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We asked regular historic-Corvette racing front-runner Eric Dolson what his advice would be to an enthusiast thinking about going vintage or historic racing with a Corvette. His anwer, "Don't!" He then went on to explain, "a period Corvette is a handful at the best of times, and is way too powerful and way too fast to be anyone's first race car. At 160 mph, a lot can happen very quickly. The way to approach vintage or historic racing would be to start off with an MG Midget or something similar with no real power at all, and to learn to race before going anywhere near a track with a Corvette." He has a very good point.
Watching Eric driving Yellow Jacket-his black-and-yellow '69-is a useful lesson in itself. For a start, it's easy to watch him because he's about five hundred yards out in front of anybody else. He's smooth, and you can hear his throttle opening progressively as he comes past the apex of a corner and boots it for the next straight. When the next few Corvettes come along, they look OK going into the corner, but then you just hear a "blap roar" as they floor it and watch the rear ends wriggle as the tires scrabble for grip, and then the visceral thunder as a dozen full-race V-8s open up and hurtle past you down the next straight. That's why Eric is five hundred yards in front and cruising; having 550 bhp under the hood helps too, of course.
If you start racing with a Midget, you have perhaps 95 hp to play with, and you have to learn how to make the most of it. You have to judge how late you dare brake into a corner, and you have to keep it silky smooth, as you're balancing on the edge of grip all the time. If you don't keep it smooth and retain as much momentum as possible, you're going to have to recover all that lost speed by pushing the little engine flat out and waiting for the speed to build up again while everybody else overtakes you. So Eric's advice is sound: budget some time and money to learn to race before you learn to race a Corvette. It's possible to muddle through and to go quite fast by using a Corvette's power just to point and shoot, but that way you'll be in the middle of the pack at best and in the barrier at worst.
Can you afford to race a Corvette? If you stick to vintage racing, there's more of a possibility than with racing any modern Corvettes. Ken Petersen races the red C2 pictured, and candidly says it costs him about two grand for every weekend's racing, provided that nothing goes wrong with the car. Ken also keeps a few spare engines on hand, which is quite a commitment. however, he maintains that racing a historic Corvette is better than drinking or chasing women, and that he can always go out to his garage and just look at something gorgeous.


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By 10 a.m. on that crisp-yet-sunny Saturday last November, the freeway exits for Canal Winchester, Ohio, were parking lots—and it wasn't because of anxious fans heading for an Ohio State game in nearby Columbus. The several thousand people that descended on the bedroom community were headed to the sale of Chevy dealer and classic-auto aficionado Bob McDorman's car collection.
Describing McDoman as the consummate collector doesn't do the man justice. He's been hoarding collectible Chevrolets pretty much since he bought his dealership in 1965. He's been a pioneer in the collector field and a friend to enthusiasts, putting his time and effort into Corvette shows and other automotive events for decades. And over the years, his collection has grown to include some of the most significant Corvettes extant, including styling concepts, early production cars, and milestone models.
But after nearly 50 years selling new cars, and about that long collecting classics, the 78-year-old McDorman reached the point where it was time to make a change in his life. Maintaining a handful of collector cars is hard enough, but running a business and keeping tabs on nearly 160 collector vehicles would be daunting for someone half his age. Nevertheless, it was no small decision to sell off what had come to be known as one of the most important collections of Chevrolets and Corvettes in the world.
Of the 159 vehicles in McDorman's collection—starting with a 1915 Chevrolet Royal Mail Roadster—89 were Corvettes. He's bought and sold them over the years, but his roster of Corvettes was comprehensive and enviable for its inclusion of all model years. Well, all but one. There wasn't a 1991 model.
"I had a '91, but I sold it and just didn't get around to replacing it," McDorman said during a pre-auction interview.
More impressive was the fact that most of the Corvettes carried some sort of milestone recognition or were essentially brand-new cars that had never been delivered. The collection included a dozen cars with serial number 1 for their respective model years, while others included the 750,000th Corvette, the 999,999th Corvette, and similar standouts. And if you're into numerology, then a car like his '69 L71 3x2-inducted 427-powered car is up your alley: The 435-horse Vette carried serial number 00435 for the year.
A longtime customer and participant at Mecum auctions, McDorman handed the reins of the sale to Dana Mecum's company. The firm did a wonderful job readying the cars and McDorman's dealership property to handle the event, which also included the sale of incredibly rare original dealer signs and other memorabilia. But by early on the Saturday morning of the sale, it was clear the Mecum staff hadn't anticipated the crowd it would draw. As the cars backed up along the freeway and news helicopters fluttered overhead, several thousand enthusiasts squeezed their way into an auction tent that simply wasn't designed for such a turnout.
"We had no idea so many people would show up," said Mecum marketing manager Tom Christman. "It's amazing and overwhelming."
More than 1,000 bidders registered to buy at the sale, with several thousand more on hand to check out the cars and take in the landmark event. In fact, the number of bidders equaled that of Mecum's annual Indianapolis auction, which is a five-day extravaganza of more than 1,000 vehicles. In this corner of rural Ohio, those 1,000 bidders were competing for only 145 cars and the "mobilia."
The top seller of the sale was the custom '63 Corvette Fuelie roadster built for and known as "the Bunkie Knudsen car." Knudsen was Chevrolet's president, and the car is distinguished by large, prominent side pipes with header tubes that exit through the front fender vents. It sold for $400,000 (plus a 10-percent buyer's premium). The rest of the top five sellers included:
• $280,000 for the Florence Knudsen pink '64 coupe
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Answers to the vexing issues of discolored water are coming into focus for staff with the city of Port St. Joe.
City commissioners will soon be asked to weigh-in on a path forward.
A meeting this week with David Kozan from CDM Smith, the contractor which designed the city's $21 million surface water treatment plant, continued to hone the dialogue on potential solutions for discolored water which have plagued the city since its new water plant came online more than three year ago.
A foundation of consensus is built upon the belief that the ongoing replacement of aging pipes in the distribution system, particularly the cast iron pipes, will eliminate an estimated 90 percent of the iron present in the system by the end of this year or early 2015.
Iron, or ferric (iron-containing compounds), has been identified as the likely source of "red water" complaints in the city.
However, iron is not the sole issue, as was discovered during a pilot water study conducted by CDM, in partnership with Virginia Tech University.
As Kozan noted, nearly half of complaints about the city's water has described "dirty", "ice tea" or "black" water conditions. The likely source of that, the pilot study found, was manganese.
The CDM study, which is being finalized with city staff comments incorporated in the final draft, identifies several potential solutions and recommends changing the corrosion control chemical used in the treatment while also increasing the strength of the solution.
The corrosion control chemical's impact on aging cast iron pipes has long been identified as the primary culprit for red water.
"This is a small problem that we think will solve itself over time as the pipes are replaced," said city manager Jim Anderson. "But we know the problem is there."
Lowering the levels of manganese could be addressed through options both early and late in the treatment of the water, to both segregate it within the system and by increasing the purity of a specific treatment chemical.
A tricky part to manganese treatment, Kozan noted, is the chemical tends to accumulate in stagnant areas of the line, increasing the likelihood of water discoloration.
The city's flushing program, which commissioners implemented year round last year, is a significant factor in alleviating the problem.
"A regular high-velocity flush will also regulate the levels and the accumulation," Kozan said.
Recommendations are not just coming from CDM, Anderson said.
"We have to keep everything on the table," Anderson said. "We have gone out for a lot of input."
Staff from the water plant in Bay County – which also uses a surface water source – has been in the Port St. Joe plant performing some jar testing and staff from Port St. Joe has been to Bay County to examine the system and treatment protocol.
The identified culprit, Anderson said, was ferric and in Bay County the process includes pre-treatment with lime in amounts Anderson and Port St. Joe plant manager Larry McClamma said were less than expected.
"We have looked at their process and that is our feeling, that the ferric is the 500-pound gorilla in the room," Anderson said.
At two previous City Commission meetings McClamma has raised pretreatment with lime as a viable option, both in terms of costs and finished water results.
The trick is that the treatment protocol used in the Port St. Joe plant is designed specific to the Siemens-manufactured microfiltration system.
The concern is that lime can cause buildup – less of the lime than the impurities in slaked lime – on those filters.
McClamma enlisted the Florida Rural Water Association – which has been working for several years with the city on addressing water issues – to perform a study relative to issues and costs associated with lime pretreatment.
Pretreatment with lime would also mean the city would not have to examine any treatment option that would include the use chloramines as a disinfecting agent as chloramines have been linked to health issues and thus far ruled out for use at the plant by city commissioners.
The city would have to secure an okay, in writing, from U.S. Filter, which manufactures the filters, and/or Siemens to pretreat with lime, Anderson said.
Anderson said he would like to bring to the Commission in the next few weeks recommendations for moving forward on the pretreatment option; addressing manganese with a more pure treatment solution; and a change in the makeup of a front-end treatment chemical to address iron.


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In looking for a better video card, it was recommended that I upgrade my PSU. After reading and researching, I suspect that this is what led my last computer to stop functioning and eventually ruining the other parts in it. So I want to find a better card and also a better PSU to prevent that from happening again
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I currently have a 300W factory PSU. I'm very unfamiliar with finding out how many amps I have on the 12V rail. I am familiar with taking out the PSU if need be, checking the BIOS, etc.
I am looking to find a card that does up to four monitors. I don't do gaming and honestly the most graphic intensive thing I'd ever do is run an N64 emulator with high-res textures. I have two 23" Acer monitors (1920x1080) with VGA and DVI.
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Could you imagine the power that would be needed to process all thought in the human brain... now multiply that by 300+ million folks.
there is really not a whole lot of stuff going on in the human mind; a computer process does more exotic things than anything I see going on inside any human. the most complex thing we do is combine all these signals into what we perceive as reality. tell me when again the human can run a complex physics or mathematical simulation and basically instruct their own mind to do whatever they want it to in a programmable method. It can't do anything like this.
but for the purpose of mind reading, it's also not hard for the military to build custom stream compute processors to handle large amounts of information. I am thinking they could contract with IBM, NVidia or AMD for some exotic stream compute chip, or design their own without the limits of the consumer market. Basically they work with budgets of billions per computer network, far above the $1000 consumers spend on these devices. Sure sounds like they don't have the money for a computer network to do all this.
a small computer could easily track all the images and thoughts of a group of people going on in a small area. add then multiple of these systems to expand coverage. I know the police in town are rolling with this technology in their trunks, or at least the CIA and FBI dudes are.
ps. what if they could use your mind to figure out what they wanted. this is one of their techniques; the mind does all the work for them. it tells them where the signals are located that stores what they want, it tells them really easily what something is, or what knowledge you have or possess on something. they may use your own mind and thought to weed through information and reduce the amount of searching and processing they have to do. this is a brain computer interface, an extension in computer form of your mind. It literally grows with knowledge based on what you know and what your own expertise on something is. this information may be used to determine how you interpret the world, and this is used by the computer to understand what it's processing and dealing with. this reduces the work the computer has to do.


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There is no doubt that in each and every Super Bowl there are defining plays.Ones that make or break the game for the competing teams.It could be a long return on special teams, or an interception run back for a score.Most times it is a long pass with a leaping grab that brings us to our feet, or that cutback on a run that stops everyone in their tracks as the running back goes the distance.Sometimes though its a bit more than that. Players and teams have often been swallowed up by the pressure, or it's made them a bigger star than they already were.So which five plays have changed the course of a game in a way which at the time didn't seem that big, or in fact has have gone on to create a dynasty?
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There is something seriously off about the mission of the new Treasury secretary, Jack Lew, to Europe. Secretary Lew has been visiting European capitals to persuade leaders there to ease up on the austerity. He has not had a good reception.
Speaking at a joint press conference with the chagrined Lew in Berlin, Wolfgang Schauble, the German finance minister and uber-austerity enforcer, dressed down Lew thusly: "Nobody in Europe sees this contradiction between fiscal consolidation and growth."
Nobody among the elite, that is.
Ordinary people in Greece, where output has declined by nearly 25 percent since the austerity tonic began, surely see the contradiction. So do young people in Spain, where the youth unemployment rate has reached 56 percent.
Even if the cure should eventually work—which it won't—we will have lost a whole generation. Only in the rarified power precincts of Brussels and Berlin is austerity "working."
But Jack Lew doesn't exactly come to this mission with clean hands. He is one of the principal architects of austerity in the Obama administration.
Lew pushed austerity in his previous jobs as White House chief of staff and as Office of Management and Budget director. And even as Lew was trying to persuade the Europeans to lighten up, his boss, the president, was unveiling an austerity budget at home. No wonder the Europeans didn't take him seriously.
Here's part of what Lew told the Germans in Berlin: "The driver for economic growth will be consumer demand, and policies that would help to encourage consumer demand in countries that have the capacity would be helpful."
Well, yes. Lew was referring to Germany, but he was also describing the United States. But the president's widely leaked budget proposals, egged on by the likes of Lew, will sandbag consumer demand. It will especially cut Social Security and Medicare, reducing the consumer purchasing power of the elderly.
The backdoor method of cutting Social Security via reducing the annual cost of living adjustment, is both sneaky and misguided. The fact is that the elderly face higher inflation than the rest of us because more of their outlays are in health care, a sector where costs are inflating at well above the general inflation rate. And the supposed efficiency gains in Medicare are often just cost-shifting to the consumer—another hit on the purchasing power of older Americans.
Lew's European misadventure is an epic case of "do as I say, not as I do." Perhaps when Lew returns from his not terribly successful whirlwind tour, he can advise his president on just how austerity doesn't work.
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It's certainly true that "austerity doesn't work." But I'm an open-minded senior; I'd CONSIDER "chained CPI" (ridiculous as it is!) on the day AFTER (a) capital gains, dividends, and "carried interest" are taxed as ordinary income, (b) ALL income is subject to the individual portion of FICA/Medicare tax (and "carried interest" is subject to the employer portion of those taxes, (c) ALL securities purchases and sales (stocks, bonds, future, derivatives, plus whatever Wall Street and LaSalle Street come up with tomorrow) are subject to a modest Financial Transactions Tax, and (d) an expanded Buffet rule sets a minimum tax rate of 30% for individual AGIs of $1 million or more and businesses with earnings of $10 million or more. Isn't THAT reasonable?
Sun, 2013-04-28 15:08
It's perfectly reasonable. This might seem to contradict the comment I posted below, but I wish the White House would have and would still make the case for things like this. What's funny is that if the income cap on social security taxes was removed, the crunch coming down on it would be greatly alleviated.
Sun, 2013-04-28 14:53
The attacks from the left that Obama is some kind of austerity monster are getting tiresome. Not because austerity hasn't happened in the United State, it has. But the president is not the source of it, and thinkers like Mr. Kuttner are smart enough to know this. For whatever reason, they still prefer to angrily jab at the wrong source. The right source, as we all know, is the neoconservative Republicans in Congress that forced the sequester through a long chain of events that started when they resorted to economic terrorism over the debt ceiling in 2011. I'll entertain the idea that the White House should have been more willing to play hard ball, but it's not at all clear more brinksmanship would have been good in the end for the elderly, poor and middle class- the very people this author and others in his camp claim to be looking out for.
That being said, I think the White House made a huge error in not getting more revenue in the fiscal cliff deal, and miscalculated badly that they'd be able to get more later. Hopefully the next time (if the opportunity comes up again) they have a chance for a big win, they take it for all they can get.
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FLL: How Do You Practice at Home?
FLL teams can purchase extra mats by buying additional field kits. However, these kits aren't available to individual teams after the registration period closes.
What creative ways do your team members use to practice at home?
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- Robolab 2.9 said...
In the first few weeks (after our teamwork/gracious profesionalsim speech), we get the resources from the awesome TechBrick website and plan our missions using the little print out mats, drawing diagrams of what we think will work, and writing pseudo programs.(http://www.techbrick.com/Lego/LEGO2008/index.html)
After our robot's work is on its way, we start assigning research as "homework". Each member recieves an assignment they need to complete at home. Since we meet twice a week, one meeting is dedicated to robot, and one is for putting together what we researched.
A week or so left to competition, we being to practice daily (or, however much we can)... what time we have at home is rest time. :)
This is how we do it... what about you?
- Nov 26, 2008, 11:18:00 AM
- Rick Rhodes said...
Thanks, Richard.
The two teams here practice twice a week together and several times a week together just prior to matches.
Several team members find it advantageous to practice solo with the robot at home.
Has anyone found it advantageous to purchase extra mats at the beginning of the season? (The teams here didn't, but wished they had).
- Nov 26, 2008, 12:26:00 PM
The FLL website says: "The Field Setup Kit contains the rollout mat and mission models that teams need for participation in the robot game portion of FLL. Each team is only allowed to purchase one Field Setup Kit."
So if a team wants two field kits, it must pay two registration fees ($200 each) and two field kit fees ($65 each).
I have always thought that if a team is allowed to purchase two robot kits, it should be allowed to purchase two field kits, but I guess it would be too hard to predict how many kits to manufacture, and unsold kits couldn't be reused the next year.
Linda Zoe
- Nov 26, 2008, 1:25:00 PM
- Robolab 2.9 said...
"Several team members find it advantageous to practice solo with the robot at home."
Are they just practicing running, or doing the actual developement? If it's the developement... how do you transport all the materials (the hundreds of pieces) and everything? We could never do this because we never found a way to move everything from house to house.
"...but I guess it would be too hard to predict how many kits to manufacture, and unsold kits couldn't be reused the next year."
I agree that they can't reuse them next year... but so many teams want a practice kit or something to use over the summer, or a solo kid that doesn't belong to team wants to play. (this was me for a while)
- Nov 26, 2008, 1:40:00 PM
- Rick Rhodes said...
The reason kids can practice individually at home is that each team member was provided an education kit that they could use solely at home. (These are in addition to the team kits they use for practice).
All of this is thanks to a corporation in town which sponsors the entire team. (I know that not every team has this advantage).
Kids have traced sections of the mat on paper and use those at home. They also take measurements of the mat and then run the "course" on their home floor. However, both of these methods are cumbersome.
I just wondered how other people ran the course at home, if they had the opportunity.
Linda: I hope Lego Ed can find a way to provide field mats on an "a la carte" basis, instead of making teams purchase extra registrations as well. But I do see the supply/demand problems that could result from a la carte purchases.
- Nov 27, 2008, 2:16:00 AM
I've wondered about the possibility of using the previous year's mat by turning it over and using colored markers to draw the new challenge graphics on the back. There's always leftover duolock to attach mission models, and some of them could be built from the team's stockpile of assorted LEGOs. For instance, this year we could use the red and blue balls and rubber tire rings that come with the NXT robot, any minifigs, and the reservoir, levees, and gate use common parts. Any similar-sized bricks could be used to represent the bike, insulation, laptop, and snowmobile, and as long as you had the right height and distance, the ice core could be replicated. The only hard to mimic items would be the house, levee tester, drilling machine, ice sheet, ice buoy, and polar bear. But you could have enough items to work with to make the effort worthwhile.
Linda Zoe
- Nov 27, 2008, 3:45:00 AM
- David Levy said...
"What creative ways do your team members use to practice at home?"
The Robot Game is only 25% of the score. So if anyone on your team has the incentive to put in extra time at home then it is usually beneficial to have them work on
1) The research project
a) their end of the research
b) practicing their end of the presentation ( i.e. a script)
2) teamwork: studying the FLL sites and learning about gracious professionalism - or just reading about how to conduct oneself as a good team player.
3) Robot Design:
a) LEGO Digital Designer attachment or robot chassis mock ups
b) programming flow documentation
c) Programming various sensors without FLL mat surfaces
d) button sensor techniques to to combine programs
e) myblock code refactoring
f) fine tune datalogging and other debugging techniques
g) robot arm attachments prototypes ( You don't need an FLL model to do this. You just need to prove that you can move an arm in a desired direction.)
4) online collaboration
a) meeting minutes
b) email latest source code to entire team
In short, there are many areas not related to the table that individuals can focus on. So if you have team members that are willing to work at home then there are plenty of activities that you can delegate to those members outside of the regular practices.
David Levy
3rd year Div 1 Coach.
Reston VA USA
- Nov 27, 2008, 4:51:00 AM
- Fay Rhodes said...
This is very helpful advice. I'm sharing it will all of my co-leaders.
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Jewish Babylonia Between Persia and Roman Palestine (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006)
Jewish Culture and Society Under the Christian Roman Empire (Leuven: Peeters Press, 2003) (co-edited with Dr. Seth Schwartz, JTS)
The Sage in Jewish Society of Late Antiquity (London: Routledge Press, 1999)
Sages, Stories, Authors, and Editors in Rabbinic Babylonia (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1994)
The Redaction of the Babylonian Talmud: Amoraic or Saboraic? (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1989)
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When it comes to your choice of hotels in Nashville, your options are as diverse as the music in this grand city. Whether seeking upscale luxury, trendy boutique, family-friendly, or budget accommodations, Nashville has it all. The hotels in Nashville are often considered home to entertainment executives, celebrities, and visitors from around the world.
For a bit of history and true Southern hospitality, check out The Hermitage Hotel – Nashville's only AAA five-diamond hotel nestled in the heart of downtown. There are also a number of other luxury hotels located in and around downtown, which is a center for the entertainment district and within walking distance to the famous Country Music Hall of Fame. Home to "SoBro" (South of Broadway), Music Row, and "The District," downtown is a great place to stay if you are seeking vibrant entertainment, trendy restaurants and clubs, and fabulous shopping. The new state-of-the-art Music City Center is located downtown and hosts 1,200,000 square feet of meeting space and exhibit options for business travel.
Another main attraction in Nashville is the Grand Ole Opry. People travel from across the globe to witness performances at this American treasure, and many hotel accommodations are conveniently located to suit everyone's taste and budget. The Gaylord Opryland Hotel & Convention Center is nearby, with great amenities and hours of entertainment for the entire family.
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It might be the current economic situation, or possibly because it's an election year or maybe we have all just taken a good look at our waistline, but America seems to minimizing their propensity for super sizing. Small is the new big, with a call to arms to shrink everything from the government right down to the size of a New Yorker's favorite carbonated beverage.
One might question the logic behind imposing limits on a Big Gulp, but who among us wouldn't like to drop a few pounds? In many cases, less really is more, but this particular build up isn't one of those instances. In fact, it's all about more, as in more cubes, more cam and more compression--but we didn't stop there. In keeping with the theme, we even added a large blower. Usually reserved for big-block applications, our big-inch, small-block was topped with nothing less than a dual-quad inducted, 8-71 supercharger from Weiand. Loud and proud, nothing screams "look at me" like an 8-71 sticking out of the hood. The question now was did the massive blower have the bite to back the bark? Was it really worth the effort to "Go Big?"
While it is possible to build small-blocks exceeding 450 inches, doing so requires a great many custom components. Our adventure was more of an off-the-shelf variety, including the eventual displacement of our stroker assembly. Not content with a mere 350 inches, we stepped up to the most common of all small-block stroker dimensions, 383 ci. This was achieved in the usual fashion, by combining a 4.03-inch bore with a 3.75-inch stroke. Knowing boost was also on the list, we opted for a 4340 forged steel stroker crank from Scat matched with a set of its 6.0-inch I-beam rods.
Completing the stroker rotating assembly was a set of forged flat-top pistons from JE and matching rings. Some may question the use of (relatively) high-compression flat-top pistons on a blower motor, but elevated static compression improves off-boost power and fuel economy, to say nothing of maximizing overall power. The trade of is it makes octane rating and tuning more critical. Not wanting to use a production block, we instead chose a new four-bolt race block from Procomp Electronics. Available with either a 4.030- or 4.125-inch bore, we chose the smaller of the two. The beefy block was on hand to withstand the prodigious power offered by the blown stroker.
The camshaft all but determines the personality or more accurately the power curve of the motor. Small cams maximize low-speed power (torque) production, while more aggressive profiles shift power production higher in the rev range. Looking for big power numbers from our 383, we chose our cam accordingly. Choosing a cam from the Crane catalog, we selected one of its powerful solid roller profiles. The Crane cam offered a 0.670/0.625 lift split, a 260/268 duration split and 108-degree lobe separation angle.
We know blower cam guys out there might be wondering where the big intake-to-exhaust split or where the wide LSA are, but believe us, this cam worked well both normally aspirated and supercharged. We've even tested this profile against a so-called blower grind and found the NA cam worked better in both applications. The high-lift, roller cam was ideally suited to the impressive flow rates offered by our cylinder heads. Crane also supplied the roller lifters and 1.5 ratio Gold roller rockers. With our cubes, cam and compression taken care of, it was time to address the induction system. Obviously the stroker would eventually be topped by the massive 8-71 supercharger from Weiand, but we also wanted to break in the motor and make a few pulls in normally aspirated guise to establish a baseline. Looking to optimize the induction system, we combined a set of Super 23 230 heads from Trick Flow Specialties with a single-plane intake from Dart.


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Fire Child: The Life & Magic of Maxine Sanders 'Witch Queen', by Maxine Sanders
Mandrake, 9781869928780, 309 pp., 2008
I have been waiting for this book to be written for years, if not decades. As I have said in previous reviews, we need more autobiographies (as well as biographies) concerning those people who helped to bring our religion out of the broom closet. We already had Gerald Gardner: Witch and King of the Witches: The World of Alex Sanders as well as several books relating the life and works of George Pickingill, Doreen Valiente, Sybil Leek, and more modern practitioners such as Fiona Horne. The Internet has made it easy to find out about individuals' actions. Their motivations, however, may not be so easily determined.
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Having failed at history when pronouncing that FDR eased Great Depression fears by going on television...which was a huge gaffe because he forgot to mention the FACT that he borrowed Doc Brown's flux capacitor from Marty in 1955...because he didn't die in 1945, he went back to the future.
In 1955 he stole a TV, went back to the 30's, installed a ramp on it and then proceeded to wheel himself up and give speeches easing people's economic fears ON TELEVISION....but I digress...
So Biden failed at history, no matter how plausible the scenario I present to help him out might be. So now he goes where no professional comedian dares to go...rape jokes.
The vice president, known for speaking his mind and at times putting his foot in his mouth, said that Republicans who want to cut spending while at the same time cutting taxes for the wealthy are similar to rape apologists...
It's amazing how these Republicans, the right wing of this party – whose philosophy threw us into this God-awful hole we're in, gave us the tremendous deficit we've inherited – that they're now using, now attempting to use, the very economic condition they have created to blame the victim – whether it's organized labor or ordinary middle-class working men and women. It's bizarre. It's bizarre."
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Wait, he wasn't joking? Um.......ok?
First of all, if Biden truly "spoke his mind" as much as the media would like us to think he does, he would actually be a mute.
Second, conservatives philosophical view of tax cuts for anyone, including the rich, thus "forcing" the government to run deficits (in their view, not mine) is now tantamount to encouraging rape?
Laslty, if we want to humor Biden and follow this logic...who's doing the one doing raping here? If the unions and taxpayers are the victims, and the GOP is excusing it, neither can be the perp.
The only logical conclusion would be the ones in this equation not mentioned by Biden, the Democrats.
In light of this revelation I'm finding myself willing, for the first time ever, to compromise with a liberal by agreeing with Biden that the Democratic Party rapes taxpayers assets off. Also, the GOP should stop blaming them for voting liberal and come up with better pickup lines so they don't get seduced by the "hope" President Roofie drops into their drink.
In the end this is really just another example of media bias, because Biden can't actually "put his foot in his mouth" unless he says something ridiculously stupid.


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text: Protect Yourself from Carbon Monoxide Poisoning This Winter By Lindell Weaver MD November 12, 2014 As the cooler weather approaches and winter's chilly days and nights loom, more people are turning on their furnace for the first time. With that change, hospitals usually see an increase in the number of people who are poisoned by carbon monoxide due to faulty furnaces, using equipment or engines indoors, or limiting outside ventilation. Read More


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Nokia C7
Durable metal casing, good camera, outstanding battery life
Slightly dated design, clunky user interface, awkward keyboard
We first got our hands on the Nokia C7 back in September where we observed that the handset is quite difficult to place. Although it's a smartphone, it's not as highly specced as the likes of the Nokia N8, but it sits somewhere above the maker's C6 so at least Nokia can be said to be sticking to its promise of providing phones for all budgets and tastes.
Although the design generally looks a tiny bit dated, the phone has a premium feel to it, courtesy of the nicely designed metal backplate which feels very cool to the touch. However, it does have the tendency to pick up dust and fingerprints, much like the front of the phone. Measuring just 10.5mm deep, the handset boasts a slender profile, while the 117.3 x 56.8mm dimensions mean that it is relatively compact, if a little on the long side. Weighing in at 130g, the phone isn't exactly a featherweight but this does make it feel reassuringly robust and you'll certainly notice if it falls out of your pocket - it'll probably survive the fall too.
The C7 is available in a choice of colours including Frosty metal (silver) and Mocha, while our review sample was of the Charcoal black variety. As we've already mentioned, the design looks a little dated when compared to the top-tier smartphones on the market, although the large screen surrounded by a reflective bezel looks fairly slick. Apart from the touchscreen, the front of the phone includes a small menu button under the screen along with Call and End Call keys. There's also a front-facing camera in the top-right hand corner.
The top edge of the handset is home to the power button, along with a 3.5mm port and a Micro-USB connector. On the left-hand edge you'll find the charger connector, while the right-hand edge reveals volume up/zoom in and volume down/zoom out keys, along with a voice key and the familiar Nokia lock switch. There's also a dedicated button for the camera mode.
The 3.5-inch AMOLED screen is well-sized and performs particularly well in brightly lit conditions, partly thanks to the AMOLED technology and partly because of the ambient light detector that automatically adjusts the backlight.
Thankfully, the handset has a capacitive touchscreen rather than the resistive technology found on older Nokia models. The C7 does enable you to pinch-zoom your way around the web, but we found this to be a little sluggish and not as responsive as we would have liked.
Although not the highest resolution in the market, the 640 x 360 pixels offered by the C7 do a perfectly reasonable job of rendering web graphics with vibrant colours. Edges can get a little blurry as you zoom in but generally text is clear and easy to read. Video quality isn't great - pictures tend to look quite pixelated and definition is almost completely lost on darker scenes.
The web browser is functional, if a little clunky and awkward to use. The infuriating alphanumeric keyboard doesn't help things along much either, although you do have the option of turning the phone round into a landscape position which offers up a QWERTY keyboard. However, the keyboard isn't especially easy to use as the buttons are quite small and they're also lined up squarely, rather than the slightly staggered layout that is usually used on QWERTY keyboards. Nokia also has one of the most annoying predictive text systems known to man - we'd advise turning it off.
The C7 has 8GB of built-in memory which, although not a huge amount, should be enough for most users. If you want to extend the memory capabilities of the phone then you can use a microSD card (up to 32GB), although this isn't supplied so you'll need to splash some more cash to get yourself fully kitted out.
The C7 features Nokia's Symbian 3 OS, which didn't impress us too much when we reviewed the N8. It's such hard work it's enough to make you cry - set-up takes an age and the handy tips and messages are more of a hinderance than a help. The inconsistencies in the operation mean that the interface just doesn't feel at all intuitive and even after several days with the phone, you'll still find yourself puzzling through the menus. Having said that, it's not totally unusable. If you're an ardent Nokia user then this familiar approach may suit you just fine, but if you've had the chance to play around with any other smartphones then it will be immediately apparent that Nokia's OS just isn't as easy to use as its main competitors.
However, it does offer you a customisable home screen, which will be good news to many. The system enables you to add shortcuts to your favourite features and you can also set up your email so that you can see your latest messages in real time. The downside is that the layout isn't very flexible so your widgets have to be placed in predetermined blocks. This can be a bit annoying, especially when the size of the boxes doesn't match the size of the links or shortcuts that you're trying to put into them. There's also a social networking app that enables you to update your Facebook status, as well as Tweet and keep abreast of your friends' and followers' updates. It's a nice idea, but trying to cram so much into a such a small space doesn't really work that well.
The homescreen also offers direct access to Nokia's Ovi Store where you can browse and buy apps to download for your phone. The choice is slightly limited - don't expect to find the same number of apps that you would on the Apple App Store - but there are some good ones (free ones, too) if you manage to get some quality browsing time in. The C7 also offers free Ovi maps and access to the Ovi music store, where you can download tracks.
The handset enables you to add several email accounts, although if you've got more than one Microsoft Exchange account then you're out of luck as the C7 can only cope with one. It also seems that although you can sync your Ovi calendar to the web, it won't hook up with other email services such as Gmail or Hotmail.
When used for its primary function as a telephone, the handset works well. It is perfectly comfortable to use, and as it is fairly slim and not too wide, so easy to operate one-handed. Voice calls were very clear, and there was no sign of any muffled voices either at our end or from the people we were calling.
The phone's external speaker is reasonable enough, although it does sound rather tinny when the volume is turned up and the bass is almost non-existent when playing music or movie clips. Having said, that it works perfectly well for using the speakerphone on voice calls and is certainly loud enough to annoy people on the bus.
The C7 boasts an 8-megapixel camera which is a fair bit better than many other smartphones around, and it also boasts heavy-duty dual LED flash. The camera interface is easy to use and enables you to adjust the sharpness and contrast while also picking from a selection of scene modes such as Landscape and Night. You can also give your pictures a sepia tint or choose from the black and white or contrast-heavy Vivid setting. We found the pictures to be fairly decent, although the camera didn't perform too well on a gloomy day. Obviously the snapper isn't as good as a dedicated camera, but certainly decent enough for taking snaps to post to Facebook and Twitter. However, it is rather annoying that you can only send images directly from your gallery via MMS or Bluetooth, as there's no option for email. To send an image this way, you'll need to go into the email client and attach the image to your message in the normal way.
The C7 also features a secondary, front-facing 640 x 480 camera. The handset can shoot 16:9 video footage in 720p resolution at 25fps and you can alter the settings for video light, white balance, and colour tone and also choose from a variety of scene modes, as with the camera funciton.
One of the most impressive things about the C7, along with it's tank-like chassis, is its outstanding battery life. Smartphone users who are used to having to charge their mobiles daily will be stunned by the C7's capacity to cling on to battery charge as if it's life depended on it (which, in a sense, it does).
You can pick up the C7 for free on a contract from £25 a month while the PAYG option will mean shelling out £299. If you want your handset untethered then you can get one SIM free for £329.
We find the general usability of the latest Nokia phones to be fairly cumbersome and not very intuitive at all. If you're a seasoned Nokia user then this might not be a problem, but if you expect better functionality from your mobile then the C7 may not be the phone for you. Although the overall design of the handset look a little dated when compared to those from rival brands, we were inpressed by the solid build quality and the metal casing on the back. We also liked the camera (and powerful dual-flash), while the exceptional battery life is also an important advantage. However, the general awkwardness of the user interface means that it's hard to recommend this phone over others. But, if you like Nokia hardware and this is the kind of budget that you're looking at, then you should be fine.


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I've just been reading here about the four compact books that I have (and others haven't) and that got me thinking about what I own that may be of interest. I believe I have versions of the majority TP's ever written apart from 'Once More With Footnotes' and no doubt something else.
I have a rather cool one off SFX magazine's entitled 'The Authorised Terry Pratchett's Discworld Magazine' from '97 I believe, complete with a double sided poster of the Turtle itself and the Maskerade artwork. which is nice. About ten years ago I found a large print edition of 'Truckers' from 'Lythway Books-Chivers Press' in a second hand shop that I've never heard of or seen since.
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Hey guys I really need some advice on this. I been out of work since Oct and I been pretty rusty in the tech side of things and I been applying nonstop. As of today I have a interview for on the jobs I applied for which is called Post Deployment Support Tech. To be honest I'm not to familiar with what a deployment tech is. However, from the description it sounds like something I can handle. If someone can break it down for me to understand a little better please do so. The phone interview is going to happen in a couple of days and I dont want to sound like I dont know anything about the position.
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should be on the 3 - 4 years side of this description and have worked with large quantities of PC refreshes. Various Hours: Weekdays (between 6 a.m. - 6 p.m.) depending on migration deployment schedule. It is also possible that the schedule could include weekends. This role will work directly with the customers the first 2 days following the migration of the customer machine to Windows 7, will meet with each customer to ensure customer fully completes their 1st day checklist and record any problems or issues for each customer and troubleshoot issues for resolution with an escalation matrix for how types of issues should be resolved. This role would also perform hard drive wipes as time permits of customers old PC for PCs that require hardware replacement and inventory of old PCs for removal from the site.
Maintains, analyzes, troubleshoots, and repairs computer systems, hardware and computer peripherals. Documents, maintains, upgrades or replaces hardware and software systems. Supports and maintains user account information including rights, security and systems groups. Trains employees, identifies, analyzes, and repairs product failures, orders and replaces parts as needed. Determines and recommends which products or services best fit the customers' needs. May require an associate's degree or its equivalent. Requires at least 2 - 4 years of experience in the field or in a related area. Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of complicated tasks.


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Seeing how popular the Xbox and PS3 threads are, perhaps it might be a good idea to have one for the mobile platforms.
So if you spot any deals for iOS, WP7, or Android, post them here Although it might be wise to still create separate threads for new releases.
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And The Dream Wedding Ring Style Is…
Let's be honest. ALL of the rings voted on for our Dream Wedding couple Sierra and Andre were ga-gorgeous. But there had to be a winning style…. and the winner is the classic engagement ring set!
Here, the winning set up close (Bride's Ring Tacori Dantela Collection: Platinum Pave Diamond Band; Groom's Ring Michael C. Fina Soho Collection: Titanium Polished Band)
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