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By Donna Leinwand Leger and Yamiche Alcindor
(USA TODAY) - Adam Lanza left only the faintest impression on classmates, neighbors and the people of Newtown before he killed his mother and shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary, where he killed 20 children and six teachers before turning the gun on himself.
Lanza, 20, skulked through the hallways of Newtown High School in over-sized button-down shirts, eyes perpetually downcast. His name appears a few times on the honor roll published in the weekly Newtown Bee, but his picture is absent from The Newtown Nighthawk yearbook.
"He was very withdrawn," said Tracy Dunn, 20, who graduated from Newtown High School in 2010, Lanza's class.
Dunn, a junior at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, said she never saw him talk with anyone or hang out with friends. He spent time with computers and cameras in the technology room and belonged to the Tech Club.
"He would always have his head down walking to class with his briefcase - kind of scurrying," she said. "He never sat down or said anything to kids at his locker. He was just there in the background."
Andrew Lapple, who sat next to Lanza in homeroom their senior year at Newtown High, told the Hartford Courant that Lanza "never really talked at all" and walked the corridors at school clutching his laptop.
"He walked down the halls against the wall, almost like he was afraid of people," Lapple said.
"He was definitely kind of strange, but you'd never think he'd do something like this."
Lanza grew up in Sandy Hook in a sprawling colonial house with his parents, Nancy and Peter, and an older brother, Ryan, 24. His parents divorced in 2009 after a long separation, and his father has remarried. Family friends and relatives say much of his education was home schooling by his mother.
He attended Reed Intermediate School for sixth grade and appears in a 2003 yearbook photo. In the 2005 yearbook for Newtown Middle School, he's listed with the seventh grade without a picture under "camera shy," but he isn't listed in the eighth-grade class the next year. His name surfaces at Newtown High School in 2008 as a sophomore.
Marsha Moskowitz of Sandy Hook drove the school bus that took Lanza to Newtown Middle. She remembers him as "quiet, shy and reserved."
His mother clashed with school officials and eventually removed Adam from public school and home-schooled him, her former sister-in-law, Marsha Lanza of Chicago, told a CBS News affiliate.
Lanza had trouble with her youngest son for years, said her friend Louise Tambascio, owner of My Place Pizza & Restaurant.He was diagnosed with a disorder on the autism spectrum called Asperger's syndrome, she said. Psychologist Elizabeth Laugeson, an assistant clinical professor at the University of California-Los Angeles, has no knowledge of Adam Lanza's case but said, "There really is no clear association between Asperger's and violent behavior."
Nancy Lanza stopped into My Place once or twice a week but rarely talked about her younger son, Tambascio said. Ryan, the older son, bused tables at the restaurant for two years. He is outgoing and personable, she said. The brothers haven't spoken in two years, she said.
"Ryan was the complete opposite of his brother," she said. Adam "always had his face down. He would never look you in the eye."
Police say the three guns used in the massacre were purchased legally and registered to Nancy Lanza, whom friends describe as a gun and shooting aficionado. Tambascio said shooting was "a hobby."
She "had nothing to do with what her son did. She's a good person, goodhearted. She would do anything for you," Tambascio said.
Nancy Lanza "liked the single-mindedness of shooting," her landscaper, Dan Holmes, told The Washington Post. Holmes said she mentioned taking her son to the firing range to practice. Holmes never entered the house or saw her son, but she did once bring an antique rifle outside to show him, he told the Post.
The shooter's father, Peter Lanza of Stamford, said the family is "in a state of disbelief."
"We, too, are asking why," he said in a written statement. "Like so many of you, we are saddened, but struggling to make sense of what has transpired."
The Lanzas' neighbors on Yogananda Street say it's puzzling that on such a close-knit block where residents throw barbecues for newcomers, so few of them knew Adam Lanza or had ever seen him.
"It's a mystery. Nobody knows them, which is odd for this neighborhood," Len Strocchia said. "Everyone knows each other through the children, the school bus. The community
here is kids."
Neighbor Dave Lapp said he had little to tell the FBI and State Police when they called on Friday night. "We walked by their house with the dog every day, and we don't know them. We've never even seen them," Lapp said.
Dunn, Adam Lanza's classmate, fears that may have been at the root of the problem.
"Maybe if someone had tried to reach out to Adam - maybe he needed a friend. Maybe this wouldn't have happened," Dunn said. "He's just one kid who slipped through the cracks."


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May 31, 2016
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Bond for 50-year-old Allen Brown was set at $5,000.
and he has bonded out.
Brown is accused of attempting to rape a 79-year-old woman at her house earlier this month.
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Michelle auditions to be in a show, while her brother, Scotty, is doing chores for Fanny so he can stay at her house.
Michelle auditions to be in a show, while her brother, Scotty, is doing chores for Fanny so he can stay at her house.
Michelle is designated co-captain when the dance studio is set up as evacuation headquarters.
Roman wants to make his relationship with Sasha public.
Sasha throws a housewarming party for her new apartment.
Michelle's brother, Scotty, shows up in Paradise.
The strange popularity of the new students, siblings Cozette and Frankie, continue to mystify the girls.
It's the first day of school and the girls, especially Ginny, are captivated by a pair of exotic new students.
After the Nutcracker performance that went horribly wrong, Fanny closes the dance studio.
Michelle and Fanny grow closer as they prepare for the ballet's annual summer performance; Boo works up the nerve to go after a boy.
Michelle clashes with an award-winning barista; Melanie tries to learn the cause of Ginny's strange behavior; the ballet class suffers as Fanny and Sasha's standoff continues.
Michelle learns that Fanny has a long-distance boyfriend; Fanny gives Boo a coveted role in an upcoming performance after Sasha acts up.
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I went for M57, not having a clue if I could represent this accurately. It is just a ghostly image in my reflector, invisible with direct vision with my sky conditions and giving just a hint of its ring shape with averted vision.
I'm actually very pleased with how this turned out!
You can see my practice blendings in the lower right. I actually made it too dark and the ring shape too distinct, but several dabs of a gum eraser brought the intensity down to where it more-or-less matches the level of detail in the eyepiece.


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Many of life's lessons are hard earned.
Some happen when you don't even know it, and they don't involve suffering or hard times.
One of those times is now for the Rifle High School football team, says a former junior college and military star athlete, who's attended every Bears football game since he arrived in town in 1971.
"I remember we'd all shut our stores down so we could go to the games," Jon Isham said of the town of perhaps 2,500 people at the time. "It was a big thing and it still is. For a little cow town, Rifle has had some small football players, but they have big hearts."
Isham hopes the Bears players and coaches realize how rare it is that they get to play for the Class 3A state title on Saturday.
"I know what these boys are going through," Isham said on a sunny Tuesday afternoon outside his Rifle home. "Everything they experience now will carry on through their lives."
Now 65, Isham, who opened and has operated Jon's Liquors since he moved to Rifle, won a high school league championship in Garden Grove, Calif., then enjoyed two of four undefeated years at Fullerton Junior College in Fullerton, Calif. from 1966-69, under coach Hal Sherbeck. Like many colleges, they've dropped "junior" from their name now.
Those teams, which featured a quarterback named Jim Fassel, won 31 straight conference games, 36 straight counting the playoffs, Isham said.
Fassel, by the way, was the offensive coordinator at Stanford when John Elway was quarterback, then followed Elway to the Denver Broncos before becoming head coach of the New York Giants for a time.
And yes, Isham has met Elway and shaken his hand.
A copy of a resolution the California General Assembly passed to honor the Fullerton team for their accomplishment hangs on the wall of Isham's bedroom, next to a plethora of awards. Others he keeps in his "man cave" out back.
Following his junior college years, Isham enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was stationed at Mare Island, near San Francisco. There, he ended up playing quarterback on the base's football team and handed the ball off to a running back named Clarence Davis, who would go on to win the Heisman Trophy at the University of Southern California, then play for the Oakland Raiders.
While Isham and Davis played on the Navy team, they won a military league championship.
Isham's grandson, Bailey Hoffmeister, plays for the Bears this year, so Isham has an even more personal interest in the games.
"I'm very proud of my grandson," Isham naturally boasts. "He goes out for all the sports and hangs around with the jocks, who are all super kids. He told me, 'grandpa, I didn't think I'd like football this much.'"
And Isham had high praise for Bears head coach Damon Wells.
"This coach is top notch," he said. "If he stays around, I think they have a really bright future. I haven't agreed with all of his calls, but he's won every game."
Isham also credits Wells and his staff with coaching the techniques needed to play the game so well, especially given many Rifle player's smaller size.
"I visited them on the field and I see all these little kids bumping heads with the big boys," he said. "And they beat the big boys, every time. That's a tribute to coaching and techniques. I guess he has real good communication, because that message has gotten across."
Wells' speeches Isham has heard have been so motivating "I wanted to put the pads and helmet on myself. That guy is a real, true-blue, picker-upper. He reminds me of my old coach."
Isham said Wells could turn out to be one of Rifle's all-time coaches, along with Jack Smith and Gordon Cooper, if he stays.
"I think we should give him free water or free utilities, whatever it takes, to keep him here," Isham added. "We'll have winning teams and we have good junior and sophomore classes coming up after this year."
Isham knows a little about coaching himself, having headed up pee wee football teams in Rifle for ten years. He's seen many of those little running backs, lineman and defensive backs go on to play for the Bears, some even coached for a time: Chris Klein, Billy Moore, Stanley Wales are some of the names he rattled off with ease.
"Rifle's always been a football town," Isham said. "And we have a great stadium to watch it in now. I remember the alumni used to come to the games and stand on the hillside to watch, before they put in the bleachers."
Every once in a while, a buddy from back in the old days stops to visit Isham when they come through Rifle and they reminisce.
"Not one of us turned out to be what you would call a loser," Isham said. "We're all successful in business and with our families. I know my grandson will follow that path, too. It was such a rare thing for us to go through, just like my grandson and his teammates are going through now."
As far as the Bears' chances of bring the state title back to Rifle this year, Isham confidently relayed some questions from parents of other players as they stayed in a Pueblo hotel last Saturday prior to the 56-6 win over Pueblo East that led to the title appearance.
"They asked me, 'Jon, what do you think?'" about having to travel to the Front Range, despite an undefeated record and number one seed in the playoff for the Bears.
"I said 'don't worry. Those boys show up, they always show up.'"
And by showing up, they'll have the chance to learn some things to lead them into adulthood. Things that helped Jon Isham and his teammates become the people they are. Isn't that what's most important in sports?
As Saturday's showdown draws near, I'm sure we all echo what Isham said would be his advice to the Bears.
"Treasure it."
Mike McKibbin is the editor of The Citizen Telegram.


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One-time Motley Crue frontman John Corabi is hoping to play the band's biggest flop in its entirety to mark the album's 20th anniversary this summer.
Corabi joined the band as fired Vince Neil's replacement in 1992, and recorded the "MC 94" with the group.
The critically-acclaimed album was a commercial failure and the singer's time with Motley Crue ended when Neil returned in 1997. He went on to form Union with with ex-KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick.
Speaking of his plans to revive the forgotten Crue album, Corabi said, "I may go do that (perform the album) this summer… with a full band.
"At this point, it would be all the songs from the record. I don't know if I can do (them all)… There's one song on the record that I don't know if I can do, but there's other stuff that we recorded that was never released. There's a song called 'Hypnotized,' and '10,000 Miles,' and 'Living In The Know,' and 'Kiss The Sky,' and 'Let Us Pray'… So there's a bunch of other songs that I can replace that one song with."


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and cornstarch packing peanuts?!
Mini-Saurus received these great Rainbow cornstarch packing peanuts
from her summer swap buddy.
I have THREE GIANT bags of them in the craft closet! I think it is about time to break them out again! Super fun for making crowns!
Looks like fun!
So weird you posted this today! Last afternoon, we were at Joann's and my husband -though he was barely hanging on (hates Joann's - thinks it makes men 10 years older every time they walk in) saw these cute peanuts. I made a note to get some for B's birthday. How much fun are they? And aren't they biodegradable?
What a cool thing for you package to be packed in. A bonus toy. So fun!
How fun! I've never seen them before! Very cute!
Have a good one!
Your house must be the funnest in town with all the crafts and art you do!
We have these at school. I HAVE to remember to get them out!
That's awesome!
I never would have thought of using them for sculpting or painting.
I don't have any, mind you, but I'll consider them the next time I do!
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DreamWorks Animation Draws on Experience of Mentors to Integrate New Hires
After an orientation, employees spend four to eight weeks training on the company's proprietary software. Then within their first 60 days, they attend a "welcome session," hosted by CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg.
Visual effects artist Zach Glynn was nearing the end of new-employee training at DreamWorks Animation SKG when he mentioned to his mentor that he had a little down time.
His mentor's response: "If you don't have anything to do, help me with what I'm working on."
Soon, Glynn was collaborating on how best to depict a snowball exploding as it hit a character in the 3-D film Rise of the Guardians, which opens in November with Santa Claus, the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy uniting to protect children from a bogeyman.
"It was a really good learning process," says Glynn, 27, who joined DreamWorks after graduating last year from Brigham Young University. "I'd show him what I'd come up with, and he'd show me what he had been doing. And we just kept that process up, and coming over to each other's desk and showing the progress we had until we merged these little effects into the snowball."
New hires like Glynn are paired with mentors within their own departments. "It's nice because it feels very peer to peer," says Glynn, who works at the company's Redwood City campus 28 miles south of San Francisco. The goal: help new employees understand the department's structure, its place within the overall organization and how to navigate the structure to get things done, says Dan Satterthwaite, head of human resources for DreamWorks Animation.
"In a rapidly growing environment, that can be difficult for a new person to grasp because it can all be overwhelming," Satterthwaite says. "It also helps connect that new person into the already established community of people who do the kind of work they're coming into, whether it's a software developer or an effects artist or an attorney in the business affairs department."
The mentoring program is one tactic for integrating new hires.
It's a wise move because fast-growing companies must help new members feel like insiders by creating ways to experience the "tribal connection" forged during the early years, experts say.
"If an organization doesn't make conscious efforts to not only onboard new team members but also to create cultural moments that give them the experience—not just the language—of the vision, then it's very difficult for them to feel bonded," says Anna Liotta, CEO of the consulting firm Resultance.
Liotta, who hasn't worked with DreamWorks, recommends spreading activities across 90 days.
That's exactly what DreamWorks Animation does.
After orientation, employees spend four to eight weeks training on the company's proprietary software. Then within their first 60 days, they attend a "welcome session," hosted by CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg and other members of the senior management team.
"Hearing Jeffrey personally talk about what's important for the business, what his vision is for the company and what his feelings are about the culture and the environment proved to be really, really helpful," Satterthwaite says.
A perennial favorite: the question-and-answer period that lasts up to 40 minutes, during which new hires pose questions to Katzenberg. "The questions run the spectrum from 'How do we choose what movies to make?' to 'How many hours on an airplane do you spend each year?' " Satterthwaite says.
Then after 90 days, new hires sit down one-on-one with someone from Satterthwaite's team for "best practices sharing," where they're asked for ideas based both on their first few months at DreamWorks as well as from their experiences elsewhere.
"We hire so many experienced people that we get lots of interesting ideas from other companies," Satterthwaite says. "And we hire a good number of recent graduates so we get fresh eyes."
In one case, new artists shared an idea for software plug-ins that would help create the illusion of 3-D when using Adobe Photoshop, a 2-D-oriented application. Technologists at DreamWorks developed plug-ins that sped up the work of some artists and continues to be used today.
"We've got all these interesting ideas from people through that process," Satterthwaite says.
As Glynn approaches his first anniversary there, he says he feels like a part of the DreamWorks family. But as someone who has dreamed of being an animator since third grade, he's eager for his real family to see the snowball explosions he worked on with his mentor.
"I'm super-stoked," he says. "I keep sending out emails to my family, and I can't wait for the new trailer to drop."
Todd Henneman is a writer based in Los Angeles. Comment below or email email@example.com


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text: Ali Lohan's agency NEXT Models posted some new pictures of her on their website recently, and she looks miserable in pretty much all of them. What could possibly have made Aliana T. Lohan, internationally known fashion model, look like she wants to hurl herself into a deep, dark pit of despair? Let's imagine that we know.


text: We are honored that the staff of Foodies of New England chose us to be part of their festive Fall issue. It amazes us, even after 30 years, that these beautiful antique Chocolate Moulds help create the three dimensional canvas for our chalkware figurines. From Chocolate to Chalkware Written by Honee Hess with photography by Read More »


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Tomblin Takes The Oath Again
Says he's ready to put W.Va. first for next four years
January 15, 2013
CHARLESTON — Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin vowed to put "West Virginia first" while protecting the coal industry and advancing education reform during his inaugural address Monday at the State Capitol....
Big deal. Like any of these lying SOB's take the OATH they recite seriously.
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If the State of WV is to truly progress then it must diversify its economy and prepare its future workforce for more than coal mining and staffing casinos. At one time WV was a center for manufacturing. With the advent of new reserves of natural gas it can partially regain that position. Coal mining is the past. Gas is the future. It is time for the NR and other media that kowtow to the coal mining industry to encourage WV people to expand their horizons and move into the future rather than clinging desperately to the past.
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More like putting "the Tomblin family and greyhound business first."
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Oh joy, we got Howdy Doody in the State House
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Hitchcocks sets the benchmark in RE performance,
Damn, that last one hurt!As if it's not bad enough Dave spilled the beans about a disappointing result! Still stings. 98.1? WTF? Oh well. Back to the drawing board to pull some more parts off the shelf and bolt them together. Trust me, I got your trials and tribulations Pal! It is a Bullet after all. Cheers,
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one of my customer running zcs-NETWORK-7.2.4 atop RHEL 5.8 has asked us to upgrade their OS to RHEL 6.4.
in a lab setup I followed the Moving ZCS to Another Server :: Zimbra :: Blog .. and got the following error
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Walter C. WrightBaseball Player
McDonogh HS/Xavier/Negro Leagues
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Star pitcher for McDonogh Senior High School and Xavier University. Pitcher and outfielder for the New Orleans Athletics, the St. Raymond Crescent Stars and the Black Pelicans during the 1930s. Organized Oldtimer's Baseball Club in 1955 and served as president for nearly 30 years.


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All branches closed for Memorial Day, May 30th.
Author Monica Lee visits Royalton Library
Author Monica Lee visited the Royalton Public Library on Saturday, April 6. She was there to discuss her book, "The Percussionist's Wife: A Memoir of Sex, Crime and Betrayal."
The book gives a behind-the-scenes look inside a 2001 teacher sex scandal in Sauk Rapids and in doing so explores themes of fidelity, faith and justice. Lee weaves her perspective as the wife of the accused to create a candid and riveting story of the demise of her marriage after revelations of adultery surface. Lee, a writer and blogger, is a former St. Cloud resident who now lives in Illinois. Her book is available for checkout at all GRRL libraries.
Patrons who came to the event heard Lee read portions of her book, shared in a lively discussion, and had their books autographed by the author. The weather was unusually dreary for April but Lee's radiant smile helped to dispel the gloom of the day.
Lee (center) was photographed with Royalton Mayor Andrea Lauer and Amy Schoenrock, two former friends and colleagues from her days in St. Cloud.


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2013 Goodguys Southwest Nationals - WestworldWritten by on March 26, 2014 Goodguys Penultimate 2013 Event
Westworld of Scottsdale is probably known to many people for many different things; after all the venue hosts bull riding events, dog shows, music festivals, and is a renowned equestrian center. But if you're a gearhead it's where the Barrett-Jackson collector car auction is held every January, and where the Goodguys Rod & Custom Association holds its Southwest Nationals in November.
This past November's Goodguys event also saw the last of our Rod & Custom/Coker Tire Fab Five awards picks for 2013, and what a great place to cap the Fab Five program! Despite the unusual rain prior to the event, and clouds throughout keeping the event somewhat cooler than normal, the fantastic mountain backdrop makes this show unique in the Goodguys calendar. The ever-increasingly popular autocross, coupled with Goodguys' "Terrific 12" cars of the year, a great (and large) swap meet, the usual Goodguys specialty parking areas, and over 3,000 attendees, meant the venue was heaving, and getting around to select our Fab Five was difficult at times. At one point on Saturday the officials actually stopped any more cars entering the show field, it was that full! Good thing we'd driven in somewhat early for once!
Don Hamilton
Albuquerque, New Mexico
1931 Model A Coupe
It took us several return trips to where Don Hamilton had parked his 1931 A coupe before we found him with his car, but it was worth it. The chopped coupe out of Albuquerque, NM, runs a 331ci Caddy with four deuces, and uses a 1932 frame, grille shell, and gas tank. Ron Mangus stitched the subtle tan interior, while a quick-change hides under the rear.
Joseph Schenk
Las Vegas, Nevada
1959 Brookwood Wagon
Joseph Schenk drove his 1959 Brookwood wagon from Las Vegas. A 454 and 700-R4 keep it moving, AccuAir and Hotchkis suspension components keep it stable, and wide whites on Supremes keep it rollin'. The Impala-trimmed two-door's interior sports Cadillac A/C vents, a smaller-diameter steering wheel, and Dakota Digital instruments.
Dan Van Auken
Lake Havasu City, Arizona
1932 Ford Roadster
Dan Van Auken's chopped, channeled, and sectioned Deuce roadster hails from Lake Havasu City, AZ. That's a Motor City Flathead side valve under the hood, the bulge necessary to clear the twin carbs on a high-rise intake. Note the grille insert narrowed to fit the modified grille shell.
Donald Ball
Scottsdale, Arizona
1937 Coupe
One of only 1,920 rumble seat coupes manufactured in 1937, Donald Ball has owned his for several years. He originally built it as a street rod, and it even appeared on PPG's calendar, but rebuilt the coupe as a custom, the most noticeable changes being the fender skirts and 1938 Studebaker headlights, which involved substantial reworking of the front fender sheetmetal. Donald and his wife had just returned from a multi-state roadtrip before this event.
Bill Ewing
Tucson, Arizona
1932 Ford Coupe
Bill Ewing's 1932 five-window must be the cleanest Deuce sheetmetal we've ever seen. Every factory spot weld is visible inside and out, and underneath is as clean as the topside. Ewing paid $10,000 for it in 1988 with an SBF and auto, the rebuild with the current Ardun involving no bodywork whatsoever! The chassis now bolts together, the factory rivets long gone, and there's a Cyclone quick-change out back and safety wire throughout the vehicle.
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Larry Bohnen's 1932 three-window may run a 350/350 combo, but the car and the blown engine were built back in 1970. Those daisy mags just make it even cooler.Recognize this? It's Tom McMullen's old blown big-block Dodge A100 mid-engine pickup, finally released from purgatory in Detroit and restored by Street Toys in Ju�rez, Mexico.We're diggin' the resurgence in high-ridin' tube axle cars with fenderwell headers and rollbars. Whether you call this bumperless 1956 Chevy a Gasser or not, it's a style we like.Al and Regi Packard are Scottsdale locals, so they didn't have far to travel with their 383 and four-speed–equipped '29 roadster pickup.We liked Joe and Ryan Mapes' 500ci Cadillac-powered '32 Fordor when we saw it in STREET RODDER magazine a couple of years back, but approve of the switch from ET IIIs and Halibrands to skinny steelies and bias-plies!


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Keep your head up buddy! We have all ate tag soup at some point if you hunt! There is always next year & you learn from your mistakes. School of Hard Knocks! I see you live Nebraska so you got the whitetail rut ahead of you right?
I guess it's tag soup for me. The elk were thrown off by the weather this year. Together with bad decisions (not mine) well some were and some bad luck I came home empty. I gotta find a new hunting partner and maybee a new area what I've been doing ain't working. Sometimes I think you can try too hard. A perfect storm of weather hunter pressure and poor decisions makes me wonder why I do it.I am thinking of other options including other species and locations including Alaska. and Canada. I hope someone had some success. I heard Colorado was rough too.
Keep your head up buddy! We have all ate tag soup at some point if you hunt! There is always next year & you learn from your mistakes. School of Hard Knocks! I see you live Nebraska so you got the whitetail rut ahead of you right?
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Its been unusual weather with the elk in nontraditional places this year in WY. My advice is be flexible and look down low. We had elk this summer miles from the mountains. Best bull I've seen was killed by a car 20 miles from where I thought he should have been.
I know exactly how you feel and your definitely not the first to feel that way. Wyoming elk hunting is tough! Especially DIY! It had taken years of frustration for me to really figure out the area I hunt in and where the elk like to hang out. I know most the unit like the back of my hand now. The only problem is some years the elk act way different from the year before. It all depends on weather, hunting pressure and other little things. This year, I was hiking like 6 miles in h e l l holes and my dad shot at a bull about 30 feet from his camper! There are times that I get to the top of a canyon and I'm suddenly rim rocked out and for a minute or two, I get the urge to see how far I can throw my bow off the rocks. It definitely doesn't help when you don't have a good hunting partner. I took someone this year that I definitely shouldn't have. I usually go alone but liked the right of company this year.. I regretted it but now I know next year, I will either be more picky or I will just go alone again. Don't give up on Wyoming elk. It will only make it that much better when you finally get one down. What area were you hunting in?
Thanks for the replies. Too many things went wrong this year to list here but lets just say a good partner is a godsend if you can find one!
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Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - Elian Herrera kept the Dodgers' playoff
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series at Dodger Stadium.
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Andre Ethier added a two-run homer for the Dodgers, who have won a season-high
tying six straight games.
Brandon League (2-6) tossed a scoreless top of the ninth to earn the win.
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Week 2: Selucia vs. Mat
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Posted 25 January 2012 - 07:10 PM
lets think... back before mat got his ashendarai... he faced off against galad and gawyn... knocking both out cold before they could even touch him... he was clearly one of the best fighter in the books... THEN he gets his ashendarai, unweaving medalion, and the battle memories from his past lives...
not to mention his luck... based on his luck, he took out several high lords of tear without trying(or by accident) ... hit rabbits, flying targets, etc without looking(or/and by accident)
to my mind, he's the most dangerous man out there... capable of beating rand and lan... and selucia, wouldnt stand a chance if she provoked his ire...
i agree that matt has trumendess skill
and i think some people forget that "the snakes" called him like the prince of battels or son of battels or some such in tRS
Posted 26 January 2012 - 09:56 AM
no Lan is the best warrior in the world. mat is the luckest man alive
Mat, but I think it would be closer than most are giving it credit for. Selucia is very highly trained to deal with assassination attempts. The Seanchan wouldn't let just anybody be the personal bodyguard to the Empress' daughter. But Mat is the best warrior in the world.
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Since 2011 Quentin has toured the world extensively with the Kyle Eastwood band. They have just recorded a new album, to be released worldwide on Harmonia Mundi as a follow-up to 2013's highly acclaimed release "The View From Here". He is featured as a performer and composer on both these recordings.
Presently Quentin is hosting a twice monthly residency at the prestigious Ronnie Scott's jazz Club with his current quartet which features Andrew McCormack on piano and Ernesto Simpson on drums. He will be releasing a new record during 2015 on Ubuntu Music with this line-up.
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As Musical Director for Noemi Nuti, Quentin has co-produced her debut album "Nice To Meet You" which will be the first release on Ubuntu Music in march 2015. This has opened up a whole new direction for him and has led to Quentin now project managing the subsequent releases on this new and exciting label.


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I just looked at the rankings and saw some movement, but Niang was not in there. I don't know how ESPN could televise his games, see him in person, write stories left and right about him, and still snub him? I hope this puts a huge chip on his shoulders and he comes out proving that they were wrong his senior campaign and his frosh year here!
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I'm pretty sure those aren't updated yet, Telep said Niang would be in the top 100.
Originally Posted by gocubs2118
I'm pretty sure those aren't updated yet, Telep said Niang would be in the top 100.
Danuel House moved from 70 to the teens. Marcus Paige dropped 2 spots...I'm pretty sure it updated.
Niang is at 90.
Originally Posted by gocubs2118
Niang is at 90.
88 now. 4 stars. must be actively updating.
I'm seeing him at 88 overall.
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Now he's at 88, looks like they're updating it right now.
Can we change the title?
87 now.
why does it keep going down in increments?
He also picked up another star: 4 star now.
I don't get the Gessell love...
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why does it keep going down in increments?
He also picked up another star: 4 star now.
I don't get why they are updating it little by little...that seems a bit odd...its like watching a draft!
I'm seeing Niang at 87, Marcus Paige at 29, Woodbury at 43, and Gesell at 78.
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I am not a mail server novice... but I am a linux beginner improver! I have set up several in the past, Communigate Pro, ArgoSoft, and others... but this one really has me stumped. I have three problems at the moment.
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Three All-Americans, Cyclones Tied For Eighth
DES MOINES, Iowa - Three Cyclones will be standing on the All-America podium Saturday night at Wells Fargo Arena. Sophomore Michael Moreno (165), sophomore Kyven Gadson (197) and senior Matt Gibson (285) all won their first matches in the consolation round at the NCAA Wrestling Championships tonight to clinch All-America status.
Iowa State ended the second day of competition tied with Oregon State for eighth place in the team race at 41 points.
"I'm not as surprised as some people may be," ISU head coach Kevin Jackson said. "We have been on a steady course this season, getting better and saving our best for last. We have more matches to wrestle and really could have had All-Americans in Boaz Beard and Tanner Weatherman."
Moreno and Gibson both were dominate from start to finish in their round of 12 matches. Moreno picked up a technical fall 17-2 over No. 12 seed Taylor Massa of Michigan to get the Cyclones off to a winning start in session four. The Urbandale, Iowa, native then defeated the No. 8 seed .
Gibson took a 15-2 decision over No. 11 seed J.T. Felix of Boise State, racking up nearly four minutes of riding time in the match. Gibson gave up a takedown right away and trailed early in the match. He took over about midway through the first period with a five-point move to go up 6-2.
Sixth-seeded Gadson picked up two wins over top-10 seeds in the wrestle backs. In his first match, he trailed 3-2 late to No. 8 seed Micah Burak of Penn. He was able to secure a takedown in the closing seconds to seal a 4-3 victory and advance.
In his second match, Gadson was in control early en route to 12-4 major decision over No. 4 seed Alfonso Hernandez of Wyoming. The Waterloo, Iowa, native racked up 2:14 of riding time in the match.
"Our All-Americans -- Mike Moreno, Kyven Gadsen and Matt Gibson -- have not surprised those of us who have been in the wrestling room this season," Jackson said. "The future is bright."
Moreno and Gadson joined their fathers as Cyclone All-Americans. Mike Moreno was an All-American in 1992 finishing, seventh at 134 pounds. The late Willie Gadson was a two-time All-American in 1976 and 1977, finishing third and sixth respectively at 177 pounds.
Gadson and Moreno both are 5-1 so far in their first NCAA tournament appearances. Each posted three wins over top-12 seeded wrestlers.
Gibson, Gadson and Moreno will be back in action tomorrow for session five in hopes to climb higher up the medal stand. ESPNU will televise session five live. Wrestling is set to begin at 10 a.m. (CST) at Wells Fargo Arena.
Match-By-Match Results:
165: Michael Moreno (ISU) tech. fail No. 12 Taylor Massa (Michigan)
Michael Moreno (ISU) dec. Nick Sulzer (Virginia), 4-2
174: Cody Walters (Ohio) dec. Tanner Weatherman (ISU), 5-2
197: No. 6 Kyven Gadson (ISU) dec. No. 8 Micah Burak (Penn), 4-3
No. 6 Kyven Gadson (ISU) maj. dec. No. 4 Alfonso Hernandez (Wyoming), 12-4
285: Matt Gibson (ISU) maj. dec. No. 11 J.T. Felix (Boise State), 15-2
No. 10 Jarod Trice (Central Michigan) dec. Matt Gibson (ISU), 3-0
Session Four Matchups:
165: Michael Moreno (ISU) vs. No. 3 Peter Yates (Virginia Tech); no previous meetings
197: No. 6 Kyven Gadson (ISU) vs. No. 3 Matt Wilps (Pitt); Wilps defeated Gadson earlier this season 4-3 with a late takedown at the Midlands Championships.
285: Matt Gibson (ISU) vs. Odie Delaney (The Citadel); no previous meetings
Team Standings After Session IV:
1. Penn State – 114.5 (points)
2. Oklahoma State – 94
3. Minnesota – 86
4. Iowa – 68
5. Cornell – 51
6. Missouri – 47.5
7. Ohio State – 46
8t. Iowa State – 41
8t. Oregon State – 41
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Despite blows to flexible work at Yahoo Inc. and Best Buy Co., the practice is alive and well at medical device-maker Medtronic Inc.
About 150 of the roughly 1,000 employees at Medtronic's operations in Santa Rosa, California, have been designated home-office workers. Those employees generally come into the office just once or twice a week. Many telecommute from San Francisco, which is about an hour to the south. The 3-year-old program saves Medtronic some $1.2 million a year in leased office space, boosts productivity and improves the company's ability to attract top job candidates, says Victor Assad, the company's senior human resources director.
The company has no intention of rolling back its flex-work effort, even though earlier this year Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer curtailed telecommuting and Best Buy quit its pioneering program to let employees pick their hours and when they would come to the office. Assad says Medtronic has taken pains to prevent common problems associated with teleworking, such as bosses' fears that they will lose control over their direct reports. If anything, the program has improved the way some supervisors manage their people, Assad says, because the company urged leaders to make home-office employees' goals crystal clear.
"With flex work, you need to be more purposeful in setting objectives and milestones," Assad says. "Some managers have come up to us and said, 'This has helped me be more intentional.' "
Medtronic isn't alone in championing flexible work arrangements. Although such practices have come under scrutiny of late, there's little evidence flexibility is faltering overall. If anything, a mend-don't-end shift is underway.
During the past 15 years or so, some firms pushed virtual teams to an extreme, losing sight of the benefits of face-to-face collaboration. Companies also have paid scant attention to the training that may be needed for employees and managers to succeed with flex work, and firms are rethinking overly broad initiatives that ignored which job roles are right for telecommuting. But businesses generally realize that workplace flexibility is a key to attracting, retaining and engaging talent, that employee mobility is here to stay and that well-designed, dispersed teams can be highly productive.
"What Best Buy and Yahoo have shown is we aren't doing this very well," says author and workplace consultant Cali Williams Yost. But, she says, "The flexibility horse has left the barn."
Flexible work generally refers to arrangements in which employees have options regarding when and where they do their jobs. The term includes reduced-hour schedules and telecommuting, where workers connect to their employers and the rest of the business world from home offices or cafés. Flexible work began to take off with the widespread adoption of the Internet in the late 1990s. The emergence of nearly ubiquitous wireless connectivity and a generation of smartphones and tablet computers bolstered the trend.
Organizations also began to ask more of employees outside of regular work hours, thanks in part to increasingly global operations and more competition. Heightened demands on workers' time fueled workers' interest in programs and policies that gave them a measure of control of their schedules—flex work became a primary means for people to achieve a "work-life balance." Parents in particular have treasured flexible arrangements so that they can manage busy family schedules even as they pursue careers.
Overall, academic studies suggest that job flexibility helps companies and workers. But research also indicates companies haven't bent over backward for all their workers: One 2011 report said that 78 percent of companies offer reduced workload flexibility to at least 1 percent of employees, but just 16 percent offer reduced workload flexibility to at least 51 percent of employees. Among the jobs most closely associated with telecommuting and other flexible options are technology occupations and other "knowledge work"—where employees might just need a computer and an Internet connection to do their jobs.
That's why it was a shock when Yahoo's new CEO pulled the plug on working from home at the Internet giant. Mayer's decision to do so earlier this year prompted much discussion, partly because she became a new mother at about the same time she was shutting down a program valued by advocates of women in the workplace. Commentary about Mayer's move also suggested that Yahoo employees working at home were not working very hard, and that Mayer needed to shake things up amid stiff competition from the likes of Google Inc. and Facebook Inc.
A Yahoo spokeswoman told Workforce that the company doesn't discuss internal matters, but she said the move was not meant to be a sweeping condemnation of flexible work. "This is about what is right for Yahoo, right now," the spokeswoman said.
A similar story unfolded at Best Buy. For close to a decade, the electronics retailer conducted one of the most radical experiments in alternative work arrangements. Its Results-Only Work Environment, or ROWE, allowed employees at its Minneapolis-area headquarters to set their hours and place of work as long as they accomplished their job goals. But soon after Yahoo cut back on telecommuting, Best Buy's CEO announced the end of ROWE.
Best Buy spokesman Jon Sandler says the program led to managers having a difficult time working with their direct reports. "It was a right, not a privilege," he says.
In addition, Sandler says, "We didn't end flexibility; you just have to ask your manager."
These explanations rankle Jody Thompson, who co-developed the ROWE program at Best Buy and later co-founded CultureRx, a consulting firm that promotes the ROWE approach. Thompson hasn't worked directly with Best Buy since 2007, and says turnover among the company's executive ranks led to less support for the results-first philosophy. She says focusing on the term "flexibility" is misguided, because that means concentrating on workers' schedules rather than their achievements.
"We're talking about the wrong thing," Thompson says. Demanding face time from employees is typically a sign that supervisors are unable to lead effectively, she argues. "They don't know how to manage performance, so they manage people's time."
Ravin Jesuthasan, global practice leader at consulting firm Towers Watson & Co., makes a similar point. For telecommuting and other flexible work programs to work, managers must be prepared to have hard conversations with their direct reports. But companies often have simply written work-at-home rules without training their supervisors properly. "It's much easier to push a policy than to enable and equip managers to make better decisions about talent," he says.
Jesuthasan also says there are some jobs where telecommuting or virtual arrangements aren't optimal. Innovation-related work tends to happen best with plenty of face-to-face encounters, he says. Yahoo's Mayer said as much in an April speech. "People are more productive when they're alone," she said, according to Fortune. "But they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together. Some of the best ideas come from pulling two different ideas together."
It's a point borne out by hotbeds of creativity such as animation studio Pixar, where Steve Jobs deliberately designed the headquarters to foster impromptu encounters among employees. Increasingly, companies are coming to see the limits of virtual teamwork. It's one of the factors behind a nascent movement to "reshore" more jobs in America rather than send as much work as possible to lower-wage nations.
To Jesuthasan, the Yahoo and Best Buy moves are prompting healthy reflection on virtual work. "We went headlong into it in a one-size-fits-all way," he says. "We're learning that one size does not fit all."
One problem with flexible work programs is that they've been framed as an employment benefit, meaning everyone should be covered, Yost says. The better approach, she says, is for flexibility to be woven together with business aims. These could be saving money on office space, making the business more resilient in the faces of natural disasters or attracting talent more effectively. Even then, flexibility efforts generally require education for both managers and employees, Yost says. And this means more than simple time management, she says. For flex work to work well, employees must continually reflect on professional and life priorities and communicate effectively with managers and peers, she says.
"It falls apart because the individual employees don't necessarily know how to handle it themselves," Yost says. "It's the modern skill set we all need but no one has."
Medtronic took much of this emerging wisdom into account when it set up its flexible work program at the Santa Rosa offices. Among the factors behind the initiative was a desire to cut real estate costs at the operations, which focus on products including stents and a technique for lowering high blood pressure called "renal denervation." Another goal was to make the company more attractive to young professionals who may want to live in the more cosmopolitan city of San Francisco, Assad says.
Even so, Medtronic took pains to figure out which of its Santa Rosa-based jobs made sense for telecommuting. For example, it required its research-and-development staff to continue reporting to the office. Employees with a high degree of face-to-face interactions also were ruled out. "We allow people to work from home if most of their work is done through the computer," Assad says.
The home-office program is voluntary, and the company also provided guidelines to smooth the transition to telecommuting. Among these was reiterating to managers the importance of setting explicit performance targets and supervising to those goals. Another was promoting a set of "operating norms," Assad says. These included responding to instant messages within an hour and to emails by the end of the day.
Medtronic also suggested a daily greeting by home-office employees when they first log on to their computers. "Have that conversation like you'd have it in the office," Assad says. "Particularly at the beginning; that sort of broke the ice."
The flexibility program works well for Mercy Tolve. A senior marketing manager for Medtronic, Tolve works most days out of her San Francisco home. "If anything, I'm more productive at home," she says. Tolve also appreciates the way the flexibility arrangement allows her to avoid two hours a day of commute time and to consistently be on time to pick up her 16-month-old daughter from day care.
Assad says the program involved investing about $800,000 in facility upgrades. Medtronic created "flex rooms" that can serve as conference rooms or spaces for home-office workers to touch down when in Santa Rosa. Still, by assigning 15 percent of employees to home offices, the company was able to cut the number of buildings it leased to six from seven. "This program paid for itself in six weeks," he says.
Medtronic is one of many companies committed as ever to flexible work.
Another is accounting and professional services firm Ernst & Young, which depends on employees working hours that can be long and unusual. Travel is common, as are virtual, global teams requiring early morning or evening phone calls. Making it easy for employees to take an afternoon off to see a school play or handle a cable installation appointment shows that flexibility is a two-way street, says Maryella Gockel, flexibility strategy leader for the Americas at Ernst & Young.
Providing employees with options about their hours and their work location is part of an employment deal the company seeks to strike with employees to create positive, lifelong relationships—such that even if they leave the company they will feel good about doing business with Ernst & Young. "We want them to think fondly of Ernst & Young and think of Ernst & Young as a great place to work," Gockel says.
It's a similar story at consulting firm Accenture. Employees don't have to formally apply to telecommute or work reduced hours, says Ellyn Shook, senior managing director for human resources at the company. Instead, employees know they can make such arrangements informally with their managers. And despite the consulting industry's reputation for demanding schedules, it is common for Accenture employees—both women and men—to set up reduced hours and workloads, Shook says.
As Shook sees it, the future of flexibility is about open-mindedness on the part of leaders. If they want to attract the best talent, executives must see that priorities around work and life will shift for people. "What people need to be successful and how they define success changes over time," she says.
If Shook and others are right, the Yahoo and Best Buy moves of 2013 may go down as the death rattle of rigid work arrangements. Thompson of CultureRx says the flexibility news this year has served to put questions about work settings, schedules and productivity front and center. "It raised up the conversation," she says. "I'm very hopeful."
Ed Frauenheim is associate editorial director of Human Capital Media, the parent organization of Workforce. Comment below or email him at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow Frauenheim on Twitter at @edfrauenheim.


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False Deeds in Md.: More Foreclosure Fraud Emerges
As if we needed more proof of the outlaw actions of banks and their agents, The Baltimore Sun reports that 1,000 or more Maryland deeds are likely forgeries created by a foreclosure mill. If the accusation is true, the false deeds will create a nightmare for the innocent people who bought the homes.


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Serves 2
1/2 Tbsp olive oil
2 chorizo, skins removed
4 eggs, separated
1/3 cup pouring cream
1/2 cup grated haloumi
1/2 cup chopped curly parsley leaves
Sea salt and cracked black pepper
20g unsalted butter
Micro parsley leaves (optional) and lemon wedges, to serve
1 Heat the oil in a medium non-stick frying pan over high heat. Add the chorizo and cook, breaking up lumps, for 3-4 minutes or until golden brown. Set aside and reserve the oil.
2 Place the egg yolks, cream, haloumi, parsley, salt and pepper in a bowl and stir until well combined.
3 Place the egg whites in a separate bowl and whisk until soft peaks form. Gently fold the egg whites though the egg yolk mixture.
4 Melt the butter in 22cm non-stick frying pan over medium-low heat. Add the egg mixture and cook for 4-5 minutes. Sprinkle with the chorizo and cook for a further 3-4 minutes or until the base of the omelette is just set.
5 Gently fold over to enclose the chorizo and cut in half. Sprinkle with the micro parsley, drizzle with the chorizo oil and serve with lemon wedges.
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Harold Goodman dominated the Pro class of the 2012 AMA ATV Extreme Dirt Track National Championship, finishing first six times and second once in the first seven rounds of the eight-round series to win the title. Goodman, of Brownstown, Mich., beat out second-place finisher Brad Riley of High Point, S.C., by 34 points: 223 to 189.
Goodman and Riley also battled in the Pro-Am class, with Goodman again coming out on top and Riley finishing second: 217 points to 192.
The twin titles mean that Goodman now has four Pro championships and five Pro-Am championships on his race resume.
Q: Congratulations on earning the Pro and Pro-Am titles in the 2012 AMA ATV Extreme Dirt Track Championship Series for the second year in a row. What's the secret to your success?
Harold Goodman: I have been racing in the Pro class since 1996, and was able to win at Ashtabula [Ohio] that year, so I have a lot of experience. But more importantly, my starts are really good. With help from Houser Racing, Rage Racing Engines, Hoosier Tire and Elka Suspension I had the equipment that allowed me to get every Pro main start this season.
Q: Describe your battles with Brad Riley in both classes.
HG: Brad is really fast and a talented rider. We had good races in both classes. My starts helped me a lot. Brad usually had to come from behind and work his way forward.
Q: You also race in the AMA ATV Motocross National Championship Series. Why?
HG: Until 2003 the series were combined, so MX has always been a big part of my life. I really enjoy that series and I'm still relatively competitive. Also, I have a few riders who I help out in that series, so it is good to be there to support them as well.
Q: Describe the start and the first lap around a dirt-track course. What are you thinking and doing, step by step?
HG: Well, first I am just focused on getting a good start. It is so important to get out front because it is typically hard to pass on a TT track. Second, if I get the holeshot I ride conservatively for a couple of laps to avoid a mistake that could cost me positions. Then I try to pick up the pace a little to try and get some breathing room. If I can't pull away then I try and stay mistake free. Then I just focus on running a clean race to the end.
Q: You're still with the Houser Racing team and racing a Honda TRX450R. How is that relationship going, and how is the machine working?
HG: Houser Racing has been a huge part of my racing program since 2006. They have the best components, which has led to these championships. I can't thank them enough for their continued support. My Hondas have been great. They have been really reliable and the performance is great.
Q: How will you spend the off-season?
HG: Well, my wife, Jessica, and I have just been at the hospital having our first baby. "Trey" was born on Oct. 4 at 2:04 p.m., 7-pounds 14-ounces, 19 1/2-inches long. His legal name is Harold Loyd Goodman III—Trey for "3" or "the 3rd." So I will be spending a lot of time with him. Of course I will be training and preparing for next year. Also, I will be doing all kinds of work on other people's bikes.
Q: What are your plans for the future?
HG: I am still trying to get everything organized for next season. But I'm sure I will be racing somewhere.
Q: What do you see yourself doing in five years?
HG: I will probably still ride some and be doing work for others. I'm not sure how interested I am in growing an ATV business but I'm sure I will be doing some select work here and there. I will probably be wrenching on Trey's four-wheelers, too!
Q: What do you do in your free time unrelated to ATVs?
HG: Free time unrelated to ATVs? Almost all of my time is somehow related to racing. In the evenings I try to not take racing-related calls and spend time doing "normal" around-the-house things. I also deer hunt a little. This fall I have also bought a couple houses to resell. I haven't bought any in a few years, so it was time to get back in that business.
Q: Who are your sponsors? Who would you like to thank?
HG: I would like to thank my parents and wife for supporting and traveling with me. I would also like to thank all of my sponsors: Houser Racing, Honda East Toledo, Elka Suspension, Hoosier Tire, Rage ATV, Fly Racing, DWT, Hinson Clutch Components, Precision Racing Products, Pro Taper, MSR levers, Hot Cams, Streamline, Pivot Works, Quadtech, Spider Grips, K&N, Rath Racing, Pro Design, Wiseco, JPMX, and ATV Riders.
Q: What advice would you give young people who want to be an ATV racer like you?
HG: The best advice I can give is to always ride within your ability and wear all your gear. It takes a lot of practice to get faster, and you can't practice if you are hurt.
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Installing The GM Ramjet 350Written by on May 1, 2002 The First Turnkey Electronically Fuel Injected Crate Engine Available From A Big Three Performance Division
When it comes to research, engineering, and design, few aftermarket companies can match the resources of an OE manufacturer, especially General Motors. When the General wants to, it can really put on a show by dipping into its enviable parts bin and combining tried-and-true components into a kick-ass package. A case in point is GM Performance Parts Ramjet 350 crate enginethe first turnkey electronically fuel injected crate engine available from a Big Three performance division.
The Ramjet has been on the market for a couple of years now. We got this Ramjet more than a year before this story was written from Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center, one of the nations largest GM Performance Parts distributors, which sells them for just under $4,500. Since then, Scoggin-Dickeys Nicky Fowler says Ramjets have been flying off the shelves and into the engine bays of everything from street rods to classic pickups to musclecars. With a rated output of 350 hp at 5,200 rpm and 400 lb-ft at 3,500 rpm, it may not be the rowdiest, highest-revving, street stomper you can imagine, but itll move even our 4,000-pound 65 Biscayne along at a steady clip. It also starts, idles, and runs like youd expect a factory engine to perform, which is nice in everyday L.A. traffic. The Ramjets MPFI-3 fuel/spark management system is based on the marine L31 engine and uses many of the same sensors as late-model Vortec-equipped GM C/K pickups, so service parts are available at any GM dealer or auto parts store.
Engine Installation
Installing the Ramjet 350 is as simple as swapping any other Gen-II one-piece rear-mainseal small-block into a GM car. Headers, motor mounts, and most other accessories from a traditional first-gen small-block will bolt right up. The Ramjet is shipped with a flywheel that accepts up to an 11-inch clutch, which is exactly what we were running, so that part of the swap was a breeze. We bolted our Hays clutch, GM bellhousing, and Richmond Super T10 four-speed up in minutes. If you intend to run an automatic, youll need a flexplate designed to work with the 86-and-later one-piece main-seal style crankshaft. Our motor mounts and headers also bolted right up, so we had the engine swapped into the car in a few hours after yanking the old small-block. The rear-sump oil pan that comes on the engine is designed for truck and marine usage, but easily cleared our Biscaynes crossmember. GM recommends using the ZZ4 oil pan (PN12528916) in applications where the supplied pan doesnt fit. Neither of these pans will fit 62-67 Novas, however, which may require a custom oil pan.
We did run into one odd problem, however, when we tried to swap our short water pump in place of the long- style pump that comes with the engine. Late-model Gen-II small-blocks use an O-ringed composite plastic timing chain cover that is attached to the block with shouldered bolts. One of the bolts interfered with the casting body of the pump, preventing it from bolting down against the block. We had to file the head of the bolt down quite a bit and grind a minor clearance into the pump itself to make it fit. This is a problem that applies to any small-block using the plastic cover, but is not an issue for any 69-and-later long-waterpump application. Other than that, all our existing brackets and pulleys bolted on and lined up.
Plumbing the Fuel System
The Ramjet instructions recommend adapting the in-tank electric fuel pump for a Vortec truck or an LT1 Camaro or Firebird. Thats a great idea, except neither of those gas tanks will bolt in to a 65 Impala, or probably any other musclecar for that matter. There are several good options for building an EFI-compatible fuel system, some of which are discussed in other articles in this issue. Basically, what you need is a system that provides some sort of sump or internal baffle inside the tank so the fuel pickup doesnt become easily uncovered when the fuel level is low. You also need a way to return the fuel thats bypassed by the regulator back into the tank. Then you simply plumb the lines for supply and return. For the Ramjet, we chose what we believe to be the simplest and least expensive option: installing a sump in the stock tank and running an external electric fuel pump. This was appealing in part because the Biscaynes original tank had no less than seven puncture repairs and still leaked like a sieve, so it needed to be replaced anyway. We ordered a new replacement tank from Classic Industries and sent it off to Aeromotive to have a baffled sump installed. When it returned, we took it to a local welder to have an AN bung welded in for the return line. Bolting it into the car took about three minutes.
To supply fuel to the engine, we enlisted Aeromotives PN 11106 EFI inline electric fuel pump, which is capable of supplying up to a 700hp engine. This is far in excess of the minimum 35 gph at 45-55 psi required by the Ramjet to operate, but overkill is usually a good thing in an electric fuel pump as long as it is still capable of running in continuous duty on the street. Dirt and grit is a major cause of malfunction in electric fuel pumps and injectors, so per the companys recommendation, we ran a course 100-micron filter on the inlet side and a fine 10-micron filter on the outlet. We plumbed the rest of the fuel system with braided stainless hose and fittings from Goodridge.
Wiring the Ramjet engine controller harness is simple. Only four wires need to be hooked up: A power lead to Battery positive, which we wired with an inline 30-amp fuse to protect the circuit; a 12-volt keyed ignition source run from the fuse box or ignition switch; fuel pump power; and fuel pump ground. A tachometer lead is supplied if the car is equipped with one. Additionally, the harness itself must be grounded to the back of the cylinder head. The harness has built-in ignition and fuel-pump relays that can be mounted out of the way on the firewall. After a few minutes cranking to prime the electric fuel pump, the Ramjet fired right up and purred like a kitten. There was just one problemit wouldnt shut off when we switched the key off! See the It Keep Running sidebar for an explanation and the easy 59-cent solution to this puzzling problem.
Converting to electronic fuel injection can be a daunting proposition for a first-timer unsure of the intricacies of this newfangled technology. With its supplied computer and wiring harness, the Ramjet is a true turnkey, plug-and-play EFI crate engine. It fired up and ran flawlessly right out of the box with no tuning required. However, the Ramjets computer control, developed for use in boats, is a completely sealed unit, and its not easily reprogrammable. This means you cant go in and change the cam or heads or add nitrous or a blower and reprogram the fuel and spark curves. The Ramjet is what it is and thats that, which is a great crate package for anyone who wants the convenience and drivability of EFI without major cost and hassle.
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Installing GM Performance Part's Ramjet 350 is a piece of cake, even for someone who has never touched a fuel-injected engine before. With most of the parts gathered in advance, we had it running in our '65 Biscayne in a long weekend, and it fired up on the first twist of the key.The Ramjet is shipped with a flywheel that accepts an 11-inch clutch, exactly what we were already running on the 383 small-block we had in the car before the swap. However, it doesn't come with a pilot bearing, so make sure you don't forget that. We used a roller-style bearing, but a bronze bushing also works. If you're running an automatic, you'll need a flexplate that's compatible with the '86-and-later one-piece rear-main seal–style crankshaft.The only interchange problem we ran into with the Ramjet was fitting a short water pump in place on the long-style pump supplied with the crate engine. One bolt on the plastic timing chain cover sits up far enough to interfere with the short-style pump. We had to seriously grind the head of the bolt down and make a minor clearance in the pump itself to get it to fit (arrow). We can still get a wrench on the abbreviated head, but barely. This applies to any GM small-block using this type of cover, but is not an issue with long-style pumps.There was no way we were going to make the mechanical bellcrank throttle linkage the Biscayne had work with the Ramjet, so we had to convert to a cable-style linkage. Fortunately, '69-and-later fullsize cars used a throttle cable, so we were able to pirate a hanging pedal linkage setup from a junkyard and swap it in place.The Ramjet's throttle butterfly is on the passenger side of the engine, mandating the use of a very long throttle cable. The factory instructions interestingly make no mention of a throttle cable, leaving installers on their own. Once again, street-rod specialist Lokar saved the day with a universal cut-to-fit cable setup that comes with the correct hardware to link up to the Ramjet's throttle.The Ramjet block accepts a passenger-side dipstick, which isn't supplied. The recommended dipstick and tube parts numbers are 12551155 and 12551154, respectively. We found a dipstick in an early-'80s Caprice at the junkyard that worked, but we have no idea what the part number is.The rear of the Ramjet manifold is tapped for a 3/8-inch NPT fitting to provide a vacuum source for power brakes. The Biscayne has manual discs, so we plugged it.Since it's only rated at 350 hp, the fuel system requirements of the GM Ramjet aren't huge. However, the EFI system requires a minimum of 35 gph and 43-55 psi to operate properly, so a high-pressure EFI pump is mandatory. We selected Aeromotive's entry-level inline electric pump, which is rated for up to 700 hp. Along with the recommended 100-micron inlet and 10-micron outlet fuel filters, it makes quite a bazooka-like rig! Conveniently, it fit perfectly in the open framerail channel adjacent to the fuel tank. Ideally, the pump should sit at the same level or slightly lower than the pickup, but some compromise is necessary on a street car to protect the pump from road debris. The pump body attaches with aircraft-style clamps to four holes drilled in the frame. We plumbed it with a short length of AN-10 braided hose from the tank.The heart of the Ramjet's fuel system is a new stock replacement fuel tank ordered from Classic Industries and modified with an external sump by Aeromotive. Already well-known for its line of complete drop-in fuel systems for 5.0L Mustangs, the company has recently added complete drop-in fuel systems for '55-'57 Chevrolets, the '64-'72 GM A-body, and many popular Fords and Mopars. Competition Engineering also sells external sumps that can be installed by any competent welder or fabrication shop. To provide the proper baffling effect, a series of holes are cut into the bottom of the tank with a hole saw before the sump is welded on.
We had a steel AN O-ring boss TIG-welded into the tank right below the vent opening to provide a way to return fuel into the tank. Ideally, the fuel should return into the top of the tank, but since it sits flush against the trunk floor, that's impossible with this tank without cutting a hole in the trunk floor and routing the hose to it.To prevent fuel from backing up from the tank into the return line when the gas tank is full, we installed a Goodridge check valve at the end of the return line. The valve cracks open at about 2 psi, so it doesn't introduce any restriction into the system. At a cost of about $80, it's not cheap, but we felt it was important because we had to plumb the return line into a location on the tank where it will be below the fuel level when the tank is full.On the inlet side, we first threaded a straight 3/8-inch NPT-to-AN-6 fitting into the back of the fuel rail, only to find that we couldn't install the distributor with the hose attached. Fortunately, a 90-degree AN fitting solved the problem.We routed the supply and return lines adjacent to the stock factory hard line along the frame and up to the front of the car. The outlet fitting on the regulator is AN-6, so we needed an adapter fitting to step it up to AN-8 for the return line.The Ramjet is supplied with its own code reader to diagnose any problems that may crop up with any of the sensors or the computer—just like a modern car! The code reader is also used to set the initial base timing by plugging it into the connector with the switch in the Off position, starting the engine, and switching it to On. This puts the computer in timing mode. Now you can set the advance (10 degrees BTDC) at the crank with a timing light just like a carbureted engine. The Ramjet can also be synced up to a GM Tech 1 scanner or aftermarket equivalent for diagnosis.


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Video: HAZMAT closes Bay Bridge in both directions
UPDATE 5:00 P.M.: From Md. Department of Transportation: All lanes have now reopened following an earlier hazardous materials incident on westbound US 50. Drivers should continue to expect delays. Call 1-877-BAYSPAN (229-7726) for the latest traffic conditions throughout the evening. Thank you for your patience and cooperation.
QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY, Md. (WUSA) -- The Chesapeake Bay Bridge is now open after a HAZMAT incident right before the westbound entrance to the bridge in Queen Anne's County.
HAZMAT has contained the leak and finished all clean-up efforts, however, delays are expected throughout the evening, the Maryland Transportation Authority informed.
It happened at around 3:16 p.m., when the truck started letting out some kind of gas.
At that point, officials had closed the bridge in both directions.
Maryland State Police say the truck started leaking propane, which is when they decided to close the bridge.
An official with the MD State Highway Administration said that a 9,000 gallon propane tank is leaking gas through a valve that somehow became loose or broke.
He says the propane was leaking straight up in the air and that they have to wait until all the gas escapes before they can open the bridge to traffic.


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Just Roasted - Mexico & Colombia "drinking coffees"
August 20, 2014
I define a drinking coffee as a well balanced coffee that is suited for drinking everyday. A drinking coffee is not a middle of the road, mediocre kind of coffee, but one that has the comforts most people can enjoy at anytime. A coffee that does not have too much bright acidity, or that begs for a heavy roast. Sometimes you want to call upon a coffee for a specifically defined taste characteristic (acidity notes, bouquet , fruit, etc.), and other times you just want a nice comforting well rounded coffee to stimulate your mind. I bring you these two great "drinking coffees" for this bi-weekly roasted coffee pairing.
Mexico Org. Oaxaca La Lagunilla Cooperative
Clean, fresh, nice bodied cup with peanut up front. At a City+ roast I worked toward maintaining the nuttiness, tobacco qualities while holding on to the acidity to balance it out.
Full of vanilla and sweet sugars. This Colombia was also taken to a City+ roast and really shines here. The body you can expect from a Colombia and a nice refreshing crisp quality as it cools. Sweetness surrounds this cup both hot and as it cools.
Side note:
Both of these coffees were taken to a City+ roast but they look different in color and texture. The Mexico Org. Oaxaca La Lagunilla Cooperative is grown at a lower altitude that results in a softer, less dense bean. If you compare the texture of these two coffees you can also see a big difference here due to the altitude. In the taste test between these two drinking coffees, you will notice more acidity in the Colombia Taimana de Huila, which results in higher grown, dense coffee. :)
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Mexico Org. Oaxaca La Lagunilla Cooperative
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Utah student-athletes earned a combined 3.129 grade-point-average for the 2014 spring term.
May 20, 2014
SALT LAKE CITY -- University of Utah athletic teams earned a combined 3.129 grade-point-average for the 2014 spring term, marking a school-record 16th-consecutive semester the Utes have achieved a total GPA above a 3.0.
Over 60-percent of Utah's student-athletes (262 of 406) were on the Athletic Director's Honor Roll with a minimum GPA of 3.0, and almost a third of them--128 total--qualified for the Dean's List, which requires at least a 3.5 GPA.
Women's skiing and gymnastics had every student-athlete earn Athletic Director's Honor Roll status. Women's skiing also boasted the highest GPA in the department for the semester at 3.737.
The women's ski team placed 75-percent of its members on the Dean's List--the highest percentage in the department--while the track team had the most Dean's List honorees with 23. The football team had 39 members on the Athletic Director's Honor Roll and men's basketball had more than 50-percent of its team make the honor roll. Women's basketball saw the greatest single-year gain, raising its GPA by nearly seven-percent since the spring of 2013.
Four Ute squads set new team-record GPA marks, led by women's skiing. Utah's men's swimming and diving (3.311), softball (3.285), and baseball (3.270) programs each set new team-record GPAs as well.