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This morning, social conservatives around the world dug themselves into Armageddon-resistant bunkers, preparing for what they knew was coming. Today, marijuana and same-sex marriage were being legalized in Washington state.
But the bunkers may have been a waste of time and money, considering the end of the world didn't occur. In fact, it seems like a lot of people are happy with the legal changes, which voters approved on Nov. 6.
From the perspective of this CityBeat writer, same-sex marriage would be great. It's something I wrote about extensively before ("The Evolution of Equality," Nov. 28 issue). As a refresher, not only does same-sex marriage bring a host of benefits to same-sex couples, but it also produces economic benefits for everyone. A recent study from Bill LaFayette, founder of Regionomics LLC, found that legalizing gay marriage would grow Ohio's gross domestic product, which measures economic worth, by $100-$126 million within three years.
Marijuana has similar benefits. Not only does it give people the freedom to put a relatively harmless plant into their bodies, but it also provides a big boon to state budgets. For Washington, it's estimated the marijuana tax will bring in as much as $500 million a year.
Legalization also creates jobs and economic growth as businesses pop up to sell the product and customers buy the plant to toke up. Washington State's Office of Financial Management estimates the marijuana market will be worth about $1 billion in the state. Considering the state is about 2 percent of the U.S. population, that could be extrapolated to indicate a potential $50 billion nationwide market.
Still, public use of marijuana and driving while intoxicated remain illegal. In a press conference Wednesday, Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes said, "If you're smoking in plain public view, you're subject to a ticket. … Initiative 502 uses the alcohol model. If drinking in public is disallowed, so is smoking marijuana in public."
The Seattle Police Department (SPD) seems a bit friendlier. In an email today, SPD told officers to only give verbal warnings until further notice. The warnings should essentially tell people to take their marijuana inside, or, as SPD spokesperson Jonah Spangenthal-Lee put it on the SPD Blotter, "The police department believes that, under state law, you may responsibly get baked, order some pizzas and enjoy a 'Lord of the Rings' marathon in the privacy of your own home, if you want to."
The Washington law also faces possible federal resistance.
Even though the state legalized pot, the drug is still illegal under
federal law. That means the feds can still shut down marijuana
businesses and arrest buyers, just like they have with legal medical marijuana
dispensaries in the past.
In fact, maybe the limitations are what's keeping the
apocalypse at bay. Maybe social conservatives will get to make use of
those bunkers if the rest of the country catches on to Washington's
Here at CityBeat, we cover a lot of budget hearings, and they can very easily wear us down with their partisan squabbles and monotonous focus on details that everyone will forget about in a week or so.
Right now, we're watching the Ohio Senate budget hearings, which have so far involved Democrats repeatedly bringing up amendments only to get them shot down by the Republican majority. Very repetitive, very boring.
Thankfully, the Internet has given us the chance to take what we like to call "cat breaks." This video — arguably the greatest thing in the entire Internet — is the latest example:
We encourage you to do the same while you're at work. If your employer ever questions the practice, just point him or her to the study that found looking at cute animals actually boosts productivity.
At a Romney-Ryan rally near Cincinnati yesterday, Gov. John Kasich made some remarks women voters might find offensive. When describing what his wife and the wives of Mitt Romney, Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Rob Portman are doing as the men attend political rallies, Kasich told Romney supporters the women are "at home doing the laundry."
The full quote: "It's not easy to be a spouse of an elected official. You know, they're at home doing the laundry and doing so many things while we're up here on the stage getting a little bit of applause, right? They don't often share in it."
The comments were quickly picked up by liberal blog Plunderbund, which criticized Kasich's history with women.
While the comment may be true (CityBeat could not confirm if Karen Kasich was doing laundry while Kasich was speaking), it does little for a political party already struggling with women voters. In the latest poll from Public Policy Polling, Romney was down 10 points to Obama among women voters in Ohio. This is often attributed to what Democrats labeled a "war on women" by Republicans to diminish contraceptive and abortion rights. CityBeat previously covered the local and national political issues regarding women here.Kasich had problems with public speaking in the past. In his 2012 State of the State speech, which The Hill labeled "bizarre," Kasich repeatedly mentioned his "hot wife," imitated a Parkinson's patient and referred to Californians as "wackadoodles." In a previous statement, Kasich said he would run over opponents with a bus. "If you're not on the bus, we will run over you with the bus," he told lobbyists. "And I'm not kidding."
Kasich's latest comment can be found on YouTube:
Local angry guy Rich Hoffman should have stuck closer to the Glen Beck style that made Butler County Tea Partiers like him — too much Rush Limbaugh got the bull whip performer ousted today by the local organization he helped start.
The Enquirer reported this week that Hoffman recently ranted on his blog about a vague group of pro-school tax women in the district, calling them prostitutes and describing how their husbands "roll them over at night and insert their manhood" before leaving hundred dollar bills in their purses, and then defended the remarks when contacted by The Enquirer.
The Enquirer's early report (updated once Hoffman got the axe) included the following:
The head of the anti-school tax group NoLakota wrote on his internet blog site that Lakota school mothers are "just prostitutes to their husbands who do everything they can to be away from them aside from the occasional sex."
"Their husband's (sic) roll them over at night and insert their manhood into these women of the bedroom and hundred-dollar bills find their way into their purses. The women don't know what the man does to earn the money, nor do they care. They are busy saving the world one child at a time with howls of safety and more regulations as they rush to the polling places at election time," wrote Hoffman, who is also a bullwhip performer and periodic guest on local radio talk shows regarding Lakota funding issues.
A photo of Hoffman wearing a cowboy hat and holding a whip had been presented on the homepage of The Enquirer for most of Thursday, when NoLakota Treasurer Dan Varney told the newspaper that Hoffman had been banned from further association with the group. Varney said the group's decision wasn't in response to the publicity of The Enquirer's report.
Hoffman's writings also include a reference to "crazy PTA moms and their minions of latte drinking despots with diamond rings the size of car tires and asses to match, (they) plot against me with an anger only estrogen can produce," The Enquirer reported.
NoLakota says it has removed all references to Hoffman's personal website, called "Overmanwarrior's Wisdom," (overmanwarrior.wordpress.com), where he writes lengthy diatribes against public school funding, teachers and political opponents and in one post compared the pressure he was under to that which Rush Limbaugh faced after calling a Georgetown University student a prostitute and a slut.
Hoffman wrote:
The progressive mode of attack they use to protect their positions which cannot withstand scrutiny is to attack people like Rush Limbaugh whenever he says something they believe they can use against him in an emotional argument. Conservatives typically are terrible at playing this game with progressives because they tend to operate on a belief system rooted in the truth. So they can easily be attacked because if they cross the line, they feel bad about it, and that guilt is used against them to change their behavior in the future.
Hoffman's blog also includes numerous clips from the Glenn Beck TV show, a lengthy story about film production inspired by Peter Jackson's The Hobbit and more several Star Wars clips.
Hoffman as of Thursday afternoon hadn't responded to a request from The Enquirer seeking comment, and CityBeat never tried to contact him out of fear of him thinking we were treading on him.
The following is an
eight-minute video published on the Overmanwarrior site titled
"A Whip Stunt to Save America," wherein Hoffman uses his patio
table as a metaphorical Constitution, a bowl of water as American
civilization sitting on top of a cup (everything we put our tax money
into) and then whips the cup out from underneath without spilling
civilization all over the Constitution and then says, "I don't
really understand the progressive way of thinking — they don't
really belong in this country in my opinion."
I, for one, was comforted to hear the warm Southern drawl put on by Ohio treasurer and senatorial candidate Josh Mandel while he campaigned for Mitt Romney before Beallsville coal miners on Wednesday.
As someone who recently spent six months living and
working in Montgomery, Ala., it brought me back to simpler times when
summer nights were spent drinking sweet tea spiked with rum on a porch and
it was for some reason still OK to refer to a grown black man as "boy."
So when I heard Josh Mandel extoll the virtues of coal in a drawl reminiscent of fresh butter spread on cornbread, I immediately thought, "shucks, this guy gets me — he's one of us."
Wait, what's that? Mandel hails from Lyndhurst, a Cleveland suburb that's the Hyde Park of Northern Ohio? He's never even eaten cheese grits? (Editor's note: CityBeat could not independently verify that Josh Mandel has in fact never eaten cheese grits.) Well now I just feel put on.
The Enquirer reported that Mandel had never publicly used a Southern accent before.
"As if blowing off work and hiring unqualified campaign workers and friends at taxpayer expense wasn't evidence enough of his blatant disregard for the people who elected him treasurer expecting that he'd do his job, Josh Mandel has now stooped to faking his accent as a means of earning votes," Ohio Democratic Party spokesman Andrew Zucker said in a statement. "It's sad, it's pathetic and unfortunately it's concrete proof that he is just another politician who can't be trusted."
Sounding folksy or down-homey is nothing new in presidential politics.
When campaigning in Alabama, Romney famously dropped "y'alls" into his speech and spoke of his newfound love for "cheesy grits" and catfish (my editor in Montgomery was quick to point out to me, another carpetbagger, that any real Southerner knows they're cheese grits, not cheesy grits).
If there's one thing Southerners don't take too kindly to, it's Yankee pandering.
"If you're going to pander, at least pander well, and this isn't pandering well," Stephen Gordon, a Republican consultant based in Birmingham, Ala., told the Boston Herald shortly after Romney made his remarks.
"People in the Deep South have a bit of a natural distrust for Northerners, especially folks from the Northeast," said Gordon, who is not affiliated with any campaign in the Republican presidential contest. "There are cultural differences, stemming all the way back to the Civil War, and they affect the way people perceive Mr. Romney."
Romney is by no means the first to affect an accent to fit in with the natives.
Both Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton adopted drawls while on campaign stops in the South. Though those two former presidents, from Texas and Arkansas respectively, had the bona fides to pull it off.
Sharp-eyed readers who received an email update this week from Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld got a surprise: At the bottom, it stated the missive came from the "Office of Congressman P.G. Sittenfeld."
That prompted some observers to wonder if the error was a Freudian slip and whether Sittenfeld, who was just sworn into his first council term three weeks ago, had already set his sights on higher office.
I killed a spider today with astringent. I didn't know you could kill spiders with astringent until today. But there it was, chilling in my bathroom while I was taking a piss. My first instinct was to douse it with some kind of liquid, and barring the source of liquid currently in my hands, the only other thing within reach was a bottle of astringent sitting on the bathroom sink.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich yesterday delivered his second "State of the State" speech, a reportedly hilarious mockery of political tradition that ranged from harmlessly wacky to straight-up sexist, while making a pit stop in the "Parkinson's disease is funny" category.
Kasich's apparent intention was to announce a new broadband plan, introduce an award honoring courageous Ohioans and try to say that his plans for shale drilling in the Northeastern part of the state are totally going to respect the environment.
But the 90-minute speech in a Steubenville elementary school auditorium included far more Kasich bloopers than usual. The Enquirer included in the first paragraph of its recap Kasich's references to "non-bluetongue cows going to Turkey" and "a dream about Jerry Seinfeld in the back seat of a car." The AP described the speech as "peppered with Kasich's usual array of off-the-cuff, sometimes puzzling remarks."
Those familiar with Kasich's governing style will find these descriptions to be only slightly surprising. Remember last January when he called a police officer an "idiot" in a speech for giving him a speeding ticket? Or when he mocked Ohio's drivers license for being pink (PINK IS SO GAY!)? Or that time he told a group of business owners that he wanted to make Ohio cool because the executives at LexisNexis said all their employees would rather live on the coasts instead of sucky-ass Ohio?
CityBeat would like to thank everyone who joined us Saturday afternoon on Fountain Square for the broadcast of Comedy Central's Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. We had no idea how many of you would venture down to the Square for a healthy dose of hot food, cold beverages and comedy from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, but we were very pleased with the turnout. A nice crowd indeed. I'd even call it a "throng."


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|Residents enjoy Oktoberfest
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
Regent Park and Carriage House residents gathered Wednesday, Oct. 24 for an Oktoberfest celebration with community members. In addition to beer tasting, special German goodies were shared while the crowd danced to music performed by Joe Hall, Vicki Lynn Peters and Lou Krauss (pictured below).
Above, from left, Joni Taylor, Rose McClain, Ruth Guthrie, Debbie Richards, Bobbie Blake and Monte Hines rip it up on the dance floor.
Pictured above, from left are Karen Weaver, Ellen Homburg, Debbie Richards, Shirley Tarrant, Julma Bonesteel, Tony Homburg, Edna Cauling and Maralyn Denney.
Monte Hines and Nita Goldenstein share a dance.
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It's a Saturday night at approximately 11pm… and if you're a woman you're most likely feeling frisky. Well, according to a recent sex survey that is.
Recent research conducted by Women's Health discovered the truth behind women's sex lives in the UK and the geographical differences in sexual appetite and satisfaction between the sheets.
Women from Scotland and the South West are most sexually satisfied (82%), closely followed by the North West (81%), with the majority stating that their sexiest time was on a Saturday night after they've let their hair down.
Sadly for Irish ladies their sex lives were cited as the least satisfying, with a mere 30% claiming that they were happy with their action in bed.
But Irish women can't be accused of 'not trying', as they also have the most sex, with 42% indulging in bedtime passion more than three times a week.
Londoners and Welsh women closely follow, with 33% admitting they have sex more than three times a week.
The study also discovered where UK women get passionate, with 40% of adventurous Brits admitting to having al fresco sex.
Regular lovemaking outdoors was labelled the 'most exciting' way to get hot and steamy, followed by sex at work (5%) and on the beach (9%).
But not all of the 1,000 women polled seek their sexual thrills outdoors, as 28% of Scottish women revealed that the only place they had sex was at home.
"It is great to see that the majority of British women are satisfied between the sheets, or outside, as our Women's Health sex survey reveals," says Women's Health editor Farrah Storr.
Besides being fun and pleasurable, sex also offers many health boosts many of us take for granted. Take a look at these surprise benefits of having regular sex...
According to research from Wilkes University, making love twice a week releases an antibody called immunoglobulin A or IgA, which helps protect the body from infections and illnesses. Other research suggests that frequent ejaculations in men reduces the risk of prostate cancer later in life. According to the British Journal of Urology International, men who ejaculate five or more times a week, had a lower risk of prostate cancer.
It doesn't take an expert to connect an energetic love making session with burning calories. Just thirty minutes of action under the sheets burns off around 85 calories. After 42 half-hour sessions, you could burn 3,570 calories, which is the equivalent of 1lb in weight. By having sex three times a week for a year, you could burn off the equivalent of 5lbs a year. Who needs a diet?!
During sex, a hormone called oxytocin is released when the body climaxes, which increases the level of endorphins that acts like natural a pain relief. This causes the body to relax. Many notice their aches and pains, like swelling, inflammation, headaches and menstrual cramps, disappear after sex and gradually improve with regular action.
Women who have regular orgasms are generally more relaxed, less depressed and mentally, physically and emotionally satisfied. Regular sex also helps the body sleep better as it relieves tension plus it helps the brain produce serotonin - the chemical that gives the body a 'mood' lift and is commonly found in antidepressants.
Regular sex releases a surge of plethora chemicals into the body, also known as the 'happy hormones', and they contain testosterone. As we age, the level of testosterone decreases, so the more sex you have, the more your hormone levels increases. This surge of hormone help keep bones and muscles healthy - plus it keeps skin looking plump and youthful. In women, regular sex also helps keep the pelvic floor muscles healthy, which decreases the chances of not-so-sexy incontinence later in life.


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This what I have so far of the system for this world.
So far there are only three planets, Erda (the inhabited planet), Ouroboros (a "small" ringed gas giant about where our asteroid belt is (the rings don't show up on this scale)) and Adrasteia (inspired by the Nibiru/2012 conspiracy theories, it has an extremely elliptical, 5000+ year orbit that passes through the inner system).
Eventually, I plan on adding a few more inner and outer planets, depending on what would be conducive to the mythology of Erda.
Modeled in Universe Sandbox (also available on Steam).


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An effort to create a standard for disclosing people management metrics has hit a wall, amid stiff opposition from a major professional group.
Proponents of the draft human capital metrics specification say they no longer plan to submit their proposal to the American National Standards Institute for it to become an official standard. Despite revisions to the draft, the HR Policy Association, or HRPA, continues to criticize the proposal. The HRPA is a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group whose members include human resources officers at more than 300 of the largest companies in the U.S.
The proposal likely will remain a guideline document on how to report on human capital metrics, says David Creelman, CEO of Creelman Research Inc. in Toronto and associate leader of the task force developing the standard.
"There is no point in getting into a prolonged battle with HRPA," Creelman says of the decision. "It's time to make peace."
He says the document will continue to be available from the website of the Society for Human Resource Management, or SHRM, the professional group that sponsored the standard initiative.
The latest version of the proposed human capital metrics standard was released in early October. It included several changes to simplify and clarify the language. But opponents of the standard were not impressed.
"The changes make no difference," says Timothy Bartl, a senior official with the HRPA.
Bartl insists that the HRPA is very supportive of developing meaningful human capital metrics for internal use, but that the group is adamantly against sharing that information outside the organization. "It's the public disclosure piece that we oppose," he says.
He also argues that the cost of collecting this data would "substantially outweigh the benefits."
The guidelines are meant to give corporations a way to quantify and communicate about HR expenditures so stakeholders and analysts can differentiate between companies that invest in their people and those that don't. It will also make it easier for HR leaders to justify investments in human capital development, Creelman says.
Despite HRPA's opposition, the guideline has many supporters, including Don Weinstein, senior vice president of product management for Automatic Data Processing Inc., a provider of HR software and services based in Roseland New Jersey.
"As with anything new, there will undoubtedly be some trepidation about adoption," Weinstein says. "However, we believe the benefits of consistency and comparability in measuring human capital will far outweigh any perceived downsides."
Giving companies a consistent way to measure human capital metrics will raise the worth of the human resource organization, Weinstein says. "It will provide better clarity on how an organization's human capital is performing ... and reinforce the ability of HR to provide more strategic value to the organization."
For those organizations that continue to be opposed to it, Creelman says that compliance is completely voluntary. "Guidelines don't force anyone to do anything," he says. "If it's too much work, don't do it."
In fact, many of the changes made in the second draft of the standard were done to emphasize this point.
"Some language used in the first draft made things sound mandatory when they are all voluntary," Creelman says. For example, in the section on reporting leadership depth, the original draft stated that: "This standard only requires Job Category information for the Executive/Senior Level Officials and Managers."
The new version takes that language out, and clarifies that users who want to comply with the standard need only report aggregate numbers around succession planning, rather than detailed lists of positions.
The team also simplified metrics around human capital spending by eliminating all "costs in support of employees." This category originally included overhead costs related to employees, including office space, furniture and technology. However, public comments indicated that this made the metric more complicated than it needed to be, Creelman says. So they took it out.
Despite all these steps however, Bartl and the HRPA's membership remain unmoved. "The bottom line is that this is still a disclosure without a clear purpose," Bartl says, "and we believe the standard should be withdrawn."
He is getting his wish. Despite accommodating the HRPA, Creelman remains puzzled by its position. "HRPA is the single group leading the opposition, he says. "And it's odd because many of their members already do this kind of reporting."
Sarah Fister Gale is a writer based in the Chicago area. Comment below or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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text: Wow! There's a lot going on there...I can't wait to see more. Great take on the concept. Way to run with it. And not that it matters, but if I were asked which two nations I was modeling a conflict on, I'd never say Britain and France (feels too cliché to me). I'd say Guilder and Florin!


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ROCKFORD (WIFR)-- Winnebago County State's Attorney Joe Bruscato announced today that the Winnebago County Integrity Task Force completed a thorough investigation of the officer involved shooting which occurred on January 28, 2012.
The information was submitted to the Winnebago County State's Attorney's Office and reviewed by State's Attorney Joe Bruscato. After reviewing the evidence in the incident State's Attorney Bruscato concluded that Rockford City Police Officer Amado Soria was justified in the use of deadly force in the incident that resulted in the death of Phillip Johnson Jr.
On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 Winnebago County State's Attorney Joe Bruscato and Deputy State's Attorney Marilyn Hite Ross presented the evidence from the Integrity Task Force investigation to the Grand Jury for consideration. The Grand Jury determined that Officer Soria was justified in the use of deadly force during the January 28, 2012 incident which resulted in the death of Phillip Johnson Jr.


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Lately, I've been watching vids about miscarriages of justice in the US. There was a great doc on PBS about the Norfolk Four. You have to see it to believe it. Crooked cops, sloppy investigation topped off by forced confessions. Its a classic on how NOT to run an investigation.
Watch it.
Incredible, but the amazing thing is, how could the jury buy the prosecution's story? Backed up by no evidence at al!!!!!!!.


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PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) -- Charlotte County Sheriff's deputies have arrested a 49-year-old woman on drug charges after she allegedly hid three rocks of crack cocaine under her dentures.
According to a news release, officers made a traffic stop Saturday after observing a pickup truck leave a known drug house.
Officers say the passenger in the vehicle, Kimberly Maroney, appeared to be moving something around with her tongue inside her mouth.
When an officer asked her to open her mouth, he noticed that she had upper and lower dentures. He asked her to remove the dentures and the deputy spotted three large pieces of crack cocaine in her mouth.
Maroney was arrested on drug possession charges and later posted a $3,500 bond. It's unclear whether she's retained an attorney.
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WASHINGTON (JCHayward.com) - Chef Tianna joined JC Hayward on Wednesday to showcase her simple and healthy fall recipe for Butternut Squash Soup.
Packed with fiber, butternut squash is a good source of vitamins, minerals, and that signature autumn flavor.
Find Chef Tianna's recipe for Butternut Squash Soup below. The recipe serves eight cups.
1 strip Applewood bacon, diced small
1 tablespoon of unsalted butter
2 tablespoons of olive oil
1 medium onion, diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 lbs. butternut squash, cubed
4 cups fat free low sodium chicken/vegetable broth
1/8 teaspoon of nutmeg
2 teaspoon chipotles in adobo sauce, minced
1 bunch fresh sage (chopped)
1 teaspoon of kosher salt
½ teaspoon of cracked black pepper
Freshly grated Parmesan cheese (optional)
In a large soup pot, melt butter with olive oil over medium-high heat. Add onion and cook for about 3-4 minutes. Add garlic and cook for 30 seconds. Sauté until garlic and onions are translucent. Add squash, broth, and chipotles in adobo, salt, pepper and sage and bring to a boil. Boil for 20 -30 minutes. Using an immersion blender or an upright blender, puree soup until consistency is smooth. Garnish with bacon bits, parmesan cheese and fresh sage. Eat and enjoy!


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|Holyoke to celebrate 125th on April 24
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It's been 125 years in the making, and Holyoke is prepared to celebrate its 125th birthday Wednesday, April 24. This "City of Pride and Progress" has sure come a long way since its incorporation on that date 125 years ago in 1888.
Community members are invited to the quasquicentennial event Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m. at the HHS auditorium.
Mayor Orville Tonsing will be on hand for a greeting and special introductions. Refreshments will be served, and the plan is to have Holyoke 125th anniversary memorabilia available for purchase.
In honor of the city's birthday, Phillips County Community Players will be presenting "Shawnee Lou, the Prairie's Purest Dressmaker."
Cast members in "Shawnee Lou, the Prairie's Purest Dressmaker" are pictured from left, front row, Dolly Smith, Penny Dockins, Ashley Sullivan and Karin Kramer; and back row, Jacob Vasa, Jerry Brandt, Eric Conklin and Maury Kramer. Not pictured are Anastasia Conklin, Lemoine Ferguson and Tristen Ferguson.
The melodrama, which is free of charge, is directed by Penny Dockins with assistant director Eric Conklin.
To the audience's delight, many well-known Holyoke names and places will pop up throughout the play. As the story goes, Shawnee Lou Meusborn, a motherless child, and her incapacitated father run the Burge Hotel, the home to aging actresses Fluffy Furry and Trixie Baxter. Another of their boarders, Chester C. Conklin, a Shakespearean actor, has his evil eye on Shawnee Lou.
When rich, handsome, noble Frank Scheunemann enters the scene, it's love at first sight for Frank and Shawnee Lou. But Mrs. Scheunemann is aghast at the thought of her son making eyes at a seamstress.
Enter yet another villain, C.E. Ginapp, a scurrilous theatrical producer who decides to bilk the dowager of her fortune by convincing her that she could be a great actress and that if she invests in the show, he will make her a star.
After some melodramatic romping and tromping, the situation is saved in the nick of time, and the villains receive their just deserts.
Wednesday's cast of characters includes Anastasia Conklin as Shawnee Lou, Jacob Vasa as Francis Scheunemann, Eric Conklin as Chester C. Conklin, Maury Kramer as C.E. Ginapp, Karin Kramer as Mrs. Scheunemann, Jerry Brandt as Lavern Meusborn, Penny Dockins as Trixie Baxter, Dolly Smith as Fluffy Furry, Lemoine Ferguson as Sherman Brandt, Tristen Ferguson as Billy and Ashley Sullivan as Billy's mother.
Pat Wiebers will be the melodrama's pianist. Nancy Pillard and Karin Kramer helped with costumes, and Eric Conklin designed the set.
Don't miss out on this chance to celebrate the city's 125th anniversary! While April 24 is Holyoke's official birthday, a grand celebration is planned this summer for June 14-15, including a parade, dance and much, much more!
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School counselors need to be recognized and thanked for their hard work and dedication. These professionals are easily and often overlooked but they have a tremendous impact on the lives of students.
Today�s counselors deal face-to-face with many of the nation�s most serious problems through those who are most affected � our children. Their role is vital in managing these issues effectively. It is important for us to realize that counseling is an integral part of the education process for all students, as they grow and adjust to our very complex society.
Each day, counselors work diligently to encourage the talent and potential of every student and to provide all students with the educational, psychological and interpersonal skills necessary to enhance the learning experience. This is an enormous undertaking and one that deserves our support and cooperation.
During the month of February, counselors across the nation celebrate National School Counseling Week.
As a former classroom teacher, I vividly remember the many responsibilities held by school counselors. Today, as a professional in the field of education, I am constantly amazed at the contribution counselors make to assist in improving situations for students. Without the support of school counselors, many individuals would suffer.
Think about how school counselors have influenced your life and take the time to let them know that they are truly valued and appreciated.
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This little guy came free with a dive light I purchased. It is small, but packs a punch. Looking at its size, its easy to write it off for functionality. But it has actually come in handy looking underwater. I would hate to rely on it in a night situation, but it does allow a couple of feet of visibility, and that allows signaling, gauge monitoring, and a safe ascent. It fits in even the tiniest of pockets. The only one negative is that it did not come with batteries. I feel that this doesnt matter though, as the light was a free addition. I did not give it five stars because the size of the thing makes it almost a novelty item. Its good enough quality, I think... well see how long this little guy can hold up.
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I purchased this light as a replacement for one I broke that belonged to my girlfriend. That is why a man bought a pink flashlight. I needed a dive light to complete the night and deep dives for Master Diver certification. I neede also to replace her pink light, so I bought her a pink light for me to use. It worked great for the training dives. The compact size and brightness worked well for the murky waters we dove in. The fact that it came with a little bitty back-up dive light for free was nice too. For the occasional night diver, I see nothing wrong with this light. If night diving in murky water was how I dove most of my dives, however, I would purchase a bigger unit and use this as the backup.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — A government-industry team including engineers from government facilities in Ohio will be testing a space propellant that researchers say would be safer and more efficient than the toxic fuel now powering satellite and spacecraft thrusters.
The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer (http://bit.ly/QQyF1K ) reports the test project aims to fly a small unmanned spacecraft in 2015 with modified thrusters powered by an experimental alternative fuel.
NASA, military and commercial satellites now use thrusters fueled with the toxic propellant hydrazine to hold or alter their positions.
Engineers at Cleveland's NASA Glenn Research Center and Dayton's Air Force Research Lab will be helping test the alternative fuel as part of a $45 million venture. If the alternative fuel performs as hoped, officials say it could pave the way for cheaper, cleaner satellites and spacecraft.
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Dutch video, sorry Pretty cool concept, but wow... That inside looks messy. Molex to PCI-e on the sound card, 24-pin cable too short...
For 4200 euros, it should be perfect :/ Shame on you Asus.
Dutch video, sorry Pretty cool concept, but wow... That inside looks messy. Molex to PCI-e on the sound card, 24-pin cable too short...
For 4200 euros, it should be perfect :/ Shame on you Asus.
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Wow, okay. I expected something slightly more higher quality than this. They didn't even paint the inside? And the colors inside are fucking terrible...
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We ordered parts to replace two systems at work, plus got a few spare peripherals to keep around. For myself I got a portable drive to leave in my car with music on it. Hooray USB in!
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Silly amounts of RAM are amounts of RAM in excess of what you could realistically use, even taken into account those programs who eats more when there's more availible, that number should land at >6-8 GiB for most people.
I could probably make do with ~ half what I have.
Yeah, if you have 8 GB or more then I think Gamebooster is very unlikely to benefit anyone who isn't being silly about their RAM usage.
Given that I didn't even have 5 GB in use when I was running WoW, MoP Beta, D3, Firefox with video streaming, skype, teamspeak etc., I would say that 8GB is going to be plenty enough for most people.
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Continuing from post your gaming setup.
a few years ago i was working on my friend's car, i was compressing a small spring when it came loose and hit me in the face chipping a tooth, getting that repaired cost $1100 because i also dont have dental coverage (they are separate in the US)
and health insurance is not cheap, and is generally not affordable to most people, the majority of people with health insurance get it through work, this often means that people get stuck at a job they absolutely hate and are underpaid for because of health coverage, those who dont get it through work have to face a monthly cost of anywhere from $600-$1500 a month
it really needs to be overhauled and socialized in the US, the problem is that it's a huge money source for many companies, and they spend the money on lobbyists to make sure that any bill doing so never gets passed, as well as plenty of propaganda to keep "socialism" a dirty word
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In Norway you go to one doctor for most of your life if you don't move long distances often. This doctor then examine and, if necessary, will sign you up for more accurate examination with specials. Not sure whether this is common practice, nor do I know the right word for it if it is.
Anyway, a mandate specifically made a point that these doctors will have to sign requests that're within professional and legal boundaries. Ie abortions.* Previously it would seem that some doctors would reject them because, well, they don't like abortions. Now they've got to sign the slip, or face a variety of possible punishments.
* Not to say they can't have an abortion if they don't, but then it's gonna cost 'em money out of their own wallet with no chance of refunding.
I don't think anything justifies having to pay anywhere from 30%-70% more than what branded stuff costs in US.
We're fortunate enough to have the ACC (Accident Compensation Corporation) in NZ but the last time I filed a claim with them was maybe ~8 years ago.
Personally I would value having drastically cheaper stuff higher than having to pay out of my own pocket for accidental injuries. But obviously you would get a different opinion out of someone who's broken some part of their body :P
Eeeeh, you'd have a hard time convincing me that healthcare should even slightly come out of one's own pocket. I've got one friend who has a back injury that disables him from 'active work' positions, and his brother too was disabled by a work accident, and a friend back home has Crohn's disease. My brother's epileptic to add to that.
None of them have worked enough to get the sort of backup from their company that my dad did when he was severely disabled by a brain hemorrhage. And who wouldn't be in deep shit with their workplace if they had severe migraines like my mum.
but essentially, a society with many things socialized, requires higher and more taxes, we have very few social programs in the US, and so we don't have as many taxes, and we don't have VAT or tariffs (import taxes)
as many differences there are within the US between the smaller cultures, there are a few things that everyone here has in common, Americans in general hate paying taxes, that's why everyone is freaking out about this "fiscal cliff"
personally i wouldn't mind paying more taxes on computer parts if i got something else in return
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If you compare to the whole europe then maybe. That's not fair though because of all the third world countries like Spain and such..
What I think america is against is, like all the other people, change. You've been spoiled with low taxes for so long that anyone trying to change that is deemed evil. It's totally the same in europe. Anyone trying to take away public- healthcare, schools, day-care centers or the countless other socialized systems against tax reductions doesn't get any serious foothold.
Personally I wouldn't mind way more liberal/ right-wing approach in our politics but that's just not gonna happen.
however, "the best care money can provide" is not available to 90% of our population, so when you compare average healthcare to Europe, they are about the same ,except Europe is cheaper
i read a study once that looked at the cost of different surgeries, on average, everything costs twice as much in the US except for lasic eye surgury
also, in the US: Conservative = right wing/red/religious(Republicans), and Liberal = left wing/blue/secular(Democrats), (i thought i'd post that since i dont understand other countries political parties)
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Car Chemistry's Lakes-Style Header Baffles - Get Ready To RumbleWritten by on January 1, 2011
Building a hot rod is, for the most part, a heck of a lot of fun. Their assembly and the fabrication and installation of their countless components being almost therapeutic-sort of insulating us from the day-to-day drudgery we face in our quest to make a regular living.
Unfortunately, the diminutive size of most pre-'40s vehicles makes planning a build an important aspect, especially when working on vehicles like As and Ts. For those of us who sometimes don't plan out a build as thoroughly as we should (a frequent shortfall of mine, by the way), building the aforementioned models is sometimes like stuffing 10 pounds of parts into a 5-pound bag-there's sometimes just too little space to fit it all in a cohesive manner. One near final portion of those components we try and fit between those narrow framerails is an exhaust system. We usually do get 'em in there and under there, but many times we have to reconfigure the initial placement of some parts and oftentimes live with the added heat-related problems created by stuffing those pipes and mufflers in such close proximity to floors, master cylinders, and fuel/trans cooler lines.
In the past, I'd spent precious garage time scratching my head and trying to figure out how I was going to go about fashioning an exhaust system (or even running a full system at all) on a couple of traditional-style projects I'd been constructing. Fortunately, I came across a neat line of products manufactured by Car Chemistry. The company manufactures a good-sized selection of muffler/baffle kits designed for use in lakes-style headers (or even exhaust pipes for those who wish to run a full-length system less the bulky mufflers). This product line allows builders a perfect alternative to stuffing a full system under a small hot rod.
My first experience with Car Chemistry baffles were in a flathead-powered A roadster I was throwing together. The roadster was equipped with a set of Speedway Motors lakes-style headers and had very little room for a full undercar exhaust system to connect them to. That's when I saw my first Car Chemistry ad-liked what I saw and placed an order. A few days later my package arrived and when I had the product in hand I was actually more impressed than I thought I'd be-it's a well-made, easy-to-assemble system that I think will be a great alternative to a full system. Plus, I love the idea of my exhaust blasting out of the megaphones at the cowl while still being able to carry on a conversation with a passenger.
Assembling the Car Chemistry inserts kit was a snap and took less than two hours from start to finish. And with a genuinely affordable retail price, I not only saved a bunch of time but a lot of cash as well. So take a look-you may well discover that the way I solved my exhaust system dilemma will work for you too!
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Here's where I started out-a pair of Patriot (Ford) and a pair of Sanderson (Chevy) lakes-style headers (one mine and one my pal Tim's) and a great idea of how I wanted to go about retaining their good looks while not getting ticketed by the local highway patrol for excessive noise.The Car Chemistry Insert Kits (for lakes-style headers anyway) consist of a pair of center core inserts, flanges, and a series of drilled rings whose graduated diameters fit tightly against the walls of the header cone. The design, size, and placement of the perforations are by no means random; they're the result of testing that ensure an acceptable note and impressive performance.Like I keep saying, this is an extremely easy job. The instructions are clear and the assembly is really straightforward-which is great if you're a wannabe fabricator like I am. Assembly begins by determining the outlet end of the main core tube and readying the smallest (in this case the 3-inch) ring for placement on it. Car Chemistry marks the inlet and outlet sides of the core tube so pay attention and make sure you begin on the inlet side of the tube. The first disc is pressed or driven onto the core tube (a section of 2 1/4-inch pipe works great) downward toward the bottom of the tube.The instruction sheet noted that the first disc should fall roughly between the second and third port of the header-on both the spacing worked out perfectly-the first discs landed where suggested and the core tubes ended up right at the end of the header bell.With the first disc located, I marked the core tube with a Sharpie just in case I moved it while installing the next disc-that way if I did I could move it back into the correct position. The next discs/flanges came next, and I installed them the same way as I did the first. By the way, the discs/flanges do go onto the core tube relatively tightly, but not overly so-and they can be adjusted so they make good contact with the header while work progresses.I should mention, unlike the baffle kit I used on my first installation a year or so ago (Speedway lakes-style headers for a Ford Flathead), the baffle kits I used this time around included end cap discs equipped with integral flanges. This worked out perfectly for both the brands of headers I was working with this time.Since there are basically three different triangular-style flange sizes used on headers these days we had ordered the largest version, which if my memory serves me correctly were 3 1/2 inches-which matched the Sanderson headers perfectly, as you can see. I slid the disc/flanges over the core tubes, inserted the assemblies into the bell of the headers, and then tapped the core into the bells until the inner discs contacted the inner wall of the headers. Once they were correctly located, I carefully removed the assemblies from the headers and tack-welded the discs to the core tubes.With the baffle assemblies for the first set of headers (Sanderson's) assembled and welded together the next step was to wrap the baffles with the combination of stainless wool, 'glass cloth, and a single layer of aluminum foil (to help hold the material in place during installation) for added noise reduction.
With the packing installed around the baffles the next phase was to bolt the assemblies to the Sanderson small-block Chevy headers and fab a pair of caps for the secondary exhaust outlets.Using a cardboard template I traced the shape of the Sanderson outlets and transferred the shape to a sheet of steel plate-twice. I then cut them out, drilled them for mounting bolts, and closed up the secondary outlets.With the first set of headers completed (in about an hour) it was onto the Patriot headers for the small-block Ford. The process is basically the same with the exception of the caps/flanges. The Patriot headers are designed with round-shaped flanges rather than the more triangular shape we've become used to-but, with the Car Chemistry baffle kits this wasn't a big problem.All I did to make the Car Chemistry baffle kit work with Patriot's was to cut the original circular flanges off the header bells with a cut-off wheel-right at the weld where the round flanges met the bells-with the intention of welding the new fully assembled Car Chemistry baffles right to the Patriot bells.So, I assembled the second set of baffles in the same manner as the first Instead of bolting the end cap/flange to an existing header flange I just slid them into place and welded the baffle assemblies to the Patriot bells.The final step for the afternoon's task was to fabricate caps for the Patriot secondary exhaust flanges as I'd done for the Sanderson headers.


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Albany Medical Center offers a wide range of minimally invasive, interventional techniques to patients. Albany Medical Center has pioneered many cardiovascular care procedures, especially related to interventional cardiology. We were first in the region to perform "balloon angioplasty" and to develop a cardiac catheterization lab to diagnose blocked arteries. For patients who are considering an interventional procedure, learn more about angiograms and what to expect.
|Mohammad El-Hajjar, M.D., a cardiologist at Albany Medical Center and an expert in intervential cardiology, discusses how the transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure minimizes risk to Albany Med patients, maximizing results.


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I configure my Zimbra Opensource and works fine. Later i use the LDAP schema to auth users from my Openfire Jabber Server. Works fine too.
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Someone can help me please?.
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Everything, And We Do Mean Everything, You Need To Know About The Meyers ManxWritten by Elana Scherr on May 20, 2013 Contributors: Wes Allison
Between 1964 and 1970, one kind of car set off-road records, won races, made its way into movies and pop culture, brought its maker fame, and then nearly destroyed him. The car was copied thousands of times and remains instantly recognizable today. If you guessed Shelby Cobra, here's another hint: It was also quite good off-road. No vicious snake, this, but an agile, bobtailed cat—the Meyers Manx.
The Meyers Manx was born like Venus out of the ocean's foam, a transformation of surfer culture into four-wheeled transport made possible through the talents and madness of wave rider and all-around hot rodder Bruce Meyers. It was the early '60s in Southern California, and if the songs are to be believed, the world was all waves and girls and oceanside bonfires. Meyers was a happy beach bum at the time. "I'm not a car guy," he tells us, "I never thought of anything beyond tomorrow's surf."
Car guy or not, Meyers was a part of the scene, running stripped-down jalopies at the dry lake beds and experimenting with lightweight materials as a tooling fabricator for Jensen Marine's first fiberglass sailboats in between jaunts off to Mexico and regular surfing adventures. Whether in Mexico or his hometown of Newport Beach, California, Meyers and all those happy surfers had to get from land to sea, and they did it in homemade dune buggies—stripped-down Jeeps and Volkswagens built to dash across the sand with a surfboard in the back and a friend or two in the passenger seat, if you had a passenger seat. The one-off buggies were utilitarian, but Bruce Meyers was an artist, and artists look to the form. Meyers saw an opportunity to use his fiberglass skills, gleaned from the years of boat-building and surfboard-making, to create a DIY kit for a 'glass-bodied buggy.
The story of the shape is one of those legends one shouldn't question. Did the Manx really start as a drawing on a napkin in a beachside bar? Let's say yes, because if it didn't, it should have. Meyers says the shape was pure aesthetics, and in describing it, his hands trace a form more commonly associated with curvy women than off-road vehicles. Even if it was modeled more after wind-blown beach bunnies than by wind-tunnel–tested engineering, the Manx was perfectly suited to its task. The high, hippy fenders gave lots of room for tire clearance and with its light weight and short-wheelbased, the car turned easily on- and off-road. The wide-fender design also, as Manx club official Joe Spittler pointed out to us, offered a fine flat spot to set a beer once the driving was done. Meyers thought of everything!
Meyers started the first Manx in 1963 and completed it in 1964. The car's simple shape belies some rather sophisticated composite work, with embedded steel in a structural, monocoque fiberglass body bolted to the suspension and running gear of a VW Bug. The car was a hit amongst fellow buggy enthusiasts, and received enough media attention (including covers of the Aug. '66 HOT ROD and April '67 Car and Driver) to start the phones ringing. That would be enough for most inventors, but Meyers wanted to prove the little car's value beyond its photogenic qualities, and in his quest to do so, he may have kickstarted more than just the buggy craze.
Meyers and his friends were regular visitors to the wilds of the Baja Peninsula, well before any official races were run there. Honda Motor Co. was using the Tijuana to La Paz route as a publicity stunt to promote its motorcycles, and Meyers and his friend, Ted Mangels, thought they could do the run in less time than the publicized 39 hours and 56 minutes held by bike racer Dave Ekins.
Manx legend holds that Mangels suggested the run on a Monday, and he and Meyers left to do it that Friday. Like the napkin story, we want it to be true so much that we don't care if it isn't. The results are not in question. The Manx, heavily laden with fuel jugs, made the run in 34 hours and 45 minutes, besting the bike record by five hours. Meyers got a plaque, and later that year the inaugural NORRA (National Off Road Racing Association) Mexican 1000 followed a similar route, and was won by Vic Wilson and Ted Mangels in a Meyers Manx. That race has since grown into the famed SCORE Baja 1000.
The word was out—the Manx was hot, and people wanted it. Meyers had made 12 of the original design before realizing it was unfeasible for mass production. "People didn't really care about the monocoque design," Meyers says. "They just wanted it to be cheap and easy, plus they didn't like throwing away the rest of the VW, and neither did I." The redesigned Manx kit used the chassis of the VW Bug, shortened by approximately 14 inches. Owners used the VW pedal assemblies, shift levers, linkages, transaxle, trailing-arm assemblies, and engine as well as whatever gauges, seats, steering wheel, and other pieces they desired from the donor bug or from many buggy accessory catalogs available at the time.
An entire industry sprang up around the dune buggy, and Meyers set up dealers and support networks around the country. One of Meyers' biggest supporters was Bob Major, a racing driver who steered exotic cars around exotic places throughout the '50s and early '60s. When he decided to look for a career less prone to death by Ferrari, his friends suggested he look into a car dealership. Major liked the look of the Manx, so he went to California to meet Bruce, and there began a lifelong affection for both Meyers and his Manx. Major Cars Inc. went on to be the biggest Manx showroom in the country. Business was good for Meyers and his friends, but the popularity of his car was about to be the company's downfall.
Costing about $600 plus a wrecked VW, the Meyers Manx was a good deal, maybe too good. Meyers was cranking them out and had dealers all over the country, but his process was labor intensive, and several companies, some with less stringent quality control, began marketing their own version of the fiberglass dune buggy, often straight-up copies of Meyers' design. There were court cases and attempts to waylay the Manx-forgers through increasingly complex moldmaking designs like the all-off-road Tow'd and the radical, scissor-doored Manx SR, but the court cases went against Meyers, and the Tow'd and the SR did not have the mass appeal, nor ease of assembly, that made the original Manx so appealing. Meyers couldn't compete. Of the close-to 250,000 buggies that hit the road, maybe 5,000 are real Manxes. In 1970, tired of lawsuits and bills, Meyers left the company, and in 1971, Meyers and Co. auctioned off the leftovers and was out of the buggy business. The imitators went on, though, and today—although you've surely seen plenty of Manx-like cars in movies or in cartoons, bouncing along beaches, or maybe even tucked under tarps in your neighborhood—you might have never seen a real one.
To find out what makes the Manx so enduring, and endearing, we invited Bruce Meyers and several members of the Manx Club (ManxClub.com) to bring their cars into the studio, where we crawled all over them. We went out for a ride with collector Perry Margouleff, talked about VW hop-ups with original owner Bob Yahn, and even borrowed a new DualSport Manx for a week. Oh, that's right, there's a new Manx, because you can't keep a good idea down. In 1999, Meyers decided to try again, and reinvented the buggy with a bigger engine and seat warmers. There are now three new models you can build (see MeyersManx.com), or, of course, you could find and rescue a classic Manx. Look at those eyes, how could you resist? What we found throughout our Manxtivities was a microcosm of hot-rodding in general. Some people make them pretty, some make them loud, and some make them race, but everyone makes them their own.
Little Cars, Big Stars
The Manx has made hundreds of big and small screen appearances. Look for Meyers Manxes, or some facsimile thereof, the next time you see one of these movies or shows:
- The Thomas Crown Affair
- Speed Buggy
- The Krofft Super Show: Wonderbug
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- Green Acres
- Escape to Witch Mountain
- Starsky and Hutch
- Escape from LA
- Streets of San Francisco
- Live a Little, Love a Little
The Manx club allows all makes of dune buggy to join, so even if you have a "Glitter Bug" or a "Sand Shark," or any other of the more than 60 different buggy kits we found while researching the Manx, you can still join the off-road adventures. To find out more about what makes a real Manx go to MeyersManx.com/realmanx.shtml.
That's Tow'd, not Toad
The classic Manx was no slouch in competition, winning not only off-road events but besting Cobras and Corvettes in slalom trials and even claiming a class win at the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb with Ted Trevor behind the wheel of a Corvair-powered buggy, but once again, Bruce Meyers wanted to go further, and he developed the off-road Meyers Tow'd.
The Tow'd was even more stripped down than a classic Manx, with minimal fenders and a narrow front. The Tow'd name came from an extendable tow bar in the nose that would allow the car to be quickly hitched to a truck or wagon and "tow'd" home after an off-road excursion. The first dealer to offer the Tow'd was Major Cars Inc., and owner Bob Major headed from Chicago to California to oversee the building of the prototypes.
The first two Tow'd cars were one-off builds, with aluminum front ends, and weighed a mere 900 pounds. Major's car was powered by a Porsche 356 flat-four, and you can imagine it moved out when he entered it in the '67 Las Vegas 711. "The Vegas race was real fine dust," Major recalls. "The heavy V8 cars had to plow through it, but the Tow'd just danced across the top. Other cars had to stop for railroad tracks, we just jumped them at full speed and kept on." Major and co-driver/mechanic Bob Anderson had a spirited start in the 711, but electrical problems ended their run early, and an upcoming accident for Bruce Meyers was about to discourage Major from off-road racing.
In 1968, Meyers took his Tow'd down to Mexico, and a nasty crash in the Baja desert during the race left him with two broken legs and nearly a full day to stare at his own ankle bones until he was finally noticed and rescued. It didn't stop Meyers from returning to off-road racing, but Major put the No. 20 Tow'd aside, and the car went first to a French collector and finally ended up in Perry Margouleff's collection, now with a VW engine but still taped up for the Vegas race with a thermos of water for the driver and a plastic bottle of oil for the car stuck to the rollbars. Only about 1,000 Tow'd kits were made during the Manx production years.
Lambo Doors Before Lambo
Lamborghini gets all the credit for scissor doors. Heck, they are commonly called "Lambo doors," but Manx did them before the Italian Bull had even a NACA duct complete on the Countach.
It was 1969. Things were rough over at Meyers and Co. Lawsuits were raging, and Bruce Meyers was still recovering from nearly severing his foot in Baja. But while he was short on luck, he was never low on ideas. Meyers wanted to design a more street-oriented vehicle—still a kit, but more a sports car than a dune buggy. He hired a young designer, Sewart Reed, to help.
"Any second-rate mold shop could copy the classic Manx," Reed remembers. "We tried to make the SR too complex to be copied." Whereas the second-gen Manx was a two-piece fiberglass kit, the SR was 10 pieces. People liked it, but not nearly as many felt capable of building it.
"Brilliant Bruce Meyers," Reed says. "He had very clear ideas about detail, about form and fabrication. He could really maximize the tooling. He had a great sense of humor. He was always having a good time."
The SR tooling went through a series of companies after '71 and SR kits were made under different names, but Meyers and Co. probably only made about 200 kits.
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Because each owner built their own Manx, the resulting cars reflect more than the view in the hubcaps. This buggy was built by a scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. All the build records and paperwork came with the car, including the receipt for a can of flat-black "Catalac," the low-reflection paint used inside telescopes and, apparently, on one dune buggy undercarriage.The '09 KickOut Traditional looks a lot like a classic Manx but has some changes such as additional storage room, an opening hood, and wider rear fenders. Hot RodThe Manx bodies were shipped to dealers stacked in crates. This occasionally resulted in damage, although the fiberglass bodies were surprisingly resilient. Perry Margouleff refers to it as "boingosity," or maybe that comes straight from Bruce Meyers. It sounds like his sort of engineering speak.01] Buggy enthusiast Bob Yahn saw his first real Manx at a Chicago car show in 1968, and it was Linn Major's floral show car now owned by Perry Margouleff. Yahn liked the looks of it so much that he went home and built one. Meyers is convinced some of the OEM guys saw the buggy, too, since soon after that show Chrysler offered the flowered Mod-Top as a factory option on B-, E-, and A-bodies.02] Flowered or plain, Manx interiors were left up to the builder and can be as basic as stock Volkswagen seats or as elaborate as these heated, custom-covered Beard off-road seats in Meyers' '03 Manxster 2 2.03] In the late '60s, accessories for buggy builders were available almost everywhere, from gas stations to Sears Roebuck. This was a mixed blessing, as quality could be an issue. "They don't work for s**t," says Yahn, referring to the cable-driven steering brake handles flanking his emergency brake lever. Designed to assist in quick direction changes over sand, the brakes apply or release one side of the rear brakes. Says Yahn, "There are good ones, these aren't. If you get one tire stuck and use it, you'll just get the other tire stuck."04] A complete kit was advertised as including bodyshell, decklid, dashboard, windshield, headlight housing, cowl frame, rear deck cover, aluminum trim, weatherstripping, fenderwells, and all hardware. Finding a donor Beetle was up to you.


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(Sports Network) - The last time the Clippers swept the Jazz in a season
series both teams resided in different cities.
The San Diego Clippers won all four meetings against the New Orleans Jazz back
in 1978-79, when Jimmy Carter was President and gas prices cost around 70
cents per gallon. Now the Clippers have taken over Los Angeles and the Jazz
took up residence in Utah, and both teams will clash Saturday in L.A.
The Jazz have lost the first three meetings of the season with the Clippers
and five straight overall. The Clippers are on their longest winning streak in
this series since a seven-game run bridging the 1979-80 and 1980-81 campaigns.
The Clippers will try to regroup following a beating at the hands of San
Antonio Spurs tonight in the middle portion of a three-game homestand.
Los Angeles was crushed, 116-90, by the mighty Spurs Thursday and had won four
straight and five of six games. San Antonio led, 34-21, after the first
quarter and posted the same advantage in the third. It shot the lights out to
the tune of 58.9 percent and scored 23 points on 20 L.A. turnovers.
"You've got to be better mentally," said Clippers All-Star forward Blake
Griffin, who had 17 points. "They're the best team in the league for a reason
and we didn't come out and put up the fight that we needed to."
Matt Barnes scored a team-high 18 points off the bench and All-Star Chris Paul
wasn't much help, finishing with four points and three assists.
Los Angeles is 21-6 at home and will close out the stand Tuesday versus the
Charlotte Bobcats.
Utah is enjoying a strong 2013 and looks to extend its current winning streak
to four games Saturday night.
The Jazz, owners of a 16-7 mark since the calendar turned, are coming off a
115-101 victory versus the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday. Al Jefferson
finished with 24 points and blocked three shots, while Gordon Hayward returned
to action for the first time since spraining his right shoulder and recorded
17 points and four assists. Gordon hadn't played since Jan. 26.
"We understood how tough this game was going to be. We came out today and
established ourselves early. We were able to come out with a good win," said
Jazz forward Marvin Williams, who had 11 points.
Randy Foye scored 15 points and both Paul Millsap and Derrick Favors added 14
in the win. The Jazz shot 50 percent (39-for-78) from the floor and scored 22
points on second chances.
Utah is 10-18 away from Salt Lake City and will return home this evening for a
three-game stand, starting with Monday's matchup with Boston.
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Lowering A 1973-1987 Chevrolet Truck - A Drop In The BucketWritten by on July 5, 2011 Slamming a '73-'87 Chevy the Easy Way
Lowering a later-model truck that's already equipped with independent front suspension should be a fairly straightforward application, right? Just slap on a pair of lowered coils or a set of dropped spindles and you're ready to rock, right? Well, not exactly. You see, back when GM was designing the third generation of their C10 line, they didn't take into consideration the fact that thirty-plus years later, guys would be doing the things that they are now doing. They built the trucks strong and rigid without as much thought about things such as aesthetics or performance. Back then, pickup trucks had more in common with a flatbed hauling produce to the market than it did with a passenger car, although that was quickly changing.
But thirty years on, guys are demanding things from these trucks that the original engineers had never intended. Big brakes, bigger wheels, and more powerful engines require the stock components to work outside their established parameters. And when you start altering the suspension characteristics, other problems soon arise.
One of the biggest hurdles in lowering a third gen Chevy C10 is the massive front crossmember. It hangs low, it's bulky, and it's ugly. Short story shorter, it's in the way. So why not get rid of it? Well, that might be a lot of work, except for one thing: the entire front suspension clip bolts to the chassis! Less than twenty bolts need to be removed before the entire kit and caboodle can be lambasted to the back forty. But what to replace it with? Enter Fat Man Fabrications.
Fat Man's head engineer Brent VanDervort was familiar with the problem the third gen's faced and decided to tackle it using one of his popular Mustang II-based IFS kits. Designing a bolt-in crossmember similar to Fat Man's other weld-in units, Brent solved half a dozen problems at once. Not only was the new crossmember more attractive, it also tucked up nearly six inches tighter to the chassis, gaining that much in ground clearance while lowering the truck four inches. It also allowed their stainless steel tubular control arms to bolt right up; a stiffer, stronger, and far and away better looking alternative to the stock Chevy stamped steel counterparts. This also opened up the door to allow each kit to be customized to accept a variety of suspension designs, from coil springs to coilover shocks to air-ride systems. The addition of a rack-and-pinion attachment at the front of the crossmember meant converting to a power steering rack was a simple bolt-on task, along with the more precise control gained by using a rack over a traditional steering box. And since Fat Man's spindles accept a myriad of disc brake kits, upgrading to big brakes was a snap. Meanwhile, Brent knew that the truck guys were starting to lean toward bigger tire and wheel combos but were running into fitment problems due to the larger tires not tucking up under the fenders. His solution was to narrow the track width of his bolt-in kit to better fit a bigger roller.
The answer to the problem that's plagued Chevy lovers since the first Gen III truck was lowered was so simple in hindsight that it's almost bizarre as to why GM did what they did. That massive crossmember can be replaced with a much simpler, more refined unit and the framerails boxed to make a much cleaner unit, all the while gaining the aforementioned upgrades. It sounds almost too easy doesn't it? Well it really was. We pulled out the stock suspension and had the truck back on the ground with all the new components in a day. Depending on how determined you are, I'd bet to say you could pull your truck in on a Friday night and drive it to work Monday morning, all bolted back up and ready to rock; albeit four inches lower! CCT
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Here's how the stance currently looks on the Chevy; not too appealing. Josh managed to coerce the rear end down nice and low, on the bumpstops mind you, but the front was still sitting high and dry.A total of fourteen bolts hold the entire frontend in place. The motor mounts were removed first, followed by the hardware fastening the crossmember to the framerails. The steering box and idler arm were also removed, as well as the upper shock mounts. Note how low the stock crossmember hangs below the framerails and the stamped control arms.We used a ratcheting strap to pull the framerails in slightly so the new crossmember could be lifted into position.A few of the existing bolt holes in the frame corresponded with those predrilled into the crossmember. The provided hardware from Fat Man was used to hold the crossmember in place while the remaining holes were drilled into the framerail using the crossmember as a jig.
While the IFS kit is a true bolt-in, the owner of the truck asked us to box a section of the front framerails so that he could fab a set of custom motor mounts at a later date. This required some welding, something that Fat Man says is not required with their bolt-in kit.With the boxing plates and crossmember installed, it's time to start bolting up the suspension components.All Fat Man IFS hub-to-hub kits come with polished tubular stainless steel control arms. A very nice upgrade (and free at that!) that looks great, performs great, and will outlast the surrounding steel parts of the truck. Fat Man's lower control arms come equipped with interchangeable plates designed to swap out depending on the type of suspension used. We're going to run coilover shocks, so the plate will need to be flipped over shortly.Before installing the spindle on the ball joints, both the upper and lower get a decent coat of antiseize, just like all the hardware throughout our install.The spindle is first installed on the lower ball joint before the assembly is raised to meet the upper. The nuts are then tightened and cotter pins installed to complete the spindle assembly.Ridetech just released a line of coilover shocks and we figured what better project to give 'em a whirl on. We'll be using their single adjustable shock body with 600-pound coil springs at each wheel up front.The Ridetech shock is slid into place and the upper eye is bolted to the incorporated shock bracket on the crossmember. The lower eye mounts off the plate that has been flipped on the lower control arm.To add to the performance aspect of the install, Josh opted to use a Wilwood 13-inch disc brake kit. Each side is assembled using three separate pieces: the rotor, the rotor hat, and the hub. First, the bearings are packed with hi-temp bearing grease and installed in the hub, followed by the rear seal.
The hub is then slid onto the spindle followed by the preload washer, spindle nut, keeper, and cotter pin.A hub cover protects the bearings from any road grime. Note the ½-inch studs that have been installed in standard Chevy passenger car 5x4¾-inch pattern.The rack-and-pinion is too narrow for our application so an extension is necessary. The right hand tie-rod end assembly is first removed, followed by the inner joint. The extension then attaches to the rack shaft itself. A bit of Loctite applied to the threads assures the assembly cannot come apart.The rotor and hat are attached together by twelve ¼-inch 12-point fasteners and it's absolutely essential to safety wire all the fasteners so they cannot come loose. First, the wire is looped through a predrilled hole in the first fastener.Then the safety wire pliers are used to twist the wire together the distance between the two fasteners.One strand of the wire is then pulled through the hole in the second fastener in a way that will tighten either fastener, should one start to rotate counterclockwise.The remaining pigtail is then twisted together effectively "locking" the wire and both fasteners in place.
A billet aluminum adapter mates the Billet Superlite six-piston caliper to the Fat Man spindle. Note the spacers between the two.The hat and rotor assembly are retained to the hub by three ¼-20 fasteners. This prevents the rotor assembly from moving when swapping out wheels, etc. and simplifies the installation of the caliper.With the rotor assembly installed on the hub, the caliper can then be slid onto the mounting studs and tightened up. Once again, note the use of the provided spacers.One neat feature Wilwood incorporated into the caliper's design is the ability to change pads without removing the caliper. New pads simply drop in after removing the retaining bar.Compared to the stock single-piston disc brakes and coil spring package, the new front end will not only give us some much needed additional ground clearance, but some serious performance improvements as well.
That's a bit more like it! We'll tackle the rear suspension next and get rid of those dinky Daisies as well!