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Favorite Spice Blueberry Coffee Cake
16 comments:
- Federica said...
With spices, coffee and blueberry, this cake could become one of my favorites ^_^ Great combination. Bye, have a good day
- February 22, 2012 at 1:33 AM
- Lenia said...
Great looking cake!Have a lovely day,dear!
- February 22, 2012 at 1:56 AM
- Tina said...
I am just staring at this picture wondering what it is that makes this cake so moist, still cannot figure that out, but I sure would like a piece!
I have been shying away from the fresh berries recently because I got a moldy pack of raspberries the other day. You know you cannot see in the center by the way they pack them-very irritating.
Anyhow, your cake does look amazing and I do like the touch of spice you put in there-yum!
- February 22, 2012 at 4:23 AM
- Becky said...
This looks so yummy! blueberries and spice at 5 in the morning! I want some now.
- February 22, 2012 at 6:26 AM
- Ayşe said...
blueberries, lemon zest, cinnamon, nutmeg. this cake must be delicious!
- February 22, 2012 at 6:55 AM
- Greg said...
This sound marvelous. My wife grew up with a blueberry farm right next to her house, so they are one of her favorites. Her mom used to make coffee cake all of the time, but I don't ever remember a blueberry coffee cake. I'll have to make this for her.
- February 22, 2012 at 7:32 AM
- Jersey Girl Cooks said...
Yummy cake! My husband and daughter love anything blueberry so I will bookmark this.
- February 22, 2012 at 7:44 AM
- Jennifer said...
Love blueberries in cake - yum! Now you have me thinking. Have a great rest of the week! Jen
- February 22, 2012 at 5:15 PM
- Claudia said...
This looks grand - baked and unbaked! I still have blueberries from the summer - can you believe it? And I need a touch of summer in my life.
- February 22, 2012 at 5:55 PM
- Lizzy said...
Fabulous, Claudia!! So moist and perfect...and we're getting decent berries in the market...hooray!
- February 22, 2012 at 7:37 PM
- Vicki Bensinger said...
I have oatmeal with blueberries every morning for breakfast. This coffee cake would be a nice change of pace. Plus it looks so moist, it makes me salivate.
Thanks for sharing!
- February 22, 2012 at 8:25 PM
- Natasha Price said...
What a yummy cake, I would love to have a slice for breakfast!
- February 23, 2012 at 9:36 AM
- Rosita Vargas said...
Es mi favorita con esta excelente combinación va seguro a ganadora,una exquisitéz,abrazos hugs,hugs.
- February 23, 2012 at 11:46 AM
- Roxana GreenGirl {A little bit of everything} said...
this would make such a wonderful pair to my afternoon cup of tea
- February 24, 2012 at 8:49 PM
- Reeni said...
Blueberry cake is a favorite of mine! Wish I had a piece!
- February 24, 2012 at 9:50 PM
- Catherine said...
Dear Claudia, What a tempting looking blueberry cake. Blessings, Catherine xo
- February 25, 2012 at 4:00 PM


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ALEC, NRA Unite To Curtail State And Local Governments' Emergency Powers
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After law enforcement disarmed New Orleans residents as part of their effort to evacuate the city in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the National Rifle Association (NRA) teamed up with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) for a nationwide campaign to promote legislation in dozens of states banning governors and local officials from seizing firearms during emergencies.
The two groups similarly have worked in tandem to spread across the nation Florida-style "Kill at Will" self-defense laws as well as legislation allowing concealed carry permit holders to bring guns on college campuses.
In September 2005, less than a month after Katrina made landfall, NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre devoted his column to gun confiscation in the wake of the hurricane, describing it as "a tyranny that must be stopped -- never to happen again." He promised that the NRA would be "enacting laws to prohibit state and federal authorities from seizing firearms from innocent citizens under a state of emergency due to a natural disaster or terrorist attack."
On March 24, 2006, the NRA announced that several pieces of "NRA-Backed" legislation had been filed in advance of the start of the Louisiana legislature's session in order to "prevent the seizure and confiscation of legally-possessed firearms during a state of emergency." Five days later they trumpeted the introduction by then-Rep. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) of federal legislation "amending federal emergency statute laws to stop local authorities from confiscating lawfully owned firearms during times of disaster."
In the months that followed the NRA repeatedly touted both the federal and Louisiana legislation and urged their members to take action to ensure the passage of both. On June 12, 2006, the group celebrated and took credit when the Louisiana legislationwas signed into law.
The next month, ALEC's Civil Justice Task Force unanimously adopted a model Emergency Powers Firearm Owner Protection Act. The NRA termed the model bill "similar in concept" to Jindal's. Portions of that model legislation are also strikingly similar to Louisiana's law.
From Louisiana Act No. 275:
§329.6. Proclamation of state of emergency; conditions therefor; effect thereof...
(1) Nothing in this Section shall authorize the seizure or confiscation of any firearm or ammunition from any individual who is lawfully carrying or possessing the firearm or ammunition except as provided in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection.
(2) A peace officer who is acting in the lawful discharge of the officer's official duties may disarm an individual if the officer reasonably believes it is immediately necessary for the protection of the officer or another individual. The peace officer shall return the firearm to the individual before discharging that individual unless the officer arrests that individual for engaging in criminal activity, or seizes the firearm as evidence pursuant to an investigation for the commission of a crime.
From ALEC's model bill:
Section 2. {Prohibiting seizure of firearms during state of emergency}
Pursuant to the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution and [insert appropriate section referencing state right to keep and bear arms clause] of the Constitution of [insert state name], nothing under this or any other provision of law shall be construed to authorize the seizure or confiscation of a firearm or ammunition during a declared state of emergency or natural disaster except from a person who is unlawfully carrying or in unlawful possession of such firearm or ammunition.
Jindal's federal legislation was adopted through the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill.
ALEC's network of conservative legislators allowed similar bills to be introduced andpassed across the country. In February 2008 the Los Angeles Times reported that "at least 21" states had followed Louisiana in passing such legislation, which the Timeswrote "has been heavily promoted by" the NRA. This year alone, the NRA has pushed for such bills in Oklahoma, Maine, Colorado, Minnesota, and Virginia.
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In a rousing cry of "Go Cocks!" Dr. Donald L. Fowler brought graduates of the University of South Carolina's Saturday afternoon commencement ceremony to their feet.
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The Saturday afternoon ceremony was the third and final one for recipients of bachelor's and master's degrees and brought to a close a weekend of commencements on the Columbia campus.
Earlier in the day, Smithsonian Institution Secretary Wayne Clough addressed graduates from the College of Arts and Sciences, and S.C. Honors College. Fowler's address was directed to graduates of the College of Education; College of Engineering and Computing; College of Hospitality, Retail and Sport Management; Fort Jackson Military Base Program; Interdisciplinary Programs; School of Music; College of Social Work; and Palmetto Programs.


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If you've enjoyed the southern charm of Fannie Flagg or The Secret Life of Bees, you'll find The Help a delight. Miss Eugenia Phelan ("Skeeter" to her friends) is a young woman of privilege who enjoys her fellow Junior Leaguers but sometimes finds their ways at odds with her own principles. She plays the part of her station in 1960s Mississippi but can't help feeling dissatisfied with keeping house and acting as recording secretary at league meetings, and yearns for something more.
Minny, Miss Celia, Aibileen, and Yule May are maids employed by Skeeter's friends. Each woman cooks, cleans, and cares for her boss's children, suffering slights and insults silently and sharing household secrets only among themselves. In the wake of the Junior League push to create separate bathrooms for the domestic help within private homes, Skeeter contacts a New York book editor with an idea. Soon she's conducting clandestine meetings with "the help" to capture their stories for publication. It is a daring and foolhardy plan, one certain to endanger not only the positions but the lives of the very women whose stories she transcribes -- as well as her own.
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Ishmael Reed on 'Juice!'By J. D. Mitchell
Seventy-three-year-old Ishmael Reed has been a major figure in American letters for more than four decades. In April, Dalkey Archive published Juice!, Reed's first novel in more than fifteen years. Juice! tells the story of a struggling African American cartoonist whose personal and professional life is disrupted by the media frenzy surrounding the O. J. Simpson murder trial. Earlier this summer, Reed, who is based in Oakland, California, responded to some of my questions about his latest work.
Juice! is your first novel since 1993. What inspired you to write another novel after all these years?
I began this one as soon as I heard about the murders. I was vacationing in Hawaii, and the murders ruined my vacation. The media went berserk over the murder of Nicole Simpson, the kind of ideal white woman—a Rhine maiden—one finds in Nazi art and propaganda, murdered allegedly by a black beast. It was a story that reached into the viscera of the American unconscious, recalling the old Confederate art of the black boogeyman as an incubus squatting on top of a sleeping, half-clad white woman. It was also an example of collective blame. All black men became O. J. The murders ignited a kind of hysteria.
Juice! does not have a conventional structure. The novel incorporates courtroom documents, television transcripts, and pieces of visual art. It also plays around quite a bit with time. What gave rise to the novel's peculiar shape?
I try to experiment. Writing a conventional novel would be boring for me. In this novel, I added cartoons. Cartoons were probably my introduction to storytelling as a child, because on Sundays we got The Chattanooga Times, and I'd read the funnies. A publisher wanted to publish Juice! but decided that the cartoons weren't up to par. So, at the age of seventy, I studied at the Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco, and the cartoons improved so much that I now do political cartoons for The San Francisco Chronicle's blog, City Brights. Read More


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(TMZ) - Kris and Bruce Jenner may have split, but hey, business is business - TMZ learned not only will they continue shooting "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," the separation will become a major plot line of season 9.
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Sources connected with the show tell TMZ ... on Tuesday, after announcing the separation, Bruce went off to shoot scenes with Kylie and Kendall.
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This section provides only basic information about the juvenile court process. Make sure you talk to a lawyer if your child has been arrested. Click for help finding a lawyer. If you want more information about the case against your child and the case is in juvenile court, your child's juvenile court case file is confidential. Certain parties directly connected to the case may have access to a juvenile court file, as do the lawyers involved. In certain circumstances, the court may order access to a juvenile court file. If the case is in family court, the file is not confidential and can be obtained through the court clerk's office.
A petition asks the court to get involved. It says what the state thinks your child did. It is the judge's job to decide if the petition is true.
There are 2 kinds of petitions:
You have the right to get a copy of the petition. It says what your child is accused of. It does not mean your child is guilty. Make sure you read the petition carefully so you know what your child is being charged with.
Once you receive the petition, you will also receive a notice that tells you about first hearing, called a "detention hearing."
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See Going to Court to read more information about how to prepare for a court hearing.
Jurisdiction hearing
Often a child will admit to doing some of what he or she is accused of. The lawyer will talk to your child about what he or she should say in court.
If there is a trial (disposition hearing), the district attorney will make a case against your child. Then your child's lawyer will present the defense. The judge will then decide if your child did what he or she is accused of.
If there is enough evidence to find that your child did what he or she is accused of, the judge will make a "true finding." Then the judge will set a time for a disposition hearing to decide on your child's punishment. (The disposition hearing can be scheduled for later on the same day as the jurisdiction hearing.)
If there is not enough evidence to say your child committed the crime, the case will be dismissed. If this happens, your child will be set free and released from lockup.
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The victim can go to the disposition hearing and speak to the court. The victim (and the parents if the victim is a child) will get a notice about the hearing.
The probation officer will write a report to tell the judge about your child. The judge will get this report at the disposition hearing.
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The 1969 model of the Corvette was not a revolutionary design, nor did it have any new features that changed the automotive industry. The decade-ender model saw minor changes that owners of the previous year's designs had wanted.
The steering wheel was trimmed down to allow for more leg room and the doors were slightly redesigned to allow for a half inch of added shoulder room. The ignition was shifted from the dash to the steering column.
The model also changed from the Shark to the Stingray. The 1969 Corvette featured hidden windshield wipers beneath a power pop-up panel. Engine alterations, on the other hand, were more obvious. The famed small-block was boosted to offer 350 cubic inches of displacement. The big-block 427s returned unchanged, with ratings of 390 to 435 horsepower.
Despite continued criticism from the press for its dismal quality, styling eccentricities and overall lack of finesse, Corvette sales jumped in 1969, rising by more than 10,000 units to 38,762.


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Big Pharma bails on U.S. to avoid taxes
"How is that we hear the loudest yelps about liberty from the drivers of negroes?" British pamphleteer Samuel Johnson wondered acidly in 1775 about the American colonists who complained about the heavy yoke of taxation. (The pamphlet was entitled Taxation No Tyranny.)
Today, we might ask how it is that we hear the loudest yelps about the danger of high federal taxes from companies whose business relies in part on… federal tax payments.
It would seem like a self-defeating move for a government contractor to become a tax exile. But, in effect, that's what the drug giant Pfizer is aiming to do.
Pfizer is undertaking an audacious $100 billion bid for rival AstraZeneca. The rationale for the deal? Pfizer, like many giant pharmaceutical companies, has been struggling in recent years. Patents on key drugs like Lipitor have expired, and it is increasingly difficult (and expensive) to create or buy new blockbusters. Pfizer's revenue fell 6 percent last year.
Merging with another giant would boost revenue for Pfizer, and set the stage for another epic round of cost-cutting. And it would provide an opportunity for the New York-based company to save a ton of money on taxes. Why? AstraZeneca is based in the U.K., which has a substantially lower corporate tax rate than the U.S. By executing an "inversion," Pfizer would effectively renounce its American citizenship and thus slash its annual tax bill significantly. As Jesse Drucker and Zachary Mider of Bloomberg noted, "the U.K. corporate tax rate is 21 percent—next year dropping to 20 percent—compared with 35 percent in the U.S." Last year, (see page 77 of this report) Pfizer had to set aside about $2.26 billion for federal U.S. income taxes.
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Brevard College summer soccer camps announcedMarch 31, 2010
Two camps will be held in Brevard in July
Brevard, N.C. - Brevard College head soccer coaches Juan Mascaro and Shigeyoshi Shinohara are pleased to announce the dates for the 2010 summer soccer camps.
The camps will be held on the campus of Brevard College on the Brevard College Soccer Field, located directly behind Boshamer Gymnasium.
Two camps will be offered, with the first being a Day Camp for boys and girls ages 8 to 14 years old. The Day Camp will start on Monday, July 12th, and will run until Thursday, July 15th, with an emphasis on teaching the techniques of soccer, while having fun playing. Campers will be taught passing, receiving, heading, dribbling, shooting and touching the ball as much as possible for the four-day camp.
The second camp offered is the Residential Team Camp for both male and female athletes, ages of 10 to 18. The camp will take place starting on Sunday, July 25th, and running until Wednesday, July 28th.
Players and coaches will meet in sessions twice a day with the sessions emphasizing ball controlling, passing, 1-on-1 attacking and defending, as well as group defending, group attacking and other tactical aspects of the game.
The residential camp is an overnight camp in which the players will stay in a dorm on Brevard College, with boys assigned on one floor and girls on another floor.
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Lollapalooza 2013 Lineup revealed!
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The highly anticipated lineup for Lollapalooza 2013 is here! Fresh off an amazing weekend at Lollapalooza Brazil, the lineup for the US festival has been revealed. Lollapalooza 2013 takes place August 2nd-4th at Grant Park in Chicago, Ill.
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Police release descriptions of Calling singer's alleged attackers
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More details surrounding the assault on Calling frontman Alex Band are coming to light as police continue to investigate the incident.
According to "The County Press," officers in Lapeer, Michigan - where Band was allegedly attacked and robbed Sunday morning - are looking for a trio of suspects.
The Lapeer City Police Department's descriptions of the three men are relatively generic, although one is described as a "very polite and apologetic" white male. Another suspect is described as a white male with a scruffy beard and possibly armed with a gun, while the third man, who was supposedly driving the group's minivan, is described only as a male with a "darker complexion."
A statement from the Lapeer City Police Department says the investigation is ongoing, with officers currently conducting interviews with potential witnesses. TMZ reports the cops are also combing through surveillance footage.
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Facing Friday the 13th
(Cleveland) - For some people, Friday the 13th is not just like any other day. Experts say more than 20-million people are afraid of this so-called "unlucky" day.
Dr. Scott Bea is a clinical psychologist at Cleveland Clinic. He says there are a lot of reasons people fear Friday the 13th, but it starts with superstition.
"People who are anxious or fearful of Friday the 13th are just not going to tempt fate. They'd rather avoid than risk it, and here's the other thing that happens, if something bad does happen on Friday the 13th it quickly gets assigned that it happened on Friday the 13th," says Dr. Bea.
Dr. Bea says superstitions begin when two events that are unrelated get connected somehow and then endorsed by other people.
The "unluckiness" of the number 13 goes way back, even to the Last Supper where Judas was the thirteenth and last guest invited.
Friday was also "hanging" day in the 17th century, so that may be where the connection is made.
In any case, people will avoid flying on Friday the 13th, not many homes are bought on this day, and you won't find too many "Friday the 13th" wedding anniversaries.
Dr. Bea says you should not let your fear get the best of you. A good way to overcome it is to face it head-on.
"Write the number 13 on a piece of paper stick it in your pocket and walk around all day with it. That would actually endorse your fearlessness in the face of that fear rather than trying to play it safe," says Dr. Bea.
On the flip side, if you consider Friday the 13th, or the number 13 lucky, you're probably more of a risk-taker or thrill-seeker. You'll also tend to trust in yourself rather than the superstition.
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Man Declared Dead in 1986 Found Alive
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(NEWSER) – In 1977, a man went missing after a barn fire in Ontario; in 1986, with no sign of him, authorities declared Ronald Stan dead. Turns out they were wrong: He has now turned up again after decades, and he's living in Oklahoma, CTV reports.
Stan went missing at age 32. He's now known as Jeff Walton, and he's 69, CTV notes. Police say they can't offer information as to why he went missing. "I'm still trying to put all the puzzle pieces together myself," Walton's son, Jeff Jr., tells the Toronto Star. Walton Jr. learned of his father's previous identity this month from police; his stepmother hadn't known, either.
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May, R-Phils one-hit Flying Squirrels
Phillies top prospect allows lone single over six innings
By Ashley Marshall / Special to MLB.com | April 25, 2012 6:44 PM ET
The Phillies' top prospect allowed a lone single over six innings and J.C. Ramirez and Tyson Brummett shut the door the rest of the way Wednesday as Double-A Reading one-hit the Richmond Flying Squirrels, 1-0.
"I wouldn't say I've figured out Double-A, but it is nice to get off on the right foot," said May, whose 208 strikeouts over 151 1/3 Florida State League innings last season ranked third in the Minors.
"They say the jump from High-A to Double-A is the biggest. I know things won't always go right, so I have to keep an even keel about everything. I still have 23 or 24 more starts left this year."
The 22-year-old right-hander retired his first nine batters before walking Giants top prospect Gary Brown leading off fourth. Juan Perez broke up May's no-hit bid an inning later with a one-out single to left field, but he was thrown out trying to steal second base.
In hindsight, May would have liked the pitch to Perez back. But a one-hitter isn't as important as a team victory, he said.
"It was a first-pitch fastball," said May, who fanned at least one batter in every inning after from the first. "I was trying to get ahead away, but I left it middle-in. My scouting report told me that was his pitch -- nobody dislikes middle-in -- but I made a mistake. I would rather not throw it, but I was happy with how things went.
"I was confident, I stuck to my game plan and I established myself early by throwing strikes. I have no idea at the time that I was [part of a one-hitter]. It was probably in the past 10 years, maybe high school. You know when you haven't given up any hits because it doesn't happen too often, but the biggest zero I was concerned about was the runs."
May allowed just one other baserunner -- Chris Heston drew a one-walk walk in the sixth -- before turning a 1-0 lead over to the bullpen.
Ramirez worked around a walk in two innings and Brummett, a 2007 seventh-round pick, tossed a perfect ninth for his first save since the 2010 season.
"J.C. didn't pitch that well the last time he faced this team, but he has been working on some stuff and his breaking stuff was on point tonight," May said. "And Brummett just has nasty stuff."
The outing was the finest of May's four Eastern League appearances and lowered his ERA to 2.35. Over 23 innings, he's scattered 12 hits while striking out 26.
After allowing four runs against Portland in his season debut, the Washington native has settled down. He yielded a run on four hits over seven innings in a 4-1 win over Harrisburg on April 12, then followed that up by limiting Richmond to a run on four hits over five frames in a 19-6 rout five days later.
May became the seventh pitcher in the Minors -- the first in the Eastern League -- to win each of his first four starts this season.
"We had two off days and then a rainout in the middle of my rest days, but it didn't feel like I had eight days between starts," the 2008 fourth-round pick said. "They're all running together. You can't complain about being able to rest your arms and legs.
"This is my fourth season in full-season ball, so I know how long the season is."
Reading's Steve Susdorf went 3-for-3 to raise his average to .349 and Tug Hulett -- who's hitless in 24 at-bats, plated the game's lone run with a second-inning sacrifice fly.
Richmond starter Chris Heston (1-2) took the loss after allowing an unearned run on six hits while fanning seven over seven innings.
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Florida Georgia Line's Brian Kelley getting tattoo honoring 'Cruise'
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Florida Georgia Line's Brian Kelley has found a permanent way to commemorate the success of the duo's breakthrough hit, "Cruise." He's getting a tattoo.
Brian says he believes bandmate Tyler Hubbard plans to get inked as well. He adds that they might get matching tattoos, but they haven't settled on that idea just yet.
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I wasn't sure where to post this.
This is all in relation to a 90 degree v8
I am looking for the highest frequency/note/tone/pitch I can get. I very much enjoy the higher, crisper, cleaner sound the european v8 makes. I hate with a passion the rumble of the harley/dumptruck American v8. I have heard flowmasters on these cars. I don't know if it was the particular flowmaster series or what. But that m3 was a dumptruck. I am trying to avoid that.
I do not need to be informed about flatplane cranks vs crossplane.
I am lost in design at this point. I have a few options as I see it, x pipe, headers, and muffler designs.
Maserati has used ferrari engines since they were bought out by fiat. They use a cross plane crankshaft instead of a flat plane. They also use tri-y headers factory and an x pipe further back toward the mufflers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...ons]Ferrari/Maserati engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a similar snarl that the Corsa gives the Domestic V8
GranTurismo Exhaust Note! - YouTube
http://www.atzonline.com/index...2a814fd6b316776454]A New V8 Engine Powers the Maserati GranTurismo S - ATZ online
x pipe
http://www.ebay.com/itm/08-Maserati-...#vi-content]08 Maserati Gran Turismo 4.2 complete exhaust mufflers silencers | eBay
The illustration shows Exh mani as a 4 into 1 design, shorty, primaries appear to be equal length. X pipe is a ways downstream
same 136 engine only the tipo f136 has a flat plane.
Italia Exhaust Sound!! Lovely Downshifts! - 1080p HD - YouTube
the alfa uses the same cross plane motor as the maserati. very similar. I am sure the slight differences of video quality and the bends in the exhaust that differ between the two can attest to the very slight difference in sound.- still sounds like a domestic with corsa's and an x pipe.
Romeo 8C Competizione Sound!! - 1080p HD - YouTube
How about we turn to something that takes a traditional 90 degree motor (with itbs, dohc heads, and di) that uses tri-y headers and an x pipe factory.
The s65 bmw motor is a lovely motor.
sounds like a small block chev on the dyno to me, buts its the bmw m3 s65 v8.
BMW Engine Dyno - YouTube
compare that to this full exhaust system by ipe f1
M3 Exhaust Compilation - YouTube
and lastly compare those to this
M3 - Megan exhaust - YouTube
there really has to be more to it than the natural sound of the motor... I would agree that it is more than JUST one thing.
"The crank pin offset is 90°, and for design reasons, a cylinder firing order of 1-5-4-8-7-2-6-3 was chosen
for the S65, instead of the typical 1-5-4-8-6-3-7-2 firing order more commonly employed in other BMW V8 engines."
if you can make some sense of that- its odd "Cylinder numbering is 1 through 4 on passenger (right) side and 5 through 8 on driver (left) side. numbers 1 and 5 are at the front, 4 and 8 are at the rear."
Apparently, the fireing order is the same as the BMW Sauber F1 team v8.
check out this s65 header. looks like a tri-y to me.
The x pipe from the above video.
I think the only reason that the ipe f1 exhaust is higher has to be that x pipe design. which is shown in the following link
(not to scale dims) Note the taper of the x pipe and the hole that makes the air pass through a smaller opening on two ends. If you look very close at the x pipe design, its ALMOST as if its two x pipes in one.
Now one thing to consider is the are resonators that cancel out particular noise. this is what Corsa mufflers do. The have chambers in the mufflers (which is more like an instrument than a traditional muffler) that are helmholtz resonators that are VERY small. They shoot for 3 particular resonate frequencies to cancel out. Now one thing about frequency is that it peaks, there is a range at the peak. The range will depend on many things and without actual testing it is not possible to know the range with math (that i am aware of to date).
In use on an exhaust system
Now if you actually understand the above link you will see that they are utilizing a Helmholtz Resonator and then packing around it with fiberglass to bring down the vibration(vibration of any kind will bring the volume of the devise up- so this muffles it).
the purpous of a "muffler" is to MUFFLE sound not change the actual tone.
the corsa i wouldn't even call a muffler per say. I would say it is more similar to the dr. gas freq mod, but a better design.
http://freqmod.drgas.com/%5DFreqMod]...s.com/]FreqMod Mufflers
corsa cut away
I should also note that ferrari motors that have a 180 crankshaft do not require an x pipe to merge the exhaust pules efficiently because they already do that naturally with the design of the crankshaft (and firing order of course that goes along with it).
oh as for the 180 header. I suppose I should post this- one of many, videos of a sbc with 180s sounding exotic as they do. The kelmarks, grant gts, and many other cars use these headers as well (gt40s too).
I did forget to mention that (as far as i know) all inline 4s use a flat plane crankshaft.
with 180 Degree Headers - YouTube
The complete setup of the engine.
4.060 bore (3.25 stroke) inches
team g intake single plane manifold
jegs 195cc intake port, 64cc chamber heads aluminum strait plug
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the cam will be setup for the intake/heads/headers that are selected in the end result. The cam will put the engine in the 3000rpm-7000rpm range and a redline of 7500, albeit will be designed around the intake/heads/headers flow etc.
The compression will be at 10.5:1, so as to utilize pump gas.
Forged crankshaft (small journal block, two bolt) cross plane style crank shaft I am not going to swap in a 180 crank (flat plane) as per Ferrari spec much too much work and $$ to do such a thing.
I have decided I should pony up for 6" rods
the rockers are at a 1.6 ratio.
The engine is designed around the fact that I wanted a specific rpm range, the car is very light and tires are very limited. The max tread width I could find in the max rim size available was 8.5 inches. The section width of the tires are 245mm. The rim itself when measured end to end was 240mm. The car will weigh in at about 2800lbs. The donor car is a 1978 Datsun 280z five speed which is going through a sbc v8 conversion. The drivetrain (axles, transmission, and differential) that are available can hold to the hp (which I realize is tq(rpm)/5252). So the rpm of the motor has been raised to the 7000rpm mark to best match the transmission ratios and differential ratio as well as to produce more peak hp than low end tq. Too much tq will just cause the tires to spin and cause premature part failure.
Now- I just read this entire thread.
Here is a copy of the post I made that I was told to start a new thread about.
SO, after reading all of this. I have some questions, some of them I am aware that they were already answered- though to me, they were not 100% clear.
1. "the whole idea is to have the sound wave bounce off the end of the tube and come back 180 degrees out of phase with the original wave thus canceling the resonance. A "1/2 wave tube" would reinforce the resonance - exactly the opposite of the effect being sought. " This statement was made by Michael Y.
I get this statement. One thing for me in particular, I DO NOT care about drone. I care to eliminate particular frequencies, and I care about reinforcing the frequencies that I want. That being said if I had one quarter wave resonator for canceling out the frequency undesired, and then a "half wave resonator" to reinforce the frequencies I want- would they somehow negatively affect each other?
2. It was stated that the frequency canceled (in hz) will not only be canceled at "X" rpm but at higher rpms as well. To me this sounds like what happens when increasing the cfm that, like an instrument, will cause the over-blow effect bringing the frequency up in octaves which then will cancel out out the frequency in higher octaves as well.
Is this statement correct? As I don't care about drone, which is rpm specific, and I care about the actual frequencies that end up coming out of the exhaust tip, no matter the rpm. For esthetic purposes alone for my personal application
3. People appear to be using phone "apps" to measure the DB and the HTZ of the sound of the exhaust. Is there another device (not a phone) I could purchase that does this same thing? If so what is said device called so I can run and go get one?
4. How do I tell which frequencies I do or do not want once they have been analyzed seeing that for me I, again, don't care about drone and this is not rpm specific?
5. Did we ever really have an answer for the heat problem to determine the speed of sound in the device? One thing to note. All engines are different because of the tune, the octane level and many other factors. These will all effect the engine exhaust temperature to a varying degree. Although I think there maybe a close average of what the exhaust temperature could be assumed to be for a performance engine running on pump gas (87-93 octane) that has been warmed up to operating temp and assuming a 65-70 degrees Fahrenheit ambient temperature. That temp was picked because most of us drive fast cars in the summer and we live in America where we do not use Celsius terribly often. Also on a personal note I live in Mn. Daily average summer temperatures in Minnesota range from the low 70s (22 °C) in the south to the mid 60s °F (19 °C) in the north.
6.What is the agreed upon SIMPLE formula (regardless of the final end cap tuning needed) to determine the dimensions of this device? Also I found very little information in the thread in regards to the diameter. As in if and how it makes a difference in the final product of the device. Ie:2 inch dia vs a 3 inch dia vs a 1/4 inch dia.
7. If you go back to the thread that i posted (and now that i understand way more about this because there is some actual genius in this thread) these statements were made.
"That is simply a low-frequency tuning element which has no flow passing through it. Corsa is attenuating frequencies in the sub-200 Hz range to keep its claim to fame of no cabin drone. The simplest possiblity is that it's a Helmholtz tuner with relatively broad tuning due to a short, large diameter throat. The more complicated possibility is it incorporates the convoluted Corsa quarter-wave tuner maze-like device inside the oval shell. Either way, it's a high-pass filter for the purposes of eliminating drone and an "exotic" sound.
The Dinan E92 M3 mufflers that you posted the tech writeup for go one step further with absorptive tuning after the Helmholtz tuning. If you want a more civilized sound, the absorptive tuning will hit the 500+ Hz range. But, after watching FFT plots on my phone during v8 Ferrari clips on youtube, this is exactly the frequency range you seem to desire more of."
He claims that the 500+ range is what I am after.
Can I get rid of everything under the 500 plus range? Also, from my understanding of how frequency signal works- it peaks. At that peak it s not just one frequency it is a slight range. Is there a way to calculate that range?
He goes further into saying this;
"As for the calculations surround the quarter-wave tuner, you're in luck because it's simply an open-closed duct. Peak transmission loss will occur at the duct resonance frequencies, f=nc/4L, where c=speed of sound, L=length, n=1,3,5 (odd numbers). This only leaves you to figure out the exhaust gas temperature where you plan to install the tuner and the frequencies that you desire to attenuate.
For instance, at a local gas temperature of 350 deg C, the local speed of sound will be 500 m/s. For a length of 1 m, the lowest transmission loss peak frequency will be (1*500)/(4*1)=125 Hz. The next peak will be at (3*500/4*1)=375 Hz.
If Corsa claims they're only targeting 3 frequencies, that would mean there's only one quarter-wave tuner in the maze device that hides inside their flow-through mufflers. I have reason to believe they're targeting the 210-240, 630-720 Hz, and 1050-1200 Hz ranges. This lets you hear lots of 4th and 8th order content at mid-high rpm (350-500 Hz and 800-950 Hz)."
"n=1,3,5 (odd numbers)"
what is n? and why is it only odd numbers?
"If Corsa claims they're only targeting 3 frequencies"
based on what is he coming up with this?
"This lets you hear lots of 4th and 8th order content"
what does he mean by the "order content" and 4th? 8th?
8. Lastly- How could this device be used with performance in mind as mentioned in this thread on the intake side? I would like to see how this could be helped whilst using a single plane intake and a single carburetor setup. As you could postulate, that is what my engine has. Also I have seen threads in regarding g35s using "VHR Advanced Resonance Tuning Test Pipes " and apparently seeing a difference in tq (and seeing that hp is a function of tq...), minimal but still. The same can be said for the Ferrari F1 team, they are using a Helmholtz res on their exhaust. This tells me that perhaps the resonance is affecting the engine harmonics in a way that is positive in nature?
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Is there a simple fix for this - I tried using "mount" but got another error something like "not a block device" -
Anyone else seen this?
Of course, if you really wanted to have some fun, go to Wal-Mart late at night and ask the greeter if they could help you find trashbags, roll of carpet, rope, quicklime, clorox and a shovel. See if they give you any strange looks. --Streaker69
The problem is most likely the HAL dameon. If you are running as root it may not be starting properly and if you created a new use you need to make sure the user is part of the plugdev group.
This happens to me all the time. All I have to do is hit the "refresh" and it mounts properly. Maybe it's a problem with the timing of the mount.
This didn't happen in BT2.


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Episode : The Economics of Sleep, Part 1. It's well-established that a lack of sleep can impair our cognitive function. Sleep loss has also been linked to adverse physical outcomes like weight gain and, increasingly, more serious maladies. Is it possible that lack of sleep can even explain the income gap? http://goo.gl/aWdZ6x #Podcasts #FullPodcastAvailable
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'"I think Hitch is right," Ruff said yesterday in the wake of the Sabres' 8-2 win over the Flyers Monday, giving Buffalo a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference quarter-final. "I've got to focus on my team and how I want them to play. And that's where it's all going to lie."'
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'After learning Tuesday that roughly two-thirds of GMs would have preferred to see a suspension in the case, Shanahan acknowledged that his mandate had been altered. "I think there's certainly a very heightened sensitivity to the goalies and the future of all the goalies in this league," he said. "Certainly they're not fair game. I think that players have to understand that. The general managers expressed to me the importance of all the players on the ice but also the extreme importance of the goaltender in that position."'
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UK Hoops Signee Harper Invited to U19 World Championship Team Trials
May 7, 2013
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Kentucky women's basketball signee Linnae (La-NAY) Harper is one of 34 top athletes in the country age 19-years-old or younger (born on or after Jan. 1, 1994), who have accepted invitations to participate in the 2013 USA Basketball U19 World Championship Team trials, USA Basketball today announced. Trials to select the 12-member USA squad will be held May 16-19 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center (USOTC) in Colorado Springs, Colo. Invitations to the trials were issued by the USA Basketball Junior National Team Committee.
Harper, a 5-foot-8 guard from Chicago and a former teammate of current Wildcat Janee Thompson at Whitney Young High School, is no stranger to USA Basketball. She won gold medals as a member of the 2012 USA U17 World Championship Team and the 2011 FIBA Americas U16 Championship Team. She also was awarded an honorary bronze medal in the inaugural 2011 FIBA 3x3 U18 World Championship.
Harper is ranked as the nation's No. 5 prospect and No. 2 guard according to ESPN.com, the highest-ranked recruit in UK Hoops history. During her prep career, Harper played for four city championship teams and four Class 4A state-qualifying teams. She led Whitney Young to the 4A Illinois state championship title in 2012 and a third-place finish in Class 4A in 2013. Harper was named to both the McDonald's All-American team and Women's Basketball Coaches Association All-American team after averaging 19.0 points, 9.8 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 2.0 steals per game during her senior season. She was one of five finalists for the Naismith High School Player of the Year award — the only underclassmen to ever be nominated, and was the Chicago Sun-Times Player of the Year. She also was a three-time Illinois Basketball Coaches Association 3A/4A All-State first team member. Harper chose Kentucky over Tennessee, Miami, Ohio State and UCLA.
"This group has a nice nucleus with some former gold medal winners in the mix and some new candidates that will allow us to field a very competitive team," said committee chair Jim Foster, who has been a member of nine different USA Basketball coaching staffs.
"I think it's a fantastic, dynamic, diverse group for international play," said USA and University of Miami head coach Katie Meier. "The committee understands the important parts of what it takes to win internationally. There's a lot of great and versatile size in this group, some really dynamic players who can do a lot of special things from 20-feet in. This is a really exciting, athletic group who are also very, very skilled. That's a real sign for the growth of our game throughout the country, that the U19s have this level of skill.
"This is going to be a very competitive trials. We've got a lot to play for, and the young ladies who have already won gold have already proven how competitive they are. But, I think there will be another sense of, absolutely, nothing is given. There's no automatic 'you're going to make the team.' That's obvious. We don't even have enough slots for everyone who's won a gold medal, and then you look at the rest of the talent who's coming in hungry for their first chance to win gold. We're going to see a very, very high level of competition and probably some of the best scrimmages we've ever seen."
Six members of the 2012 USA U18 National Team that earned the USA its 2013 FIBA U19 World Championship berth are returning to compete for a spot on the 2013 USA U19 World Championship Team – as is the coaching staff. Assisting Meier and the U19 squad are collegiate head coaches Nikki Caldwell of Louisiana State University and Kelly Graves of Gonzaga University. Additionally, American University head coach Matt Corkery, University of Wisconsin head coach Bobbie Kelsey and University of Tulsa head coach Matilda Mossman will serve as court coaches during the trials.
Accepting invitations to participate in the trials were: Jordan Adams (Southern California / Irvine, Calif.); Candice Agee (Penn State / Victorville, Calif.); Jillian Alleyne (Oregon / Fontana, Calif.); Ameryst Alston (Ohio State / Canton, Ohio); Shacobia Barbee (Georgia / Mufreesboro, Tenn.); Amber Campbell (Northwood Academy / Charleston, S.C.); Oderah Chidom (Bishop O'Dowd H.S. / Oakland, Calif.); Nia Coffey (Hopkins H.S. / Minneapolis, Minn.); Kendall Cooper (St. Anthony's H.S. / Carson, Calif.); Rebekah Dahlman (Braham Area H.S. / Braham, Minn.); Kaela Davis (Buford H.S. / Suwanee, Ga.); Amber Deane (Dayton / Lathrup Village, Mich.); Lia Galdeira (Washington State / Kamuela, Hawaii); Bashaara Graves (Tennessee / Clarksville, Tenn.); Gabby Green (St. Mary's College H.S. / Oakland, Calif.); Tiaria Griffin (Georgia / Monticello, Miss.); Linnae Harper (Whitney Young H.S. / Chicago, Ill.); Moriah Jefferson (Connecticut / Glenn Heights, Texas); Alexis Jones (Duke / Irving, Texas); Brittney Martin (Oklahoma State / Syracuse, Utah); Stephanie Mavunga (Brownsburg H.S. / Indianapolis, Ind.); Xylina McDaniel (North Carolina / Columbia, S.C.); Sydney Moss (Florida / Union, Ky.); Kelsey Plum (La Jolla Country Day / Poway, Calif.); Jordan Reynolds (Central Catholic H.S. / Portland, Ore.); Tyler Scaife (Little Rock Hall H.S. / Little Rock, Ark.); Ieshia Small (Florida State University H.S. / Tallahassee, Fla.); Breanna Stewart (Connecticut / North Syracuse, N.Y.); Brittney Sykes (Syracuse / Newark, N.J.); Morgan Tuck (Connecticut / Bolingbrook, Ill.); Brianna Turner (Manvel H.S. / Pearland, Texas); Courtney Walker (Texas A&M / Edmond, Okla.); Marqu'es Webb (Hoover H.S. / Montgomery, Ala.) and A'ja Wilson (Heathwood Hall H.S / Hopkins, S.C.).
Stewart is the most experienced USA Basketball alum attending trials. The MVP of the 2012 FIBA Americas U18 Championship and member of the five-member 2009 All-FIBA U19 World Championship Tournament Team, Stewart has helped USA squads earn gold at the 2010 U17 and 2011 U19 FIBA World Championships, as well as the 2009 U16 and 2012 U18 FIBA Americas Championships. Further, the 2011 USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year was the lone high school athlete on the 2011 USA Pan American Games Team.
In addition to Stewart; Agee, Cooper, Graves, Jefferson and Tuck were members of the 2012 USA U18 National Team that captured the FIBA Americas U18 Championship to secure a berth to this summer's competition.
Also winning gold for the USA in 2012 were Chidom, Davis, Harper and Turner as members of the 2012 USA U17 World Championship Team; while Davis and Turner earned a second gold medal last summer at the FIBA 3x3 U18 World Championship.
Returning from the most recent USA U19 squad that captured gold at the 2011 FIBA U19 World Championship are Adams, Jones, Stewart and Tuck.
Davis, Harper and Mavunga teamed up to help the U.S. win gold at the 2011 FIBA Americas U16 Championship. Davis and Harper competed later that summer in the inaugural FIBA 3x3 U18 World Championship and after falling to Italy in overtime of the semifinal with just two healthy players on the court and being forced to forfeit in the bronze medal game due to a lack of players, were awarded an honorary bronze medal by FIBA.
In 2010 Adams, Graves, Stewart and Tuck were members of the gold medal-winning USA U17 World Championship Team; while Jones captured gold that summer at the FIBA Americas U18 Championship.
Adams, Graves and Stewart earned their first gold medal with USA Basketball at the 2009 FIBA Americas U16 Championship.
In addition to the 13 gold medalists attending the USA U19 trials, 10 athletes have participated in a USA Basketball trials previously, including Alson, Coffey, Dahlman, Green, McDaniel, Plum, Reynolds, Scaife, Small and Sykes.
The USA squad, which is on a quest to capture a fifth-consecutive gold medal at the U19 Worlds, will compete in the 2013 FIBA U19 World Championship, hosted by Lithuania from July 18-28 in Klaipeda and Panevė?ys. The team will regroup for training on July 1 at the USOTC prior to traveling to Europe for the competition.
The FIBA U19 Worlds will feature 16 teams with athletes 19-years-old or younger. While Lithuania earned an automatic berth to the tournament as host, the remaining 15 nations were determined by the five FIBA zone qualifiers in 2012. In addition to the U.S., nations qualified out of the FIBA Americas zone include Brazil (silver medalist), Argentina (bronze medalist) and Canada (fourth place). Senegal (gold medalist) and Mali (silver medalist) will represent FIBA Africa; advancing from FIBA Asia are China (gold medalist), Japan (silver medalist) and South Korea (bronze medalist); Australia took FIBA Oceania's spot after wining the best-of-three series against New Zealand; while FIBA Europe will be represented by France (gold medalist), Russia (silver medalist), Serbia (bronze medalist), Netherlands (fourth place) and Spain (fifth place).
Drawn into Group D, the U.S. will play its preliminary and second round games in Panevė?ys, and opens against Lithuania on July 18, followed by China on July 19 and caps the preliminary round against Mali on July 20.
The top three finishing teams from each first-round group will advance to the second round, held July 22-24. The 12 nations qualifying for the second round will be divided into Groups E and F. Each team will play the three new teams in its new group, with all results of games played in the preliminary round carrying over to determine the second-round standings.
Teams finishing in first through fourth places in the second round will qualify for the quarterfinals, with the opportunity to advance to the semifinals and finals. The medal round will be played in Klaipeda, with the quarterfinals held on July 26, semifinals slated for July 27 and the gold medal game on July 28.
Current collegiate athletes invited to participate in the 2013 USA U19 World Championship Team trials are eligible and may also be considered for the 2013 USA World University Games Team. Trials for both teams will take place in staggered sessions May 16-19. The 2013 World University Games women's basketball competition is scheduled for July 8-15 in Kazan, Russia.
Chaired by NCAA representative Jim Foster, the 2013-16 USA Basketball Women's Junior National Team Committee includes NCAA appointees Melanie Balcomb (head coach, Vanderbilt University), Lindsay Gottlieb (head coach, University of California) and Joi Williams (head coach, UCF), as well as athlete representative Kara Lawson, a 2008 Olympic gold medalist who has played on nine USA Basketball teams.


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Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs
Remarks by Secretary Eric K. Shinseki
Welcome Reception, Summit 2011 Women Veterans National Training Conference
Women In Military Service For America Memorial, Washington DC
July 15, 2011
Let me acknowledge the contributing and supporting organizations whose generosity and devotion to Veterans have made this important summit a reality. Please join me in thanking all of them.
Secretary Peake and Secretary Principi—thank you for being here. Your attendance underscores the importance of this women's summit;
General Wilma Vaught—one of our pioneers in the military and among women Veterans;
Other flag and general officers; fellow Veterans; other distinguished guests; ladies and gentlemen:
I am pleased to welcome all of you to this 2011 Summit on Women Veterans. We are on the eve of what I hope will be an historic conference for the lessons, the understanding, and the recommitments that are likely to come out of our deliberations over the next two days. For that, I am both excited and thankful to be associated with this summit.
As some know, I am both a suffering and an insufferable Boston Red Sox fan. Frank Sullivan is a Red Sox Hall-of-Famer who pitched for them for eight years, '53-'61. In his autobiography, Sullivan describes sitting down to a dinner with his 86-year old father, who was living with him and his wife at the time. As Frank noted, "The everyday conversation had waned." But then, he continues, "For some unknown reason, as I finished my last bite of food, the thought occurred to me I really didn't know a damn thing about my father other than the years I had growing up under his wonderful touch."
He would also say of his dad, "If every child had a father like him, there would be no more wars." So, they were close. Yet at that dinner table, realizing that he knew so little about his dad, Frank describes asking, "the simple question I should have asked years before. 'Dad, what was your life like before you met mom?' It was as if I had torn the top off a new box of goodies. It was like opening a rare bottle of wine. It was what I should have asked when I was old enough to talk."
Sullivan described being treated to a spellbinding, non-stop outpouring of his dad's life tour that had him and his wife laughing, crying, mesmerized. He had never had a better night, and it convinced him to write his own story, which became Life Is More Than 9 Innings.
Well, I feel a bit like Frank Sullivan at that dinner table, trying to avoid the waning everyday conversations and wanting to ask the right question "that tears the top off the box of goodies."
Where military women are concerned, there is so much to remember; so much to learn; so much to understand; and so much to get right before the growth in numbers of women Veterans puts us, at VA, forever in a cycle of forever playing catch-up. We still have a small window to be able to get out ahead of the surge that is headed our way. It's already begun, but the crest won't arrive for a few years.
There is much to address during this conference in order to put in place plans and strategies that will make a difference for women Veterans for the next two generations. I join you in celebrating America's women in uniform and its women Veterans—with deep gratitude for their contributions and as an advocate for them.
VA has the moral obligation to create plans for serving our nearly two million women Veterans well—at this point, maybe even better than we do our men. By aiming high, we may get it about right.
The young women serving today carry with them the legacies of their intrepid forebears. From the oldest Veteran of our Greatest Generation to the youngest Veteran of our latest generation, they were the ones who, in Robert Frost's words, "took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference"—all the difference for women in America, all the difference for our military services, and all the difference for our great Nation.
The members of this audience continue to advance the cause of women who, in ever-increasing numbers, are navigating that less traveled road. One-by-one, issue by issue, you have helped us write equity, dignity, care, and compassion into the programs, services, and benefits that VA currently provides. More needs to be done.
Next to the Air and Space Museum, here in D.C., is a simple sculpture—a silver and bronze spire rising some 80 feet into the air. Its tip is surrounded by stars. The title of the sculpture is "ad astra per aspera"—"to the stars through difficulties." Let's all continue to aim high where women Veterans are concerned.
May God bless those who serve, and have served in uniform. And may God continue to bless this wonderful country of ours.
Thank you.


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Alec Baldwin Stalker Found Guilty
French-Canadian actress
A judge Wednesday ordered Sabourin to serve 30 days in jail for repeatedly interrupting testimony in her trial and heckling Baldwin and his wife, Hilaria, Tuesday.
Sabourin was found guilty of stalking and harassment Thursday, the
It is unclear what additional time, if any, she will spend behind bars for the conviction.
The actress has insisted Baldwin's stalking accusation was aimed at hiding their romance from Hilaria. However, Baldwin has maintained he had dinner with her merely to give her "career advice" and never had an affair with her as she claimed.
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Saturday morning coffee
One of the great things about The White Raven in Felton — reason number 982 that I come here when I can — is that after dropping off Mimi for her concert over the hill, I can come here at 7 a.m. on a Saturday morning and the coffee is good and there's Dylan and Hendrix already blasting in the cafe.
So while the wind still whispers Mary, I'm catching up on things.
I promised you a test drive of Bodhi Linux last week. After kicking the tires earlier this week, I'm still driving — in fact, I'm writing this from a ThinkPad running Bodhi and while I will go into detail when I blog about it, overall it's a solid distro that has done everything I've asked it to. Except make me breakfast, but I haven't had a distro do that yet. Watch this space.
One of the things I wanted to point out with an item today is that we're ramping up Lindependence again this year to a more regular event. While the debate raged for weeks about when to hold it — on Independence Day or on Software Freedom Day — it was decided to hold it on the latter to give us more time to prepare and to emphasize not the independence of Independence Day so much as to focus on Linux itself and celebrate Free/Open Source Software on a date specific to it.
More to follow on this, too.
That's what brings me here today — not "here" as in The White Raven, but here in Felton, where we're moving the office space and preparing for the Felton LUG meeting this afternoon — 2 p.m. at the solar-powered fire station behind the Community Center on Highway 9 (directions enough in Felton). Grant Bowman — a tireless FOSS advocate and wearer of many digital hats — will be giving a Natty Narwhal presentation.
Bob is right: I used to be so amused at Napoleon in rags and the language that he used.
(Fedora ambassador Larry Cafiero runs Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, and is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation. He is also one of the founders of the Lindependence Project.)
May 14, 2011 at 8:18 am
The Linux powered internet café here in Portales,
Gnu Mexico is in imminent danger of opening. The
folks doing it have suffered to bring this about.
The Colonel will be there as often as possible.
Just learned that the university has started a
Linux facebook thingy: ENMU Linux Users Facebook
group. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_209676979067225
The Colonel does not use fb so maybe somebody can
check that out and report back?
Now that LtFSG is distro hopping life should be
filled with excitement for his blog readers.
And just who in the hell is Mary? Does she use
Linux? For that matter who is Napoleon, not
another distro I hope?
Keep doing that annual event in Felton, look big.
Peace and Linux, Bob
May 14, 2011 at 8:24 am
If time and workload permits, you can count on me for Lindependence. Yeah, I know…"if" is the biggest word in the dictionary but still, I'm going to do my best to plan around stuff to come out.
May 15, 2011 at 8:13 am
Okay Mr. Starks, you have thrown down the gauntlet
once again. Please put the Colonel down as a
tentative maybe for Lindependence, eh?
When was the last time anyone saw a gauntlet?
Peace and Linux, Bob


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