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1955 Chevrolet 3100 - The Twelve-year ChallengeWritten by on May 2, 2012 Ray Tapley's '55 First-Series Chevy
Have you ever started something with the greatest intention of finishing it quickly, but when you actually dive in head-first the project ends up overwhelming you and all you can do is stare at it? I can't pinpoint why all my projects seem to get harder as I go but if I were to guess, I would say that paying more attention to detail and craftsmanship might have something to do with it. Most of the time the small details take the longest to perform, and for that matter, will anyone ever see them? We like to hope so.
The above holds true for Ray Tapley and his '55 first-series Chevy pickup. Ray is a fabricator by trade and has been in the business for 40-plus years. Ray had been spending his extra time repairing his '31 two-door sedan and somewhere in the mix a '75 Chevelle as well. Then on top of 'em his Mother and Father surprised him with a Christmas gift, a '55 Chevy Truck. J.R. Tapley, Ray's father, bails hay for a living and one day he spotted a truck in a barn close to where he was working. When J.R. got home late that night he mentioned to Mary Lou (Ray's Mother) that he wanted to see if he could purchase the truck to surprise Ray for Christmas. A deal was struck and all had a happy Christmas.
Once he got a hold of his new project, first thing Ray did was strip the cab from the chassis and had it media blasted. The frame was then stripped and primed so it wouldn't rust. A Total Cost Involved stainless steel frontend was then installed to replace the old straight-axle and the rear suspension was upgraded using a '64 Nova 10-bolt rear axle and Total Cost Involved parallel four-bar/coilover setup. At that point Ray lost interest in the project and took a breather from it for several years. Like I stated earlier the truck was not his only project, plus being a fabricator he couldn't simply let the truck back on the road without completing his skilled craftsmanship on the vehicle. When Ray regained interest in the truck again, he decided to fabricate a new dash using sheetmetal and his trusty TIG welder. Ray fabricated a rear bumper butt-ended up not liking it so he cut it out and re-made it three times before he was satisfied with the result. By that time the cab had rusted again and was in need of media blasting for the second time, but as Ray would put it, he lost interest because his '31 was running and on the road. Ray attended a few cars shows with the '31 until one day someone made him an offer that he could not refuse, so he sold the Model A and moved back onto the truck project. At this point the truck had been sitting for a few more months and it rusted yet again, oops. Back to the media blaster it went and straight to the body shop to get a coat of primer. The only hard part Ray had to do now was pick the color of the truck. Luckily, he had one of his grandsons Jaden Thomas help him with the paint choice, Corvette Atomic Orange. The truck was then completed and on the road for the whole family to enjoy. CT
Ray Tapley
Beach City, Texas
1955 Chevrolet 3100
Frame: modified stock
Modifications: C-notched
Rearend / Ratio: 10-bolt / 3.08:1
Rear suspension: Total Cost Involved parallel four-bar, coilovers
Rear brakes: drum
Front suspension: Total Cost Involved IFS, stainless
Front brakes: disc
Steering: rack-and-pinion
Front wheels: Billet Specialties, Vintec 17x7
Rear wheels: Billet Specialties, Vintec 17x8
Front tires: Kuhmo Ecsta ASX 245/45/17
Rear tires: Kuhmo Ecsta ASX 255/50/17
Gas tank: hand made by owner from stainless steel
Engine: ZZ4, GM Performance Parts
Heads: ZZ4
Valve covers: Billet Specialties
Manifold / Induction: GM / Demon carburetor
Ignition: GM HEI
Headers: Sanderson
Exhaust / Mufflers: handmade by owner / Flow Master
Transmission: TH350
Modifications: 1,800-stall torque converter
Shifter: Lokar, floor mount
Style: '55 first-series
Modifications: smoothed firewall
Fenders front / rear: stock
Hood: stock
Grille: stock, painted
Bed: Pro's Pick, Oak
Bodywork and paint by: owner and Gary Reynolds
Paint type / Color: PPG / Atomic Orange
Headlights / Taillights: Frenched, halogen / Pro's Pick
Outside mirrors: stock
Bumpers: front stock / custom rear roll pan and bumper by owner
Dashboard: custom made by owner
Gauges: Dakota Digital
Air conditioning: Vintage Air
Stereo: Pioneer
Steering wheel: Billet Specialties
Steering: column GM
Seats: Bench, Wise Guys
Upholstery by: Charlie Powell of Houston, TX
Material / Color: leather / cream and brown
Carpet: split pile / golden brown


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This fluid got the job done. It holds up well for daily use as it should. I have yet to fully test how it will perform during heavy street use but sure it will reach expectations if not exceed. Good for the price!


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Every day at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, testimony is offered that reminds one of what is at stake in this discussion of Congressional "conditions" and "cooperation" that can sometimes sound abstract. Occasionally it is the testimony of perpetrators—the two recent plea agreements during the Srebrenica trial in which the carefully planned murder of 7,000 Muslim men and boys is described in painfully precise detail—and sometimes it is the testimony of victims.
Last Thursday, Witness B-1455 described movingly what it was like to be one of 91 men and 150 women and children taken from his village by Serb forces to a local cultural center. While assured no one would be harmed, the men were ordered outside in groups of 10-20 and shot to death, one after another. While shot twice himself, he later managed to crawl into the woods and escape, to testify about it years later.
Thursday's testimony in the Milosevic trial, like today's testimony, is central to the entire point of the war crimes tribunal: holding individuals responsible for their crimes and not whole societies. Yet by failing to transfer the nineteen Bosnian Serb and Serbian indictees who are either living within their borders or crossing back and forth across the border, the government of Serbia and Montenegro gives the impression that the government believes otherwise and still feels the need to protect the old regime. While there have been some promising statements by the new Defense Minister recently, actual cooperation to date has been very limited, begrudging, and only under pressure.
Following certification last year on May 21, 2002, the new government promised a consistent pattern of cooperation yet again. But other than the arrest of Bosnian Serb Ranko Cesic four days later, there were no other surrenders and no arrests during the rest of 2002. Cooperation on documents, access to archives and witnesses was so poor during the same period, that Prosecutor del Ponte decided she had no choice but to go to the Security Council to recommend sanctions. Only then did document production and access to witnesses improve slightly, but only for a very brief time.
In January 2003, there was one voluntary surrender for which Zoran Djindjic's government surely deserves credit: that of Milan Milutinovic. Also in January, Vojislav Seselj surrendered with great fanfare, but by all accounts his surrender was self-initiated. In May, Yugoslav Army Captain Miroslav Radic, the first military figure in one year to be transferred and the second of the so-called Vukovar Three, surrendered.
That is, in a year in which a consistent pattern of cooperation had been promised following the last certification, there have been three surrenders and one arrest four days after the last certification. The only arrests that have occurred recently happened when authorities investigating the Djindjic assassination and attempted coup, arrested heavily armed and APC-protected Franko "Frenki" Simatovic and Jovica Stanisic, reportedly for suspicion of involvement in the coup attempt and organized crime.
As Carla del Ponte's statement at the Helsinki Commission's briefing on May 15 made clear, authorities in Belgrade specifically asked the tribunal to speed up and issue indictments of the two because they could not be held any longer under domestic law, and the Prosecutor responded by accelerating work on the issuance of their indictments. While it is obviously a good development that Belgrade is now seeing the value of sending it's organized crime figures who are also indicted for war crimes to The Hague, those transfers were clearly a better indication of ICTY cooperation with Belgrade than Belgrade's cooperation with the ICTY.
At a hearing yesterday at the Tribunal, the lead Prosecutor in the Milosevic case, Geoffrey Nice, could not have been clearer with regard to the poor level of cooperation concerning documents and access to archives. Echoing the comments of Carla del Ponte when she appeared before the Commission two weeks ago, he characterized the government's response since the filing of an order compelling production of certain "priority documents" on March 10, as "nil." (At that earlier hearing, the judges had asked Serbia and Montenegro to produce what it could before hearing arguments at yesterday's hearing and none were produced.) Equally disturbing, Mr. Nice noted that it was apparent that Mr. Milosevic was not having the same difficulty gaining access to key documents from persons within the army for his defense, "as well as sensitive information [from inside the government] from the time when he was already in jail." Clearly the government should be providing him the documents he needs for his defense, but it is disturbing, to say the least, that the prosecution is not able to obtain access to the same information.
The arguments of Serbia and Montenegro as to why the nineteen of the twenty fugitives sought by the Tribunal and thought to be either living within their borders or crossing back and forth from Bosnia have not been arrested, boil down to the following rationales: the political environment is fragile and more arrests might upset that stability, the arrests are dangerous, Serbia and Montenegro has done enough already; we don't know where the fugitives are, and, in any event, they are not here.
As to the first point: The new leaders of Serbia and Montenegro have taken some dramatic and impressive steps toward re-establishing the rule of law and furthering democratic reforms since the tragic assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic on March 12. The black curtain could well have come down again on Serbia in March, but it did not. Indeed, we now know that the intent of the plotters was to create sufficient chaos and panic to install another government of men and not law.
To their immense credit, the citizens of Serbia and Montenegro and their leaders rallied and fought back. By many accounts, it became an "us" or "them" situation, with some seeing clearly for the first time that if they did not expose and attack the tight alliance of organized crime figures, Milosevic-era holdovers and indicted war criminals and their protectors within and without the government, their lives and the October 2000 revolution were at risk.
In March, officials in Belgrade began to say openly for the first time that many of those who opposed cooperation with the international community and the war crimes tribunal in particular—so-called "Hague patriots"—were, in fact, self-interested and corrupt "false patriots." While some western commentators rushed to conclude that Prime Minister Djindjic had been killed because he gave in to pressure to cooperate with the war crimes tribunal, there was little such speculation in Serbia. Instead, there were heartening public acknowledgments of how well-armed organized crime syndicates and their protectors within the government were continuing to rob the Serbian people blind, while wrapping themselves in the mantel of patriotic defiance of the Hague tribunal and other international community "demands". For example, Acting Serbian President Natasa Micic stated on March 19, 2003 that "We're not dealing with classic criminals here, but the remnants of the criminal state apparatus of the Milosevic regime," and added that the much-vaunted patriotism of this mafia, boiled down to "selling drugs to our children and using the money from it for political activities, murders and hiding from The Hague".
Indeed, in the weeks after the assassination the government took actions that required not only political courage, but physical courage as well, smashing the Zemun gang and enacting internal reforms that promise one day to permit meaningful civilian control over the military and other security services.
Regrettably, after taking those bold measures, their reforms stalled and political attacks began. While the demolition of one organized crime gang and the enactment of legal and bureaucratic changes are to be applauded, there appears little energy now to attack organized crime clans beyond the Zemun gang or to remove the Milosevic old guard from positions of power within the security services, both the police and military, and other ministries and the judiciary. Indeed it appears that the Zemun gang's chief rival, the Surcin gang, along with its contacts in government and the police and military, may now act as the best protection for those wanted by the tribunal.
While individual ministers and Parliament wish to make more progress, many of those old guard are positioned to block the actual implementation of these important legal and bureaucratic reforms as well as real cooperation with the war crimes tribunal. In particular, some of the worst of the Milosevic-era thugs have been installed in key positions of power within the Interior Ministry and the Army. For example, the current head of military intelligence (KOS), Momir Stojanovic, served as Security Forces Chief for Kosovo during a period of some of the worst atrocities against civilians in Kosovo. A fellow officer has alleged that he ordered the killings of over 100 Kosovo-Albanians in April 1999. The Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Dusan Mihajlovic, was allied with Milosevic and his wife for years, and is serving as the Chairman of the Board of Jugoimport, the trading company responsible for sales of weapons this past fall to Saddam Hussein, as well as shipments to Burma, Libya, and Liberia—all in violation of UN sanctions. According to a new UN report, fifty tons of weapons will be trafficked by Serbia and Montenegro to Charles Taylor's Liberia this summer. And the list goes on.[1]
It is unimaginable that Serbia and Montenegro will achieve the goals of progress toward entering the European Union, participation in Partnership for Peace and eventually joining NATO, while these obstructionists are still in power.
The true reformers know this and they need our help in providing the incentives that help them build support within the public for making those difficult changes. The McConnell-Leahy conditionality provision has served this purpose before, and it will serve that purpose now if it is enforced as written.
Political leaders in Serbia and Montenegro cannot say this openly about the upcoming June 15 deadline for obvious reasons, but they have said so publicly and privately in the past. For example, Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic speaking at the National Press Club in November 2002, urged the lifting of the McConnell-Leahy conditions because in his view they were no longer needed. In doing so, he conceded they had helped Serbia "overcome internal obstacles to Hague cooperation" in the past. Croatian President Stipe Mesic has written eloquently about the role that U.S. aid conditionality under the so-called Lautenberg law played in strengthening the hands of true reformers in Croatia who were able to build the support for transferring indicted war crimes suspects to The Hague and enacting related legal and personnel reforms as a result. No one doubts that the conditions have played a key role in the arrests and transfers of indictees from Croatia and Serbia. Slobodan Milosevic's arrest at the deadline in 2001 is the most dramatic example of its effectiveness.
Recent polls demonstrate again why that is so. The International Republican Institute/ Strategic Marketing poll shows that cooperation with the war crimes tribunal is still unpopular. But when asked by pollsters if cooperation with the war crimes tribunal were a condition for Serbia to cooperate with the international community, over 64 percent supported cooperation. Obviously, a politician must be careful—particularly in Serbia after decades of anti-western propaganda and NATO's 1999 bombing—not to look as if he or she is caving to western demands. But these polls reinforce what recent past history has proven about the power of such incentives.
Reformers have in the past been able to build support internally for making the difficult arrests and transfers to the Tribunal by pointing to the inflexibility of those Congressional standards. Doing so has served the interests of Serbia well, not only by freeing up U.S. aid, but, more importantly, by simultaneously getting some of the most corrosive and violent criminals out of the country and exposing the ties between certain elements of the government, organized crime and the military that had been protecting them. That insidious connection between organized criminals and government officials blocking transfers and reform became obvious to all after the Djindjic assassination, the discovery of former President Stambolic's body and the plot to take over the government.
As to the claim that these arrests may be dangerous, there is little doubt that is the case in regard to those who enjoy protection from heavily armed organized crime figures and their governmental protectors within the security services. But as demonstrated by the arrests of numerous Zemun gang suspects—including Franko Simatovic and Jovica Stanisic—the authorities are quite capable of undertaking such arrests when it serves their purposes.
Further, some of these fugitives appear to be unprotected and living quite openly among the population. We know that at least eight of them are continuing to receive biweekly pension checks from the Veterans Administration. If the postal service can find them, certainly the security services can. While the people of Serbia have endured four wars, the shrinking of their borders, economic deprivation and the collapse of government services, the two institutions that operated robustly throughout this dark decade were military intelligence and police state security. It's difficult to believe, therefore, that those institutions, at least, are less competent than the postal service in finding these fugitives, even the handful that cross the border to Republika Srpska where the security services have historically been well-integrated with those in Belgrade.
Clearly some within Serbia understand the value of getting rid of these last symbols of Milosevic-era criminality. The Speaker of Parliament, Dragoljub Micunovic has spoken of the need to cooperate with the Tribunal as has the new Defense Minister Boris Tadic. There have likewise been encouraging reforms of the Army of Serbia and Montenegro, such as placing its planning staff under direct authority of the Defense Minister. This makes it easier for cooperation with the tribunal but so did the ouster of Milosevic in October 2000, and Zoran Djindjic's takeover of the Serbian government in January 2001. But no pattern of cooperation with the tribunal ever emerged following these reform milestones and Congress's aid legislation was pivotal to gaining episodic cooperation, most notably the arrest of Slobodan Milosevic. The past two-and-a-half years have demonstrated that Hague cooperation cannot be judged by promising rhetoric and gradual structural reforms, but only by concrete actions that require political will. Perhaps recent bureaucratic and legal changes will lead to a pattern of cooperation but this has yet to be demonstrated.
With support from the U.S. by denial of unworthy certification, from Europeans through conditions attached to EU accession, and the prospect of Partnership for Peace, true Serbian reformers will be emboldened to find the necessary will. Then and only then they can rid their country of the individuals who are keeping it unfairly and disastrously tied to the past.
1. Beyond Mihajlovic, other personnel in the Interior Ministry raise eyebrows: Police General Sretan Lukic who was the Serb Police Chief in Kosovo during the war and was promoted by Milosevic for his deeds there, now serves as the head of the Public Security Department and Deputy Serbian Interior Minister for the nation. (Two of his cousins are among the indicted fugitives believed to cross back and forth between Serbia and Republika Srpska in Bosnia.) Police general Goran Radosavljevic commands the Gendarmerie. His record from the Kosovo war is also tainted; he served Milosevic as commander of the police training facility in Petrovo Selo (in Serbia proper), where at least 200 Kosovo Albanians were buried in mass graves.


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I have a user who sent an email in Outlook (using the zimbra connector) which ended up being sent multiple times.
The mail was still in his Outlook outbox and was being sent over and over again. It stopped sending when he deleted it from the outbox in outlook.
The user also uses zimbra mobile which would have been syncing and so on at the same time, but the email in question was done solely in Outlook.
Any ideas as to why? And more importantly how I make it not happen again.


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Stephenie Morgan was born on Dec. 24, 1973 in Hartford, CT to Stephen and Candy Morgan. The unusual spelling of her name came from her dad's name with an "ie" at the end. She grew up in Arizona with her five siblings Seth, Emily, Jacob, Paul and Heidi. After attending Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, where she received a National Merit Scholarship, the future author attended Brigham Young University in Provo, UT, graduating with an English degree. She met her husband Christian "Pancho" Meyer while growing up in Arizona. The couple wed in 1994 and had three children.
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Thickness Shear Mode Quartz Oscillator
Application ID: 4707
AT cut quartz crystals are widely employed in a range of applications, from oscillators to microbalances. One of the important properties of the AT cut is that the resonant frequency of the crystal is temperature independent to first order. This is desirable in both mass sensing and timing applications. AT cut crystals vibrate in the thickness shear mode—an applied voltage across the faces of the cut produces shear stresses inside the crystal. This example considers the vibration of an AT cut thickness shear oscillator, focusing on the mechanical response of the system in the frequency domain. Setting up a COMSOL model using the various standards set up to define piezoelectric material orientation is covered in detail (note that the details of the standards are covered in a COMSOL blog post). The effect of a series capacitor on the mechanical resonance is also considered. Adding a series capacitance is a technique frequently employed to tune crystal oscillators.


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Well, if you know anything about The Citadel already, you might know that freshman year presents a lot of challenges that you would not otherwise find at many other schools. However, I do not believe that I could have made tighter relationships at any other school. The situations you are forced to go through propel you to cling to your classmates for support. I am not going to lie and say it is all "blue skies and rainbows" but it is one of the most motivating and amazing experiences. You will have so many stories to tell at the end of the day. The laughs, smiles, and inside jokes that you will have made make everything worth it.Read More
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La Coruña has many different facets: an old town with narrow paved streets, a centre with wide avenues and beautiful buildings adorned with glass-covered galleries, a pleasant marina, and lively shopping areas. The city, first built on a peninsula, then on an isthmus which links it to the mainland, faces entirely out to sea. As a result of trade it was already prosperous in Roman times. In 1588, its huge port was the departure point for the Invincible Armada.
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Avenida de la Marina
E - 15807 A Coruña
Avenida de la Marina starts at Paseo de la Dársena and runs to the harmoniously designed Méndez Núñez Gardens, where a pleasant atmosphere reigns. It is particularly famous for its complex of buildings with high glass-paned galleries, which, on accou..
María Pita Square
E - 15001 A Coruña
The square where the Town Hall is situated owes its name to a local heroine, Maria Píta, who saved the city in 1589, sounding the alarm when the English, led by Francis Drake, scaled the walls. Enclosed on three sides by buildings with glass-covered ..
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Santiago church mixes Roman and Gothic styles. The three apses and the North portal are Roman whereas the west portal above which which Saint James Matamore, Saint John and Saint Mark, joined to abutments, is Gothic. Inside, the large arches ,which s..
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Hotel Nido
San Andres, 146 E - 15003 A Coruña
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Hotel Nido is set in the centre of A Coruña, approximately 50 metres from Riazor Beach. This hotel has rooms with private bathrooms and free Wi-Fi access. The Nido offers simple décor and comfortable accommodation. Its heated rooms are spacious and ..
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Lois guest house is centrally located in A Coruña, within 5 minutes' walk of Riazor Beach, PALEXCO Convention Centre and Cantones Village Shopping Centre. It features free Wi-Fi and modern air-conditioned rooms. Each bright room has wooden floors an..
NH La Coruña Atlántico
Jardines de Méndez Núñez E - 15006 A Coruña
NH La Coruña Atlántico is set between A Coruña's port and PALEXCO Convention Centre, a 5-minute walk from Riazor and Orzán beaches, and the old town. It offers bright rooms with free Wi-Fi. All rooms at the NH La Coruña Atlántico have air conditioni..
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Árbore da Veira
San Andrés 109 E - 15003 A Coruña
The highly discreet façade conceals a restaurant with a markedly modern air, featuring a comfy sofa area, a mere four tables and a private room. Its cuisine is focused on two tasting menus, both dominated by fish, seafood and seasonal ingredients.
callejón de la Estacada 9 E - 15001 A Coruña
Near the houses with the large windows that gave the town the name City of Glass. Cozy rustic style of stone and wood. A varied cuisine.
Hesperia Finisterre
paseo del Parrote 2 E - 15001 A Coruña
paseo Marítimo Alcalde Francisco Vázquez 25 E - 15002 A Coruña
Behind the Alborada's modern façade, this restaurant with an open-view kitchen and two urban and contemporary dining rooms comes as a pleasant surprise. Its modern, seasonal dishes are based around fresh ingredients of unquestionable quality. Extensi..
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Ángel Rebollo 18 E - 15002 A Coruña
This restaurant teeming with personality has a small bar and a rustic-contemporary dining room decorated with colourful paintings and antique objects. A mix of traditional and Galician dishes.
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pl. de la Constitución 4 E - 15001 A Coruña
Guests here can join the quest for the origins of authentic La Coruña cuisine. Find Galician meat of the highest quality, as well as fresh fish in portions that are large enough to be shared.


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James Frain was born on March 14, 1968 in Leeds, England, but raised in Essex. In his teen years, Frain was already directing, writing and acting in his own plays. After earning a degree in drama from the University of East Anglia, he graduated from London's Central School of Speech and Drama where he met famed British actor and director Sir Richard Attenborough. The connection proved worthwhile as Attenborough cast Frain in his first film, "Shadowlands" (1993), as a troubled Oxford student appearing opposite Sir Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger in the lead roles.
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That kid can take a joke for sure and run with it! Good job fever!
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I gave part of it in the OP. The guy goes on how ndow is scared of the success because they will have to spend more money because of it. Kind of bashes them on a lot of things. If you ever see this months issue, look at it. Muleycrazy won't have the online up for several more months.
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So what do they do with the $3 predator fee they charge with my license every year? Seems like that would be able to fund projects like this.
its unbelievable the things people these days want to study to death. More proof out wildlife is being managed by idiots.... Who really needs to study what cats and dogs eat. If they really want to study that the most cost effective way would be to kill them and cut them open to see whats in their stomach! I actually thought that $3 went to killing predators before this.... Im not understanding why in that letter they are so concerned with predator control only benefiting deer. Dont most areas have more species then just deer? I dont see how reducing predators in any area would only help deer.
I'm with you MM. I'm personally effected by this absurd "sage grouse study". NDOW and Harry Reidiculous are planning a huge land closure in areas I love hunting. Turns out I've been funding it, they claim the sage grouse on the westside of NV are a pure rare strain, they've paid millions to ranchers to abandoned ranch property for breeding grounds. I'm very unimpressed with NDOW and feel a little foolish, I've attended several meetings fighting the closure when I've been paying them. This needs to be heard by all sportsmen, see how NDOW handles it.
I would assume the biggest thing affecting the sage grouse (assuming they are actually having problems and they arent just a tool to take our public lands away, which I wouldnt doubt a bit) is coyotes. So spending that money to thin out the coyotes would help everything.


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I would like to get some troubleshooting assistance with the voicemail zimlet on a mac platform (Mac client, Linux (CentOS) server).
The zimlet works wonderfully on a PC with IE or firefox, but I can log in as the same user on a Mac and get different results.
Safari doesn't list the Zimlet - that's expected until Safari support can be beefed up
Mozilla/Camino lists the zimlet and allows me to put in the user and password, but when I click on the icon, I get a diaglog box that contains no voicemail.
I have tried redeploying the zimlet with the debug lines in the .js file uncommented and ran it with a debug=3 in the URL, but I can't get any debugging feedback in the debug window or the Tomcat or Zimbra logs.
I get only a single message in the Tomcat access log.
10.14.0.155 - - [06/Sep/2006:23:26:00 -0400] "POST /service/proxy?target=http://10.0.4.254/cgi-bin/vmail.cgi HTTP/1.1" 200 230 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:126.96.36.199) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/220.127.116.11"
That is the correct URL to the VMail cgi, but is doesn't have the rest of the URL including the user or password.
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Restomods Rule! A Purist's Guide To Customizing '67-'72 Chevrolet C10 And GMC TrucksWritten by on April 7, 2011
In the world of classic trucks there isn't a truck more iconic than the 1956 Ford F-100, the "Deuce" of trucks. After 55 years of holding the throne it's not likely its reign will ever end, but in the arena of the most popular classic truck, a new king has been crowned. It's a trend we've been watching grow for years by tracking which cover truck consistently does best on the newsstand and gets the most website hits; we are talking about the range of '67-'72 Chevrolet and GMC light-duty trucks, including pickups and other variants such as the Blazer and Suburban.
The '67-'72'sstyling is the brainchild of GM head designer Harry Bentley Bradley. It's actually a miracle Harry's ultra clean design made it into production untouched before some corporate GM design committee got their collective hands on it. As it turned out, in 1969, against designer's wishes, the '69 got a facelift. Harry wasn't involved though, by then he had moved on to Cadillac's design studio. The powers that be (which means twenty guys sitting around a table and guessing at stuff) felt the original design was too delicate, and the truck should have a more aggressive look. Along with the heavy-duty nose, the '69-up trucks were available with upper and lower moldings that gave a busier look. In retrospect the slight change in styling wasn't a bad thing. Today the '67-'68s are a much sought-after rarity, and the heavily trimmed '69-ups available with a wide array of two-tone paint schemes are equally desirable.
Another example where Harry Bradley went against the wind, and time eventually bore out his convictions, was his insistence on a small rear window. This is contrary to other classic truck brands including prior years of Chevrolet and GMC where the presence of a big-window is a semi-rare and valuable option. Harry liked how the small-window produced, "a coupe quality." For years, a general consensus based in urban legend was the '67's small-window was banned by the government due to the formation of the Department of Transportation in 1968. Supposedly it didn't meet rearward visibility requirements dictated by the DOT's new laws. Currently there's a wave of opinion building that there were some '68 C10s built with a small-window cab. I've never seen one, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
I got to thinking about another example from post-DOT days. Not the 1967 Austin Healy 3000 that was killed off entirely by DOT rules, but the 1968 Austin Mini Cooper "S" Mk.II. It's another situation where there's an ongoing argument among purists regarding production history. There were non-DOT compliant68 Mk.II Coopers, sold in the United States which are easily distinguished from '67 Mk I Coopers, but they were built in 1967. The trick was to title them before the '68 cutoff.
So, now where does that leave us? Does it mean small-window C10s were built only in early '67 to beat a deadline? It's real easy to clone a fake, and without a pristine example or factory documentation, the existence of a '68 small-window remains an unsolved mystery. My guess is the small-window trucks didn't sell as well as trucks equipped with a full-view rear window so dealers stopped ordering them. One has to remember that Ford trucks were offered with a larger rear window as standard equipment years ahead of GM. Both GM and Ford introduced completely redesigned models in 1967, but General Motors had already lost that bet. Proof that GM intended to continue the practice of charging more for a big rear window is listed in the first edition Price & Facts book, dated October 1966, under Optional Equipment.
"(Window), Full-View Rear: (Cabs) Code A10, List Price $40.00 Factory D&H $3.05 Mfr's Sgt'd Retail Delvr'd $43.05. "
It's interesting to note as I discovered on the build sheet of my '68 GMC manufactured in September 1967, there was a box left to indicate a Panoramic rear window--confirmation that '68 small-windows existed or just a raft of leftover blank forms?
In terms of which bed style is considered the most desirable that's another situation where tastes have changed in recent times. Across the C10 range the trend for shortbed stepsides has diminished in comparison to the demand for '60-'87 Fleetside shortbeds. With demand, so goes the price. A longbed Fleetside that originally sold for more new than an equivalent Fleetside shortbed, is now worth less in the custom and collector market. Focusing on '67-'72 models there's an even more significant difference in value when wheelbase measurements are entered into the equation. Between two '67-'72 trucks of equal condition as the quality increases a short Fleetside can demand up to $10,000 more on the extreme end of the scale.
A good example illustrating the difference between pristine long and shortbed prices is the Meadowlark Yellow and Ivory white '68 C10 longbed gracing these pages. The truck belongs to Reggie Jackson, and special thanks go to Reggie for allowing us to take an in-depth look that included a test drive. There was a little Internet speculation the 25,000-plus miles indicated on the odometer wasn't correct and perhaps it was actually 125,000 miles. I have to admit, after seeing the heavy buildup of dirt and grease accumulated around the spindles and backing plates, I was starting to have my doubts. We asked how much he would let the truck go for, and the answer was low 20s. This is in contrast to the $25-$30,000 we've heard of pristine Fleetside shortbeds selling for. In comparison to a Styleside, Ford's equivalent of a Fleetside, Fords were offered with steel bed floors only. Chevrolet and GMC buyers had the choice of either a steel, or wood bed floor. The E81wood bed was a no-cost option that was available in short or longbed form. On the subject of no-cost options, Z81 designated a Custom Camper nameplate which we imagine all one had to do was buy a 1Z8130 Custom Camper package, and it was theirs for free. Solid colors were also listed as a no-cost option with the selection changing slightly each year. Ice Coral Pink, considered the most rare of solid colors, was available on '71-'72 Canadian GMCs only. Legend has it the colour was formulated to commemorate Margaret Trudeau's hooded frock worn moments after her 1971 wedding to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Sorry about that folks, all this talk about "bone stock" trucks is starting to warp my mind. Let's move onto the real fun. As Custom Classic Trucks' title implies it's all about customizing classic trucks. Since the hottest trend on the scene today is restomods we thought it might be kind of neat to combine the two hot topics and set off a proverbial mushroom cloud of sorts. One doesn't have to look any further than Reggie's '68 C10 to cite a good example of some of the changes a guy might want to do to his '67-'72 to make it his. To get a better exhaust note, and pick up a little extra horsepower, the stock single exhaust system was tossed in favor of dual exhaust. I don't know which muffler shop Reggie had do the work, but they really did a clean job. Next on Reggie's list of upgrades was power steering. Reggie chose to go with genuine GM parts, but this is one of those improvements where there are a lot of aftermarket options to choose from. At one point in time, Reggie had the '68 shod in bigger meats and Rally wheels. As it is seen here, the '68 has its original Argent silver wheels with optional 4P03AA Chromed Hubcaps.
This concludes part one of Restomods Rule. In closing, I'd like to give special thanks to Reggie Jackson for allowing me drive to his '68 C10 and share it with Custom Classic Trucks' valued readers. Next, I'd like to thank Jim Aust along with the rest of my good friends at www.67-72chevytrucks.com. I would have been in deep doodoo, if you guys hadn't jumped in and helped me research this article. CCT
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The sticker on the inside of the glovebox door is called the SPID (service parts identification). It will tell you the options that came on the truck. If a truck has a factory option, but it isn't listed on the SPID, chances are it was dealer installed or at sometime later in the truck's life. A good example is the power steering on Reggie's '68.Body-colored overspray on top of a semigloss black primer is what a "gennie" looks like inside the hood.The four-barrel 327 (4L30AC) in Reggie's '68 came from the factory painted Chevrolet Orange and without a smog pump because the truck was sold new in Missouri. My '68 GMC with a 307 was sold new in California with a smog pump and is painted GM blue-green.From the factory, the inside leading edge of the fender on '67 and '68 C10s will have white grille surround overspray if original.The '67-'72 C10 is the only GM pickup with a two-piece door meaning the top section that surrounds the window when it is rolled-up is welded-on. The '73-'87 C10 doors extend into the cab at the top in the same fashion as a '63-'67 Corvette Stingray fastback.After 43 years on earth, here's what the interior in Reggie's C10 looks like. I wish the interior in my '05 GMC held up that nice.To tilt the seatback forward one has to unscrew a wingnut on either side. In the middle of the seat bottom on the inside trapped under the springs is where the build sheet is placed.
Wheel colors varied from year-to-year, and between Chevrolet and GMC trucks, the color could be different."Sacto" Jim Wendell, from Sacramento, California, chose to strip the moldings off his yellow and white '72 C10 and repaint it a lustrous candy blue metallic.Richie Granado, from Atwater, California, started with the family's longbed '68 C10 farm truck with no options, and did a great job whacking it into a shortbed and loading it up with options. Go Richie!This '67 small-window Chevy belongs to Newt, a '67-'72 board member, who lives in California's Central Valley where fruit is something that grows on a tree.Don't tell Allen Whittington, from Vacaville, California, there's no such thing as a '68 C30 4x4 crew cab; he's got one. All he had to do was convert a Suburban.Ace's candy red "Burb" is one of the nicest ones around. General Motors eliminated the fourth door on '67-'72 Suburbans to save money. Gosh, that's so unlike GM.This original owner '67 C10 stepside is a good example to illustrate the changes designer Harry Bradley made to the rear fenders used on all '55-'66 Chevy and GMC stepsides.


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In the hubble and bubble in the press around Greece and Spain, some commentators have lately drawn comparisons with Argentina, suggesting that is the way forward. Humbly, we suggest they might be wide of the mark. Greece will exit from a currency union; Argentina has its own currency and can set its own interest rates. In other ways too, the countries are way different and drawing comparisons between them is not helpful to Greece or Greek bondholders. Vanja Dragomanovich explains the long term impact on Argentina of its latest default (back in 2001) and what, if any, lessons might be drawn from that debacle and the long term impact on the Argentine financial markets.
As Greece edges closer to political and economic immolation, market watchers have been in a flurry, casting around for examples of how a country could survive leaving the eurozone and a hard default. One example being touted around the markets is Argentina, which went through a spectacular default ten years ago but managed to follow it up with a decade of fast growth, a boom in commodity exports and a golden period in banking. Argentina's finances are in relatively good shape. At $185bn, the country's total debt load last year equated to just 41.3% of GDP. That's better than both Spain, whose debt-to-GDP ratio stands at 70%, and Italy, which is saddled with an eye-popping 120% burden. Moreover, with GDP growth at 4% and funds available from central bank reserves, pension funds and YPF's coffers, Argentina has ample cash.
Argentina's expansion was fuelled by two things: liberal policies and a sharp rise in the prices of commodities. Argentina is one of the world's largest exporters of wine, soy, corn and wheat and China is its enthusiastic buyer. And while Greece may try to emulate the policies component of the Argentina story, unless the Chinese take to drinking retsina and cooking with olive oil it will have difficulty replicating the Latin American country's recovery.
Argentina has also come good on almost 93% of its initial debt obligations, but to this day has not been able to return to international financial markets. In large part this is because of an ongoing dispute with two hedge funds. The bulk of the outstanding amount is owed to the Paris Club, a total of $6.4bn. "Technically, Argentina is not locked out of international markets the way it was in 2001 and 2002 when nobody would lend them money. In theory they could try to raise money but in practice they can't go back because they would risk a seizure of assets while the [legal] cases are pending," explains Michael Henderson, emerging markets economist at Capital Economics in London
In 2001 the country defaulted on $100bn of its sovereign debt. Four years later, Argentina's president at the time, Nestor Kirchner, offered to swap the defaulted bonds for new ones worth 70% less, in a similar deal to what Greece is hoping for. Around three quarters of the bondholders agreed. The process was repeated in 2010 by current president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner who said at the time that this was the final deal being offered to remaining bondholders.
Two distressed-debt hedge funds opted for litigation in US courts while a group of Italian bondholders asked for an arbitration award at the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.
The US courts are still pondering the issue. Initially the courts ruled that NML Capital Fund, one of the funds suing Argentina, was entitled to a repayment of $1.6bn, including the payment of interest, only for this to be overruled this spring. Now the remaining debt holders are collectively appealing to the US Court of Appeal with the case due to be heard in mid-June.
While this is going on, not only is Argentina not in a position to issue bonds, it has also little hope of raising loans from major international institutions as the United States is actively blocking the country's loan applications on the grounds that it is a recalcitrant debtor. In September last year the US, which holds a 30% voting share in Inter-American Development Bank, voted against a $230m loan to the country.
Of the remaining debt, $6.4 billion is still owed to the Paris Club of official creditors and Argentina has yet to reach agreement with the Club on how to reschedule the repayments. "For that Argentina would need to get the approval from the IMF and that is not likely to happen as they have a strained relationship," says Henderson. He argues that that would mean that Argentina would have to let the IMF carry out a health check on its economy and in the process the government would have to admit that the country's official statistics have been doctored. Just how far the country's figures have been massaged was made clear by Carlos Maria Regunaga, a former adviser-in-chief to the Argentina's secretary of commerce and a director at Menas Argentina. Regunaga cites the fact that although consumer price inflation in 2011 was around 22%, "the government denies this and insists that inflation is only 9.5%."
So where does this all leave Argentina? Over the years it has been turning increasingly inwards for solutions. The government's tactical arsenal has included printing money, dipping into central bank reserves, seizing the assets of pension funds, controlling imports and exports to tweak its trade balance and privatising pension funds. Moreover, both Kirchner presidents have been fuelling growth by heavy public spending. Despite some questionable actions, the economy has grown. Again, according to official statistics, economic growth came in at over 8% in 2010 and 9% last year.
Even so, growth has come at a price and the high public expenditure is now a major problem, says Regunaga. "Historically, the public sector represented an average of 30% of GDP. The Kirchners have increased it to a level of 45% of GDP," leading to a financial shortage in the public sector, he says. In 2011, for instance, 70% of public sector spending has been financed by printing more pesos and reaching into central bank reserves.
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The government has been raiding what there is to raid in the country. In April it said it would borrow almost $3bn from the state-run bank Banco de La Nación to cover its funding needs, $2.36bn in 12 instalments and the rest as a lump sum. Argentina also regularly issues bonds directly to pension fund agency Anses, which operates the bulk of Argentina's pension money after the government nationalised all private pension funds in 2008."There are no signs that the government will go back any time soon on the nationalisation of pension funds. Why would it?" says a Buenos Aires banker who did not want to be named. "The move has achieved two major objectives: not only did it give the government access to a large sum of money but also major stakes in top companies and seats on their boards of directors," the banker adds.
This and other political decisions such as strict exchange controls, import and export restrictions and the recent nationalisation of oil company YPF, formerly majority owned by Spanish oil producer Repsol has alienated Argentina from foreign mutual funds and private equity investors. Julio Lastres, managing director at Darby Private Equity, part of Franklin Templeton Investments, explains: "In order to make an investment you have to see how the local capital market has been developing, to see if you can fund the company in the local market and exit through an IPO. And then you typically have the growth of local pension funds that fuel the growth of the local market. But what we hear in Argentina makes it challenging to take a long term view and invest there. You have better places to invest in Latin America."
Argentina has some presence in the international financial markets through GDP warrants, which were issued as part of two debt restructuring instalments (one in 2005, the other in 2010) to sweeten the deal for bond holders caught out by the country's default on $100bn of debt in 2001.
The warrants are structured in such a way that the government will pay investors as long as the GDP grows by 3.3% per year, based on the annual GDP. Although initially there was little appetite for these GDP warrants in the open market, as the country's economy grew so did niche investors' interest. "We had very good volumes on Argentina's GDP warrants, hedge funds in particular like them," says Gabriel Sterne, director at frontier markets investment banking boutique Exotix.
This is also about to change as falling commodity prices and heavy government spending are catching up with Argentina's economy. While the government predicts that growth this year will be 6% Henderson at Capital Economics forecast that the number will be closer to 2.5%. "Our belief is that Argentina is headed for a recession, most likely next year," says Henderson, particularly if the global economic backdrop deteriorates over the next year, which could possibly lead to a more disorderly adjustment. With Argentine state accounts under pressure, it would be handy not to have to pay warrant holders. But that might do no favours to Argentina's already rocky investment reputation. For now, warrant payments are hanging in the balance. Ultimately though, while Argentina has some mounting troubles, it is a story of rich resource management and a deep economy; very different from that of Greece.
Greece's economic recovery may also not be as certain as in Argentina's case as it cannot devalue and does not have such a strong export market to boost its coffers. So if Greece is looking for a blueprint for the exit from the euro and a default it might be better looking somewhere other than Argentina. Or perhaps better yet, try and avoid the default in the first place. n


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Dunedin, FL (Sports Network) - Yamaico Navarro drove in the game-winning run
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Jair Jurrjens went two innings in the start for Baltimore, giving up one run
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By Stephen Losey, Air Force Times
The Thunderbirds are returning in fiscal 2014, but the Air Force's overall budget for their shows and other community outreach programs will be less than half of what it was before sequestration hit.
The Air Force said that it expects the Thunderbirds will perform 34 shows at military and civilian open houses and airshows this year, and conduct a few flyovers for high-visibility sporting events.
The Thunderbirds usually perform between 34 and 40 shows each year, Air Force engagement division chief Wendy Varhegyi said in an Oct. 23 interview. But in fiscal 2013, they performed at only one air show and conducted only two flyovers before standing down April 1 because of sequestration.
Varhegyi said the Thunderbirds' return is crucial and losing them for long periods would have had "intangible costs" and harmed recruitment efforts for years to come.
"There are so many stories of kids seeing the Thunderbirds, who grew up to join the Air Force," Varhegyi said. "That's where the true cost will come - later down the road, where we aren't as known in society and lose those new recruits that come from seeing the Thunderbirds fly."
The Air Force will steeply cut back its outreach efforts in many other areas. It will be able to spend up to $47 million this year on all outreach programs, which would be a nearly 54 percent reduction from the roughly $101 million it had to spend before the sequester kicked in last year. Most of the Air Force's outreach budget - $34 million - goes to pay for Thunderbirds shows.
Other outreach programs include civic leader outreach, base open houses, the Air Force Academy's Wings of Blue parachute demonstration team, and band travel.
All non-Thunderbirds flyovers will not be resumed, Varhegyi said. That means no flyovers at nearly 1,000 events nationwide that usually have an Air Force presence.
"We're not doing the public flyover program," Varhegyi said. "That's where we're seeing the bulk of our savings."
The Air Force also does not plan to put aircraft on display at civilian air shows, although it is seeking Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's approval to authorize some single-ship demonstrations at civilian air shows and military open houses.
The Air Force's bands - such as the jazz ensemble Airmen of Note, the Air Force Strings, and the Singing Sergeants chorus - will play half as many on-the-road gigs this year as they usually do, Varhegyi said. The bands will play more shows near their Washington, D.C., area home as a result, and won't see a significant reduction in their total number of gigs. Air Force bands and ceremonial units will spend nearly $3.9 million on travel this year, or about half of what they spent in fiscal 2012, she said.
Varhegyi said that the Air Force in 2011 began cutting its total force band personnel by 27 percent and inactivated three active-duty and six Air National Guard band units, or 36 percent of the service's band units. Those cuts weren't finished until the end of fiscal 2013. Further cuts to bands or musicians are not expected, she said, and the Air Force has not ordered local wings or major commands to cut the supply budgets bands use to buy new instruments.
Varhegyi said the Wings of Blue team is authorized to resume its 2014 season, and besides the Thunderbirds, will be the Air Force's only aerial demonstration asset planned to operate this year. Wings of Blue may participate in up to 33 events, including academy football games.
"We fully expect them to be jumping into large [or] major events across the country," Varhegyi said.
The bulk of the cost of Wings of Blue jumps, such as travel and meals, are paid by the requesting organizations, Varhegyi said. That means the Air Force expects to spend roughly $25,000 on the team's performances this year.
Varhegyi said major commands are allowed and encouraged to hold open house events if they can afford to, but the Air Force has imposed open house spending caps based on the number of bases in each command.
The Air Force will allow commands to spend a limited amount of money on civic leader outreach and orientation flights, Varhegyi said. This is the first time the Air Force has ever put limits on how much commands and bases can spend on civic leader outreach, she said.
Air Force spokesman Lt. Col. Brett Ashworth said that engaging with the public through flyovers, bands, and other outreach programs is crucial and "we can't put a price on it."
"It's important to stay connected with America," Varhegyi said. "We've sorely missed that in the past year."


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Excuse a newbie, but I can't find anywhere in the documentation how to set up LDAP/GAL for the Adress Book in the Zimbra Desktop (using ver 2 beta on Linux). Using the Exchange IMAP account type.
Have searched through all config options in the app, help documentation, wiki, Internet without finding anything about this... is this super evident to all or and am I missing something here...?


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Why Maternity Care Quality Matters
Is health care quality a problem in the United States?
Is maternity care quality a problem in the United States?
Why is maternity care quality important to me?
How can we define maternity care quality?
Why do we need a single national set of high-quality maternity care performance measures?
What is transparency in maternity care, and why is it important?
What maternity care procedures are being overused in the United States?
What safe and effective maternity care practices are underused in the United States?
Why do mothers and babies benefit from physiologic childbirth?
Is health care quality a problem in the United States?Try asking your friends and family about the U.S. health care system. Each will likely come up with a long list of problems, including
Experts as well agree that our health care system needs work. Common concerns are that the system does not reliably delivery high-quality care and that care is costly and often wasteful.
Is maternity care quality a problem in the United States?While everyone agrees that the U.S. health care system needs improvement, many assume that maternity care quality in the United States is very good. Is this correct?
One way to judge maternity care quality is to compare U.S. performance with other countries. A recent World Health Organization report identified 33 countries with lower maternal death rates than the United States, while 37 countries had lower newborn death rates, 40 had lower infant death rates, and 65 had lower rates of low birthweight. Thirty-two nations had higher rates of exclusive breastfeeding to at least six months (2010). The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development identified 24 high- and middle-income countries with lower cesarean rates in 2007 and just 4 with higher rates (2010). Despite this poor international ranking, the International Federation of Health Plans recently reported that average payments for vaginal birth in the U.S. were far higher than all other countries reported, including Canada, France, and Australia (2010).
Others have carefully examined the best available research on safe and effective care for mothers and babies. More and more rigorous systematic reviews clarifying the effects of maternity practices are available. Unfortunately, these reviews are rarely used to guide practice or policy. Many low-tech beneficial practices are underused, while invasive procedures are overused. The tendency in the United States to provide expensive, procedure-intensive maternity care without improving the health of women and babies has been called the "perinatal paradox: doing more and accomplishing less" (Rosenblatt 1989).
Why is maternity care quality important to me?Maternal and newborn care is the nation's most common reason for hospitalization, with more than four million women giving birth every year. Yet, as a pregnant woman, your needs are vastly different than those of others who are hospitalized: pregnant women are neither ill nor injured. Most childbearing women in the United States are healthy and have no reason to expect complications from childbirth. Then why, each year, do millions of healthy mothers and babies experience care similar to that of patients in intensive care units?
Optimal maternity care should follow the principle of "effective care with least harm." Instead, nearly all women who give birth in U.S. hospitals experience high rates of interventions, with risks of adverse effects. Procedures appropriate for a much smaller proportion of mothers, such as episiotomy and continuous electronic fetal monitoring, are common. Meanwhile, numerous beneficial practices that support women's own innate capacities or the "physiologic" process of childbirth, such as labor support and supportive care for breastfeeding, are underused.
As an expectant mother, and later as a new mother, you want the best quality of care for you and your baby. High-quality care will
How can we define maternity care quality?In its landmark 2001 Crossing the Quality Chasm report, the Institute of Medicine called for large-scale changes to the U.S. health care system and laid out six national aims for improvement: safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and equity.
We can define maternity care quality in the context of these six aims. Optimal maternity care will be:
Why do we need a comprehensive set of high-quality nationally recognized maternity care performance measures?Poor quality maternity care can lead to medical errors or to unnecessary interventions and complications, longer hospital stays, and infants needing intensive care services. These problems, in turn, increase costs and short- and long-term health problems in mothers and babies. With so many expectant mothers admitted to hospitals each year, maternity care quality affects many women, newborns and families.
Until recently, there has been little focus on quality measurement and reporting for maternity care. In 2008, the National Quality Forum (NQF) released important new tools for improving maternity care quality: a set of 17 national measures for assessing the quality of care from the end of pregnancy through facility care of women and newborns. (NQF is a national non-profit organization that helps set and achieve national priorities and goals for performance improvement, and endorses national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance.) Most of the maternity care measures address care provided by hospitals and birth centers.
Nationally recognized maternity care performance measures will help improve maternity care quality by:
Measure developers, NQF, and others are working to refine and expand the original maternity care measure set. Measures are needed for the entire course of prenatal through postpartum care and for individual providers, provider groups, hospitals and birth centers, accountable care organizations, health plans, and states.
What is transparency in maternity care, and why is it important?Transparency is the opposite of privacy. Transparency means making information about maternity care practices and outcomes of caregivers, facilities, health plans, and other entities fully available to the public. Transparency is needed to evaluate the quality of maternity care, help with decision making, and promote quality improvement.
Rates of medical interventions during labor and birth, including labor induction, cesarean section, and episiotomy, vary widely from caregiver to caregiver, facility to facility, and place to place. The wide variation has little to do with differences in the needs or preferences of women. It primarily reflects differences in styles of practice, maternity markets and other factors that should not influence care. Your choice of caregiver and choice of where to give birth are major decisions that impact the kind of care that you experience during childbirth.
Many women wish to avoid routine, unneeded childbirth interventions. How can a woman find a caregiver and place of birth with, for example, relatively low episiotomy or cesarean rates? This type of information is increasingly collected and reported, and this website includes links to state-level maternity care performance websites.
What maternity care procedures are being overused in the United States?Optimal maternity care follows the principle of "effective care with least harm." Yet many interventions with harmful side effects are widely used in the United States, even when there is little or no expected benefit for mother or baby and safer, effective approaches are available. Numerous maternity practices developed for specific needs of a small portion of mothers are now used frequently — even routinely — in healthy women. Practices that are widely used despite lack of evidence of clear benefit include some routine prenatal tests and treatments, continuous electronic fetal monitoring, rupturing membranes during labor, and episiotomy.
Labor induction is another important example of an overused maternity practice. While induction is occasionally of value in certain circumstances, induction for convenience — the mother's convenience, the caregiver's convenience, or both — is increasingly common. Also, labor induction is being done for "reasons" that do not in fact improve health, such as "fetus seems large." Increased use of labor induction is leading to more babies born before they reach 40 weeks of gestation, even though the development of the fetus's brain, lungs, and other organs continues up to that time and babies born earlier are more likely to have problems. In addition, labor induction leads to an increased chance of c-section in first-time mothers and when a woman's cervix is not soft and ready to open.
Epidural analgesia is also used more widely than necessary. Mothers are given epidurals routinely as the "first line of defense" for labor pain. Not only is this routine use of epidural analgesia expensive, an epidural poses extra challenges for women and fetuses and can lead to use of many additional interventions. For example, this procedure can impair a woman's ability to move during labor, and later to push, decreasing the chance of a "spontaneous" vaginal birth with no vacuum extraction, forceps or cesarean. Using labor support, tubs, and other pain relief measures first, then moving to an epidural if needed, makes more sense for the health of mothers and babies.
The rate of cesarean section in the U.S. has been increasing steadily for more than a decade, and now reaches a new record level each year. Both the rate of "primary" or first-time cesareans and the rate of repeat cesareans are rising. Recent research reaffirms earlier World Health Organization guidance that optimal national cesarean rates are in the range of 5% to 10% of all births, while rates above 15% are likely to do more harm than good (Althabe and Belizán 2006). However, one woman in three now gives birth this way. Many factors contribute to this trend, and most are not related to the needs of women and newborns. Many women lack good information about the numerous risks of c-section for both mother and baby and the benefits of vaginal birth.
In many cases of medical intervention — including labor induction, epidural analgesia, and cesarean section — one intervention requires many others to monitor, prevent, or treat side effects of the first intervention. This "cascade of intervention" increases the risk of maternal or newborn harm and greatly increases costs.
What safe and effective maternity care practices are underused in the United States?Optimal maternity care is the safest care that is also effective care. Many beneficial practices for mothers and babies are underused in the United States.
For prenatal care, underused beneficial practices include prenatal vitamins, help with quitting smoking, breastfeeding support programs, and caregiver hands-to-belly movements to turn "breech presentation" fetuses to a head-first position before birth to avoid cesarean section.
Underused practices around the time of birth that can improve outcomes for mothers and babies include continuous labor support; use of tubs and other non-drug methods to help with labor pain; upright and side-lying positions for giving birth; delayed cord clamping; early mother-baby skin-to-skin contact; various measures to support breastfeeding; and counseling for women with postpartum depression.
For women who have had a previous cesarean section, a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) is often the best option for birth, with the least chance of short and long term harm to mother and baby. Yet VBAC is underused and often unavailable. Many pregnant women who have had a previous cesarean section cannot find caregivers or hospitals offering VBAC as an option.
Maternity care providers other than obstetricians are also underused in this country. Best available research has shown that mothers who choose midwives as their lead maternity caregivers experience reduced likelihood of episiotomy, labor induction, electronic fetal monitoring, pain medications, forceps, artificially ruptured membranes, and low birthweight infants. Studies also show that women who choose midwives are more likely to be satisfied with their care. Yet fewer than 10% of women use midwives as their lead maternity caregivers.
Why do mothers and babies benefit from physiologic childbirth?With protection from interference and good support, childbearing women and their fetuses/newborns experience effective innate, hormonally-driven processes that have developed over the course of evolution. These processes begin at the onset of labor, continuing through the birth of the baby, delivery of the placenta, and then through the establishment of breastfeeding and mother-baby attachment. When caregivers give priority to facilitating these capacities, most mothers and babies can avoid medical procedures and drugs that push and pull labor along, often with side effects.
The great majority of expectant mothers in the U.S. are healthy and at low risk for complications during childbirth. While much attention is given to the important needs of pregnant women with medical problems, or to those women who are at high risk of experiencing problems (about 1 in 6 pregnant women), we also need to ensure that healthy childbearing women receive high-quality care that is safe, effective, woman and family-centered, timely, efficient and equitable.
ReferencesAlthabe F, Belizán JM. Caesarean section: The paradox. Lancet 2006;368(9546):1472-73.
Institute of Medicine, Committee on Quality of Health Care in America. Crossing the quality chasm: A new health system for the 21st century. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2001. Available at: http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2001/Crossing-the-Quality-Chasm-A-New-Health-System-for-the-21st-Century.aspx
International Federation of Health Plans. 2010 comparative price report: Medical and hospital fees by country. Available at: http://ifhp.com/documents/IFHP_Price_Report2010ComparativePriceReport29112010.pdf.
Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development. OECD health data 2010. Paris: OECD, October 2010.
Rosenblatt RA. The perinatal paradox: Doing more and accomplishing less. Health Aff 1989;8(3):158-68.
World Health Organization. World health statistics 2010. Geneva: WHO, 2010. Available at: http://www.who.int/whosis/whostat/2010/en/index.html
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Parker Ross, a former tennis standout for the Bulldogs, was hired as men's tennis coach at Butler University in 2012. Prior to taking over the program, Ross spent two seasons as men's assistant coach under long-time head coach Jason Suscha.
Ross, a native of Libertyville, Ill., began his college tennis career at the University of Iowa before transferring to Butler in 2004. He was twice named second team All-Horizon League as a player and was a co-captain on two Butler teams that won league championships and advanced to the NCAA Tournament. In his two seasons at Butler, Ross posted a 36-29 singles record and a 39-27 doubles record.
Ross takes over the men's tennis program at Butler after stints as a coach at Five Seasons Tennis Club and the Lawrence Township Tennis Association in Indianapolis. While at Five Seasons, he managed and organized junior tennis player programs and he mentored high school players in the USTA Junior circuit. At Lawrence Township, he coached children and introduced the sport to beginning players.
Ross earned his degree from Butler in media arts in 2006. He is married to the former Sarah Myer and lives in Indianapolis.


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Been using Nosler ballistic tips in 115gr in my 25-06. Just switched to Berger VLD in 115gr. I'm thinking about switching my 300 wby to 210gr bergers.
Been using Nosler ballistic tips in 115gr in my 25-06. Just switched to Berger VLD in 115gr. I'm thinking about switching my 300 wby to 210gr bergers.
235 gr. Barnes X in .375, 150 gr. Nosler accubond in .308, just loaded some new 200 gr. Speer deep-curl in .308, haven't tried them on game yet. The Barnes X's worked perfectly on Elk & Moose. The Noslers on Deer & Antelope. Perfect results along with good accuracy with either.
Barnes all copper X series bullets in most everything I have.
People in SUV's and suburbs will kill more game animals than a man with a bow, ever could.
My favorite are the .500" Thor conicals in 250 grain for my muzzy loader.
I like Accubonds, especially the 160gr. 7mm. It produces one hole groups in my Win model 70 7mm rem mag on paper and two hole groups on most everthing I've shot with it. I use the 110 in my .257 Roberts and 25-06.
been using 150gr. in .270 Remington my whole life, always worked well for me, thinking about getting a .300 also! does anyone have advice on whether I should get the RUM or a WSM. Or would the 7mm be a better choice, what about the 6.5 ?
Berger recommends that you seat your bullets touching the lands. I loaded them in my 264 off the lands about .010, shot sub MOA with the first load I tried. I emailed berger and they shared some load info with me for 3 different bullets and about 6 different powders.
I like the 7mm. The BC of 617 in Berger 168 should be the better of the group and is capable of long range
I ran into this on another forum. Interesting read. Needless to say I have loaded some up just haven't had the opportunity to send em down range.


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Charlotte, N.C.--The Carolina Panthers have traded linebacker Jon Beason to the New York Giants for a late-round draft choice, the Panthers confirmed Friday.
A first-round draft choice by the Panthers in 2007, Beason is a three-time Pro Bowl selection and started 71 of 72 games played.
He leaves the Panthers as the team's second all-time leading tackler with 701.
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