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Franklin sees opportunity in turning pro
Here's how Jamaal Franklin opened the news conference Friday to announce the widely expected decision to forgo his senior basketball season at San Diego State, hire an agent and turn pro:
"I first want to say thank you to all the fan support that was here, even the people that hated on me and doubted me. I want to say thank you to them as well, because if it wasn't for them I wouldn't have had the passion that I have to push myself."
It is an integral part of the 6-foot-5 junior's composition, the ability to use skepticism and criticism as fuel. Coach Steve Fisher suggested he redshirt his freshman season at SDSU; Franklin refused and worked his way into the rotation of a veteran team that went 34-3, then became Mountain West player of the year the following year.
"Jamaal has always been someone who has stood up to challenges, then exceeded what expectations were," Fisher said. "That's our hope now, that he goes into these (pre-draft) camps and they say, 'Fisher, he's better than we thought he was.'"
The general rule for underclassmen is that it's a safe bet to leave if you're projected as a first-round pick in the two-round NBA Draft, with two years' worth of guaranteed salaries ranging from $1.8 million to $11 million. But it suddenly becomes a risky proposition in the second round, where there is no guaranteed money, where if you're a late cut most lucrative European clubs have already filled their rosters, where you can wind up in the D-League making $15,500 to $26,000 per year.
Fisher subscribed to a program where underclassmen receive feedback from NBA teams on their projected draft position. Twenty-one replied.
Some predicted Franklin would go late in the first round. Some said the second round.
"A bubble first-round, possible second-round draft pick," said Fisher, who also spoke independently with NBA coaches, assistant coaches and general managers he trusts. "I tried to be honest with what I was hearing and what people were saying. I wanted to make sure he knew.
"I think he's going in with his eyes wide open in terms of the challenges that will be there … Jamaal and I had some frank, long talks."
As recently as a few weeks ago, Franklin appeared to be a solid first-round pick in most respected mock drafts – as high as the upper teens in some. But as more and more underclassmen began declaring for the June 27 draft, including some that were unexpected, that may have bumped Franklin to that tenuous cusp between the first and second rounds.
Franklin likely will play a 2-guard at the next level. He averaged 17.0 points and 9.5 rebounds this season and was named first team all-Mountain West for the second straight year. But he didn't shoot particularly well from the perimeter – 28 percent from a 3-point line that is 3 feet closer than the NBA – and his defense is considered average. He also averaged a team-high 3.4 turnovers.
Franklin doesn't see risk, only opportunity.
"I have a feeling that I can work really hard and make myself a first-round pick," he said. "That (NBA) evaluation was way more first round than it was second round, but there's still a question out there that I could go second round.
"You've just got to grind and keep focused. There have been a lot of bumps in the road of my success that I have now. If there's a bump that happens in my road to get to the NBA, I just have to make sure I use a little more horsepower to get over that hump."


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There was high drama in the women's downhill as Swiss outsider Dominique Gisin and Slovenia's Tina Maze each clocked 1 minute 41.57 seconds for a dead heat at the top of the leaderboard, meaning that an Alpine skiing gold medal was shared for the first time in Winter Olympics history.
Gisin, wearing bib number eight, was first to clock 1 minute 41.57 seconds down the icy 2.7km-long course and in brilliant sunshine it looked to have been enough for outright victory.But Gisin, who has not won a World Cup downhill race since 2009 and whose best finish in the downhill this season is seventh, had not counted on Maze, the 2013 super-G world champion and one of Alpine's true big-stage performers.Starting 13 runners after Gisin on a course that had not broken up, the Slovenian led all the splits but lost a little time after the final jump to come charging through the finish line in a dead heat.
Going into Sochi 2014, Maze had endured a relatively poor season by her own standards, recording her first downhill win in Cortina d'Ampezzo in January.However, she had already hinted she might produce something big in the speed event, when she finished third place finish in the downhill run of the super-combined several days earlier.Living the dream"I'm extremely happy and completely overwhelmed," said a tearful Gisin, who ended a 20-year downhill drought for Swiss women that stretched back to the 1984 Winter Games in Sarajevo."This is incredible. I am overwhelmed with emotions," added the 28-year-old. "I am so happy - what a day. I don't think I even dreamt about this. Now that I have won, I am living the dream, but this is better than dreaming."
30-year-old Maze, who was up on Gisin's time at all four intermediate splits, but then slowed fractionally in the final section was equally ecstatic, as the two mounted the podium hand-in hand."I have been dreaming about this since I was little. The first ski race I ever won in my life was a downhill so before I went down the track today I said to myself, 'This has to be it. I can do it', and I just went for it."One onlooker who was particularly delighted by the unique shared gold was Maze's coach Mauro Pini, who was previously the head coach of the women's Swiss ski team."Tina is a hard worker so this is nice for her," said Pini. "I'm also happy for Dominique as she was my first athlete."With Maze and Gisin sharing gold, it meant that there was no silver medal awarded.More Swiss delightThere was more joy for the Swiss team when Lara Gut, who has so far this season won three super-G and one downhill World Cup race and finished second in the combined's downhill, claimed bronze, a further 0.10 seconds off the lead.Germany's Maria Hoefl-Riesch, the winner of super-combined earlier in the week and started as pre-race favourite, could only finish 13th at 1.17 seconds, while the silver medallist from that event, Nicole Hosp was ninth, at 1.05 seconds.Another of the favourites, the USA's Julia Mancuso, who had snatched bronze in the combined thanks to a fastest downhill run and won silver in the discipline in Vancouver four years ago, finished eighth at 0.99 seconds."I am disappointed with my skiing, I made some big mistakes," said Mancuso. "I would like to have another chance, but it's over. I have to move on to my next event. "It's tough and really difficult to stay focused on the whole run, but that's what separates the champions from the rest of us on race day."
Performance by the Kuban Cossack Choir
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The Russian flag is brought into the arena by Russian athletes
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Friday, June 4, 2010
Kid's Craft: Rainbow Sneakers
25 comments:
- TANYA said...
Hi! I totally love what you did with your daughter's sneakers! So unique! She can't say they're boring and the good thing, nobody else has the same one like it!
- June 4, 2010 at 6:56 AM
- danita said...
those are awesome! i think we may have the same new shoes--i wonder if brown rectangles will show up on ours, too?
- June 4, 2010 at 7:31 AM
- Theresa said...
I LOVE her sneakers! I used to do that to all of my shoes but it kinda made my mom mad. LOL You are so awesome for encouraging your kids to express themselves with color and art! Just amazing!
- June 4, 2010 at 9:44 AM
- ♥ meninheira ♥ said...
Thanks for your comment in my blog :) yours is sooo inspired! I love it :)
Hugs from Spain
- June 4, 2010 at 9:52 AM
- jlbee said...
you are girls after my own heart! i did this when i was little to my keds -- i figured there's a reason they're made of canvas! :) besides, i wanted to be punky brewster... these are amazing!
are these the bracelets you're talking about? i saw SJP on an interview wearing one that she said her 6yo son gave to her, and that they're all the rage with the kids. so random!
- June 4, 2010 at 10:53 AM
- Val in the Rose Garden said...
Love it! They are adorable. :)
- June 4, 2010 at 11:52 AM
- twolittleseeds said...
Yes , yes I love these!!!
Great! I want a pair for me! xx
- June 4, 2010 at 1:01 PM
- Storybook Woods said...
Now that is cool. Clarice
- June 4, 2010 at 1:27 PM
- I'm momma Skyla said...
How darling are you? Your daughter is lucky to have a momma who is so sensitive to her emotions and unique style! You're an inspiration!
- June 4, 2010 at 3:05 PM
- Your Impact Matters said...
This is so awesome! Way to go mama! I so don't get the rubber band bracelet thing, but I also don't get my 14 yo daughter's fondness for guys with eyeliner on...go figure.
- June 4, 2010 at 3:59 PM
- Cindy said...
I love her shoes! They look SO pretty!
I bet the trend is Silly Bandz!
- June 4, 2010 at 6:15 PM
- Cheryl said...
What a sweet ending & a good lesson in turning lemons into lemonade:)
- June 4, 2010 at 9:12 PM
- CHILDHOOD MAGIC said...
These look great! I used to do things like this to my shoes when I was a kid!! I even did my dad's shoes once, but he never wore them again :)
I have seen this rubberband bracelet thing and it really doesn't make any sense! They're not even cute, at all.
My brother gave some to my son the other day and and after like 24 hours the bands had snapped, totally broken! What on earth?!
- June 4, 2010 at 10:31 PM
- Valerie @ Frugal Family Fun Blog said...
LOVE it!!!! Seriously, the rubber band thing is waaaaaay over-rated.
- June 4, 2010 at 11:29 PM
- Genevieve Le Bel said...
so cool! My Super Sophie would love this!
- June 5, 2010 at 8:25 AM
- Katie said...
Oh how cute! What a great idea :) Thanks for visiting my blog today and for leaving a comment. You made my day! I'll have to search your blog to see if you posted about your mermaid party. I'm so excited for my daughter's. I wish I had time to do all the crafty ideas I have cooking in my head, but it should still be cute and fun for the girls!
- June 5, 2010 at 1:45 PM
- ~Claire~ said...
Okay, my little munchkin would like these... but me?? I AM IN LOVE!! I love all things rainbow... who ever would have thought I could MAKE my own rainbow shoes!!! Golly! I know a few too many pairs of white shoes-turned-brown and dingy that this would totally remedy! thnks for the idea!
- June 5, 2010 at 2:16 PM
- Phyl said...
Awww, this story is so sweet. What a loving mommy!
I'm not a kid, been teaching over 30 years, and am still coloring on my shoes. A group of us teachers started bowling a couple of years ago. None of us can bowl worth beans, but we can sure have fun. I started decorating everyone's bowling shoes, and now nobody notices our gutter balls anymore :)
- June 5, 2010 at 6:49 PM
- Julie Bagamary said...
Very cool shoes and very cool mom!
- June 7, 2010 at 8:39 AM
- punk rock michelle said...
I adore how u handled it! I hope that I can be so crafty & quick thinking when my LO goes thru this sort of thing at school in years to come :D
- June 7, 2010 at 5:02 PM
- Jessica said...
Very cool solution.
Who needs lame, trendy rubber band bracelets when one has artisan-made, unique, one-of-a-kind kicks? :)
- June 8, 2010 at 10:07 AM
- Sarah said...
First time commenter...
I LOVE the tenderness you showed your daughter, listening to her hurts. How appropriate to draw a rainbow as it's a symbol of God's love. I hope she will always remember these rainbow shoes and know she is loved!
- June 14, 2010 at 12:32 AM
- Pam said...
I am new to Pink and Green Mama...You have an awesome blog! I just came across the rainbow sneakers and was thinking I wish I saw this when I was a kid!! I love bright flashy colors and soooo would've colored my sneakers! I love it...I think I might get my daughter some white canvas shoes and rainbow sharpies and have at it! :)
- June 28, 2011 at 10:29 AM
- Pam said...
I am new to Pink and Green Mama, what an awesome blog!! I just came across the rainbow sneakers. I wish I thought of this when I was a kid! I would've soooo colored my sneakers! I love bright flashy colors. I think I might get my daughter some white canvas shoes and some rainbow sharpies and have at it! :)
- June 28, 2011 at 10:32 AM
- pink and green mama MaryLea said...
@ Pam -- I think that's a great idea - white Canvas shoes would be the perfect blank canvas!!
pink and green mama,
- June 28, 2011 at 11:03 AM
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I have recently uncovered a map in my home. It looks to be pretty old. It is a map of New York. The title reads as: The Empire State. New York with its Counties, Towns, Cities, Villages; Internal Improvements Sr. It was published by Augustus Mitchell at the N.E. corner of Market & Seventh Streets, Philadelphia, PA. The date is 1849. The map has a few photos on the lower left hand corner and in the upper right a chart stating: Statistics of the State of New York according to the census of 1845. Population of the towns. It is in fair condition and I am curious to find the value of it. I have pictures if you want to see it.
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there are no customer reviews for this product so its hard to judge value. how much better are these than the "average fin" (around $80) and is it money well spent?
They are a very high quality fin, but when it comes to comparing one over another it all boils down to personal opinion. The best we can offer you is that they are a very high quality product that compares to every top of the line manufacturer's product.
So the last time I got fins the Scuba certified Instructor stated the size I should buy and when they came in they were no were near fitting me would like to try this on open toe fins. I have Waterproof MED/LARGE boots what size should I order for fins. This fin in particular.
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Votes for Women
This exhibition honors significant contributors to the American women's suffrage movement, specifically Susan B. Anthony, who is represented by one of the thirty-nine place settings at The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago. Nine other women, whose names are inscribed on the Heritage Floor of The Dinner Party, are also acknowledged in this exhibition as important leaders of the movement—from early activists, such as Lucretia Mott and Lucy Stone, to Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul, who followed in the footsteps of "Aunt Susan," and led the cause to see the 1920 ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment (coined "the Anthony Amendment"), which granted women the right to vote.
Susan B. Anthony, who has been called the "legs" of the early women's movement, toured the country for more than thirty years speaking publicly for women's rights, especially the right to vote. She developed a friendship and lifelong collaboration with fellow women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and their efforts inspired younger generations to become involved. The images and objects in Votes for Women underscore the individual actions and overall achievements of these ten women while connecting them to the seventy-year struggle for women's suffrage.
From 1848 to 1920, suffragists challenged conventional ideas of women's roles in an effort to gain equal rights, using strategies and tactics deemed radical for women at the time, such as public speaking, and by creating women's organizations, publishing newspapers, and organizing parades, marches, and pickets. These early models have been adopted and adapted since, notably in the women's rights movement of the 1970s.
At a time when women have unprecedented roles in U.S. politics and a woman is again running for the highest office in this country, this exhibition pays tribute to the early pioneers who literally rewrote the history of patriarchal governmental policy to include the voices of women. We honor these leaders—such as Mary Church Terrell, an early African American and women's rights activist, and Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for the U.S. presidency in 1872—and acknowledge their immensurable contribution to the long struggle for the equal rights of women.
Brooklyn Museum Presents the Special Exhibition Votes for Women Highlighting Susan B. Anthony's Contribution to the American Suffrage Movement
Votes for Women, the latest exhibition to be presented in the Herstory Gallery of the recently opened Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, opens at the Brooklyn Museum on February 29, 2008. The exhibition explores Susan B. Anthony's contribution to the American Suffrage Movement, the contributions of eight other important American suffragists, and Victoria Woodhull's historic run for the United States presidency in 1872.
The exhibition draws upon the Susan B. Anthony place setting in The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago, and the lives of women whom Chicago chose to name as significant contributors to the fight for women's rights in America. Votes for Women examines the methods and tactics used throughout the generations of the suffrage movement with more than sixty objects and images from the days of Anthony's leadership of the movement, to the increased activism after her death in 1906, to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.
The lives and activities of these women, including Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Stone Blackwell, Alice Paul, Mary Church Terrell, and Frances Willard, are revealed not only through displays of their portraits, newspapers, and speeches, but also through broadsides, banners, pennants, postcards, and political buttons. Other highlights include newspaper engravings and photographs depicting their actions in the media, and audio materials including suffrage songs and excerpts from speeches and writings.
The exhibition connects the strategies of the suffrage movement to those of the feminist movement of the 1970s, and to the latest campaigns for women for unprecedented roles in American politics, including Hillary Clinton's bid for the presidency.
Votes for Women is curated by Melissa Messina, Independent Curator and former Research Assistant for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
A variety of public programs including films and lectures will be presented in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information visit www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa.


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Greetings Royals fans! Hopefully a few of you are reading this from sunny Surprise, Arizona, where the temperature is expected to top 80 today. What a crazy week in Kansas City…70+ degrees for our stadium tour on Wednesday (check out the pictures), and now, we have one of our larger snowfalls of the winter!
Kansas City hosts San Diego at Surprise Stadium today (2:05 Central, 1:05 local). Today's game can be heard on 610 Sports in Kansas City and on royals.com with a subscription to Gameday Audio. Steve Stewart and Ryan Lefebvre will call the action while Don Free runs the controls. Brian Bannister makes his spring debut on his 28th birthday. Here's the lineup:
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Duarte – RF
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Yesterday, Zack Greinke (above right) pitched two perfect innings as KC beat the Giants 6-1.
Ryan Shealy is starting 2009 the way he finished 2008…on a power surge! He clubbed a 3-run home run for the Blue Crew.
We also want to point out the 2009 promotions, special events, and ticket initiatives. Fan favorites such as Buck Night and Hy-Vee/Pepsi Fireworks Fridays are back. In addition, the Royals will have two Girls' Night Out events and plenty of great giveaways! Single game tickets go on sale to the general public next Saturday, so scope the promotions list and mark your top events now! Click here for the complete list that was released today!


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May 29, 2016
Northeast Elementary School teacher Belinda Bennett Ott was presented with the Lauderdale County Schools' Teacher of the Year award Monday.
Ott has been in education for over 40 years, and has spent 25 of those with Lauderdale County.
Ott teaches three and four year old special needs students. While she has spent some time at the university level, Ott says that she feels called to teach this age group.
"I just think that all children should have the opportunity to receive a quality education," said Ott. "And I have been fortunate enough since I have been at Lauderdale County that I have had administrators that have shared that vision."
Ott is now in the running for the Mississippi Teacher of the Year.
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RaceTrack is a dynamic race detection tool for managed code.
Multithreading has become widely used in software development: modern operating systems and programming languages support threads and many large commercial software systems use them. However, writing and debugging multithreaded programs is very difficult. Probably the most difficult kind of programming error to debug in a multithreaded program is a data race in which the effect of the bug is not reproducible because it depends on a subtle timing relation between threads. Effective automatic race detection tools are lacking.
The RaceTrack research project addresses the problem of detecting races by instrumenting the execution of the program in order to detect suspicious access patterns to shared variables. A suspicious access pattern indicates that a data race might be possible and that the relevant code should be examined closely. The research aims to find a good balance between real races detected, false alarms generated, and the overheads of decreased execution speed and increased memory usage due to instrumentations. The target is large scale multithreaded software systems written in CLI managed code. Unmanaged code will run under RaceTrack without any instrumentation, and hence any race involving unmanaged code will not be detected.
- March 2004. We have built a research prototype using the Rotor runtime. Early experiments have been promising. Our RaceTrack demo at MSR's TechFest'04 received very positive feedbacks. We have started investigating the possibility of integrating RaceTrack into our production runtime. We plan to have a small number of trials with product groups.
- August 2004. We have ported RaceTrack to Everett(v1.1.4322). A Whidbey port is under way. Using RaceTrack, we discovered a few quite subtle bugs in mscorlib. RaceTrack's performance also looked quite good. We have filed one patent, and two more are in preparation.
Project Members
- Wei Chen (Intern, Summer '04)
- Tom Rodeheffer
- Yuan Yu
- Yuan Yu, Tom Rodeheffer, and Wei Chen. RaceTrack: Efficient Detection of Data Race Conditions via Adaptive Tracking. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles, October 2005.
- E. Schonberg. On-The-Fly detection of Access Anomalies. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, June 1989.
- S. Savage, M. Burrows, G. Nelson, P. Sobalvarro, and T. Anderson. Eraser: A dynamic data race detector for muti-threaded programs. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 15(4), 1997.
- C. Praun and T. Gross. Object race detection. In ACM Conference on Object-oriented Programming Systems, languages, and Applications, 2001.
- J. Choi, K. Lee, A. Loginov, R. O'Callahan, V. Sarkar, and M. Sridharan. Efficient and precise datarace detection for multithreaded object-oriented programs. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, 2002.
- D. Engler and K. Ashcraft. RacerX: Effective, Static Detection of Race Conditions and Deadlocks. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles, October 2003


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Senate's outgoing president says he plans to look for work in the private sector when his legislative term expires at the end of the year.
Senate President Tom Niehaus (NEE'-hows) is leaving the General Assembly because of term limits.
The New Richmond Republican told reporters on Thursday that Gov. John Kasich (KAY'-sihk) had asked him to think about working for the administration. He said the two hadn't discussed a specific job.
Niehaus said he told Kasich that he planned to pursue work elsewhere, but would do what he could to continue to support the GOP governor.
State Sen. Keith Faber (FAY'-bur), a Celina Republican, will take over as Senate president in January when the newly elected Legislature begins its work.


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Brisbane, Australia (Sports Network) - Former top-10 player Gilles Simon
and rising Japanese star Kei Nishikori were among Wednesday's second-round
winners at the season-opening Brisbane International tennis event, an
Australian Open tune-up.
The third-seeded world No. 16 Simon got past Colombian Alejandro Falla in a
pair of tiebreaks, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-5), while the fifth-seeded and 19th-
ranked Nishikori handled former top-10 star Tommy Robredo of Spain 6-3, 6-3 on
the hardcourts at Queensland Tennis Centre.
Also on Day 3, fourth-seeded Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov was ahead of
veteran player Jarkko Nieminen 6-2, 4-1 when the 2008 Brisbane runner-up from
Finland retired because of an illness and Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis, a former
Aussie Open finalist, upended sixth-seeded German Florian Mayer 6-4, 6-2 to
reach the quarterfinals this week. Dolgopolov was last year's Brisbane runner-
up to U.S. Open and Olympic champion Andy Murray.
Two of Friday's quarterfinals will pit Simon against Baghdatis and Dolgopolov
versus Nishikori.
The second round will conclude on Thursday with four more matches, including
ones for the top-seeded and defending champion Murray, second-seeded Milos
Raonic and wild card/Aussie hero Lleyton Hewitt. The world No. 3 Murray will
meet little-known Aussie qualifier John Millman.
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Governor's Drug Task Force Meets in Wheeling
February 26, 2013
WHEELING — The Governor's Advisory Council on Substance Abuse is making inroads toward curbing drug addiction problems in West Virginia, according to state officials and treatment experts....
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The concept of jailing offenders has problems in terms of cost, though it remains the best way to get people sober and stop them from committing crimes. The ideas that are offered for alternative sentencing and treatments are bogged down in foggy goals. The treatment approach to drug abuse is littered with people who are making serious money counseling and "treating". It has been underway for enough time to tote up scores and see that it also has been unsuccessful and one can't help but wonder if the goal is to counter addiction or is the primary goal to obtain money from the government to support the small army of addiction specialists. The article starts out by say that the Council is making inroads into curbing addiction, but is it really? What are the budgets, including salaries of this facilities and what ARE the "cure" rates? Has addiction reduced in the years that those programs are around. Is ther accountability there? Does that work? Seems not.
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What is Earth Observation Day?
Earth Observation Day (EOD) is a STEM educational outreach event of AmericaView and our partners. EOD will be celebrated officially on Wednesday, October 14, 2015. The goal is to engage students and teachers in remote sensing as an exciting and powerful educational tool.
During 2013, teachers and AmericaView scientists worked with the GLOBE SATELLITES program to explore the surface temperature of two common types of land cover, asphalt and grass, using Landsat satellite data and measurements taken by students. The idea was to explore patterns of surface temperature as they relate to Earth's energy budget. Land cover influences a wide range of important socio-economic and ecological conditions, including local climate, air and water quality, human health and wellness, soil permeability and productivity, stream flow and runoff, and wildlife habitat, to name a few. Mapping land cover using free Landsat data, along with surface temperature measurements, comprise engaging, standards-based exercises that introduce remote sensing technology and critically important spatial thinking skills, fostering a richer, more interesting, and more powerful scientific and cultural understanding of the local environment. For more information on the GLOBE SATELLITES / AmericaView Earth Observation Day 2013 Field Campaign click here. A tutorial covering how to access free Landsat and other remote sensing data is available here.
Why Landsat Images?
Landsat images date back to 1972 and are the longest, most comprehensive set of satellite data of Earth and its features. The images are an exciting and freely available educational resource for teachers of all levels. Landsat images and derived products such as land cover maps (for example, at right), surface temperature maps, tree canopy maps, and soil permeability maps can be used in a wide variety of STEM disciplines including the physical and life sciences. Landsat images also support exploration and investigation in interdisciplinary subjects such as geography, social studies, political science, even history. Thus, land cover mapping using free Landsat imagery helps to meet science content standards and objectives in Physical Science, Life Science, Geography (including critically important spatial thinking skills), as well as Inquiry Standards and 21st Century Learning objectives.
Support for Teachers and How to Get Involved
One of the unique features of Earth Observation Day is that AmericaView scientists, all of whom are experts in remote sensing and related geospatial technologies, are available to support teachers in their respective states. 'Support' can come in various ways, either by answering questions about the lessons and activites, or by pointing teachers toward other resources, or by offering to talk with students in the classroom. AmericaView scientists are committed to helping their state's K-12 teachers as they expand their horizons and begin to integrate remote sensing as a fun, informative, and engaging teaching tool in their classrooms.
For infomation about K-12 use of Landsat images on Earth Observation Day, October 14, 2015, contact Tom Mueller by email or call him at 724-938-4255. A 2013 'white paper' explaining Earth Observation Day in more detail is available here.
AmericaView Remote Sensing Scientists have Developed a Set of K-12 Remote Sensing Land Cover Lessons to Support Earth Observation Day
Grades K-6: State Landsat Mosaic Puzzle Lesson
The 'State Landsat Mosaic Puzzle Lesson' introduces physical geography and satellite images. In particular, it introduces the Landsat Statewide Mosaic, a composite image of each state created from several Landsat images shown in natural color as would be seen by a person traveling on the satellite. The objective is to introduce students to satellite images showing their state's natural and man-made features. These might include mountain ranges, grasslands, agricultural areas, urban areas, deserts, and forests. Teachers will identify a few of the most obvious features and talk about them in the spatial context of geography, including where they are with respect to other features, their size, their shape and their basic physical and biological geography. The students will get their own copy of the statewide mosaic map to cut out areas that 'stand out' on the map (mountain ranges, the Imperial Valley, Mohave Desert, etc.). The 8.5" x 11" full-color mosaic for all States is available here. The national science education standards associated with the lesson are located here for K-4 Grade and here for 5-8 Grade.
Grades K-16: Interactive Introduction to Remote Sensing Imagery - Land Cover Change Detection Lesson
The 'Interactive Introduction to Remote Sensing Imagery' lesson is an online memory puzzle that students use to strengthen their skills in identifying patterns and features on the Earth's surface. Students 'turn over' images and try to recall where the matching image is located in the puzzle. Additional information on each image is located by clicking on the image. The objective is to complete the puzzle in the fastest time. In addition to strengthening pattern and feature identifiction skills, the lesson familiarizes students with landscape change over time, and the impact of the changes on the biosphere, including humans, animals, and plants. Students match satellite imagery of the same location acquired over two different time periods to explore landscape changes at various locations around the world. There are several lesson possibilities, each suited to a specific grade level.The national science education standards associated with the lesson are located here for 5-8 Grade and here for K-4 Grade.
The 'State Landsat Mosaic Puzzle Lesson' and the 'Interactive Introduction to Remote Sensing Imagery-Land Cover Change Detection Lesson' were developed by Pia van Benthem at the University of California Davis (UC Davis). Pia van Benthem is the CailforniaView Coordinator, the Outreach Coordinator of the Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing at UC Davis and serves as Co-Chair of the California SpaceGrant Education Working Group. She has extensive teaching experience and combined with her engineering degree she supports STEM education and geospatial technology, in particular.
Pia would be glad to support teachers utilizing these lesson plans. For questions, please feel free to contact Pia van Benthem by email or phone at 530-752-0857.
The 'Introduction to Map Scale' lesson uses Google Earth to introduce students to the concept of map scale. It can also be used to support some of the questions that students are likely to ask as they work through the other lessons. The national science education standards associated with the lesson are located here for 5-8 Grade and here for K-4 Grade.
This exercise was developed by Tom Mueller at California University of Pennsylvania. Tom Mueller is a Professor of Geographic Information Systems and the Director of PennsylvaniaView. He is also the Director of the Peter J. Daley Geotechnology Institute and Director of the California University of Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium.
Tom would be glad to support teachers utilizing this lesson. For questions, contact Tom Mueller by email or phone at 724-938-4255.
The following three lesson plans for Grades 6-12 built upon each other and should be taught as a lecture series. The 'Teacher's Guide' providing resources on Land Use and Land Cover is available here. An animated Powerpoint presentation can be downloaded here to guide students step by step through the three Google Earth lecture series lesson plans. This presentation also includes the 'Introduction to Map Scale Using Google Earth' lesson plan (see above).
The 'Google Earth Introduction to Remote Sensing' lesson teaches middle school students how to use Google Earth to explore the area and topography around their houses and neighborhoods. Students create a 'Placemark' at their house and describe their town's topography in simple, concrete terms. This lesson should be completed before starting the next exercise, 'Understanding Land Use and Land Cover Using Google Earth'. It can be adapted by teachers to increase knowledge and complexity, by adding supplemental readings and/or additional mapping questions. Linked national education standards can be found here.
2. Understanding Land Use and Land Cover Using Google Earth
The 'Understanding Land Use and Land Cover Using Google Earth' lesson teaches middle school students how to use Google Earth to create a simple land use map. In it, students will learn the difference between land use and land cover, the difference between natural and man-made features, and basic mapping skills including feature identification and polygon/area delineation. The lesson can be adapted by teachers to increase knowledge and complexity, by adding supplemental readings and/or additional mapping questions. The national science education standards associated with the lesson are located here.
3. Viewing Land Cover Data Sets Using Google Earth
The 'Viewing Land Cover Data Sets Using Google Earth' lesson teaches middle and high school students how to view different data sets in Google Earth. The focus in this lecture is to view the freely available National Land Cover Data (NLCD) sets. The students will learn the process of displaying existing data sets in Google Earth used to analyze land cover changes. The lesson can be adapted by teachers to increase knowledge and complexity, by adding supplemental readings and/or additional mapping questions. The national science education standards associated with the lesson are located here.
The Google Earth lecture series was developed by Rick Landenberger, Tom Mueller and Pia van Benthem. Rick Landenberger is a former AmericaView Executive Director and current faculty member in the Department of Geology and Geography at West Virginia University in Morgantown. He is a forest ecologist and remote sensing scientist by training. In the past ten years Rick has been working in K-12 STEM education and professional development, supporting West Virginia teachers in the use of geospatial technology in the classroom.
Rick, Tom and Pia would be glad to support teachers utilizing these lesson plans. For questions, contact Rick Landenber by email or phone at 304-293-9468, contact Tom Mueller by email or phone 724-938-4255 or contact Pia van Benthem by email or phone 530-752-0857.
Grades 6-12: MultiSpec© Remote Sensing Tutorials for Earth Observation Day
The MultiSpec© Earth Observation Day Tutorial Series is designed to introduce students to land cover classification using MultiSpec©, a free image data analysis system. Lessons are particularly well suited for middle and high school students in science and math courses. We suggest beginning with Tutorial 1, after which students may proceed to the other tutorials in the sequence. Teachers with PC labs should start here for an overview, and to get access to the free software and free imagery. Teachers using Macs should start here. A helpful glossary of terms is available here.
Tutorial 1: Viewing Remote Sensing Imagery (PC Teacher version with notes, PC Student version, Mac Teacher version with notes, Mac Student version)
This lesson will guide students (grades 6-12) in the process of opening and observing a Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) image. Students will use MultiSpec© software to display and inspect a section of a Landsat satellite image around their schools. Students will investigate how local surface features are represented by Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery. The main steps involved in this lesson include:
Tutorial 2: Unsupervised Land Cover Classification (PC Teacher version with notes, PC Student version, Mac Teacher version with notes, Mac Student version)
Tutorial 3: Supervised Land Cover Classification (PC Teacher version with notes, PC Student version, Mac Teacher version with notes, Mac Student version)
Tutorial 4: Land Cover Change Analysis (PC Teacher version with notes, PC Student version, Mac Teacher version with notes, Mac Student version)
This lesson is designed primarily for high school students but can be used in middle school advanced classes as well. In this exercise, students will use the MultiSpec© image processing software to display and inspect sections of two Landsat Thematic Mapper (Landsat-TM) satellite images showing their school and surroundings. They will investigate how the ground elements around the school are represented by Landsat-Thematic Mapper imagery and how things have changed between two time periods. The main steps involved in this lesson are::
Remote Sensing Tutorials
Tutorials are arranged in order, from simple, introductory information appropriate for elementary school science teachers to advanced, technical information more appropriate for middle, high school, and undergraduate teachers. Each has it's own unique approach, and none are necessarily better or worse than the others. They are listed here by grade level, but this is done only to aid teachers in selecting the most appropriate tutorial for them, at their level of understanding.
Lessons and Activities
Esri's free Web application, ChangeMatters, allows teachers and students to rapidly view Global Land Survey (GLS) Landsat* imagery anywhere in the world (including around your school!), both multi-spectrally and multi-temporally, and to map change over time. The application's functionality includes the ability for users to rapidly:
* Landsat represents the world's longest continuously acquired collection of space-based moderate-resolution land remote sensing data.
Summary adapted from "Change Matters" by Kass Green, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, April 2011.
Mt. St. Helens Volcano, Washington. Change pairs for 1990 to 2010
Exploring the Environment (K-4)
NASA Imagers (K-8)
NASA Imagers is a multimedia teaching resource for elementary school teachers interested in using remotely sensed images to teach basic science. Imagers (Interactive Multimedia Adventures for Grade School Education Using Remote Sensing), is a "comprehensive Earth science education resource for the introduction of remote sensing and satellite imagery to children in grades K-8", and has two multimedia web sites - The Adventures of Amerial the Pigeon, and The Adventures of Echo the Bat. As described b the authors, "Echo the Bat and Amelia the Pigeon encompass two major components: (1) an interactive web site with a multimedia adventure game; and (2) an activity guide with lesson plans and reproducible hands-on activities. The interactive web sites are meant to engage children, while the supplemental materials enable educators to introduce the concepts through hands-on activities in the classroom. Applying this methodology, parents and teachers are able to teach Earth science using remote sensing imagery via identification of land use, exploration of featured habitats, and changes in the environment." What a great resource! A full description of Imagers is available here.
USGS Tracking Changes Over Time (5-8+)
Tracking Change Over Time lesson plan includes four parts. The first part, Getting Started, provides an overview and links the lessons to national science standards, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Benchmarks, describes the learning goals and procedures, and has links to additinoal resources. The second part, Understanding Remote Sensing, explains the basics of remote sensing at an age-appropriate level. The third part, Using MultiSpec to Interpret Satellite Imagery, describes and shows how to use MultiSpec, a free remote sensing program that has been used for many years around the world for both teaching and research. The fourth and final part, called The Modules, demonstrate the many uses of satellite data to track different types of landscape change over time, showing students how scientists compare images like those provided in the lessons to learn more about changes taking place in a region.
USGS Earthshots (6-12)
Earthshots is a set of remote sensing lessons developed by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The lessons, which feature a range of places and events from around the world, introduces remote sensing by showing images of environemtnal change as seen from orbiting satellites. Examples include urban areas, agricultural areas, deserts, forests, geological features, meteorological examples, water, and wildlife. Featuring a clickable map and many images of the same areas taken over several decades, many of which can be downloaded and used in a wide variety of teacher-developed lessons, the images demonstrate how our Earth is changing as a rest of various human and natural activities. Earthshots is an excellent teaching resource for classes in biology, environemental science, geography, and history. Included are links to the USGS's Earth Resources Observation and Science Image Gallery, another fantastic resource for teachers interested in cutting edge remote sensing science teaching materials. Earthshots provides a 'Help' and FAQ page here.
NASA's Earth Observatory (K-12+)
The mission of the NASA Earth Obseratory is to share a wide range of educational resources with the public, including teachers and practicing scientists. Resoures offered via the Observatory include images, maps, stories, and recent scientific findings in Earth systems science, including biology, ecology, and physical sciences such as meteorology and climate change. Topics featuresd in the Observatory include biology, heat, land, life, oceans, snow and ice, and human presence. Fcat sheets on the carbon and water cycles, aerosols, global warming, sea ice, Eath's energy budget, tropical deforestation, and a wealth of other intersting and important subjects. Scientists from several NASA research facilities, such as Goddard Space Flight Center, Ames and Langely Research Centers, The Jet Propulsion Labratory, Goddard Institude for Space Studies, contribute to the Observatory.
Find and download the Landsat poster for your state here: http://wisconsinview.org/imagery/landsat_state_mosaics/


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Vancouver, BC (Sports Network) - Vancouver Whitecaps Designated Player Kenny
Miller has agreed to a six-month contract extension, the club announced on
Miller, 33, will remain with the club until June 2014. He became the team's
fourth Designated Player signing on July 16, 2012 and has scored eight goals
while starting 20 of his 26 appearances in just over one year in Vancouver.
"I'm delighted to sign a contract extension with the Whitecaps," said Miller.
"I've really enjoyed my time in Vancouver and so has my family. The fans here
are unbelievable, the club is always very professional, and I think we have a
special group of players."
The Scottish international has bagged 17 goals in 68 appearances for his
country. The native of Edinburgh, Scotland, was recently called up to Gordon
Strachan's 29-man squad for next month's friendly against England at Wembley
"This is an important move for our club and speaks to the value we place on
continuity as we continue to build," said Whitecaps FC head coach Martin
Rennie. "Kenny is a great leader and his contributions both on and off the
pitch have been instrumental to the success of our team. It's an exciting time
for the club and we look forward to a strong finish to the 2013 campaign."
Per club and league policy, financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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IDK about most people but I enjoy brushing my teeth. Still it be nice to help improve teeth care.
IDK about most people but I enjoy brushing my teeth. Still it be nice to help improve teeth care.
Uhh if this kills all bacteria it's probably not good for you. Bacteria are really helpful and destroying them all on a constant basis could allow opportunistic pathogens to take over and make you really sick. And yeast and stuff. But if its just that one, then....I'm still brushing my teeth
The funny thing is, I still go to the dentist and every time I go, the dental hygienist, who cleans my teeth, always compliments my teeth, on how clean they are and how much I must floss to keep them like this.
Also she is young and hot and kinda puts her boobs on my face when she cleans my teeth.
It's not a correlation, it's causality.
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You brush your teeth for more than just cavity protection. "Coffee stains"/yellow teeth, plaque, bad breath, find me a molecule that I can wash with for 60 seconds and not have any of those for life, and you'll have yourself a true no brush breakthrough.
it would kill a field but really ... dentist only become dentists for the money ... who honestly can say they enjoy having there hands in peoples mouths all day
im looking forward to seeing more about this imo
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...tknight/simple - Retired ( miss my ret paladin )
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...hostx/advanced - alt
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...nknight/simple - Monks are OP ! ( new main )
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Oh, I may be on the side of the angels, but don't think for one second that I am one of them.
another cool thing thats in the making, broken a tooth? got hit by a baseball bat when you was somewhere you should not have been? Read this : http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/878/ soon we might be able to grow a new tooth instead of fixing it!
Also regarding the no brushing thing, i was so bad at it and mostly i did not brush my teeth and i lasted for 24 years straight without any holes in them (only lost 2 corners of my upper middle teeth due to a gearbox that i lost grip on while working under my car, only a big enough gap thats make biting of spagetti anoying :-) ).
anyways i made it untill age 24 no prob and the last 2-3 years my tooth went downhill (might go hand in hand with a big increase in coca cola usage). if i should fix my tooth here in sweden i might be looking at 2500 - 3500 us dollar to get it done. i think i should make a vacation trip to Ukraine or Hungary to get it fixed for 10% the price, and the travel there ain't that expensive either.
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(Sports Network) - Miami's 22-game winning streak is impressive, but what's
even more astonishing is how the Heat have stayed healthy.
The Heat look to keep rolling injury-free when they resume a five-game road
trip Monday against the Boston Celtics at TD Garden. They made it 22 straight
wins with Sunday's 108-91 victory at Toronto as Dwyane Wade scored 24 points
and LeBron James added 22. Ray Allen scored 20 off the bench for the Heat, who
haven't lost since Feb. 1 at Indiana.
"It's a special ride right now that we're on and I think the best thing about
it is we're doing it together. We're doing it for one another and just want to
try to keep it going," James said.
Chris Bosh chipped in 18 points against his former team as the Heat improved
to 3-0 on the road swing and have won 10 straight away from South Beach. The
last time Miami won 11 in a row on the road was back in 1998.
Miami tied Houston's 22-game run from the 2007-08 campaign and the Los Angeles
Lakers are next with a 33-game winning streak from the 1971-72 season.
The Heat, who are 21-11 as the guest and own the best record in the NBA, will
close out the road trip Wednesday at Cleveland.
Boston is streaking as well with 11 straight home wins.
The Celtics will close out a three-game homestand Monday and are coming off
Saturday's 105-88 victory over the Charlotte Bobcats. Jason Terry had 15
points, while Paul Pierce and Avery Bradley had 14 and 13 points,
respectively, for the Celtics, who have won two straight and seven of their
last nine.
"I thought second half we ran the ball a lot better, rebounded the ball a lot
better, and it provided easy opportunities for us," said Pierce. "So when we
play that way, to go along with defensive stops, we're a tough team to beat."
Brandon Bass and Jeff Green scored 10 points apiece in the win. Boston is 24-9
at home and will start a three-game road trip Wednesday at New Orleans.
The Celtics hope to have veteran forward Kevin Garnett Monday night and he is
listed as questionable with a left adductor strain. Boston is even with
Chicago for the sixth seed in the East.
Boston and Miami have split two meetings this season with each team winning as
the host. The Celtics have won 18 of the past 22 meetings with the Heat, who
are winless in 10 straight trips to Beantown. Miami's streak could be in
jeopardy since it's only 4-14 in the past 18 contests at Boston.
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Eden, NC -- Everyone gets excited about Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but one day that often gets overlooked is nestled right in-between, Small Business Saturday. It's the day when we show our appreciation for the little guys that keep our country's economy going.
According to the Small Business Administration, small businesses account for 99.7 percent of the United States' businesses that hire workers. Also, small businesses employ almost half of the workers in the United States.
The folks in Eden are celebrating small business and urging you to get out there and buy local. Mike Dougherty, Director of Economic Development and Main Street Manager for the City of Eden, along with Lisa Goldsworthy, the owner of June Marie Boutique, joined Jackie Fernandez on the Weekend Good Morning Show to talk about Small Business Saturday, and why you should buy local.
The June Marie Boutique is located on Washington Street in historic Olde Leaksville in Eden. For more information about the boutique, click here.
For more information on Mike Dougherty, and the Eden Chamber of Commerce, click here.
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One More Time - 1966 Chevy ChevelleWritten by on March 21, 2013 Contributors: Robert McGaffin, Darrell Mayabb A Chevelle's 25-Year Journey From Beater to Pro Touring
Editor's Note: Cole Quinnell joined the staff of HOT ROD in 1990, a year ahead of me. I well remember his beat '66 Chevelle at the time, moving it from his apartment to a house and later cross-country to Detroit when he left the mag. When Cole completed a long-awaited rebuild last year, I asked him to write this first-person account of his life with the car, up through the makeover. - DF
I'm writing this from the driver seat of the '66 Chevelle you see here. There's no better place from which to share the story. I've spent the last 25 years driving this car to school and work, racing it regularly, and making change after change to it. This car has been with me through some of my best points in life and some of my worst.
This story really begins in 1986 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. A guy named Mike Lane owned the Chevelle, and he was trying to build a decent driver out of it. He had rescued it from a previous owner, who threatened to turn it into a dirt-track racer if Mike didn't buy it. Mike and I met through street racing and mutual friends, and I helped him work on the car when I could. After swapping in several used automatic transmissions, a couple of small-block engines, and adding gallons of body filler and primer, the car started to take on a desirable shape.
A quick over-correction on a dirt road brought that progress to a halt. The passenger-side quarter-panel connected with a concrete barrier, ripping and crushing the sheetmetal as well as Mike's ambition to continue working on the car. In the weeks that followed, he found another Chevelle frame with an empty body shell and planned to transfer parts from the old car. This was shortly after HOT ROD had done the original "Caddy Hack" story (Feb. '87), inspiring us to make one last trip to the street drags as we were stripping the Chevelle. We ditched anything not absolutely necessary for forward acceleration. We removed so much weight that traction was an issue, so we strapped a 350 engine block to the trunk latch support. Based on comparison with our usual competitors, we picked up more than a second in the quarter-mile!
After that, Mike removed the last parts and was going to send what was left of the old Chevelle to the salvage yard. I convinced him to give it to me instead, cementing my passion for Chevelles. My parents weren't sure what to say when the backyard was filled with this hulk consisting of little more than framerails, a roof, floor, and quarter-panels. I found two parts cars and began swapping the best pieces onto mine.
One of the parts cars was a four-door and the other was a 300 model, which made for an interesting collection of parts. I used plenty of body filler and fiberglass screen to fill the gash in the quarter-panel. I did my best to smooth the rest of the eclectic collection of sheetmetal and shot the whole thing in primer gray. I built a 327 with a lumpy cam and an Edelbrock Scorpion single-plane intake. I scrounged up a Saginaw four-speed and an open 3.08-geared 10-bolt. It wasn't particularly nice, but it was a more-or-less complete car, and it was driveable.
I pursued quicker quarter-mile times with practically no budget, which led me to install 4.88 gears and weld up the stock differential. I also hung a set of ladder bars. The car was definitely quicker, but part of the joy of driving it was gone, too-my first lesson in undesirable compromises.
In 1990, I got the opportunity of a lifetime: a job offer at HOT ROD magazine. In short order, I needed to pack up my life and move to Los Angeles. My brother, Kyle, did a quick paintjob to make the Chevelle more presentable. I cut the ladder-bar mounts off the frame and swapped in a 3.08-geared 10-bolt axle to make the 800-mile trek to my new career. Over the next 12 years, I drove my Chevelle to work on the crowded LA freeways and raced it at Los Angeles County Raceway. I installed two engines and blew up two four-speed transmissions. The same 10-bolt lived until I took the car apart most recently for a complete rebuild.
This Chevelle was my mechanical best friend. Always there for me, always ready to go for a drive, whether to work or play or for a cross-country adventure.
The next phase in the car's life was not all that good. I moved on from the publishing world to work in Detroit for Chrysler. During that time, my four-wheeled toys stayed locked up in storage, waiting for me to have more time to spend with them. For the Chevelle, that moment came in 2010. The rust that was buried under layers of body filler was starting to show through, and I wanted to have the paint and bodywork done professionally. That's when I met the father-and-son team of Tony and TJ Grzelakowski. They had two businesses: Advanced Body & Color, which does show-quality paint, and ABC Performance, which has a line of performance parts for Chevelles.
After tossing ideas back and forth with Tony over that summer, I launched into a frame-off rebuild of the car. I was enamored with the idea of Pro Touring, so the goal was to build a modern version of a late-'60s SCCA Trans-Am racer-a little bit of Smokey Yunick's Chevelle mixed with touches found in the current crop of Pro Touring cars. The sheetmetal would be smoothed and cleaned of all extraneous trim, letting the classic lines of a '66 Chevelle stand out. It would sit as low as possible while fitting maximum tires in the wheelwells. The wheels would be a classic five-spoke design with sandblasted centers. I wanted the car to look simple, something that just about anyone interested in muscle cars could relate to. I had Darrell Mayabb pen an illustration that put the combination of my and Tony's ideas into a single visual roadmap.
With more than a little trepidation over taking apart a car that had been my mechanical best friend in this exact form for so long, I spent a weekend removing every part I had installed over the past 20-plus years. I laughed more than once remembering all times I had pulled engines, dropped trannies to change clutches, and left behind things I meant to go back and fix later. When I finished taking it apart, what was left was the same set of framerails, roof, floor and quarter-panels that Mike had given to me so long ago. I hauled all of the sheetmetal and the frame to Strip-It-All, where it was blasted of all past sins. The raw parts were then delivered to Advanced Body & Color, where Tony and TJ went to work installing a host of new sheetmetal from C.A.R.S. Inc. and National Parts Depot.
In addition to replacing sheetmetal and making the gaps better than any stock Chevelle ever was, Tony and TJ shaved the bumper bolts, filled the huge rectangular openings in the stock front bumper, and shaved the windshield wipers from the cowl (the car hasn't had working windshield wipers the entire time I've owned it, so why start now?). Tony welded together two repop grilles to create one continuous design across the front of the car. There's a lot of OE trim missing from the car's exterior, which escapes most people's notice, but it's often what's not there that makes one car look better than another.
With the body perfect, Tony laid down coat after coat of a custom PPG blue that looks as good under florescent lighting as it does in broad daylight. The paint was done on New Year's Eve, just four months after the car was dropped off at Advanced Body & Color. We celebrated briefly. Then it was on to the chassis and 'cage.
We decided we could build a top-performing chassis using the stock frame and components Tony makes through ABC Performance. The key was increasing overall stiffness, so Tony started by welding in one of his frame-boxing kits, which use CNC-laser-cut plates to turn the open-C-channel framerails into boxed sections, making the chassis four times stiffer than stock. He also installed his mini-tub frame kit, moving the rear framerails inboard to make room for 2-inch-wider meats. The frame was coated in Eastwood Satin Extreme Chassis Black.
The body was mated to the chassis using ABC Performance solid body mounts. Even though an automaker will spend months figuring out the right durometer hardness for body bushings for optimum ride quality, I don't think most hot rodders can tell the differences between rubber, polyurethane, and solid mounts, given all of the vibration our cars can produce. However, the additional stiffness gained through solidly tying the body to the frame is a difference you'll feel at the track. The addition of a 'cage welded to the body and frame further shortens the argument. Speaking of 'cages, Tony bent and welded one that connects all the key suspension points on the chassis. He also tucked it as far out of the way as possible to minimize the hassle of living with a 'cage in a street car.
The stiffened chassis became the foundation for Tony's complete front and rear bolt-on suspension. The front uses adjustable upper control arms, eliminating the need for alignment shims and increasing clearance at the headers. The shorter upper A-arm and taller spindle reverse the camber curve when cornering to keep the tire tread flat on the ground for excellent handling. Tony also installed a 11⁄8-inch splined sway bar with adjustable end links so the effect of the bar can be tuned for various tracks. The rear suspension uses ABC Performance upper and lower control arms as well as chassis braces to strengthen the factory control-arm mounts. The upper arms are adjustable to make setting the pinion angle easy. We used Viking Performance double-adjustable coilovers at all four corners. This let me get a really low stance without giving up ride quality or handing capability.
When it came to the brakes, I mixed traditional and non-traditional thinking. I went mainstream with the bigger-is-better philosophy, choosing Baer 14-inch rotors for the front and 13-inch in the rear with six-piston calipers at all four corners. I broke tradition by skipping the power-booster, instead using a 11⁄8-inch bore, cast-iron master cylinder from CPP. I don't like the disconnected feeling that often comes with a vacuum brake booster, and this particular unit retained a muscle-car look underhood. Admittedly, I have to really stand on the brakes when coming into a corner hot, but for regular street driving, it's very natural feeling.
In between self-taught lessons on installing the Chevrolet Performance 6.2L LS3 engine, I worked on assembling the interior, wiring everything with a Painless Performance harness, installing the Flex-a-lite aluminum radiator and electric fan, and fiddling with hundreds of other items. Everything adds up in time. For example, it's easy to gloss over the fact that installing a Flaming River master on/off switch will take a few hours to do cleanly. And to hide an MSD ignition controller under the dash might require disassembling the wiring harness plugs to route the wires through a reasonably sized hole.
Several friends helped during this 13-month total makeover. Chris Kill spent many evenings and weekends doing whatever was needed, including bending all of the brake lines and plumbing a Hurst roll control that I have yet to use. Fellow Chevelle enthusiast Aaron Oberle installed most of the FAST EZ-EFI fuel injection. Tony and TJ came over several times to install the bumpers and frontend trim, and they helped hoist the Tremec transmission in and out a few times as I sorted out the clutch components.
I was nervous when it came time to fire up the Chevelle and drive it for the first time in its new form. I had driven the previous version for 15 years. I knew every sound and recognized every feeling transmitted through the car. This was the same car, yet it was completely different. The apprehension didn't last long, as I grew accustomed to having loads of power on tap and handling that's surprised more than a few owners of late-model Camaros, Mustangs, and Corvettes at open-track days. Even though the car feels much different than it did before, I look forward to decades of cross-country drives, racing, and generally getting to know this new version of my old friend.
What I'd Do Differently
First, a Positive: I'm very happy that I had top-quality paint and bodywork done. The car looks outstanding, and I don't have to make any apologies when I park in front of someone's house. I also don't have people asking to buy the car anymore, thinking they can steal it for $3,000.
Pedals: Instead of using stock pedals, I'd definitely mount a Tilton or Wilwood swinging pedal assembly with integrated clutch and brake master cylinders under the dash. The stock brake-pedal ratio is awful, and I'm sure that I'm not getting all of power I could from the Baer brakes. Aftermarket pedals also would have also eased the challenge of converting the mechanical clutch linkage to hydraulic. Naturally, the difficulty would be fitting the new pedal assembly under the dash, but with the car completely taken apart, this probably would have been just as easy as the work I did adapting to the stock pedals. Finally, this would have removed the last components from the firewall for an even cleaner look.
Trick Plating: I'd skip the cobalt nickel-plating on the bumpers and trim. It created the desired look of contrasting a dark color with the bright-blue paint while retaining the reflective quality of chrome, but the dark layer is paper thin, and in less than a year, it has worn through. The car would have a completely timeless appearance if I had these parts chromed instead. That's important for a car I plan on keeping and not redoing for a long, long time.
Cooler Steering: I learned at my first road race that I desperately needed a power-steering cooler. The fluid reservoir was 230 degrees F after 15 minutes on track! I installed a Flex-a-lite cooler and dropped the temperature to 170 degrees at the next event.
Coils vs. Coilovers: The last thing I found that needed changing was the coil springs. The first set of conventional coil springs sagged inconsistently, requiring some funky adjustments to level the car out. This also made me question their true spring rates. I swapped out the coils for Viking Performance double-adjustable shock and high-travel and high-tensile steel springs.
LS Swap: It's still a tough call on the LS swap versus a conventional small-block. I would probably still choose this engine again, but I'd be much better prepared mentally and financially for what it would take to install it.
Rollcage: The 'cage is the last one that I'm not sure about. There's no arguing that it adds significant rigidity to the chassis and is a smart decision for any car that goes on the racetrack. And Tony did a great job tucking it out of the way as much as possible. But a 'cage is a 'cage, which means access behind the front seats is next to impossible for an adult, and you deal with the bars every time you get in and out of the car.
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Even 20 years ago, I loved road trips in hot rods. Nutt, New Mexico, was the gateway to a rural highway littered with ghost towns I'd escape to a few times a year.When I moved to Michigan, my Chevelle and all of my other toys were tucked away in storage until I had time to work on them again. For my Chevelle, that came in 2010, when I started on the next phase of the car.I think this engine was in the car longer than any other. It was essentially a ZZ4 crate motor, though I shaved the deck for compression and swapped in a hydraulic roller cam that was more to my liking. It made 410 hp and 400 lb-ft of torque. It was a lot nicer working on my car in my garage in Michigan than it was in my parents' dirt driveway in New Mexico!Since I knew this car so well and had applied most of the body filler personally, there were only a few surprises when the guys at Strip-It-All took it down to bare metal. I hung up the chunk of fiberglass screen, rust, and body filler from the passenger quarter-panel in my shop as a memento.Tony and TJ installed ABC Performance mini-tub and frame boxing kits on the stock chassis. This was just before the body and chassis would be mated together for the last time.A Tremec T56 Magnum six-speed was a natural choice for this car because of its strength and great gear ratios. I used an installation kit from American Powertrain that included a hydraulic-clutch conversion, a flywheel and clutch, a QuickTime scattershield, and a Hurst Shifter.I'm pretty fond of the strength and versatility of a Ford 9-inch, so using a Moser bolt-in for my Chevelle was an easy choice. The ABC tub kit uses a stock-width axle and doesn't require you to relocate the control arms.
The trick to fitting five-inch Stewart-Warner gauges in a '66 Chevelle is using a bolt-in ABC Performance dash. The gauges had the look I wanted, and a rack of toggle switches with aircraft covers completes it. Air conditioning would have been nice, but I wanted to keep it simple. Same for the lack of a stereo.The interior sets the tone for this car more than any other part. The low-back vintage Kirkey race seats look like they're right out of the '60s. The steering wheel is a Grant 14�-inch racing wheel on a Flaming River tilt column. I deleted the back seat for a full-race look and covered the entire floor with Daytona Weave carpet from C.A.R.S. Inc.Splatter paint makes the trunk look stock and hides that Tony stretched the wheeltubs 2 inches to swallow the massive 335/30ZR18 rear tires. Since doing this project, stamped, wide wheeltubs have become available from ABC Performance. The Optima Redtop and Painless fuse box are mounted right above the rear axle.The goal was to make the engine look as traditional as possible, so the Chevrolet Performance LS3 crate motor was used with a carbureted intake manifold. Chris Kill painted a pair of Holley coil covers and a 14-inch aluminum air-cleaner assembly in Mercedes Diamond Silver Metallic, then gave them a grained look to emulate spun aluminum. The wires and hoses required for a fuel-injected modern engine are all completely hidden.FAST EZ-EFI hides where most people assume a carburetor resides. Keeping the engine looking tidy was no small chore. There are more wires hidden under the intake manifold runners now than the car previously had in total underhood. The FAST ECU is hidden behind the passenger wheelwell, while the remote reservoir for the clutch master cylinder is behind the driver side. The feed and return fuel lines snake down the back of the engine along with the MSD ignition harness to control the eight GM coils.


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Oscar hosting: Is it a thankless task?
NEW YORK The love-him-or-hate-him reaction to Seth MacFarlane's turn as Academy Awards host is evidence that one of the most high-profile jobs in show business is becoming one of its most thankless.
The "Family Guy" creator and first-time Oscars host seemed unusually preoccupied with his reviews both before and during Sunday's show. He predicted he'd be ripped apart and he was, particularly on social media. He also had his fans, with many suggesting the motion picture academy got precisely the kind of performance it expected and wanted in hiring someone known for his subversive, even crude humor.
As is often the case with the Oscars, the major awards themselves - "Argo" as best picture, Daniel Day Lewis and Jennifer Lawrence as top actors - hewed closely to pre-show predictions. The host's performance is the most unpredictable element of the show, and it seems the negative experiences have the most mileage. David Letterman's awkward 1995 turn is well-remembered, most of all by him. Chris Rock tried to bring some edge in 2005 and fell flat. James Franco and Anne Hathaway's snoozefest in 2011 is still being talked about.
After Franco and Hathaway, the Oscars returned last year to the tried and true - eight-time host Billy Crystal - and faced criticism that the reliable had become the stodgy.
To some ears, MacFarlane's material - which included a song-and-dance number about breast-baring actresses, a domestic violence joke involving Rihanna and Chris Brown, and references to Mel Gibson's racial slurs - didn't make the grade.
"If you're going to the edge, you have to be funny," said comic Joy Behar on "The View" Monday. "To me, I love Seth, but it wasn't funny enough."
Behar's colleague, Whoopi Goldberg - a four-time Oscars host - had a bit more empathy, noting that people in MacFarlane's position have a tough line to walk. The Oscars can't force a younger audience to be interested just by hiring a younger host, she said, and a younger host has to know the audience that is out there.
Robert Thompson, director of Syracuse University's Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture, agreed that MacFarlane's was a difficult position.
"Your job description is that you are trying to appeal to people who are not necessarily watching the Oscars to get them to watch, and at the same time appeal to people who are actually watching it," he said. "That's not an easy thing to do."
The Nielsen Co. said an estimated 40.3 million people watched the Academy Awards on Sunday, up 1 million from last year and the first time since 2010 that the show topped the 40 million mark. More importantly for ABC, ratings for the 18-to-49-year-old demographic were up 11 percent over 2012. That's the age group upon which ABC bases its advertising rates, and MacFarlane was brought in this year in part to attract a younger audience.
The telecast was likely also propelled by the second screen experience, which has steadily grown in recent years as a driver of ratings for major live TV events. Twitter said that there were a total of 8.9 million tweets about the Academy Awards during the show and red carpet arrivals. That fell short of both the Grammys earlier in the month (more than 14 million tweets) and the record 24.1 million tweets about the recent Super Bowl and halftime show.
Arguably MacFarlane's most offensive joke, measured by the audience's groans, referred to actors who had tried to play Abraham Lincoln over the years. "I would argue that the actor who really got inside Lincoln's head was John Wilkes Booth," MacFarlane said of Lincoln's assassin.


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Houston, TX (Sports Network) - Russell Westbrook scored 28 points and Kevin
Durant tallied 26 as the Oklahoma City Thunder delivered their highest scoring
output of the season in a 124-94 thrashing of the Houston Rockets at Toyota
Westbrook added eight assists and eight rebounds, while Kevin Martin racked up
19 points off the bench to help the Thunder top their previous scoring high.
That also came against the Rockets, a 120-98 rout in Oklahoma City on Nov. 28
that marked the first meeting between the teams since the preseason trade that
sent star guard James Harden to Houston.
Much of the damage came from beyond the arc, with Oklahoma City knocking down
13-of-29 shots from three-point range. Martin went 5-of-8 from long distance,
with Durant hitting on 4-of-9 attempts.
Harden finished with 25 points against his former club, but shot just 6-of-17
from the field. Marcus Morris notched a career-high 24 points and Toney
Douglas scored 17 for Houston, which was dealt a second straight loss
following a season-best five-game win streak.
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40 Homemade Gifts from The Kitchn
Recipe Roundup
We here at The Kitchn believe that the very best gifts are of the edible sort, so today we're sharing all our favorites — and we mean all! There are soft gingerbread cookies to send in the mail and chewy caramels to share with your co-workers; chai tea mix to thank the hostess at your next party and doggy biscuits to thank your best furry pal; granola to make last-minute and nutty brittle to hide under the tree. Read on for a veritable feast of ideas!
Cookies & Baked Goodies
- Gingerbread Cake Cookies
- Homemade Biscotti — Chocolate-Dipped Peppermint Biscotti and Pumpkin Walnut Biscotti
- Peppermint Cream Squares
- Irish Shortbread Toffee Bars
- Best Cut-Out Sugar Cookies
- Easy Coconut Macaroons
- Coconut Snowballs
Candies & Sweet Treats
- Coconut Ganache Bourbon Balls
- Classic Southern Pralines
- Soft & Chewy Caramel Candies
- Skillet Toffee
- Cocoa Molasses Toffee
- Salted Pistachio Brittle
- Easy Chocolate Fudge
- Candied Bacon Fudge
- Fluffy Vanilla Marshmallows
- Peppermint Patties
- Chocolate Toffee Matzo Candy
- Peppermint Hot Fudge Sauce
- Salted Coffee Caramel Sauce
- Toasted Coconut Sugar
Nuts, Granola & Savory Snacks
- Sweet & Savory Roasted Cashews
- Roasted Almonds with Orange and Paprika
- Chez Panisse Herbed Almonds
- Peanut Butter and Honey Granola
- Almond and Coconut Granola
- Harvest Crackers with Cranberries, Pecans & Rosemary
- Flavored Salts
- Cranberry Mostarda
- Homemade Doggie Treats
Infusions, Cocktail Mixers & Other Drinks
- Fruit-Flavored Vodkas
- Homemade Cocktail Mixers — Roasted Cranberry-Clove Mixer and Clementine-Brown Sugar Mixer
- Grenadine Syrup
- Chocolate Balsamic Vinegar
- Fruit Shrub Syrup
- Homemade Vinaigrette
- Fruit-Infused Vinegars
- Boozy Cherries
- Best Chai Tea Mix
- Herb-Infused Honey
And now your turn — what are your favorite homemade and edible holiday gifts?
(Image credits: Anjali Prasertong; Stephanie Barlow; Emma Christensen; Nealey Dozier; Faith Durand; Emily Han; Sara Kate Gillingham; Kristen of The Kitchen Sink; Dana Velden; Sarah Rae Smith; Kathryn Hill; Nina Callaway; Kelsey of The Naptime Chef; Chris Perez; Regina Yunghans; Rebekah Peppler; Leela Cyd; Nora Maynard)