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Carl's wish is part of his fight against ALL.
Carl has a commanding aerial view of the blue water and white sand over Oahu. Moments later, though, his plane makes an emergency landing on a desert island.
The emergency landing strands Carl and his father on the island. But Carl is fresh from survival training; he sets up shelter from a parachute and settles in to wait for rescue.
His cool head and reliance on his training pay off. The next morning, Navy divers locate Carl and his dad. They prepare to return them to Oahu. A simulated attack by insurgents (with Marines playing the role) adds a dose of adrenaline to the day.
This is the highlight of Carl's wish – an imaginative scenario born from his interest in history and fascination for flight.
Origins of a Wish
Even in a museum packed with historic highlights, the B-17F bomber stands out. It's one of the most-iconic aircraft of World War II.
That's when Carl decided on his wish, according to a local newspaper. During his leukemia treatments, he visited the museum, gazed and the B-17 and said "That's what I want to be – a World War II pilot for a day."
Carl was determined to craft a wish that would be one-of-kind, an experience he could not do without Make-A-Wish. He told his wish-granting volunteers about his idea – to be a downed World War II pilot on the run.
"When he first made the wish, my first thought was, 'How are they going to pull that off?'" his mother, Heidi, says.
Complex Operations a Specialty
People in uniform have been among the most-enthusiastic Make-A-Wish throughout our history. Police officers from several agencies granted the wish that inspired a group of volunteers to found the organization that is now Make-A-Wish.
Over the years, military personnel have matched their law enforcement counterparts. And yes, Carl's wish was complex. But what military mission isn't? Sailors, Marines, soldiers and airmen from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam knew they were up to the task. Marines meet him at the airport in a World War II-vintage Jeep. Sailors welcome him aboard the historic battleship USS Missouri, where Carl spent his first night in Hawaii. The Army provides a custom-made 1940s-era uniform. And the Air Force started his wish before he landed in Hawaii, training him to survive behind enemy lines at Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, Wash.
"It's good to know that everyone want to help me with my dream," Carl tells an armed forces publication.
Marching to the Future
When Carl lived his one true wish, he was just one year into an expected three years of chemotherapy. He always tells people that he's fighting ALL – that he's not taking it lightly and that he expects to win.
In his wish, Carl just might find the emotional lift he needs to deal with any difficult moments and arduous treatments in his future.
Carl's wish is part of his fight against ALL.
Carl looks over the pier. Photo Credit: Rebecca Moat
Carl gets his wings. Photo Credit: Rebecca Moat
Carl sits in a WWII plane. Photo Credit: Rebecca Moat
A salute. Photo Credit: Rebecca Moat
Carl and his crew. Photo Credit: Rebecca Moat
Carl's wish gives him hope. Photo Credit: Rebecca Moat
This story makes me feel
June 25, 2012 - 11:25 AM
Got tears in my eyes……Im so glad you got to acomplish your dream Carl!!!!! :)
November 10, 2014 - 10:08 AM
spinal muscular atrophy
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February 25–March 31, 2012
Saturday, February 25, 2012, 6–8 pm
2622 S La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, California 90034
Tuesday–Saturday, 10am–6pm
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Honor Fraser is pleased to present BALLYHOO HULLABALOO HABOOB, Rosson Crow's second solo exhibition with the gallery. Exploring the intimate psychological and emotional dimensions of nationalistic collective memory, Crow creates a series of works that take as a point of departure the exuberance and sobering aspects of past and recent gilded eras. Known for her theatrical and lush paintings that often feature decadent interiors, this new investigation marks a shift in the artist's artistic process, tensely negotiating representational depictions and mnemonic interplay in painting. Rather than reproducing imagery associated with particular temporal and locational circumstances, the artist taps into mythologizing narratives, personal memories, and familial anecdotes to execute a psychoanalytic excavation of historical periods.
From Texas oil fields and bleak Dust Bowl towns, to celebratory tickertape parades, Crow's paintings are emblematic of American growth and decline. The exhibition's title in part implies the pitfalls of such self-congratulatory excitement. In the tickertape canvases, the skewed perspectives and atmospheric maelstroms of staccato brushstrokes push to a near-abstraction. Emptied of figures, these works only obliquely refer to specific historical references, and often contain little narrative coherence in terms of space and structure. In representing the actual event so abstractly, the attention no longer focuses on what is depicted, but rather the feeling of a distinctly American bravado and celebratory energy that teeters on the verge of disorder and chaos. The show's title also connotes the cyclical nature of American frenzy and loss with "haboob" (Arabic for huge sandstorm), which refers to both the Depression's Dust Bowl and the recent massive dust-storms of the southwest. Working with a much darker palette, these paintings chart the quiet forlorn mood that accompanies economic obsolescence.
Also included in this new series are paintings where Crow completely eschews the rich palette for which she is known in favor of a new, more reductive method of painting. In this process, the artist uses dyed fabric canvases and rapidly "paints" the surface with bleach. The result is a layered, gauzy effect that reveals traces of the work's making, just as the scenes invoke memories of the past. This accelerated painting process affords a looser, organic abstraction that highlights the unfussy, vigorous quality of Crow's style. Perspective and realistic representation are often all but eliminated in favor of vast expanses of gestural marks, or subtractions, that blanket the canvas. It is precisely these gestures and procedures of painting that evoke presence and feeling within a given space, and through this uncertain and imprecise method is a means to construct meaning.
Dallas-born Rosson Crow lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from Yale University, and a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Solo museum exhibitions include FOCUS: Rosson Crow at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2009) and Myth of the American Motorcycle at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2010). Crow has been included in exhibitions in museums internationally such as the Royal Academy of Arts, London, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA, Musee d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, and The Macro Future Museum, Rome. Other recent solo exhibitions include: Bowery Boys, Deitch Projects, New York (2010); Paris, Texas at Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris (2009); and Texas Crude, White Cube, London (2009).
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Fashion King
Great fashion has to start somewhere. And for aspiring designer Kang Young Gul (Yoo Ah In), that somewhere is in a humble stall at the Dongdaemun Market, a crowded fashion district in Seoul known for its cheap clothing and wannabe designers. Young Gul is a little timid about pursuing his dreams to become a famous designer, until he meets Lee Ga Young (Shin Se Kyung), a confident young woman who shares his aspirations. Anna Choi (Yuri of the K-pop group Girls' Generation), a brassy woman who will let nothing stand in the way of what she wants, and privileged hunk Jung Jae Hyuk (Lee Jae Hoon) create a double love triangle. Can Young Gul and Ga Young start from nothing and find success in the dog-eat-dog world of the fashion industry? "Fashion King" is a 2012 South Korean drama series by director Lee Myung Woo, who also directed "Princess Ja Myung" (2009) and "Bad Couple" (2007).
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Jeter has quad strain, won't be back until after break
NEW YORK -- Derek Jeter has been diagnosed with a Grade 1 strain of his right quadriceps and will not play until after the All-Star break, as the Yankees captain hopes to avoid going back on the disabled list.
"It's frustrating," Jeter said in a statement. "I don't know what else you want me to say. I worked hard to get to the point of rejoining the team yesterday. It's not how you draw it up, but hopefully, I'll be back out there soon and help this team win some games."
An MRI taken after Thursday's game confirmed the strain, which was announced by general manager Brian Cashman in a Yankee Stadium press conference on Friday afternoon. Jeter suffered the injury running to first base in his third at-bat of the season.
"We are going to not play him through the weekend and then we have the four days from the All-Star break," Cashman said. "We're going to evaluate it sometime after that. It could resolve after that time frame, it could take more time."
Cashman said that he could not rule out that the 39-year-old Jeter will eventually need to go back on the DL because of the strain. New York returns to action from the All-Star break on July 19 against the Red Sox at Fenway Park.
Jeter's injury is not out of the ordinary for the Yankees, who have had more than their share of not only injuries this season, but also re-injuries to players like Jeter, Curtis Granderson and Mark Teixeira.
"This group has been pretty good about moving on," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "You have to move on for a few days. We'll evaluate it as we go on day by day."
Serving as the Yankees' designated hitter in their 8-4 win over the Royals, Jeter went 1-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI groundout. He logged an infield hit on a ground ball to third base in his first at-bat of the season.
The Yankees captain showed no ill effects from his twice-fractured left ankle in his first at-bat, also running smoothly from first base to third base on a Robinson Cano single.
After his third at-bat, a ground ball to second base, Jeter told head athletic trainer Steve Donohue that he felt something like a cramp in his quadriceps. After grounding out in his fourth at-bat of the afternoon, Jeter was replaced by Brett Gardner as an eighth-inning pinch-hitter.
"Derek doesn't usually say anything," Cashman said. "When he said something, he said, 'Cramp.' A cramp for Derek is something more than a cramp, and the MRI confirmed that."
The Yankees' original plan had been that Jeter was to DH on Thursday at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and, if healthy, would have played shortstop for the Yankees on Friday against the Twins.
Injuries to Brett Gardner and Travis Hafner on Wednesday prompted Cashman to accelerate Jeter's timetable by a day, rushing him to the Bronx to DH against Kansas City.
Cashman said that he was "caught off guard" when Donohue called him during the game, saying that Jeter would need to be removed, and Cashman allowed that it is "possible" that rushing Jeter to New York had something to do with the quad strain.
"I guess it's all open for questions," Cashman said. "It was my call to move him up based on what occurred in our game, and I thought it was a safe harbor because it was a DH situation."
Cashman said that he had heard from longtime Yankees executive Gene Michael and others that Jeter seemed to be moving well at Triple-A, suggesting there was no reason to fear an injury.
"It's not something that entered my mind in any way, that he could actually blow a tire running the bases or stretching things out," Cashman said. "He could do it down there as well as he could do it up here."
Jeter missed the Yankees' first 91 games of the season while recovering from left ankle surgery, as well as a new fracture suffered during Spring Training. Despite this most recent injury in what he has called his most frustrating season, Girardi characterized Jeter's mood as "feisty."
"He wants to play tonight. Normal Derek Jeter stuff," Girardi said. "His frame of mind is good. He wants to give it a shot after these seven days and see where he's at -- which is, to me, normal Derek Jeter."


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Richard D. "Skip" Bronson with Andrew Meisler and A. M. Silver. The War at the Shore: Donald Trump, Steve Wynn, and the Epic War to Save Atlantic City. New York: Overland Press, 2012. 220 pages.
Many people are fascinated by the high-stakes world of casino development. Deals get announced that create thousands of jobs and bring in millions of dollars of revenue a month, or proposals to build casinos get tabled somewhere in the US every month or so. Skip Bronson, a real estate developer in his own right, worked alongside Steve Wynn for several years, first attempted to build a casino in Connecticut, then, as the title lets you know, battling Donald Trump for the right to do so in Atlantic City. In THE WAR AT THE SHORE, he takes the reader inside the Wynn war room and delivers several fascinating insights on how deals get done–and done away with.
In essence, this book looks at how Steve Wynn tried to build a Vegas-style mega-resort, which might have been called Le Jardin, on the H-Tract, where the Borgata is today. Donald Trump, Bally's Arthur Goldberg, and others opposed him, both in the courts but also through less direct means, such as funding "community" opposition groups.
Bronson begins not at the beginning, but at a contentious community meeting in Atlantic City where he feared for his life. In general, Bronson doesn't paint a flattering portrait of Atlantic City or its environs. Most residents are on the take or have their hands out, and he even complains about clams washing up on the beach in front of the South Cornwall Ave. house in Ventnor that he lived in part-time while chasing the deal. I've got some inside information here because I used to be a member of the Ventnor Beach Crew, the elite group of city employees charged with keeping the beach here, and I can say that dead clam stink, while it is an occasional problem, isn't a chronic one, and it certainly shouldn't spoil the pleasure of beachfront living just steps from the city's only surfer's beach and the storied Ventnor City Fishing Pier. While he singles out some locals for praise, particularly Mayor James Whelan, his overall sentiment seems to hover between disgust and contempt–which makes it easier to understand why things didn't click with many in the community.
Community involvement was key to the Wynn/H-Tract deal because, as a condition for investing over a billion dollars, Wynn wanted improved access to the H-Tract. This involved building the thoroughfare now known as the Brigantine Connector, which indeed improved access to the Marina District, but whose construction demanded nine local residents sacrifice their homes (for which they'd receive twice "fair market value"). Clearly, it's a difficult political position, and any hesitation on the part of locals was exacerbated by the full-court press Donald Trump, among others, employed, chiefly to stymie Wynn and prevent a potential rival.
Bronson does a great job of bringing to life the various characters he met and situations he found himself during the five years he tried to get Le Jardin built (1995-2000). He provides what I think is the best profile of Arthur Goldberg, former Bally's/Park Place Entertainment CEO, in print today, and we even get to see the "Mirage Volcano" erupt a few times (even scarier, he says, is when Steve Wynn speaks with complete calm to those who've let him down).
I need to point out, though, that there are several errors in the book that pulled me out of the story. Some are relatively minor, like referring to Mickey Brown as the head of the "New Jersey Gaming Commission" (a body whose existence is a mystery to me), when he actually helmed the Division of Gaming Enforcement. Others reflect the fact that this book was apparently written a while ago: Foxwoods is labeled "the largest, most profitable casino in the world" (Venetian Macao has had that honor for five years now) and the book ends on a happy note with MGM MIRAGE about to build the $5 billion MGM Atlantic City on the land where Le Jardin once might have been. That project was announced in 2007, tabled in 2008, and killed in 2010 when MGM Resorts effectively surrendered its NJ gaming license rather than cut ties with Pansy Ho, its Macau partner. Ditto for the reference to Atlantic City as "America's fastest-growing city." It seems that much of this book was written five years ago and not strenuously revised before publication.
So it's a good book, but it's only as good as the recollections of the principals, and there are some areas where standard fact-checking and updating would have given the manuscript more immediacy.
The need for a current assessment is nowhere clearer than in the wrap up, in which Bronson says that, in the end, the War at the Shore ended in "a triumph for all involved." Bronson got to say he'd turned a former dump into land valued at $400 million, Trump kept out a competitor, and Atlantic City got the Borgata.
I don't think anything could be further from the truth. In fact, I'd argue that the War at the Shore might have been the beginning of the end for Atlantic City, and had ripple effects throughout the gaming industry that can't be underestimated. Let's imagine that Trump doesn't try to block Wynn, and instead retaliated by selling Trump Plaza and putting the proceeds into renovating Trump Marina into something that could rival Wynn, or sold the Marina and the Plaza to turn the Taj into a true mega-resort. Park Place also doubled down on its properties, starting expansion programs like what Harrah's did with Harrah's and Aztar started with the Tropicana (under Dennis Gomes, incidentally). Wynn breaks ground on Le Jardin in 1996; it opens in 1999 as something like the Bellagio. This pushes back Beau Rivage a few years, and by 2000 Mirage Resorts is getting enough cash from its AC operation that its stock price is considerably higher: no MGM buyout. Circus Circus Enterprises opens "Mandalay East" in early 2000, and Boyd's Borgata comes online soon after.
Under this scenario, Atlantic City now has as many as a half-dozen destination resorts and is able to do what the Strip did in the early 2000s. Maybe you've got a season of MTV's Real World filmed at Borgata, or Ocean's 12 is set in Atlantic City. There's a real turnaround in public perception, and Atlantic City, now established as a true rival to Las Vegas, is able to weather "competition" from Pennsylvania slot parlors later in the decade.
Maybe MGM never acquires Mirage Resorts. After finishing Le Jardin, Wynn build Beau Rivage, then starts planning for Macau. MGM maybe picks up the Desert Inn (again) and develops CityCenter there. Whatever the impact on the rest of the industry, though, it's hard to argue that Atlantic City is better off with the cards it was dealt thanks to Trump et al's obstruction of the H-Tract's development.
In any event, WAR AT THE SHORE is a great look inside why Wynn left Atlantic City the second time, and provides a good perspective in general on the political and deal-making (not design) side of casino development.


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Recipes: Local Favorites From Louisville
Sam Champion hangs out with Diane Sawyer's mom in Louisville, Ky.
Oct. 14, 2008 -- "Good Morning America's" Sam Champion is attending the annual National Weather Association convention in Louisville, Ky., hometown of "GMA" anchor Diane Sawyer.
Click here to find out about the Lifesaver storm shelters that Champion featured on the show.
Below you'll find some of Louisville's favorite dishes, including hot brown, cashew brittle, and of course, the mint julep.
Hot Brown
6 oz. sliced turkey
1 piece toasted bread
6 oz. mornay sauce
2 slices fresh tomato
2 slices cooked bacon
3 oz. sliced sauteed mushrooms
Grill sliced turkey; place on top of toasted bread. Top with sliced tomato, mushroom and mornay sauce. Place under broiler until golden brown. Finish off with two slices of bacon.
Mornay Sauce
3 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon finely chopped onion
3 tablespoon flour
1 cup hot milk
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
1 teaspoon chopped parsley
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1. Melt butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat; add chopped onion. Cook over low heat until onion has softened.
2. Stir in flour and cook, stirring, until smooth. Gradually add milk, stirring constantly. Add remaining ingredients; cook, stirring, until cheese is melted and sauce is smooth.
3. Beat egg yolk in a small bowl; add about 1/4 cup of the hot liquid to it, stirring constantly. Pour egg yolk mixture into the hot liquid; stir until the sauce is smooth and hot. To reduce the risk of curdling, a double boiler can be used after the onions are cooked.
Go to next page for cashew brittle and mint julep recipes.
Cashew Brittle
2 cups sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
1 cup water
2 cups raw cashews
1/2 tsp. salt
2 Tbsp. butter
2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 cup chopped white chocolate
1. Heat and stir sugar, syrup and water in a heavy 3-quart saucepan until the sugar dissolves. Add salt. Cook over medium heat to soft ball stage (234 degrees). Add peanuts at 250 degrees. Cook to hard crack stage (290 degrees), stirring often. Remove from heat.
2. Quickly, stir in butter, white chocolate and soda. Beat to a froth for a few seconds. Pour at once onto 2 well-buttered 15-1/2x10-1/2x1-inch pans, spreading with spatula. If desired, cool slightly and pull with forks to stretch thin. Break up when cold.
Yield: About 1-1/2 pounds of peanut brittle.
Mint Julep
4 sprigs fresh mint leaves
1/2 ounce simple syrup
1 1/2 ounces bourbon whiskey
Crush mint leaves and sugar in a 12 ounce glass. Fill with cracked ice, simple syrup and whiskey. Stir until glass frost. Decorate with mint sprig
To make simple syrup for beverages:
Bring 2 cups of plain cold tap water to a boil. Stir in 2 cups of plain granulated sugar. Turn the heat to low and stir constantly until the sugar dissolves completely.
To test if the sugar is completely dissolved, use a metal spoon to scoop up a small bit of the syrup. Tilt it over the pan and watch carefully. You shouldn't be able to see any crystals in the liquid.
At this point you can add flavorings; add about a tablespoon of any liquid extract. You can also stir in 1 tablespoon corn syrup to help ensure the syrup stays smooth.
Let the syrup cool to room temperature, then pour into a clean glass jar and store in the refrigerator.


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List of Wants and Needs as we look for a new space.
Add to these as you feel like it, and feel free to move them up and down the list; the top of the list is to be considered "most important" and the bottom of the list "least important," so if everybody moves things around we hope to come to some sort of consensus on priorities.
- 24x7 access
- At least 3000 square feet of floor space (would love 4ksf or more, 5ksf would be great).
- under $4K for rent, should be <= $1/sf.
- bathroom (preferably private to our unit, not shared with other tenants)
- shower is nice but not necessary.
- mix of office and workshop space.
- At least 10' ceilings, preferably a loft so that part of the space is double-height (for projection win)
- multiple rooms with some sound protection (for simultaneous classes and other events)
- own utilities (electric) with breaker box in unit
- Kitchen
- < 1/4 mile from a BART station
- Safe neighborhood at night (i.e. 2am), or at least no worse than Wiese/16th.
- The shed must be
blue red orangemauve. Unicorns, Ponies, unicorns AND rainbows.
By comparison, our current space:
- 24x7 access
- ~1200sf, ~$1.50/sf
- loft with high ceiling area
- we've retrofitted one office as workshop
- we have our own utilities
- basically one big room, no physical separation for multiple events
- bathroom with shower & kitchen
- <1 block from BART
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Sweet Ways to Show Your Child You Love Them
5 Creative Ways to Sneak Your Child Love Notes
Send a Message in a Bottle
Teaching your child to love — and feel loved — is one of the sweetest duties you'll ever have as a parent. If you're looking to sneak a heartfelt message to your school-going tot, take inspiration from these subtle, creative and unobtrusive ways to show your motherly love. He may still accuse you of having cooties, but you'll get the satisfaction of proving you think he's the greatest thing on earth.


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Ex-WWE wrestler facing charges for 6th time in Branford assault case
NEW HAVEN -- Tamara Sytch, dressed in sweats, slippers and handcuffed at the wrist, tearfully told a judge she was assaulted by the subject of the protective order she allegedly violated this weekend, which sent her back to jail for the sixth time.
Sytch was arraigned Monday morning for violating a protective order, the fifth time she has been arrested for the same offense. The judge remanded her to be held in lieu of a $100,000 cash bond.
Sytch is best-known as "Sunny" for her work as a World Wrestling Entertainment wrestler.
Rob Serafinowicz, Sytch's attorney, told the judge the subject of the protective order, who is 27, and a professional wrestler, musician and model, had "lured" Sytch back to his house, where she was not permitted due to the protective order.
In court Monday, Sytch referred to the Branford man as her fiance when telling the judge of her attack. She said she "self-medicated" and drank the morning after allegedly being assaulted.
"I don't think it's fair to me. I was the one abused," she said, with a shaky voice while crying.
Branford Police Capt. Geoffrey Morgan confirmed Monday Sytch had filed a criminal complaint. Police were investigating Sytch's allegations, Morgan said. He said police did make the court aware of her reports.
Morgan said Sytch was treated by medical personnel and complained of breathing problems while in custody. He said she was sent to the hospital.
Serafinowicz told the judge the blame "has to be parsed out." He said Sytch does not have a car in Connecticut, and the man picked her up and brought her to his house, and requested they move back in. Serafinowicz said the man presented Sytch with an engagement ring and had her move back in so they "could begin their life together."
According to the police report of Sytch's arrest Friday, she told police she was given a key and had been living in the man's house for two weeks.
"He had called me on many occasions and told me how much he loved Tammy and how he wanted to do anything he could to help her," Serafinowicz said. "While I cannot excuse her actions in this case, this case presents a different situation to the court."
The police report says the man went to the Police Department to report Sytch was inside his house and she was not allowed there. Police took Sytch from the house, after she was found hiding in the bathroom shower.
Serafinowicz said the man's actions of going to police might have been a "play on his part" to "remove any criminal liability."
Despite what Sytch may have been told by her former boyfriend, Morgan said, it's up to the court to allow her back to the man's house. If the man had in fact invited Sytch back, she still is not allowed to go there, he said.
"The difficult thing for many victims is there is no criminal charge for people that conspire to get you there. We tell everybody, if there's an order in place, despite what the victim may acquiescence, you are still bound by any court document or protective order," Morgan said.
Sytch was first arrested Sept. 11 for disorderly conduct. She was arrested the next day for disorderly conduct, violation of a protective order and strangulation. On Sept. 13, she was charged with violating a protective order.
On Oct. 8, she was charged with disorderly conduct, criminal mischief and three counts of a violation of protective order. The following day she was arrested again for three violations of a protective order and burglary.
Last month, a judge modified the protective order, allowing Sytch to call the man for purposes of ongoing therapy. Sytch completed inpatient rehabilitation and was participating in outpatient therapy.
Assistant State's Attorney Michael Denison said the state had offered a plea deal to Sytch that she had taken. She pleaded guilty to one charge of violating a protective order and was to complete the inpatient therapy.
The warrants for each of Sytch's arrests allege details of her often being drunk, and at one point using UFC moves to choke her ex-boyfriend.
When the judge reminded Sytch she was not permitted to go back to the house, she said quietly, "After what I just went through, I won't go back."
Serafinowicz asked the judge to allow Sytch to have psychiatric testing to be done to figure out the root of her mental health problems. The case was continued to Feb. 7.
Call Jennifer Swift at 203-789-5615.


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This R&G Radiator Guard is available in black or titanium to fit the Kawasaki Ninja 250/400 '18- models protecting the radiator guard from damage from road debris.
R&G Radiator Guards are now available in a range of new exciting colour options (please note, not all colour options are available for all R&G Radiator Guard applications).
Made from pressed aluminium and feature a neat, seamless frame (where applicable). They improve the looks of your bike and help to protect your expensive and vulnerable radiator from flying debris. No permanent modifications need to be made to the bike.
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Free MarketsU.S. History
Jimmy Carter doesn't get credit for his deregulation efforts, but his initiatives probably were as significant a boost to the economy as any president has accomplished since 1980.
Cronyism and CorporatismLabor and WagesMedia and CultureU.S. History
The conservative case against market freedom is based on the belief that if change disrupts the status quo in any way, or if companies impose cost reductions that result in a shifting of employment — or even some layoffs — then government should step in and take control.
World History
Progressives like John Kenneth Galbraith no longer heap praise on China, given that it long ago abandoned Mao's austere communism. Instead, modern progressive economists like Joe Stiglitz save their acclaim for the economies of places like Cuba and Venezuela.
Cronyism and CorporatismLabor and WagesPoverty
The dominant immigration narrative in France ignores the importance of free trade, freedom in employment, and the importance of voluntary charity.
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2006 Street Rodder Road Tour Blog - One
Jerry Dixey and the Road Tourians run into hail in the middle of summer?Yep, read about it here.
Pueblo Weekend Blog
With our feet still tapping to the bluegrass sounds of the Zipper Motors party of the night before, we headed out of Grand Junction on Thursday morning. It was time to get to Pueblo and the NSRA Rocky Mountain Nationals. We had been very fortunate on this tour to have some great weather and hot-but-bearable temperatures. After watching the weather forecast we realized that our luck was going to change, with thunderstorms predicted for the entire Colorado region. Both local TV stations not only reported on the weather, but they also happened to show the interviews we had done at Zipper the previous evening. It was fun to see the Road Tour featured on the news.
Between Grand Junction and Pueblo lay a few hills called the Rocky Mountains. Traveling on Route 50, the high climb is up and over Monarch Pass, and at about 11,000 feet you realize how far up you really are. Everyone made it up and over, but it was on the decent that we finally found the bad weather. In an instant the skies got dark and the rain started to fall. Then came some hail. Not bad but enough to wake up the roadster group. We stopped in Salida and had some lunch at the Sonic. While we hoped to wait out the rain, it followed along with us the last two hours into Pueblo.
Some of the group stopped at the Royal Gorge in Canon City and I went ahead to set up the STREET RODDER booth at the fairgrounds. The kickoff party at the Rocky Mountain Nationals is held at the local reservoir and it's a great way to start the weekend. We were able to park the Road Tour cars next to the STREET RODDER tent and we spent the days enjoying each other's company, reliving the stories of the previous weeks' travels, and cooking burgers each day for lunch. We got together Saturday evening at a local Mexican restaurant for dinner since some of the group was heading out in the morning and it was our last chance to exchange addresses and phone numbers. As I've said before, this bunch had really bonded.
After the awards, it was time for me to head east toward my home in Ohio. Traveling with me for the trek across I-70 was Road Tour veteran Brian Bell. Brian is the only person to travel on all three of the Road Tours this summer, and his '36 Auburn Boattail Speedster gets everyone's attention on the highway.
Things got a bit dicey at about 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, just east of Colorado Springs, as about 3 inches of pea-sized hail fell from the black clouds above. There was no damage to our cars, but it was a scary moment. The rest of the trip went fine and I arrived home on Tuesday evening.
You can read the complete Rocky Mountain event coverage in STREET RODDER magazine and check back here regularly as we keep you updated on Tours #4, 5, and 6. There are many miles to go this season and I would sure enjoy the company, so think about joining us on any or all of the remaining PPG / STREET RODDER Road Tours for 2006.
Road Tour #3
Okay Folks, go get a road atlas, a beverage and follow along as the PPG/Street Rodder Road Tour #3 has found a route that you will want to take if you ever get the chance. All set?
Tuesday evening we stayed in Page, Arizona. Wednesday, June 21 was the first day of summer and offered more hours of light than any day of the year. We were determined to take full advantage of this unique opportunity of location and time. At 7:00 AM we gathered in the front of the hotel for our daily drivers meeting. During these meetings we go over the days' planned route and destination. Questions are answered; comments and suggestions are made. Page, Arizona is very close to the Arizona/Utah border so we headed southeast on Route 98. At this point, and for the next 3 hours, we were on the Navajo Indian Reservation, which is by far one of the prettiest places on earth. We headed north on Route 160 to Kayenta, the gateway to Monument Valley, (Route 163 travels through some of the most spectacular rock formations I have ever seen). Continuing on 163 we passed through Mexican Hat and on to Bluff. At Bluff Utah we headed north on Utah Route 191 where the landscape and scenery was breathtaking. After a quick lunch-break, we continued up the 191.
By 3 in the afternoon we reached the town of Moab, Utah and caught Route 128, which travels along the Colorado River and through the Arches National Park area. This one-hour drive is ranked one of the most beautiful routes in the nation. No argument here as we all agreed that it was absolutely amazing.
Route 128 took us to I-70 where we headed east for a party that was being thrown in our honor. Good friends Darrell and Rosalie Zip at Zipper Motors rolled out the Grand Junction red carpet as we were treated to great food and entertainment from some great Bluegrass musicians The Hallelujah Band was lead by non other than Danny Agajanian of the famous Agajanian racing family. To end our incredible day we took a sunset cruise through The Colorado Monument, which is a gorgeous 26-mile drive over the steep cliffs and vistas surrounding Grand Junction.
This was truly an amazing day on Road Tour #3. We saw some unbelievable scenery and traveled through some of the most beautiful area of our great country. The things that made it all so special was we were able to enjoy it all with great friends while traveling in our street rods. It just doesn't get much better than that!
Well, we are almost to Pueblo and the NSRA Rocky Mountain Nationals. Check back. You will be the first to get a full report on all the excitement.
Jerry Dixey
After Monday evening in Las Vegas, the Road Tour crew was up early and ready to roll early Tuesday morning. Our destination was is Page, Arizona and we had a few places to stop along the way. As we pulled out of the Gold Coast Casino we didn't realize that our planned route would be altered later in the day by a forest fire!
Traveling north on I-15 we stopped in St George to fuel and grab a bite to eat. Our destination for the afternoon was the north rim of the Grand Canyon. From St George there were a few choices for routes to travel to the Canyon. Some folks took the southern route through Colorado City and others took the northern swing through Zion National Park. One of the things that we have stressed on all of the Road Tours is that folks are free to roam on different routes according to what they want to see out on the tour.
I chose the route through Zion since I had never been through the park. It was a great drive and the Chevy Coupe was clicking right along. From Zion I traveled south to the north rim of the Canyon. The folks that chose the southern route were already coming up from the rim. I spent about an hour at the canyon. I had seen the view from the south a number of times but the view from the north is an entirely different perspective.
By this time there were about four of us traveling together. When we reached the planned turn off for our trip to Page we were greeted by some rangers who informed us that the road was closed because of forest fires in the area. We checked the map and found another route. It was a lesson learned, luckily we had given ourselves enough time to get to Page before dark. As others in the group arrived at the hotel we all compared our days notes. Once again we all had a great day on the Road Tour.
Tomorrow is going to be the first day of summer, the longest day of the year and with what we have planned for our route, possibly the most beautiful drive of the Road Tour this summer. Check back soon, I will give you all the details.
Jerry Dixey
2006 Road Tour #3
June 19, 2006
On Monday morning, 35 registered vehicles and over 50 participants met at SO-CAL Speed Shop's Pomona headquarters to head out on the PPG / STREET RODDER Road Tour #3.
Our destination for this tour is the NSRA Rocky Mountain Nationals in Pueblo, Colorado. SO-CAL is celebrating their 60th anniversary this year and is the official sponsor of Tour #3.
It was a real honor to have SO-CAL's founder, Alex Xydias, travel with us on the first leg of the tour to Las Vegas.
The trip was a smokin' hot journey across I-15 as the temperature hit 106 degrees when we stopped for lunch in Baker, California. The 13-mile-long climb after Baker pushed most of the cars to their boiling point, but fortunately not beyond, as no one experienced any overheating problems. That is not to say the trip was trouble-free; our group had one flat tire and one wiring problem, but everyone fortunately made it to Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas SO-CAL Speed Shop is a state-of-the-art facility with a beautiful showroom stocked with all the latest street rod and custom parts and accessories. Behind the store is a service facility called Hot Rod Central where some of the Road Tour participants were able to have their cars checked over for any minor issues.
There were almost 50 vehicles that showed up for the get-together. The rest of the evening was spent relaxing Vegas style, as a few of the Road Tourians (yet another new term) tried their hand at games of chance. The first gas stop tomorrow will reveal of who won, who lost, and who has to borrow gas money in order to continue on the rest of the tour. Viva Las Vegas!!
Next up we will head north on I-15 and then off the interstate to the north rim of the Grand Canyon. We will spend tomorrow evening in gorgeous Page, Arizona, near Lake Powell. We have lots of beautiful scenery ahead of us, so check back here often, and I'll be sure to send some pictures back home. Jerry Dixey
June 18, 2006
I have been very fortunate over the last decade to attend hundreds of street rod events and car shows around the country. Since 1996 I have attended 110 consecutive NSRA events and enjoyed every one. I have been lucky enough to get to all the major indoor shows from Cobo Hall in Detroit to the 50th Grand National Roadster Show a few years ago. For one reason or another I have never been to the L.A. Roadsters' Father's Day Show. My schedule usually had me somewhere in the Midwest.
I just spent the weekend in Pomona at the Roadster Show and I will never miss another one. There is a certain type of energy at this event like no other that comes from combining over 800 roadsters with folks from all over the country who have made the trip to see what the buzz is all about. In short, it is the place to be on Father's Day.
After our road trip from San Antonio, the group on Tour #2 had a full weekend of activities. Friday morning we took a tour of the NHRA Museum and their fantastic collection of vehicles and memorabilia. From there we made the short trip to a great Mexican restaurant just down the street from the headquarters of SO-CAL Speed Shop. By mid-afternoon the streets in front of and around SO-CAL's facilities were packed with folks attending their famed open house before the Roadster Show.
Things were rolling at the Pomona Fairplex by early Saturday morning. The L.A. Roadsters set aside a special parking area for all of us on the Road Tour and we spent the day checking out all there was to see and do. On Saturday night some of our group went to Irwindale Speedway for a night of circle track racing. Sunday it was back out at the fairgrounds for another day of Father's Day fun.
It was a great week on the road capped by a great weekend in L.A. Friendships were made and everybody enjoyed more than a few laughs. My thanks go out to Rick Love, George Packard, Jack Chisenhall, and all the folks at Vintage Air. Their hard work and attention to detail made the week go very smoothly.
For some folks, Sunday was a day to head back home. For others it was the halfway point of two weeks of Road Tour fun. Tomorrow morning about 40 of us head out on Road Tour #3. Our destination is Pueblo, Colorado and the NSRA Rocky Mountain Nationals. Our trip will take us to Las Vegas, Lake Powell, Monument Valley, Grand Junction, and across the Rocky Mountains to Colorado.
Stay tuned to the 2006 Street Rodder Road Tour blog for the latest updates. As they say, what happens in Vegas goes right on the Internet!!
Jerry Dixey
June 16, 2006
Whenever I'm in Southern California, I can't help but wonder if the weather is always this nice. After 10 years of coming out here on a regular basis and never seeing bad weather, I guess it is this beautiful all the time. Sunshine, blue skies, and temps in the low 80s greeted the Road Tour crew on Thursday morning as we began our first full day in L.A.
After our daily drivers meeting, we headed out for the trip to Wilshire Boulevard and the Petersen Automotive Museum. From the Primedia offices in Placentia, this trip could take anywhere from one hour to three days depending on the time of day and traffic. We left Placentia at 9 a.m. and, amazingly enough, we drove straight in without any traffic jams or snarled traffic. It must be the luck of the Road Tour.
The Petersen Museum is an incredible place to visit. Museum "head guy" Dick Messer gave us the royal treatment with an in-depth and behind-the-scenes look at some of the amazing collection of vehicles. The emphasis is on hot rod history and heritage, and it was great to see some of the early cars and stories of the pioneers who made our hobby what it is today. One of the current exhibits features Chip Foose and some of his incredible work. To see so many of Chip's cars in one place really gives you an idea of the impact this all-around good guy has had on our hobby over the last decade. Anyone who has an interest in street rods, customs cars, and special-interest vehicles needs to get to the Petersen Automotive Museum at least once.
We said our goodbyes in L.A. and headed out of town by 2 p.m. The rule in Los Angeles is: Get where you want to be by 3 p.m. 'cuz you're not going very far between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. We wanted to get to our hotel in Claremont because we had such a great offer for the evening: an invitation to the drive-in Thursday evening to see the new movie "Cars." It was the perfect ending to another perfect day on the Road Tour.
Stay tuned. There's only one more day until the start of the whole reason we made this trip--the L.A. Roadster Show starts on Saturday.
Jerry Dixey
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June 15, 2006
It has been a wild four days since we left San Antonio, Texas, but we have finally arrived in L.A. as promised, so I guess that would make this the Promised Land! On Tuesday morning we left Willcox, Arizona, and traveled to the Pima Air and Space Museum near Tucson. We spent about two hours at the museum and most of us took the guided tour of the hundreds of planes and memorabilia. It was very educational and informative.
From there it was off to our lunch stop at the very new and very cool Hi Speed Customs shop in the historic old section of Tucson. John Sewell Sr., John Jr., Anthony Ribeau, and Paul Martinez have done a fantastic job of setting up a shop that includes vehicle and parts sales, a service and paint area, and even a motorcycle chopper shop. Everyone was impressed, so check it out if you are in the area.
From Hi Speed in Tucson we made the two-hour drive to Phoenix. Rick Love from Vintage Air led us on a cruise through the mountain and desert areas between the cities. It was very hot, but everyone made it to SO-CAL Phoenix, our host for the evening. Frank and Mary Streff and their crew greeted us with food and beverages and a tour of their facility--a great place with lots of vintage Ford parts.
Rush hour was done by the time we departed SO-CAL, and we made it across Phoenix with ease. We stayed Tuesday evening in Peoria, Arizona, on the west side of Phoenix. Ray and Karen Doe greeted us at RB's Obsolete in the morning with the biggest stack of Krispy Kreme donuts I have ever seen. There we added about eight new travelers to our merry band, including Ray Doe himself.
We lunched in Blythe on the California/Arizona border, and then we headed past Palm Springs and into Corona, the home of Barry's Speed Shop and the filming location for the TLC show "Wrecks to Riches", and the incredible metal masters, Marcel DeLey and his sons, Luc and Marc. What an incredible shop they have! The project bodies they are fabricating at their facility, Marcel's Custom Metal Shaping, blew everyone away.
We spent last night in Placentia, next to our Primedia offices, and today it is on to the Petersen Automotive Museum and then the SO-CAL open house in Pomona. Saturday and Sunday will be spent at the L.A. show at the Pomona Fairplex. The fun never stops on the Road Tour!!
June 12, 2006
The PPG/STREET RODDER Road Tour has been rolling for two days and we are having a blast! Over 45 vehicles rolled out of Vintage Air in San Antonio early Sunday morning. Our morning took us through San Antonio and west on Route 90. After a gas stop along the way, we arrived in Del Rio, on the U.S.-Mexico border. Your reporter took a wrong turn and I found myself in a line that was headed toward the Del Rio International Bridge over the Rio Grande River. I quickly realized that I was about to take the Road Tour to another level and decided this was not the year for that move. I got out of line and turned around. I still beat the crowd to the Sirloin Stockade and narrowly avoided an international incident.
After a very healthy lunch, we all continued our trek up the border on Route 90. The educational stop for the day was the site of the court of Judge Roy Bean, the only law west of the Pecos for many years in the 1800s. It was a nice display of an interesting combination of pool hall, tavern, and courthouse. After about 30 minutes of touristing (I think I just made up a word), we headed toward our destination of Fort Davis, Texas. The evening was also very educational as we spent about two hours at the McDonald Observatory looking at the planets and a very full moon.
Monday morning some folks checked out the restored fort in town and others spent time doing some repairs to their vehicles. After a beautiful 35-mile drive on Route 118, we reached the first interstate highway of our trip. I-10 was our route to our lunch stop at MSD in El Paso. The folks at MSD really rolled out the welcome mat with some great barbecue and very interesting tours of their facilities. Thanks to everyone at MSD for a great lunch break.
Our destination for the evening was Willcox, Arizona, and we all arrived by 6 p.m. It has been a great two days on the tour, and we still have many miles to go before we arrive in Los Angeles. Next up are Tucson, Phoenix, and lots of fun stops. Check back--I'll keep you posted on our progress. Jerry
Sunday June 11
It's time for the 2006 PPG/Street Rodder Road Tour #2 to head west. We are staged in San Antonio, Texas and ready to go with our sights set on Los Angeles, California and the famed LA Roadster Show. With 63 vehicles and passengers signed up for this Tour, and it is going to be lots of fun. The kickoff party took place last night at Vintage Air as everyone received their credentials and Rick Love went over some of the particulars of what to expect on the drive during the coming week. He has done an incredible job of planning the week's activities.
I flew into Austin, TX yesterday and picked up the Rod Tour car at Fat Lucky's Upholstery Shop in Austin. Owner Sean Johnstun and David Mandujano did a fantastic job on the interior of the Outlaw bodied coupe so I'll now be riding in more comfort.
Mark Gustafson had picked me up at the airport and I drove to San Antonio with Mark's Dad, Bill in his '32 Roadster. Tony Adsley and Dave Grayson drove in Tony's '32, and guitarist Jimmie Vaughn brought along his '35 Ford coupe.
We have a great group of folks making the drive with us to LA, and more are scheduled to join up along the way. Some of the names that you may recognize are Jim "Jake" Jacobs in his '29 Delivery and legend Tex Smith will be riding along with Street Rodder Tech editor Ron Ceridono in the 2005 Road Tour car.
I'm really looking forward to getting started as this is obviously going to be one of the best Road Tours ever. We're going to strap in and have a great time.
Well, it's 5:30 AM on Sunday morning in San Antonio and I have a few folks to meet up with and take a little cruise.
Keep checking back. I'll keep you posted.
June 6 2006
PPG/Street Rodder Road Tours #2 and #3 are rapidly approaching. With great memories of Tour #1 still fresh in my mind, it's time to turn my attention to the next business at hand.
Sponsored by Vintage Air and put together with much work by Rick Love of Vintage Air, Tour #2 is turning into a huge event. As of this morning we have 62 cars registered to travel with us from San Antonio to the L.A. Roadsters' famous Father's Day Show in Pomona!!! We will be making stops at the McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, Texas, the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, and lots of street rod shops along the way to Los Angeles.
We have some street rod notables traveling along for the ride, including Tex Smith and Jim Jacobs (the original "Jake" in Pete and Jake's). It should be a blast!
I just checked the forecast for Phoenix; it's going to be 112 degrees on Tuesday when we pass through. WOW!
From the Father's Day Show, we set out Monday morning on the SO-CAL Speed Shop-sponsored Tour #3. SO-CAL is celebrating their 60th anniversary and we are going to have founder Alex Xydias with us on the first leg as we travel from L.A. to Las Vegas. This tour is going to be a beautiful trip as we travel to Page, Arizona, Monument Valley, Grand Junction, and onto Pueblo and the NSRA Rocky Mountain Nationals. As of today we have 32 cars registered. Stay tuned into Streetrodderweb.com for all the details and updates.
I am including a few of my favorite pictures from Tour #1. I especially like the one of me in the barber chair at Advanced Plating. Boy, those things are sure uncomfortable.
Check back often, as I'll keep you posted on the progress of all the tours, and maybe you will decide to join us on some of the ones we have planned for later this summer. Jerry
May 27th
The second half of Road Tour #1 proved to be as exciting as the first half. We even managed to learn a few things along the way.
We got an early start for our Wednesday morning in Nashville. It was a short drive to Advanced Plating, the official sponsor for Tour #1. Owner Steve Tracey greeted us in their beautiful retail showroom. After a quick look at a few of Steve's vehicles (including the very shiny "Chromezilla" '32 Ford roadster) the tour and education began.
We were given an in-depth look at the chrome plating process by the best in the business. Lasting just over an hour, the tour followed parts from the time they are received at Advanced Plating until they are very shiny and on their way back to the customer. What happens in between is part inventory control, part restoration, and requires an awful lot of hard work and the knowledge of a chemical engineer! From the look of the chrome-plated parts at the end of this process, its safe to say the folks at Advanced Plating know what they are doing.
From Advanced Plating, Steve lead the group to one of his plating customers: Gibson Guitars in Nashville. Hot cars and hot guitar licks have always gone hand in hand. We were all amazed at the craftsmanship that goes into the manufacturing of a Gibson electric guitar. We followed the process from the time that the exotic woods from around the world arrived at the plant until the time that these hand crafted masterpieces are shipped out to musicians across the globe.
Both Nashville tours really showed that pride, quality and craftsmanship are still alive in America today.
By noon we were headed west on I-40 to Jackson, Tennessee. Our ranks had grown to sixteen vehicles and we had an invitation from street rod builder and collector George Poteet to come to his farm in Holly Springs, Mississippi for some dinner and to take a look at his incredible collection of vehicles. What an evening!
We started out with a tour of a beautiful Southern mansion that is maintained by the Holly Springs Garden Club. We were treated to a very interesting lecture about the history of cotton in the South. George's good friend, William Bearden has written a book on the subject and held everyone's attention as he discussed the crop that built the South. It was then on to an "off the beaten path" restaurant where we were served the best hamburgers I've ever tasted. Then it was on to George's farm for homemade ice cream and a look at his unbelievable collection of street rods and collector cars.
A gracious host and genuine Southern gentleman, George shared stories of his cars and their history with all in attendance.
When we arrived at our hotel in Holly Springs for the evening, it was hard to grasp all of the incredible things that we had seen and learned in that single day of Road Tour #1.Thursday morning we made the thirty-minute drive to Memphis where we enjoyed breakfast at one of Elvis' favorite restaurants. We made a brief stop at Sun Records then drove down the famous Beale Street section of Memphis. From there we headed across Arkansas, made a stop in Hardy and toured the automotive museum. One more stop for lunch at Hillbilly Junction, then it was on to the NSRA Mid-America Nationals in Springfield.
It was a great week on the 2006 PPG Street Rodder Road Tour #1. Many friendships were formed and everyone who came along for the ride said that they would love to do it again. They will have their chance, since there are five more Tours on this summer's schedule. Our next stop is San Antonio, Texas as Jack Chisenhall and Rick Love from Vintage Air help lead a group of over fifty vehicles as we head to Los Angeles for the famous Father's Day Roadster Show.
Check back here for more updates from the 2006 PPG/Street Rodder Road Tour #2...
The 2006 PPG/STREET RODDER Road Tour marks not only the second decade of the Road Tour series, but also a new format. For the last 10 years I have traveled around the United States solo, attending National Street Rod Association events and reporting on my adventures in the pages of STREET RODDER magazine. This year we decided it would be fun to invite the readers to travel along in their own vehicles and experience the fun of long-distance cruising firsthand.
Like any new concept, we were not sure what to expect with both the response and the results. It has turned out great so far, with the first tour just past the halfway point, and the response and the results have been very positive.
We attended the Cruisin' Ocean City event in Ocean City, Maryland, and headed west on Sunday afternoon with 14 cars and 17 participants. Our stop for Sunday night was Virginia Beach and the Norfolk, Virginia, shop of Flatlanders Hot Rods. Alan Thornton and 25 local rodders where on hand to greet us.
Monday morning our journey continued to Charlotte, North Carolina. It was a fun day as we were able to take a few laps around Lowes Motor Speedway in our own vehicles. We then lined the cars up at the start/ finish line for an incredible photo opportunity. Brent and the folks at Fatman Fabrications were our hosts Monday evening and we were treated to a good old-fashion barbeque.
Tuesday was a 400-mile day with our designation being Nashville, Tennessee, where Johnny and Linda Fruend greeted us at their Hunters Custom shop.
Wednesday we are touring the Advanced Plating facility and the Gibson Guitar factory in Nashville, and then we head to Holly Springs, Mississippi, where street rod builder and collector George Poteet has invited us for an evening at his farm. Everyone is excited to see George's fantastic collection of vehicles.
We are well into Tour #1 of our new Road Tour series. It will be an exciting day today, and tomorrow we roll into Springfield, Missouri, to our destination of the NSRA Mid-America Nationals.
Check back here and get current updates and info on Road Tour 2006. With five more tours scheduled, there is plenty of time to join in the fun.
Jerry Dixey


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Taking a page out of the NYJ playbook.
After Tice you would think they would have learned to vet their candidates very carefully. Instead they hire this witch, Hermann, who makes Tice sound like he's kind and gentle... oh boy, what a bunch of morons.
Taking a page out of the NYJ playbook.
Now it's surfaced that she was the subject of a sex discrimination case as well. But the Rutgers president is standing by her (which is another way of saying he's preparing to throw her to the dogs when he's sure he's safe)...
Really adding a lot to the conference already
They should shut down Rutgers athletics. What a joke.
Turns out she wasn't even on the 60 person list given to Barchi by the Search Committee. He decided personally that she was one for the job. The man must be a certified idiot when it comes to social intelligence. Really really bad judgment. And now comes the scramble for cover...
Sounds like she's not a very nice person.
But I really don't get the outrage about calling some volleyball players whores and alcoholics. Big fvcking deal. Grow a thicker skin. Toughen up.
What ever happened to sticks and stones may break my bones, but names can never hurt me?
The last Rutgers coach was calling his players fags. This conduct is way out of line and can't be accepted.
Plus this woman fired an assistant for being pregnant. Very classy.
She can be fired, of course, but Rutgers in on the hook for her salary.
Despite what people think, there are rules of conduct governing coaches and administrators.
Of course you care, your emotional denial proves it. That's OK because the media-The Star-Liar run by Cuse grads, and ESPN who just had a major layoff and is losing out to BTN on a big market draw- are doing RU a favor by keeping them on everyone's lips. It's like that Carz For Kids commercial. Peak Freens and Food Emporium also come to mind.
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Ronnie that is me and I am the baddest bitch in school. Manly because I have done every bad thing you can dream or think of. Including everyone except this one kid and his stupid little group. Oh and how I hate him. Although we have many similarities and in a way he kind of is the guy version of me. But I honestly hate him ever since middle school. Now I have stumbled on to a huge problem. We both got assigned to do the huge science project together and not only is it a shit load of work to do but also add stress with him around, also my ex is back in town.
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Picard Maneuver
Picard Maneuver is the leading musical comedy duo specializing in nerd based humor and more. Formed by Adam Fanshier and Mike Hover in 2007, Picard Maneuver combines elements of musical comedy, vaudeville, physical comedy, audience interaction and improvisation into their one of a kind act.
Adam and Mike's unique brand of humor comes from their very honest presentation of their personal lives. They are two nerds trying to make it in a world filled with "cool kids". The majority of their material may be about geek-related topics, but their message is universal. It's about being comfortable in your own skin.
But don't kid yourself, you don't have to be a nerd or ever watched an episode of Star Trek to enjoy Picard Maneuver (even though their name comes from a specific episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation). Adam has even defied all nerd odds and was recently married (not to Mike, unless that will get us the gig).
Their act is more than a collection of 'Fanboy' inside jokes. It is an honest tale of the 'every man'. Adam and Mike have a talent for making audiences realize that being an "outsider" is more than okay— it should be embraced! Their most famous example of their ideology is Mike's unusual and memorable way of picking up women demonstrated by his "Wookie Dance".
The two joined with the best of intentions to, as they put it, "Bring back the style of comedy popularized by classic duos such as Bing and Bob, Martin and Lewis, and The Smothers Brothers." And audiences sure seem to enjoy their ideology.
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Guitarist Bo Diddley Dead at 79
(CNN) — Bo Diddley, the musical pioneer whose songs, such as "Who Do You Love?" and "Bo Diddley," melded rhythm and blues and rock 'n' roll through a distinctive thumping beat, has died. He was 79. Rock 'n' roll pioneer Bo Diddley influenced generations of guitarists.
Diddley died Monday, surrounded by family and loved ones at his home in Archer, Florida, a family spokeswoman said.
The cause was heart failure, his family said.
The world-renowned guitarist's signature beat — usually played on an equally distinctive rectangular-bodied guitar — laid the foundation for rock 'n' roll, and became so identified with him that it became known as the "Bo Diddley" beat. It was unlike anything else heard in pop music.
"This distinctive, African-based … rhythm pattern (which goes bomp-bomp-bomp bomp-bomp) was picked up by other artists and has been a distinctive and recurring element in rock 'n' roll through the decades," according to the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.
Guitarist George Thorogood, a Diddley disciple, put it more bluntly.
"[Chuck Berry's] 'Maybellene' is a country song sped up," Thorogood told Rolling Stone in 2005. " 'Johnny B. Goode' is blues sped up. But you listen to 'Bo Diddley,' and you say, 'What in the Jesus is that?' "
Among the artists who made use of the Bo Diddley beat were Buddy Holly ("Not Fade Away," later covered by the Rolling Stones), Johnny Otis ("Willie and the Hand Jive"), the Yardbirds (covering Diddley's "I'm a Man" and adding their own guitar stylings to the closing bars, which were later incorporated into the Count Five's "Psychotic Reaction"), the Strangeloves ("I Want Candy"), Bruce Springsteen ("She's the One"), U2 ("Desire") and George Michael ("Faith"). Hundreds of artists have covered Diddley songs. Blog: The genius of Bo Diddley
"Bo Diddley was one of rock 'n' roll's true pioneers," said Neil Portnow, president and CEO of The Recording Academy, the music industry organization best known for presenting the Grammy Awards. "He inspired legions of musicians with his trademark rhythm and signature custom-built guitar, and his song 'Bo Diddley' earned a rightful place in the Grammy Hall Of Fame. He leaves an indelible mark on American music and culture, and our deepest sympathies go out to his family, friends and fans. The 'Bo Diddley beat' surely will continue on."
Diddley's debut single was his self-titled 1955 classic, with "I'm a Man" as its B-side. The songs were released on Chicago's Chess-Checker Records label, also the home of Chuck Berry and Willie Dixon.
"It was the first in a string of groundbreaking sides that walked the fine line between rhythm & blues and rock 'n' roll," his Hall of Fame biography says.
Diddley was also a pioneer of the electric guitar, tweaking his instruments and adding a variety of effects to his recordings.
A contemporary of Berry, Fats Domino and Elvis Presley, Diddley cut a stylish figure on the rock 'n' roll landscape. With his guitar, dark glasses and black hat, he looked vaguely menacing; his music was much earthier and bluesier than that of his rock 'n' roll contemporaries.
However, Diddley wasn't above climbing on bandwagons in search of wider popularity; his early 1960s albums included such titles as "Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger," "Bo Diddley's a Twister," "Bo Diddley's Beach Party" and "Surfin' with Bo Diddley."
Eventually, Diddley returned to his roots and became a rock 'n' roll elder statesman. He was featured in the Thorogood video "Bad to the Bone," playing pool with Thorogood, and showed up during the Nike "Bo Knows" campaign starring Bo Jackson.
At the conclusion of a Nike commercial that showed Jackson excelling at a variety of sports, the athlete picked up a guitar and produced a squall of noise. Cut to Diddley, listening to the attempt: "Bo, you don't know Diddley," he said.
"I never could figure out what it had to do with shoes, but it worked," Diddley told The Associated Press. "I got into a lot of new front rooms on the tube."
Diddley was born Ellas Otha Bates in McComb, Mississippi, on December 30, 1928. He later took the name McDaniel after being adopted by his mother's cousin. Diddley's family moved to Chicago when he was 7, according to his Hall of Fame biography.
He played violin as a child, but said he was inspired to pick up the guitar after hearing John Lee Hooker's 1949 rhythm and blues hit, "Boogie Chillen."
He told many stories of how he got the name "Bo Diddley." In a 1999 interview, he said it came from his childhood friends, according to AP. Other tales included a one-string instrument from traditional blues called a diddley bow, the AP notes.
Either way, it became his own — as did his music.
"I don't like to copy anybody. Everybody tries to do what I do, update it," he told the AP. "I don't have any idols I copied after."
"They copied everything I did, upgraded it, messed it up. It seems to me that nobody can come up with their own thing, they have to put a little bit of Bo Diddley there," he said.
He continued to tour well into 2007, but suffered a stroke last May and a heart attack in August.
He was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in January 1987.
Though he was upset that he never received the financial rewards he expected — "I am owed," he told the AP, adding "a dude with a pencil is worse than a cat with a machine gun" — he reflected modestly on the rock 'n' roll revolution he helped start.
"Well, it's no different from anything else, I guess. I started sumthin'. I just happened to be the first one," he told the British magazine Uncut in 2005. "But I never thought it would turn into what it did. Somebody had to be first, and it happened to be me."


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YouTube Opens Up Live Streaming to Non-Profits First
YouTube has given all members of its non-profit program the ability to live-stream from their channels.
YouTube wrote in a blog post Monday that this will give its non-profit program members the chance to spread their causes, by sharing charity events and conferences in real-time.
"In the past we have rolled out self-service live-streaming for a small group of select partners," Ramya Raghavan, YouTube news and politics manager, told Mashable. "Today it is open up to all 16,000 nonprofit organizations in the YouTube Nonprofit Program."
Two non-profits have already made use of live-streaming on the platform. Last Saturday, March 3, the American Foundation on Equal Rights live-streamed YouTube's first play, 8, about the trial for Proposition 8 in California. The ONE campaign and RED live-streamed a day-long symposium on World AIDS Day in December.
YouTube has been making a big push extending its non-profit program. In April, it will host a day-long summit in San Francisco to better help non-profits tell their stories on the social video platform.
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Ben Rattray: 5 TEDTalks That Will Inspire You to Action
As the founder of Change.org, Ben Rattray works tirelessly to give voice to the voiceless and build tools and platforms to help ordinary people change the world. Similarly, he is drawn to TEDTalks that encourage viewers to get up off the couch and make a difference.
He writes, "In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action. But perhaps more significantly, the people at the front lines of discovering how to make change typically aren't shut inside an ivory tower.
"My favorite videos on TED overcome these barriers by providing a platform for people who intimately understand the most important social issues to share their unique insight and offer solutions about how to make a difference. These insights inform our work at Change.org, helping our team build the tools that will be most effective in empowering people to create the change they want to see. I hope the videos I've selected below reveal some unrecognized challenges and the opportunity for impact we all have."


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Common Core Supporters Firing Back
Supporters of the Common Core State Standards are moving to confront increasingly high-profile opposition to the standards at the state and national levels by rallying the private sector and initiating coordinated public relations and advertising campaigns as schools continue implementation.
In states such as Michigan and Tennessee, where common-core opponents feel momentum is with them, state education officials, the business community, and allied advocacy groups are ramping up efforts to define and buttress support for the standards—and to counter what they say is misinformation.
Supporters assert that the common core remains on track in the bulk of the states that have adopted it, all but four at last count.
But the pressure is on for common-core champions to make sure their message gets through. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington last month that the private sector had to snap out of what he portrayed as its lethargy and to prevent states from reverting to inferior standards, as he contended states did a decade ago under the No Child Left Behind Act.
"I don't understand why the business community is so passive when these kinds of things happen," he said.
On May 1, former Michigan Gov. John Engler—now the president of the Business Roundtable, a Washington-based group of business leaders—took to the radio show of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a fellow Republican, to defend the standards.
And soon thereafter, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, another Republican, reiterated his common-core support in an appearance in that state with Secretary Duncan.
"States are standing up for what's right, and organizations are supporting them," said Chris Minnich, the executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers, which led the effort to develop and promote the standards along with the National Governors Association. "There are several types of organizations that are doing that."
'Start at Square One'
Critics have made several arguments against the common core. Some say the standards are being crammed into classrooms by the federal government in a power grab of questionable legality. They and others say that the common core is a national curriculum in disguise, that claims about its rigor are inflated, or that it sets unrealistic expectations.
Criticisms also have arisen about the testing load the standards require, the timetable for implementation, and the pace of professional development for teachers.
Participating states are now implementing the standards, which cover English/language arts and math, and tests based on the common core are slated to begin in the 2014-15 academic year.
Perhaps the most prominent pushback has been in Indiana, where Gov. Mike Pence, a Republican, is expected to sign a bill that would require a fiscal and policy review of the standards.
Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee are among the other states that, to varying degrees, have dealt with growing political opposition to the common core. Conservative organizations and tea party groups have pushed bills opposing the standards at the state level, but groups skeptical about the role of standardized tests and the private sector in education have also made inroads among progressives.
The Common Core State Standards have sparked debate and legislative battles in a number of states, including:
Alabama: Multiple legislative attempts have been made to derail the common core in this state. Gaining the most traction was a bill that would have required the state board of education to drop the standards. It was approved by the Senate education committee, but Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh, a Republican, killed the bill.
Indiana: Gov. Mike Pence, a Republican, is expected to sign legislation initiating a fiscal and policy review of the common core. Schools Superintendent Glenda Ritz says the bill means Indiana's previous standards would remain alongside the common core. The state board of education has reiterated its support for the common standards; Gov. Pence can replace six of the boards' 10 members this summer.
Michigan: The House of Representatives approved a budget last month that would defund implementation of the common core. However, Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican, reiterated his support for the standards in an appearance with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on May 6.
Ohio: Groups such as Ohioans Against Common Core and Education Freedom Ohio have held public meetings in recent months to denounce the standards and stepped up pressure on state lawmakers to force Ohio to drop them.
Tennessee: Local groups critical of the common core have held meetings in opposition, sometimes feature opponents from national groups. In support of the standards, the state education department has published a history of the common core in the state and basic information about the standards. Tennessee's State Collaborative on Reforming Education, a group drawn from the business and philanthropic communities, has also intensified its efforts to support the standards.
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, who says she continues to support the common core in principle, presented a critique on April 30 based on concerns about how quickly and effectively the standards are being implemented. In a speech to the Association for a Better New York, she called for a delay in attaching high stakes to results from tests based on the common core. Teachers should have more time to understand the standards and adapt instruction to fit them, she said.
Even as supporters say common core remains on track, they say they are taking its opponents seriously.
When the Tennessee education department started getting basic but increasingly frequent questions about the standards—along the lines of "Is the federal government now telling us what textbooks we have to purchase?"—supporters saw the need to act, said state Commissioner of Education Kevin Huffman.
"We realized that we had to start at square one and be able to start telling people, 'OK, this is the story of Tennessee's engagement with the common core,' " Mr. Huffman said.
In recent weeks, there have been renewed efforts in Tennessee from the State Collaborative to Reform Education, or SCORE, a nonprofit group led by former U.S. Sen. Bill Frist that promotes college and career readiness, to counter foes of the common core in the state. Opponents began holding public forums last month where representatives from anti-common-core groups made their case.
On April 30, Score announced that more than 200 groups had signed on to its Expect More, Achieve More Coalition. The coalition, begun by SCORE in 2009 and revived last year to support the common core, includes state businesses and school districts and stresses what it says is the importance of the common core.
The coalition has geared up a social-media campaign to promote the standards. It also released a fact sheet and history that says in part, "Standards do not dictate curriculum (e.g., textbooks and reading lists) or prescribe a method of instruction."
Mr. Huffman said he's also lobbied to shore up common-core support among state legislators.
In an op-ed essay earlier this month in The Tennessean, in Nashville, state Sen. Dolores Gresham, a Republican and the chairwoman of the Senate education committee, said the standards would reverse the state's history of having students perform well on state assessments but poorly on national tests that ask more of them.
Continue the Collaboration
States should remember how they collaborated to develop the standards and work to share best practices about keeping the standards politically viable and putting them into effect, argued Dane Linn, a vice president of the Business Roundtable who also oversaw work on the common core at the NGA.
"It's important to be patient, to not be alarmist, and to support states as they implement these standards," Mr. Linn said.
Still, the private sector is responding to what some supporters see as ominous developments.
For example, Business Leaders for Michigan, a nonprofit group of private-sector leaders in that state, sent an open letter to state political leaders on May 2, urging them to stand by the new standards, after the state House of Representatives passed a budget last month that would defund the common core.
"Adopting the common core gives us even a better way of seeing how well we're doing. And for the amount of money we're spending on public education, we should want that," Doug Rothwell, the president and CEO of Business Leaders for Michigan, said in an interview.
Both Mr. Rothwell and Mr. Linn said they were somewhat surprised by the ability of what they deemed small groups of opponents to get political traction. But groups outside the private sector are being proactive as well—before Mr. Snyder's May 6 remarks, Education Trust's Midwest affiliate, which advocates for a focus on transparent data and student achievement, also stressed in a May 2 statement the broad support for the standards, including the state PTA.
But supporters also were jolted by the Republican National Committee's decision last month to oppose the standards, said Chester E. Finn Jr., the president of the pro-common-core Thomas B. Fordham Institute in Washington.
"Some people have suddenly discovered that they might need a few people with at least faint Republican credentials besides [former Florida Gov.] Jeb Bush to say that the common core is a good thing," he said. He added that he thought conservative efforts in state legislatures posed the bigger threat to the common standards, compared with opposition from the political left.
Drawing Connections
Standards supporters are also becoming more active on the airwaves.
Stand for Children Indiana, a pro-common-core group, which supports broad early-education opportunities and charter schools, released two different 30-second TV advertisements, one on March 5 and another on April 16, defending the standards. The campaign also included radio spots.
A spokesman for the group, Jay Kenworthy, declined to disclose how much it spent on the ads and said it hadn't decided whether to renew the public relations push when common-core hearings get underway in Indiana this summer.
That state is also ground zero for a pro-common-core argument aimed at a liberal audience: that many of the loudest common-core opponents hold other political views that the audience would find abhorrent.
For example, Larry Grau, the director of the Indiana affiliate of Democrats for Education Reform, or DFER, wrote on the group's blog April 23 that GOP Sen. Scott Schneider wants schools to teach creationism and has sought to make enforcement of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act a felony. DFER Indiana has also used language that warned about "bedfellows" in the anti-common-core movement that could cause someone to say, "I hate myself for this in the morning." Mr. Grau said he wanted the group's rhetoric to be "a little edgy."
He argued that Democrats suspicious of other policy proposals, like vouchers, should not let those views lead them to lash out at the common core. "They're not thinking before they're saying who they're partnering with on the common core," Mr. Grau said in an interview.
Others make an economic argument in favor of the standards. Legislators weighing whether to ditch the common core should keep in mind that education technology providers already have been designing products based on the standards, said Bob Wise, the former governor of West Virginia who is now president of the Washington-based Alliance for Excellent Education, which works to improve high school graduation rates.
He argued it would end up costing states more to backtrack than to implement the common core.
Opposition Persists
The federal government has provided $360 million to support two consortia of states developing common-core-based assessments.
But without new federal enticements to follow through and implement the common core, supporters don't have much gas left in the tank, argued Jim Stergios, the president of the Boston-based Pioneer Institute, which opposes the standards and has sent representatives to forums in Tennessee and elsewhere.
"Michigan wasn't even on our radar screen," he said. "A lot of representatives and senators are starting to feel the heat."
Parents, in particular, are also catching on to the "propaganda" coming from corporate and foundation-based common-core supporters, said Julie Woestehoff, a co-founder of the Chicago-based Parents Across America, a progressive-oriented group that is concerned about the common core's standardized-testing requirements. (She is also executive director of Parents United for Responsible Education, located in Chicago.) "What we're seeing is people with a lot of money throwing money at a PR problem that they see happening," she said.
But Mr. Minnich of the CCSSO maintains that there is a broad consensus in support of the common core that isn't fracturing and that wants implementation to continue.
On this front, the GE Foundation has traveled to districts to discuss work on the standards, and has helped the Erie school district in Pennsylvania, for example, travel to receive additional common-core training. (The GE Foundation provides grant support for Education Week's coverage of college- and career-ready standards' implementation.)
"Implementation is critical. ... Simply adopting a set of standards isn't going to make things better," Mr. Minnich said.
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