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Goodguys 4th Peak Chicagoland Nationals - Shakin' In Chicago!Written by Johnny Hunkins on April 1, 2011 Contributors: Robert McGaffin Hot Action From The Goodguys 4th Peak Chicagoland Nationals
The Goodguys Rod & Custom Association brought their traveling road show to the Chicagoland Speedway this past September 17-19, and we were there to capture all the action. The Midwest is one of our favorite places to hang out because it's a hotbed of muscle machines; these guys don't have the luxury of driving their cars hard all year round, so during the summer months they make up for it in spades. The sprawling Chicagoland Speedway complex is an ideal place to let it all hang out, and that's exactly what Goodguys did.
One of our favorite activities is the Goodguys autocross, and with every new event the number of cars and spectators increases. At Joliet, the 30-second course was set up inside the big NASCAR oval, and that served as big inspiration for the tire burning that ensued. Nevertheless, the unpredictable nature of the Midwest's summer weather caught participants off guard on Saturday with some rain. In spite of that, the drivers and fans were so into the cone carving that they prevailed on Goodguys to open it back up after the gully washer for some "exhibition" drifting in the wet!
Project Olds-photographer Robert McGaffin's '65 Cutlass-was also on hand. After wringing it out on the autocross, we parked it at the Detroit Speed & Engineering tent where we met a lot of readers who wanted to check it out. The vendor area is always a fun place to hang at Goodguys-you can see the hardware up close, and ask lots of questions. You may even see a PHR project car too. If you can't find what you need at a Goodguys midway, you probably don't need it!
Goodguys Joliet Results
Muscle Car Award Winners
Muscle Car of the Year Finalist
Larry Greif
Marengo, IL
1970 Camaro Z28
Muscle Machine of the Year Finalist
Randy Johnson
Kewaskum, WI
1970 Camaro
Roadster Shop Builder's Choice
Brent Jarvis
Mundelein, IL
1965 Corvette
Autocross Street Machine
Chris Jacobs
Elburn, IL
1966 Chevelle (29.716)
Autocross Vendor
Ryan Matthews
Detroit Speed
Mooresville, NC
1969 Chevy Camaro
Best Bitchin
Dennis Potter
Taylor Ridge, IL
1966 Chevy
Cool Ride on BFGs
Linda Hammen
Mazon, IL
1970 Chevy Chevelle
Cool Ride on BFGs
Brent Elsen
Sioux City, IA
1966 Chevy Chevelle
Chevy Muscle
James Frieders
Aurora, IL
1969 Camaro
Cool Camaro
Shelly & Craig Logston
Huntley, IL
1969 Camaro RS/SS
Cool Cruiser
Bob Boynton
Sugar Grove, IL
1964 Olds
Ford Muscle
Michael Machun
Pleasant Prairie, WI
1969 Ford Mustang
Meguiar's Magnificent Masterpiece Award
Dave Crawford
Grafton, WI
1970 Plymouth
Mighty Mustang
Todd Gliwa
Plainfield, IL
1967 Mustang
Mopar Muscle
Nick Gregory
Lake Villa, IL
1969 Dodge Coronet
PPG Paint Pick
Steve Davis
Hopkinton, IA
1969 Mustang
Slick '60s Pick
Jerry Allen
Joliet, IL
1965 Malibu
Snap-On "Innovation" Award
Steve Prouty
Hill Point, WI
1969 Pontiac
Young Guys Pick
Ashley Cirrencino
Braidwood, IL
1966 Mustang
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We captured Randy Johnson's '70 Camaro in a rare moment of rest. We featured the supercharged 6.0L LS-powered beast in the February issue (see "Second Wind")-it's got a Heidts IRS out back, a Heidts Pro G suspension up front, a T56 trans, and Baer 6R brakes at all four corners. Johnson has been beating on this puppy all summer long and he must've stopped to finally take a breather. That was enough for it to garner a Muscle Machine of the Year finalist award at Joliet.Owner Chuck Barnes (Barrington, Illinois) got on the green bandwagon with his Mist Green '70 Chevelle. It recently got an LS3 E-Rod transplant from GM Performance Parts, which is nestled nicely in front of a highway-friendly TKO 600 overdrive. It's fully emissions compliant too!We've featured Brent Jarvis' cars before-his shop Performance Restorations in Mundelein, Illinois, has built some incredibly agile track performers. We featured this '65 Vette in March's coverage of the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational.Donny Freise's '32 Ford roadster isn't a muscle car, but it doesn't know that. The 355ci small-block is plenty healthy, and stuffs it around corners with power to spare. This hot little rod won the Street Rod Autocross hands down with a 30.9-second lap.Dueling '66 Chevelles!
 We almost did a double take when we saw these similar rides: The first one was packing a 496ci big-block with a 700-R4 trans, DSE suspension, Baer brakes, and the telltale Vintage Wheel Works 17-inch hoops. We didn't get the guy's name, but he's a businessman from Shelbyville, Michigan. The second one you may remember-it's an ex-Randy Johnson car we featured a few years back, and it's now being tossed around by new owner, Chris Jacobs. It still packs its fuel-injected LS7, T56 trans, Wilwood brakes, and Schwartz chassis.
'56 Imperial SRT8
 All we can say is "wow" when we look at Paul White's '56 Chrysler Imperial. This thing has the complete running gear and interior from a late-model Dodge Magnum SRT8, right down to the 6.1L Hemi and five-speed automatic. This sweet machine was built by Back Bay Customs of Portland, Maine.Jeff Van Buren also got on the LS bandwagon by dropping a Wegner Motorsports 6.2L L92 bullet underhood of his '67 Camaro. It makes 599 hp at the flywheel, and he's not afraid to channel all of it through the T56 trans and RideTech suspension.Harley Veldhuizen-a contractor from Elburn, Illinois-built his '65 Corvette to drive, and he had a blast around the Goodguys autocross. It's got a 350hp 327 small-block and Turbo 350 trans-rockin' it old school!Steve Prouty of Hill Point, Wisconsin, won the Snap-On Innovation Award with his '69 Firebird. The nicely built Pontiac 400 mill has electronic fuel injection, which keeps purists happy while making it sweet on the street.
Ross McComb's '66 Mustang features a full suspension from Gateway Classic Mustang. Underhood resides a Kenne-Bell-blown 4.6L Mod motor that makes 675 hp at the flywheel. Other goodies include Baer six-piston brakes and a TKO 600 five-speed.During the severe economic downturn of the late '50s and early '60s, many manufacturers built low-cost compact cars that sipped gas by the teaspoon, not the gallon. The '61 Ford Falcon was one of those cars. As a featherweight, these cars make excellent hot rodding fodder, and Larry Crisler (Decatur, Illinois) recognized that by stuffing a 408ci Windsor stroker 'neath the hood of his. To keep it from completely twisting into a pretzel, it's got a Total Control suspension.Phil Gerber of The Roadster Shop turns out some of the sweetest hot rods in the land-so what's he doing with this beater '70 C10 pickup? He's driving the crap out of it-that's what! Don't let the looks fool you, it's loaded for bear. Goodies include a stock Corvette LS6, Tremec TKO 500, a new Fast Track Roadster Shop chassis, and Wilwood 14-inch brakes.Here's the car that started the muscle car revolution: the '64 Pontiac GTO. Pontiac purists can hate it all they want, but we love the 427ci LS7, which makes a stout 650 hp. The grunt is managed by a Schwartz chassis, six-piston Baer brakes, a T56 trans from a Viper, and 18-inch Forgeline wheels wrapped with BFG rubber. The car is owned by Don Eduflsen of McHenry, Illinois.


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Shannon Elizabeth Williams and Matthew Collin Sanders were united in marriage Nov. 10, 2012in Lee Chapel at Washingtonand LeeUniversityin Lexington, Va.with the Rev. Monsignor Gerald L. Lewis officiating.
The bride is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John A. Williams IIIof New Bern. The Bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sanders, Jr. of Alexandria, Va.
The bride was given in marriage by her parents. Nuptial music was provided by soloist Robin Jackson.
Maid of honor was the bride�s sister, Kerry Anne Williams of Chapel Hill.
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As interest rates rise, are bonds still safe?
The first rule of investing is, "don't lose money."
This basic imperative is sometimes overlooked in the clamor for earnings among small investors who are counting on gains to fund their retirements. Traditionally, financial advisers have pushed clients to keep some portion of their savings in bond funds, where outright losses from defaults have been relatively rare, and three decades of falling interest rates have delivered healthy returns.
However, interest rates have been rising since early May. Nobody knows how high they will go, but the uncertainty is rattling markets around the world. Higher mortgage rates snuffed out a refinancing boom, and some foreign currencies briefly went into free fall.
Because bond prices fall when interest rates rise, suddenly the bond market has become a very scary place, particularly for the majority of investors who hold bond funds instead of buying bonds directly.
Indeed, investors have pulled billions from bond funds since April. But experts caution that this kind of short-term behavior locks in losses, and that long-term investors have far less to fear.
Traders have been warning for a couple of years that bonds were in a "bubble," and thus prone to a crash in values. Since 2008, when the Federal Reserve began a series of massive interventions in the bond markets, interest rates have hovered near historic lows.
But that all changed abruptly in May, as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke signaled the Fed might soon begin phasing out its extraordinary campaign to hold down rates.
The resulting jump in rates has been deceptively large; 10-year Treasury yields are up just 0.5 percentage points, but the overall yield has climbed nearly a third from its May low of 1.66 percent. Long durations are particularly vulnerable to such sharp movements.
Suppose you bought a recently issued 30-year U.S. Treasury, which yielded about 3 percent last week. If market rates move suddenly to 4 percent, the underlying value of that bond will slump by about 17 percent.
For a 10-year Treasury, which paid a little over 2 percent last week, a move to 3 percent would slice 8.5 percent from the value. With the long-run average at about 5 percent, such moves seem likely, eventually. After all, rates reached their 100-year high point of 15.3 percent in September 1981. So where's the safety in bonds?
The answer, as usually is the case with investing, lies in the perspective of the beholder. If you are a trader, speculator or short-term investor, then bonds are probably very risky right now. But if you are invested for the long haul, bonds could be as safe as ever.
This is particularly true for those rare individuals who own bonds directly. If you own a 10-year bond and simply keep it for 10 years, who cares if the underlying value has theoretically gone up or down? You still get your 2 percent or 3 percent a year.
Aside from the corrosive effects of inflation, the only real risk — short of default — is what economists call the "opportunity cost," or the difference between a particular investment and other options. That way lies madness, dear investor. It means that everyone who didn't buy Berkshire Hathaway stock in the 1960s has "lost" the 10 percent a year that Warren Buffett has outperformed the S&P 500.
Yet buying bonds directly is expensive and unwieldy. So most investors turn to funds, which often trade bonds before expiration. And those funds have been showing losses lately, in the form of lower net asset values.
Here again, it's important to keep a long-term view. As bonds expire inside a fund, that cash gets reinvested at higher yields.


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Spanning the Lone Star State
Precast producers such as Bexar Concrete Works in San Antonio have kept pace with a robust bridge and highway market that is demanding larger and longer concrete elements.
Bexar Concrete Works
Skilled steel tiers such as Ruben Arrbeda (front) pack enormous bridge girders with dense steel reinforcement before the formwork is pieced together.
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General Manager Jorge Hinojosa believes precast concrete will gain an even larger portion of the bridge girder market in the next five years, with highly engineered elements such as the spliced precast/prestressed girders produced by Bexar Concrete Works.
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Speed Fab-Crete produces precast sound wall panels using 4-unit battery forms that are set up in a dedicated area across the street from the producers main plant.
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Speed Fab-Crete produces precast sound wall panels using 4-unit battery forms that are set up in a dedicated area across the street from the producer's main plant.
Speed Fab-Crete is producing 170,000 square feet of precast sound walls for a $2.5 billion highway expansion project in the Dallas/Fort Worth area that also includes precast walkways and mechanically stabilized earth walls (MSEs).
The Clearfork Main Street Bridge is designed with spliced precast girders to create sleek, long spans across the Trinity River in Fort Worth, Texas.
Marianne Methven/Hamilton Form Co.
Credit: Mark Greenberg
Location: Dallas
Producer: Bexar Concrete Works
Elements produced: 23,978 linear feet of prestressed girders and spliced precast/prestressed girders
Scope: Six-lane, 3500-foot bridge
Total project cost: $42 million
Completion date: January 2014
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Credit: Carl Hall/Speed Fab-Crete
Location: Dallas/Fort Worth region
Producer: Speed Fab-Crete
Elements produced: Sound wall panels
Scope: 170,000 square feet of sound walls; 13.5 highway miles
Total project cost: $2.5 billion
Completion date: Mid-2015
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Credit: Marianne Methven/Hamilton Form Co.
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Producer: Texas Concrete Partners
Elements produced: Precast girders
Scope: 550-foot bridge; 180-foot roadway
Total project cost: $11 million–$13 million
Completion date: Spring 2013
Across the vast landscape of Texas, billions of dollars are being spent to expand and repair bridges and roadways. Although U.S. states are struggling to maintain driveable roadways with dwindling budgets, infrastructure construction is going strong in Texas, thanks to bonds for highway improvements approved by taxpayers in 2003 and 2007. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is also exploring public-private partnerships to pay for even more major highway projects in the Houston and Dallas metro areas.
The boom has not caught precast/prestressed concrete producers offguard. "Concrete is the material of choice for bridge design in Texas, and every precaster in the state has a heavy workload right now," says Chris Lechner, executive director of the Precast Concrete Manufacturers' Association of Texas (PCMA). He estimates 96 percent of the bridge market is precast/prestressed concrete, with the exception of extremely long spans. He notes that gap is closing with advances in technology such as spliced precast/prestressed girders.
Off the top of his head, Lechner can name multi-billion dollar projects under construction across the state using every conceivable precast product: mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls on the I-635 Dallas/Fort Worth connector; hundreds of concrete pilings supporting the Campano Bay bridge; a precast pavement test strip south of Waco; and bridge beams, decks, and sound walls rebuilding the I-35 corridor from Dallas-Fort Worth to San Marcos.
Precasters also have their eyes on exit ramps. TxDOT is exploring test projects using curved precast girder sections that are cast in forms adjusted to a specific radius. The Colorado DOT estimates it has been able to save $1 million per exit, using steel reinforced curved girders.
But road construction in Texas may not continue full speed ahead for much longer. Unless the state legislature approves more taxes or registration fees to fund roadwork by 2014, TxDOT could go into maintenance mode.
"Right now the focus is on water infrastructure, after several years of experiencing the worst drought we've seen since the 1950s," he says. Some precast producers could actually be involved in that construction as well, supplying pipes, culverts, and panels.
Although Texas precasters have benefited from forward-thinking investment in infrastructure, they are bound by the same uncertainty faced by other parts of the country — and the concrete industry. "The total use of concrete in Texas is increasing, especially for pavements," says Lechner, citing comparable costs of concrete and asphalt. "Concrete delivers a better value for longevity, hands down. But we're not out of the woods yet. There are so many variables right now; it's hard to keep track of where the economy is going to go.
"What impresses me about precasters is that they are always innovating," says Lechner. "The industry is constantly improving." This restlessness has served producers well during economic downturns, and it may be what keeps them afloat through tough times in the future.
Here, we highlight three Texas precast producers and the ways in which they are meeting the challenges of their competitive infrastructure market with creativity, quick thinking, and a dedication to high-quality products.
Looking out over the site of the new Sylvan Avenue Bridge in Dallas, Jorge Hinojosa, P.E. sees the future of precast concrete. "The precast industry has taken, and will continue to take, a larger piece of the steel girder market over the next five years," says the general manager of Bexar Concrete Works.
For 35 years, the Dallas precast/prestressed producer has specialized in making concrete elements for highways. Currently, Bexar is casting girders for the Sylvan Avenue Bridge, which will connect downtown and west Dallas when it opens early 2014. The 3500-foot, six-lane bridge replaces a flood-prone two-lane road and three separate bridges that cross two levees and the Trinity River.
The City of Dallas calls it a "vital project [that] will provide a new bridge across the last of the Dallas streets low water crossings." The project will raise the elevation of Sylvan Avenue to eliminate the frequent flooding and closures experienced on the current road. The public will also benefit from new bike lanes, sidewalks on each shoulder, and a ramp for pedestrian access to a park.
In January, Bexar began casting the 150-foot girders it will supply for the bridge, including standard 28-, 54-, and 82-inch prestressed girders, as well as spliced precast/prestressed girders to span 250 feet. The project consists of 23 spans, 14 of which are typical 82-inch prestressed girders and nine that are divided in three units of three spliced, post-tensioned girders.
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Another suspected narcotics supplier arrested
Published: Friday, November 16, 2012 at 9:38 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, November 16, 2012 at 9:38 a.m.
Law enforcement officials have arrested another man they say is connected to an organization that was supplying illegal narcotics in Marion and Citrus counties.
Carl Julius Fraziars, 32, was picked up at 9:30 p.m. Thursday on arrest warrants for the sale and possession of crack cocaine. He was booked into the Marion County Jail.
On Wednesday, agents from the Unified Drug Enforcement Strike Team, with assistance from the Citrus County Sheriff's Office, arrested 31 men and women and seized 325 pills, 340 grams of cocaine, $141,518 in cash, six firearms and three vehicles during a six month operation called "The Untouchables" because of the degree of difficulty infiltrating the group.
Those arrested were taken into custody in Ocala, the Chatmire area of Marion County and in Citrus County.
The investigation began after information was received about an organization that transported cocaine and prescription pills back and forth through Marion and Citrus counties.
Officials estimate the group trafficked roughly 10,000 pills a month and approximately two kilograms of cocaine a month during the six months of the operation.
More arrests are forthcoming, officials said.
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I've been perusing all the backup documents in the wiki and have searched through a lot of the forum discussions regarding backup. I haven't seen any one who indicates they are having the problem we are having though.
We would like to get tape backups of the Zimbra backups (/opt/zimbra/backup), but in it's native state it is just too slow. We think the problem is that the Zimbra backup is producing thousands (probably tens of thousands or more) of small files....and it is negatively impacting the performance of our tape backups.
We currently have a Sun Library with 2 LTO3 drives in it, and this is sitting on 4GB fiber channel. The speed of the hardware is not the issue. We can tar a single large file off to the tape drives at 50-80MB/s. Trying to do the same with a very large subdirectory of Zimbra backups gets us results in the 10-15MB/s range initially, but gradually dropping as time goes on. At times we can see it get well below 1MB/s.
We have 3 mailstores, each with about 250GB of backups on it. Later this Spring we will be adding 2 more mailstores, 13,000 or so users, and probably almost double our backup data(1.5-2TB). We can't realistically back this up at those slow speeds. But that's not the worst part...restores go so much slower than backups that it would probably take weeks to restore these systems if we had to come back from a major disaster.
Our current workaround is to tar /opt/zimbra/backup to another LUN on our SAN, and then backup that single tar file to tape(one for each mailstore)... which goes much faster. This however requires us to have double the storage requirements to hold all the backups and the nightly tars.
So...what is the answer? Has anyone else in a large enterprise environment run into this and found a workaround? I saw somewhere that we could use the '-z' parameter on zmbackup, to zip up the blobs. Will that reduce the number of really small files that get created on a zimbra backup? If so that might solve the problem for us....but I'm not sure. Anyone have any thoughts or discovered a good (very fast) way to archive your Zimbra backups off to tape?


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Can't believe they cut the broadcast in middle before the presentation ceremony of IPL final
Slow over rates? or Does DirecTV's CricketTicket cutting the broadcast in the middle of a game/presentation, come back to hunt us fans. Blame Willow TV for giving DirecTV CricketTicket and IPL to Dish Network those rights. I said this a long time ago stop supporting Willow. That channel with the same owner with the same mistakes, same graining PAL to NTSC broadcast, same 90's website design and same greediness.