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Hi all,
I have a '29 dodge I'm resurrecting.
The doors arn't bad, but the hinges are stuck and there is the typical rust along the bottoms
After messing up the sheet metal trying to get the pin out of one hinge I've decided to remove the hinges and fix them off the body.
trouble it the hinges are riveted on.
It would be really nice if the door skins were off so I could get everything working then put the skins back on.
I could also re-rivet the hinges this way.
Am I crazy?
Should I just deal with it and weld the hinges back on??
Here a door, BTW the whole car has been painted with an undercoating, but it comes off pretty easy, thats why the door looks weird
That door looks like it needs a new door skin and it may be the easier way out to make a new one and while you are in there fix the hinges..just my opinion..
:confused: What door:confused: I see no door! does everyone else see a door? Or a highlighted area? I see none on my end LOL:drunk::smash:
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I See it now LOL I couldn't before:smash:LOL
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The Gold Coast is home to many theme parks, and is known for the wild rides and screaming coasters of Dreamworld and Movie World, as well as splashtastic waterparks such as White Water World and Wet n Wild. All of these themeparks are accessible from the Surfers Paradise Bus Stop on the Gold Coast Highway via the Theme Park Express.
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Dreamworld spans 30 hectares and is filled with a variety of rides, shows and attractions. Dreamworld is home to The Big 7 Thrill Rides including the Tower of Terror 2 - one of the world's tallest and fastest thrill rides, the Giant Drop with a free fall from 38 storeys or The Claw where you'll be propelled 9 storeys high, swinging up to 64km/h while spinning 360 degrees for a 90 second adrenalin rush!
Address: Dreamworld Parkway, Coomera, QLD 4209
Phone: (07) 5588 1111
Web: http://www.dreamworld.com.au/
Movie World brings Hollywood to the Gold Coast, with Thrill Rides, Kids Fun and Family Entertainment shows. The Green Lantern Coaster, Superman Escape and Batwing Spaceshot are some of the fastest thrill rides on offer, along with the Wild Wild West and Scooby Coaster. With Warner Bros characters, the best from DC Comics, and seven larger than life thrill rides, there's excitement here for the whole family.
Address: Pacific Highway, Oxenford, QLD 4210
Phone: 133 386
Web: http://www.movieworld.com.au
White Water World is Dreamworld's sister park, and a World Pass ticket will get you access to both. With tube coasters, massive slides, and tandem and group slides, there's plenty to splash into. There are even two kids zones; the Pipeline Plunge and Wiggle Bay.
Address: Dreamworld Parkway, Coomera, QLD 4209
Phone: (07) 5588 1111
Web: http://www.whitewaterworld.com.au
Wet n Wild is the largest waterpark on the Gold Coast. Set next to Movie World, and a sister with Sea World, you can purchase a three park pass for entry to all three theme parks. Wet n Wild is all about the thrill, with steep drops, glow in the dark tunnels and massive double and group slides. There's also the casual Calipso Beach for you to circle around and soak up some sun.
Address: Pacific Highway, Oxenford, QLD 4210
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"In the early days of scientific studies of déjà vu, a psychiatrist named Vernon Neppe defined it concisely as "any subjectively inappropriate impression of familiarity of the present experience with an undefined past."... What is actually new sensory information... is being processed as old sensory information.... It may be mistakenly filed into the lobe that handles long-term memory, or there may be a delay in the visual signal getting sent to the brain. The sensation is a fantastic moment of confusion, where we can't tell if we're being nostalgic or prescient. And like just waking up from a dream, we try desperately to hang on to that disorienting feeling and figure it out, right up until it slips away from us and the lobes reconnect. I've found that my favorite 21st century music does this: confuses the lobes, confounds what is present and what is past into an "inappropriate impression of familiarity of the present with an undefined past." It creates something strikingly unfamiliar."
Of Lopatin with his Ecco jams and R Plus Seven, Stetson with New History Warfare, and Dawn of Midi with Dysnomia, Larson asserts: "by taking little sections of history and spinning them around, a little wobbly like a basketball on the finger, there is a hypnotic and incoherent sense of living in both the present and the past, unstuck in time "
Question: what happens when this approach itself becomes a cliche? (Vaporwave, yes I'm talking about you). When this zone builds up its own history behind it? (Five years since hypnagogic O.1 stirred into being, and hard to believe but we're only year or two from it being a decade since hauntology kicked off!) When time-out-of-joint-iness becomes banalised through repetition and redundancy, to the point where "strikingly unfamiliar" itself becomes a new kind of familiarity? Can this approach go forward, or is "forward" an obsolete concept, an inadmissible desire, in the new conditions?


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Alastair Cook has told his England players he expects them to stand their ground until given out by the umpire.
England and Australia lock horns in the second Ashes Test starting at Lord's on Thursday morning, and Cook gave his backing to controversial Stuart Broad.
Broad failed to walk during England's first Test win when his edged shot was caught at first slip, but went unnoticed by the umpire.
And Cook said: "I wouldn't expect any player to walk."
Cook insists there has been no specific team directive on the subject, but he has made his point of view clear after the dramatic first Test at Trent Bridge:
"I thought it was a very good Test match played tough and hard and you would not expect anything less.
"I am very surprised how much controversy it's caused. I'm surprised, but the most important thing is that both sets of players don't seem too fussed about it."
Cook's stance reflects the differing nature of professional cricketers, with so much at stake, and the club cricketers who have been brought up from childhood to walk when they hit it.
It also reflects the long held view of his mentor Graham Gooch who, when he was captain of England, asked his players not to walk against Australia.
And not even a visit by the Queen to meet both sets of players before the start of play on Thursday will change the hard-nosed approach to the game.
It might increase the level of tension on both sides, but at such an historic ground there is every chance it could serve to inspire the Australians to all new heights.
Until England won in 2009, the Aussies had not been beaten for 75 years at cricket's HQ, but Cook is confident the hoodoo has been lifted for good now.
He added: "Over the last few years our record at Lord's has improved a hell of a lot and it's one of those things we've spoken about as a side.
"I do remember in 2009 speaking about it, the fact we hadn't won against Australia here for a long period of time and it'd be great to change that, now I'm not concerned at all."
Meanwhile, Australia will take a gamble at every turn during the second Test in a bid to level the series.
Skipper Michael Clarke has promised to take the risks that may end up costing him the game on the off-chance that the rewards might include a Test match win.
And he is being backed wholeheartedly by new coach Darren Lehmann, who has galvanised the team through the force of his sheer personality since taking over.
"As a player, he was a leader in the group," said Clarke. "When I was a young player coming in, even though he wasn't vice-captain or captain, he had the respect of everyone.
"He was a great fella, played his cricket very hard on the field, enjoyed his cricket and loves a cold beer - nothing has changed there.
"He has us playing the style of cricket we love playing - the Australian brand. We are going to play his aggressive brand of cricket.
"We are going to try to win at every opportunity and we're going to try to win this Test match.
"Sometimes you are going to lose and you are going to get losses out of that, but I really enjoyed playing with Darren as a young player and I'm enjoying being captain under him as coach."
Clarke is clearly happy under his old team-mate, and he is using other former greats to try to inspire his current team to glory.
Aussie legends Glenn McGrath, Steve Waugh and Shane Warne have all spent time with the team ahead of the Lord's Test and Clarke believes his players owe their privileged positions to their achievements.
"Something I am proud of is bringing past players in around the group," added Clarke. "I think there has been a stage in the Australian cricket team when we have almost forgotten why we do sit where we sit and play this great game.
"We travel the world and fly business class and stay at fantastic hotels and it's certainly not because of what this team has done - it is because of the people who have come before us.
"By allowing these guys to hang around training and back into the group, the players have enjoyed it.
"I know a lot of the guys really enjoyed talking to Glenn McGrath the other night and Steve Waugh was around the group too talking about their experiences at Lord's.
"I've always been proud of the history of the game and I hope when my time is done and I walk away I hope the next generation is just as proud."


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Truss: push on for US to cut farm subsidies
THE United States must give ground on its farm subsidies if the Doha global trade deal is to be revived, the Trade Minister, Warren Truss, has warned on the eve of summit talks on the issue.
Mr Truss said that achieving a successful Doha agreement in the World Trade Organisation would be the main focus of the trade ministers' meeting starting today.
More than 40 trade and foreign ministers will be involved in the talks. The push also comes as crucial WTO negotiations on the stalled Doha deal resumed this week in Geneva.
Mr Truss said agricultural subsidies in the farm bill now going through the US Congress "would be an unhelpful signal" as officials tried to resuscitate the agreement.
"We would like to see the United States make positive steps towards reducing its farm support and that would send a very powerful signal to the rest of the world," he said. "But we also need to move forward on all fronts together. It's unreasonable to expect one country to do all the heavy lifting.
"Yes, we want the US to take action [on] farm subsidies, in relation to its current farm bill and also in relation to the Doha round.
"But at the same time the US has got a right to expect other countries to make appropriate concessions and also address the non-agricultural market access issues, which are also important to concluding the Doha round."
He said that APEC was important to ensuring the success of the round and that it was top of the agenda at today's ministerial discussions.
"We have a key role in providing impetus to the negotiators. If we demonstrate that we remain politically resolved to achieve a good Doha outcome then that will certainly fire up negotiations and ensure that people take a constructive view to the task ahead," he said.
"If there is firm commitment and a vision for what can be achieved then we believe a good outcome is still achievable.
"The most important thing to come out of our discussions is a clear focus and strong statement of support for the Doha round."
The ministers will also discuss ways to break down barriers to trade in the APEC region, including so-called "behind-the-border" barriers, such as complex business regulations and licensing rules, customs red tape and inconsistent product standards.
A survey of 300 Australian exporters by Austrade and DHL has found that a high proportion no longer face significant tariffs, but such behind-the-border barriers remained a serious obstacle to doing business.
Companies surveyed said that streamlining trade regulations and requirements, and removing the irregularities and inconsistencies in rules affecting commerce across borders would be the best way to boost trade in the APEC region.
The survey found that 93 per cent of the companies already expect APEC countries to become their prime export markets in the next five to 10 years.
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In addition to the two Jewish residential camps that serve the Bay Area, any accredited Jewish overnight camp in the U.S. or Canada is eligible for financial assistance. For a list of Jewish overnight camps in the U.S. and Canada, visit jewishcamp.org.
Camps Newman and Tawonga receive block grants, or large dollar amounts, from which to award scholarships based on financial need. Applications are reviewed confidentially and awards determined by each camp's financial aid committee. Applicants will be notified about award decisions directly by the camp.
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I am grieving the loss of my soulmut Tasha Yarr. She began vomiting and could not keep anything down. We went back and forth to the vet and after x-rays and other tests she underwent surgery to look for a blockage in her stomach. After three weeks of not being able to keep anything down, the biopsy came back as a rare form of intestinal lymphoma. We researched the condition and the outcome was very grim. We made the decision not to let her suffer any longer and she was put to sleep on March 12th, 2014.
My heart is broken and I can not bring myself to have another dog. She was cremated and now sits next to her human sister who passed of cancer in 2005.
She is missed by all of us and Sylvester P who was her best kitty bud has not been the same since her passing.
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Economic Development
Mississippl's Urbanist Odyssey
The ravaged Gulf Coast has a rare opportunity to recreate itself. But it has to decide what it wants to look like.
One evening recently, the downtown business owners of Long Beach, Mississippi, met with local elected officials in a cramped school board chamber to talk about urban planning. Just outside in the sticky night, a small village of FEMA trailers was parked on the grass. A few miles away, Jeff Davis Avenue, as close to a Main Street as you'll find in the Gulf Coast sprawl of Long Beach, looked as if Hurricane Katrina had blown through only yesterday. Shells of gutted buildings still stood in some places, but closer to the water, nothing was left but a ragtag army of beaten oak trees and concrete slabs where houses used to stand.
Planner George Carbo started the meeting by describing the sort of downtown that Smart Code, the zoning credo of the New Urbanist planning movement, would make possible. It would encourage exactly the thing that current zoning in Long Beach doesn't allow: compact development along the sidewalk with a mix of shops, restaurants and apartments or condos above them. Joe DeFazio, a member of the Long Beach planning commission, picked up the torch there. "The downtown should be pedestrian-friendly," he said. "We want everyone to park once and walk to several things."
One alderman chimed in that he wanted downtown Long Beach to resemble Paris, at least in terms of its stroll-worthy ambiance. Others suggested models closer to home, such as the French Quarter in New Orleans or Ocean Springs, a quaint Gulf Coast neighbor whose sidewalk boutiques and sushi counters survived Katrina pretty well intact. It was then that a faction of merchants who had been grumbling quietly to themselves finally spoke up. "We aren't those places," one of them shouted. "We live in Long Beach, Mississippi." Another opponent piped up. "The fact is, people don't want to walk," he protested. "It can't happen here."
By the end of the contentious night, the only conclusion was that another meeting with the downtown merchants would be necessary. "You have to buy into this," Mayor Billy Skellie told them, "because you're the ones spending the money to rebuild." For better or worse, there was--and still is--time left for deliberation: Water and sewer lines in this part of the Katrina zone are still broken, and nobody's building anything until they get fixed. So Long Beach has a little while longer to figure out just how it wants to emerge from the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. "When we get water and sewer back in January or February, we oughta be cookin'," the mayor said. "And we better not still be talking about a plan then."
It's been an intense and tiring year of urban planning in Long Beach, as it has been up and down the Mississippi coast. The planning odyssey began just three weeks after the August 29 storm, when Governor Haley Barbour appointed a blue-ribbon commission charged with recommending how to build back "bigger and better." Then in October, Miami architect Andres Duany and a cabal of town designers descended on the Gulf Coast at the Republican governor's unexpected invitation. What ensued was a week-long planning session--a "charette," in the parlance of New Urbanism--intended, as Barbour put it, to "illuminate the choices" local governments face for starting over. The forum produced sprawl-busting plans for each of Mississippi's 11 coastal communities, filtering everything from transportation to zoning rules through a soft-focus lens of walkability and old-fashioned town-planning values.
In Long Beach, a few points of genuine consensus emerged. Hardly any of the 16,000 residents (2,000 fewer than before Katrina) wanted to follow the path of nearby Gulf Shores, Alabama, or Fort Walton Beach, Florida, where sterile rows of hi-rise condos swarm the waterfront. Nor were many comfortable with the vision unfolding just up the road in Biloxi, Mississippi, which is poised to emerge as an even bigger gambling destination than it was, a sort of southern Las Vegas with golf, sport fishing and humidity to go along with the heat.
But it's a lot easier for a bedroom community such as Long Beach to agree on what it wants to avoid than on what it wishes to embrace. And so what's happening now is the hard part: translating visions and concerns into real public policies that respect what was lost and special--antebellum mansions, for example--while re-shaping what wasn't so special--fast-food joints surrounded by parking lots.
The difficulty isn't just that Mississippi is trying to think unconventionally. It's also that one year after the storm, the adrenaline of crisis has worn off and frustration is settling in. In Mississippi alone, more than 100,000 people still live in cramped tin- can trailers. Not as much rebuilding is happening as most people had hoped to see by now. Meanwhile, local governments face a looming property tax crisis: For the first time next year, the tax rolls will reflect the loss of almost every building on the state's most valuable waterfront land.
"Time is moving too fast, and time is moving too slow," says Alison Anderson, a Gulf Coast architect. "Too slow because we don't yet have guidance documents and regulatory actions that will help us rebuild in the way we want. And too fast because developers are taking advantage of this and moving quickly to get stuff done before regulations come into play that will limit their options. It's an age-old issue: Who will build first and worst?"
There's a popular storyline about Mississippi's response to Katrina that some people on the Gulf Coast are tired of hearing. It's that Mississippi handled the storm and its aftermath with exceptional competence, and that Haley Barbour, a former Washington lobbyist and a confidant of President Bush, used his capitol connections to snag a generous relief package for his state. There's truth to both of those statements, and the smattering of "now open" signs in front of a few hotels along U.S. 90, the beachfront highway, are symbols of hope. But the recovery is really just starting. In some places, there's still debris to pick up. "I have family in Atlanta and Charlotte, and they're like, 'Everything's fine now, right?'" says Ellis Anderson, a coastal development watchdog who lives in the decimated town of Bay St. Louis. "People don't have a clue. The media's over it, they figure we're all back to normal. We're so many years away from normal it's not funny."
For the first time, Long Beach, Biloxi and other Gulf Coast towns are being forced to reckon with the unfortunate realities of their location in a hurricane shooting gallery. Whatever they decide they want to look like in the years ahead, they're forced to make choices that involve either pulling back from the coast or at least acknowledging the dangers of building in a hazardous location.
The hardest thing for many to come to grips with is that some people simply can't come back to the places where they once lived. One reason is because FEMA, which underwrites the national flood insurance program, is pushing to mitigate damage from future hurricanes. Using data on how Katrina's storm surge washed over the landscape, FEMA is drawing new maps showing where rebuilt structures must be elevated to storm-safe heights in order to qualify for flood insurance--and mortgages.
In particularly low-lying parts of the Gulf Coast, FEMA's preliminary maps suggest that anyone who wants to come back will have to live atop pilings as high as 17 feet. "Down here, we've got a lot of 80-, 85- year-old ladies," says George Lawrence, a Biloxi councilman who represents parts of the flattened peninsula east of that city's downtown. "They can't walk up 25 steps six times a day. People can't live like this."
Councilman Lawrence, who survived Hurricane Camille in 1969, thinks the federal government is overreacting. "If you're going to make this big change to protect everyone living near the water, then start at Brownsville, Texas, and run all the way along the coastline to New York," Lawrence argues. In fact, however, state officials in Mississippi are backing FEMA on this one. "If people choose to live in an exposed area, they have to recognize there's a cost associated with it," says Leland Speed, Mississippi's top economic development official. "We can't keep looking to the American taxpayer to pick up the tab." And so, as they contemplate their future, towns such as Long Beach and Biloxi must factor in not only what they want to become but what the federal and state governments will allow them to become.
If Mississippi turns even a little of its coastal sprawl into a New Urbanist experiment, the transformation will owe much to Leland Speed and to his chance encounter with a book. Back in 2004, Speed was doing some Christmas shopping. While waiting to check out at a bookstore, he grabbed a copy of Andres Duany's New Urbanist manifesto, "Suburban Nation," flipped through it and bought it on a whim. Speed was a real estate developer before Barbour asked him to run the Mississippi Development Authority, and Duany's ideas about returning to traditional town planning rather than unplanned sprawl appealed to him. He later bought 50 copies and began handing them out to mayors around Mississippi.
So Speed was already convinced when, after Katrina, a Jackson architect asked him if he would be interested in having Duany come to Mississippi. Duany met with Speed and Jim Barksdale, the Netscape software entrepreneur whom Barbour had tapped to run his rebuilding commission. "Barksdale had to be sold on it," Speed recalls. "We all got together--he and Duany bonded. Then we went in to see the governor. He'd never heard of a charette. But he said, 'Barksdale, if you and Speed are for it, I guess I'm for it, too.'"
The October charette brought together 200 New Urbanist planners, local architects and designers, elected officials and citizens from each of the 11 coastal communities to draw up plans for each town. Casino and condo developers were not invited, in order to prevent them from dominating the discussion. Some who were involved now believe that was a mistake. That's because Biloxi, whose size (more than 50,000 prior to Katrina) makes it crucial to the coast's future, never took the New Urbanists seriously.
Biloxi did hold its own local planning sessions and brought in Living Cities, a New York-based firm, to sketch a vision for what a neighborhood built to FEMA's elevations might look like. That plan, which the city council is considering, leaves the lowest-lying areas as park land and proposes dense blocks of mid-rise housing that might have to stand atop one or two decks of parking.
But the dominant presence in Biloxi will be a crescent of casinos ringing the waterfront. The Mississippi legislature passed a law allowing coastal casinos to move from barges onto dry land, as far as 800 feet in from the water. The law, which may do more to shape Biloxi's future than any urban planning work, kicked off a flurry of land-buying as the old casinos build back on shore and new entrants plan large-scale casino resorts. According to Mayor A.J. Holloway, "Biloxi will have 18 to 20 casinos in five or 10 years."
With the exception of Biloxi, however, all of the cities built upon the October forum by inviting the New Urbanists back. To further refine the plans, they held more charettes--so many, in fact, that some weary local officials who have grown tired of all the meetings now call them "bull-charettes." But many are sold on the idea of using Katrina as an opportunity to make a clean break with suburban sprawl. Almost all are at some stage of adopting the Smart Code.
In Gulfport, where Katrina demolished several blocks of downtown buildings and hollowed out many more, Mayor Brent Warr beams when showing off the city's waterfront plans. The idea is to anchor a dense new grid of condos around a new park and harbor. The plan also makes way for rebuilding one of Gulfport's two wrecked casinos as a pedestrian draw but looks to Monte Carlo for inspiration rather than Las Vegas. Warr admits that he's "charetted-out," but says Gulfport's plans are already drawing interest from developers. "It's working," Warr says. "It's the harder path, that's for sure. It's the longer path. People get frustrated waiting for you to show something. But I think it'll keep us from ruining ourselves in our redevelopment. It'll give us an opportunity to come back as something far better than we'd ever dreamed."
In Ocean Springs, the least-damaged town on Mississippi's coast, New Urbanism was an easy sell. That's because there's still enough old urbanism left under the shady oaks of Washington Avenue for people to understand the goal of all the planning work. Mayor Connie Moran is focusing much of her attention on the town's main thoroughfare, U.S. 90, whose four lanes of traffic are currently a racetrack lined with strip malls and drive-thrus. The town recently passed stringent design guidelines that Moran says will reshape the highway's character over time by forcing parking to the rear of buildings and requiring high- quality landscaping and building materials. "Ocean Springs is fiercely protective of its historic character," Moran says. "We don't wish to adopt a growth pattern that just puts us in the ubiquitous realm of tacky urban sprawl."
Moran lost her highest-profile fight, however. Katrina wasted the bridge that had connected Ocean Springs to Biloxi along U.S. 90. It was a narrow four-lane span, and after the storm, the Mississippi Department of Transportation proposed super-sizing it to six lanes plus four breakdown lanes. Moran appealed for a smaller bridge, arguing that the plan would undermine the pedestrian-friendly environment Ocean Springs was trying so hard to cultivate. In the end, MDOT agreed to include a biking and walking path and to add design touches intended to make the big bridge more aesthetically pleasing. But the New Urbanists still call it "bridgezilla."
"It turns our community into a speedway to the casinos," says Moran. "Their mission is to move people," she says of MDOT. "Our mission is to build places."
Long Beach hasn't taken to New Urbanism with quite the same gusto as some of its neighbors. That's because none of the local elected leaders have emerged as disciples of the movement in quite the way Moran and Warr have. It's also because Long Beach is having a harder time wrestling with competing notions of what sort of a place it really wants to be.
Part of Long Beach's identity problem is its location. To the east sit Gulfport and Biloxi, as big and workaday as cities get on the Mississippi coast. To the west are the retirement, resort and artist communities of Pass Christian, Bay St. Louis and Waveland. In a weird way, Katrina's aftermath mirrored this divide. The resort towns were so completely obliterated that they have no choice but to start over from scratch. Meanwhile, fiscal stability in the bigger cities-- Gulfport's sales taxes are soaring and Biloxi's gaming revenues are rebounding nicely--gives them room to breathe.
By contrast, Long Beach was neither unlucky enough to be completely destroyed nor fortunate enough to be saved by a diversified economy. Next year, when the property-tax rolls reflect the loss of just about every structure located within 1,000 feet of the Gulf of Mexico, Long Beach will lose about $2 million in revenue from its $9 million annual budget. "It's very critical," says Mayor Billy Skellie. "As far as a solution goes, I have none. I don't know what we're gonna do to backfill it. We'll have to do all we can to make it work, and I don't have all the answers."
Alderman Allen Holder thinks he has an answer: He wants to put a casino on the city's most prime waterfront lot. Long Beach "not only has to do something," Holder says, "but it has to be something that gives us a quick hit." If there is one thing Katrina proved, it is that casinos may be the most resilient industry to site in a hurricane zone, if only because they have the cash and the incentive to hustle back to business. That's not something that people who loathe gambling like to hear. But the proof from Biloxi is hard to ignore: One casino there had reopened by Christmas and seven are back in operation now. Holder says that a Long Beach casino "could be a place for locals who don't want to get down in the concrete jungle of Biloxi."
Long Beach voters rejected casinos in 1993 by a 2-to-1 margin and have stayed cold to them ever since. It seems that Katrina changed a lot of minds. When Holder put a referendum on the ballot endorsing a casino in June, it won with 55 percent of the vote. The gambling question remains controversial, however. Some aldermen remain opposed to gambling, as does Mayor Skellie. Some doubt that a lone casino would want to locate so far from the action in Biloxi. The casino plan led the Sun Herald to editorialize that "Long Beach is stumbling into the future rather than planning for it."
Still, the urban planning process is going on, just on a separate track. In February, a citizen-driven steering committee invited the New Urbanists who had previously worked with Long Beach back for another charette. Additional hearings all summer long refined a proposed master plan that envisioned a revived Jeff Davis Avenue terminating at a new park on the Gulf. The draft plan foresees mid- rise condos as a waterfront hub around the park, stepping gradually back down to the single-family houses with yards that are the suburban norm here. A version of Smart Code, calibrated to the streets and architecture of Long Beach, would guide developers to see the plan through.
In Holder's view, a casino resort is completely compatible with the traditionalist visions that the New Urbanists have come up with for Long Beach. "We can build in a way where you know it's a casino, but there's not the glitz," Holder says. "We can coexist with gaming and still maintain our small-town charm." Mike Barbera, pastor of the Church of the Good Shepherd, disagrees. "There used to be a lushness here: the oaks, the azaleas, the antebellum mansions," he says. "I'm concerned Long Beach will become like Las Vegas."
As the downtown merchants' response to the Smart Code showed, Long Beach has a way to go. One business owner characterized the whole effort as "people from the outside telling us what we can and can't do with our property." Jacqui Lipski, a citizen volunteer on the local steering committee, disagreed with him. She countered that the community as a whole had to make decisions about the use of its land because so many properties had been wiped clean. "People have three choices," she said. "They can leave their properties the way they are. They can rebuild. Or they can sell."
That's the cold calculus of redevelopment everywhere. But urban planning is an emotional business. It's even more volatile in a place where so many people have lost their homes and businesses, and where there are still more questions than answers about what comes next. Many have said that Katrina created a "blank slate" upon which a new Gulf Coast could be drawn. It is, in fact, quite a messy slate, cluttered not just with title deeds but also with memories of places that were loved despite their flaws--perhaps even more now that they are gone. Mayor Skellie understands this as well as anyone. "It's hard in the United States," he acknowledges, "and in Southern Mississippi, to shove anything down people's throats."
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Good evening from the state that confounds easy answers on gun control. Well, of course here in Vermont we can carry anything concealed or not, but here I am anyway, from the state where you can carry anything and I don't have to.
I was referred here in a quest for some honest information about statistics which I suspect (if they exist at all) will be known to someone here. Since I'm not personally particularly interested in handguns, and since if I ever did want to carry one I'd just go to the gun shop, buy one and carry it home, I doubt I will be hanging out a great deal on this forum, but I look forward to conversing with some informed folks who can help me in my search for information.
Since I'm not sure just what subsection my question should go in, I hope it is not amiss to introduce it here, and if necessary perhaps someone can steer me in the right direction, or a moderator can move it where it belongs. So here it is:
On another unrelated forum discussion, the question comes up, whether it's wise to keep a gun in the bedroom. Many interesting posts occur, polite debate occurs, etc., and then up rears that old statement: if a criminal breaks in, you're more likely to be killed with your own gun. It seems that the so called Kellermann study is responsible for this statement, despite the fact that, even flawed as it is, it doesn't actually say that. So anyway, what I'm looking for is any kind of Kellermann-like study that actually, honestly, and with reasonable scientific and statistical rigor, affirms or rebuts that statement properly.
What I'd really like to see is a study limited to crimes outside the family - burglaries and home invasions, etc. , that more or less says "if a criminal attacks you and you have a gun in the house, A percent of the time victims will be disarmed and killed, B percent of the time the victim will deter the crime in some way with the gun, C percent of the time the gun won't be a factor at all, D percent of the time something else happens (victim loses gunfight, cops arrive on time, victim loses gun and kills attacker with sword, etc. etc.)."
Can anybody point me in the direction of some good statistics, so we can drive a stake through that old "43 percent more likely" nonsense?
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The Medical Transcription Certificate is an 18 credit hour program that trains students to trascribe, proofread, and edit medical, surgical, radiological, and pathological reports dictated by physicians and other ancillary disciplines to produce a legal medical document. Career options are in medical transcription, medical transcription editor, healthcare documentation specialist, and medical scribe.
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Students must complete 50% of the required credit hours for a certificate in residence at IU Southeast.
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In addition to the IU Southeast Certificate Residency Requirement (minimum of 50% of total credits), students completing the Certificate in Healthcare Documentation are required to complete the following courses in residence at IU Southeast: AHLT-M109 & AHLT-M102.
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If the 99 established Saab as a thoroughly modern car manufacturer, with its four-stroke engine and aerodynamic shape, it was the 1978 99 Turbo that cemented the brand's image as a builder of performance cars. Sure, a small contingent of Scandinavian rally kings could drive those smoky early Saabs to motorsports fame, but to the common public Saabs were just perceived as awkward little novelties. The 99 Turbo put the small Swedish builder on the radar for good.
In a 1977 road test of the Turbo, Car and Driver's Patrick Bedard noted that previous Saabs were "the stuff of legends — boring legends, mostly." He also noted their heated seats, high ground clearance, and wide-window defrosters. "Because everybody knows that Saabs are great for cold weather, but according to conventional wisdom, not much else." But then the 99 Turbo came along and "Saab jumped out of its pigeonhole."
The 99 aficionados among you will know that of the 4233 99 Turbos sold in the U.S. before the 900 Turbo was introduced the following year, each and every one was a three-door hatch. You'll also notice that the one you see here is most definitely not. No, this particular car is one of just four notchback 99 Turbo sedans brought into the U.S. as early test cars, part of an overall fleet of forty 99 Turbos.
Paul Rossi was the original driver for this unusual subject, "Test Car 934" as it was known. Records show that Rossi drove the car for 17,909 miles, but the maintenance log found inside the car indicates it was used from 1977 until the end of 1982, at which point it fell off the map after 55,000 miles of service. Years later, the unique car was discovered lying in pieces in a northern New Jersey garage.
That's when Rich Kushner of Swedish Motors, Inc. in Marietta, Pennsylvania, came along. He saved the rare 99 and brought it to his restoration shop where it was reassembled and brought back to its original brilliance by Ken "Kaner" Peiffer, his co-worker at SMI. That's where we caught up with the car and its current owners.
We must say, this car is truly fantastic. Sure, the three-door's hatchback rear end was iconic and cool, but this two-door sedan's swoopy c-pillar and trunk line is a thing of beauty as well. Approaching the car, it's easy to appreciate the quality of the rebuild. The immaculate Cardinal Red paint is pure 1970s funky and perfectly complements the wild burgundy interior with tweedy-looking tan floormats. The rest of the car seems pristinely original with a slight patina, such as the wear on the sport leather steering wheel, which keeps this historical car in that sweet spot between museum piece and driver.
Climbing into #934, we're immediately greeted by that 'old Euro car smell' — the distinct odor of '70s-era plastic, vinyl and carpet. The scent really takes us back to another time. So do the funky, period-typical trimmings, such as the wedge-shaped inner door pulls and the hookless seat belts that must be laid and locked into snapping jaws. Having just read Bedard's C/D review, it's easy to see how journalists of the time could appreciate the clean, no bullshit design of this car, both inside and out. As visitors thirty-three years from the future, we wish that the cabins of some modern cars took the same less-is-more approach as the 99 Turbo.
Saab also took a modern, sophisticated strategy with the new turbo engine's design. The few turbo cars of the era, including Porsche's early 911 Turbos, used wastegate systems that measured a predetermined intake manifold pressure to hold boost at its peak. This was the more obvious approach and the result was engine behavior that was a bit more of a wild ride, a crescendo of power that peaked right before the engine was ready to blow.
The 99 Turbo instead used a new AiResearch turbocharger that worked with the car's Bosch fuel injection and new-for-the-era emissions control system to measure exhaust backpressure. Taking this approach, the 99 Turbo was tuned not for peak power, but for more low-end torque and characteristics more in line with what customers of the day expected from naturally aspirated engines. Power peaks relatively early in the 99 Turbo, and then holds steady in the middle before falling off completely near redline. This made the 99 Turbo a better driving car than other early turbocharged sports cars, and it also helped the car manage a quarter-mile time that was a half-second (17.5 at 81.9 mph) better than the normal four-cylinder 99.
Despite all this, driving the 99 Turbo is not the lag-free experience that description might imply. Keep in mind that only in the past few years have some manufacturers come close to reaching the dream world of imperceptible turbochargers. Of this we are soon reminded. As we reach down between the seats and turn the key, the old 99 protests just a bit until we coax a breath out of her with a slight stab of the throttle. There's just a hint of smoke and then she's purring like a cougar. In a couple minutes she's warmed up, and we mash the rightmost pedal of the 99 Turbo test car. Boost builds steadily, but serious acceleration doesn't really happen until around 3500 rpm. Going into second and eventually third, the shifter is surprisingly direct and somewhat crisp given its age. The transmission's four gears are well matched to the engine's characteristics. The Turbo's gearing was in fact stretched a bit from the standard car's in an effort to maintain boost in acceleration. Each time the throttle snaps shut for a shift, the turbocharger loses its steamy head of exhaust flow. By allowing the driver to shift less frequently, Saab's engineers bypassed, as best they could, this drawback. The car feels quick taken in context of its era, though today it would be left in the dust of many family sedans. Such is progress.
While the rarity of this 99's silhouette makes our short drive feel particularly special, we're left with an even deeper understanding of just how important the production-spec 99 Turbo was in the 1978 world of motoring. At the time, vehicles offering practicality, safety, comfort, economy and performance all in one package were especially rare. Until the Turbo came along the 99 had most, but not all, of those qualities. As Bedard concluded, ""It comes as something of a shock to all of us to discover that safe, sane, snow-proof Saab now has fetched up a model that'll get second-gear rubber and double the double-nickel any day of the week." Thirty-some years later Saab is still doing it, though a notchback turbo is no longer the rarity it once was.


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How Dummies Take Photographs...Pin It
If you have taken my classes, or are in the midst of one, you understand that I am not a professional photographer...at ALL...but these are some very simple basic guidelines that can help you take a decent picture to use in your home decor.
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In order to take a decent picture, you have to account for three basics:
Light: Turn your flash off and get the best lighting effect without over lighting.
Angle: Make sure your subject is engaged in the photograph. Rule of Thirds.
Depth: Get close, but don't get blurry.
In this photograph, the opposite has happened - the subject has too much light from this angle and there it too much of a glare.
This is the correct amount of light. There is enough to illuminate the details without causing a glare.
This is Thor with no flash, but without good natural light as well.
This is Thor without flash, taking advantage of the natural light.
In this photograph, the subject is not engaged in the picture. Do you notice where he is looking?
Notice how the two different angles of the exact same subject give completely different looks.
There is a decent shot.
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The annual Oddville Alumni dinner will be held on May 25 at the Cynthiana Christian Church Fellowship Hall. Gathering will commence at 4:30 p.m. and dinner will be served at 6 p.m. Anyone who attended Oddville School or has an affection for it is invited to attend. A hot catered buffet dinner is $18 per person served by Layne Tussey of "The Vault Catering." Payments are required by May 20, 2013.
Last year I spent some time rejuvenating, if you will, our 'Miss Kim' lilac.
It had gone years without any maintenance pruning, just never making the priority list for chores out at the farm.
Although "Miss Kim" is considered a dwarf variety and needs less maintenance, it was in need of some serious reduction.
Last spring after the shrub finished blooming, I removed about one-third of the oldest wood, which resulted in new growth so this year the lilac looks great.
Elizabeth Joy Serhal, daughter of Al and Patty Serhal of Forston, Ga., and Duncan Tyler Bell, son of Justin and Connie Bell, announce their engagement and forthcoming marriage.
The wedding will take place May 18, 2013 at 3:30 p.m. at Grace Christian Church, Georgetown, Ky. The reception will follow at the home of Sherry and Steve Judy, aunt and uncle of the groom in Cynthiana, Ky. Formal invitations have been sent.
Serhal is a 2012 graduate of Kentucky Christian University with a major in education. She is employed with Hands on Originals in Lexington.
Pam Whalen and the late Bobby Whalen announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Tracy Whalen, to Steven Galde, son of Karen and Brad Galde. The wedding will take place May 25, 2013 at 5:30 p.m. at Union Baptist Church. The reception will follow at the Elks Lodge.
Whalen and Galde are both graduates of Harrison County High School.
Whalen is employed by Community Action Council in Cynthiana. She is the granddaughter of the late Nevel and Adenna Williams, and Birdie Whalen and the late Elbert (Hub) Whalen.
The Harrison Memorial Hospital (HMH) Auxiliary held its annual Spring volunteer luncheon on Friday, April 19. Thirty members attended the event. Featured guest speakers were HMH Ears, Nose and Throat Specialist Dr. Dan Mongiardo and HMH Physical Therapist Paul Horne. They discussed dizziness and the newly established vestibular/balance clinic offered at HMH.
Gracie Ann Hicks was born to Brittany Lynn Perry and Brandon Scott Hicks of Berry, Ky., on March 22, 2013 at Harrison Memorial Hospital.
She weighed 6 lbs. 11 oz.
Maternal grandparents are Michael and Phyllis Perry of Berry.
Paternal grandparents are Dawn Fairchild and Kevin Hicks.
The annual Oddville Alumni dinner will be held May 25 at the Cynthiana Christian Church fellowship hall. Gathering will commence at 4:30 p.m. and dinner will be served at 6. Anyone who attended Oddville School or has an affection for it is invited to attend. A catered buffet dinner is $18 per person served by Layne Tussey of "The Vault Catering." Payments are required by May 20. Scholarships are awarded each year. They began with a bequest by Edith Munson and continued through contributions.
Henry and Janet Mogler will celebrate their 70th wedding anniverary on May 8. They were married May 8, 1943.
Henry almost did not make the wedding as his leave from the Navy was delayed. Thankfully he did make it and the newlyweds spent the first years of marriage stationed in Washington DC. They now both reside at Dover Manor Nursing Home in Georgetown.
Henry, Janet and family invite you to help them celebrate on Saturday, May 11 from 4-6 p.m. at Dover Manor. Please shower them with cards and memories.
* Cynthiana Democrat, May 1876 -- "Harrison Hotel, Main Street, opposite Court House, Cynthiana, Henry C. Nebel, Proprietor. The attention of the public is invited to this house, which is furnished in excellent style and the table supplied with the best the market affords...Thankful to the public for past patronage, a continuance of the same is respectfully solicited."
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Foreign film showing Thurs. May 21
May 21, 2009
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Decorah Public Library is hosting a free public screening of the award-winning, unrated Belgian film "Ben X" Thursday May 21 at 6:30 pm in the 2nd floor Mezzanine Gallery.
About Ben X: "Ben is a bit different. His life is full of strange rituals, and a mild form of autism prevents normal communication with others. As a result, he often seems to be living in another universe- while he is a courageous hero in the computer gaming world that consumes him, Ben is tormented by classmates and ignored by apathetic teachers in his daily life. As the bullies' relentless attacks push him over the edge and out of control, his online dreamgirl, Scarlite, steps in to help him devise a perfect plan to make them pay for their persecution. Director Nic Balthazar's dazzling debut blends fantasy and harsh social realism to create an unforgettable film."
Ben X is not recommended for children. Parents with questions about the film's suitability for teens are encouraged to contact event organizer Kristin Torresdal at 382-3717 for more information or to preview the film.


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This Week In Brand Strategy And Marketing
PSFK curates some of the brand strategy, digital and creative advertising news catching our attention.
Here is a look at some standout business strategy, brand-building and communications stories that caught our attention last week.
Discussions Shaping Brand Strategy, Creativity & Innovation
- Steve Jobs: 1955 – 2011
- Marketing in Steve Jobs' Own Words
- The Myth of Common Sense: Why the Social World is Less Obvious Than It Seems
- Designers Are the New Drivers of American Entrepreneurialism
- The Mobile Behaviors of Americans
- What Happened to Downtime? The Extinction of Deep Thinking and Sacred Space
- The Culture of Luxury: Brand Packaging
- The Creative Process Visualized (Infographic)
- Welcome to the Age of Micro-Planning (is account planning headed downstream?)
- The Future of Retail: The Destination is You (on location vs. contextual opportunity)
- In Business, Fail Fast and Often
- The Creative Brain on Exercise
- Don't Be Afraid of Beta
Notable Ideas: New Products, Platforms, Projects and Services
- The Future of Global (Mobile) Connectivity
- Seven Disruptive Innovations That Turned Their Markets Upside Down
- Apple Has 1,000 Engineers Working on Chips for the Post-PC Era
- Subscription Service Startups Are the Hot New Thing
- Bjork's 'Biophilia': an interactive musical experience via iPad app
- FanBridge's Social Digest (bridging the gap between social media and e-mail)
- Travelogic
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- Lexicon Branding Power (or the power of a brand name)
- NY Times Personality Quiz (VisualDNA for more targeted marketing)
- What Makes Burberry a Best Global Brand?
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- Dalai Lama Hosts Google Plus Hangout
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- Is Dropbox Really the World's 5th Most Valuable Startup?
- Instagram: Now Adding 25 Photos and 90 Likes Every Second
- The iPhone 4s Is On track to be Apple's Fastest-Selling Device Ever
- Oh the Ways This New iPhone Will Completely (and not) Change Your Life
- Apple Will Soon Face Two Big Challenges
- An Overview of the New Facebook Insights
- How the 10 Most Popular Facebook Brands Rank by Engagement
- Thanks to Facebook, Spotify is Skyrocketing
- Google Puts Up $100Million for Professional YouTube Content
- Hulu's 'Ad Swap' Puts Users in Control of What Ads To Watch
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The reviews are in! S.E. Cupp's Losing Our Religion "skips the facts in arguing against evolution"
Blog ››› ››› KARL FRISCH
Next week, right-wing commentator S.E. Cupp's new book, Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media's Attack on Christianity (Threshold Editions - April 2010), will be released complete with a foreword by Fox News host Mike Huckabee.
The Washington Post asked the National Center for Science Education's Joshua Rosenau "to weigh in on Cupp's scholarship" on the issue of evolution. Given Cupp's track record of misinformation on a variety of issues, it isn't surprising that Rosenau had plenty to take issue with on the subject. The highlights:
S.E. Cupp's handling of science and religion misrepresents the nature of evolution, obscures the science of biology, and dismisses the deeply-held religious views of most Christians outside of the fundamentalist subculture. This is the sort of misrepresentation which leads her to concoct an anti-Christian conspiracy on the part of reporters, and - bizarrely - to say that Darwin is "quite literally the Anti Christ" for liberals.
Cupp presents evolution -- and science more generally -- as the enemy of religion. Reporters' "propping up of science," she writes, is an "attack on Christianity." If anything, it is Cupp's approach which insults Christians. Research detailed in Elaine Ecklund's forthcoming "Science vs. Religion," shows that many scientists are religious themselves and do not generally regard science and religion as enemies.
On top of misrepresenting the nature of science and the nature of religion, Cupp's coverage does violence not just to the science of evolution, but to the public's expectations of science journalists and science teachers. She misreports recent history and legal proceedings. She twists math itself to claim that 44 percent is "not a minority."
She concludes by complaining that "the liberal media is not interested in acknowledging our nation as a deeply religious one," and repeats her claim that evolution is a weapon used to attack Christians.
Whether our nation is or isn't "deeply religious" does not change what science is or how it works, and does not change the century and a half of meticulous research which has convinced scientists that evolution is essential to biology and biology education.
And that my friends, is a review of just one chapter.
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Hi all, Just bought a 2004 xlr with no xm radio. There is no U2k code. the only thing i see is the wire harness behind center rear consol.
I want to try to put an aftermarket SIRGM1 system.
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Question two is do you thing this new system is all i need
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Azeri mobile operator Bakcell has announced that it is fully prepared to introduce mobile number portability (MNP), which enables a subscriber to retain their phone number if they switch service provider. The cellco said it plans to launch the service as soon as it receives the go-ahead from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT). We are ready to start today but this is a service that all operators must launch together so we are forced to wait for the other operators, said Bakcell CEO Richard Shearer, adding: We have invested significant time and money into the development of MNP and in meeting compliance issues with the MCIT. Our systems are technically ready and have passed internal acceptance tests. Bakcell is sure that MNP will increase competition in Azerbaijans mobile communication market and is very committed to the introduction of MNP. Bakcell is Azerbaijans second largest mobile operator by subscribers, according to TeleGeographys GlobalComms Database. The cellco had a market share of 30.2% at the end of June 2012, compared to market leader Azercells 47.2% share, but ahead of Azerfon with 22.6%.
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Escapee from Bedford Heights jail caught
(Bedford Heights) -- Police are investigating Monday morning's brief escape of an inmate from the Bedford Heights jail, who was captured only an hour after he got out.
Bedford Heights police chief Michael Marotta tells WTAM 1100 that at about 6:15 Monday morning, 21-year-old inmate Perry Johnson of Cleveland overpowered a female corrections during breakfast, then ran out a side door of the jail.
Tracking dogs were used to help determine that Johnson ran into a wooded area near a school, about 300 yards from the jail. Once Johnson was found about 7:15 a.m., he surrendered without incident and was returned to the Bedford Heights jail.
Johnson was being held at the Bedford Heights jail for the U.S. Marshal's service. U.S. Marshal Pete Elliot says Johnson is awaiting trial for bank robbery.
Chief Marotta says the corrections guard was taken to the Bedford Medical Center for treatment, and that a full investigation is underway as to how Johnson was able to break free.
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