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The other day we learned Hyundai aims to build 1,000 Fuel Cell Vehicles (FCVs) beginning this year, and some of you wondered what GM was doing in this arena while a few answered "no" and others said "yes" to the question in the headline, "is hydrogen the future?"
According to GM, regarding fuel cell technology it pioneered in 1968 and present day iterations it says ought to be production ready by 2015-16, the answer is actually a qualified "yes."
So then what does GM have to announce? Actually nothing at the moment, but GM's Randy Fox, manager, Electric Vehicle Technology Communications said things are proceeding with two hydrogen fuel cell projects, one announced in September 2006, begun in October 2007; the other was announced May 2010 and got started February this year.
Begun in 2007, Project Driveway is the largest-ever fuel cell demonstration fleet and has involved as many as 119 de-badged converted Chevy Equinox FCVs in the hands of private citizens and agencies in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. and internationally, that have now accumulated over 2.5 million miles.
"There are roughly 100 Fuel Cell Equinox's still in-service," said Fox yesterday. "Mainly in the U.S. and a few in Europe and Japan."
When Car & Driver did an update in March 2010 on Project Driveway, the miles racked up were estimated at 1.2 million, so they've been busy with their data acquisition.
The other FCV project is in conjunction with the U.S. Pacific Command and the Hawaii Hydrogen Initiative (H2I) which we reported in February this year.
"In addition to 'Project Driveway,' GM is also involved in the H2I initiative," said Fox. "GM announced in May 2010 that it has a memorandum of understanding with The Gas Company in Hawaii to cooperate on a fueling infrastructure on the island that would take hydrogen from key points along The Gas Company's 1,100-mile synthetic natural gas pipeline for use as transportation fuel for fuel cell vehicles."
This project has begun with similar Chevy FCVs being paid for by the Army Tank Automotive Research Development Engineering Center (TARDEC), Office of Naval Research and Air Force Research Laboratories (ONR) and Air Force Research Laboratories (AFRL).
As equipped, they can travel up to 200 miles on a single charge, refuel in five minutes and produce zero emissions. They could also lead to tactical vehicles later, as the military is keen on sustainable hardware that has the extra added bonus of independence from vulnerable fuel supply chains.
Other drivers for fuel cell technology include mandates by the California Air Resources Board, Corporate Average Fuel Economy rules and European legislation. These, you know, are pushing for energy security and emission reductions.
Political and technological constraints notwithstanding, GM (and its FCV partner BMW – which by the way is also working with Toyota) is not alone with fuel cell irons in the fire as efforts are also underway by some of the other usual OE players, including (as mentioned) Toyota, Hyundai, Honda, Nissan, and Daimler.
While GM has not announced a production fuel cell program, and "will not speculate" when it will, we may be hearing something in the next couple years or so given one definitive statement.
"We do believe fuel cells can be commercialized by 2015/2016 time frame, in limited quantities, in specific geographic regions where refueling infrastructures exist," Fox said.
But while we hear GM talk middle of this decade – along with other OEs – is hydrogen really "the future?"
It has a future, but we're not there yet, are we?
Really, GM's hydrogen fuel cell effort for now could be seen as fitting the "all-of-the-above" approach that includes moves toward natural gas, all-electric, and extended-range electric, not to mention higher-tech ICE vehicles that will also be made as squeaky clean as possible in years to come.
As for fuel cells, GM's Honeoye Falls Fuel Cell Facility in Haneoye Falls, NY is an epicenter for GM's move toward overcoming the chicken and egg issues involving FCVs.
"Given the depth and breath of GM, these cars were designed and developed globally," said Fox. "Honeoye Falls was instrumental in the development of the fuel cell system that went into the Project Driveway cars."
We're presuming Honeoye Falls' was also involved in the H2I cars, as it has quite the resume. Its two buildings comprise 160,000 square-feet; the campus was opened in 1999 and is dedicated to battery and fuel cell research, development and prototyping.
Two facilities make up the Honeoye Falls, Battery and Fuel Cell Campus with on site capability for materials development and integration, engineering development, controls and software development, as well as prototyping of complete battery and fuel cell systems
There GM's more than 360 employees presently earning around $29 million in annual wages are building on the company's proud R&D legacy that it would like to ultimately see pay off.
Record of Technology Leadership
• 1968 World's first operational fuel cell powered vehicle
• 1997 First GM fuel cell vehicle propulsion concept – Geneva Motor Show
• 1998 First GM drivable fuel cell vehicle (methanol powered) – Paris Motor Show
• 2000 First GM direct hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (FCEV) Set 15 endurance and speed records
• 2001 World's first FCEV with full functionality
• 2004 Introduced Fuel Cell Stack with best in class power density
• 2006 FCEV to demonstrate 300 mile range in real world driving conditions
• 2007 Project Driveway Launch – World's Largest Market Test of Hydrogen FCEV
• 2008 All 119 Project Driveway Vehicles on the road globally
• 2009 Project Driveway Accumulates first million miles in real world driving with real customers
• 2010 GM Introduces Next Gen technology power module – reduced weight, volume and cost
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• 1990 – GM began working on hydrogen fuel cell technology at Los Alamos National Lab until 1996
• 1996 – 1999 GM group moved to Metro Park facility in Rochester, NY
• 1999 – Opened Fuel Cell R&D Center in Honeoye Falls (10 Carriage Street)
• 2002 – Opened Fuel Cell Product Engineering and Prototype facility (11 Carriage Street)
• 2009 – Added Battery R&D and prototyping capability
So you can see, even if all we hear these days is news about the Volt, Spark EV and Cadillac ELR, GM's hydrogen project is still active if not in the spotlight at the moment.
For a general perspective, I also called the Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Energy Association in Washington, D.C., and spoke to its President and Executive Director, Morry Markowitz.
After discussion issues for a bit I asked if hydrogen takes more energy to produce than it provides, as I've seen people say, and does it keep us dependent on petroleum producers?
I was trying to get answers to such comments I've seen as this:
"BIG PETROL" is recklessly & irresponsibly flexing its muscle throughout the industrialized world!!!…
The ONE issue this topic/videos doesn't resolve (or even discuss) is how hydrogen can be produced —RENEWABLY— then distributed to owners of H2 fuel-cell powered vehicles! And this is really the one issue that completely dwarfs every other challenge, including the cost of vehicular fuel cells!!!
Making hydrogen is very simply a net-energy loser…. the energy used to crack the hydrogen from water would be better off being directly inputted into the vehicle i.e. nat gas or the electricity….
Don't the car companies know this?
I noted these and other such objections the other day. So, I asked, is hydrogen a net energy loser?
"For the foreseeable (near term) future fuel cell powered vehicles are the only zero-emission technology available that will totally replicate today's driver experience of being able to drive 300-500 miles and being able to refuel the car in 2-5 minutes," Markowitz said.
Good point, I thought, but that wasn't quite an answer to my question, so I tried asking again.
Markowitz said hydrogen is a transformational technology, provides domestic energy security, has ability to power a large spectrum of vehicles, and is increasingly reliant on renewable sources.
Yes, but is it a net energy loser? People on GM-Volt have said it is, so I asked again.
"As a net energy loser I do not believe that is a correct assessment," he said,
Aha! Now I'm getting somewhere, I thought. I humbly asked, may I ask why?
He went on to say that all energy technologies have their pluses and minuses and talked about that for a bit. He reminded me also the internal combustion engine was not born a mature technology and took decades to go from huffing and puffing small scale oddities to being mass production viable.
Closing our talk, we agreed he had not gone beyond "pluses and minuses" answering my question as to hydrogen's ultimate viability.
The FCHEA is an advocacy group in Washington after all, so perhaps this was as direct an answer as I was going to get, so I thanked him, and moved on.
Later yesterday afternoon, I sent questions to GM's Randy Fox who did answer in good faith, with my thanks. Some of which you've seen answers to, and the final two follow:
GM-V: What does GM see as the biggest impediment to FCV viability?
Fox: "GM is a leader in fuel cell technology proven by our "Project Driveway" demonstration program. Fuel cells can power a wide range of vehicle applications, while providing 300-plus+ miles of range and 3 minute refueling times. The question right now is how quickly the infrastructure will develop. A U.S. study showed that nationwide seeding of 12,000 hydrogen stations would cost between $10 billion and $15 billion which would be enough to support 1 million fuel cell vehicles. Ultimately deployment volumes will be determined by hydrogen fueling infrastructure growth and customer demand. As with all new technologies, hydrogen fuel cell costs will come down through generational learning cycles and ramping of volume to achieve economies of scale."
GM-V: Is hydrogen a "net energy loser?" Does this keep the industry dependent on petroleum?
Fox: "I'm not sure what you mean by 'net energy loser.' Hydrogen production can be cost competitive with gasoline on an energy equivalency basis, especially in locations where excess hydrogen production capacity currently exists. There are hydrogen production facilities located all across the U.S. in nearly every major city. Because fuel cell vehicles can be approximately twice as efficient as today's gasoline internal combustion engines, hydrogen can be twice the price of gasoline (on an energy equivalent) and still be cost competitive."
Before decisions were finalized for our favorite E-REV, GM was talking about producing a fuel-cell Volt in 2011.
So some of you asked for an update, and here you have it, such as it is
Short answer made long is an industry group in Washington and General Motors – not to mention a raft of other global OEs and the U.S. military – are among those spending billions to make FCVs happen on a commercial scale; first with fleets, with consumer vehicles expected to follow. The timeline for when the ball gets rolling in earnest is being said to be a 2-4 years out or sooner and as you know, some are already making first stage production plans now.
How long it takes after that before you see a competitively priced FCV at your local dealer remains unknown. Whether this car will share space with the expanded, multi-model Voltec line is also unknown.
What is known is big players are sharing as much info as they wish, depending on their agenda, but otherwise are running the fuel cell ball toward an end zone, and no one is saying the game is not still very much on.
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I find it hysterical that you used foam pipe insulation since I'm doing the eact same thing. I've been meaning to make a Rapunzel costume since the movie came out, I've finally gotten around to it, but I bought the foam well over a year ago for it. You did a beautiful job!
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Actually, I used foam rubber (in sheets), it's less rigid than foam pipe insulation or pool noodles. Good luck with your wigcraft project, though!
The wonders of foamcore ^.^ The "foam noodles" will maintain the shape when you braid them.
How did you get the braid to curve? This is the first Rapunzel wig I've seen that does that.
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I was wondering if you were going to do this one! It looks fantastic and pretty ^^
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She shot at him after he threatened her, he tried to get into another house... Young children in both homes. LEO got the BG.
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The guy definitely looks like a worm. Glad the ladies and kids are all OK.
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Glad they caught him before he could do something really bad.
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Well folks ths is Lincoln Co WV and that is pretty much normal behaviour.
Why just this week the Sheriff and County Clerk were put in jail for vote fraud. The "appointed" Sheriff stepped down because of a "conflict of intrest"
I am not surprised.
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Not sure what the range was but if she shot and missed she might wanta get some range time in,too many people think that buying a gun and load it in case they need to use it find out real quick how hard it is to hit a target with absolutely no training
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Glad things turned out ok here. The BG was caught, probably with soiled underpants, and none of the kids were harmed.
Great job to the woman who defended her home and kids, but might want to get some range time.
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We dont know how she missed because media doesnt cover positive life saving shootings in the detail they do in criminal activities.
I bet the round missed by inches and just enough for him to say "Oh %$%" and ran off. For all you know she might be an IDPA champion competitor. I wouldn't assume she sucks at handling a firearm until that was confirmed and we are never going to know.
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I'd encourage the lady to buy a shotgun! The perp's photo looked as though his elevator is stuck between floors.
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No matter how he looks, he is a creeper. She should have hit him, but even though she missed, she did well. We could all use more range time. even LEOs. Like in all the movies when the BGs never hit the GG. That is not the way it works. Both sided can get hit, and better to hit first.
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Burk Elder Hale and Bionaid: We Became Victims of His Misdeeds
by Claus Nicolae Nielsen Online Entrepreneur and Coach
This is dedicated to the long-lost genius of a formula known as Bionaid and how the man behind it – Burk Elder Hale, has very shockingly transformed from being a light worker, going through a near-death experience (NDE) to receive messages from god, and devoting his life to the creation of water products like Bionaid that serve to better humankind – to something unimaginable by our standards.
By "OUR" we mean the few of us who have collectively been subject to the wrongdoings of Burk Elder Hale in business. This includes Claus Nicolae Nielsen of Denmark who is the European distributor of Bionaid, Rodney of England who is the U.K. distributor of Bionaid, and Clarence Lee, the Asian distributor of Bionaid. We have gathered sufficient evidence and hearsay from others who have had experiences working with Burk Elder Hale before and they mostly reinforce our stories.
As this is an introduction to much more content and evidence coming up, we will summarize the essence of what has happened.
Burk Elder Hale has pretty much cheated us of all our money amounting for Bionaid from the last year. We are talking about amounts above $10K. In upcoming posts, we will scan real bank statements, provide printscreens of real gmail chats so you know we are not pasting the text out and modifying them. We have nothing to gain out of this except to expose Burk Elder Hale's true colors as he has been very vile in the way he has dealt with us and whilst we can let that go and simply not associate with him anymore, he does this in the name of God and uses the same tricks on many others.
The Bionaid Donation Trick of Burk Elder Hale
How does he do it? Well, like many companies do, when their distributors put in an order, they normally have to pay up front in cash. Thank god we can provide proof of our bank transfers. When Burk Elder Hale receives the money, he either goes in hiding and doesn't reply for months, or he cooks up a story or scenario that says we are not entitled to the stock or "special price" he promises. There are many scenarios here so don't get confused just yet – just know that he has many means to manipulate you. The first half a year or many months of business dealings with him, Clarence and Claus have sung many praises of him, this can also be proven in email conversations. They pitied him because each time he was uncontactable for long periods of time, he would eventually contact us and explain how he has been attacked by evil proponents attempting to suppress his product. We believed him constantly and paid a price – with a real numerical figure.
Burk Elder Hale dealt with all our pleas and requests for return of funds by saying that he has had legal disclaimers on his website saying that all purchases of Bionaid and other products are regarded as donations. Yet it works exactly like a business transaction – i.e. you pay through PayPal or bank wire in exchange of products. In all our email conversations with Burk Elder Hale, there is no mention of "donations" whatsoever and all there is to our partnerships is merely a payment of a certain amount for a certain amount of goods. Period.
Now, Burk Elder Hale has erected this unfair disclaimer to nullify all his deeds. It is in his goodwill to give us stock of Bionaid as we are donors, not business associates. Yet all our conversations were made on the clear basis that we were associates. By many country's legal standards, his ploy would definitely fall under some Unfair Contract Terms Act. But how do we, living in other corners of the globe, make a legal case without getting ourselves burnt further? We are not some legal game players or manipulative maestros … we are people in the wellness industry trying to promote a good product… that's all.
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What's worse – whilst we initially try to make sense of this by saying it's maybe because Burk Elder Hale had been through such a rough ride that he has turned out like this and will only be temporary – but he is worse than just a thief. His apparently holy heart doesn't seem that holy after all. When Elder first pulled off a similar trick on Rodney sometime back and Rodney didn't receive the right amount of stock after paying, there came a time when Rodney asked for just a few bottles of Bionaid for his sick mother. Burk Elder Hale didn't bother to reply. But he replied to us of course.
The same thing happened to Claus when his son Odin was ill and he needed Bionaid stock badly just for himself. Burk Elder Hale had already pulled off the same trick by then, refusing to send stock of Bionaid after Claus had paid him. But this is a man-to-man request, asking for just a few bottles of Bionaid for his little boy. Even if there were differences, Burk Elder Hale could simply say that he "would give in" to his requests on his son's account if he had a heart. But of course, he ignored.
Then came Clarence's case, where Burk Elder Hale appeared after yet another of his long hiatuses, and told both Claus and Clarence that he just came out of hospital with a lot of bills to pay and that he had made a special arrangement with his manufacturer to give us a special price on Bionaid to reward us for our understanding, kind words, and offers to help him – offering Burk Elder Hale sanctuary in our own countries when he said he was being hunted down by bullies, cops, and assaulted badly. Of course, we fell for that and Clarence proceeded to buy generous amounts of Bionaid on the premise of good price and that it would help Burk Elder Hale with his medical bills etc.
Of course, he didn't give the Bionaid stock. Burk Elder Hale suddenly, out of nowhere, said the money was in Bruce and Marianne's hands. Who on earth are they? He told us we don't need to know – but just know that they are thieves who have cheated him. When we give him the money, it's his responsibility to see to it that we get what we have transacted for or compensated us. Now he tells us he is hunting down Bruce and told Clarence to do the same. What?? How is he supposed to do that from Singapore? He is not Buddha or some supreme master!! Anyway, Bruce and Marianne are the same people from Progressive Radio Network. If you know them, please tell them to verify this information. Even if they did play Burk Elder Hale out, he is responsible to Clarence anyway. And there is NO need for him to use his "donation" clause!!
I have heard of other wellness enthusiasts who have been for Burk Elder Hale's lectures sharing with each other that they have undesirable business dealings with him. If you are one of them, please speak out.
Is Bionaid of Burk Elder Hale Really What It Promises To Be?
Also, Burk Elder Hale has long been using Dan Nelson's name for his water technologies and whilst I admire Dan Nelson's work, technologies and personality, many of us (both distributors and users) have found that the Bionaid product of Burk Elder Hale do not produce the same results as earlier batches. We have tried the teabag experime [
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Mr Abbott's office confirmed on Tuesday evening Kevin Baker won't stand for former Labor minister Greg Combet's NSW seat of Charlton.
But his name remains on the ballot paper because nominations have closed.
"I understand that while my name will still appear on the ballot paper, my campaign is over," Mr Baker said in a statement.
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Mr Baker was forced to shut down his "Mini-Mods" forum site for car enthusiasts.
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had called on Mr Abbott to "man up" and disendorse Mr Baker.
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Soon after the federal election campaign began, Labor candidate for the safe seat of Hotham Geoff Lake was sacked over remarks he made to a Monash City councillor 11 years ago.
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I purchased a re-manufactured compressor and new dryer at Autozone for $300 and a new expansion valve for $50 at another parts store. The reman compressor came with the lead wire but not with the plug, so I removed the plug from the old compressor. I soldered it the the lead wire on the reman comp and protected the connection with heat-shrink tubing.
I removed the old compressor, dryer and expansion valve. I flushed the evaporator, condenser and AC lines with flush solvent followed by filtered shop air. I replaced the O-rings. I filled the AC compressor with 80% of the oil and distributed the remaining oil to the dryer, condenser and evaporator.
I reassembled the components. Everything went right back together with no issues.
I turned the comp by hand to distribute the oil.
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My wife drove it about 50miles and the AC control unit inside the car went blank. I found fuse #63 blown and it blew immediately when replaced. The wires on the compressor itself appear to be fine, but the clutch and pulley are not smooth anymore. It clunks when I turn it. I don't know if the compressor is messed up or if I have an electrical issue (or both).
I returned the compressor, got anther one, did the whole process over again, and the exact same thing happened. The second failure also happened right at 50 miles.
I wonder if this particular re-manufactured compressor has the wrong clutch or an improper air gap (I didn't check it). My first thought is that the compressor is either overheating resulting in a meltdown/short of the wiring or the voltage is not correct. Does anyone have any other ideas or suggestions? I can't keep throwin' compressors on this car every 50 miles, and the wife is getting... antsy. Relay? Pressure switch? Any ideas??
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I was a little disappointed with the re-man compressor that I got from Autozone because it didn't come with the plug. The wire was there, but they expected me to take the plug off my old one and use it. I wish that I had just purchased a new comp. (plug and all). Maybe my old plug is faulty and causing the wire to ground out. I'll have to check that...
The climate control worked fine with my old compressor, but maybe it has gone bad. I'll look into that also. Thanks.
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I'd like to hear your opinion about firearms on a vessel. I plan on cruising with my family, and I am concerned about our safety. Although I am competent with a gun and used to shoot competitively, I would hate to have the same gun used on us or find myself in a third-world prison.

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Don,

Guns are a problem outside of the US. Actually, even in the US, gun laws vary from state to state, and it is wise to know what local regulations might cause you grief as you cross state lines. Most countries are far stricter than the US, and we have even been asked to turn in our flare gun in several places. Turning guns into the local police and retrieving them later when you are ready to depart can be a time-consuming and frustrating experiencenot reporting them leaves you open to long jail terms in most countries, especially if the gun is used. Other countries have odd restrictions: guns are OK in the Bahamas, but officials sometimes count the bullets and you have to account for each and every shot fired. Many cruisers in third-world countries have reported that their weapons were used while they were in quarantine, or that they disappeared altogetherof considerable concern when the gun is registered to you.

Overall, I think most cruisers have come to the conclusion that guns are only an American obsession, and that carrying them is usually not worth the hassle. Beside all that, you have to be trained and prepared to kill another human for the gun to be effective, and I doubt most of us gentle sailorly folk would like to depart this life branded as a killer. But it is a decision that each of us has to make for him or herself.

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SPECIAL REPORT: Death in Clay County
I. Scene of the Crime: Valley of the Shadow
posted at 3:25 pm on October 4, 2009 by The Other McCain
Just a few hundred yards west of Big Double Creek Road, on the right side of Arnetts Fork Road, there is a concrete bridge where a small unpaved road crosses a shallow stream. A locked gate at the bridge closes the road to traffic, although any vehicle with 4-wheel drive and good clearance can ford the stream to the right of the bridge.
Located deep inside Daniel Boone National Forest, a 25-minute drive east of Manchester, Ky., this bridge and dirt road are so tiny they don't show up on Google maps, even at the highest resolution. Yet events here on Hoskins Cemetery Road became nationwide news Wednesday, Sept. 23, when the Associated Press published an article by Devlin Barrett and Jeffrey McMurray:
The FBI is investigating whether anti-government sentiment led to the hanging death of a U.S. Census worker near a Kentucky cemetery. A law enforcement official told The Associated Press the word "fed" was scrawled on the dead man's chest.
The body of Bill Sparkman, a 51-year-old part-time Census field worker and teacher, was found Sept. 12 in a remote patch of the Daniel Boone National Forest in rural southeast Kentucky. The Census has suspended door-to-door interviews in rural Clay County, where the body was found, pending the outcome of the investigation. . . .
The article was datelined from Washington, D.C., which likely meant that the unnamed "law enforcement official" who was the AP's source worked at the U.S. Department of Justice. The article said this official "was not authorized to discuss the case and requested anonymity," and went on to cite David Breyer, a spokesman in the FBI's Louisville, Ky., office as saying that "the bureau is helping state police with the case."
Right. Anybody who knows anything about law enforcement knows that when the FBI gets involved in a criminal investigation, their "helping" generally takes the form of big-footing all over the case and bossing everybody else around.
This Sept. 23 story came to my attention the same way most news does nowadays, via the Web site Memeorandum, which aggregates items from scores of political blogs. The Associated Press report that "anti-government sentiment" was a possible motive in the Clay County death of Bill Sparkman inspired liberal bloggers to imagine connections to events and people far away.
"Cantor and the GOP Turn Blind Eye To Violent Undercurrent," declared the headline on a post that night by David Empsall of MyDD.com, connecting Sparkman's death to the House Republican Whip, Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, who had dismissed as absurd the claim by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi that protests against proposed health-care legislation might lead to violence.
"Cantor is clearly oblivious to both recent history and to current events," Empsall declared, quoting the Associated Press story before concluding: "Some say that there's no reasoning with the fringe and that we should just ignore them. I agree that there's no reasoning with them, but if they're going to murder government workers in Kentucky like they did in Oklahoma 14 years ago or Memphis and Los Angeles 41 years ago, then there's no ignoring them, either."
In a single blog post, Empsall had connected Sparkman's death not only to the health-care debate in Washington, but also to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. By contrast, when I first learned of the Clay County case – some three hours before Empsall posted his connect-the-dots commentary – I was profoundly skeptical of any such connection.
"My immediate curiosity is whether this had something to do with a moonshine or drug operation, rather than 'anti-government sentiment,' " I wrote at my personal blog. "Drug dealers and 'shiners are notoriously hostile toward anyone snooping around, and Sparkman may well have stumbled onto some sort of criminal situation. . . . Let's wait to see what law enforcement discovers before jumping to any kind of politicized Let's-Blame-Glenn-Beck speculation."
The next day, Sept. 24, Memeorandum had more updates on the story, showing that the connect-the-dots theories were also being treated skeptically by the Kentucky State Police and the Louisville FBI spokesman.
Now the Sparkman case began turning into a familiar sort of blog war, with liberals insisting that the apparent murder was clearly the result of right-wing extremism, while conservatives – including Michelle Malkin – insisted it was too soon to jump to conclusions. It so happened that I was just then finishing up a grueling two-week blog war, and was looking for some reason to move on and get back to covering actual news.
Saturday evening, I was writing at my desk while keeping one eye on the TV in my home office to cheer on my favorite football team – Roll, Tide, Roll! – when I noticed that Memeorandum was once again all over the Sparkman case. The Associated Press had published another story – which CBS News ran on its Web site with the evocative headline "Terror in Kentucky: Census Worker's Murder" – based on an interview with Jerry Weaver of Fairfield, Ohio. Weaver had brought his wife and daughter to the Hoskins cemetery Sept. 12 to decorate the graves of relatives buried there and was horrified to discover Sparkman's nude body:
"The only thing he had on was a pair of socks," Weaver said. "And they had duct-taped his hands, his wrists. He had duct tape over his eyes, and they gagged him with a red rag or something.
"He was murdered," Weaver said. "There's no doubt."
This latest news – reported by Roger Alford from the AP's Frankfort, Ky., bureau – elicited a memorable reaction from Andrew Sullivan. "It's possible, I suppose, that anger at the feds in general could make a drug dealer murder a census worker," Sullivan wrote. "But the most worrying possibility – that this is Southern populist terrorism, whipped up by the GOP and its Fox and talk radio cohorts – remains real. We'll see."
Sullivan made this "terrorism" charge, complete with a cheap shot at Fox News and talk radio, in the complete absence of supporting evidence. Steven Benen of Washington Monthly was far more specific, naming Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.), Glenn Beck and Atlanta talk radio host Neal Boortz as complicit in Sparkman's death. This trio, Benen said, had "invested considerable energy in trying to convince confused, right-wing activists that the Census and those who work for the Census Bureau are not to be trusted, and may even be dangerous. Here's hoping that their reckless and irresponsible rhetoric did not have deadly consequences."
Benen's expressed hope was "transparently false," Professor William Jacobson observed. Clearly, Sullivan, Benen and others on the Left were eager to make Sparkman a symbolic victim of right-wing violence. This would justify months of liberal arguments that opposition to President Obama's ambitious policy agenda – and specifically, the Tea Party protest movement, with which the popular Beck was closely identified – represented a menace that should be suppressed.
No suspect had been identified, let alone arrested, and law enforcement officials had already pushed back against the AP's initial claim of an "anti-government" motive. Eastern Kentucky's notorious reputation as a region of moonshiners, marijuana growers and methamphetamine makers offered many more plausible suspects in Sparkman's death. And yet here were Sullivan and the rest trying to turn this man into a martyr for national health insurance, while depicting Clay Countians as gullible hicks goaded into murderous violence by "populist" demagogues on cable TV and AM radio.
There are times, as I've often said, when any self-respecting journalist must ask himself one question: "What Would Hunter S. Thompson Do?" And in this case, it seemed to me, the answer was blindingly obvious:
Big Creek, Ky., is a 500-mile drive from here. I could easily drive it in eight hours. I had plans to attend an event Sunday in Virginia, and had expected to go to D.C. this coming week to follow up on the latest IG-Gate developments.
However, if my readers would prefer me to teach Andrew Sullivan a lesson in journalism, feel free to hit the tip jar. . . .
That was shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday, and at 6 a.m. Monday morning, Sept. 28, I kissed my wife good-bye, got behind the wheel of my black 2004 KIA Optima, and took off for Kentucky. By 3:55 p.m. Tuesday, the KIA was 575 miles from the starting point of the trip, parked on the side of Arnetts Fork Road next to the locked gate across Hoskins Cemetery Road.
No more lonely place in the world could be imagined. The area is densely wooded. A couple of curves separate the entrance to the cemetery road from the intersection of Arnetts Fork Road and Big Double Creek Road to the east. Arnetts Fork curves up around a hill just west of the cemetery road. Whoever chose this location to get rid of Sparkman had picked a spot where they were highly unlikely to encounter any witnesses.
A lonely place – and a lonely feeling, too. Monday afternoon, when I'd visited the offices of the Manchester Enterprise upon my arrival in Clay County, I had asked the local newspaper's advertising sales director, Rodney Miller, if he could recommend someone to drive up to the cemetery with me. Miller recommended one of his sales reps, Jessica, who lived in the vicinity, an area known to locals as Redbird.
The previous week, Jessica had accompanied the paper's news director, Morgan Bowling, to the site where Sparkman's body had been found, in order to get a photo of the scene. But when Miller asked Jessica if she'd be willing to go back again with the out-of-town writer, her answer was emphatic: "No way. Uh-uh. Too scary up there." Jessica had taken a pistol with her when she'd gone up to the cemetery with the news director, and one trip was enough for her, armed or otherwise.
So here I was alone, at the entrance to Hoskins Cemetery Road. I wrote down the time in my notebook, got out of the car and took a few photos of the bridge and gate with my small Kodak digital camera. It was actually a lovely scene. The large hardwood trees lining the banks of the stream were still summer green in late September. The afternoon was cool and breezy, the sky was overcast with heavy clouds, and the only sounds were the wind in the trees and the quiet burbling of the little brook flowing east, parallel to Arnetts Fork Road.
Just then, I heard the sound of a car approaching from the direction of Big Double Creek Road. Standing by the roadside, I flagged down the blue sedan and approached the driver's side window. The driver looked to be in her early 30s, and there was a child's car seat in the back, but no child.
"Excuse me, ma'am," I said to the lady, trying to smile as friendly as I could. "I'm a reporter, covering the murder y'all had up here."
She nodded in recognition – obviously, the locals knew all about the case – and I continued.
"I'm up here to see the place where they found that fellow's body and get a few pictures and, frankly, it's kind of scary, y'know?"
She nodded again and said, "Yeah, I know."
"So what I was wondering," I said, "was whether you wouldn't mind just waiting here for a few minutes, while I walk up to the cemetery – just wait here, to make sure I get back."
She shook her head. "Well, I don't think so, but I'll tell you what. My husband's up at the house" – she gestured westward up the hill – "and I can send him back down here, if you want."
"Could you?" I asked. "About how long would it take him to get here?"
"About five minutes."
Thus it was agreed, and I felt much better about my situation. No doubt her husband was a stout, hearty soul who would accompany me to the graveyard and assure my safety. Unless, that is, the lady's husband was some hillbilly meth-cooker, a dangerously violent ex-con with deep hostility toward nosy outsiders and, for all I knew, the same guy who'd killed Sparkman.
Crazy fears like that crop up in a man's mind when he's short on sleep, hyped on coffee, far from home, and standing at the scene of a notorious crime in the Appalachian backwoods. But I'd wait for the lady's husband to come back. He was probably a mild-mannered, clean-cut Baptist church deacon, and I was just being paranoid.
On the other hand, these woods were reportedly crawling with marijuana growers who plant their crops in isolated forest clearings, and late September is harvest time for these outlaw agriculturalists. Maybe there was some weeder, dressed in camouflage, rifle at the ready, guarding his crop planted nearby. Maybe, even at that very moment, I was a target in the crosshairs of a scope on a high-powered rifle held by a mountaineer marksman. One squeeze on the trigger and – boom! – that would be it for me.
Honestly, you think about things like that at such a moment, in such a place.
"Be careful," my wife had told me before I left on this trip, which I'd undertaken against her advice. I reminded her I'd survived my 10-day excursion to Africa in February 2008. "If they didn't kill me in Kampala, I think I'll be all right in Clay County, Kentucky."
Standing by that gate on Hoskins Cemetery Road, however, my cheerful bravado was long gone. Then I was startled to hear the deep roar of a powerful diesel engine down on Big Double Creek Road.
Think quick. Hearing the groaning of brakes, I realized a vehicle was turning up Arnetts Fork, heading my way. In my mind, I pictured a big jacked-up 4-wheel-drive truck, with three bloodthirsty redneck dope dealers in the front seat, coming to inflict some east Kentucky justice on a meddling outsider. So I moved over behind a tree, away from my black KIA – definitely a city-slicker kind of car – and hoped that my olive green slacks and sweater would function something like camouflage.
For a fraction of a second, the cause of my imminent brutal death was clear in my adrenaline-rushed mind: The woman whom I'd stopped on the road earlier was married to a Blue Ridge drug lord. As soon as she told him I was down by the cemetery road, her husband – the kingpin of the Clay County meth-cookers cartel – had phoned his hillbilly henchmen, who'd grabbed their guns and hopped into their truck to come hunt me down and do me in, just like they'd no doubt done to Sparkman and anyone else who threatened their criminal operations.
These feverish fears evaporated, however, when I saw the familiar yellow shape of a school bus swing around the curve a hundred yards away. Still, I stayed behind the tree and watched as Clay County Schools bus No. 263 rumbled past, heading up the road to deliver children to their homes.
Checking my watch, I made a note of the time: 4:01 p.m. The five minutes the lady had said would bring her husband to accompany me to the cemetery were now nearly expired, and it occurred to me that it might be better not to wait for him. The clouds overhead were ominously thick and might begin pouring rain at any moment. There were other people I needed to interview, and the afternoon was slipping away while I waited. Either I should go to the cemetery now or get in my car and drive back to town.
My readers had pitched in to pay for this trip. If I punked out now, I'd be letting them down – and letting myself down. When you drive 575 miles to get the story, you'd damned well better get the story. So I had to go. Time to start praying.
"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil." That "fear no evil" part is a lot easier said than done, and as I walked up that leaf-strewn dirt road, I was quite definitely aware of the shadow of death.
Whoever had killed Bill Sparkman had been here. Was Sparkman already dead when his killers brought his body here? If he was still alive, had he come here voluntarily? Had he been alone? Had he been lured here and ambushed? Or had he already been kidnapped, bound, gagged and blindfolded?
About 25 yards north of the gate, a power line crosses Hoskins Cemetery Road, and I looked both ways, east and west, to see if there might be a marijuana field within sight. Nothing to be seen. So I kept walking, and began to sing an old country song to steady my nerves.
I never knew God made honky-tonk angels.
I should have known you would never make a wife.
You have lost the only one who ever loved you,
And went back to the wild side of life.
With the Lord watching over me and Hank Thompson's lyrics to steady my caffeine-jangled nerves, I walked another 40 yards until I saw the cemetery in a clearing on the east side of the road. There were maybe 75 graves on the sloping hillside, all decorated with colorful artificial flower arrangements, and some with all-weather placards on wire-frame easels. One of these had a picture of an angel with the words of the Lord's Prayer.
The families in these hills had been spectacularly fecund over the decades. They married young and had lots of children. From the first Hoskins to settle here in Clay County there had descended a sort of Hoskins Nation, the numerous children and grandchildren marrying with the offspring of neighboring families and producing ties of kinship that stretched out across the hills for miles around. One of the gravestones told a typical story: A 14-year-old girl named Kathleen had married Harvey Hoskins on Sept. 21, 1946, the day before Harvey's 19th birthday. They had 43 years of wedded bliss until Harvey died in 1989, and the widowed Kathleen lived on another 14 years until her death in 2003, a few weeks before what would have been her 71st birthday. "Gone but not forgotten," said the headstone, and the arrangement of red, white, yellow and purple plastic flowers atop the headstone gave mute testimony that indeed Harvey and Kathleen Hoskins were still remembered by their living posterity.
Over the decades, some members of the Hoskins Nation had moved far away from the ancestral homeland, seeking their fortunes elsewhere. Among these was Jerry Weaver of Ohio. The Weaver family – Jerry, his wife and daughter – had expected a pleasant Saturday afternoon outing when they came here Sept. 12 to visit the graves of their kin. As I stood amid the flower-bedecked tombstones on the hillside, I imagined their horror when they'd seen Sparkman's nude body suspended by a rope around the neck, fastened to a tree.
Bill Sparkman wasn't exactly "hanged." When he was found, his body was in contact with the ground, not dangling from the tree. The local coroner and the state medical examiner determined that he died of asphyxiation, not necessarily caused by the rope. Law enforcement officials refused to rule out the possibility of suicide or accident as a cause of death. That angered Sparkman's adopted son Josh, who pointed out in an interview with McMurray of the Associated Press that his dad had recently survived lymphoma:
"I look at it as disrespectful to be still throwing suicide and accident around. . . He didn't do this to himself. That's dishonorable. My dad was a good man. No person on this planet is going to fight cancer like he did, then turn around and kill himself a year or so later."
Hard to argue with that. Jerry Weaver said it was murder and Josh Sparkman thinks it was murder, and if the police weren't saying it was murder, that was mainly because the police weren't saying much of anything to anyone – at least, not on the record. There was still the question of which anonymous official in Washington had given the AP that little bit about "anti-government sentiment" as a possible motive for Sparkman's death.
As I walked back to my car – and trust me, I was walking mighty fast – I'd only been in Kentucky for 24 hours. Yet I'd already talked to dozens of locals about the Sparkman case and none of them believed that his death was the result of any kind of right-wing conspiracy, unless you consider it "right-wing" for a drug dealer to protect his stash.
"Send the body to Glenn Beck," one liberal pundit declared Sept. 24, but I'd seen nothing in eastern Kentucky – an area I'd jokingly begun to call Lower Glennbeckistan – that would lead any reasonable person to think Bill Sparkman's death was the deed of fanatical Fox News junkies or Tea Party protesters.
Crossing the stream and reaching the gate down by Arnetts Fork Road, I paused to look around for just a minute. This was the scene of the crime, and having come all this way to see it, I wanted to have a clear image in my mind. I put my camera and notebook back in the car, fired up a Parliament Light and thought about the situation as I stood by the gate and listened to the stream trickling past under the bridge.
If Bill Sparkman hadn't just driven up here to Hoskins Cemetery to enjoy the scenery, but rather had been lured up here or brought here by his killer, then whoever killed him was almost certainly a local resident, someone familiar with the area. No way somebody from out of town, a stranger to the area, would have driven past many other possible places to dump a body in order to reach this isolated location.
Rodney Miller at the Enterprise had pointed out the significance of the location in our conversation Monday afternoon, just after I arrived in Clay County. This cemetery was far away from town, and even farther from Sparkman's home in Laurel County. Sparkman's truck had been parked up here when his body was found. How did the truck get here? Did Sparkman drive up here, or had he been kidnapped by someone?
If the "anti-government" angle looked bogus (Miller dismissed it with a two-syllable compound word for bovine excrement) there was still a compelling mystery surrounding the death of Bill Sparkman, a heinous crime in an idyllic mountain forest. And Sparkman was himself a fascinating personality – a Florida native and former newspaper reporter, Scout leader, substitute school teacher, single father and cancer survivor. Which is to say, strictly from a professional newsman's perspective, it's a heckuva story.
Contrary to the way journalists are sometimes portrayed on TV and in movies, a reporter is not a detective, sleuthing around to rendezvous with shadowy "sources" in secret locations. If the mystery of Bill Sparkman's death is ever solved, it will be solved by the FBI, the Kentucky State Police and other law enforcement officials, not by an out-of-town reporter and certainly not by Andrew Sullivan or any other blogger basing their theories on "pure speculation," which is how KSP spokesman Don Trosper described some media accounts of the crime.
What had Bill Sparkman been doing up here in the middle of the woods? Who brought him here? Why did they kill him?
Well, I wasn't going to find the answers standing on the side of Arnetts Fork Road, miles away from decent cell-phone coverage. I stubbed out my cigarette, got in the car, started the engine, hooked a U-turn and headed back toward Manchester, driving fast.
"Fear no evil"? Don't tell me about that, if you haven't been through the valley. Whoever killed Bill Sparkman is still at large.
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This is the first in a series of articles about the death of Bill Sparkman, based on a trip to Kentucky that was funded by contributions from readers of The Other McCain. For previous coverage of the trip and recent updates, click here.
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Would you like to play a game? No? Well, then let me show you how to delete the pre-installed games that come with Windows Vista and 7, then! I can't think of any reason why one would want to get rid of stuff like Solitaire, Free Cell and Minesweeper, but then again I never play them, so there might be others out there that feel the same.
Here's the tip:
Go to Start>Control Panel and double-click "Programs and Features".
Off to the left you'll see an option to "Turn Windows Features On or Off". Click on it, and a window that looks like this will appear.
Simply expand the "Games" tree, and un-check the ones you don't want anymore. You can always come back and re-install them later via this method, although you may need your Windows Vista install disk.
Gameless! What a shame! Although, if you're looking to restore your games, this is a good tip to have handy!


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6 Habits Of Successful Fathers
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Also, consider how your kids might be able to help you calm down. You don't always have to be doing something in order to have an impact on your kids. Rather than focusing on activities all the time, recognize that sometimes naps in front of the television can be just as touching for your kids and can do wonders in helping to bring you back down to earth.
4- Staying involvedBeing involved with your kids is often twisted to mean that you ought to do the morning carpool and attend soccer games. Although this is true, there is much more to involvement with your kids than just being a personal taxi and cheerleader to them. Watch the soccer game, but also listen to school stories. Hear what your kids have to say, know their interests and their friends. Being involved seems like a no-brainer when it comes to parenthood, but it's so easy to forget.
If your kids feel important enough to garner your interest, this will boost their confidence, their trust in you and their willingness to share the details of their own lives with you. All these things will give you more opportunities to guide your children and keep them out of trouble. They will also serve as invaluable memories when your kids are all grown up. The childhood years will pass quickly for you, but your kids will remember how you spent them forever.


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I don't recommend garage storage as it will increase the possibility of moisture penetration due to temperature changes.
What is the storage time line? 1 year 3 years?
If 1 year then I would just thoroughly clean and oil them - put them in a gun sock - maybe even use desiccant or a dehumidifier in the case and call it good.
If 3 year then I'd consider using a storage grease instead of oil.
There are some new products for storage such as anti-corrosion storage bags Anti-Corrosion Gun Storage Bags
Good luck in the Air Force and enjoy boot camp.


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You may have heard of the recent hubbub surrounding the release of a new children's book that is intended to help the offspring of those who have had plastic surgery cope with the surgery's transformative effect on their parents. Written by a plastic surgeon, My Beautiful Mommy represents an interesting first in the plastic surgery world–it introduces the process to children.
Which got me wondering–how long until parents subject their children to plastic surgery? We already know that many parents subject their embryos to genetic screening in order that they might avoid having to parent a disabled child (see Dr. Al Mohler for more on this). We also know that many parents subject their children to relentless pressure to fit in and exceed throughout their young lives. See Alexandra Robbins's recent The Overachievers for some background on this phenomenon. In addition, modern America is obsessed with physical beauty. Alex Kucynzki's Beauty Junkies makes just this point. One wonders, then, when these cultural trends will coalesce into a perfect storm and form an impetus for parents to pay for plastic surgery to correct the imperfect features of their children? How far away can such destructively narcissistic practices be?
The line to be crossed here is the direct exhortation of parents to their children to have plastic surgery for supposed defections. Currently, plastic surgery forms a popular and expensive graduation gift for teenage girls in wealthy areas of America. Yet we not our language carefully here–this surgery is not an order but a gift. The comments made by one mother in a story two years old about plastic surgery among teens confirmed my worst fears–parents are increasingly encouraging and exhorting their children to undergo plastic surgery. See this:
Take the case of Katie Underdown of Georgia. Last year, the 17-year-old had a nose job and a chin implant by the same surgeon who did multiple surgeries on her mother, Jan, and several of her mom's friends. Although the teen had a deviated septum, a medical condition that makes it harder to breath, she initially balked at surgery. Her mother urged her on, though.
"I told her, 'It doesn't bother you right now but it may later. Let's just get it fixed.' I had a great surgeon, I was able to pay for it and nurse her back," explains Jan Underdown. "Katie had a recessed chin like me and I said, 'Put the chin implant in.' She did it. It turned out great. I think of it like her braces. You fix what you know is an issue and then you go on and live your life."
Did you catch the verbal nuance here? "Let's just get it fixed." That's what Jan Underdown said to her daughter, a seventeen year-old girl. One can understand surgery for a nasal condition, but the mother in the case also urged her to daughter to get a "chin implant," whatever that is. I'm guessing that we're going to see many more such cases of parental pressure on topics like this. I live in an incredibly posh town in Illinois, and I constantly see middle-aged women attempting to look like teenagers, dressing in the same clothes, bleaching their hair the same color, adopting the same "haughty cool" attitude that one expects to find in teenagers. For these women, beauty is not merely a virtue, it's an obsession. As many of these women turn to cosmetic surgery to keep up in the race to stay young as long as possible, how many of them will encourage their impressionable daughters to do the same? In a society that increasingly turns its back on things that really matter, on traditional principles and virtues, how hard will it really be for parents to push their bucktoothed daughter or large-nosed child to go under the knife in order to look "right"? I don't have any statistics, and I haven't seen any stories on this, but I would cautiously and nervously predict that it will not be long before narcissism, parental pressure, and the beauty culture collide and form a society in which regular children are pressured to be surgically transformed into something they are not.
Some might say that this is nothing new, that beauty has always been an issue for kids and that little will change in this regard. I would respond that this is true, but in our age, we have the means to change our appearances, an ability that prior generations did not. As plastic surgery becomes increasingly inexpensive, and as the culture continues to slide away from a biblical definition of life and of beauty, it only makes sense that parents would desire to correct and shape their children to be that which they believe to be truly important. Our media-saturated culture, after all, drives such an obsession with physical appearance. When your average person watches multiple hours of television and films each week, and takes in the appearance-frenzied environment that television puts forth (the medium is the message, in this case), this person cannot help but end up appearance-crazy. The result, I would predict, will be that those with money will increasingly turn to perfect not simply themselves but their children. Children do, after all, reflect their parents. Whatever their parents prize, then, children will come to look like in a most literal way.
If all this is true, what can Christians do in today's appearance-obsessed culture? Christian parents can teach their children what really matters, and avoid forming a conception of identity in their children that centers around looks. Parents can consciously work against a culture that is obsessed with appearance by themselves avoiding vanity and concentration on physical beauty. Parents should, in my opinion, be very careful about complimenting their children based on beauty and in explicitly delineating amongst attractive and unattractive children. Beyond this, each Christian person in a decadent culture should consider what they can do on a personal level to resist sinful focus on their appearance. We can't singlehandedly turn back the tide of our world, but we can all resist its influence and claim kingdom ground in the war against it. Most importantly, by exalting the gospel in our homes, our churches, and our daily lives, we can teach ourselves and those around us what truly matters and show a watching world that in Christ, we have found true beauty. It is not first and foremost physical attractiveness, but is self-sacrificial love such that the guilty go free and the sinfully ugly become pure. This is beauty. Even as those around us sacrifice their children on an altar of obsession, we can work to train them in believing the message that alone can liberate us, that alone can make us beautiful in the eyes of the only One who matters–God.


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After listening to the last debate in Arizona among Republican candidates for president it is quite clear the key issues facing American society are: preventing women from having access to birth control, who got the most or least earmarks for their state, is Barack Obama really a Christian and was he born here,and does Mitt Romney sweat when in a discussion? There us no doubt these men– women do not have any role in deciding issues related to their lives,–just find a panel of old men dressed in business suits for that task.
There is something rather sad about the s0-called "debates." Each session eventually concludes in one person on the panel getting the hell beat our of him by other panel members. Of course, next week it is another person's role to be the villain. One thing is clear-the Republican party has come a long, long, way from the days of Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt.


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Blaise, along with Julie Delporte, just completed a year-long fellowship at CCS. This e-mail interview was conducted by James Sturm the week following commencement.
J: You've just spent the last year in WRJ and I feel like I still don't have a sense of your work. It's like a moving target and keeps me guessing as to what your intent is. I think that's something I like about it—I'm not sure where its edges are.
B: thanks! i like keeping the work abstract and then clarifying it in discourse around the work (like interviews). when i think of the word 'abstraction' i have an image of architectural privacy. it's a way of not becoming a cog in the social machine … and it's also a way of preventing the work from becoming a cog in the artist's machine! i do have intentions, though these often develop alongside the work.
J: Would you then consider your public discourse of your work inseparable from the work itself?
B: yeah but it's tricky. discourse operates in time whereas objects occupy space. books function in both 'realms' (hard to avoid spatial language here) — they are autonomous things as well as latent flows which require activation. some of my books reflect discursive narrative more than they contain it. they may serve as markers for my own exploration of certain ideas – a way of relating to the terrain as i move through it.
J: It is tricky. That reflection you speak of can be like a hall of mirrors and the viewer is left to wonder if they are seeing the work clearly or "getting it." When Francoise Mouly was in town she passed along an observation that Chris Ware had made, something along the lines that when someone walks into a gallery and doesn't understand the work on the wall they feel like an idiot but if they read a comic and don't understand it they think the cartoonist is an idiot. Have you experienced blowback concerning your work since it can be quite opaque?
B: hmm an opaque hall of mirrors? 😉 actually that's a pretty cool image. (i'm imagining labyrinth of mirrors coated in white paint.) i think no one cares about me anymore, which is cool. i mean i haven't gotten a lot of google alerts or anything. when i do it's still about young lions. these latest books haven't gotten much of a response. i'm marketing them as pure, austere things, which is to say i'm not marketing them. my idea of marketing now is to erect barriers … my books look like graves. if you go to my website it's like a cemetery. that's a pretty romantic job, making graves.
J: Opaque relative to what one expects from a traditional narrative is what I should have said (but I like that image of painted over mirrors). Let's talk specifically about one your recent projects. Construction as you say is quite austere. What's your set of concerns as you worked on that piece?
B: there was a mechanical mindlessness in the labor of that book that allowed me to think abstractly. it's such a different process than drawing. this was my first time screen-printing, which has always intimidated me. so in a practical sense it was a means for me break into this medium. i was reading about post-fordism and immaterial labor at the time, and this book became a means of thinking these things through without feeling constrained by a certain way of thinking. i was also thinking about minimalism and how books might relate to this history. books can be these timeless, specific objects, and they can also be these temporal flows. between these two things — space and time — there's no reconciliation. construction opens onto the weird space in between.
J: I was surprised by your basketball skills this year. Do you attribute this to playing with an old man and athletically challenged cartoonists or do you actually have game?
B: thanks! i really enjoyed playing basketball with you guys. i was pretty limited, considering i could only make layups
J: And a lot of steals! You're surprisingly quick. Beyond the basketball, I'm glad you could spend a year in White River Junction as a CCS fellow. You come to comics from a unique place that can be challenging but well worth grappling with.
B: also thanks i think it was a big period of growth for me.


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Monday July 23rd, 2012 4:35pm
BURLINGTON, Vt. – Sophomore Drew Philie scored four goals and added an assist to lead the Vermont men's lacrosse team to a 15-5 victory over Holy Cross at Moulton Winder Field on Tuesday afternoon. The Catamounts stormed out to a 7-0 lead after the first quarter as they snapped a two-game slide and improve to 5-5 on the year.
Senior Kyle Sminkey added a hat trick, all coming in the first quarter, while junior Geoff Worley tallied two goals to go with two assists as six different Catamounts had multiple point games. The seven-goal first quarter also matched Vermont's goal total from the previous game.
"We thought going in after our game against Binghamton that it was a good thing to have a game coming up this quick so we could try and put Binghamton behind us and just play," said Vermont head coach Ryan Curtis. "The guys certainly worked hard in our one day to get ready for this game, came out and played well."
After the first 3:30 of the game was scoreless, Vermont erupted for five goals over the next 4:20. Sminkey recorded the first goal of the game, while sophomore Thomas Galvin earned a man-up tally and Philie set up classmate Luke Ryder to make it 3-0 with 9:19 left in the frame.
Sminkey earned his second and Worley made it 5-0 with 7:10 left in the quarter off a feed from sophomore A.J. Masson. Masson swept a loose ball off the turf from behind the net to Worley, who finished the play after the goalie was out of place. Philie and Sminkey each added goals to wrap up the opening 15 minutes of play with Vermont on top 7-0.
Holy Cross (0-10) scored the first two goals of the second quarter to cut UVM's lead to 7-2. The Catamounts extended their lead back to seven when freshman Connor McNamara cleaned up a loose ball in front of the net with 4:46 left in the half and then Philie followed 44 seconds later with his second of the afternoon. The Crusaders Colin McGeehin scored with 2:43 left in the quarter as UVM took a 9-3 lead into the half.
Masson scored 1:35 into the third to make it 10-3 Vermont and after a Holy Cross goal, Philie earned his third tally after taking a feed from sophomore Garrett Virtue and Ryder added his second with 7:56 left in the frame. Worley opened the scoring just 21 seconds into the fourth on a man-up tally, while Philie and McNamara each scored in the final 3:24 of play to produce the final score.
Vermont outshot Holy Cross 37-23 for the game, which included 15-3 in the first quarter. The Cats also finished the day 3-for-4 on man-up opportunities. Junior David Barton earned the win in goal for UVM, as he made six saves in the first three quarters of play. Junior Alex Plavner and freshman Hayward Giraud each saw action in goal in the fourth quarter for the Cats. James Kennedy led the Crusaders with a pair of goals on the afternoon.
Vermont returns to action on Sunday when it hosts Albany at 2 p.m. in America East action.


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Here's Flow's side:
Its routine for companies to monitor internet message boards for content about themselves, In today's world, its a good business practice.
The funny thing about "Coontie's" post was that he has never been here and actually worked with a salesman or sales manager with regards to his car purchase, yet he can use broad brush generalizations about Flow's sales process being equal to something with a broomstick. (shrug)
"Coontie" has admitted to taking advantage of the Saturday free car wash, which is reserved for sales customers. He also likes the free coffee, it is pretty good. These items also cost money, which comes from the sales, service, and parts departments.
Today, he asks us to post date the RO on his tire so he can buy tire insurance (elsewhere) to cover a nail in his tire, so he can get it replaced for free. Huh?
Lets be serious here folks. We're very concerned about our reputation and we're going to look into these kinds of posts seriously. We're 7 time Center of Excellence award winners and we have a lot of happy customers and his statements about our sales process are not deserved.
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i just bought an wrx 04 and is bone stock i watn to knw how can i make it sound like i have a bov but with out one i heard you can do this can anyone tell me how to doit? thanks
This is a discussion on how to get that wooosh/pssssss sound? within the General Maintenance, Troubleshooting & Accidents. forums, part of the Tech & Modifying & General Repairs category; i just bought an wrx 04 and is bone stock i watn to knw how can i make it sound ...
i just bought an wrx 04 and is bone stock i watn to knw how can i make it sound like i have a bov but with out one i heard you can do this can anyone tell me how to doit? thanks
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Just roll down windows and make the sound through a mega phone if you're trying to show off your sweet turbo
But seriously...
Best choice:
Leave stock BPV on and just remove intake silencer.
A little more sound with out all the problems of BOV's on the wrx.
how do i do that? take the silencer off the intake? and where can i buy a noise tip?
i think the megaphone idea would probably work best here... hahaha
lol this thread cracks me up...
just get an intake. i think it will give you the sound your looking for.
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yes CAI's are bad. but short rams arent depending on what kind you get. sorry guess I should have been more specific.
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abbigale : 06 impreza wrx tr: cobb stage II
Silencer delete will NOT create as pronounced a sound as an intake will. I deleted my silencer long ago (as well as a cat-less uppipe and downpipe) however it wasn't until installing my new Cobb SF intake that I really heard the stock bpv working. I would go with the Cobb intake. It won't mess with your MAF and you get the cool sound.
By the way, as stated previously, keep the stock bpv. Please.
Try not, do or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Just to clear things up: the whistle tip is a joke.
There are 3 ways to get this blow-off sound:
1) Remove the silencer. See the link posted by wrxtreme06. This takes about 20 minutes and costs nothing. I have done this on my car.
2) Buy an intake. You will get more noise than with #1 (as mentioned previously), but do your research as some intakes will affect the mass airflow sensor. I have also done this on my car, but I eventually removed the intake because I didn't want to risk engine damage.
3) Get a Blow-Off Valve (BOV). This is NOT recommended for stock or mildly modified cars because it can cause engine wear/damage. I have never done this.
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If you want a good woosh sound from the turbo get an intake and a catless downpipe you'll hear the the turbo spool up really well.
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