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The war on the word 'marriage'
Marriage | Though gay rights advocates said they didn't want to change the definition of marriage, change it they did
"The war on the word 'marriage'" Continued...
Last year when the debate about same-sex marriage raged through America and Britain, there was widespread concern regarding the cultural consequences of changing the definition of marriage. In response to these concerns, the gay rights lobby frequently denied that the meaning of marriage was hanging in the balance.
"We are not wanting to change the definition of marriage," the champions of gay marriage would repeatedly point out. "We simply want to expand the pool of people eligible to get married."
Now that the dust has settled, it has become undeniable that they did want to change the definition of marriage, with far-reaching cultural consequences.
'Not make it different'
Faced with apologists for traditional marriage like Brian Brown, Maggie Gallagher, and Jennifer Roback Morse who kept maintaining that if same-sex unions became marriages it would change the definition of the word, the advocates of "marriage equality" routinely dismissed such anxieties as conservative scare-mongering without actually refuting the grounds of those concerns. When the gay rights lobby did bother to interact with these apprehensions at all, they argued that these concerns were not only needless, but also based on a confusion of categories.
Kris Perry, plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Hollingsworth v. Perry, summarized this thinking when she declared, "We want access to something without changing it. We want to be able to have what others have. Not make it different."
The gay rights activist group Freedom to Marry was equally clear when it announced on its website, "Allowing committed gay and lesbian couples to get married does not change the meaning of marriage."
This was echoed by another action group, Marriage Equality USA, when it publicly declared, "We are not asking the gov't to change marriage."
Indeed, up through mid 2013, transatlantic advocates of same-sex marriage all gave unanimous testimony to the fact that their work had nothing to do with definition changing.
Dictionary hacking
Well, almost unanimous. Within the ranks of gay marriage champions there was one group that took a more radical—and, I would argue, more honest—approach. HACKmarriage, an anonymous group based in San Francisco, existed for the sole purpose of vandalizing dictionaries to remove the traditional conjugal definition of marriage. On its website, HACKmarriage announced that its mission is: "Hacking dictionaries to update the meaning of marriage."
"We envision a city where every library and every bookstore has a hacked dictionary that reflects this more accurate meaning of marriage," a representative for HACKmarriage said. "Because when our definitions change, we change. As a people, as a culture, as a society."
To facilitate this, HACKmarriage provided stickers to place in dictionaries to cover over the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman. The sticker reads:
"mar•riage /'marij/ n.1 the formal union of two people by which they become partners for life."
Two rival understandings
Though the difference between the two definitions is only a matter of a few words, it is crucial. The conjugal definition asserts that marriage is a union between a man and a woman, whereas the revisionist definition asserts that marriage is a union of two persons.
Each of these competing definitions is shorthand for an implied network of understandings that extend beyond the definition itself. (For more information about this, see my series of articles for the Colson Center on the meaning of marriage.) In the conjugal understanding—although our concept of marriage involves a degree of cultural relativity—at its core marriage is something specific, namely a sexually dimorphous union publicly recognized because of its potential fecundity. By contrast, the revisionist understanding also asserts that at its core marriage is something specific, namely a union of consenting persons (or adults) who commit to romantic partnership and domestic life. (Some revisionists like Andrew Koppelman have gone even further to say that marriage does not refer to something specific at all because it is entirely culturally relative; therefore marriage is a social construct and can mean whatever we choose for it to mean.)
The Oxford English Dictionary capitulates
In June 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two rulings that paved the way for same-sex couples to get legally married in certain American states. Quick on the heels of these rulings, in July 2013, the government of Great Britain passed a law to bring same-sex marriage to England and Wales.
Shortly after these rulings, the job of changing the dictionaries was taken out of the hands of "dictionary terrorists" and embraced by the elite institution that publishes dictionaries. Seven days after Britain's same-sex marriage bill received royal assent, the Gay Star News website reported that a spokesperson for the Oxford English Dictionary had told the site it would consider changing the definition of marriage. At the time, the prestigious multi-volume dictionary defined marriage as the "formal union of a man and a woman, typically as recognized by law, by which they become husband and wife."
It didn't take long for the Oxford English Dictionary to make good on its promise to revamp the definition of marriage. On Aug. 23, the UK newspaper The Times reported that the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary had updated the definition of marriage, as had the online dictionaries of Collins and Macmillan. The Oxford dictionary now includes "long-term relationships between partners of the same sex" within the definition of marriage. Successive print editions of these dictionaries will reflect the change.
This is significant, since the Oxford English Dictionary is considered authoritative for the English language and is often appealed to in debates about words.
The online version of Collins dictionary changed its definition from the legal union or contract "made by a man and a woman to live as husband and wife" to one "made by two people to live together." The online version of Macmillan's dictionary still defines marriage as a "relationship between two people who are husband or wife" but adds "or a similar relationship between people of the same sex." Michael Rundell, editor-in-chief for Macmillan's dictionary, said that the definitions for "husband" and "wife" might also be subject to change in the days ahead.
Bring on gay marriage, but leave definitions alone
These changes should leave myriad English-speakers feeling cheated. Many people supported the campaign to legalize gay marriage because they honestly believed this campaign had nothing to do with changing the definition of marriage. One of the reasons we know this is because a 2013 Fox News poll discovered that only 39 percent of Americans were in favor of "changing the definition of the word marriage to also include same-sex couples," yet the same poll found that 46 percent of Americans were in favor of "legalizing same-sex marriage." In other words, tens of thousands of Americans wanted gay marriage brought to the nation but wanted the definition of marriage left alone.
I'm not making this up. Here is the exact wording of the poll with the results:
Would you approve or disapprove of changing the definition of the word marriage to also include same-sex couples?
- 39% Approve
- 56% Disapprove
- 5% Don't Know
Do you favor or oppose legalizing same-sex marriage?
- 46% Favor
- 47% Opposed
- 7% Don't Know
Clearly the way the question was worded was crucial, and it shows that 10 percent of Americans who favor same-sex marriage are against changing the definition of marriage. We may puzzle at this, for it is hardly a very complicated point that since marriage has previously meant "a union of a man and a woman," two people of the opposite sex just can't enter into this state unless marriage is first redefined to mean something else. But logic has featured very little in the debates over same-sex marriage, with the result that the homosexual lobby was able to persuade vast swabs of the public that there is no necessary relation between legalizing same-sex marriage, on the one hand, and changing the definition of the word marriage, on the other.
It's not that this persuasion occurred by anyone actually sitting down and constructing a series of premises that had as its conclusion the fact that legalizing gay marriage has no necessary relation to changing the definition of marriage. It was more that this was just assumed as an unspoken foundation to all the other categories that were employed in the public conversation. Because the revisionist understanding of marriage has been assumed on an implicit and operational level, champions of gay marriage could then say they did not favor changing the definition of marriage, for they had already changed it in their starting assumptions. (When a person smuggles their conclusion into the premises of the argument leading to that conclusion, this often gives the impression that they have made a case, even though all they have done is to argue in a circle.)
Equal access?
Arguments about "equal access" are an example of what I mean when I say that the gay lobby simply assumed the definition of marriage that, ostensibly, they were arguing for. The whole notion that homosexuals should be allowed "equal access" to the institution of marriage depended on maintaining some degree of continuity with the norms of an existing institution. This presence of continuity enabled advocates of gay marriage to form arguments in explicitly quantitative terms, as if they merely favored an expansion in the pool of people eligible to get married, rather than trying to qualitatively alter the very essence of marriage itself.
This type of inclusive rhetoric has a very powerful instinctive appeal to Americans. Because of certain dark parts of our history, we naturally revolt against the idea of excluding a certain people group from any institution. The problem, of course, is that homosexuals are only being excluded from marriage, if we start by assuming the revisionist definition of marriage in the first place. For on the traditional understanding, no one is stopping homosexuals from getting married, since they are allowed to marry someone of the opposite sex. (The fact that they do not want to do this is no more relevant to the question than whether the pope wants to marry. Just as we shouldn't feel the need to change the definition of marriage to include celibacy so that the pope can have "equal access" to the institution, so we shouldn't feel the need to change the definition of marriage so that homosexuals can begin to want access to it.)
In this way, those who were agitating for change implicitly assumed the revisionist understanding of marriage (i.e., that marriage does not mean a union of a man and a woman but, rather, a union of persons regardless of gender) and then proceeded to debate on that basis of that assumption. The conclusion of the argument had been smuggled into the terms of the argument itself, which meant that the argument was little more than the announcement: "We don't agree with the conjugal definition of marriage." The problem is that announcements are no more arguments than denials are refutations.
The conversation that might have been
Because the gay rights lobby has been less than candid about its aims and methods (i.e., that they had already introduced a de facto change in the definition of marriage and were attempting to change it de jure), they were able to short-circuit many key questions that might otherwise have been part of the public conversation during the seminal Supreme Court battles.
If instead of repeating "We're not trying to change the definition of marriage" ad infinitum, the gay rights lobby had openly acknowledged that its rhetoric already assumed the revisionist definition, then there could have been a vibrant discussion on whether gay rights advocates were making historical or normative claims about the revisionist understanding. That is, the public could have inquired whether the gay lobby was claiming that marriage simply ought to mean the union of persons (a normative claim), or whether it was claiming that marriage always has meant the union of persons even though not everyone has realized this until recently (an historical claim).
Had there been a discussion on this question, it is likely that the champions of same-sex marriage would have been pushed into acknowledging the second of these options: that marriage always has referred to the union of persons. This would be comparative to saying that sponges have always fallen under the definition of an animal even though people used to mistakenly think that sponges were plants. But, as I pointed out in a blog post for Salvo magazine, to take this position is essentially to claim that the union of a man and woman has always been a variant of the union of persons; that biology and the possibility of reproduction were never at the core of what marriage is but additions to it; that consummation was never central to the completion of a marriage since only practical when the "union of persons" happened to be members of the opposite sex; that "man and wife" were never something that made a relationship a marriage but were always a species of the genus "union of persons"; that for thousands of years people were marrying and being given in marriage without truly understanding what it was they were entering.
Why definitions matter
Changing the definition of marriage from the conjugal understanding to the revisionist understanding was an important goal of the same-sex lobby, but it was not its main goal. The primary objective was the normalization of same-sex relationships through legal and societal recognition. Changing the definition of marriage (first implicitly and then explicitly) was both a means to this end and a by-product of it.
One of the reasons it was so easy to impose the revisionist understanding on both America and Britain is because the groundwork had already been laid in the middle of the last century when marriage ceased to be understood as organically connection to procreation. When you've been treating marriage as little more than a romantic relationship between two persons for about 60 years, it becomes difficult to really appreciate why gender dimorphism or complementarity is essential rather than accidental to marriage. Even so, this should not minimize the significance of the fact that the revisionist definition is now being formally imposed.
But does this really matter? Why should we be concerned that dictionaries are changing the definition of marriage, as long as we know what we mean by it?
We should be concerned because the way we define words change how we think about each other and the world itself. Neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists are discovering that speech does not merely proceed from our thoughts like a one-way street—there is also traffic flowing in the other direction. How we speak affects how we think about the world on a level that our conscious minds may never even be aware.
Consider the different views of humanity subtly implicated by describing a baby as a "fetus" versus calling it "a human being created in the image of God." Or even consider the implication of calling a baby an "it," as I just did in the last sentence. While these alternative ways of talking about a baby may be equally true on a purely factual level, they convey an entirely different sense.
Lera Boroditsky, professor of psychology at Stanford University, has noted, "[T]he structures in languages (without our knowledge or consent) shape the very thoughts we wish to express." Boroditsky has shown that even the parts of speech that we take for granted, like how we conjugate verbs, can play a subliminal role on how we perceive the world and other people. Similarly, in his bestseller Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell explored how the way we speak from infancy has an effect on how we view the world. In his book The Brain that Changes Itself, Norman Doidge took this even further by showing that the way we speak alters the actual neurocircuitry in our brains. Nicholas Carr echoed this in his book The Shallows, demonstrating that throughout history the way we communicate alters how we perceive the world on a precognitive level. James Davison Hunter summed it all up in his book To Change the World: "Language, the most basic system of symbols, provides the primary medium through which people apprehend their conscious experience in the world."
What these and many other scholars are trying to help us realize is that language doesn't just describe what we think about the world, it is also a lens by which we understand and interpret the world around us often without even realizing it.
That is why we should be concerned about the uncritical acceptance of the new revisionist definition of marriage throughout English-speaking culture. It isn't just a matter of semantics, but it involves an entirely different understanding of relationships, family, and even what it means to be human.
To deny is to deny is to refute
I have suggested that champions for same-sex marriage were reluctant to acknowledge that there even was a battle over definitions since their case for "equal access" depended on maintaining some degree of continuity with the norms of an existing institution. Indeed, they wanted to appear to be appropriating to themselves the norms of the traditional understanding without having the courage to admit that they were restructuring, rearranging, and changing the institution itself. While those lobbying for gay marriage frequently denied the concerns of those who believed the definition of marriage was at stake, they did not actually refute the grounds of those concerns.
Or did they? While conducting research for this article, I discovered that at the same time as Collins announced that its dictionary would be changing the definition of marriage, another less-publicized change was also quietly implemented. The verb "refute" would no longer mean to simply disprove, but would now be synonymous with deny. (The Collins Dictionary adds a note that this new sense of "refute" should be avoided in formal contexts.)
Thus, if I make a case for a certain proposition, and you deny that proposition, you can now say, quite literally, that you have refuted me, regardless of whether you have actually developed a counter-argument. Simply announcing that you disagree with me is an action that now falls under the semantic range of the verb "refute." Indeed, if the new Collins dictionary is to be believed, the difference between refutation and denial will now occupy the dustbin of history along with the conjugal definition of marriage.


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Luis Mendoza was scheduled to start tomorrow, but he came in today with strep throat. Yost said, "With the off day (yesterday), we can bump everyone up and keep them on regular rest and be alright. So (Bruce) Chen will be (starting) tomorrow and then (Jeremy) Guthrie on Thursday. He (Mendoza) will be somewhere in the Cleveland series (this weekend) if he is feeling up to it, but we will see where his strength is and see how he feels and if we need to skip him throughout the whole turn, we can."
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This past Tuesday, the National Mall was closed to you and me, but open to an immigration rally. A spokesperson saying the National Park Service gave it the OK, all because of the groups rights under the First Amendment.
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Results are up on IDFG website............. anyone draw good tags?
Results are up on IDFG website............. anyone draw good tags?
Nothing for me.
Out of 12 hunts that 3 of us put in for as a group. We ended up with 3 early Archery Antelope tags.
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I drew an unlimited tag. WooHoo!
Ain't it funny how even though we basically got skunked it's still a little exciting knowing we drew a tag anyone who put in for got?
I drew unit 40 archery buck, question is can I find that velvet buck that has more than 2 points???
Hoochie, there should not be any problem with that. I have had that tag a couple of time and was trying to get it again this year. I feel the key to that tag is to HUNT the 1st 10 days of that tag before the general season 2-pt./doe fiasco begins with all the Treasure Valley "Less than" elite bowhunters show up out there. Go scout now and keep an eye on the bucks. A friend went out last weekend and saw 13 bucks in a group all good velvet growth and starting their 4th's and some with more points.
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Ive had a chance to get out scouting twice, and im finding alot of does with 2 & 3 fawns... Looks like the big boys have been productive I guess. Anyway i found that a spotting scope is gonna be the key in unit 40 for sure. Any tips on where to go? Ive been up reynolds, and part way up silver city rd. Also im looking to video mine or anybody elses hunts. Call me crazy but I love this ?#@%
In years past Silver City road, up nearer the city has not produced much deer. They are there, but so thin. The only way I have known them to be there is tracks, as I have never seen one in person in that area. I worked for BLM for a while and spent a lot of time in that area....saw lots of cows...like cow cows and tracks of deer. We used to joke about the ghost deer that roamed the hills leaving tracks.
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It takes a special kind of person to be willing to dig through the garbage on a regular basis. Thanks to a partnership with Portland State University, this week marks the tenth year that those special people have been making a difference at Portland International Airport. Through PSU's Community Environmental Services program, student consultants work for the Port of Portland in one- or two-year terms and work alongside Port staff to gain experience solving real-life waste management problems. Although they serve all Port facilities, they focus on the Port's primary waste generator - PDX. The airport is like a small city with 10,000 employees and 35,000 people passing through every day. It's a unique setting for developing innovative and creative waste solutions on a large-scale.
Through the students' long-standing support, the Port has made incredible strides in reducing waste. They have played a large role in designing and implementing PDX's waste collection systems and composting program. They have been involved in researching recycling options for coffee cups, conducting waste assessments for airlines and airport terminal tenants and holding annual clean up events for tenants to find ways to recycle and repurpose large and bulky items. Most recently, the students helped launch a highly successful food donation program through St. Vincent dePaul of Portland and helped redesign liquid collection stations at security checkpoints, dramatically increasing their use by travelers.
The partnership truly provides benefits for both the Port and PSU students. "I attribute the longevity and success of this program to two things: the Port's impressive commitment to keep pushing the needle forward on these issues, and the great students that CES continues to attract. I can't think of a better embodiment of PSU's motto, 'Let Knowledge Serve the City,'" says Eric T. Crum, director of the CES program.
Although the program has been in place for many years, there is no typical day for a CES student working at the Port. They do everything from collecting and managing data, to running outreach and education campaigns, to rolling their sleeves up and conducting waste sorts that determine where there are opportunities for program improvements. Their versatility is invaluable and we look forward to another ten years of success and collaboration.
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One of the most memorable parts of the International Woodworking Fair (IWF) in Atlanta last week was stumbling upon the Wood Werks Supply booth. This woodworking supply house in Columbus, Ohio, sells, among other things, Powermatic's PM2000 cabinet saw. Big deal—a lot of places sell that machine, right? But at Wood Werks, their "Powermatic Customs" program allows you to trick out your saw before they ship it. Read more


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Wanna make a dumb football wager? Then bet against Mark Cuban's new pro football league. I know, I know. Its insane. It's fool's gold. It's a pipe dream. It's egomaniacal. Rich people thinking they can do whatever they wish. Some sort of sporting equivalent of Paris Hiltons Get Out Of Jail Free card.
But Ill tell you what (or who) else I know: I know Mark Cuban. And I wouldnt wager against him as a football owner. Nor would I wager against you as a football fan.
Im not worried, Cuban tells TheRanchReport.com. If we get good ownership, the right ownership, it will be easy.
Cuban and I go back 14 years. And it was way back then when he told me about his broadcast.com idea, and I joked to him that he would need some luck trying to convince people to convert their $2000 computers into $20 transistor radios. Then came word that the business was about to be sold to Yahoo.com, and I scoffed about speculation that Cubes would become a billionaire. Then Mark confirmed to me that he planned to buy the NBAs Dallas Mavericks, and when word arrived that hed spend more than $250 mil to do so, I advised him that hed be overpaying for such a downtrodden franchise in such a struggling league.
So you think now Im going to joke? Or scoff? Or advise? Or bet against him?
The facts: Wall Street investor Bill Hambrect is gathering up some wealthy chums to compete with the NFL with something called the United Football League. Cuban will likely be an owner. Action to start in August 2008. Teams in available markets like Los Angeles, Mexico City and Las Vegas (where Cuban might be the owner). Games on Friday nights.
Conventional wisdom and every newspaper columnist, TV foof, radio voice and blogosphere typist is insisting it cannot work. For fun (and because in my time with Cuban, conventional wisdom has rarely been applicable) lets take another tact: Lets discuss 10 reasons why it MIGHT work.
10) Each owner will put up $30 million to own half the team. No group ownerships. No divergent levels of commitment. One man. One team. Commitment.
9) The other halves of the franchises will eventually be sold to fans. Your shares will make YOU an owner of a pro football team. Tell me you havent always wanted that!
8) Critics cite the failures of other pro football leagues (like the silly XFL). Many even cite the failure of the Arena League. Newsflash: That is not a failure. I told Cuban I think a league competing on that level can succeed; he doesnt want that. He wants to shoot for the top. OK, but for now.
Arena League-level football during the NFL season in non-NFL cities is worth a shot.
7) Put it on TV, somebody will watch. Were watching Spelling Bees. Were watching dating shows. A few of us are kind of still watching hockey. In this day and age, TV makes events vibrant. Football on TV ALWAYS works. Oh, and by the way: Cuban owns HDNet. He already OWNS a TV network.
6) There is talent available. Im around Texas high school football a lot. I was at an NFL-eligible free-agent camp the other day. There are a limitless number of athletes worthy of a look. (Which makes for a limitless number of stories to be told by the media.) And thats not even counting the guys who get a cup o coffee in the NFL, or maybe even established NFL people who get the boot. Remember when the scabs filled in? Was the level of football, altered or not, impactful in your watching habits? No. I havent asked Cuban about the UFLs interest level in the Pacman Joneses of the football world, but.
thatd be good TV, huh?
5) If local teams are able to add local talent, the franchise will be immediately adopted by the home folks. It works on one level for LeBron James in Ohio. It works on another level for Gary Kubiak coaching not too far from College Station. It works even for Tyson Thompson playing in Irving. You put a Mexican player on the Mexico City team, and boom! That team is a marketing success.
4) It will make the NFL better. Competition IS better, right?
3) Do you have ANY complaints with the NFL? Salaries too high? Owners too invisible? Players behaviors troubling? The NFL is, on many points like that, well past the point of no return. The UFL? Heres a chance for all those errors to be rectified in a giant football test tube.
2) As long as its not MY $30 million, theres no reason NOT to try this
or at least not to encourage someone else to try it. I dont understand the venom directed at Cuban by some football fans. If youre a traveler, are you AGAINST the idea of a new airline? I have a Sprint cell phone. Do I get mad when Jitterbug ads come on my TV? I like Target, but if Mom and Pop want to spent the money to put in their Original Mom-N-Pop-Mart across the street.
why would I get angry at them?
1) Football is, far more than the other sports, weaved into the psyche of the U.S. fan. And I dont mean the NFL (as much as I love most everything about it); I mean FOOTBALL, the game, not the sport. Come to Lewisville High School when the Fighting Farmers baseball team is playing a playoff game adjacent to Max Goldsmith Stadium, where the football team is practicing, and count heads: More people are watching the football practice!
If Major League Baseball disappeared, would hordes of Americans suddenly show up at Little League games, just because they need a taste of baseball?
But if we didnt have the NFL, it wouldnt kill football. Wed watch more college. And if that was taken away, wed grow addicted to high-school football. And yes, if it were the only way to get a fix, wed buy tickets to Pop Warner games. Done right, to us, opening up another football league should feel like God opening up another source of sunshine, or oxygen, or maybe tapping another keg. Gotta have it. More is better.
It would be nice to have something to contrast the No Fun League. It'd get interesting if they could hang around for a few years and then score a few coups signing big name players away from the NFL.
Games on fri night!!! I LOVE IT!!!
Great way to get a weekend of football kicked off!
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin 1775
Originally Posted by ekim121
It would be nice to have something to contrast the No Fun League. It'd get interesting if they could hang around for a few years and then score a few coups signing big name players away from the NFL.
Michael Vick?
Don't confuse hope for a plan.
I see it not working just for the fact that it's on Friday nights simply because I think it'll have problems competing against high school football. If college football doesn't have high TV ratings and can't compete with high school football on Friday nights, why does a startup league think it'll have any better luck? It'd had better hope the half fan ownership brings the fans to the stadiums on Fridays or this league is going to fall flat very quickly.
"That's what I do. I drink, and I know things." - Tyrion Lannister
"Success is just failure that hasn't happened yet." - life advice from Latrell Spreewell
I'm not sure why the NFL gets the "No Fun League" label.
So they don't allow the players to orchestrate ridiculous end zone celebrations and commit crimes off the field. I tip my hat to them. The game should be about the game, not who has the best end zone shuffle.
Each league has their issues and imperfections. Yet no league is run better and more watched than the NFL. It will be very hard for another league to compete with that.
The prospect of the UFL intrigues me, I admit. Yet I hope it's nothing like the XFL, which seemed like a mockery toward the NFL. They allowed and encouraged all these "fun" things - look where the XFL is now.
Cuban is no doubt a very smart business man and knows how to market any product. So with him involved, as the author said - you gotta give this thing a fighting chance.
I'll be interested to see how many cities this thing is planned for (and what cities) and the format they'll use. While it could be a good venture for all - I don't ever see them stealing good players from the NFL.
Do ya wanna play on Friday night in front of (guessing) 10-15k in the stands or on Sunday/Monday in front of many more? Money talks and it would be very hard for this new league to compete with NFL contracts.
If the UFL were to take place during the NFL's off-season, I think this idea would be fantastic. Otherwise, it's just going to compete with the NFL.
Besides, I'd love to watch football in the spring and summer.
Go Sssssssssyclones!
Originally Posted by ISUFan22
The prospect of the UFL intrigues me, I admit. Yet I hope it's nothing like the XFL, which seemed like a mockery toward the NFL. They allowed and encouraged all these "fun" things - look where the XFL is now.
I knew the XFL was headed to failure the moment the first thing they showed was the "He Hate Me" jersey. And then Vinnie Mac growling "WELCOME TO THE XFL!!!" And Jerry "The King" Lawler and what's his name doing play-by-play and color. After the first five minutes I couldn't take it seriously. And then the game went on for four plus hours. Plus all (but the New York Hitmen) logos were ugly. Wow...
The XFL was an ugly version of football meet WWF (not that there would a non-ugly version of that). Some very bad comedy and football isn't designed to be funny.
I would have loved to see Bill Parcells coach in that league though - being they allowed the cameras on the sidelines and they could actually talk to the coach - and he was supposed to talk back to them.
I'm thinking there would've been at least one death of a new crewman.
The XFL did give the world 2 things, however:
1. The cameras that hover over the field by a wire (ESPN/ABC picked up on that later). That actually was a good idea
2. The "resurgence" of Tommy Maddox
Originally Posted by jdoggivjc
The XFL did give the world 2 things, however:
1. The cameras that hover over the field by a wire (ESPN/ABC picked up on that later). That actually was a good idea
The XFL was the first to use the "Skycam"? Didn't know that.
Originally Posted by jdoggivjc
2. The "resurgence" of Tommy Maddox
That worked for what...about a full season? Is Maddox now retired or still on a team?
Originally Posted by ISUFan22
That worked for what...about a full season? Is Maddox now retired or still on a team?
Thus the quotes around "resurgence"
if anyone can pull this off it will be mark cuban. he will do better than vince mcmahon i guarantee that.
Originally Posted by jdoggivjc
The XFL did give the world 2 things, however:
1. The cameras that hover over the field by a wire (ESPN/ABC picked up on that later). That actually was a good idea
2. The "resurgence" of Tommy Maddox
And don't forget Rod "He Hate Me" Smart
Panthers picked him up for a bit, didn't they?
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Published: Friday, February 22, 2013 at 6:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 6:19 p.m.
Matt's letter
Hello friends,
Thank you for your letters on your grandparents. I love spending time with my grandparents, too.
Last Monday was Presidents' Day. If you were president, what law you would pass first? Would you make recess longer? Would you ask Americans to eat dessert first? Would you seek a limit on weekly baths?
Keep sending your letters, drawings and jokes, and I'll keep publishing them.
Your friend,
Student jokes
Q: Why did the Jelly roll?
A: Because it saw the apple turnover
Reiond Jackson, first grade
Wyomina Park Elementary
Q: What happened when the snowwomen got angry at the snowman?
A: She gave him the cold shoulder
Georgia Epps, second grade
South Ocala Elementary
Q: Why did the bacon laugh?
A: Because the egg cracked a yolk
Cody Duncan, first grade
Grace School
Student letters
Watch movies and play games
Dear Matt,
Some of my favorite things to do with my grandparents are watching movies and playing games. One of my favorite movies we watch is "Ice Age," and my favorite games are football and soccer.
Your friend,
Aenry Gordon, third grade
Saddlewood Elementary
Grandparents are special
Dear Matt,
My favorite thing to do with my grandparents is to stay with them and care for them. My grandparents are so special. I love them.
Your friend,
Jaden Blunt, third grade
Reddick-Collier Elementary
Grandparents in heaven
Dear Matt,
My grandparents are in heaven. If my grandma and grandpa were alive, I would like to play basketball with my grandpa and I would watch TV with my grandma.
Your friend,
Allyson George, first grade
St. John Lutheran School
Lovable grandparents
Dear Matt,
I love my grandparents. They are lovable at all times. They have been there for me.
Haley Campbell, second grade
Ocala Springs Elementary
Grandparents in Honduras
Dear Matt,
My grandparents live in Honduras. When I call them I ask them, may I see you on April 13. I really miss my grandparents.
Your pal,
Anai Quintana, third grade
College Park Elementary
Helps with homework
Dear Matt,
I think my grandparents are special because they always help me with my homework and they always read to me at night.
Your friend,
Paris Carlisle, second grade
Dunnellon Elementary
Likes to eat cake
Dear Matt,
My favorite thing to do with my grandparents is to play monopoly. My favorite memories are eating cake with them. My grandparents are very special.
Your friend,
Karan Doshi, second grade
Cornerstone School
Dear Matt,
I like to go to the beach with my grandparents. I can do a cannonball.
Your friend,
Melannia Edwards, first grade
Dr. N.H. Jones Elementary
Fishing with papa
Dear Matt,
Me and my papa went fishing together. I caught a hammerhead shark and a huge red fish. We like to do a lot of things together.
Tanner Tidwell, first grade
Eighth Street Elementary
Best in the world!
Dear Matt,
I love my grandma a lot. My grandma is the best ever. She is the best grandma in the world!
Hannah Sanderson, second grade
South Ocala Elementary
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City Farm: South Providence's Urban Agriculture Transformation
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Freezing Problems with Nikon S9100
I recently purchased a Nikon S9100 from COSTCO. I am not too sophisticated with camera's and usually revert to the point and shoot agenda. I liked the features and reviews for this Coolpix camera. After about 300 pictures, the camera's zoo0m mechanism froze. It remained stuck on the COOLPIX screen and had to remove the battery before it could be shut down. I was on a hunting trip and missed many photo opportunities. I recall reading about another individual that had this same problem with their S9100. I plan on returning this camera. What else can I buy in this price range with similar features.


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Barnard News
As part of the MAPS Program, young alumnae mentors and students meet for ice skating and hot chocolate.
Trailblazing diplomat and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist to receive Barnard Medal of Distinction alongside renowned disability and arts advocate, innovative NYC public school principal, and champion long-distance swimmer
Computer science major Jada Hawkins is the co-founder of Athena Digital Design.
In conjunction with Barnard's Seventh Annual Global Symposium "Women Changing the World," five faculty members have been selected as Global Faculty Fellows.
Article focuses on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island and its fraught relationship with Australia
Prestigious award will provide exceptional students with research opportunities in the sciences
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WHEELING - More than six decades after Ernie Pandelos bought an old shack situated on a hillside along W.Va 88 in Bethlehem, the place he eventually turned into one of the premier dinner clubs in the Wheeling area is for sale.
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Ernie's Esquire Restaurant and Lounge, which first took shape as a dinner club along Bethlehem Boulevard in the early1950s, has provided Pandelos with a lifetime of treasured memories.
Pandelos, who currently resides with wife Mikie in a home overlooking the Edgwood section of Wheeling, said he decided to close the doors of "The Esquire" a couple of years ago after experiencing what he called some minor health issues.
"It wasn't anything serious, but it (the business) took a lot of work," he said.
Pandelos said the price of the business site is "negotiable," since the facility and property could be used for a variety of purposes.
He said he already has received several inquiries about it since posting signs on the property more than a month ago. He said he is in the process of making appointments with interested parties.
And while Pandelos is willing to negotiate the sale with potential buyers, he admitted he would be "heartbroken" to see the establishment torn down or used for anything other than a supper club.
"It was the place. It still can be. I would like to see somebody take care of it right. ... We made a lot of people happy there," said Pandelos.
Besides hosting well-known bands like the original Vogues and the Ink Spots, the Esquire was the scene of appearances by a long list of celebrities, including Tom Jones, Tayna Tucker, Patti James, the late Dave Thomas (founder of the Wendy's restaurant chain) and Wheeling native John Corbett.
"Don't ask me where I got the ability," Pandelos said regarding the development of the Esquire over the years.
Pandelos also owned eight other establishments in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, such as the former Ernie's Cork and Bottle on 12th Street in downtown Wheeling.
"I just like to expand and do things," said Pandelos while talking about the transformation of the Esquire over the years.
Pandelos said when he first bought the property, just a small shack stood on the site. He said he added on to the club several times over the years. The last addition was a large reception hall, added to the rear of the structure and officially opened on New Year's Eve 2000.
"I always believed in quality food. I use to cut all the steaks," said Pandelos, who grew up in Martins Ferry near a slaughter house where he first worked at cutting varieties of meat and steaks. He said he enjoyed actually working in the kitchen at the supper club.
Mikie Pandelos said one of the special qualities about the Esquire was the countless number of people who celebrated engagements, weddings, baptisms and many other special family events at the restaurant.
"It's just been a family thing over the years. People remember when they were kids going to the Esquire," she added.


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2010 Car Craft Engine Swap Drags - Engine Swap Drags!Written by on August 1, 2010 Take These Engine Swap Ideas, Build A Car, And Compete In The . . .
Everything about the Engine Swap Drags (ESD) was cool. Take King of the Hill winner Tom Foglesong for example. Driving his grandfather's '68 Camaro with a lightly modified 5.3 swapped in from an '05 Suburban, he beat the entire N/A field, then took out a 10-second nitrous Camaro for the overall win.
These kinds of glorious underdog achievements are exactly what we were aiming for when we hatched the Engine Swap Drags concept. We wanted to turn over a rock and find the hard-core guys who use ingenuity and skill instead of dollars and professional builders to put together some fast cars using bitchin' new powerplants from Detroit. In the end, we found a lot of great cars, but only the most hard-core were willing to make it to Arizona for the race. Those heroes and their engine-swapping ideas are immortalized here.
For the rest of you, we will be running this event again. If you have a pre-'92 American street car with a GM LS, Ford modular, or Chrysler 5.7 or 6.1L Hemi engine and can pass a basic NHRA tech inspection, you qualify. We're not looking for pure race cars or pro-built stuff-we want you to swing a new engine over an old fender and get out and race. Carbs are OK if you don't like fuel injection, and the final round uses a dial-in, so you don't even have to be rocket fast, just consistent. If you want to play, watch for updates in the magazine and check CarCraft.com to see what is happening. This is your chance to get involved and have some fun. We guarantee a spot in the magazine if you compete, and who knows, you might just win it all.
Buick LS Cruiser
We were just getting things organized at the ESD when Beck rolled in with his Buick. Frankly, the car appeared too nice to be an ESD candidate. With a flick of the hood release, we were greeted with an Escalade LQ9 6.0L hunched between the inner fender panels. The installation was every bit as clean as the exterior, which is really no surprise when you learn that Beck's history includes a long stint at Santini USA Paint and Body. Several years ago, Beck bought his own business and now all the work is done at Anderson's Frame and Alignment in Garden Grove, California.
Who: Jeff Beck
What: '68 Buick Skylark
Where: Garden Grove, CA
Engine: '04 LQ9 6.0L with factory EFI control
Transmission: 4L65E four-speed automatic
Rearend: Chevy 12-bolt, 4.10:1
A. Beck retained the stock truck LQ9 intake manifold but added an LS1 Camaro cable-operated throttle body using a Lokar cable that bolted right in.
B. LS engine builder Ken Duttweiler says to not plug the heater hose connections on LS engines. If you are not using a heater, you still must loop the connection between the two heater outlets.
C. You can also remove the heater hose nipples from the water pump and tap them for AN fittings using a 3/4-inch pipe tap. We've tried it and it works great.
D. Most electric water temp sending units are too big to fit the stock, metric fittings drilled into the heads. You can create an adapter, or you can also drill and tap a 3/4-inch pipe thread hole in the top of the water pump for a mechanical water temp pickup.
Camaro Bruiser
While this car looks much more the part of the dedicated third-generation racer, Mark Haller's priority has always been to make it a street car. "It's really a simple car, and I always intended to drive it on the street." The drivetrain fits right into that plan with an iron LQ4 6.0L short-block, a Comp hydraulic roller cam, some headwork, a Turbo 350 trans, and a 9-inch out back for durability. Haller and his crew, Brandon Felpz and Warren Rabb, flogged on the car, and Mark also wanted to thank his buddy Ernie Greene at Sav-On Transmissions in Phoenix who made the Turbo 350 live. They were still sorting out the nitrous system during ESD, with a final pass of 10.52 at 127 mph that reveals the car's potential.
Who: Mark Haller
What: '82 Chevrolet Z28 Camaro
Where: Glendale, AZ
Engine: '04 Chevy truck 6.0L, carbureted
Transmission: TH350
Rearend: Moser 9-inch, 3.50:1
A. Using the '98 to '02 Camaro oil pan (GM PN 12628771) was one of the easier choices that produced sufficient clearance around the engine crossmember. Haller used a Trans-Dapt engine mount kit (Trans-Dapt PN 4575) that moves the engine forward roughly 1 inch to position the 6.0L in the Camaro engine bay. Haller says he had to massage a few things to make it fit. Moving the engine forward allowed access to the bellhousing bolts.
B. Haller retained the stock Camaro K-member but did have to notch it and reinforce the cut to clear the alternator used with the F-car-style accessory drive. Using the '98 to '02 Camaro oil pan (GM PN 12628771) was one of the easier choices that produced sufficient clearance around the engine crossmember.
C. Haller used a Trans-Dapt engine mount kit (Trans-Dapt PN4575) that moves the engine forward roughly 1 inch to position the 6.0L in the Camaro engine bay. Haller says he had to massage a few things to make it fit. Moving the engine forward allowed access to the bellhousing bolts.
Using the '98 to '02 Camaro oil pan (GM PN12628771) was one of the easier choices that produced sufficient clearance around the engine crossmember.
GTO Nova
"I decided that the more parts I could use from that '04 GTO, the better it would be." That was Rob Smokowski's reasoning for purchasing a rolled '04 GTO with 31,000 miles for a mere $5,000. He stripped everything he thought useful, sold other parts he didn't need for $1,000, and still has plenty of spares for his daily driver '04 six-speed GTO he bought brand new. He says he has roughly $4,000 in the entire swap. "Plus, if I break down somewhere, the parts I need will be for an '04 GTO." The original Nova was a 50,000-mile six-cylinder in pretty good shape. Bolting in the LS1 and T56 manual gearbox was easy with help from an LH3 oil pan. He also used an American Touring Specialties (t56kit.com) crossmember to position the trans. One of the mildly challenging aspects of the swap was adapting the hydraulic clutch master to the stock clutch pedal. Smokowski says the key is to keep the rod from the pedal to the master level at midstroke, and he started by placing the pedal at the floor with the master cylinder at maximum stroke. He then fabricated a bracket to locate the actuator rod to the pedal in the correct location and to help limit pedal return travel. Smokowski says excessive return travel can destroy the master. He also used a QuickTime bellhousing to connect the trans to the engine along with a Monster clutch.
Who: Rob Smokowski
What: '72 Chevrolet Nova
Where: Phoenix, AZ
Engine: '04 GTO LS1 5.7L
Transmission: T56 six-speed
Rearend: GM 12-bolt, 3.31:1
A. Smokowski retained the two LS1 factory fuse blocks under the hood, but if you wanted to hide them, they could be repositioned under the dash or perhaps above the inner fender panel on the passenger side.
B. If you're looking for a better fuel pump pickup and fuel return for an otherwise stock muscle car fuel tank, Robbmcperformance.com makes a very nice all-aluminum fuel pickup assembly with a -8 inlet and return.
C. Smokowski heard about a cool idea to adapt the stock throttle body inlet to an airbox fixed to the hood that would integrate a filter under the hood to pull cool air in from a cowl hoodscoop.
'67 Camaro
Tom's Camaro has been part of his family for longer than Tom has been around. This car was originally purchased by his grandfather at a Chevrolet dealership in Albuquerque, New Mexico. "It was a very basic car. It had the 250 inline-six, a three-speed column-shifted manual transmission, and a push-button AM radio," he told us. His grandfather owned the car until his death in May 2007. He left it for Tom in his will.
The first thing Tom did was swap the front drum brakes for discs. "It all took off from there," he says. After the front brakes came Hotchkis front springs, then a Hotchkis sway bar. He upgraded the rear suspension similarly not too long after that. But it was when he was helping a friend swap a cam into an '02 Camaro that he decided to do an LS swap. "The engine was so easy to work on, I knew I didn't want to build a regular small-block after that," he said. In early 2008, he started collecting the parts he needed, and by the end of the year, he found a great deal on a 5.3 out of a Suburban. The rest, as they say, is history.
Who: Tom Foglesong
What: '67 Chevrolet Camaro / '05 LM7
Where: Tempe, Arizona
Engine: '05 LM7 5.3L
Transmission: '04 GTO T56 six-speed
A. The stock 8.2-inch 10-bolt axle remains in place. Tom's got 3.73:1 gears in it.
B. A used T56 from an '04 GTO is bolted up to the engine. Foglesong picked it up for a pretty good price, too. Fortunately, he disassembled the box to inspect it prior to installing because two of the gears needed to be replaced. The synchro teeth in the gear faces were badly worn. Apparently, the GTO owner was an autocrosser and road racer, and the gearbox suffered because of it. Factoring in the cost of the repairs to the purchase price, Foglesong may have been able to buy a new transmission from the start. The bellhousing is stock to the '04 GTO. However, his clutch is from an LS7 application. He got one for a great price from a friend of his who bought the whole assembly, flywheel, pressure plate, and friction disc as a takeoff from a shop that builds sandrails. It pays off to shop in odd places for parts like this.
C. First-gen Camaros are rear steer, and that causes clearance problems with LS oil pans. Foglesong bought an F-car pan and had it notched to clear his car's centerlink. Otherwise, it fits his stock crossmember perfectly.
D. Originally, Foglesong tried a pair of Edelbrock motor mounts, but they placed the engine far enough back in the engine compartment that he had clearance problems with his heater. He bought new mounts from Car Shop Inc. that locate the engine farther forward than the Edelbrock mounts.
E. Edelbrock delivers the fuel to Foglesong's diminutive LS engine. An Edelbrock 650-cfm Thunder AVS carburetor is parked on top of a Performer RPM LS1 intake manifold.
A. Foglesong pieced together an F-car accessory drive, buying a new alternator, used power steering and water pumps, and new brackets from GMpartsdirect.com. He does not have air conditioning; otherwise, he would have had to notch the engine crossmember to clear the A/C compressor.
B. An MSD 6LS box controls the ignition timing. Foglesong bought a custom wiring harness from Innovative Wiring.
'81 Mustang
Kevin Kenley's Mustang should look familiar. We ran a six-page feature on it in the June '10 issue. The Engine Swap Drags was still in the planning stages when we did the photo shoot, but we did hint to Kevin at the time that we were planning a drag racing contest that would be a good match for his car. He agreed to be there no matter what.
Because Kenley's car is subject to California's biannual smog testing, he had to decide if he wanted this to be a dedicated race car, never to see the street again, or to be an emissions-compliant, state-certified engine swap. One is the easy path, the other, convoluted, aggravating, and expensive. He chose the latter. To make the car compliant, he had to swap the entire fuel system and all the emissions controls from an '04 Mustang Cobra donor car. Fortunately, the floorpans for '79 to '04 Mustangs are all the same. The '04 fuel lines fit his '81 exactly. The gas tank straps needed to be relocated to fit the newer tank, though, and he had to find a place to locate the '04's massive EVAP canister. In the end, he was able to meet all the state's requirements. As far as the state is concerned, his car is an '04 Cobra in an '81 wrapper.
The most labor-intensive part of most engine swaps is the wiring. Grafting a new engine's harness to the one in your older car takes a lot of patience, planning, and good wiring diagrams of each car. One thing you don't need however is an engineering degree. Though it looks like a daunting task, if you work carefully, this is something almost anyone can do. Kenley is good with wiring but admitted to being intimidated by the maze of wires he had to sort through when he started to rewire the car. He reckons he had to make about 300 splices to join the harnesses from the two cars together.
Because Kenley had only just finished the engine swap and supercharger upgrade a couple of months before we met him at the photo shoot, he was still trying to figure out a good suspension setup and how to launch the car. He described to us mad thrashes on his days off, changing springs and shocks, blasting down the dragstrip, fixing broken parts, and negotiating a steep learning curve during that time.
Though he was disappointed with his performance at ESD, we applaud his efforts. When he's able to get all the power to the ground, Kevin's car will be wicked fast.
Who: Kevin Kenley
What: '81 Ford Mustang/'04 Supercharged DOHC 4.6L
Where: Rancho Cucamonga, California
Engine: '04 Mustang Cobra 4V 4.6
Transmission: Dodge Viper T56 six-speed
A. Ford's venerable 8.8-inch solid axle is out back. It was built with Currie 9-inch bearing ends. A Detroit Locker spins 3.37:1 gears.
B. Kenley has been working on this car for more than 15 years. Originally a lowly, four-cylinder commuter special, he bought it to do a wicked 302 build. The project was shelved several times for a variety of personal reasons, then took a U-turn when he found a good deal on a complete 4.6 out of a wrecked '04 Cobra. The swap began in 2005, and he was finally able to get it on the road in November 2009.
C. This is a 4.6L, 32-valve V-8 out of an '04 Mustang SVT Cobra. These engines were the only 4.6s to come from the factory with a forged rotating assembly. Since it is so well equipped from the factory, Kenley didn't mess with the long-block. The cams, springs, and rotating assembly are all stock.
D. Kenley bought a used T56 from a Dodge Viper and changed the input shaft to fit the clutch and pilot bushing on his Ford.
E. Believe it or not, the engine still has the factory iron exhaust manifolds. This seemed to be the best option when considering how to fit this massive engine into the Fox-body engine bay.
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The fastest power-adder car was Mark Haller in his nitrous'd Chevy. He also won the fastest Chevy class, which bagged him an ignition controller gift certificate from MSD for LS-swapped engines that use a manifold and carburetor instead of fuel injection.Jeff Beck had never drag raced before but beat Rod Smokowski's '72 Nova by 0.060 in a heads-up battle for the N/A class. His '69 Skylark is powered by a 6.0L LQ9.Rod Smokowski was put out early when Beck squeezed by him in the lights, but he still had fun. We hope to see the low-13-second sleeper next year.It's easy to be the fastest Ford when you are the only Ford at the race. It's easier when you have a Kenne Bell-blown four-valve 4.6L under the hood. Kevin Kenley made it look easy with a couple of low-11-second blasts. For his efforts, he scored a set of modular valve covers from Ford Racing.
For some reason, no Mopars bothered to show, even though we had a prize for them, too. We gave the MSD certificate for a Mopar 5.7L/6.1L Hemi ignition controller to Beck for advancing on a holeshot with zero drag racing experience. If you had shown up with a Mopar, it would have been yours.Beck used a Howell Engine Developments wiring harness with enough wire to hide the ECM underneath the driver-side fender. The computer also controls the electric fans along with a switch that activates the fans anytime the A/C is on.The Milodon oil pan demands the use of an external oil filter. Beck used a Hamburger's remote filter mount (PN 3300) for a PH8A-style filter plumbed with Fragola Push-Lite hose and fittings.Beck retained the factory Buick firewall A/C components and mounted the compressor with a kit from Kwik Performance designed to be used with the Corvette-style accessory drive. This also required a Corvette balancer.Cast-iron manifolds on a nitrous engine? You bet. Haller says the manifolds are from an '01 Gen IV Camaro and needed only minor massaging to fit. Also notice they built an adapter into the head for a mechanical water temperature gauge.The TH350 trans requires an adapter spacer from Hughes (PN HP3795) and a flat flexplate (Hughes PN HP4004). This adapter is necessary to make up the 0.400-inch difference between a Gen I small-block crank flange and the shorter LS flange that is effectively even with the bellhousing face. The adapter mounts directly to the LS crank and then the flexplate bolts to the adapter with longer ARP fasteners. Because the new flexplate is flat (factory flexplates are concave), the ring gear teeth line up perfectly with the starter.The Gen IV engines use a separate thermostat housing (PN 12587395) and thermostat compared with Gen III integrated design. This allows a car crafter to cut, reclock, and weld the housing to reposition the placement of the coolant inlet. All LS engines place the thermostat on the inlet side of the cooling system. You can also now buy lower-temperature 165- and 180-degree aftermarket thermostats.Smokowski used a Hummer LH3 oil pan, which clears the crossmember but is very deep, placing the sump roughly 2 inches lower than the engine crossmember. This photo is of an early Chevelle application, but it makes the point. Smokowski says he'll eventually switch to a pan with more ground clearance.
Smokowski first installed the stock harness and fired the engine in the car. Then he began the slow process of removing individual wires and then testing the engine to see if it would still run. If it did, he left the wires out. He says he removed roughly half of the original wiring this way.Smokowski also wanted to use the original '04 GTO fuel pump assembly, but at 8 inches, it was substantially taller than the stock Nova gas tank. After professionally cleaning the tank, he filled it with argon gas and welded a fixture to mount the complete unit. It sticks up through the stock trunk floor but allows him to use the factory fuel delivery system.Smokowski welded a steel AN bung to the end of the stock engine fuel line to adapt the stock LS fuel connection to the AN line from the tank. This is a simple and direct fix. Aeromotive makes an adapter fitting (PN 15118) that will fit the stock GM quick-disconnect with a -8 female O-ring port on the other end.A Carter universal inline fuel pump is mounted to the floor near the Camaro's original gas tank. The fuel pressure is set at 6 psi and is controlled by a regulator from Summit Racing Equipment.The tubes are by American Racing Headers and measure 17/8 inch at the primaries and 3 inches at the collectors. Foglesong settled on these because ARH patterned its design off of Car Shop Inc.'s motor mounts. After the headers, Foglesong installed 21/2-inch merge collectors and a 3-inch exhaust.Originally equipped with Eaton M112 Roots-type superchargers, the biggest performance bang for the buck is to swap on a twin-screw supercharger like the 2.4 Kenne Bell blower sitting on top of Kenley's Terminator. It supplies 17 psi of boost and helps send more than 600 hp to the rear wheels while running on race gas.An '04 Mustang computer runs the show. Tuned on the chassis dyno by Adam Montague at ST Motorsports using Diablo tuning software, Kenley has the option of making about 550 hp on 91-octane gasoline or ratcheting it up to just above 600 at the wheels when he fills up the tank with 100-octane race gas.


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Railroad shipping: Intermodal leads the way again for weekly traffic, says AAR
October 01, 2010
Another week, another 2010 record for intermodal volumes. That seems to be the case these days, according to data released this week by the Association of American Railroads (AAR).
Following the week of September 18, which saw intermodal volumes at 240,013 trailers and containers and container volume at 205,332, the week ending September 25 trumped that tally. Intermodal data came in at 241,167 trailers and containers for a 17.3 percent annual gain and a 2.1 percent decline from 2008, and container volume hit 206,535 for a 19.2 percent improvement—both marking new 2010 records. Intermodal trailer volume for the week ending September 25 hit 34,632 for a 7 percent annual uptick and a 32.8 percent dip compared to 2008.
An executive at a large intermodal marketing company told LM at this week's Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals Annual Conference that shippers are turning to intermodal more as a cost-effective and efficient alternative to trucking. But he cautioned that as volumes increase, railroads and IMC's need to focus on maintaining high service levels for shippers.
On a sequential basis, this was down compared to the week ending September 18 at 304,679. Carload volume in the East was up 10.4 percent year-over-year and down 10.8 percent compared to 2008. And out West carloads were up 10.9 percent year-over-year and down 6.3 percent compared to 2008.
In October 2009, the AAR began reporting weekly rail traffic with year-over-year comparisons for the previous two years, due to the fact that the economic downturn was in full effect at this time a year ago, and global trade was bottoming and economic activity was below current levels.
While rail volumes are relatively healthy, current volumes are still below previous peak levels and are starting to face tougher year-over-year comparisons through the remainder of 2010, given the fact that 2009 was a down year for the rails in terms of volume growth.
Year-to-date, total U.S. carload volumes at 10,828,835 carloads are up 7.2 percent year-over-year and down 12.3 percent compared to 2008. Trailers or containers at 8,182,454 are up 14.7 percent year-over-year and down 4.7 percent compared to 2008.
Of the 19 carload commodities tracked by the AAR, 17 were up year-over-year and 14 were down compared to 2008. Farm products excluding grain up were 63.9 percent, and coke loadings were up 33.1 percent.
Weekly rail volume was estimated at 33.0 billion ton-miles, a 12.6 percent year-over-year increase. And total volume year-to-date at 1,191.1 billion ton-miles was up 8.3 percent year-over-year.
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WASHINGTON, D.C.–U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission), and Co-Chairman Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD), announced today that the Commission will hold a hearing on Northern Ireland. The hearing will look at continued calls for independent inquiries and accountability for past abuses by security services in Northern Ireland, and will examine implementation of key provisions of the Good Friday Agreement, including those relating to policing and the administration of justice in the region.
"Northern Ireland: Why Justice in Individual Cases Matters"
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
2:00 p.m.
210 Cannon House Office Building
The following witnesses have been invited to testify:
John Finucane, son of Patrick Finucane, human rights lawyer murdered by loyalist paramilitaries
Raymond McCord, father of Raymond McCord, Jr., murdered by loyalist paramilitaries
John Teggart, son of Daniel Teggart, victim of the 1971 Ballymurphy massacre
Ciarán McAirt, grandson of Kitty Irvine, McGurk's Bar bombing victim
Jane Winter, Director, British Irish Rights Watch
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|Arbitrator rules for Nebraska on two key disputes with Kansas
|Written by Russ Pankonin, The Imperial Republican
Talk about a Christmas gift!
That's what irrigators in the Republican River Basin got with the preliminary decisions from the arbitrator on compact disputes between Nebraska and Kansas.
In preliminary rulings by arbitrator Karl J. Dreher, Nebraska and its irrigators got two key rulings in their favor.
The two rulings addressed damages due Kansas by Nebraska's non-compliance with the compact in 2005 and 2006, and the accounting methods used to determine compliance.
Attorney General Jon Bruning, who released the findings late Monday, Dec. 22, said the ruling on damages due Kansas represents the most important decision by the arbitrator.
Kansas wanted damages based on the gain Nebraska got from it alleged overuse of water. Estimates as high as $75 million has been tossed out by Kansas.
What Dreher ruled is that Kansas is limited only to actual damages it suffered.
He said the 2003 compact settlement, like the 1943 compact itself, is a contract between the two states. As a result, damage awards are limited to actual damage suffered by Kansas.
Bruning said Kansas was putting forth a theory of unjust enrichment to Nebraska by having water that, in Kansas' opinion, should have been sent to them.
"Our contention the whole time is that Kansas had enough water to grow a crop," Bruning said.
Any excess water they didn't use would have just flowed downstream to New Orleans, Bruning said.
Bruning said actual damages versus unjust enrichment is what the state believes to be fair.
"We've asked Kansas for their actual damages for some time and they've never responded," Bruning said. "The reason for that is because they're going to be significantly smaller in terms of dollars than unjust enrichment would have been."
To receive damages for water-short years 2006 and the preceding year of 2005, Kansas will have to show actual damages, the arbitrator said.
Dave Cookson, chief deputy attorney general, said the damages the state may face for those two years will be much less.
Estimates in the $5-10 million range have been previously discussed.
Cookson said he hopes the decisions will bring Kansas back to the discussion table and "we can work something out."
Arbitration is non-binding
While this can be considered a victory for the state and its irrigators in the Republican Basin, it still remains just one win in a long battle.
The compact settlement specified that if Nebraska, Kansas or Colorado had disputes, they must first bring them before the compact administration.
If the disputes are not resolved to all states' satisfaction, any state can call for non-binding arbitration.
Kansas filed the official notice for arbitration on October, 2008. Nebraska then added issues that it felt needed to be addressed by arbitration.
The arbitrator's decision is non-binding upon the three states, which means any state can file suit with the U.S. Supreme Court over the disputes.
Cookson didn't speculate whether Kansas would seek further remedy in the Supreme Court.
While the arbitration is non-binding, Cookson felt the rulings in Nebraska's favor should carry some significant weight if Kansas decides to pursue the matter at a higher level.
However, he said there's still no way to tell how a special master for the Supreme Court would rule.
Ruling on accounting dispute
Bruning said Dreher's ruling allowing the compact accounting methods to be corrected if errors are found is another key win for the state.
The Department of Natural Resources has indicated they have found flaws in the computer groundwater models used to determine compliance.
WaterClaim founder Steve Smith of Imperial, Neb. has long contended the models used by the states to be inaccurate and that changes need to be made.
Dreher said the compact can't be adequately enforced without accurate accounting. As a result, he said any errors found are open for resolution by the compact members.
Dreher found in favor of both states on several issues, clarifying such things as accounting for reservoir evaporation and proposed remedies.
Two of the disputed issues dealt with evaporation in Harlan County Dam and non-federal dams below Harlan.
Dreher said that even when Nebraska Bostwick Irrigation District sells their water to the state instead of taking delivery, the state must share in the evaporation loss.
He also said the evaporation loss in dams below Harlan must be shared by both states in figuring compliance.
In a letter from Kansas in December, 2007, they issued a list of demands that Nebraska comply to. These included shutting down all irrigation wells within 2.5 miles of any stream or tributary as well as wells drilled after 2000.
While Dreher said these proposed remedies by Kansas can be part of the arbitration process, he said Kansas can't mandate those remedies.
He said further hearings on Nebraska's alleged compact violations and proposed methods for future compliance could be held.
After those hearings, only then would the arbitrator recommend actions necessary for future compliance.
A full PDF version of the preliminary decisions by Dreher will accompany this story at
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I've got Zimbra 8.0.0 NE running on Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS. Over the past week or so we've seen some large spikes in traffic coming from the network that it's sitting on, and while investigating the issue I noticed that the Zimbra server is sending out ridiculous amounts of DNS queries. In the vicinity of 10-30 per second, every few seconds.
We don't have that much traffic coming through that server, so I can't imagine why it would be doing so many lookups.
It's setup with split DNS as per the Zimbra guidelines. We've got another Zimbra 8.0.0 FOSS running on Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS on the same network, setup exactly the same way, but it's not having the same issue with these DNS lookups.
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Take note, Paul Daley – perhaps all is not lost.
While UFC president Dana White in May said that Daley would never again fight for the UFC, the fiery UFC boss has changed his mind before. November's UFC 123 event features the return of judoka Karo Parisyan, who was also told he'd never have another opportunity to fight in the octagon.
With that in mind, in our latest MMAjunkie.com/"Inside MMA" weekly poll we asked our readers to tell us, "Are you surprised the UFC re-signed Karo Parisyan?"
The results were revealed on Friday's new edition of HDNet's "Inside MMA," and the majority of respondents said they weren't shocked to see "The Heat" back in the UFC cage. In fact, just 34 percent of voters said they were surprised, while an overwhelming 66 percent said they expected to see Parisyan back in the octagon at some point.
White, of course, had said Parisyan would not be welcome back to the UFC after a last-minute withdrawal from this past November's UFC 106 event – the latest in a long line of controversies and setbacks involving the Armenian welterweight.
Top agent Malki Kawa, who was a guest alongside Parisyan on Friday's edition of "Inside MMA," was among those who wasn't shocked that the fighter was welcomed back to the world's biggest mixed martial arts promotion.
"I think that everyone in life deserves their moment to explain their thing, and if it's something that's reasonable, then why not give them a second chance?" Kawa said. "I think Dana has shown that throughout his career, that he gives second chances."
So, what do you think? Does Parisyan deserve another shot? And were you surprised to hear White change his position on Parisyan's employment status?
Share your thoughts in the comments section below.
And don't forget to vote in this week's new poll on the MMAjunkie.com homepage. We want to know who wins the early-2011 title fight between UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva and Vitor Belfort?
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