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11/10/2012 (3 years ago)
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
Jesus Christ lived in the first home of the whole human race. He progressed through every stage of every child's beautiful growth. He is as completely identified with every child living in that holy place as he is with all those who are poor. It was Blessed Teresa of Calcutta who rightly called these children, the "poorest of the poor".
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
11/10/2012 (3 years ago)
Published in U.S.
Keywords: abortion, Obama, Culture of Life, Civilization of love, activism, Gospel of Life, activism, Nehemiah Wall, Deacon Keith Fournier
WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - Let me begin with two accounts drawn from the Bible. The first is taken from the Old Testament and the Second from the New Testament.
"From that time on, however, only half my able men took a hand in the work, while the other half, armed with spears, bucklers, bows, and breastplates, stood guard behind the whole house of Judah as they rebuilt the wall.The load carriers, too, were armed; each did his work with one hand and held a weapon with the other. Every builder, while he worked, had his sword girt at his side. Also, a trumpeter stood beside me, for I had said to the nobles, the magistrates, and the rest of the people:
"Our work is scattered and extensive, and we are widely separated from one another along the wall; wherever you hear the trumpet sound, join us there; our God will fight with us."
"Thus we went on with the work; half of the men with spears at the ready, from daybreak till the stars came out. At the same time I told the people to spend the nights inside Jerusalem, each man with his own attendant, so that they might serve as a guard by night and a working force by day." (Nehemiah 4:10-16 NAB)
Now, the sobering passage in the Gospel of St. Matthew. Jesus presents an account of what will occur at the Last Judgment:
"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit upon his glorious throne, and all the nations will be assembled before him. And he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
"Then the king will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.'
"Then the righteous will answer him and say, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? When did we see you ill or in prison, and visit you?' "And the king will say to them in reply, 'Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.' (Matthew 25:31-40)"
The passage concerning the Last Judgment could easily contain another line which would be in conformity with the spirit of the passage: "When I was in the womb, you protected and welcomed me - and my Mother." After all, our Redeemer spent nine months in the womb of a very holy mother.
Jesus Christ lived in the first home of the whole human race. He progressed through every stage of every child's beautiful growth. He is as completely identified with every child living in that holy place as he is with all those who are poor. It was Blessed Teresa of Calcutta who rightly called these children, the "poorest of the poor".
Just as the disciples inquired about the other references the Lord made, we can inquire, for ourselves and for our Nation, "Lord, When did we see you in the Womb and protect you or welcome you?" And he would reply 'Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.'
I have spent decades trying to hold back the advance of the Culture of Death in courtrooms, on Capitol Hill through lobbying, in writing and through apologetics in the public square. I have wielded the figurative "sword" on the Wall of a City under assault from hell itself.
There is no doubt, the recent Presidential election in the United States opens the door to the continued advance of the Culture of Death. However, you and I must stand against that advance. Whether we are posted at the walls of the city with a sword or a trowel, we are together in this work as the people of life.
We are the People of Life
That phrase was used by Blessed John Paul II in his wonderful letter "The Gospel of Life": "We are the people of life because God, in his unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of life and by this same Gospel we have been transformed and saved. We have been ransomed by the "Author of life" (Acts 3:15) at the price of his precious blood (cf. 1 Cor 6:20; 7:23; 1 Pet 1:19).
"Through the waters of Baptism we have been made a part of him (cf. Rom 6:4-5; Col 2:12), as branches which draw nourishment and fruitfulness from the one tree (cf. Jn 15:5). Interiorly renewed by the grace of the Spirit, "who is the Lord and giver of life", we have become a people for life and we are called to act accordingly."
"We have been sent. For us, being at the service of life is not a boast but rather a duty, born of our awareness of being "God's own people, that we may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called us out of darkness into his marvelous light" (cf. 1 Pet 2:9). On our journey we are guided and sustained by the law of love: a love which has as its source and model the Son of God made man, who "by dying gave life to the world".
"We have been sent as a people. Everyone has an obligation to be at the service of life. This is a properly "ecclesial" responsibility, which requires concerted and generous action by all the members and by all sectors of the Christian community. This community commitment does not however eliminate or lessen the responsibility of each individual, called by the Lord to "become the neighbor" of everyone: "Go and do likewise" (Lk 10:37).
"Together we all sense our duty to preach the Gospel of life, to celebrate it in the Liturgy and in our whole existence, and to serve it with the various programs and structures which support and promote life." The Gospel of Life: On the Value and Inviolability of Human Life, 1995, Par. 79,
Like the people of Israel under the leadership of Nehemiah, some of us have been posted at the wall to fight off those who seek to topple what is left of the protection afforded to early, disabled, infirm and elderly human life in the civil or positive law of the Nation.
The defensive work in which I was engaged in over many years, with so many others, helped to slow the progress of the culture of death. However, the work of rebuilding the walls, securing the city for future generations, that is the more important task. This requires both sword and trowel. Sword and Trowel
We must continue to hold off the forces intent of destroying the Christian influence in culture while we work to rebuild that influence, at every intersecting point of faith and culture.
I have spent many hours since the results of the recent Presidential election trying to help sincere Pro-Life people who are mourning and grieving. I well understand. However, some are beginning to act in a "knee jerk" manner. They are speaking of "politics as a waste of time" and have figuratively or literally decided to "head for the hills".
Others have succumbed to the twin mistakes of yielding to unfocused anger or giving into cynicism. Both reactions will drain them of the very life of the Spirit. Both reactions are tactics of the enemy of our souls and the enemy of life. Jesus told us "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly." (John 10:10)
It is that thief who who wants us to retreat.
Let's be clear, politics will NEVER save any Nation or culture. To believe otherwise is heresy; a brand of utopianism at odds with the Christian faith or a form of zealotry/triumphaism which fails to understand the mission of the Church.
However, the Church must be free to proclaim her message in word and deed - in every Nation and in every culture. She must continue the redemptive work of her Head, Jesus Christ.
St Paul used his Roman citizenship to advance the preaching of the Gospel. We must use our American citizenship to do the same. We cannot abandon the call to be leaven in the loaf of human culture. There is no doubt that each of us will serve in a different role in this task, but none of us can retreat.
A New Momentum for Life
I see a growing new momentum for Life. Public opinion is shifting against those who defend the evil of legally sanctioned abortion on demand. Their false façade of concern for women is being removed; revealing the ugly face of evil beneath it.
Women have been the second victims of the abortion lie for too long. In increasing numbers, women who have had abortions are joining a growing majority of those who oppose it. Your work provides a safe harbor for many of these women and their children.
Using Medical Technology
There is new assistance provided for us in the medical technologies such as sonograms. With the introduction of "baby's first picture" we can all watch these children smile, play, feel pain and grow. These 3 and 4d images are becoming more and more prevalent throughout the social media. They are even showing up on television commercials.
This is helpful in a consumerist culture. Every day it becomes harder to deny that the child in the womb is our neighbor. The Orwellian Newspeak of "Choice" is growing stale and tired. The wind is out of its sails. Some choices are always and everywhere wrong, and the taking of innocent human life in at the top of the list.
Establishing Judicial Precedents
The judicial recognition of the inalienable right to life of children in the womb is within reach, at least at the U.S. Supreme Court level. It is only a matter of time before the 14th amendment protections are applied to our smallest neighbors. The work of the growing number of Christian lawyers, in the myriad of public interest law firms and associations, needs to continue. It is a great help in our task.
However, when Roe does fall - and it will fall - our work only begins. We have a new culture of life to build and we must lay the foundation stones right now - not retreat. Not just for our own sake but for the sake of the Nation we live in and the world into which we are sent to continue the redemptive mission of our Lord.
The truth concerning the humanity of children in the womb - and derived from that - the recognition of their fundamental human right to life can and will win the debate. That is because truth is written on every human heart by the Natural Law. It obligates us to do justice and binds us together in its pursuit.
A growing number of Americans recognize that without the right to life and the freedom to be born there are no other rights. In fact, the infrastructure of human rights itself is placed at risk when the Right to Life is denied. The constituional law work in the Courts must continue and we must support the advocates doing it.
Criminal Law
This work includes the criminal as well as constitutional law. As a former prosecutor, I see the trend of the double prosecution of criminals for two homicides when, in the course of a crime against a mother, they also kill the child in her womb, as a positive development. When a child in the womb is killed, along with her mother, through an act of negligence, we properly prosecute for both vehicular homicides. We need to use the inherent logic this criminal law reveals in our apologetic.It is obvious to anyone. We must also promote this growing recognition in the criminal law of the evil of killing a child.
Natural Law
We must not be afraid of making Natural Law arguments in our Pro-Life work. They are essential. they are also our most powerful weapon in a culture which has forgotten God. That is because they reveal the law of God written on every human heart, even the hearts of those who deny His existence. However, we also need to learn to make them well. One does not have to have any religious faith to recognize the truth concerning the dignity of every human life. It is revealed by a Natural law which can be known by all men and women through the exercise of reason.
The Promethean Argument
The last argument left for those who oppose the fundamental Human Right to life is a promethean notion of freedom as the raw power of the strong over the weak. It will not stand because it is so patently wrong and profoundly anti-American. It certainly does not sound "liberal" or "progressive" does it? We need to point out this utter hypocrisy of the movement calling itself "Pro-Choice" as often as we can.We must expose the Orwellian language they use. It is never a moral choice to kill our neighbor in the womb. Truth has an amazing power within it to bring about personal and societal change. I believe that it is doing just that on so many fronts concerning the humanity of the child in the womb and no election result can stop that momentum. However, it is up to us to keep contending for the truth!
"Religious" Limitations
It is a tactic, a ploy of our opponents, to characterize the pro-life position as only a "religious" position. Our adversaries do so in an effort to undermine and marginalize the implications of the truth of our position. They want to keep us confined in our Church buildings when we make our arguments - through wielding a misinterpretation of the First Amendment to the US Constitution. We cannot let that tactic go unopposed. Our position is a human rights position. Yes, for those in our movement who are Christians, it is informed by our faith. However, it is also true for those who do not believe. All of us are obligated by a common moral code which can be known through the exercise of reason and has always informed our life together. At its foundation os the prohibition of killing the innocent.
Be Wary of Political Labels
We must remember that the Pro-Life position is not "conservative" or "liberal", or simply "religious" - at least in the sense of a position confined to religious people. "Pro- Life" is a human rights position that can be - and increasingly is being- held by many types of diverse people.This is because it is just and true. Please understand, as a Christian, I both believe - and proclaim - that this truth is confirmed by Revelation. However, in a culture which has rejected the authority of either the Scriptures or the Church, it is hard to make an argument based on that authority.
Similarly, the claim of our opponents that Pro-Life people are "single issue" in their political participation is also a tactic to attempt to marginalize our impact on the culture. Being Pro-Life is holding a worldview which begins and ends with the dignity of every human person. The reason we care should about the poor is because they have basic human dignity and fundamental human rights. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta's words that the child in the womb is the "poorest of the poor" exposes the lie of the current administration which was just reelected as champions of the poor. we should quote it every time we get a chance!
Science as our Ally
Science is a Pro-Life ally. It always has been. But recent advances help us unmask the lies of the opponents of the Right to Life. For example, sonograms are showing us a film of our first neighbors in their first home, their mother's wombs. Medical Doctors are regularly operating "in utero" to help these children and then placing back in their first home. Psychologists are speaking of effectiveness of communication between parents and their child in the womb- and encouraging it. Music is being played to children in the womb. Think about that in light of the practice of procured abortion, at any time and for any reason. What song would be played to the child as he or she is being dismembered, burned or suctioned to death?
All of these advances in science have "humanized" the child to an increasing number of people who once bought the lie of those who promoted abortion as "choice". The old efforts to paint the child as a "cluster of cells" or to use other dehumanizing phrases to hide the perfidy of abortion are no longer being used by those who oppose the Right to Life for children. Science and technology confirm what our conscience told us all along, the child in the first home of the whole human race is our neighbor. And, it is always and everywhere wrong to kill our innocent neighbor. Whether a child is "wanted" has become the sole criterion for whether he or she has a right to life. Such an approach is heinous. Decent people are beginning to recognize this and indecent people are having a hard time defending their choice to kill.
A growing number of Americans are beginning to understand that the approach of abortion on demand has dangerous implications for the elderly, the infirmed, the poor and the marginalized in a culture which grows increasingly intolerant of the needy.
The Need to Re-Educate the Pro-Life Movement
We need to re-educate some within our own Pro-life community who have become so used to "opposing" abortion that they do not know how to propose a new culture of life and contend for that culture in compelling and convincing language in the public square. The truth about the dignity of life is a positive, life affirming position. We are on the side of truth. Yet, much of the rhetoric has been framed in terms of opposition. Sometimes this has flowed from a persecuted minority or "victim" approach, developed after years of struggle. Though it may be understandable it is not effective.
Lasting movements for societal change are rarely built around negative language. Oh, of course they oppose what is wrong, but they also propose another way. Our task as a people committed to life is not simply about opposition but also about conversion of the culture. We need to engage this age with a confidence borne of truth and not be afraid of the culture of death. Only a faith filled approach, endued with the hope of the Gospel, will enable us to bring about the conversion that is needed. People's hearts and minds need to be changed.
To build a culture of life and a civilization of love we need a new language. For example, I now regularly refer to children in the womb as our first neighbors. After all, they reside in the first home of the whole human race, their mother's womb. As I use the expression "first neighbors" in my pro-life work in the public square, people inevitably ask me the questions that open the door to explaining this truth. Truth is very convincing. When proclaimed, it defends itself.
Additionally, I speak of our Pro-Life work as working for fundamental human rights. The right to life is a basic human right. It is not simply a "civil" right, in the sense that it depends upon the civil government to confer it. Rather, it is an unalienable right in the words of the American founders. It cannot be taken away by any government because it was nnot given by any government.
As Christians we need to shout from the housetops, while we still can, that the American founders did not invent this concept of unalienable rights. It was derived from the treasury of classical western Christian thought. The right to life was given to all men and women by the One who is the source of all life. Every government should be judged as just or unjust based upon how it respects human rights and treats the poor.
Rebuild the Walls, Remember our History
I believe that we will see the end of federally protected legalized abortion, at least the protection that followed the Supreme Court's horrid ruling in Roe and its progeny. However, the end of Roe will not be the end of the Pro-Life Mission. The current cultural situation we face as Christians in America is not an unfamiliar one. We need to see it now in terms of Christian history. I do not care how "scientifically advanced" we think we have become, or how "modern" the issues purport to be, we humans do not really change all that much, at least without grace.
The struggle we are engaged in as Christians in contemporary western culture still concerns a clash of worldviews, personal and corporate, and competing definitions of freedom. Remember, in the circles of cultural and social revolutionaries, Christians (at least orthodox, faithful ones) are often presented as unenlightened, forcing "our view" on others. In reality, our positions on the dignity of every life, marriage, family, authentic freedom and the nature of truth as objective.. is what actually frees people from the bondage of disordered appetites. These truths are objectively true for all men and women. We were made for relationship. We were structured for authentic love and human flourishing within family and a society founded upon family.
The early Church, just like you and me, was sent into cultures filled with people who thought they were extremely "advanced" in light of the arts and sciences of their day. Yet, these cultures practiced primitive forms of abortion and even "exposure", a practice of leaving unwanted children on rocks to be eaten by birds of prey or picked up by slave traders. To them, freedom was rooted in a notion of power over others and the right to do as they chose.
One has only to read the ancient Christian manuscripts such as the Didache (the Teaching of the Twelve), the ancient Letter to Diognetus, the accounts of Justin Martyr or many other early Christian sources to read of cultures not unlike the one in which we live today. These were also cultures of "use" where people were treated as property - cultures of excess where "freedom" was perceived as a power over others and unrestrained license masqueraded as liberty, leading many to what the Apostle Paul called the slavery of sin.
Our contemporary age is increasingly pagan. Many of the "gods" and goddesses" of the old pagan regimes promoted lives of selfish excess, homosexual practices, and hedonism masquerading as freedom. The myths they told concerning them had these "gods" acting in much the same way. The arguments have been reintroduced today, only the myths, tributes and statues are different.
The early Christians did not point the finger and rail against the "pagans" of their age when they sought to effect the conversion of those cultures. They did not present a "negative" message. They proclaimed the freedom found in Jesus Christ to all who would listen and demonstrated it in their compelling witness of life. They lived in monogamous marriages, raised their children to be faithful Christians and good citizens, and went into the world of their age, offering a new way to live. This "way" (which is what they first called the early Church) presented a very different worldview than the one that the pagans embraced.
The early Christians, with joy and integrity, spoke and lived a different way in the midst of that pagan culture. As a result, they sometimes stirred up hostility. Some of them were martyred in the red martyrdom of shed blood. Countless more joined the train of what use to be called "white martyrdom", by living lives of sacrificial witness and service in the culture, working hard and staying faithful to the end of a long life spent in missionary toil.
Slowly, not only were small numbers of "pagans" converted and baptized, but eventually their leaders and entire Nations followed suit. Resultantly, the Christian worldview began to influence the social order. The "clash of freedoms" continued, but the climate changed significantly. It was the Christian faith and the practices of these Christians that began to win the hearts of men and women. The cultures once enshrined to pagan practices, such as plural marriage, homosexuality, exposure and abortion began to change dramatically and this dynamic continued for centuries.
It was Christianity that taught such novel concepts as the dignity of every person and their equality before the One God. The Christians proclaimed the dignity of women, the dignity of chaste marriage and the sanctity of the family. It was Christianity that introduced the understanding of freedom not simply as a freedom from, but as a freedom for living responsibly and with integrity. The Christians insisted that freedom must be exercised with reference to a moral code, a law higher than the emperor or the shifting sands of public opinion.
It was the Christians who understood that choice, rightly exercised, meant always choosing what was right and that the freedom to exercise that choice brought with it an obligation and concern for the other. Their faith presented a coherent and compelling answer to the existential questions that plagued the ancients, such as why we existed and how we got here. What was the purpose of life? Questions like how evil came into the world and why we could not always make right choices? What force seemed to move us toward evil and how we could be set free from its power?
Christian philosophy began to flourish and the arts also flourished under the Christian worldview. Philosophies of government and economic theory began to be influenced by these principles derived from a Christian worldview. Now, we are called to transform our own American and western culture from within once again. The results of one Presidential election must not be allowed to distract us from this missionary task.
We must be faithful citizens, run for office, and never give up our struggles in the courtroom, the classroom, or the marketplace of commerce, all for the true common good. Our social and cultural mission is not an option. We cannot retreat to religious ghettos, figuratively or literally. Our mission to the culture lies at the heart of what it means to be "leaven", "light", "salt" and the "soul of the world" as the early Christians taught. However, we do need to remember that the task we face is first, at root, a spiritual struggle that will first be won in prayer, stepped into a new Christian missionary movement by the compelling witness of a vibrant, orthodox, faithful Christianity that is culturally engaging, relevant and compelling to the new pagans of our age.
True marriage and family have been inscribed by the Divine Architect into the order of the universe. They are God's idea and not our own. Marriage is the first vital cell of society and creates the first society wherein children are to be raised so that they can fully develop and flourish. Children have a right to a mother and a father. Yes, there are broken homes and single parent homes and we must always provide a compassionate social framework for those families. True marriage and family are the social foundation and glue of any truly just society. They are now under an assault.
We need to rededicate ourselves to living like Christians in our families, at our workplaces and in our neighborhoods. We need, as the early Church understood so well, to be a visible, palpable reflection of the truth about marriage and family. True marriage and family is the way of the future not the past.The contemporary re-emergence of ancient paganism is not the path to authentic human freedom and flourishing but to misery. The Christian understanding of the dignity of every human life and the truth about marriage and family is not some outdated notion of a past era but the framework for a future of true freedom. We are living in a new missionary age.
The mission field is our own Nation and Western Culture itself.
In 1996, a professor of Sociology and comparative religion named Rodney Stark wrote a compelling book entitled "The Rise of Christianity." Rich in sociological and empirical data it details the growth of Christianity at the beginning of the first millennium. The book chronicles the rise of the Christian faith from a small Jewish sect in the first century to extraordinary cultural dominance 300 years later. Using historical documents, the author demonstrated how the early Christians lived in faithful, heterosexual, monogamous marriages in the midst of a pagan culture, claiming to be "enlightened" while they decayed from within. The lifestyle of the Christians had an extraordinary affect over time.
During the first millennium, in the pagan culture of ancient Rome, fidelity between a husband and wife was uncommon. Sexual promiscuity, "hetero" and "homo" sexual aberrant behaviors were very common. Women (and some men) were considered to be property and used as sexual objects. Abortion, infanticide, and exposure (placing children on rocks to die by the elements or be picked up by slave traders) were not only commonplace practices but also "lawful". Epidemics began to multiply, apparently related to the lifestyle of sexual excess, causing civic and (Pagan) religious leaders to flee the cities, leaving the sick to die.
In contrast to this old pagan culture, the Christian way of life stood out as an alternative. The emphasis of the Christians was upon marrying once. Husbands and wives remained faithful to one another. Children were welcomed, cherished and seen as both gifts from- and the means of serving - the God whom they proclaimed in both word and lifestyle. Christians did not abandon the sick, but cared for them, even the sick pagans, to the point of sacrificing their own health.
According to Stark, Christianity helped to explain "why bad things happen to good people," through the proclamation of the suffering and Cross of Christ. The Christian faith answered the existential questions that were unanswered in classical paganism. The Christians lived the love they proclaimed and had a strong family system that was increasingly attractive to the pagans. This lifestyle also allowed the Christians to live longer. The author wrote that "Christian values of love and charity, from the beginning, had been translated into norms of social service and community solidarity. When disasters struck, the Christians were better able to cope, and this resulted in substantially higher rates of survival. This meant that in the aftermath of each epidemic, Christians made up a larger and larger percentage of the population even without new converts."
Stark noted that Christianity in the first millennium brought a new culture: "To cities filled with homeless and the impoverished, Christianity offered charity as well as hope. To cities filled with newcomers and strangers, Christianity offered an immediate basis for attachments. To cities filled with orphans and widows, Christianity provided a new and expanded sense of family.To cities torn by violent ethnic strife, Christianity offered a new basis for social solidarity. And to cities faced with epidemics, fires, and earthquakes, Christianity offered effective nursing services."
The Christian Way of Life transformed Christianity from being a small sect into becoming the major dominating faith of the age. It transformed the world of the First Millennium.and the Second. It can and it will do the same in the Third Millennium. We cannot - we must not - we will not - retreat from the culture.
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Manual Overdrive Transmission Install - Mileage MakerWritten by on March 1, 1999 Steps To Swapping An A-833 Manual Overdrive Transmission
Swapping late-model automatic overdrive transmissions into vintage musclecars has become the hot ticket in recent years among hot rodders who want to enjoy the best of two worlds: deep gears for off-the-line acceleration and decent gas mileage for long-distance cruises.
With the proliferation of factory-offered automatic overdrive transmissions, these swaps have become fairly commonplace among those running juiceboxes. However, if you prefer banging gears manually, the alter-nativessuch as a Richmond or ZF six-speed or a Gear Vendors overdrive unitare usually frightfully expensive and could require a lot of costly fabrication.
But what if we told you that its possible to swap a four-speed manual overdrive transmission into your vintage Mopar for a fraction of the cost of an aftermarket transmissionsimply by using junkyard and over-the-counter parts? If this claim leaves you scratching your head, you probably dont know the story of Chryslers attempt to build a small, lightweight economy car at the height of the gas crisis.
In 1975, Chrysler debuted a manual overdrive version of the venerable A-833 four-speed transmission, which the company installed behind the equally venerable 225ci Slant Six in 75 Plymouth Feather Dusters and Dodge Dart Lites.
The overdrive A-833 was basically a gearset change to the existing A-833 transmission, which had been in production since 1964. By flipping the 3-4 shift lever 180 degrees, engineers were able to keep the direct-drive Fourth gear and substitute a set of 0.73:1 Overdrive gears in place of the normal Third gear, without changing the shifter pattern. The introduction of these two efficient Mopars was a valiant attempt to compete with the droves of high-mileage Japanese subcompacts that were beginning to arrive on our shores around that time. Unfortunately, it was probably a case of too little, too late. Sadly, despite the fact that the manual overdrive feature enabled these lightweight cars to achieve 36 mpg on the highway, sales never really took off.
Today, Feather Dusters and Dart Lites are considered fairly scarce oddities. However, the manual overdrive A-833 survived in production long after the A-Body was dropped from Chryslers lineup at the end of the 76 model year. The short-extension version of the transmission was used in F-Body Aspens and Volares until 1980, and the long-extension version was actually available in pickup trucks through 1989.
By virtue of their association with cars thatto put it gentlyarent too high on many Top 10 Mopar lists, these transmissions still can be readily found in junkyards. In fact, even though four-speed cars of any kind are fairly scarce in boneyards here in Southern Cali-fornia, we found one in a 76 Dodge Aspen station wagon in a local pull-your-own junkyard after only a few weeks of searching. At first, we were peeved that someone had beat us to the car and scored the shifter, linkage rods, and shift levers, but when the counter jockey at the yard mistook it for a Turbo 400 and only charged us $35 for the trans and bellhousing, we were all smiles and bragged at the Petersen offices in Los Angeles for days.
The intended recipient of this score was a 67 Barracuda notchback coupe with a Slant Six and three-on-the-tree. Since its used as a daily driver, the prospect of higher mileage combined with moving the shifter from the column to the floor was a win-win proposition. Another benefit is the manual overdrives deep 3.09:1 First gear, which provides a hard launch.
Some research in the Mopar Performance Chassis book and other sources revealed that the swap would be a straightforward bolt-in. Surprisingly, all we had to do in the end to mount the transmission in the Barracuda was swap bellhousings, change the output shaft yoke, and buy a new U-joint.
What makes this swap particularly easy is the fact that many critical external dimensions of Mopar manual transmissions from the 60s and 70s are identical (see Manual Transmission Dimensions sidebar below). For example, the distance from the front face of the transmission case to the transmission mounting pad on a short-extension three- or four-speed gearbox is the same, so no crossmember modifications were necessary. Also, overall manual transmission lengths are the same, so no driveshaft modification is required if you keep the stock rearend.
That brings us to the one key difference between three- and four-speed transmissions: the output shaft yoke. Over the years, Chrysler used two different width yokes on its transmissions, driveshafts, and rearendsone for the large U-joint and one for the small U-joint. There are also two different transmission output shaft diametersa 1.08-inch-diameter pinion for light-duty transmissions, such as the various three-speed manual boxes and the A-904 TorqueFlite, and a 1.25-inch-diameter pinion for the heavy-duty A-833 and A-727 TorqueFlite transmissions. Since we were swapping from a light-duty three-speed with the smaller diameter shaft, and used the small U-joint, we needed to obtain a new output shaft yoke with the larger-diameter pinion and the small U-joint to mate to our existing driveshaft. This part is readily available in the aftermarket (we ordered ours from Year One, along with some other parts necessary for the swap).
One odd thing about the manual overdrive A-833 is that it uses an enormous, 5.125-inch-diameter drive pinion bearing retainer, which fits into a corresponding pilot hole in the bellhousing. There are two ways to address this larger bearing retainer, if you plan to mate the transmission to a big- or small-block V8 bellhousing, which will have either a 4.354-inch or a 4.807-inch pilot hole, depending on the size of the drive pinion bearing that was in the original transmission. You can either swap bearing retainers on the trans, or have the bearing pilot hole in the bellhousing machined larger to fit the bigger retainer. New bearing retainers with the proper bolt pattern for the manual overdrive A-833 are still available through Mopar Performance. But if youre installing the transmission behind a Slant Sixas we wereall you have to do is swap bellhousings to obtain the four-speed mounting bolt pattern, and bolt the transmission to it.
With all the parts assembled, the hardest part of the swap was finding a spare weekend to do it. Once it was completed, the results were immediate and dramatic. Highway fuel economy surged, the car became way more fun to drive with the four-speed Hurst shifter, and even with its anemic one-barrel carb, the Barracudas Leaning Tower of Power still produces enough torque to cruise up highway grades at 75-plus mph in Overdrive. The best part of this swap was that it was truly a direct bolt-in using stock, off-the-shelf parts, proof that Mother Mopar really knows how to plan ahead.
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Since mechanically, the swap used all factory parts, we wanted to preserve the factory-correct appearance of this swap by converting our column-shifted, three-speed car to a four-on-the-floor, without too much hacking. We were aided in this endeavor by several restoration companies, including Sherman & Associates, Year One, and Auto Custom Carpets, all of which furnished parts that allowed us to recreate the look of a factory four-speed.
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On the left is the Slant Six bellhousing for the A-230 three-speed trans that came in our car. Next to it is a Slant Six bellhousing from a manual overdrive–equipped, '76 Dodge Aspen. Note that the overdrive version is machined for the larger 5.125-inch pilot bearing, and is drilled for both three- and four-speed transmission mounting patterns (arrows).From left to right are the stock, 1.08-inch-diameter pinion output yoke with the small U-joint for the A-230 that came in the car; a 1.25-inch-diameter pinion yoke with the large U-joint for an A-833 or A-727; and a new 1.25-inch-diameter yoke with the small U-joint, which we ordered from Year One and used to mate our existing driveshaft to the new tranny without modification. Even though it's the shortest of the three, the yoke slides deeply enough onto the tranny's output shaft to work without a hitch.We swapped the clutch fork from our old bellhousing into place in the new overdrive bellhousing. All other stock clutch linkage components were used without modification and required only normal service adjustments.As you can see by comparing the A-230 three-speed on the top to the manual overdrive A-833 below, overall length and transmission-mount location are identical. This made bolting the four-speed into the car a breeze. Although most overdrive A-833s were produced with aluminum cases and cast-iron tailshaft extensions, some early units—such as this overdrive A-833—had cast-iron cases, which greatly reduces the likelihood of the countershaft wearing out the case.Although we scored the trans and bellhousing for the ridiculous price of $35, it was sans shifter and linkage, which cost us $150 from mail-order wrecking yard—Texas Acres. Believe it or not, the stock shifter and linkage rods from a late-'70s F-Body were a perfect fit in our '67 Barracuda, and the stock F-Body shifter handle easily cleared the bench seat.The transmission swap was simple. We just pulled the old gearbox, swapped bellhousings, and bolted the new trans in place. Although the cast-iron A-833 is larger and heavier (about five times!) than the three-speed it replaced, it fit perfectly in the transmission tunnel. To ease installation, we fabricated a set of alignment pins by cutting the heads off two 3-inch-long 7/16-14 bolts, and threaded them into the bellhousing.With the new shifter and Year One shifter boot in place, the floorpan is nearly indistinguishable from a factory four-speed (the only giveaway is the stub on the column where we removed the shifter), and the Barracuda was ready for new carpet. We ordered a standard, floor-mounted transmission carpet kit from Auto Custom Carpets.

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On Election Day, November 2, 2010, more than eight million Americans voted for congressional candidates who claimed to represent the Tea Party and its grassroots insurgency against the federal government. Most of the Tea Party candidates won. Their victory marked a sea change in American government. Even before the winners were sworn in, reporters began to refer to the 112th Congress as the Tea Party Congress. On the day of the swearing-in, the prominent Tea Party backer David Koch likened the electoral success of the Tea Party to the American Revolution. Its probably the best grassroots uprising since 1776 in my opinion, he said.
The proposals of the new Congress had little in common with the revolutionary slogans of 1776, but many of them would be familiar to activists who had participated in the grassroots uprisings on behalf of the rich in the twentieth century.
On January 5, for example, House Republicans introduced a balanced budget amendment that was really a tax limitation amendmentmodeled on the precedents that the National Taxpayers Union and the National Tax Limitation Committee had furnished in the 1970s. A flurry of other balanced budget amendment bills followed. On January 23, Senate Republicans, led by Orrin Hatch, introduced a tax limitation/balanced budget amendment bill of their own that was even more restrictive.
The next day, Representatives Steve King (R-IA) and Rob Woodall (R-GA) introduced a one-sentence proposal to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment. On March 15, 2011, Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) introduced the Liberty Amendment, precisely as Willis Stone drafted it in 1956.
And throughout the session, Republicans introduced bill after bill to cut top income tax rates and make estate tax repeal permanent. Many of these tax proposals were regressive enough that they might have made even an Andrew Mellon blush. But they would have warmed the heart of J. A. Arnold if he could have lived to see them. They could almost have been copied from the 1927 program of the American Taxpayers League.
Thanks in part to proposals like these, the Tea Party Congress is likely to be remembered as one of the most conservative Congresses in American history. Scholars have described this rightward turn in Congress as historic, as a new phase in the extreme ideological polarization of U.S. politics, and as a historically unprecedented development. And they have pointed to unprecedented conditions to explain it. The historic segmentation of media markets is said to have allowed voters to surround themselves in closed and ideologically extreme social worlds. The influx of money into politics following the Supreme Courts decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 50 (2010), is said to have given an edge to ultraconservative candidates whose policy proposals flatter the pocketbook interests of the very richest Americans.
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Chan is the founder of the holding company Semeiotics, Inc., which has four separate partnerships under its umbrella. In Hong Kong, Semeiotics holds a graphic design and branding office; in New York, it runs and jointly owns a retail shop with a designer sportswear brand under Adidas; and in Paris, Semeiotics founded the fashion house Rue du Mail with legendary French designer Martine Sitbon. Chan describes Semeiotics as a platform that invests in talent to "empower creativity." "I have always found the design process more interesting than the final product," he says. By providing financial investment and managerial support to designers and companies that he admires, Chan hopes to introduce more quality work into the fashion and design industry. Chan's experience in fashion began when he bought into a Toronto boutique that brought together trendsetting fashion and music in a striking retail space. As Chan expanded the retail business, he noticed the profound effect that visuals such as ads and interiors had on customers. To harness that power, Chan applied to Parsons to study in the BBA Design Marketing program (now called Design and Management); he later transferred to AAS Graphic Design, earning a degree in that program in 2000. His career change and business vision were heavily influenced by his time at Parsons. "Parsons opened my eyes to design and my mind to new possibilities," he explains. "The school helped me realize that the sky is the limit."Today Chan's firm is developing services in interactive design and new media and working on collaboration software by Semeiotics Technologies, collections for Rue du Mail, and several projects with other firms and brands in the design industry. Chan has served as a visiting critic at Parsons and welcomes students to Semeiotics' offices to help further his mission of empowering creativity—a principle he learned at Parsons and practices globally.
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Poli is Red's very first Pokémon that he obtained during his early childhood when it still was a Poliwag.
It sometimes saved his life from drowning into the ocean in the eleventh chapter when Red once did when Lt. Surge pushed him and his Poliwhirl off the boat and Poliwhirl evolved into a Poliwrath saved him and they went back on the boat. He helped Red many times in his life such as defeating Blue's Charizard in the Pokémon League along with Pika.
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Phosphor-Based White LEDs: Mixed Blessings?
Source: Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy .
Light-emitting diodes use less energy and last longer than even compact fluorescent lights.This article, written by Angela Spivey*, appeared first in Environmental Health Perspectives—the peer-reviewed, open access journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
The article is a verbatim version of the original and is not available for edits or additions by Encyclopedia of Earth editors or authors. Companion articles on the same topic that are editable may exist within the Encyclopedia of Earth.
The Mixed Blessing of Phosphor-Based White LEDs
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which use less energy and last longer than even compact fluorescent lights,1 are predicted to become the leading lighting technology in the United States as incandescent bulbs are phased out.2 But Abraham Haim, director of the Israeli Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Chronobiology, will not bring white LEDs and other so-called short-wavelength lights into his home because of his concerns about their health effects. Why? Blue light such as that emitted by LEDs has been shown to suppress production of the hormone melatonin to a greater degree than other visible wavelengths emitted at the same intensity.3,4 Melatonin suppression has been demonstrated to disrupt sleep/wake cycles and has been linked to increased risk of breast cancer.5 "Modern lights . . . that use the wavelength in the range of 460 nm to 500 nm should be considered 'bad light,'" Haim says.
Although the light from LEDs appears white, it consists of one strong, sharp peak of short-wavelength blue light (in the range of 460 nm) and a second, broader emission in the longer-wavelength part of the spectrum. This is achieved by fitting a blue LED with a fluorescent phosphor layer that absorbs part of the blue light and re-emits light of a longer wavelength.
Concerns about white-appearing LEDs center around nighttime exposure to blue light. Daytime skylight also is a blue-enriched, white-appearing light, explains George Brainard, director of the Lighting Research Program at Thomas Jefferson University, but this blue-light exposure is desirable for cuing the human circadian rhythm, which synchronizes with cycles of light/dark, eating, and activity. "To my knowledge," Brainard says, "the white-appearing, blue-enriched LEDs do not pose the same sort of potential health consequences during the daytime."
You can control the light in your home, but not outdoors. That's why Haim and other coauthors of a new study call for regulations limiting the use of certain types of lights, including LEDs, for nighttime lighting outdoors.6 The paper reviews research showing that nighttime exposure to white LEDs suppresses melatonin to a greater degree compared with other lighting types such as high- and low-pressure sodium, metal halide, and incandescent bulbs, and it includes measurements the researchers made of the wavelength and other spectral characteristics of several types of lights.
But the bulk of the paper consists of recommendations for reducing light pollution. In addition to limiting nighttime use of the blue-spectrum light typical of metal halide lamps and white LEDs, those suggestions include using as little light as possible outdoors, aiming for a zero increase in total outdoor lighting (for example, not adding lighting without decreasing the amount or intensity of lighting somewhere else), and prohibiting lights from being aimed upward (above the horizontal).7
The health problems potentially caused by current LEDs may be avoidable. "The LED industry would be wise to develop white-appearing LEDs that do not have the high emissions in the blue region of the visible spectrum for outdoor lighting applications," Brainard says. "This would permit use of newer energy-efficient solid-state lighting while still avoiding the potential health consequences of circadian and neuroendocrine disruption from inappropriate exposure to light at night."
"Any problems with the spectrum produced by white-light LEDs, to the extent they exist, are not inherent to LEDs themselves but rather the current implementation," adds Jay Neitz, a professor of ophthalmology at the University of Washington Medical School. "Research is under way to improve both the spectral characteristics and efficiency of white-light LEDs. If there are problems with LEDs at the moment, they will probably be short-lived as better technologies come into use."
Fabio Falchi, a scientist at Italy's Light Pollution Science and Technology Institute and first author of the paper, agrees that LEDs likely will be "the future of lighting outdoors and indoors." But he says there are ways to manage light pollution from LEDs by taking advantage of their ability to turn on and off quickly. He suggests keeping outdoor lights off or at a low level unless they are in use, which could be accomplished by using motion-detector lights that increase to full power only when a pedestrian or car approaches.
The authors also call for manufacturers to label lights with information about how much of a bulb's light is emitted in the shorter, circadian-disrupting wavelength, much as the food industry is required to include nutritional content on labels. "We have to pay attention to several aspects of light that we are not used to paying attention to," Falchi says.
Not all researchers agree that white LEDs pose a danger to human health. Neitz points out that the studies showing melatonin suppression from LEDs did not simulate real-world exposures. For instance, some of the studies had participants put their heads into a dome that exposed their full visual field to a single wavelength of light.4
"It's a long stretch to go from that to make an argument about light pollution, where you are talking about light levels that would be quite low, way below where they would make a significant contribution to our circadian rhythms," Neitz says. Real-world exposures include multiple bandwidths of light from many different sources, and in the context of all those exposures, the increased sensitivity to short-wavelength light would not make a significant difference, Neitz says.
Brainard agrees that most studies to date have not replicated real-world exposures. But he says it's too soon to make firm conclusions because knowledge about the health effects of light is constantly evolving. For example, the first study to show melatonin suppression from any type of light used an intensity of 2,500 lux, but more recent studies have shown suppression with less than 1 lux.8 "Back in the 1990s no one ever imagined you could suppress melatonin in humans with less than one lux," Brainard says. "The regulation of human neuroendocrine, circadian, and neurobehavioral responses by light, and the potential health consequences of that regulation, are going to be far more complicated and nuanced than anyone ever dreamed."
References and Notes
- Energy efficiency: The quest for white LEDs hits the home stretch. Science 325(5942):809. 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.325_809
- The Energy Policy Act of 2005. Public Law No. 109-58. Available: http://tinyurl.com/3swp6dg [accessed 4 Oct 2011].
- West KE, et al. Blue light from light-emitting diodes elicits a dose-dependent suppression of melatonin in humans. J Appl Physiol 110(3):619–626 (2011); http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.01413.2009.
- Action spectrum for melatonin regulation in humans: evidence for a novel circadian photoreceptor. J Neurosci 21(16):6405–6412. 2001. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11487664
- Circadian regulation of molecular, dietary, and metabolic signaling mechanisms of human breast cancer growth by the nocturnal melatonin signal and the consequences of its disruption by light at night. J Pineal Res 51(3):259–269. 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-079X.2011.00888.x
- Limiting the impact of light pollution on human health, environment and stellar visibility. J Environ Manag 92(10):2714–2722. 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2011.06.029
- Switch on the night: policies for smarter lighting. Environ Health Perspect 117(1):A28–A31. 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.117-a28
- Ocular input for human melatonin regulation: relevance to breast cancer. Neuroendocrinol Lett 23: suppl 217–22. 2002. Find this article online
Editor's Notes
- *Angela Spivey writes from North Carolina about medicine, environmental health, and personal finance.
- Citation: Spivey A 2011. The Mixed Blessing of Phosphor-Based White LEDs. Environ Health Perspect 119:a472-a473. http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.119-a472
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Besides the challenges facing cement production in Tanzania, Twiga Cement Company has managed to maintain its lead in the distribution and selling of cement products in the country.
Revealing this at the TPCC Distributors 2012 Gala night in Dar es Salaam at the weekend, Twiga Cement managing director Lesoinne Pascal said although the company is facing a lot of challenges, including power problem since last year, it has increased cement production.
"We had power problem for almost the whole of last year, but we proceeded with production, and this actually made us to increase our products in the market," he said.
Besides the power problem, Pascal said the other challenge was the rain which leads to end of last year floods.
He said despite the state of nature, the company didn't stop production due to prevalence of best production systems and the good plan set by the company.
"I thank all the Twiga Cement staff and all our distributors because without you we cannot do anything with the products. Without distributors we can stay with the products in the ground but we thank you for the great job you are doing for your contribution to the company sales stands at 80 percent," he said.
Revealing why Twiga Cement has the biggest market in the country, he said it is due to the high quality of cement it produces and its availability.
"The quality of our product is excellent and is the first in the market, at the moment no one can compete with us due to the quality of our cement," he said.
He added: 'Even imported cements do not rank anywhere when compared to our products."
For his part Twiga Cement sales and marketing director Ekwabi Majigo said the firm has set plans to modernise the marketing department so as to reach a large area in the country in a move to beat the record set last year.
He said in the first week of this year, the firm has been distributing 6200 tons a day, on average, the record that has not been reached in the previous years.
"Our target is to increase production as well as distribution by 11 percent, and this is possible according to our strategic plans. We have already increased the number of distributors from 29 last year to 35 this year," Majigo said.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Gonzaga's gone.
Cleanthony Early and Ron Baker scored 16 points apiece and Wichita State hit a season-high 14 3-pointers, including seven straight late, to knock the top-ranked and No. 1 seeded Bulldogs out of the NCAA tournament 76-70 on Saturday.
The Shockers (28-8) advanced to the Round of 16 for the first time since 2006, while Gonzaga becomes the first top seed to be eliminated.
Gonzaga survived a scare in the second round against Southern but couldn't hold up against a fellow mid-major from Kansas whose motto is "play angry."
The Shockers face the winner of Sunday's game between La Salle and Ole Miss.
Wichita State had the Zags down 13 early. Though Gonzaga (32-3) fought back, the barrage of 3s was too much for the small school from Spokane, Wash.
Kelly Olynyk scored 26 points to lead Gonzaga, and Kevin Pangos had 19.
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We want to share some information about who we are and what we are doing. God is at work in a wonderful way on our campus in the area of young people who are seriously considering how they can fit into His global picture.
Chris DeWelt is the Director of Intercultural Studies. He began teaching at OCC in the Fall of 1999 and has brought a wide range of experience including eight years on the mission field in the country of Chile. Chris served as president of the NMC in 2004 and actively serves as an adviser to a multitude of students, mission teams, and organizations.
Tammy Wood is currently serving as the Administrative Assistant to the Director of Intercultural Studies.
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Nike's Rory McIlroy Deal Soars Far Past Tiger Woods' Old Contract
On Monday, Nike announced that it had inked a new contract with Tiger Woods' heir apparent, golf's new No. 1 player, Rory McIlroy, in a deal that dwarfs Tiger's. Rumors put its value at between $100 million and $250 million. Here's why Nike is going all in on the Irish prodigy.


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July 28, 2014 - News Release: Hawaii Energy and Commission on Water Resouce Management Release Two New Handbooks to Encourage Water Conservation and Greater Energy Efficiency. Water and energy usage are inextricably linked, referred to as the water-energy nexus, due to the significant energy required to transport and treat water and wastewater. This means that conserving water conserves energy and reducing water loss reduces energy consumption.
July - August 2014 - Ready, Set, Go! Community Wildfire Preparedness Workshops Scheduled on the Big Island. Unlike other natural hazards, wildfire is unique in that there are many things you can do ahead of time to reduce your risk of losing property or loved ones. Residents can take charge by strategically reducing vegetation around homes, fire-proofing homes and structures with non-combustible materials, and creating and practicing a thorough family emergency plan. Hosted by Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization. Click here for HWMO website.
April 7, 2014 - USDA's Farm Service Agency Announces Livestock Disaster Sign-Up Date. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Juan M. Garcia announced today that farmers and ranchers can sign-up for disaster assistance programs, reestablished and strengthened by the 2014 Farm Bill, beginning Tuesday, April 15, 2014. [Programs include: Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP), Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP), Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP), Tree Assistance Program (TAP)]
March 6, 2014 - NOAA Climate Prediction Center Issues El Nino Watch. Climte Precition Center's ENSO Alert System Status: El Nino Watch. Synopsis: Chance of El Niño increases during the remainder of the year, exceeding 65% during summer. Click here for the latest ENSO Diagnostic Discsssion.
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