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To Port or Not to Port - Stealth FighterWritten by on June 11, 2013
Do you remember a time when owning a Mopar vehicle meant not being able to find economically-priced aftermarket parts to make your car or truck faster? We sure do, and if it weren't for the fact that Mopars ran so good in stock form, we may have succumbed to the temptation to buy an off-brand car simply because there were an abundance of parts available. Things have changed however, and now is a good time to be a Mopar enthusiast. Mopars have come into style over the past couple of decades, and the aftermarket has responded with an abundance of go-fast goodies for Pentastar owners. There are literally thousands of parts available for just about every popular body style and engine, and prices for these parts have come down significantly.
When it comes to a car's performance the engine is the first part that comes to mind for most of us, and Chrysler manufactured some of the best engines in the industry to power their muscle cars. Of all the engines produced by Chrysler, the big-block was the most widely installed in performance vehicles, and in terms of torque, horsepower, and reliability is one of the best choices for a Mopar. One area that is an Achilles heel of the 440, however, is the cylinder heads. Stock 440 heads just don't allow enough flow for serious performance, and stock 440 heads are all made from cast-iron, making them heavy as well. Fortunately, 440 Source has an economical alternative to stock 440 heads with their Stealth line of aluminum replacements.
Aside from the other performance advantages, aluminum cylinder heads offer the distinct advantage of weighing some 40-50 pounds less than comparable cast-iron heads. The Stealth head also offers a closed chamber design for maximum quench area in the combustion chamber, and better intake and exhaust flow than any factory 440 cylinder head. The Stealth heads are also a direct replacement for the popular "906" casting factory head, are dimensionally the same, and utilize the same rocker gear and pushrods. These big-block heads are also, well, "stealthy" as they look identical to factory heads if painted. The best feature of the Stealth heads, however, has got to be the price. In stock, unported form, these heads come fully assembled with valves, springs good for a .600-inch lift flat-tappet camshaft, retainers, and locks for the surprisingly low price of $995 per pair.
With such a low price these heads are very cost effective, as you'd likely have this much (or more) money wrapped up in rebuilding factory heads by the time you installed stainless steel valves, new valve springs, and paid a machine shop to perform a valve job and replace any guides or seats that were excessively worn. To test the performance of the Stealth heads, we decided to bolt a pair of these on the 440 we built and dyno'd in the May 2012 issue, to see how well they compared to the 915 casting heads we already had on our big-block. The 915 heads offer a similar combustion chamber design, so compression ratios between the two heads will be very similar. While we're at it, we'll also bolt a pair of 440 Source's CNC ported Stealth heads onto our engine, and let you know how much power we gain with a ported version. The CNC ported versions of these heads cost an extra thousand dollars, but for large displacement street or race engines this extra cost could be worth the money.
The 440 we're using to test these heads is one we built on a budget in the April issue of Mopar Muscle. With a standard bore and stroke, just over 10.0:1 compression, Speed Pro forged pistons, and a Comp flat-tappet camshaft, this engine is typical of what many readers would build for their Mopar. The 915 heads on this engine are typical, built with a small amount of bowl cleanup, a multi-angle valve job, Comp valvesprings, and gasket matched intake and exhaust ports. These are not all-out "race-prepped" heads, just typical cleaned up and freshened factory castings. On the dyno at Auto Performance Engines (APE), this 440 made 460 horsepower and 466 lb-ft of torque using a Mopar Performance M1 intake and 950 cfm Holley Ultra HP carburetor, and once we bolted on a 1050 cfm Dominator, our 440 achieved a best pull of 467 horsepower and 469 lb-ft of torque. Using this pull as a baseline, we decided to bolt on our unported, out of the box Stealth aluminum cylinder heads and then a CNC ported set of Stealth heads to see how they compared.
Even without dyno gains, the Stealth cylinder heads have an advantage simply by being made from lightweight cast aluminum. Better yet, the weight savings is seen at the front of the car, where it matters most. Before bolting the heads on our 440, we ran all three sets of heads across the flow bench at APE. As expected, the mildly-worked factory 915 heads showed the least amount of flow, with the un-ported Stealth heads showing an improvement, and the ported Stealth heads showing the best flow at 323 cfm on the intake side and 271 cfm of exhaust flow.
On the dyno, the results showed exactly what the flow charts showed. By bolting on the "out of the box" Stealth heads and changing nothing else, our 440 street engine picked up power across the board, with peak horsepower climbing to 475 hp, and peak torque to 480 lb-ft. The average numbers of torque and horsepower were also up significantly, a clear indication that the $995 Stealth heads beat our factory 915 castings hands-down. Given that the 915 heads cost us $100 at a swap meet, and then were treated to a valve job, Comp springs, two valve seats, and all new guides, the Stealth heads become a better deal yet. Add stainless steel valves, the labor of port work, surfacing if needed, and the cost of our factory heads quickly not only meets, but exceeds the cost of the Stealth heads.
One area where the factory castings can't compete at all is the weight of the heads. No matter how much porting and cutting you do to factory heads you can't reduce their weight by the 40-50 pounds saved by using the aluminum Stealth heads. The other area where factory castings can't compete is with the flow numbers seen by the CNC ported Stealth heads. It would be nearly impossible to get the same flow from any factory cylinder head that we saw with the CNC ported Stealth heads, and the number of hours it would take to achieve numbers even close to the CNC Stealth's numbers would make the task cost prohibitive.
On the dyno, we had to utilize a different intake with the ported Stealth heads since the intake ports of the heads were taller than the runners of our M-1 intake manifold. To keep our comparison as close as possible, we utilized an Indy Cylinder Head single-plane aluminum intake we had on the shelf. This intake has approximately the same plenum volume as the M-1, with ports more closely matched to the ports of the ported Stealth heads. During our dyno session the CNC ported Stealth heads showed substantially more power than the unported versions on our relatively mild 440, and power numbers climbed to an impressive 532.1 horsepower and 483 lb-ft of torque. On a larger displacement or more race-oriented engine, we're sure the ported heads would have shown even more sizeable gains.
We learned a lot from out test of 440 Source's Stealth aluminum cylinder heads, and the results shown in the dyno sheets speak for themselves. Of course there are bigger, more exotic, and more expensive cylinder heads on the market for your big-block Mopar, but if you're looking for a lightweight, economical upgrade to factory big-block cylinder heads we found 440 Source Stealth aluminum heads to be a great option. Look over our dyno sheets carefully, and we think you'll agree that for the money, these heads are hard to beat. To see videos of our 440 making dyno pulls, be sure to log onto www.moparmuscle.com.
|Price Tag
|440 Source Aluminum Cylinder Heads
|$995 assembled
|440 Source Aluminum Cylinder Heads CNC Ported
|$1995 assembled
|915 Cast Iron Cylinder Heads
|Cost varies by parts used, repairs and machine work needed, and port work
|Dyno testing
|Varies by shop (In central Florida: Call APE for a quote)
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1 Stealth aluminum cylinder heads from 440 source are an attractive option to top the big-block Mopar engine, especially since they are lighter than factory heads, and economically priced. We wanted to see what kind of flow numbers and power these heads make in both stock and CnC ported form, so we'll run them across the flow bench and dyno test them on a 440 engine.2a The stealth head's external dimensions are very similar to factory 906 casting heads, but the ports are modified for better flow and the combustion chambers are a more efficient closed chamber design. We cc'd a combustion chamber of the stock stealth heads and found it to measure 83 cc's, very close to the 82 cc chamber of the 915 heads on our 440.2b The stealth head's external dimensions are very similar to factory 906 casting heads, but the ports are modified for better flow and the combustion chambers are a more efficient closed chamber design. We cc'd a combustion chamber of the stock stealth heads and found it to measure 83 cc's, very close to the 82 cc chamber of the 915 heads on our 440.3 We built and tested this mild 440 in last month's issue of Mopar Muscle, and it made respectable power for a pump gas street engine. With a 1050 Dominator carb and Mopar Performance M-1 intake manifold our 440 made more than 460 horsepower and nearly 470 lb-ft of torque.4 With our baseline established we removed the heavy, cast-iron 915 heads to install the stock 440 Source heads. These 915 castings have been treated to a good valve job, had the guides and a couple of seats replaced, Comp springs, retainers, and locks installed, and some minor port work. All told, we likely have more money in these heavy factory heads than the stock 440 Source Stealth heads cost new.5 Prior to installing the Stealth heads on our 440, we ran the 915 heads, the unported Stealth heads, and the CNC ported Stealth heads across APE's flow bench, and measured the chamber volume of each head. The results are all listed below, and as expected the ported Stealth's had the best numbers, followed by the unported Stealth's then the mildly ported 915 heads.6 Once the flow numbers for each head were recorded, we bolted the stock Stealth heads on our 440 and adjusted the valve lash. The Stealth heads use factory rocker gear, with no special offset rockers required, and pushrod length is the same as the popular 906 cylinder head.7 The 440 Source heads do require special fasteners which are available from 440 Source or ARP. We torqued our heads to the 440 Source specifications in three steps to evenly seat the gasket. With the heads in place, we were ready to make another dyno pull.


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Edmonton, AB (Sports Network) - The Edmonton Oilers and forward Jordan
Eberle agreed to terms on a six-year contract extension on Thursday.
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LOL, I love your writing style! I hadn't even thought of this yet so it's nice to have it in mind before I need to attempt it. Thanks for posting these tidbits you seem to have discovered along the way .
Had a question via PM about maps for ebooks. I can only relate my own experience & thoughts on the matter, so here it is.
SCOPE -- There are two initial approaches: designing for some specific sort of reader, or designing for "all" readers. If you target a specific reader, such as the Kindle 3 or iBooks on the iPad, then your design parameters depend entirely on that reader. But I think most projects are going to want to be viewable on a range of readers, and so we must pitch more or less toward the lowest common denominator.
DEVICES -- First, let me throw out the iPhone (yes, it's an ebook reader! One of my friends read an entire novel on his ... well, okay, Android phone, but you get the point), because the phone screens are small, maybe around 300 pixels or so, and if you design for that low a resolution you've kinda screwed yourself, and who reads books on phones anyway except for my crazy friend? So let's just go with the ereader hardware and software. The hardware includes Kindle, Nook, and such e-ink clones; the software includes iBooks on the iPad, various other proggies and apps such as Kindle Reader, Adobe Digital Editions (ADE), Nook for PC (a piece of stinking shyte, imho), etc.
FORMATS -- Next, let me throw out PDF entirely, because that's not "ebook." I mean here only Epub, Mobi (the "old" Amazon format: azw, prc), and KF8 (the "new" Amazon format). Not interested in other kinds of ebooks.
LCD -- The lowest common denominator for those formats on those devices is grayscale at about 500x666 pixels, portrait orientation. Why grayscale? because there's no color e-ink yet (maybe a year out). Why 500x666? because though most e-ink readers are 600x800, usually they impose margins around the edge, and their downsampling of images is nothing like Photoshop or even Firefox/Chrome ... you get nasty jaggedly downsamples, looking like cheap GIF shrinks. So, to avoid getting downsampled, use 500x666, which is proportionally the same aspect ratio as 600x800. And why portrait orientation? because that's the default orientation, and people are brainless and don't even know that you can change to landscape ... and nobody reads in landscape anyway! so you don't want to make people turn their ereaders sideways all the time ... and it's really difficult to turn a laptop sideways, or a desktop-PC monitor, for those who are reading on software readers instead of e-ink devices. Thus, the lowest common denominator: grayscale 500x666 portrait.
TYPE -- Next up is the problem of fonts. You can only go so small. E-ink devices are usually higher pixel density than computer monitors: your computer screen (where you're designing your map!) is probably not much greater than 72dpi, but (roughly) the iPad is 130dpi and the Nook & Kindle are 170dpi -- much smaller pixels. What looks fine on your compy will be a tiny squinty "omhygodimgettin'old" mess. Because every font is different in its point size and clarity, the only way to find your smallest readable type size is to experiment: make an image with various sozes of your font(s), put that image in an ebook, and look at it on your Kindle or Nook. It will loook huge on your computer screen, and you'll be tempted to shrink it down; don't do it! or, go ahead and do it, and run your test again. I'd love to tell you to use only san-serif fonts, but of course we can't always use the fonts we want. Remember this, though: the fonts that come on the Kindle, and especially its default font, Caecilia, are chosen because they are legible on e-ink screens: not a lot of stroke-width variation, no fine pointy serifs, etc.
TROUBLE -- Now, I don't know about you, but I try my damnedest to follow the "north is up" rule at all times. Some maps will want to be landscape with north at the top. What will you do? I don't know what you'll do ... shrink the map? cut it into left & right pieces? offer a reduced "overview" map and then one or more zoom-in detail maps? Every project will have its own unique demands, so I can offer no help on that point.
GRAYS -- Lastly is the matter of levels of gray. Again, every reader is different, but in general we only have a handful of levels of gray to play with. E-ink doesn't display nearly as cleanly as LED pixels Refreshes are a problem, with ghosting. I suggest using as few levels of gray as you can get away with. Small gradations such as drop-shadows will probably be fine; the larger you get, the more problems you'll have. If you want to indicate ocean depth or terrain elevations with smooth gradients instead of boundaried steps (e.g. one shade every 10 meters), it might look like crap on an e-ink device. There is no substitute for testing.
In closing, let me say this: ebook technology is in its infancy, and standards (as usual in the digital world) are sketchy at best. Test on the major devices -- Kindle, Nook, iBooks -- and as many others as you & your friends & netbuds can get your hands on. When it comes time to compromise (and it will!), compromise in favor of the major devices. It's better to make a map that looks good on a Kindle and really junky on a Cybook, than to make the map look mediocre on both. I mean really, who owns a Cybook?
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LOL, I love your writing style! I hadn't even thought of this yet so it's nice to have it in mind before I need to attempt it. Thanks for posting these tidbits you seem to have discovered along the way .
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For what it's worth, I do most of my reading on an ipod touch.. I've powered through most of my stephen king collection that way, and moved on. so reading a whole novle like that is nothing new to me
Though I will say, in ibooks at least, you do need to remember that there's no way to zoom in for more detail, you're stuck with a single static unresizeable image. This has made some books annoying because they they have actual maps in them and referring to them as you go would certainly help - but not when they're so small you' can't make anything out besides the overal shape.
I would use an ipad for reading (the wife loves hers, but i can't afford 2 right now), but when it comes to text, i can read on the pod quite well. but for maps I need to move to the computer.
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Yes, this article addresses a very important issue. I do most of my reading on a Kindle 3 and while the resizing does not seem *as* bad as you describe it (or perhaps the maps are just set to 500 x 666), the issue of legibility is exactly as bad. Images are tiny and the texts tinier. In a book on the history of ancient Egypt the labels are, at a quick guess, displayed in point 4. Barely legible, you might think - not so. Professional print of black and white is usually around 600 dpi, even your desktop printer easily hits 300 dpi. At 175 the Kindle screen relies on anti-aliasing to help display details that small - which means the little text is blurry.
I would think that it's therefore important to use a font where the individual glyphs are hard to mix up - no pretty geometric fonts, no extra light fonts. What you want is a nice, fattish font with visible ascenders and descenders and possibly serifs to distinguish c's and e's, old-style a's and other stuff.
P.S. - and let me just say I'm very satisfied with my Kindle despite this shortcoming
I've come to find that while I LOVE LOVE LOVE my kindle...(e-ink, not tablet)...It's not a very good device for reference-type reading. I love plowing through novels, but I would never want to do any study-reading or reference-reading on it. That's what real books and tablets/laptops are for.
This is a great write-up though.
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Interesting post. I've got to say, probably because I've spent my entire life in graphic design for print, that your points are counter to how I've learned to use fonts, grayscale, etc. I've also got to mention that I'm 49 years old and my eyes are nothing like they were ten/twenty years ago, and I don't have any kind of Ebook technology, nor expect to ever have such a device.
Regarding fonts. The fact the serif fonts are more difficult to read in Ebook format is really a factor in lack of technology for crisper text or resolution. in the print world the larger the text, the fancier you can get, but also san-serif fonts are easy to read in large scale. The smaller you go (in print) the more likely you'll want to use serif fonts, because serif fonts are much easier to read (in print.) Having all straight stroke letters, at a small size and in a wall of text forcers the reader to really concentrate in recognition of what letter is what. Had you used a serif font, at a small size, due to ease of recognition, you don't have to concentrate to read, only requiring a quick glance to recognize the letters and words. The point being using san-serif fonts for ease of reading is counter to reality, except that technology and lack of resolution forces the opposite to be true.
I know the PDF is out for Ebooks, but since I don't have an Ebook and will unlikely get one, its the only thing I can compare to reading electronic documents. Reading PDFs, IMO, sucks holy hell. I lose track of where I'm at, and find myself reading the same sentences twice. I'd much rather have a real book in my hands then to even read a PDF. I can't imagine reading an entire novel in electronic format, it would either drive me nuts or make blinder than I already am.
Regarding your point on portrait versus landscape format. I am in total agreement with you. I've read graphics newsletters in the past, and a few RPG supplement PDFs in landscape format. Many of them use 3 columns of text in landscape mode. Because PDF will let me zoom in close to just a portion of a single column of text, so I can actually read the damn thing, I find myself regularly getting to the bottom of the second column of text then forwarding to the next page, and the writing loses continuity - because I skipped reading athe third column, not even realizing it was there. Landscape formatting seems a usable format, but truly, we've all become accustomed to portrait layout for reading that landscape shouldn't even be an option - humans weren't made to read in landscape format, at least nothing more than a single page of text (like a sign). If it's to be read like a book, make it portrait.
That's about all I have to say on the subject.
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Seriously, I am. The kindle is great for reading novels (particularly novels you are only going to read once) and has solved the bookcase shortage problem in our house, but when it comes to reference books nothing beats dead tree.
I was exactly like GP until about late last year when my wife and mother in law both got kindles and I started to use them. Until then my main arguments against the kindle:I can't imagine reading an entire novel in electronic format, it would either drive me nuts or make blinder than I already am.
a. A real book has a physical geography a kindle doesn't.
b. If you lose / drop / ruin a real book it doesn't break / it's cheaper to replace.
c. A real book doesn't require batteries.
d. I don't need to carry 500 books with me, I only need the one I'm reading at the time.
What I found with the Kindle is that you can change the font size on the screen so it can be easier to read than a book for oldies (late forties like GP) like me whose eyes are going. For novels I've found: Geography and pictures don't matter / are not there. The kindle battery has a very long recharge life. I actually like having the choice of what to read. ...so I'm a convert.
ps (bad nettiquette) but, it's sans serif not san-serif.
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P.S. - the kindle actually supports both serif and sans serif versions of its font and I tend to run with a condensed serif font because it gets closer to the novels I remember from my littledom.
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I am a kindle convert (had a 3 week vacation and didn't want to haul a backpack of books) and I now love my kindle but the few novels that had maps in the front were pretty useless due to illegibility. Hence, this is an important issue for us to consider.
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iBooks does have a zoom feature. Some other readers/apps do, too ... but not all, so it's "lowest common denominator" time: make sure your maps re readable at 1:1 pixel display.
I should clarify: by "zoom-in map" I meant a small section cut from the master overview map, and enlarged .. ."zoomed-in."
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Since its origins, Easter has been a time of celebration and feasting and many Traditional Easter games and customs developed, such as egg rolling, egg tapping, Pace egging and egg decorating. Today Easter is commercially important, seeing wide sales of greeting cards and confectionery such as chocolate Easter eggs, marshmallow bunnies, Peeps, and jelly beans. Even many non-Christians celebrate these aspects of the holiday while eschewing the religious aspects.
Wiccans and other modern-day Neopagans continue to celebrate the Spring Equinox as one of their 8 yearly Sabbats (holy days of celebration). Near the Mediterranean, this is a time of sprouting of the summer's crop; farther north, it is the time for seeding. Their rituals at the Spring Equinox are related primarily to the fertility of the crops and to the balance of the day and night times. In those places where Wiccans can safely celebrate the Sabbat out of doors without threat of religious persecution, they often incorporate a bonfire into their rituals, jumping over the dying embers is believed to assure fertility of people and crops.
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The pagans had the egg and the hare as their symbols of spring renewal and fertility long ago. They had been through the long hard winter and saw spring as a time of rebirth as the earth was emerging forth with new life. In truth, they even believed that the egg had special powers and was put under the foundations of buildings to ward off evil. Pregnant Roman women carried an egg as a talisman in the hope that it would tell them the sex of their child yet to be born.
Man's relationship with the egg come from antiquity and were deeply rooted. There is an old Latin proverb which says, "Omne vivum ex ovo" which means, "all life comes from an egg. After all eggs are laid all over the world. There are myths all over the world that say that the whole universe was created out of an egg.
Eggs are and remain an emblem of life and an allegory for rebirth.
During the pagan Spring festival, the eggs were coloured with bright colours in attribute to the sunlight of spring.
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The hare and the rabbit were the most fertile animals known during pagan times so of course they express the idea of fertility and new life. Is it any wonder why they came to be known as the figuration of fertility in the spring when all of the plants and flowers come to bear and flourish. Although both are certainly considered representitives of fertility, it is the hare that was regarded as the real emblem because the ancients saw the hare as symbol for the moon which is another goddess symbol.


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Horn sounds early charge for sixth term
Supervisor Bill Horn's first campaign event of the 2014 election was, in terms of stagecraft, Pattonesque.
Speaking in a cavernous jet hangar at busy McClellan Palomar Airport in Carlsbad, intermittently interrupted by planes taking off, framed by a U.S. flag so large it could fly over an auto park, General — er, Supervisor — Horn was looming larger than life.
You half-expected Big Bill to strap on his old Marine steel helmet, whip out a riding crop, and exhort us not to die for North County but to make (expletive deleted) sure the enemy to the south died for their godforsaken urban homeland.
Billed as the "State of the North County Address," this super-sized opening shot in his sixth supervisorial campaign was memorable for a number of reasons:
• At 70, Horn appears as comfortable in his political skin as I've ever seen him (and I've been covering him off and on for two decades). Sure, Moby Bill has a bunch of old rusty harpoons hanging off his back — unsquashed rumors of an affair with his former chief of staff, embarrassing worker conditions and building permit issues on his Valley Center ranch, evidence that developers would stoop to any tactic to funnel money into his re-election — and yet, here he is, touting the county's Triple A bond ratings, making San Diego "the first or second most financially sound county in the country."
Derisively called "Bulldozer Bill," here he is, an environmental statesman of sorts, touting one of his pet projects, park land along the San Luis Rey River.
• Though board chairman of the North County Transit District, Horn consciously sidestepped a steaming pile of dung. After a pro-Carlsbad opening video in which Horn appeared to be run over by a north-south Coaster train in mid-sentence, he elicited knowing chuckles when he said, "I won't get into the east-west (train) at the moment."
He noted that Matt Tucker, NCTD director, was not in the crowd. "He's out riding a bus," Horn cracked.
• Horn welcomed dramatic changes in county leadership: After nearly 14 years, a new CAO; after 18 years, a new supervisor in Dave Roberts, who was in the audience. To refute the inference that revolution is in the air, Horn repeated that the county "is still on the same course." His course.
Horn could have been looking right at Oceanside Mayor Jim Wood, sitting in one of the front rows. Wood, serially humiliated on his council, has that lean and hungry look for the highest office in the northern land.
• Horn's genius has always been that he thinks in practical, not lofty, terms. He brings home bacon in slabs and throws it in front of voters. His big 2014 trophy would be an extension of the Carlsbad airport, a magnet for larger, quieter aircraft.
All about business, Horn created the San Diego North Economic Development Council to be his personal megaphone for growth. He's put similar marks on gang task forces and libraries. As a transactional politician, he's got some trophies and he's not shy about displaying them.
• An ideological foe of big government, state and federal, Horn promises to fight the sequestration-related closing of the Ramona Airport tower. He painted a picture of Cal Fire tankers struggling without air-traffic control, a prescription for disaster. He called federal budget-cutting priorities "foolish," a view that resonates like electronic bagpipes among Republicans.
• After 18 years in office, Horn has become a virtuoso at playing North County against the city of San Diego, arguably the most durable political thread in the region. Horn said that North County and the city have become roughly equal in population and therefore, North County should be the same "powerhouse." "We have almost enough to combat the city of San Diego," he said. "We shouldn't allow them to do what they've done in the past."


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Directory:NanoSpire, Inc. on Harnessing Cavitation Zero Point Energy to Produce Fusion and Transmutation in Water
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June 29, 2012
The folks at NanoSpire seem to be on the cusp of something huge in knowing how to accurately tame cavitation forces. Energy is just one of the zillions of applications that range from microsurgery to element production.
- "Cavitation could be to the 21st Century what Electricity was to the last century. The new prime mover." -- Mark LeClair
Based in Maine, USA, they published a press release in February titled: NanoSpire, Inc. Successfully Harnesses Cavitation Zero Point Energy to Produce Dramatic Levels of Fusion & Transmutation in Water.
Here's an excerpt from the opening of their Press Release:
- "Nanospire, Inc. is announcing successful completion of its investigation of fusion produced by the phenomena of cavitation in water, providing profound implications for the utilities and energy industries. Under the right conditions, cavitation, a form of boiling, can produce high speed jets as the cavitation bubbles collapse. NanoSpire has pioneered the controlled formation and aiming of these (known as re-entrant) jets, resulting in four recently issued patents."
And here is the opening paragraph of their executive summary:
- "NanoSpire, Inc. was founded in January 2002 to commercialize a new generation of cavitation reentrant jet-based tools and processes. NanoSpire provides the first machine tool capable of cutting, drilling, welding, hammering, and annealing materials only a few nanometers in size by harnessing and controlling the energy of cavitation microjets. NanoSpire's team has been invited to present at numerous nanotechnology conferences. NanoSpire won the prestigious Innovation Technology Award at the Nanotech 2003 + Future Conference in Tokyo."
Official Website
- https://nanospireinc.com - company site
- NanoSpire_Fusion_Energy_Executive_Summary.pdf (posted with permission)
- http://www.mevio.com/episode/314012/fen.120425 - On April 25, 2012, Sterling Allan conducted an interview with Mark LeClair, Serge Lebid, and Edmond Pope of Nanospire, Inc. as part of the Free Energy Now series.
- transcription - first 3/4 of the interview
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My Answer to Quora: What are some renewable energy projects in the United States? - My list includes E-Cat; Brillouin; NuEnergy cavitation; ERR fluxgenerator; Brilliant Light Power; Nanospire cavitation; MYT Aviation 2.0; Focus Fusion. (Quora; January 25, 2016)
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LENR-to-Market Digest -- January 6, 2014 - Highlights include: Rossi's partner uncovered as Cherokee Investment Partners LLC, link with Chinese; 1,100 C E-Cat very stable; needs gens by millions; Defkalion completes 1st phase R&D for basic reactor; NanoSpire cavitation radiation replicated; MFMP gamma rays; Elforsk report & interview; Cyclone; ARPA-E invite; 18+ editorials (PESN; January 6, 2014)
- Top FE Inventor Updates - In getting ready for tonight's interview on Coast to Coast AM, I send out an email last night to the inventors whose technology I hope to at least mention, asking them if they have any updates they can provide. (Free Energy Blog; December 29, 2013)
- NanoSpire's Cavitation Radiation Replication? - A man working in his garage used a drive motor from an old forced-air furnace and a pump from an old washing machine to make a device similar to NanoSpire's which is claimed to have produced cavitation fusion. (Free Energy Blog; November 10, 2013)
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This Week in Free Energy™: August 15, 2013 - Best Kept Secret: Geoffrey S. Miller's Energybat Labs / Interview • Keelynet Summarizes LeClair's 3.4x Overunity Cavitation Report • Wind company willing to use their turbines as a decoy • Lindemann announces "Open System Thermodynamics" lecture • Joe Tomicki wants his Q-mo-gen validation • Chuck Pierce' Regen demo • GlobalBEM Fundrasier for Boulder Conference (FreeEnergyNews)
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Keelynet Summarizes LeClair's 3.4x Overunity Cavitation Report - In March, 2007 Mark LeClair built and tested the first cavitation reactor powered by the LeClair Effect, based on our patented technology. The 1.25" ID by 12" long reactor produced 2.9 kW of hot water using only 840 watts of input, a coefficient of performance (COP) of 3.4 times more energy out than in. (PureEnergyBlog; August 14, 2013)
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LENR-to-Market Weekly -- May 9, 2013 - Highlights this week include: Interview with Rossi about recent 1 MW plant delivery, glowing Hot-cat, safety, team, electricity prospects, 3rd party tests; Nanospire listing in market report; new live test at MFMP; Gerald Celente on "the biggest element"; Rossi file opposition to Pianteli patent. (PESN; May 9, 2013)
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2012 in Review--2013 Free Energy Predictions - Though the year didn't bring several technologies to market as I had predicted last year (due to "you don't deserve it yet" lack of adequate awakening), great progress was made. We highlight some of the leading trends, both upward, as well as some of those that are fading, gratefully. (PESN; January 2, 2013)
- Featured / Best Exotic FE: Nuclear > Cold Fusion >
LENR-to-Market Weekly -- November 8, 2012 - Highlights this week include: Interview with NanoSpire and useful cavitation relating to LENR; interviews with Alto Proia, CEO of Prometeon Ltd. a licensee company of the E-Cat in Italy; ECatNews turns on Rossi; AP article on CF at the U of Missouri. (PESN; November 8, 2012)
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LENR-to-Market Weekly -- October 11, 2012 - Highlights this week include: video update from the Hunt Utilities Group making a Celani reactor kit for universities to validate cf; the American Nuclear Society is going to include a session on LENR in their November conference; new Nanospire abstract; Discover cf article; anticipation that Rossi might release news about the Hot-Cat in the October 12 conference in Pardenone; interview with Aldo Proia, the Italian E-Cat licensee. (PESN; October 11, 2012)
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Discovery of Macrocationic Crystalline H2O Cavitation Reentrant Jets and their Role in Cavitation Zero Point Energy, Fusion, and the Origin of Life - An upcoming presentation by NanoSpire CEO, Mark LeClair, at the Conference on the Physics, Chemistry and Biology of Water; will provide an overview of data and theories addressing the structure and dynamics of crystallized cavitation reentrant jets in coherently extracting zero point energy, triggering fusion and driving prebiotic chemistry. (PESN; October 10, 2012)
- Best Exotic FE: Nuclear > Cold Fusion / Cavitation > NanoSpire >
Mark LeClair of Nanospire on SmartScarecrow Show (Starts at 29:26) - "I am not even going to try to summarize Mark LeClair's presentation. Much of the material is way over my head but will say that the experimental data he has presented is compelling." (SmartScarecrow; September 20, 2012)
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LENR-to-Market Weekly -- August 2, 2012 - Highlights this week include: Boeing and NASA working together on LENR aircraft design; E-Cat Conference in Switzerland September 8-9; Brillouin to be represented at ICCF 17 by SRI; NextMe.it interviews Rossi; Defkalion going to Vancouver; Pirelli High School photos, update; FusionCatalyst.org. (PESN; August 2, 2012)
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LENR-to-Market Weekly -- July 5, 2012 - Highlights this week include: report on an International LENR Symposium in Williamsburg, VA, including lecture by Robert Duncan, Vice Chancellor for Research at University of Missouri on "The Mystery of Cold Fusion"; alleged 600C solid state E-Cat and ramifications; Defkalion press release; National Instruments involved with many LENR projects. (PESN; July 5, 2012)
- Featured / Best Exotic FE: Nuclear > Cold Fusion / Cavitation > NanoSpire >
Validated LeClair Cavitation Erosion Equation Predicts Cavitation Fusion Using Standard Physics - "The first validated and highly accurate general equation for cavitation erosion prediction. It is the E = MC2 of cavitation fusion. It predicts D-T fusion conditions are reached during cavitation reentrant jet impact into medium strength or higher materials. The LeClair cavitation erosion equation establishes the first sound theoretical basis for all types of cavitation fusion and is based only on well known and straightforward standard physics." (PESN; June 29, 2012)
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On Keshe, Cavitation, and Human Destiny: Sterling on Unicus Radio Hour - I had a great interview on Robert Stanley's show, covering a wide range of topics as related to free energy and the ramifications of these technologies breaking out soon into the marketplace. Had fun going on tangents. Robert talked about some super amazing things Honda engineers came up with that never arrived in the market. (PESN; April 29, 2012)
- Featured: Nuclear > Cold Fusion > Cavitation / ZPE > NanoSpire >
NanoSpire, Inc. on Harnessing Cavitation Zero Point Energy to Produce Fusion and Transmutation in Water - The folks at NanoSpire seem to be on the cusp of something huge in knowing how to accurately tame cavitation forces. Energy is just one of the zillions of applications that range from microsurgery to element production. (PESN; April 28, 2012)
- Is Cavitation the Competition of LENR? (CleanTechAuthority; February 22, 2012)
- Press Release (February 10, 2012)
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The Royals play their first night contest of 2009, and it is also the first television broadcast on Fox Sports Kansas City! Zack Greinke takes the mound for your boys in blue. Be sure to tune in at 8:00 Central (check your local listings). Also, the Royals and Fox Sports Kansas City have announced the 99 High Definition dates for 2009. Here is your Wednesday lineup:
Coco Crisp – CF
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Tuesday News, June 26
Remsen Teen Pinned Between Skid Loader and a Gate
(Remsen) -- A 17 year old female was pinned between bales of hay and a skid loader and a gate on Monday afternoon. The accident happened shortly after 3:00 p.m. at 45075 150th Street in rural Remsen. When emergency officials arrived, the 17 year old had freed herself and it appeared the injuries were not life threatening. The Remsen Ambulance transported the 17 year old female to Floyd Valley Hospital in Le Mars. The Remsen Ambulance was assisted by the Remsen Fire Department and the Plymouth County Sheriff's Office. The injured female was Shantel Jaminet.
Sioux City Accident Blamed On Heart Attack
(Sioux City) -- Sioux City Police have determined the victim of that pickup truck rollover accident that occurred at 19th and Summit streets on Sunday suffered a heart attack. Police have identified the driver as 63 year old Alan Scott of Sioux City. Scott was transported to Mercy Medical Center Emergency Room from the scene when he was in very critical condition, where he was then placed in intensive care unit and underwent tests in Cardiology. It is believed that Scott suffered a heart attack just prior to the wreck he was involved in on Sunday, which caused the pickup truck Scott was driving to veer to the shoulder of the roadway. Scott is currently in Mercy Intensive Care where he is in critical, but stable condition. Speed and alcohol are not suspected to be factors in the accident.
Supervisors To Hear From Hoffman
(Le Mars) -- The Plymouth County Board of Supervisors are scheduled to meet this morning and they have a short agenda. Clarence Hoffman, the chairman of the Iowa Communities Assurance Pool will offer an update to the supervisors. County engineer Tom Rohe is also listed on the agenda. He will offer the supervisors an update on the current construction projects, as well as seeking right of way contracts.
Hector Hired As Assistant Principal
(Le Mars) -- The Le Mars Community School Board gave its approval for the hiring of a new Middle School Assistant Principal during last evening's meeting. Karlton Hector most recently was a teacher with the Graettinger-Terril High School, but he was at one time a former student of the Le Mars Community School District. Hector says he wants to advance his career as a school administrator, and would like to learn from others' experiences while continuing his growth in school leadership.
Le Mars Main Street Evaluated On Business Recruitment
(Le Mars) -- At 3:00 p.m. this afternoon, Main Street Le Mars will learn how well they did in their attempts to recruit a new business. It's all part of the market assessment conducted by officials of Main Street Iowa organization. Le Mars city officials will be shown what things they did correct, and what things they can improve upon when recruiting a business to this community. Although the program is an excercise for community leaders to learn, city officials had to proceed just as if a new business was considering locating here in the ice cream capital of the world.
Governor Branstad Visits Plymouth Energy Ethanol Plant
(Merrill) -- Governor Terry Branstad made two visits to northwest Iowa on Monday. He helped with a ribbon cutting ceremony at the new event center in Orange City and later he toured an ethanol plant at Merrill. Following his Orange City visit, the Iowa Governor met with the board of directors and members of the staff of the Plymouth Energy Company ethanol plant. Branstad was given a tour of the facilities. Afterwards, he praised the efforts of Plymouth Energy for providing economic development for a small community.
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One of the goals from the ethanol industry is to see the 15 percent blended ethanol market take off. Branstad says the state is encouraging fuel dealers to implement the 15 percent ethanol.
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The governor says he recently read a report from the Ford Motor Company that endorses the higher blended ethanol.
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Eamonn Byrne serves as the C-E-O for Plymouth Energy. There continues to be an argument on corn as to whether it should be used for food or for fuel. Byrne says the American farmer can produce enough corn to meet the demands for both food and fuel.
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Dry Conditions Continue Across Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Topsoil in more than half of Iowa's fields still needs more rain to reach adequate levels.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says in Monday's weekly report that topsoil in 54 percent of Iowa's field rated very short or short of adequate moisture. The east-central part of the state
was the driest, with 78 percent of the topsoil moisture rated short to very short.
The USDA says 68 percent of the corn crop, which is silking in most parts of the state, is in good or excellent condition.
The soybean crop is rated 63 percent good to excellent.
The USDA report says 98 percent of the state's oat crop has headed, which is nearly three weeks ahead of normal progression.
Decorah Fish Hatchery To Open
DECORAH, Iowa (AP) - State officials and volunteers will celebrate the opening of a visitor's center at the Decorah Fish Hatchery that is the first such facility paid for with private
money raised by a friends group.
A ribbon-cutting event will be Friday morning, marking completion of the 24-by-44 foot center funded by the Friends of Decorah Fish Hatchery.
The hatchery has become a tourist destination due to the popularity of a live eagle cam, which streams images over the Internet of an eagles nest at the site.
The Department of Natural Resources didn't release the cost of
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The harsh economic times are making it harder and harder for small towns like Meridian to provide air service.
Meridian Airport Authority President Tom Williams tells Newscenter 11 that the demand just isn't what it used to be, making it harder to fill flights. He also says airlines simply aren't interested in small towns because of how tough it is to make a profit.
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Despite this, Williams says officials are working on bringing a third flight to Meridian Regional Airport. Currently, there are two flights.
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President Bush's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health report (2003) calls for early mental health screening, assessment and referral to services as common practice in our nation. Approximately 10% of children and adolescents in our nation live with a mental illness that causes serious impairment, yet only 20% of youth with mental illnesses receive treatment and services. America cannot afford to continue to fail our youth with mental illnesses that require treatment.
Representative Ron Paul of Texas has introduced legislation, the Parental Consent Act of 2005 (HR 181) that would prohibit the use of federal funds for mental health screening. NAMI strongly opposes H.R. 181 and urges Congressional members to oppose the bill and any similar measures. The bill would stifle efforts to support state and local programs designed to identify youth struggling with mental illnesses and initiatives designed to help reduce the existing youth suicide crisis in this country.
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued a memorandum on mental health screening on December 15, 2004 that also serves to set the record straight on mental health screening. The memo also references the House and Senate appropriations report language that specifically addresses mental health screening. The House report noted that "SAMHSA is overseeing a very promising pilot study utilizing evidence-based screening techniques and tools to screen and identify teenagers who are at risk." The Senate report also recognized the pilot study involving the TeenScreen program.
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On Monday, March 8, a message was sent out to numerous phones and e-mail accounts all over the area. This message alerted parents, grandparents, students, teachers, bus drivers and anyone associated with the school district, there would be no school Thursday and Friday due to Holyoke boys' and girls' basketball teams qualifying for the class 2A state basketball tournament.
"We were really happy with it," Elementary Principal Kyle Stumpf said in regard to the first message being sent out using a new pilot program. Blackboard Connect Notification System is a communication tool being utilized within the school district.
The system can easily alert a large number of people in case of an emergency. The tool also is in place for situations such as what happened last week with state basketball. It can be used to alert different groups of students such as the high school track team as well.
Both Stumpf and Supt. Bret Miles said a message was developed around 2 p.m. last Monday and sent out via phone and e-mail at 5:30 p.m. Nearly 45 minutes later both Stumpf and Miles as well as High School Principal Susan Ortner and District Technology Coordinator Perry Ingram had all received data reports of the number of successful and unsuccessful messages that were sent out.
"It really got through to people," Miles said.
Of the English messages, 87 percent were received. There were 289 successful numbers and four bad numbers which Stumpf said were incorrect phone numbers or had been entered into the system incorrectly. He said this was the case with most of the "bad" numbers. A single digit had been entered incorrectly in these cases.
There were also 262 e-mail messages sent out in English.
On the Spanish side, 72 percent of the messages were received. There were 64 successful messages, six bad numbers and 18 no-answers. Twenty e-mail messages were sent out as well.
The system automatically translates the e-mail messages into Spanish but Stumpf said they also had ESL instructor Yesenia Bencomo translate the message to see if they were translated differently. Stumpf said the two were very similar with minor differences, so in case of an emergency he said they feel confident the automatic translation would suffice. The automatic translation goes into great depth with translating the messages.
For the phone messages, Supt. Miles said they can get onto the system and record the message they want. There are options after a message is recorded to choose from to make sure the message is delivered correctly. They can choose exactly when the message will go out.
The message sent last Monday was sent at 5:30 p.m. with the hopes of catching the highest number of people. Miles added they had people stopping in the office the following day voicing their appreciation for the new tool.
For those parents or guardians who would like to update their contact information, Miles and Stumpf encourage them to contact either school and speak with the secretaries to get the necessary information updated. Multiple numbers may be added for each family to ensure the message will be received by everyone.
Both Stumpf and Miles said they are hoping to move forward with the system and incorporate an attendance and meal tracker as well as the small group function.
Stumpf said they have already set up the junior high and high school track teams as well as the high school baseball team. Track teams occasionally leave early in the morning and weather tends to cancel or postpone outdoor events. With this function, the school will be able to contact only those on the teams to alert them of any sudden changes.
Stumpf said they are able to access the system from anywhere with an internet connection or even a cell phone. This enables the administrators to get a message sent out even if they are not on school property.
"For the first time we are very pleased," Stumpf said. He mentioned they are in the process of going in and tweaking minor details and hope to see the success rate jump up to 95 percent. "It is a more efficient form of mass communication with the click of a button," he added.
The system was presented at the Feb. 16 school board meeting by Stumpf. The district is piloting the program through June 30. The cost to use the system for an entire school year would be right around $1,500, according to Miles.
"I see it as part of the district in the future," Miles said. He also gave praise to the elementary building accountability committee for getting this project started. "I'm glad they made this pilot possible."


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On this solemn 9/11 ninth anniversary there is a truth that must be told – because it is not going to be in the media headlines. And in that truth relies the fact that the 9/11 caused 2 wars, millions of dead and maimed civilians, millions of refugees, a near collapse world economy, and untold global unemployment and poverty while military industries and military contractors became super rich on the corpses of 9/11.
Osama bin Laden is not a warrior anymore, and Al Qaeda is just a label used to justify wars that bring prosperity to the Defense Industries. Bin Laden is, therefore, an idol of Muslim martyrdom to the abusive and militaristic policies of the U.S. and Israel. His deputy, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, issues statements on behalf of Al Qaeda occasionally to keep the Muslim morale alive , but they are just typical anti-American and anti-Zionist chaff, not the weighty Muslim… Read more


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Thermal Bridges In Building Construction - 2D Square Column
Application ID: 12569
This example studies heat transfer in a square column. Cold and hot temperature conditions are applied to the boundaries. Due to the symmetry of the problem, the geometry is simplified to half of the square. The temperature field is compared with the analytic data.
This example corresponds to the case 1 described in the European standard EN ISO 10211:2007 for thermal bridges in building constructions.
COMSOL Multiphysics passes successfully all the test cases described by the standard and is hence classified as a three-dimensional steady-state high precision method.


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Is there a way to limit access (by IP-address) to the different interfaces of Zimbra?
IE - we might want to allow access to Active Sync-clients from everywhere (with a strict policy for passwords, pin-codes and so on) but allow webmail access only from trusted networks.
Since both webmail and active sync is running on port 443, firewall might not be an option?
Or is it possible to set a different port for either of these?
Or is there some kind of ".htaccess" that could be added somewhere to limit access?


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I think it is great, probably because it's the first PVR I have ever owned, apart from a PC with digital TV tuner.
I have had issues with the EPG not loading,
for some reason the EPG is not loading past 11 AM.
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06: Index Ventures
In 2011, Index Ventures came full circle. The venture-capital firm started in Geneva in 1996, to "take the Silicon Valley mindset to Europe", according to partner Saul Klein. Five years later it opened a London office and backed some of the most successful companies in European tech: Skype, MySQL, Betfair, ASOS and LOVEFiLM, to name a few. Last year, it opened a San Francisco office -- to bring a European mindset to the Valley. "We believe in acting as a bridge between the most talented entrepreneurs on our side and connecting them directly into the Bay Area," says Klein.
Index has helped newer companies such as Moo and Playfish to establish a US presence. But it's also backing firms from the Valley and New York: last year it invested in Dropbox, Etsy and Flipboard. In 2011, it raised a €500 million (£408 million) fund and a €150 million life-science vehicle, backed by pharmaceutical giants GSK and Johnson & Johnson, and had 15 exits. London, though, remains the "heartbeat" of Index: current companies include EDITD, Mind Candy, MOO, onefinestay and Songkick. The secret to the company's productivity (it made 48 new investments in 2011 alone)? Its 29 investors: "You can't do all of that unless you work as a team," Klein says. "That's the core ethos: this is a team game -- this is total football."
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Pennsylvania slow on radar
Drivers instinctively reduce their speed when they see a police car at the side of the road, fearing that police radar will penetrate deep into their wallets.
But in Pennsylvania, unless that cruiser has a state trooper behind the wheel, radar cannot be in play. Pennsylvania remains the only state that does not allow local police to use radar. Across the state, as one police chief recently said, local officers can carry machine guns but not radar guns.
The prohibition has been in effect for more than 50 years. It is not arbitrary. Lawmakers worried that local police and governments would use radar as a cash cow - setting unfair speed traps to issue speeding citations, especially against people from neighboring communities and other folks just passing through.
That concern can be addressed by requiring regular reports on speeding enforcement on fine collection, which would indicate whether local police are more interested in revenue generation than in public safety.
Meanwhile, Republican Rep. Mario Scavello of Monroe County, a former mayor of Mount Pocono and former county commissioner, has introduced a bill that would lift the prohibition and allow the use of radar at the local level.
Scavello has noted that in 2011, Pennsylvania had the second highest percentage of speeding fatalities to total fatalities in the nation. On roadways where state police don't patrol and, therefore, radar is not allowed, speeding fatalities were three times greater than on roads where radar is allowed.
Of 1,310 traffic fatalities statewide in 2012, according to PennDOT, 534 involved speeding.
Under Scavello's bill, full-time officers in full-time departments would be able to use radar for speed enforcement. For the first three months, they would be allowed to issue only warnings.
State and local police favor the change. Radar is easier to use and maintain than some non-radar forms of speed monitoring, and it has a good record for accuracy.
It often is a good idea to let other states experiment first with policy and technology. But now that 49 others have embraced radar, the 50th safely can take the plunge.
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Three state government departments are participating in an Earth Day observance that's expected to draw thousands of students, teachers and others to Lansing on Thursday.
The event runs from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Constitution Hall. It's sponsored by the departments of Environmental Quality, Natural Resource and Agriculture and Rural Development. The Detroit Audubon Society and winners of a poster contest will receive awards.
More than 50 hands-on activities will be available.
The annual program recognizes Michigan's environment and natural resources through public outreach and educational exhibits, presentations and performances.
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YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. -- Before she started classes at Young Harris College in 2012, freshman Jo Hannah Burch enthusiastically pledged with a sorority called Gamma Psi. She immediately regretted it.
"It was rough. I was hazed for four nights," said Burch, from Savannah. "We were blindfolded and taken to a creek. And we were in the freezing creek for two or three hours."
Burch says the hazing left her bruised, scratched and unable to sleep or eat.
"This was torture. I had no idea what I was getting into," Burch said.
Burch says she complained to the college administration. Young Harris's president is Cathy Cox. A decade ago, Cox was Georgia's Secretary of State. She ran for Governor in 2006, losing the Democratic primary to then-Lieutenant Governor Mark Taylor. Then Cox disappeared from politics.
Governor Sonny Perdue defeated Taylor in November.
"My dad actually called Cathy Cox, our president, and he told her what was going on," Burch said.
"And she said, 'these things happen. It's been going on on our campus.'"
Burch filed a lawsuit against the college, accusing it of "reckless indifference, to a widespread and well-known culture of abusive and sexually charged hazing."
Young Harris College's spokesman Jay Stroman called the lawsuit "outrageous."
"The college has a no-hazing policy, and we take it extremely seriously," Stroman said. "The student development office investigated it, determined that at some level something went on. And immediately took action."
Stroman says Young Harris suspended the Gamma Psi sorority for a year, but did not discipline individual students. Gamma Psi is a local sorority with no national chapter, Stroman and Burch said.
The lawsuit also alleges that two faculty members were fired by Young Harris College for helping Burch blow the whistle on its alleged culture of hazing.
"It's pretty clear, based on the way they treated these two individuals, that they were angry with them, they were upset with them. Both of them had excellent performance from the job reviews," said James Radford, the attorney who filed the suit.
The school says the instructors were fired after Burch complained-- but that the firings were unrelated to hazing allegations.
"I think it all goes back to two disgruntled faculty that are just trying to get back at the college," Stroman said.
Stroman says Cathy Cox was never indifferent to Burch's allegations. Burch is transferring to another school this fall.


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ATLANTA (AP) -- The new College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta is scheduled to break ground on Monday in the city's downtown area.
The hall is scheduled to open in the fall of 2014 in Centennial Olympic Park.
The National Football Foundation, which runs the Hall of Fame, announced this week's groundbreaking in December.
The new site in Centennial Olympic Park is near the Georgia Dome and World Congress Center. The College Football Hall of Fame was located in South Bend, Ind., near the campus of Notre Dame, for 17 years. It closed last year.
The NFF announced three years ago that the hall was moving from Indiana, but fundraising issues forced several delays in the project.
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The ethics of fossil fuel use
I am grateful to Schalke Cloete, of One in a Billion blog fame, for alerting me to this public debate, which was held on Monday at the privately-financed Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina (the US State that has passed a Law that makes accelerating sea level rise illegal).
The debate appears to have been arranged at the behest of one of the two protagonists, Alex Epstein (founder of the Center for Industrial Progress) – whose challenge Bill McKibben (350.org) clearly accepted.
The video below runs to nearly 100 minutes in length so, I suspect, only very few will watch it. Anyone who does will find it very rewarding but, for the majority that probably will not watch it, I have summarised its content below.
To start with both speakers are given 10 minutes to put their case, they are then given opportunity to respond to the points made by the other; to cross-examine each other; and to put forward closing arguments.
Bill McKibben went first and started by stating that fossil fuels were good for us but that the advantages of their continued use are now outweighed by the disadvantages and, therefore, wherever we can, we should stop using them. He then provided fact-based evidence for twelve risks we face if we do not do this:
1. Ocean acidification which will kill corals and endanger a wide variety of shellfish.
2. Melting Ice caps and permafrost (sea level rise and methane release).
3. Increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events of all kinds.
4. Reduced crop for crops of all kinds and consequential increases in food prices.
5. Mass extinction of species (that cannot migrate or whose habitats are degraded).
6. Inundation of coastal cities (with all the collateral damage and disruption that will cause).
7. Increased frequency and severity of forest fires.
8. Increasing numbers of deaths resulting from atmospheric pollution and heat waves.
9. Economic growth and development will be hindered by increased expenditure on mitigation.
10. Socio-political instability and insecurity arising from all of the above (see the Pentagon's QDR).
11. Libertarian desires will be endangered by the increasing need for autocratic responses.
12. Democracy itself is endangered by policy inaction being promoted by the fossil fuel lobby.
In response to all of this, Alex Epstein insisted that the risks were unproven. This being North Carolina (where accelerating sea level rise has been outlawed), he insisted that there is no evidence that things will get that bad. He then proceeded to point out that climate-related deaths (whatever they are) have gone down over time, whilst CO2 levels have gone up. Despite the fact that he did not himself offer any evidence, he dismissed all of McKibben's well-referenced arguments as mere speculation. He then trotted out numerous climate denial classics including the mutually contradictory arguments that (a) global warming has stopped and (b) technology will enable us to solve the problem. Alex repeatedly referred to fossil fuels as affordable abundant energy; and repeatedly referred to it as real energy (implying that somehow renewable energy is not real?)
Bill McKibben responded to all of this by pointing out that correlation is not proof of causation; and provided yet more evidence to back up his original assertions. He questioned why anyone would champion increased fuel use rather than promoting the reduction of demand through improved energy efficiency. He questioned why Epstein was so defeatist about the prospects for renewable energy; and pointed out that many of the problems he cited had in fact already been solved. Renewable energy is real energy and, since the alternatives to fossil fuel exist, its use should therefore be maximised as fast as possible.
Epstein responded by asserting that all environmentalists are anti-progress because they are anti –hydroelectric projects and anti-nuclear. He therefore challenged McKibben to endorse the legitimacy of both as potential solutions. He then trotted out yet more climate change denial classics such as (i) CO2 is a trace gas (citing the rise from 0.03% volume to 0.04% volume as insignificant – even though that would actually represent a 33% increase); and (ii) climate model predictions have proven to be unreliable (when in fact they have proven to be overly optimistic). Despite the fact that Epstein – Philosophy and Computer Science major – is clearly no expert in the natural sciences, he even tried and failed to refute the fact that ocean acidification is not happening (by claiming they are becoming less alkaline and more neutral).
Epstein was then invited to rebut McKibben's arguments. In so doing he repeated his mantra about the folly of giving up on the most affordable and abundant energy source we have, which would prevent progress; and unnecessarily condemn millions to a life of misery. He asserted that fossil fuels had made modern agriculture possible and solved the problem of world hunger that people worried about 40 years ago. Furthermore, given the growth in human population since then, he suggested that we now need fossil fuels in order to prevent widespread malnutrition and starvation.
In rebutting Epstein's arguments, McKibben started by repeating that fossil fuels had made many good things possible in the past but that the risks of their continued use now outweigh the disadvantages. Climate change has already resulted in more food being eaten than grown in 6 of the last 11 years; and that unabated increase in fossil fuel use will only make it increasingly hard to grow crops. McKibben also questioned the wisdom of trying to refute the opinions of the World's leading ecologists by asserting that our oceans are not actually turning into acids.
In their closing speeches, Epstein and McKibben recapped their main arguments: Epstein questioned the validity of all the evidence McKibben had presented (but presented none himself); and questioned the integrity of McKibben – accusing him of misrepresenting the situation (for what motive?). In complete contrast, McKibben did not use such language and, being careful not to attack Epstein personally, repeated his main point that the fossil fuel industry is the only one that does not pay to dispose of its waste. He then concluded by suggesting that fossil fuel companies need to decide to become energy companies instead; and embrace the use of all the alternatives that we have.


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May 30, 2016
Trinity Presbyterian Church in Meridian held its annual Holiday Bazaar on Saturday.
Families came out to get an early start on their Christmas shopping at the bazaar, which featured about 20 vendors with homemade crafts ranging from wood working, to jewlery, to candles. Santa Claus was also in attendance and Pastor Mark Flynn says that the church hosts this event every year to help out the community.
"Well there's so many charities here in Meridian that need help and we figured we could do our part by raising some money and helping them with their ministries here in Meridian," Flynn says.
The money raised from booth fees goes to those local charities.
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