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In your early drafts of a lengthy piece of writing, edit to remove the most obvious flaws: misspellings; typographical errors; unnecessarily long introduction sections; rambling, off-the-subject paragraphs, etc.
In your early drafts of a lengthy piece of writing, edit to remove the most obvious flaws: misspellings; typographical errors; unnecessarily long introduction sections; rambling, off-the-subject paragraphs, etc.
In later drafts, including the "final" one, attend to the less obvious imperfections by putting into play more advanced editing techniques.
This column will acquaint you with four that can enhance brevity, build continuity and generate emphasis.
A dilute verb — as the term suggests — is a weak, watered-down form that consists of both an all-purpose verb and a noun. Because of its bulk, it will slow and may even frustrate some readers.
Example: "This new program provides (verb) a motivation (noun) for students to understand difficult mathematical problems." In this example, the dilute verb form consists of three words: "provides a motivation." A corrected version would begin: "This new program motivates ... ."
Here are other dilute verb forms that lengthen sentences: "Make a study" — change to "study." "Gives a summary" — change to "summarizes." "Brought to a conclusion" — change to "concluded." The following sentences illustrate briefer, stronger conversions: "Adult learners study grammar and then composition." "This analytical report summarizes earlier ones." "The candidate concluded with a ringing endorsement of tax reform."
You may wonder if weeding out dilute verbs will save many words in the long run. It likely will — because a person who uses one dilute verb form probably uses such forms routinely. But replacing dilute verbs not only achieves brevity. The cumulative effect yields a fluid, easy-to-follow finished product.
To inject continuity in a medium-length or long paragraph, don't hesitate to repeat key words or phrases. Grammarians term this organizational aid "word echo." Careful repetition strengthens sentence-to-sentence continuity and reminds the reader of the main theme of a paragraph, thus heading off possible ambiguity.
Language authority Richard Nordquist explains: "Repeating key words in a paragraph is an important technique for achieving cohesion. Used skillfully and selectively ... this technique can hold sentences together ... ."
In "The Brief Holt Handbook," Kirszner and Mandell offer this example: "Mercury poisoning is a problem that has long been recognized. 'Mad as a hatter' refers to the condition prevalent among nineteenth-century workers who were exposed to mercury during the manufacturing of felt hats. ... In the 1950s and 1960s there were cases of mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan."
H.J. Tichy, a language professor and writing consultant to industry, warns, "Using an inexact synonym (in place of key words) may mislead readers. Even a more general or more specific term is undesirable when, as often happens, it confuses."
For additional guidance, visit Google and enter "repetition of key words or phrases."
This next guideline concerns a related aspect of using key words: location. Readability studies reveal that readers best remember words located at the beginning and end of a sentence. Those locations inherently provide emphasis. Since words at these two locations are recalled most often, determine if some of your sentences can't be restructured to take advantage of this finding.
Poor placement of key words: "All-star Johnnie Jergens finished dead last in the swim competition this month." Improved version: "All-star Johnnie Jergens, competing in the swim competition this month, finished dead last."
Poor placement of key words: "Third-shift employees must meet the 4 a.m. deadline for the daily production quota if they seek longer lunch breaks." Improved version: "If third-shift employees seek longer lunch breaks, they must meet the daily production quota by the 4 a.m. deadline."
Observe how the two new endings deliver impact beyond that of the original endings.
Parallel construction is still another method for achieving brevity and enhancing continuity within a sentence. It involves editing to cluster a series of related ideas or actions in consistent, grammatical order.
These items in a series could be parts of speech, phrases or clauses. Examples: "The physical exam involved sitting, standing and bending." "Going to church, singing hymns and praying were part of the family's Sunday routine." "Louise's outfit was colorful, trendy and completely inappropriate for the occasion."
Now please take a pencil or go to your computer. Referring to the preceding information and examples, see if you can inject some form of parallelism in the statement below. Do not resume reading until you have finished.
Ineffective construction: "John finally hit a home run after watching two strikes go by; he tightened his belt and switched to a light bat."
After editing, compare your rewritten version to this one. Parallel order: "After watching two strikes go by, tightening his belt and switching to a light bat, John finally hit a home run."
Notice that this version contains three "ing" endings in quick, symmetrical order. Note, too, that relocating "home run" to the end of the sentence emphasizes this final, decisive action.
Did you make similar editing changes — or other changes to cluster parallel thoughts? If so, you now have a new organizational tool at your disposal. In view of the benefits, look for ways to edit for parallel development in a final draft.
For examples of parallelism in lists, headings and subheadings, see "Business Communication — Building Critical Skills" by Locker and Kaczmarek.


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A hot topic for debate here in Sydney currently is mayor Clover Moore's proposal for more intimate 'Melbournesque' bars and lounges. I have to say I am in 100% agreement with her. Sydney has some reasonable cool bars and a lot of pubs, but for great little Euro-cafes, bistros, wine bars, lounge bars, supper clubs and hole-in-the-wall cool venues, Melbourne wins hands-down.
Right now, Sydney laws mean that in addition to expensive alcohol licenses, you also have to pony up for a 'social impact analysis' at roughly $60,000 plus associated legal fees and other nonsense. In Melbourne, a handful of virtually penniless students could open a bar in an upturned skip at the back of an alleyway. And they do. And it works.
The crusty old folk at the AHA, who seem to be stuck in some 1960s timewarp, believe that Sydney folk don't want to have a nice glass of wine in a small quiet bistro and that large pubs with pokies and sports on TV are what us bogans really enjoy. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong!
I'm glad to see that support for Ms Moore is coming from people like Neil Perry and other notable nightlife owning Sydneysiders too.
I do enjoy Sydney, but having recently returned from a trip to Grenoble in France, we need some good old Euro-chic. Bring it on Clover!

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Well, the good news is that somebody's working on a new book-length account of the expedition which ended in Patrick Ferguson's defeat, utilizing extensive research in the primary sources as well as the latest scholarship on militia and the Revolution in the Carolina backcountry.
Here's the bad news. The guy working on it is me.
I've actually been at this project for a while now, but I haven't had the gumption to tell anybody about it. I played this one pretty close to my chest until reassuring myself that I could actually pull it off, but at this point I'm far enough along that I think it might actually see the light of day.
King's Mountain has fascinated me since I was in college, and I've long wondered why there are so few books about it. The last really intensive treatment was Lyman Draper's 1881 book King's Mountain and its Heroes, which is thorough but also badly outdated, heavily dependent on tenuous oral tradition, and saturated with the filiopiety that characterizes many nineteenth-century historical works.
Since I can't seem to stop poring over everything I can get my hands on related to King's Mountain, I decided a good while ago that I might as well do something productive with my obsession. I've gone over quite a bit of the published source material, both primary and secondary, and now I'm digging into the manuscripts and putting the finishing touches on a proposal.
Let me talk a little bit about what this project is and what it isn't. I'm studying the campaign which led to Ferguson's defeat as a whole, so I'll be looking into his organization of the Carolina Tories, the British march into North Carolina, and the Whigs' march across the mountains, as well as the actual battle. In other words, this won't be a study of the tactics and troops movements alone. I'll be dealing with all that, of course, but what I'm aiming for is an analysis of the series of events of which the Battle of King's Mountain was the climax. I'll also be discussing the battle's nasty aftermath, and I'll have at least one chapter (probably two) on the way Americans have remembered it, which was the subject of my MA thesis. Tradition and legend have played such an important role in interpretations of the battle that I don't think I could exclude an examination of memory from this project even if I wanted to.
So this will be an attempt to make sense of what brought Ferguson's Tories and the Whigs into action on a wooded ridge that October day, what happened when they met, and the impact this confrontation had on the war and the way Americans have interpreted it.
And now that you guys are in on it, I guess I'm committed to keep plugging away until the thing's done. Gulp.


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Shreya Ahuja, 11th Grade
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
And all the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
~Mother Goose
Equating the human brain to an anthropomorphic egg from a children's nursery rhyme may seem odd, but the comparison is apt for victims of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Like Humpty Dumpty, who fell and shattered into millions of pieces, these patients often suffer widespread damage across the brain; like Humpty Dumpty, who could never be put back together again, those who have suffered trauma to the head sustain lifelong physical, cognitive, and psychosocial impairments. There remains, however, one fundamental distinction between the two: all of the king's horses and all of the king's men tried to save the one and only Humpty Dumpty. It was a valiant and commendable effort. The same cannot be said about the treatment of 1.7 million annual TBI patients in the United States (1). People are five times more likely to incur a traumatic brain injury than multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, HIV/AIDS, and breast cancer combined, and yet no army fights for them or attempts to piece them back together (2). These patients are often forced to patch their lives on their own. The treatment of traumatic brain injuries is a profound public health concern, and a mounting one at that. From 2002 to 2006, TBI-related ER visits increased by 46%, hospitalizations increased by 34%, and deaths increased by 27% (3). The characteristics uniquely attributed to traumatic brain injuries that research, funding, and social acceptance for these patients is limited.
TBI patients share only one similarity—their status as TBI patients; barring that, they vary across the board in cause, severity, diagnosis, and treatment, making it a grueling task to research their heterogeneous condition. Traumatic brain injuries stem from motor vehicle accidents, falls, assaults, and impact-related events such as sports and war injuries, each of which generate a range of mild to severe behavioral and mental alterations, depending on the areas of the brain that are injured. Since the phrase "traumatic brain injury" functions as an overarching label for a diverse patient population, grouping together all types of brain damage that occur in this manner, symptoms exhibited by TBI patients are often times extensive yet undetectable. They face many impairments, including those in memory, decision making, planning, sequencing, judgment, attention, communication, literary skills, thought processing speed, problem solving skills, organization, self-perception, thought flexibility, safety awareness, and/or new learning (2). However, neuroimaging and neuropsychological evaluations possess considerable limitations in the diagnostic sensitivity and specificity necessary for such distinct and expansive incapacities. Executive function (e.g., planning, decision-making) deficits are difficult to identify with standardized tests alone; in addition, patients often perform with pronounced inconsistency due to neurologic, emotional, and contextual factors, ensuring the difficulty of interpreting test results at face value. Raising the already trying challenge of treating and researching these patients, the recovery process prolonged but unpredictable, with patients making neurological improvements during the initial weeks, months, and even years following the injury. Thus, assessments completed early on in recovery many not be accurate of the individual's strengths and weaknesses. Take two hypothetical teenage boys who were in car accidents, and whose injuries look identical on paper—their brain scans show the same site of injury— but one might recover well enough to go to college and have meaningful relationships, while the other won't (4). It's hard to explain why, except that each case is different—each injury is different and each brain is different. In this way, the expression "traumatic brain injury" serves not as an identifier of a condition, but as a generalization of injuries too nonspecific for neurologists and other clinicians to successfully treat and research.
Effective treatment—short-term and long-term—is restricted by the lack of financial support from the government and private insurance agencies. For the 5.3 million Americans, around 2% of the nation's population, currently suffering from TBI, the government has meagerly spent roughly three dollars for the treatment and services of each brain injury survivor (2, 5). In their eyes, "cognitive deficits are not really considered medical problems," as exposed by Cathy Crimmins in Where is the Mango Princess?, a book that details the course of her husband's TBI and some of the ubiquitous struggles that TBI survivors and their family must face (6). TBI patients have invisible wounds, Crimmins says, and that is perhaps their greatest stumbling block. No one can see their injury; they appear normal from the exterior, therefore people assume that they must be so internally as well. Crimmins recounts her ongoing battle with her health maintenance organization (HMO) just to obtain minimal benefits for her husband Alan, who was run over by a speedboat in a boating accident at a lake. Not only did the insurance company deny her an air ambulance to transport her husband from Canada to the United States after his injury, claiming "[they] were not so sure [her] husband's condition warrant[ed] an air ambulance," but they also refused him more than three weeks in rehabilitation when his injury required at least three months of treatment (6). The HMO's sole concern was that Alan could now walk around independently, not realizing that he was still inept at behaving appropriately, making sense in conversations, and handling stress or excitement without becoming agitated. Crimmins often times found herself wishing that there was a visual aspect to her husband's injury like a cast or crutches so that people could see his impairment, and not voice statements such as "gee, he doesn't look that bad" (6). Many might argue that her experience was an exception, but it is clear that an absolute disregard for cognitive impairments in the TBI patient population as a whole is an ongoing trend in today's society. Those who cannot afford state-of-the-art rehabilitation centers cannot count on support from Medicare, Medicaid, or insurers. While these programs may cover brain surgeries and intensive care necessary to save the lives of such patients, they consistently skimp on benefits for rehabilitation programs that would allow patients to relearn abilities destroyed by brain trauma. In fact, research shows that as the demand for medical care decreases post injury, the demand for nonmedical services and support spikes immediately after the patient's discharge, pending through the time in their lives when insurance coverage expires and they attempt to integrate into the community, up until the time of death.
Besides being "invisible" to observers, TBI is a difficult condition to garner support for in the community; rather than invoking sympathy, it frequently repels societal acceptance. TBI patients have been known to "indulg[e] in the grossest profanity (which was not previously [their] custom)." Upon the onset of her husband's disease, Crimmins describes her husband as "mean and all nasty like," referring to him as "another Alan." For this same reason, TBI survivors and their spouses have a high divorce rate: 75% (6). The TBI patients' inappropriate behavior and unremitting tempers, which people often forget are not voluntary actions but rather a construction of their injury, expel them as outcasts in society as well as in their homes. Few care to fund or research or foster what they perceive as a vulgar population of patients; few care to spread social awareness about them either. Instead, the majority of TBI survivors, especially war veterans, are cast aside, and they o$en struggle to assimilate back into society (4). As particularly high- functioning individuals with TBI attempt to resume their usual daily activities, the environment places increasing demands upon them. Occasionally, a TBI survivor returns to the workplace. At first, coworkers celebrate the return of their colleague who has overcome a terrible accident and survived in what Crimmins dubs the "halo effect." They may even cover for him by helping him out with his extra workload so as to ease him back into the routine. "Often, after a few months, the changes in his short term memory and ability to juggle projects or his weird penchant for cornering them at the coffee machine and telling them long, tedious stories begins to wear on them" (6). Essentially, coworkers get tired of mopping up after their colleague's mistakes and doing extra work because he is not up to speed. They have assumed, mistakenly, that he is all put back together again. After then, after a year or so, the once triumphant TBI patient will quit either in frustration or fatigue, or perhaps he'll be tired because of unfavorable evaluations. "Case studies of brain-injured people who try to return to work without help chronicle how those workers often lose their jobs years down the road, and by that time no one really attributes it to the brain injury because they think all that was over a long time ago" (6). What people don't realize, though, is that the TBI patient is a patient for life.
The characteristics inherent to traumatic brain injury condemned those suffering from the condition to a lifetime of difficulties. Not only is TBI complicated to diagnose and treat, but rehabilitation is not adequately funded. Even if patients independently salvage enough of their old selves to consider rejoining the community, their TBI has socially ostracized them to the point of limited recovery. Society's approach toward and misunderstanding of TBI victims have condemned them to suffer alone. The leading cause of death and disability in the United States, affecting people of all ages, races, ethnicities, and incomes, has but a minority of healthcare professionals championing for their cause. TBI patients are lost to all but a tiny, yet growing cluster of beacons for hope and change. Dr. Melissa Duff, one of such beacons, is a researcher at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. She founded the first national TBI patient registry in 2011 (4). In an interview, Dr. Duff says that the TBI registry is a mechanism to "know more about who's going to get better, how can we help them get better, and what we can do to put all brain-injury survivors on a better life trajectory" (4, 7). Her registry indicates the beginnings of interest in clinical research that translates into treatment and hope, beyond saving of lives of such patients. She is one of the king's men endeavoring to save the Humpty Dumpties of today. It is a valiant and commendable effort, but one that requires an entire army— more researchers, more funding, more awareness— to succeed.
1. D.J. Thurman et al., Traumatic brain injury in the United States: a report to Congress. CDC Injury Center (2001).
2. K. Croft, lecture presented at graduate program in Neuroscience, University of Iowa, IA. 11 October 2007.
3. Get the Stats on Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States. (CDC). http://www.cdc.gov/ traumaticbraininjury/pdf/Bluebook_factsheet-a.pdf
4. M. Duff. Personal communication. July 15-27 2012. "Shreya, I'm writing to grant you permission to use any portion of our personal communications this summer in your essay for the DUJS International Science Essay Competition. Good luck, and let me know if I can provide any additional information."
5. J.A. Langlois et al., The epidemiology and impact of traumatic brain injury: a brief overview. J Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 375-378 (2006).
6. C. Crimmins. Where is the Mango Princess? A Journey Back from Brain Injury. (Vintage Books, New York, 2000).
7. J. Riehl. UI Neuroscientists Establish Patient registry to study Traumatic Brain Injuries. (University of Iowa Graduate College Office of External Relations, Iowa, 2011)
http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2011/ august/080111brain_injury_registry.html
I would like to extend my acknowledgements to Dr. Barbara Fishel, my advisor, for her endless stream of encouragement and Dr. Katie Croft for her undying faith in my abilities as well as her support for my ambition. Lastly, but certainly not the least, I would also like to thank Dr. Melissa Duff for the opportunity of working with her this summer and for inspiring me to not only make a change in the world of science but also in the lives of patients.


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NEW YORK - I want to pay tribute to TV violence.
In particular, I want to celebrate "Sons of Anarchy," FX network's bloodthirsty and brilliant drama series about a motorcycle gang. (It airs Tuesday at 10 p.m. EST.)
Now I don't make a habit of championing violence, even make-believe violence on my TV screen. On the contrary, I count myself among those viewers who stew about the excess of violence on TV. Almost every scripted drama, it seems, habitually embraces violence in its storytelling.
And more to the point, gun violence. With TV drama, guns are standard issue, a staple of the storytelling lexicon. (How many, or rather how few, TV dramas you can name where guns aren't part of the act?)
Debates about TV violence have raged since TV began and usually go nowhere, bogging down in a jumble of the First and Second Amendments. That is, viewers feel constitutionally guaranteed the right to bear arms - and to be entertained by watching others who bear them. Then, with every new outbreak of real-world gun violence, the debate is reignited and the media scapegoated. Nothing is resolved.
This is not to say that certain violence-prone shows don't manage to fly under the radar. Some do it by shrouding themselves in righteousness. Consider "Law & Order: SVU," a have-it-both-ways series that for 14 seasons has luxuriated in violence as something to be condemned while, at the same time, titillating viewers with the sex crimes it wallows in.
Similarly, the "CSI" franchise savors violence retroactively, back in the lab, with graphic deconstructions of each weekly episode of violence.
But it's not all gratuitous violence on TV. A relative handful of dramas earn immunity, as well as acclaim, by putting violence in the service of higher truths. Think of great shows like "The Sopranos," "Boardwalk Empire," "Breaking Bad" or "The Shield."
And add "Sons" to the list of hard-hitting series that justify their violent eruptions with the larger stories they tell.
Simply put, "Sons" is a family/workplace drama. It tells of a motorcycle club - the Sons of Anarchy, or SAMCRO - set in the ironically named California town of Charming, where its members do business in drugs, porn and gunrunning while they grapple with rival gangs, shifting alliances and, of course, the law.
In the home stretch of its fifth season, "Sons" by now has spun a sprawling mythology that even included a past story arc set in Northern Ireland. But the saga centers on this family trio: Jax (Charlie Hunnam), his mother, Gemma (Katey Sagal), and her husband, Clay (Ron Perlman), once the club's president.
More recently, Jax has seized the throne from Clay, his stepfather. This has set in motion a Shakespearean-like battle for power that seems sure to end with one of them slaying the other.
Meanwhile, Jax is strategizing how to move the club into more legitimate pursuits. But as he readily admitted on last week's episode, any path of reform "is gonna be bloody, bro."
"Sons" has always been bloody, and then some.
A few seasons ago, a band of white separatists sent SAMCRO a "message" by abducting Gemma, the club's matriarch, and, in a grisly sequence, gang-raping her.
Early this season, the daughter of a SAMCRO member was burned alive while he was forced to watch the horrid killing helplessly.
And just last week, Big Otto, a SAMCRO member who's on death row, viciously stabbed to death a prison nurse with his contraband crucifix. But however shocking, this scene had a sound dramatic purpose. Like other violence on "Sons," it propelled the narrative in yet-to-be-seen ways. An act of complex retribution against Jax, Otto's scheme was as diabolical as it was depraved, and it will fuel future plot twists. Nothing on "Sons" takes place in isolation.
The recurring character Otto is played by Kurt Sutter, whose more prominent roles on "Sons" are as its creator, writer and executive producer (and who, by the way, is married to Katey Sagal).
Sutter says the initial concept for "Sons" was aimed at exploring "what a family dynamic looks like in a subculture that has its own set of rules, its own governing body, its own lifestyle - yet faces some of the same daily challenges we all do."
Jax seems intent on eventually escaping this criminal life with his longsuffering wife (Maggie Siff) and their two sons.
"I see an end," Jax told her last week.
But Sutter doesn't see an end to "Sons" for at least two more seasons, which surely means more struggle and bloodshed for Jax and company.
That's good news for the series' audience, which has grown steadily season by season, currently averaging 6.6 million viewers weekly.
"There's a pulp quality to my show that allows me to push the boundary and tell some bigger-than-life stories," Sutter says. "But what grounds the story is that we see the ramifications of the bad things the characters do. That creates a sense of karmic responsibility for what we're putting out there. It doesn't feel so much like, `Oh, there's just violence for violence's sake, or sex for sex's sake.' Viewers understand how it fits into the bigger picture."
Part of the bigger picture is that, however engaging these ruffians may be - you just can't help rooting for Jax and his confederates, no matter how brutish their behavior - there's no glamourizing the lives they lead.
"The irony of this outlaw culture is that it's supposed to be all about breaking the rules and being free," says Sutter - yet the Sons are stricken by their own code of conduct. They remain trapped, on high alert and under constant threat. "It's not a life I would want to live," Sutter says with a laugh.
But it's a life that's fascinating to watch. For violence this raw and bracing, yet full of dramatic consequences, I've got just one thing to say about "Sons of Anarchy" every week: Hit me again!


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Need A New Front For Your Race Car? - The Solution
A Race Car Is A Fickle Thing. In Some Places A Car Can Take More Punishment Than A One-Armed Man In A Boxing Match, But If The Steering And Suspension Mounts Are Knocked Out Of Alignment It's Probably Time For A New Front Clip
Don't worry, it happens to everybody. Bumps and scrapes, that type of thing. We're not talking about your ill-advised attempt to ride your son's skateboard; we're talking about your race car. If you think you can go racing without ever banging a fender or two, you probably need to trade in your stock car for slot cars. Bent metal happens, it's not the end of the world.
But that means occasionally your car is probably going to have to go under the knife. That's obvious in the opening photo-happily, the driver walked away-but there are other occasions when the handling just isn't quite right and the only solution is to replace the front clip. To see how it's done we visited Gene Leicht of Leicht Race Cars in Arden, N.C. Leicht and his crew were at work on a car that is a much more common example than the "big wreck." This Late Model had, at some point during the season, been punched in the tire. After that, no matter what adjustments the team made, the driver felt it was never quite right. So, as soon as the season was over the car was sent in for a real fix: a new front end.
Leicht Race Cars is a no-frills chassis shop. It specializes in Late Model chassis, and although Leicht's shop is by no means a large-production operation, his strong, lightweight chassis have won races all over the Southeast. Although there may be minor differences in operation, the process for replacing a front clip on a tubular chassis is nearly identical in every race shop across the country. The key is the precision the shop is capable of and how much pride your chassis builder takes in his repair work.
All chassis repair work is done on one of Leicht's two surface plates. This one is a single plate of steel six feet wide by sixteen feet long and five-eighths of an inch thick. It rests on two giant I beams secured to the floor. To ensure that it stays perfectly level Leicht regularly shoots it with a surveyor's transit. It may seem like a waste of time, but Leicht says things move, the floor of the shop settles or the surface plate simply gets knocked around moving wrecked cars on and off it.
For every car Leicht repairs, four new four-inch blocks are cut to set the chassis on. A scribed grid on the surface plate helps center the car on the plate, and once everything is centered and confirmed as level, the car is welded to the blocks and the blocks, in turn, are welded to the surface plate to make sure nothing can accidentally get bumped out of position.
If it hasn't already been done, everything unnecessary is stripped from the front end of the car and the cutting begins. Leicht uses a cutting torch, saying it's quicker than a saw and easier to use on difficult angles than a plasma cutter. Two passes are made with the cutting torch: The first to do the big work and separate the clip from the framerails and the upper engine cage tubing, and the second to do the detail work and clean up the tubing to be rewelded. Everything is then ground smooth.
Most chassis builders pre-fabricate a clip for their own cars and can have it ready before your car arrives at the shop. Since the car we are working on is one Leicht had built, he had a clip ready to go as soon as the old one was cut off. Leicht's clips rest on a notch against a crossmember underneath the firewall. A measured block holds the front of the clip at the correct height. Before the first arc is struck with the welder, Leicht spends a significant amount of time making sure everything is straight. It does no good to have a new front clip if it isn't aligned with the car, so knowing everything is situated perfectly is critical. Leicht has specific points on his chassis he measures to make sure he's getting what he wants. The car is already centered on the surface plate, so the clip needs only to be centered on the centered line scribed into the plate. It's located forward and back by measuring from between the central crossmember in the car to the engine-mount crossmember on the clip. Height from the surface plate is also checked all the way around.
Next all the locations connecting the car to the clip are checked. If there's a gap of more than an eighth of an inch that tube is replaced or refitted. While welding, Leicht first tacks everything in place and then goes back around. To keep excessive heat from building up and pulling the clip out of alignment before all its locations are secured, the welder will jump from bar to bar on the clip, never welding in one area for too long.
After everything is welded up it's time to get familiar with a tape measure all over again and recheck all critical measurements. Then, if the customer has requested, Leicht begins refitting suspension pieces and body panels.
Sounds easy. Basically, it is, according to Leicht. "Reclipping a car isn't a difficult process," he says, "but whoever is doing it must have the equipment and the skills to get it right and know when he's got it right. It's not something you can adjust after you've got it welded up." That's why most chassis builders insist you bring a car in need of reclipping into their shop and don't ship out clips as a part number.
The total time on our project car was a day (it came in already stripped, and Leicht had the new clip ready and waiting). Total cost to the customer was $1,350. Not a bad investment when it comes to getting your car back as good as new.
Make It Easy on MeIs your chassis builder perennially behind and you need your car back in a hurry? Make things as easy on him as possible. Before sending your car in to be reclipped, pull the engine, radiator, steering box and everything else you can. If you can, Leicht suggests stripping the wheels and suspension, including the rear end, and rolling the car in on dollies. Time is money, and any time you save the chassis builder is money you don't have to spend.
What about body panels? "If you are going to reskin the car yourself, then go ahead and cut it all off," Leicht suggests. "But teams almost always want me to put a new nose and fenders on the car while I have it. If that's the case, leave it in place. That way I can reuse any brackets that are still good and save that team a little money."


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A bronze and oil paint sculpture by Tonny Tasset.
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Rotting Pumpkin
A bronze and oil paint sculpture by Tonny Tasset.
Posted by Rot at 10:48 AM
Labels: art, artist, jack o'lanterns, pumpkins, rotting pumpkin, sculptures
4 comments:
- MorbidMariah said...
Wow, it look so much like the real thing! Cool!
- February 16, 2012 at 11:35 AM
- Mr Black said...
Wow, this guy has some amazing stuff. Some of it I do not understand why it is art,but the rest is very cool. I love the giant eyeball and of course the pumpkin is wonderful.
- February 16, 2012 at 1:45 PM
- Pam Morris said...
cool concept (shades of pumpkinrot...)
- February 16, 2012 at 2:59 PM
- Colleen said...
That's pretty great actually. Very inspirational. Hmmmm....
- February 16, 2012 at 8:04 PM
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Jurors return for jury selection in Kennebunk prostitution trial
No jury chosen yet
The second day of jury selection for the trial of Mark Strong Sr. ended on Wednesday afternoon without a seated jury or any sign of how long the process will take.
Strong, 57, is the Thomaston insurance agent connected to former Zumba instructor Alexis Wright and the prostitution business prosecutors say she was running in Kennebunk.
Strong is accused of promotion of prostitution and invasion of privacy.
Both Strong and Wright have pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Wednesday's court proceedings ended abruptly after two full days of jury selection conducted behind closed doors.
There was no public dismissal of jurors as there was on Tuesday.
Justice Nancy Mills did not appear in court.
Lawyers from the prosecution and the defense declined to elaborate on the way the day ended and said that Mills had ordered them not to speak to the press.
Many people expected lawyers to agree on a jury by Wednesday afternoon and begin their opening statements.
An objection to the way that jurors are being questioned in secret could be slowing this process down.
A lawyer for the Portland Press Herald has appealed to the state supreme court to try to gain access to the jury selection procedures.
There was no word on the status of that appeal by the time court ended on Wednesday.
Jury selection is expected to resume at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday.
Strong's trial is scheduled to last two or three weeks.


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Just a mile or so away
Is my dearest friend in this world.
He wears the Blue and I the Grey
And god it hurts me so
The last time we were together I grabbed his hand and I pledged
If I ever draw my sword on you may the good lord strike me dead
The union flank's in trouble
To the round top on the double
A bad decision, insubordination
Exposed our line in a dangerous way
The burden lies upon us
Surrender is not an option
We are the flank, and if we break, the union crumbles we could lose the war
Down below's the carnage
The rebels charging onward
Push the slaughter forward, the peach orchard.
Through the wheat field and devil's den
The valour of the Texans
And Alabama's best men
They're Unrelenting
And Devastating
The last full measure of devotion's clear
We'll know what we're made of.
When up against all odds we hold our line
For the cause that we so love
We must hold at all cost
We'll know what we're made of
When our nation needs us
We'll stay the course, for the union we so love
We must hold at all costs!
Wave after wave, they are coming
Their power must be waning!
We're out of ammo, we can't fall back, no !
A desperate measure, a means to end
On their next wave we charge at them
There is no other option
Disconcert them, force submission, on my command, fix bayonets!
Repeat Chorus
We'll know what we're made of
The burden lies with us
When up against al odds we hold our line
We can't fail
For the cause that we so love
We must hold at all costs
We'll know w


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The rise of global environmental governance regimes allegedly contradicts the process of an environmental "race to the bottom" (RTB) that results from capitalist globalization. We examine new developments in this area through a qualitative case study of the Basel Convention. Here, we find that new regulations in toxic wastes governance are in fact being co-created with industry actors and aim to accelerate the flow of toxic "resources" to less-developed countries.
Most historically and predominantly white institutions (HPWIs) now desire some number of black students on their campuses. However, recent theoretical scholarship suggests that HPWIs' desire for and willingness to embrace black students is predicated on their racial palatability. The theory of intraracial discrimination stipulates that white gatekeepers are increasingly inclined to screen blacks to "weed out" those they perceive as too concerned with race and racism.


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Treasuries have been doing great so far in 2014, and so have munis, and if historical market statistics are a guide then munis should be the better performers of the two this year. So says Chris Mauro, head of U.S. municipals strategy at RBC Capital Markets, in an analysis published today:
The conventional wisdom in the municipal market states that as interest rates rise, municipal/Treasury ratios fall. A statistical analysis of historical data confirms that this does generally prove to be the case. However, the volatility in the fixed income markets since the onset of the financial crisis has produced a significant divergence from this historical trend, making forecasting municipal/Treasury ratios a challenging and frustrating exercise at best. Nevertheless, given the RBCCM Economics forecast of gradually rising US Treasury (UST) rates this year, an examination of the historical data indicates that municipals will likely outperform Treasuries in 2014.
Based on data going back to 1992, Mauro finds an inverse relationship between Tresury yields and muni-to-Treasury ratios, one that's generally consistent across the maturity spectrum but is the strongest in the 10-year range. More from Mauro:
Since 2008, a combination of accommodative monetary policy and credit shocks has produced volatile deviations from the trend, especially in the second half of 2013. For example, the 5-yr municipal/Treasury ratio is currently well below the level implied by the statistical trend line as a result of investor defensiveness, lack of supply and minimal outflows from short duration funds. We believe that the following technical factors argue for a gradual reversion of ratios to the mean in 2014: a moderate economic recovery, a modest new issue calendar, the second year of higher federal income tax rates, and more constructive municipal mutual fund flows. However, while the linear regression predicts municipals will firmly outperform in 2014, significant credit and market risks remain. These risks will likely keep municipal rates and ratios volatile, making forecasting these indices a bit of a fool's errand. Nevertheless, we contend that the overall direction of municipal rates and ratios implied by the statistics is valid


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G3 Gauge
The G3 Air/Fuel Ratio gauge (52mm, 2 1/16") features a high-speed
stepper motor, through-dial backlighting, and an illuminated pointer. Each kit includes the gauge, an LC-2 wideband
controller, oxygen sensor, bung, and is compatible with the award-winning LogWorks engine-tuning software.
Key benefits of the "G3" kits include:
For tuners seeking the most cost-effective way to start monitoring Air/Fuel Ratio, the G3 gauges offer an attractive option, while opening the world of true digital data acquisition and software engine analysis. For example, users can add multi-sensor interfaces (starting as low as $135), and log 5 critical parameters directly into any PC or laptop. Or they can get a PL-1 data logger for hundreds of hours of 32-channel data logging on an SD card. Best of all, the G3 gauges are compatible with the powerful LogWorks software for synchronous high-speed logging of wideband data, other MTS sensors, and data from a growing list of "piggyback" fuel controllers and standalone or factory (OBD2) ECUs. This is the same software used by champion engine builders and racers.
The G3 Gauge ($104) can be purchased as an accessory to be used with the LC-1, LC-2, LM-1, or LM-2. These kits includes the G3 Gauge, mounting hardware, and quick-start guide.
The G3 Gauge Kit ($259) comes complete with the patented award-winning LC-2 Wideband Controller, G3 Gauge, Bosch 5-wire Wideband 02 Sensor, Bung, Serial Cable, instructions, and is compatible with LogWorks Software (Free Download).
Note: The G3 gauges have NO serial capability, and will only display AFR in the Gasoline scale.
Installation and Setup
Installation of the G3 Gauge is relatively simple. Complete documentation is supplied, and the support pages, videos, application notes and tuner resources can also speed you on your way to effective tuning. Innovate also has a great network of local dealers, tuners, race shops, and dyno shops that can assist you in choosing, installing, and getting the most out of your Innovate products. Click here to find a dealer near you.
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Alumni may check out up to five items from the Moody and Jones Libraries at a time. The loan period is 3 weeks with one renewal allowed. Media items, reserve materials, and some other materials are not available for checkout. Please also note that interlibrary loan privileges are NOT available.
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Musical. Newly composed musical about an enterprising hairdresser from Malmö. Due to popular demand, we're back for more shows - this time on the Main Stage!
"What a cracking musical production" Göteborgs-Posten
"The word success hardly does it justice" SLA
"… several shivers of sensual pleasure run down the spine." Skövde Nyheter
Watch a film clip from Carmencita Rockefeller - Princess of Japan
In the 1970s, a hairdresser from Malmö thoroughly took in South Swedish society by putting herself forward as Carmencita Rockefeller – diplomat, cancer research scientist, member of the famous American oil and banking dynasty, and grandchild of the Japanese emperor. The deceit was staged with the help of her spouse who posed as her brother and said he was a CIA agent.
The libretto for this musical based on this true history have been written by the director, dramatist and actor Rikard Bergqvist, known to The Göteborg Opera audience through his musical dramas Zvea, Kråksång and Grymt!. For us, he has also directed the musicals My Fair Lady, The Rocky Horror Show and The Last Five Years as well as Mozart's opera The Magic Flute.
Carmencita Rockefeller - Princess of Japan is being staged as a collaborative production with Malmö Opera and Helsingborg City Theatre, where it had its first performance in winter 2013. In Skåne too, the title role was played by Anna-Maria Hallgarn, who made a special appearance here in the musicals Grymt! and Guys and Dolls.


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Hodgkinsons Hotel & Restaurant
Matlock Bath
How to find us
Directions to Hodgkinson's Hotel from M1 motorway
From Motorway M1, exit at Junction 28 (Derbyshire Dales).
1. At junction 28, take the A38 exit to Mansfield/Matlock go 0.3 mi
2. At the roundabout, take the exit onto A38 towards Derby go 5.6 mi
3.Take the Nottingham A610 / Ripley B6441 ramp go 0.2 mi
4. At the roundabout, take the 4th exit onto A610 (Ambergate / Matlock) go 3.2 mi
5. Turn right onto Matlock Rd/A6 - Continue to follow A6 go 6.0 mi
Look out for Masson Mills on the right after this you will come into South Parade. A large building on the right, the Pavilion is also the Tourist Information Centre and Hodgkinson's is approx 200 yards further on the left. Look out for the large oval sign outside the hotel.
Directions from A6
The hotel is situated on the corner of South Parade (A6) and Waterloo Road.
If travelling on the A6 from Derby look out for the New Bath hotel on the left as you enter Matlock Bath , then the Pavilion, a large building with a car park on the right. Hodgkinson's is approx 200 yards further on the left hand side.
If travelling from Matlock on the A6, continue on this road for approx 1 1/2 miles, when you will pass the Heights of Abraham cable cars on the left, and a row of shops and cafes. Look out for the Aquarium on the right, Hodgkinson's is approx 100 yards further on, on the corner of South Parade and Waterloo Rd.
By Train
From London and the North:Trains from London via Derby run frequently throughout the day. Journey time: 2 1/2 hours. Midland Main Line to Derby, then change for East Midlands Trains to Matlock Bath.
From further afield
The closest Airport is East Midlands and from there if you are hiring a car get on the M1 northbound and follow M1 directions shown above. To use Public transportation from East Midlands you can use the Skylink bus to Derby train station and then East Midlands train to Matlock Bath.
From London Heathrow you can hire a car and take the M25 counter clockwise to the M1 northbound and then follow M1 directions above.
If you wish to use the train system then you will need to get St. Pancras in London (see above).
By coach use National Express to Derby and then either train or bus (see above).