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New Year's hangovers: Tips to avoid a headache
An epic New Year's Eve party can turn into an Earth-shattering hangover on New Year's Day. That's why it's important to take some preventive steps to ensure you can stay ahead of headaches and dehydration on Tuesday.
Hangovers are a factor of how the body metabolizes alcohol, how drinking affects blood flow to the brain and how booze affects the brain's chemical signals, neurotransmitters. Hangovers can cause headaches, tremors, sweating, increased pulse and blood pressure, muscle aches, nausea, vomiting, dehydration, thirst, light sensitivity, fatigue, depression and anxiety.
Dr. Noah Rosen, director of the Headache Center at the Cushing Neuroscience Institute in Great Neck, N.Y., said the single biggest thing partygoers can do this year to prevent a hangover is to drink plenty of water throughout the night. A good rule of thumb is to alternate each alcoholic drink with a nonalcoholic one.
Eating before a night out is also a good idea, he said.
This week, the Journal of Food Science reminded people of a 2009 study that suggested asparagus might prevent hangovers.
Researchers at the Institute of Medical Science and Jeju National University in Korea analyzed asparagus shoots and leaves to compare their biochemical effects on human and rat liver cells, and found minerals in asparagus leaves may protect liver cells against toxins.
"These results provide evidence of how the biological functions of asparagus can help alleviate alcohol hangover and protect liver cells," the researchers concluded.
"I'm not sure that really translates into humans," said Rosen, who was not involved in the research, of the study's conclusion. He said unfortunately there's no food he can recommend to help stave off a hangover, although research suggests fatty foods may decrease alcohol absorption. He said just eating anything before -- not after -- drinking helps.
If you forget to stay hydrated while closing out 2012, you might want to take an anti-inflammatory like ibuprofen the next morning to help with the headache, and keep hydrated. While some people may make a bloody mary for a little "hair of the dog," Rosen said there's no evidence more alcohol actually helps reduce a hangover unless a person is an alcoholic about to go through withdrawal.
He said there's also some evidence that caffeine and mild exercise could help reduce a hangover.
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In what may have been an addition to the original Gospel, the writer states unequivocally that Jesus is the true, real vine, and God is the vine-grower/farmer. Throughout the Old Testament, the vine and the vineyard refer to the land and the people of Israel. (Psalm 80; Hosea 10:1-2; Isaiah 5:1-7; Isaiah 27:2-6; Jeremiah 2:21; Ezekiel 15:1-6, 17, Ezekiel 19:10-14). Whenever the people turn away from God's demand for radical fairness (justice-compassion; righteousness), God threatens to either cut off the vine or burn the vineyard. Ezekiel and Jeremiah assumed the Babylonian Exile was the result of the failure of the people to produce the fruit of God's justice. Because of the refusal of the Judeans to accept Jesus as the Anointed One, John implies that Moses and the people of Israel have been overthrown as chosen and favored by God (cf Raymond E. Brown, The Gospel and Epistles of John, pp. 82-83; see also Harper Collins Study Bible (NRSV) note 15:1-6, p. 2033).
The Elves avoid the implied anti-Semitism by attempting to change the subject to love whenever these passages are read as part of the Year B Easter season. The Revised Common Lectionary pairs 1 John 4:7-21 with the Gospel reading of 15:1-8, softening the declaration that "I am the real vine." In the Epistle John writes, "Everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God, for God is love." But the reading from the Epistle is also conveniently cherry-picked. The Elves ignore the first 6 verses of chapter 4, which deal with "testing the spirits" to discern the "anti-Christ" that exists in the world among those who do not "listen to us" – i.e., those who believe in Jesus. If the canon is to have any integrity at all, these contradictions must be dealt with.
Chapter 15 contains some of the most beloved words in Christian scripture: "As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. . . You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another" (NRSV). Pairing these words with the Epistle reading seems to universalize the message: "Everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God, for God is love," John's letter explains. But John wasn't talking about everyone; he was talking about the community of people who accepted Jesus as the Messiah – or, in contemporary conservative language – those who accept Jesus as Lord.
Those who do not accept Jesus as Lord John describes in the very next paragraph as "the world": "If the world hates you, don't forget that it hated me first. . . . I have chosen you out of the world; that's why the world hates you." This is an exclusive, defensive, and dangerous foundation for a religion, and it is the grounding language for the fundamental conviction that drives contemporary, 21st century, conservative Christians to claim persecution on the part of "liberals," and threat to their freedom on the part of secular, humanitarian government. Jesus concludes, "they hated me for no reason," and it was God's plan from the beginning. "This has happened so the saying in their Law would be fulfilled – they hated me for no reason" (Psalms 35:19 and 69:4).
Once again, progressive practitioners of liberal religions – especially Christians – are confronted with the dilemma of whether to reclaim and reframe the theology and Christology of John's Gospel. The insights of liberal scholarship provide exiles from traditional doctrine the means for reinventing a Christianity that speaks to social justice based on the synoptics and the sayings gospel of Thomas. But doing so weakens the liberal/progressive argument in two ways: First, what might be called the "spiritual high ground" is ceded to the fundamentalists. By focusing on the nuts-and-bolts practicalities of transforming human life from fear and greed to love and sharing (homeless shelters, feeding programs, lobbying Congress), the mystic-minded are left to fend for themselves when it comes to extra-rational activities such as prayer, revelation, vision, and other numinous experiences.
Second, unless the Gospel of John is embraced, understood, and reframed, liberal/progressive religions will continue to write-off as deranged or irrelevant people who take the gospel literally. The result is 21st century human progress held hostage to an anachronistic, irrelevant, erroneous 1st century cosmology. We have only to look at how close the current Republican primary electoral process has come to selecting an anti-Semitic, Dominionist associate of Opus Dei as their candidate for the next president of the United States.
Jesus' practical teachings in the synoptic gospels are the grounding for a change in paradigm from greed to sharing, from fear to love. John's Jesus is the Cosmic Christ, the genuine light, who enters the world as the divine word and wisdom. John's Cosmic Christ is the vine, and those who embody the paradigm are the branches – the incarnation of the Cosmic Christ. Theologian Matthew Fox who wrote the book on The Cosmic Christ, puts it this way:
These revelations of "I-am-ness" [the way, the truth, the life; the real vine] challenge us to name (or claim) our lives and beings in a similar fashion. How are we the bread of life or living [water] to each other? How are we the light of the world, the real vine, the resurrection and the life? . . . To struggle to birth one's own "I am" is also to experience the divine "I am." . . . Is not the purpose of the incarnation in Jesus to reveal the imminence of the Cosmic Christ in the sufferings and dignity of each creature of the earth? As we discover our own "I am" and the ecstasy and pain of the Divine One in us, we gradually grow into an "I-am-with" others (Emmanuel, "God-with-us"). We grow into compassion and in doing so the divine "I am" takes on flesh once again. Since God alone is the Compassionate One, as we grow into compassion we also grow into our divinity.
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, pp. 154-155.
John's Jesus is judgmental throughout chapter 15: ". . . without me you can't do anything. Those who don't remain attached to me are thrown away like dead branches; they're collected and tossed into the fire, and burned. . . . if you obey my commandments you'll live in my love . . ." These words cannot be taken literally. Instead, the question is, What are the consequences of knowing the truth, but not living it out? Jesus says, "If I hadn't come and spoken to them, they wouldn't be guilty of sin but as it is, they have no excuse for their sin. . . If I hadn't performed these feats . . . they wouldn't be guilty of sin. But as it is, they have witnessed and come to hate both me and my Father. . . ."
Last week's commentary cited The Authentic Letters of Paul, for a definition of "sin" (Greek: hamartia). The Westar scholars translate the word as "the corrupting seduction of power," or the "seductive power of corruption." Neither John's Jesus nor the Apostle Paul is talking about rotting corpses. They are talking about the kind of corruption that arises between people, and in government or economic empires that leads to systems of injustice. In that context, John's Jesus is saying that once anyone is aware of the seductive power of corruption, there is no excuse for continuing to participate in it. Here is the basis for prophetic words from contemporary preachers like Jeremiah Wright; from liberal media such as the New York Times; and from Christians who live out the mandate to love others, such as the Sojourners Community, led by Jim Wallis.
The parallels between Jesus' words in John 15:18-25 and the 8th chapter of Paul's letter to the Romans – written 50 years earlier – are striking (Romans 8:1-11):
. . . For the rule of the spirit of life that was in the Anointed Jesus has liberated you from being ruled by seductive corruption and death. For by sending God's own "son" – a participant like us, in an earthly life attended by seductive corruption – to deal with that corrupting power, God did what the law of Moses – weakened by the conflicted character of earthly existence – was incapable of doing: God condemned the corrupting power that attends our earthly life so that the just requirement of the Mosaic law might be fulfilled in us who live not according to the ambitions of a self-serving earthly life, but according to God's purposes and power. . . . To set your minds on worldly things means death, but to set your mind on God's power and purpose means life and peace . . . It is not possible for those who are pre-occupied with worldly self-advancement to please God . . . If anyone does not have the spirit that was in the Anointed, that one is not one of his. But if the Anointed lives in you, although your body is in the grip of death because of the seductive power of corruption, you spirit is alive because of God's reliability. And if the power of the One who raised Jesus from among the dead resides in you, the One who raised the Anointed from among the dead will give life to your mortal bodies through the power and presence of God that resides in you. The Authentic Letters of Paul pp.228-229.
Paul is not talking about life after death. Paul is talking about embracing the challenge of distributive justice-compassion –"the great work" – here and now. John's Jesus assures us that "the spirit of truth will testify on my behalf," not about the insane claim that he was God, nor about the resuscitation of a corpse. The spirit of truth testifies to the unjust systems that hold sway in the world, and will not let us remain silent. "And you are going to testify because you were with me from the beginning," Jesus says.
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After vowing yesterday a patch fixing a bad multiplayer glitch and punching up the game's AI had been "fast-tracked" for delivery, MLB 2K10's team backed it up today with the arrival of the game's first Xbox 360 patch, sometime overnight.
The patch finally, fully enables bug-free online ranked games against random opponents. If it punched up the manager AI, it didn't do so in My Player. Granted, I threw a six-hit jim dandy against Boston, but it was in Spring Training, and I was batting in the bottom of the 10th. And Hideki Okajima, with a tie game in the eighth, was sent up to hit.
My next game (I'm deliberately holding this guy in the minors for a second season), I went through a five-hit three run fifth inning, lost the lead and yet still hung around until the eighth inning (giving up four runs and 10 hits) until I was replaced. So it seems pitch count is still the governing factor when it comes to assessing your effectiveness and whether you get the hook.
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As for PS3 players, they're still waiting on their first patch, which may combine the changes applied in this game with ones slated for a second Xbox 360 patch down the line. It's safe to say this is deliberate neglect of the PS3 version, but given the distant second MLB 2K10 finishes to MLB 10 The Show on that console, there's hardly much incentive to hurry, or even a big enough installation base to make it a priority.


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The Service Cloud is Salesforce's Customer Service app. It brings together all of your company's customer support into one place and then directs certain issues to the appropriate channel, whether it's to a 1-800 number, email address or social media channel. If there's any problems fixing a problem, the Service Cloud has a task status feature that you can "Escalate" in order to alert your coworkers of the issue and solve the problem collaboratively. You can even facetime with customers through the app. The Weekly Agent Productivity feature provides incentive to solve situations quickly, while the customer satisfaction metrics let you know how good of a job your team is doing.
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Dynamics Business Analyzer is Microsoft's free CRM app. The app requires Windows 8 or Windows RT to run, and features a colorful metrics dashboard so you can copy, edit, view and refresh reports directly on your desktop. You can customize which reports you want to include on the dashboard, ranging from gross profit reports to sales per month reports. This app integrates with the Windows 8 edition of Lync so that co-workers can collaborate directly on the reports.
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6. Google Apps
The Google Apps for Business suite includes the Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides for collaboration in the cloud. Google offers a free 30-day trial and charges $5 per employee.
Google Hangouts is also a popular business app by Google. Hangouts are especially useful if you have employees who work remotely, as they can participate virtually in meetings and brainstorm sessions. You can share photos or emojis and add up to 10 friends per hangout.
7. Tempo
Tempo is a calendar management tool that pulls in contextual information about your daily events — from contact information to driving directions. Every day, Tempo generates a daily schedule that you can preview either in calendar or list view.
Tempo is not specifically targeted toward businesses, but it can be especially helpful for pulling in email information about meetings or corporate events. The app comes with built-in Foursquare and Yelp integration, so locating your meeting is painless.
8. Evernote Business
Evernote Business breaks down communication barriers between departments. This democratization of knowledge facilliates collaborative problem solving, which drives faster solutions. Evernote Business also makes it easier for customer feedback to influence strategy.
Evernote Business easily integrates with your existing Evernote account and grants you access to Evernote Premium. With a Premium account, you get access to 2 GB of personal memory a month, and your company gets an extra 2 GM to share in Business Notebooks.
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These castles range from $78,800 – $94,600 without customization. It's not too shabby for such an awesome treehouse castle, right? Imagine inviting your friends and loved ones to your home for the first time. The first impression they will have would be priceless! Their expressions would be worth being framed in your living room for the remainder of your life, truly! So next time you sit down in front of the television, try to tell yourself that everything is possible and then become dedicated. Every dream is built with dedication. The sooner you act on that, the sooner you will see those dreams of yours come true. This treehouse castle is someone's badass dream come true!
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Secret to former VP Cheney's success fighting heart disease? Being a good patient
Dick Cheney has been vice president of the United States and Secretary of Defense. He's been a member of Congress and CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
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A storied quick-service restaurant chain wanted to reignite growth. In each of the prior three years, sales had either remained flat or declined. There were concerns that the brand had lost relevance with customers. Franchisees were disgruntled and they were looking to the company for solutions. Management turned to BCG for assistance.
The answer lay in thinking differently, and more deeply, about consumers. The company had historically pursued a traditional approach to consumer segmentation, but it lacked a deep understanding of the distinct needs that drove choice in their category.
BCG's Demand Centric Growth™ methodology helped reveal those distinctions.
BCG's approach identified ten unique emotional "demand spaces" in fast food, each with different needs. This helped the company understand the real reasons consumers made choices and revealed the firm's true competitive set. It rapidly became clear that the company's right to win was at the intersection of two demand spaces related to flavor and freshness. Most quick-serve restaurants were good at one or the other, but consumers want both and the client could deliver. Armed with a richer understanding of consumer demand and a clearer sense of its competitive advantage, the client could focus its growth investments on products and processes that supported the winning positioning.
Informed by this strategy, BCG collaborated with the company on a broad-based transformation. BCG helped the company rethink and fine-tune its marketing message, menu, in-store processes, and operating model to yield a much more focused and internally-consistent business model.
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Patty Andrews, the last of the Andrews Sisters singing trio — one the most popular recording acts of the 1940s — died at her home in California Wednesday (Jan. 30) at the age of 94.
Although the sisters chiefly sang pop music and charted regularly in Billboard magazine from 1940 to 1950, they also dipped their toes into country music, collaborating with such stars as Bing Crosby, Ernest Tubb and Red Foley , all of whom were on the same label that they were, Decca Records.
Paired with Crosby, the sisters first charted country in 1944 with "Pistol Packing Mama." It reached No. 1. In 1949, they had two hit singles with Tubb — "I'm Bitin' My Fingernails and Thinking of You" (No. 2) and "Don't Rob Another Man's Castle" (No. 6).
Although none of the recordings charted nationally, the sisters recorded at least seven songs with Foley during the early 1950s — "It Is No Secret," "I Want to Be With You Always" (the Lefty Frizzell hit), "Satins and Lace," "Hang Your Head in Shame," "Where Is My Wandering Mother," "She'll Never Know" and "Bury Me Beneath the Willow."
With Patty Andrews, Foley also recorded "Baby Blues" and "Unless You're Free."
The Andrew Sisters last pop single to chart, "I Wanna Be Loved," came out in 1950.
Starting in 1949, Patty also began recording as a solo artist, but she achieved only modest success. Her charted singles were "The Pussy Cat Song" (1949), "Too Young" (1951) and "Suddenly There's a Valley" (1955).
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Green Salad with Pickled Mushrooms, Cucumbers, Onions, and Pecorino
Putting together a great salad is not quite as simple as starting with quality fresh greens and vegetables and dressing them, but it is a very good start. The rest lies in making sure that you offer enough textural and flavor contrast that the salad doesn't get pushed to the side of the table as an accompaniment—something boring to keep you occupied between bites of the main course. In that sense, when I plan a salad, I try and make sure that it's its own side dish, if you get what I mean.
The key to this salad is the pickled vegetables. It starts with chunkily-cut cucumbers and sliced onions pickled in a simple mix of equal parts vinegar and water with some sugar added. This makes for a nice, light pickle that's punchy and bright, but tame enough that you can eat it by the forkful without pursing your lips so hard you pull a muscle. I like to think of light pickles like that as vegetables that have their dressing already built in.
Next, I added some hon-shimeji mushrooms to the same liquid. Mushrooms, with their great absorbency, make for awesome pickles. They suck up flavor like a sponge and release it just as easily. Their soft-but-firm texture is also nice agains the ultra-crunchy cukes.
For freshness and a burst of sweetness, I went with snap peas, simply blanched in salted water. They're super sweet this time of year, and unlike, say, English peas or asparagus, they tend to keep their sweetness for several days after being picked. They're one of the most forgiving fresh spring vegetables I know.
With all that great pickling liquid, the dressing for the rest of the salad—some nice red oak lettuce that Jamie picked up from the Union Square Greenmarket—is easy. Pickling liquid, along with a bit of mustard and good extra virgin olive oil.
I always like to have some sort of salty burst in my salad—something to really whack your mouth in the...mouth (I guess)—and that burst is often cheese. In this case, an extra-sharp aged Pecorino that's crumbled fine enough that every bite oughta get a burst or two.
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Getting ready for another winter of ice fishing is always a comedy of errors, and this year has been no exception.
It is better than last year, though, when I took the cover off my portable fish house and found the inside of the plastic tub that forms the base covered with mold.
I'm no scientist, but the sight of that mold reminded me I probably should have dried out the bottom of the house before storing it for the summer. Actually, I didn't so much store the house as unceremoniously dump it from the back of my truck onto the garage floor.
There it sat — unopened and untended, damp and festering — from March until early December.
The mold wasn't a terminal condition, and a good scrub job took care of the furry residue growing inside. The canvas came through the months of neglect relatively unscathed.
Wanting to avoid a repeat, I let the portable house dry out for several weeks last spring before putting it into storage; the strategy paid off in the form of no mold.
The portable needs a couple of minor repairs that may or may not get done, but at least it's not a large-scale biology experiment. It's more or less ready to hit the ice.
The challenge this year, I've discovered, is rounding up my fishing gear. After all these years, I still haven't learned to store everything in one place.
That would be too convenient.
Instead, I'm still trying to track down a couple of spinning reels, and my hand-held GPS — with all of the coordinates to my favorite Lake of the Woods fishing holes — is nowhere to be found.
I used the GPS hunting this fall, so I know it can't be too far away. Most likely, it's in a backpack or pocket I haven't checked, or perhaps under the seat of my truck.
I've decided the best strategy, for now, is to quit looking. Someday, when I'm not looking, the GPS will turn up where I least expect it. That's usually the way it works.
I also remember seeing the battery charger for my Vexilar FL-18 depth finder lying around the house sometime in the past few months. The other day, when I needed it, the charger was nowhere to be found.
Finding my gas-powered ice auger won't be a problem, but I should probably try starting it before my first big trip of the season. Hopefully, it will take less than 100 pulls to get the thing running.
Gradually, though, the transition from summer to winter is falling into place. I've got all of my ice fishing lures in order, the ice cleats for my boots were right on the shelf in the garage where they were supposed to be, and I'm more or less ready for my first trip of the winter to Lake of the Woods.
With or without the GPS, catching fish shouldn't be too much of a problem based on the reports I've heard so far.
The battery charger will turn up eventually, as will the GPS. And I've got enough ice fishing reels to get me by without any undue hardship.
The only wild card at this point is the water jug I use for a minnow bucket in the winter. The jug has a lid that screws on tightly, allowing me to cross the ice by snowmobile without spilling water all over the inside of the portable. I don't want to encourage more mold to grow, after all.
The jug is in my fish house, and I'm pretty sure I dumped out the minnows after my last trip in March. Pretty sure, but not positive …
Guess there's only one way to find out.
If I didn't, that moldy fish house is going to seem like a walk in the park by comparison.
Wish me luck.
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blah blah new horror TV series blah blah. This one is going to be on Starz though, so there might be some actual gore showing up here. It's called "Da Vinci's Demons" and it focuses on the code maker himself and his struggle with good and evil. Oh and he's a genius. And oh this doesn't sound like it's going to be bloody at all. Michael J. Bassett of "Silent Hill: Revelation" fame(?) will direct.
I don't even know what this means anymore but there's been so much crap around the "World War Z" movie that I thought I should mention it. Apparently the rough cut of the film is clocking in at only 52 minutes long. Alright I kind of know what that means. It means there was only 52 minutes of usable footage after what I think has been about 7 years of filming. There's apparently only 7 weeks left so I assume they're just going to set up a camera in Brad Pitt's shower and tack on 45 minutes of him using a loofah to the project. I'll watch it.
Call me crazy but I actually want to see "Jurassic Park" in 3D when it's thrust back into theaters. Go ahead, call me crazy! Well it looks like my wait won't be as long as originally planned because the re-release has been pushed up 3 months to April 5, 2013. I think if I keep hoping enough they'll push it up to this weekend and then I can go right now. Do it. Come on movie people do this one thing for me!
Alexander Skarsgard trapped in a bomb shelter. Sounds dreamy doesn't it? The film is called "Hidden" and it has officially begun production in Vancouver. The film is about a family who spends 301 days down in a bomb shelter while the world above goes to hell. I've had dreams that start like this.
And the "yo mama" jokes have finally gone too far for one man. So far that he actually attacked his own son with a knife. Finally someone is taking a stand.
Here's a heartwarming story about a woman in Maine who beat that crap out of another woman at a local Walmart because she caught her husband flirtin it up with her. I'm not even kidding here I've seen at least 2 fist-fights in the past 3 years at my local Walmart. It's better than any pay-per-view.


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Old-school tricks and new-school testing shows solid power gains.
I'll never forget my first fast (or so I thought at the time) car. It was an '87 GT with an E-cam and exhaust. It had 4.10 gears, a T5, five-lug conversion with Baer brakes--back then it felt like a rocket ship! Times sure have changed, and so has my version of fast.
The technology available today allows us to make way more power than we could with a bolt-on 5.0 H.O. Factory cars are making 550-plus horsepower, and the current 302 makes 412 hp. With technology such as DOHC heads and variable cam timing, Ford is extracting 187hp more than the 225hp 5.0L with the same displacement. But all is not lost for the old 5.0L.
What you gain (or actually never lost) with the older stuff is the ability to get your hands dirty by twisting the distributor, changing the plug gap, and altering the fuel pressure manually, all in the name of gaining power and dropping e.t.'s. These and other tricks are part of the fun of owning a pushrod 5.0 (or stroker conversion). And while technology has taken over many aspects of new-car performance, thankfully simple, old-school power tricks will still take a basically stock 5.0L to the next level, and you don't have to break the bank to get there.
Stephanie Davies, a Rutgers University student and die-hard Mustang fanatic from New Jersey, spent the summer interning for MM&FF. When she made the trip from New Jersey to Florida, she brought her '92 5.0L LX. Her green hatchback is your typical lightly modified Fox, with a BBK cold-air intake, aftermarket cam (we don't know the specs, but from the sound of it, it's fairly mild), 3.73 gears, shorty headers, and a set of Flows.
On top of an insane amount of clothes and shoes, Steph also packed a well-used Cobra intake manifold she bought a while ago, along with a bunch of other parts for her LX. This gave us a chance to get back to basics and employ some tried-and-true tricks for cheap horsepower. Many of you will get your hands on a Mustang like this and have the opportunity to learn the basics. Fortunately, these Mustangs are easy to work on, parts are affordable and you can make changes that really work.
We started by strapping the Stang to our 224XLC Dynojet chassis dyno. Before any changes, Steph's Fox laid down 221 rwhp and 293 lb-ft of torque--about what you'd expect from a 133,000-mile Fox-body with basic mods.
After adjusting the timing (from 10 degrees BTDC to 15 degrees BTDC), adding an adjustable fuel pressure regulator from BBK, icing the intake, and removing the belt (which we don't recommend for anything other than a dyno test), we were able to improve power output to 251 rwhp and 301 lb-ft of torque for a gain of 30 rwhp and 8 lb-ft of torque, virtually for free!
Advancing the ignition timing starts the sequence of combustion earlier, and the result is greater cylinder pressure and a bigger push down on the pistons during the power stroke. You will need to run premium fuel when you advance the timing, as this will prevent detonation. Advancing the timing too far will likely cause detonation, which you will hear as knocking and pinging from the engine. This, as you can guess, is very bad.
Icing the intake adds power by artificially chilling the air entering the engine. Cold air is more dense then warm air, so there is more oxygen available for combustion. The engine must see a proper mixture of air and fuel to reach maximum power (this is usually around 12.8-13.0:1) meaning 13 parts air to 1 part fuel. So. If the engine is ingesting greater oxygen content, more fuel can be added and more power will generally result. Icing the intake is something that is inexpensive, but it can really only be done on a dyno or at the dragstrip. You must also be sure to clean up any water from the ice, or you may spin in your own water.
Next, we swapped her stock intake manifold for the Cobra unit. We installed a used intake she had picked up, but it was slightly damaged and repaired. The base of the upper was cracked and welded, but it was no longer 100 percent flat and it took a few gaskets to make it seal properly. Our recommendation is normally to steer clear of such parts, especially when you can get a new one for not much more. She paid about $300 for the intake, and a new Cobra intake from Summit Racing Part is $391.95. The good news was that horsepower picked up to 260 rwhp and 312 lb-ft of torque for a total gain of 39 rwhp and 19 lb-ft of torque.
"I've seen a big difference in the car's performance since the install of the Cobra intake," notes Stephanie. "The car pulls much harder in Third and Fourth gears than it did with the stock intake. Before the intake swap, the car felt consistent and steady through the rpm band, but now you really feel the power come on above 3,000 rpm. The change is unnoticeable when cruising at low speeds, so driveability hasn't been affected. It's always been a blast to drive, but with the added horses, it's better than ever!"
While we didn't make it to the track again before Steph returned to school, we can tell you from experience that these changes should be worth about a half second reduction in quarter-mile e.t.'s. If her LX had stock gears (2.73 or 3.08) and we swapped in the 3.73s, you'd see about four more tenths.
Sticky tires and solid driving would get this combination well into the 12s. Add the Cobra intake and low 12s are in the bag.


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A Developer's Overview of ERP
You can't turn around in the field of IT today without tripping over "ERP." Enterprise Resource Planning has been around long enough to have expired as a fad and become a reality that looms over everything, from the job market to the major software packages to most of the training available to you. There's no getting away from it.
The problem is, everybody slaps the initials "ERP" on to almost everything, till it's hard to sort out where it really applies. And even a concise definition of ERP has broad implications. What's needed for developers is a perspective that strips away the non-essentials and provides some tactical direction.
Put simply, Enterprise Resource Planning refers to the integration and extension of a business's operational IT systems, with the end goals of making information flow within (and beyond) a company more immediate and dynamic; increasing the usefulness and shelf life of information; eliminating redundancy and automating routine processes; and making information system components more flexible. Departmental boundaries generally become softer, accessibility of data is increased for partner companies and customers, and the company's ability to respond to the marketplace is generally enhanced.
What are ERP's tactical objectives?
If your company is going ERP, then there are probably several driving forces behind the decision, possibly including: the need to increase supply chain efficiency; the need to increase customer access to products or services; the need to reduce operating costs; the need to respond more rapidly and flexibly to a changing marketplace; and the need to extract business intelligence from data over time.
All of this is fine for the decision-makers, but what does it mean to you as a developer? To achieve senior management's objectives above, IT needs to make the following things happen:
- Consolidate the databases. One of the most prominent features of any ERP system is that it is built around a "super-database," or an integrated, all-inclusive data storage system that encompasses all of your company's operational data. The major ERP software packages convert your in-house databases, usually system- or department-specific, into an interfaced conglomeration of thousands of database tables, integrated more tightly than before. Whether or not you convert to a new database platform, the integration of tables across systems and departmental boundaries is a key step in mobilizing for ERP.
- Integrate legacy apps with new development. Most ERP software systems offer all the standard business systems as canned packages, which you can use if you like. But it's probable that you've got some legacy systems that are so specific to your business that they'll need to prevail, even if you implement some of the new stuff. That being the case, you need to reconfigure your legacy software so that it will live productively alongside your new applications.
- Make information flow throughout the company. In the past, your IT systems have always broken data down into "master data" and "transactional data." The relationship between them is simple: transactional data is built out of master data (a purchase order, for instance, is made out of customer information and product information). And master data has tended in the past to be "owned" by a particular department. In an ERP system, the relationship between master data and transactional data remains, but the departmental "ownership" goes away. Most in-house users will have access to most master data, and more transactional data than before, primarily for decision support processes.
- Increase data access beyond the company. For better or worse, the internet is now the tail that wags the dog. Your company is probably no exception! And it's not just about selling products and services over the Web: real-time data access between your company and your partner companies, the economy of web services for distributed systems, and the convenience of web-based interfaces for systems both remote and in-house have made the need for flexible data access a core architectural component in your ERP development.
What do ERP systems look like?
From what we've covered so far, ERP systems take on an overblown "miracle software" fagade: they have to do everything; they have to do it more efficiently than it was done before; and they have to be much easier to modify and extend than ever.
These capabilities aren't as unreachable as you might think. Broken down into clear specifics, your new systems will have these features:
- ERP systems are non-serialized. Most business processes are "hot potato." A handful of data is passed along a chain, from person to person or company to company, until all steps have been completed. In the world of ERP, the potato passing is largely automated, and the people in the processes begin to serve a new purpose - that of making the information feeding the processes more accurate and immediate. The resulting systems pass information in many directions, not just one, serving not only the original business process but feeding real-time information into other processes concurrently.
- ERP systems are dynamic. The flexibility of ERP permits extended decision-making in business processes. The linear Step A - Step B - Step C mindset can go away, permitting a far more dynamic If-Then environment. Your company's IT systems will enable business processes to change direction rapidly when market conditions, customer need or changes in partner relationships demand it.
- ERP systems have many interfaces. One idea that some developers find hard to wrestle with is the idea that applications are no longer bridges between the database and the user; instead, applications are now communications facilitators between systems. Your legacy apps and ERP app components are now more about passing data to other systems, and to users outside your company than they are a means of informing your own staff. In the more "static" pre-ERP universe, people were information processors, so applications informed people. Now, applications inform other systems, and people are decision-makers. So your job in IT is to get those apps interfacing with other systems, as often or more than they interface with people.
- ERP systems are integrated with other systems. See above. Your IT systems' "audience" has greatly expanded. It is no longer a few hundred people staring at monitors in your building. It now includes human users far and wide, by internet, intranet and other paths, and other systems - meaning that your development team needs to become protocol-savvy, to facilitate the many different connections you'll now be needing to make.
How do you achieve this? In a word, architecture. The task of IT is to begin building systems on a new foundation, using a new kind of blueprint. First, adopt the following rule: Business processes define database table relationships; database table configurations drive application components; applications drive interface development.
This hierarchy is powerful and effective, as long as you stick to it. Break away, and start redefining database tables to serve apps, or basing apps on interfaces (two long-standing standards from the old days), and your ERP framework will not bear the weight of it long.
The architecture that makes the data-to-interface hierarchy possible has three tiers, all generalized and all designed with convenient access to the next tier in mind. The foundation is the data tier; your company's databases populate this layer, and a set of generalized (but highly customizable) access components must exist to open this layer to the next one.
That layer is the business tier, where application logic happens. The "guts" of what would be called an "application program" in a more traditional system exist in this layer; however, instead of self-contained, function-specific logic, a business tier is usually inhabited by a great many "components," or re-usable chunks of business process logic that can be reassembled endlessly into many different applications.
Finally, the business layer feeds the next and final tier, the presentation layer. Interface with human beings, other systems, and the Internet happens in this layer. And, like the layers before it, you'll be filling it with modular, reusable components that can be recombined into a wide range of interfaces, riding a broad spectrum of protocols.
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. Aug. 20, 2013 - DirecTV announced today that film and television actor Cole Hauser (Transcendence, Olympus Has Fallen) will join Thandie Newton (The Pursuit of Happyness, Crash) for season two of its original drama ROGUE that will air in 2014 on Audience.
Hauser will portray Ethan, a former soldier who left law school to enlist in the military after 9/11. Ethan is the founder of a security consulting firm in San Francisco, which he runs with three former military buddies. This band of brothers is united by a terrible secret, a dark event that has quietly haunted them for years.
Season two of the series will continue to focus on Grace Travis (Newton) as she moves forward with her life after finally avenging her son's death in season one. Opting for a stable position, Grace has been assigned, as a handler, to an FBI task force investigating a local prostitution ring. However, when circumstances conspire against her, Grace is faced with the difficult decision to go back undercover inside the Ethan's security firm.
Actor and producer Cole Hauser's diverse career has seen him star in both blockbuster and independent films, as well as television series and movies. He will next be seen opposite Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany and Rebecca Hall in Wally Pfister's Transcendence. He recently appeared opposite Bruce Willis for a third time in the latest installment of the billion dollar feature franchise A Good Day to Die Hard and re-teamed with director Antoine Fuqua in for Olympus Has Fallen opposite Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman. He was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his performance in Joel Schumacher's Tigerland opposite Colin Farrell and will be making his directorial debut on The Westies based off TJ English's book of the same title. Hauser is repped by IAM Management, APA and Morris Yorn.
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http://mmajunkie.com Claude Patrick has spent the bulk of his career fighting everywhere but where he's from in Canada.
He's fought in Quebec, in Alberta, in Manitoba, in British Columbia – all his country's provinces except his own, Ontario.
Until late last year, he could train all he wanted in his hometown of Toronto. He could convert the skeptical at this gym. But throw a punch under lights in front of a crowd, and he could be arrested.
So it's without question that MMA's legalization in his province, and an event of massive magnitude, UFC 129, couldn't have come at a better time for him. At 30 years of age, he's right in the sweet spot of his athletic prime, just when the sport is exploding all around him.
"I just happen to be there right now, and my skills have kind of improved, as well," he told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). "It's a great combination of circumstances."
Patrick (13-1 MMA, 2-0 UFC) goes for consecutive win No. 3 when he meets Daniel Roberts (12-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC) in a Facebook-streamed bout at tonight's UFC 129 event, which takes place at the sold-out Rogers Centre in Toronto. More than 55,000 fans are set to shatter the North American attendance record for an MMA event. He probably knows a few of them.
Whether that recognition will stretch past gym mates and drinking buddies is still in question. Patrick is not the type of guy who does a lot of extracurricular promoting. He's very soft spoken. He does his business in the gym and shows up to fight.
That might lead some to question his skills simply because they haven't heard much of anything out of him in the buildup to the fight. And with little fanfare comes little interest in seeing what he's got, say, in the handful of clips floating around on the Internet.
Of course, Patrick has done interviews, but you'll never hear him go off on another fighter. There's a reason for that.
"Your work in the octagon will speak for itself," he said. "I could run on to the Internet and talk a whole bunch of trash, trying to draw attention to myself, but I think genuine fans of the sport … will appreciate what I'm doing."
He hasn't done a lot inside the octagon, but he's getting there. Ten months ago, Patrick fought in British Columbia and earned a submission win over Ricardo Funch in his octagon debut. He then followed that with a decision win over "The Ultimate Fighter 9" winner James Wilks. This fight, however, has a special feel to it. Maybe the ring of 55,000 sounds nice.
"It's a great opportunity to fight at home," Patrick said. "I've traveled a bit – not as much as some fighters – but fighting at home in the first event since it's been legalized in Ontario, I consider a big honor.
"I stay pretty focused on the fight, but I have to say that this particular event is a little different. It's taken on a different scale, and I'm just going to have to deal with it accordingly."
He and Roberts have nine submission wins each in professional competition, so there are two easy picks for the fight's direction: It could be a scramble for submissions, or a standup affair that results from two evenly matched grapplers.
Obviously, Patrick is prepared for both, and he's looking forward to seeing what happens.
"He's obviously a quality opponent," Patrick said of Roberts. "Everybody in the octagon is nowadays. There are no chumps anymore fighting. He's a good ground fighter coming from a solid camp, so I trained very hard.
"Having that opponent to fight, I prepared myself accordingly. It's really pushing me and motivating me to get my ground skills, which are considered my forte, even higher. I definitely appreciate it."
He surely would like some appreciation, too, for putting his skills on display. So give him a cheer if you're at Rogers. He might hear you.
For the latest on UFC 129, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.


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text: How to Buy a Diamond: Looking at the 4 C's November 2, 2016 Natasha Blog (0) You don't need a degree in gemology to find that perfect diamond for the love of your life, although that would probably make your quest for this holy grail a snap! Your mission is not rocket science, but it's not a piece of cake either. You want to get the best you can afford, and not sound like a total doofus talking to the sales rep. The question is: what is the best? A pricey (will she say "Yes"?) type of purchase like this needs some prior research. And that's what we're here for. So, ready to be enlightened? The good news is that there is an actual system for diamond evaluation – it's called the 4 Cs. Each C refers to one of the diamond's four most important characteristics—Color, Clarity, Cut and Carat—and each one's quality is expressed in numerical and graded ratings. The final value of a diamond is based on the combination of all four grading's. That makes sense, no? A bit like your average student performance rating back in school.... C 1: Color Colorless diamonds are the most expensive because they are rare. As with anything, rarity and demand carries a high price tag. Most diamonds have tints of yellow or brown, and the color category is rated based on how much tint is present in the gem. Grades D-F: diamond is colorless Grades G-J: diamond is near-colorless Grades K-M: diamond has some faint yellow tint Grades N-R: diamond has a very light yellow tint Grades S-Z: diamond is light yellow Subtle differences in color can dramatically affect a diamond's value. Two diamonds of the same clarity, weight, and cut can differ in value based on color alone. Even the slightest hint of color can make a dramatic difference in value. Most stones in the D-G range will likely look very similar to you, but you may start to see a very slight tint at around the H grade. C2: Clarity I know you want to get a perfect diamond for your chosen one, but flawless diamonds are generally seen only in the movies or on the fingers of multi-billionaires. Most diamonds have internal and external flaws (referred to as inclusions and blemishes) to one degree or another, which affect their clarity. And it's this degree that drives the rating of its characteristic. The Centenary diamond is famous for being a perfect flawless diamond, both internally and externally What are these flaws? Well, blemishes include scratches and nicks on a diamond's surface, and inclusions are whatever is trapped inside of the gem, such as another tiny diamond (and no, that's not a value-added bonus), or other mineral crystals. Clarity grading is done under 10-power (10x) magnification. FL — IF = Flawless (Only Oprah can probably afford a diamond of this grade.) VVS1 — VVS2 = Very, Very Slightly Included. Internal flaws (inclusions) are very difficult to see by a professional grader under magnification. VS1 — VS2 = Very Slightly Included. Diamonds have minor inclusions that are difficult to somewhat easy for a grader to see when viewed under 10x magnification. SI1 - SI2 = Slightly Included Most SI2s are eye clean while almost all SI1s are eye clean. I1- I3 = Included Inclusions easily visible to the naked eye. The lower grade stones may not be the prettiest, but they can still morph into a dazzling rock under the fingers of a talented craftsman. And that brings us to probably the most important characteristic of the diamond: the Cut. C3: The Cut The cut refers to how the diamond is shaped to allow for light to go through it and reflect back. Basically, it's the way light enters and exits a diamond. That light path is what gives the diamond its brilliance and dazzle – or as your sales rep will refer to as "fire." 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Carat is a unit of weight measurement. One carat weighs one-fifth of a gram (.20g) – about the weight of a paper clip. Popular carat weights are ½ ct, ¾ ct, 1 ct., etc. This category is a bit tricky, because you'd think that the bigger the carat the more valuable the diamond, right? But that's not always the case. A big diamond poorly cut and with cloudy appearance will be less attractive and therefore less valuable than a small, well-cut diamond with very good clarity. So "bigger is better" is not necessarily true in a diamond selection. Still, given equal quality cut and clarity, a bigger diamond will certainly be more valuable. It's all relative. In the end, the combination of all 4 Cs is what will determine the unofficial 5th C: the cost. One more piece of advice. The sales rep needs to show you documents showing the diamond's authenticity and gradings. 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Salma Hayek has been keeping a low profile since giving birth to her daughter, Valentina, and now she's ready to get back to work. The actress will star opposite John C. Reilly in the horror film Cirque du Freak, according to the Variety. Hayek, 41, will play a bearded lady, "Madame Truska" opposite Reilly's vampire character in the film, which is based on the 12-book children's series by writer Darren Shan. (Is a bearded lady a victim? Survey says: No.) In other casting news, actress Olivia Wilde (The O.C., House) may have finally gotten her big film break, signing on to star as Jack Black's love interest in the "biblical-era comedy" The One, directed by Harold Ramis.
Lastly, for those Jezebels who appreciate fine-looking fellows, actor Christian Bale is set to star alongside Johnny Depp in director Michael Mann's Depression-era drama Public Enemies. Bale will play a FBI agent in hot pursuit of Depp's gangster. Think of it as Heat, minus 80 years.
Hayek Joins Reilly In Weitz's 'Freak' [Variety]
Olivia Wilde Joins Ramis' 'Year One' [Variety]
It's Bale As Manhunter In 'Enemies' [Hollywood Reporter]