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Dear all,
i know this may not have a right answer but if we're planning a site which has about 20000 users. will you recommend just run whole users in one single server or at least 2-server?
the second question is about partition size, according to the mail quota planning, it needs almost 2TB available size. in terms of performance, will you recommend to use multiple message-store such as 1TB first, and then 1TB next....etc. or just create one 2-TB partition?
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|Peekin' into the Past
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
Five Years Ago
HHS senior Elisa Sagehorn was honored at Boettcher Concert Hall in Denver on Jan. 17 as a recipient of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award in the youth division.
Following a two-year refurbishing project, the WWII 37 mm anti-tank gun that used to be located at City Park is now on display in front of the City of Holyoke office at 407 E. Denver St.
Citing a desire to have more personal time with her family, Misti Redman, owner of Misti's Mane Attractions, has decided to sell her salon to fellow hairdresser Veronica Marroquin. Redman and Marroquin will combine under Veronica's Hair and Nail Salon. The official change of ownership takes place Feb. 1.
Holyoke Recycles organized a Colorado Association for Recycling Rural Recycling Workshop at the Peerless Center on Wednesday, Jan. 22. Community members discussed recycling programs, marketing of collected material and encouraging volunteers to keep a recycling program viable.
Saturday, Feb. 1, Phillips County Telephone Company will begin to do business as PC Telcom. In an effort to combine the services offered by Phillips County Telephone Company, Inc. and Phillips County Communications, LLC, officials at PC Telcom have decided to market all of their services under one name.
The Northeast Colorado Board of Cooperative Educational Services and Dragon's Wagon Preschool in Holyoke have received a grant to establish a model program for rural Colorado by providing specialists to come into the preschool, after Bill 99-457 recently passed, requiring that services be provided for children with special needs.
After having been closed for the month of January for repairs, the Holyoke Swimming Pool was reopened Feb. 1 with Tammy Dubbert and Julie Dirks temporarily sharing management responsibilities while the city council continues to seek a full-time pool manager.
Holyoke Community Federal Credit Union was recognized in its 50th anniversary year at the annual meeting held Jan. 27 in the Holyoke High School auditorium.
Karen Goddard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Goddard of Holyoke, will participate in the Miss Colorado Teenager pageant June 8-9 at the New Albany Hotel in Denver.
The area was struck by a blizzard which started late last Friday evening. The wind-driven snow picked up momentum during the night and continued through Saturday until about 3 p.m. when the winds died down and visibility was restored.
Jeri Oltjenbruns, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elton Oltjenbruns of Amherst, has been selected by the Colorado "Amigos de las Americas" for volunteer service in six Central and South American countries.
Larry Anson, owner of one of Holyoke's new auto parts stores, Holyoke Auto Parts, announced this week that Jerry Isaacson of Wray has been hired as manager of the business.
At the public meeting Friday evening, called by the East Phillips County Medical and Nursing Home Committee, it was concluded that a nursing home should be built with private capital.
Phillips County percentage of residents who have not completed high school is slightly higher than the average for the state as a whole, with 51.6 percent of Phillips County residents not having completed high school, compared to the statewide average of 49 percent.
Holyoke Enterprise January 31, 2013

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NEW YORK, Ny. (WUSA) -- Hello, hello, from the second greatest city in the entire world.
There is no more exhilarating offseason than the NBA. Star players are routinely traded, which is why you can actually mentally picture any one of these rumors coming true.
NBA Draft Media availability starts at the Westin Hotel at 12:30, where I will be providing tweets, quotes, pictures and possibly video.
As you will see in the rumors below, the presumed Wizards pick (Bradley Beal) may very well be swooped up with the second overall pick, most likely not by the Charlotte Bobcats, who are fervently shopping the pick. As devastating as that would be, the Wizards still have two distinct options.
Option A: Get on the phone all day today and gauge which teams are most interested in Thomas Robinson or Michael Kidd-Gilchrist. The Wizards should draft the rights of one of those two players, and trade down for additional draft picks. Neither MKG or T-Rob are an ideal fit, something that has to be taken into consideration because of the Wizards lack of salary cap room. If the Wizards don't add an adequate young shooter, the playoff prediction won't be realistic.
Option B: If Beal is gone before the third pick, trade back in the 10-14 area and select the best available shooting guard -- UCONN's Jeremy Lamb or Washington's Terrence Ross comes to mind.
The Wizards are now shopping the third pick [Real GM]
The Cavs are picking no.4 and are in love with Bradley Beal. They may jump the Wizards and trade with the Bobcats. [Bullets Forever]
Sports Illustrated's Chris Mannix ranks the Wizards options at pick no.3 in order: Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Thomas Robinson, Harrison Barnes, Bradley Beal [106.7 The Fan]
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Active Error
An error that occurs at the point of contact. Active errors are generally readily apparent (e.g., pushing an incorrect button, ignoring a warning light) and almost always involve someone at the front line. Active failures are sometimes referred to as errors at the sharp end.
ADE – Adverse Drug Event
An adverse event involving the use of medications or the failure to use appropriate medications when indicated.
Administration Error
An error in the phase of the medication use process where the drug product and patient interface.
ADR – Adverse Drug Reaction
An adverse effect produced by the use of a medication in the recommended manner. ADRs may range from "nuisance effects" (e.g., dry mouth with anticholinergic medications) to severe reactions, such as anaphylaxis to penicillin.
AE – Adverse Event
Any injury caused by medical care. An adverse event does not imply error, negligence or poor quality care, but indicates that an undesirable clinical outcome resulted from some aspect of diagnosis or therapy, not an underlying disease process.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality www.ahrq.gov
Bar Code
graphic representation of data (alpha, numeric, or both) that is machine readable; a method of encoding numbers or alphabetic characters using wide and narrow bars and spaces according to a set of rules called symbols. Scanning of a bar code gives instant access to information in an associated database.
In healthcare, a benchmark is the best in industry measurement that can lead to superior performance. Three principles of benchmarking are maintaining quality, customer satisfaction and continuous improvement.
Blunt End
The "blunt end" refers to the many layers of the health care system not in direct contact with patients, but which influence the personnel and equipment at the point of contact, the "sharp end". The blunt end refers to those who set policy, manage health care institutions, design medical devices, and other people and forces, which, though removed from direct patient care, affect how care is delivered.
Call out
A strategy used to communicate important or critical information.
A process of using closed-loop communication to ensure that information conveyed by the sender is understood by the receiver as intended.
Close Call
An event or situation that did not produce patient injury, but only because of chance. The close call may be attributed to the robustness of the patient or a fortuitous, timely intervention. Close calls are also called "near miss" incidents.
An event or situation that did not produce patient injury, but only because of chance. The close call may be attributed to the robustness of the patient a fortuitous, timely intervention. Close calls are also called "near miss" incidents.
Complexity Science (or Complexity Theory)
An approach to understanding the behavior of systems that exhibit non-linear dynamics, or the ways in which some Adaptive systems produce novel behavior not expected from the properties of their individual components. Such behaviors emerge as a result of interactions between agents at a local level in the complex system and between the system and its environment.
CPOE (Computerized Physician Order Entry)
A computer based system for ordering medications and/or other tests in which physicians directly enter orders into a computer system.
Crew Resource Management (CRM)
A range of approaches to training groups, originally developed in aviation, to function as teams, rather than as collections of individuals that emphasizes the role of "human factors" and the impact of different management styles and organizational cultures in high-stress, high-risk environments. Also referred to as Crisis Resource Management.
Critical Incidents
Significant or pivotal occurrences in which significant harm or potential for harm occurred and have the potential to reveal important hazards in the organization and individual that can be remedied to prevent similar incidents in the future.
Culture of Safety
The result of an organizational commitment to safety permeating all levels from frontline personnel to executive management. Features of a culture of safety include acknowledgment of the high-risk, error-prone nature of an organization's activities, a just environment where individuals are able to report errors and near misses without fear of reprimand or punishment, an expectation of collaboration across ranks to seek solutions to vulnerabilities and a willingness on the part of the organization to direct resources for addressing safety concerns.
A method to express concern about an unsafe situation " I am Concerned, I am Uncomfortable!, This is a Safety issue!"
Decision Support
Any system for advising or providing guidance about a particular clinical decision at the point of care, typically responding to a "trigger" or "flag" and providing information or recommendations directly relevant to the specific encounter.
DESC Script
A constructive approval for managing and resolving conflict – Describe the situation or behavior, Express how the situation makes you feel/your concerns, Suggest other alternatives and seek agreement, Consequences should be stated in terms of impact and strive for consensus.
Dispensing Error
Deviations from the prescriber's order, made by staff in the pharmacy when distributing medication to nursing units or to patients in ambulatory settings.
Electronic Health Record
An act of commission (doing something wrong) or omission (failing to do the right thing) that leads to an undesirable outcome or significant potential for such an outcome.
Error Chain
A series of events leading to an adverse outcome, typically uncovered by a root cause analysis.
Event Reporting
The identification and reporting of occurrences that could have led, or did lead, to an undesirable outcome, typically from personnel directly involved in the incident or events leading up to the event. Also referred to as "occurrence reporting" or "incident reporting".
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis – FMEA
A method to prospectively analyze errors to predict the likelihood of a particular process failure. Also combines an estimate of the relative impact of the error to produce a "criticality index" to allow for the prioritization of specific processes as quality improvement targets. Each step in a process is assigned a probability of failure and an impact score, so that all steps could be ranked according to the product of these two numbers. Steps ranked at the top (i.e., those with the highest "criticality indices") should be prioritized for error proofing.
Failure to Rescue
The failure by a provider to prevent a clinically important deterioration, such as death or permanent disability, from occurring as a result of a complication of an underlying illness or a complication of medical care. Failure to rescue rates provide a measure of the degree to which providers respond to adverse occurrences by identifying that a complication occurred and the response to that complication.
Forcing Function
An aspect of a system design that prevents a target action from being performed or allows its performance only if another specific action is performed first.
Hazard Analysis
Process used to determine the potential severity of the loss from an identified risk, the probability a loss will happen, and alternatives for dealing with the risk. Also referred to as Risk Analysis.
Health Literacy
The ability of an individual to find, process, and comprehend the basic health information necessary to act on medical instructions and make decisions about their health.
A loosely defined or informal rule often arrived at through experience or trial and error. Heuristics provide cognitive shortcuts in the face of complex situations.
High Alert Medications
Drugs that bear a heightened risk of causing injury when misused, consequences of errors with these drugs may be more devastating.
High Reliability Organizations (HROs)
Organizations or systems that operate in hazardous conditions but conduct relatively error-free operations. Examples of HROs are air traffic control systems, nuclear power plants, and naval aircraft carriers. Studies reveal HROs have 5 common features, including a preoccupation with failure, resists over-simplification, commitment to resilience, sensitivity to operations and looks to expertise not rank to inform decisions.
Hindsight Bias
The inclination to see events that have already occurred as being more predictable than they were before they took place. The tendency is to judge the events leading up to an accident as errors because the bad outcome is known. The more severe the outcome, the more likely that decisions leading up to the outcome will be judged as errors, which implies that the outcome was preventable. Those reviewing events after the fact see the outcome as more foreseeable and therefore more preventable than they would have appreciated in real time.
Health Information Technology.
Human Factors (or Human Factors Engineering)
The study of human abilities and characteristics as they affect the design and operation of equipment, systems, and jobs, includes considerations of the strengths and weaknesses of human physical and mental abilities and how these affect the systems design.
I PASS the BATON
A strategy designed to enhance information exchanged during transitions in care "Introduction, Patient, Assessment, Situation, SAFETY Concerns (the) Background, Actions, Timing, Ownership, Next".
An adverse effect of medical care, rather than of the underlying disease, equivalent to an adverse event.
A method for individual situation monitoring of human aspects that may impact an individual's ability to function safety – Illness, Medication, Stress, Alcohol and Drugs, Fatigue, Eating and Elimination.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement www.ihi.org
Incident Reporting
The identification and reporting of occurrences that could have led, or did lead, to an undesirable outcome, typically from personnel directly involved in the incident or events leading up to the event. Also referred to as "occurrence reporting" or "event reporting".
Institute for Safe Medication Practices www.ismp.org/
Just Culture
A culture in which frontline personnel are comfortable disclosing errors, including their own, while maintaining professional accountability, recognizing individual practitioners should not be held accountable for system failings over which they have no control, yet does not tolerate conscious disregard of clear risks to patients or gross misconduct.
Latent Error (or Latent Condition)
An error resulting from organizational factors or systems, literally "accidents waiting to happen", errors at the "blunt end", referring to layers of the health care system that affect the person providing direct care to patients, at the "sharp end".
Medical Emergency Team – MET
A team, similar in concept to a cardiac arrest team, with more liberal calling criteria for responding to a wide range of worrisome, acute changes in patients' clinical status, such as low blood pressure, difficulty breathing, or altered mental status, de-emphasizing the traditional hierarchy in patient care, allowing anyone to call for the team. Sometimes referred to as a Rapid Response Teams.
Medication Reconciliation
A process to review patients' medications at the time of transfer to another level of care or discharge and comparing them with medications prior to hospitalization or transfer in order to identify and address discrepancies.
Medication Safety
Freedom from accidental injury during the course of medication use; activities to avoid, prevent, or correct adverse drug events which may result from the use of medications
Mental Models
Psychological representations of real, hypothetical, or imaginary situations resulting in the creation of differing expectations, suggesting different courses of action.
Thinking about thinking, reflecting on the thought processes that led to a particular diagnosis or decision to consider whether biases or cognitive short cuts may have had a detrimental effect, the general process of reflecting on the possibility of cognitive biases affecting clinical diagnoses and decisions.
One of two categories of error in addition to "slips". Unlike slips, mistakes are failures during attentional behaviors, or incorrect choices typically involving insufficient knowledge, failure to correctly interpret available information, or application of the wrong cognitive "heuristic" or rule, often reflecting a lack of experience or insufficient training. Reducing the likelihood of mistakes typically requires more training or supervision, unlike a "slip". Historically, all errors have been treated as mistakes resulting in remedial training or increased supervision.
Near Miss
An event or situation that did not produce patient injury, but only because of chance, also called a "close call".
Normalization of Deviance
The gradual shift in what is regarded as normal after repeated exposures to "deviant behavior" (behavior straying from correct [or safe] operating procedure) resulting in corners being cut, safety checks bypassed, and alarms ignored or turned off, and these behaviors subsequently becoming normal.
National Patient Safety Foundation www.npsf.org
National Patient Safety Goals – goals established by The Joint Commission to help its accredited organizations address specific areas of concern in regards to patient safety. www.jointcommission.org/standards_information/npsgs.aspx
National Quality Forum www.qualityforum.org
Occurrence Reporting
The identification and reporting of occurrences that could have led, or did lead, to an undesirable outcome, typically from personnel directly involved in the incident or events leading up to the event. Also referred to as "event reporting" or "incident reporting".
Patient Safety
Freedom from accidental or preventable injuries produced by medical care; activities to avoid, prevent or correct adverse outcomes which may result from the delivery of health care.
Personal Health Information
Potential ADE
Potential adverse drug event is a medication error or other drug-related mishap that reached the patient but happened not to produce harm.
Prescribing Error
Mistakes made by the prescriber when ordering a medication.
Preventable Adverse Drug Event
An adverse drug event caused by an error.
Preventable Adverse Event
An adverse event that can be contributed to an error.
Production Pressure
Pressure to put quantity of output, for a product or a service, ahead of safety; in health care, production pressure refers to delivery of services, often producing an organizational culture in which front line personnel, often managers as well, are reluctant to suggest any course of action that compromises productivity.
A process or protocol by which the listener repeats key information back to the transmitter of the information, so that the transmitter can confirm its correctness.
Red Rules
Rules that must be followed to the letter, relate to important and risky processes, must be simple and easy to remember, should be known organization-wide, should foster a culture of patient safety.
Risk Analysis
Process used to determine the potential severity of the loss from an identified risk, the probability a loss will happen, and alternatives for dealing with the risk. Also referred to as Hazard Analysis.
Risk Assessment
Qualitative or quantitative estimation of the likelihood of adverse effects that may result from exposure to specified health hazards or from the absence of beneficial influences.
Risk Identification
Process used to identify situations, policies or practices that could result in the risk of patient harm and/or financial loss to the institution.
Risk Management
Clinical and business techniques employed to prevent or reduce risk of injury to patients, staff, visitors, and prevent or reduce organization losses and preserve the organization's assets.
Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
A structured process used to identify causal or contributing factors underlying adverse events or other critical incidents, uses a pre-defined protocol for identifying specific contributing factors in various causal categories (e.g., personnel, training, equipment, protocols, scheduling) resulting in a detailed account of the events that led up to the incident to assist in identifying areas of focus for improvement to prevent the event from reoccurring.
Safety Culture
The result of an organizational commitment to safety permeating all levels from frontline personnel to executive management. Features of a culture of safety include acknowledgment of the high-risk, error-prone nature of an organization's activities, a just environment where individuals are able to report errors and near misses without fear of reprimand or punishment, an expectation of collaboration across ranks to seek solutions to vulnerabilities and a willingness on the part of the organization to direct resources for addressing safety concerns.
A standardized method of communication between patient care providers including explanation of the situation, background, assessment and recommendations. This tool helps individuals communicate in a concise and structured format with a shared set of expectations. It also improves efficiency and accuracy.
An organizational theory term that refers to the processes by which an organization takes in information to make Sense of its environment, to generate knowledge, and to make decisions. It constructs the shared meanings that define the organization\'s purpose and frame the perception of problems or opportunities that the organization needs to work on.
Sentinel Event
Term used by The Joint Commission to define an adverse event in which death or serious harm occurred, usually referring to events that are unexpected or unacceptable.
Sharp End
The individuals and part of the health care system in direct contact with patients. The sharp end corresponds with errors resulting from "active failures".
Situational Awareness
The degree to which one's perception of a situation matches reality. Maintaining situational awareness might be the equivalent of keeping the "big picture" in mind.
Six Sigma
A metric that indicates how well a process is performing. The higher the sigma value, the higher the performance quality of the organization's process. Sigma measures the capability of the process to perform defect-free work, with a defect being anything that results in customer dissatisfaction. Six sigma targets a defect rate or level of quality that only permits 3.4 errors (or variations) per million opportunities, 6 sigma. Six sigma typically strives for quantum leaps in improvement.
Slips (or Lapses)
One of two categories of error in addition to "mistakes". Unlike mistakes, slips are failures of schematic behaviors, or lapses in concentration. Slips occur in the face of competing sensory or emotional distractions, fatigue, and stress, Reducing the risk of slips requires attention to the design of protocols, devices, and work environment conditions, removing unnecessary variation in the design of key devices, eliminating distractions from areas where work requires intense concentration, and other redesign strategies. Historically, all errors including slips have been treated as mistakes resulting in remedial training or increased supervision.
A tool for monitoring situations in the delivery of health care – Status of the patient, Team members, Environment, Progress toward goal.
Swiss Cheese Model
James Reason's Swiss Cheese Model has become a dominant paradigm for analyzing medical errors and patient safety incidents. The model illustrates how analyses of major accidents and catastrophic systems failures tend to reveal multiple, smaller failures leading up to the actual hazard. Each slice of cheese represents a safety barrier or precaution relevant to a particular hazard with no single barrier being foolproof. In health care many of the slices of cheese already have their holes aligned so one slice of cheese may be all that is left between the patient and the significant hazard.
Interdependent elements (human and non-human) interacting to achieve a common aim.
An approach to risk prevention that looks at how individual processes connect or are interrelated and how flaws in the process or "system†may be at the root of many, seemingly unrelated events that result or have the potential to result in human injury. It provides a framework for seeing changing patterns and structures that underlie complex situations.
Systems Approach
An approach with the view that most errors reflect predictable human failings in the context of poorly designed systems (e.g., expected lapses in human vigilance in the face of long work hours or predictable mistakes on the part of relatively inexperienced personnel faced with cognitively complex situations). Rather than focusing corrective efforts on reprimanding individuals or pursuing remedial education, the systems approach seeks to identify situations or factors likely to give rise to human error and implement "systems changes" that will reduce their occurrence or minimize their impact on patients. This "systems focus" includes paying attention to human factors engineering, including the design of protocols, schedules, and other factors that are routinely addressed in other high-risk industries.
Patient safety training offered by AHRQ – Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety www.ahrq.gov
Time Outs
Planned periods of quiet and/or interdisciplinary discussion focused on ensuring that key procedural details have been addressed. Taking the time to focus on listening and communicating the plans as a team can rectify miscommunications and misunderstandings before a procedure gets underway.
The Joint Commission
An independent, not-for-profit organization that accredits and certifies more than 15,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. Joint Commission accreditation and certification is recognized nationwide as a symbol of quality that reflects an organization's commitment to meeting certain performance standards. www.jointcommission.org/
Transcription Error
An error in the phase of the medication use process that involves anything related to the act of interpreting an order by someone other than the prescriber for order processing. Transcription may be electronic or manual from the patient's record.
Signals for detecting likely adverse events. In many studies, triggers alert providers involved in patient safety activities to probable adverse events so they can review the medical record to determine if an actual or potential adverse event has occurred. In cases in which the trigger correctly identified an adverse event, causative factors can be identified and, over time, interventions developed to reduce the frequency of particularly common causes of adverse events. In these studies, the triggers provide an efficient means of identifying potential adverse events after the fact.
Underuse, Overuse, Misuse
Activities resulting in quality problems. "Underuse" refers to the failure to provide a health care service when it would have produced a favorable outcome for a patient. "Overuse" refers to providing a process of care in circumstances where the potential for harm exceeds the potential for benefit. "Misuse" occurs when an appropriate process of care has been selected but a preventable complication occurs and the patient does not receive the full potential benefit of the service.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A collection of Tina Turner's love songs will be hitting stores and other outlets soon.
"Tina Turner: Love Songs" is due out Feb. 4 — and features 18 tracks, most of them gold and platinum solo hits.
Three of the hits come from her comeback album, "Private Dancer," released in 1983.
Those tracks include: the title track, a cover of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" and "What's Love Got To Do With It."


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We currently have a domain that gets 3.5 Million directory harvesting spam messages a month. We have a SMTP filter in front of the current mail server just for this reason.
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Snow bunnies- Windham easter egg hunts draws hundreds of area children
WINDHAM - Sunny skies hinted at the coming spring season as hundreds of area kids gathered in front of Windham Town Hall on Saturday, ready to fill their baskets to the brim with colorful Easter treats.
Despite a bit of snow on the ground and the need for warm winter coats, hats and boots, this year's Easter Egg Hunt, which was hosted by the Windham Recreation Department, was a smashing success.
Recreation Director Cheryl Haas said the event typically brings up to 500 children to the town center, and this year's egg hunt was no exception. Local scouting groups assisted in the filling and hiding of 4,400 plastic eggs, which were scattered in the yard surrounding the town's municipal complex to await their lucky recipients.


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McLEAN, Va. (AP) -- Drivers have a new express option to travel on a portion of the Capital Beltway in Virginia.
The new 495 Express Lanes opened Saturday at 2 a.m. The 14-mile express lane section runs from the Springfield Interchange to just north of the Dulles Toll Road. The express lanes - two northbound and two southbound - supplement the existing eight lanes in that area. The entire Beltway is 64 miles.
Tolls on the express lanes will vary, but the average toll during rush hour is expected to be between $3 and $6. Carpools of three or more can use the lanes for free. All drivers have to have an EZPass to use the lanes.
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Here we show IUCN in action in helping to conserve World Heritage sites around the world.
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A promising future for Rio Platano
In the Mosquitia region in north-east Honduras is a place whose natural and cultural wealth can rarely be seen elsewhere in the world. But the future of this exceptional richness, in a country torn by conflict, poverty and adverse socio-economic conditions, strongly depends on the readiness of its authorities to consolidate efforts to manage and conserve it, working together with the area's local and indigenous communities. …
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Serenity on the Serengeti?
It may be inconceivable that world-famous places like the Serengeti plain of Africa could be anything but secure. But like many other World Heritage sites, the very features which draw thousands of visitors each year are under pressure. …
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Lisa Reisert hates to fly, but the terror that awaits her on the night flight to Miami has nothing to do with a fear of flying. Upon boarding the plane, Lisa is pleasantly surprised to find that she is seated next to Jackson, the seemingly charming man with whom she had shared a drink--and perhaps even a brief flirtation--in the airport terminal. But moments after takeoff, Jackson drops his facade and menacingly reveals the real reason he's on board: he is an operative in a plot to kill the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security--and Lisa is the key to its success. If she refuses to cooperate, her own father will be killed by an assassin awaiting a call from Jackson. Trapped within the confin...
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Online Junkyard: eBay Shopping - Junkyards, NowWritten by John McGann on March 20, 2012
The traditional junkyard is dead. R.I.P., dear junkyard. We shall miss thee. A change has been under way for the last decade or so, and we've noticed it at the self- service junkyards we frequent in Los Angeles County. Useful parts are hard to find. Of course, useful is a relative term. If you're in need of parts for an Accord, Civic, or Corolla, no problem. But finding a car with a V8 engine in the front driving the wheels in the rear has become much more difficult.
We must stipulate that because the ratio of four-cylinder, front-drive cars to V8, rear-drive cars manufactured since the '80s heavily favors the former, and as the latter end their life cycles, one can only assume to find greater numbers of front-drive econoboxes in wrecking yards. However, if the Camaro and Firebird were manufactured until 2002, and the Mustang never ceased production, where are they? We have only seen a handful of fourth-gen F-cars and SN-95 Mustangs in the junkyards, and they have either had their entire drivetrain plucked before being set out in the yard or they are so badly damaged that nothing useful remains.
All magazines, including CC, are guilty of propagating some variation of the following statement: "We got this engine out of the junkyard, and it cost us next to nothing." You will find this somewhere in an article detailing the "budget" build of something. If the build is a small-block Chevy, yeah, it's probably true. Carbureted and TBI 350s are still available in junked work trucks. But if it's referring to an LS1 or new Hemi, it may be time to call the truth police. Your author has personally never seen any variant of the LS engine in the junkyards. Ditto for the Hemi. Yet GM and Chrysler have churned out hundreds of thousands of them in trucks and SUVs since the late '90s, so where are they? For sale in the online junkyard - ebay, that's where.
Online junkyard shops are the new junkyards. They have been for several years, but we've been slow to acknowledge it. Over the last couple of weeks, we've spent a huge amount of time scouring the Internet looking for used parts. At other jobs, this would be cause for dismissal, but here at CC, we call it research. Anyway, the proliferation of parts available in ebay's online junkyard is astonishing. You could piece together just about any domestic engine made in the last 60 years with a PayPal account and some time to kill on a Saturday afternoon. So to get your creative juices flowing, here are some of the engines and combinations we stumbled across.
The Bricks And Mortar Junkyard
Let's start with the parts we believe are still available at your local junkyard. You'll have to sift through all the front-wheel-drive stuff to find them, though.
Online Junkyard: The Digital Swap Meet
So what do you do if you want a later modular engine, a new Hemi, or an LS anything? You have to go online. Among other things, the Internet has spawned a number of mainly online businesses selling car parts, many of them dealing specifically with late-model cars. Check out the random sample we came across while searching eBay.
Car Parts from Insurance Auctions
You may have noticed a common thread among the eBay sellers we spoke with: They buy their cars from insurance auctions. We suspect that's where all the late-model parts are going, rather than ending up in our favorite Pick Your Part junkyards in Wilmington and Sun Valley, California. That got us thinking, How do we get in on that? After some preliminary digging, we discovered you need to be a licensed automobile dealer to bid in auctions like this. Rules vary among states, of course, but this is food for thought. Clearly there is a market for these parts, and the business owners we spoke with said they were able to make enough money selling parts from salvage cars to support themselves. In this economy, that is impressive.
Way Out There
Do you ever type in ridiculous search words to see what results you will find? We did just that (all in the name of research, of course) and found this after searching "unique engines." According to the description, this is a Bristol Siddley Olympus 22R turbojet engine. It was the prototype engine for the British Aircraft Corporation's TSR-2 Military Aircraft Program. We're not sure what that means, but it sounds important. Shipping to your door is possible! END
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As mentioned in the lead, small-block Chevys can still be found in the self-service junkyard. Usually you will find them in work trucks, and occasionally you will see them in G- and B-body cars. But we've been surprised to see several big-blocks lately. Head straight to the truck section, and you'll probably get lucky. This 454 is complete and looks pretty decent sitting in the engine compartment of a utility truck. As little as five years ago, you'd never have seen this. The engine would be long gone before the truck made it out to the yard. There were four other 454s the day we took this picture.We've seen a lot of 460 Ford engines in trucks, too, both carbureted and fuel injected, but we were very surprised to see this mint-looking 460 in a '71 Lincoln Continental. These 385-series 460 engines were phased into the Lincoln line in 1968 to replace the outgoing MEL-series 462-cid engines. The '71-and-older engines sported 10.5:1 compression ratios and 365 hp. Starting in 1972, compression dropped to 8.5:1 and fell to as low as 8.0:1 by 1973. Power output plummeted to a depressing 220 hp. Grab one of these and drop on some Ford Racing Cobra Jet heads or Kaase P51 heads. Put that combo in a Fox-body Mustang, and hold on for dear life.Our apologies for the crappy photo—the junkyard workers like to rough us up if they see us snapping pictures, so we had to resort to subterfuge to get a shot of this 455 Buick in what looked like the remnants of a '74 Estate. Like all engines of the smog era, the 455 had horsepower ratings hovering around 250 and suffered from dismal compression ratios, but that is easily remedied by a pair of TA Performance heads and a good cam. This would have been a score. We haven't seen a big Buick engine in the yard in a long time.Continuing with the crappy photo theme, we offer this Chevy LT1 in a '94 Firebird, also parked near the watchful gaze of the guard tower in the yard. Often overlooked, LT1s make good swap candidates. They fit anywhere a standard small-block can go, they have good cylinder heads, they make close to 300 hp out of the box, and their engine management systems are fairly simple when compared with OBDII cars of the last 15 years. We see at least one LT1 in the yard each time we goWe can always count on seeing 4.6 Ford engines in the junkyard. You can find iron-block, SOHC 4.6 engines all day long in Thunderbirds, Cougars, and fullsize cars, and it's not unusual to see an all-aluminum DOHC 4.6 Mark VIII engine, either (shown in this photo). Why are they so plentiful? We can only speculate that it's because modular engines aren't easily swappable into older cars. They are physically so much larger than any pushrod engine they would replace that the chassis modifications required to get these things to fit an older car scare many people away. The 4.6 engines aren't the only members of the modular family, which also includes the SOHC and DOHC 5.4 engines in trucks and SUVs, the SOHC 6.8L V10, and the '05-and-later 4.6 and 5.4 three-valve engines. Good luck finding any of these in the yard; we've only seen one—a SOHC 5.4 in an F-350.Introduced in the '05 Mustang GT, the all-aluminum 3V 4.6 V8 offers 300 hp, sounds great, and is able to stand up to some boost and nitrous as long as you don't go too far beyond 450 hp at the wheels. If you're not afraid of cutting shock towers out of an early unibody car, these engines make good swap candidates. Ford Racing offers a crate version with a stand-alone ECM. If that's too rich for your blood, look for a used version online. If maintained well, these engines run for more than 100,000 miles. .LKQ stands for Like Kind and Quality. As a company, its original mission was to supply parts to auto body shops. In cases in which an insurance company decides to replace damaged panels with used parts (rather than new parts), they are replaced with parts in a similar condition to the rest of the car—like in kind and quality. Over the last decade, the company has branched out from its business-to-business model and now sells direct to retail customers online and at several walk-in stores throughout the country. The company owns a broad network of junkyards across the country and has access to late-model cars totaled out by insurance companies, which often have perfectly operating drivetrains ripe for the picking. See what's available for your car at LKQ (LKQOnline.com or eBay.com/LKQOnline.Here's a combination guaranteed never to show up in your local junkyard: the engine and trans from a Mach 1 Mustang. This is a 300hp, forged-crank, 32-valve 4.6, and it's being sold with the car's TR-3650 trans, ECM wiring harness, hydroboost brake master cylinder, clutch-pedal assembly, radiator, and fans—everything you need for a full swap. The price is good, too, especially considering the engine's superlow mileage. Online seller MPS Salvage has this and the even more desirable supercharged '03 Cobra drivetrain conversion, selling it for a little less than $10K. Anyone want to see us swap a Cobra drivetrain into our Project Panther cop car?To mod motor guys, this is the Holy Grail. The Ford GT came with an all-aluminum, dry-sump, supercharged, 32-valve 5.4L engine making 550 factory-warrantied horsepower. We have seen some of these engines making more than 1,000 hp and hitting 200 mph in standing-mile competitions. If you have $25,000 to spare (and who doesn't these days) you can pick this up from Mr. Norm's (yes, the Mopar guy) eBay store.
While you're at it, shop around for power-adders. At the time of this article, searches for both Whipple and Kenne Bell superchargers turned up no results. A search for Eaton superchargers did, however, which makes sense given that most factory-supercharged cars—Mustang Cobras, Lightning pickups, Thunderbird Supercoupes, and Pontiac Bonneville SSEs—came with Eaton superchargers. As owners upgrade in search of more power, you can often find these superchargers for sale at good prices. The Eaton M112 was standard equipment on '03 to '04 Mustang Cobras and '99 to '03 Lightning pickups. Note the different air inlet arrangement for each application. Air enters through the back in most applications, but from the top in the Lightning, and through a U-shaped bend in the case of the Cobra, where hood clearance was an issue. Each supercharger fits in a specific base because the intake ports on the Cobra's DOHC cylinder heads are shaped differently than the SOHC heads on the Lightning.So maybe you don't have the scratch to buy a complete Ford GT engine. Why not build a close version of it? Got a rapper buddy with a Navigator? Wait till he rolls the thing and buy it from the insurance company after it's declared it a total loss.Between 1999 and 2005, Lincoln equipped these blinged out Expeditions with 32-valve versions of the 5.4L engine rated at 300 hp and 355 lb-ft. Snag that and throw it into something lighter than the 5,600-pound truck.Unfortunately, the Ford GT supercharger and intake manifold won't fit a Navigator engine. GTs and the super-rare '00 Cobra R came with unique cylinder head castings. These are the best flowing factory modular cylinder heads ever made. They are also the most expensive. Good luck finding them anywhere, and prepare to take out a second mortgage if you do. To run an engine naturally aspirated with these heads, the only manifold that fits is from an Cobra R, and check out that price!As a shameless bit of self promotion, check out the price of our most recent issue featuring a Cobra R. Shouldn't we staffers be entitled to royalties from sales like this?By contrast, the $3,000 asking price for this rebuilt V10 seems quite reasonable. Its extra length makes this engine less desirable as a swap candidate, though it might have fit in the engine compartment of the Lincoln Continental seen earlier in this article.Here's a seller who's really created a niche for himself. Bob Cook is the owner of BL Auto Parts in Frazeysburg (rhymes with Crazysburg), Ohio, and his eBay store specializes in '99 to '04 Mustang parts. If you like modular Mustangs, especially Cobras, you can waste several hours looking through his listings.Cook and his son run the online business. They also operate a local automotive repair shop "working on everything from race car chassis to welding broken parts on a tractor." In their spare time, he and his son are building a '70 Mustang using the drivetrain and floorboards from an '03 Cobra. Fitting the shock towers from the donor chassis to the '70 body is a simple and elegant way to make this swap work. We also approve of Cook replacing the Eaton M112 supercharger with the big Kenne Bell seen in this picture.Cook tells us he began selling parts online about two years ago and that it has been very profitable. "About 75 percent of my income comes from online sales, and about 25 percent of those buyers are doing resto mods--V6 to V8 Mustang swaps or modular engines into older cars," he says. He buys from insurance auctions and looks for cars with 75,000 miles or less. "It's hard to sell parts with more mileage than that," Cook says. He sells about 150 parts per month. We first ran across his store searching for Cobra suspension parts.
Check it out, they're even using the '03's independent rear suspension under the '70. Maybe we should be booking flights to Columbus to shoot this car.his picture.With an asking price of $2,000 plus shipping, maybe it is worth looking into Northstar power. Does anyone remember the XLR-R? It came with a supercharged 4.4LNorthstar that makes 443 hp. That could be fun, and it would be completely different in an older muscle car.Yes, we've run a ton of LS engine articles over the past two years, and some readers are sick to death of them. If you count yourself among that crowd, what do you think of GM's other late-model V8, the Northstar? The front-drive versions are packaging nightmares, but later versions can be found in rear-drive cars like the STS, XLR, and SRX (a short-lived unibody SUV). We don't know much about them other than the obvious 4.6L displacement, DOHC architecture, and healthy 320hp rating. What can they fit in? Is tuning software available? We have no idea. Wanna see some Northstar articles? We can dig up the answers if you want. The engine has only 10 original miles, which makes us wonder what happened to the poor donor car. Maybe it was flipped by a cell phone–distracted, Cadillac-dealership sales guy.Enough with the Ford stuff, how about some LS engines? We've long been singing the praises of the pumped up LQ9 Escalade engine, but what does it actually cost to buy one? Autopartsdepot2000's eBay store had one of the best prices on a complete engine that we've seen so far.Here's an idea we've tossed around the office: Why not build a 5.7L engine out of a lowly 4.8? It is possible to bore these blocks out to LS1 specs. Considering the asking price for this engine, why wouldn't you? Externally, the iron block says small displacement, so bore that sucker out, plop on some decent heads, slide in a nasty cam, and you've got the makings of a sleeper.If you do decide to build that LS1 in disguise, you're going to need the internal parts. We discovered the eBay store of BBJ Automotive Cores. Specializing in late-model GM engines and parts, owner Billy Ingram told us 95 percent of his sales are from online customers. He buys engines from wrecked cars, disassembles and inspects all the parts, and sells everything that meets his standards for very reasonable prices. You could build an entire engine, complete from intake to oil pan with a complete accessory drive just by shopping from his site.Cleveland Pick-A-Part is the online seller of the 6.1 Hemi in the adjacent picture. We spoke with online sales manager Jay Kacz about the company. "It's been a family-owned business for 26 years. We started out as a traditional junkyard but have evolved into a seller of performance-oriented parts. Seventy-five percent of our customers are building custom cars and hot rods, and the other 25 percent are resto-modding new cars, like V6 to V8 swaps."We've taken some reader heat lately about the relative lack of Mopar edit in CC. Our project Demon will solve that. And you can build you own alongside Editor Glad by shopping online. Check out this ready-to-run 6.1 Hemi. Don't get sticker shock looking at the $7,000 asking price. Keep in mind you're also getting a five-speed automatic transmission, ECM, and wiring harness. Fit that into something cool and take it to your local tuner to get it running. The new Hemis haven't gotten the praise they deserve in the pages of CC. They are rugged engines that make great power.
Direct Auto Parts Wholesale is another eBay seller we discovered. Owner Mario DiBacco tells us his buyers are generally repair shops replacing a damaged engine with one that he is selling. "But I've sold six 6.1L Hemis in the last five months, and the buyers all told me they were going into older cars," he says. Maybe we should track down those buyers and follow along on their builds.DiBacco also had a DOHC 5.4 Navigator engine for sale at the time we were talking with him. $2,000 is a good price for this engine, especially for one with such low mileage. Shipping is cheap, too, at $350.With a dealer license, you have access to the latest cars and the newest parts. Check out this steaming hulk that was once a $63,000 Cadillac CTS-V. According to Caddy's website, this '11 CTS-V is the world's fastest production sedan with a 556hp, supercharged, 6.2L LSA engine and 0 to 60 times of 3.9 seconds. Looks like all that performance got the better of the unwitting soul behind the wheel of this car. Though the site showed no pictures of the engine, we think it would be cool to snatch it up. The LSA is basically a slightly detuned version of the mighty LS9 from the ZR1 Corvette.The other new engine we'd love to get our grubby hands on is Ford's new 5.0 Coyote V8. It cranks 412 hp at a silky smooth 7,000 rpm, and this owner's misfortune could be a treasure trove for us. The listing states the engine starts and runs fine, and there are just over 12,000 miles on it. A Coyote Panther would definitely be in our future.


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|Event benefits animal shelter
Garry Lawyer and Gerald Geisert (left) serve refreshments to attendees of the annual wine tasting event to benefit the Perkins County Animal Shelter held at the Perkins County Fairgrounds on Saturday, April 13.
Dr. Shannon Jensen (left) checks in with her Perkins County Animal Shelter staff, Janice Owens and Jessica Bollinger, who accepted admission fees and passed out wine glasses and bidding numbers for the auction throughout the evening. Approximately 100 people attended the fundraiser to benefit the no-kill shelter located on the south edge of Grant. Some good news is that a cat named Shamrock, who was featured in last week's issue of the Tribune as having been in he shelter over a year, has since been adopted.
Shown in the background as part of a slide show featuring 500 photos is one of the animal shelter's residents who is seeking a home. Those in attendance were treated to many delectable hors d'oeuvres, various wines and other beverages. Both a live auction and silent auction were held to also help raise funds for the shelter which is currently housing 10 dogs and seven cats. Five more dogs are scheduled to arrive this week. (Photos by Shari Friedel)


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About Maker Faire Pittsburgh:
Maker Faire is a community-based learning event that inspires everyone to become a maker! The Faire features technology, art, craft, electronics, engineering, and other projects created by makers themselves, including student projects, robotics, fashion, 3D printers and CNC mills, textile arts and crafts, home energy monitoring, rockets and R/C toys, sustainability, green tech, radios, vintage computers and game systems, electronics, electric vehicles, biology/biotech and chemistry projects, puppets, kites, bicycles, unusual tools or machines and more.
In addition to displays and exhibits, Maker Faire Pittsburgh will feature special performances, speakers, demonstrations and workshops featuring 3D printing, laser cutting, microcontrollers, silk screening… and so much more.
More About Maker Faire:
Maker Faire is the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth—a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker Movement. It's a place where people show what they are making, and share what they are learning.
Makers range from tech enthusiasts to crafters to homesteaders to scientists to garage tinkerers. They are of all ages and backgrounds. The aim of Maker Faire is to entertain, inform, connect and grow this community.
The original Maker Faire event was held in San Mateo, CA and in 2014 celebrated its ninth annual show with some 1100 makers and 130,000 people in attendance. World Maker Faire New York, the other flagship event, has grown in four years to 600+ makers and 80,000 attendees. Detroit, Kansas City, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Orlando, Silver Spring, Paris, Rome, Oslo, Trondheim, Tokyo, Newcastle (UK), and Shenzhen are the home of larger-scale, "featured" Maker Faires and over 120 community-driven, independently organized Mini Maker Faires are now being produced around the United States and the world.
Maker Faire is supported by Make: magazine and Maker Media.
About Make: Magazine:
Make: is the first magazine devoted entirely to Do-It-Yourself (DIY) technology projects.
Make: unites, inspires, informs, and entertains a growing community of resourceful people who undertake amazing projects in their backyards, basements, and garages.
Make: celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your will.
Besides the magazine and the faire, Make: and Maker Media is:
- a vital online stream of news and projects, blog.makezine.com;
- a retail outlet for kits and books, the Maker Shed;
- a steady stream of fun and instruction via our YouTube channel;
- Make: Projects, a library of projects with step-by-step instructions;
- a publisher of best-in-category titles via Make: Books, including introductions to electronics, Raspberry Pi, 3D printing, Arduino and more.
About Children's Museum of Pittsburgh:
Children's Museum of Pittsburgh is a place that delights and inspires children, where they can take off on fantastic flights of imagination daily and return to earth to ink a silkscreen and build and tinker with old and new technologies and cutting-edge media. With 80,000 square feet of space, the Museum welcomes more than 275,000 visitors annually and provides "real stuff" experiences for play, learning and fun. The Museum's permanent exhibit MAKESHOP® was built in 2011 to create a space for children and families to make, play and design using the same materials, tools and processes used by professional artists, builders, programmers and creators of all kinds. The Museum's maker-focused initiatives include serving as a Maker Corps site for the Maker Education Initiative, Mobile MAKESHOP, Youth Maker workshops, MAKEnight (21+) events and presenting the Pittsburgh Mini Maker Faire from 2011-2013.


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Just started to use Zimbra 5.0.9 and would like to change default language for all users. I can see that my preferred language should be included in Zimbra.
On Zimbra Website - Languages I can read,
So I should be able to change language under "Configuration", "Class of Service" and then "default". Problem is that I can't find where to change language. Where can I change the default language for all users?Quote:
Each ZCS Open Source and Network Edition ships with English enabled by default. Administrators can easily change the default language by setting new default for a given Class of Service (CoS). End-users can override any default language settings and choose their own simply by changing their language preferences.


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Young jack thriller - " you already sno dat,what does that mean?"
Hollow da don - "It's like, you know, you should know dat, but saying it fast like 'you should know dat'. U sno dat"
Hollow da don - "It's like, you know, you should know dat, but saying it fast like 'you should know dat'. U sno dat"
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A person that is sneezing whilst he/she is having a snuff in his lip.
That person just snösed!
door Barre Jarre 14 september 2012
Saturday Night Out - You get to party every saturday and do what ever you want...
Hey, it's my day off today, let's have our SNO
door GODofAllNations 5 december 2010
Sno is the Emerald Toaster himself the first person to post on TO(Toaster Oven) a very popular message board on Gamefaqs.com
Sno I want to be like you
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interchangable with the word know.
I had to go on google translator to sno how to use big words.
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Everyone around this 1337 kewl guy gets funnier by the day, he is also the first person to post on the legendary Toaster Oven board.
Omg! Sno is so kewl!!!!!one!!!Shift+one!!!
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Any snowfall that is pathetically small and only gives a token representation of snow. Can also refer to snowfall that while heavy, does not stick due to temperatures and/or surfaces being above freezing point.
Pronounced sn-oh or sni
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White Christmas? The bookies will pay but call a couple of flakes snow? Sno more like!
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Missouri House committee has endorsed legislation barring state or local officials from adopting policies stemming from a United Nations document promoting "sustainable development."
The bill approved by the House Tourism and Natural Resources Committee takes aim at "Agenda 21" - a nonbinding U.N. agreement signed by 178 nations in 1992 whose title refers to the 21st century. The document encourages changes in global consumption, management and conservation practices.
The bill's sponsor, Republican Lyle Rowland of Cedarcreek, says he's concerned about "sneaky" attempts to push Agenda 21 priorities in local communities.
Committee chairman Don Phillips, of Kimberling City, says the bill probably taps into conspiracy theories. He sided with those endorsing the bill by a 12-10 vote Thursday, but doesn't plan to rush it to the House floor.
Agenda 21 bill is HB42.
Online: House: http://www.house.mo.gov
(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
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In March I wrote about the most bizarre debt industry lawsuit of the year. It involved Lloyd Regner and Kevin Devoto, guys that had a relationship with Lloyd Ward. In the last article on this matter, which is a must read, the case against Devoto and others by Regner was laid out. The case involved characters identified as "Convict", "Charlatan", ... Read More »
The Debt Relief Most Bizarre Lawsuit of the Year, So Far, Goes to Regner v. Devoto
Yesterday I wrote about how former Lloyd Ward compatriots Kevin Devoto and Lloyd Regner were in the middle of a tiff with Devoto suing Regner. See No Apparent Honor in Debt Settlement. Kevin Devoto Sues Lloyd Regner. Well today comes one of the most odd lawsuits I've seen. Frankly this one reads like a movie script. Trust me, it's worth ... Read More »


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Bannister Named Top A.L. Rookie…Again
Well, he did it again.
Yup, Royals pitcher Brian Bannister took home A.L. Rookie of the Month honors for August – the second time in three months he has claimed the award. Bannister also won in June, while teammate Billy Butler took home the award in July to give the Royals three straight A.L. Rookie of the Month award winners. Banny, who went 4-1 with a 2.90 ERA in six August starts, is the first two-time winner of the A.L. Award this season. He allowed just 13 runs on 41 hits in 40.1 innings with nine walks and 16 strikeouts in the month.
Bannister is currently considered to be one of the leading candidates for A.L. Rookie of the Year since he is posting a 12-7 mark with a 3.16 ERA this season. He already kicked September off to a good start by tossing eight innings of one-run baseball in his start Sunday (Sept. 2) – a performance that helped the Royals secure an 8-1 win over the Twins. His next scheduled start is Saturday night at Kauffman Stadium against the Yankees…tickets are still available.
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Who were the Royals Player and Pitcher of the Month in July and August? I've looked all over the 'net but haven't been able to find out who won the awards those two months. Thanks if you know.


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The increasingly tenuous U.S. back line
COLUMBUS, Ohio Jurgen Klinsmann, coach of the U.S. national soccer team, was talking about Steve Cherundolo, a 34-year-old right back from Mt. Carmel High who hasn't played for him in 11 months and has had three surgeries on his left knee since February, the most recent two weeks ago.
"When he picks up again," Klinsmann said, "the door is always open for Stevie."
Klinsmann, being German, has a particularly affinity for Cherundolo, who is in his 16th season with German club Hannover 96 and his fourth as its captain. Cherundolo married a German woman, speaks fluent German and is affectionately known as the "Mayor of Hannover."
But Klinsmann's words are not gratuitous platitudes for an aging defender. They are genuine, hopeful even, because Klinsmann needs Cherundolo. Now. Badly.
Cherundolo has 87 caps with the national team and has been on three World Cup rosters, offering experience, poise, savvy, talent, leadership – all the things currently absent from an increasingly tenuous back line.
It continues to be the biggest growing pain of Klinsmann's tenure and the biggest cause of trepidation among fans just nine months from the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, let alone two days before Tuesday's blockbuster qualifier against Mexico at Crew Stadium in Columbus.
Goalkeeper, midfield, attack – all adequate, even solid.
Defense – not so much.
"Anytime you try to bleed a new back four, particularly young center backs, everyone kind of has to go through their ups and downs," goalkeeper Tim Howard said. "Between goalkeeper and center backs, those are the two hardest positions to learn. It takes a long time.
"But we wouldn't be having this conversation if Friday night didn't happen."
Ah, Friday. The Yanks surrendered two goals in the opening nine minutes of their qualifier at Costa Rica and lost 3-1, ending a record 12-game win streak. They conceded three in the game before that, too, a 4-3 win at Bosnia and Herzegovina.
But if you thought Friday's group looked raw and disjointed, wait till you see Tuesday. Klinsmann is now without Matt Besler, who is serving a yellow-card suspension after getting one for a phantom second-half foul against Costa Rica. The most logical backup, Geoff Cameron, got one and must sit out as well.
The next option to partner with 24-year-old Omar Gonzalez at center back is Michael Orozco. But he had to play right back Friday because Cherundolo is hurt, Brad Evans is hurt, Timmy Chandler has slipped out of favor and Cameron was needed in midfield after Michael Bradley, yes, twisted his ankle in warmups. That might San Jose Earthquakes defender Clarence Goodson, an emergency call-up who hopped on a flight to Columbus on Sunday.
So part of it is personnel. Five different players started in defense for the United States during the 2010 World Cup. None is on the current roster. Gonzalez, Besler and Orozco have 31 caps, combined. And DaMarcus Beasley, Klinsmann's preference at left back, is 31, weighs 145 pounds and spent the bulk of his career as an attacker.
But part of it is scheme, something Klinsmann freely admits.
His predecessors subscribed to the adage about defense winning championships,
routinely parking a pair of holding midfielders in front of the back four like turrets outside a prison yard. Klinsmann insists the American psyche is better suited to attack, attack, attack and gives his midfielders the freedom to flow forward – up a goal, down a goal, tied, whenever, wherever.
"It's a normal process that we're going through," Klinsmann said Sunday afternoon before practice at Crew Stadium. "When you push high up the field, when you play a high-pressure game, you always kind of have to take into consideration that you might get caught in the breakaway.


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Great map! Is that hand-drawn and scanned in?
Great map! Is that hand-drawn and scanned in?
First off let me say that this is very nice. Hand drawn maps have such a nice feel to them. To answer your question I have to ask you a question. What are you trying to accomplish with this map? Are you trying simply to convey information? If so The map is fine. You could scan it into a digital format and color it and it would be a very nice functional map. If you are trying to create something more "artsy" there are hundreds of things you could do. Simply adding color and some shadowing would go a long way to creating "art" If you are looking for an "atlas" style map there is much information in the tutorial section of the forum that could help you achieve this. I always ask myself what the purpose of a map is. For me it is always about the story so the "feel" and the "atmosphere of the map is the most important thing. Once you know what you are trying to do with a map it is much easier to take the next steps. Having said all of that here is something to remember: If you like it and it does what you need it to do then it is good enough. Most importantly have fun.
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The lake by Castle Hanolia has two outflows, if I read it correctly. It's a highly unlikely and unstable configuration of rivers as most lakes have only a single outflow (one outflow will cut the lakeshore down to below the other eventually and so capture all of its water). If it's human-made, of course, all bets are off because it's not going to be a geologically stable configuration.
Without a scale and positioning on the globe it's hard to say if the Eleut desert itself is plausible, but apocalyptic deserts are common in the context of a fantasy setting.
The river in the Eleut desert that arises from nothing much and then flows away from the ocean to go across the continent bothers me a little, too. There would need to be some sort of barrier that forces it away from its closest sea and makes the land slope that way (and such a thing isn't shown on the map). My biggest concern is where the water in a desert would come from, unless it's a class post-apocalypse desert. The most common source of "river flowing through a desert" is that it arises in well-watered headlands and flows through the desert on its way to the sea. Some real-world examples include the Nile (arises in the Mountains of the Moon and the Ethipian highlands) and the Colorado of the American Southwest (arises on the Colorado Plateau).
Other than those little things that caught my eye, I'd say it looks pretty good. The artwork is much nicer than what I produce...
Thank you, in general, for useful information!
Scale is something I am still working on, and in the end will be based on how far I am going to want my characters to have to travel between major cities.
I can fix the second outflow (the one going by the order) by simple having it start in the forest and not connect to the lake at all, correct?
And can I start the river flowing through the Eleut desert in the mountains?
If I do decide to compare this world to earth then the North-South line would run horizontally and the East-West line vertically. (hopefully that makes more sense)
This is supposed to be a general traveller's map with just basic information. (i know it still needs a compass and scale)
As I get deeper into my story I will explore new parts of this world and quite possibly make period maps. Not to forget political and physical as well.
Thanks again for the help.
Otherwise, I think the desert and the other open area west of it look a bit too empty. While there are some places where a sand desert directly touches the sea as a sandy beach, that's not a very common thing on earth. I think you could add some small forests or hills close to the coast to offer a bit more variation.
And the other open area needs something There are some huge rather flat plains on Earth, but those are usually isolated from the coast by mountains or at very high elevations themselves. Again, some small hills or forests, and maybe some lakes might provide some variation.
This looks great- I can't wait to see where this goes!
This cavern is below all, and is the foe of all. It is hatred, without exception. This cavern knows no philosophers; its dagger has never cut a pen. Its blackness has no connection with the sublime blackness of the inkstand. Never have the fingers of night which contract beneath this stifling ceiling, turned the leaves of a book nor unfolded a newspaper.
Well, the graticule (grid) is a bit problematic. Being square like that implies that the map is either, large scale ("zoomed in") and centred on the equator, or it's in Plate Carree projection, in which case the features on the map would be distorted, unless it's a large scale map centred on the equator. Based on the terrains though, I'd say it's at a temperate to subtropical latitude.
There are other coordinate systems besides latitude and longitude that you can present with a graticule which might be scare in other situations, but they wouldn't really be appropriate for fantasy a map like this. In fact, for a high fantasy map like this, even a lat-lon graticule is a bit anachronistic feeling.
Although this map is inaccurate, Latitude and Longitude were, in fact, used.
There is, however, one important thing to take away from this discussion: if you make a world map, you will be forced to decide on a projection, or else have your world be literally flat. Wikipedia is a great place to compare what different projections look like- mercator vs equirectangular, robinson vs mollweide....
This cavern is below all, and is the foe of all. It is hatred, without exception. This cavern knows no philosophers; its dagger has never cut a pen. Its blackness has no connection with the sublime blackness of the inkstand. Never have the fingers of night which contract beneath this stifling ceiling, turned the leaves of a book nor unfolded a newspaper.
A map in a projection suitable to a restricted extent is going to try to minimize distortion within that extent so those shapes will be approximately preserved: At mid latitudes, a lat-long box with equal angles would be approximately a rectangle with an aspect ratio determined by the latitude. In a normal cylindrical projection it will be projected as precisely a rectangle.
In tangent normal equidistant cylindrical, all such boxes are squares, but this means that they, and all other shapes, are being stretched out east-west. Which is a rather noticeable form of distortion. So my point stands, to get a square lat-long graticule, you can either be covering a small area near the equator in a projection that minimizes distortion within your extent. Or you can be in Plate Carree, in which case you can be anywhere, but would have significant and ugly distortion unless you are covering a small area near the equator.
Yes, I know the ancient greeks had an idea of latitude and longitude and tried to use it in map making. My point was that maps from the Medieval period, which high fantasy is generally based on, didn't. In fact they rarely used maps at all let alone ones with graticules. When they did draw maps, they were at best about giving a crude idea of topology: what was connected to what. That's why I specifically said "a bit anachronistic" I admit that wasn't exactly the clearest way to express my point. Dropping the graticule (admittedly somewhat harder given it's hand drawn) would sidestep the whole projection issue and better give a pseudo-medieval, high fantasy feel.Plate Carreé projections (also called "equirectangular") were also invented around 100 BC, so having one exist in the middle ages actually is completely valid. In fact, the Mercator map, one which is usually imagined when you think about old maps, was invented in the mid 16th century. Latitude and Longitude were also invented by the ancient greeks, as evidence by this map made in the second century.
Although this map is inaccurate, Latitude and Longitude were, in fact, used.


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Mountains of Maryland > Backbone Mountain > Climber's Log
Backbone Mountain Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|mad maximus
|Another HP
Date Climbed: Aug 19, 2006
|Fun hike. Very short walk to the top. Met a couple from SD that was on a 13 week tour of the US.
|Posted Aug 22, 2006 1:38 pm
|No trail then, bushwhack up from WV side
Date Climbed: Apr 10, 1991
|Also climb nearest bump in WV
|Posted Aug 8, 2006 10:48 pm
|Nice H.P.
Date Climbed: Jul 29, 2006
|After driving from PA's high point, we made the summit after a short climb. There was not much of a view on top, but the pick nick table was great to sit on. After signing the registry and taking a few pic's we walked back down.
|Posted Jul 31, 2006 12:24 pm
|Standard Trail
Date Climbed: Apr 9, 2005
|HP #3...from Spruce Knob and via the smallest church in the lower 48 to the tree crowded top of Backbone Mountain. Fun little power hike.
|Posted Jul 21, 2006 10:33 pm
|Shot over from WV HP
Date Climbed: Jul 10, 2005
|Came over from the WV highpoint to bag this one. Shared it with a horse
|Posted Jul 10, 2006 11:02 pm
|Standard Trail
|We hiked up the lush trail in high heat and high humidity.
|Posted Jul 5, 2006 9:57 pm
|Standard Trail
Date Climbed: May 19, 2006
|Erin and I hiked up Backbone in the rain yesterday. No views to speak of, but we had fun scrambling on the slippery rocks near the state boundary marker. Then we drove on to bag the PA highpoint.
|Posted May 20, 2006 4:16 pm
|Backbone Mountain
Date Climbed: Apr 13, 2006
|Started the day in Norton, VA and drove through West Virginia to get to the trailhead. Very nice evening hike. Well-marked trail. Nice summit. Mailbox, register, and certificates for hikers who complete this HP. HP #13.
|Posted Apr 23, 2006 11:33 am
|climbed normal route from West Virginia
Date Climbed: Mar 25, 2002
|This was my 2nd of 3 state highpoints in one day and my eighth state highpoint overall. Great weather for early spring!
|Posted Mar 31, 2006 10:31 am
|Route Climbed: Standard route Date Climbed: September 1, 2002
|Highpoint #12. Headed out before dawn while the family slept at the hotel. Very foggy; surprised to find people camped at the summit. You gotta love any state that has a town called "Accident."
|Posted Jan 2, 2006 11:55 pm
|Route Climbed: Normal Trail to the summit Date Climbed: November 16, 2003
|My wife and I climbed this mt. to the occassional rifle shot going off in the mountains around us. It's hunting season so wear bright colors. This was my 5th HP and my wife's 4th. The trail is fairly easy to follow, but at one intersection a few four wheeler trails all come together and it isn't marked well to see which to take. Other than that, a nice day with a little bit of a view since there were no leaves on the trees.
|Posted Oct 17, 2005 3:44 pm
|Route Climbed: standard trail Date Climbed: September 24, 2005
|nice little hike. you get to pass a state border marker, and there's a little picnic table to enjoy.
|Posted Sep 27, 2005 12:07 pm
|Steve Gruhn
|Route Climbed: From Route 219 Date Climbed: November 8, 2001
|Walked trail from highway.
|Posted Jan 26, 2005 10:30 pm
|Route Climbed: Only one to the top Date Climbed: June, 04
|Very nice hike, especcially carrying both kids. Mixed in some geocaching along the way.
|Posted Oct 8, 2004 3:45 pm
|Route Climbed: from rt 219 Date Climbed: May 21, 2004
|silly false summit marker. gets me every time ;)
|Posted Sep 24, 2004 12:36 am
|Route Climbed: Rt. 219 Date Climbed: 5/8/2004
|Nice day, blue skies. I got lost on the drive, but found the highpoint. I just missed the summit the first time, but this time it was in the bag.
|Posted May 8, 2004 11:44 pm
|Date Climbed: May 2003
|Very pleasant hike in the late afternoon.
|Posted Apr 3, 2004 11:17 pm
|Route Climbed: Standard Trail Date Climbed: Summer 1996
|This was a surprisingly nice hike to the top, with some decent views. Easy trail to follow.
|Posted Mar 22, 2004 10:20 pm
|Route Climbed: Standard West Face Date Climbed: May 2003
|A very nice spur-of-the-moment state highpoint. The path is easy to find thanks to the orange blazes and, despite the logging debris, it's a surprisingly entertaining and pretty hike. Took all of an hour or two. Very nice.
|Posted Mar 21, 2004 4:50 pm
|Route Climbed: Marked Highpointer Trail Date Climbed: October 12, 2003
|My friend Michael, and I climbed this mountain as part of my state highpoint quest. I enjoyed the nice easy hike to the summit and enjoyed the unexpected view to the east. The Highpointers club did a nice job of marking the trail.
|Posted Nov 10, 2003 9:52 pm


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Rocky Balboa (Rocky VI) (2006)
Rocky Balboa (Rocky VI) Synopsis
The greatest underdog story of our time is back for one final round of the Academy Award-winning Rocky franchise, former heavyweight champion Rocky Balboa steps out of retirement and back into the ring, pitting himself against a new rival in a dramatically different era. After a virtual boxing match declares Rocky Balboa the victor over current champion Mason "The Line" Dixon, the legendary fighter's passion and spirit are reignited. But when his desire to fight in small, regional competitions is trumped by promoters calling for a rematch of the cyber-fight, Balboa must weigh the mental and physical risks of a high profile exhibition match against his need to be in the ring.
Sly Stallone kicks off his good old days world tour with Rocky VI. Didn't we all get tired of this character after Rocky III? The world can live without six movies about Rocky. If Harrison Ford is too old to revisit Indy, then what does that make Stallone and Rocky? Some guys just can't grow old gracefully.
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Starring: Sylvester Stallone (Rocky Balboa), Antonio Tarver (Mason Dixon), Milo Ventimiglia (Rocky Balboa Jr.), A.J. Benza (L.C. Luco)
Written by: Sylvester Stallone
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Produced by: Kevin King, Charles Winkler, Irwin Winkler
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What's one accessory owned by grandmothers, and single women alike, wealthy ladies to low income women? The answer is guns. Its estimated 15 to 20 million women in the United States own guns. The number of female gun owners in the east is rising. I checked out Ladies Day this month at a local shooting range to ask women why they wanted to be part of the growing group of chicks with guns.
There's a lot more pink than usual at the shooting range on Ladies Day, but it sure doesn't sound any different at the Ladies Day Instructional Shoot at the Pitt County Wildlife Club off Highway 222.
This was the first time 61 year old Gloria Becoats of Raleigh and her 28-year-old daughter Kim Mangiapane ever shot guns. Kim was excited about hitting the targets much better than her mother.
"I got a chance to shoot a .38 revolver and I got 6 alphas. What that is I got it in the 1st bulls eye, and my mom she only made 4 on the target and they were scattered everywhere," said Kim.
It was also Kathy Hopper's first time shooting. She's retired after 26 years in real estate.
"My husband has guns and I've just been terrified of them really paranoid about them," said Hopper.
After shooting just two guns Kathy was no longer terrified.
"Do you feel differently now?" I asked.
"I feel more in control. I feel more comfortable," said Kathy.
Even though these women come from different backgrounds, they've had similar life experiences that made them want to learn how to use a gun. Kathy and Gloria have both been attacked. For Kathy it was 30 years ago.
'I've been attacked twice. It's been some years ago and the gun was fired, so thank you Lord I'm here today," said Kathy.
Gloria was attacked more than 40 years ago, but it is still fresh in her mind.
"When I was a teenager I was attacked- drug down the street in broad open daylight and all that. I've never gotten away from it. I always have that fear when I'm out," said Gloria.
One of the instructors Tammy Bonas shared a similar story of an attack that just happened the week before the Ladies Day shoot.
"I picked up the phone and called 911," said Bonas. "I picked up the gun. He started to try to get through the door. I was able to inform him i had a weapon and he made the choice to leave versus come through the door."
Tammy has a gun permit and several guns, and the other ladies I spoke to plan to get permits and guns. It's a growing trend among women.
The number of gun permits issued in Pitt County is on the rise. Back in 2010 there were 1967 issued. Last year there were 1,000 more. 25 percent of the permits issued in 2011 were to women.
It's not just all about protection. Nearly 130 women showed up for this ladies day shoot - many of them just looking for a hobby.
"Generally you only hear the bad side of shooting," said Chief range safety officer Bill Young. "There is a recreational side. A lot of people shoot like most people play golf."
Bonas has fond memories of growing up shooting guns and target shooting.
"We owned a big farm. We always went out back and shot. It was recreation for us. We'd plink and shoot we had shotguns and pistols," said Bonas.
She says that's mainly how she thinks of shooting- as a sport that she enjoys with her friends, but she's sure glad she had a gun and knew how to use it during that recent attempted break in at her home. It's that kind of confidence I felt when i took on the target range.
The other ladies say they also want to know if they had to- they could protect themselves.
I asked Kathy what her grand kids would think about her shooting a gun. "Oh my goodness," she laughed. "I can't imagine."
"I feel like I'd be better protected if I knew how to use a firearm and I had one for protection," said Kim.
The first Ladies Day was about 15 years ago with 48 women and the largest clinic they had was nearly 150 women last year. The Pitt County Wildlife Club has 2 ladies day clinics a year. The next one is in October.


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All branches closed for Memorial Day, May 30th.
Reading Provides Adventure For St. Michael Teen
Participants in the library's Summer Reading Program were eligible for a Blue Ribbon Reader prize drawing. But first they had to write a short essay on why they love reading. Drawing winners at each Great River Regional Library location were submitted to a region-wide drawing. St. Michael's local drawing winner was Mackenzie Burke, 14, from St. Michael. Here is an excerpt from her essay.
"Many people have asked me why I like to read. Normally, I would answer the question,'how do you not like reading?' If I had the time I could come up with multiple answers to that simple question, but in the end it all comes down to one thing: adventure…. For me, the easiest way to have my adventure is to read a book. Not only are they always there, but there is a nearly infinite amount of books you can read also. I can read when I don't know what to do, or when I just want to get away from it all. Plus, the more I read, the easier it is to create my own adventures with my own interesting characters and my own fantastical ideas."
Burke, right, is photographed with Marla Scherber, St. Michael branch manager.


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Thought I would start this thread and get the opinions of our fanatics... I honestly believe that Coach Hoiberg could go down as our best coach in this time frame, if not in Iowa State history. Though many could make a strong argument for Larry Eustachey.
Worst coach, I am torn between Greg McDermott and Wayne Morgan. I'm leaning more to Greg McDermott.
I think Hoiberg will pass Eustachey in the long run as the best. But Eustachey still wins for now.
Best: Hoiberg
Worst: Morgan
Best: Floyd
Worst: Morgan
Originally Posted by Tank
Best: Floyd
Worst: Morgan
This is the correct answer if we are talking about pure coaching.
I would have to go with Floyd as being the best. The guy just won. As far as the worst, I could go with McDermott or Morgan. Morgan at least won though. McDermott could recruit well, but then couldn't coach anyone, and couldn't hang on to anyone. The guy didn't even have one winning season here, despite having some decent players.
-Be kind. That is something you will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old "I wish I was not good to that person".
Floyd - Hoiberg = wash
Wayne Morgan wins in a landslide for worst coach with no scruples.
I think its pretty hard to argue against Mcdermott being the worst.
"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion man"
McMutt is the worst by far.
Originally Posted by Dryburn
I would have to go with Floyd as being the best. The guy just won. As far as the worst, I could go with McDermott or Morgan. Morgan at least won though. McDermott could recruit well, but then couldn't coach anyone, and couldn't hang on to anyone. The guy didn't even have one winning season here, despite having some decent players.
(1) Not near enough
(2) Not near enough
Morgan can't be worse than Mac. Morgan actually beat KU in KU probably should of done it more than once (the ref screwed us game) and got us to ncaa tourney.
Originally Posted by BoxsterCy
Dude, you are Gameday Rulzzz and could probably post about anything.
Morgan didn't coach...McDermott couldn't relate to players, but at least he attempted to coach.
That is why we are saying Morgan is the worst "coach".
Great feedback! Now, with Larry Eustachey. Put aside the drinking situation in Columbia, MO, his alcoholism, etc. Would that change most fanatics opinion and rate Eustachey close to the top? Surprising not anyone is putting Orr in the best catagory..
Loved Larry problems aside the guy could coach. Loved during the back to back years especially the first one with Tinsley and Fizer and company. Post game interviews were must listen radio. We could win by 20 and he still be ****** off.
Even though Orr coached until 1994, it seems like we're talking post-Orr.
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The Suede Palace - Grand National Roadster ShowWritten by on June 1, 2012 Celebrating traditional hot rodding
A few spectators, upon entering the Grand National Roadster Show's Suede Palace, expressed surprise at the fact that most of the rides inside weren't finished in flat paint. The Suede Palace is dedicated to cars and trucks built in traditional style on a (relatively) low budget. "Suede" paint is not required.
The biggest difference between the Suede Palace and the other GNRS buildings (besides the live music and Trophy Girl contest) is the level of club participation. The Suede Palace has its own award program, separate from the rest of the event. Trophies are handbuilt and winning vehicles are chosen by clubs, not GNRS judges.
Despite that differences, many of the rods and customs displayed here would've fit right in inside other GNRS buildings. Alex and Celeste Idzardi have been organizing the Suede Palace since the beginning six years ago and are dedicated to keeping out the junk. Even the patina'd cars are remarkable. Any rough-looking rides are rough for a reason—usually because they are preserved vintage survivors with remarkable histories. Keep reading and you'll see what we mean.
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Jesse Loera's chopped '50 Ford sedan was once a four-door coupe. Custom components include a '49 grille, leather-covered '66 Mustang seats, and a handmade center console. The copper paint is water base with a pint of pearl. Built by Jesse and his cousin Loop, this was the Best Custom winner.We told you they have cool trophies in the Suede Palace. This one, a futuristic flying bubbletop, was created and presented by the Helldivers Car Club from San Diego.Proof that barn finds still exist, this '36 sat in a barn for 34 years before Ronald Keilwitz built it into this beauty. The engine is a tribute to Olds mills Keilwitz ran in previous cars. The four Strombergs, louvered top, brown tuck 'n' roll upholstery, and black-face Stewart-Warner gauges add to the coupe's appeal.Dee Lush (right) and Little Bit (center) were lovely runners-up to the 2012 Trophy Girl, Laken Beltran, entering and winning her first competition.Everything between the '55 Plymouth grille and '58 Edsel taillights has been modified on Roger O'Dell's amazing '57 Ranchero, built by previous owner T.J. O'Connor. The panel paintjob extends onto the dash. The seats, door panels, and headliner feature white and maroon pleated upholstery.John A. Fulton and John W. Fulton captured the early '60s with their full-fendered '31 Model A sedan. Great paint by Circle City Hot Rods is set off by the white top and running boards, wide whites, and white-pleated interior. The Tudor is loaded with a Ford small-block and C4 transmission.There are all kinds of great period parts all over Jerry Friedrich's Deuce-grilled '31 Model A, from the split wishbone suspension to the dirt track tires and rear push bar. Not to mention the Flathead's Offenhauser heads, and Eddie Meyer intake and air cleaner. Best of all, it's a sport coupe.Lace paint highlights the chopped top of Don Escoto's '53 Pontiac Chieftain. It started as nothing more than a shell, and has been customized with a '50 Buick grille, Packard taillights, shaved panels, and frenched headlights—for starters. Don credits Dan Geiger with much of the expert metalwork.
Timothy Cicora is passionate about building authentic, early style rods. He drove to the GNRS in his '34 Ford coupe. The Flathead has Eddie Meyer Hollywood heads. Timothy recently added the rare Davies intake manifold with a pair of Winfield carbs, getting it dialed in just before the event.Steve Patton built his chopped-and-channeled '31 Model A in traditional mid-'50s style, including the '54 331 Hemi. The 2x2 Edmunds intake was modified for three Strombergs. Inside mods include a '41 dash with a '51 DeSoto cluster and a Plymouth Savoy steering wheel.This hot rod Lincoln features a '48 Continental V-12 with new Strombergs on an Edmunds manifold, tied to a '39 Zephyr three-speed. Frenchy Dehout's '32 highboy was shot in satin black with a World War II nose art–style pinup gal, "Miss Jacqueline," on each cowl side.This '38 Chevy custom is another resurrected gem, built (and chopped) in the early '50s, and stored for decades. Larry Srigley did much of the work before selling the car to Bill Fowler. The GMC I-6, with three Rochesters and Fenton intake and headers, was built from a 1954 Popular Mechanics article.Tony Carrillo's been working on this '49 Chevy pickup since his father gave it to him when he was 11. He chopped the top 3 inches and painted the whole truck in semigloss. Mexican-style 'striping decorates the nose, fenders, and tailgate. The engine is an inline-six and the upholstery combines pleats with replica hand-tooled leather.


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Royals in the community: City Union Mission
On Friday, front office associates joined Royals Hall of Fame second baseman Frank White, outfielder David DeJesus, GM Dayton Moore and Senior Vice President-Business Operations Kevin Uhlich to serve a Thanksgiving feast at City Union Mission's two area facilities. This is the third straight year that the Royals have partnered with the mission.
Founded in 1924, City Union Mission has provided warm beds, nutritious food and a safe place for thousands of poverty stricken and homeless men, women and children in the Kansas City area. The facilities rely solely on support from individuals, churches, foundations, organizations and businesses. For more information on how you can become involved with City Union Mission, visit http://www.cumission.org/.
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First time on this blog. Nice! I'm a Yankee fan and followed the team in '07 for a book I was writing. During the series in KC, I really enjoyed the scoreboard game the Royals play with the fans. I think it's called "And the Oscar goes to…" where a movie scene is shown and then three players re-enact it and the fans choose the player they thought did the best job. It's really fun and, compared to the scoreboard games of other teams, far superior. Are they planning to keep doing it?
Thank you for your comment. We're glad that you enjoyed your trip to Kauffman Stadium. "And the Oscar goes to…" was not featured in 2008, but we are always looking at new ways to incorporate the players into game entertainment. In 2008, we unveiled CrownVision, our new HD video board. We hope you can come to another game to check it out!
Nice bloq, i like it. I been to Kauffman Stadium
so many times with my friends..it was a blast!
Uqhh my heart will be broken if they trade dejesus;
he means more than anything to me!! =]