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UTSA survey finds Bexar County split on Iraq views
By Marianne McBride Lewis
Director of Public Affairs
(Nov. 17, 2006)--Bexar County residents are split on the idea of "keeping troops in Iraq until stable" according to San Antonio Survey 2006, conducted by students working with UTSA's Culture and Policy Institute and Center for Policy Studies.
The UTSA students in combined research methods courses in sociology, public administration, kinesiology and criminal justice conduct the San Antonio Survey annually.
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A random sample of 391 Bexar County residents who have landline telephones was surveyed. When asked, "How strongly do you agree or disagree with keeping our troops in Iraq until it is stable?" 41.1 percent of the respondents either strongly agreed or agreed, while 51.1 percent either disagreed or strongly disagreed, and 7.8 percent said "don't know" or "no answer."
"The attitudes of people in the San Antonio area reflect much of the same attitudes toward this question that are being expressed across the country," said Juanita Firestone, UTSA professor of criminal justice and principal investigator for the UTSA survey.
"Compared to last year, support for keeping troops in Iraq until stable has declined in Bexar County by 7 percent."
Variations in support based on political views and party affiliation had strong impacts on how respondents perceived the idea of keeping troops in Iraq until it is stable.
Among those who defined themselves as conservative, more than one-half (54 percent) either strongly agreed or agreed, while 41 percent of conservatives either disagreed or strongly disagreed, and 5 percent did not express a view.
In contrast, among those who defined themselves as liberal, more than two-thirds (68 percent) either disagreed or strongly disagreed with the idea, while 18 percent agreed or strongly agreed, and 3.5 percent did not express a view.
Moderates, on the other hand, were split over the issue with 49 percent disagreeing with the idea, 43 percent agreeing and 7 percent expressing uncertainty either way.
Similarly, three-quarters (75.5 percent) of Republican respondents either agreed or strongly agreed with keeping troops in Iraq until the country is stable.
Democrats were near-polar opposites in their views with 74 percent disagreeing or strongly disagreeing, 19 percent agreeing or strongly agreeing, and 4 percent uncertain.
Nearly six in ten independents (58 percent) agreed with the idea, 34 percent disagreed and 7 percent expressed uncertainty.
Views also varied by the respondent's age. Between the ages of 18 and 35, 54 percent of respondents either disagreed (26.5 percent) or strongly disagreed (27.9 percent) with the proposition. However, disagreement decreased as the age category of the respondents increased.
While, a majority of the respondents between the ages of 35 and 50 disagreed with keeping troops in Iraq (54 percent), respondents in the 51-64 age category split evenly: 49 percent agreed and 49 percent disagreed. Similarly, 50 percent of respondents ages 65 or older disagreed with the proposition.
A moderate association and significant differences emerged among respondents who served in the military. Two-thirds (66 percent) of the respondents who have military backgrounds either agree or strongly agree that we should keep U.S. troops in Iraq until the country is stable. In contrast, 58 percent of respondents with no military background either "disagreed" or "strongly disagreed" with the idea.
Surveys were conducted from Oct. 21 to Nov. 4, 2006. The standard margin of error for the entire sample is plus or minus 5 percent with a 95 percent confidence level.
For more information, contact Juanita Firestone, principal investigator and professor of criminal justice, at (210) 458-2830; Richard Harris, co-investigator and professor of social work at (210) 458-2843; or Arturo Vega, co-investigator and associate professor of public administration at (210) 458-2650.


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Binghamton University hosts ethics panel discussion
The Binghamton University Alumni Association and Harpur College of Arts and Sciences will host a panel discussion titled "Ethics and the Court: A Judicial Perspective," at 7 p.m. Tuesday, November 11, in room 325 of the University Union West. The discussion is free and open to the public.
The discussion will focus on ethical issues faced by today's judges at the federal, state and local levels. The panel will also discuss issues such as mandatory sentencing; the protection of victim's rights and information versus the public's right to know; and the election of judges and judicial appointments.
The panelists are all BU alumni and include Nora N. Freeman, Family Court Judge in Kings County; Ferris D. Lebous, from the NYS Court of Claims in the Binghamton district and Acting Supreme Court Justice for the 6th Judicial District; and Frank Maas, U.S. Magistrate Judge, Southern District of New York.
For more information, contact BU's Alumni Office at 607-777-2431.


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In 1991, Minnesota passed the first charter school statute in the nation and started the first charter schools in 1992. In 1996, the Minnesota Legislature appropriated funds for a charter school lease aid grant program.
Lease aid grant statute
Minnesota law (Statute 124D.11, subdivision 4) allows charter schools to apply to the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) for building lease aid when a charter school has insufficient total operating capital revenue (as defined under section 126C.10, subdivision 13). The MDE must review and either approve or deny a lease aid application using the following criteria:
- the reasonableness of the price based on current market values;
- the extent to which the lease conforms to applicable state laws and rules; and
- the appropriateness of the proposed lease in the context of the space needs and financial circumstances of the charter school.
The State distributes these lease aid funds on a per-pupil basis. The amount of funds per- pupil unit served for a charter school for any year may not exceed the lesser of
- 90 percent of the approved per-pupil cost or
- the greater of (1) the charter school's building lease aid per-pupil for fiscal year 2003, (excluding the adjustments under Laws 2002, chapter 392, article 6, section 4; this may not exceed $1,500 for these grandfathered schools) or (2) $1,200, generally for newer charter schools.
The requirement that charter schools pay at least 10 percent of their facility costs helps ensure that schools will lease appropriate and reasonable facilities. The building lease aid may not be used for custodial, maintenance service, utility, or other operating costs. Charter schools make up the difference between state aid and actual rent by spending general aid funds.
Application process
The process for obtaining facility aid includes the following steps:
- Charter schools determine that their facility complies with health and safety regulations, local building codes and provisions for persons with disabilities.
- The charter school then submits its lease contract to MDE for review on the basis of reasonableness and appropriateness. If the lease is satisfactory, MDE approves the lease facility aid. If building modifications are necessary and appropriate, those are often subsumed into lease payments over several years.
- The MDE makes lease aid payments to charter schools on a monthly basis.
State funding and Federal grant
For fiscal year 2004, $17,768,623 was appropriated in state lease aid funding and the total facilities lease aid appropriation for fiscal year 2005 is $22,236,119.
Minnesota is one of four grant recipients under the State Charter School Facilities Incentive Grants Program. Minnesota will use its Federal grant to enhance its charter school facility initiative by making building improvement grants, augmenting state appropriations for lease aid, providing technical assistance in selecting appropriate charter school facilities and disseminating information about best use of facilities.


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Once a gummy bear or similar candy has been bitten and dropped on the floor it is liable to pick up dust and other foreign objects on the sticky area where it has been bitten. Gummy shave is the process of eating as much of the remaining gummy candy without eating the affected area.
"Damn, I dropped my gummy bear and now it's covered in icky stuff. Guess I'll have to gummy shave."
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Wilson can be good. He has not had a chance to do anything.
Wilson can be good. He has not had a chance to do anything.
I wouldn't make any comparisons between Wilson, Martin and whoever else for a couple of more years. Who knows, this may be Martin's best year and then he peter's out like Reggie Bush. With Reese and Coughlin, it was never expected for Wilson to be the starter anyways. It was Bradshaw's job with Wilson most likely figured to be backup or third wheel. Give him a year or three to see what he can do.
I saw Tmurda in control of this thread and paid it no mind. 22 pages of nonsense.
Q: Thoughts on David Wilsons carries on Monday night:
A: He runs hard. He ran hard and he showed that he can go in there and play, theres no question about that. He has learned, he has developed. We need that. We need to be able to count on a number of backs this time of year and really at any time.
Q: His assignments were on point?
A: They were.
And still didn't play because?
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I am wanting to use some russian queens in my hives. Who out there knows a reputable breeder of good quality russians?
I am wanting to use some russian queens in my hives. Who out there knows a reputable breeder of good quality russians?
I saw an article in this month's ABJ, and from that I gathered that the people with access to all of the lines of bees that USDA released and are certified by the bee breeders group have the purest, most diverse Russian bee genetics.
That would be these guys. http://www.russianbreeder.org/members.html
It also said that queen availability is limited.
Yet the article also left me wondering why the organisation is not bigger, and why we don't see more of these bees around? If I understood it correctly, the article said that the genetic diversity within the russian bees they have is as great as the diversity within all the italian honey bees in the US.
The Russians were over hyped a few years ago and as a result beekeepers who were expecting the hype to be true have been disappointed. And Russians have behavioral practices - like keeping numerous queen cups ready to go - that require different management. The ABJ article described them as close to what we are looking for as a bee that can thrive without treatments and make a good honey crop.
My experience with them has been completely treatment free - and they have made little honey and are in the process of being done in by varroa and associated viruses. One yard of 6 hives was recently inspected by the State of Maine - 5 of the 6 (going into their 2nd winter) were observed to have serious virus issues, serious enough that the inspector thought they would not make it through winter. The 6th was a split that was made up this year with a purchased queen. That seemed to be doing ok. By the time I got around to wrapping, 1 hive had already succumbed - the others had enough population still that I went ahead and wrapped them. The State guy is pretty good and I don't have high hopes.
I'm starting to wonder if the Russians would thrive with regular mite monitoring and "soft" treatment(s) on a hopefully annual basis. I'm looking at other stock reputed to not require treatments and may give up on the Russians if they don't make it through the winter.
The article went on to note that the rules for the Russian Bee Breeders require that Russian Bees are the only stock that they breed. That I imagine is a double edged sword - good for maintaining the integrity of Russian Bee genetics, but bad for breeders that already have investments in other stocks.
Andrew, thanks for the explanation. I think it is good that they keep the genetics as pure as they can, but if your experiences are typical I can see why they haven't taken off.
My experience with Russian genetics is mixed. The first year honey production was good. The next year most of my efforts were spent trying to keep them from swarming. I have gotten rid of all my Russian genetics and moved to Carniolan.
I think the Russians will work if you allow them to swarm and can capture those swarms.
They will requeen themselves. I found the hives got hotter with time.
I have found my Russians to be out much earlier in the mornings and out much later in the evenings. I saw a couple of drones hanging out on the outside of the hive last Thursday, but did not have time to look inside the hive (it started raining), so I am going to guess that they may have kicked out the drones. My Russian daughter still has uncapped brood. My Russian hive is the biggest one going into winter. I like them for their tolerance to cold.
Edited to add: I have yet to do any treatment on them, and since you were asking about breeders, this is where I got mine from. http://www.wildernessbees.com/
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New Beek here. I bought 2 packages of Italians from Georgia back in May and 2 Russian nucs (from Ray Revis, certified by the Russian Honeybee Breeders Association) in June of this year. I located the hives pretty close to each other and also plot their weights on a graph every week so that I could compare the breeds. Several things became quickly evident... the Russians are far more paranoid. The guards stop every single bee that tries to enter the hive while the Italians were too busy bringing in stores and flying back out. It seemed the Russians weren't accomplishing much and seemed to be harassing the bees entering their own hive. The Italians were the first out in the morning and last to return. Russians like to propolis up everything while the Italians...not so much. The laying pattern in all 4 hives has always been very good. I found heaps of dead bees beneath each hive and did not understand why until I figured out it was robbing. Which breed was the main robber? Can't say, but I'm betting on the Italians. I had 1 hive of each breed to become infested in a really bad way with mites (wasn't checking). The other Russian showed no drops. During the month of October the Italians became pissy. The Russians became dangerous. As far as honey production, time will tell. Since the Italians were packages, by the time they had comb drawn to store honey the flow was over and the rest of the summer was hot and dry. Even the goldenrod was short-lived. Same for the Russians...too late for any real honey production. One interesting thing happened...one of my Italian hives' population has become about 40% black in color in the last couple of months. It is now my strongest, most active hive and I'm hoping the hive is now a Russian/Italian hybrid. I think the combination of the 2 would make a really good breed. I'm proud of all my girls, but until I get thru next spring I will have to hold my judgement of the Russians.
Russians might not be too bad a choice up in Yellowstone, Montana. They do like to swarm, so I would advise getting into queen rearing yourself if you choose to use them. Velbert Williams sells Russian queens. He posts here on Beesource, so send him a private message. This late in the year, you might buy a nuc colony and combine any weak colonies with them, making sure to allow the Russian queen to keep the throne, that is, kill the other queen yourself if combining to move into Russians.
The Russian strain of honeybee is one of the best at tolerating varroa destructor, as they actively groom mites off each other and even bite the mite to kill it. They can be crossed with VSH bees and promote the varroa - removing behaviors over generations, although some Russians already display these traits, too.
One thing they are NOT good for is almond pollination in California. They over-winter in very small clusters and come out too slowly to pollinate in February. Once they get going, be ready to super up fast. Russian queens have been known to lay as many as 3,500 eggs per day, although 2,000 to 2,500 per day is more common. They start slow, but they often surpass Italians for hive population by mid-May (depending on where you have them). Try to check with others at your lattitude / climate who have had Russians. I see Seyc is up in Washington, so pay close attention to him, and to Adrain and Andrew too. Best of luck.
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Play-By-Playmate: Jaime's College Bracket
Jaime's filled out her bracket for the first time. See all her picks and the unconventional way she came to them.
So I'll be honest. This is my first college basketball bracket.
I know, I know. "How can this your first bracket Jaime?" "Don't you know how amazing it is?!" That's what you're all saying but listen, I'm a football gal, born and raised, and when there is no football on I'm watching the boys of summer play baseball. I just never got into college basketball, what with it running between crucial times of both football and baseball, playoffs and spring training. It had just never drawn me in.
Then, wow. I hopped on Playboy.com's bracket and started making my picks and I was little surprised. All I could do was smile, a big shit-eating grin that got bigger every time I picked a team to advance. I was giddy. I didn't know this was so much fun. I haven't had been this excited about a sporting event in a while.
It's like any given Sunday, any team can win. In baseball, no one game brings down a season. In football it's understood that making the playoffs is a feat in and of itself. But this? These kids just played their hearts out in their conference tournaments and now they turn around and play on an even bigger stage? A single elimination stage? A few bad moves, a turnover here or there and it's all over. Just like that. POOF! Gone. That's what I call pressure.
So I've made my picks and you can see them all at pbbracket.com, but before I start getting tweeted at by all you ferocious college hoops fans let me explain how a few of these were made. Remember this is my first time! I didn't get to crazy. Go easy on me.
I figured that with a 108-0 record it was a safe bet to take all the number one seeds to advance to second round. With numbers like that you've gotta go with history. Ditto the two seeds who've only lost four times in the first round. I'm playing it safe.
Once I got to the eight and nine seeds I figured it was time to start doing some research considering it's such a close matchup. I discovered that it's pretty well a 50-50 split when it comes to these games so I took a different tack.
Alabama/Creighton? I love saying "roll tide." ROLL TIDE! When college football was in season there was an entire day when I only answered questions saying roll tide! Seriously, the guy at the grocery store asked me if I wanted paper or plastic bags and I said ROLL TIDE! He gave me both. I picked Alabama.
Kansas State/Southern Miss? Went with mascots on this one. I figure if I were to be a mascot I'd be more like a Wildcat than a Golden Eagle. I'm a little bit wild, a little bit fierce. Pretty feisty and a redhead (we're all feisty) so I went with the 'Cats.
Memphis/Saint Louis? The old uni approach. If all else fails whoever has the sexier uniforms wins. Right? RIGHT? I took Memphis.
And for the final eight versus nine, UConn/Iowa State I took a playground approach and went with the eenie meenie miny mo.
Let's see, what else is going on with this bracket? OH! A 12 seed always makes a run! (I'm turning into a college basketball history buff trying to figure this thing out). So, 12 seeds have made it to the round of sixteen just as many times as a 10 seed has, they've made it five more times than an eight or a nine seed combined, and are only two shy when it comes to seven seeds. I see a trend and this year I'm picking Long Beach State to make a run.
I only have one top seed in the final four, I have Michigan State the first top seed to fall and have none of them in the final game. My pick for the tourney? FSU BABY! Gotta go with the home state heroes. They beat both Duke and UNC twice this season, something that hasn't been done since '95 and their getting hot when it counts. This is there year. Go Noles!
Think you can do better than Jaime? Head on over to Pbbracket.com to start filling out yours today! Give us a tweet or a follow on facebook to let us know you're in on the game and let Jaime know you came to win.


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This blog post is by Owen, with the help of his mom for the big words.
This past July, I started taking hockey lessons from a new coach at our hockey rink. One of the students he had skating with me was seven year old Cody Smith. Sometimes I did not understand why he would play good on some days and then have a bad day at practice (crying, leaving the ice, not listening to coach). His parents told my mom that Cody was a "special" person. He had something called Aspergers. (To a five year old it was just another big word.) We became friends and started to do fun things together. To me he was not any different from me or any of my other friends, he had good moods and bad moods too just like we did. He played with the same kind of toys, went to normal school, and even played hockey like I did.
In October, we started planning my 6th birthday party. And even though I was excited that presents were going to be coming, I knew that there was something else better. I have all the toys I want, so I wanted to help Cody and kids that were like him. I told my mom and dad that I wanted to help raise money for Cody. I asked my friends who were invited to bring money to help Autism Speaks to the birthday party instead of presents.
A few weeks ago, I had my birthday party. Everyone had fun bouncing around, eating pizza, having cake and ice cream. Many of my first grade classmates and my hockey team attended. They brought presents for me (even though they did not have to) and also money to donate to Autism Speaks. When mom and dad finished counting all of the money, I had raised seven hundred dollars. My parents tell me they are proud of me for helping out someone else. Cody's mom and dad told me that I was special for helping out a good cause. I just know that I was helping my friend.


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did any just pass the CHFI EXAM. I want to know the best way and materials to read in preparation for the exam . And where to get good CHFI DUMPS.
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Specific discussions on preparing for and taking the CHFI exam.
Four years ago, while pregnant, Ms. Amero went to work one day as a substitute teacher and left with felony charges against her.
Her crime? Julie Amero was convicted of four felony counts, each count carrying a maximum of ten years, for exposing school children to pornography.
The substitute teacher didn't know what to do to make them stop, so she was led away in handcuffs and convicted of felony charges carrying a maximum sentence of forty years in prison.
A number of computer security experts, led by software developer and blogger, Alex Eckelberry noticed serious technical errors were made throughout her trial. Mr. Eckelberry brought together a group of forensic investigators who volunteered to analyze the computer hard drive she was using in the classroom that day and published a report on their findings.
The group's report ultimately caused Julie's conviction to be overturned. Judge Hillary Strackbein overturned the unjust verdict in 2007 and ordered a new trial because of erroneous and false information given during the initial trial.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kim-mance ... 45772.html
And this is not even to mention that after her very public arrest, the pregnant teacher suffered a miscarriage. Subsequently, Ms. Amero has been hospitalized because of declining health due to stress.
In March 2008 a $2,400 ad appeared in the Hartford Courant which was signed by 28 computer science professors arguing that Ms. Amero could not have controlled the pornographic pop-ups. Trial Detective Mark Lounsbury never checked for the presence of malware.
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I want to know the best way and materials to read in preparation for the exam
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How cool is it that my umbrella went to a volcano? :)
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First, the bus schedule the hostel had available indicated that the bus left the Coca-Cola terminal at 8:00a, and the staff suggested we get there about 7:30. The taxi, scheduled to come at 7:15, showed up at 7:05, and we were still eating breakfast, and we scrambled to get the dishes washed and finish stuffing our faces. When we got to the terminal, the man at the station said the bus wouldn't be there till 8:30. By this time, we had about 45 minutes to kill, and we went in search of coffee.
It was a beautiful day, nice and sunny
When the bus arrived, we paid for round trip tickets to "Poas Volcan". the drive out of San Jose was very beautiful when we could see the sweeping views of the city in the valley. About a half an hour later, the bus stopped in Alajuela to pick up more visitors. The drive from Alajuela to Poas was absolutely gorgeous! We passed mile after mile of coffee, and the mountains got bigger and more beautiful the closer we got. Even though this part of the trip was beautiful, it was SLOW!!! I don't think we went over 50kph most of the way up the mountain. When we were about 3km away, we stopped at a souvenir shop/soda for twenty minutes so the bus driver could eat, and the passengers could use el bano.
The souvenir shop had a large display of fresh fruit and cheeses available for purchase. I was quite sad that there were no pineapples. I didn't get any fruit, but I did take some pictures! :) The best was smelling the fresh strawberries. We hit the road again soon thereafter, and drove for another 30 minutes to the volcano.
When we got to the volcano, the four of us walked the short trail to the crater. If you notice the earlier pictures, it was nice and sunny. However, two hours later at 8,900ft above sea level, the clouds had set in and we could barely see anything
After we admired the volcano, we decided to hike the trail that lead to the rain-made lake, Botos. The hike really wasn't difficult, but I was having a very hard time breathing hiking up at that elevation. I was bringing up the rear, and just as I was feeling miserable from the hike and the downpour, we found the lake! The lake was even more beautiful than the crater, although slightly less impressive. We continued the hike around the loop (which really was beautiful) and got thoroughly drenched, frozen, and in desperate need of something hot to drink. At the cafe/gift shop area of the park, we sat and talked for a few hours to kill time, because the bus wasn't scheduled to leave for another two hours.
The ride back to the city was uneventful and wet, and when we got back to the hostel, we decided that we would all grab dinner together to keep hanging out
I am so glad we met Julia and Carlos. Going to Poas was much more enjoyable with more people to keep you company, and we were able to network at the same time! I forget that you meet so many interesting and different people while you travel, and it is one of the best aspects of the travel adventure.
We are off to the airport at 4:30a tomorrow. :( It's been a wonderful trip, and Adrienne and I have decided we will actually plan a trip next time we take a foreign holiday together. :)
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Extra patrols to be part of race weekend at BIR
State Patrol troopers will partner with area law officers to conduct extra patrols and traffic control surrounding the NHRA Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway on Thursday-Saturday, Aug. 15–17.
This enforcement project will accompany a larger scale, statewide DWI enforcement and education campaign running Aug. 16 through Labor Day.
All people are encouraged to report drivers believed to be impaired by calling 911.
The State Patrol will have its mobile breath testing/impaired driving vehicle stationed at the front entrance area of the race track to assist any officers with preliminary segments of the impaired driver arrest process.
The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will have special enforcement teams in the area, to include the targeting of ATV operation.


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If you enter Madison Square Park in New York City from the south end, your eye will be immediately drawn to the latest sculpture installation, Buckyball, by artist Leo Villareal. These nesting spherical fullerenes, inspired by the work of Buckminster Fuller, are lined with LED tubes that light the sculpture in hypnotic ways. The sculpture is the perfect thing to get you in the mood for what now lies at the north end of the park, The Museum of Mathematics.
Though I like to consider myself a creative person, and one who likes math, I'll fully admit that when I heard there was going to be a Museum of Mathematics opening in town I pictured something dry for hard-core math nerds.
Instead, MoMath, as it's now known, is a wonderland for kids. I'd argue that kids don't even have to particularly like math to like this two-story hands-on playspace, but it doesn't hurt.
My 7-year-old is a self-proclaimed math lover, and she was thrilled to be there. My 2-year-old doesn't even know what math is, and he had a great time, too.
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One, or thing that wears a mask simialr to that of Zorro, and moves amongst the shadows usnig his hands to squeeze peoples faces until their lips resemble that of a female reproductive organ.
Dude, I can definitly see Ramsay turn into a Uterus Bandit like Pee Wee Herman.
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Do you reckon the Giants make a play for Willis McGahee following his release from Denver?
Do you reckon the Giants make a play for Willis McGahee following his release from Denver?
If the price is right HELL YEAH!!! He is an underrated back and would be a good backup plan if Brown gets hurt again. I'd rather have him then Torrain.
"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..
I think we have guys we need to take a step up to the next level including first round pick David Wilson.
Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. MB Rule # 1
if he is willing to sign a vet min deal or something near it, yes. we wouldnt bring him here to be thr 1 or even 2 rb, so it doesnt really effect DW. It may AB as their may be some sort of camp competition were we to bring him in. This is about getting better across the board. just bc we're set at #1 and #2 depth chart rb's doesnt mean #3 is set...1- he is good in pass protection. 2-he's an everydown back that we could use as depth. 3- he'd be a good mentor for the younger guys.
if Leach was someone we were reaching out bc of pass protection issues out of the backfield, you'd have to assume McGahee makes more sense seeing we have Hyno nd then Bear.
Beyond Wilson and AB, we dont really have anything proven.


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Well, you did great with the diagnostics and it looks like the upper black gear is damaged to the point that it would not engage when the white gear turns (it is supposed to turn when the white gear turns). Just make sure that if you hand turn the bottom right sprocket (the gear holding the timing belt) it then turns the timing belt and then bottom left sprocket turns the hook-loop mechanism that you pointed out in your photo. This way we will make sure everything else is working fine.
You can buy the damaged gear at many places selling singer spare parts. Here is one for $6 on ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/Singer-Verti...item3a6efa8db7
I will separately post for you the steps to replace the gear and the steps to adjust the "needle-hook timing" which sounds complex but it just means we need to adjust the exact turn position of the bobbin part to catch the needle thread as it comes down.
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We can't help but fall head over heels for this crowned beauty, Megan Young, who has just won the Miss World 2013 Pageant in Bali. Well deserved considering how stunning and charismatic she is, especially as she sashayed through the stage in an equally stunning mermaid style evening gown. Pure eye candy, to say the least. And we also couldn't help but notice the uncanny features of her beautiful look in comparison to our Camille La Vie version from our Fall 2013 Collection. If you're a fashionista who loves glamour and wears ensembles that tend to turn serious heads at parties, our dress silhouette may very well be the perfect match for you. With a design structure that includes a chunky cleo collar neckline with a highly-coveted and on-trend illusion underlay, beaded bodice that seems to be dispersed freely in luxurious embellishment and a foil mesh godet skirt with open back and matching beaded back straps…(excited, much?), you will surely enter the room in total beauty queen embodiment. And if you're on a style search for your homecoming dress or getting an early start on your Prom 2014 shopping, this dress may very well be the perfect fit to make your special night even more magical. And who knows…with a look that conveys this much style caliber, consider yourself the next Homecoming or Prom Queen of the Year.


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Posted: March 2, 2010 in ACE Press Releases
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (February 23, 2010)—The American Council on Exercise (ACE), America's leading authority on fitness and the largest non-profit fitness certification, education and training organizations in the world, and IDEA Health and Fitness Association, the world's leading membership organization of health and fitness professionals, today announced that IDEA will develop a co-branded version of the award winning IDEA Fitness Journal to be sent to ACE-certified professionals beginning with the July/August 2010 issue.
"We are excited about offering a premier industry magazine to our network of fitness professionals," said Scott Goudeseune, ACE president and CEO. "We are tapping into the expertise of IDEA's acclaimed editorial team in order to bring an excellent resource to the ACE network, and we feel confident that this publication will help us grow by providing expanded education, training and professional information to the ACE community."
The initiative brings ACE professionals added value to their certification in the form of access to the latest industry news and expertise on a variety of fitness and wellness topics as well as expanded benefits for continuing education courses (CECs) in every issue. Additionally, this increases circulation of the IDEA Fitness Journal to nearly 70,000.
"First and foremost, our goal with this announcement is to benefit the greater good of the fitness industry consistent with our missions to Inspire the World to Fitness®," said Peter Davis, CEO and co-founder of IDEA. We are excited to be working with ACE, America's largest non-profit certification organization, and offering our solid editorial content to their readers. We believe both of our organizations will benefit from this initiative."
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Early voting at UTSA: Students in "Walk for Change"
(Photos by Edna Dominguez)
UTSA Main Building is early-voting site Oct. 20-31
By Omar Hernandez
Public Affairs Specialist
(Oct. 20, 2008)--UTSA students eager to participate in this historic presidential election were among the first to early-vote in the San Antonio area. Members of UTSA's Omega Psi Phi fraternity organized "Walk for Change" -- a stroll across the 1604 Campus from the Roadrunner Café to the early-voting site in the Main Building.
Today's headlines
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The purpose of the walk was to increase awareness among minority students about early voting. Nearly 100 student voters turned out for the event and crowded the early-voting site on campus.
UTSA is one of the early-voting sites for registered voters in Bexar County. Early voting for the 2008 presidential election runs Oct. 20-31 at the Main Building ground floor lobby on the 1604 Campus.
>> Download the complete list (PDF format) of Bexar County early-voting times, dates and locations.
Early voting at UTSA and all Bexar County sites
Monday, Oct. 20-Friday, Oct. 24 -- 8 a.m.-6 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 25 -- 8 a.m.-8 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 26 -- noon-6 p.m.
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UPDATE: Marion, Va. police chief charged with drug distribution
MARION, Va. - News 5 has learned Marion Police Chief Michael Dean Roberts has been released from his position.
According to Marion Mayor David Helms, Roberts was hired in 1986 and promoted to chief in 2000.
Helms tells us the Marion Town Council met in executive session Wednesday evening and voted unanimously to release Roberts as police chief, effective June 19, 2013.
News 5 learned Lieutenant Rex Anders will fulfill his duties until further notice.
Helms says the Town of Marion is cooperating with the investigation.
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A man whose job is to serve and protect faces a federal drug charge. Marion, Virginia's police chief, Michael Dean Roberts, has been charged with one count of distribution of a controlled substance.
The reaction of many people in Marion after learning Roberts was arrested Wednesday morning is shock. "I'm very disappointed because we pay taxes here and they're supposed to protect and serve the county and not perform in drug activity," adds Marion resident Sonia Snavely.
Court records show Roberts was arrested after a break in the case on June 8th. A person authorities call a "cooperating defendant" took an audio and video recording device when Roberts met them at his/her home.
In court Wednesday afternoon, that video was played. It showed Roberts giving the informant two pills, then crush a pill and snort it himself. That was one of several recorded transactions.
A search warrant was issue for Roberts' home, car, and even his office in the Marion Police Department. The informant told police Roberts would get some of the pills from the Marion Police Department and would even return to work after using illegal drugs.
"They're trying to catch people that do drugs and they're doing it? It's not right. It's not right at all," says Snavely.
Now some residents tell News 5 it'll be hard for them to trust the police.
"It's a police officer getting busted for drugs? We don't need that in this community we've got enough going on," says Marion resident Adam Pennington.
Roberts was in federal court Wednesday afternoon in Abingdon. He was released to his parents on at $10,000 bond. Roberts must stay at his parent's house and will be under house arrest until his court date. He must also submit to treatment and evaluation for substance abuse within the next 30-days.
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A local police chief is on the wrong side of the law after being accused of distributing a controlled substance.
The US Attorney's Office announced this morning that Marion, Virginia police chief Michael Dean Roberts, also known as 'Fireball', was arrested Wednesday morning.
According to the affidavit, Roberts is charged with distributing the name brand prescription painkiller Lortab.
The investigation was handled by several federal, state, and local agencies.
We contacted the Town of Marion spokesman, who said town officials do not have a comment at this time and referred all questions to the Virginia State Police.
Roberts is due in federal court in Abingdon Wednesday afternoon.
We have a crew in Marion and will have more information later today on News 5 WCYB.


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Kerry responds to right-wing chickenhawk "nut-jobs"; Update: Source says comments were a joke gone wrong
posted at 12:59 pm on October 31, 2006 by Allahpundit
We have ourselves a meltdown.
Senator John Kerry issued the following statement in response to White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, assorted right wing nut-jobs, and right wing talk show hosts desperately distorting Kerry's comments about President Bush to divert attention from their disastrous record:
"If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they're crazy. This is the classic G.O.P. playbook. I'm sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did.
I'm not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq. It disgusts me that these Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country lie and distort so blatantly and carelessly about those who have…
Bottom line, these Republicans want to debate straw men because they're afraid to debate real men…"
There's more. The nutroots will eat this up with a spoon, of course, but you almost have to pity the poor bastards at the DNC. This is the last thing they want to be talking about this week. Score one more for Lurch's famous political acumen.
What's got him so agitated this morning, anyway? Bennett knows.
One of those Republicans who never can be found to serve in war and have never worn the uniform — namely, John McCain — will, I hear, be addressing Kerry's comments at 1 p.m. We'll have video.
Update: Here's a snippet of video of what Tony Snow had to say at the daily press briefing. I'll post the full transcript once it's available.
More from Snow:
Snow said the quote "fits a pattern" of negative remarks from Kerry about U.S. soldiers and suggested that whether Democratic candidates — particularly those running on their military service backgrounds — agree with their 2004 standard-bearer should be a campaign litmus test…
Snow said a lot of Americans have joined the military since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"As for the notion that you can say this sort of thing about the troops and say you support them, it's interesting," the press secretary said.
Update: CNN's run the Kerry clip a good four or five times within the past hour. Gotta give them some credit here, especially after the Juan Williams post this morning.
Update: Greg Tinti takes a video stroll down memory lane with Waffles.
Update: Waffles responds with a bravura performance guaranteed to delight nutroots members young and old. He didn't mean that the troops are lazy and uneducated when he implied the troops are lazy and uneducated; he meant that Bush's policy in Iraq is broken. Also, Iraq is Vietnam and Republicans are chickenhawks who can't admit their mistakes and are constantly changing the subject. In contrast to "real men" like him, who … can't admit their mistakes and are constantly changing the subject.
Oh, and Republicans have a "cut and run" strategy in Afghanistan. Says the guy who brought a resolution to the Senate floor calling for withdrawal from Iraq by the end of the year.
All in all, though, surprisingly shrewd. The nutroots will be wanking to this for days, and since he can't run to the right of Hillary or Obama, this at least gives him a shot to outflank Gore on the left in '08. Whereupon he'll be promptly torpedoed in the primaries.
Update: Vets for Freedom has called upon Kerry to apologize.
Update: Are soldiers really less educated than the rest of the population?
Update: Escalation — CNN reports that Bush will comment on Kerry's remarks at 5 p.m.
Update: Bill Frist gets off the line of the day:
While America's servicemen and women are fighting and dying against our adversaries in the global War on Terror, John Kerry has the gall to criticize their intelligence, their education, and their motivation for service. His comments represent the absolute worst in Democrat scare tactics and present a grave insult to our all-volunteer Armed Forces.
Senator Kerry clearly owes an apology to our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines serving in Iraq. But Mr. Kerry has refused to do so. Instead, he's claiming that Republicans are "desperately distorting" his comments. Watch the video yourself … it is perfectly clear what Mr. Kerry said … what's unclear is whether Mr. Kerry ever means what he says. Perhaps he was against his comments before he actually made them.
Update: You've got to be kidding.
A source close to Kerry tells NBC News that he was trying to make a "tough and honest joke" about Bush and that in the process he omitted two words which changed the intended meaning. Per the source, Kerry meant to say that he can't "overstress the importance of a great education" and that "if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy… You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq." Kerry mistakenly dropped the "getting us" from his initial remarks.
Update: Via Slublog, you've got to be kidding — part II.
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Voter approved tax hikes to improve California budget picture
The state must still address $1.9 billon budget deficit
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - After years of double-digit deficits, California's fiscal outlook is looking brighter.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday will propose his third budget since reclaiming the governor's office. It's expected to be the first time in many years that the nation's most populous state does not face drastic budget cuts.
The state still must address a $1.9 billion deficit, but that is far from the $25 billion shortfall Brown faced when he started his latest term as governor two years ago.
Thanks to tax increases approved by voters, California is projected to have a budget surplus within two fiscal years if Brown can keep the Legislature's Democratic super majorities in check and hold down spending.
The Democratic governor says California isn't going to spend money that it can't afford to spend.


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I would like to end a path at the midpoint of another path. My inclination has been to try and end the path at an offset equal to half the node distance from
d.north, but any thing I seem to try will not compile. Here's what I have so far (the end goal being the 'No' path ending at 'HERE' )
\documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{shapes,arrows,calc} \begin{document} \pagestyle{empty} % Define block styles \tikzstyle{box} = [rectangle, draw] \tikzstyle{line} = [draw, -latex'] \begin{tikzpicture}[node distance = 3cm, auto] % Place nodes \node [box] (a) {A}; \node [box, below of=a] (b) {B}; \node [box, below of=b] (c) {C}; \node [box, below of=c] (d) {D}; % Draw edges \path [line] (a) -- (b); \path [line] (b) -- (c); \path [line] (c) -- node [midway, left] {HERE} (d); \path [line] (a.east) --node [above] {No} +(1,0) |- (d.north); \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}
I've seen some things on path decorations, but I'm really unsure how to use them and not sure that I can end the path on them.


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A Clone Apart is a comedy machinima series similar to the famous Red vs. Blue, only using Star Wars Battlefront instead of Halo. It was started almost a year ago by a guy named Jeff James and his brother, Ryan, and portrays the story of Clone Trooper Danson-Delta 40, a lackluster soldier who, during the Battle of Utapau, ends up stepping into a portal that sends him 20 years into the future. From then on, the story follows his adventures in this new world to him.
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Reflection Eternal (featuring Estelle) Midnight Hour (new video!)
Late last month, I brought news of Reflection Eternal, the collaborative project between Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek. Sleekly-styled and sophisticated, the pair's upcoming album, Revolutions Per Minute, is sure to bring a smile and a swagger to your summertime playlists.
Jumping into what seems like an Adobe Illustrated world, Talib, Tek, and their main gal Estelle, come together for the official video for first single, Midnight Hour. A retro romp of a rad time, the visuals are directed by Alexandre Moors, who's previously done work with The Crystal Method and Matisyahu.
Watch the clip below and if you'd like some behind the scenes footage, please direct yourself here. There are also a slew of mad tour dates for Reflection Eternal after the video.
5/10 - Kansas City, MO - Midland Theatre
5/11 - Tulsa, OK - Cain's
5/12 - Houston, TX - Warehouse
5/13 - Dallas, TX - Granada Theatre
5/15 - Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre
5/16 - Denver, CO - Bluebird
5/19 - Los Angeles, CA - House of Blues
5/20 - Anaheim, CA - The Grove
5/21 - Phoenix, AZ - The Clubhouse
5/22 - Tucson, AZ - DV8
5/23 - Ventura, CA - Ventura Theatre
5/24 - San Francisco, CA - Fillmore
5/25 - San Diego, CA - House of Blues
5/26 - Santa Cruz, CA - Catalyst Nightclub
5/28 - Portland, OR - Aladdin Theatre
5/29 - Seattle, WA - ShowBox at the Market
mp3: Talib Kweli, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Mos Def and Busta Rhymes - Get By


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I won't say it seemed like an easy task in the beginning, but it turns out I had no idea what I'd be getting myself into.
"Let's come up with Seattle's 50 most powerful food people: companies, chefs, farmers, purveyors and so on," someone said. This was last fall, when our April Best Restaurants issue (on newsstands now) was in its infancy, when we were bantying our ideas about.
I loved the challenge of the idea, and as the daughter of a small business owner (my dad has owned Austin Machinery, in Sodo, for 35 years), it's second nature for me to want to celebrate, to bring to light the lesser-known but still powerful businesses that churn beneath the surface, the sometimes blue collar (and sometimes billion dollar) businesses that don't always have the name recognition they deserve.
Sure, we wanted the list to include the household names of Seattle's food scene--Sur la Table, Costco, Dick's owner Dick Spady, Tom Douglas--but I also wanted to introduce you to Dick Yoshimura, who's owned Mutual Fish for 65 years, and to the small team of ranchers raising grass-fed beef for Blue Valley Meats. To celebrate businesses we've loved for years, like Pagliacci, Uwajimaya, and Metropolitan Market. And, corny as it sounds, I was personally thrilled that we'd get to tell you Murray Stenson's real age!
Many have asked how we came up with the list. The short answer is that we came up with as many categories as we could think of and then filled them in over weeks and months, from chefs to industrial design to established brands. We were looking for impact over time, influence of a lasting nature like David Schomer, owner of Vivace, continues to have on the coffee culture, even after 24 years in the game. In some cases we included folks who've had a more recent impact, but a susbstantial one (see: Graham Baba Architects and Skillet's Joshua Henderson).
We used certain folks as a litmus test, if you will: As our list came to reach beyond 50 (the intended number when we started the process; we ended up with 70 businesses/people), we asked ourselves how so-and-so compared to, say, a solid Food Establishment listee like Fran Bigelow; Fran's has been around for three decades but the product has never been better.
On a personal level, I was thrilled to work with the stellar, James Beard Award-winning food writer, Rebekah Denn. I knew I could trust her opinions to be objective and level-headed, and her smart contributions and arguments for whom to include--and where said companies/people should fall in the order--were essential to the list. We spent hours eating bagels and arguing about which cupcake company should be higher on the list, about which longtime chefs continue to influence the restaurant scene; those yellow post-it notes came in awfully handy.
That said, this is our first shot at it. Did we miss someone glaringly obvious? It's possible, and if that's the case, I trust you'll tell us about it.
In any event, I'm all out of hot air. So here she is: the Seattle Food Establishment.


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Awesome work on the Fett family tree Art! Maybe I can send the high res file to my brother (501st member) in Illinois who works as a printer and he can make a few sample posters for us to review.
An absolutely STUNNING lineage & map of Fett helmet history Braks!!! Thank you so much for posting this up....hard to believe all this from one thread on the RPF so many years ago.
Again, thanks bud:thumbup
Now this finally clears up a whole lot of mis-understanding for me. thanks
Yes--Art--thanks for compiling this into an easy to follow graphic. Very interesting history.
Thanks a lot man. I may now be doing a PP3 instead of the PP2, since it's basically the same thing, with the ESB style paint job on the bucket. AWESOME!!
Fact of the matter is, the PP3 is the nicer of the two. I don't know if that is because the ESB took so much damage from handling (and now apparently) being recast, or what, but the PP3 is immaculate and probably one of the BEST preserved helmets.
I feel the same. Also thanks for putting this together folks.
You know what I have never understood. I hear it called 'cat eyes' all the time on the helmet. And to me, its not 'cat eyes' its 'eagle eyes'
The eyes are eagle shaped, and with the red on the helmet, looks exactly like a beak.
Just thought id throw that out there
I couldn't agree more Lee....considering the early art for the left shoulder bell clearly depicted a bird skull, I would think that the helmet also was intended along those lines of a "bird of prey"........
Ditto on the bird of prey stuff!!!!
Yeah, that history guide is really friggin cool!!!!! Thanx everybody that contributed, and thanx Braks for posting it!!
What a neat read
To think it all started from 6 ,20+ years ago and how many thousands of helmets are out there.
As anyone done research on the history of Jangos helmet and design????
Was there any different "looks"/color scheme for his armor?
Thank you again for all the hard work in putting this history together.
Wow! Thats so cool! I really enjoyed reading that and seeing how the helms changed and what not. Thanks a lot guys for putting that together, that really helps me out! Does anyone know why some versions are wider than others???
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Hey Art,
The "Ye Olde Prop Rumor Mill" urban legend is that the Jango bucket was cast/scanned from a Boba Helmet in the archives.
If true, where would the Jango helmet fit in the helmet lineage? Any leads on which helmet spawned it?
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No...just saying I have a screen cast Jango helmet...Banzai has his helmet...so yesterday we did some comparison photos. Just waiting for Banzai to post them...
It was just funny OSK asked that because Banzai had planned to post them in this thread today.
VERY cool! Looking forward to seeing them! Perhaps when I come out in a month or so we can compare yours to Banzai's to the PP2. Should make for some great history!
Looks like he posted them in his helmet thread. Here is the link to the album though where they are posted: http://picasaweb.google.com/Banzai88...ey=RrLTG1tC-Ag
That's awsome!!! Thank's BB Totally interesting
This looks awesome.... but, am I the only person who can't read it? I even tried saving it and increasing the size in my picture viewer. I can make out some of the spots with little text, but the areas with more text are just a blur. I don't think it's my monitor either, because we have a fairly new and fairly nice one here. Great job though. At least I can follow the pictures and the arrows.


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You'd have to be pretty keen on racing to bring a classic Formula Junior over from England to compete at the Hampton Downs Festival of Speed.
But you don't get a much keener petrolhead than Dave Bishop. After all, he's one of the men who saved the tooling that once made the British motoring industry.
He started out as an apprentice at Press Steel. "We made the bodies for Minis, Jag, Rolls-Royce, the Rootes Group - made about 12,000 bodies per week."
He worked in the industry from 1961 to 1983, then joined the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust.
The trust spun off from British Leyland, aiming to preserve the company's historic vehicles, and ended up at Gaydon, home to the Rover Group's design premises. When BMW took on the Rover Group it also owned the Heritage Trust. "It called us the English Patient," he says.
"When I picked up BMW was going to divest Rover Group I approached it and we became preferred buyers, we bought it and put a team together and when Mini packed up built the old Mini body."
These guys weren't suits, they were getting their hands dirty, certifying classic cars and turning out bodies built with the original tooling, "It was a great success and kept a lot of old cars on the road," as well as working on some new ones.
"The RV8 was only possible because of the rebirth of the MG body, and Heritage built the RV8 prototypes.
"We had the MG tooling and I found the Midget tooling and we did Midget bodies."
He's a highly entertaining fund of stories about all these exploits, and prone to pointing at a car from the constantly passing parade in the Hampton Downs pits, then explaining his company's part in its construction.
But now he's retired, and here to race his Elva, by his own admission near the back, but having fun.
"Winning isn't important, it's having a good race with anyone, anywhere on the grid - you can have as good a race at the back as at the front."
He's part of a contingent of 11 Brits who loaded their cars into a container to head south, several taking motorhome tours between events while he and his wife, Janet, return to Taupo, their escape each year from British winters.
He's had his 1959 Elva FJ 100 since 1992, when he bought it off another Brit, also here racing. "We negotiated on the start-finish of the Monaco GP."
It's number 76 of about 110 built, designed for Formula Junior events and powered by a 1098cc Mini Cooper motor, a Swift tune engine "recognised as the best tuners of that engine, they're very good".
"It revs to 8000rpm, not too often but it will," though he tells the man behind him at the finish that it was limping along at 4000 - there's nothing like psyching out the opposition. It's not especially powerful, but then the car only weighs about 440kg, sitting on 15-inch cast magnesium wheels with independent front suspension and transverse wishbone rear with coil springs and telescopic shocks.
Dave does all his own maintenance and pretty much gets to race it whenever he wants, "They're wonderful cars and there are so many races for them we could virtually race every weekend."
And with that, he pulls his helmet on, fires the engine and heads out to the grid for another race in a summer season Down Under.


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Andre Santos is "super happy" with the way he has adapted to life in England - and now he wants to make history with Arsenal.
The Brazilian defender joined the Club last August from Turkish side Fenerbahce and has made a positive impact in his first season in English football.
The 29-year-old admits that the Premier League is unlike anything he has experienced before, but he is enjoying the fresh challenge.
"It is fair to say that I have totally adapted," Santos told Arsenal Player. "I feel very well, people here have received me with open arms, and I mean everyone, the Club, the staff and the fans.
"People recognise me on the streets and ask for photographs, people have great respect and charisma and they make me feel at home here. I'm super happy, I've adapted and now all I want is to make history with this club.
"The Premier League is something different - it's the best league in the world. It's hard to play in, the pace is different, the fact that almost every pitch is wet makes the ball run more, the tackles are harder, and it's just really good.
"I'm not saying that the Turkish league is not good, it has quality as well, but the Premier League is different from anything I've ever seen."
Santos has quickly become a fans' favourite and he admits he has been touched by the support he has received.
"It was a big surprise how people accepted me here," he said. "Especially when I was injured, a lot of people supported me and they were always asking when I was going to come back, saying that the team needs me and wishing me well.
"In the stadium people would see me in the stands and ask me to come back, there was also many 'Get Well Soon' messages on my Twitter account.
"All of that gave me the strength to carry on, and it all just contributes to my desire to work hard for this club and win titles in the red shirt."
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Now more than seven years since the last execution at San Quentin State Prison, the state this week will try again to revive its dormant death penalty system in an appeals court considering the latest legal tangle over lethal injection procedures.
In a hearing Tuesday, the 1st District Court of Appeal will review Marin County Judge Faye D'Opal's 2011 order stopping executions because prison officials failed to comply with administrative rules in revising California's three-drug execution method. The Brown administration appealed the ruling, likely assuring the state will not execute anyone this year on its 734-inmate death row.
Even as the appeal proceeds, prison officials continue to craft a new execution procedure that would rely on a single drug to put condemned killers to death, similar to methods other states set up to short-circuit challenges.
Switching to the single-drug approach would likely require a new round of administrative hearings, which could take a year or more. Resolution of the legal battle in the 1st District would only pave the way for a return to the federal courts, which first put executions on hold in 2006. And states across the country, including California, are facing fresh problems over a shortage of drugs used in executions, and questions over whether they've obtained them legally from overseas manufacturers.
"With California, even if they have a (method in place), that's not the last issue," said Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law professor. "Any state like California moving so glacially is going to be really behind."
The San Francisco-based 1st District will hear arguments in one aspect of California's legal problem. In response to a federal judge's orders, the state in 2010 adopted new execution procedures designed to address concerns inmates might suffer an inhumane death during the lethal injections.
But in Marin, Judge D'Opal found the state did not comply with the administrative rules and blocked San Quentin from using the new procedures. Among the findings was that prison officials failed to explain why the state did not choose the single-drug method, which involves a fatal dose of a sedative, despite the fact California's own expert recommended that alternative.
In court papers, Attorney General Kamala Harris' office argues the state did more than enough to satisfy the rules.
The appeal is unfolding in the aftermath of November's narrow defeat of Proposition 34, which would have abolished California's death penalty. Death penalty foes are mobilizing for another try to take the issue back to the voters.
Meanwhile, if the courts clear the way, California would experience an unprecedented rush of executions because more than a dozen death row inmates have lost their final legal appeals.