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EFI Versus Carburetors & Other News- Engine MastersWritten by on May 1, 2009 Engine Masters
EFI Versus Carbs
The inclusion of fuel-injected engines for the 2009 Engine Masters Challenge opens the door for one of the most anticipated events yet. This change is a marked departure from all previous competitions, wherein only a single four-barrel carburetor was allowed. With the inclusion of fuel injection, many questions and theories will be put on the line for scrutiny where it matters most--in the heat of competition.
Perhaps the most significant debate that will be put to the test will be the question of how carbureted engines will perform when in direct competition with those equipped with EFI. This debate has raged on for decades, with strong opinions held on each side. How will it play out when the goal is all-out power over a wide operating range? While the 2009 Engine Masters Challenge will definitely provide some clues, right now it's all strictly speculation.
There is no doubt that fuel injection has some inherent advantages when compared to a carbureted engine. Topping the list here is a precise means of controlling fuel distribution to each cylinder of an engine. It is intuitive that an engine with some holes running rich, while others are running lean, will be compromised in terms of power output. EFI easily remedies this possibility, and does it easily with electronic control of the amount of fuel metered at each injector. With EFI, it is even possible to individually tune a cylinder for optimal air/fuel ratio by means of a simple keystroke command to the processor via a computer. With a carb, this kind of electronic tuning isn't possible; however, a carbed system can also be optimized through traditional means, such as manifold and runner modifications and stagger jetting. It is another means to the same end result.
Another potential edge with an EFI system stems from the fact that the engine's intake manifold no longer has to carry an air/fuel mixture, with the manifold typically handling only dry air up to the point of injection. In contrast, a carb requires a wet manifold, and design considerations include limitations associated with the requirement to carry suspended fuel as well as air. Although this represents a definite design constraint as far as manifold layout, there is no denying that carbureted manifolds have benefited from decades of extensive racing development.
Aside from the potential advantage arising from an EFI intake manifold handling only dry air, a multi-point EFI system also has the benefit of introducing the fuel at eight individual locations corresponding to the eight cylinders of an engine. This alleviates the need for the runners to accommodate fuel introduced from a central location, as would be the case with a single four-barrel carb. The result is far greater flexibility in intake manifold design, with the opportunity to create tuned, equal-length runners, and to optimize the plenum volume to suit the engine's requirements. In contrast, a carbureted single four-barrel intake manifold's geometry is dictated by the single fuel introduction point at the plenum of the intake manifold. Nevertheless, the picture for carburetor intake manifolds changes considerably when multi-carbs are permitted. Multi-carbs allow the point of fuel introduction to be varied by manifold design, providing far greater intake manifold design flexibility. This will be the first year in which multi-carbs are allowed in the Engine Masters Challenge.
So, will the 2009 Engine Masters Challenge definitively settle the EFI versus carb debate once and for all? There's no doubt that this event will bring a new level of insight, and perhaps a few surprises, but it's my hunch that the Challenge will provide each side with more theories and ideas to debate for years to come.
Wes Roberson Named Competition Director For 2009 Jegs Engine Masters Challenge
In an unpredictable turn of events, our previously announced competition director, David Freiburger, has been hired to take the helm of our sister publication, Hot Rod Magazine, as Editor In Chief. While we are delighted at Mr. Freiburger's new role within the company, our immediate concern was to fill the important position of competition director for the 2009 Jegs Engine Masters Challenge. Good fortune prevailed in that experienced NHRA tech official and Engine Masters Challenge veteran Wesley Roberson is able to make room in his busy schedule to accept the competition director position. Those of you who have competed in or followed the Challenge are familiar with Wesley's fair and even-handed approach to rules enforcement, and maintaining the flow of the competition. As a valued and highly regarded member of our Engine Masters event team for the last three years, we are proud to have Wesley back for the 2009 event.
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On July 1st, 2010 IBM announced plans to acquire BigFix, Inc.
We didn't waste too much time with closing the deal on July 20th, 2010 and then cut to January 25th of this year and we announced Tivoli EndPoint Manager, built on BigFix technology (Announcement Letter: 211-048) would be electronically available on February 01.
There's a great press release that gives a high-level view of what this offering is all about (also on PRNewswire) and Angela Reese wrote a great blog about it as well.
Basically, this solution allows customers to manage and secure physical and virtual endpoints.
Two tastes that taste great together.
IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager solution is positioned as the endpoint lifecycle management engine for integrated solutions that enforce efficient configuration compliance, optimize change management processes, and enable a self-request software management service for the end users.
IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager solution monitors and enforces security and compliance at the enterprise endpoints, providing a single management platform for endpoint security and compliance.
Together with other IBM security offerings such as the Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign On, the IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager solution provides comprehensive endpoint management and access control.
If you're coming to Pulse (and if you're reading this blog, you really should be coming to Pulse), you'll hear about this solution in a few of our sessions as well as be able to see it in the expo center.
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Yesterday (September 7), Rock the Bells kicked off its first day in San Bernardino, California with performances from Black Hippy, Common and Kid Cudi. The festival also featured a hologram-like virtual performance of Eazy-E during Bone thugs-n-harmony's set. When the virtual performance was announced, Rock the Bells organizer, Guerilla Union's Chang Weisberg, spoke about the plans.
"I've talked to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Tomica Wright," Weisberg said in an exclusive interview with HipHopDX in June. "I shared with them the vision and the knowledge and it was after those discussions that they entrusted me with the responsibility."
The performance also marked one of Layzie Bone's final showings with the group following his decision to step away from Bone thugs-n-harmony. Layzie has announced that he will no longer be a member of the group after fulfilling obligations. Recently, Krayzie Bone spoke about Layzie's decision to step down from the crew.
"It is what it is," Krayzie said in an exclusive interview with HipHopDX. "He has his reasons. We're still going to support him and everything he does. He's actually going to be performing with us at Rock The Bells. I guess he needs to step away because there are some things he wants to do as a man, and as men, we can't do nothing but respect that. We're going to continue as a team and keep moving forward with this grind."
A video of the hologram-like performance of Eazy-E can be seen below via Revolt.
Black Hippy & Kid Cudi Close Rock The Bells' Day 1
Kid Cudi closed Rock the Bells on the main stage after a showing from Black Hippy. The TDE crew performed individual cuts with a surprise appearance from Danny Brown during Ab-Soul's portion of the show. Kendrick Lamar ended Black Hippy's set, thanking the Southern California crowd for continued support.
Cudi's set included selections from his Man on the Moon series of albums and from his last effort, Indicud. Following his performance, Cudi thanked fans via Twitter.
San Bernardino! We did it mane!! Thank u to everyone who stuck around to see me rock. Had a great fuckin time sweatin it out w yall
— Scott Mescudi (@ducidni) September 8, 2013
Brother Ali Comments On Rock The Bells' Diversity
The festival's Day 1 lineup also featured artists from various regions and generations, a theme that can be found throughout the Rock the Bells run, which is slated for three more stops in San Francisco, Washington D.C. and New York.
"It's dope," said Brother Ali, who performed on Rock the Bells' HipHopDX stage. "It's such an important thing that we don't make the same mistake that was made in Rock and Jazz and other types of music before, where they were created as folk art forms and then the industry came and fractioned them up, sectioned them off into different fanbases. I think it's really important within Hip Hop that we understand that we all are under the strata of Hip Hop. That's one of the things I love about Rock the Bells...That you really get to see a sample of all that Hip Hop has to offer."
While a diverse line-up can be found on Rock the Bells, Ali noted that many festivals, including this one, can do more to include women and GLBT rappers.
"There are GLBT rappers out here killin' the mic, doin' their thing," Brother Ali said in an exclusive interview with HipHopDX. "They rap how they live, how they talk, how they express and how they feel. That's missing. I'd like to see more women on [festival line-ups also]. I'd love to see more women on those stages, but I think overall, in general, they're doing a good job of uniting all the branches on the Hip Hop tree."
When Rock the Bells' lineup was announced, Weisberg spoke of the diversity on the bill, which includes Snow Tha Product, Rapsody & 9th Wonder and The Internet. Weisberg specifically spoke about artists who come from different generations.
"We have curated a multi-generational line-up that includes the best and brightest artists in the genre," Weisberg said in a press statement. "It is not just great Hip Hop music. It's great music, period. It's a collection of artists who represent, respect and recognize everything that Rock The Bells...has accomplished in its storied history."
Rock the Bells will continue today (September 8) at San Manuel Amphitheater. J. Cole, Juicy J and Rakim are slated to perform on the event's second day in San Bernardino, while Wu-Tang Clan is scheduled to close the main stage with a hologram-like virtual performance of Ol' Dirty Bastard in their set.
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Is Ernests Gulbis one of the two ballers who was detained over the weekend for soliciting sex from prostitutes in Stockholm, Sweden?
According to HCFoo, Joachim "Pim Pim" Johansson revealed in his blog that the Latvian lad had "already acknowledged" his involvement:
Monaco found out last night that he was accused in the Argentine press of being the player who bought sex during the weekend while Gulbis already acknowledged. He will probably have a difficult time before the match on Wednesday. I'll try to take advantage of it early in the match ...No word yet on whether Pico has been confirmed as the other baller.
I guess boys will be boys. But why pay for it? I could point out a number of DtL readers (and one blogger) who'd probably give it up to them for free. They'd just have to pay for travel, hotel and expenses. Wait - is that still considered "whorish?"
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Saturday, March 29 at 1:00 p.m., author Chad Lewis (pictured recounting the legend of the 'Janesville Doll') takes the audience on a ghostly journey to some of the most haunted places in Minnesota. It covers the entire state, from wandering ghosts in the north woods to the haunted B&B in Wabasha. From phantom creatures prowling the woods to graveyard apparitions located in your own backyard, no place in Minnesota is without its own haunting stories. Complete with photos, case history, eyewitness accounts, ghost lore, and directions, this unique presentation encourages you to visit these places for your own ghost story. Attendance is limited to 75. Preregister online or call (320.243.7343) or stop in to the Paynesville library during open hours: Mondays 2-8 p.m., Tuesdays 2-6 p.m., Wednesdays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursdays 2-6 p.m., Fridays 2-8 p.m. and Saturdays 10-1 p.m.


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The Silver Alert has been canceled. The couple returned home safely Thursday morning. Police say there is nothing suspicious about their disappearance.
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WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- WUSA9 recently reported on a woman who wanted a tattered flag replaced outside her apartment building. She told our reporter, Surae Chinn, she was an Iraq War veteran and purple heart recipient.
But the problem is the Pentagon disputes those claims.
It was a patriotic story, a woman who claimed she was a purple heart recipient who left Iraq after a traumatic brain injury.
When we first met, she said her name was Michelle Tesla and said she changed her name from Chelle Anderson, because of a domestic issue. The Pentagon confirms her real name is Chelle Lynn Anderson.
WUSA9 talked by phone with George Wright, the Media Relations, Deputy Director at the Army Public Affairs.
Surae: Is she an Iraq war veteran?
Wright: I see nothing in her record to indicate that.
Surae: Is she a purple heart recipient?
Wright: There is nothing in her record to indicate that.
Surae: Has she served in the army for nearly 10 years.
Wright: She served from June 2000 to April 2002.
Surae: A year and 10 months?
Wright: That's correct.
We were first alerted to the woman's information by Army Sgt. Jonn Lilyea. He created a blog called 'thisainthell.' The site targets people who lie about their service.
Lilyea said, "I guess some people feel they have a hole in their records and they have to fill it out with outlandish stories."
Lilyea got a hold of her DD2-14 her military dates of service, and her history assignment. At our request, the Pentagon also checked into these documents and say they look to be authentic.
According to these records, Anderson did not deploy to Iraq. However she did serve in the army and was assigned to Germany, but never received a purple heart.
Lilyea said, "I have a friend, Tim Martin, who earned a purple heart by dying and he's buried in Arlington. It upset me greatly how someone can pin it on and act like they earned it. They have no shame we bring shame to the equation."
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Bridge "structurally deficient" in last inspection.
4 dead, 79 injured, 20 missing as recovery efforts continue
'tiny little text etched into her neck it said "jesus lived and died for all your sins." she's got blue black ink and it's scratched into her lower back. it said: "damn right i'll rise again." yeah, damn right you'll rise again.'
Ohh boy, this is gonna get ugly quick.
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$10 says that someone blames Bush for this.
I love how the media wont shut up about the terrorist activities mumbo jumbo. They have to keep mentioning that it doesnt look to be terrorist related. Did anyone really think that anyway?
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I love how the media wont shut up about the terrorist activities mumbo jumbo. They have to keep mentioning that it doesnt look to be terrorist related. Did anyone really think that anyway?
Unfortunately, I did. We live in St. Paul, and were out playing with the kids, and a jet flew very low overhead, which is rare for our part of the city. I then went in to check on the weather and, of course, saw the news coverage. The timeline of the plane and the collapse matched up, so we were really wondering. It was later apparent that it was not terrorist related, but that's what the mind turns to these days.
Forever trying to find a cure for the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
Well with the plane flying low, sure. But the actual bridge collapse on its own?
Originally Posted by dmclone
$10 says that someone blames Bush for this.
Or for Falwell (from the grave) or Robertson to say it happened because of the gays.
It comes down to priorities. What has the most glitter? What will give instant gratification to the taxpayer? Will it be a new stadium for Vikings/Twins/Gophers, or replacing the 40-year old structurally deficient I-35 bridge? Well guess what...major infrastucture always gets rebuilt. The only question is under what terms and conditions the rebuilding will get done. Unfortunately, nowadays, it seems more and more that it takes loss of life for infrastructure to get updated.
It's the same everywhere. There are roads in east Arlington with potholes that can swallow up my F-250. There are dangerous, dinky little narrow county roads (no better than section lines really) with no shoulders and deep ditches that have been paved over "as is" and turned into "major" streets connecting subdivisions. People have already died in accidents on those roads. There is no money to fix those dangerous roads, but we somehow found almost $400 million to help Jerry Jones build a new stadium for the Cowboys.
It really comes down to us, the voters. If we got sufficiently involved and demanded that things get fixed before people got killed, they would get fixed.
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Originally Posted by dmclone
$10 says that someone blames Bush for this.
OK...I'll bite!!
It's Bush's fault because we are spending all the money on the "War on Terror" that could be spent to rehab our failing infrastructure!!
Originally Posted by bostinelosd
Well with the plane flying low, sure. But the actual bridge collapse on its own?
That's it...the plane's jet wash created undo turbulence which collapsed the bridge.
There was nothing the original designer could do about this.
Nice. Maybe it was an alien anal probe.
For those South Park fans...It was probably Manbearpig's doing.
I was really nervous coming into work today, as I work 10 minutes away (not at rush hour) from the bridge and have many coworkers who drive it multiple times daily. I was driving home from work (in the opposite direction) at the very time of the collapse but knew people who drove that way and left the time I did. Just horrifying.
I can also say that after moving here a year ago that I love living here and there are so many positives to living in the TC, however Minnesota roads have been in absolutely horrible condition, severely neglected for quite some time now. It is a much deeper problem than just this bridge. All the transportation agencies from what I've read even before this event have been severely underfunded. And I wouldn't be at all surprised if lack of proper inspections, or passing off something sub-par just because there are so many dire concerns in the cities is what caused this problem to pass inspection. This is a national problem, yes, but I think MN's got a larger problem as the roads on a whole are much worse than I've ever witnessed in Iowa or around the country. But hey, as the voters seem to always agree, "they're just roads."
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$10 says that someone blames Bush for this.
No way did Bush do this. It was global warming.
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As many of you out there, I have PP's invested in many states. In the meantime I am in the process of finding a OTC unit for rifle in CO for the slow years. I have heard a lot about the "Orange Army" in OTC units during the rifle seasons.
Trying to get an idea of some wilderness areas that I can escape some of the pressure. I have a hard time competeing with people! I know I cant escape the whole crowd, but was looking for some advice on wilderness areas that may be better options. I am willing to rent some horses to make this possible. I have torn up stats, maps, CO web, ect..Not afraid of train as long as I don't have to scale cliffs.
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College Basketball's Toughest Tournament will celebrate its 75th anniversary when the Buffalo Funds-NAIA Division I Men's Basketball National Championship tips-off in Kansas City, Mo., at historic Municipal Auditorium, March 14-20, 2012. To countdown to the official celebration, the NAIA will roll out one top tournament moment each day leading up to March 14.
Icons such as John Wooden, Harry Statham, Terry Porter, Earl "The Pearl" Monroe, Lloyd B. Free, Lucious Jackson and Jack Sikma have their careers trace back to the NAIA. See where their stories rank and be a part of college basketball history this March.
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I got Zimbra up and running yesterday, complete with actual SSL certificates.\
The server is on a separate IP address, outside of my company's firewall.
I was wondering, how do I set up my httpd.conf so that I can do the following:
- Outside of the firewall, traffic is redirected from http://mail.mydomain.com/ to https://mail.mydomain.com/.
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There are some things that America can take credit for creating, even though we are a "young nation." Two things that come to mind are jazz music and quick breads. This week's cook column includes the history of quick breads and some unusual quick bread recipes.
The end of the 18th century saw the development of quick or chemically leavened breads. Before that time most bread was made with yeast or beer, or by beating air into the dough using eggs or egg whites. The first quick breads were made by using pearl ash, crude potassium carbonate that had been recrystallized to make it pure. The pearl ash produces carbon dioxide in the dough causing it to rise.
By 1850, saleratus or potassium bicarbonate was replacing pearl ash in cookbooks and sodium bicarbonate (soda) soon replaced the potassium bicarbonate. Baking powder made its appearance in the 1880s and soda and baking powder are still used today.
Key Lime Bread
2/3 cup butter
2 cups granulated sugar
4 large eggs, slightly beaten
2 tablespoons Key lime juice
2 tablespoons lime zest
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
2-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped walnuts
Grease 2 loaf pans. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Cream butter and sugar in the eggs and beat well. Pour in juice, zest and vanilla extract. Combine well; set aside.
In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Add a little of the milk into the dry mixture, then a little of the creamed mixture, alternating until all are combined. Add walnuts and mix to form a nice batter. Divide batter into 2 pans and bake for 50 to 60 minutes until brown. Makes 2 loaves.
2 tablespoons Key lime juice
2/3 cup granulated sugar
Mix juice and sugar and spoon over the bread after baking. Wrap. Slice in 24 thin slices.
Oatmeal Carrot Date Bread
1-1/4 cups quick cooking oats or
rolled oats
1-1/4 cups milk
2 eggs
1/3 cup hazelnut oil (or rice bran
1 carrot finely grated
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
3/4 cup chopped dates and
raisins mixed
3/4 cup white chocolate chips
1/2 cup pine nuts
1/2 cup shredded unsweetened
3/4 cup unbleached all purpose
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
3-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
Combine oats and milk in a large bowl and let stand for 15 minutes.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease the bread pan. Into oat and milk mixture, add egg, oil, brown sugar, grated carrot, chopped dates, raisins, white chocolate chips, pine nuts and coconut.
In a separate bowl combine regular flour, whole wheat flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Mix to combine.
Add the bowl of dry ingredients to the large bowl of wet ingredients and stir only until everything is moist (do not over stir). Pour batter into bread pan.
Bake at 400 degrees F for about 55-65 minutes. Stick a toothpick in the center, if it comes out clean- it is done. Remove from oven and let cool – remove from the pan.
Glazed Lemon Bread
1/4 cup soft butter
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons grated lemon zest
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups flour
2-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup milk
1/2 cup finely chopped pecans
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9" x 5" loaf pan. In a medium bowl, beat butter and sugar together until fluffy. Add eggs and beat well. Add dry ingredients alternately with milk, mixing well after each addition.
Pour into a greased and floured loaf pan and bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean from the center. Place on wire cooling rack.
After the bread cools for 10 minutes, prick top with fork and pour glaze over top.
Lemon Glaze:
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/4 cup powdered sugar
In a small saucepan or microwave safe bowl, mix lemon juice and powdered sugar and heat until warm.
Let cool and remove from pan. Cool the glazed lemon bread completely and slice thin to serve.
Hawaiian Bread III
1 cup margarine, softened
2 cups white sugar
4 eggs
1 cup mashed banana
15 ounce can crushed pineapple
with juice
4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup flaked coconut
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
In a large bowl, cream margarine and sugar together until light and fluffy. Mix in eggs, bananas and pineapple. In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Stir flour mixture into egg mixture. Fold in coconut and walnuts. Pour batter into prepared loaf pans.
Bake in preheated oven for 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean. Makes 2 - 8x4 inch loaves
Orange Blueberry Bread
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2-1/4 cups flour
3/4 cup firmly packed brown
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup softened butter
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
2 tablespoons grated orange rind
1/4 cup orange juice
1 cup blueberries (thawed and
drained if frozen)
In a large mixing bowl combine all the ingredients except the blueberries. Mix at low speed until well blended, then beat at medium speed for 2-minutes. Fold in the blueberries. Turn into a loaf pan which is greased on the bottom only. Bake at 350-F for 60-70 minutes until done. Cool 10 minutes then remove from pan and let cool fully before slicing.
Rocky Road Bread
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2 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1 cup mini marshmallows
1/4 cup toasted almonds
3/4 cup milk
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 cup chocolate chips, lightly
dusted with flour
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease well a 9x5x3" loaf pan.
Mix dry ingredients in a bowl and cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in mini marshmallows and toasted almonds; mix well. Combine milk and beaten egg; pour into flour mixture and stir just to moisten. Fold in chocolate chips. Turn into prepared pan. Bake 40-45 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Let cool in pan 10 minutes and turn out onto wire rack to cool.
Caramel Apple Quickbread
food.com, Marie
15 caramels
1-1/2 cups flour, divided
1/2 cup room temperature butter
2 cups confectioners' sugar
1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla
3 eggs
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon allspice
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 apples, cored, peeled and
finely chopped
Heat oven to 350 degrees and grease and flour a 9x5 loaf pan. Unwrap caramels and with a scissors, cut each one into 8 small pieces. Toss caramels with 1 tablespoon of the flour in a small bowl to keep them from sticking together; set aside.
Beat together butter, sugar and vanilla until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time and beat well after each. In another bowl, stir together remaining flour, cinnamon, allspice and salt. Add flour mixture to butter mixture and blend well. By hand, stir in apples and caramel mixture.
Spoon batter into prepared pan. Bake for 60 to 65 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool completely on a wire rack, then remove from pan.
Cardamom-Cherry Jam
1 stick unsalted butter, room
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1-1/2 cups Gold Medal
unbleached, all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground cardamom
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup tart cherry jam
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and lightly grease an 8 x 4 loaf pan. Set aside.
In a large bowl or bowl of a stand mixer, cream together butter, sugar and eggs until light and fluffy. In a separate, medium bowl, whisk together flour, cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
In yet another small bowl, combine sour cream and jam. Alternately add dry ingredients and sour cream mixture into the large bowl with the butter mixture and combine, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients and scraping down the sides of the bowl after each addition.
Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 50 to 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean. Allow to cool in loaf pan 10 minutes before removing and placing on a cooling rack to cool completely.
Serve with mascarpone cream or a hearty spoonful of extra cherry jam.
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(SportsNetwork.com) - A blowout victory may have been what the Philadelphia
Flyers needed ahead of a very tough road trip.
The Flyers head out west for three straight games, beginning with Thursday
night's contest against the NHL-leading Anaheim Ducks.
Mired in a four-game losing streak and with losses in seven of their previous
nine, the Flyers blanked the injury-rattled Detroit Red Wings 5-0 on Tuesday.
Steve Mason made 33 saves for his second shutout of the season and both Scott
Hartnell and Claude Giroux had three-point nights.
Hartnell scored twice with an assist, while Giroux scored once and also helped
to set up another two goals. Sean Couturier and Adam Hall lit the lamp as well
in Philadelphia's eighth victory in a row at home over Detroit.
"I think we cleaned a lot of those mistakes and took them out of our game,"
said Mason, who recorded his 21st career shutout. "There are still some little
mistakes but it's a lot better, and we can build on that."
The victory put the Flyers a point ahead of the Carolina Hurricanes for third
place in the Metropolitan Division prior to this trek through Anaheim, Los
Angeles and San Jose.
Philadelphia is expected to have defenseman Kimmo Timonen in the lineup
despite him having left Tuesday's game in the second period with a lower-body
injury. Winger Zac Rinaldo could also return to the lineup for the first time
since suffering a high ankle sprain on Jan. 8.
Rinaldo, expected to miss six weeks with the ailment, was a full participant
in practice on Wednesday and the Flyers opened up a roster spot by placing
forward Chris VandeVelde on waivers Wednesday.
Though the Ducks lead the NHL with 83 points, four ahead of the Chicago
Blackhawks, the Flyers may be catching them at a good time as Anaheim has
split its past six games. The club is coming off just its second regulation
loss at home on the season, but both have come in the last three contests at
Honda Center.
The Ducks fell to 21-2-2 at home with Tuesday's 4-2 setback to the Minnesota
Wild. Dustin Penner and Mathieu Perreault scored and Jonas Hiller gave up all
four goals on 33 shots.
"I don't know what you call it but it wasn't very good," said Anaheim head
coach Bruce Boudreau. "You can't call it a letdown because Minnesota is a good
team, so I don't know what it was tonight."
The Ducks were playing for the first time since shutting out the Kings 3-0 on
Saturday at Dodger Stadium and dropped the opener of a five-game homestand.
The Ducks have won four of their last five versus the Flyers, including a 3-2
win at Philadelphia on Oct. 29.
Hiller made 26 saves to improve to 3-1-1 in his career versus the Flyers with
a 2.54 goals against average. Kyle Palmieri had a pair of goals in the win.
Mason made 34 saves, falling to 5-6-0 in his career against the Ducks with a
Philadelphia has won three of its last four in Anaheim.
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Is there a list of permissions available anywhere that shows what "regular" users need to have access to in order to install the 5.0.11 Connector? Our users are blocked by policy from installing software. We went through a whole process before to figure out what bits were being blocked when we first installed the 5.0.3 connector. We then wrote a quick batch file to open up permission for those particular files, and a second batch file to close it back up when done. That was a pain though.
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President Obama, who on Tuesday told troops at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan that the U.S. will look after them and their families as combat operations in the country come to an end, may face challenges to deliver on his vow.
"When you get home, we are going to be there for you when you're in uniform and we will stay there for you when you're out of uniform, because you've earned it," he said.
Fulfilling the president's promise will require the cooperation of a system that is already strained by current demand for veterans' services and benefits.
Of the 91,000 troops currently in Afghanistan, 23,000 will return to the U.S. by the end of the summer; the remaining 68,000 will gradually come home through December 2014. Many of these veterans will immediately require mental health, disability, education, employment and medical services, but these resources are under varying degrees of strain.
A recent analysis performed by the Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General, for example, found that 49 percent of veterans receive a comprehensive mental health evaluation within 14 days -- it took an average of 50 days for the remaining patients. As of March 31, the VA was considering 897,556 claims for disability benefits; nearly 590,000 of those had been pending for more than 125 days.
"The concern is always there -- will they be able to meet a growing demand when there's already so much work to be done -- but we're encouraged by the signals we've seen so far from the administration," Jay Agg, national communications director of the advocacy organization AMVETS, told msnbc.com.
Among those positive signs, according to Agg, is the VOW to Hire Heroes Act, which the president signed last November. The bill includes tax credits for companies that hire unemployed veterans and veterans with disabilities related to their service. The unemployment rate for veterans who served since September 2001 was 12.1 percent in 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Agg also cited the administration's recent move to protect the VA budget from automatic cuts that will be triggered should Congress fail to reduce the deficit this year.
Lawrence J. Korb, a senior fellow for the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, said that with the current VA funding intact, the challenge will be serving a population of veterans that keeps getting larger. In 2011, the VA provided specialty mental health services to 1.3 million veterans.
"It's going to be a question of capacity," Korb said. "Do they have enough doctors and people?"
The agency announced last month that it would add 1,600 mental health care clinicians nationwide to its work force of 20,590 in order to counter a shortage that has led to long wait times for appointments and evaluations.
Ray Kelley, legislative director for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, is "cautiously optimistic" that the VA will be to meet the demand of returning veterans. Kelley says the agency's funding must increase even as Congress looks to slash federal spending.
"You can't have more people coming into the system needing care and flat line the service," Kelly said. "It's not that we can cross our fingers – we have to insist that budgets continue to grow."
The VA's budget has increased annually since 2009; the president has proposed allocating $140.3 billion to the VA for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. The department estimates about $53 billion of that would pay for medical care and that 610,000 patients seen will be veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Kelley believes Congress – persuaded by public sentiment – will find a way to continue funding services for veterans, particularly the VA.
"You'd be hard pressed to find an American who would say, 'No the VA is getting too much money,' Kelley said. "The public will is there to take care of veterans."


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Washington, DC (Sports Network) - The Washington Capitals are the only
unbeaten team left in the NHL.
The Detroit Red Wings, by a six-goal margin, lost their chance to say the
Mike Green had two power play goals and two assists Saturday and the Capitals
coasted to a 7-1 win over Detroit in a game between the only undefeated teams
left in the league.
Mathieu Perreault also scored twice for the Capitals, who are a franchise-best
7-0 to open the season. Alex Ovechkin had two assists and Tomas Vokoun made 32
saves to improve to 6-0 in his first season with Washington.
The Red Wings, who were trying to match the best start in team history, got
their lone goal from Niklas Kronwall on a power play in the second period. Ty
Conklin allowed all seven Capitals goals on 25 shots.
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Last Modified: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at 12:35 p.m.
The man accused of sexual activity with a miniature donkey named Doodle will go to trial later this month.
Standing before Marion County Judge Steven Rogers on Wednesday, Carlos R. Romero exclaimed a brief "oh yeah" when Rogers asked him if he wanted to go to trial.
Jury selection is scheduled to begin Dec. 17. Romero, 32, is charged with sexual activities involving animals, a first-degree misdemeanor, after a neighbor on a farm reported seeing him in a compromising position with the animal in September.
Romero previously rejected the state's plea bargain offer: a year of probation, a $200 fine, a psychosexual evaluation and possible treatment, STD testing, no contact with children in a school setting, no ownership or possession of any mammals, and revocation of his license to work in horse racing.
Romero proclaimed in previous interviews that he would become destitute if banned from working in horse racing.
The fate of Doodle is still up in the air. Romero is also petitioning to regain custody of the animal as is the county. A custody hearing is scheduled for Dec. 21.
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text: In depth: How Rovio made Angry Birds a winner (and what's next) Angry Birds 07 March 11 by Tom Cheshire This article was taken from the April 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online.Angry Birds is the first waste of 75 millions people's time that can be accurately quantified. Every day, users spend 200 million minutes -- 16 years every hour -- playing the mobile game. Three trillion pigs have been popped. It has filled billions of those interstitial moments spent riding the bus, on a plane or in important work meetings, and it is or has been the number-one paid app on iTunes in 68 countries, as well as the best-selling paid app of all time. It went straight to the top of the new Mac App Store in January, selling 150,000 copies in its first week. Sixty thousand Angry Birds soft toys have been sold. In January, the trailer for the new Angry Birds Rio racked up 500,000 YouTube views in a weekend; on official videos alone, Angry Birds has had 27 million total views. In total, the "brand" has taken more than €50 million: not bad for a game that cost €100,000 to make. On the first anniversary of its release, 2,405 people in 756 cities worldwide wasted even more of their time holding events in celebration of "Angry Birds Day". David Cameron and Justin Bieber say they are fans. So do Paul Gascoigne and Salman Rushdie.On an island in the Pacific, the goal is to fling a squadron of kamikaze birds at gormless green pigs. The birds have just cause: the pigs stole their eggs. The swine took refuge in, and on, easily collapsible structures. The game is physics-based -- you adjust the trajectory and power of the slingshot with your finger -- and very, very addictive. Rovio, the Finnish developer behind the title, certainly got lucky. But Mikael and Niklas Hed, the cousins who run the company, also realised in early 2009 that the smartphone was about to become a new mass medium -- just one without the mass-media economics. So they methodically set out to create a new type of blockbuster, one with universal appeal, and use it to build an entertainment empire that would extend far beyond the iPhone. It would be Disney 2.0. "We set out to minimise the amount of luck that was needed," says Mikael Hed. "We felt we had done our best game so far. But the idea always was, this is the first step."First they had to save a company in crisis: at the beginning of 2009, Rovio was close to bankruptcy. Then they had to create the perfect game, do every other little thing exactly right, and keep on doing it. The Heds had developed 51 titles before Angry Birds. Some of them had sold in the millions for third parties such as Namco and EA, so they decided to create their own, original intellectual property. "We thought we would need to do ten to 15 titles until we got the right one," says 30-year-old Niklas. One afternoon in late March, in their offices overlooking a courtyard in downtown Helsinki, Jaakko Iisalo, a games designer who had been at Rovio since 2006, showed them a screenshot. He had pitched hundreds in the two months before. This one showed a cartoon flock of round birds, trudging along the ground, moving towards a pile of colourful blocks. They looked cross. "People saw this picture and it was just magical," says Niklas. Eight months and thousands of changes later, after nearly abandoning the project, Niklas watched his mother burn a Christmas turkey, distracted by playing the finished game. "She doesn't play any games. I realised: this is it."That Angry Birds is set on a tropical island may be escapism. Rovio's offices are in Espoo, a 20-minute drive west of Helsinki. The dark-grey tower that houses Rovio is on a quayside, but the sea is frozen when Wired visits in January, with hobbyists ice-fishing on its surface. Inside, the office is nondescript, with grey linoleum floors and strip lighting. The 40-odd employees have been here only five months; they're already cramped and will move in a couple of months. A graphic artist works on a red bird icon, replacing a Christmas hat with a Valentine's bow. A developer repeatedly drags her mouse over the desk, flinging blue birds at the blocks of a new level, frustrated that they wont fall quite right.Mikael Hed, chief executive, and his cousin Niklas, chief operating officer, share an office with Peter Vesterbacka. They form a triumvirate that steers Rovio. Vesterbacka, 42, joined Rovio only in March 2010, as "Mighty Eagle". That's the title on his business card -- olderfashioned newspapers prefer the job description "head of business development in North America" when quoting him. (There's also a "bird whisperer", "marketing wingman" and "twitcher" in the office.) Vesterbacka is in Silicon Valley when Wired visits, doing what mighty eagles do and exploring potential business partnerships.Niklas Hed is blond and lithe. He founded Rovio in 2003 and is in charge of production, but functions as the hinge between Vesterbacka and Mikael. Mikael is the one who slows the other two down when their ideas and imaginations run ahead of them. He's four years older than Niklas and taller, with tidy brown hair. He speaks in a measured rhythm and takes questions patiently. Mikael has two young children, three and five, and in the midst of the Angry Birds frenzy last year decided to renovate his house. The first time that Wired visits, a 14-year-old boy from Utah has knocked Angry Birds off the number-one spot with a game called Bubble Ball. "It's happened before. So?" Mikael says, barely shrugging. "I know what we have coming up in the future, so I'm not too worried about it. And it's only in the free category."Both Heds know the value of patience: the overnight success of Angry Birds took eight years. Mikael and Niklas had been thinking about video games for long before that. Mikael grew up in the coastal town of Vastaa and moved to Helsinki when he was seven. His father Kaj was an entrepreneur who founded several companies, including Trema, a financial-software business that was eventually sold to a private-equity house for $150 million in 2006. Niklas lived 45 minutes outside Helsinki. "We were always talking about games and trying to come up with ideas," says Mikael. Sakari Toivakainen, a childhood friend of Niklas, says, "Niklas was very into his physics games. He used to code in Pascal. He was 12 when he made this ball and it's moving. When he gets an idea, he never lets go." In 1996 Mikael completed a year of military service in the Finnish army, then attended business school in the south of France and New Orleans. In the meantime, Niklas enrolled to read computer science at Helsinki University. In 2003, he and two friends entered a competition held by Nokia and HP to create a mobile multiplayer game on one of the very first smartphones. They won. Vesterbacka, then at HP, was one of the organisers: "They created this really cool game," he says over the phone from San Francisco. "They asked me what they should do. I said, 'Start making games.'" Niklas founded Relude in 2004 and asked Mikael to be CEO. Mikael hesitated. "I couldn't see how that company could make money. But I felt this is what I wanted to do." Read page 2 1234 Read on one page Latest on wired.co.uk


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ATA February tonnage data is down sequentially, up annually
March 24, 2011
Truck tonnage saw its first decline in three months, according to data released this week by the American Trucking Associations (ATA).
The ATA's advance seasonally-adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage index dropped 2.9 percent in February following 3.8 percent and 2.5 percent gains in January and December, respectively. Prior to those sequential gains, November was up 0.6 percent and September and October were up a cumulative 2.8 percent.
The current SA index is 113.3 (2000=100) in February, following January's 117.1, which was its highest level since January 2008. December's SA index of 112.7 was the highest it had been since September 2008 at that time. The cumulative December and January SA was up 6.1 percent.
The SA index was up 4.2 percent compared to February 2010, which was short of January's 7.6 percent annual gain. On a year-to-date basis, the SA is up 5.9 percent compared to 2010.
The ATA's not seasonally-adjusted (NSA) index, which represents the change in tonnage actually hauled by fleets before any seasonal adjustment, was 102 in February, down 2.8 percent from January's 105.4.
As LM has reported, some industry analysts maintain that the not seasonally-adjusted index is more useful, because it is comprised of what truckers haul. As defined by the ATA, the not seasonally-adjusted index is assembled by adding up all the monthly tonnage data reported by the survey respondents (ATA member carriers) for the latest two months. Then a monthly percent change is calculated and then applied to the index number for the first month.
"Tonnage is not going to increase every month and in general I'm very pleased with freight volumes early this year," said ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello in a statement. "I'm hearing a significant amount of positive news from fleets and that the largest concern continues to be the price of diesel fuel, not freight levels."
Costello added that harsh weather throughout much of the country in February likely also contributed to the sequential decline in February.
And as Costello pointed out, the prevailing in mood in the market is one of optimism, in terms of demand and volume, according to carriers and shippers. This is notable considering the myriad challenges occurring, such as high unemployment levels, increasing fuel prices, and various regulatory efforts that are likely to impact the trucking industry to a degree.
Carriers have repeatedly told LM that the current market outlook is "slow but steady" and is likely to remain that way for the foreseeable future.
"We are seeing the same things that the ATA data is showing," a trucking executive recently told LM. "February was relatively firm, but just like January it was somewhat negatively impacted by the severe winter weather impacting many parts of the country."
The carrier executive also pointed out that with the supply and demand of capacity much more closely balanced this year, a continued uptick in tonnage will create greater challenges for shippers needing trucks. And he said that other items that will further squeeze capacity include CSA 2010 and the proposed changes to the Hours of Service (HOS) rules.
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Still wanted to do an ISO dungeon... Not sure yet how to work opacity to make things/rooms clearly visible and also not sure if I can make it multi-level without obstructing too much, but here goes the experiment... First sketch attached. cheers
The Flash strikes again, man you're quick.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
thanks guys, i'm lucky to have much time off this month and what better way to spend free time then practicing some mapping The linework and coloring so far was still about 3-4 hours of work. Anyway, more details and 1st meddling with colors. Also I added the color palette I used to for anyone interested. cheers
Nice! It's a shame that in normal games the players never see the map because iso maps like this seem like a lot of work just for the GM/DM to look at.
Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.
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That's not even a parallel projection, let alone Isometric. What you have there is a perspective projection.
It is very impressive though.
hehe, maybe it's not the most practical map for a GM indeed It seems I make maps more from an aesthetic point then for usability (dont ask me why...just like to draw what comes up in my head) ... As for the projection, keen eye Hai-Etlik, it's indeed 1-point perspective projection. Dont know why I call it ISO, I sort of always use the term -wrongly I know- for anything 3d-ish. ok, back to the drawing board ..
heya, i started experimenting with how I can 'break open walls' to give a view on whats behind it. The room in the upper right and the one in the lower right have been done done. Do you guys think its clear (especially the upper right one) what the rooms are like or should i try another approach? thanks
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For me, it would be a bit more clear that the circular room(s) was underground if above and to the right were some more of the brown color were present all the way up to the edge of the linework. But, thats just me.
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