a Perfect Circles class coming up and guess where it is?
I am beyond excited to join the faculty at Quilt Con. Such esteemed company (Lotta Jansdotter, Denyse Schmidt, Jacquie Gering, Lizzy House, and more!) and what looks like to be an amazing event. You can come and take half and full day workshops, attend lectures, see a couple of quilt shows, and even shop.
My Perfect Circles class runs twice over the course of the event. We will run through all manner of circle techniques - from sizing, creating, placing, and sewing your circles. Circles, circles, everywhere! And we all know how I love my circles.
See the complete line-up here. Registration opens August 30, 2012.
And big thanks to Stash Books for sponsoring my class!


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In the middle of long chains of emails titled "Thanksgiving menu," my aunt Leslie started a new subject: "Holidays"
She wrote, "I was thinking…just a suggestion…that in lieu of gifts for any of these occasions*, we consider making contributions to worthy causes."
My uncle Michael responded: "My first response is not serious — only if contributions don't have to be wrapped and they can be designated as last year's gifts**. Seriously, you have made an excellent suggestion which I would support!"
My aunt Linda added, "The money we are fortunate enough to be able to spend on a wonderful family dinner is plenty. Too many people can't even afford a turkey."
And then my mother, "In violent agreement. Many good causes for our donations."
So, while I'm finishing up tomorrow's stuffing, I wanted to share a few of the causes that my family cares about and supports.
Michael, Linda, and their son Ben volunteer with the Community Food Bank of NJ.
Every year, we buy Thanksgiving pies through Sharsheret's Pies for Prevention Event, organized by my friend Adeena and her sister. I wrote about the organization's work to raise awareness about ovarian cancer and support research.
The ML4 Foundation raises money to research treatments for Mucolipidosis Type IV, a genetic disease that afflicts Eden, my friend's daughter. This video explains more.
The Wounded Warrior Project honors and empowers wounded service members. My grandfather was in the air force.
My sister helped design and build the Lower East Side Girls Club whose goal is to raise the next generation of ethical, environmental, and entrepreneurial leaders. Also, they have the second largest planetarium in New York City, after the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Natural History.
In a day or two, there will be better stuffing photos and the recipe. Today, I'm happy with what I've got. And that's pretty good.
* Today is my cousin Zach's 21st birthday. Happy birthday, kiddo!
** I don't think I've ever received a present from my family on my actual birthday. The day after? Maybe. Months later? Probably. The day before the next birthday? Yup. And we don't believe in gift wrapping.


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BROOMFIELD — While the members of the Broomfield girls soccer team have been careful not to discuss it too frequently throughout the bulk of the regular season, the quest for a little vengeance has been simmering for an entire year now.
On Wednesday, the Eagles finally will have an opportunity to take another shot at Cheyenne Mountain.
The victims of a shutout loss at the hands of the Indians a year ago in the Class 4A girls soccer state championship game, a Broomfield club that is far more offensively diverse will face Cheyenne Mountain once again for the 4A crown at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.
"We've been really training all year to work up to this game," senior Brittney Stark said. "And we have a little fire in our bellies from last year. We're vengeful. I think that's a good word for how we feel."
This will mark the fourth title game appearance for veteran Broomfield coach Jim Davidson with the girls program, following a state title in 2006 and runner-up finishes last year and in 2004. Davidson believes the beauty of Wednesday evening's finale is that it will be "strength versus strength" as Broomfield's prolific offense attempts to solve Cheyenne Mountain's defense — which is one of the stingiest units in the state.
After going 1-1-1 to start the season, Davidson signed off on a slight formation switch for his club following spring break, moving from a 5-3-2 to a 4-3-3 approach. Employing an extra attacker has fit the Eagles well, with Broomfield erupting for four goals in its first game after the break and compiling 85 total goals heading into the title game.
Last year, Broomfield recorded 53 goals before getting shut out by Cheyenne Mountain in the finale.
"It's the best attacking team in the state against perhaps the best defensive team in the state," Davidson said. "We incorporated the system just after spring break and 15 wins in a row since then, I think it certainly has paid dividends. I think they adjusted really well to the new system. It plays to our strengths and plays to our personnel."
Since a 3-2 win at Silver Creek on April 8 — the Eagles' second contest with their revamped formation — Broomfield has allowed just four goals in 14 games, including a composite 24-1 score in the Eagles' four state tournament victories. The Eagles have been held under three goals only twice during their 15-game winning streak and will need similar success against a Cheyenne Mountain defense that has allowed only six goals all season.
"Last year I think we were a little scared of what was coming, scared of preparing for a game like that," senior goalie Paige Lindbloom said. "This year we are way more settled in and ready for this. For us, it's going to be about keeping the possession."
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The Smile Bunch
Do you ever sit there and wonder what happened to role-playing, workaday guys who played for your favorite team when you were growing up? For me, the ultimate example is Frank Tanana. The guy was good but he wasn't great. What he did, though, was get the job done. Most of the time.
Then he's gone and you never hear anything about him again. Sometimes they're career backups like Sal Fasano or Koy Detmer and sometimes they're guys who manage to have one amazing season or one defining game but then disappear for all time.
But does any of it compare to Ralph Macchio. This is not to say that he isn't still around in one form or another but when's the last time you noticed that Karate Kid was playing on TNT and wondered whatever happened to Ralph Macchio?
Luckily, there's an easy way to find out. Just click play.
"Oh my god, he kicked Steve!" Yep, that's what you get for sweeping the leg, Cobra-kai.


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Edit: Unfortunately, the images originally included in this post are gone, because of hosting problems in late 2009. My apologies.
I'm prejudiced. I admit it in the first sentence. Ubuntu was the origin of my Linux history, and I'm still partial to it.
Compound that with the fact that, for about a year, there have been very few viable, lightweight versions of Ubuntu that targeted outdated hardware. To me, this was a huge gap in the Ubuntu community that called for something comprehensive and well-rounded, but light and speedy. That's a tall order.
So I approach Fluxbuntu with a mix of hope and over-familiarity, and that might shine through because I really, really like it.
Most of the screenshots I've seen thus far are all the same, and mine are no better. Of course, changing it very much wouldn't suggest it was Fluxbuntu. 😉
The desktop theme and wallpaper are some of the nicest I've seen in Fluxbox, or any *buntu, really. For once, a default Fluxbox desktop that doesn't make me feel like I'm trapped in a Saturday afternoon sci-fi double-feature rerun on Channel 54. Most Fluxbox setups look unnecessarily sci-fi-ish, to the point where it has become a turnoff. I don't really need another exploding 3D tetrahedron rendered in #3465a4 against black, thank you. It's been done.
But this is very approachable and very calm. It's something you could install for your mother and she wouldn't be scrambling to figure out how to change the wallpaper. And the window theme, icon theme and GTK theme match perfectly. The boot splash is unique too. A nifty stopwatch counts backward, and the sweep of the second hand reveals the Fluxbuntu logo. Nice touch.
But looks aren't everything, as someone said in a pub somewhere, late on a Saturday night. Installation took about 1 1/2 hours, which is longer than a command-line installation on this system, but shorter than the default Xubuntu 7.04 or Ubuntu 7.04 installation.
Start times, for some weird reason, are terrible. Three minutes, 54 seconds to the login manager (which is SLiM, by the way) — almost a minute worse than a full Ubuntu 7.04 installation. And that's not the first run, it's a fifth or sixth run.
The default partition setup is the same as the default Ubuntu version — ext3 plus a 256Mb wedge of swap. I can't say if that is to blame for the slow boot, but it's a bit frightening. Something is going on, if it's slower than Gnome. 😯
It's also possible that my video card — an ancient 2Mb Silicon Motion Lynx — has a hard time keeping that boot splash running. I don't know if that's the culprit, but I do know that knocking "quiet" and "splash" off the kernel boot line drops the start time to 1:40. Of course, there are lots of ways to speed it up, too. 😉
Other programs start snappy too. Uxterm needs less than three seconds to appear. Kazehakase is loading in under 12 seconds (compare that to more than 20 seconds for Firefox on this machine, usually.) Rox starts so quickly I can't time it. Shutdown is in 23 seconds, which includes the time it takes me to fat-finger my password in.
I still have some minor issues, most of which I can trace back to Ubuntu. The default color depth is 24, just like Ubuntu, and that causes a black frame effect on this machine. I don't know if it's an option (since it might involve repackaging something crucial like xorg), but if this is targeted at early machines, 16 might be a better default.
I also get a weird triple-cursor effect under Gutsy, and the ubiquitous tty screen of death. Both of those are core Gutsy issues for me, so I don't blame Fluxbuntu for them.
I get some strange USB icons on the desktop, which I think is the known issue described on the Fluxbuntu download page. I also noticed that Fluxbuntu polls the floppy drive on startup; that might be related or not. Usually Ubuntu doesn't, and /etc/fstab shows it flagged as noauto, so perhaps ivman or something else is doing that. No harm no foul, I say.
I see there's still some Gnome in it — I see its droppings in my home directory, like a dog that needs housebreaking. I'm guessing, but looking over the applications list, that might be residue from gksu. Can't help anything there.
Also, I'm not sure who's running the wallpaper — if it's rox-filer or fbsetbg — so my initial lunge to change the backdrop needed a little caution. That might be a turnoff for some folks who want to immediately reapply that exploding 3D tetrahedron. 🙄
And there are a few minor theme points I would suggest. A cleaner default font for uxterm would be cool. The root account has no GTK theme set, so opening Synaptic gives the ugly Raleigh style. GTK1.2 apps are the same — XMMS has those enormous characters and terrible GTK theme. Perhaps a Fluxbuntu GTK1.2 theme would spare us the horror.
And while we're on the subject, how about a default XMMS theme? Something … green, perhaps? 😉
Aside from those terribly minor points, there's very little I can fault. It sets itself up like *buntu should — network and all. Everything just works (omigosh, I said it 😯 ). And really — if the best I can do is offer theme advice, it must be pretty darn good.
In short, this is something that has been needed for a long time — a cool and clean Ubuntu derivative that's at once lightweight and comprehensive. If you're a past Ubuntu user and you have a 500Mhz machine in the closet, this is what you'd want on it. I would recommend this over Xubuntu for anyone in the sub-1Ghz range, any day of the week.
Try it. You'll like it.


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Miami Gardens Police Arrest Store Employee 62 Times For Trespassing At His Place Of Employment
from the insanity-defined dept
The city of Miami has no "stop and frisk" program, but you'd be forgiven for assuming it does after hearing this amazing (in all the wrong ways) story.
Earl Sampson has been stopped and questioned by Miami Gardens police 258 times in four years.The problem here isn't just the endless harassment of one resident who doesn't seem to be a threat to anyone. The problem here is the fact that Sampson works for the 207 Quickstop. It's pretty hard to "trespass" on property when you have the explicit permission to be there. It would be shady enough if the cops were just picking up Sampson every time he visited the store, but they've been patting him down, questioning him and sometimes arresting him for trespassing during his shifts.
He's been searched more than 100 times. And arrested and jailed 56 times.
Despite his long rap sheet, Sampson, 28, has never been convicted of anything more serious than possession of marijuana.
Miami Gardens police have arrested Sampson 62 times for one offense: trespassing.
Almost every citation was issued at the same place: the 207 Quickstop, a convenience store on 207th Street in Miami Gardens.
FDLE records show that Sampson was stopped at least once a week for the past four years, and sometimes several times a week and even as many as three times in one day. The stops are often conducted by the same police officers, who have arrested him time and time again.
One video, recorded on June 26, 2012, shows Sampson, clearly stocking coolers, being interrupted by MGPD Sgt. William Dunaske, who orders him to put his hands behind his back, and then handcuffs him, leads him out of the store and takes him to jail for trespassing.Another video posted at the Miami Herald website shows Sampson being arrested for trespassing when he returns to the store after taking out the trash. (That arrest report says Sampson was "loitering" outside the store, but the video clearly shows he left, threw trash in the container, and went back in followed by the police officer who arrested him.)
Sampson's not the only one being harassed by the MGPD, although he is the main concern of the owner of the 207 Quickstop, Alex Saleh. Saleh fought back, though, installing 15 cameras to catch the endless harassment of Sampson and customers of his store.
The videos show, among other things, cops stopping citizens, questioning them, aggressively searching them and arresting them for trespassing when they have permission to be on the premises; officers conducting searches of Saleh's business without search warrants or permission; using what appears to be excessive force on subjects who are clearly not resisting arrest and filing inaccurate police reports in connection with the arrests.Saleh pins this invasion by Miami Gardens PD on his unfortunate decision to mark his store as part of the PD's "zero tolerance zone."
Almost immediately after Saleh put the "zero-tolerance" sign in his window, he regretted it.The "zero tolerance zone" turns over a whole lot of power to the Miami Gardens PD. Here's part of the description from the MGPD's website (which hasn't been updated in more than 5 years...).
Miami Gardens police officers, he said, began stopping his patrons regularly, citing them for minor infractions such as trespassing, or having an open container of alcohol. The officers, he said, would then pat them down or stick their hands in citizens' pockets. But what bothered Saleh the most was the emboldened behavior of the officers who came into his store unannounced, searched his store without his permission and then hauled his employees away in the middle of their shifts.
This simple program asks local business owners to complete a simple affidavit, and post a sign on their properties, which allows MGPD officers to act on behalf of the business owners in their absence. The program also gives MGPD officers the authority to direct unauthorized personnel to leave private property or risk enforcement action from the officers…This would explain all the "trespassing" charges. The affidavit gives the MGPD permission to patrol the store and surrounding area and make arrests/question citizens as officers see fit. This lowers the bar for police officers, removing anything resembling probable cause or reasonable suspicion.
This program is designed to reduce the number of individuals who are sometimes seen trespassing and loitering on private property without legitimate business.
But even as limitless as this is, the MGPD went even further when "patrolling" the 207 Quickstop. You'll note that the agreement gives the PD permission to act on behalf of business owners "in their absence." Saleh was present for a great many of these "interactions." Not only that, but the officers' idea of acting on Saleh's "behalf" was to harass and arrest many of his customers, which is a strange way of construing this relationship. Stores need customers to purchase their goods, something that occurs less frequently when the patrons are being detained, questioned or arrested.
Saleh regretted this decision after seeing what "zero tolerance" (as applied by the MGPD) actually entailed. But Miami Gardens PD doesn't take "no" for answer.
He finally told them he no longer wanted to participate in the program and removed the sign.Things got worse when Saleh took copies of his video to MGPD Internal Affairs.
The officers, however, continued their surveillance of his store over his objections. The officers even put the sign back on his store against his wishes, he said.
One evening, shortly after he had complained a second time, a squadron of six uniformed Miami Gardens police officers marched into the store, he says. They lined up, shoulder to shoulder, their arms crossed in front of them, blocking two grocery aisles.Saleh also details a recent incident where an MGPD officer pulled him over for having a tag light out. By the time it was all done, six officers had arrived on the scene and one searched Saleh's vehicle without his permission. Saleh's recordings show him leaving the store that night in his vehicle. His tag lights were working.
"Can I help you?" Saleh recalls asking. It was an entire police detail, known as the department's Rapid Action Deployment (RAD) squad, whom he had come to know from their frequent arrest sweeps. One went to use the restroom, and five of them stood silently for a full 10 minutes. Then they all marched out.
As is usually the case in incidents like these, the police department has not offered a comment on this story. Police Chief Matthew Boyd did apparently issue a boilerplate statement about the PD's "commitment" to "serving and protecting citizens and businesses," but didn't address any specific complaints.
Violent crime, particularly murder, has spiked in Miami Gardens in recent months, but this application of "zero tolerance" policies will do very little to bring those numbers down. What it will do, however, is fill activity logs and ledgers that will show the PD is very busy keeping Miami Gardens free of "trespassers" and handing out open container citations. Even if this story hadn't broken, a few years of skyrocketing arrests and tickets without a corresponding drop in violent crime would have exposed the MGPD's superficial, shoddy and ultimately unconstitutional efforts.
Saleh's filing a lawsuit against the city for this non-stop harassment, including warrantless searches of his premises. Not unsurprisingly, the announcement of his litigation has led to a sharp drop in police presence at the 207 Quickstop. Sampson himself hasn't been arrested since this announcement, either. If the MGPD sincerely believed they were helping curb violent crime by questioning/arresting Sampson and other Quickstop employees and customers, discussion of a lawsuit wouldn't have deterred those efforts. This withdrawal indicates the cops patrolling Saleh's store were, to put it most generously, padding arrest numbers. The reality is that they've been called out for their harassment of Miami Gardens' residents and are now making themselves scarce in order to prevent adding to the evidence against them.
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