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Splasher Engine Rebuilders
I'm looking to get the engine rebuilt in our '30 Essex and need some recommendations. We had what appears bad lubrication to the rear of the engine and had a rod bearing melt out and who knows what else. I'm hoping someone has some ideas of who can rebuild this type of engine in eastern PA, NJ, that area. I really don't want to ship it if I don't have to. But all recommendations are appreciated. Thanks.Steve
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Ireland Machine Erie Pa @ 814 453 4477 Ask for John Ireland
They specialize in Antique Engines -
have you tryed charlie salvano in holbrook, ny. or mike gajdek in parsippany, nj both are good guys and do a lot of resto work for many heters also doug wildrick in ind.
Thanks for all the names. I have spoken to Mike Gajdek and unfortunately he is booked up for the next year or so. I'll make some more calls.Steve
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Another shop in the north east that has a good reputation-- they did David McWalter's 32 Terraplane I believe.
J& M Machine Company
40 Mt. Vickery Road,
Southborough, MA 01772We do 99% of the work in house. Many of the engines we remanufacture are upgraded to modern standards. Drastic improvements are made, such as hardened valve seats and better quality tin based babbit bearing materials to endure today's driving needs. Whether it is a pre teens, or late model engine, we can handle them all. From Babbit bearings, Block work, Balancing, Crack repair, Cylinder heads, Crankshaft grinding /Welding, Line boring, as well as manufacturing capabilities. We can handle your restoration project with ease.
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J&M Machine Company is proud to be a member of AERA, the Automotive Engine Rebuilders Association, a not-for-profit trade association serving the engine rebuilder/remanufacturing industry, machine shops, equipment, parts and services suppliers since 1922. -
Continuing---How about machine shops WEST of the Mississippi? Anyone around that someone has had a good experience with? I am looking for someone in the Pacific Northwest but can travel!!
There are quite a few shops around, even in your area I'm sure. Around the Tri-Cities, I've had pretty good luck with most shops - they seem to be located over in Pasco. Just took the head/valves in to be checked for my Oldsmobile Toronado 425; It was actually all in good shape anyway, but was cleaned, vacuum tested, and valve seals replaced for $70.
I had the babbit bearings redone on my 1941 splasher six years ago by Strong Engine near Spokane, WA. The owner Rick Carnegie seems like a nice guy, but also knowledgeable on a broad variety of engines. He has some very old Ford engines he has restored, but he also has done the high end stuff like Cord and Cadillac engines from the 20s and 30s. Took me years to get the engine back together myself, but that is done now. Still haven't run the engine, but it's coming soon. Perhaps you could ask Fred Conners (NW member) if you are re-doing a stepdown engine.


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Martin Sheen
has appeared in a wide variety of films ranging from the embarrassing to the sublime. In addition to appearing in numerous productions on stage, screen, and television, Sheen is the father of a modern dynasty of actors and a tireless activist for social and environmental causes, particularly homelessness. Born
Ramon Estevez
on August 3, 1940, he was the seventh of ten children of a Spanish immigrant father and an Irish mother. Growing up in Dayton, OH, Sheen wanted to be an actor so badly that he purposely flunked an entrance exam to the University of Dayton so he could start his career instead. With his father's disapproval, he borrowed cash from a local priest and moved to New York in 1959.
While continually auditioning for shows, Sheen worked at various odd jobs and changed his name to avoid being typecast in ethnic roles. "Martin" was the name of an agent/friend, while he chose "Sheen" to honor Bishop Fulton J. Sheen; until his early twenties, the actor had been a devoted Catholic. He joined the Actor's Co-op, shared a loft, and with his roommates prepared showcase productions in hopes of attracting agents. For a while he worked backstage at the Living Theater alongside aspiring actor
Al Pacino
, and it was there that he got his first acting jobs. Around that time, Sheen married, and in 1963 broke into television on East Side West Side; more television would follow in the form of As the World Turns, on which he played the character Roy Sanders for a few years.
In 1964, Sheen debuted on Broadway in Never Live Over a Pretzel Factory, and that same year won considerable acclaim for his role in The Subject Was Roses, which in 1968 became a film in which he also starred. After making his feature film debut as a subway punk in The Incident (1967), Sheen moved to Southern California in 1970 with his wife and three children. During the beginning of that decade, he worked most frequently in television, but occasionally appeared in films as a supporting actor or co-lead. His movie career aroused little notice, though, until he played an amoral young killer (based on real life murderer Charles Starkweather) in
Terrence Malick
's highly regarded directorial debut,
(1973). Further notice came in the mid-'70s, when the actor was cast by
Francis Ford Coppola
to star in a Vietnam War drama filmed in the Philippines. Two years and innumerable disasters later -- including a near-fatal heart attack for Sheen -- the actor's most famous film,
Apocalypse Now
(1979), was complete, and it looked as if he would finally become a major star.
Although the film won a number of honors, including a Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival, and Sheen duly gained Hollywood's respect, he never reached the heights of some of his colleagues. This was possibly due to the fact that during the 1970s and 1980s, he appeared in so many mediocre films. However, Sheen turned in memorable performances in such films as Ghandi (1982) -- from which the actor donated his wages to charity -- and
(1988), in which he took production and starring credits. He also did notable work in a number of other films, including
Wall Street
The American President
(1995), and
Monument Ave.
(1998). In 1999, he could be seen in a number of projects, including
Ninth Street
Texas Funeral
, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival that year; O, a modern-day adaptation of Othello; and The West Wing, a television series that cast him as the President of the United States (a role for which he would win the Best TV Series Actor in a Drama Award at the 2000 Golden Globe Awards).
Sheen took a supporting role in legendary director Martin Scorsese's crime drama The Departed, and joined the cast of Talk to Me, a 2007 comedy drama directed by Don Cheadle. In 2009, Sheen starred in The Kid: Chamaco, a boxing drama following a father (Sheen) and son's attempt to reconcile their differences to turn a fierce streetfighter into a boxing champion. The following year he would join son Emilio for The Way, an adventure drama featuring Sheen as a grieving father determined to make the pilgrimage to the Pyrenees in honor of his late son. The actor took on yet another lead role in Stella Days (2011), a drama that takes place in the 1950s and stars Sheen as a progressive Irish priest who causes a stir by opening a local movie theater.
In 1986, Sheen made his directorial debut with the Emmy-winning made-for-TV movie
Babies Having Babies
. All three of his sons,
Emilio Estevez
Ramon Estevez
, and
Charlie Sheen
(whom he directed in 1991's
), as well as his daughter, Renee Estevez, are movie and television actors. His brother,
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Sister Dorothy Stang was a nun from Ohio who was seventy-three years old when she was murdered in Brazil. Stang was part of a group of Christian activists who were working with natives in the Brazilian rainforests to create sustainable agricultural projects to help the locals support themselves without damaging the environment. Stang and her colleagues were also helping native landowners reclaim land that had been stolen or taken from them under false pretenses by ranching and logging concerns. Stang's efforts to help Brazil's poor did not make her many friends among the wealthy and powerful, and when she was killed, many believed she was the victim of hired assassins working under the command of men wanting to protect their political and economic interests. Filmmaker Daniel Junge directed the documentary They Killed Sister Dorothy, which profiles the late Sister Stang and offers both evidence and informed opinion about who killed her and why. Narrated by Martin Sheen, They Killed Sister Dorothy was a prize-winner at the 2008 South by Southwest Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Ten years ago, men had no choice. If you worked in an office, your shirt was white and your suit was navy. Color belonged on the tie. Today, the rules have changed in even the stuffiest of offices. Light blue shirts are as acceptable as white. Suits no longer have to be dark. You can choose from a range of grays, and during the warmer months, a light or dark khaki suit is comfortable and stylish. As for shirts, pink and light purple join blue and white. There's nothing feminine about these colors in a dress shirt. Pink is masculine, and so is lavender (more commonly labeled "violet" or " lilac").


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StandOut Coaching supports people who want to do a deeper dive with their assessment results. But TMBC only has a certain number of coaches, and try as we might, we can't convince them to work 168-hour work weeks. So, in order to make StandOut Coaching more widely available, we have started the StandOut Coach Certification Program, which will certify people to debrief the assessment results with their clients.
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Bios updates on large clusters, wonderful way to spend a weekend... It is possible to use PXE to do bios updates and setting nvram. Success depends in part on your platform/motherboard manufacturer. Some of the manufacturers have a DOS utility that will dump the bios settings to a .bin file and the same utility can flash the .bin file to the motherboard as a single step, non-interactive and scriptable (autoexec.bat) process. If you have these utilities, a functional FreeDOS PXE image, remote power control over your cluster (IPMI or ip based PDUs) and serial console servers for your nodes it all works. I have updated 250 node clusters from across the country via an ssh tunnel in this way. The best way I have found is to update the bios on one node. Manually clear and reconfigure bios settings for your requirements. Dump the nvram using the DOS nvram utility provided by the motherboard vendor. Then add the utility and .bin file to a PXE FreeDOS image and set the script to flash the bios then flash the nvram. Done right, it works like a charm. (caveat: you must pay *very close* attention to your configs, scripts, settings, etc before unleashing an automated process like this on an entire cluster). There are things that can be done within the Linux environment to tweak machine settings. Manually editing PCI registers and dumping /dev/nvram. Personally I would not rely on those methods. Manufacturers of processors and motherboards are putting a fair amount of "windage" in the BIOS and hidden, non editable BIOS registers these days. Hiding flaws, fixing errata, etc. If you use a bios editor from AMI, for example, you can see much more going on than the settings you are presented with. Only thing worse than manually updating a bios in a cluster is bricking an entire cluster doing it the wrong way. --Jeff beowulf-request at beowulf.org wrote: > how does it fail? I'm guessing the issue is that there are LOTS more > settings now than with the PC-AT (hypertransport frequency, etc). > it would be most interesting to know where those are stored - perhaps > even in the same flash as the bios itself? -- Best Regards, Jeff Johnson Vice President Engineering/Technology Western Scientific, Inc jeff.johnson at wsm.com http://www.wsm.com 5444 Napa Street - San Diego, CA 92110 Tel 800.443.6699 +001.619.220.6580 Fax +001.619.220.6590 "Braccae tuae aperiuntur"
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Paul Ryan | |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin's 1st district |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office January 3, 1999 |
Preceded by | Mark Neumann |
Chairman of the House Committee on the Budget | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office January 3, 2011 |
Preceded by | John Spratt |
Personal details | |
Born | Paul Davis Ryan (1970-01-29) January 29, 1970 (age 42) Janesville, Wisconsin |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Janna Ryan |
Children | Elizabeth, Charles, and Samuel |
Residence | Janesville, Wisconsin |
Alma mater | Miami University (B.A.) |
Religion | Roman Catholic |
Website | U.S. Congressman Paul Ryan |
Paul Davis Ryan[1] (born January 29, 1970) is the U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party, and has been ranked among the party's most influential voices on economic policy.[2][3][4]
Born and raised in Janesville, Wisconsin, Ryan graduated from Miami University in Ohio and later worked as a marketing consultant for Ryan Incorporated Central, run by a branch of his family. In the mid to late 1990s, he worked as an aide to United States Senator Bob Kasten, as legislative director for Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, and as a speechwriter for former U.S. Representative and 1996 Republican vice presidential nominee Jack Kemp of New York. In 1998, Ryan won election to the United States House of Representatives, succeeding the two-term incumbent, fellow Republican Mark Neumann.
Ryan currently chairs the House Budget Committee, where he has played a prominent public role in drafting and promoting the Republican Party's long-term budget proposal. He introduced a plan, The Path to Prosperity, in April 2011 as an alternative to the budget proposal of President Barack Obama, and helped introduce The Path to Prosperity: A Blueprint for American Renewal in March 2012, in response to Obama's 2013 budget.[5] Ryan is one of the three co-founders of the Young Guns Program, an electoral recruitment and campaign effort by House Republicans. He endorsed Republican presidential candidate and former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney for the 2012 United States presidential election.[6] Ryan has been considered as a possible running mate for Romney.[7]
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Ryan was born and raised in Janesville, Wisconsin, the youngest child of Elizabeth A. "Betty" (née Hutter) and Paul Murray Ryan, a lawyer.[8][9][10] He is of Irish and German ancestry,[11] and is a fifth-generation Janesville native. Ryan's great-grandfather is Patrick William Ryan, who founded the Ryan Incorporated Central construction business in 1884.[12] Ryan's mother is an outdoors enthusiast who led her husband and four children (Ryan's sister Janet and two brothers, Tobin and Stan) on regular hiking and skiing trips in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.[9][13] As a boy, Ryan attended Camp Manito-wish YMCA, a wilderness canoe tripping camp located in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin; while in college, he returned there to work as a staff member and counselor during summer vacation.
Ryan attended Joseph A. Craig High School in Janesville. In college, he briefly worked for Oscar Mayer as a Wienermobile driver.[14] Ryan went on to graduate from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with a BA in economics and political science in 1992. He also studied at the Washington Semester program at American University and was a member of the Delta Tau Delta social fraternity. Following his studies, Ryan returned to Wisconsin and worked as a marketing consultant for an earth-moving company run by a branch of his family.[13][15]
Ryan was 16 years old when he found his father in bed, dead from a heart attack at age 55. As a result, he received Social Security survivor's benefits until he turned 18. Ryan's grandfather and great-grandfather had also died from heart attacks, at ages 57 and 59 respectively.[16]
In 2005, Ryan said, "The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand".[17] New York magazine has claimed that Ryan requires his staff to read Atlas Shrugged.[18] In 2012, however, he said that while as a young man he became interested in economics because of her novels, "It's a big stretch to suggest that a person is therefore an Objectivist... I reject her philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview. If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand."[19]
During his junior year at Miami University, Ryan worked as an intern opening mail for the foreign affairs advisor assigned to Senator Bob Kasten of Wisconsin.[20] Concerned that her son "...was destined to become a ski bum", Betty Ryan reportedly nudged him to accept another congressional position as a staff economist attached to Kasten's office.[20][21] In his early years working in D.C., Ryan moonlighted on Capitol Hill as a waiter at the Tortilla Coast restaurant and as a fitness trainer at Washington Sport and Health Club, among various other side jobs.[22]
After Kasten was defeated by Democrat Russ Feingold in 1992, Ryan became a speechwriter and a volunteer economic analyst with Empower America, an advocacy group formed by Jack Kemp, former education secretary Bill Bennett, the late diplomat Jeane Kirkpatrick, and former Representative Vin Weber of Minnesota.[16][23]
Ryan worked as a speechwriter for Kemp, the Republican vice presidential candidate in the 1996 United States presidential election, and later worked as legislative director for US Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas. Ryan then returned to Wisconsin, where he worked as a consultant to an earth-moving company.[citation needed] In 1998, he ran for Congress.
Following his first election to the US House of Representatives in 1998, one of Ryan's priorities as a new congressman was to convert a truck into a rolling district office. This allowed him to keep regular congressional office hours with his constituents at various locations across Wisconsin's 1st congressional district.[24][1]
In 2002, Ryan voted in favor of the Iraq War resolution, authorizing President George W. Bush to use military force in Iraq.[25] In 2003 he voted in favor of the Medicare Part D prescription drug expansion.[26]
In 2005, Ryan spoke at a Celebration of Ayn Rand event hosted by The Atlas Society. During the event, Ryan spoke about the influence of Atlas Shrugged on his life.[27]
He is one of the three founding members of the House GOP Young Guns Program.
In 2008, Ryan voted for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Wall Street bailout that precipitated the Tea Party movement, and the bailout of GM and Chrysler.[28]
In 2010, The Daily Telegraph ranked Ryan the ninth most influential US conservative.[2] In 2011, he was selected to deliver the Republican response to the State of the Union address.[29]
In 2012, Ryan accused the nation's top military leaders of using "smoke and mirrors" to remain under budget limits passed by Congress.[30] Ryan later said that he misspoke on the issue and called General Martin Dempsey to apologize for his comments.[31]
At the end of March 2012, the House of Representatives passed a newer version of Ryan's budget plan along partisan lines 228 yeas to 191 nays; ten Republicans voted against bill, along with all the House Democrats.[32] Ryan's budget would reduce all discretionary spending in the budget from 12.5% of GDP in 2011 to 3.75% of GDP in 2050. This goal has been criticized as unrealistic since it includes spending on defense, which has never fallen below 3% of GDP.[33] Congressman Justin Amash, a Republican from Michigan criticized Ryan's budget for insufficient cuts, its continuation of deficit spending through 2022 and beyond, and its exemption of military spending from reductions. [34] His budget has also been criticized because it would not balance the budget until 2035. Marc Goldwein, the policy directory for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget stated "We may never, as a country, have a balanced budget again, And you know what? We don't have to." Ryan saw this as evidence of the severity of the deficit crisis.[35]
The 2012 Ryan budget also received criticism from elements of the Catholic Church, specifically from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and from faculty and administrators of Georgetown University. In its letter to Rep. Ryan, the group of Georgetown faculty and administrators criticized the Ryan budget as trying to "to dismantle government programs and abandon the poor to their own devices," going on to say that Catholic teaching "demands that higher levels of government provide help—"subsidium"—when communities and local governments face problems beyond their means to address such as economic crises, high unemployment, endemic poverty and hunger." The letter also criticizes Ryan for his attempts at "gutting government programs" and states that Ryan is "profoundly misreading Church teaching."[36] A statement issued by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops criticized the Ryan budget in similar terms.[37] Ryan rejects the bishops' criticism that his budget plans would disproportionately cut programs that "serve poor and vulnerable people."[38] Ryan's difficulties with the Catholic Church worsened when videos of Ryan praising and endorsing the "morality" of Ayn Rand's hyper-individualist philosophy were published on Youtube in 2012. [39]
In May of 2012, Ryan voted for H.R. 4310 which would increase spending on defense, Afghanistan and various weapon systems to the level of $642 billion - $8 billion more than what was agreed to by President Obama and the Congress in the summer of 2011. [40]
On May 21, 2008, Ryan introduced H.R. 6110, titled "Roadmap for America's Future Act of 2008."[41] This proposed legislation outlined a plan to deal with entitlement spending.[42] Its stated objectives were: to ensure universal access to health insurance; to strengthen Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security; to lift debt from future generations; and to promote economic growth and job creation in America.[43] Despite significant press coverage, it did not move past committee.[44]
On April 1, 2009, Ryan introduced his alternative to the 2010 United States federal budget. This alternative budget would have eliminated the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, lowered the top tax rate to 25%, introduced an 8.5% value-added consumption tax, and imposed a five-year spending freeze on all discretionary spending.[45] It would also have replaced Medicare.[46] Instead, it proposed that starting in 2021, the federal government would pay part of the cost of private medical insurance for individuals turning 65.[46] Ryan's proposed budget would also have allowed taxpayers to opt out of the federal income taxation system with itemized deductions, and instead pay a flat 10 percent of adjusted gross income up to $100,000 and 25 percent on any remaining income.[47] Ryan's proposed budget was heavily criticized by opponents for the lack of concrete numbers.[48] It was ultimately rejected in the house by a vote of 293-137, with 38 Republicans in opposition.[49]
In late January 2010, Ryan released a new version of his Roadmap.[50] The modified plan would: give across the board tax cuts by reducing income tax rates; eliminate income taxes on capital gains, dividends, and interest; and abolish the corporate income tax, estate tax, and alternative minimum tax. The plan would privatize a portion of Social Security,[51][52] eliminate the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance,[52] and privatize Medicare.[51][52]
On April 15, 2011, the House passed the Ryan Plan by a vote of 235-193. Four Republicans joined all House Democrats in voting against it.[53] A month later, the bill died in the Senate by a vote of 57-40, with five Republicans and most Democrats in opposition.[54]
Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman criticized the contention that Ryan's plan would reduce the deficit, alleging that it only considered proposed spending cuts and failed to take into account tax changes. According to Krugman, Ryan's plan "would raise taxes for 95 percent of the population" and produce a $4 trillion revenue loss over ten years from tax cuts for the rich. Krugman went on to label the proposed spending cuts a "sham" because they depended on making a severe cut in domestic discretionary spending without specifying the programs to be cut, and on "dismantling Medicare as we know it," which is politically unrealistic.[55]
In response to Krugman, economist and former American Enterprise Institute scholar Ted Gayer wrote a more positive assessment of the Ryan plan. Gayer agreed that, as written, the plan would cause a $4 trillion revenue shortfall over 10 years. He noted, however, that Ryan had expressed a willingness to consider raising rates in his tax plan.[clarification needed] Gayer concluded that "Ryan's vision of broad-based tax reform, which essentially would shift us toward a consumption tax... makes a useful contribution to this debate."[56]
Journalist Ramesh Ponnuru, writing in National Review, argued that the revenue loss to which Krugman refers is based on a comparison between Ryan's plan and current law, which "includes middle-class tax increases... cuts in payment to Medicare providers... [and] the expansion of the Alternative Minimum Tax."[57] He added that "current law automatically raises the tax rates to pre-Bush levels in 2013... so if you're comparing the tax level with current law, Ryan's plan represents a tax cut" and "the CBO's actual projections for the Ryan plan show a debt level in 2021 that is $4.7 trillion lower than its projections for Obama's budgets."[57]
Rick Foster, the chief actuary of Medicare, endorsed Ryan's plan for reducing Medicare costs: "If you can put that pressure on the research and development community, you might have a fighting chance of changing the nature of new medical technology in a way that makes lower costs like this possible and more sustainable. I would say that the Roadmap has that potential. There is some potential for the Affordable Care Act price reductions, although I'm a little less confident about that."[58]
In December 2011, it was revealed that Ryan would begin a new push for changes in Medicare in 2012 by working with Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon to modify Ryan's previous Medicare proposal. His most recent approach for semi-privatization of Medicare would keep traditional Medicare as an option for senior citizens, but would also introduce private insurance into an exchange market to compete with traditional Medicare. Seniors would still be given a voucher to purchase care if they so desired, as in his previous proposal. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has supported a similar plan in his campaign.[59]
On January 9, 2012, four months after the introduction of Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), Ryan pledged his opposition to the bill, saying, "The internet is one of the most magnificent expressions of freedom and free enterprise in history. It should stay that way. While H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act, attempts to address legitimate problems, I believe it creates the precedent and possibility for undue regulation, censorship and legal abuse. I do not support H.R. 3261 in its current form and will oppose the legislation should it come before the full House."[60]
Ryan was first elected to the House in 1998, when two-term incumbent Mark Neumann retired from his seat in order to make an unsuccessful bid for the Senate. Ryan won both a Republican primary over 29-year-old pianist Michael J. Logan of Twin Lakes and the general election against Democratic opponent Lydia Spottswood.[61] Ryan successfully defended his seat against Democratic challenger Jeffrey C. Thomas in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006.[62] In 2002, Ryan had also faced Libertarian candidate George Meyers.
Ryan defeated Democratic nominee Marge Krupp by a wide margin in the 2008 general election.[62]
Ryan defeated both Democratic nominee John Heckenlively and Libertarian nominee Joseph Kexel by a wide margin in the 2010 general election.
Year | Office | District | Democrat | Republican | Other | |||
1998 | U.S. House of Representatives | Wisconsin 1st District | Lydia Spottswood | 43% | Paul Ryan | 57% | ||
2000 | U.S. House of Representatives | Wisconsin 1st District | Jeffrey Thomas | 33% | Paul Ryan | 67% | ||
2002 | U.S. House of Representatives | Wisconsin 1st District | Jeffrey Thomas | 31% | Paul Ryan | 67% | George Meyers (L) | 2% |
2004 | U.S. House of Representatives | Wisconsin 1st District | Jeffrey Thomas | 33% | Paul Ryan | 65% | ||
2006 | U.S. House of Representatives | Wisconsin 1st District | Jeffrey Thomas | 37% | Paul Ryan | 63% | ||
2008 | U.S. House of Representatives | Wisconsin 1st District | Marge Krupp | 35% | Paul Ryan | 64% | Joseph Kexel (L) | 1% |
2010 | U.S. House of Representatives | Wisconsin 1st District | John Heckenlively | 30% | Paul Ryan | 68% | Joseph Kexel (L) | 2% |
Ryan married Janna Little, a tax attorney,[1] in December 2000.[8] The Ryans live in Janesville with their three children Elizabeth Anne, Charles Wilson, and Samuel Lowery.[63]
Ryan is a Catholic and is a member of St. John Vianney's Church.[64]
Ryan is a fitness enthusiast and promotes fitness as a daily routine for young people. In 2009, his exercise program was based on the P90x fitness program.[22]
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Corero Network Security (CNS: LN), the leading provider of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Defense Solutions, today announced that they are presenting on the evolving DDoS threat landscape at Interop, being held May 6-10 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ashley Stephenson, executive vice president, will be a featured presenter at Interop. The event will take place at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas from May 6-10, 2012. WHO: Ashley Stephenson, Corero Network Security Executive Vice President WHAT: "Application Layer DDoS Attacks: Motives, Mechanisms, and Mitigation" WHERE: The Mandalay Bay ConventionCenter, Las Vegas WHEN: Thursday, May 10, 2012, 9:00 am PDT During the session Stephenson will examine the motivations behind today's DDoS attacks, highlighting how hackers increasingly are using them as smokescreens to divert attention from surreptitious attacks aimed at stealing data. He also will take an in-depth look at the evolving mechanisms used to launch attacks, both newlow and slow application-layer DDoS attacks and traditional bandwidth consuming network-layer DDoS attacks. In addition, he will share real-world attack scenarios and discuss ways to stop DDoS attacks. About Corero Network Security: Corero Network Security (CNS:LN) is an international network security company and the leading provider of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) defense and Next Generation Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solutions. Corero's products and services provide comprehensive, integrated, high-performance protection against constantly evolving network-borne cyber threats. Customers include enterprises, service providers and government organizations worldwide. Corero's appliance-based solutions are highly adaptive and preemptively respond to modern cyber attacks, known and unknown, protecting critical information and online assets. Corero's products are transparent on the network, highly scalable, and feature the lowest latency and highest reliability in the industry. Corero is headquartered in Hudson, Mass., with offices around the world.
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Yahoo! Sports Minute
Tom Brady admits Christmas shopping for Gisele Bündchen is hard
Angela Sun at Yahoo! Sports Minute Blog15 hrs agoChristmas shopping is hard enough. And if you thought Christmas shopping for a supermodel might be difficult, you'd be correct — at least according to New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. The three-time Super Bowl champion admitted during his weekly media availability on Wednesday that finding the right gift for wife Gisele Bündchen is a challenging proposition.
When asked if he had done any Christmas shopping, Brady answered, "Amazon.com. I probably keep them in business." Brady then revealed, "It's hard to find your wife something on Amazon.com." The veteran QB was then asked to confirm if he still had some shopping to do — to which a smiling Brady said, "I do. I do."
We can only imagine what's under the Brady family tree. Perhaps a DVD copy of "The Wizard of Oz"? Some hair-styling products? Tell us what you think Brady should get Bündchen in the comments below.
Minnesota Wild mascot dresses like Vancouver Green Men
Angela Sun at Yahoo! Sports Minute Blog1 day agoForce and Sully have only been around for four years. But the Vancouver Canucks superfans — aka The Green Men — have achieved a level of notoriety unparalleled in today's NHL. The duo have over 50,000 followers on Twitter and were even warned by the league in 2011 to tone down their act. What exactly do they do? Well, if you're not familiar, here's a quick tutorial on YouTube. The full-body, spandex suit-wearing pair were given the ultimate honor Tuesday night during Vancouver's away game against the Minnesota Wild. That's where Nordy, the Wild mascot, dressed up like our heroes.
Justin Tucker gives shout out to fantasy owners
Angela Sun at Yahoo! Sports Minute Blog2 days agoTo say that Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker had a big game on Monday Night Football would be an understatement. The 24-year-old accounted for all of his team's points against the Detroit Lions in an 18-16 victory that was critical for both squads' playoff hopes. Tucker's 61-yard boot with 38 seconds remaining was a franchise-record and proved to be the game-winner. The performance was also magical from a fantasy football perspective — a fact not lost on the second-year pro during his postgame interview with ESPN's Lisa Salters:
James Harden shoots free throws on one foot
Angela Sun at Yahoo! Sports Minute Blog3 days agoHouston Rockets guard James Harden has become — at least in the eyes of former Oklahoma City Thunder teammate Kevin Durant — one of the NBA's top 10 players. Harden's rapid ascent up the list has come in spite of flopping and occasional lackadaisical defense. But one thing that can't be questioned is the 24-year-old's tenacity. That grit was on full display Sunday.
David Stern chokes on water
Angela Sun at Yahoo! Sports Minute Blog6 days agoNBA commissioner David Stern is scheduled to step down from his post on Feb. 1, 2014. Perhaps then — and only then — the 71-year-old will be out of the spotlight. But until that day, Stern will be under the microscope and have cameras trained on him at all times. Thursday night was one of those times. And unfortunately for the longest-tenured commissioner in North American professional sports, Stern was caught choking on water.
The innocuous — but hilarious — moment occurred while Stern was attending the Los Angeles Clippers-Brooklyn Nets game (which the Nets won 102-93). He took a swig from his bottle and thus, the GIF that keeps on giving:
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It was an eventful week for Clippers big man DeAndre Jordan — for all the wrong reasons. First, Jordan got tangled up with Philadelphia 76ers guard Tony Wroten and experienced a different kind of wardrobe malfunction.
Charlie Coyle makes young fan's day
Angela Sun at Yahoo! Sports Minute Blog6 days agoGenerally speaking, hockey players seem to be the most down-to-earth out of all professional athletes. NHLers have certainly taken the ugly Christmas sweater thing to a whole new level. So when Minnesota Wild center Charlie Coyle was captured waving to a young fan after the little guy got his attention by banging on the glass in a recent game, it should come as no surprise. But what about that moment of sheer elation by the kid that followed? How priceless is that?
As Puck Daddy Greg Wyshysnki points out, Coyle is pretty much still a kid himself. The 21-year-old moved back in with his parents in the offseason of his rookie year. So connecting with the younger demographic isn't a surprise. But it sure is cute!
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Glen Big Baby Davis' funny postgame interview
Angela Sun at Yahoo! Sports Minute Blog7 days agoOrlando Magic power forward Glen "Big Baby" Davis is generally a happy-go-lucky kind of guy (except when there's no vacancy at the inn). The former Celtic claims he's the lightest he's been since eighth grade — so, following a 92-83 victory over the Charlotte Bobcats Wednesday night that snapped a Magic six-game losing streak, you figured he might be in a good mood. Fox Sports Florida reporter Dante Marchitelli found that out first-hand during his postgame interview with Davis.
Jim Brown calls out Kobe Bryant
Angela Sun at Yahoo! Sports Minute Blog8 days agoThey're two of the most well-known athletes of the last 50 years. But don't expect former NFL great Jim Brown to be sending five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant a Christmas card anytime soon.
Of course, you might think because the pair are icons in their respective sports, they're part of an elite fraternity. But Brown was critical of Bryant during an appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show Tuesday night for breaking ranks in that fraternity. When the talk show host brought up the name of the Los Angeles Lakers star, Brown offered his candid thoughts on Bryant immediately:
DeAndre Jordan suffers wardrobe malfunction
Angela Sun at Yahoo! Sports Minute Blog9 days agoJanet Jackson's performance during the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show made the figure of speech famous — or infamous, depending on one's perspective. Since that fateful day in Houston nearly a decade ago, there have been several other "wardrobe malfunctions" relating to the sports world. There were the exploits of Ryan Zimmerman and Adam Dunn back in 2009. Then there was an Andray Blatche fan immortalizing another uniform foul-up. But the fate that befell Los Angeles Clippers big man DeAndre Jordan Monday night was embarrassing for another reason altogether.
Kobe Bryant channels Darth Vader
Angela Sun at Yahoo! Sports Minute Blog10 days agoIt's hard to imagine how much time and thought goes into the selection of an athlete's intro music. Whether the intent is to build hype during a starting lineup announcement or prime an appearance at the plate, choosing just one song from a never-ending library of possible anthems must be hard. So if you're Kobe Bryant, making one of the most prominent returns to the court, where do you go for musical inspiration? The Dark Side.


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Pesach Insights from Parshat Shemot
Who Did Not Know Yoseph" (Shemot 1,8)
It is difficult to imagine any king in Egypt who reigned at that time not being aware of Yoseph's great accomplishments. After all, it was Yoseph whose handling of the Crisis of the Famine had saved the country and preserved, and even strengthened, it would have seemed, the monarchy. After all, the Chumash says in Parshat Vayigash "And Yoseph acquired all the land of Egypt for the Pharaoh, because each person had sold their field because the famine gripped them so tightly; And the whole land became the property of the Pharaoh." (Bereshit 47,20)
On the other hand, it is easy to see those very actions of Yoseph which had so strengthened the Pharaoh, as generating a great deal of negative reaction among the Egyptian People, because all the activity described in the Chumash: the money transfer and the property transfer, the people transfer and the land transfer, which had reduced the entire Egyptian population to indentured servants to the Pharaoh, had taken place while the Jews, the family of Yoseph, were thriving in Goshen. "And Yisrael dwelt in the Land of Egypt, in the Province of Goshen; And they took strong hold of it, and they increased and multiplied greatly." (Ber. 47,27)
It is, I believe, a reasonable possibility that the "not knowing" of Yoseph mentioned early in Shemot refers to a revolution against the policies of Yoseph, not merely a theoretical clash of ideas, but a true revolution against measures which had reduced the population to a form of slavery, though they themselves had, albeit out of desperation, requested it; "And let us be slaves to the Pharaoh." (Ber. 47,25).
The "King" referred to was originally a leader of the revolution, who undid the economic policies of Yoseph, and sought to repay the debt of slavery to the family of the one who had arbitrarily, without ample justification, so they said, imposed slavery upon them. How quickly the transition from "Behold the nation of the Children of Israel; they have become greater and mightier than us; let us outsmart them…" (Shemot 1, 9-10) to "And Egypt imposed harsh labor upon the Children of Israel." (Shemot 1, 13)
For the tiny grain of truth in their argument, perhaps, we are cautioned not to recite the whole Hallel on the last two days of Pesach, which commemorate the Miracle of the Splitting of the Red Sea. This miracle saved the Jewish People, but destroyed the Egyptian army. We are to empathize, and understand the application to the Egyptians of the words which the Midrash puts in the "Mouth," so to speak, of G-d, "My creatures are drowning in the sea, and you want to praise me with song?" And we are also instructed to remember with a degree of gratitude, the initial welcome our father Yaakov, and his family, received from the Pharaoh, when "you were a stranger in his land," despite the extremely harsh treatment we received at the end.
Thus, Yoseph the "Righteous," was a pivotal, and paradoxical hero of the Jewish People. Never understood, not by his brothers, and not by the Egyptians whom circumstances forced him to treat harshly, he was, in a sense, G-d's instrument in bringing the Jewish People to Mitzrayim, and in their enslavement.
By his actions, he saved his family from the famine, but, as we have seen, those actions also may have, to a degree, caused their enslavement, thus representing his acceptance, for a time, of Yehudah's suggestion for expiation of the crime of the brothers towards himself, "And therefore let us be slaves to my master. (Ber. 44,16)"
But he was able, perhaps, also to reduce the term of enslavement which G-d had foretold to Avraham. For G-d had said to Avraham, "Know with certainty that your offspring shall be aliens in a land not their own - and they will serve them, and they will oppress them - for four hundred years." (Ber. 15,13) But in fact, we know that their period of enslavement was only two hundred ten years! RASHI asks and answers this question by changing the starting point to the birth of Yitzchak.
Perhaps another answer can be given: Yoseph has the extremely complimentary adjective "HaTzaddik," "The Righteous," appended to his name, because of the super-human degree of self-control he exercised during his attempted seduction by the wife of Potiphar. The "gematria," or the sum of the numerical equivalents of the Hebrew letters making up the word, "HaTzaddik," is two hundred nine, which, when supplemented by the number one for the word itself, equals two hundred ten! The merit of his self-restraint was so great that he was able to reduce the period of enslavement of his People in the future, who, the Midrash says, would have "gone under" had they not been redeemed at that point, by one hundred ninety years.
But he also held the key to their permanent redemption, for he said to his brothers on his deathbed, "I am dying, but the l-rd 'pakod yiphkod etchem,' 'will surely remember you,' and raise you out of this land, to the Land which He swore to Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov. (Ber. 50,24)" So that Moshe, when he went to the Liberation of Israel, used Yoseph's code word, "And he made the people believe, and they understood, 'ki pakad Hashem' et bnei Yisrael, 'that G-d had remembered' the Children of Israel, and that He had seen their anguish, and they prostrated themselves and they bowed. (Shemot 4,31)"
And, when the time came to actually leave the House of Bondage, Moshe occupies himself with retrieving Yoseph's remains, while the rest of the Jewish People are busy fulfilling G-d's indication to Avraham "and afterwards they will leave with great wealth." (Ber. 15,14) He understood that he was not the only human being who had acted as G-d's messenger in achieving the Redemption of Israel. So that the Two Liberators could march out together, leading the Jewish People, "beyad ramah," "with an outstretched arm."


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Home to around two-thirds of all plant and animal species found on land — in addition to the millions of people who depend on them for survival — our remaining ancient forests are some of our most diverse ecosystems. They are also vitally important to the health of our planet, especially when it comes to regulating the climate.
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With so many of the world's forests already destroyed, we urgently need to protect what is left. Yet industry is still relentlessly converting forests into disposable products that end up in our shopping baskets - while pushing species to the brink of extinction, destroying the lives and livelihoods of forest communities and exacerbating global climate change. We need your help to protect what forests remain.
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Here's our submission video!
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Backstory: Red Bull recently sent us a fancy shield for an Arduino, dubbed the "Turbull Encabulator". This is a play on a joke engineering video that used a bunch of technical jargon that made no sense whatsoever. Nevertheless, this board was packing a ton of potential, (which others have covered in detail elsewhere).
Basically, it can control a ton of 12v standard RGB LED strips, individually addressable LED's, has sensors for temperature, includes DMX protocol – the works. With this, Red Bull Challenged us to make something "awesome" using their device. The basic requirement was to include lighting and interactivity.
We started by studying the shield extensively:
We came up with a fun idea that turned out to be a lot more work than we bargained for: a nice light up Tic Tac Toe board.
Very early on, we could see the potential was there:
For this build, we relocated our home build CNC router to its new home in 757Makerspace:
Justin is seen below doing some initial wiring for the build. The LED strips utilized common positive. Standard "telephone" hook-up wire was used to connect the negatives.
Due to the spacing of the X and O pattern, each strip had to be separated. This involved removal of the waterproof barrier via heat knife and soldering extensions directly to the pads inside:
Alex did a great job designing the CNC cuts to be made. Borders, tops, sides, and plexiglass were all done with very tight tolerances.
We later discovered that it would have been much easier to simply make things "loose" and hot glue it in place. Hindsight is 20/20 though! Live and learn.
There were 8 cuts per square, 9 squares, and more plexiglass cuts on the exterior. These were all sanded with 60 grit for a nice opaque finish to allow smooth light flow to come through.
Alex cutting out the border on our machine:
After the border was cut out, 2 layers of paint were applied, as well as a clear coat to easily clean off dirt from people walking on it:
Below shows Justin working on the wiring. Being on a tight budget, we used spools of wire that we already had but was very stiff and difficult to work with. We had a few broken solder joints that had to be repaired after installing the light assembly. The breaks were purely the result of excessively stiff wire. Pro-tip: spend the extra money for "noodle wire". It's flexible, easy to strip, and solder. I had a limited amount, but none of those solder joints failed during the build.
The picture below shows the buttons made from PVC. They were sanded down, painted red on the top, and re-purposed bed-springs were used for easy glide motion with long throw. The switches we used were rocker style, wired to be naturally open against the retaining ring. By pushing down on the button, the retaining ring released the switch to connect it. In retrospect, we wish we had purchased better quality switches. We had major problems with them randomly popping apart from their (barely) press fit housing. We had to glue the case on all of them.
Below, Steve is seen working on his EE senior design project intermittently through the build; he still managed to pull off the programming for the Tic Tac Woah. The code was modified from a self-playing tic tac toe game, changed to accept inputs, interact with the Turbull Encabulator shield, and make nice lighting effects. The code is here: TTTLightXO
A picture of a game being played is shown below, but the pictures do not do it justice. A lot more of the detail can be seen in the video at the top!
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A woman told police she was at her job inside a store in the plaza off Route 7 just after noon Wednesday when a black truck hit her car, ripping off the front bumper.
The truck fled the scene, the woman told police.
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