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October 29, 2007
Only About 15 Weeks ...
There will be plenty of stuff going on until then though -- there is no off-season when it comes to the Red Sox.
The front office will be making decisions on the following players: Mike Lowell, Curt Schilling, Tim Wakefield, Mike Timlin, Doug Mirabelli and Julian Tavarez -- as well as Eric Hinske, Bobby Kielty, Brendan Donnelly, Craig Breslow, Matt Clement and Royce Clayton.
There will be a lot of A-Rod talk and questions about the future of Coco Crisp now that Jacoby Ellsbury has arrived. And naturally, there is the soap opera playing out in the Bronx.
So stay tuned.
Fun Facts: The Red Sox .333 team batting average was the 2nd best in World Series history (1960 Yankees, .338); their .411 OBP was also 2nd best (1932 Yankees, .421). ... The Sox's 29 runs were the 3rd best for a four-game sweep, trailing the 1932 Yankees (37) and 1989 Oakland Athletics (32). ... Boston is the first team since the 1927 Yankees to have its starting pitchers win all four games of a WS sweep.
14 comments:
- 9casey said...
Congrats to all Red Sox fans especially those of Joy Nation, ...I have a little superstition story to tell......When my father died , who was a rabid red sox fan, in 2001 , my sisters since then have always thought that he comes back in different forms , stray cat that won't leave, Bird on sill for months...etc. and I always said they were nuts...Well on the night the Red sox went down 3-1 to the indians my light next to my bed was on and right above my headboard was a ladybug, the next morning when my wife got up she there is a lady bug by the bed can you put it outside, I told her no can do.....that lady bug stayed in and around that same spot....until this morning I cant find it anywhere.......
The Joy of Hot Stove starts when L, and Redsock get out of rehab..alot of JD went down North of the Border....
- October 29, 2007 at 2:58 PM
- Rick (f/k/a westcoastsox) said...
My opinion, fwiw:
Mike Lowell - keep, multi-year deal
Curt Schilling - keep if can get 1-year deal
Tim Wakefield - keep if can get 1-year deal, but move to BP
Mike Timlin - bye-bye
Doug Mirabelli - bye-bye
Julian Tavarez - bye-bye
Eric Hinske - bye-bye
Bobby Kielty - keep if can get reasonable deal
Brendan Donnelly - evaluate based on recovery - can replace Timlin
Craig Breslow - who?
Matt Clement - bye-bye
Royce Clayton - give him a taco.
A-Rod - sign A-Rod and lose me as a fan. I'm serious.
Coco Crisp - trade, if you can.
Jacoby Ellsbury - the future. Worth a development year playing full time, even if performance drops off.
- October 29, 2007 at 3:33 PM
- charlie pioli said...
I'm sorry I wasn't blogging here last night, but it doesn't really matter, the sox still won the FUCKING WORLD SERIES! You should have seen my school in Portland, there is a handful of redsox fans, and we were all representing. Also, I won $20 of some yankees bitch.
I know there is no offseason as a sox fan and I'm going to be checking this blog everyday. It's good to have a break though because my nerves every game are getting to me. I think they should sign Lowell!
Anywho, I think we deserved this championship. And Fuck The Yankees!
We are only 19 titles away from tying those bastards!!
- October 29, 2007 at 4:16 PM
- Rob said...
This morning in southern Maine, the temperature got down to 31°, and during the day, it never got warmer than 47°. Northern Maine (Presque Isle, Caribou, Fort Kent) is expecting about an inch of snow tonight.
It's pretty fitting for the first day of the off-season.
What are you and L going to do this off-season?
- October 29, 2007 at 4:22 PM
- Rob said...
A-Rod - sign A-Rod and lose me as a fan. I'm serious.
I think it'll take a lot to tear me away from the Red Sox, and I'm sure A-Rod won't be able to do that, but I'll be very angry if they sign him. Not because he was a Yankee, because a lot of people were Yankees. It's because of his personality and just how ostentatious and gaudy of a person he is. His disrespect for the game and the entire world centering upon him, and not on the Boston Red Sox.
- October 29, 2007 at 4:26 PM
- Rob said...
I'm going to be checking this blog everyday
It's going to be hard to decrease how many times I check the blog to just once a day. It's become that much of a staple in any time I spend on the internet.
- October 29, 2007 at 4:27 PM
- truth said...
Westcoastsox, I second that emotion, sign A-Rod and lose me as a fan. If you're trying to build a ballclub of character, not characters, hooker-loving StrayRod can't be your offseason signing.
I watched local news coverage of the Red Sox return & Tavares knows he is leaving.
Mikey Lowell is saying all the right things, but I think in the back of his mind he's thinking, you're not going to give the World Series MVP 4 years you're not going to sign the World Series MVP.
He has to know this is his last contract and he needs to maximize his value.
In my mind, he's worth it.
- October 29, 2007 at 4:44 PM
- Amy said...
A-Rod - sign A-Rod and lose me as a fan. I'm serious.
I feel this way also. And I heard several Red Sox fans say this today at school. After hating this guy for all this time, finding him an arrogant pig, I just don't see how I can root for him or for the team he is on. It would break my heart, but rooting for him require more hypocrisy than I can tolerate.
- October 29, 2007 at 5:02 PM
- Charlie said...
Any chance JoS can host a petition to RS management imploring them not to sign Pay-Rod?
The Nation needs to send a strong message and JoS has the reach to make it happen!
- October 29, 2007 at 9:07 PM
- s1c said...
A-rod - California Angel. If, and I repeat if the story about Gump being bought out by the Dodgers to be replaced by Torre, then Moreno will want to make a big splash. Also, Scioscia said all year they needed more pop to protect Vlad and he will provide that. Look for the Angels and the Cubs (pinella is a big fan) to be the players in the A-rod sweeps.
Will be sad to see Sexy Lips go, but he wants to be a starter so let him go.
Donnelly they need to keep.
Lowell needs to be resigned to a three year deal, if they are fair to him he will sign.
Schilling only wants one year, but look for Theo to flip him off.
Wakefield will be picked up 4.5 is cheap for 14-17 wins a year.
The rest of the free agents are spare parts and I only consider Hinske to be a good bench person to retain if he considers a reduction in salary. He brought energy into the games when he played and that is what you need from the bench.
As for the market, I say go after Santana. The Sox cannot afford to see him end up in the Bronx. Trade Coco, Lester, Hansen and one or two others (no to Buchholz) to get the best left hander in the game.
- October 29, 2007 at 9:36 PM
- San Francisco Red Sox Fan said...
A-Rod - sign A-Rod and lose me as a fan. I'm serious.
I hate A-Rod, but if they sign him they won't lose me as a fan. I've been a fan for over thirty years and there have been lots of players I've really disliked (including one on the team now- I won't mention any names)but somehow I've outlasted the players I can't tolerate.
I really hope they don't sign A-Rod, but I'll still be around if they do.
- October 29, 2007 at 11:40 PM
- allan said...
Any chance JoS can host a petition to RS management imploring them not to sign Pay-Rod?
I'm not the guy to do this.
I'd be thrilled to watch a year of Tiz, MBM and Slappy hitting together.
- October 30, 2007 at 4:46 AM
- laura k said...
I've been really busy, and just now catching up on comments.
9Casey, I love the ladybug story. None of us know what happens after life on this earth. The ladybug (stray cats, birds) could be what you think, who knows.
I'm sorry your dad didn't get to see 2004. Damn.
The Joy of Hot Stove starts when L, and Redsock get out of rehab
- November 2, 2007 at 6:55 AM
- laura k said...
What are you and L going to do this off-season?
I'm going to watch movies!! I have two seasons in life: Baseball Season and Movie Season.
I actually look forward to the break from baseball. I don't do the Hot Stove thing. I take time off and refresh.
To the "sign A-Rod and lose me as a fan" crowd, you're not only showing your hatred for A-Rod, you're showing that your loyalty to your team isn't as deep as you pretend. If they signing one player you don't like - despite how good he is - you would turn away from your team? Your hatred of A-Rod means more to than the Sox??
- November 2, 2007 at 7:00 AM


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Nexus Day Hospitals Implements Tagetik Cloud Software Solution
Australian healthcare services provider leverages financial consolidation, executive reporting and operational analysis in the cloud with advanced CPM functionality
Tagetik, a visionary leader in global performance management software solutions, today announced that Nexus Day Hospitals has gone live with Tagetik Cloud corporate performance management (CPM) software for consolidation, reporting, due diligence analysis of prospective acquisitions, as well as monthly consolidated reporting for the growing hospital group. Tagetik provides Nexus with the ability to report financial statements, including income statement, balance sheet and cash flow, and conduct operational performance analysis at a granular level.
Nexus is quickly establishing itself as a leading day-hospitals group in Australia. PricewaterhouseCoopers initially provided Nexus with the modelling it required to understand the profit drivers of potential acquisition targets during due diligence. "Following each successful acquisition, Nexus needed a way to produce ongoing monthly management reporting in line with the models that were developed during the due diligence stage. I suggested that Nexus look at Tagetik as one of the potential options. Tagetik is a product that PwC has had success with at both a global and local level," explains Ian Bennett, managing director, deals modelling, PwC Australia.
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Town leaders balk at red-light camera plan
Town leaders are resisting Suffolk County's plan to double the number of red-light cameras at dangerous intersections.
The county Department of Public Works in recent weeks asked the boards of Suffolk's five western townships for permission to study 100 intersections for possible installation of the cameras, which photograph vehicles as they run red lights.
Brookhaven, Huntington, Islip and Smithtown officials balked at the request, worried they would be on the hook for maintaining the cameras and stunned to learn the towns would not share revenue from fines.
"Right now, the county traffic signals, once installed, are maintained by the town as a town expense," Brookhaven Supervisor Edward P. Romaine said. "If they wish to address red-light cameras, we're all for safety and we would be happy to sit and look at the issue. But I think there should some degree of sharing the revenues."
Suffolk has 50 cameras in use, mostly on state and county roads. County officials say an additional 50 cameras would improve traffic safety and add up to $6 million annually to county coffers. Nassau netted $20 million in 2011 from 50 cameras and also hopes to net $6 million annually from 50 more cameras.
Suffolk Public Works Commissioner Gil Anderson said the county would maintain the cameras, and the revenue they generate will cover the cost of running the system. "There is no intent to revenue share [with the towns]," Anderson said. "This is a public safety project. There are costs to running it."
Anderson could not provide annual operating costs.
He said the county plans to study 100 intersections with high rates of right-angle -- or T-bone -- crashes, in which a vehicle running a red light collides with a car passing through a green or yellow light. The 50 intersections deemed most dangerous will have cameras installed, with permission of town officials, he said.
The county's criteria for selecting intersections face scrutiny from lawmakers, said Legis. John M. Kennedy Jr. (R-Nesconset). Several intersections proposed for his district are on lightly used side streets, he said.
"While I believe that there's some value to red-light camera placement for heavily traversed main road intersections, I think that we have to revisit the selection process," Kennedy said.
The five East End towns aren't part of the plan to add more cameras, because those towns have courts to collect red-light violation fines. In Suffolk's five western towns, red-light violations are handled by county district courts.
Of the other Suffolk towns, only Babylon approved the county study without reservations.
"The town does not have a problem with the revenue going to the county," said town spokesman Kevin Bonner. "The town anticipates receiving improved traffic safety as a benefit."
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Last week when we suggested the Marlins have Scott Stapp re-work a Creed song for the team, we were just kidding.
Turns out the Marlins were serious. Scott Stapp, overly so. Have you ever seen anyone so clenched and angry-looking about an imminent World Series championship (as the song says)?
Yep, that's what's going to play on the scoreboard at home games, and it plays amazingly like an SNL parody. To be fair, it's hard for anyone to remain dignified when singing about baseball, but may we suggest the following, more realistic lyrics:
Let's play ball it's game day
If you're too good, the Fish'll trade you away
Take the field, hear the roar of a grand
'Cause there's no one in the stands
'Cause there's no one in the stands
Keep Hanley Ramirez and you may see a score
With Dan Uggla untraded you might see more
One strike two strikes swing away
This just ain't Chris Coghlan's day
So many guys stranded on base
Another bullpen fright, we're either
World Series Champs, or having a bad night!
We've only made the post-season twiiiiiiice!
When Jeffrey fires Fredi it won't! be! niiiiiiiice!
Or something, anyway, that doesn't sound as if believing in ourselves with a dash of nu-rock makes up for that bullpen.
Naturally, the team is no stranger to questionable seasonal stylings; flailing dorky promotion is part of their considerable charm. But at least Pitbull had the good sense to use a Debbie Deb sample, and even Shoe Gallery's opening day short is more inspiring -- if only for that giant turkey leg -- and it's trying to sell us something.
Marlins Die-Hards is so horrified by the Stapping they've suggested rolling footage of actual marlins eating sardines instead. This is, of course, the correct answer.
Janie Campbell is a Florida native who believes in the pro-set and ballpark hot dogs. Her work has appeared in irreverent sports sites around the internet.


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I'm not sure this is the right place to post this....I came across your blog doing some internet research on Swedish bankruptcy laws...
My husband is a Swedish citizen who took out a loan to start a photography business (I think it is actually a personal loan though). He met me in the US and we have been married here for a year now, struggling to make payments on just the interest alone as finding work for him here has been difficult. He could not afford the union dues for having his business open in Sweden so we closed that earlier this year.
This weekend our apartment was broken into and $7,000 of camera equipment that he used the loan to purchase was stolen. We do not have renter's insurance. He owes over twice that amount still ($17,000) on the loan, and now has no way of making money without his camera. We are considering filing bankruptcy in Sweden for his debt, but we are not sure how that works now that he is a resident here (still a Swedish citizen and the loan is Swedish). My income is barely enough to pay rent and buy groceries.
So it goes.
I would be incredibly grateful for any advice. If we go through with this, I am assuming we will need a lawyer to assist?
As the above question highlights an important difference between US and Swedish bankruptcy law I give my answer here as a separate blog post.
First of all I think it is very important to note that a private person is not released from his or her debts through bankruptcy proceedings according to Swedish law. This means that there is normally no reason for a private person to apply for bankruptcy in Sweden.
As your husband is domiciled in the US, I base the following short answer to that situation. Special rules apply to debtors domiciled in the Scandinavian countries and in an EU state.
A Swedish citizen domiciled in the US could be subject to an application for bankruptcy by a creditor. Such an application could be made with reference to the Swedish Code of Judicial Procedure, Chapter 10, Section 1, which reads:
"A person with no known residence in or outside Sweden may be
sued at the place where he is sojourning. If he is a Swedish citizen
and sojourning outside the Realm or at an unknown place, he may
be sued at the place within the Realm where he last resided or
If he is declared bankrupt in Sweden, according to Swedish law, the bankruptcy estate will encompass, at least formally, all of his assets irrespective of whether such assets are in Sweden or outside. However, to what extent the Swedish bankruptcy receiver will get any cooperation from any state or federal authorities in the US in order to gain control of his US assets is a question for these authorities.


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Bishops Elect Msgr. Ronny Jenkins General Secretary of USCCB
BALTIMORE (November 16, 2010) — The U.S. bishops elected Msgr. Ronny Jenkins, a canon lawyer and priest of the Diocese of Austin, Texas, as the new general secretary of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The election was part of the bishops' annual Fall General Assembly. The general secretary is the priest who oversees the day-to-day operations of the USCCB on behalf of the U.S. bishops. Also on the ballot was Msgr. David Kagan, vicar general of the Diocese of Rockford, Illinois.
Msgr. Jenkins currently serves as associate general secretary of the USCCB. He was ordained a priest on June 24, 1989. He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Dallas. He earned his baccalaureate and licentiate in sacred theology at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, and was awarded a licentiate and doctorate of canon law at The Catholic University of America (CUA).
Msgr. Jenkins has served as pastor and judicial vicar in the Diocese of Austin and as an associate professor of canon law at CUA. Prior to coming to the USCCB, he was a consultant to the bishops' Committee on Canonical Affairs and currently consults on the Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People. He is currently an adjunct associate professor of canon law at CUA, as well as a member of several national and international canon law societies. His work has been published in numerous periodicals, including The Jurist and Periodica. He also served as postulator of the sainthood cause of Mary Virginia Merrick. He was named a Chaplain to His Holiness in 2005, and a Prelate of Honor in 2009.
Msgr. Jenkins will succeed the current general secretary of the conference, Msgr. David Malloy, who has served since 2006. Msgr. Malloy is a priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. His term as general secretary ends at the end of June 2011.
Keywords: Msgr. Ronny Jenkins, canon lawyer, general secretary, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Msgr. David Malloy, Diocese of Austin, USCCB, November meeting, Fall General Assembly
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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Albemarle arcadia: A pastoral Hickory Ridge reverie
Address: 610 Bridlespur Lane
Neighborhood: Earlysville
Asking: $399,000
Assessment: $389,200
Year Built: 1975
Size: 2,221 fin sq. ft. / 100 unfin. sq. ft.
Land: 0.76 acres
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When the Hickory Ridge subdivision was developed during the 1970s, it was conceived as a weekend retreat where D.C. well-to-do's could visit their horses. So the vibe of the development is 18th century English pastoral: elegant detached homes, gardens with flowering shrubs, expansive views, and grassy commons that all would share. Not a bad idea.
But whether they're locals or out-of-towners, lots of the homes in this area are up for sale: we counted five realtors' signs on our visit.
The house at 610 Bridlespur Lane is being sold by the former owner's heirs, and she certainly enjoyed the country life. She was a prolific gardener: her house was on the garden tour in 1989, and is surrounded by magnolias, boxwood, holly, peonies, and forsythia, with daffodils lining the white picket fence enclosing the backyard. The property adjoins the subdivision's common area, so the views are pleasant, and the house appears to be situated on more land than the plot actually comprises.
With a shingle roof, white clapboard siding with red brick accents, and black shutters and doors, the house fits in with the Hickory Ridge aesthetic without looking like a cookie-cutter copy of its neighbors.
Inside, the slate-tiled foyer leads to the living room with a fireplace and plank oak flooring. On this main floor, a half bath has been tucked off to the side for the convenience of dinner guests. The kitchen was just renovated and now sports grey granite countertops and a tile floor. A second public space with parquet floor leads to a screened-in porch along the side of the house.
The stairs— lined with some '70s carpet we would rip up— lead to the upstairs master suite. The bathroom is odd— two rooms with the toilet (appropriately) in a closet, and the sage green tub and toilet and the golden dragon faucet over the sink all shriek Dynasty!
The master bedroom looks like a finished attic. It's large, with walnut floors and a sloping ceiling that mirrors the pitch of the roof. Hall closets provide storage. Skylights illuminate the room, with small windowpanes above nooks on either side of the chimney.
The downstairs, finished off with dun-colored carpeting, has a smaller bedroom and a bathroom with yellowing Formica. A very large den has a glass-front woodstove, built-in bookshelves and cabinets for storing games.
To complete the English pastoral: a couple of boxes filled with the former owner's books sport titles like Wellington: Pillar of State and How to Grow a Miracle (they probably convey). The den leads into an outdoor porch beneath the screened-in porch upstairs.
Although the agent suggests that the den could be turned into a third bedroom, the house feels like it's built for entertaining, with more public spaces than private ones. It's a spacious house— with 2,221 square feet— but with only two bedrooms over three floors, the layout feels disjointed. The large public rooms on the main floor are the house's major attractions, along with the light that streams in from every angle, a perk during long winters.
But the garden is definitely its glory. With a fenced-in backyard in a quiet neighborhood, it's perfect for green thumbs. There's a small white garden shed (still filled with old Ortho) and a honeysuckle archway framing the yard. It's a quiet neighborhood, with no audible traffic from nearby Buck Mountain Road. While we were there, a woman walked to the common grounds to throw sticks to her dogs. Ah... the simple life of years gone by.
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Back when the Hardball Times was still in its infancy, Steve Treder wrote a wonderful article about the wide-ranging baseball career of Bobo Newsom, a man who pitched nearly 6,000 innings of professional baseball over 25 years.
Impressive, true, but I wonder how a similar article about the legendary Satchel Paige would go? Satchel Paige not only pitched a lot—from local professional ball to traveling squads to the Dominican Republic to the Negro Leagues and finally to the majors—but he was an extraordinary hurler, possessing a combination of speed and control very rarely seen, with an outsized personality to match. Paige's story is one of the archetypal stories of 20th century baseball. What an article that would be.
Not just an article, as it turns out, but a book. Larry Tye has written that book, Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, and I wouldn't hesitate to call it a baseball fan's must-read. …
BTW, here's NPR's 44 min interview with the author of the book, Larry Tye.


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ReSource created Ecollect to promote sustainable business practices throughout its network of nearly 100 independent commercial flooring contractors across the United States. The mission of Ecollect is to divert waste material being sent to the landfills. ReSource Member Owners are encouraged to find ways to divert these materials from landfills by reducing, reusing and recycling.
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Introduced in June 2009, Roppe's IMPACT program begins with material gathered from job sites in recycled Gaylord containers. The material is then returned to Roppe's recycling partner, a leader in recycling non-tire rubber products in the Midwest, and then the reclaimed material is made into a variety of new products. The most popular products manufactured from the recycled rubber material currently include municipal landscaping mulches, playground surfacing and rubber crumb for athletic fields and other applications.
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So there I am smiling as big as possible to match Poh's glorious smile.
Poh looking beautiful in her quirky outfit.
There may have been some cooking demonstrations at the event this year. This photo seems to show it was the case, but all I could see was Poh. Apparently I was told that you could also do coffee sampling at this futuristic looking stand, and the usual wine tasting at stands that were made to have a country feel. Also at this year's show, people were telling me that there were lots of food stalls that offered a variety of food and drink samples, but I didn't see Poh eating anything, so I'm not sure if everyone was just trying to trick me.
At this year's show, there was also apparently some Masterclasses held by Masterchef judges George and Gary. Were they really there? I may have a faint recollection, or was I just associating them with the show since Poh was on Masterchef. I think it was probably the latter.
As you can see my dear readers, I have failed you in writing a comprehensive review of the happenings at this year's show and I bow my head in shame. I can only hope to redeem myself slightly by directing you to these wonderful blog posts about the show and everything else that supposedly was happening there.
The Chronicles of Ms I-Hua
Kimba's Kitchen
Almost Always Ravenous
Food Rehab
Iron Chef Shellie
Sweet Cherrie Pie
Thanks to Ogilvy Public Relations for inviting me to the show and allowing me to meet Poh.


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Music of Mind
Have you seen ocean/river? Waves? The sailors daily see waves. In our Hindi literature we have many names for sailors. Naakhuda, Maazi etc. Today I want to write about a specific sailor. Many of us know him. All of us are using his contribution in our day to day life, unknowingly, while talking over mobile, watching VCD/DVD/TV. Any guess? No? Let me tell you.
He is Joseph Fourier. He was a French mathematician and physicist best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series and Fourier transform. Yes he was sailor. He was daily looking at waves in ocean. May be, that is why, he came up with Fourier transform, a mathematical method, that we learnt in engineering. The Fourier transform decomposes any function into oscillatory functions. This algorithm is core of all modern digital wireless communication equipments including mobile, WiFi router, TV setup box etc.
Let me give you a simple example to explain Fourier transform. You must have seen those dancing vertical bars, (along with music), in your stereo system. It is called spectrum analyzer. Have you observed them? The left most bars will move along with drums beats/bass, middle ones, with human voice or other musical instruments. The right most will jump along with strings/KHANJARI/MANJIRA/ Jankar beats/treble sound. These jumping bars are result of Fourier transform! Basically it identifies and segregates human voice, drums, Jankar beats, and other instruments to animate spectrum analyzer. Music has rhythm. This spectrum analyzer conveys you rhythm of different instruments. I am sure, now you got what Fourier transform is and appreciate it.
OK? What else has rhythm? Look at the Sun. So punctual ! Seasons. Moon phase. Ocean tides. So it seems like the nature has in-built rhythm. What about our own body. Yes it has biological rhythm. And Mind? Most of the time, it wanders. Does it have any rhythm? Probably not. Can we analyze mind? How nice it would be if we have spectrum analyzer for mind! Anger, love, smile, happiness, joy, jealousy all these different feelings, we can see as different vertical bars. The height of bar will be proportional to intensity of that feeling. Does our mood remain constant forever? No. so this mind spectrum analyzer should also have jumping bars. Sometimes, happiness will more :) and sometimes sadness :( .
Let's think like an expert. We just tapped audio signal which goes to speaker, with spectrum analyzer. How about mind? We cannot even see it. Then how to capture it? Simple. Very simple. If mind is a kite then breath is a string that controls it. Yes. Consider breath as time domain signal. Apply Fourier transform to it to convert it to frequency domain, and what you get is mind! Mind is like aggregation of different feelings. This Fourier transform is also summation of different harmonics. At any moment, one harmonics will be dominating. At spectrum analyzer, any one vertical bar will have highest peak. Same way, one feeling will dominate at any instance of time, corresponding rhythm will be there in breath. Is not it?
Now how about inverse Fourier transform? It is like, draw an animating spectrum analyzer and get music out of it. Yes musicians do that. They describe chord of music that we hear as musical notes being played. Each key of keyboard/piano/harmonium will generate a harmonics with specific frequency. How about mind? If we change rhythm of breathing then will emotion change? May be... Next time, when you become angry just start taking deep breath inhale and continue to remain angry. Possible? Try it out. Mind is compared with monkey, but controlled mind is as powerful as the Lord Hanuman. Makes sense? May be…
By the way, I came across Art of Living Foundation – a largest NGO of the world. They teach how to breathe! Sounds funny? But tell me. Are you breathing? Are you aware about it? Sudarshan Kriya is a powerful breathing technique that impact, health, body, mind and all seven layers of our existence. This breathing rhythm in time domain will impact your mind in frequency domain. It is worth to learn those Art of Living techniques to operate on your own mind. I think, the mind and breath both are linked with Fourier transform. Mind will start wondering from wandering and you will start your journey back towards the source.
Let me end here, with a thought provoking question. Fourier transform is applied on time domain samples, collected over a small period of time. An instantaneous time domain signal cannot be transformed to frequency domain. Same way, if a person is completely in present moment - neither past, nor future - then where is mind?
Notes: I am thankful to Prof. A.K.Patel of my DDIT college (now DDU), who taught me Fourier Transform and my friends for their valuable comments. All the thoughts and ideas presented in articles are author's own.
Nena Pidheya Modhala Kavana?
Title is "New Morning"
The poems posted at our DDIT college's notice board, inspired me to write a poem.
Today at new morning of new year, when the Sun is just rising, a budding poet also put his 100% effort for his first poem.
Yes, as usual, this new year started with rooster's voice "KOOKADE KOOOOOOOK". We wished our friends and relatives Happy New year.
However... this New Year appears somewhat different to me, as this Diwali festival is first of its kind in college life. The first ray of the Sun, was like so energetic and inspirable to achieve new horizons.
Not only Sun but, at the sea
The colorful Rangolis at each doorstep was like indication of our colorful shining future. The singing birds and smiling flowers were wishing Happy New Year.
Wind was carrying nice smell of those flowers.
That wind just whispered in my ears.
"Manish ! now you also finish this poem here after conveying Happy New Year to all your friends...
"And yes, along that, please do not forget to wish your friends to realize their sweet dreams in this new year."
How is it?
It is my first poem. Yes I posted it on college's notice board. I wrote like I have composed it on new year morning. Actually I composed it during my BE examination for Heat Power subject. It was so boring to read theory of hemi-spherical Cochran boiler and super saturated steam. So I took a small Kit-Kat break and jotted down my thoughts as my first poem.
If you do not know Kannada language, then you may be wondering what this title means? It is a line from title song of movie "Amrithadhare". It means, "Do you remember your first poem?" Yes, I remember it and this post is about my first poem. Sometimes I will write about my innovative experiments with poetry. But now, let me follow what the wind suggested me. Let me end here and wish you all, Happy New Year.
Diwali Rangoli
I observed that @ South India daily people decorate the entrance with white powder Rangoli. @ my origin, Gujarat state, during Diwali festival, we all prepared colorful Rangolis at our entrance. It is welcoming to goddess of wealth - Lakshami.
At my native place Mithapur, we have competition for preparing the best Rangoli. It has three categories: Line, Figure and Shade. Two groups: Below 14 years and Above 14 years. The participants prepare Rangolis at their home. So we all Mithapurians visit thier homes. They prepare wonderful, Rangolis. It may be religious, some contemporary issues, movie, politics and what not. You yourself can see them.
I am just sharing Last two years Rangolis. The album contains few additional photos related to Diwali celebration. You can click above links OR look at both sidebars. I added them as slide shows for your convenience.
Next day to Diwali, is Hindu new year. We all great each other "SAAL MUBARAK" means, Happy New Year. We have social gathering at Mithapur club and same time, prizes are distributed to Rangoli competition winners.
First, time I celebrated this Diwali festival outside Mithapur, at Ahmedabad. We missed Mithapurians and Mithapur and off course Rangolis. However I received one nice photograph of one of the Rangolis. This reflects our joy for winning Nano project for Gujarat. Enjoy.
Anyway, I shared this photos on my Picasa album and my firend circle accorss the globe have appreciated the talents. What is your comments? Did you like these Rangolis and this blog entry?


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Tuners frequently encounter difficulties tuning for catalyst efficiency. This article will describe some of the common issues encountered as well as the testing methodology used by many ECUs to determine if a vehicle has a catalytic converter related fault.
Most modern cars have a 3 stage cat. These cats convert NO2, CO and HC emissions into N2, CO2 and water. The engine control computer uses oxygen sensors to control and monitor this reaction in order to ensure the tailpipe emissions are kept in check. Part of this control and monitoring strategy is to ensure the catalytic converter is working properly. When the engine controller determines that the catalytic converter is not working within its specified limits it will activate the check engine light, frequently with a P042x code indicating that the catalytic converter efficiency is below its threshold.
There are a number of complex tests performed to determine the catalytic converter efficiency. The first stage (reduction stage) of the cat breaks apart the oxides of nitrogen into nitrogen and oxygen. That oxygen and additional oxygen found in the exhaust stream is used in subsequent oxidation stages to turn CO into CO2 and HC into H2O and CO2. Since the catalytic converter uses up oxygen it is possible to monitor its functioning using the vehicle's oxygen sensors.
The front oxygen sensor and rear oxygen sensors are compared to see how much lag time there is and how much less oxygen is present after the cat as compared to before the cat. This is calculated into a ratio known as cat efficiency.
Failing oxygen sensors and failing catalytic converters are frequently symptoms of these codes (the system does actually work as designed). Those who have replaced their OEM cats with aftermarket "high flow" units will often see these codes as well. In general, most "high flow" cats really do have less efficient operation so again, the OEM system is in fact correctly reporting that the catalyst is not operating within specified parameters.
Vehicles with aftermarket header(s) can also cause problems because the cat is not able to reach and maintain a high enough temperature during cruise. The solution to this problem can be as simple as applying a heat wrap or having a ceramic thermal barrier applied to the headers.
There are a few scenarios where a tuner may wish to make changes to the catalytic control system to maintain the monitors with modified limits. Some vehicles have different equipment installed in different markets and need to be adjusted to match the market they are licensed in. As an example the Lotus Elise has a cat efficiency threshold ratio of 0.165 in the North American market but the limit is 0.300 in Europe. Replacing the ECU with a North American spec unit may subsequently expose the car to limits it is unable to pass. Race cars or off-road vehicles are another example where it may be legitimate and legal to change these limits.
In general, the higher the threshold the less effective the cat needs to be to pass the test. We highly discourage individuals from modifying these settings if it will violate your local laws but we leave it up to the individual to determine the legality of making these modifications.
As a final point, remember that it takes some time (often several driving cycles, warmup, drive, stop, cooldown) for the engine controller to complete its set of tests. The controller itself can often report the results numerically so the tuner can also see if the cat tests are close to passing or if the cat is completely ineffective.
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December 9th, 2014
Supplier of High-Performance Cameras Continues Processes to Best Meet Customers' Needs
EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, December 8, 2014 – Adimec (www.adimec.com),a world leader in application-specific, leading-edge industrial camera solutions, has received renewal of the ISO 9001:2008 certification for its headquarters in the Netherlands after a scheduled auditreconfirming its status as an efficient and reliable partner for its customers and strategic partners. Adimec was originally certified in 2002 and has met orexceeded requirements for certification renewal as scheduled since then. The quality-management certification covers all of the company's sales, development, production and service activities of all OEM industrial cameras for machine vision, healthcare, and global security markets.
The ISO 9001:2008 standard is based on a number of quality management principles including a strong customer focus, the motivation and implication of top management, the process approach and continual improvement.The ISO 9001:2008 standard focuses on enhancing customer satisfaction and establishing products' compliance with the requirements of users and regulatory groups and it has become recognized worldwide as the standard that defines quality.
"We are proud of this result, which enables us to continue doing business with the most demanding customers all over the world," said Adimec's Quality Manager Corné Schoenmaker.
As a supplier to manufacturers of the state-of-the-art image-based systems, including those for semiconductor and electronics metrology and inspection, medical diagnostics, and long-range observation and airborne surveillance, ISO 9001:2008 certification is expected and is one part of Adimec's overall commitment to quality. Our customers rely on copy-exact to support their tool matching requirements, and strict change control in addition to other quality management systems.
The ISO 9001:2008 certification is scheduled for renewal in four years.
About Adimec
Adimec specializes in the development and manufacturing of high-performance cameras that meet the application-specific requirements of key market segments, including machine vision, medical imaging, and outdoor imaging. Founded in 1992, the company partners with major OEMs around the world to facilitate the creation of industry-leading cameras. Its products meet a wide range of performance, size, cost, interface and application requirements and its Adimec True Accurate Imaging® technology provides new levels of precision and accuracy to vision systems. Adimec has offices around the world focused on creating customer value and satisfaction through local, personalized support. For more information, go to www.adimec.com. For more information on imaging and vision topics, check our blog.
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Adimec Advanced Image Systems b.v.
Tel: +31-40-2353900
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We might have to rename this feature Last Night's Blake Griffin, because he simply can't help but be awesome. Seriously, it's physically impossible for him. Here is he scoring all of his 47 points in two minutes. It only feels like realtime.
Highlight reel dunks are nice, but they aren't going to win games for a woeful Clips team. Scoring 47 points will. It's Griffin's 33rd double-double in his 40-game career, and it's high time we came up with a nickname for him. Not that "Blake Griffin" isn't a great name; it sounds like the alter-ego of some Golden Age comic book hero. But Griffin is the superhero himself, and I'm not sure he has any other identity.
Making the rounds last night was "Blake .Gifin", a delightful meeting of the animated gif and the player whose one-second explosions are perfect for the format. A little nerdy? Maybe. But watching Griffin makes us feel like geeking out.
How about "Beast Mode", which CNNSI goes with for their headline this morning? It still belongs to Marshawn Lynch, but I think three straight declining seasons is enough for him to forfeit the title. It's absurdly fitting for Griffin, who, on top of the mythological surname, seems to hulk out when he gets in the paint, much like the arcade staple Altered Beast.
How about simply "start clearing cap space for the summer of 2014?" Man, that's depressing. That's a long time for Griffin to not only be stuck on the Clippers, but on the West Coast where we rarely get to see the games. I guess we'll have to content ourselves with three-and-a-half years of morning highlight shows and Last Night's Winners.


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edit: do you mean, that final version will be playable on Galaxy S? now 24fps with skybox on large part of screen...
Here is model with texture and animation, let me know if is fine http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26148874/treasure.zip
... it seems to be environment code completed? so now some enemies, catacombs and you can release some demo
It's mesh animation, probably not supported by OBJ and 3DS... I divided animation to 3 objects, so now it should be ok...http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26148874/treasure_anim.zip
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So I'm really thrifty, and I've been really thrifty since forever. There is something about scavenging for deals that is really satisfying. Most of my thriftiness and frugality has led me to rely on used or second-hand everything – clothes, shoes, building materials, furniture. I really truly do prefer used items to new ones – I love a soft, worn t-shirt, vintage furniture, and old things (they were built better back then than the crap at the mall today). I've gotten really good at finding just about anything for free or really cheap. I always say, ask the universe, and the universe will provide!
Here's some of the free stuff I've found so far for The COMET specifically:
Gorgeous hardwood flooring still in the box, free on the side of the road
Vintage Formica countertops with aluminum trim, free day at the Re-Store in Springfield when they moved
Fabric for curtains, given to me from friends
Textured glass for windows in the exact right sizes, free day at the Re-Store
Bamboo boards and lumber for kitchen, free on the side of the road
Vintage wallpaper, free box somewhere
If I had more storage space, I'd pick up every door and window that I saw on the side of the road and build a house out of all the free building stuff I find. Seriously. If you're interested in this stuff, Derek Diedricksen over at relaxshacks has some great tips for dumpstering and hunting for free building materials. He's the master of re-using free found objects in build projects.
And though I think finding great used stuff for free + cheap is mostly luck, it's definitely good to know where to look and what to look for when you're on the hunt. I want to give you all some tips and resources for finding free stuff and cheap used building materials or salvage.
Craigslist: let's start with the most obvious one. Craigslist is a great place to start looking for free or cheap architectural salvage or materials. Check out the Free Stuff section first, then look more specifically for things you are interested in. I also always look for campers on Craigslist – they're cheap and you can find a lot of fixer-uppers there. And free stuff is great, but remember to factor in how far away that free thing is and how long it will take you to get there + gas costs.
The Habitat for Humanity Re-Store: I can't really gush enough about how much I love the Re-Store. Besides the fact that it supports a fabulous cause, it's really wonderful because you can find just about anything for reasonably cheap. They sell used (or new, but always donated) building materials and appliances/other house items. If you're into old house stuff like I am, you'll love the stacks and stacks of 1950's teal sinks and matching toilets. Sometimes they have great NOS items from the past, great place for vintage nuts to score some original decor for their homes. They have windows, doors, showers, hardware, paint, flooring, just about ANYTHING you can imagine. There's a Re-Store in Worcester that I frequent, and another really huge one in Springfield, MA that is now called Eco-Building Bargains (they just moved into a gorgeous new eco-friendly building designed by my professor!).
The Side of The Road: My first word of advice for this topic is "don't be embarrassed!" If you're like me, you don't think twice about pulling over, jumping out of your car, digging through some junk, and strapping a few windows onto your roof rack. But if you're not used to it, it can be a little funny at first. Just remember you are doing the people getting rid of the stuff a favor! And you're recycling that stuff so it doesn't have to go into the trash! Some people say they go out looking for free stuff at night, but I think that's maybe more suspicious? Anyway, however you do it, don't hesitate. Free stuff on the side of the road is the best. I've found brand new items and totally useful things out on the side of the road. It's just unbelievable what people throw away.
*I like to go to yard sales and flea markets late in the day, when people just want to get rid of everything and most everything is for free. Of course, all the best stuff might be gone, but you never know, you may find a hidden treasure. I once found a great set of skeleton string lights (perfect for the awning of a super badass camper) at the end of a yard sale, free for the taking.*
Dumpstering: I don't know of any local dumpsters that are good for building materials, so I'm not too experienced in this department. (I used to dumpster dive more often, but never found any lumber). However, dumpstering behind a building where there is a business that sells building materials or anything you may be wanting is a good idea. This is one of those activities you want to do at night. And be careful! You don't want the cops to hassle you, so be kinda stealthy.
Freecycle.org: This is a website where you can become a member of a Freecycle group in your area and trade with other members for stuff they are getting rid of. It seems like a great idea, but I don't really know much more about it. I should really join up! I think the only reason I haven't is because my local group was run through a yahoo group and I just couldn't do another email address…I'd recommend looking into it though and seeing how your local Freecycle group operates!
I hope this was helpful! Please contact me with any questions, and tell me about the best thing you ever found for free in the comments!


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'Amnesia' Is Selling So Well, The Developers Have Forgotten All About Piracy
from the sorry,-can't-talk,-busy-selling-games deptSwedish developer Frictional Games is celebrating two years of success with its sleeper hit "Amnesia: Dark Descent." In a lengthy blog post (via Rock, Paper, Shotgun), the developers run down the continued success of their very niche horror game, along with praising the communities that have grown around the game.
[If you're not familiar with the sphincter-clenching scariness that is Amnesia, take a look at the following video, which will allow you to hilariously enjoy someone else's complete hysteria. NSFW.]
Frictional Games attempts to run down the sales figures on Amnesia, a problem somewhat complicated by its inclusion with a Humble Indie Bundle. Long story short, though: sales were unexpectedly good.
The biggest reasons for the uncertainty is that Amnesia was part of the Humble Indie Bundle (HIB) earlier this year and Potato Bundle last year. Both of these account for quite a lot of sales. Without counting the units bought there our total lands at 710 000 units. Adding all HIB and Potato Sack sales gets us to 1 360 000 units in total, which can be called the optimistic figure. This means that, optimistically speaking, Amnesia has sold almost 1.4 million units!Frictional adjusts for the Humble Effect by providing a "pessimistic" estimate based on the assumption that ⅔ of all bundle purchasers already owned a copy of the game:
This gives us about 920 000 units in total, pessimistically speaking. So saying that we have sold a million units seems fair. Wait... a million units! Oh shit!!Not a bad total at all, especially for a non-AAA studio whose game featured combatless horror and whose advertising was mostly word-of-mouth. Even more surprising, the two-year-old game continues to sell at a brisk pace, even at full price:
Not counting any discounts, the monthly full price sales lie at over 10 000 units. This means that less then every 5th minute someone in the world is buying a copy of Amnesia.Why are sales still so strong? Frictionless credits two very active communities:
This success is due to many factors, some of which are the uniqueness of the game (horror games without combat do not really exist on PC), the large modding community (more on this later) and the steady flood of YouTube clips (which is in turn is fueled by the modding community output).Opening up your game and letting your fans build on your foundation is one of the best ways to rack up sales months (or years) after the release date. Just ask the developers of Arma, whose Arma 2 (another 2-year-old niche game) continues to sell very well, thanks to a strong modding community, including one of its own employees who developed the amazing "Day Z" zombie survival mod.
The output of modding community has been quite big as well. Amnesia is as of writing the 2nd most popular game at ModDB and sports 176 finished mods. Not only do this amount of user content lengthen the life of the game, it has also increased the amount of YouTube movies made with an Amnesia theme. There are lots of popular Let's Play channels that have devoted quite a bit of time with just playing various user-made custom stories. As mentioned earlier this have probably played a large role in keeping our monthly sales up.
It is quite clear that allowing users to create content is a feature worth putting time into. I also think that we managed to have a pretty good balance between having simple tools and still allowing a lot of possibilities.When you give your fans a toolbox and invite them to not only create, but share the results openly, they become your advertisers. Without spending a cent on promotion, a developer can turn hundreds of individuals into a street team that shamelessly plugs your product because they love it. Respecting them enough to allow them to build on your original creates the sort of loyalty that locked-down software never will.
Oh, and as for piracy, the supposed bane of PC developers' existences? Here, in total, is all the developers have to say on that subject:
It has been over a year since we even thought about piracy. With sales as good as above we cannot really see this as an issue worth more than two lines in this post, so screw it.Make great games. Extend the life of your software by opening it up to modders. Support your community. These simple steps (well, the last two are much simpler than the first) have allowed a small developer (11 employees) to command the attention of PC gamers and critics, resulting in Amnesia earning back over 10 times its cost. Who needs to worry about "lost sales" when so many people are clearly willing to pay?


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Hot Rod Registration - The Defining Moment
Hot Rodders And The Law
All of us knew it was a matter of time. As far back as the '70s, hot rodders and legislators were headed toward a collision course over hot rod titling and registration. Many of us knew it was coming while others choose to "temporally" ignore the subject. STREET RODDER will feature this month the first of several articles that will deal with hot rod registration in both broad and specific strokes.
Starting next month, STREET RODDER will address the specifics of each of the following subjects: the current 2010 California amnesty program, registering hot rods under SB-100 (Calif. VC 4750.1), registering hot rods under the Special Construction Vehicle (SVC) law, and the tried-and-true method: "It's nothing more than a used car so why do I need to do anything?" approach.
As part of this series we will try our hand at re-registering a hot rod through the amnesty program, register a car under SB-100, and install one of the new GM Performance Parts E-ROD powerplants. There is a wealth of information rodders from all states can glean from the series of articles, not just California rodders. A number of states already have registration laws that treat rodders fairly, and that's a good thing.
While states handle hot rod registration differently there's a basic covenant between the state and the rodder. The state takes it on good faith that hot rodders are building cars with legally purchased (or obtained) components, owners are declaring appropriate values (for tax and registration fee purposes), and in California comply with specified emission standards. In the past rodders were not always forthcoming with correct data when registering their hot rods. Conversely, the State of California never made it easy on rodders to register these cars and the state had little accurate information available at their DMV sites to help rodders who wished to follow the law. So who was to blame? Talk to officials from the State of California, and it's the hot rodders. Talk to hot rodders, and it's the state.
The surreal scene would have been funny if it hadn't been so serious. This wasn't the filming of an episode of American Hotrod but rather the real deal of serving a warrant to Boyd Coddington on the suspicion of fraud. Over the previous decades there had been "uprisings" here and there but nothing, absolutely nothing matched the intensity and seriousness of this latest event. [I remember standing at Boyd's shop within an hour of the occurrence wondering if this would be the end of hot rodding as I knew it.
Boyd's shop was clearly the most visible and that is why he was the first to be "approached." The State of California visited a number of shops throughout the state as they were looking for cars that met one or more of the criteria that would lead to registration or license fee fraud. Mind you, while this is all occurring in California the fact remains, all states function under the premise that hot rodders are being honest.
In researching for the web-published story and subsequent registration articles for STREET RODDER, we had the opportunity to exchange a series of emails with Robert Morgester, the deputy attorney general, special crimes unit, for the State of California Department of Justice. According to Morgester, "The California attorney general's office has been conducting an investigation into the fraudulent registration of replica vehicles. The initial investigation was limited to Cobra-replica vehicles due to known VIN sequences. We are aware that the same fraudulent vehicle registration issues apply to other replica vehicles and hot rods." According to Deputy Attorney General Morgester, he wanted to make sure California hot rodders understand that to correct a common misunderstanding of California law, it's a felony to do the following:
1. Register a vehicle where the year of vehicle is misrepresented
2. Register a vehicle where the value of the vehicle is understated
3. Register a vehicle where the year of the vehicle is misrepresented to avoid compliance with California smog laws"Any of the above actions are a felony in violation of California Vehicle Code Section 4463(a). Additionally, the above actions constitute the crime of perjury, in that all statement of facts contained in California DMV documents are taken under penalty of perjury." And this is where it gets "uncomfortable" for many hot rodders-again, regardless of what state you live.
Again, according to the office of the attorney general from the State of California, Department of Justice, "To date, the ongoing investigation has identified at least five other out-of-state companies that have provided fraudulent vehicle purchase agreements and titles to California vehicle owners. The companies are in Alabama, Nevada, New York, and Florida. The attorney general's office believes as many as 70,000 vehicles have been illegally registered in California through these scam operations.
The California DMV is in the process of canceling registrations that involve documents obtained from Titles Unlimited. (Titles Unlimited is believed to have provided false documents to Californians that cost the state more than $1 million in tax revenues and license fees over the past two years, and as much as $14 million since 1975, when the company began operating.) The attorney general's office also has notified law enforcement officials in more than 20 counties regarding residents who titled their cars through the company for possible prosecution.
At the time Attorney General Bill Lockyer of the State of California tells us that an Alabama man was convicted on felony charges for issuing false vehicle titles in a scam that has cost California millions of dollars in lost tax revenues and license fees.
We know from SEMA as well as from the State of California officials that the attorney general's office has gone so far as to attend rod runs looking for "suspicious" hot rods; cars that may have been fraudulently registered.
According to SEMA Legal Counsel Russ Dean, "SEMA began dealing with these circumstances by working with the attorney general and suggested it would be easier to resolve the issues if the enforcement that had started were postponed for a while;" albeit a small victory but a victory nonetheless. "SEMA then began the effort to encourage legislation that would provide amnesty for car owners who sought to re-register their cars legally." In the meantime, SEMA also began working with the Air Resources Board, Bureau of Automotive Repair, and the DMV to find reasonable and attainable emissions requirements for re-registered cars.
In future stories we are going to take our '10 AMSOIL/STREET RODDER Road Tour roadster pickup through the registration process under the direction of SB-100. Under California law, these 500 exemptions for specially constructed vehicles are available each year on a first-come, first-served basis. [Our appointment to apply for an SB-100 exemption for our '10 Road Tour roadster pickup occurred on Jan. 4, 2010, more on this next month. In 2009 the last SB-100 exemption was handed out on July 3; yet earlier in 2006 these numbers were gone by Jan. 3. These numbers can go quickly or not so quickly but our guess after the current fire storm is these numbers will be even harder to come by.] I will follow SR Publisher Tim Foss as he navigates the DMV registration waters for an exempt SCV.
For vehicles with an exemption, a smog-test referee compares the vehicle to production cars of the era that the specially constructed vehicle most closely resembles to determine the model year. The vehicle owner can then choose whether the inspector will certify the vehicle model year by body type or by the engine model year. Only those emissions controls applicable to the chosen model year are required.
Another test will be the registration of a hot rod that may have been registered improperly. When the time comes we will find a suitable street rodder reader to give it a go. We will find out if the registration was originally handled incorrectly and if so apply for amnesty and then in turn register the street rod. We will also take a look at what may need to be done to the engine to make it compliant as well.
According to GMPP Product Marketing Manager Dr. Jamie Meyer, "We developed this system because it's the right thing to do, but our engineers did not sacrifice the performance that stirs hot rodders in the first place. It is a compromise-free package that delivers great power and efficiency, with the emissions of a modern vehicle."
The core of the E-ROD package (PN 19244805) is the LS3 6.2L V-8 engine that is rated at 430 hp. Emissions equipment included with the package includes catalytic converters, a fuel tank evaporative emissions canister, and more. The GMPP package was developed with the assistance of CARB and SEMA officials and is intended to meet California emissions compliance requirements. No other OEM or aftermarket manufacturer yet offers a comparable, CARB-approved system.
In subsequent stories there will be a complete step-by-step installation of a 100 percent emission controlled engine in a '32 highboy roadster-and it fit neatly with no outlandish modifications. The end result is a hot rod that has loads of power, driveability, and is as "green" as any new car sold. Tree huggers should be very happy.
The problem is real, especially for California hot rodders. Rodders from other states should be aware that while legislation may be in place to register your hot rod the day may not be too far out there when emission standards will be mandated. This article may raise more questions than it has answers but by the time we get through the series, all of us should be better equipped to deal with the registering of our hot rods.
Ironically while all this mayhem is ongoing we have Dave Schaub of California driving his '32 Ford highboy roadster through 49 states raising money for the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford, California (see page 56). Isn't it about time someone in a seat of authority stood up from behind a desk and saw the good that is brought to the state and the county via hot rodders in the form of charitable efforts and the economy of business?


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The Central Connecticut women's basketball team (5-4) returns home to host the Hofstra Pride (4-5) in CCSU's final non-conference tune-up of the season. The Blue Devils are 3-0 at home this season, but CCSU has not played at Detrick Gym since Dec. 3, almost four weeks ago. The Blue Devils and Pride will tip-off at 12 p.m.
Admission to Detrick Gym for Monday afternoon's game will be free.
Here are some notes on the Blue Devils heading into Monday's game:
Up Next • The Blue Devils open Northeast Conference play with a pair of games against Robert Morris and Saint Francis U this weekend. The Colonials visit Detrick on Saturday, Jan. 4 and the Red Flash travel to New Britain for a Monday night game on Jan. 6.
Series History • Hofstra holds a 7-4 advantage in the all-time Division I series between these programs. The last meeting came two years ago when the Blue Devils played in the New York Life Holiday Invitational at Hofstra. The Pride won that meeting in Dec. 2011 by a score of 67-60. Prior to that, CCSU last played Hofstra in 2005-06 and 2006-07.
Triple-Double • Senior Jessica Babe put together one of the best statistical games in CCSU women's basketball history to register the program's first triple-double. Babe posted 15 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in the game. She also contributed four steals on defense.
Quiet December • The Blue Devils have played just once (Dec. 21 at Rider) over the last three weeks. Today will be CCSU's fourth December game. The four games are the fewest in December for CCSU since the 1988-89 season. The Blue Devils also played four games in the 1988-89 and 1987-88 seasons.
UMass Lowell • CCSU's scheduled game with UMass Lowell was postponed because the River Hawks were unable to travel to New Britain as a result of the winter weather on Dec. 15. A rescheduled date and time have yet to be determined.
Last Game • The Blue Devils fell to Rider on Saturday, Dec. 21 by a score of 61-58. The Blue Devils had a halftime lead slip away despite a triple-double from senior Jessica Babe. Babe posted 15 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists and four steals. Junior Amanda Harrington also had a strong game with 13 points and eight rebounds.
NEC Player of the Week • Senior Jessica Babe was named Choice Hotels/Northeast Conference Player of the Week on Monday afternoon (12/9). Babe sparked the Blue Devils to a double-digit margin of victory in a pair of non-conference games last week with a career-high 24 points on Sunday at Vermont and 16 points against Siena on Dec. 3. Babe finished the week averaging 20.0 points, 5.0 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 2.0 steals per game. She shot 50.0% (11-22) from the field, 85.7% (6-7) from three and 75.0% (12-16) from the free throw line over the two games.
Milestones • Senior Jessica Babe flew past 300 career assists against Rider. Babe contributed 10 assists and along the way became the 10th CCSU player to record 300 career assists. She finished the game with 307 for her career. Babe also needs just two steals to tie for fourth on CCSU's career list she currently has 191 steals.


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LMC Welcomes New Board Chair and Member
The Lexington Medical Center board of directors has elected Dan Jones as its new chair. And, the board welcomes Richard Westbrook as a new member.
Dan Jones is the Vice President of Government Relations for Time Warner Cable's South Carolina division and has more than 35 years experience in federal, state and local government relations. He and his wife Pat have three children and two grandchildren. Mr. Jones has been a member of the Lexington Medical Center board of directors since 2008. He will serve a one-year term as chair between now and February, 2012.
"These are challenging but exciting times in health care," Jones said. "Lexington Medical Center's affiliation with Duke Medicine to provide comprehensive heart care, the expansion in our Oncology department and the continuous acquisition of physician practice expands our reach in the greater metropolitan area."
In addition, board members elected Al Harman, III as vice chair and Vince Rhodes as secretary.
The board also welcomes new member Richard Westbrook, vice president at South Carolina Bank and Trust, loan administration. He received his undergraduate degree and MBA from the University of South Carolina. Additionally, he is a graduate of the South Carolina Bankers School. A Lexington County native, he is married with one child.


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The sun has been shining so brilliantly over the snow, makes it glitter like a millions diamonds. Now that the U.S. has celebrated their Thanksgiving and had their Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, Christmas shopping has taken off with a bang this Black Friday. Is it me or has Christmas shopping become a harrowing experience for so many now. Do you know of anyone who actually waits until Christmas Eve to shop anymore? Would there even be anything left on the shelves that remotely resembles items carefully chosen to be on our kid's/grandkid's wish list?? Oh....and lets not forget that most items on those wish lists probably require selling a kidney and if you did that last year, well...selling the other one just to fulfill those dreams means you'll be singing in the choir....the Heavenly choir that is :P Am I the only one who hates the shopping crowds and would rather order online or buy Gift Cards?? Maybe the solution to turn Scrouge isn't such a bad idea after all. Why is it that slowly we are taking the "Christ" out of the season and now only have "Holiday" trees, songs, programs, etc.?? Could this be someone's idea to soothe the guilt of maxing out credit cards and rushing around doing everything BUT enjoying the Season for what is really the reason for the Season?? God forbid we turn this Season into one solely materialistic, rather than about Christ's Birth, Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward Man. God forbid we turn this Season into one solely materialistic, rather than family, giving from our abundance, watching the children perform in Choirs and plays, to sit in a church and reflect on Christ's birth and sing joyous songs that praise Him for all that are near and dear to us.
". . . for it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself."
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
"But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!'"
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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Serenity 1 & 2
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
A Good Glass of Wine
My Brother sent me this and I thought it was bang-on :)Just on time for the festive Christmas Season!
To paraphrase W.C. Fields, "I don't drink water, because fish screw in it."
To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine... and those who don't..
As Ben Franklin said: In wine there is wisdom,
in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.
In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. coli) - bacteria found in feces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop..
However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine & beer (or tequila, rum, whiskey or other liquor)because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.
Water = Poop,
Wine = Health
Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid,
than to drink water and be full of shit.
There is no need to thank me for this valuable information: I'm doing it as a public service!
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Saturday, November 21, 2009
I'm thinking ahead to Christmas. Usually by now I have all my gift shopping and handmade gifts bought, made and wrapped. This year, with the economy having kicked the stuffing out of everyone's nest, our family has decided to keep gifts few and handmade. So, this is one I'm painting for my oldest son and daughter-in-law. This is the picture I follow, however my painting is more blue than lilac.....the priviledge of my "creative" side :)
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Friday, November 20, 2009
Hitting the Nail on the Head
Billy Graham
Current Age: 90
Truth...........from a man the media has never been able to throw dirt on..amazing!!
He has certainly hit the "world" on the head!!
Billy Graham's Prayer For Our Nation
'Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics... We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and Set us free. Amen!'
Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, 'The Rest of the Story,' and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired. With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called 'One nation under God..'
Think about this: If you forward this prayer to everyone on your e-mail list, in less than 30 days it would be heard by the world. (It's worth a try!) One Nation Under God.
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55 Years
Yesterday was Dad & Mom's 55th Wedding Anniversary. This many years together deserves celebration, however it was a bittersweet day. My Brother, Mom & I went to the Care Home to see Dad and move him back into Fort St. John. The Special Care wing in the Pouce Coupe Care Home is moving all it's residents to the new Care Home in Dawson Creek. Because Dad was in the Pouce Coupe Care home on a temporary basis they cannot transfer him to DC, so he had to come back to FSJ, BUT there isn't a bed for him in the Special Care wing here, he has to be in the hospital again until there is one available. His name is next on the waiting list, however that means someone has to die first before there is a bed available....in the meantime the entire 2nd floor in Pouce is empty...it's called Government cut backs....royally sucks!!
BUT...Dad & Mom got to spend the hour's drive back here sitting together in the back seat of the car and hold hands and enjoy each other. Each moment together is a treasure for them now.There is much to be learned from their story.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Canadian Winter
Canadian Winter
The snow came down and whirled around
and grew and grew and grew.
We scraped and blew and shovelled
but were helpless to undo.
The snow we cleared made piles
like a rocky mountain range;
And then it rained swift rivers -
nature thought we needed change.
The rain will wash away the snow,
was what we had in mind;
But slush was over boot tops -
nowhere to run could find.
The temperatures dropped and you could say
we were really in a rut;
More snow and freezing rain to come -
the weatherman's words did cut.
As long as my home is cozy-warm,
the weather I'll take on the chin;
For, after all, I'm Canadian
and bear winter with a grin.
Joan Adams Burchell
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Our World is Frosted in Snow
Winter has arrived in the Great White North :) I know that our Neighbors to the South still have Thanksgiving to celebrate, but for us that Holiday is long past and we're into winter days with white frosting everything outdoors and warm fires cheering our long nights. Time to snuggle in and pull out crafts to busy hands, pull out books to take imaginary trips to places warm and tropical.
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
A Crafty Afternoon
My friend Jo-Ann and I had a lovely afternoon Crafting Sun Catchers with our grand-daughters, Victoria and Kaylie. It was fun for the girls to do something together like this without having their siblings around to share their time with Gramma. After getting the beads into the moulds and into the oven to bake, we had tea and a lovely snack and the girls watched, "Barbie in The Nutcracker". Us Grammas decided that we'd like to do this again :)
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Saturday, November 14, 2009
November 14 - World Diabetes Day!!
280 million people in this world suffer with the Chronic Illness of Diabetes.....I am one of them. Please take the time to view this video to raise your awareness of this disease. Thank-you :)
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Just a Reminder...
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Monday, November 9, 2009
Lest We Forget
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch, be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields
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Sunday, November 8, 2009
Lazy Sunday Afternoon
With this good book to read,I'm enjoying this lazy afternoon reading and savouring a fresh cup of coffee. I love reading and can devour 2-3 books a week. Now, back to the "Broken P" Ranch :)
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
"A tingling, misty marvel
Blew hither in the night,
And now the little peach-trees
Are clasped in frozen light.
Upon the apple-branches
An icy film is caught,
With trailing threads of gossamer
In pearly patterns wrought.
The autumn sun, in wonder,
Is gayly peering through
This silver-tissued network
Across the frosty blue.
The weather-vane is fire-tipped,
The honeysuckle shows
A dazzling icy splendor,
And crystal is the rose."
- Evaleen Stein, November Morning
So, we've moved from October into November, which is that much closer to my most fave season....Christmas. Usually by now I'm finished Christmas gift shopping &/or making handmade gifts. Ok, so I have finished one, but I feel SO uninspired right now. Of course, this isn't the worst thing in the world, since there is still plenty of time for that shopping spree.....but there is however not much time for handmade gifts.
Pennies have been scarce these past few months so we had cut back to the bare necessities. Today however we have re-connected our Internet service, so I will have the pleasure of journaling on this Blog once more.
My Mother-in-law is settling into her new room in the Care Home and is happy. I really believe she was lonely, so being around others has cheered her up. I feel like it's been so worth the emotional/physical energy it took to move her. It's a priviledge to be there for our aging parents and spend time cherishing those rare precious moments.Too soon our time with our parents on this earth evaporates into memories that surround us like a cloud.
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We had Jonathen contact us in Dec - Jan about sending hives to California for almond pollination. He kept calling and telling us how it would be good money and he would take care of everyting. We got a signed contract and shipped 2 truck loads out. When the hives got their he could not get them unloaded. Finally got the first load unloaded after several hours. Said he was happy with the loads. After the bees got there we never heard anything from him. never returned our calls. He did return a few text messages. We flew out to check out the hives could not find him or the hives, only a few in the holding yard. We paid for the shipping and loading of hives. Now its April and Jonathen is nowhere to be found. We havent received any payment or phone calls. Finally got ours bees back.
We checked with the orchards and they said they have paid him.
Just wanted to let other beekeepers know so they would not have the same problems or if anyone has had any experince working with him.


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Not counting a limited Japan-only release (or bootleg?), it's been long four years since we heard new music from Carlos Niño. A first teaser from the new album was posted only a couple of weeks ago, and this week "Flutes, Echoes, It's All Happening!" finally became available through Leaving Records.
Watch an improvisation in the Stones Throw dungeon, featuring long-time collaborator Miguel Atwood-Ferguson on viola, Dexter Story on keys, and Jamire Williams on drums.
In related news, also check out Carlos' latest radio show on Dublab.


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DETROIT -- Next time you see a Ford Fiesta hatchback rolling down the road, take a good look at that car.
That subcompact Fiesta is pretty close in size to a small German car line that's headed to our shores.
Earlier today at the Geneva auto show, Mercedes-Benz unveiled the redesigned A-class five-door hatchback.
The A-class model line will include a coupe and wagon, plus a crossover-like vehicle. A three-door hatchback also is planned, but that model will not be sold in the United States.
The A-class models will be the smallest Mercedes cars that are sold in the United States. Sales in Europe begin this fall, but U.S. shoppers likely will have to wait until 2014.
Why is the A class slated for U.S. sales?
Higher gasoline prices, tough fuel economy regulations and changing customer preferences, particularly for residents in urban areas, convinced Mercedes executives and U.S. dealers that there is a U.S. market.
Mercedes-Benz officials are optimistic, expecting U.S. sales to exceed 15,000 annually.
BMW already sells a similar-size model here, the 1 series. U.S. sales totaled 8,832 units last year, down 33 percent from 2010. The slump continues -- sales are off 25 percent this year. The BMW line is limited to a coupe and a convertible.
To these weary eyes, the photo released by Mercedes-Benz creates the illusion that its car is bigger than it is. Mercedes released the five-door hatchback's length, width and height, so I did some quick research.
After comparing the lengths and widths of several non-Mercedes models, I finally found a car that is kind of similar in size to the A-class five-door hatchback: the 2012 Ford Fiesta five-door hatchback. The A class certainly will not be priced to compete with the Fiesta. I just wanted a size comparison to a vehicle I'm familiar with.
How close in size is the A class to the Fiesta?
Pretty darn close: This Mercedes is 8.8 inches longer, 2.3 inches wider and 1.6 inches lower.
This is a small car. The A-class model line will bring a dramatic change to U.S. Mercedes showrooms. But will the public accept it?
Unless gasoline prices are considerably higher, and these models offer exceptional fuel economy, I think a car this small coupled with Mercedes' pricing will be a hard sell.