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FIGUEROA-LARA, Alejandro; ARACENA-GENAO, Belkis; REYES-MORALES, Hortensia y LAMADRID-FIGUEROA, Héctor. Factors associated with the seeking of legal induced abortion services in Mexico City in 2010. Salud pública Méx [online]. 2012, vol.54, n.4, pp.401-409. ISSN 0036-3634.
OBJECTIVE: To identify factors associated with the seeking of the legal-interruption-pregnancy (LIP) services in Mexico City. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We used a case-control design. Users who utilized the LIP were defined as cases, while users of the antenatal care service with gestational age 13 or more weeks and who reported having an unwanted pregnancy were defined as controls. Logistic regressions were fitted to estimate odds ratios. RESULTS: Higher level of education (OR=1.47, 95% CI:1.04-2.07), women's occupation (being student OR=7.31, 95% CI:1.58-33.95; worker OR=13.43, 95% CI:2.04-88.54), and number of previous abortions (OR=11.41, 95% CI:1.65-79.07) were identified as factors associated with the lookup of LIP. CONCLUSIONS: In Mexico City context, empowered women with a higher level of education, or having a work activity are the users of LIP services. Strategies for improving access of women with low empowerment conditions are needed.
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In-crowd kids already knew "Carpocalypse" was the hip term for the current state of the domestic automotive industry. Now, even the NYT's using it. But they're not the only ones. Feeling self-referential? You betcha.
Coming just a day after we used it ourselves on the air at CNBC, our little turn-o-phrase is making itself known in other media outlets. Our little term-of-the-day made it's way into an article on the front page of the 'ol gray lady, in addition to a quick quip-of-a-quote from yours truly in Micki Maynard's piece today discussing Chrysler's leaked future product plans.
But we're not the only outlets. It seems our friends at Slate have given us a hat tip as well. Just remember where you read it first, faithful readers. In the meantime, head over to the NYT and Slate to see it in the bright and glitzy lights. Pretty soon everyone'll be using it and then it'll be on American Apparel t-shirts and SNL sketches. Oh well, that's the price of celebrity, ain't it?
All we know is, we're pleased as punch to see the word "carpocalypse" written anywhere.
Where it wasn't written was over on Motor Trend, but that's a piece of a different sort. As usual, Todd Lassa hits the nail on the head. Well, except for that whole "looking" irreverent. We're totally irreverent. We swear. [NYT, Slate, Motor Trend]


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At Lender Processing Services workers who signed tens of thousands of sworn foreclosure affidavits with someone else' name were called "surrogate signers", according to Cheryl Denise Thomas, a former LPS worker who admitted to notarizing as many as 1,000 sworn affidavits daily – often without witnessing the signature.
Thomas said despite "raised eyebrows" her supervisors never used the word "forge" and repeatedly told workers the practice of signing someone else' name on a sworn affidavit was legal. Thomas detailed the company's foreclosure document processing practices during a deposition in an Orange county foreclosure case on March 23.
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text: For a mere $212,800, one may acquire the second generation of Bentley Continental convertible, the 2012 GTC. Muscle from the twin-turbo, 6.0-liter, 12-cylinder engine is up from 552 hp to 567, and the great surge of torque—a prerequisite of any "winged B" vehicle—jumps from 479 lb-ft to 516. Accelerating from 50 to 70 mph takes only 2.5 seconds. Bentley also trumpets a wider track at both ends plus steering and suspension tweaks for an improvement in dynamics, a faster-acting auto transmission, and refinements to the car's acoustics. Considering the GTC weighs around 6,400 pounds, the zip to 60 mph in just 4.5 seconds is quite something. Likewise the top speed of 195 mph. But that's the great thing about a Bentley; it says "power" in more ways than one.


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Have you ever had an iPod nano catch fire on you? Even if you haven't, if you still have a first-generation iPod nano, the risk is there. Six years after the introduction of the original nano, Apple has rolled out a replacement program in order to address potential battery overheating issues.
Apple began notifying users late Friday about the replacement program. According to the company: "This issue has been traced to a single battery supplier that produced batteries with a manufacturing defect. While the possibility of an incident is rare, the likelihood increases as the battery ages." The company recommends that users stop using their first-gen iPod nanos sold between September 2005 and December 2006 and apply for a free replacement through its website.
Those with long memories may recall that there was a series of laptop battery recalls that took place throughout the fall of 2006, with big names like Apple, Dell, Toshiba, and Sony replacing the lithium-ion batteries in many of their portable products. In August of 2006, Apple issued a statement saying that "microscopic metal particles" in its battery cells manufactured by Sony could lead to a short circuit, leading to potential overheating issues and even fires.
It certainly sounds as if the first-generation iPod nano batteries are suffering the same fate, as they were manufactured and sold during the same time period as the laptop battery fiasco. Complaints about the original nano began cropping up in Japan and South Korea not long after (starting in about 2008), with Apple eventually agreeing to replace any overheating devices in those countries. Now, it looks as if Apple's replacement program is just being extended to cover the rest of the world, so if you still have one of these in rotation (as I do, strangely enough), you may want to get it replaced so you don't wake up one night to iPod nano flambé.


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Chicken and Chorizo empanadas
Chef Carlos Gomez, Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel
Empanadas are stuffed pastries that are very popular in South America. Empanadas probably came to South America with the Spaniards, but they quickly took on their own distinctive style and flavor in the New World. South American empanadas often have a sweet dough (sometimes they are even sprinkled with powdered sugar) that is a perfect contrast to the savory filling.
4 c. flour
2 eggs
5 T. vegetable shortening
1 t. salt
1 1/2 c. milk
1 lb. ground chicken
1 1/2 lb. Chorizo sausage, ground
1 medium onion, diced
1 t. garlic, minced
1/2 c. salsa
oil, for frying
1. Place the flour, eggs, shortening and salt in a food processor bowl.
2. Pulse until well mixed.
3. Add half of the milk and pulse until it is blended.
4. Add the rest of the milk and pulse until a ball forms.
5. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
6. While the dough is in the refrigerator, Brown the chicken and chorizo in a heavy skillet.
7. Add the onion and garlic and cook until the onion is just soft.
8. Drain off any excess fat. Mix in the salsa.
9. Set the chicken aside and start rolling the dough out to 1/8 inch thick on a floured cutting board.
10. Cut out three-inch circles of the dough.
11. Place 1 tablespoon of the chorizo mix in the center of each circle.
12. Fold into a half-circle.
13. Crimp the outer edge with a fork to seal.
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In Episode #17 of the NLSC Podcast, we discuss the joys of infected computers, stupid things for stupid rich people to buy, give our All-Star predictions and collectively tear our ACLs. Want a bit more of a rundown? Here's a quick overview of this week's episode featuring Leftos, Ben and myself.
- Leftos takes us through the trials and tribulations of making an international PhD application for US colleges.
- Where will Leftos end up? You're going to have to wait for the ESPN special to find out.
- Touching on my day job in computer repairs, the discussion turns to viruses and online scams.
- Ben joins us after getting back from playing basketball and gives us an update on how the game went.
- We find some of the most ridiculous things you can spend a lot of money on, if you've got piles of it to burn.
- At long last, we get to our picks for the 2013 All-Star Weekend. We pick as a team and we'll be wrong as a team.
- We're not huge fans of the Golden State Warriors' new alternate jersey.
- We wrap up with our thoughts on some other recent NBA news, including more injury woes for the Boston Celtics.
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A majority of doctors support measures to deny treatment to smokers and the obese, according to a survey that has sparked a row over the NHS's growing use of "lifestyle rationing".
Some 54% of doctors who took part said the NHS should have the right to withhold non-emergency treatment from patients who do not lose weight or stop smoking. Some medics believe unhealthy behaviour can make procedures less likely to work, and that the service is not obliged to devote scarce resources to them.
In response, over at Hot Air, a commenter said this:
Well count me among the anti-fat and anti-smoking bigots. You choose to poison yourself (while also advocating that significantly less harmful stuff like weed should be illegal) then I could really care less about you. Get off the damn couch, turn off the damn TV, put down the greasy pork leg and do some friggin cardio already. And really, I blame the people who let fat men get laid. If women would stop sleeping with fat men, this obesity epidemic would be solved.
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In 2012, emcees understood the power of the freestyle. As a result, freestyle tracks and remixes dropped left and right. Some were dope. Some were not. But we still gave an ear to all of the frees dropped this year and selected some of the hottest joints for the end of the year list, covering ground all over the Hip Hop map. We followed the music from New York's Joell Ortiz to Texas' Chamillionaire. We then went from Atlanta's T.I. to California's Black Hippy. While there, we stopped by to hear from Game and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony to round out the list.
What we noticed was that regional differences didn't matter much here. What's dope is dope, in any part of the map. Few can try to debate that. Now some may debate about what constitutes a real freestyle. But here, we took songs that were released as freestyles or remixes, whether official or unofficial, to compile this list. We found some gems, each standing out for different reasons. With so many dropping freestyles weekly, this was certainly no easy task. But listen to Joell Ortiz's hunger on "Fuckin' Problem" and understand he's got a point to make. Catch Black Hippy on "Swimming Pools," with every emcee showing why they deserve respect on their own. Peep T.I. over "Clique," showing he can still bring flows out with the best of them. Hear Chamillionaire's urge to serge back to the charts and catch Game and Bone celebrating with some West Coast nostalgia in 2012.
Joell Ortiz – "Fuckin' Problem"
Did you really think he was going to sing? Instead of getting on his R&B groove, Joell Ortiz took us to the Brooklyn cypher with this one. After releasing the bar-heavy Shady debut with Slaughterhouse, Joell proved he could rock it solo too. Jackin' the instrumental from A$AP Rocky's single, "Fuckin' Problem" became Ortiz's canvas, without a looped up 2 Chainz hook, and Joell didn't disappoint. Listening to this freestyle, Ortiz's hunger is palpable. He delivers clever lines with aggression, establishing his place in the game. "My dope stand was Wonder Woman," he rhymes. "Yeah, my heroin/heroine flew. But there's more to appreciate from this effort and that may be that the best is yet to come. "I swear I'm having fun. I'm sparrin'," he explains. "That's not the scary part. The scary part is I ain't done evolvin'." We're looking forward to hearing more of this evolution in 2013.
Kendrick Lamar featuring Jay Rock, Ab-Soul & ScHoolboy Q – "Swimming Pools"
Kendrick Lamar may have been one of the most talked about emcees this year. His album certainly gained notoriety and critical acclaim. His single, "Swimming Pools" was one of the biggest hits of the year also but this track makes this list without a verse from K. Dot. Instead, the rest of Black Hippy take over for a posse cut worth remembering. Jay Rock, Ab-Soul and ScHoolboy Q hop on this cut for what became a Target bonus track from good kid, m.A.A.d. city. The freestyle, much like the original, takes an intriguing approach to the topic of alcohol. "Spread your wings. You probably won't get far," Ab-Soul says on his scene stealing verse. "I honestly wouldn't advise operating a car." Interestingly, he also offers advice found on good kid. "Try not to let the peer pressure get the best of ya," he says, showing that depth, sincerity and skill shines throughout Top Dawg Entertainment.
T.I. featuring Big Sean, Jay-Z & Kanye West – "Clique"
It takes a lot of confidence to jump on "Clique," one of 2012's hottest singles. And we know T.I.'s got plenty of that self-assurance, so it was only right for him to jack the track for a verse. Tip rhymed on the instrumental with a point to prove and perhaps that's exactly how he felt, delivering one of the year's best. It's not like T.I. hasn't been successful. He's just had many hurdles along the way. But near the end of the year, he seemed much more focused on regaining his spot at the Hip Hop table discussion. So it's fitting that he'd sit next to the likes of Jay-Z and Kanye West here, even if he isn't exactly from their clique. Still, T.I. unleashed a potent verse over the "Clique" instrumental, dropping intricate flows with ease, sounding effortlessly smooth while proving he's still got the passion for the craft.
Chamillionaire – "Hands On The Wheel"
Lissie's cover of Kid Cudi's "Pursuit of Happiness" inspired ScHoolboy Q's "Hands on the Wheel" with A$AP Rocky. But the sped up sample also moved others to try their hand at the beat. One of those that stood out was Chamillionaire, who decided to use it for a freestyle to thank fans who preordered Ammunition. With this, Cham proved he could still do what fans had grown accustomed to, delivering that quick-paced flow he became famous for. "Don't fall back, no time to rest," he says to start the track, showing that his mind is set on regaining his chart topping success of the past. "We sold it once so we can sell it twice 'cause these Texas boys is way more than hype," he rhymes to finish the cut. Ammunition ended up being an extension of this, rated a 4/5 by HipHopDX's Editor-In-Chief, Jake Paine and an even higher 4.6/5 by readers.
Game featuring Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – "Celebration"
When Game released the original "Celebration," he had Lil Wayne, Tyga, Wiz Khalifa and Chris Brown on it but it still sounded like a Bone Thugs-N-Harmony song. Of course, that was in large part due to it being a remake of Bone's "1st of tha Month." But everyone on the track also tried to pull a Notorious B.I.G. move to pay homage to BT&H by mimicking their rapid yet melodic delivery. Perhaps Game figured he would do one better, adding Bone to "Celebration" afterwards. The result was one that reenergized Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. There's no doubt that Bone influenced Game's career. They've influenced many. Their legacy has been cemented in Hip Hop for decades now. But "Celebration" became a toast to the group's triumphs through tribulations. On a year that saw the group reunite for Rock the Bells and for this track, it's only right we celebrate this as a highlight of the year.


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Remarks by Chairman Sheila C. Bair to the Housing Association of Non-Profit Developers Annual Meeting; Tysons Corner, Virginia
June 7, 2010
First, let me congratulate HAND on 19 years of public service in working to expand the availability of affordable housing in the greater Washington, D.C. area. The ongoing mortgage crisis has highlighted the critical importance of affordable housing and stable neighborhoods to the economic security of all Americans.
The Middle Atlantic Region has not escaped the effects of the recession or the housing bust. As you know, mortgage defaults and foreclosures have risen to record levels across the region and throughout the country. And even after the mortgage crisis is over – and we are not out of the woods yet, I'm afraid -- finding affordable housing will continue to be a problem for many people. That's why your work – in developing new ideas, sharing best practices, and accessing new sources of capital – will continue to be essential to our communities.
Outlook for the economy, housing & mortgages
Let me give you our take on the current situation. After many months of recession and job losses, the economy is beginning to recover. Though substantial uncertainties remain, we are seeing gradual progress in terms of economic activity, and even signs that payrolls are starting to expand and that bank loan performance is beginning to stabilize. But banks continue to set aside provisions for loan losses, and bank failures continue at an elevated pace. While some of the early bank failures in this crisis included large mortgage lenders that offered risky loan products, we are now dealing with problems among smaller community banks with high concentrations of construction and commercial real estate loans.
Still, during the past year we have seen some welcome signs of stability in many housing markets. Inventories of vacant homes are beginning to shrink, existing home sales are up, and investors have been buying distressed properties even in troubled markets. Home prices have been relatively stable in most parts of the country over the past year, following their historic, 33 percent average decline from mid-2006 through the early part of last year. Federal policy initiatives have been a major factor in stabilizing the housing markets.
But now that many of these programs have expired, where will markets go next? Today, more than 11 million homeowners – or more than one in four of those with a mortgage – are underwater, owing more than their home is worth. At the end March, there were some 2.4 million mortgages in foreclosure, and almost three and a half million more were at least 60 days past due. Modifications of at-risk mortgages continue to gain momentum. About 640,000 permanent modifications were put in place under Treasury's Home Affordable Modification Program, and other programs, in the first four months of this year. That figure is roughly comparable to the number of mortgages that entered foreclosure over the same period.
But we still have a long way to go until this crisis is behind us. That's why the FDIC continues to encourage investors who buy failed banks under loss-share agreements to be aggressive in preventing needless foreclosures. I am very proud to say that the FDIC was among the first to pursue systematic loan modifications for distressed borrowers in our role as conservator at IndyMac Federal Bank almost two years ago. Despite the relative stabilization in housing markets over the past year, we need to recognize that this battle is not yet won. People out there still need help. And if we turn our backs on them, the problem could get worse once again.
The future of mortgage finance
Even as we grapple with today's problems, we must look to the future. What will it take to assure that future housing cycles do not breed the kind of instability that we have seen in this episode?
Not so long ago, the American system of mortgage finance was the envy of the world. Private institutions, many of them under mutual ownership, followed standards set under government programs and gave us a wonderful financial innovation – the 30-year, fixed-rate, non-callable mortgage. These loans gave borrowers certainty. Homeowners knew what their monthly payments would be, and could plan accordingly. And the government-sponsored enterprises, or GSEs, linked these loans to the global capital markets, creating a secondary market that gave lenders the confidence that their mortgages were truly liquid, bankable assets. These mortgage products and practices helped to lay the foundation for a remarkable period of economic performance in the post- World War II era.
So, how did things go so terribly wrong? In the 1980s, the S&L crisis taught us that institutions that specialize in mortgages are highly vulnerable to interest rate risk. This remains a concern today given the current zero-interest rate environment. As for the GSEs, they were not only successful, but they grew over time to dominate the conforming mortgage market. In the process, they came to wield enormous political influence, and booked huge profits even while socializing the risks that were building up on their balance sheets.
Finally, mortgage securitization went far beyond the GSEs during the lead up to the latest crisis, with private issuers doubling their share of total mortgage debt to more than 20 percent of the market between 2003 and 2006. This two-trillion-dollar river of credit, running right through the heart of Wall Street, provided the financing for most of the subprime and nontraditional loans that triggered the crisis.
But as we go down the list of what went wrong, let me reiterate that this crisis was not caused by the Community Reinvestment Act. Bank regulators are unanimous on that point. To be sure, the CRA encourages banks to make safe and sound loans in the communities they serve. But nowhere does it tell them to make unaffordable, unsustainable loans that set people up for failure. Most of the subprime and high risk nontraditional mortgages were made by non-CRA lenders. And these loans were made in large volumes because for a time they were highly profitable and because Wall Street would buy them and securitize them. It's as simple as that.
The way forward
So what should be done to put our mortgage industry on a sounder footing? I don't claim to have all the answers. But let me make three main recommendations.
The first is to educate and protect the consumer. Somewhere along the line, the industry forgot that the ultimate purpose of mortgage finance is to meet the credit needs of the American people. I'm not saying that it's wrong to earn a profit making mortgage loans. There is, and should be, profit potential in this business – so long as it is carried out in a way which results in sustainable mortgages for consumers. But most consumers are not Wall Street financial wizards. They want simple mortgage structures and straightforward disclosures that are designed to clarify – not obscure – the true nature of the deal.
When consumers lack a clear understanding of the deal, they are more likely to default, as so many consumers have in this crisis who had subprime and nontraditional loans. Financial education can do a great deal to help consumers make informed financial decisions and protect themselves. This is something that all of us can promote through our own outreach efforts.
The FDIC has been promoting financial education for almost a decade with our Money Smart program. Money Smart comes in seven languages, and over two and a half million consumers have made use of it.
We also set up an FDIC Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion. Chartered in November 2006, the Committee provides the FDIC with advice and recommendations on expanding access to banking services for underserved populations. Its strategic plan is focused on savings, financial literacy, affordable credit, and other key consumer needs. The idea is to engage mainstream financial institutions in these important initiatives by supporting research, developing a supportive policy framework, and, where appropriate, launching pilot projects to test- market new ideas.
My second recommendation to restore our mortgage finance system is to restart securitization – of both conforming and nonconforming loans – but on a much sounder footing. Securitization and the complex financial instruments that surround it have been vilified, rightly in many cases, for triggering the recent crisis.
But in today's world of global finance, securitization remains the best way to tap large volumes of capital at the lowest possible cost. Right now, private securitization of nonconforming loans remains largely shut down. Investors have lost faith in a process where the financial incentives -- between lenders, underwriters, ratings agencies, and investors -- are badly misaligned.
We need a whole new set of transparent market practices. We need higher standards for loan underwriting and documentation. Loan originators need to keep some skin in the game and not be able to walk away from the long-term consequences of their decisions.
The FDIC has a unique opportunity to lead the way in reforming securitization because of a change in the accounting standards that requires us to rewrite the rules that govern how we handle securitized assets in a failed bank receivership. Under our proposal, bank securitization deals would need to meet higher standards for underwriting, disclosure, deal structure, compensation and risk-retention in order to qualify for sale treatment. Our proposal complements similar reforms underway at the SEC, and under consideration by Congress. I believe that these reforms will help restore confidence in these markets, but in a way that promotes long term, sustainable home ownership.
My final recommendation relates to the basic goals and strategies of federal housing policy. For 25 years federal policy has been primarily focused on promoting homeownership and promoting the availability of credit to home buyers. While tax deductions for interest on most forms of consumer debt have been curtailed, the home mortgage interest deduction lives on. Local property taxes are also deductible, as are capital gains up to $250,000.
The government-sponsored mortgage enterprises, which flourished during most of the last 25 years, have required large federal subsidies to cover their losses in the crisis -- formalizing the implicit guarantee that has long contributed to their success. Meanwhile, the supply of credit to riskier borrowers also expanded during this period -- not as a result of CRA, as I have explained, but as a result of private securitization practices that turned out to be seriously flawed.
In the end, these public and private efforts helped to briefly push the homeownership rate as high as 69 percent. That's a level that ultimately proved unsustainable, and that may not be reached again for many years, if ever.
Even as we emerge from this crisis, it is worth asking whether federal policy is devoting sufficient emphasis to the expansion of quality, affordable rental housing. It is estimated that when you add up the mortgage interest deduction, local property tax deductions, and exclusions on capital gains realized on the sale of owner-occupied housing ... the taxpayer subsidies for homeowners are about three times the size of all rental subsidies and tax incentives combined.
In fact, you can argue that this huge subsidy for homeowners has helped push up housing prices over time, making affordability that much more of a problem for the very groups you're trying to serve. I think we need a better balance. Sustainable homeownership is a worthy national goal. But it should not be pursued to excess when there are other, equally worthy solutions that help meet the needs of people for whom homeownership may NOT be the right answer.
As a nation, we need to take a hard look at the full range of housing policies and programs. And we need to ask: will they improve standards of living for all Americans or just a few? And will our policies lead to sustainable improvements for the long term, or are they just a short term fix?
As recent events have shown, failure to review our policy goals and impose discipline on our programs can lead to skewed policies that create bigger problems down the road.
If there is one message I can leave you with today, it would be that restoring our system of mortgage finance and securing our economic future cannot simply be done by fiat in Washington, D.C. There are many public policy challenges that need to be met. Financial regulators have to do a better job identifying and addressing emerging risks before they damage our economy. But it also takes a commitment by all of us – as homebuyers, market participants and regulators – to build and defend market practices that are designed to withstand adversity, and that protect the long term interests of consumers and the economy.
As better times come back to the U.S. housing and mortgage markets, as they inevitably will in the years ahead, we cannot forget the lessons of this crisis. And we must resist the temptation to cut corners or lower our guard. The most valuable legacy we can leave our children will be the kind of economic confidence and stability that can only come from making wise and prudent choices today. Thank you.
|Last Updated 6/7/2010


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By the time the '70s rolled into the '80s, the Corvette was in need of some serious changes to keep America's Only True Sports Car from turning into an underpowered parody of itself (like its Blue Oval two-seat competition had become), thanks to ever-tightening Federal safety and emission-control standards.
Big changes were in the works for what became the fourth-generation Corvette, but there was still plenty to do with the existing C3.
For 1980, the body was put on a diet, with lighter-density roof panels plus thinner hood and outer-door panels going on. The chassis also got new weight-saving components-an aluminum rear crossmember and differential housing to replace the previous cast-iron ones. In all, the lighter-weight components meant a 250-pound weight reduction over the '79.
Speaking of the body, the front and rear of it got the most-noticeable changes. Gone were the separate spoilers and front/rear fascia, which dated to 1978 and 1975, respectively. On went new, one-piece integrated bumper caps, which helped cut the Vette's coefficient of drag from 0.503 to 0.443 (over the RPO D80 spoilers-equipped '79).
The new front and rear styling also won plenty of admirers, including Tony Zappia. Though he had loved the way the '80 Vette looked for a long time, he didn't come across this one until early 1997. "I found it in February of that year, and I didn't purchase it then because the gentleman wanted too much money for it for the condition it was in," he says from his Smithtown, New York, home.
About seven months later, Zappia saw it again-consigned for sale on a used-car lot. He found out that the owner was going through a divorce and had some other problems, so he figured that the '80 could be had at a better price than before. The offer was made and accepted, and Zappia was this C3's new owner.
Unfortunately, it wasn't all original. "It did not have the original engine in it, but he had the original engine," Zappia says of the small-block powerplants that were included in the deal. "So, I purchased the car, threw the original engine in the back of my SUV, brought the car home, and I brought the car up."
He started with the body, which still wore its original Claret Red color, but had been repainted in basecoat/clearcoat paint instead of the original acrylic lacquer. The years, and outside storage under a tarp, had taken their toll on the finish. "I had it wet-sanded, and some little body stuff done to it," he says of the work needed to make the paint look like glass.
Next to get Zappia's attention: the non-original small-block under the hood, which Tony kept in for the first couple of years that he owned the '80. "It just didn't have enough horsepower," he says. "I made a decision, because it wasn't the original engine: I said, 'OK-what do I do? Do I put the original L82 back in the car, or do I give it a little horsepower?' Instead of messing with the factory mill (which he's kept all along), Zappia decided to go the crate-engine route with a GM Performance Parts ZZ4.
There was just one problem with the ZZ4, though. "When I got it, I discovered that it had a bad crank," says Zappia, who decided to do more than just replace the flawed crankshaft. "I ripped it apart, and I had my engine builder make a stroker out of it," he says. "I built a 383-it has SRP pistons in it, an Eagle crank and rods, a high-output pump, and Crane 1.6 roller rockers." Zappia kept the ZZ4's aluminum heads, but he had them ported, polished, and given a three-angle valve job, so they flowed better than before.
In all, Zappia figures that his stroker 383 puts out much more power than the original L82's 230 peak horsepower. (Don't laugh-1980's standard L48 350 was only rated at 190 hp, and the California-only LG4 305-inch small-block carried a 180-horse rating.) How much more? It hasn't been dyno'd, but Zappia's run his 383's equipment combination through some computer software that estimated horsepower and torque numbers. "The way she's set up, we're estimating that it's putting out about 430 horsepower and 440 foot-pounds of torque," he says.
The rest of the powertrain and chassis got their share of attention, too, starting with the Turbo-350 that was in the car. "I have a friend who has a transmission shop, and he put in a shift kit and bulletproofed it, so it's good for over 500 horsepower," says Zappia, who also restored the '80's brakes and RPO FE7 Gymkhana Suspension.
Inside, only a new pair of seat covers from Al Knoch was needed to freshen the '80's cabin. "The rest of the interior was beautiful-the dash panel, doors, carpets; all that was impeccable," Zappia says of the interior's condition when he bought the C3. "There was a crack in one of the seats, and you just can't change one seat cover, so I did both. Al Knoch sent me the stuff, and they're like the originals-leather on the middle, and vinyl on the outside."
Now that Zappia's got his '80 looking and running its best, what's it like to drive? "It's a very fun car to drive," he says. "When I leave it in Drive and nail it, when I hit Second gear it goes sideways a little bit."
Zappia is one of the ROSCOs (Royal Order of Smithtown Corvette Owners), who get together once a week, and who were featured in an NBC News story about the Corvette's 50th Anniversary back in 2003.
Nineteen eighty saw 40,614 Corvettes roll out of St. Louis Assembly, a drop from the record 53,807 built the year before. Likely the second "oil shock" of the '70s in the summer of 1979, which sent pump prices over a dollar a gallon for the first time, scared off many would-be Vette buyers then.
Even so, with the big production numbers of the third-generation Corvette-with 10 years of its 15-year production run seeing more than 30,000 built-there are plenty out there for building your way, or showing and cruising if it already is. What's Zappia's advice if you're looking for one? "You've got to look out for rust," he says. "You've got to have a good frame. People think that because it's a fiberglass-bodied car, that it doesn't rust, but it does underneath the body." He adds, "With the C3, you either love it or you hate it, because of its 'Coke-bottle' shape. I think they look neat. It's a very affordable car to get into, but it depends on what you want [to do with it]. I wanted horsepower, and that's why I put that in."


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CryptoParty Like It's 1993
from the it's-a-secret,-pass-it-on dept
As Techdirt stories regularly report, governments around the world, including those in the West, are greatly increasing their surveillance of the Internet. Alongside a loss of the private sphere, this also represents a clear danger to basic civil liberties. The good news is that we already have the solution: encrypting communications makes it very hard, if not entirely impossible, for others to eavesdrop on our conversations. The bad news is that crypto is largely ignored by the general public, partly because they don't know about it, and partly because even if they do, it seems too much trouble to implement.
The CryptoParty movement hopes to do something about that by inviting people to come along to informal meetings to learn about crypto, how to install it and how to use it in everyday computing in order to strengthen their privacy and protect themselves from surveillance. The driving force behind the idea is the Australian digital rights activist Asher Wolf, well known on Twitter. The specific impetus came from approval of the Cybercrime Legislation Amendment Bill 2011 by the Australian Senate. Here's what it will do, as explained on the academic blog The Conversation:
The bill effects changes in the Telecommunications Act 1997 and Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 and will force carriers and internet service providers (ISPs) to preserve stored communications, when requested by certain domestic authorities (such as the Australian Federal Police), or when requested by those authorities acting on behalf of nominated foreign countries.
That's not quite as bad as mandatory logging of all online activity, but the Australian government is working on that too, as are many other countries. Against that background, the idea of self-organizing parties introducing people to the world of crypto spread rapidly around the world, as the wiki page listing past and future events indicates. One party, in Berlin, led to a new, complementary project: a manual on crypto for beginners:
This means a warrant will be needed before the police or security agencies can force carriers or ISPs to monitor, capture and store website use, data transmissions, voice and multimedia calls, and all other forms of communication over the digital network.
The CryptoParty Handbook was born from a suggestion by Marta Peirano and Adam Hyde after the first Berlin CryptoParty, held on the 29th of August, 2012. Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev, co-organisers of the Berlin CryptoParty (along with Marta) were very enthusiastic about the idea, seeing a need for a practical working book with a low entry-barrier to use in subsequent parties. Asher Wolf, originator of the CryptoParty movement, was then invited to join in and the project was born.
The well-known "book sprint" approach was used, together with open source software, and the final result was released as open content under a cc-by-sa license:
This book was written in the first 3 days of October 2012 at Studio Weise7, Berlin, surrounded by fine food and a lake of coffee amidst a veritable snake pit of cables. Approximately 20 people were involved in its creation, some more than others, some local and some far (Melbourne in particular).
The facilitated writing methodology used, Book Sprint, is all about minimising any obstruction between expertise and the published page. Face-to-face discussion and dynamic task-assignment were a huge part of getting the job done, like any good CryptoParty!
As might be expected with such a major project about a complex and sensitive topic put together so quickly, there has been some criticism of the results, notably the inclusion of the weak PPTP for creating Virtual Private Networks. Nonetheless, the CryptoParty movement and the associated Handbook show what can be achieved by committed volunteers coming together across the Internet in a very short time.
The open source, web-based (HTML5 and CSS) writing platform Booktype was chosen for the editing task, helping such a tentacular feat of parallel development to happen with relative ease. Asher also opened a couple of TitanPad pages to crowd-source the Manifesto and HowTo CryptoParty chapters.
Of course, there's still the question of whether this project will have any major impact on the use of crypto by general users. After all, it's not as if people haven't been recommending the thoroughgoing application of encryption for everyday tasks before. As the by-now venerable Cypherpunk's Manifesto put it:
We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place. People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do.
Those words were written back in 1993, and here we are in 2012, still fighting the same battles with the same tools. Will things be any different this time?
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Study of the Northern Alaskan Coastal Systems (SNACS) Products Online
A compilation of products from the National Science Foundation-funded Study of the Northern Alaskan Coastal System (SNACS) research projects is now available online. SNACS projects focused on the arctic coastal zone of Alaska and addressed one or more aspects of two coupled themes:
- How vulnerable are the natural, human, and living systems of the coastal zone to current and future environmental changes in the Arctic?
- How do biogeochemical and biogeophysical feedbacks in the coastal zone amplify or dampen change locally and at the pan-arctic and global levels?
SNACS projects resulted in more than 60 journal publications, 88 conference presentations, and 25 other products.
For more information about SNACS and the list of products, see the SNACS website: http://www.arcus.org/arcss/snacs/index.php.


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Leola Bell Might Be the Queen of Sexy Twitter Pictures
Of all the social media sites, Twitter is by far our favorite. It keeps us up to date on important news like what Miss Leola Bell is wearing.
Leola has the hottest Twitter picture feed going right now. We decided to share some of those Twitter pictures with you, because we love you all so much.
Here are her 10 sexiest Twitpics so far. That's right, we said so far because we're challenging her to top herself. In fact, we DARE her to post sexier pictures than these ten.
We'll just keep refreshing her Twitter feed and wait. We've got little else to do.


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Pitbull, Macklemore to headline 2013 Preakness InfieldFest
24-hour ticket price reduction offered until 10 a.m. Tuesday
The lineup for the 2013 Preakness InfieldFest has been announced, and it'll be headlined by worldwide superstar Pitbull and newcoming hitmakers Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.
The Maryland Jockey Club announced the lineup Monday.
Pitbull, a Miami native, has a list of No. 1 hits on the music charts, including "Give Me Everything" off his last album, Planet Pit, which sold more than 1.7 million albums and 18 million singles. Other big-name songs he's known for are the current hits "Don't Stop the Party" and "Back in Time."
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are relatively new to the national hip-hop scene, most known for their electrifying live shows and innovative music videos, including their catchy song "Thrift Shop," which landed them at No. 1 on the Billboard charts in recent weeks. Their debut full-length album, The Heist, has hit the No. 1 spot on iTunes and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard charts.
The Preakness InfieldFest will also feature live music from top acts on two other stages. Those acts haven't been announced yet.
Meanwhile, the Maryland Jockey Club said it's reducing its infield admission tickets by $10 for a 24-hour period. The regular infield tickets will be reduced to $40, while Mug Club tickets (where buyers get a souvenir mug for unlimited beer refills) will be reduced to $60 until 10 a.m. Tuesday. Afterward, the tickets will return to their respective $50 and $70 price tags through May 11.
Prices increase to $60 for an infield ticket and $80 for the Mug Club during Preakness week.
Tickets can be bought by calling the Preakness sales office at 410-542-9400 or 877-206-8042 or by visiting Preakness.com or at Ticketfly.com.


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CHAMPAIGN, Ill.
— The transistor laser, invented by scientists at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been full of surprises. Researchers
recently coaxed the device to reveal fundamental properties of the transistor,
and of the transistor laser, moving it a step closer to commercialization.
As reported in the April 3 issue of the journal Applied Physics Letters, Nick Holonyak Jr., Milton Feng, and colleagues at the U. of I. explored the current-voltage relationship in a transistor laser. During stimulated emission, the laser light allowed the scientists to see into the device and study its elusive electronic structure.
"We were able to look at the transistor's operating characteristics, look inside of the transistor, and see features and behaviors that we couldn't see before," said Holonyak, a John Bardeen Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics. "The current-voltage characteristics were clearly distorted under stimulated recombination, compared to ordinary 58-year-old-transistor spontaneous recombination."
The transistor laser employs a quantum well and a resonator in the base to control electron-hole recombination and electrical gain. By blocking the laser resonator with white paste, the researchers converted the device into an ordinary transistor. Because the process is reversible, the researchers could compare collector characteristics when the device was functioning as a normal transistor and when it was functioning as a transistor laser, something that was never before possible.
"We found significant structure in the current-voltage characteristics of the transistor laser, that can be mapped in detail and related to the quantum-well carrier recombination," said Holonyak, who also is a professor in the university's Center for Advanced Study, one of the highest forms of campus recognition.
"We were also able to correlate optical measurements with electrical measurements of quantum-well properties," Holonyak said.
The transistor laser combines the functionality of both a transistor and a laser by converting electrical input signals into two output signals, one electrical and one optical. Photons for the optical signal are generated when electrons and holes recombine in the base, an intrinsic feature of transistors.
"When we weaken the strength of the photon generation process, we change the nature of the process connecting the electron and the hole, and we change their behavior in an electrical sense," Holonyak said. "When we let the device operate as a transistor laser, however, the photons streaming out let us look inside and see more of the mechanics that goes on. We see features of the transistor never revealed before."
The change in gain and laser wavelength corresponding to stimulated recombination on quantum-well transitions can be compared to operation in spontaneous recombination and used with conventional transistor charge analysis to determine some of the dynamic properties of the transistor laser.
"This transistor laser is letting us see the properties and mechanics of how fast the electrons and holes generate photons, and we can turn laser photon generation on and off," said Feng, the Holonyak Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois. "This allows us to alter the processes and see how the speed and time factors are changing. This is the first time we could directly determine the lifetime, the speed of stimulated recombination. The transistor has now made certain laser measurements easier or more convenient."
This capability opens the door to developing transistor lasers that operate at different speeds for a variety of commercial applications, Feng said.
"Until now, we had missed something important and fundamental about the boundaries of what the photon can do, of what the electron and hole can do, and of what the semiconductor can do," Holonyak said. "We found those boundaries to be much further out than we had ever imagined, which now makes our prognosis for the transistor laser much more optimistic."
Co-authors of the paper with Feng and Holonyak are postdoctoral research associates Richard Chan and Gabriel Walter, and graduate student Adam James. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency funded the work.
To reach Nick Holonyak, call 217-333-4149.
To reach Milton Feng, call 217-333-8080; e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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(A follow up post from last year with the addition of a new-found cousin who serves our country. Thank you for your service, JoAnn!)
I want to take a moment to say thank you to everyone who has served honorably in our Armed Forces. Without our service members past and present our country would not be where it is today. We would not have gained our independence, we would not have unified a divided country, we would not have stopped the atrocities of 2 World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. There are many conflicts not mentioned which do not make light of the sacrifices that servicemen and women made in them. Sometimes the sacrifice was in time away from family and long hours. At times it was witnessing the horrors of those wars or even succumbing valiantly to them.
Not everyone serves their country as a Veteran does and not everyone can or should. You are unique, respected and given a burden that many would not be able to bear. Whether you served many months or many years in our Armed Forces makes no difference. You served. Thank you!
I'd like to now pay tribute to my family members who have served (I hope I didn't miss any!).


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You might not be thinking about Christmas but Toys R Us is already making its list and checking it twice.
This week the mega toy retailer released a sneak peek at the hottest toys for the 2012 holidays. Take a look above.
The jaded and cynical mom in me sees overpriced, landfill-bound junk. Everything is made from plastic. Where are the sturdy wooden toys on this list?
I'm especially irritated by the Tabeo for kids as young as 3 years. It's basically a kiddie iPhone with Wi-Fi and apps and countless studies have shown that little minds don't benefit from computer play. Or maybe it's better described as a babysitter for parents who need a break. But instead of sticking a screen in a toddler's hand, parents should hire the 13-year-old next door to read books to the kid. Oh yeah, she won't be free because she'll be busy playing with her new Wii, which her parents pre-ordered because this is the season's hottest toy and is apparently already almost sold out.
That said, I know my kids would be gaily dancing around the living room on Christmas morning if they opened up a few of these things.
Take the adorable-looking Furby, for example. This has my 9-year-old daughter's name written all over it. She was a huge fan of those silly little Zhu Zhu hamster things that scurried around the floor and made me screen. But Furby seems even cooler (and less rodent like) as it develops its own personality based on how you treat it. Give it a tickle and its personality might become silly! My 8-year-old son spends his free time building stuff with Legos and I'm sure he'd love the especially large and expensive Ninjango set.
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12 teams will play in three groups each featuring 4 teams
Group A: Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Bolivia
Group B: Brazil, Paraguay, Equador, Venezuela
Group C: Uruguay, Mexico, Chile, Peru
The first round, or group stage, saw the twelve teams divided into three groups of four teams. Each group was a round-robin of six games, where each team played one match against each of the other teams in the same group. Teams were awarded three points for a win, one point for a draw and none for a defeat. The teams finishing first, second and two best-placed third teams in each group qualify for the quarterfinals.
Teams were ranked on the following criteria:
Different from previous tournaments, 30 minutes of extra time will be played if any match in the knockout stages finish tied after regulation (previously the match would go straight to a penalty shootout).[27]
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In the age of digital music, we tend to skip through albums, listening to one or two tracks - missing some of the deeper cuts that may be brilliant. I am a big fan of the album format, and love to experience the entire collection the way the artist intended. Listening to one or two songs is like randomly reading a few chapters of a book and expecting to understand the completed work. Like any music lover, I love to share what I'm listening to and discover some new things from friends. Here's my playlist for this week. Please put your lists in the comments below, or interact on Facebook or Twitter.
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The Hope College Wind Ensemble will perform under the direction of Gabe Southard on Monday, Jan. 30, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The concert is titled "Scenes and Moods" and will feature a variety of different styles of music. The pieces will be "March," from "Love for Three Oranges," by Sergei Prokofiev; "Scenes from the Louvre," by Norman Dello Joio; "After a Gentle Rain," by Anthony Iannaccone; and "with brightness round about it," by Nancy Galbraith.
Director Gabe Southard, who joined the Hope faculty in 2007, completed his Doctorate of Musical Arts in conducting at Michigan State University. Prior to his residence at MSU, he served as wind symphony conductor and flute studio teacher at the University of Michigan-Flint, where he also taught orchestration, music appreciation and advanced conducting.
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th Street.


text: The Cookies essentially had two histories as distinctly different groups (with one member in common) that existed for two years at a time, six years and an entire decade apart in styles and sounds. The original Cookies were Margie Hendrix, Ethel "Earl-Jean" McCrea, and Pat Lyles, who started singing together in Brooklyn in the early '50s, made their recording debut on the Lamp imprint of Aladdin Records in 1954, and were signed to Atlantic Records in 1955 by producer/songwriter Jesse Stone. This lineup enjoyed a Top Ten hit on the R&B charts in 1956 with the single "In Paradise," and backed Chuck Willis and Joe Turner on various sessions during that same period. They ceased to exist as the Cookies when Ray Charles, who was also signed to Atlantic, transformed them into the Raelettes. They spent the next six years working under that name until 1962, when a new version of the Cookies emerged in New York, with Earl-Jean McCrea joining newcomers Dorothy Jones and Margaret Ross. That lineup began doing sessions at the Brill Building, specifically at Aldon Music, behind Tony Orlando and Neil Sedaka, among others, cutting demos and generally becoming part of the company's basic operation. It was McCrea, for example, who suggested Little Eva as a babysitter to a married pair of songwriters working at the Brill Building (Carole King and Gerry Goffin) who ended up using the babysitter's dancing and singing skills to create "The Locomotion." The single put Aldon's spinoff label, Dimension Records, on the map and the Cookies sang backup on that record, the success of which finally earned them some sessions of their own in 1962. In recent years, Goffin and King have both criticized the group for its "soft" sound, but this overlooks the sultriness of their singing -- with a sharp arrangement, as on the 1962 singles "Chains," which hit number 17 on the pop charts in the fall of 1962, "Girls Grow Up Faster Than Boys" (number 33 in early 1963), and "Don't Say Nothin' Bad About My Baby" (number seven in early 1963), the combination was unbeatable. Even their lesser material, such as the rather prosaic rendition of "On Broadway," is pleasant, and a few songs, such as "I Never Dreamed," have a soaring, ethereal quality that's a joy to hear, even 40 years later. In point of fact, the Cookies did have a more lyrical sound and less of the hard, soulful feel most of the black girl groups of the period had. They could have sounded more "white" than many Motown groups of the same period, but it wasn't a sound that could compete and, absent the most solid songs, the trio had run out their string by 1964. However, they earned a special place in pop music history when the Beatles added "Chains" to their repertory and ended up recording it on their first LP, Please Please Me, in 1963; there were the Cookies, right along with other American influences on the group, including the Shirelles, the Miracles, and Arthur Alexander. Following their breakup, Earl-Jean McCrea, working under the name Earl-Jean, had a solo recording career that started on a promising note in the summer of 1964 with "I'm Into Something Good." Unfortunately for her, the song was picked up by Herman's Hermits and charted in the Top Ten in their version the following fall, eclipsing the original record and the artist herself. ~ Bruce Eder


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I am more than Happy to post my code if needed. All I need is a direction to look.. I'd happily peruse through hex data or anything if I can be directed to a guide that will instruct me on how to do so.. I am completely lost. No class I have attended teaches how to debug these errors..1>Module 7 - Assignment 7.obj : error LNK2020: unresolved token (0A0002A8) "class Student * students" (?students@@3PAVStudent@@A)
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Older Dads Have Healthier Kids?
New research finds that older men have children and grandchildren with longer telomeres, possibly pointing to health benefits of delayed reproduction.
Jef Akst
Jun 11, 2012
Men who chose to have children later in life have gotten a lot of heat recently, with research churning up evidence that the older a man's age at time of reproduction, the greater the risk of autism, schizophrenia, and other disorders in their kids. But a new study, published today (June 11) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may have identified a health benefit that older dad's bestow upon future generations—longer telomeres.
Telomeres, the ends of linear chromosomes that serve to protect the coding DNA of the genome, have been linked to several diseases, including cancer, as well as aging. (See last month's feature story, "Telomeres in Disease.") Longer telomeres have been linked with better health and longer lives, though the causal relationship between telomeres and health is still unclear. The new study, which looked at multiple generations of a Filipino population, confirms the finding of previous work that older dads have children with longer telomeres, and extends the findings to grandchildren as well. Specifically, an individual's telomere length increased with the age of their paternal grandfather at the time of their father's birth, as well their father's age at their birth
"The lengthening of telomeres predicted by each year that the father's or grandfather's reproduction are delayed is equal to the yearly shortening of [telomere length] seen in middle-age to elderly women in this sample, pointing to potentially important impacts on health and the pace of senescent decline…" the authors wrote. "This finding suggests a mechanism by which humans could extend late-life function as average age at reproduction is delayed in a lineage."


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Pittsfield High School condom fliers prompt sex-education review
PITTSFIELD -- The principal at Pittsfield High School says he'll review all material in a school-sanctioned sex education course after an adult complained to him about the language used in a flier advocating the use of condoms.
On the final day of a Girls Inc. instructional program teaching young girls about the risks associated with sex, the flier, which had 32 phrases described as "Condom Sayings," was passed out to about 15 to 20 students at Pittsfield High. The flier included sayings such as "Practice safe sex -- make love with a Trojan" and "Condoms are easier to change then [sic] diapers."
Other sayings included language about intercourse and references to sex organs that one Pittsfield High parent, who contacted The Eagle, found crass.
That parent, Bruce Radke, saw the list of phrases in a packet brought home by his 11th-grade daughter, Aleisha, and he didn't approve.
"It has no finesse at all," Radke said. "It's too blunt and ignorant."
The educational material in the sex education class is now under review, Pittsfield High School Principal Tracey Benson said after hearing a complaint from an adult on Wednesday.
Sarah Gillooly, an employee of Girls Inc. who holds a sexuality education certificate from Planned Parenthood, said the sexually explicit phrases advocating condom use were passed around to engage the young women in conversation. Gillooly teaches the sex education class, which is provided at Pittsfield High by Girls Inc.
"It can't continue the way it is," said Benson, who said he already has met with Gillooly and will review the sex education material before the holiday break.
Benson did say the "Condom Sayings" fliers were handed out with good intentions.
"I think the intent was to help students remember about pregnancy prevention and avoid STDs," Benson said. "I think that's important to get across."
The class -- attended by young girls who need to have a parental consent form signed to attend the class -- is designed to increase the knowledge, skills and motivation for avoiding pregnancy for young women from 15 to 18, while increasing their educational career aspirations.
The Girls Inc. program at Pittsfield High School consistently receives "excellent" marks from students who fill out a survey at the end of the semester, Benson said. But he said the parental consent form will be made more detailed and students would not be able to start taking the classes until the consent forms are turned in.
According to statistics from the Berkshire United Way, Berkshire County has a higher teen birth rate than the Massachusetts average in the years leading up to 2007.
Bruce Radke's daughter, Aleisha, contacted by phone at home, said that some of the phrases crossed a line. She recalled about 15 to 20 students between ninth and 12th grades laughing after reading the phrases.
"If they give out funny stuff, it would make people think sex isn't serious and try it," Aleisha said.
Gillooly said the list of phrases has been distributed for about five years as an educational resource. She said the information is a memorable way for young adults to remember to use a condom.
Gillooly emphasized the "Condom Sayings" are a small part of a 16-week course that encourages assertiveness from young women and encourages them to say no to sex -- not to mention financial accountability and other positive traits.
"They do laugh and it's a way to talk about it," Gillooly said. "I do believe silence breeds babies. I think there needs to be creative ways to remember to use a condom."
One student, who submitted a comment in an anonymous feedback dropbox, praised the class for helping her.
"I'd just like to say that over the summer I was with a guy who kept trying to get me to have sex and after taking this class last year, I knew how to say no and make the right choice," the student wrote. "So I'd just like to say thank you!"
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Arctic Research at Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College has a long tradition of research and teaching in northern and polar studies. Originally founded in 1769 for the education of Native Americans, Dartmouth is the ninth oldest college in the U.S. Enrollment is approximately 1,800 graduate and 4,100 undergraduate students and includes the highest percentage of Native American students of any Ivy League institution. The college has 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and Tuck School of Business, and has had a long collaborative relationship with the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) located nearby.
Dartmouth's Institute of Arctic Studies at the Dickey Center for International Understanding facilitates faculty and student research, teaching, and an understanding of scientific and social issues facing high-latitude regions through seminars, visiting scholars, student exchanges, institutional collaborations, and research and policy discussions. The institute administers an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in polar environmental change offered through the Department of Earth Sciences, the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Program, and the Thayer School of Engineering.
Dartmouth's involvement with polar regions began in the 1700s when student and explorer John Ledyard set out for northern Canada; he later walked across a vast region of Siberia. During the 1950s and 1960s, polar explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson founded Dartmouth's Northern and Polar Studies Program and inaugurated the Stefansson Special Collection on Polar Exploration, which is now a premier library collection on history of the Arctic and Antarctic. Dartmouth's commitment to the bond between people and the natural environment continues today with its focus on research and education related to the science and human consequences of climate change, led by the Dickey Center's Institute of Arctic Studies. Dartmouth is also home to the Ice Drilling Program Office, which provides scientific leadership and oversight of ice coring and drilling activities funded by NSF.
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Sometimes a car listing is worthy of attention not because it is a cool car, but because it comes wrapped in a funny advertisement and the invectives/hyperbole/nonsense normally reserved for a reviewer/internet-pundit/bathrobe-blogger are pre-written in the seller's own words.
This particular ad is not only knee-slapping good times, but it is a great car at a fair price too. Find this 1987 Mercedes-Benz 560 SEL is offered for $2,750 in North Dallas, TX via craigslist. Click here if the ad goes away.
Per the seller:
You have found the most epic Mercedes-Benz from the 1980's. The Mercedes-Benz 560 SEL sedan — featured in Car & Driver, Motor Trend and named "Car of the Year' from Wheels Magazine — it was the top of the line luxury vehicle that re-defined European automobiles. Oh, and I may as well add that it won the "Safest Car of the Year" in 1987.
Yes, it was awesome. . . and this one still is. Why? Because it is a 27-year old vintage road-treasure that has seen four presidents, the invention of Al Gore's Internet and the rise, fall and death of Kurt Cobain. It's old enough to vote, get an MBA and Botox, travel around Europe and move out of its parents' garage. It also has about 237,000 original miles. I say 'about' since the speedometer stopped working at 222,060 miles — but why should you care? Because that's the mother-fucking distance to the MOON! Yes. This car has basically been driven to and PAST the freaking moon — THE ONE IN SPACE. Why do you need to even count mileage past that point? It's pointless. Because the point is, this car has courage, tenacity, power and balls. . . balls of steel; German steel that is.
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It also has the world-renown 8-cyclinder, Bosch KE-Jetronic fuel injection steel German-built engine under its massive hood. It is huge and was created to provide the kind of power it takes to propel this fortress on wheels to 155 MPH. Haven't been that fast? Yes you have, and you were in a JET PLANE THAT FLEW IN THE AIR.I have personally driven this car from San Diego to Dallas on an almost non-stop road trip. The steering wheel is big, fluid and offers just enough resistance and connection to the road to give you the impression that you are not only in charge of the car, but also of your entire life's destiny. Driving it for any distance is empowering and can make you feel you can go anywhere. In fact, this car has plowed effortlessly through Death Valley, dodged falling rocks in Arizona, stared into the depth's of the Grand Canyon and climbed mountainous icy hills in Colorado.It also has spontaneously raced against a 2008-ish 7-series BMW one very late night somewhere along the North Dallas Toll Road. Neither car received a ticket but one car and driver received an embarrassing loss and lesson in total emasculation avoidance: spoiler alert. . . it wasn't the Mercedes.
Is there enough time to bring up zombies...
As for its recent history, this 560 was treated for minor dents and flawlessly re-painted with the classic factory 'Mercedes Blue' in 2011. The body is tight and doors, windows and the trunk all shut solid. The tires were also replaced and aligned in 2013 with 205/65R Pro Continental. It has the original stunning chrome wheels as bright, stylish and reflective as Justin Bieber after a week in rehab. The gaskets, hoses, and belts have been replaced along with a full tune up, including plugs, and new head gasket. The radiator has been flushed, sealed and re-filled along with a fresh injection of Mercedes engine oil. In 2011, the universal lock system was repaired along with the brake pads and lights. Up to this writing, it has been stowed away safely in the VIP section of a basement-parking garage.
One of the most outstanding features of this car is that it starts — anytime, anywhere. Whether it's 105* or -5*, F the car's engine turns over and roars to life with one simple twist of the key. There's no fumbling, cranking, pumping the pedal, stalling or waiting for the zombies to come and kill you. Fact: This car would NEVER be featured as a get-away-car in a zombie horror film because it would get you away from whatever is trying to eat, dissolve, melt, vaporize, mate, shoot or kill you.
Cigars...whiskey...yes indeed.
Speaking of films, this model shares a heritage of fame and well-deserved celebrity. It is no accident that the 560 SEL was featured in "Lethal Weapon 2" because it IS A LETHAL WEAPON of power and timeless style. This may also be a good time to point out the car made its appearance in "Die Hard: With a Vengeance" because that's exactly what this automobile does... it DIES HARD, which is why it showed up AGAIN in "LETHAL WEAPON 3". Are you getting it yet?? This is all to explain why the 560 SEL was more likely to be fitted with after-market bulletproof glass and armored body panels than ANY OTHER CAR IN THE WORLD. Oh, Did I mention the back seat has a RELCINE mode? Well, grab a Cuban cigar and glass of Macallan 25-year old scotch because IT DOES.
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Does the 560 use a bit of gas when you hit the pedal? Does Mayor Rob Ford do heroin?! Of course it does! Highway mileage may hit 15 MPG if you're lucky and not towing an 18-wheeler, an ESPN Satellite truck or small house (WHICH IT CAN DO). But the trade-off for drinking premium gas like an SMU sorority pledge who just lost her promise ring at a keg party, is the acceleration and speed you'll feel as you leave a carbon footprint the SIZE OF COWBOYS STADIUM!
Now, the argument against that Leo DiCaprio Greenhouse gas nightmare is the redesign of the S-class and that it gave this model a drag coefficient of 0.36 increasing its aerodynamics by 10%. You probably don't know what any of that means and I really don't either but it sounds AWESOME. And with you, your kid, your wife and a mid-sized dog, and a full tank of gas, you'll weigh in over 4,200 lbs. That's 2.5 Mazda2's, 17 Vespas or one white adult male Rhino. Here are other facts you'll want to memorize and throw out to the multitude of gawkers gazing at your remarkably handsome vehicle as you fill up at gas stations around the planet. . .
A few more "details" from the seller...
- 5,160 mm in length — because size matters
- 5.5 litre, 5547 cm engine — dude, that's heavy
- 300 PS / 295.5 bhp / 220 kW @ 5000 rmp — this means intense power
- 455 Nm / 336 ft. lb / 46.4 kgm @ 3750 rpm — this means serious torque
- 0 — 60 mph in 7.10 seconds — faster than a Smart Car zipping down the Double Black Diamond slopes in Vail, Colorado in the middle of an avalanche.
At this point, I'd like to mention that 'torque' has nothing to do with the 'urban definition' as frequently referenced in Comedy Central's "Workaholics"... although racing 130 MPH down a car-less, and careless highway at 3:00AM may give you a hard-on.
The car also has the world's first seatbelt 'pretensioners'. What the hell is that, you ask? It was the first-ever seatbelt device that kept pretentious occupants from flying through the windshield in case of an accident. Come on. It was the premiere S-Class car. "S" as in "shit-kicker" and "stallion" and any other "s" word you can think of that giveS thiS car the reSpect it damn well deServeS!
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On this particular model, the AC works as long as you fill it with Freon each and every freaking summer. Alternatively, I'd suggest dressing cool and opening up the huge sunroof to let God's air cool you down. Seersucker is a very cool fabric and a dripping of timeless style AND it looks smashing with this car. During the winter, prepare to warm the flesh off your buns with the seat warmers, which are tucked underneath the blue, aged leather seats. Yes, the leather is worn, old and cracked. But so was James Coburn's face when he won a FUCKING ACADEMY AWARD in 1997 for 'Affliction'!
I almost forgot! The 560 SEL was designed by Bruno Sacco — classified as one of the greatest designers in automotive history! Look at his face and you'll see sheer genius that instilled FEAR in other European car manufactures.
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This particular car even comes with its own German mechanic who knows the car as intimately as Tommy Lee knows Pamela Anderson. He's also handsome and speaks with an accent that is hard-to-place but would charm the DKNY pantsuit off your mother. His number and contact will be made available after purchase. What transpires between he and your mother is out of my control. Just be prepared to accept a giggly collect call from Milan or Dubai.
Still not convinced you need to own this magnificent piece of highly refined German machinery? For less than the price of a new iMac, you could be cruising down (or up) I-35 with the windows down and cranking Starship's "Nothing's Going to Stop Us Now" track (BTW: #5 on Billboard's Top 100 List in 1987) as the dusty wind from the 635 construction project whips through you hair. Oh and as long as it's on your iPod or iPhone because the original Becker Stereo doesn't work. In fact, it needs work on the interior and some other minor odds and ends. If I were to keep it, I'd immediately get back to restoring it. But I'm out of room for cars and I'm having a fight with my wife.
The seller does confuse Robert F. Kennedy with John F. Kennedy, but in his defense the seller was probably not even a twinkle in his papa's eye when either Kennedy was still alive.
One of the LAST reasons you should own this car is that famed actor / director John Frankenheimer (who personally drove John F. Kennedy to the Ambassador Hotel on that fateful day AND screen tested to play James Bond in "Dr. No.") owned, loved, washed and raced the 560 SEL.
I've driven this car with untold delight and it has been unbelievably reliable and a conversation piece that has led to and even developed into new friendships. As for you... You now have now been presented the gift to write the next chapter. Be the envy of young and old, rich and poor, drug dealers and web developers. This amazing road yacht can be yours for the small price of $2,750 in cash, Bitcoins or Gold medallions. Don't wait because someone WILL buy this car and drive it PAST the Moon and onto MARS.
If you've read this far, then call me to view and purchase. You won't regret it. I'll even throw in a pear of Brook's Brothers Seersucker shorts.
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Originally posted as 3k: Funny Seller: 1987 Mercedes-Benz 560 SEL W126 on Daily Turismo. Image credits; craigslist. Tip from Ryan.