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Forbes 85th Anniversary
Pioneers Die Broke
John Steele Gordon Michael Maiello,
Inventive geniuseshave a way of coming to bad ends, while theirimitators amassfortunes.
John Steele Gordon
Gary Kildall
created the first operating system for personal computers--nearly a decade before
Bill Gates
signed his epochal deal with
) for MS-DOS. Gates went on to become the world's richest man; Kildall died in a brawl, scarcely remembered outside Silicon Valley for his seminal contribution.
Dan Bricklin
created the first spreadsheet program, VisiCalc, in 1979. After a costly legal spat alongside partner
Bob Frankston
, Bricklin sold out for less than $3 million to
, which created a nine-figure fortune for
Mitch Kapor
from its VisiCalc imitation called 1-2-3. And even that killer app didn't make the really big bucks for its owners. The biggest spreadsheet fortune wound up in the coffers of Gates'
), whose 1-2-3 knockoff, Excel, is the market leader today.
Why is it that innovators die poor--while imitators succeed beyond all measure?
There are notable exceptions.
Thomas A. Edison
, an inventive genius but also a shrewd entrepreneur, was a founder of what became the
General Electric Co.
) At his death in 1931 he left a $12 million estate, big enough to have put him on The FORBES 400 list, had it then existed.
But his rival and, some would argue, intellectual superior,
Nikola Tesla
, spent his last years feeding pigeons outside New York's Public Library, and died nearly penniless. With more than 700 patents to his name, Tesla invented radio, the coil transformer, wireless communication, fluorescent lights and the alternating-current motor, which allowed electricity to flow over long distances. He had about as much business savvy as a puppy; he might have been fabulously wealthy had he not signed away AC royalties to George Westinghouse and patent rights to a wireless broadcasting system to J.P. Morgan.
Indeed, the history of American commerce is replete with visionaries who couldn't turn their prodigious creations into commensurate bank accounts. Some were temperamentally unsuited to be ruthless businessmen. Maybe Bricklin is in that category. "I'm not rich because I invented VisiCalc, but I feel that I've made a change in the world," he said in 1985. "That's a satisfaction money can't buy."
Other inventors, like
Charles Goodyear
, were easy prey for crooks. "The history of invention," he wrote in the 1850s, "proves that whoever attempts by inventions to improve the conditions of others, usually impairs his own, except so far as he may add to his happiness from the satisfaction of having done good to others."
Goodyear was a dreamer, careless of his appearance and indifferent to money. His obsession, of course, was rubber. The substance had been known to the Western world since Columbus brought it back on his second voyage, but it had no practical use until the 18th century, when it was found that rubber removed pencil marks from paper--the origin of the word "rubber."
In the early 19th century the Scotsman
Charles Macintosh
developed a process for making waterproof fabric by putting a layer of rubber between two layers of cloth. It was the first important use of rubber, and the misspelled "mackintosh" was soon in great demand in Britain's rainy climate. By the 1830s the head of Charles Macintosh & Co. was
Thomas Hancock
, the most important person in Britain's growing rubber industry.
A small rubber boom developed in both Britain and America as companies sought to utilize its remarkable qualities of elasticity and water repellency. But rubber had many drawbacks. For one thing it was smelly, a bit like the bottom of a compost pile. But far worse, it melted at high temperatures and became brittle at low ones. This was less of a problem in the temperate climate of England, but in the U.S. it was a fatal flaw. Goodyear decided that he was going to solve this problem.
For ten years Goodyear labored to find the answer. Time and time again he thought he had it, only to find that he had failed again. The hardware business he ran with his father went bankrupt, and he often found himself arrested for debt and thrown into jail. His family sometimes did not have enough to eat, but Goodyear soldiered on, turning the kitchen of wherever he was living into a laboratory, commandeering pots and pans, pawning the furniture when necessary to raise money to continue his experiments, borrowing from anyone foolish enough to lend to him.
In 1839 a happy accident gave him the answer. He had mixed rubber with sulphur and white lead, and dropped some on the kitchen stove. Instead of melting, it hardened. But Goodyear wasn't a trained chemist (the chemistry of rubber was completely understood only well into the 20th century). It took him several more years to find the right combination of rubber, solvent, sulphur, white lead and heat that could be turned into an industrial process.
Visions of wealth danced in Goodyear's head, but he made a fatal mistake. He sent samples to Thomas Hancock without filing for a patent in Britain, which has a strict first-to-file rule for granting patents. He thought the secret was safe and asked for £50,000--an enormous sum then--as the price of sharing it. But Hancock, deeply knowledgeable about rubber and its limitations, realized instantly the significance of Goodyear's achievement. He proceeded to steal it.
Reverse-engineering the samples Goodyear had sent him, Hancock filed for a patent in Britain in 1844, a few months before Goodyear, who had obtained patents in both the U.S. and France. But the British market--in the mid-19th century, the most important in the world--was denied to Goodyear.
His brother-in-law paid Goodyear a flat fee of $50,000 for the American patent rights and founded what would grow into
. The
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
), founded nearly 40 years after Goodyear's death in 1860, was only named in his honor. Despite its effect on the future of the world economy, all that Charles Goodyear's great invention earned him was immortality.
Gary Kildall maintained for years that Bill Gates had hoodwinked him when it came to winning the standard operating system for IBM, on the verge of introducing its first PC. At the least, he was outmaneuvered by a brilliant opportunist who, himself a software engineer of some prowess, could foresee future applications that may have eluded--or failed to interest--Kildall.
Kildall was more interested in solving problems than in scoring profits. A professor of computer science at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., he convinced a fledgling Intel in 1972 to give him the prototype of its Sim-4 chip, which wouldn't be available to the public for another four years. Out of this collaboration came Kildall's Control Program for Microcomputers--or CP/M, the first operating system for microprocessors, which he sold to programmers. In 1976 Kildall and his wife, Dorothy McEwen, founded Digital Research International, to sell CP/M software and language compilers.
All the while Gates and
Paul Allen
were launching Microsoft and trying to adapt the Basic programming language invented by others in 1964 to the forerunner of the PC, the Altair 8800. By 1976 Gates had emerged as one of the most serious (and contentious) capitalists in the subculture of geeks who freely shared new ideas in a group called the Home Brew Computer Club, cofounded by Kildall. "Who can afford to do professional work for nothing?" Gates complained in an open letter to the club. He claimed he'd spent $40,000 in computer time developing Basic, but that, because only one in ten Altair owners paid for the software, his compensation amounted to $2 an hour. "There is very little incentive to make this software available to hobbyists," he wrote. "Most directly, the thing you do is theft."
The two software pioneers collided in 1980. That's when IBM launched its top-secret program, Project Chess, to develop its PC. It needed an operating system and, surely, CP/M would have fit the bill. But at the time Kildall was onto a new problem--building a compiler for a programming language called PL-1, designed by IBM.
What happened next is still a matter of dispute. IBM sent a team to Redmond, Wash. for help on Project Chess, according to Michael S. Malone's
Infinite Loop
, 1999). Why Big Blue stooped to little Microsoft, Malone suggests, is explained by the fact that Gates' mother, Mary, sat on the board of the United Way of America alongside IBM Chairman John Opel. After two meetings held under promises of confidentiality, IBM offered a hardware and software consulting deal. It wanted rights to a desktop operating system for a small sum; Gates was willing to oblige--on condition that he be given rights to sell copies to other computer makers for whatever the traffic would bear.
IBMalso asked about CP/M: Could it buy the system from Gates & Co.? Gates explained that IBM would have to deal with Kildall and offered to set up the meeting. Gates' account is that he called Kildall and told him that "important customers" were going to visit and that he should "treat them right." A nondisclosure agreement prevented him from offering more detail.
Kildall disputed this account. He claimed Gates had not impressed on him the importance of the meeting--and so Kildall skipped it for another appointment in San Jose, leaving the IBMers in the hands of McEwan, who handled hardware accounts. She refused to sign a nondisclosure agreement without Kildall's knowledge, and so IBM left Digital Research without a word about Project Chess.
With Kildall's apparent default, IBM approached Microsoft for an operating system. It didn't have one. But Paul Allen knew someone who did: his friend
Tim Paterson
at tiny Seattle Computer Products--whose SCP-DOS, designed to run on the 8086 microchip, Gates bought for $75,000. Kildall was shocked when he learned that Microsoft had sold an operating system to IBM; he assumed he had a gentleman's agreement with Gates to provide CP/M to supplement programming languages like Basic.
IBM eventually got in touch with Kildall, report Stephen Manes and Paul Andrew in
), 1993). But Kildall, they speculate, was wary of signing rights over to IBM because it was his only product at the time. Moreover, he was unable to supply a price or a delivery date for the newest version of his operating system, the CP/M-86.
It ended bitterly. Kildall threatened to sue IBM over using Microsoft's operating system (renamed MS-DOS), which he believed had been ripped off from his own CP/M. To forestall legal action, IBM offered consumers the choice of either CP/M or MS-DOS. But at $240, six times the price of MS-DOS, CP/M was quickly headed for extinction. Kildall sold Digital Research to Novell in 1991. Three years later he died in a barroom confrontation with bikers.
Kildall may not have seen the implications of his software until it was too late. Other inventors fail to reap the rewards of their ideas since the very qualities that make them so creative--original thinking, obsessive concentration on one goal, detachment from everyday concerns--make it difficult for them to deal with the real, often cruel, world.
In 1967
Robert Kearns
invented the intermittent windshield wiper, now standard equipment on automobiles. He took the idea to the
Ford Motor Co.
) in hopes of selling the device. After several years of inconclusive talks, Ford began offering the intermittent wipers on various models but without licensing the invention from Kearns, who sued. He finally settled with Ford for $10.2 million and also won a suit against
) but lost his cases against
General Motors
) and foreign manufacturers. The mess dragged on for more than 20 years; with legal meters ticking along steadily, the lawyers ended up as the chief beneficiaries.
Spinning machinery developed in the 18th century rendered cotton cloth made from fiber cheaper than wool. But cotton remained expensive, because removing the seeds embedded in the cotton boll, called ginning, was extremely labor-intensive. A field hand could pick about 50 pounds of cotton bolls a day, but removing the sticky seeds from that much cotton took a single worker a full 25 days' labor.
Eli Whitney
revolutionized the textile industry by inventing the cotton gin in 1792. But he never got really rich from the tool. It wasn't because someone stole his patent. Instead, the device was so simple that its patent was nearly impossible to enforce. The gin consisted of nothing more than a wooden roller studded with nails set half an inch apart. The nails pulled the cotton lint through a comb too fine to allow the seeds to pass, and a revolving brush then swept the lint off the nails and into a compartment. With the cotton gin a worker could clean 50 pounds of raw cotton a day.
With the labor component of ginning cotton reduced by a factor of 25, the price of cotton cloth plummeted and demand soared, driving the early Industrial Revolution in both England and New England. The American South turned out to be the best place on earth to grow the short-staple cotton that was best suited to Whitney's invention, and a vast cotton boom ensued. The U.S. exported 2 million pounds of cotton to Europe in 1794. By 1860 it exported 1.8 billion pounds, constituting more than half the dollar value of all American exports.
By the time Whitney received a patent on an improved version of the gin in March 1794, gins were already widely in use, easily constructed by any competent carpenter. Whitney and a partner set up a factory in New Haven, Conn. But the factory soon burned down and, while rebuilt, was unable to compete with nearly ubiquitous homebuilt gins. Much of Whitney's time was taken up with lawsuits seeking to enforce an unenforceable patent.
Edwin H. Armstrong
already had two notable inventions--the regenerative and the superheterodyne circuits, which amplified radio signals--by the time he won a patent for a wide-band frequency modulation (FM) system (
p. 138
). But he spent the rest of his life fighting the Federal Communications Commission for spectrum rights and RCA's
David Sarnoff
, who first ignored FM, then tried to buy out Armstrong and finally installed FM receivers in its TV sets without a license. Broke and despondent, Armstrong jumped from the window of his 13th floor New York City apartment.
Some of the greatest failures to exploit brilliant technologies have befallen not individuals but hidebound corporations. The award for signal ineptitude in this respect must go to
) Palo Alto Research Center. Founded as a research division in 1970, PARC invented many of what are now regarded as the essential attributes of the personal computer: the graphical user interface, the desktop concept, files and folders, multiple windows, Wysiwyg word processing, the Ethernet, the laser printer and a more advanced version of the mouse. And yet, incredibly,
) capitalized on none of these inventions, because its managers were fixated on how to improve its photocopier business. PARC tried to incorporate some of its ideas into the Alto, a computer system that would have retailed for $17,000--had it ever come to market. Xerox left others, Microsoft and
Apple Computer
) among them, to commercialize its discoveries.
A few dreamers have eventually been dealt a great hand--fortuitously. Scottish-born
Alexander Graham Bell
offered to sell his patent on the telephone to Western Union in 1876 for a flat $100,000. He was turned down; the company didn't think the device had much of a future. More fortunate still, Bell's father-in-law,
Gardiner Hubbard
, went on to found
) and to exploit Bell's creation.
One last happy exception: the story of
Gordon Gould
. This physicist, who worked on the Manhattan Project, had a classic eureka moment as he lay tossing in bed one Saturday night, Nov. 9, 1957. He had conceived of the laser (an acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation"). He spent the rest of the night and the weekend writing a description, sketching necessary components and describing its many possible practical applications. He took his notebook to a nearby candy store where the proprietor, a notary public, witnessed it. According to Peter Franken, a physics professor at the University of Arizona, the notebook is incredible. "It's as if God came down and whispered in Gordon's ear and said, 'Listen, Buddy, this is what you're going to do.'"
Gould, to be sure, was no 19th-century-style tinkerer when he invented the laser. He was a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University, with access to major laboratory facilities. But he made a 19th-century tinkerer's mistake. "I was so ignorant of the whole patent procedure that I … [thought] I had to build a model in order to get a patent." He didn't file until 1959, by which time scientists at Bell Labs had already beat him to it. Fortunately for Gould, American patent law favors the first to conceive, not the first to file.
It would take Gould 30 years and millions of dollars to finally establish his priority in inventing the laser and to be awarded patents on its major components. Only in 1987 did the legal dust completely settle. The good news, however, was that the delay made him far richer than he otherwise might have been. Had his patents been issued promptly and been uncontested, they would have expired before many of the most remunerative uses--from supermarket scanners and weapons systems to scientific instruments and CD and DVD players--had come to commercial fruition.
John Steele Gordon
is the author of five books on U.S. business and a contributing editor of
American Heritage


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"Our core objective is to ensure public safety because we want to end this pollution," Environment Minister Philippe Martin said yesterday, warning that the air quality was likely to worsen today.
Last week, European Environment Agency (EEA) figures for Thursday showed there were 147 microgrammes of particulate matter (PM) per cubic metre of air in Paris, which compared with 114 in Brussels, 104 in Amsterdam, 81 in Berlin and 79.7 in London.
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Embodied Cognition
By Lawrence Shapiro
Routledge – 2011 – 242 pages
Series: New Problems of Philosophy
Routledge – 2011 – 242 pages
Series: New Problems of Philosophy
Embodied cognition often challenges standard cognitive science. In this outstanding introduction, Lawrence Shapiro sets out the central themes and debates surrounding embodied cognition, explaining and assessing the work of many of the key figures in the field, including George Lakoff, Alva Noë, Andy Clark, and Arthur Glenberg.
Beginning with an outline of the theoretical and methodological commitments of standard cognitive science, Shapiro then examines philosophical and empirical arguments surrounding the traditional perspective. He introduces topics such as dynamic systems theory, ecological psychology, robotics, and connectionism, before addressing core issues in philosophy of mind such as mental representation and extended cognition.
Including helpful chapter summaries and annotated further reading at the end of each chapter, Embodied Cognition is essential reading for all students of philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive science.
Winner: 2013 American Philosophical Association Joseph P. Gittler Award for an outstanding contribution in the field of philosophy of the social sciences
"Embodied Cognition is sweeping the planet and Larry Shapiro has just written the first comprehensive treatment of this exciting and new research program. This book is now and for years to come will be unquestionably the best way for students and researchers alike, to gain access to and learn to evaluate this exciting, new research paradigm in cognitive science." - Fred Adams, University of Delaware, USA
"A must read for those who support the embodied program, those who question it, and those who are just trying to figure out what the heck it is. It's definitely on the reading list for my course in embodied cognition." - Arthur Glenberg, Arizona State University, USA
"Embodied Cognition provides a balanced and comprehensive introduction to the embodied cognition movement, but also much more. Shapiro is careful to sift empirical results from broader philosophical claims, and the concise, simple arguments for cognition's embodiment that he articulates will help advanced students and researchers assess the diverse literature on this hot topic in cognitive science." - Robert A. Wilson, University of Alberta, Canada
"Embodied Cognition is the first of its kind - a beautifully lucid and even-handed introduction to the many questions and issues that define the field of embodied cognition. Psychologists, neuroscientists, computer scientists, and philosophers should jump on this book. It promises to set the terms of debate in this exciting new enterprise for years to come." - Elliott Sober, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA
"Embodied Cognition is an outstanding introduction to this increasingly important topic in cognitive science. Written in a clear and lively style, with a critical approach, it is a strong contender for the most useful introductory text on any topic in all of cognitive science, and a genuine contribution to the scientific and philosophical literature on embodied cognition." - Kenneth Aizawa, Centenary College of Louisiana, USA
"Embodied cognition is a controversial topic, and extravagant claims have been made both for and against it … scientists would do well to pay attention when a philosopher produces an excellent monograph such as Embodied Cognition by Lawrence Shapiro. Shapiro is a philosopher with an impressive grasp of cognitive science, and he does a superbly thorough job of summarizing the relevant scholarship and evaluating the various claims that have been made." - David Manier, Lehman College, City University of New York, USA
"Shapiro's discussion of the dynamic systems approach to cognition in general, and the remarkable but difficult work of Randall Beer in particular, are careful and cogent, and will be of great help to students hoping to understand the main thrust of, and the debates sparked by, this still underappreciated research area. Similarly, I find his extended engagement with the extended mind hypothesis—and in particular the long and ongoing debate over whether we should believe that some of the constituents of cognitive processes lie outside the brain - to be clear and compelling. …The book represents a genuine achievement." – Michael L. Anderson, Journal of Consciousness Studies
"Shapiro is a philosopher with an impressive grasp of cognitive science, and he does a superbly thorough job of summarizing the relevant scholarship and evaluating the various claims that have been made. His writing is clear and persuasive, and he never seems tendentious. […] highly readable, evenhanded, and clear to a fault." - PsycCRITIQUES
Introduction 1. Standard Cognitive Science 2. Challenging Standard Cognitive Science 3. Conceptions of Embodiment 4. Embodied Cognition: The Conceptualization Hypothesis 5. Embodied Cognition: The Replacement Hypothesis 6. Embodied Cognition: The Constitution Hypothesis 7. Concluding Thoughts. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index
Lawrence Shapiro is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, USA. His research currently focuses on the issues and debates around embodied cognition. He is editor (with Brie Gertler) of Arguing About the Mind (2007), also available from Routledge.
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Description: By Lawrence Shapiro. Embodied cognition often challenges standard cognitive science. In this outstanding introduction, Lawrence Shapiro sets out the central themes and debates surrounding embodied cognition, explaining and assessing the work of many of the key figures in the...
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- Michael Roll (Piano)
- Raphael Wallfisch (Cello)
- Jean-Jacques Kantorow (Violin)
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In 1963, the youngest of 88 competitors, Michael Roll won the first Leeds International Piano Competition. Since that time his career has taken him worldwide, appearing under such conductors as Boulez, Masur, Haitink, Sir Colin Davis, Giulini, Leinsdorf, Sawallisch, Mehta, Frühbeck de Burgos, Sanderling, and Andrew Davis.
Jean-Jacques Kantorow is one of the outstanding French violinists of his generation. He quickly established himself not only on the European scene but also in the US & Canada. Among the many distinguished artists he worked with are Gidon Kremer, Krystan Zimerman, and Paul Tortelier.
Raphael Wallfisch stands out even in a generation that has produced more fine cellists than ever before. He has recorded a wide range of British cello concertos, including works by Finzi, Delius, Bax, Bliss, Moeran, Walton, and Kenneth Leighton as well as Britten's formidable Cello Symphony.
As pianist, recording artist, and conductor, Howard Shelley has enjoyed a distinguished career since his highly acclaimed London recital debut in 1971 and a televised Prom the same season.
"It offers some of the most well-rounded interpretations of Beethoven I've heard, some splendid sound, and a coupling, the Fourth Piano Concerto with the Triple Concerto, I've not found elsewhere. It makes a good package... the sonics are natural and realistic and highly listenable." -Classical Candor
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Works DetailsBeethoven, Ludwig van : Concerto for Piano no 4 in G major, Op. 58
- Performer: Michael Roll (Piano)
- Conductor: Howard Shelley
- Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Running Time: 32 min. 42 sec.
- Period Time: Classical
- Form: Concerto
- Written: 1805-1806
Beethoven, Ludwig van : Concerto for Piano, Violin and Cello in C major, Op. 56 "Triple Concerto"
- Performers: Raphael Wallfisch (Cello); Michael Roll (Piano); Jean-Jacques Kantorow (Violin)
- Conductor: Howard Shelley
- Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Running Time: 33 min. 20 sec.
- Period Time: Classical
- Written: 1803-1804


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Maputo — Mozambique is to host a summit entitled "Unleashing Mozambique's Vast Gas Potential" in Maputo from 12 to 14 March. The summit is being organised by the London-based CWC group in conjunction with Mozambique's publicly owned National Hydrocarbons Company (ENH).
The main speaker will be the Minister of Mineral Resources, Esperanca Bias, with the keynote address being made by the Chairman of ENH, Nelson Ocuane.
Among the themes being discussed are the need to incorporate local content as the gas industry develops, and the current legal framework for the hydrocarbons industry.
The summit will also look at forthcoming exploration and licensing rounds, partnerships and joint ventures, and logistical challenges. It will also hold a session on the role of international finance.
There will also be a session dedicated to the issue of how the gas could be used within Mozambique to assist economic development through fertilizer and petrochemicals plants or domestic power options.
Recent discoveries in the Rovuma Basin off the coast of the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado have already indicated the existence of over 100 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. This would be enough to make Mozambique one of the world's largest gas producers.
The Texas-based Anadarko Petroleum Corporation in November revealed that it could be looking at producing 50 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas per annum from its concession in the Rovuma Basin. That alone would make Mozambique the third largest exporter of liquefied natural gas after Qatar and Australia.
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08. Most subframes utilize some sort of reworked OEM rack-and-pinion, but Chassisworks makes their own. This way they are able to dial-in the front suspension geometry by ensuring the correct hub-to-hub width. The rack is mounted forward of the axle centerline (i.e., front steer) for more oil pan clearance, and the rack can rotate to help eliminate a sharp universal-joint angle and offer a bit more exhaust clearance. The rack is held to the frame by using interlocking billet mounts that won't flex under hard cornering.
09. One of the option boxes we ticked was for Chassisworks' bumpsteer kit. This replaced the outer tie-rod with an adjustable billet steel sleeve and high-strength, Teflon-lined 4130 rod end. The tapered Grade 8 stud, along with a selection of shims, will let us vertically adjust the outer pivot point at the steering arms and correct any unwanted toe-in changes during suspension travel. With this kit there should be virtually zero bumpsteer in 6 inches of suspension travel.
10. Our subframe was one of the first offered with Chassisworks' new splined sway bar option. It's a 33-inch long, 1.25-inch OD gun-drilled bar, and we were pretty impressed with the bar and the hardware, especially the zinc-plated billet steel lever arms, which incorporates multiple endlink mounting holes. Teflon race, spherical-bearing endlink assemblies create deflection-free pivot points and help the bar react quicker and be more predictable. Endlink length is also adjustable to eliminate static preload.
11. The bar was mounted to the frame with billet aluminum bearing housings and 3⁄8-inch socket-head bolts. The low-friction bearings will allow the bar to pivot freely without introducing off-axis free play.
12. The billet aluminum hat and hub assembly helps to reduce weight and allow the individual components to be replaced if they become worn or damaged. The kit also included tapered Timken wheel bearings and ½x3-inch wheel studs.
13. To the Chassisworks' hats we secured the Wilwood 14-inch rotors using the supplied 12-point Grade 8 fasteners. The 1.25-inch thick rotors are directional-vaned, slotted, and finished in Wilwood's black e-coat. To create more surface area and maximize cooling, 36 individual "I"-shaped passages are cast internally into the rotor. The passages are also curved to increase airflow compared to standard straight vented rotor designs.
14. Once Track Rat is ready to hit the road, we'll install these double-adjustable VariShock QuickSet-2 coilovers. They feature sophisticated shock valving with all-new, American-made components. One knob sets bump (compression) while the other sets rebound (extension). Internally, they have Deflective Disk Valving to eliminate spring fatigue, and the piston rods are made from 5⁄8-inch centerless-ground, hard-chrome steel. The design of the lower ring doesn't require a lock nut; instead two ball locks that press into the grooves on the reservoir body lock it in place. Our starting point for testing will be the 2.5-inch ID, 9-inch-long 550-pound VariSprings.
15. The Chassisworks spindles utilize a radial-mount caliper, so the first step in getting the caliper in place was bolting the billet mount to the spindle.
16. Using the supplied shims, we got the Wilwood W6A radial-mount six-piston calipers centered on the rotors. We then used more shims to get the edge of the pad lined up with the edge of the rotor. Once lined up perfectly, we installed the BP20 pads and secured the bridge bolts.
17. With the actual subframe assembled we were able to check out some of the other features. One that really caught our attention was the super nice billet engine mounts. Most subframes we've seen use a two-part deal with an adapter plate bolted to the engine block, and typically a small-block mount to the frame. It works, but the Chassisworks' deal is nicer. For easier engine installation, the passenger-side mount on the frame used slightly oversized slots to account for minor chassis variances. Chassisworks' subframes also allow for the use of small- or big-block motor plates and mid plates in addition to standard side-mount brackets.


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A mountaintop overlooking the majestic Burnett County forest or a cliff overlooking the coastline in beautiful Door County. How about a spot on the 40-yard line at Lambeau Field, about 15 rows up? We're on a mission to find the best views in Wisconsin, and these are a few of our favorites.
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Small-Town Fun: Tomahawk & Lincoln County
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Whether you're fishing on one of the scenic lakes, or taking a stroll along the Wisconsin River, it's easy to see why Tomahawk and Lincoln County are ideal for lovers of the outdoors.
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The Lake Superior Ice Caves
Last Updated: 3/9/2012
Picture this: A frozen lake meets the base of a cliff where giant pillars of ice majestically hang, extending into every crevasse and cavern. That's the scene at the Lake Superior ice caves, and it is definitely a Wisconsin winter spectacle you have to see to believe.
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Snow, Skis & Sweat: The 39th Annual American Birkebeiner
Last Updated: 2/20/2012
Each year, thousands of people flock to Hayward, Wisconsin for North America's largest cross-country ski marathon, the American Birkebeiner (also known as the "Birkie")! While racer registration is closed, Birkie Week offers tons of excitement for spectators looking to catch a piece of the action.
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Wisconsin Cabins & Cottages
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There's something iconic about renting a cabin or cottage in Wisconsin's Northwoods. It's quiet, beautiful and chalk full of small-town hospitality. If you haven't experienced it first-hand, winter is the time to make it happen!
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A blaze on Cabrill Drive in the Grand Oaks subdivision was reported shortly after 6 p.m. The roof was fully engulfed when firefighters arrived. Witnesses reported seeing lightning hit the roof before the fire, according to Charleston Fire Marshal Mike
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NORTHRIDGE - 2007 Ryan Adams appeared in a career-high 26 matches and 59 games for the Matadors during his sophomore season ... posted a career-high 65 kills in 165 swings for a .200 hitting average ... averaged 1.10 kills per game ... also contributed seven aces and 14 blocks during the season ... knocked down a career-high 16 kills against No. 4 Pepperdine (Jan. 31) and posted 13 kills while hitting .417 in the Matadors' 3-0 win over UC San Diego (Jan. 26) ... served a career-high three aces in Northridge's three-game sweep at Long Beach State (Jan. 24) and had nine kills, two aces, five digs and four blocks at No. 2 UC Irvine (Feb. 24). 2006 Adams appeared in three matches and three games as a redshirt freshman ... recorded one dig in the Matadors' 3-0 win over UC San Diego (Mar. 4) ... also saw time on the court against Long Beach State (Mar. 3) and at Stanford (Mar. 11) ... took a season-high six swings without a kill against UC San Diego (Mar. 4) and recorded one attack against fifth-ranked Long Beach State (Mar. 3) ... suited up but did not play in 26 of Northridge's 29 matches. 2005 Redshirted as a true freshman in 2005. SAN MARCOS HIGH SCHOOL Was a three-sport letterwinner in volleyball, football and basketball at San Marcos High School in San Marcos, Calif. ... earned first team All-Palomar League honors in 2004 ... was named second team All-CIF and first team All-League as a junior in 2003 ... was also named Offensive Player of the Year in 2003 ... graduated in 2004 with a 3.0 grade point average. PERSONAL Born June 24, 1986 in Fresno, Calif. ... parents are Lois and Eddie Adams ... has an older brother, Jason who attends Palomar College ... his father played basketball at Fresno State ... also competes for the Seaside Volleyball club team ... favorite TV show is "The Simpsons" and John Mayer is his favorite musician ... says he would like to switch places with the President for one day ... major is Urban Studies.