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CAIRO, July 11 (UPI) -- Thirty-two Hamas activists were killed and 45 arrested in the Sinai Peninsula, where one Egyptian official said Hamas was fomenting unrest.
An Egyptian military source told the London-based al-Hayat newspaper Thursday, "Hamas is flaring up the situation in Sinai" after Muslim Brotherhood member Mohamed Morsi was ousted as Egypt's president last week.
"We have detected movements of Hamas activists cooperating with jihadists in Sinai. We killed and arrested some of them," the source said. "They enter Sinai through the tunnels to carry out attacks, along with others, and then return to Gaza through the tunnels."
Stability in Sinai has been fragile since the 2011 revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak and deteriorated further during Morsi's year in office.
Gunmen in northern Sinai had tried to kill Gen. Ahmed Wasfy, commander of the Second Field Army, in the in Sheikh Zuwaid area, Ynetnews.com reported. An exchange of gunfire between gunmen and the convoy protecting Wasfy killed a girl who was passing by.
Waspy told local media he was not hurt.
Before Morsi's ouster, the Egyptian army moved forces in the Sinai to work with Israeli forces against terrorist cells in the area.

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Open Data Catalogue : City projects data : April 2015
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- Mar. 19-Sept. 21, 2014
Part of City of Vancouver fonds
File consists of datasets showing site- and street-based locations of City initiatives, projects, development proposals, and construction and roadwork. File also contains Open Data Catalogue html page that described the datasets; page includes data attributes and data accuracy and currency information. Datasets are as they appeared on April 1, 2015.
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ZDNet has spotted a note on the Microsoft Help and Support website that announces Microsoft will keep its legacy support pricing at 2008 levels for Custom Support Agreements through the rest of this year, apparently to help customers control costs during the recession. "The global economic downturn has adversely affected businesses in every geography and sector. Microsoft understands that customers have to make difficult fiscal decisions on a daily basis in this turbulent economy. Therefore, in response to the feedback provided by valued customers, Microsoft is announcing flat year-over-year (YOY) pricing for Custom Support in 2009," the statement starts off.
Almost every year Microsoft raises its support pricing, though the company publishes every price change three years in advance. Microsoft notes that it made the decision after listening to its customers running legacy products. Retaining 2008 pricing also means these customers can maintain support on older versions of Microsoft products until they migrate to supported versions.
Microsoft advertises four benefits for Custom Support Agreements:
- Problem resolution support for legacy products and service packs that have reached the end of Mainstream and Extended Support
- Security hotfixes for vulnerabilities labeled 'Critical' and 'Important' by the Microsoft Security Response Center
- Access to existing database of security and non-security hotfixes
- Ability to request non-security hotfixes on new issues
You can read more about the Custom Support Program in this Data Sheet (PDF).


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March 13, 2012
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POINT LOOKOUT, Mo. - (Box Score) (Bracket - Final) - No. 2 Oregon Tech won its third NAIA Division II Men's Basketball National Championship, defeating No. 1 Northwood (Fla.) 63-46 in the lowest scoring title game. The Hustlin' Owls tie Bethel (Ind.) for the most championships at the Division II tournament and finish the year with a 34-4 record.
Trailing by one (19-18) after shooting a mere 28 percent in the first half, Oregon Tech outscored Northwood 45-27 and shot 67 percent in a dominant second half.
Freshman Bobby Hunter got things started for Oregon Tech in the final half with a steal and lay-in, giving his team its first lead (22-21) since the 13-minute mark. Tied at 25 moments later, Jason Gamblin drilled a fade away jumper to give the Hustlin' Owls the lead back and Northwood would never see it again.
Oregon Tech led by six (40-34) and then outscored Northwood 13-4 over a six minute stretch, started by a 3-point play by Hunter, to open up a 53-38 lead. Defensively, they held the Seahawks without a field goal for nearly eight minutes.
Hunter scored a lay-up with 2:30 to go and then finished off Northwood with an electrifying slam, giving his team a 62-44 lead with one minute left.
Oregon Tech shot 46 percent for the game and went 6-for-20 from beyond the arc, but made 4-of-8 in the second half. Bobby Hunter earned tournament most valuable player honors after scoring a game-high 20 points with 18 coming in the second half. Jason Gamblin added 16 points and David Clarke chipped in 11, knocking down a trio of 3-pointers.
"I'm excited of the team's performance on the greatest stage of our lives'" commented senior Kyle Gomez. "We dealt with adversity as a group and we can't finish in a better way than this."
Both teams got off to slow starts offensively. A Patrick Horstmann put-back gave Northwood an early 8-5 lead but Oregon Tech scored the next four points to go up one, 9-8. A 7-2 Northwood run later in the half gave the Seahawks its largest lead (19-14), but Oregon Tech scored the final four points and held Northwood scoreless over the final five minutes of the first half.
"Our defense was unbelievable," commented Oregon Tech head coach Danny Miles. "At halftime, we told the kids that (on offense) if we pass the ball five or six times we would get great shots, and they listened."
Northwood shot a season-low 30 percent for the game and made just 1-of-19 3-point attempts. The 46 points is the lowest scored in a championship game. Tyrone Davis netted 19 points and was the only Northwood player who scored in double figures. Jonathan Dunn added nine points and five rebounds. The Seahawks finish the season with a 34-4 record.
2012 NAIA All-Tournament Team
James Nelson, Davenport (Mich.)
Lonnie Fairfax, Davenport (Mich.)
Rich Skillman, Northwest (Was.)
Aaron Frazier, McPherson (Kan.)
Jordan Crawford, McPherson (Kan.)
Tyrone Davis - Northwood (Fla.)
Jonathan Dunn - Northwood (Fla.)
Cliff Warner - Dordt (Iowa)
Bobby Hunter - Oregon Tech
Qadr Owens - Saint Francis (Ind.)
Most Valuable Player: Bobby Hunter, Oregon Tech
Tournament Hustle Award: Kyle Gomez, Oregon Tech
2012 Rawlings NAIA Division II Men's Basketball Coach of the Year: Rollie Massimin, Northwood (Fla.)
2012 National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Coach of the Year: Danny Miles, Oregon Tech
Dr. James Naismith/Emil Liston Tournament Sportsmanship Award: Cardinal Stritch (Wis.)
Buffalo Five Star Champions of Character Team: Southwestern (Kan.)


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What's in the Pipeline for Google Local
The New Google Places has launched in some areas of the US and is set to roll out to single language countries in the next few months. Although Australia does not appear to be on the immediate roll out list I predict it will be here before the year is out. The New Google Places…Read more


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Five Amazing Duets Featuring Train's Pat Monahan
By: Joe Hyer
Train has been releasing hit song after hit song for more than twenty years. The band's lead singer, Pat Monahan, is an incredibly talented musician. He's also a super popular partner for collaborations with other famous artists. Monahan has joined stars like Taylor Swift, Adam Levine and even Adam Sandler on stage for amazing duets.
In honor of Monahan's 48th birthday (February 28), we have compiled a list of five of our favorite duets featuring Pat Monahan:
Monahan joined Taylor Swift on stage during her Red Tour in 2012, and the pair covered the Train song, "Drive By."
Adam Levine and Pat Monahan joined together to perform Prince's "Purple Rain" during Howard Stern's birthday bash in 2014.
Pat Monahan joined Kenny Loggins on the ABC show Greatest Hits last year. The pair performed an amazing combination of Train's "Calling All Angels" and Loggins' 1979 hit "This Is It."
Adam Sandler, Pat Monahan and the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith covered Aerosmith's "Dream On" during a 2015 charity event, and yes, it's just as amazing as it sounds like it was.
Martina McBride and Pat Monahan performed the song "Marry Me" during the 2012 Academy of Country Music Awards telecast. A couple was married on stage as the pair performed the song. McBride and Monahan released a duet version of the song for her 2012 album, Eleven.
Thanks for sharing amazing music all of these years, Pat. Happy Birthday!


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The transition to a new calendar year may inspire you to muster the resolve to make good changes in your life. How about the lives of your pets? No time like the present to make some new year's resolutions that will benefit both of you. Here are three suggestions:
More Face Time With Your Pets
Our furry family members are more than happy to be our exercise partners, confidantes, psychotherapists, and nonelectric heating blankets. Take advantage of such pet-facilitated services as much as possible this year!
What dog doesn't crave attention from their favorite human? Teach your best friend some new tricks. Begin working on that long overdue grooming. Get your pup out for more exercise (lose the sedentary human behavior at the dog park). Don't let the winter weather be a deterrent. Go shopping for some canine winter apparel and gift yourself with Dr. Phil Zeltzman's book, Walk a Hound, Lose a Pound to glean some inspiration!
What about our kitties? Well you know how it is- cats tend to like things on their terms. However, even the most curmudgeonly of cats will benefit from a feather toy tempting them to expend some energy and some affectionate scratches under the chin. The challenge is to spend more quality time with your kitties while convincing them that the activity is of their choosing.
Fewer Vaccinations
Your adult pet's good health requires inoculation with core vaccinations no more than once every three years. The term "core" is reserved for those vaccines, such as distemper, that are recommended for every adult animal. Overvaccinating (vaccinating more than once every three years) exposes your best little buddy to needless risk (yes, there is some risk associated with every vaccination). Besides, why spend your hard earned money on something that is completely unnecessary?
If your veterinarian has remained on the "once a year bandwagon" and the thought of convincing him or her otherwise gives you a case of the willies, I encourage you to read the chapter called, "Discussion About Your Dog's Vaccinations" in Your Dog's Best Health: A Dozen Reasonable Things to Expect From Your Vet. Kathie please make this a live link to the Amazon page The information found there will provide you with all the inspiration you need to broach the vaccination conversation with your vet. (For those of you who are cat fanciers, please know that my hope is to create the feline version of this book within the year. In the meantime, know that the basic principles provided in Your Dog's Best Health apply to kitty care as well.)
Recruit a Professional to Help With Your Pet's Behavioral Issues
Would you love to be able to leave your dog home alone for more than ten minutes without the house being destroyed? Would you be ecstatic if your precious puss quit spraying your walls with his version of graffiti? Would you relish the idea of taking your dog for a walk without having to ice your shoulder afterwards? There is no time like the present to tackle such behavioral issues. I encourage you to get the professional help you need so that you and your pet can fully enjoy cohabitating. Chronic behavior issues tend to gradually result in more and more isolation for the pet until most of their waking hours are spent within a crate, a single room of the house, or the backyard. Such isolation begets even more negative adaptive behaviors, and the end result may be relinquishment to a shelter or rescue organization; worse yet, euthanasia.
Please know that if your dog or cat has a significant behavioral issue, you are certainly not alone. Also know that the sooner the issue is dealt with, the happier the outcome will be for both you and your pet. Hiring a pro to help you work out a behavior bugaboo will be one of the best investments you make this year!
When choosing a trainer or behaviorist, check in with your veterinarian for a recommendation. Additionally, check out the websites below. You'll find lots of information about how to choose the right person to help you with the issue at hand. These sites also have "locators" to help you find a professional in your area.
Association of Pet Dog Trainers
Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers
International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants
American College of Veterinary Behaviorists
Have you made any "pet resolutions" this year? Does your pet have a behavioral issue that is affecting the quality of your life? Have you successfully dealt with a significant behavioral issue in the past? Please share what you know so that others may offer advice and/or benefit from what you have learned.
Best wishes for a happy new year,
Nancy Kay, DVM
Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine
Author of Speaking for Spot: Be the Advocate Your Dog Needs to Live a Happy, Healthy, Longer Life
Author of Your Dog's Best Health: A Dozen Reasonable Things to Expect From Your Vet
Recipient, Leo K. Bustad Companion Animal Veterinarian of the Year Award
Recipient, American Animal Hospital Association Animal Welfare and Humane Ethics Award
Recipient, Dog Writers Association of America Award for Best Blog
Recipient, Eukanuba Canine Health Award
Recipient, AKC Club Publication Excellence Award
Become a Fan of Speaking for Spot on Facebook
Please visit http://www.speakingforspot.com to read excerpts from Speaking for Spot. There you will also find "Advocacy Aids"- helpful health forms you can download and use for your own dog, and a collection of published articles on advocating for your pet's health. Speaking for Spot is available at Amazon.com, local bookstores, and your favorite online book seller.


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Dealing with all things associated with the time period, and those things around the time period of being broken!
First comes to mind; best friend! His house, his family, a huge part of my life at the time! He lived down the block! I thought I was part of the family! Not so! Sinister in nature, these upper classmun did not like me; they thought from the beginning I was worthless or beneath them! Like a black boy that does not know he is black yet; I was treated the same! I had no idea I had a stigma with these white colonialists! I am white; Im not suggesting this is race oriented; however, it's the same animal, just a different color! I was hated with bigotry or prejudice; I did not know! I had walked into the situation open and innocent! I thought my friend was a nice person when I met him; I was in the first grade! He was not my friend in the end; nor was his family! They were opportunists with no loyalty to anyone! Money was their God, and hiding behind the Jesus Cross was their alibi! They had no Jesus in them or God! They were full of themselves and nothing else! I had to live with them once; I became 10 times worse in my problems! I was shocked! It was all judgement! To me, they were no better then murder's! They were not my friends because they had no character for such things! I was superior for that reason! As God is superior to worthless trash scum like this!
The goal is to see these people for who they really were; work through everything about them, and forget them, and move on; not easy, this was from age 5 onward! I was just a boy! I spent years around these people! I did not know I was not an equal! I had no idea anyone was counting character marks on a daily basis or keeping score; thats a sign of pure hatred! Not sure I under stand! I was 6 years old! Possibly, they were talking behind my back the whole time; and I was to young to understand such things!
Later when I was being abused and thrown away; they pulled the; " we don't know you" routine! Anyway you slice it; they want to be on top and be beneath; thats all that mattered, they end up superior! But thats not nice! He was my best friend; what is the need to be superior! I found later, it did not matter! They were not superior! They were simply evil and I was not! That was the problem; and it usually is!
I am not evil! I was destroyed mentally; the rapist is evil; not the end condition or dysfunction of the raped!
However, I live in a society that takes the rapists side of thing! " long live the rapist, down with the raped! If they get up; rape them again, " We don't care how old they are"! " long live old money"!
The upper sentences represent the truth of how these colonialists act! They are no friends of anyone!
Im scared, hurt, shocked and freaked that I was ever at their home! I can see myself in their basement watching TV with my friend ( at some point as I get healthier, I stop calling him my friend; he was no friend of mine)! Yet, now I know, he was no friend! And I had no business being their! I did not know this! And this hurts a great deal, as it suggests I was not good enough to be in his presence or his family! But I did not know this! I was attempting to reach out innocently to the community to survive! I never looked at it from a judgment point of view!
If I am a friendly person and give my friendship to you and you use me! And use it; you are not of the same quality of person; regardless of your status in the community! You have no status with the type of people I associate with!
Lots of work needs to be done with these memories! They are hooked into the house I lived in at the time; from going to n fro: my house to his house! Going back n forth as if everything was right, safe accepted! It was not; I was hated and not accepted! That is realistic, but I did not know!
Later, my mother would call his mother and tell her I was a worthless trouble maker! In actuality I was a decent human being and she was no more then a psychopath! But I did not understand these things at the time!
My life would be forfeited! And this whole experience on this street destroyed! She ( mother)would simply sell the house from underneath her children and leave! The father involved will leave first, he ends up no better then a rapist!
Two psychopaths buy a nice house on a nice street and play out a fantasy for a few years for themselves; then simply pack up and leave! The children destroyed! Completely displaced human beings: the children will be presently destroyed and disfigured for life!
Up to this point, I would be at the ice shaley, I would go skiing! I was involved in school! I hated the teachers, they were worthless! I would end up getting hacked by them and used by them later, when I had no family to protect me! I learned a great deal about how the white system worked at that point! If you had money and a father to protect you, you were fine! If you were poor, you were allocated into a position of trouble maker! And used! And hated and abused! Not cared about!
There is a me developed long before my mother destroyed everything! Or should I say " this sociopath"!
I had a life, then it was taken from me! The feelings involved are torture! My whole way of life was ruined and I was ruined and had to bottle up the fear and terror of the whole thing! All PTSD!
This experience was like living in a haunted house with real murderers and abusers and rapists and you cant leave, and you belong to know one and you if you do leave, you leave to the streets; you have no one! you will go insane; thats what happened to me! And all from the area contributed to it!
My final goal with all of this; leave this area, go somewhere else far far away and never return!
My Goal is to keep unlocking these memories until the real me is present and I can deal with all of it and get the real me back! This is not fun! I cant describe the horrible nature of all of this and to walk back into it and re experience it! I cant describe it! I was all alone!
They let a child go through this all alone! I cant feel hate; its beyond hate into fear and terror and torched! Underneath this is rage! A deep kill rage level; war rage!


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Plus quotes from the conference call and links from last night's Rutgers-Seton Hall thriller.
Coming tomorrow: A story on Fred Hill's controversial endgame strategy.
Seton Hall: Just the fact that the word "bubble" came up in the press conference after Wednesday's overtime win at Rutgers tells you all you need to know about the Pirates' surprising surge.
Connecticut: The Huskies' upset at Indiana was huge not only for them but for the league. With four straight wins, they're a national player again.
Jim Boeheim: His rotation gets smaller every week, but Mr. Happy has done some of his best work keeping the short-handed Orange in the mix.
Villanova: The Wildcats were ranked No. 18 last week, no? Jay Wright, Corey Fisher and company are in free fall after three straight losses.
Ed Hightower: Someone please perform the Heimlich maneuver on this man because there's a whistle caught in his throat. Abominable officiating during Rutgers-Seton Hall.
Mike Tranghese: A pretty good team, maybe one that spent time in the Top 25, is going to miss the Big East Tournament. The commish should have expanded the field this year instead of next.
"There's an old saying: A man will work eight hours for pay, he'll work 12 hours for a good boss and 24 hours for a good cause. Sometimes when you get a good cause, things are tough, you pull together and play at a very, very high level. I think Syracuse is doing it right now, I think Connecticut has done it for the past few weeks and that's a credit to their coaches." — DePaul's Jerry Wainwright
"The kids play so much in the summer, they're coming into your program broken down. These kids are wiped out, with more foot problems, more knee problems, stress fractures. Kids are playing way too many games, maybe five games a day, and they're not working on their games . . . . The second thing, we've moved he season up, but we have not moved practice up. We're pushing the envelope with what kids can do. They're a push in preseason practice to do everything and bang, you're playing all these games in a short periods of time. It think it's a prescription for injury and it's only going to compound itself." — Wainwright, on the plague of injuries.
"It really is a great story. He wasn't a McDonald's All-American. But with a great will, a lot of physical gifts and a great work ethic, he has made himself one of the better players in college basketball." — Notre Dame's Mike Brey on Luke Harangody
"Watching them, they have many different people who can step up and hurt you. They seem to be extremely confident in each other. They can make shots sand they can get to the basket and convert and make tough layups. They put a lot pressure on whoever's guarding them." — Georgetown's John Thompson III on Seton Hall
"We're playing basketball, and there are guys who've been in Iraq for 12 months in 100-degree weather carrying rifles. There are guys out there on rooftops banging away for a living. I coach basketball. How hard is it to watch tape and make recruiting phone calls every day? You shouldn't be fatigued unless you're doing things at night you shouldn't be doing." — Cincy's Mick Cronin
"We had five looks that were wide open against their zone that we had knocked down in the last two games, and lat night we didn't knock it down. Jaron Griffin was shooting 50 percent from three during that stretch, and last night he went 1-for-6. He got four looks, there wasn't anybody within 10 feet of him." — Rutgers' Fred Hill on his team's shooting against Seton Hall
"What I was proud of last night, we didn't start out the way we did against Villanova and Pittsburgh, we struggled shooting the basketball, but we hung in there and battled. I thought that was another step for us. We gave ourselves chance to win on a night where we didn't particularly shoot the ball well." — Hill
Here are the Gannett N.J. links from last night's game:
Keith Sargeant's game story: Hall plunders
My column, mostly written in advance: Future is bright
Here is our notebook, starting with Paul Gause's return. This was the lowest attendance ever at the RAC for a Rutgers-Seton Hall game, by the way. Notebook
This was an interesting link from SI.com about how the Atlantic 10 is no longer a mid-major conference: A-10 is big-time


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Woman Charged With Running Multi-Million Dollar 'Bikini Barista' Prostitution Ring
She allegedly made millions of dollars, prosecutors say.
-- A Washington woman has been charged with running a multi-million dollar prostitution ring from the "bikini barista" stands she owned and operated.
Carmela Panico, of Snohomish County, Wash., was charged with promoting prostitution and money laundering, police told ABC affiliate KOMO-TV in Seattle.
Police say they caught baristas at six bikini barista coffee stands owned by Panico across Snohomish County engaged in acts with customers that went beyond merely serving coffee.
According to court records obtained by KOMO-TV, Panico allegedly set a sales goal for the women working each coffee shift that was used as "effectively rent that the girls paid to have the opportunity to perform lewd conduct and acts of prostitution."
The young women made anywhere from $15,000 to $30,000 a month, according to the documents. One girl allegedly made $89,000.
The baristas were fined if they did not wear high heels, have a tan, or wear makeup, according to the documents.
Panico's bank records, obtained by police, show that she deposited more than $2 million between 2010 and 2013.
Police say she kept two sets of accounting books. The first book was allegedly intended for the IRS and Washington State Department of Revenue and the second detailed her actual profit.
Detectives also allegedly confiscated $227,863 in cash from Panico's home, according to KOMO-TV.
A police investigation into Panico and her coffee businesses began when the department began to receive complaints about baristas showing their breasts to customers for tips.
According to The Associated Press, Panico's attorney told Snohomish County Superior Court that she left the coffee business and sold some of her stands and leased others.
Last summer, a sergeant at the Snohomish County Detective's Office was arrested for allegedly giving Panico information on undercover operations to gain evidence against her suspected prostitution ring, in exchange for sex.
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Prompted by a comment below I was curious as to the correlation between intelligence and income. To indicate intelligence I used the GSS's WORDSUM variable, which has a ~0.70 correlation with IQ. For income, I used REALINC, which is indexed to 1986 values (so it is inflation adjusted) and aggregates the household income. Finally, I limited my sample to non-Hispanic whites over the age of 30 (for what it's worth, this choice also limited the data set to respondents from the year 2000 and later).
The results don't get at the commenter's assertions, because 10 out of 10 on WORDSUM does not imply that you're that smart really. But the trendline is suggestive. Note that aggregated 0-4 because the sample size at the lower values is small indeed.


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Victory No. 82 seals first winning year since '92
ARLINGTON -- After losing their identity -- not to mention three discouragingly one-sided games -- in St. Louis, the Pirates were back to being themselves Monday night. They played it tight. They pitched it brilliantly. They got the clutch hit. And they won it, 1-0, to rinse out the rancid
ARLINGTON -- After losing their identity -- not to mention three discouragingly one-sided games -- in St. Louis, the Pirates were back to being themselves Monday night.
They played it tight. They pitched it brilliantly. They got the clutch hit. And they won it, 1-0, to rinse out the rancid taste of the Missouri weekend.
Hoist that Jolly Roger for the 82nd time, and proclaim the Bucs a winning ballclub, for the first time since 1992.
"That's as good of a Major League game as you're going to see, so it's a little added that it's the one that gets us to 82 [wins]," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "Now we can, I think for everyone's best purpose, just focus on playing through, but I'm happy for everyone that this is really meaningful for. It has some meaning here."
The win moves the Pirates within a game of the idle first-place Cardinals in the National League Central and a game ahead of the Reds -- who lost to the Cubs -- for the top NL Wild Card spot.
Gerrit Cole yanked the Bucs back to their reality, dispensing his best game when it was most badly needed, blanking the Rangers for his first scoreless start of his young career. The rookie allowed just three hits through seven innings spiced with a career-high nine strikeouts. He became just the eighth opposing pitcher to win at Rangers Ballpark when throwing seven or more shutout innings with at least nine strikeouts.
"That guy was really good," Texas shortstop Elvis Andrus said. "If he pitches like that every start, he'll be the National League Cy Young winner. He's got impressive stuff, he doesn't make mistakes and he kept the ball at the knees. Every at-bat I had he was on the black."
It was impressive, and it had to be to get the best of Yu Darvish, who himself befuddled the Bucs with the exception of one two-batter sequence in the seventh. Darvish abruptly exited his start after seven innings with a right leg cramp, throwing just 81 pitches.
Pedro Alvarez broke up the scoreless pitchers' duel in the seventh with the ultimate clutch hit -- with two outs on the scoreboard and two strikes on him, Alvarez lined a single to left-center to score Marlon Byrd, who had doubled with two down against his former (2007-09) team.
"It's not very comfortable," Alvarez said facing Darvish. "He throws a lot of pitches, throws them for strikes and changes speeds on you. You just try to go out there and stay as focused as you can. He does such a good job of keeping you off balance."
Due to a variety of circumstances, Cole, the young pitcher whose workload is being closely monitored, has become the ironic ironman of the rotation. His previous start, he had gone six innings in Milwaukee, giving him 13 rounds in consecutive starts.
In between Cole's starts, four other starters put up a total of 12 2/3 innings (including injury-shortened Charlie Morton's Sunday start). Cole threw 21 first-pitch strikes and recorded 11 outs throwing fewer than three pitches against 25 batters in the Pirates' first win in Arlington (1-6).
Cole struck out the side in the fifth, but allowed his only two walks with two outs in the sixth. Following a double steal to put both runners in scoring position, Cole forced Adrian Beltre to ground out to shortstop Clint Barmes.
"He's growing up," Hurdle said. "There's different times he's going to take different steps. I'm very optimistic this is going to be a step tonight because there's separation from his next best game to this one."
Cole was on thin ice from the beginning, that sense coming from the expectation the Pirates would not be able to do much damage against Darvish's repertoire. His ability to greatly vary his pitches' speeds had to be particularly vexing to batters seeing him for the first time.
You can only imagine what went through Garrett Jones' head, for instance, when the first three deliveries to him from Darvish in the third inning clocked 65, 94 and 74 mph. All pitchers change speeds; that's pulling the ripcord on the fastball.
"It's exactly what we needed, to come back with a win against a great pitcher," Jones said. "We battled the whole game. Cole pitched an awesome game, the game of his life so far, definitely the one we needed to get back on track."
Cole was masterfully up to the task. He kept the ice from cracking -- and may have also kept the rest of the Pirates from doing the same.
"I knew we were in a little bit of a rut, but I wasn't going out there trying to throw zeros," Cole said. "Whatever Yu was going to do, I was just trying to match or keep us in striking distance toward the end of the ballgame. He's really tough put together with all the different offerings he shows you. I was just glad I was able to keep the ball down and stay aggressive."


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California Stuns Japan in Little League World Series on Dramatic Walkoff Single [VIDEO]
With two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the sixth inning, 12-year-old Nick Pratto delivered a clutch hit that gave Huntington Beach, Calif., a 2-1 victory over Hamamatsu City, Japan, in the final game of the Little League World Series. The squad became the seventh team from California to win the title.
Braydon Salzman pitched a gem of a game for California, striking out the side in the top of the fifth inning before navigating out of a jam in the top of the sixth.
The young team celebrated their win on the field after the game before shaking hands with their opponents. Pratto and his teammates will surely hold onto the memories from this tournament for the rest of their lives.
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Humorist Will Rogers once said, "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." If he lived in these modern times, old Will wouldn't even have had to watch the government to get plenty of material. All he would need to do was log onto the internet. I'm not sure which […]


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Coke looking to answer when called for relief
KANSAS CITY -- The Tigers' 9-2 win over the Royals on Saturday night was fairly well-assured by the time Phil Coke entered to pitch the ninth inning. The two runs on three hits he allowed only broke up the shutout bid, rather than forcing anything close to a save situation.
However, they continued Coke's struggles to finish off hitters.
"He got ahead of some hitters and then ... the one pitch that missed location, they took advantage of it," manager Brad Ausmus said.
Coke had 1-2 counts on the first three batters he faced. Nori Aoki slapped a ground-ball single to left, Omar Infante flew out to deep center, then Eric Hosmer turned on a breaking ball and doubled to the right-field corner.
From there, Billy Butler hit a first-pitch fastball for a sacrifice fly, then Danny Valencia lined a 2-0 breaking ball down into the right-field gap.
It was the third straight outing in which Coke has either given up runs or allowed inherited runners to score. He attacked the strike zone better, but didn't get the grounders from his breaking ball that eventually helped him settle down last Saturday at Minnesota.
Entering Sunday, Coke had given up eight runs on 13 hits over his last 7 2/3 innings, walking three and striking out four. His fastball has gained velocity, but his breaking ball continues to be tinkered.
"He's throwing 92-94. He's added this cutter-slider he gets some bad swings on," Ausmus said. "It always seems to be one pitch, but my gut says he's going to clear the hurdle. We're going to need him."


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Day of Archaeology: Blog 5 – Textiles
Moving onto and into our Leather & Textile store, we have two classic objects chosen by you, completely at random.
Our first randomly selected object, from shelf number 876, is a Roman leather shoe, excavated from site BUC87 – once the heart of Londinium. The LAARC holds over 5000 Roman and medieval shoes (we are the largest Archeological Archive in the world after all) and this artefact is a fine example of its type. The leather sole of the shoe has been preserved through waterlogged conditions but once exposed would quickly dry and shrink. Luckily the Museum ofLondon's conservation department owns a magic machine called a freeze-dryer which, through the process of sublimation, leaves these leather objects in a very stable condition.
A common comment on archaeological Roman shoes is that they always seem very small. The leather may have shrunk somewhat after two millennia in the ground and the freeze-drying process may add minimally to this, but on the whole our Roman Londoners seem to have small feet…Perhaps a comparative study should be conducted with the many Roman skeletal remains held at the Museum's Centre for Human Bioarchaeology!
Our second object is a piece of post-medieval textile from site EAG87 (and shelf 809), excavated by the Department of Urban Archaeology (DUA) back in the late 1980s. Archaeological textiles suffer from damage to both their texture and colour; however, our Curator of Fashion & Decorative Arts gets particularly excited about brown bits of wool!
Again our textile much like other organics and inorganic, such as metal, has survived through waterlogged but anaerobic conditions. This fragmentary piece was probably part of the C18th backfill of a well excavated on this site.
Our last major store section holds our Environmental finds. These are typically extremely small objects that take up little space (hence the small shelf range) and include objects such as seeds, pollen and small animal bones etc. Tweet using #dayofarch or #LAARC, or message us a number below, between 1 and 44 to discover, completely at random, what that shelf holds…


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Drivers who appreciate the incredible experience of piloting the Audi R8 with its optional 525-horsepower V-10 engine that revs to an eardrum-stimulating 8,700 rpm may find themselves seeking an indulgence from the priests of the new green religion.
The new dogma decrees that transportation is a painfully necessary activity that's required for functional purposes and not for fun. Sort of like the view of sex taken by some of the older churches.
Unreformed sensualists (and those who can afford the $150,200 base price) will enjoy the opportunity to immerse themselves in the R8 and its race-ready direct-injected V-10 engine, however. The notion of an exotic mid-engined supercar from Germany may be surprising to those who associate such things with Italy.
But Audi's parent company Volkswagen bought Lamborghini a few years back, and the result has been a fusion of Latin brio with Teutonic precision whose success few honest observers can claim to have predicted.
The R8 is a close cousin of the Lamborghini Gallardo, sharing its basic platform, suspension and power train but with a unique, more refined and Germanic body style.
Refinement is also the key differentiator under the skin. While the Lamborghini makes no apologies to anyone who seeks some comfort at the potential price of some compromised performance, the R8 dials the Lambo's intensity back from 11 to a more palatable 9.5.
It's still fast, still impressive, but nearly as ready for a long-distance road trip as for a track session. An area of significant difference between the two cars is the Audi's extra 3.5 inches of length between the front and rear wheels, giving the driver some much-needed legroom on the left side.
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The R8's left front wheelwell intrudes on the driver's footwell badly enough that the left leg tends to cramp from lack of space after some saddle time. But such trips can at least be undertaken in the Audi, while a long drive in the Gallardo could be viewed as penance.
One false note in the R8's technical specifications is the presence of a six-disc Victrola as the music source for the Bang & Olufsen stereo. OK, it is a CD changer, not a Victrola, but CDs are just about as relevant as acetate 78s to most of today's drivers.
The company offers an iPod connector as an alternative for 2010, and 48 percent of the cars ordered are specified for this. With an average age of 51 for an R8 driver, it would appear that drivers under 50 are choosing the contemporary music format, while the older buyers prefer to carry their music on discs.
As with any such car, the experience of spirited driving is memorable, with instantaneously responsive steering, trackworthy brakes and a rich, sonorous engine note as the car accelerates and decelerates through twisty curves. The crisp response of the engine to the gas pedal hints at a very light flywheel, so the engine changes speed with the driver's thought.
Too many cars lately have electronic throttles programmed to be sluggish in response to input for the benefit of clean emissions and fuel economy. But the direct-injected Audi V-10 suffers no ill effects under rapidly changing throttle conditions. The fuel is squirted directly into the cylinders in response to actual power requirements, so there is no unburned fuel in the exhaust after a quick throttle blip.
The R8 reminds enthusiasts what first attracted them to fast cars, an increasingly rare quality in this age of sanitized-for-your-protection transportation modules — even some darn fast modules.
The car features Audi's signature quattro all-wheel-drive technology, a configuration that is not conducive to precise steering at vigorous cornering speeds.
Audi addresses this by funneling between 70 and 85 percent of engine power to the rear wheels, depending on the circumstances. These leaves the front wheels in the appropriate role of supporting cast when it comes to transmitting power, leaving those tires free to focus on cornering grip.
Engine sounds great
That the engine sounds great probably surprises only car nuts who have noticed with dismay that 10 cylinders do not always produce melodic exhaust sounds. The V-10 Dodge Viper is particularly susceptible to driving conditions that evoke its inner UPS truck. The Audi engineers obviously stayed after school to put in some extra effort on the R8's muffler design to disguise the typical sound of a decade of cylinders.
Despite its rakishly menacing looks, the R8 wears sheetmetal that obviously has been honed by the wind tunnel to shed aerodynamic drag. Despite its functionality — the R8's body produces the most stability-enhancing downforce at speed of any street car, according to Audi — it still causes some people to almost involuntarily whip out their phones to shoot video for their friends.
Fuel stops are an ordeal, not because of particularly terrible gas mileage (the R8 is rated at 12 mpg city and 20 mpg highway, and we saw the EPA combined number of 15 mpg in mixed driving) but because of the impromptu paparrazi. Up close and in person they marvel at the R8 glass rear engine cover, which highlights the glittering aluminum V-10 masterpiece like this year's must-have toy in the window of Macy's Herald Square.
Around front, if it is dark, bystanders marvel at the R8's LED headlight arrays, standard with the V-10. Forget the old-fashioned notions of heating a wire filament to make light, or even the more recent xenon high-intensity discharge arc lights. The R8 harnesses the efficiency of semiconductors to light the road ahead, which the 24 LEDs do effectively, while giving the R8 a unique appearance that burnishes Audi's high-tech credentials.
How to improve on the R8? Audi already has, with the introduction of this 5.2-liter V-10 variant, which boosts power by 105 hp compared to the base 4.2-liter V-8 engine. At the recent Los Angeles Auto Show, the company further extended the R8 product line, and the car's appeal, with the introduction of an open-top convertible version that is likely to enjoy particular success in sunny Souther California.
What of the greens?
But what of the greens, and their disdain for gratuitous consumption? The smarter among them recognize that cars like the R8 are irrelevant to the environment because there aren't many of them and those that are built aren't driven a lot of miles.
Nevertheless, Audi is gearing up to address the issue. The company has enjoyed unparalleled success in sports car endurance racing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans races over the last decade, with wins in 2007 and 2008 by cars powered by efficient diesel engines.
Based on this heritage, Audi has shown a diesel-powered R8 prototype that used the race car's V-12 engine. Any production version probably would use a V-10 more comparable in size to the gas engine in the test car, said Chas Murphy, R8 product manager for Audi of America Inc.
The company has not announced such a product but has announced plans to build an all-electric car called the e-tron. The e-tron looks exactly like the R8 but is powered by batteries rather than internal combustion. The car will be available in the next two or three years, said Murphy, providing Audi an indulgence for the "infernal" combustion of the R8.


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After two nights in Hoi An, we flew on to Nha Trang, a beach town on the south-central coast. Our plane was delayed, and the hotel lost our reservation. (Actually, I think the manager saw more profit in selling our rooms to a tour group.) Grumpy! Susan had arranged for us to have an afternoon motorbike tour, but we were getting a late start. There wasn't much preparatory discussion.
After a quick lunch, we traveled 20 km out of town by motorbike to Ba Ho, a beautiful area with three waterfalls. We passed banana farms and rice paddies on the way. But I wasn't expecting a hike. My Keens and some insect repellent would have been very welcome.
Who's wearing the wrong shoes?
But our drivers had arranged for some guides to meet us there (love that entrepreneurial ingenuity), and these women helped (dragged) me over the rocks, pointing out the best hand and foot placements. The kids were amused by what they dubbed my "involuntary parkour."
We cut our hike short and skipped the other two waterfalls, but still ran into a little traffic on the way back into town.
Our next stop was the Long Son Pagoda. It's 152 steps up to this statue of Buddha.
College Guy became part of a game of hide and seek.
Long Son Pagoda is home to two enormous Buddha statues. The second is this reclining Buddha.
On the way back down from the Buddhas, we passed a monk silently descending the steps, head bowed. I thought he was in prayer. When we passed him, we saw that he was texting on a cell phone!
Night was falling, so we didn't get to see the Cham Towers. Maybe next time. The next morning we spent an hour on the beach.
Do you like my hat? (channeling P. D. Eastman)
Part of the fun at the beach is the never-ending parade of vendors. I bought two silk paintings from this gentleman. We had a good time bargaining over price.
Then it was time to head for the airport to return to Ho Chi Minh City. (Yes, we spent less than 24 hours in Nha Trang.) We bought banh mi (Vietnamese sandwiches) from the street vendor across from the hotel. This woman was sewing next to the banh mi cart.
I hoped that the face I found in my sandwich didn't bode ill for me eating street food!


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I recently did a swap with Bridget of Tweety Petie Products. If you haven't visited her blog yet, you really should - Bridget is only 15 years old, but already an accomplished miniaturist. She works primarily in polymer clay and makes all sorts of scrumptious-looking food and other items.
For our swap Bridget made me a beautiful gingerbread house, decorated with icing and tiny candies. The detail on it is amazing! I love the candy sprinkles all over the roof and delicate icing icicles hanging over the edge.
She also made me an adorable little duck, based on a duck teapot she made previously. I thought it was just too cute, but rather than a teapot I wanted a little toy duck I could put in my toyshop. (I've named it "Ducky the Goose," in honor of a friend's goose; the real Ducky the Goose refused to have anything to do with the other geese on the farm and instead adopted herself into the duck flock, thus her name. It's pretty hilarious to see them all waddling around together with her towering over the others.)
You can see Bridget's post about our swap and the books I made for her, here: Swap with TreeFeathers
Thank you, Bridget, I love my new minis!
Swap with Tweety Petie!
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Tags: animals, Christmas, polymer clay, swaps, toys
4 comments:
- Federico Panarello said...
so cute immages!!!
- March 27, 2011 at 2:19 PM
- Ascension said...
Enhorabuena por esas preciosas miniaturas, vi tus libros en su blog.
Habeis hecho un intercambio fantastico.
besitos ascension
- March 28, 2011 at 7:33 AM
- TreeFeathers said...
Doesn't she do great work? :)
- Grace
- March 31, 2011 at 7:04 PM
- marlies said...
What a beautiful swap, the house and the duck are wonderfull and perfect!
I go and visit het site,
* marlies
- April 1, 2011 at 4:38 PM
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Wed., Dec. 19, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) — Up to 100 million taxpayers — about two-thirds of all filers — won't be able to file their 2012 tax returns until late March if Congress doesn't adjust the alternative minimum tax by the end of the year, the Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday.
Congress routinely adjusts the AMT to spare millions of middle-income taxpayers from steep tax increases. But the fix for 2012 is caught up in negotiations over the year-end "fiscal cliff" of automatic tax increases and spending cuts.
If Congress doesn't fix the AMT retroactively to the beginning of 2012, the tax would hit an additional 28 million filers, increasing their taxes by an average of $3,700. Millions of others would face filing delays because the annual fix affects their tax credits.
The last adjustment expired at the end of 2011, and the IRS assumed Congress would adjust the tax again when it set up its computer systems for the upcoming filing season, acting IRS Commissioner Steven T. Miller said in a letter to Congress. It would take until late March at the earliest for the agency to re-work its computers, he said.
This scenario would leave taxpayers a small window to meet the April 15 filing deadline. The IRS, however, would not comment on any proposal to extend the filing deadline, agency spokesman Terry Lemons said.
The AMT was first enacted in 1969 to ensure that wealthy people can't use tax breaks to avoid paying any federal taxes. The tax, however, was never adjusted for inflation, so Congress routinely patches it to keep it from hitting middle-income families.
In a November letter to lawmakers, Miller said 60 million filers could face filing delays, if the AMT is not addressed. On Wednesday, he said 80 million to 100 million filers could face delays. The number grew because of millions of taxpayers ultimately may not pay the AMT but will have to do calculations to make sure.
"That up to 100 million American households could be impacted according to the IRS demonstrates the urgency in which Congress and the White House must reach a reasonable, balanced solution to stopping the fiscal cliff," said Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee. "The alternative minimum tax simply has to be permanently fixed."
Hatch and other Republicans said the AMT issue provides a good reason to vote for House Speaker John Boehner's plan to extend expiring tax cuts for everyone who makes less than $1 million. Boehner said his proposal is a backup plan in case stalled talks with President Barack Obama fail. The bill, which is scheduled for a vote in the House on Thursday, would permanently patch the AMT.
"It gives us 100 million more reasons to pass the Republican plan now," said Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee.
Obama said Boehner's bill is a poor alternative to serious discussions about a comprehensive deficit-reduction package. Lawmakers from both political parties expect the AMT to be adjusted in any comprehensive deal, if one can be reached.
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Mary Huettner at Gansett Beach
Mary R. Huettner at Gansett BeachCreated: 1918
Surf Drive
Surf Drive in the area of today's Oyster Pond Road intersection. Oyster Pond in background
Bell Tower Millfield Street
The Bell Tower with Richard Huettner in doorwayCreated: 1930
View of US Fish Commission Building
Fisheries building at Woods Hole 1919Created: 1919
Student Housing
Photo of house from roadCreated: 1916
Nobska Beach Road
Mary Huettner walking down middle of road from Nobska LighthouseCreated: 1916
Bell Tower Millfield Street
The Bell Tower with Richard Huettner in doorwayCreated: 1930
Spencer Baird's Fisheries Building
Woods Hole Cut. Spencer Baird's Fisheries Building on right
Woods Hole Railway Station
Valise on right (open) was the "Drosophila bag"Created: 1930
Woods Hole Depot
Woods Hole railroad depot - 1930. Satchel bag in foreground for carrying glass pint bottles of Drosophila flies to Columbia University for continuing research. Mary Huettner, Richard and Robert Huettner in foreground near satchel.Created: 1930
Robert and Richard Huettner in front of locomotive
Richard A. Huettner (L), Robert J. Huettner (R) at Woods Hole railway stationCreated: 1930
Penzance Garage on Water Street
This photograph lain undeveloped in Alfred F. Huettner's camera for over fifty-five years before it was developed.Created: 1930
Bell Tower Millfield Street
The Bell Tower with Richard Huettner in foregroundCreated: 1930
Sam Cahoon's Dock
Ships at dock in Woods HoleCreated: 1930
Rear of Sam Cahoon's Dock
4 unknown men processing fish. Child in the foreground is Robert HuettnerCreated: 1930
Sam Cahoon's Dock
Ships at dock in Woods HoleCreated: 1930
Rear of Sam Cahoon's Dock
4 unknown men processing fish. Child in the foreground is Robert HuettnerCreated: 1930
Backyard of Thomas Hunt Morgan's home in Woods Hole
Morgan's house, backyardCreated: late 1910s
Elizabeth Island Beach
The Elizabeth Island beach 1920Created: 1920
Nobska Lighthouse
Nobska Lighthouse in Woods Hole, MA, looking westCreated: 1918
Camping on Elizabeth Islands
Donald Lancefield (far left), Rebecca Lancefield (dark dress)Created: 1922
Buildings of US Fish Commission: Woods Holl Mass
United States Fish Commission buildingsCreated: 1890-08
Panoramic View From Penzance Point August 10 1894
View from Penzance Point overlooking Devils Foot and Great Harbor into the village of Woods Hole in the distanceCreated: 1894-08
Panorama From Penzance Point
View from Penzance Point overlooking Devils Foot with Woods Hole in the distance and Nobska Lighthouse. Steamship moving through the Hole towards Buzzards BayCreated: 1894-08
Bathing Beach Woods Holl
Photographer with straw hat and tripod black hooded camera. Bathers in period bathing suitsCreated: 1894-08-16


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ET and MPH wise! What Battery..etc to do it?
Heres my personal best.....
and this was one of my fastest trap speeds...
Looks good. Mine is sent off at the moment getting R&D done to it. I don't know if it'll happen but I plan touching near 100 MPH mark soon with it. Different motor & battery, wheeliebar, other odds & ends.
Haven't got it back yet!
Its a handful stock with a 3S - it'll be insane up near 100mph!. Which pinion are you going with to get the most speed out of it?
PHOENIX Bandit,Summit,Funny Car,Darkrayne Rustler
I have already been over 100mph with mine...the factory body wont work though....(hint hint)......23t pinion on 3s2p .....its actually quite stable once you get over 60mph....downforce keeps it planted. ET is the real record to beat!...Im still the fastest as far as i know with 2.300 seconds in the 132ft
What gearing are you at for 132ft?
14t(factory) on 3s
What few vids I've seen of these they seem to have a tough time with the launch.... Seems tough to keep them straight.
If I had one of those I'd try a steering gyro to assist in keeping it straight on the launch... Just a thought....
In one of your pics on the other thread you showed some sticky stuff used to assists with traction, reminds me or some stuff we used to use in the 60's for slot car drag racing. We use to pump 24 vdc into a 3 volt brushed motor.. Good speeds but destroyed a lot of motors. We use to hand wind the armatures.
"enjoy your ride"
I tried using my GY401 gyro already but the servo cant keep up....so you will need a VERY high speed servo to work well using a gyro....otherwise it just twitches into an oscillation as it over-corrects.
....the sticky stuff in the pics is VHT trackbite.
I use this gyro with great results. You can adjust the sensitivity. The servo does need to be of a digital type to work with this gyro.
I just use the stock servo's that come with my 2wd Slashes and Jato.
No twitching like you describe with the one you tried.
"enjoy your ride"
yea....I think you arent noticing that the funny car servo is a micro servo and not digital.....lol...
...The Futaba GY401 is one of the BEST gyros in the world...it has adjustable sensitivity...heading hold... and other great features...but without a FAST digital servo it wont do its job....just the nature of the game....I will eventually put in a highspeed digital servo and try again.
The Futaba GY401 is a fine gyro for helo use, but was not designed for rc cars. Not sure but that may be an issue. I did see that the specs say it will work on a digital or analog servo with the selector sw.
The gyro I use is designed for rc cars and is a very easy install. I originally tried a helicopter gyro with limited success/results.
Good luck with your new servo when you get it installed.... And by all means Jack, keep us posted on your results.
And again, nice ET's and speeds... Keep videos coming too!!!!
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"enjoy your ride"
thanks....and just for your info....Gyros for Heli work exactly the same as gyros for cars....but some models/brands are higher quality and offer more sensitivity/features such as heading hold etc.....in this case maybe the cheaper less sensitive units use non digital servos but in my opinion this doesnt translate to the best stability in a straight line...maybe for "drifting" or bashing....but in drag racing the tiniest corrections have the biggest effect on the cars stability at speed.
We've been doing alot of R&D lately with a group of guys. We put up our best ET's this Saturday going 2.001 @ 60.54 mph and then went 2.007 @ 58.43 mph. Here's a pic of the time slips to show a few passes [IMG][/IMG]
I am running the futaba gy401 in both my wife's car and also my own, with stock servo with excellent results we run on a 132' track with a juice syrup coating and on a 2 cell running 2.71 at 49 mph. My hardest thing is keeping front end down in order to control car. Our next race is in June will post time slips then.
Can you guys post pics as I am new to this and would like to see what the parts look like?
Just traded for one of these. 2wd slash that I had 100$ in. I can't control. I have used stick on weights (not racing) have all links measured and perfect. I widened my 2wd lcg slash front and rear with rpm rustler a arms fabbed my own toe links....WHAT CAN I DO TO GO STRAIGHT!? Help!
I use spectrum avc in mine for transmitter and receiver. So much better stability in those high runs and windy days.
Funny cat lover
I've run a 2.126 in 132 feet on 3s.
Hey guys, check out www.dragtrac.com for some of the quickest Traxxas Funny Car E.t's EVER! All are done on Stock cars with Traxxas Funny car rubber tires. 2.126 with a 3s and 2.374 with a 2s
2.110 Scott Davis RCDRL Texas league. and he backed it up within 1%.
2.110 S. Davis RCDRL Texas league. and he backed it up within 1%. I think Jeepn knows this already lol
I need to see some video and pix.
Be nice to keep this thread going.
We have been 1.9 @76 MPH with a stock car, foam tires, 3s battery, and grape soda in a church parking lot. This was on a DTS and backed up.
I purchased a really nice condition green motored Trx Dragster last year. I bought it cause I thought they were discontinued and planned on it being a shelf queen.
I was gonna try it out but heard theyre squirrelly as heck at speed. Any truth to that?
Like said, mines in perfect shape and the seller kept carrying on about it having the green motor?
I imagine I need to try and buy a used used one and send it?
Any body add weight to control this thing on launch
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I suffered through this tripe. So humor me. Let me be at peace with writing an inanely, insanely long pointless review.
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As close to the arcade as it got, and still failed.
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Srinivas "Cheeni" Rao's story is a redemption story and so let's say up front that it has a happy ending, with marriage, family, advanced UI degrees, a published book, and a hopeful future in business. But to get that happy ending, you have to go to some dark places, because that's how redemption stories work, and in Rao's case, they are quite dark and ugly.
Petty theft, aggravated robbery, homelessness, hustling, arson, drug dealing, assault, battery, the Mob, family rejection and finally, watching a friend get stabbed and bleed to death right in front of him, unable to do anything to help.
All of this after growing up in a comfortable, well off Chicago suburb, with all the accompanying social and financial advantages, which is the worst kind of crime in America; to have everything and throw it all away for drugs and homelessness and violence.
"Second chances are not often given to people who have pushed so far over the line," says Rao, who nevertheless has managed to create for himself a second chance that has brought to him to the University of Iowa, first to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and now the full-time Tippie MBA program.
Rao said he was a straight-laced kid with a fairly conventional upbringing for the son of Indian immigrants. Academic success was vital, he says, and a career as a doctor or engineer or some other highly regarded profession was expected. Maybe even a Hindu priest, which is what many of his relatives had been. He won academic competitions in science and math and played sports. He went to prestigious Williams College in 1992 with designs on a career in medicine, like his pediatrician father, and nobody thought he couldn't do it.
Looking back, he realizes childhood also made him proud and stubborn, two traits that help when training to be a doctor, but which could also become a flaw if not put to good use. At Williams, they proved to be an almost fatal flaw.
"There was a schism that had formed in me that started to show when I went to college, between the expectations of my parents and Indian culture, and my Americanized self wanting to break free and be independent," he says. "Every movement seemed to be regulated up to then, and I wanted to be free of that regulation."
And so he started drinking, and then he drank some more and then he started doing drugs and dealing drugs. He didn't do this as a form of outward rebellion, though; as some kind of kiss off to his family, an outward defiance of unreasonable expectations. He still wanted to be a doctor, he still loved his family, and he still wanted to follow in his father's footsteps. He still wanted to be straight and narrow—the rebellion sort of leaked out of him—and so he thought he could keep up his grades and his academic work.
"I had an overblown sense of who I was and what I was capable of doing," he says. "I thought I could drink and keep myself together."
But most of those who try eventually crash, and Rao crashed hard. Expelled from Williams, he returned to Chicago only to find his family had rejected him. "I can do nothing more for you. You are now in Hanuman's hands," his mother said to him, calling upon a Hindu god to help the drug-addled son she refused to let in the house.
Now homeless and alone and too messed up to even think about gainful employment, he wound up on Chicago's Southside dealing drugs, brawling, stealing and committing petty crimes. A life that once looked out to limitless horizons was now reduced to looking ahead no more than a few hours.
"When you are unemployable and unable to subsist, you do whatever it takes to make it to the next day," he says. In the Loop, he saw well-dressed people in business suits going to their high-power jobs in banks or law firms or hospitals. He realized then he was no longer on that high-power track. He wasn't even on a medium- or low-power track.
"Now, I'd become the person on the fringe, when I thought that I'd be the person in the suit and tie," he says.
What finally convinced him that he could live this life no longer was watching that stabbed friend bleed out in front of him. He wound up in a treatment facility in 1995, and then a halfway house—Oasis House. There he found a group of similarly damaged men in similar circumstance who helped him realize what a mess he had made of his life and convinced him to change it.
"They made me see beyond my own selfish desires, and they helped me understand I could be a part of something larger than myself, that I had the potential to give back and help others," he says. "I realized I was not hopeless. I'd had a happy childhood so I knew I could be better, I knew I could wear the suit and tie, I knew how to get there. For many of these other men, they didn't know how to get there. For them, it did seem hopeless."
He also re-discovered his love of writing and artistic self-expression. He had never thought much about writing growing up. He was mostly a left-brained science and math guy. But when he was a freshman at Williams, a traveling theater troupe came through and he auditioned to perform. He wound up doing a one-man show in which he played three characters—his grandmother in India, his father the immigrant, and himself the first-generation American—and discovered his brain had a right side, too.
"It was the first moment I could articulate these things roiling inside myself, and I could communicate it to others and have that understanding reflected back to me," he says. "That was when I fell in love with writing, but I also fell more in love with alcohol and drugs."
When cleaned up, that love of writing was still there. He majored in English at the University of Chicago and then came to the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1998.
"I was pretty uneducated when it came to anything about writing," he says. "I didn't understand publishing or the business of writing or the craft of writing, and here I was with people who'd wanted to be writing since they were 12." Another challenge was turning down invitations from classmates to hang out at bars. "I'm sure my classmates got sick of me saying 'I'm an alcoholic, I can't drink.'"
But he thrived, even without alcohol. He developed his writing, talked about where a good story comes from, and then he picked up his first break. A bulletin board posting went up in Dey House that someone was looking for a ghostwriter to help with an historical fantasy romance novel, a genre he didn't know even existed, and since it was spring break and he was the only student in the building, he got the job.
That led to other ghost writing jobs, one with Hayden Fry, another with Dr. Jack Kevorkian for a book that became the basis for an Emmy-winning HBO movie starring Al Pacino. There were others, too, none of which he can talk about because of contractual obligations, but enough to make a living. It also led him to start his own business, IowaBookDoctors.com, that specialized in ghost writing, editing and creativity consulting. He hired a staff and at one point had revenues of nearly $1 million a year.
He learned what a good story was, and that his own life was a good one and so he wrote it. In 2009, he published his memoir, In Hanuman's Hands, which tied together his own life, his parents' immigrant experience, and how Hindu spirituality guided him back from the edge. Critics praised it. Publisher's Weekly starred its review, Booklist called it "fiery" and "poetic," the Wall Street Journal said it "beguiles," and Barnes & Noble named him to its Discover Great New Writers series for the year. It was, critics agreed, the junkie memoir reinvented.
But nobody bought it.
"That's the nature of the publishing industry," he says. "I'd dreamed of big paydays and literary celebrity, and woke up instead with a minimum-wage writing career."
His life had other changes, too. Marriage and a child made a stream of income more important, and upheaval in the publishing industry made it a challenge to keep Iowa Book Doctors afloat. His management decisions were all based on instinct because "I didn't know anything about business going in, other than dealing drugs." He realized he needed to learn more about how business works so he sold Book Doctors to a partner and started at the Tippie School of Management, where he's now a first year MBA student.
Rao still writes when he has the time. He has an agent and three manuscripts under consideration by publishers. But his focus now is on using the Tippie MBA program to help turn his entrepreneurial experience into a career. Where that takes him, he's not sure. He's in the Tippie Finance Academy and is looking for consulting or leadership development opportunities. Though he has the most experience in the publishing and entertainment industry, he's still keeping his options open because he knows that's not the only industry where he can make an impact. Whatever happens, he sees this as another starting point in his life.
Rao knows he's going to have a hard time explaining all this to prospective employers. A quick Google search of his name turns up dozens of hits for In Hanuman's Hands so it doesn't take much effort to learn about his difficult past, and corporate culture isn't always friendly to people with his background. Even if it happened long ago and he's moved so far past it he can barely see it in the rearview mirror.
"It's an uphill battle," he acknowledges. "But I've fought a lot of uphill battles."
Update: Rao will start work in the investment management development program with Wells Fargo in Scottsdale, Ariz., after he graduates from the Tippie College of Business in May 2014.


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