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JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. (WUSA9) -- Officials are trying to figure out how two F-16C Falcon aircraft collided on Thursday night off the coast of Chincoteague, Va.
The F-16C jets were assigned to the 113th Wing D.C. Air National Guard and were part of a routine training mission off the coast of Chincoteague, Va. late Thursday night when they crashed, say officials.
Officials tell us that one pilot safely ejected from his aircraft, and was recovered by the U.S. Coast Guard. National Guard officials tell us that an automated Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking distress signal from an ejection seat registered to an Air National Guard plane alerted Coast Guard watchers to the situation at approximately 10:28 p.m. Thursday.
Coast Guard watchers confirmed the jets had collided mid-air. They say that an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew hoised the pilot up at approximately 12:30 a.m. on Friday. He was transferred to Joint Base Andrews, say officials.
The crew members that helped the pilot have been identified as pilot Lt. Cmdr. Steve Bonn, co-pilot Lt. David Birky, rescue swimmer Petty Officer 1st Class Bret Fogle and flight mechanic and hoist operator Petty Officer 2nd Class Mark Bergman.
The other pilot was able to return to Joint Base Andrews in Md. in his aircraft, say National Guard officials.
Both pilots were transported to a medical facility on base, say officials, and were treated for minor injuries. National Gaurd officials say that the rescued pilot was in good condition at last check.
The cause of the collison is under investigation.


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I went to high school in West Chester and, once I got a car, I discovered that I was a city mouse. I fell in love with Cincinnati around the time I fell in love with photography. Coming to Provident Camera was a pilgrimage for me. It was the first place I drove to in the city by myself, so it meant adulthood. It was a place filled with people (workers and customers alike) who had as much passion for photography as I did, so it meant I wasn't alone.
Cincinnati's beloved linebacker Dhani Jones will have an exhibit of his photographs on display at Country Club this Friday. Aside of crushing Steelers players, Jones is also the star of the Travel Channel series Dhani Tackles the Globe, in which he participates in the sports of local communities around the world in an attempt to immerse himself in their culture. His photography centers around his travels.
Ever wonder what happened to Dennis Barrie, director of the Contemporary Arts Center when it showed Robert Mapplethorpe's The Perfect Moment in 1990, resulting in pornography charges that a Hamilton County jury rejected in a landmark local case?
Treece is searching for that "magical spot." He doesn't risk the charge of vandalism
like graffiti artists, but he still risks a trespassing charge with every foray
into the night.
Light painting is a photography technique that involves moving a camera or adding a light source while operating with a slow shutter speed. The resultant images include colorful, swirly lines and other creative effects. Like graffiti artists, "both of us trespass illegally. Both of us are night owls. Both of us have explored tunnels, creeks, bridges and abandoned buildings and have gained such a good understanding about the layout of the city," Treece says.
Suffice it to say, Treece's understanding of all the nooks and crannies of the city is far more in-depth than the average daylight city dweller.
Before his nightly jaunt into the darkness, Treece packs his equipment bag. At first glance, you wouldn't think anything is out of the ordinary. Treece stuffs a Nikon D90 camera, remote shutter release, Nikon SB-600 Flash and two tripods into the main compartment of the bag. But the smaller compartments receive the stranger tools of the trade.
He reveals children's toys, ones that light up. Treece begins to stuff light swords, mini color changing glow sticks, six different kinds of flashlights, laser pointers, finger LEDs, glow sticks and his custom nine LED light orb tool into every remaining compartment of his equipment bag.
All that's missing is the party favors. At this point, it's almost unclear if he's going to a rave or going out to light paint.
Treece almost forgets the most important tool: batteries — lots of them.
Light painting hasn't always been Treece's passion, however. "I've always been interested in art, but my interest in light painting started sometime around May or June of last year," he says. "I was browsing the Internet randomly and saw a picture of what looked like a spinning waterfall of sparks. I had seen light painting prior to this photo, but it really didn't click that these [light painters] were using super long exposures and crazy light sources to create works of art."
That night, Treece spent hours reading up tutorials on the website lightpaintingphotography.com and a particular online community that called itself "the light junkies." There he learned that it was plausible to make his own contribution to the light painting community.
Not all places are created equal in the light painting community. Living in Cincinnati is both wonderful and a pain. Clifton Heights, Treece's main stomping ground, provides him with an incredible amount of light pollution, which can be attributed to the area's attempt to curb crime activity.
Cincinnati still provides an ample amount of opportunity to create. "[Cincinnati] has some of the most bad-ass tunnels built in the early 1900s. … Cincinnati also has a creek system, which over time had to be cemented because of industrial waste," Treece says. "These tunnels and channels have created some of the best spaces for light painting."

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According to the NY Daily News:
CBS Sports Radio will soon name Tiki Barber and Brandon Tierney as its morning drive team when the network launches January 1. We previously reported Tierney, who works at 95.7 "The Game" in San Francisco, couldn't get out of his contract, but that issue appears to be resolved.
After checking around, this appears to be a done deal. Tierney will leave the Entercom station at the end of November. CBS Sports Radio is syndicated by Cumulus — the same media corporation that owns KNBR.
A lot of the feedback on Tierney has been pretty harsh on this site, and that's to be expected when an "outsider" comes on the scene with a brash personality and a thick New York accent to match. The Tierney bashers are getting their wish. After working with several hosts (Eric Davis, Ric Bucher and a group of replacements after Davis left), he has decided to vacate the premises instead of fighting a ratings war with KNBR drivetime host Tom Tolbert, a battle in which the former NBA power forward had a huge head start.
Speaking of Mr. T's, it's the Tiki Barber half of this proposed show that makes me cringe. There's a reason why the former All-Pro running back went from superstar crossover media personality to basically pleading for NFL teams to give him a shot at a comeback on Real Sports. Barber is an arrogant personality who is nowhere near likable enough to become a daytime TV mainstay (as he and NBC learned). As for morning radio, what Barber will likely bring to the table are what CBS Sports Radio and the hosts themselves will call "uncensored opinions." Translation: Barber will rip current NFL players, coaches, GMs and owners because he has already burned just about every bridge imaginable. Then he'll try and talk about baseball, basketball and golf and make a fool of himself.
If it isn't clear, I am not a fan of Ronde's insufferable twin brother. Listening to him speak is even worse than sitting behind a woman wearing his jersey at the NFC Championship Game (yes, that happened). But I digress…
While Tierney will no longer be heard locally during the afternoon, CBS Sports Radio's relationship with Cumulus means there is a good chance we'll hear Tiki and Tierney on KNBR 1050 starting in January, which means they'd be replacing "Mike & Mike" (Cumulus didn't pair up with CBS Sports Radio so it could keep running ESPN shows). It could also mean Tierney starts contributing some "CBS Sports Minute" spots, which so far have ranged from fun and often silly (Tom Tolbert) to something that might as well be renamed the "CBS Sports Bummer" (John Feinstein), with a bunch of throwaway football predictions in between (Doug Gottleib).
As for changes on "The Game," I'm hearing that Program Director Jason Barrett will probably look at a few possible replacements to pair with Bucher. Chris Townsend has been heard working with Bucher in the 3-7 pm slot a few times recently, but as of now there are no plans to break up "The Pulse," the show from 10-noon that Townsend hosts with Matt Steinmetz. However, 95.7 seems to reshuffle their lineup every few months, with all pieces considered movable except for "The Rise Guys." With Tierney leaving, the schedule could see some major changes on the Bay Area's "new sound for sports" in 2013.


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NRA: No Chance For New Gun Ban
Group says there's enough opposition in Congress to new law
January 14, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Rifle Association says it has enough support in Congress to block a law that would ban assault weapons, despite promises from the White House to make such a measure a......
Cluela&& is a on STUPID roll, keep 'em coming, dumba&&..
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms.
History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so. Indeed I would go so far as to say that the underdog is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty.
So let's not have any native militia or police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order.
----Adolph Hitler, April 11, 1942, in "Hitler's Table- Talk at the Fuehrer's Headquarters 1941-1942", Dr. Henry Picker, ed. (Athenaeum Verlag, Bonn, 1951) "
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Some likes you are describing your family, Fido1758. Heee HAW!
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"That is what ADOLPH HITLER implemented."....... UHHHHH WROMG!!! Hitler never banned guns this is just made up revisionist history.
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rover "swishy 'in the closet' head of the NRA"
rover "untermenschen"
From Wikipedia "Untermensch (German for under man, sub-man, sub-human; plural: Untermenschen) is a term that became infamous when the Nazi racial ideology used it to describe "inferior people", especially "the masses from the East," that is Gypsies, Jews, and Slavic peoples including Belarusians, Poles, Russians and Ukrainians, although many of the Slavs were accepted as Aryans."
I thought you libbies were the "tolerant" ones. If you progressives continue to gain seats in Congress maybe we conservatives should move to ban gas ovens.
(ker splank) LOL
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duhWrat's ravings continue to appeal to ONLY his constituency of tobaccey chewing-spitting, uneducated, *******, trailer-trash, pseudo-macho untermenschen.
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The NRA used to be just a 'Markmanship' club. But over the years has become full of themselves. Want to dictate their nutty arms industry patter to the majority of educated and sane citizens.
So, 'no chance' eh? Watch Obama/Biden for their take on what needs to be done. They count. The swishy 'in the closet' head of the NRA will LOSE again!
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acoustic, you forgot to call 'em racist, terbackee-spittin' moonshiners, too. Yeeee hawwww everybody...(ker splank) LOL
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What a bunch of idiots.
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Big talk from a washed-up geriatric has-been in Smallville, Fido1858.
I don't need to kill "old fools"; you idiots fall on your a&& and croak daily in dying OV.
Its called "Obituary" page, fool.
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IDIOTS! The Supreme Court already ruled in "Heller versus DC" that a WELL REGULATED MILITIA was simply EVERY Citizen of the United States.
That is ESTABLISHED LAW for years.
Give up on this bull**** that only the "military" should have guns.
That is what ADOLPH HITLER implemented. HOW did that work out for 6 million J*ws???
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@walksabout: rover. what does it matter what words are in the constitution if law makers ignore duty to uphold them ?
That's why there is 'Constitutional Law' and lawyers who specialize in such. And that is why the Supreme Court hears these cases. The 'Constitution' is a living document that is constantly under review and interpretation. Just ask 'Dred Scott'.
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So YOU are part of a WELL REGULATED MILITIA AS THE 2ND AMENDMENT STATES IS THE PURPOSE OF GUN OWNERSHIP???
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rover 1958,
You stated my opinions very well...
Thank you!
No one is taking anyone's guns away!!!
The primary issue is to enforce the laws we already have on the books and reinstate laws that have been allowed to expire..
Better background checks? Who can say this is bad??? If it will help keep guns out of the hands of lunatics...
That's what some politics are saying--it's the mentally ill people, well a more thorough background check may help!!
No single law will stop this chaos entirely!!! But it the first step..
Then we can deal with the mentally ill people in different legislation...
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anybody heard the price the lawmakers plan to pay you for your semi autos and big clips ?
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if you kill the intruder wiyh first shot, what harm is another 20 or so hits ? You may need all 20. I have no business demanding my neighbor is limited to just so many chances to preserve his life against intruder.
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next. executive decision to set all highway spped limits at 60 and ban vehicles capable of speeds greater than 6omph. The physical damage at 120 mph crash can be anticipated greater than 1 to 60 mph.
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'ole duhRAT loves to talk shiet about guns as he dreams of some poor old fool he can kill and not go to jail for it. But the two professions where he would have a chance to be a 'gunman' (law enforcement and military) he sped, faster than a speeding bullet, away from.
Probably had automatic repeater action from his 'tail gun' of the big brown 'bullets' as he hightailed it away from a REAL confrontation.
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ANYBODY who says a homeowner does NOT need a high capacity semiauto weapon for home defense is completely full of Scat!
Statistic show that TRAINED firearms experts like POLICE and military hit about 3 out of every TEN shots in a tense close range shooting incident.
This is not like waiting hours to shoot an unarmed deer who wanders into your blind or a sniper from 300 yeards who has scoped in a target.
The TARGET is SHOOTING at YOU and MOVING and YOU are scared SPITLESS!!
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"Why do we need multiple shot weapons???
A woman in Loganville, GA saw someone trying to break into her home during the day on Friday.
The woman quickly grabbed her two kids and her .38 revolver and hid in a crawl space.
Despite hiding, the would be intruder still found the family and the woman was forced to open fire on the suspect.
She fired all six shots from her gun and hit the suspect 5 times.
The woman tried to hold the intruder at gunpoint, BUT HE FLED THE SCENE IN HIS CAR"!!!!!!!
However, the intruder was badly injured and crashed his car nearby where he was apprehended by police.
The suspect was taken to an area hospital for treatment.
The suspect has a criminal record and was most recently released from jail in August."
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Rover1858, thanks for proving you are 200 years old! It has become VERY difficult to amend the constitution.
The 27th and LAST amendment was passed more then TWENTY YEARS ago.
The 26th was passed 42 years ago.
If you "saw" 6 amendments you have to be at least 72 years old to make you 10 when the when it passed. To see 7 amendments in your lifetime would require you to be 90 years old.
What else would we expect from a Smallville podunk BS artist?
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rover. what does it matter what words are in the constitution if law makers ignore duty to uphold them ?
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so many countries lost their freedoms because they first lost means to defend themselves when things came sneaking around their lands.They didn't know at the time that so called trial baloons would grow so big as to blot out the sunshine.
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lori said, ".. think he can change the U.S Contitution that was written over 200 years ago....
Well Lori, the Constitution can be changed and has been changed over the years 27 times. That is called 'amending the Constitution'. It's difficult to do but can be done. Been done six times in my own lifetime.
I don't think there is any plan whatsoever to outlaw ownership of guns and no plans for amending the constitution for that. What is wanted, needed, and WiLL happen will be a regulated requirement to try, just try, to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, former criminals, the insane and people who have convictions or arrests for incidence of instability and threats to others.
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Don't worry, acoustic. After conservatives take back America we'll still share the freedom with you. You'll have to start carrying your own weight when it comes to putting food on your table, a roof over your head, and a cell phone in your ear, though. Ker splank [as the tobacceee hits the spittoon] LOL
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You had a point? Besides claiming all gun show attendees are idiots and racists and all gun owners are tobaccy-spittin' moonshine brewin' red necks, I mean? LOL
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Value Your ValvetrainWritten by on November 1, 2013
There is no doubt that the stud-mounted rocker systems that are commonplace on Magnum small-blocks are simpler and easier to work with. But there's a reason why any high-end race team, whether it is NASCAR or road racing—always ditch the stud-mounted rockers for shaft-mounted systems. Shaft-mounted rocker arms are more stable, they deflect less at high rpm levels, and are generally capable of making more power.
To find out more we visited the shop of former Mopar Muscle Engine Challenge competitor Hollis Page and HP Engines in Norwood, North Carolina. Page walked us through the process on a 340 LA series small-block he's building for one of his own hot rods.
But Mopar guys already know that. Shaft mounted rocker systems are standard equipment in all classic Mopar engines, and have all the benefits of improved valve control to go along with it. When properly set up and installed, Mopar rockers are efficient, work well even with high-lift cams, and provide trouble-free service.
But along with that improved performance also comes a few more things that need to be checked when building an engine, to make sure the valvetrain is correct. There's a little bit more to it than simply taking the components out of their wrappers and bolting them up. Improper installation without making the proper checks, can lead to poor valvetrain geometry, or, in other words, bad angles between the components that can cause mechanical problems down the road. When everything is right, the rockers open the valves by pressing straight down on the valve stem tips. When it isn't right, a multitude of problems can occur, including side loading of the valve stem, causing it to wear the guides, which leads to burning oil and eventually a broken valve. Bad geometry can also be the root cause of poor valve control at high rpm levels, broken retainers and even the dreaded broken rocker or valve when the rocker tip pops off the end of the valve stem.


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In this exhibit-packed gallery, students can learn how much they weigh on the moon and planets, marvel at the 40-foot ceiling orrery and the 28-foot-long photographic image of our Milky Way, and much more! The Milky Way exhibit includes an interactive kiosk where students locate and learn about objects within the Milky Way. The New NASA Image Wall is a mosaic of stunning photos of deep-space nebulae, galaxies, and the planets and moons of our solar system taken by NASA's space telescopes. A large monitor which continuously streams newly released NASA images will make your visit to this exhibit different every time. The nearby two-story Planet Tower illustrates the comparative sizes of the planets with large, colorful, three-dimensional re-creations.
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text: CE is still hyperactive. LUE is almost dead due to the lockdown and RI choked on its own social topics. It's still kickng just not nearly as active as it once was. CE won that battle by attrition. As for non-chan boards though, there aren't very many. How I yearn for the halcyon days of the internet, back when you were just a screen name and a personality. I think a lot of it has to do with expanding technology. Back in the day most of us were on slow DSL or dial-up, we weren't expected to watch embedded Youtube videos or load 20,000 image macros at once. Only nerds hung around online too so it was kind of this in-club of those of us willing to spend lonely nights fiddling with technology. Normal people just used email, searched for things, and read Wikipedia. Now any pillock can run a blog, an online business, a forum, a social media account, etc. Like with the Star Wars movies, the limitations of the technology made it cool.


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my current installation of ZCS OSE is version 7.0.0, running on Debian 5/64bit.
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Learning to cook with Marie Catrib
Among the many things that Calvin students learned at a cooking demonstration with local restauranteur Marie Catrib is that there is no such thing as too much garlic.
October 24, 2008 | Allison Graff
Learning to lead at the Gainey retreat
At Two Moose Ranch in Montana, Calvin's team captains learned about communication, working together and leading.
September 02, 2010 | Jeff Febus , Luke Robinson , Jonathan Laughlin
Let the bidding begin: annual service auctions
Calvin's residence halls auctioned off homemade goods—and offbeat services—to benefit the NGOs they partner with.
December 13, 2011 | Andrew Steiner
Living and learning in new van Reken Hall
The newly finished van Reken Hall is dedicated to creating living-learning communities.
August 22, 2008 | Lynn Rosendale
Manners on the menu: an etiquette dinner
Junior Theo Voss learned how to eat his roll and exit the table at this year's etiquette dinner.
April 21, 2011 | Theo Voss
New interims for 2012
Students doing an on-campus interim will have three new choices next year.
March 29, 2011 | Theo Voss , Myrna Anderson , Steve Barkema
New student org hosts paintball
On Saturday, April 4, the newly formed Military Appreciation Club shall host a paintball outing for interested students.
March 03, 2009 | Matt Decker
NIH grant brings students to the cutting-edge of cancer research
Biochemistry prof Brendan Looyenga recently received a $295,939 grant from the National Cancer Institute to do research with students that could provide useful insights into both neurology and oncology.
February 04, 2015 | Matt Kucinski
No marks for trying
Seniors Kurt Van Allsburg and Betsy Sneller created propaganda to convince their fellow students to fill out course evaluations.
May 21, 2010 | Myrna Anderson
No marks for trying
The posters appeared around on bulletin boards around campus a few weeks ago. One features an exhausted student at her desk, and its tagline reads: "You get graded for your hard work … shouldn't your profs?" Another shows a happy-looking student with the tagline: "Like your classes? Tell your profs."
May 21, 2010 | Myrna Anderson
Novel NIH grant provides synergy in the student-faculty research experience
A trio of profs has teamed up to better understand the regulation of GLUT1.
September 25, 2014 | Matt Kucinski
One Goldwater, three honorables
Last summer, as Cheri Ackerman was working to isolate a protein, she put in a lot of hours in the "cold room"—one of the walk-in refrigerators in DeVries Hall that are kept at four degrees Celsius (or 39 degrees Fahrenheit).
April 29, 2010 | Myrna Anderson
Party at the Prez's kicks off Homecoming and Family Weekend
New activities like Fierljeppen (Dutch pole vaulting) and a Senior Only Sleepout join with past traditions like the annual Cardboard Canoe Race.
October 21, 2013 | Amanda Greenhoe
Professor and students research Great Lakes birds
A Calvin College professor of biology and three students are researching the effects of pollution on Great Lakes colonial water birds.
August 22, 2007 | Myrna Anderson
Quest for the Golden Towel
For some students, jumping in the Sem Pond for four consecutive years is a goal. For three students, it was a mission.
February 14, 2012 | Matt Kucinski , Myrna Anderson
Raising awareness of North Korea's refugees
Students from the organization Liberty in North Korea plan a multi-part event to spotlight the situation in North Korea.
April 10, 2012 | Phil de Haan
Rangeela 2013: Study Abroad
This year's Rangeela directors reflect on mastering footwork, dancing with fans and leading the show.
February 14, 2013 | Myrna Anderson
Rangeela: a life
In her first year at Calvin, Anne Zaki wanted to leave. Then she pioneered Rangeela.
February 24, 2011 | Myrna Anderson
Researching how berberine works on diabetes
Larry Louters and four student researchers are studying how berberine works on diabetes.
June 30, 2011 | Phil de Haan
Researching the mighty phage
Summer research projects pair two students with two professors in the study of bacteriophages.
June 10, 2011 | Myrna Anderson


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Tailgate Tour: Pollard Signs Cyclone Club Letters in Pella
PELLA, Iowa - Iowa State Director of Athletics Jamie Pollard spent the morning on the Tailgate Tour bus ride to Pella signing letters to Cyclone Club members who have participated in this year's "I Give 110%" and "All In For ISU," fundraising campaigns.
Pollard started signing the stack this morning with 834 letters to donors who increased their annual giving by 10 percent and 342 letters for donors who have moved up a level so far during this year's fundraising campaign.
Fans still wishing to contribute in these two fundraising efforts can find out more information about the two campaigns by clicking here.
Click the embedded photo gallery below to see a few photos from this afternoon's lunch stop in Pella. The traveling group of coaches and staff members heads to the Iowa Speedway at 2:30 p.m. to participate in an Iowa Corn 250 promotion and then on to Cedar Rapids at 5:30 p.m. (U.S. Cellular Center) for the final stop of the day.
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La Barraca Suites
La Barraca Suites introduces an innovative form of comfort lodging
Is mountain house with elegant interiors stylish furnishings and comfortable space
We are situated 6 blocks from the centre of Bariloche and offer 4 double en-suite bedrooms and a 3-room.
You can enjoy our tabled terrace and large garden with a stunning view of lake Nahuel Huapi.
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Hotel Facilities & Policies
- 24 Hour Reception
- Airport Transfers
- Book Exchange
- Free Breakfast
- Cable TV
- Cafeteria
- Cots available
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Currency Exchange
- Telephone/Fax Facilities
- Free Internet Access
- Free Parking
- Free WiFi
- Hair Dryers
- Hot Showers
- Internet Access
- Laundry Facilities
- Luggage Storage
- No Curfew
- Outdoor Terrace
- Parking
- Restaurant
- Safe Deposit Box
- Taxes included
- Tea & Coffee Making Facilities
- Tours/Travel Desk
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 1 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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From the bus terminal:
Take bus numbers 20 or 21 towards the city centre and get off in front of the National Parks main office. From here the hostel is 5 blocks walk. If you dont fancy the walk you can get off the bus at the Moreno street bus stop between Palacios street and Rolando street and from there either:
o catch bus number 50 which can drop you 2 blocks away from the hostel
o take a taxi at a cost of approximately 7 pesos (if your stay is longer than 3 days the taxi fare will be paid by the hostel)
From San Carlos de Bariloche airport:
Bus number 72 of bus company 3 de Mayo will stop at the Moreno street bus stop between Palacios street and Rolando street. From here catch bus number 50 which can drop you 2 blocks away from the hostel.


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Atlanta, GA (Sports Network) - Devonta White scored 16 points and the Georgia
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R.J. Hunter finished with 14 points as well for Georgia State (1-2) which
picked up its first win of the season. James Vincent led on the boards with
eight rebounds while blocking nine shots.
Andrew Nicholas was the only double figure scorer for Monmouth (1-3) with 10
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Georgia State led 30-23 at halftime by shooting 45.5 percent from the floor
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Monmouth connected on only 15-of-54 shots overall in the contest. Georgia
State overcame 21 turnovers and blocked 13 shots as a team.
Monmouth will take on South Alabama in the second day of the Coaches vs.
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(The Chirp) - Multiple media reports say the St. Louis Cardinals are expected to stay within the family in finding an replacement for former hitting coach Mark McGwire who has left the club and is set to accept the same position with the Dodgers.
While the Cardinals offered no comment on coaching matters yesterday, Joe Strauss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote the John Mabry is expected to be named as the new hitting coach as soon as Monday. The club is expected to announce Triple-A Memphis pitching coach Blaise Ilsley as their new bullpen coach on the same day.
Mabry joined Mike Matheny's staff as assistant hitting coach last offseason after Mike Aldrete was promoted to bench coach. A former Cardinal, he played eight seasons of his 14-year major league career with the club.


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There should be an Intrade market related to JCCC's constant legal battles. Well, Converge Magazine lost some credibility these past months. In 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and again in 2011, Converge named Johnson County Community College a "top-rated community colleges for digital technology." But how can this be, when JCCC leaders want $10,000 for 20 Emails, and when JCCC is claiming it needs to hire an outside data | Read More »


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Flushing Meadows, NY (Sports Network) - Seven-time major titlist and two-time
U.S. Open champion Venus Williams was ousted from the final Grand Slam event
of the season after falling to China's Zheng Jie on a rainy Wednesday.
Zheng came through for a 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (7-5) second-round victory in a match
that lasted more than three hours.
"I want to say sorry guys," Zheng said, referring to Williams not having a
chance for her third title in Flushing Meadows before the home crowd. "Today
was a tough match for me. In the second set she was playing so great and in
the final set we were fighting each other."
Several women's matches scheduled for Wednesday were pushed back a day due to
the wet weather. Among those included in the postponements was world No. 1 and
defending champion Serena Williams. Her second-round match against
Kazakhstan's Galina Voskoboeva was postponed until Thursday.
Third seed Agnieszka Radwanska and fifth-seeded Li Na were a pair of winners.
Venus, whose match started late afternoon and lasted into the night at Louis
Armstrong Stadium, was delayed a couple of minutes with the third set even,
5-5, due to drizzling conditions.
The American rallied from a 4-1 deficit in the tiebreaker, but was set back
due to 44 unforced errors. She equaled the tiebreaker, 5-5, when Zheng sent a
return long. Venus then tried a backhand at the net, but never got it over.
Zheng secured a third-round berth when Venus sent a backhand wide.
"Today was tough," Zheng said of the rain. "In the second set I lost my
concentration. She played so great."
Next up for Zheng will be 18th-seeded Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro, who
dropped American Coco Vandeweghe 6-3, 6-4.
Meanwhile, last year's Wimbledon runner-up Radwanska, of Poland, got past
Spaniard Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor 6-0, 7-5 at Armstrong Stadium, while this
year's Australian Open runner-up and the former French Open champion Li, of
China, handled Swede Sofia Arvidsson 6-2, 6-2 at Ashe Stadium at the USTA
Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Radwanska will meet Russian Anastasia
Pavlyuchenkova on Friday.
Li was happy to beat the rain on Day 3.
"It's tough for them," she said, referring to all the players who still had
singles matches to complete. "For me, just relax all day and do whatever I
Also Wednesday, No. 30 seed Laura Robson of Great Britain beat France's
Caroline Garcia, 6-4, 7-6 (7-5); and a 32nd-seeded Pavlyuchenkova eased past
Aussie Ashleigh Barty 6-4, 6-0. Li will face Robson in the third round.
The 16-time Grand Slam champion Serena is a four-time U.S. Open champ and
two-time runner-up. She beat Victoria Azarenka in last year's final in
Flushing and is also the reigning French Open champ.
In addition to Serena's match against Voskoboeva, officials also postponed
matches involving No. 8 seed Angelique Kerber, No. 9 Jelena Jankovic and No.
25 Kaia Kanepi. Jankovic is a former No. 1 who lost to Serena in the 2008 U.S.
Open finale.
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Gilbert Stuart (painter)
American, 1755 - 1828
James Madison, c. 1821
oil on wood
overall: 65.3 x 54.3 cm (25 11/16 x 21 3/8 in.) framed: 88.9 x 79.4 x 12.1 cm (35 x 31 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.)
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Colonel George Gibbs [1776-1833], "Sunswick Farm," Astoria, New York;[1] his widow, Laura Wolcott Gibbs [1794-1870], New York;[2] sold through (Jacob Hart Lazarus [1822-1891], New York) in 1872 to Thomas Jefferson Coolidge [1831-1920], Boston;[3] his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge III [1893-1959], Boston;[4] his son, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge IV, Boston; sold 1979 to NGA.
[1] On Gibbs see George Gibbs, The Gibbs Family of Rhode Island and Some Related Families, New York, 1933, 18-21, Dictionary of American Biography, 20 vols., New York, 1928-1936, reprinted in 10 vols. with 8 supplements, New York, 1944-1988, 4 (part 1):244-245, and Stephen Dow Beckham, "Colonel George Gibbs," In Benjamin Silliman and his Circle: Studies on The Influence of Benjamin Silliman on Science in America, edited by Leonard G. Wilson, New York, 1979, 28-47. Tom Michie's research on these portraits (NGA curatorial files) has been very helpful in writing these entries.
[2] For her dates see Gibbs 1933, 21-25.
[3] Lazarus acted as the Gibbs' agent in the sale. After agreeing upon the price, he wrote Coolidge on 27 June 1872 that he was sending the portraits to Boston the next day with some documents concerning their history. These were his copies of letters written to Mrs. Gibbs in the 1850s certifying that the portraits were painted by Stuart for Colonel Gibbs (copies, NGA curatorial files). On Coolidge see Dictionary of American Biography, 2 (part 2):395, and Emma Downing Coolidge, Descendants of John and Mary Coolidge of Watertown, Massachusetts, Boston, 1930, 351.
[4] Coolidge 1930, 353; his father Thomas Jefferson Coolidge II died in 1912.
Associated Names
- Coolidge, III, Thomas Jefferson
- Coolidge, IV, Thomas Jefferson
- Coolidge, Thomas Jefferson
- Gibbs, George, Colonel
- Gibbs, Laura Wolcott
- Lazarus, Jacob Hart
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Just a my fiction, but if in the final season (Ending of Clementine story) we got a vaccine ( I know that Robert Kirkman says that naver happen in TWD world).
So you got a vaccine in our equipment, this vaccine can help newborn children to be be uninfected forever (only newborns). Vaccine works this way: If pregnant woman will injecting vaccine to her stomach at the second month of pregnancy, then her child will be uninfected forever, if he dies he will not turn, but bite is still deadly.
You flying away from military base who was attacked a horde of walkers, you planning to flying by big cargo plane with Clementine, and with pregnant girl-pilot ( for example Lilly who has got romance with main character, and gets pregnancy from him few days ago; Now is the first month of pregnancy ). Plane are ready to take off , but the cargo compartment is full of walkers. Clem, you, and pilot are in cockpit, you have closed the door to cockpit, and walkers can't get you in here. The engines included, you sit on second pilot place, and pull back on the steering wheel. The plane begins to take off. A pregnant girl-pilot opened the cargo compartment, and a lot of walkers are falling out of the plane. Suddenly door to cockpit has busted, and some walkers were going inside. Clementine pulled out a gun (Colt M1911) and says:
-"Don't worry I'll take care of this"
- You: "What? Hell no. That's dangerous, you can't do that! Sit here!"
- Clementine: "Of course I can, I'm ten years old, remember?" *smiles*
*bang* *bang*
The plane quickly begins to gain in height, and is tilted upward at a sharp angle. The last walker to enter the cockpit grabs Clementine by the leg. In a frantic moment, she grabs the handle to the cockpit door in a desperate attempt to stay alive, but not before forever losing her precious baseball cap to the current.
-Clementine: Aaaaaah... Aaaaah. HELP! PLEASE!
- You: "HOLD ON CLEM!"
You shoot the walker from your rifle, and caught her by her hand, you hold her in two hands.
*sad music starts* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iOiBH4xIbg
-Clementine *nearly crying*: "PLEASE, PLEASE DON'T LET ME GO!"
-You: "I hold you! Do you hear me?! I hold you! It's ok hun, it's ok, just hold on!"
Ampoule with vaccine are falling out of your pocket. *Time slows down* ( as like drugstore when you must choose Carley or Doug).
If you attempt to catch the ampoule with one hand, you are unable to hold onto Clementine, because you had got a bullet wound on your left shoulder one week ago. And so your precious symbol of innocence is lost forever.
If you continue to hold Clementine, the ampoule containing the vaccine falls out of the plane, effectively dooming the human race to a continuous cycle of infection.
You've got six seconds to make a choose *in slow motion* before the ampule wjth vaccine will falling out of you pocket.
If you will do nothing in this six seconds, Clem will noticing that ampule are falling out. Then she will looking to the vaccine, and saying "Goodbye", she will relaxing her hand, and falling down. You will catching ampule, then you will trying to grab Clem's hand, but it will too late.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Is there trouble within The Jonas Brothers?
They were supposed to start a tour tomorrow outside Philadelphia but they have called it off because of creative differences.
As of Tuesday, they were still planning on going, even tweeting a picture of a poster for the first stop.
The Jonas Brothers had intended to release their fifth album sometime before the end of the year — but the future of that is unclear.
Spokesman Jesse Derris tells People.com, "There is a deep rift within the band. There was a big a disagreement over their music direction."
Ticket holders have been offered refunds for the scrapped dates, but the future of The Jonas Brothers is not yet known. Derris adds, "It remains to be seen."
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When I attempt to install the ZCO it fails and gives an error stating that it was interrupted and could not be installed. The system is using Windows 7 Pro x64 and Office Home and Business 2010 x32. I've searched all over the place looking for solutions for this. I've uninstalled/reinstalled Office, I've repaired office, I remove add-ins from outlook everytime that it fails, I remove the profile when it fails if it gets added.
I've installed the ZCO on many systems but this is the first to give an issue. You'll see plenty of Failed to open DisplayName and Failed to read registry. Both of which I'm not sure how to handle with this installation. I attached the logfile since it's too large to put in the post.
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NFLST will black out any games carried by your local CBS or FOX stations. They have been doing this for as long as I can remember.
Right, but that means they are on your local channels so they can be seen.... confused by OP's comment, there are no "blackouts" outside of local market.


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|Release Date: July 20, 2007
|Running Time: 115 mins.
|MPAA Rating: PG
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|Genre: Adaptation, Music, Musical, Period, Satire
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Summary:Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion--dancing. Her dream is to appear on "The Corny Collins Show," Baltimore's hippest dance party on TV. Tracy seems a natural fit for the show except for one not-so-little problem--she doesn't fit in. Her plus-sized figure has always set her apart from the cool crowd, which she is reminded of by her loving but overly protective plus-sized mother, Edna. That doesn't stop Tracy because if there is one thing that this girl knows, it's that she was born to dance. After wowing Corny Collins at her high school dance, Tracy wins a spot on his show and becomes an instant on-air sensation, much to the chagrin of th... Full Summary >>
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WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- Because I help produce our new WUSA-9 show "Game On, Overtime" on Sunday's and am attending Wizards media day and the Nats game tomorrow, I won't have time for any extensive Redskins blogging until Tuesday.
But I couldn't resist posting this gem from Robert Griffin III's press conference following Washington's 24-22 win in Tampa Bay.
Asked about his late game heroics, the Redskins rookie quarterback spewed out the following gem.
"You try and rise to the occasion. Think about the movie called The Replacements ... they said 'great players want the ball in their hands when it's crunch-time.' It's funny I just quoted that movie," said Griffin as he and the media burst into laughter.
"But it's also funny that ... that's how it really is. It's true. You want the ball in your hands. When something has to happen, you make it happen. And that's what we did."
This guy is almost as good at delivering quotes as he is at being the best athlete in Washington D.C. Griffin also revealed during his presser that his headset was not working properly, meaning that the rookie was calling most of the plays on his own.
Rookie of the year honors as well as the pro bowl are certainly within reach for Griffin III, with 25 percent of the season now complete.
Oh, and by the way, his scrambling plays Sunday in Tampa during the first and fourth quarters were absolutely vital to the Redskins victory.


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"Each year when the first big snowfall comes, drivers are caught off guard," said Liz Peters, CAA public and government affairs manager.
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On Wednesday, Oct. 6, Viaero Wireless launched new Nationwide Plans with carry over minutes. Viaero also introduced new affordable messaging and data plans, and reduced prices on its Nationwide Unlimited plans.
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Day 3 - Women's place in the global development agenda took centre stage on the final day of the Women Deliver conference.
Sexual and reproductive health, gender equality and women's empowerment need to occupy a principal spot in the new framework that will succeed the Millennium Development Goals after 2015, keynote speakers emphasized.
That message resounded throughout the three days of Women Deliver, in multiple presentations on family planning, maternal health, adolescent girls, cervical cancer, sexuality, abortion and related issues, and in ministerial and parliamentarians forums held in parallel to the conference.
"Countries where women have rights and opportunity denied cannot maximize their development potential – that can't happen if half the population is not equally empowered," said Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. Read the Full Story
Day 2 - Enabling family planning use to empower girls and women and protect their health was the theme of day two of the Women Deliver conference. Nine months after developing countries, donors and civil society groups pledged to make voluntary contraception available to millions now lacking access, participants heard there has been significant progress towards that goal.
Keynote speakers were Melinda Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA. Both organizations were sponsors, along with the United Kingdom Government, of the London Summit on Family Planning last July.
There, 150 leaders agreed to work to provide contraceptive information, services and supplies to 120 million women in the world's 69 poorest countries, without coercion or discrimination, by 2020. "We have been working on a new approach that gives women what they really want," Ms. Gates told the meeting, sharing the story of a young Indian mother who chose family planning so she could properly feed and educate her four children.
"The reason we do this work is concrete and simple," she said. "Women tell us that having access to contraceptives will help them build a good life for themselves and their families."
"Family planning is an essential human right, but it is also a key that unlocks untold rewards for both individuals and nations," said Dr. Osotimehin. "The promise of London is energizing the international community, and UNFPA is determined to deliver on its own commitment to intensify investment in family planning," he promised. Read Full Story


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Millennium living calls for rescaling perspective
Making the best of less living space is what these economic times require
A new columnist
Christine Brun is a San Diego interior designer and an expert on making small spaces more flexible and functional. She writes a weekly syndicated column, "Small Spaces," and is the author of the book "Small Space Living."
Here we are more than a decade into the new millennium and nothing has gone according to plan. Housing markets are upside down, no one has the answers to what might be around the next corner, and most have watched the value of their home plummet. No more taking out equity loans to remodel, improve or even repair normal wear and tear on a house.
Even before the turn of the 21st century architect Sarah Susanka became one of the first to talk about the excesses of living large, writing "The Not So Big House" published in 1998. Many regions have found that the once ubiquitous suburban McMansions have become albatrosses while property values dip and energy and fuel costs rise, making living big less fun.
Lust for a six-bedroom, five-bathroom home with a three-car garage and expensive upkeep was waning even before top executives watched their well-remunerated positions evaporate. Of course many might consider a 3,000- or 3,800-square-foot house far from modest, but Susanka was making an observation about a shifting philosophy when she began her "Not So Big" franchise.
Everything is relative. I've personally been writing about spaces under 1,200 square feet for well over a decade now, and the subject suddenly seems very current. When all is said and done, a documented trend toward smaller home sizes in the U.S. has steadily gained momentum for about 20 years. Downsizing is always relative, but we see a lot of households shrinking in all price ranges and locations. I have worked with numerous clients who sold the 8,000-square-foot house to slip into something around 3,000 square feet instead.
Random emails come across my screen frequently from folks trying to unload a massive amount of very large-scale furniture at prices they will sadly never get. Resale shops begin pricing items at half of original retail and then continue to drop prices over the next few months. If the stuff doesn't move, they suggest that you donate it to a charity.
Many others have sold the long-lived-in family home that retains equity and relocated downtown into a condo with very little upkeep and no labor-intensive yards to maintain. First-time homebuyers may find themselves planted much longer in their starter home than they once might have found reasonable. Goals change, and we adapt to financial reality. Multigenerational living is also on the upswing in increasing numbers, placing demands on existing space.
According to financial guru Suzie Orman, millions of Americans would be more than happy just to get out from under their mortgages and return to the ranks of renters. Many recent college grads are attracted to cool urban rentals that range from as small as 450 square feet to 850 square feet. In Chicago, Dallas and Washington, D.C., high-rise living offers 30-somethings a tall order of amenities from communal Wi-Fi rooms, organized charity events and meals delivered to your doorstep. Others are stuck living at home for the near future but seem to have a future in mind that eliminates the need to own a home. Young people are more invested in living in the moment, and that fact will surely impact how the American housing industry moves forward from here.
It is noteworthy that when you look at history, we've been here many times before. The U.S. saw a financial panic in 1893 with a staggering 20 percent unemployment. Beginning with the collapse of railroads due to overbuilding and shaky financing in that industry, bank failures followed. Catastrophe ensued for textile mills in the northeast, coal mines and Western silver mines, some of which never reopened. From my perspective, the notable aspect of this bust was that it ushered in the demise of the imposing Victorian mansion.


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I read all of the FAQs and want to try doing a build for PPC Macs. The HOWTO is very straightforward (below), but the part where it says to download the source does not say where that might be hidden. I could not find it on the Community Edition pages or on the ZDesktop download page. Anyone know where it lives?
Building Zimbra Desktop on Macintosh (OS 10.4.6+)
0) if you have installed Zimbra Desktop binary builds, make sure you shutdown the GUI and the background service before proceeding.
1) install jdk 1.5 and ant 1.7
2) download zimbra source
3) cd into ZimbraOffline
4) run 'ant offline-reset-the-world'
5) at the end of a successful build, zimbra desktop dev build will be running
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1967 Chevy Camaro - Street ThugWritten by on August 15, 2007 For A Paltry $20k, This '67 Camaro Terrorizes The Streets And Runs 10.0 At The Track.
The Hoosiers stand no chance. Despite their massive 13.5 inches of girth, they're about to suffer some inclement pulverization. We're on the road trailing behind Rafel Wlazlo's '67 Camaro, searching for the ideal setting in which to bust out our camera gear. Suddenly, two 100-foot-long deposits of what used to be drag slicks appear a split second before the indignant rasp of a big-block bludgeons our eardrums. And that's from a 60 mph roll, folks. It's a terribly unscientific, yet gloriously entertaining, way of learning that the speed of light is indeed faster than the speed of sound. Teaching lessons is this car's specialty, and it's about to take us all to school on the art of going fast for cheap.
We'll make no bones about it. This car is presentable enough to qualify for a magazine story-but just barely. It's a fact we're willingly disclosing this time around, not due to objective journalistic integrity-you can't even get that with The New York Times-but because it represents the very essence of this Camaro. Take the front bumper delete and the missing RS-style headlamp covers. For those accustomed to more polished machines, it certainly takes a bit of getting used to. Some might even call it tasteless; however, there's rhyme and reason for these aesthetic transgressions. This is a car whose primary mission is putting maximum hurt on the competition for minimum hurt on the checkbook, and whose top priority is saving weight and money. The result: 10.08 at 133 mph for $20,000. The verdict: mission accomplished, and then some.
If competition improves the breed, then it's quite fitting that this Camaro calls the outskirts of Houston, Texas, home. Here, a plethora of sea-level dragstrips, a mild winter climate, lax vehicle inspection edicts (for classic cars), and wide-open public roads serve as an ideal cesspool for the proliferation of filthy street thugs. [Please, no letters, we're taking creative license.-ed.] In this hostile region, 11-second street cars are for your wife, and solid 10s are a must if you wanna stand a chance on game day. Nonetheless, Rafel wanted to play, and step one was finding a suitable vehicle. "I wanted the easiest route possible to run 10s on pump gas with a street car, so small-blocks were out of the picture," he explains. "Chevelles are too heavy, and Chevy IIs require too much work to fit a big-block into, so I bought a '67 Camaro about nine years ago." As a former street racer, the car's fenders, quarter-panels, hood, and trunk all needed to be replaced. It then got sprayed with PPG Galaxy Silver paint. Another $3,500 later, the Camaro looked much better, but it still wasn't ready for prime time.
Paint and bodywork are two of the few things Rafel doesn't do himself; consequently, the $3,500 it cost him was the most extravagant sum of the entire project. Conversely, he put his resourcefulness to work to score a used GM 502 short-block for $800. Since the plan called for building a naturally aspirated, moderate-rpm motor, he kept the factory cast crank and rods and mated them up to forged 10.0:1 Lunati pistons. After cleaning up the block with a .020-inch overbore, he assembled the short-block himself for a total of $3,950, which includes the price of the machine work. Like many Rat motor buffs on a budget, Rafel opted for a set of GM 049 iron oval-port heads. For $1,200, he had the bowls touched up and 2.19/1.88-inch stainless valves installed. They're fed by a used $200 Dart intake manifold, which he ported himself. "Making good transition from plenum to runners is usually where the power is, and I also put a thermal coating on the bottom of the intake to keep inlet air temperatures low," Rafel explains. A mild 252/263-at-.050 Lunati hydraulic roller cam ensures decent driveability, and the finished product pumps out 626 hp on the engine dyno. Overall, the entire motor was built for about $6,000. "To me, a real street motor runs on pump gas and has a hydraulic cam. Who wants to adjust their valves all the time on a street car?"
Although they ensure some hefty demerits in the style department, more strokes of ingenuity are evident when it comes to the motor's supporting hardware. The 2-inch Hooker headers are rusty eyesores, but they get the job done and only cost $150 at a swap meet (including the collectors). Rafel built the custom 3.5-inch X-pipe himself, and hooked it up to a set of MagnaFlow mufflers. Under the hood, a home-fabbed sheetmetal scoop feeds the motor with a fresh supply of air. "It's just some cheesy sheetmetal, nothing fancy, but I wanted to test it out at the track and it picked up a solid tenth and 1 mph," he explains.
Painstaking efforts were made throughout the car's buildup to keep mass to a minimum, which pays big dividends in the driveline setup. In addition to the aforementioned front bumper delete, there are lightweight Bogart aluminum wheels and a fiberglass hood and trunk lid. Likewise, tailpipes and inner-front fenderwells are nowhere to be found. "The fenderwells are pretty darn heavy-they probably weigh 25 pounds each-and it's not like I'm going to drive the car very much in the rain anyways," Rafel says. "Since the motor is all iron, I had to compensate for the extra weight wherever I could." The result is a package that tips the scales at 3,130 pounds, which allows running lighter-duty driveline components and further reduces mass. Instead of a heavier and hungrier TH400, a built TH350 trans backs up the 502, and is plenty stout for the job. In lieu of a bigger and less efficient 9-inch rearend, a 12-bolt transmits power to the wheels without sucking up as much horsepower. Moreover, not only is the spool lighter than a locker diff, it's cheaper to boot. "If you go through my car part-by-part, every measure was taken to cut down on weight."
While it plays on the street, Rafel's Camaro was tuned at the track with plenty of backwoods experimentation. During its first time out at the dragstrip, it could only muster 60-foot times in the 1.7- to 1.8-second range. "The car wouldn't hook up at all, so I installed a looser torque converter and made some custom traction bars that hit right under the spring eyes," he explains. The tweaks were good for 1.4-second 60-foot times and 10-flat in the quarter. "This has never been a car that 60-foots that well, which has a lot to do with the tall 3.73s I run so it can cruise comfortably on the freeway. I'm fabbing up a new set of traction bars, which I hope will get the car into the 9s."
Without even trying, Rafel has co-authored a short essay on how to get great speed for little money by simply filling out a techsheet about his car. The theme of resourcefulness that repeatedly manifests itself from bumper to bumper probably atones for the car's rough edges to any reasonable judge. Oh wait, there is no front bumper, but by now you probably don't care. It suits the car's street thug persona just fine.
Where The Money Went
Knocking on the 9-second window for $20K is pretty impressive in anyone's book, but even more so with a First Gen Camaro. And that's a real-deal figure without a load of freebies skewing the numbers on the low side. Rafel's great at snagging good deals on used parts and fabbing parts in his garage, which accounts for most of the low-buck items. Of the little money that went into the project, here's how it was spent.
|1967 Camaro
|$2,500 (1998)
|Paint and body
|12-bolt, rear leafs, rear shocks
|Traction bars
|Aerospace discs
|QA1 front coilovers
|Custom rollbar
|ATI converter
|Used 502 short-block
|Machine work
|Lunati cam
|Crane lifters
|Lunati pistons
|Rings and bearings
|Lunati timing set
|Fel-Pro gaskets
|GM 049 heads
|Lunati valvesprings
|Lunati rockers
|BLP pushrods
|Moroso oil pan
|Dart intake
|Hooker headers
|Fuel system
|Racing buckets
|Lukovich driveshaft
|Griffin radiator
|Weiand water pump
|Wheels and tires
|Misc. interior trim
By The Numbers
'67 Chevy Camaro
Rafel Wlazlo * League City, TX
Rearwheel horsepower: 626 hp at 6,200 rpm
Best ET: 10.08 at 133 mph
Total cost to build: $20,000
|502 Chevy big-block, 4.467-inch bore
|Factory GM
|Moroso pump and pan
|Rotating assembly:
|cast GM 4.000-inch crank,
cast GM 6.135-inch rods,
forged 10.0:1 Lunati pistons
|Cylinder heads:
|ported GM 049 iron castings,
2.19/1.88-inch stainless steel valves,
113cc chambers
|Lunati 252/263-at-0.050 hydraulic roller,
.612/.611-inch lift, 110-degree LSA
|Crane lifters, Lunati springs
and 1.7:1 rockers
|Dart intake manifold, 1-inch open spacer,
Barry Grant 1,000-cfm carburetor
|Hooker 2-inch headers, custom X-pipe
with 3.5-inch collectors,
dual MagnaFlow mufflers
|Griffin radiator,
Weiand Team G water pump,
Jeg's electric fan
|626hp at 6,200 rpm,
627 lb-ft at 4,500 rpm
|Built by:
|Rafel Wlazlo
|Mike Kurtz-built TH350,
ATI 2,500-stall converter,
manual valvebody, Hurst shifter
|Rear axle:
|GM 12-bolt rearend,
Moser 33-spline axles, 3.73:1 gears, spool
|Front suspension:
|QA1 coilovers,
Energy Suspension bushings,
sway bar delete
|Rear suspension:
|Calvert monoleafs,
Strange adjustable shocks,
custom subframe connectors and traction bars
|Aerospace 11-inch discs,
front; stock drums, rear
|Bogart Dragonfly Star 15x3.5
(2.25-inch backspace), front;
15x10 (5.5-inch backspace), rear
|Hoosier 26x7.5x15, front;
Hoosier 28x13.5x15, rear


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I think Winchester hit a home run for the ultimate Western Deer & Antelope Rifle in the .264 Win Mag. I will say if you don't reload look elsewhere. I just last year redid my Model 70 in H S Precision Stock & Cerakote & I could not be happier.
I think Winchester hit a home run for the ultimate Western Deer & Antelope Rifle in the .264 Win Mag. I will say if you don't reload look elsewhere. I just last year redid my Model 70 in H S Precision Stock & Cerakote & I could not be happier.
What did the coating cost ya? I went with a bell and carleson stock (military brown with black splatter) and would like to match the action and barrel after fluting is done.
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Wow. Thats almost a duplicate of the stock I ordered! Looks killer. I have been trying to find someone local to do the coating but no luck yet.
Fantastic caliber and super rifle. Handloading is just about a must; finding any factory ammo is tough but not impossible. The only thing I don't care for in most of the magnum rifles is the 24/26 inch barrel length on most of them. I prefer shorter barrels no longer than 22 inches.
I'm a believer in the 6.5 caliber (260/6.5x284), but not so much the 264 bc I'd rather use that much case capacity to push heavier bullets. Having said that I'm kicking around the idea of getting a 6.5wsm made in an ultralight rifle.
I've taken most of the game in my album with my favorite rifle, originally a 300WM but now a 264WM. I've had excellent terminal performance at a variety of ranges from the 140gr accubond and more recently the 140gr Berger VLD. I truly prefer the performance of the accubond but the Berger cut my groups in half and improved my hits at longer range especially in the wind. I cuss the Berger for doing what it is supposed to rather than exiting but nothing I've shot with it has traveled over 30yds. The 270WSM and 264WM have shown identical excellent terminal performance with the 140gr accubond for me. Biggest disadvantage of the 264 is that it requires a longer rifle to shine. Mine has a 25" barrel but longer adds speed.
For a short easy packing mountain muley or sheep gun, the 270WSM is hard to beat. For real long shots with current bullets the 264WM is darn hard to beat. I love them both.
I think both the 270WSM and 264 will benefit from the new long range accubond when it becomes available. I'm right now in the process of getting my dad's old rifle re-build into a 270 win designed around the 150gr LRAB. After weighing the parts it should be right at 8.36lbs scoped, slung, loaded, and ready to hunt.


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Holts Landing is an undiscovered facet of the Diamond State's park system. The 203-acre area contains a variety of beautiful landscapes, from bay shore beach to grassy fields and hardwood forests. Historically, the shores of the inland bays were home to native Americans, who harvested seafood and hunted in the surrounding marshes and forests. After the European settlers arrived, agriculture developed slowly around the "little bays."
The property that is now Holts Landing State Park has a long recorded history as a small family farm. The Holt family maintained a farm with a bayshore boat landing on this site until 1957, when the property was sold to the state highway department. Then, in 1965, the first parcel of land was transferred to the State Park Commission, forming Holts Landing State Park.
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Flu season is underway
Published: Wednesday, October 9, 2013 at 6:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at 5:57 p.m.
The flu season has started, and along with it come the usual admonitions from the medical community.
Questions and answers
• What is the flu?
Influenza (flu) is contagious, affects the lungs and can lead to serious illness, including pneumonia. The "flu season" generally starts in October and peaks around the beginning of the year.
• Who should get a flu shot?
Everyone 6 months and older.
• What if I don't like shots?
Ask about nasal spray flu vaccine.
• Where can I inquire about shots or nasal spray?
Check your doctor's office, health clinics, retail stores, pharmacies, your workplace and schools.
• I got a shot last year. Do I need another?
Yes. Flu viruses are constantly changing and the flu vaccines may be updated. Also, immune protection declines after awhile.
• What other precautions should I take?
Stay away from sick people. Wash your hands to reduce spreading germs. If you are sick with the flu, stay home.
Get a flu shot. Stay home if you're sick. Wash your hands. No, really, wash them.
The flu season generally runs October to January or February. Dr. Art Osberg, chief medical officer for Ocala Health, said he has heard reports of a scattering of local cases so far, but it's still early.
Dr. Lon McPherson, senior vice president of medical affairs and chief quality officer for Munroe Regional Medical Center, had a similar report.
"We're already starting to see some sporadic cases" consistent with influenza, he said.
Keetha Kratzer, with Munroe's Infection Control Department, said 20 patients were tested for influenza in September and two tests returned positive. The test is useful but doesn't catch all cases.
Each year in the United States anywhere from 5 percent to 20 percent of the population gets the flu. More than 200,000 people are hospitalized and, between 1976 and 2006, there were anywhere from 3,000 to 49,000 deaths per year, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Getting a flu shot is considered critical — not just for the person him or herself, but for the people who interact with that person.
"Between 135 million and 139 million doses of (flu) vaccine are being produced," the CDC reports on its website. "Everyone 6 months of age and older should get their yearly flu vaccine, ideally by October."
"Ideally" is the key word. In Marion County, the Heart of Florida Health Center has ordered 1,500 doses but had only administered about 300 as of Tuesday.
Most people don't roll up their sleeves until November or December. Their inspiration: They know someone who got the flu.
But it's better to act sooner than later, officials say. McPherson noted that it takes two weeks for the flu vaccine's protective properties to fully kick in, and those properties diminish over time.
Count Suzanne Marcantoni among the believers.
"I do plan on getting one (a flu shot,) and soon," said Marcantoni, 60, of Fort McCoy. She is a college teacher and last year was felled by viral meningitis.
Though not related to flu season, the recent virus outbreak at East Marion Elementary School should remind people how quickly trouble can spread.
"The potential for something to happen is always there," said Kerrie Jones Clark, CEO at Heart of Florida.
Heart of Florida is administering shots only to its established patients. Others should check with their doctors or at local pharmacies and retail stores. Seniors age 65 and older are also encouraged to get a pneumonia shot.
Ocala Health, which includes Ocala Regional Medical Center and West Marion Community Hospital, takes a strong internal stand on flu shots — not just for employees, but for anyone who might come into contact with patients: vendors, volunteers and so on.
As of Tuesday about 1,400 such shots had been administered. Any employee who can't get the vaccination, for whatever reason, will have to wear a mask when around patients starting Nov. 1.
Munroe reports a high vaccination rate for staff. "Every year it gets a bit easier," McPherson said.
And if employees are sick, they stay home. Period.
Nationally, the flu shot message also is falling on increasingly receptive ears. The CDC estimates that 56.6 percent of children ages 6 months to 17 got a flu shot during the 2012-2013 season — an increase of 5.1 percentage points from the previous year.
As for adults, 41.5 percent got a shot, up 2.7 points from 2011-12.
"In total, 45 percent of the entire U.S. population age 6 months and older was vaccinated during the 2012-13 season," the CDC said in a news release.
The vaccinations are most popular in the older (65 plus) population and among young children, who receive a shot or nasal mist as part of routine health care, the CDC said.
The Florida Department of Health in Marion County (formerly the Marion County Health Department) is giving flu shots to kids through age 18 as part of the Vaccines for Children program, which helps kids who are covered by Medicaid, have no health insurance, or have insurance that does not cover immunizations.
The department also takes care of adults being seen in its special clinics, but since it no longer has primary care clinics, it does not give flu shots to the general public.
Aside from the flu shot, "hand washing is always the top thing" for flu prevention, said Levonda Goodson, practice manager at Heart of Florida.
Health officials can't emphasize this enough, and note that even people who think they are diligent should be mindful.
Soap up and wash for at least 20 seconds, about the time it takes to sing the Happy Birthday song twice. Help children learn and follow this routine.
If you are sick, "take precautions to protect other people," Ocala Health's Osberg said.
And remember that influenza can be sneaky as well as debilitating.
"You can actually be contagious one day prior" to showing symptoms, Munroe's Kratzer said.
Government shutdown
The federal shutdown hasn't stopped the flu, but it has slowed down the people responsible for tracking it.
This notice is posted on the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website:
"Influenza surveillance reports for the United States are usually posted online weekly at http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly. Due to the lapse in government funding, regular updates to the CDC Influenza website, including the weekly FluView report and updates to guidance for clinicians, will not be possible. CDC will not be routinely analyzing surveillance data nor testing laboratory specimens submitted as part of routine surveillance."
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
For more information
• http://www.cdc.gov/flu
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