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Howard Johnson Hotels are one of the most easily recognizable motor lodges across the United States. With a standard design for well over 60 years, the bright orange roof and cupola with a weathervane is a tell tale sign travelers are at a Howard Johnson's. Affectionately called HoJo's for short, Howard Johnson Hotels actually started off as a restaurant chain, owing its popularity to the sweet treat ice cream.
Howard Deering Johnson was a young business man who began selling his special recipe ice cream along Massachusetts's shores in 1925. Adding new flavors to his selection, Johnson finally reached "28 flavors" of ice cream, and gained notoriety among the East Coast beaches and roadsides. Seeing a lack in quality roadside dining, Johnson knew that what American people wanted; home style comfort in a dining atmosphere. Starting in the 1930s, Howard Johnson began building his empire by roadways throughout New England. Basing his style on a colonial home, the design was comforting and stylish. The orange roof, cupola and weathervane were the final touches that caught the attention from traveling motorists. Offering Howard Johnson's famous ice cream, in addition to home-style dishes such as turkey dinner, seafood specialties, and kid friendly food, Howard Johnson roadside restaurants became a huge success. Eventually, HoJo's business slowed due to World War II, but after the war was over, American's economy soared, and so did business at Howard Johnson's. With this influx of business, hotel and motel developers cashed in on the fact that American's were traveling more frequently. Motel owners quickly built up their businesses on the major travel ways of the American motorists. Howard Johnson, already successful in the "Landmark for Hungry Americans", decided to venture into the world of lodging as well. The first Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge opened in Savannah, Georgia in 1954. Shortly after in 1956, construction of the Interstate Highway system was in place. This gave Howard Johnson much opportunity to build and expand his motor lodge business. Building along the exits of the new United States highway system, Howard Johnson Hotels soon became a dominate company in the world of Restaurants and Motor Lodges. In the 1960's, Howard Deering Johnson eventually passed the company business on to his son, Howard B. Johnson. Towards the 1970's, with a rise in fast food competition with chains like McDonald's and Burger King, Howard Johnson Hotels and Restaurants started to see a decline in business. Eventually, in 1980, Howard B. Johnson sold the Howard Johnson's company to the Imperial Group. It was at this point that Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge became simple "Howard Johnson Hotels." In 1985 the Howard Johnson company was sold to the Marriott Corporation
The Marriot Corporation was interested in the Howard Johnson Company not for the restaurant aspect, but for the lodging it had provided over the years. With prime locations off all major highway systems, Howard Johnson Hotels was at the top of its class. Over the years, Howard Johnson Hotels became part of Wyndham Worldwide. Under this company, Howard Johnson Hotels has different tiers of hotels, based on price, quality of amenities and services offered to hotel guests. These tiers include regular Howard Johnson Hotels, Howard Johnson Express Inns, and Howard Johnson Plaza Hotels. Under the Wyndham Worldwide corporation, Howard Johnson shares a tie with other respected hotel chains. These include
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Howard Johnson Hotels offers a free "Rise and Dine" continental breakfast to all of its guests. Taste the delicious food that started the Howard Johnson corporation with variety of baked goods and cold items. All Howard Johnson Hotels guests receive a free copy of USA Today to start their morning off right. All hotel rooms come equipped with coffee makers, hair dryers and clock radios for convenience. Travelers become frequent guests at Howard Johnson Hotels, thanks to their excellent prices and fabulous discounts. Howard Johnson hotels honor AAA, CAA, AARP, Senior Citizens, groups, and government discounts, on top of their already competitive rates.
Howard Johnson Hotels is perfect for your family vacation, or for a stop overnight to your destination. The best part about Howard Johnson Hotels is that the hotel is for the entire family; including pets! A fantastic feature not offered at most hotels is Howard Johnson Hotels "Wags to Whiskers" program. Available at over 170 Howard Johnson Hotels across the United States, this pet friendly feature allows you to bring your furry friends along with you on your trip! If you're worried about not get work done while on the road, Howard Johnson Hotels offers special guest rooms called Home Office Rooms. In these rooms, you will find all of the comforts of a home office, including a large work space, ergonomic chair, complimentary high speed internet access, fridge, microwave and all of the other wonderful amenities offered at Howard Johnson Hotels.
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Now that Sony's PS3 Firmware 3.0 update is released, we have a full changelog available below to add to Sony's partial one.
Additionally, 51N15T3R has confirmed the new PS3 Slim Bootscreen is also included in PS3 Firmware 3.0 for old PS3 consoles too!
To quote: "That "PS3" logo startup is on 3.00 regardless if you have a slim or phat PS3. verified phat PS3s use new "PS3" logo as on slims."
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- Multi-Audio - Audio can now be output to multiple connectors simultaneously. You can set this option under [Settings] > [Sound Settings] > [Audio Multi Output].
- Video Content Playback - During Video content playback, you can now use the right stick to play content in slow playback, fast reverse, and fast forward.
- Settings Descriptions - Now below each setting option under the Settings tab on the XMB, there is now a brief description in small font.
- New Start Up Logo - Upon starting up your PS3, you will be greeted with the new 'PS3? Logo.
- Custom Remote Play Settings - Manually set a device (such as a PSP system) to be used for remote play.
- "What's New" - The "Information Board" will be replaced with a "What's New" section, which allows you to enjoy interactive PlayStation news every time you start the PS3 system. Located under the PlayStation Network icon, "What's New" displays the latest and greatest game, video, PlayStation Network and PlayStation news and releases, as well as your recently played games, in a sleek, new animated format.
- Status Indicator - In the top right corner we've added an indicator bar, which displays your user icon, friend icon, the number of friends you have online and a small message icon to let you know if you have any new messages. The indicator also includes a scrolling ticker that features the latest news from PlayStation Network. In addition, when you press the PS button, the battery life indicator will no longer cover up the clock.
- Friends List - Now your PlayStation Network friends will appear in a slightly redesigned format on your Friends List. Also, messages will now be viewable from each of your friends' respective profiles.
- PlayStation Store Shortcuts - We've added a handy shortcut icon to the PlayStation Store under both the Game and Video categories so you can access the latest content quickly and easily.
- Personalization - Personalize your PS3 with new dynamic custom themes and avatars. Dynamic themes as well as free and premium avatars will be available through PlayStation Store. A dynamic theme takes your screen to a whole new level as it incorporates animated objects into the background.
- Trophies - Showcasing your hard earned trophies just got better. Update 3.00 gives game developers the ability to modify how they display trophies for add-on content. Base and add-on game trophies will continue to be combined into a single list so you can see where you stand in a game as a whole. Within that list, trophies will be broken out into subcategories-base trophies and add-on trophies-that way, you can easily view the percentage of your base game trophy collection, and separately track your trophy progress in add-on packs. Look for this enhancement to be included in upcoming games.
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1968: The Beatles began recording the "White Album."
1978: Swan Song Records announced that Led Zeppelin had entered the recording studio for the first time since the death of Robert Plant's son a year earlier. The sessions became the band's final album, "In Through The Out Door."
1990: The band Midnight Oil gave a free concert on flatbed trucks outside of an Exxon building in response to the oil spill of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska.
1992: Singer Paul Simon married singer Edie Brickell.
Today's Birthdays: Actor Clint Walker ("Cheyenne") is 88. Actor Keir Dullea ("2001: A Space Odyssey") is 79. Actor Michael J. Pollard is 76. Guitarist Lenny Davidson of The Dave Clark Five is 71. Actor Colm Meaney ("Star Trek: The Next Generation") is 62. Actor Ted McGinley ("Hope and Faith," "Married…With Children") is 57. Actor Ralph Carter ("Good Times") is 54. Country singer Wynonna Judd is 51. Guitarist Tom Morello of Audioslave and Rage Against The Machine is 51. Guitarist Patrick Dahlheimer of Live is 44. Singer-actress Idina Menzel is 44. Singer Cee Lo Green (Gnarls Barkley, Goodie Mob) is 40. Rapper Remy Ma is 35. Guitarist James Smith of Underoath is 33. Actor Jared Gilmore ("Once Upon A Time," "Mad Men") is 15.
1961: Chuck Berry opened Berry Park, an outdoor amusement park in Wentzville, Missouri.
1976: The Who got into the "Guinness Book of World Records" as the loudest rock band ever, when their concert in England measured 120 decibels. That record has since been broken.
1978: The Trammps' "Disco Inferno" album went gold.
1990: "Seinfeld" made its debut as "The Seinfeld Chronicles" on NBC.
In 1995, Ted Nugent placed his handprint and signature in cement in the Hollywood Rock Walk.
In 1996, singer Elsbeary Hobbs, who sang bass with The Drifters, died of throat and lung cancer in New York. He was 59.
In 1998, singer Geri Halliwell, better known as Ginger Spice, quit the Spice Girls.
In 2000, singer Johnnie Taylor died of an apparent heart attack at a hospital in Dallas. He was 62. He's probably best known for songs like "Who's Making Love" and "Disco Lady." That same day, Latin bandleader Tito Puente (PWEN'-tay) died in New York from complications from open heart surgery. He was 77.
In 2006, Katie Couric appeared for the last time on NBC's "Today" show after 15 years on the program. She left to anchor the "CBS Evening News."
Today's Birthdays: Actor-director Clint Eastwood is 85. Singer Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary is 77. Keyboardist Augie Meyers of the Texas Tornadoes and the Sir Douglas Quintet is 75. Actress Sharon Gless ("Cagney and Lacey") is 72. Actor Tom Berenger is 65. Actor Gregory Harrison is 65. Actor Julio Oscar Mechoso ("Jurassic Park III" "Lords of Dogtown" is 60. Actor Kyle Secor ("Homicide: Life on the Street") is 58. Comedian Chris Elliott is 55. Actress Lea Thompson ("Caroline in the City," "Back to the Future") is 54. Singer Corey Hart is 53. Rapper DMC of Run-DMC is 51. Actress Brooke Shields is 50. Country bassist Ed Adkins of The Derailers is 48. Actress Archie Panjabi ("The Good Wife") is 43. Actor Colin Farrell is 39. Trumpet player Scott Klopfenstein of Reel Big Fish is 38. Drummer Andy Hurley of Fall Out Boy is 35. Rapper Waka Flocka Flame is 29. Actor Curtis Williams Jr. ("Parent'Hood" ) is 28. Singer Normani Hamilton is 19.


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"Closing soon. Everything must be sold." Those are the words of the vinyl banner that was hung in front of RJ's Simple Spending at 123 S. Interocean Ave. in Holyoke Friday evening, Feb. 22.
Store owners Randy and Jackie Hale, who opened the local store in May of 2011, announced they're liquidating their inventory and will close the doors when the merchandise is sold.
In addition to merchandise, Randy said they're selling fixtures, slat walls, shelving units and more.
The Hales said they have had some tremendous support for their store, and they're appreciative of that.
However, as a whole, the local economic conditions led to their decision to close.
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Q&A | As marriage crumbles, says Focus on the Family's Jim Daly, Christians can try to uphold the biblical family as a model to the world
Here are edited excerpts of my interview with Jim Daly, president and CEO of Focus on the Family, and the author of Stronger (David C. Cook, 2010). Daly became the organization's president in 2005 after 16 years with the ministry, succeeding founder James Dobson.
The reputation of Focus on the Family seems to be changing. For a while journalists made it seem to be an essentially political organization. Our budget has always been roughly 90 percent toward the bread and butter, marriage and parenting issues, and 10 percent toward policy. That really hasn't changed. What has changed is how we address the issues in terms of tone. . . . Everything I'm trying to do at Focus on the Family is to win the culture. I'm most concerned about our expression of the gospel preventing somebody from coming to the conclusion that Christ is who He said He was. I'm not saying that was the case before, but I am saying that as a Christian I want to make sure that my words, my rhetoric, my fervor for truth are balanced with God's grace.
As we talk about various issues, how do we get to the root, which is a lack of faith in God, and the solution, which is Christ? You have to demonstrate the love of Christ. That's the important thing. It's not a means to an end: It has to be the reason. So, at Focus on the Family, we're trying to stay true to the principles and reach people through the love of Christ, by doing the Orphan Care Initiative and helping with ultrasound machines. We have to be the gospel in action. If we're just going to be rhetorical, I think we lose, because the other side is much better at it.
Your Orphan Care Initiative is bearing fruit. . . . Probably 2½ years ago we started the Wait No More Campaign. It was really born out of my heart to do something with foster kids who are available for adoption. Just in Colorado we had 850 kids in foster care waiting to be adopted. In the last two years, we've knocked that down to 350. Five hundred kids have been adopted in the program. Before, the most that the state had ever adopted in a given year, I think, was about 80 children.
Some journalists are observing that success. . . . One of the guys who's been very antagonistic toward Focus on the Family was impressed with Wait No More. He said, "I just want to know more about what you're doing." We talked about it, and he said, "You know, we have carpet-bombed Focus on the Family for 17 years, and I would like to start writing articles that are more favorable."
The ultrasound initiative is designed to help crisis pregnancy centers. . . . That started in 2006 or 2007. We've placed about 515 ultrasound machines. The great news about this is that technology is on our side. Ultrasound has allowed us to look at the development of the human being-and the culture is beginning to say, "Wait a minute, abortion feels immoral." We don't need to pound anybody over the head with it. Let's ride science and technology and allow people to come to that conclusion.
We're winning the younger generation on abortion, at least in theory. What about same-sex marriage? We're losing on that one, especially among the 20- and 30-somethings: 65 to 70 percent of them favor same-sex marriage. I don't know if that's going to change with a little more age-demographers would say probably not. We've probably lost that. I don't want to be extremist here, but I think we need to start calculating where we are in the culture.
Where are we? We've got to look at what God is doing in all of this. . . . Have we done such a poor job with marriage, is He so upset with our mishandling of it in the Christian community, along with our lust of the flesh as a nation, that He is handing us over to this polygamy and same-sex situation in order to, perhaps, drive the Christian community, the remnant, into saying, "OK, there's no no-fault divorce in our church"?
So churches would have a standard of marriage higher than the state's? We'd say, "The piece of paper that you get at the state to recognize your marriage is worthless. It's like registering your car. But if you're going to be a part of this church and you're married, you're going to be committed to your marriage. There's no easy way out." What if the Christian divorce rate goes from 40 percent to 10 percent or 5 percent, and the world's goes from 50 percent to 80 percent? Now we're back to the early centuries. They're looking at us and thinking, "We want more of what they've got," because we're proving in front of the eyes of the world that marriage in a Christian context works.
What's the current perception of gay activists about Christian marriage? I sat down with one. He said, "You guys haven't done so well with marriage. Why are you upset about us having a try?" We've got to look at our own house, make sure that our marriages are healthy, that we're being a good witness to the world. Then we can continue to work on defending marriage as best as we can.
It does seem that many of our national symptoms go back to the failure of marriage and the absence of fathers in the home. . . . One researcher found that it costs the government $300 billion a year because of the impact of dads not being in the home. In looking at the social problems we face, we should start with how to get dads reconnected to the family and committed to their marriages. If we could do that, we could achieve a lot in this country.
Do family problems contribute to poverty? Journalists will say to us, "If you're a Christian organization, why don't you fight poverty directly?" My response is, "We do." The No. 1 predictor of poverty is a divorce. Women and children land below the poverty line most often after divorce.
Some European governments, noting the costs of having children, are providing large child subsidies, in essence paying couples to have children. . . . But on the back end you have to tax families to pay for that. This then creates the need for both parents to have salaries.
Can't we just print more money? Seriously, do you recommend some non-financial ways for governments to help marriage? Make divorce more difficult. Have mandatory waiting periods. Have 90-day mandatory counseling for people so it's not just "we don't like each other any more." There are different things to do that do not involve taxing other families to pay for them.
Any thoughts on President Obama? I may not agree with any of his policies. I do appreciate that he's married to his first wife and raising his two children. We need more men like that. I once said that America would be better off if we had more families that reflected the Obamas, and a lot of conservatives went nuts with that, but it's true! Some of the conservative candidates that we put up-between a couple of them recently, I think they had seven or eight marriages. That seems a bit hypocritical.
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JOCKEY ROCCO BOWEN, STOPSHOPPINGDEBBIE, WINNER: "The plan was to break from the gate. (Javier) Matias was going for the lead, so I decided to sit off it. I knew she would fine coming from behind. She's such a nice horse that you can place her anywhere. I used her up a little bit in the turn just to get her engaged with the leaders. I didn't want those horses to get their confidence built up while they were on the lead. People thought that because she only won by a nose last time that she'd get beat, but we proved them wrong today. Hands down, I think she can win from anywhere in the race. I feel very strongly that she could compete against the top fillies around the country. She hasn't bellied down in any of her races. Against the best horses, you've really got to belly down, but I think she's got the talent to do it. Today, I probably only reached her second gear and then in the lane just put it back in neutral. I think she could have won my even more lengths if she wanted to."
JOCKEY JAVIER MATIAS, BLUEBERRY SMOOTHIE, SECOND: "Tom (Wenzel) told me today if (Goin to the Window) breaks sharp, just stay behind her. My horse broke sharp, and I didn't want to have to take her back because last time I chose to take her back, she was mad and started lugging out in the turn. She ran really well. It was just that a nice filly beat me. I was waiting to ask her around the turn and she was lugging out a little bit. If you see the fractions, she went a little fast for the distance."
TRAINER TOM WENZEL, STOPSHOPPINGDEBBIE, WINNER; GOIN TO THE WINDOW, SECOND; BLUEBERRY SMOOTHIE, THIRD: "The actual plan was to let Goin to the Window dictate the pace today. We actually wanted to take Stopshoppingdebbie off the pace, maybe lay second today and see if she can handle it just for a future reference. It turns out that Goin to the Window had trouble loading in the gate again, so she breaks flatfooted. Goin to the Window breaks slow and Blueberry Smoothie broke sharp, so that's how things got set up. Goin to the Window is kind of a tough horse. She wants to pull. It's kind of tough on her with the loading in the gate and using her energy to get up in there. She kind of faded a little bit, but she and Blueberry Smoothie still ran great. At the top of the lane, Goin to the Window and Blueberry Smoothie were going pretty solid, but once Stopshoppingdebbie rolled up on them, she once again proved that she's the racehorse. This is the best one of the three. Maybe Goin to the Window will prove to be better sprinting. I'm not sure. Early on in their careers, we thought that Goin to the Window and Stopshoppingdebbie were the best of the three. We didn't think that Blueberry Smoothie was that far behind them. Stopshoppingdebbie's got the package. She's got the mind and probably the most talent."
NOTES: Stopshoppingdebbie (5-5-0-0-$128,773) is the first horse to sweep the sophomore filly series at Emerald Downs…Northwest Farms earned $194,654 of the $215,000 purse money in the 3-year-old filly stakes division this season…Northwest Farms (Jerre Paxton) ranks No. 1 all-time with 33 stakes wins at Emerald Downs…Horses owned or co-owned by Northwest Farms have won six stakes this season at EmD: Stopshoppingdebbie (Irish Day, Seattle, Kent, Washington Oaks), Finallygotabentley (Auburn), Exclusive Diva (Washington State Legislators)…Trainer Tom Wenzel ranks No. 1 with six stakes wins this season and No. 7 all-time with 27 stakes wins at EmD…Jockey Rocco Bowen ranks No. 1 with five stakes wins this season and has eight stakes wins all-time at EmD.


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The Los Altos Library has scheduled a series of presentations highlighting the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. All presentations take place 7 p.m. in the Program Room of the main library, 13 S. San Antonio Road.
Jan. 22: "In the Moment: Japanese Art from the Larry Ellison Collection." Museum docent Michelle Wilcox will discuss the exhibition, which focuses on 80 rare works of Japanese art spanning 1,300 years from the private collection of Oracle Corp. co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison.
Feb. 25: "Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art."
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Winter is almost here, but before our little corner of the globe becomes blanketed with thick white snow I thought I would share one final fall photo. These beautiful little rain drops caught my eye while out on an afternoon fall stroll.
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Stephen Strasburg for four runs on four hits over 5 1/3 innings. Strasburg did
strike out five batters, however.
Paul Maholm made the start for the Braves and earned the win with five
scoreless innings of work. He surrendered just two hits and had five
Carlos Rivero contributed an RBI and Tyler Moore hit a solo homer in the ninth
for the Nationals in the setback.
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Constuction Accident at St. Joseph Church
(LeMars) -- A construction accident occured yesterday morning at the new St. Joseph Catholic Church in LeMars. At about 8:45 a.m. 26 year old James Jensen fell nearly 15 feet from a scaffling platform. The construction worker sufffered a head injury and was transported to the Floyd Valley Hospital. He was then transported to a Sioux City's Mercy Medical Center. He is listed in good condition.
(Orange City) -- A farmland sale on Wednesday set a new record for Iowa. The 74-acre tract in Sioux County sold for $20,000 an acre. Iowa State University Extension Farm Management Specialist Melissa O'Rourke says she is always asked the question of whether land can go higher and how high will it go? She says land values can go higher, but as to how high, she says that depends on the circumstances.
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Land values have increased nearly 30 percent over the past year. O'Rourke says most of the land is being purchased by farmers, although other investors are showing interest in obtaining land. She says strong commodity prices, including grain and livestock, have helped boost the land prices. Because of recent years of good farm income, the ISU farm management specialist says many farmers are able to offer cash for the acquired land without additional financing. O'Rourke says simple economics are at play with the higher land values with a high demand and a low supply.
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Iowa State University will release its annual land values survey on December 14th.
(Storm Lake) -- Buena Vista County sheriff's officials have arrested 50 year old Robert Cejka III of Laurens for Theft in the 3rd degree, an aggrevated misdemanor. Buena Vista investigators had a report of a stolen lawnmower valued at $600. On December 5th the investigation led to the recovery of the stolen lawn mower. Following further investigation charges were then filed against Robert Cejka III for the theft of the mower. Cejka was booked into the Buena Vista County jail on a $2000 bond.
(Sioux City) -- A Lake Park woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the manufacturing and distribution of methamphetamine. Shelle Brooks, age 37, received the prision term after a guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine. Brooks distributed the meth within 1000 feet of the Harris-Lake Park Elementary School in Lake Park. She also distributed methamphetamine at a car wash in Sheldon, and a residence in North Sioux City. Brooks has a felony conviction in Clay County, Iowa for possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, and a felony conviction in Emmet County for possession of methamphetamine.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa Farm Bureau members have chosen to replace their current president with a farmer from Warren County.
Farm Bureau delegates picked current vice president Craig Hill to lead the organization. Plymouth County Farm Bureau delegate, Todd Popken of Akron says the delegates just felt a change in leadership was in order.
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Hill will replace Brooklyn dairy farmer Craig Lang who had been president since 2002. Hill farms about 1,000 acres and raises swine near Milo.
Lang, who also serves on Iowa's Board of Regents, may have lost support among delegates because of the policies he supported. For instance, a proposal he backed to require conservation practices in
the next farm bill failed to gain support in September.
Popken says there were no policy resolutions brought to the convention. He says Farm Bureau delegates deal with resolutions in the summer. Popken says the theme to this year's Farm Bureau state convention was "Feeding the World."
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AMANA, Iowa (AP) - Whirlpool Corp. says it plans to add 250 production jobs and recall all laid off workers at its refrigeration plant in Middle Amana.
The Gazette in Cedar Rapids reports the company will add jobs during the first three months of 2012 and recall laid off workers effective January 3rd.
Whirlpool laid off 50 summer workers and 300 regular workers in July because of lower production demands. The plant makes refrigerators with bottom-mounted freezer compartments.
Whirlpool announced in October that it plans to close a refrigerator plant in Fort Smith, Arkansas in mid-2012 because of decreasing demand for the side-by-side refrigerator models it produces.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A Polk County judge says Governor Terry Branstad's line-item veto of a bill that closed 36 unemployment offices in the state was unconstitutional.
Branstad in July vetoed portions of a bill prohibiting the closure of the offices. He argued it would have prevented Iowa Workforce Development from developing a more efficient system for
helping the unemployed.
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and six House and Senate Democrats filed a lawsuit in August, contending a governor can't redirect money struck through a
line-item veto.
The Des Moines Register reports Judge Brad McCall ruled Thursday that for Branstad's veto to be valid he must also veto the allocation.
Branstad spokesman Tim Albrecht says the governor disagreed with the ruling and was considering how to respond.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - The Iowa Board of Regents has given final approval to a 3.75 percent tuition increase for in-state undergraduate students.
The regents voted 7-1 Thursday to approve the proposal, which raises tuition at the University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa by $240. Mandatory fees will increase an additional $50 at Iowa and $45 at UNI.
University officials' caution the increase could be adjusted upward later depending on how much money lawmakers approve for the universities during budget talks next year.
Regent Bruce Rastetter said university officials worked hard to keep the increase as low as possible and in the range of inflation. He said it was important to let students, parents and lawmakers
know about the increase now.
Regent Ruth Harkin voted against the tuition increase.
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John's Blog Updated. Original post with photos: http://travel.reservationkey.com Latitude: 4.08345 Longitude: -127.34277
We ended up spotting the Japanese fishing vessel just at sunset last night. We tried talking to them on the radio, but no response unfortunately. It would have been nice to talk with them and learn more about their activities. Still, it was nice seeing them, knowing we are not completely alone out here.
We just finished a delicious coleslaw salad lunch. The cabbage has held up very nicely. Our apple supply is also doing well. We moved almost all the apples into our outdoor nets which should help prolong their freshness even more. And we still have a nice supply of fresh tomatoes. Buying them completely green was a smart move as now they are just about ripe.
Today marks our two week anniversary of being at sea. It seems the second week went by faster than the first. Hopefully the third week will also go by fast enough. We are definitely looking forward to making landfall. Our friends on another boat who arrived about a month ago are waiting for us and keep emailing with tantalizing information about the islands.
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We have made our final turn to cross the ICTZ (Intertropical Convergence Zone). We have gone out to this position to make the crossing because this is where it is supposed to be the narrowest. The ICTZ, a.k.a. The Doldrums, is notorious for its utter lack of wind punctuated by 40 knot squalls and electrical storms. We hope to get across quickly and not see too much bad stuff. We are carrying enough fuel so that we can motor if the winds die.
Today has been fairly moderate winds in the 16 knot range.
We saw a ship on the chartplotter AIS for the first time since we left Mexico. It's about 8 nautical miles away, too far to get a visual. We have yet to actually see a single boat or ship on our passage. The AIS tells us it's a Japanese fishing vessel. I fantasized about asking them to give us some ice to chill our beer .
We had a bad surprise this morning. I went to get some more eggs from storage in the sail locker, and all the remaining eggs were covered in mold. We had to toss out 4 dozen eggs and now have no more. We made two mistakes: the eggs were stored in the sail locker, which is like a greenhouse with its large plexiglass hatch, and they were stored in a covered plastic storage container. Moral to the story: store eggs in a cool, well ventilated place.
Though we won't have eggs for breakfast anymore, we have plenty of pancake mix (of the "just add water" variety). We'll get by.
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John's Blog Updated. Original post with photos: http://travel.reservationkey.com Latitude: 5.40205 Longitude: -126.88912
After days and days of seeing no other traffic whatsoever out here, our AIS system has alerted us to a 140 foot long Japanese fishing boat, Matsuhiro Maru, about 7 miles ahead of us. The AIS system shows the location of commercial ships on our chartplotter. I was hoping to get a nice close up photo for this blog posting, but so far no sign of it. If we do end up seeing it, I will post the photo tomorrow. Regardless, maybe this is an indication that we are getting closer to civilization.
Yesterday we spent most of the day going more west than south, but today we are back headed almost directly south and should be at the equator by Monday. As we continue south the wind strength will continue to weaken until at the equator we will have almost no wind. That actually will be something of a nice break as we have had some fairly good sized seas the last few days. Everything is harder to do and takes more energy when the seas are rough. The sky is mostly clear, so we are keeping our fingers crossed that we won't have many squalls around the equator.
Since leaving Mexico we have sailed over 1500 miles. This is roughly the same distance from San Francisco to Chicago. Only about 1100 miles left to go. Roughly, San Francisco to Cabo San Lucas.
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04/07/2011, Pacific Ocean near the equator
My three hour watch ended at 3 a.m. this morning. Looking to the south I could see, for the first time, the Southern Cross above the horizon. It's a four pointed pattern resembling a kite shape and marks the direction of the South Pole for sailors south of the equator. The night sky, by the way, more than 1200 miles from the nearest land and therefore uncolored by terrestrial illumination, is really something to behold. Even before the moon rises, the sky is bursting with light. The Milky Way glows in a way I have never seen before.
The winds held steady around 18 to 20 knots through the night and we made good progress, 143 nautical miles in the last 24 hours. We have continued to have 16 to 20 knot winds from the North East throughout the day.
We gybed today to head in a Westerly direction, since the ideal point to cross the Equator and the ITCZ is still somewhat west of us. When we get to around longitude 127 or 128 some time tomorrow, then we'll turn left and head south.
For lunch today we used up the last of the grilled Costco chicken strips, making burritos with the hot chicken, cheese, lettuce, diced tomato and caramelized red onion. I washed mine down with a room temperature Tecate beer. When that's all you have, it's not all that bad.
Nearly two weeks since we've left Mexico, it is amazing how well some of our fruit and vegetables have held up -- and others, not. We bought under-ripe tomatoes in Mexico and store them in the sail locker in a paper bag. Ditto for apples. They still look fresh. The mangoes, we hand from a net under the solar panels. They are all as good as new. The grapefruit are holding up extremely well, though we've had to toss a few of them. Avocados, stored outdoors in a hammock, were good for 10 days. Limes are still good as new. Onions and potatoes, still good as new. Iceberg lettuce was holding up very well until the refrigeration went out but even now without refrigeration we manage to get some fresh lettuce by cutting out the wilted parts.
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John's Blog Updated. Original post with photos: http://travel.reservationkey.com Latitude: 6.40744 Longitude: -125.11987
The wind continues to blow us right along, having made good speed with 144 miles yesterday. Today we gibed and are now heading more west than south again. After looking at the GRIB forecast it looks like there is more wind on this side of the equator so we are taking advantage of that to make our way a bit farther west before we make the leap into the southern hemisphere. We certainly are close those, which is apparent by looking at the stars in the sky. The night sky is now mostly unfamiliar, although I am easily able to pick out the Southern Cross, which I remember from my last sailing adventures in these latitudes. Too bad the star map program on my phone does not work here since I would really like to identify a very bright object due east us which has been rising about 5:30am every morning.
Now that we have an excess of power we have been watching movies in the afternoons, when our power making capacity is at the maximum. I have now finished Season 1 of The Wire and have to make the big decision of whether to start the next season, or whether to move back into a season of the show 24. Or maybe just watch a few movies first before getting addicted to a whole season of something. The problem with these shows, once you start, it is hard to stop watching until the whole season is finished.
Sleeping was a little cooler last night as I figured out a way to tie my port window completely open. The hinge normally is stiff enough to keep it open, but on this one the hinge is broken so the window kept flopping mostly closed. Now that it is wide open I am getting a little more of a breeze. The air temperature is pretty constant between day and night. Somewhere in the mid 80s all the time. The water temperature is now 31.8C. At night the humidity really increases, without the sun to dry things out. So everything is always extra damp and sticky at night. Especially challenging is getting used to having a constantly sticky and moist face and hands.
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04/06/2011, South Pacific
We left Hanamenu Bay on Hiva Oa at 0630 this morning to make the short hop to the next island, Ua Huka, a mere 54 nautical miles. We left at daybreak so we could make an early arrival. The winds were mostly 12 to 16 knots on the beam, so we were able to maintain more than 7 knots boat speed under sail nearly the entire way. We arrived at Ua Huka at 14:30 and set anchor in the tiny Baie d'Hane. We traveled 54 miles, divided by 8 hours equals 6.7 knots average boat speed. Not bad.
Dropping the anchor in 30 feet of water, we were surrounded by huge breakers on both sides of us and right behind us, towards shore. We let out 180 feet of chain to make sure we had good holding.
After anchoring, John and Francois got out the boogie boards to go surfing with the locals at the big breakers that were just a hundred yards from our stern. Francois spoke French with the locals and found out that today was the first day in months that the waves were big enough to surf from. Lucky us (not!)
About an hour after we arrived, s/v Evergreen arrived and dropped anchor very close to us. There was not much choice since the tiny bay is no more than a few hundred yards (meters) from one side to the other.
The waves crashing onshore are huge, and there is no way any of us would attempt a dinghy landing in these conditions. We are hoping that tomorrow morning we will find calmer waters so that we can visit this interesting island.
After that, we are headed tomorrow to somewhat civilized Nuku Hiva.
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04/06/2011, middle of nowhere
The night watch is one of my favorite times. Here we are, sailing at 7 knots, the wind is howling in the wind generator, the sideways equatorial crescent moon is smiling at us. I can hear the water shooshing past the hull, as it leaves bursts of luminescence in its wake.
The luminescence of the water has to be seen, to be believed. It's not just whitish spray; it's brilliant bluish-white neon flashes from a million underwater glow-bugs.
We have been at sea for... what?... 12 days now. We are at about the halfway point in this passage. We are more than 1000 nautical miles to the nearest land in any direction. I have heard it said, that this point is the greatest distance you can possibly be from land anywhere on the planet. I don't quite believe it, but it might be true. If I had internet right now I'd check it out.
We haven't seen another boat, ship, or even airplane, in the last 10 days. This ocean is so big! Doing a watch amounts to making sure your sail trim is correct. There is no worry about running into anything. At least not until we get closer to land.
I always thought single handers were nuts because they'd have to sleep some time. One could sleep out here for several hours and not miss anything. They may be nuts, but for different reasons.
As the sun set this evening, we spotted a long series of clouds on the horizon that had peculiar shapes. They looked like handwriting, slanting to the right. One looked like a hungry turtle, with one claw putting food in its mouth. Right behind it was a stegosaurus, which soon morphed into a Labrador retriever. Pascale, the boys, and I excitedly called out shapes as we perceived them.
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John's Blog Updated. Original post with photos: http://travel.reservationkey.com Latitude: 8.38386 Longitude: -124.44688
Antoine has been commenting that it feels like we are under house arrest, being confined to the boat like we are. That certainly is one way to put it, and not too far off from what it is like to sail on a boat for three weeks straight. While the time is getting long, it still is not too bad. And once we are there I am sure we will look back on this as being a great experience. I keep telling myself to enjoy the experience of being out here, since this big of an ocean passage is not something I will likely do again for a long time. Of course the trip from Tahiti to Hawaii is a pretty big ocean passage, and not too far off. Although, because of commitments at home, it is uncertain if I will be on board for that leg of the trip.
We are well into the trade winds now. We have had consistent winds of 15 to 22 knots for the past 24 hours and these conditions are predicted to stay with us for the next few days. At about 2.5 degrees north, the wind really starts dying off, and I am thinking we likely will have dead flat seas at the equator. Which is why it is good we have lots of fuel on board, so we can motor through that 300 mile wide equatorial no-man's zone.
Yesterday Bruce figured out why our batteries were not properly charging. It turns out to be neither the alternator or the regulator, but a slipping drive belt. The heavy load on the belt combined with hot weather probably caused it to wear out sooner than it ordinarily would have. Luckily we have spare belts and once a new one was installed, the batteries are charged to a much higher voltage than before. Without refrigeration, our drain on the batteries is much less. With solar and wind power we are able to maintain our battery levels, even while watching movies on two flat screen televisions, and charging three laptop computers. Maybe we should have turned the refrigerator off earlier. After all, computers and movies rank pretty highly in our lives here.
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The Seekers resume their Golden Jubilee Tour of Australia in November. The scheduled tour earlier this year had to be cancelled following Judith Durham's sudden illness and the rescheduled tour will see them play Hamer Hall in Melbourne on Thursday November 7, Friday November 8 and Thursday November 28.
Judith was admitted to hospital after the first Melbourne show on May 14 and diagnosed with a cerebral hemorrhage. After three months of rehabilitation (during which she celebrated her 70th birthday!) Judith was given the green light by her doctors to rejoin Athol, Keith and Bruce to complete the tour, which celebrates their 50th year.
The first ten shows, performed in April/May this year, were totally sold out and received outstanding reviews.
Judith said, "I'm thrilled that my doctors have given me the green light to return to the stage. I'm so much looking forward to joining the boys again on tour, and singing for you all."
Any tickets purchased for the earlier shows are valid for the rescheduled date and do not need to be exchanged. Simply present your existing ticket(s) at the relevant venue on the new date.
Judith, Athol, Keith and Bruce put Australia on the international pop music map with hit after hit – I'll Never Find Another You, A World of Our Own, The Carnival is Over, Morningtown Ride and Georgy Girl to name just some of them.
This show takes fans down memory lane with stories, video clips, messages of congratulations and, of course, the music. For the first time in concert The Seekers will perform The Beatles' hit, In My Life and the classic Silver Threads and Golden Needles, which they have just recorded for the Golden Jubilee Album, 50 Tracks for 50 Years.


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History in the Making - Chevy COPO CamaroWritten by John McGann on March 1, 2013 The Rebirth of the COPO Camaro
This was an important day. You could feel it in the air. It was early August 2012 in Detroit, and we'd been invited by Chevrolet Performance to be present as the first few COPO Camaro owners officially took delivery of their cars. As COPO Camaro numbers 3, 5, 7, and 8 went home with their new owners, a crowd of Chevrolet Performance engineers gathered to watch as the cars were loaded onto their trailers. These four cars and the remaining 61 yet to be assembled represented several years of work on their part. "This is history in the making," was a phrase that was repeated several times over that day by nearly everyone we spoke with. As a rule, we strive not to use clichéd expressions as our article headlines, but in this case, it seemed unavoidable.
COPO is an acronym for Central Office Production Order. It was a vehicle-ordering process intended for fleet buyers like police departments or trucking companies looking to buy a group of cars optioned a certain way. Among other things, the form allowed certain drivetrain combinations that were not available in the list of regular production options for that particular model.
Back in 1969, Fred Gibb was a Chevrolet dealership owner and drag racer who was tired of seeing Cobra Jet Mustangs and Hemi Darts beating up on Camaros, so he worked with insiders at Chevrolet Performance using this ordering process to create COPO 9560-a '69 Camaro with Chevy's aluminum ZL-1 427 engine, a heavy-duty cooling system, transistor ignition, front disc brakes, a strengthened rear axle with 4.10:1 gears, and either a TH400 automatic or one of three Muncie four-speeds. With the ZL-1 rated at a laughable 430 hp, everyone knew the engine would easily make more than 500 hp by simply removing the AIR pump and emissions nonsense, tweaking the carb jetting and ignition timing, and ditching the cast-iron manifolds for some properly sized long-tube headers.
There were several cars built in the '60s using the COPO process, and some of them were Camaros with iron-block 427s, but just 69 of these special ZL1 Camaros were built, and this is the car referred to today simply as the COPO Camaro. Of them, Fred Gibbs is said to have taken delivery of at least 50. It's reported that the first COPO Camaro hit the dragstrip at the AHRA event in Phoenix, Arizona, in January 1969. We searched our archives to verify this fact and found the following excerpt from an article entitled "AHRA's Best-Yet Winter Meet" by John Thawley in the Apr. '69 issue of Hot Rod:
"The SS/E entry belonged to Fred Gibb Chevrolet. Mr. Gibb had the foresight to have an L-78 engine installed in the Camaro. The car is fresh and some way from being a finished race car but does show strong possibilities."
We suspect that, unbeknownst at the time, Hot Rod was documenting the first COPO Camaro, misidentifying the engine as an L-78, a 375hp 396. But this article does jibe with various reports we've read stating that the COPO was out of competition early in the event at Phoenix.
Closer to home, the Jun. '69 issue of Car Craft contains an article entitled "600-HP ZL-1: How it's done with stock parts." In it, author Bill Jenkins (Yes, that Bill Jenkins) mentions the mythical Camaro in the following passage:
"Incidentally, the only two different current offerings of the aluminum 427 Chevrolet engine are the ZL-1 Corvette and the COPO (Central Office Production Order) 9560-ZL1 Camaro. It should be noted that currently the only dealer who is selling the aluminum 427 Camaro is Fred Gibb Chevrolet in La Harpe. Illinois, so don't be surprised if the Dubuque area dealers never heard of such an animal."
Unfortunately, the rarity and exclusivity of the ZL-1 Camaro may have only been rivaled by its sticker price. Our research shows the cost hovered around $7,300-a fortune for a car that, in street trim, offered performance only slightly better than a well-optioned 427 Corvette. At the time, the asking price was just too steep, and Fred Gibb had a difficult time selling all 50 cars. Tragically, some were modified to make them more appealing to the average buyer by swapping out the ZL-1 engine for a lowly passenger-car 396 and adding back options that were deliberately left out of the COPO package, such as stripes, radios, and (god forbid) air conditioning. Sadly, a similar fate befell the 19 other ZL-1 COPOs ordered by other Chevy dealerships, and many of the ones that did sell were thrashed at the dragstrip. Needless to say, an original COPO Camaro may be the automotive equivalent of a windfall profit. Being that '69 Camaros have only increased in value, owning the rarest of these means you're sitting on a gold mine in your front yard and have struck oil in your backyard.
At this point, you may be wondering what's with the history lesson. No, we're not just filling pages here. We were surprised to learn that very little was written about the original COPO Camaros when they were first produced. For as legendary as they are today, there was very little fanfare back then. Imagine if Hot Rod had known in Phoenix in 1969 what a big deal these cars would become? They may have devoted more space in the magazine to it than just three sentences.
Things are much different now, and we have the opportunity to document this version-the '12 COPO Camaro. Whether or not this current iteration will develop as cultish a following as the '69 Camaro remains to be seen, but Chevrolet seems to be going about it the right way. Like its predecessor, only 69 were produced, they were purpose-built for racing, and one of the three available engines is an aluminum 427 (also laughably underrated). Unlike its predecessor, it's not a street car. It is sold with a serial number, not a VIN, and cannot be registered to drive on the street. Also, these cars were being sold directly through Chevrolet Performance-authorized dealerships. This was done to ensure all the cars would be purchased, and, in fact, all 69 cars were sold before construction began on even one of them.
We've heard there was some discussion among the group developing the car as to whether or not this version should have even been called COPO, fearing some enthusiasts would think it blasphemous. In the end, the team decided that if the car delivered in the performance department, the public would deem it worthy of the heritage implied in the name. And so far, the owners who have taken their cars to the strip haven't been disappointed, as these cars are making low- to mid-9-second passes, and looking very casual in the process. We will know more next season, as more COPOs take on cross-town rivals the Cobra Jet Mustangs and Drag Pak Challengers.
By now, the technical specs on the '12 COPO Camaro are old news, so we won't devote too much space to them here. You can find several print and electronic sources for that information, and one we highly recommend is Chevrolet Performance's own social media site, The Block (www.theblock.com). What we can provide, however, is an exclusive, insider's look at the construction of these cars. We spent one day in Wixom, where the COPO engines are hand-assembled, and the next at a smaller, "off the grid" site where the cars are built. It was thrilling to be part of the process, and we saw stuff that few people in the world get to see, and some of it we swore not to talk about to this day. When a guy from Chevrolet Performance tells you he's gonna have to take your camera away before showing you something, you know it's huge.
Build Your Own
We've just heard there will be a run of 2013 COPO Camaros. If you desperately want one, go to the Chevrolet Performance website (www.chevroletperformance.com), and get on the mailing list. Also, everything that goes into a COPO car is available for sale at your local Chevy dealer's parts department. You can even buy the build book the assembly team used at their secret facility in Michigan.
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With all the formalities out of the way, the guys loaded up their cars, itching to get to the track.The owners were eventually rounded up and brought into a conference room to be presented with a packet of documentation on their cars. Each owner was also presented custom Simpson racing jackets with the serial number of his car embroidered on the right sleeve. Meet Jim Boburka (left, COPO #07) and Paul Cambria (COPO #03). Incidentally, one of the public complaints leveled against this program was that the guys buying new COPO Camaros would be collectors who would stash them away in hermetically sealed vaults. No so. In fact, both of these guys had their cars on the track within a week of taking delivery. Jim actually stopped at Norwalk Raceway Park that night on his way home to Pennsylvania.The Performance Build Center is where the COPO engines are built, and Ron Hein (right) is the guy who built many of the engines for these cars. On the day we visited, no COPO engines were scheduled to be built, but this facility is also where the LS9 and LS7 engines are built by a single assembler, start-to-finish. That's an LS7 Ron is putting together.Upon arrival, we weren't disappointed. We were expecting to see a partially automated assembly-line process, but, actually, these cars are built completely by hand starting with bodies pulled off the regular Camaro assembly line in Oshawa, Ontario. Their first stop is this section of the building, where they are fitted with new suspension brackets and a rollcage. The main hoops of the rollcage are seen on the rack near the center of the photo.The straight sections are cut and notched by hand. The entire rollcage is TIG-welded, SF-certified, and it meets NHRA's safety standards.NHRA rules (and common sense) dictate that reinforcement plates are required where the rollcage meets the chassis. Chevrolet Performance engineers were quick to point out that each plate is CNC-cut to precisely fit its corresponding section of the car's body.While on the lift, the exhaust-heat shields are removed as are the mounting brackets for the Camaro's independent rear suspension. In their place, new brackets are welded in that will hold the Strange 9-inch rear axle. A chassis stiffening brace is visible in the bottom right of the picture. We were impressed to see that the Camaro's unibody only needed reinforcements here at the forward section of the rear subframe and another piece welded in to the floor between the rollcage's X-brace.The cars begin to take shape quickly after the paint has cured. The floor plan is set up so that several operations can happen simultaneously and in no particular order, so while one car is having the rear suspension and brakes installed, another may be getting a fuel cell and lines plumbed in.
The cars begin to take shape quickly after the paint has cured. The floor plan is set up so that several operations can happen simultaneously and in no particular order, so while one car is having the rear suspension and brakes installed, another may be getting a fuel cell and lines plumbed in.The dashboard brace is pre-assembled with the steering shaft, brake master cylinder, throttle pedal, and instrument-panel section of the wiring harness. The harness itself is the regular Camaro harness that has been 'thrifted' in the interest of weight savings. Circuits and modules not needed in the race car have been removed.It takes some extra manpower to get the dash and steering column assembly installed in the body. Norm Fugate (left), a 37-year veteran of General Motors, told us, "These aren't that heavy, but they are awkward. At the assembly plant, they have machines that do this."After the engines arrive from Wixom, the entire front subframe, including the steering rack and radiator, are assembled on a cart. This is the naturally aspirated 427ci engine. The other two engine choices both measure 327 inches but are built with the big-bore LSX block. You can have a 327 with either a 2.9- or 4.0L Whipple supercharger. Though approved for several types of manual or automatic transmissions, the COPO Camaro is only sold with a Powerglide. It's up to the owner to decide if he wants to install a three-speed automatic or possibly a TKO or Liberty five-speed.With the subframe completely assembled, the cart is positioned underneath the body. After that, it's a simple matter of lining everything up and lowering the body onto the subframe.COPO Camaros get a unique fuse box mounted in the engine compartment. All the relays and fuses are parts that should be available at any respectable auto-parts store in case one needs to be replaced while at the track.There is no power assist for the brakes, so the COPO's engineers had to modify the firewall to mount a manual-brake master cylinder. Note the strut rod that supports the firewall to eliminate flex during hard braking. Another cool feature visible in this picture is the paint stripes on all the fasteners—not because we love Concours d'Elegance restorations, but because the build team is being methodically thorough with all the fastener torqueing sequences. You don't want a bolt to come loose on a 9-second pass.The cars are fitted with a serial number plate at the base of the windshield where the VIN would normally be and a certificate of authenticity in the trunk. We also hear a similar certificate is hidden in the interior somewhere.When the program received approval, Chevrolet Performance received thousands of applications from people wanting to purchase a COPO Camaro. They did the democratic thing and selected the 69 owners via a lottery system. Jim Boburka was one of those lucky few. Here he is with COPO # 007 just prior to leaving Chevrolet Performance's Build Center in Wixom.


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Fed links interest rates to 6.5 pct. unemployment
WASHINGTON The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that it plans to keep interest rates ultra-low even after unemployment falls close to a normal level - which it thinks could take three more years.
For the first time, the Fed made clear to investors and consumers that it will link its actions to specific economic markers. As long as inflation remains tame, the central bank said it could keep key short-term rates near zero, even after unemployment returns to a more typical rate.
Previously, the Fed said it expected to keep interest rates at record lows at least through mid-2015. Now it expects rates to stay low at least until unemployment drops below 6.5 percent - a threshold the bank believes may not be crossed until the end of 2015.
Analysts said the Fed's new guidance will make it easier for companies, investors and consumers to make financial decisions because they will have a clearer grasp of when borrowing costs will begin to rise.
"This approach is superior" to setting a timetable for a possible rate increase, Chairman Ben Bernanke said at a news conference after the Fed held a two-day policy meeting and issued a statement. "It is more transparent and will allow the markets to respond quickly and promptly to changes" in the Fed's economic outlook.
Though the Fed's low interest-rate policies are intended to boost borrowing, spending and stock prices, they also hurt millions of retirees and others who depend on income from savings.
Bernanke made clear that even after unemployment falls below 6.5 percent, the Fed might decide that it needs to keep stimulating the economy. Other economic factors will also shape its policy decisions, he said.
Economists regard a normal unemployment rate as 6 percent or less.
"The Fed has become more explicit and more transparent," said Steven Wood, chief economist at Insight Economics. "This should provide the markets with much more clarity around monetary policy action in the upcoming year."
In its statement, the Fed said it will also keep spending $85 billion a month on bond purchases to drive down long-term borrowing costs and stimulate economic growth.
The Fed will spend $45 billion a month on long-term Treasury purchases to replace a previous bond-purchase program of an equal size. And it will keep buying $40 billion a month in mortgage bonds.
Those purchases, and the Fed's commitment to low rates, are intended to spur borrowing and spending in an economy still growing only modestly 3 1/2 years after the Great Recession ended.
Still, Bernanke warned that none of the Fed's actions could outweigh the economic pain that would be caused by sharp tax increases and government spending cuts that are set to kick in next month. The standoff between President Barack Obama and Republican lawmakers over how to resolve the "fiscal cliff" is already hurting the economy, in part by reducing consumer and business confidence, he said.
Fed policymakers are hopeful that the crisis can be resolved without significant long-term economic damage, Bernanke said. They foresee slightly faster growth next year and a gradual decline in unemployment.
Bernanke's comments about the impact of the fiscal cliff seemed to raise some concern among investors. Stocks had risen after the Fed's statement was released. But by the end of Bernanke's news conference, market averages were mixed. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down about 3 points. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose fractionally.
With its new purchases of long-term Treasurys, the Fed's investment portfolio, which is nearly $3 trillion, will swell to nearly $4 trillion by the end of 2013 if its bond purchase programs remain fully in place.


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Doh-Khul Kim, North Central College associate professor of economics and finance, co-authored a paper titled "The Effectiveness of Commodities in Hedging Inflation—Is It Still Valid During Low Inflationary Period?" which was published in the fall/winter edition of the Journal of Business and Economic Perspectives. His co-author is North Central graduate Eric McKee '12, who triple-majored in actuarial science, finance and classical civilization.
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Recently after a 20 year gap I returned to thinking about D&D. I had ran a campaign many years ago and now my daughters are older and interested I wished to run a small campaign for them. This time however I wanted to learn more of the art of making a fantasy world live and breath. Luckily I had joined this website a while ago, when I felt the urge to do some role-playing returning.
My first thought was to make a map, I had often found in the past that just the act of putting something onto paper started me thinking about what was happening in that area of the map. So after some time spent looking at all the cool tools available to people these days I was most intrigued by a product used by a number of people here, Fractal Terrain Pro. I already had access to Photoshop and Illustrator at work, so I went and purchased Campaign Cartographer and Fractal Terrain Pro to round off my Software collection.
Fractal Terrain Pro turned out to be fascinating and the tutorials on this site and the authors helped make it usable. After attempting to make three or four worlds from the ground up, I finally got the hang of it (no expert mind, but I could get it to do most of the things I want). My latest world with the right touch ups, desert making and temperature fiddling turned out the way I wanted it to be. It took that long for me to "get" that I had to use the product to make the worlds I wanted, rather expect it to churn out perfect worlds from scratch. Once I "got" it, it turned out to be a great tool for the job and I would recommend it to anyone "making worlds"!
Armed with a world, I set out to find a 200mile long island to play with. After a quick look I noticed one perfectly placed in the southern hemisphere, and after a quick session of mountain raising and temperature fiddling it met my requirements perfectly. Oddly I also notice it had not had any generated rivers on it, although the rest of my world had a number, but more on this later.
Having found my Island, I named it the "Isle of Cathava" and saved the "View" of it in the view manager, and set about extracting the useful information from Fratal Terrain Pro. First of all I produced a large JPG file about 4096 pixels wide, with the shading turned on for land, and all the altitudes set to white, and the sea was black. I took this and opened it up in Photoshop, where I captured and moved the shading to a new layer, made a blank white outline of the island on another layer and saved it all for later as a PSD file. You can see an example below and if clicked upon will take you to a higher resolution image.
In FTP the island is pretty much covered in Temperate forest, apart from the top of the large mountain, which has some ice and tundra. The background story had a fallen Hobgoblin civilisation inhabiting the island, which had fragmented into a number of different tribes of Hobgoblins, Goblins and Bugbears (with a few other nasties thrown in here and there). Human settlers had arrived 40 years or so ago on the southern tip of the island and had rapidly spread north deforesting and settling en route.
Moving forward I wanted at least three maps, showing terrain, contours and political. As the contour information is held in FTP, I saved my view as a CC2 file, took it into campaign cartographer, where I saved it straight back out again as a DXF file. I loaded the DXF file into Adobe Illustrator, selected all the contour lines and cut and pasted them as a smart object onto my map in photoshop in another window. After a small amount of resizing and placement it fit exactly where I wanted it to and I had the start of my contour map.
With a little selecting and painting of Hypsometric colors stolen from an 1880's french map on reliefshading.com I had the basics of a reasonable contour map, after quickly turning on the shading layer (relief from now on) and halving the opacity we end up with a contour map which you can see below, click on it for a larger version: -
With the contour map almost finished (still need rivers), I moved onto playing with textures for the terrain map, this process was more complex than I can explain here. Suffice to say the southern tip has significantly less forest to account for the encroaching settlers. Anyway to cut to the chase here it is, unfinished, but starting to come together. Again, you can click for a larger version: -
As you can see I added a scale, compass rose and some text, I am still unhappy with the scale and plan to remove it and try again with something less modern looking, the rest is ok. Also please note no rivers ...
Then with increasing confidence I grabbed hold of Wilbur (from the author of FTP), exported the view of my island as an MDR and headed off to generate some rivers. Only to be sadly thwarted, when the rivers seemed to do all kinds of weird things. If anyone else can get it working, I would love to see the result, here is a link to the MDR file I exported from FTP.
Not being one to be put off, until I can work out how to get Wilbur to do what I want, I read the river police thread and attempted to add my own rivers. It would be most helpful if anyone could check them over for me and tell me where I have made any mistakes in placement. Once again please click for a larger image, in addition this time a yet larger image is also available below: -
Much larger image (2mb)
There are notes regarding river placement on the map itself, these reflect changes which need to be transferred back to the source maps.
Please note these maps are all works in progress and as such may be a little rough in certain parts. I would be interested in any comments anyone has to share as this is my first foray into mapping.


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Turkey Quesadillas with Cranberry Salsa RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
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A sweet-tart cranberry salsa is the ideal accompaniment to leftover turkey in this breezy quesadilla. With a hint of lemon and pear, the salsa is also good with chicken or pork. –Jodi Kristensen of Macomb, Michigan
- 3/4 cup fresh or frozen cranberries
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 small pear, chopped
- 1/4 cup chopped red onion
- 3 tablespoons chopped celery
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and chopped
- 2 teaspoons grated lemon peel
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 4 flour tortillas (6 inches)
- 2 cups cubed cooked turkey breast
- 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded reduced-fat cheddar cheese
- In a small saucepan, combine the cranberries, sugar and water. Cook over medium heat until the berries pop, about 10 minutes. Remove from the heat; cool to room temperature. Stir in the pear, onion, celery, lemon juice, jalapeno, lemon peel and cumin. Set aside.
- Place tortillas on a griddle coated with cooking spray. Spoon turkey and sprinkle cheese over half of each tortilla; fold over. Cook over low heat for 1-2 minutes on each side or until cheese is melted. Serve with cranberry salsa. Yield: 4 servings.
Editor's Note: Wear disposable gloves when cutting hot peppers; the oils can burn skin. Avoid touching your face.
Originally published as Turkey Quesadillas with Cranberry Salsa in Light & Tasty December/January 2007, p15
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IBM / Hitachi Ultrastar 146Z10 07N9353 / IC35L146EFDY10 146GB 10K 2Gbps 40pin FC-AL Fibre Channel Hard Drive - New Pull
Capacity: 146GB
Spindle Speed: 10,000RPM
Interface Type: Fibre Channel - Internal - Arbitrated Loop ASA II
Disk Size: 3.5inx1.0in LFF Hard Drive
Sustained Throughput (MBps): 33.8 - 66.7
Average Seek Time (read/write ms): 4.7
Electrical Interface Speed: FC-AL - 2Gbps
On-Board Cache: 8MB
Advanced drive technology
Introducing the sixth generation of Ultrastar 10,000 rpm disk drives. The Hitachi Ultrastar 146Z10 drive family offers high quality and superior performance. These drives feature more powerful processors and read/write channels to excel in server-class environments.
To achieve maximum I/O performance, the drives combine fast seek times, large 8 MB multi-segmented buffers, a sophisticated command queuing algorithm, hardware automation, and superior data rates (825 Mbps). Ultrastar 146Z10 drives include new servo technology (Rotational Vibration Safeguard "RVS"), employed to counteract the effects of rotational vibration that commonly occur in multi-drive cabinets. They also employ fifth-generation giant magnetoresistive (GMR) head technology to double areal density from previous generation drives (26.3 Gbits/sq. in.) and boost performance. In addition, highly efficient No-ID sector formatting enables more data to be stored per disk
Reliability features
The Ultrastar 146Z10 family of server-class drives is the first of its class to incorporate our storage breakthrough technology—antiferromagneticallycoupled (AFC) media. Informally known as "pixie dust", this technology sandwiches a three-atom thick layer of ruthenium, a precious metal, between two magnetic layers on a disk. AFC technology provides greater stability of the recording media, enhancing reliability.
Drive Fitness Test enables drive selftesting and analysis—for more robust system management. To help ensure data protection, Hitachi Ultrastar drives include exclusive reporting tools, such as Predictive Failure Analysis* (to signal potential drive problems) and Drive-TIP* (to monitor the drive temperature and avoid malfunctions).
In addition, load/unload technology and glass substrate disks increase reliability of Ultrastar drives by providing a more robust solution at high rotational speeds.
Outstanding environmentals
Hitachi Ultrastar drives provide extremely quiet operation. The tri-laminate drive cover reduces both idle and seek acoustics while an enhanced spindle motor driver enables smoother commutation for less noise. Moreover, the Ultrastar 146Z10 delivers an outstanding power efficient design.
Support for advanced applications and interfaces
Hitachi Ultrastar drives provide high data throughput for data-intensive applications with a choice of 2 Gbit Fibre Channel and Ultra320 SCSI (backwardcompatible) interfaces. The Ultra320 SCSI adds greater speed, reduced overhead, improved diagnostic capabilities and data protection.
This drive is compatible with any of our Fibre / Fiber Channel controllers and hot-swap trays.
Here is a list of all the compatible Fibre Channel controllers and cables that will work with this Hitachi hard drive.
62.5/125mm SC-LC Fibre Cable Cable - 2m/6ft
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Will Hispanic Voters Prevent Republicans From Winning the White House?
Re-posted from National Review Recently Steve Schmidt, a well-known GOP strategist who was John McCain's 2008 presidential-campaign manager, said that Republicans need to capture at least 40 percent of the national Hispanic vote if the GOP is ever going to win back the White House. Is the current political environment making it even more difficult for the GOP to achieve that 40 percent benchmark | Read More »


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Welcome to Chicago, Illinois 1855/56 City Directory
We have scanned the original city directory for Chicago, Illinois for 1855/6 and indexed it for your quick search. Click on the letter which corresponds to the first letter of the last name for the person you are seeking. (But please do not forget to check the list of names too late for insertion, below.) You will be taken to a list of page numbers which correspond to specific surnames. Clicking on the page number should take you to the appropriate page. Again, these pages are scans of the original document which are fairly large files. The average page is about 140K and will download slowly if you are not on a fast connection. Please be patient and let us know if you have problems accessing the pages.


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If you're looking to meet the people of Hawaii, Oahu is a good place to start. Here you'll discover a true melting pot of diverse ethnicities, cultures and lifestyles bound together by the spirit of aloha.
The history and majesty of the Native Hawaiian people are evident throughout the historic places of Oahu. Significant landmarks like Iolani Palace, the King Kamehameha I Statue across the street, the Duke Kahanamoku statue on Waikiki beach, and the Bishop Museum celebrate the accomplishments of the people of Hawaii.
Today, Oahu has diverse cultures that have blended and transformed the island's traditions, festivals and foods. As agriculture boomed in the late 19th century, workers from China, Japan, Russia, Korea, Puerto Rico, Portugal and the Philippines were brought to the islands to work and live on plantations. Today, you can experience this blend of cultures by enjoying Oahu's local food or attending the island's many festivals during your stay. To learn even more about Hawaii's multicultural roots, take an educational tour through venues like the Hawaii Plantation Village or visit Oahu's many fine museums.
The Oahu of today is a fascinating mix of the past and the present. Businessmen meet farmers and artisans. Eastern philosophies meet western technology. Music, dance, theatre and the arts in general are community treasures. Visitors from around the world meet locals still perpetuating Hawaiian traditions and customs. And while the people of Oahu blend the rich legacy of Hawaiian culture with the world of the 21st century, you'll find the spirit of aloha remains as timeless as ever in the Heart of Hawaii.
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See authentic hula throughout Oahu at seasonal festivals, competitions, luau and live performances at hotels and resorts.
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Oahu is home to some of Hawaii's largest museums and collections featuring art, artifacts and heirlooms from Hawaii and the Pacific.


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Network Edition Downloads | Open Source Edition Downloads
The 6.0.12 release adds new support for Microsoft Exchange as well as many other enhancements and bug fixes, below are highlights:
- Admins may now customize the auto save frequency for draft messages (default is 30 seconds). This is set from the Account/COS Preferences tab.
- A BETA Free / busy for Exchange 2010 has been added; admins may use the zmprov CLI to configure which Exchange Free / Busy provider the server will use:
+ WebDAV-based for Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007
+ EWS-based (Exchange Web Service) for Exchange 2010
Note that Exchange _EWS on Apple Mac Computers running OSX is not supported as free/busy for Exchange 2010 and does not work correctly on OSX 10.4 with Java 1.5. It requires Java 1.6. If you need to run this, ZCS is offering a BETA trial of the updated jar that you can download and install from support. (56804)
- Updated migration wizards: the ZCS 7.0 migration wizards are replacing the older migration wizards in previous 60.x releases and improve migration performance (56214)
- The Beach Theme (skin) now works correctly. (44606)
- Added support for internal change password listener and changed zimbrasync to register as an internal listener. (50458)
- Updated Jetty to fix security issues. (55729)
- Issues with memcached reconnect for NGINX were fixed. (52071)
- Performance improvements for galsync.(52816)
- In the ZCS admin console, the Server setting MTA tab, MTA Trusted Networks text area maximum length is now 10240. (55332)
- Fixed issues that caused the text to not wrap correctly when printing emails. (50254)
- Upgraded OpenSSL to 0.9.8r. (53298 / 56501)
- Fixed issues that caused the caused the source code of the message to display when clicking download for attachments.(50791)
- Fixed issues with the attachment icon and with opening attachments when clicking the link. (51226)
- Various security fixes (51954, 52943, 52944, 55025, 49850)
- Fixed issues that caused iSync connector to create duplicate CalDAV accounts after OSX 10.6.4 upgrades (48250)
- When the organizer modifies meeting details that requires the attendees to respond, the attendees status in the appointment view is changed to Needs Action. (49881)
- Fixed issues that sometimes caused the addresses displayed in the Find Attendees tab to be incorrectly replaced. (52382)
- The ThrottlingFilter is disabled by default. (42648)
- 6 critical issues found in ZCS 6.0.11
As always, it's suggested to read the release notes and take a backup before upgrading.


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Monday, February 8, 2010
Fun Inside: Stacking Cups
7 comments:
- Amy said...
Impressive, very impressive. Off to find some cups to entertain my 4 yr old as we also have a ridiculous amount of snow here!
- February 8, 2010 at 10:14 AM
- Ashley said...
She did real well building it that high without it knocking down. I have been saving yogurt containers because I knew we would need them for something. Thanks for the idea!
- February 8, 2010 at 10:27 AM
- Gina @ MoneywiseMoms said...
Too funny! The kids helped me clean out the pantry yesterday and I found a ridiculous amount of party cups that I must have gotten free at some point, but we haven't had that many parties. I didn't know what to do with them till now. Thanks--this will help us get through another snow day!
- February 8, 2010 at 11:34 AM
- Multi-tasking Mommy said...
What a really fun idea!
We do this with toilet paper sometimes. I used to buy huge bulk packages of individually wrapped rolls (I know, terrible for the environment). I've gone away from that, but those pre-wrapped ones were great for building! Now, we'll have to use some cups. Luckily I have party cups in the basement.
Thanks for the great idea. I think I'll put this together for our Welcome Olympics playdate on Friday!
- February 8, 2010 at 1:07 PM
- Melissa: Mother to 3 Little Sprouts said...
My son would love that! I have an award for you!
- February 8, 2010 at 5:59 PM
- Leslie said...
Just looked at this post with my 3 boys - they are very impressed!!!
- February 8, 2010 at 8:40 PM
- SkylarKD said...
That is SO cool! My little one would never let it get that high before knocking it over, though! ;)
- February 9, 2010 at 1:35 PM
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