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WASHINGTON (AP) — Just in time for a movie about the making of "Mary Poppins," the 1964 Disney classic starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke has been selected for preservation at the Library of Congress.
The library is inducting 25 films Wednesday into the National Film Registry to be preserved for their cultural, historical or cinematic significance.
This year's selections include Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction," the space race film "The Right Stuff," and Michael Moore's documentary confronting the auto industry, "Roger and Me."
Congress created the program in 1989 to ensure that gems from American movie history are preserved for years to come.
The oldest films joining the registry this year are from the silent era. They include 1920's "Daughter of Dawn," which featured an all-Native-American cast.
Here are the 25 films selected in 2013 by the Library of Congress to be preserved as part of the National Film Registry:
"Bless Their Little Hearts" (1984)
"Brandy in the Wilderness" (1969)
"Cicero March" (1966)
"Daughter of Dawn" (1920)
"Decasia" (2002)
"Ella Cinders" (1926)
"Forbidden Planet" (1956)
"Gilda" (1946)
"The Hole" (1962)
"Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961)
"King of Jazz" (1930)
"The Lunch Date" (1989)
"The Magnificent Seven" (1960)
"Martha Graham Early Dance Films" (1931-44)
"Mary Poppins" (1964)
"Men & Dust" (1940)
"Midnight" (1939)
"Notes on the Port of St. Francis" (1951)
"Pulp Fiction" (1994)
"The Quiet Man" (1952)
"The Right Stuff" (1983)
"Roger & Me" (1989)
"A Virtuous Vamp" (1919)
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" (1966)
"Wild Boys of the Road" (1933)

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Romancing the corn
The price of a tortilla is going up-and the United States is partly to blame. America's infatuation with ethanol has a price south of the border. And in the aftermath of tight elections in Mexico, it's enough to shake the political landscape
MEXICO CITY- "He is a thief!" one demonstrator shouted. The next indignant leftist, 23-year-old student Alán Rodin, went further: "Your president, Felipe Calderón, is more than a thief! He is taking all the corn, too! He wants you to starve! Calderón cares nothing about us-not you or me!"
When President George Bush comes here next week to visit Calderón, who won the presidency in a July election almost as close as the Bush-Gore hanging-chad election in 2000, he should hope he's adequately briefed on how the U.S. ethanol craze is affecting the lives of the poor and breathing new life into leftwing politics south of the border-in this case, the political party of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who lost narrowly last year.
Bush proposed in January a four-fold increase in the use of ethanol, which is made from corn, as a substitute for Middle Eastern oil. That's good for U.S. farmers but bad for Mexicans who have become reliant on American-produced corn. The growing of hybrid corn in the United States is so efficient that, despite the distances involved, American corn in Mexico often costs less than Mexican corn. Many Mexican farmers, unable to compete, have turned to other crops. Basic economics: Demand now exceeds supply, so the price of corn in Mexico City has doubled.
"We don't have the luxury of choice," complained Jairo Castro, a Mexico City plumber. Nationally, Mexican per capita consumption of corn is more than one pound per day, and estimates put tortillas at about 70 percent of the daily caloric intake in rural areas. This means poor families now pay a quarter of their income, or more, for a staple-double what they paid last year.
President Calderón has lately addressed the crisis, assuring Mexicans that he "will not tolerate speculators or those who seek to monopolize" corn prices. A price cap of 8.5 pesos per kilogram of tortillas was supposed to give that promise some teeth. Yet price caps won't withstand for long the waves of demand, and every Mexican knows several vendors who still charge 10 pesos or more. There is added grumbling about the concentration of Mexican tortilla production in the hands of a few companies: The behemoth Grupo Gruma controls as much as three-fourths of all Mexican corn flour.
Calderón doubled the quota on duty-free imported corn. On Jan. 18 he raised it by 110,000 tons, but prices leapt higher, so on Feb. 8 he tacked on another 600,000 tons. The increases deal primarily with white corn imports, which is used for tortillas. Ethanol, on the other hand, is made from yellow corn-a fact that has prompted the biofuel industry to describe the link between ethanol production and tortilla prices as tenuous. But Mexican officials say the correlation is simply that the soaring price of yellow corn has had a knock-on effect on white corn as well.
So what of the Mexican government's responsibility? A 54 percent tariff comes with all white corn imported over quota (it was 72 percent in 2004), so importers need the government to sign off on foreign white corn purchases. By quotas and tariffs, Mexico has been striving for autonomy in the white corn industry, critics note, but at what cost?
Meanwhile, Obrador supporters consider him "el presidente legítimo," the real president, and mount daily anti-Calderón demonstrations. One last month, at the statue of revolutionary hero Benito Juárez in Alameda Park, featured 100 demonstrators passing around a megaphone amid shouts of "thief." Meanwhile, vendors hawked pro-Obrador paraphernalia alongside stacks of pirated Elvis CDs. T-shirts with slashes across Calderón's screen-printed face were 80 pesos, and 35 gave the buyer his pick of poor-quality Obrador posters. (Some posters paid Obrador odd compliments: one read "El Super Gallo," or "The Super Rooster.")
This protest was bantam-weight compared to the larger, fiercer protests that raged for months after the presidential election, or even one on Jan. 31, when 75,000 cheered Obrador's attack on rising corn prices and "a government dominated by white-collar criminals." Still, the demonstrators interlocked arms and marched to Paseo de la Reforma, a boulevard that looks like the Champs-Élysées but has, for Mexicans, the significance of Philadelphia's Liberty Bell. From there they marched to the office building housing Televisa, Latin America's largest news station, which the protesters said has a pro-Calderón bias.
They halted before a large, graffiti-tagged, 30-foot-high cement wall on the building's street side. Two of the protesters were Adolfo and Lourdes Barajas, owners of a tortilleria in the Obrera neighborhood about 30 blocks away from Televisa's building. They go to demonstrations rarely, but friends had invited them because of their "great story of struggle" in the corn crisis. Other protesters had signs and ears of corn to wave or fists to clench; the Barajases looked like uncomfortable tourists.
Guarding the building were enough policemen in full riot gear to fill several cargo trucks. Conspicuously missing from this demonstration were national and local media. An animated protester, Dezi Motolinía, explained: "Protests? In Mexico, at least nowadays, they are part of everyday life. The papers, no matter their ideologies, are tired of covering them."
Moderates joined radicals in indignation about corn-inflation. "I'm not a political person," said Omar Egusquiza, a 35-year-old hotel room cleaner. "I'm here now only because of corn. Things have gotten out of control; everyone's protesting." Egusquiza and the Barajases opposed the idea of storming the offices of the country's largest news station, but they didn't mind a bitter joke about the acronym of Calderón's political party, PAN: It means "bread" in Spanish, and the implication is that Calderón was simply saying of his people, "Let them eat pan."
Some of the demonstrators wanted more than a tortilla price reduction. Some want more schools and hospitals: Chants of "Queremos más escuelas! Queremos más hospitales!" provided a cadence for the march on Televisa. But others wanted to talk corn and corn only. Two men and a woman held a long, parade-style banner whose block letters, made to resemble ears of corn, read: "Sin maíz, no hay país." Without corn, there is no country.
When the demonstration ended, the Barajases went one way, and Alán Rodin, the student who spoke of thievery, another.
The Barajases returned to their tortilleria, thick and muggy with smog, but also smelling sweetly of cornmeal. Stretched out in his denim shirt, his head craning toward the open street, angling for customers, Adolfo soon was whistling along to radio songs.
For 24 years in this storefront, he and his wife have run their tortilleria, a humble one off Calzada San Antonio Abad, a north-south thoroughfare. Across the street sits a deserted plaza. Dandelions had split aging brick from mortar, but several locals peered out from a parasol as they ate pork rinds. Those wanting tacos were at the nearby two-generation-old taqueria of the Aguirre family, friends of the Barajases.
In the vast tortilla business-one that encompasses thousands of grungy mom-and-pop corner stands as well as national chains like Bimbo-the Barajases' tortilleria is relatively modest. Years ago Adolfo Barajas bought a cheap mixer to give his wife's arthritic hands some rest, but it is now defunct. Larger chains like Industrias del Maíz Puebla, off nearby Avenida 5 de Febrero, operate with shiny, whirring amasadoras-giant, clunky mixers that can produce hundreds of tortillas an hour, and even keep them warm.
So the Barajases must always struggle. Their misshapen tortilleria has the feel of a deep stairwell closet. Eight feet wide and severely tapered in the back, it bounces an echo back and forth and lets it fade into the 20-plus feet of depth. From this shadowy recess, Lourdes Barajas worked on a batch of tortillas. She had steeped corn kernels to bring the skins to the top of pungent lime liquor called nejayote. The corn now had a hominy-like appearance.
This process, she explained, makes certain nutrients, like niacin, soluble. It's a crucial step: Americans constantly eat foods, like bread, that are fortified with vitamins, iron, even folic acid, but Mexicans often depend on nature (in the form of corn) and its natural processes (in the form of steeping) for their nutrients, in addition to receiving the majority of their caloric intake from tortillas.
Lourdes plopped the cornmeal onto the comal, the griddle, as a line of midday customers began to form. In 15 minutes it stretched beyond the next three storefronts. Adolfo nodded in approval as his customers conversed pleasantly with him upon reaching the cash register, which was really an old relic of a Burroughs adding machine.
A few, though, winced: The Barajases are now charging eight pesos per kilogram of tortillas, or about 73 cents for three dozen, enough to feed a modest family for the day. Putting those numbers next to Mexico's minimum wage of $4.60 per day is a reminder of poverty's unpleasant face-and the face of several million in Mexico City alone. Families of four, small by any Mexican standard, supported by single-income minimum-wage earners, can expect to spend nearly the equivalent of a rent or mortgage on tortillas.
"You see her?" Adolfo asked suddenly, motioning to a young woman, "She buys from us every day. She has eight growing children to feed"-a smile of sympathy crept in here-"so yesterday I gave her half a dozen extra for free."
Student Alán Rodin headed to his home in Tepito, a Mexico City neighborhood known for crime where prostitutes amble through loud, brightly variegated mercados. Rodin, a psychology student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, sat on a plastic barstool with a lapful of tacos, shaded by the corrugated metal overhang on the taqueria's façade. Despite the French surname, Rodin's onyx hair and nose like a stone Olmec displayed his mom's Zapotec Indian ancestry. His talk showed loyalty-to the class-warfare ideals that Obrador and other radicals stir up.
Rodin spoke confidently of "the beginning of the new face of democracy in Mexico," which, more than ever, he sees as an us-versus-them country: Democracy means winning an election and then doing unto others what has been done unto them. Mexico will be, in his words, even more a country of poor and rich, of laborers and businessmen, of black and white, of a widened income gap-until a revolution comes.
People like Rodin make Adolfo Barajas nervous: "If it's not corn for them, then it's something else-but always something. We agree, now, that Calderón must change things. But I disagreed when Obrador said he was the real president. . . . His ideas are not good for Mexico."
Barajas has been around long enough to see unrest and earthquakes rock his city, youthful ideals fade, and Mexico's democracy flounder. And he won't be surprised to see a revolution founded on the price of a tortilla.


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A Macon police detective says Ashley Brown was the "primary aggressor" in a recent fatal shooting at a Waffle House.
At a commitment hearing for Brown, Dennis Terry testified that:
Brown made a brief appearance for a commitment hearing at the Bibb County Law Enforcement Complex Thursday afternoon.
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City Council and staff need your help in assessing our collective accomplishments during FY 2014 (July 1, 2013 -June 30, 2014). Following is a survey that collapses a few of our major accomplishments into the twelve pillars that support making Lynchburg "a great place to live, work, and play".
Recent news reports concerning Ebola have caused many people to be concerned. The Lynchburg Fire Department is releasing the following statement and cautioning residents to not overreact to misinformation and hysteria.
The Lynchburg Fire Department is continually monitoring this issue and maintains a state of preparedness. The Department has provided information and training to personnel for the unlikely event that we encounter a person with Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
View the February 2015 edition and past issues of the City Source. (PDF)
NerdWallet, a personal finance website based in San Francisco, recently conducted a study to find the best cities for work-life balance—and Lynchburg made the list at #19!
The City of Lynchburg wants to hear from you, and to make it easier, a brand new online tool, "Lynchburg is Listening," is being launched. "Lynchburg is Listening" gives residents the opportunity to be heard through online discussions on projects, informal surveys, and posting of ideas through an easy-to-use interface. This new application will also help facilitate ideas among members of the community.
On July 23, 2013, the State Board of Elections (SBE), in partnership with the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), launched online voter registration as a result of recently enacted legislation sponsored by Delegate David Ramadan (HB2341). Eligible citizens of the Commonwealth are now able to submit a voter registration application or update their registration information online.
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Revolutionary Road
|Release Date: December 26, 2008
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|Genre: Adaptation, Drama, Period
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Summary:Frank and April, a married couple in the 1950s, have always seen themselves as special, different, ready and willing to live their lives based on higher ideals. So, as soon as they move into their new house on Revolutionary Road, they proudly declare their independence from the suburban inertia that surrounds them and determine never to be trapped by the social confines of their era. Yet for all their charm, beauty and irreverence, the Wheelers find themselves becoming exactly what they didn't expect: a good man with a routine job whose nerve has gone missing; a less-than-happy homemaker starving for fulfillment and passion; an American family with lost dreams, like any other. Driven to ch... Full Summary >>
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Betting on Vegas
Aggregate handling was critical when the new plant in Sloan, Nev., was in the planning stages.
The Cemex plant from above. Interstate 15 is in the upper right corner.
The mammoth City Center project on the Las Vegas Strip demanded 1000 yards of concrete per hour at the height of its construction.
Don Last, operations manager for Cemex in southern Nevada and Utah (left), and Ken Sears, plant operations manager, talk at the Cemex plant in Sloan, Nev.
Concrete is discharged into a truck at the batch plant.
There was a time not too long ago when any business in and around the gambling mecca of Las Vegas could do no wrong. Tourists and conventioneers mobbed the casinos on the famed Strip to spend fistfulls of dollars earned while the nation's economy soared.
Old hotel-casinos popular during the Rat Pack era were imploded to make way for bright and glitzy developments several times larger than old mainstays, such as the Stardust and New Frontier.
Concrete producers were not left out. Drivers lined up their ready-mix trucks at construction sites like hungry Las Vegas tourists queued up for a buffet.
Everything producers touched seemingly turned to gold. The challenge was not finding enough business; it was how to find the materials and labor to supply concrete to fill all of the orders.
Business also flourished outside the Strip. Residents who refinanced their homes were flush with cash. Las Vegas had become synonymous with home prices that were nearing stratospheric levels. Buy a home today, flip it in a year, and make a nice profit.
New homes were springing up, especially south of the city. These developments were supported by roads and sidewalks. A vast network of new and widened highways were built. Transplants moving from the gray and cold Northeast and Midwest would need new schools, stores, and other infrastructure.
Six million yards of concrete was placed annually in the Las Vegas market in the middle of the last decade. It was a marvelous time to sell concrete.
City Center was the largest hotel-casino project in a city that has seen many large hotel-casino projects. Composed of high-end hotels, condominiums, shopping, and restaurants on 76 acres, Cemex's portable plant was manufacturing concrete for the mega-project. The complex's concrete needs would total 1.2 million yards by the time a portion of it opened in late 2009.
The producer also was supplying concrete for another high-profile project: the 3900-room, 68-story Fountainbleau hotel-casino-condo further north on the Strip.
"There were huge volumes in residential, highways, commercial work, and public works," says Don Last, operations manager for Cemex in southern Nevada and Utah. "It was an exploding economy."
Cemex's predecessor, Rinker Materials, serviced the market from its old Buffalo Road plant on the west side of town. (Cemex acquired Rinker in 2007.) The plant was growing old, so the company sought to replace its 400-yard/hour capacity with a new modern plant just south of town in Sloan, Nev.
The plant was planned and built to maintain that 400 yard/hour capacity, but then something unplanned occurred. Home prices stopped rising and started to fall—rapidly. The financial crisis hit in fall 2008 and many projects ground to a halt.
"Our concern had been the ability to keep up with demand," Last recalls, and then adds, "Nobody predicted the downturn with any accuracy." Today, 1.5 million yards of concrete is poured in Las Vegas, one-quarter of the amount five years ago. The Fountainbleau project is idle; only a lone security guard mans the construction zone entrance.
But the Sloan plant was already in the works and Cemex continued with the new plant. The timing was fortuitous, for a slow market is the ideal time to invest in new equipment and technology.
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Leading lady of the British stage as well as British and American TV and films, beginning in the 80s. Cherie Lunghi first won attention in "Excalibur," the 1981 feature film in which she was a rather sexually aware Guenevere to Nigel Terry's King Arthur. In 1985, she was Michal, who caught the eye of Richard Gere in "King David" (1985), and was opposite Bryan Brown in the love story "Parker" (1984). Lunghi has also had key roles in "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" (1994) and "Jack and Sarah" (1995). She began as a stage actress with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England, appearing in productions of "As You Like It," "The Winter's Tale" and "King Lear." Later, Lunghi would also star on the We... Continue Bio >>
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text: By Jan RahnManaging Editor Nebraska's students in grades three through eight and the 11th grade were tested last spring in reading and mathematics. Perkins County's students were among the more than 80 percent of those students, as well as most of the eighth and 11th graders tested in writing, who took their tests online. Science tests were administered to students in grades five, eight and 11. The performance scores released Aug. 21 are considered the initial results since they could change slightly before the scores are final in November. New test results show Nebraska public school students scored higher on their 2012 state reading and mathematics tests–higher than in previous years. Nearly three of every four students or 74.2 percent are meeting or exceeding state reading standards, compared to 68.6 percent in 2010. The new mathematics test results show 67.4 percent of the students tested proficient, compared to 62.8 percent in 2011. "Nebraska teachers and administrators will be pleased to see a growing number of students meeting the new, more rigorous learning expectations and scoring proficient on tougher tests," said Education Commissioner Roger Breed. "Students are making progress, and we attribute that to Nebraska teachers who have a long history of helping their students meet higher learning expectations." This year's baseline for first-year science test results showed 66.9 percent of the students were proficient. Science standards, as well as the state's science test, have been revised, increasing the rigor of the standards and the tests with the goal of ensuring Nebraska students are career and college ready by the time they graduate from high school. Parents will receive a report on their child's scores from their local school district soon. Materials to help parents help their child with reading, mathematics, science and writing are available through the Nebraska Department of Education's homepage at www.education.ne.gov Reading, mathematics, science and writing test results for districts and school buildings by grade level are available at http://www.education.ne.gov/ Writing test results were released earlier in May for fourth, eighth and 11th graders. PCS fourth graders who met the standard numbered 79 percent which was down from the previous year. Superintendent Tobin Buchanan said the district will continue to look at strategies to improve students' writing skills. Statewide, 92 percent of the fourth graders met the state standard. Eighth and 11th graders followed a new process. Sixty-nine percent of PCS students in eighth grade were proficient in writing compared to 63 percent statewide. Sixty-three percent of the district's 11th graders were proficient in the writing standards compared to 62 percent statewide.Perkins County Students Performance Levels Students tested and their performance comparisons include: • Grade 3: Twenty-two students were tested. Reading–59 percent met, 32 percent exceeded and 9 percent fell below standards. Math: 50 percent met standards, 27 percent exceeded and 23 percent fell below standards. • Grade 4: Thirty-two fourth graders were tested in reading and 33 tested in math in spring 2012. Reading: 50 percent met standards, 13 percent exceeded standards and 38 percent fell below. Math: 79 percent of students tested met the standards, 6 percent exceeded and 15 percent fell below the standards. • Grade 5: Of 24 fifth graders tested, results are: Reading: 50 percent met standards, 38 percent exceeded standards and 13 percent fell below standards. Math: 56 percent met standards, 33 percent exceeded and 13 percent fell below standards. Science: 88 percent met standards, 4 percent exceeded and 8 percent fell below standards. • Grade 6: Thirty-four students were tested in reading and 23 were tested in math. Reading: 59 percent met standards, 18 percent exceeded and 24 percent fell below standards. Math: 52 percent met the standards. Twelve percent exceeded the math standards, and 36 percent fell below the standards. • Grade 7: Twenty-nine seventh graders tested in reading and 30 in math had the following results: Reading: 28 percent met the standards, 10 percent exceeded and 62 percent fell below the standards. Math: 37 percent met the standards, 7 percent exceeded standards and 57 percent fell below. • Grade 8: Twenty-two students tested in reading and math. Reading: 41 percent met standards, 18 percent exceeded standards, and 41 percent fell below standards. Math: 45 percent met the standards, 9 percent exceeded and 45 percent fell below the standards. Science: Half of the district's students met the science standards with 9 percent exceeding and 41 percent below the standard. • 11th Grade: Twenty-nine students were tested. Reading: 59 percent met, 21percent exceeded and 21 percent fell below the standards. Math: 59 percent met standards, 34 percent exceeded the standards, and 17 percent fell below the state standards. Science: 76 percent of 11th graders met the standards, 7 percent exceeded and 17 percent fell below the standards. The performance scores released Aug. 29 could change slightly when the scores are finalized in October. Complete score results are available online at www.education.ne.gov


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Heard of nickel free body jewelry? Or may be just about nickel? Well, nickel is that metal that is merged with base metals such as gold and silver to create body jewelry that is harder, stronger and shinier. Nickel is also the one to blame for most all allergic reactions that people mistakenly think that any and every body jewelry can cause. It's nickel that does the damage and which is present in regular jewelry that you buy off Mall Kiosks (Very Bad Idea) and other bargain stores.
That does not mean you stop buying but instead start buying smartly. So the solution is not to shun body jewelry but body jewelry with nickel! Nickel free body jewelry is your best bet and it's not only different from regular jewelry in terms of quality, look but is a lot safer overall, and you will usually find that the manufacturers that use nickel free jewelry will also provide you a much better quality and finish because they care about quality more then price.
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Absence of nickel of course! Body jewelry made from Titanium and Nickel Free Gold is usually the safest materials to opt for because these contain zero nickel! These are a tad more expensive than body jewelry with nickel but what's a little money when it comes to the safety of your body, right? And we all know how majority of us do not reject gold at all 🙂
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I'm having a problem several others are having. I can install Facebook under social media, and it works fine--until I shut down an relaunch Zimbra Desktop, when I then have to start all over again with Facebook from scratch.
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Today Spanish PlayStation 3 Developer XESC has released a homebrew application he calls PS3 Channels Creator v1.0.
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To quote from Elotrolado, roughly translated: Hello! I present a program that I've developed to create channel lists PS3 to our liking.
The program already has a list of channels to add, but otherwise there is an option to put our channels or web pages you want!
The only creates our file xil.xml to put directly into our PS3 (/dev_hdd0/tmp/explore/xil/tv/c/63431223453538546/xil.xml). Suitable for all the CFW or dongles as you only need an FTP or file manager.
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Analyzing Six Different Intakes on Our 440 Dyno EngineWritten by on January 15, 2014 By The Numbers
Have you ever wondered if the parts you're using are the best ones for your application? We sure have, which is why we take advantage of any opportunity to test a variety of parts and pass along the results. So, while we had our standard bore, standard stroke 440 bolted to the dyno at Auto Performance Engines, we decided it would be a good time to see which intake manifold worked best with this combination. We all have our own ideas about what style intake is best for a certain engine, and there's no doubt that exotic, hand-fabricated tunnel ram intakes make big peak numbers. The problem is they don't fit under the hood. Alternatively, stock intake manifolds fit inside the engine bay nicely, but their dual-plane design isn't usually the best option for modified engines.
Intake manifold designs have been numerous and varied throughout automotive history, and Chrysler has always been one of the most innovative companies when it comes to engineering intakes to make impressive power and torque. In fact, some of the intake manifolds engineered by the Chrysler Corporation could be considered even more exotic than aftermarket components, like the long-ram dual-quad intake installed on RB engines during the early '60s. This intake actually placed a carburetor over the inner fender opposite the bank of cylinders it fed, and the long-ram design made killer torque in the 2,500-3,500 rpm range. Since then, Chrysler has designed a number of notable, multi-carb intakes for their V-8 engines, but the most widely used performance intakes used by Chrysler were of the dual-plane, single four-barrel design.
To understand why Chrysler utilized the dual-plane intake almost exclusively on the engines they produced during the muscle car era, we must first understand the intended market for these cars. Not everyone who purchased a Road Runner or Super Bee was interested in maximum performance, as the average customer wanted a cool looking, fast car that would turn heads as well as get them to work and back reliably. The dual-plane intake manifold is ideal for this type of vehicle, because while it does have some performance limitations, it also ensures smooth operation in all climates, and offers a broad torque curve, which is what most drivers notice when accelerating from a stop light or doing a burnout. That being said, most performance enthusiasts almost immediately removed the factory intake manifold in favor of a lighter, and better flowing, aluminum aftermarket intake once they had their car home from the dealership.
Aftermarket companies realized early on that they could offer a substantial performance improvement to car owners by designing better intake manifolds for their vehicles. Nearly all aftermarket intakes are made from lightweight aluminum, and many replacement intakes are of the same dual-plane design as factory intakes. The problem here is that the dual-plane design limits performance, since each cylinder only gets to benefit from half of the carburetor's available induction flow. Modern dual-plane intakes resolve this issue with a notch in the plenum divider, but for real performance, especially if the engine is modified with an aftermarket cam, headers, a larger carburetor, or even cylinder head porting, an intake manifold of single-plane, or open plenum design, is the best choice.
Single-plane intakes, as the name implies, allow all four barrels of the carburetor to feed one plenum area, which in turn feeds all of the engine's eight cylinders. Drawbacks to this design include a tendency for uneven fuel distribution when the engine is cold, and engines with single-plane intake manifolds can be cold natured, but for overall performance the single-plane intake manifold is widely regarded as the best all-around choice for a modified, high-performance engine.
The 440 we're testing in this article is just such an engine, as it has been modified with forged flat-top pistons, a Comp Cams solid lifter, flat-tappet camshaft, Comp roller rockers, and mild porting to the 915 casting cylinder heads. We built this engine on a tight budget (the details are in the April '13 issue of Mopar Muscle) and have used our 440 as a dyno mule to test several components since the build. While we had the engine on the dyno, however, we thought it would be a good time to see which of the wide variety of single-plane intakes would make the best peak, and average, torque and horsepower.
We already decided that our 440 would benefit from an aftermarket, single-plane intake manifold, so we needed to decide which intakes to test. In order to validate our results, we also needed to establish a baseline for the tests, which we did by initially dynoing our engine with a factory, 1969 440 HP cast-iron intake manifold. With our baseline established, we then tested single-plane aluminum intake manifolds from Holley, Edelbrock, Mopar Performance, and Indy Cylinder Head.
During our intake test, we utilized the same Holley 950-cfm Ultra-HP carburetor on all of the intakes. We've found this line of carbs to run great out of the box, and kept jetting the same for all of the test pulls. We also kept the engine's ignition timing the same for all the pulls, as well as valve lash, to reduce the number of variables during our testing. Luckily, the big-block Mopar doesn't have any water jackets running through the intake manifold, making it easy to perform intake swaps without draining coolant. All told, it took us about a day on the dyno to initially tune our engine, and then to test each of the different intake manifolds and log the results.
Were we surprised by any of our test results? Well, we've been doing this a long time so we knew that each of the intakes we tested would outperform the factory intake we used for our baseline. We also know that replacing the heavy cast-iron intake with an aluminum intake will improve performance by simply saving weight, even if no extra power is gained. The factory intake we used for our baseline is regarded as the best offering from the factory, but even so it falls way short of the Edelbrock Torker, Edelbrock Victor, Holley Street Dominator, Mopar Performance M-1, or Indy Cylinder Head intake manifolds that we tested. But enough about theory—follow along as we show you which intakes performed best on our 440 dyno engine.
Price Tag
|Factory cast-iron intake
|$25 at swap meet
|Edelbrock Torker intake
|$100 at swap meet
|Edelbrock Victor intake
|Holley Street Dominator intake
|Mopar Performance M-1 intake
|Indy 440-14-3 intake
Thoughts to ponder
Any time you test a part or series of parts, you need to remember that the part must match the entire combination. Our particular 440 seemed to really like the Mopar Performance M1 intake manifold, but that doesn't mean the other intakes performed poorly, just that our combination was most closely matched to the M1. For example, in subsequent tests on this engine the Indy intake made big numbers when matched to aftermarket heads with Max-Wedge intake port size, and the Victor 440 intake performed best with out of the box 440 Source aluminum cylinder heads. We learned that any aftermarket intake will outperform a factory intake manifold, and also that the Edelbrock Torker held its own with the best average torque and second best average horsepower numbers of the intakes we tested. Remember that all the parts of your engine must be matched properly for optimum performance, and that the results we showed here may not be the same for your application. When in doubt, we suggest calling an engine builder who has experience with the combination you're building, or taking advantage of the many tech help lines available from the various aftermarket manufacturers.
Average Power and Torque
|Average Torque4,000-5,000 rpm
|Average Horsepower 5,000-6,000 rpm
|Factory Intake
|Edelbrock Torker
|Holley Street Dominator
|Mopar Performance M1
|Indy 440-14-3*
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St Francis's message completely changed the destiny of Assisi. Nowadays, the saint's ideals of poverty and simplicity are more evident in his rural hermitage retreat than in the San Francesco basilica. However, as a result of his spiritual ideas, a new style of painting was born in this magnificent building, as demonstrated by the frescoes by Cimabue and Giotto. After the dramatic earthquake in 1997, restorers had the task of reassembling these masterpieces from nearly 300 000 separate pieces.
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Basilica di Santa Chiara
Piazza Santa-Chiara I - 06081 Assisi
This Church, built between 1257 and 1265 of a Gothic structure similar to the later Saint-Francis' Church is fronted by a terrace dominating the harmonious Umbrian countryside. Inside are 14C frescoes illustrating the life and work of Clare.
Ermitage des Prisons
S 444 I - 06081 Assisi
In a green beech forest from which a flock of birds flew from when he blessed it, Saint Bernardino of Sienna founded this retreat. Francis and his disciples liked to retire there treating it as a prison to clean their souls of "The tiniest speck..
Piazza San-Rufino I - 06081 Assisi
This 12 Romanesque Cathedral stands out for its magnificent façade that is balanced by its windows and decorations. St Francis, Clare, and the future emperor Frederic II of Hohenstaufen were baptised in the fonts on the right.
Hotels Assisi
Hotel San Rufino
Via Porta Perlici 7 I - 06081 Assisi
This 2-star hotel is just 50 metres from Assisi's San Rufino Cathedral, in the heart of the mediaeval city. Parking areas are 100 metres away Hotel San Rufino offers 11 standard rooms plus 9 rooms in the adjacent annex of Albergo il Duomo. San Rufi..
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Piazza Santa Chiara, 13/15 I - 06081 Assisi
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Hotel Roma is in the heart of Assisi, next to the Basilica of Santa Chiara. Its simple rooms have a LED TV, free Wi-Fi, and a private bathroom. Specialities from Assisi and the entire Umbria region, together with vegetarian options, are served at th..
Hotel Sole
Corso Mazzini 35 I - 06081 Assisi
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Hotel Sole is set just 100 metres from Assisi Cathedral, in the heart of the historic centre. It features a restaurant offering traditional Umbrian cuisine and en suite rooms. Rooms at the Sole can be in the main building, where the restaurant and r..
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La Fortezza
vicolo della Fortezza 2/b I - 06081 ASSISI
This restaurant is just a stone's throw from the Piazza del Comune. It has two simply furnished dining rooms on the first floor and offers friendly service and regional cuisine with a focus on Umbrian produce.
La Locanda del Cardinale
piazza del Vescovado 8 I - 06081 ASSISI
All of Assisi is talking about this restaurant. It is housed in a 16C patrician mansion with elegant rooms adorned with frescoes. The menu features a range of eclectic, imaginative dishes with a good choice of local specialities.
Eat Out Osteria Gourmet
via Eremo delle Carceri 1/a I - 06081 Assisi
For the young chef at this restaurant, the use of almost exclusively Umbrian produce is a matter of pride. Guests will be pleasantly surprised by the elegant creativity that transforms and highlights the regional specialities on the menu.
Dei Priori
corso Mazzini 15 I - 06081 ASSISI
Da Erminio
via Montecavallo 19 I - 06081 ASSISI
Trattoria not far from the Basilica di S.Ruffino, in a quiet area where there are few tourists: authentic environment and open fire in the dining room; local cuisine.
Buca di San Francesco
via Brizi 1 I - 06081 ASSISI
Characteristic atmosphere in the room with the walls in stone and the arched ceiling in brick, adjacent room in a more modern style; pleasant service in summer under a pergola.


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Park & Sun Sports® has partnered with the United States Youth Volleyball League to create this awesome outdoor youth volleyball set! It boasts a total of twelve height adjustments to accommodate kids of varying ages who want to learn and hone their skills; poles, a net, guylines, ground stakes, a pre-measured boundary and helpful training DVD are all included, as well as an equipment bag that keeps everything together when not in use.
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Rendering clouds:
"clouds" are a somewhat irregular pattern of splotches across the range of colours in your foreground and background selections. Very often it is worth it to only render b&w clouds because it makes tinting them easier later.
In CS2 go up to Filter>Render>Clouds. It will fill the current layer. Its far from perfect. The clouds tend to have regularities to them. Very big canvasses often produce clouds with a whole bunch of little puffs rather than large ones. The trick in this case is to fill a smaller layer and stretch it across what you want to cover.
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UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi took office on1 September 2013.
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Jingle Mingle Through the "Funky, Fun & Fabulous Forgotten Mile"
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Made Ya Look! Salon & Spa, along with several other local businesses on the "Forgotten Mile" have put together a fabulous basket of goodies to be raffled off at the Dewey Beach Tree Lighting on November 24th held at Fifers Market.
To enter to win this great basket of Holiday Cheer, simply stop in to one of the following businesses starting now thru Saturday the 24th (The Small Business Day): Made Ya Look Salon, Pottery Place, Bin66, Bellinger's Jewelry, Tulip or Justin Thyme. By purchasing a product or service at any of these locations you are able to fill out an entry form. We urge you to support these local businesses so make sure you stop in and have a drink or two or browse around for some great gift ideas.
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Students return to class at Fort Rucker
By Nathan Pfau, Army Flier Staff Writer
Army Flyer
Fort Rucker, AL | August 8, 2013
All good things, like summer vacations, must come to an end, and more than 300 children walked across Red Cloud Road toward new beginnings and new learning experiences at Fort Rucker schools.
Children on the installation experienced their first day back to school Tuesday, and among the first-day jitters were excited children, parents and teachers eager to get the new school year underway, according Vicki Gilmer, Fort Rucker Elementary School principal.
"It's been so exciting to get ready and prepare for the children to come," said Gilmer. "We have a crowd that queues up every morning (during the school year), and it's so exciting to look across the street and see their faces ready to come in."
In the days leading up to the first day, teachers got their classrooms ready, bike racks were cleaned and readied, and the logistics were worked out to make sure that adults were stationed at numerous points throughout the school grounds to welcome and help newcomers.
Although many children may be nervous about the first day of school, Gilmer said the opportunity to make a first impression to the children and parents is all important.
"This sets the tone for the year," she said. "It's our first impression and it's the day that we really put a lot of emphasis on so that we can hook the children and get them excited about being here.
"The children come in with their jitters, excitement and uncertainties, and they're just enveloped by their classroom teachers and shown all things FRES," Gilmer explained. "They also get to do different activities to get to know their classmates and start team building, and do some Family building within the classrooms – we're in this year together."
Parents and children had the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the teachers and their classroom the day before with the school's Sneak-a-Peek, during which the Families had the chance to take a tour of the school before the first day and get a quick look at what they had to look forward to in the year, said the principal.
Children weren't the only ones excited about the new school year, however.
"We've been excited for school to start back again, too," said Sgt. 1st Class, Robert Price, 1-58th Airfield Operations Battalion, of he and his wife, Dary. "It gives the children something to do because during the summer, it's fun for the kids, but during the school year they get to spend a lot more time with their friends in class."
"(Our children) have been ready to get back to school, though," added Dary. "They were ready to go back before we were; they love school."
Throughout the day, children got to familiarize themselves with their teachers, new classmates and classrooms, and for some children, like Brooklyn Dechent, who started Fifth Grade, the new experiences had them enthusiastic about the upcoming year.
"My first day of school has been very nice so far because our teacher is super nice," she said. "I love that we get to switch classrooms this year, and I especially love that we get to have lockers – this school is awesome."
Dechent said she's been ready for the new school year to start, and although she doesn't have as many of her friends in her class as she'd hoped, she's excited about making new ones.
"I have a lot of new classmates that I really like, and I'll get to see my other friends since we get to switch classes now," she said. "It's going to be a really good school year."


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If you're one of those people who enjoys relaxing in a public park, maybe eating a sandwich and enjoying the lush greenspace Cincinnati has grown proud of, that's all well and good. (Bring a blanket and some apples; enjoy yourself.) That is, until you get a little sleepy and want to lie down on the ground or a bench — that's illegal now.
The Cincinnati Park Board yesterday approved a no-lying down rule across all of its 5,000 acres of park land, likely in response to ongoing Occupy Cincinnati lawsuits over the legality of closing the park at night. People who lie down in parks are now subject to $150 fines for the misdemeanor offense.
A national coalition of community groups, including two Cincinnati organizations, are urging President Obama to push big Wall Street banks into writing down all "underwater mortgages" to market value. The groups said the action would pump up to $1.6 billion into Ohio's economy and create more than 24,000 jobs statewide.
It will be headed to the riverfront, after all.
U.S. Transportation Ray LaHood will hold a conference call Thursday afternoon with media to announce that Cincinnati's planned streetcar system is getting a $10.92 million grant. The announcement is set for 12:15 p.m.
An organization called Citizens' League Against Subsidized Sports is gathering signatures for a ballot measure that would add a tax on Reds and Bengals tickets. Hamilton County Commissioner Greg Hartmann says he knows that the county's lease doesn't allow it to institute a ticket tax but that it doesn't say anything about a citizens' initiative.
Police costs are rising even though the force is shrinking, partially because it hasn't hired any new officers since 2008 while the top ranks have held steady.
The SB 5 debate is expected to draw a high voter turnout, which could bode well for school levies as voters come out to vote "no" on Issue 2.
The Cincinnati Enquirer announced its endorsements over the weekend, and four incumbents were left thinking, "What the [expletive] did I do?!?" The current councilpersons who the paper decided not to endorse are Republican Wayne Lippert, who was appointed in March, and Republicans Leslie Ghiz and Charlie Winburn, along with Democrat Cecil Thomas.
Ghiz was described as having a penchant for starting arguments that have been "personal, petty and nasty," while Winburn's "unpredictable behavior" was noted along with Thomas' problems fully grasping budget and finance issues.
City Council conservatives made Mayor Mallory real mad yesterday, blocking his appointment of Councilwoman Laure Quinlivan to the Hamilton County Transportation Improvement District. An initial vote actually allowed the appointment until appointed Republican Councilman Wayne Lippert heard that the other Republicans and Chris Bortz voted against it for various trivial reasons. Lippert asked for a re-vote and swung it the other way.
Mallory reportedly called out the conservatives, referring to them as "extremely unprofessional" and "horribly non-functional." According to The Enquirer, the normally even-tempered Mallory responded to their suggestions that they'd like to see someone else receive the appointment by saying, "that person's not getting appointed" and later adding, "I appoint a lot of people to a lot of things. And this will be remembered."
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney yesterday popped in on a local pro-Issue 2 and Issue 3 call center and then refused to publicly endorse either Republican initiative. "Yes" votes on Issues 2 and 3 would keep Senate Bill 5 and allow Ohioans to opt out of mandatory health care passed by Congress last year, respectively. From CNN:
"I am not speaking about the particular ballot issues," Romney said, only after repeated questions from reporters. "Those are up to the people of Ohio. But I certainly support the efforts of the governor to reign in the scale of government. I am not terribly familiar with the two ballot initiatives. But I am certainly supportive of the Republican Party's efforts here."
Both topics are tricky for the Romney campaign.
He is no stranger to health insurance mandates, having passed one of his own in 2006 while governor of Massachusetts.
Meanwhile, the Republican-backed union legislation remains deeply unpopular in the state, which is all but certain to be a swing state once again in 2012.
Romney also doesn't want to make his tax returns public. Too modest.
Leave it to The Enquirer to publish a story analyzing local school district spending vs. academic success only to ignore the existence of private schools while drawing the conclusion that "a district that spends more doesn't necessarily produce higher test scores and graduation rates." The story, titled "Big-spending districts net mixed academic grades," doesn't include the qualifier "public school" or the possibility that local private schools spend even more per pupil than Indian Hill, Sycamore Township, Mariemont and Norwood, each of which spent $11,958 to $15,209 per student last year and earned Excellent or better ratings.
After three nights of arrests, Occupy Cincinnati protesters Sunday night chose to leave Piatt Park at its 10 p.m. closing time and march on the sidewalks around the park. Eleven members were arrested Saturday night for staying on the square after a rally past the 3 a.m. time allowed by its permit. The group is still waiting for a federal judge to rule on whether or not Piatt Park's 10 p.m. closing time is a violation of the First Amendment.
Chicago Police arrested 130 Occupy Chicago protesters over the weekend, and the group plans to picket Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office in response. Protesters described harsh treatment by police, with some spending more than 24 hours in jail. The picketing at City Hall will reportedly include a nurse's union in response to two nurses and a union organizer being arrested while volunteering at Occupy Chicago.
Here's how The Enquirer describes an Ohio Supreme Court decision allowing Democrats to challenge a ridiculous Republican attempt to unfairly redraw Congressional districts: "Court ruling throws 2012 elections into chaos." Here's the same report by WLWT, minus the drama: "Ohio Supreme Court Allows Redistricting Challenge."


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