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"Books are the weapons in the battle of ideas." These were the words of William Warder Norton, who 95 years ago launched the firm that bears his name. Today, the three-person company he once ran from his living room has become the oldest and largest publishing house owned entirely by its employees.
Mr. and Mrs. Norton
In 1923, Norton and his wife, Mary Dows Herter Norton, hired a stenographer and began transcribing and publishing the lectures delivered at the People's Institute, the adult division of Cooper Union in New York City. While initially modest in scope, this enterprise embodied the Nortons' progressive vision that leaders in their fields—not mere popularizers—should "bring to the public the knowledge of our time."
Norton and his wife used their living room table to assemble these lectures into pamphlets, which they then boxed in sets of twenty to sell as a whole. As Mrs. Norton later remembered, "Warder would carry the results by taxi in an old Drew suitcase that had accompanied my parents on their wedding journey."
The Nortons soon expanded their program beyond the People's Institute, acquiring manuscripts by celebrated academics from America and abroad and entering the fields of philosophy, music, and psychology, in which they published acclaimed works by Bertrand Russell, Paul Henry Lang, and Sigmund Freud (as his primary American publisher).
Described in the New York Herald Tribune as "a figure of universal respect and liking," Warder Norton was inspired by his sense of duty to serve as the president of the Council on Books in Wartime during World War II, working with other publishing greats including Bennett Cerf and John Farrar to spearhead a book donation effort that put 123 million copies of 1,180 titles into the hands of those in military service. "This is the most valuable thing that bookmen can undertake in the conduct of the war," said Norton about the massive project that produced books designed to fit into the pockets of soldiers; in this role, he also coined his phrase about books as weapons, which was adopted by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
William Warder Norton died shortly after the war. Within a few years, Mrs. Norton, who had been so instrumental in the firm's development, decided that the company should be entrusted to the next generation of employees, and she offered most of her stock to its leading editors and managers. The Joint Stockholders Agreement that was subsequently signed gave the ownership of the firm to its active employees; that agreement remains in force to this day, the number of shareholders greatly expanded to include nearly all current Norton employees. As George P. Brockway, the company's third president, said, "We have remained independent mainly because Warder Norton was a fiercely independent man and surrounded himself with others of like mind."
"Let us make all the necessary vows that we will stick to the business of publishing the best books we can lay our hands on and then keep our hands on them for as long as may be." —William Warder Norton
Since those early days, W. W. Norton & Company has consistently published books that reflect their social moment and resonate well beyond it. Some of the era-defining books published by Norton include The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan, which this year celebrates its 55-year anniversary and is considered one of the most influential books of the twentieth century; A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess, which had its redemptive ending famously cut by its editor to make the novel darker yet; Thirteen Days, Robert F. Kennedy's firsthand account of the Cuban Missile Crisis; Present at the Creation, by Dean Acheson, who was praised by Gaddis Smith of Yale University as the most effective secretary of state of his era and a writer with "no equal since Thomas Jefferson first occupied the office in the eighteenth century"; Liar's Poker, which launched Michael Lewis's decades-long chronicle of Wall Street's greed and hubris; and The 9/11 Commission Report, a vital historical document printed with record speed, a significant portion of its profits going to charity.
William Warder Norton's aim was to publish "any book that could bring to the public the knowledge of our time." The company holds fast to this mission and continues to print the work of some of the world's most influential voices. Nobel Prize winners include Nadine Gordimer, Seamus Heaney, Eric Kandel, Paul Krugman, Edmund Phelps, Joseph Stiglitz, and Harold Varmus; Pulitzer Prize winners include Dean Acheson, Jared Diamond, Rita Dove, John Dower, Stephen Dunn, Erik Erikson, Eric Foner, Annette Gordon-Reed, Stephen Greenblatt, Maxine Kumin, Joseph Lash, William McFeely, John Matteson, Edmund Morgan, and William Taubman. Norton's thriving poetry program, established in the 1960s, also includes National Book Award winners Ai, A. R. Ammons, Stanley Kunitz, Adrienne Rich, and Gerald Stern.
In recent decades, Norton's national bestsellers have included books by Diane Ackerman, Andrea Barrett (also a National Book Award winner), Vincent Bugliosi, Andre Dubus III, Sebastian Junger, Michael Lewis, Nicole Krauss, Mary Roach, Jonathan Spence, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Sean Wilentz, Edward O. Wilson, and Fareed Zakaria. Norton also publishes many popular series, most notably Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin books, discovered on a flight between London and New York by its editor; and P. G. Wodehouse's brilliant comic novels, all of which are now being reissued in newly illustrated paperbacks.
At the same time, Norton's college department serves as a cornerstone of the publishing program. In the 1940s, Norton broadened its history textbook publishing with Edward McNall Burns's Western Civilizations. A decade later, Norton asked leading Romanticism scholar M. H. Abrams to develop a concept that went on to change the teaching of literature: the Norton Anthologies. The tissue-thin paper of these books has been turned by over 20 million students worldwide, and as Rachel Donadio has written in the New York Times, "The Norton Anthology of English Literature has remained the sine qua non of college textbooks, setting the agenda for the study of English literature in this country and beyond."
From its early roots in music and literature, Norton's textbook list has expanded across the traditional liberal arts. Its list of academic staples includes Dalton Conley's You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking Like a Sociologist; Eric Foner's Give Me Liberty!: An American History; and Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein's They Say / I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing. Additionally, Benjamin Ginsberg, Theodore J. Lowi, and Margaret Weir's We the People: An Introduction to American Politics; Stephen Marshak's Earth: Portrait of a Planet; Richard Bullock's The Norton Field Guide to Writing; and Clark Larsen's Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology have joined the Norton Anthologies, Norton Critical Editions, The Enjoyment of Music, and A History of Western Music as leaders in their fields.
During the past forty years, Norton has continued to expand its publishing program. In the 1970s, Norton bought the Liveright Publishing Corporation and its illustrious backlist. One of the great presses of the early twentieth century, Liveright published William Faulkner's first two novels, E. E. Cummings's collected poetry, Hart Crane's complete poems, and Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. In 2012, a revived Liveright inaugurated its first original list in four decades, with new works by Gail Collins, R. Crumb, J.G. Ballard, and Jim Holt. In the 1980s and 1990s, Norton notably added the Norton Professional Books and acquired the distinguished Vermont firm Countryman Press, with its well-respected nature, history, and outdoor recreation titles.
Now, after 95 years and with an annual list of 400 titles, W. W. Norton is a global company, its familiar seagull logo appearing on books in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and Latin America. Though the Norton of today is international in scope, there is much about the company that would remain recognizable to its founders: the editorial quality of the books, the rigorously anti-corporate style, and above all the shared sense of purpose that flourishes when all employees have a stake in the success of their firm.


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Reasoning Your Way to Linux
Study Shows Open Source Code Superior
All open source programmers believe in their heart of hearts that open source is not only the best way to write software, it produces the best possible software. It's a point that's been argued endlessly, but until recently there hasn't been any hard proof from an non-partisan third party demonstrating that open source code was actually superior to closed source. Now, thanks to research (http://www.reasoning.com/downloads/opensource.html) done by Reasoning, a leading automated software inspection service vendor, objective proof is here: Open source is better.
Or, to be more precise, Reasoning, using their automated C and C++ source code inspection service, Illuma (http://www.reasoning.com/solutions/index.html), found that there were 0.10 defects per thousand lines of source code (D/KLSC) in Linux's 2.4.19 TCP/IP stack compared to an average of 0.55 D/KLSC in five different proprietary TCP/IP implementations. Four of the five proprietary stacks have been on the market for over ten years. In short, Linux triumphed over mature, proven programs.
TCP/IP was chosen as the target for this study because it's the "fundamental protocol that underlies the Internet" and "the functional requirements are well defined and stable, the implementation is non-trivial, and it is a critical component of every computer system and many embedded devices." In addition, by keeping the study's focus on a narrow, well-defined area, Reasoning was trying to avoid the apples and oranges problems of comparing full-scale applications and operating systems.
To put Linux's results in a broader context, In Reasoning's most recent analysis of 200 commercial projects totaling 35 million lines of source code, 33% of these programs had D/KLSCs below 0.36; 33% had D/KLSCs between 0.36 and 0.71, and the remaining third had more than 0.71 D/KLSCs. "Thus, the TCP/IP implementation in the Linux operating system ranks in the upper third, while the composite code quality of the commercial implementations ranks in the middle." In short, Linux's TCP/IP implementation is excellent while the six commercial implementations, while not awful, are in the middle of the pack.
If .71 D/KLSC sounds good to you, you're not a programmer. For mature programs, it's downright lousy. And since Illuma is designed to seek out critical coding errors, such as memory leaks, NULL pointer references, out of bounds array accesses, and uninitialized variables, there are programming mistakes that come back to haunt first users and then developers. These are the kind of foul-ups that can lead to program lock-ups and even system failures.
Now Illuma is not perfect. For example, what appears to be an uninitialized variable in Linux's TCP/IP stack turned out to be a variable that's assigned before use by a tiny built-in interpreter. Still, the problems it finds are one that any developer worth his salt needs to investigate further if for no other reason than to document questionable code that could be mistaken for an error by a human quality assurance programmer. And, beyond that, the simple fact remains that the open source code had less than 20% of the average errors of the proprietary code.
Why is that? Reasoning doesn't take a position, but simply lists the usual reasons given by open source advocates. For example, open source users don't just report bugs, but actually track them and fix them. And, with peer source code review, defects tend to be found quickly and only the best code survives. This, in turn, means that programmers will present only their best efforts since they know that the only way to rise to the top of the open source world is to deliver excellent code that can withstand public scrutiny.
The study itself has some problems. Due to confidentiality agreements, for example, we don't know what five proprietary TCP/IP stacks were reviewed.
Automated code testing itself has in the past been known to result in many false positives. Reasoning tries to avoid these problems and minimize the time it takes to deal with such problems by including in its error reports the location and circumstances of problems and using statistical analysis and other tools to identify the parts of the code with the greatest risk, so developers can focus their energies on what are potentially the most critical problems.
Still, when all is said and done, the bottom line is quite simple. Open source code is much cleaner than proprietary source code. What more need be said?


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Taft College defeats Merced in four sets
Taft College wasn't sharp in Monday night's home Central Valley Conference volleyball match against the Merced Blue Devils but managed to escape with a four-set victory.
"It wasn't pretty," said head coach Kanoe Bandy after her team improved to 7-4 in the CVC with a 25-23, 25-19, 17-25, 26-16 victory.
When the teams played in Merced in first-round action the Cougars breezed in three sets.
"I didn't enjoy watching it at all," Bandy said. "I think they are mentally exhausted. I think we'll cancel practice tomorrow."
The Cougars were coming off a two-match road trip against the two top teams in the conference – undefeated Fresno and twice-beaten Porterville – matches they lost.
The day before the Merced match, Bandy hosted her team to a pumpkin carving party "to help relieve the pressure a little bit."
The Cougars got off to a slow start, trailing the Blue Devils through the first set until Sina Mauga got a kill off a short-set from Rachel Kapesi to tie it at 21.
TC went ahead on a Merced hitting error before Merced tied it on a TC error.
Chanel Cantere, who led the Cougar offense with 21 kills, finished the job with back-to-back kills.
In set two, TC grabbed a 3-2 lead on a kill by Ono Taotofi, who had eight on the night. The Cougars led by as many as eight and staved off a late Blue Devil surge to win by six. Cantere again scored the clincher.
TC had a 3-2 lead in the third set but Merced took over and maintained a 4-8 point lead to send the match into a fourth set – one the Cougars dominated.
The defensive effort was led by Tiffany Mapusaga's 18 digs. She was followed by Kapesi's 16, Cantere with 12, Tyra Williams with 11 and Kristen Kamakele with 8.
Madison Lawley and Mauga had three blocks each.
Setter Kapesi tossed up 47 assists.
The Cougars, 14-7 overall, are in Coalinga tonight to play West Hills, a team they easily swept in the first round.
TC plays its final home match next Wednesday when College of the Sequoias comes to town. It will be the team's annual canned food drive. Canned goods instead of cash gets you in the door at the Al Baldock Cougar Sports Center.


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Improve pacman performance
- 1 Improving Database Access Speeds
- 2 Improving Download Speeds
- 3 Choosing the fastest mirror
- 4 Sharing packages over your LAN
Improving Database Access Speeds
Pacman stores all package information in a collection of small files, one for each package. Improving database access speeds reduces the time taken in database-related tasks, e.g. searching packages and resolving package dependencies. The safest and easiest method is to run as root:
# pacman-optimize
This will attempt to put all the small files together in one (physical) location on the hard disk so that the hard disk head does not have to move so much when accessing all the packages. This method is safe, but is not foolproof. It depends on your filesystem, disk usage and empty space fragmentation. Another more aggressive option would be to first remove uninstalled packages from cache and to remove unused repositories before database optimization:
# pacman -Sc && pacman-optimize
Improving Download Speeds
Pacman's speed in downloading packages can be improved by using a different application to download packages instead of Pacman's built-in file downloader.
In all cases, make sure you have the latest Pacman before doing any modifications.
# pacman -Syu
Using wget
This is also very handy if you need more powerful proxy settings than pacman's built-in capabilities.
To use
wget, first install it with
pacman -S wget and then modify
/etc/pacman.conf by adding the following line to the
[options] section:
XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget -c --passive-ftp -c %u
Instead of putting
wget parameters in Template:Filename, you can also modify the Template:Filename configuration file directly (the system-wide file is Template:Filename, per user files are Template:Filename.
Using aria2
aria2 is a lightweight download utility with support for resumable and segmented HTTP/HTTPS and FTP downloads. aria2 allows for multiple and simultaneous HTTP/HTTPS and FTP connections to an Arch mirror, which should result in an increase in download speeds for both file and package retrieval.
Download and install Template:Package Official and its dependencies:
# pacman -S aria2
Edit Template:Filename by adding the following line to the
[options] section:
XferCommand = /usr/bin/aria2c --allow-overwrite=true -c --file-allocation=none --log-level=error -m2 --max-connection-per-server=2 --max-file-not-found=5 --min-split-size=5M --no-conf --remote-time=true --summary-interval=60 -t5 -d / -o %o %u
Option Details
- /usr/bin/aria2c
- The full PATH to the aria2 executable.
- --allow-overwrite=true
- Restart download if a corresponding control file does not exist. (Default: false)
- -c, --continue
- Continue downloading a partially downloaded file if a corresponding control file exists.
- --file-allocation=none
- Do not pre-allocate file space before download begins. (Default: prealloc) 1
- --log-level=error
- Set log level to output errors only. (Default: debug)
- -m2, --max-tries=2
- Make 2 maximum attempts to download specified file(s) per mirror. (Default: 5)
- --max-connection-per-server=2
- Set a maximum of 2 connections to each mirror per file. (Default: 1)
- --max-file-not-found=5
- Force download to fail if a single byte is not received within 5 attempts. (Default: 0)
- --min-split-size=5M
- Only split the file if the size is larger than 2;5MB = 10MB. (Default: 20M)
- --no-conf
- Disable loading an Template:Filename file if it exists. (Default: Template:Filename)
- --remote-time=true
- Apply timestamps of the remote file(s) and apply them to the local file(s). (Default: false)
- --summary-interval=60
- Output download progress summary every 60 seconds. (Default: 60) 2
- -t5, --timeout=5
- Set a 5 second timeout per mirror after a connection is established. (Default: 60)
- -d, --dir
- The directory to store the downloaded file(s) as specified by pacman.
- -o, --output
- The output file name(s) of the downloaded file(s).
- %o
- Variable which represents the local filename(s) as specified by pacman.
- %u
- Variable which represents the download URL as specified by pacman.
Additional Notes
- 1 --file-allocation=falloc
- Recommended for newer file systems such as ext4 (with extents support), btrfs or xfs as it allocates large files (GB) almost instantly. Do not use falloc with legacy file systems such as ext3 as prealloc consumes approximately the same amount of time as standard allocation would while locking the aria2 process from proceeding to download.
- 2 --summary-interval=0
- Supresses download progress summary output and may improve overall performance. Logs will continue to be output according to the value specified in the log-level option.
Using airpac
In a nutshell, airpac is an aria2c wrapper for pacman. Unlike powerpill, which acts as a frontend to pacman, airpac serves as a backend downloader for pacman. On the other hand, however, it behaves similarly to powerpill, as far as downloading is concerned, since both use aria2c to actually download the files. Because it is a backend though, it cannot download multiple packages simultaneously as powerpill can.
Essentially, airpac is the Python implementation of the pacget script below. However, the main difference lies in the handling of aria2c output. airpac shows only the most relevant info, i.e., the download progress, although it currently doesn't use a progressbar (maybe in the near future). Also, airpac caches the db files so that they won't be downloaded for every
pacman -Sy. On the downside, this breaks
pacman -Syy since airpac has no way of knowing the options pacman is executed with. As a workaround, however, one can use
pacman -Sc to delete the cached files in /var/lib/pacman/.airpac.
The configuration file is located in /etc/airpac.conf. This is actually an aria2c config file. Because of this, the user can directly configure how aria2c is used by airpac without meddling with airpac's code. For more info about the available options, consult the aria2c manpage.
airpac also uses the Server Performance Profile feature of aria2c by default. The statistics file is located in /var/lib/airpac.stats. The default URI selector is adaptive.
Usage in /etc/pacman.conf
XferCommand = /usr/bin/airpac %u %o
pacget (aria2) Mirror Script
This script will greatly improve the download speed for broadband users. It uses the servers in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist as mirrors in aria2. What happens is that aria2 downloads from multiple servers simultaneously which gives a huge boost in download speed.
Take note that you have to put 'exec' before /usr/bin/pacget in the XferCommand. This is needed so that when you terminate pacget or aria2 (with process id used by pacget), pacman would also terminate. This would prevent inconvenience because Pacman would not persist downloading a file when you tell it not to.
WARNING: You may experience some problems if the mirrors used are out-of-sync or are simply not up-to-date. Just use the Reflector script to generate a list of up-to-date and fast mirrors. Also, ftp.archlinux.org resolves to two IPs. You may want to choose only one of them and hard code ftp.archlinux.org and the chosen IP address to /etc/hosts.
#!/bin/bash msg() { echo "" echo -e " \033[1;34m->\033[1;0m \033[1;1m${1}\033[1;0m" >&2 } error() { echo -e "\033[1;31m==> ERROR:\033[1;0m \033[1;1m$1\033[1;0m" >&2 } CONF=/etc/pacget.conf STATS=/etc/pacget.stats ARIA2=$(which aria2c 2> /dev/null) # ----- do some checks first ----- if [ ! -x "$ARIA2" ]; then error "aria2c was not found or isn't executable." exit 1 fi if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then error "Incorrect number of arguments" exit 1 fi filename=$(basename $1) server=${1%/$filename} arch=$(grep ^Architecture /etc/pacman.conf | cut -d '=' -f2 | sed 's/ //g') if [[ $arch = "auto" ]]; then arch=$(uname -m) fi # Determine which repo is being used repo=$(awk -F'/' '$(NF-2)~/^(community|core|extra|testing|comunity-testing|multilib)$/{print $(NF-2)}' <<< $server) [ -z $repo ] && repo="custom" # For db files, or when using a custom repo (which most likely doesn't have any mirror), # use only the URL passed by pacman; Otherwise, extract the list of servers (from the include file of the repo) to download from url=$1 if ! [[ $filename = *.db || $repo = "custom" ]]; then mirrorlist=$(awk -F' *= *' '$0~"^\\["r"\\]",/Include *= */{l=$2} END{print l}' r=$repo /etc/pacman.conf) if [ -n mirrorlist ]; then num_conn=$(grep ^split $CONF | cut -d'=' -f2) url=$(sed -r '/^Server *= */!d; s/Server *= *//; s/\$repo'"/$repo/"'; s/\$arch'"/$arch/; s/$/\/$filename/" $mirrorlist | head -n $(($num_conn *2)) ) fi fi msg "Downloading $filename" cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ touch $STATS $ARIA2 --conf-path=$CONF --max-tries=1 --max-file-not-found=5 \ --uri-selector=adaptive --server-stat-if=$STATS --server-stat-of=$STATS \ --allow-overwrite=true --remote-time=true --log-level=error --summary-interval=0 \ $url --out=${filename}.pacget && [ ! -f ${filename}.pacget.aria2 ] && mv ${filename}.pacget $2 && chmod 644 $2 exit $?
# The log file log=/var/log/pacget.log # Number of servers to download from split=5 # Maximum download speed (0 = unrestricted) max-download-limit=0 # Minimum download speed (0 = don't care) lowest-speed-limit=0 # Server timeout period timeout=5 # 'none' or 'falloc' file-allocation=none
Save this script as /usr/bin/pacget.
chmod 755 /usr/bin/pacget
This makes the script an executable
In /etc/pacman.conf, in the [options] section, the following needs to be added:
XferCommand = exec /usr/bin/pacget %u %o
PS: If you use ftp.archlinux.org as the first server listed in your include files (/etc/pacman.d/*), some problems may occur when the mirrors you are using have not yet synced. To make great use of this script, choose a mirror (that syncs in a timely manner) that is more appropriate for you, then put that on top of the server lists. This is to prevent downloading only from ftp.archlinux.org when the mirrors have not yet synced. The rankmirrors script can be useful in this case.
Using other applications
There are other downloading applications that you can use with Pacman. Here they are, and their associated XferCommand settings:
XferCommand = /usr/bin/snarf -N %u
XferCommand = /usr/bin/lftp -c pget %u
XferCommand = /usr/bin/axel -n 2 -v -a -o %o %u
Choosing the fastest mirror
When downloading packages pacman uses the mirrors in the order they are in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.The mirror which is at the top of the list by default however may not be the fastest for you.
Choosing a local mirror
The simple way is to edit mirrorlist file by placing a local mirror at the top of the list. pacman will then use this mirror for preference.
Alternativley the pacman.conf file can be edited by placing a local mirror before the line sourcing the mirrorlist file, i.e. where it says "add your preferred servers here". It is safer if you use the same server for each repository.
Using rankmirrors
You can use rankmirrors to rank pacman mirrors by their connection and opening speed.
After changing mirrors
After changing your mirror it is a good idea to refresh the pacman database. Using two y's forces a download of a fresh copy of the master package list from the server even if they are thought to be up to date.
# pacman -Syy
Sharing packages over your LAN
If you happen to run several Arch boxes on your LAN, you can share packages so that you can greatly decrease your download times. Keep in mind you should not share between different architectures (i.e. i686 and x86_64) or you'll get into troubles.


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Bead Assist
In the February '14 issue you wrote an article about DOT-compliant beadlocks "Beadlock Assist Device." You list that the approved tire size is up to 42 inches. Is this from the manufacturer or a magazine recommendation? Also, according to the company's website, the B in B.A.D. Wheels stands for bead, not beadlock.
Frederick K.
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I was fortunate to get my hands on one of the first sets of B.A.D. Wheel's Eklipse 17 beadlocks (www.badwheelsinc.com). Along with the wheels came early literature about the product, which listed a recommended max-tire-size of 42 inches. This was simply because the American-based company had spent time rigorously testing up to that particular tire size. For the 2013 Top Truck Challenge, competitor's Justin Middleton and Paul Boundy both ran B.A.D.'s Eklipse 17 beadlock wheel. Middleton's orange and white Blazer was fitted with 44-inch Boggers and Boundy's exocaged Chevy Silverado sported 49-inch IROKs. I contacted B.A.D. Wheels recently and was told that the new literature no longer limits the Eklipse 17 to a 42-inch tire. As for the B in B.A.D., you are correct. B.A.D. is short for Bead Assist Device.
CV Solution
I've heard that the stock Birfield joint in a Toyota solid front axle is weak, yet I've only broke one. Why then is a CV-style axle considered an upgrade for most steering axles as they appear to be made very similar to a Birfield?
Mike Lawless
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The Toyota Birfields were a very smart design and something that even the military had its own version of in the 2½-ton Rockwell front axle. The advantage of the CV-style joint is in how it cycles when compared to a traditional U-joint. As a U-joint pivots, the wheel speed fluctuates and can induce a whipping or binding action. This is the U-joint's weakest position and where the CV-joint stands out from the pack. Since the CV-joint retains a constant speed (hence the constant velocity title) it not only turns smoother, but maintains strength throughout the range of motion.
The drawback of the stock Birfield joint has less to do with the design and more to do with the material composition. Most of the early factory-produced CV-style joints were cast. This casting process made them more susceptible to cracking and failure. Unlike a U-joint-equipped steering shaft, once the CV housing or bell was broken; there was no easy way to repair it. The draw of modern CV-style axle is that they combine the intelligent design with high-strength materials.
Companies such as RCV Performance (www.rcvperformance.com) use a durable chromoly steel and a unique heavy-duty joint design that allows for 45 degrees of motion. As CV-joint technology advances, we continue to see improvements in the joints at an OEM and aftermarket level. They are even replacing driveline U-joints in some late-model SUVs.
Pro Cruiser
I have a '14 Toyota FJ Cruiser. What's your take on the Pro Comp 3-inch suspension kit? I wanna run 33-inch-tall tires and also have a functional vehicle that can work off-road.
Shawn Sarnik
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Pro Comp Suspension (www.procompusa.com) is one of the most established aftermarket companies in existence today. I've installed and tested a variety of the company's products over the years with excellent results, but unfortunately, I haven't driven a FJ Cruiser equipped with the specific system you are after. Judging from the components listed, it appears as though the Pro Comp kit is on par component-wise with other available 3-inch lifts and has a great price point. Depending on your wheel backspacing, you should have no trouble running a 33-inch-tall tire.
Long Range
I own an '04 Ford Ranger 4x4 XLT and I really want to get a lift kit for it. A six-inch kit would be great. The problem is, every time I visit a place that does lift kits in my area they can't find any Ranger suspension lifts after around the year 1997 or so. I was wondering if you could point me to the right place as to how I can achieve this goal.
Angel Perez
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The aftermarket suspension support is more limited for your Ranger. The tallest suspension lift I came across was a 4-inch from Superlift (www.superlift.com) (part#K358). Another option, albeit expensive, would be to look at a long-travel suspension kit from Dixon Brothers Racing (www.dixonbrosracing.com). The Dixon Brothers kit is designed for those looking to go fast in the desert, as the front portion of the kit provides an impressive 14 inches of vertical wheeltravel.
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Why are the tow ratings always lower for 4x4s than 4x2s?
James R. Johnson Jr.
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There is a variety of factors that determine a vehicles tow rating, but the mystery behind the 4x4 versus 4x2 is easy to solve. Since the tow rating takes into account the entire weight of a vehicle, and given that a 4x4 is equipped with more drivetrain items (front differential, transfer case, front driveshaft, and so on), it's a heavier platform. This added weight detracts from the towing figures. The tow rating is adjusted accordingly based on the GCWR of a particular model 4x4.
As a side note, starting at the end of 2013, OEMs have agreed to a SAE standard for which all tow ratings will be based from. This is a big deal. This move to the SAE standard will provide the consumer with the most reliable way to compare apples to apples when looking at tow figures. It will also keep the OEMs a bit more honest when touting those impressive towing figures.
XJ Arms
First off, I love the magazine. I read it cover to cover every month, so keep up the great work! I am building a '00 Jeep Cherokee XJ for my wife and kids to ride in. It is going to have high-pinion Dana 44 front soon and is currently running a Chrysler 8.25 in the rear. It is not going to be a hardcore wheeler, just something capable-ish, safe, and reliable for the family. I am also a member of the Oregon division of Wheelin' With Warriors, and often have disabled veterans and their families ride with us. So, minimal trail issues would be nice as these events can be 70-plus vehicles in length.
I would prefer not to be "that guy" who breaks down and holds everyone up. It will see a fair amount of expeditionary use as we go on weeklong ghost town runs. Sometimes the roads/trails can be less than predictable or non-existent. It also has to have decent road manners, as it will see a fair amount of pavement going to and from these adventures. I plan on running aggressive 35-inch all-terrain tires and trimming the fenders to accommodate the larger tires.
Here is my question. I am torn between various 4 to 61⁄2-inch long-arm Y-link, three-link, or radius arm lifts. I would prefer to have as low of center of gravity as is within reason and some belly armor as well for peace of mind. So, the suspension will need to accommodate subframe connectors and skids. I could fabricate these things, but that would not be my first choice because this rig will need to be safe at speed for everyone. Brand names aside (or not, if one stands tall amongst the others), what setup would you suggest for the intended uses of this vehicle?
Jakob Belles
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I am a big advocate of the Cherokee platform. It is one of the most affordable and builder-friendly platforms to be had. In terms of suspension systems, you are correct; there is an overwhelming amount of long- and short-arm lifts. You can run 35-inch tires with a 4½-inch long-arm, but you will need to do a fair amount of fender trimming. I would strongly recommend installing bumpstops as well to help keep the suspension in check. The Jeep shown was called Project Shoehorn XJ in our sister magazine Jp. It is an '01 Cherokee fitted with a 4.5-inch BDS Suspension (www.bds-suspension.com) long-arm and 35-inch-tall tires.
If you plan to outfit the Jeep with lots of armor (bumpers, sliders, roof rack, and so on) you may need to add taller springs, spacers, and/or shackles out back to keep the Jeep level and at the desired lift height. There are so many unibody stiffeners and sliders on the market, it's nearly impossible to list which ones do and don't work with the available long-arm kits. The good news is that it won't take much adjustment to merge them all together. As far as front link types are concerned, I like four-link (with a track bar) front suspensions.
The big advantage of a four-link over a radius arm setup is that you reduce bind as the axle articulates. This means the suspension can cycle more freely, essentially reducing wear on the suspension components. You can also get this same free-flowing movement from a three-link, but I like my links to come in pairs. For most companies, the radius-style long-arm is simply easier to package and works fine for the average wheeler's needs. Companies such as Clayton Off-Road Manufacturing (www.claytonoffroad.com) and Rubicon Express (www.rubiconexpress.com) both offer excellent long-arm suspension kits that use radius-style front control arms.
I am fan of the BDS Suspension 4.5- and 6.5-inch long-arm as those kits use a front four-link. If you do decide to go with BDS, I would upgrade from the single-shear track bar that comes with the 4.5-inch kit to a more heavy-duty dual-shear adjustable track bar and bracket (this is included with the 6.5 kit). BDS also offers a transfer case skidplate that attaches to the company's long-arm crossmember. Ultimately, any of the three aforementioned systems would work well for your needs.
Beadlock Balance
First off, great job with the magazine. I get it every month and have learned a lot from the tech articles. After years of running 35s, I am finally making the move up to 38s on my Land Cruiser. Along with the new tires, I am getting a set of beadlock wheels. My question is about balancing. Is it worth spending the money to have them balanced or is it pointless? I drive my Cruiser on the road every couple of days to and from work (around a 20-mile commute), but other than that, it gets trailered to the trail.
Cameron Bowers
Via email
Balancing your beadlocks is well worth the small cost involved. I have had a few wheel and tire combos that were shaky and obnoxious without being balanced, but completely fine once they had some weight added from the balancer. If you are driving your Cruiser on the road with any regularity, it will simply make it that much better.
24 to 14
I just purchased an '84 military pickup that has a 24-volt electrical system. I would like to install a few accessories (mainly an electric fan and some fog lights). Can I just run the power leads off of one battery? Or is there a better way?
Aaron J.
Via email
The safest way to run 12-volt electronics on a 24-volt truck is to purchase a 24- to 12-volt power converter. Companies such as Samlex America (www.samlexamerica.com) can provide you with what you are looking for. Running your 12-volt accessories from one battery will lead to an uneven drain, which can ultimately harm both batteries.
Ranger Bumper
I have an '04 Ford Ranger that I would like to put a heavy-duty bumper on. Most companies I have found only offer bumpers for fullsize trucks. Do you have an idea on where I could get one?
Taylor Bingham
Via email
Check out Iron Bull Bumpers (www.ironbullbumpers.com). Iron Bull offers a heavy-duty plate-steel front winch bumper along with a plate-steel rear bumper.
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The stage is being set for Michael Jackson's family to fight to gain control over his estate. Lawyers for Katherine Jackon, MJ's 79-year-old mother, and two co-executors of his 2002 will, John Branca and John McClain, are going to meet in Los Angeles Superior Court today.
Before the will's existence was revealed, the court had granted Katherine temporary control over his affairs. The will however, only gives her legal guardianship over his three children, Prince Michael Jackson Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince Michael II, aka Blanket. In the will, Michael leaves his estate to the Jackson Family Trust, his kids and various charities.
His estate is valued at more than $500 million, even though at the time of his death he was reportedly $400 million in debt. He had assets that could be valued as high as $1 billion, some reports indicate, including include part ownership in a music catalog of songs from the Beatles and other recording artists.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa seem to be worlds apart. Assange has pushed the envelope of free speech as his controversial website has published classified U.S. diplomatic cables and other sensitive correspondence. Correa has been condemned for his anti-press crusade, which has included leveling multi-million dollar libel suits and forbidding his cabinet from speaking to anyone other than state-run media.
But if Assange has his way, the small Andean nation, best known for the Galapagos and the Amazon, will be his new home. Since June, Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadoran embassy in London asking for political asylum as he fights extradition to Sweden where he's wanted on allegations of sexual misconduct. Ecuador Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño has said a decision on the asylum request could come as soon as next week, after London's Olympics close.
But Assange's choice of asylum destination has baffled some in Ecuador.
"It seems to me that Assange either doesn't know or doesn't care about what's happening to local journalists," said César Ricaurte, the director of Fundamedios, a free speech group that has been critical of the government.
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Assange seems to have the facts. In May, he interviewed Correa for his show "The World Tomorrow," which runs on Russian state television. Challenged about his combative relationship with the press, Correa said that in Ecuador, and many parts of Latin America, elite media conglomerates are more powerful than the presidency, and that he has drawn their ire by trying to democratize the airwaves.
"We have to dispel the notion of poor and brave journalists and angelic media trying to tell the truth while tyrants, autocrats and dictators are trying to stop them," Correa said. "It's not true. In fact, the opposite is true."
In power since 2007, Correa's common touch and progressive social policies have made him the clear front runner in next year's presidential elections. He's used much of his political capital to take on what he calls the "corrupt press." Along with punishing lawsuits, he pushed through a 2011 referendum that made it illegal for media conglomerates to have holdings outside their industry. More recently, he announced that he would cut government advertising to private media, denying them a traditional source of revenue.
The financial and judicial pressures have had a chilling effect on the press and dampened critical voices, Fundamedios said.
"It seems to us that government resources are being used to punish or reward media depending on their political stance," Ricaurte said.
WikiLeaks was launched in 2006 as a whistle-blowing website, where documents could be published anonymously. But it caught Latin America's attention in 2010 when it began releasing confidential U.S. State Department cables. The Miami Herald's parent company, McClatchy, is one of WikiLeaks publishing partners.
Buried among those communiqués was a 2009 document by the U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador Heather Hodges. In it, she outlined alleged corruption charges against a former police chief and speculated that Correa had appointed him because his checkered past made him easy to manipulate.
When an indignant Correa asked Hodges for an explanation, he claims she responded haughtily. The government demanded that she leave, and the United States retaliated, declaring Ecuador's ambassador to the United States persona non-grata.
Diplomatic relations have since been restored and the police chief was found innocent, but Correa often cites WikiLeaks as he has rails against what he considers the United States' undue influence in the region. During the May interview, he told Assange he welcomed WikiLeak's spotlight on international affairs.
"If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear," the president said. But Correa has proven to have a thin skin when he's the one in the media's glare.
In 2011, he sued two journalists for $1 million each after they wrote a book suggesting his brother Rafael had won millions in contracts under his administration. Correa also won a $42 million judgment and 3-year prison sentence against three directors of El Universo newspaper and one of their columnists.
That case revolved around a scathing editorial that focused on the events of September 2010, when Correa was briefly taken hostage by protesting policemen. Four security officers died when they raided the hospital to free Correa. In the editorial, columnist Emilio Palacio suggested that a future president might press charges against Correa, including crimes against humanity, for ordering troops to attack a hospital full of innocent civilians.
El Universo said the trial was plagued by irregularities and that the court was in the president's pocket. The subsequent guilty verdict brought the condemnation of human rights and media groups including the Miami-based Inter American Press Association.
Correa eventually issued pardons to everyone in both cases except Palacio, who was granted political asylum in the United States.
Speaking from Miami, where he is finishing a book about his fight with the administration, Palacio said Assange is probably betting on Correa because there are few other leaders who would consider taking him in.
Assange's request is based on the premise that Sweden will send him to the United States under a sealed, and therefore secret, extradition request. Once in the United States, he fears he will be tortured or executed for espionage, according to his mother and a website set up for his legal defense. But Sweden wants him on sexual harassment allegations — not for free speech violations — and the United States has never publically asked for his extradition.
That creates a complicated diplomatic scenario, Palacio said. "I don't think any other president in the world would want this hot potato," he added.
Once in Ecuador, Assange will likely be on a tight leash, Palacio said.
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But Assange may be ready for a change of pace, according to his mother Christine, who visited Ecuador early this month to press for her son's asylum case. After meeting with Correa and other cabinet members, she told local media that her son would feel at home in the mountainous country.
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'Trash 2 Treasures' Fundraiser Scheduled for UW Nordic Ski Team
Members of the University of Wyoming Nordic ski team will collect any unwanted items from UW students as part of their "Trash 2 Treasures" fundraiser and community project.
Team members will collect items through Sunday, May 12, when student check out of residence halls, but will continue to accept donations throughout the summer.
"Possible donated items include furniture, refrigerators, microwaves, lamps, rugs, storage items, pillows -- almost anything except clothes," says UW Nordic co-Coach Christi Boggs.
Arranged pickup times for items are available by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com, Boggs at firstname.lastname@example.com or team member Sierra Jech at firstname.lastname@example.com. Drop-off location will be in Boggs' office, located in Wyo Hall Room 315.
"Someone from the team will come and pick up the items; all you have to do is tell us where and when," Boggs says.
After pickup, the team will clean and store donations in the summer, and sell the items this fall. During move-in weekend for the fall semester, the team will set up a tent on Fraternity Row with the collected items, selling them at a reduced price to UW students and the public.
"This will be a great opportunity for people looking for dorm-room items and apartment or housing items, especially for foreign exchange students and freshmen," Boggs says. "Any items that are not sold will be donated to charity organizations around the Laramie community."
The UW Nordic ski team is a student-run RSO, with Boggs and Rachel Watson serving as volunteer coaches. The money earned will go toward race fees, ski wax, travel, lodging and food expenses throughout the season.
Each year, the ski team raises about $30,000. Boggs says Campus Recreation club sports help by donating a preset amount, which helps pay for national dues and entry fees for the year-end United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association Nationals (USCSSA).
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Punxsutawney Phil celebrates 125th birthday
Punxsutawney Phil is known as a model of consistency, appearing each Feb. 2 at Gobbler's Knob and emerging from his burrow.
So it may come as a surprise that there is no record from nine of his first 12 prognostications.
In fact, there is no record from 1886, when Groundhog Day was first recognized in Punxsutawney — it was then known as Weathers Wags.
Likewise, there is no record of Phil's prediction from 1899, the year the Groundhog Club was founded.
Since the club was established, however, Phil's knowledge of the weather world has been well documented and preserved for posterity.
There has been only one instance since 1899 that Phil's results cannot be confirmed.
That occurred in 1902, when Phil probably did not see his shadow.
In total, prior to Groundhog Day 2011, Phil has seen his shadow — and therefore, predicted six more weeks of winter weather — 98 times. Meanwhile, he has predicted an early spring only 15 times.
Punxsutawney Phil celebrates his 125th birthday this year, and during the past one-and-a-quarter century, he has transformed from littleknown Punxsutawney enigma to worldwide celebrity and, perhaps, accurate meteorologist.
The Groundhog Club made the first official trek to Gobbler's Knob in 1907. Phil graced the cover of The Punxsutawney Spirit the next year. On both occasions, he saw his shadow.
In 1911, a Groundhog Day Dance was held, and 55 couples attended. Again, Phil saw his shadow.
The early 1900s must have been a particularly cold period of time in western Pennsylvania history, because Phil did not officially predict an early spring until 1934.
The weather was so inclement, that Phil did not even have to wait until sunrise to predict six more weeks some years. In 1918, the prediction was rather elementary, because the temperature was 18 degrees below zero. In 1929, Phil somehow managed to see his shadow just after midnight, at 12:27 a.m.
During the run of more than 30 straight "saw shadow" results, Phil's celebrity started to grow.
In 1913, John Frampton took the first newspaper photograph of Punxsutawney Phil, and a new dance, the Groundhog Roll, was created.
The Gobbler's Knob happenings were first filmed in 1916, a year in which Phil saw his shadow at 9:07 a.m.
Phil first appeared with the logo of a groundhog with an umbrella and a newspaper in 1924, and the next year, C.J. Margiotti informed the Pittsburgh Travel Club of the Groundhog Day tradition.
In 1928, KDKA Radio transmitted the first live broadcast from the Knob.
After the early spring prediction in 1934, Phil again saw his shadow in 1935 and 1936.
In 1937, there was a meeting with a skunk, and in 1938, Phil saw what is known as the "blackest shadow in history."
The first Groundhog Day Queen, Miss Margaret Hun, was crowned in 1940.
World War II had an effect on nearly all activity in the United States, and Groundhog Day was no exception.
Phil saw only a partial shadow in 1942, and the Feb. 2 Spirit headline read, "War clouds have blacked out parts of the shadow."
Phil did not make in appearance in 1943; it was the only time in the century that Phil did not make a prediction.
In 1950, Colleen Townsend, then a famous actress, visited Punxsutawney for Groundhog Day, in part to promote the film, "When Willie Comes Marching Home."
Three television stations covered the event in 1955, which happened to be in the middle of a streak for 19 consecutive years that Phil saw his shadow.
The streak began in 1951 and ended in 1970.
Groundhog Day in 1982 came after the coldest January in more than a century, and Phil predictably saw his shadow, but he did not see a shadow in 1983, a year that started a period of frequent early spring predictions, during which Phil did not see his shadow in four out of eight years.
With growing fame, Phil visited then-President Ronald Reagan at the White House in March 1986.
The 1990s saw Phil transform from part-time celebrity to film star.
The movie "Groundhog Day," starring Bill Murray, was released in 1993, and Phil met Oprah Winfrey in 1995.
Perhaps such appearances played a factor in drawing more than 35,000 in 1997, the largest crowd ever at Gobbler's Knob.
Large crowds continued to accompany Phil and the Groundhog Club to the Knob, and more than 15,000 celebrated an early spring prediction in 1999.
In 2001, the prediction was displayed in New York City's Time Square.
Newly-elected Gov. Ed Rendell made the trek to the Knob in 2003, which was the year before Phil's Web site — www.groundhog.org — began broadcasting the event.
In 2006, Phil wore a Pittsburgh Steelers Terrible Towel while making his prediction of six more weeks of winter, and the 2009 Groundhog Day occurred just hours after the Steelers won their record sixth Super Bowl.
Last year was the first year that Inner Circle President Bill Deeley presided over the event, succeeding Bill Cooper.
This year, in 2011, Punxsutawney Phil again shares the spotlight with his favorite football team.
So what will it be? Ideally, an early spring, courtesy of Punxsutawney Phil, and a seventh Super Bowl title, courtesy of the Steelers.


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The best part of My Life As Liz isn't its protagonist. Nor is it the the array of cliches about high school life, complete with evil blondes and school-wide talent shows. It's sidekicks Taylor and Sully.
MTV's My Life As Liz follows Liz Lee through her senior year of high school, juxtaposing school scenes with Liz's acerbic monologues. Any one who has been watching MTV with any regularity knows they have a very loose sense of "reality" - scenes are routinely scripted, re-shot, and edited to create plot arcs.
During the opening episode, we meet Liz heading to burn pictures of her old self (re: her with blonde streaks). Later, Liz is trying to do an edgy video project for a class, when her teacher assigns her to instead shoot a profile on Taylor Terry, the stand in for the "cute, popular hateable" stock character that resides in most teen flicks. Interestingly enough, the pilot episode is eerily reminiscent of "Monster", an episode from season two of Daria. In "Monster," Daria is chooses to make a humiliating movie about her shallow sister Quinn (obvious parallel to the Liz-Taylor relationship.) However, in keeping with a hazier sense of good and evil, Daria eventually caves under her conscience and edits the video to show Quinn in a better light. Liz decides to commit grade-book kamikaze and unspools the tape while talking to herself by her pool.
Well - that's kind of what happened. According to Jon Caramanica, writing for the LA Times, that scene was one of those "through [her] eyes" moments:
[A]t the end of the episode, Liz cracks open a camcorder tape marked "Taylor Terry Profile" and unspools it, laughing.
Liz and Taylor are real people, and Burleson is a real school, in the suburbs of Fort Worth, and yet this moment is pure fancy. There on the Burleson website is the Aug. 29, 2008, edition of "Elk TV," Burleson's news broadcast, with Liz's profile of Taylor intact. You know it's Liz from the mildly snide voice-over."I am NOT a fictional character. haha!" Liz recently wrote on Twitter. "What you see on tv, is what you get."
Except when you don't. "My Life as Liz" is quasi-reality — real people, in their real environment, leading lives that are being in some way dramatized. Watch it as fiction, and it's charming teen comedy. Watch it as reality, and it's deeply disorienting.
The show reveals its "quasi-reality" angle early on: each episode appears to be plucked from the nostalgia bin of its writers and shot to a predictable and inevitable conclusion. The next episode mashes up all kinds of teen swooning and prom love with a secret admirer sending her Valentine's carnations. Instantly a red flag goes up - if Liz had been truly an outcast (and not a fallen popular kid, as she reminds the camera often), she would have realized that whole situation smelled like a set-up. More to the point, when Liz arrives at the dance with no secret admirer, she should have been happy there wasn't a bucket of pig blood waiting.
Popular kids these days have no imagination. (Or at least, no frame of reference for classic horror films.)
Episode three and four are a lackluster mash up of comic book geekery, the inevitable show-down scene, and feel good underdog frenzy as Liz finds herself somehow the representative of the nerds. Somehow, she convinces her crush object Bryson to help train her and play back up on the guitar as she brings down the house with something suitably indie - but alas, her Romeo leaves with his girl friend, Jamie. Poor Liz is dejected.
The reception for MLAL has been mixed. Naturally, the town of Burleson isn't exactly thrilled being portrayed as boring and "white bread." The AV Club loves her, with a fawning admiration for her sneering angsty ways. Oh No They Didn't unearthed some dirt that Liz isn't who she claims she is to be, but I'm going to leave that for now - the whole conversation surrounding what it means to be "truly" geeky is full of purity tests and generally needs a whole post of its own.
But My Life As Liz still rings false to me, for more than the reasons Caramanica outlined in his piece. For one thing, the lines between the so-called popular people and the school outcasts are always blurrier than they appear. To take it back to Daria for a second, sometimes, the only difference is how much you are willing to perform:
Secondly, Liz appears to have assumed a new identity - but she kept a lot of the horrific habits that came from clawing her way to popularity. In many ways, Liz (the character, since I'm not sure who the person is) embodies the worst parts of nerdom - the internalization of all the anger that comes from alienation and isolation, without any of the developing any of the empathy of having been there. She frequently pulls rank with a nasty sense of entitlement - treating the nerdier guys (including her friend Sully) as utterly disposable minions in her schemes, condescending to Taylor after she opens up about wanting to be someone else, and being a fairly typical self-absorbed teenager. Liz doesn't reveal anything approaching empathy or compassion for other people who may be working on the same transformation she claimed to have gone through a short time ago.
Still, there are some people on screen who were truly compelling to watch. There's Sully, the happy-go-lucky nerd who seems to be carrying a small torch for Liz. He unapologetically throws old English into his regular vocabulary, will dress up as Gandalf on the flimsiest of provocations, and seems like he lives for comic conventions and the Renaissance Faire. Sully is the kind of guy that would have this kind of conversation:
But honestly, Sully had me when he tried to encourage Liz to take on the talent show by saying "may the force be with you."
Taylor is another fascinating character, as she appears to be in the self-examination stage. What happens when you are living the dream and hate it? As the story arc continues, it appears that Taylor and Liz will eventually become friends - but I like Taylor's character because she represents a person who is covering her true self, and still performing up to expectations. Adolescence is when a lot of people work through their personalities, trying on different identities and shedding them just as quickly before they settle comfortably into their own skin. It will be interesting to watch if Taylor's character progresses, or if she fades even further to the margins of stereotype.
My Life As Liz [MTV]
Monster [Outpost Daria]
The truth about 'My Life as Liz' [LA Times]
Carrie (1976 film) [Wikipedia]
'My Life as Liz': MTV comes calling on Burleson [Dallas News]
The "truth" behind Liz Lee. [Oh No They Didn't]
My Life As Liz [Onion AV Club]


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I loved John's demonstration of Tom Friedman's ignorance of Minnesota politics which I consider one of the best Power Line posts in recent memory. John's takedown of Friedman included, among other gems, this:
Friedman's suggestion that in the 1950s and 1960s Minnesota Republicans were all liberals is absurd. Minnesota Congressmen of the era included rock-ribbed conservative Al Quie, John Zwach, who headed the Conservative Caucus as a member of the Minnesota Senate, and others who, like [Clark] MacGregor, would be astonished to hear themselves described retrospectively as liberals.
Walter Judd was another Minnesota Republican congressman of the 1950s and early 60s. John was right not to include Judd among the "rock-ribbed conservatives" of that time. Although he certainly was no liberal, Judd could probably be described as moderate on domestic issues.
But Judd was as rock-ribbed a conservative as they come with regard to China, where he had served as a medical missionary. Indeed, as his Wikipedia entry reminds us Judd is "best known for his battle in Congress (1943–63) to define the conservative position on China as all-out support for the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-sheck and opposition to the Communists under Mao. After the Nationalists fled to Formosa (Taiwan) in 1949 Judd redoubled his support."
In the 1950s, Judd "helped organize the Committee of One Million, a citizens' group dedicated to keeping the People's Republic of China out of the United Nations." Moreover, "he was an outspoken anti-communist and critic of U.S. rapprochement with China at the expense of the Republic of China on Taiwan [and] throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he was actively involved in the Council Against Communist Aggression in Washington DC."
I mention Judd not just out of nostalgia (his ringing keynote address at the 1960 Republican National Convention is one of my early political memories). I also mention him because Tom Friedman's fawning tributes to China undoubtedly have Judd spinning in his grave.


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PROVIDENCE, RI - Junior midfielder Stacy Leonard (Rockland, MA) scored what proved to be the game-winning goal in the 64th minute to lead the University of Massachusetts Boston women's soccer team over host Rhode Island College today, 2-0, in the Little East Conference season opener in Providence, RI. The victory is the first for the Beacons over a conference opponent since they defeated the Anchorwomen on September 28, 1995 as they improve to 2-4-0 overall and 1-0-0 in LEC play, while Rhode Island College falls to 1-7-0 and 0-1-0.
The two club¹s played a scoreless first half, with UMass Boston holding a six-shot advantage, 12-6, after 45 minutes. Leonard put UMB in the driver¹s seat by breaking in on the left side, deking a defender and firing a right-footed shot past RIC sophomore goalkeeper Maddie Pirri (Bristol, RI) for her team-leading third goal of the season.
UMass Boston got an insurance goal from sophomore midfielder Nicki Finamore (Rockland, MA) in the 83rd minute. Freshman midfielder Molly Kuchar (Ashville, NC) generated the scoring opportunity off a corner kick. Her volley went over Pirri¹s outstretched hand to Finamore, whose shot ricocheted off a RIC defender and into the net.
Beacon junior goalkeeper Courtney Haroules (Littleton, MA) made six saves to earn her second win (2-2) and gain her second career shutout. Pirri made eight saves in a losing effort (1-7). UMass Boston outshot RIC, 20-16, in the game.
The win snapped an 87-conference match winless streak for the Beacons.
In upcoming action, UMass Boston will host Fitchburg State College on Tuesday, September 23 at 3:30 p.m., while Rhode Island College will host Bridgewater State on September 23 at 4:00 p.m.


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Lehigh Hanson Canada Region and affiliated companies are an integral part of the communities they work in. It's no surprise that community involvement and charitable giving are all grassroots initiatives.
Lehigh Hanson Canada Region 4th Annual Hockey Tournament In Memory of Tyler Isbister
Together in 2017, our employees raised $15,391 to support Sport Central, an Alberta-based charitable organization that provides sports equipment at no cost to kids in need.
Thank you to all participants, volunteers and spectators, and our 2017 sponsors: Caron Transportation Systems, CN, DriverCheck, Edmonton Eskimo Football Club, Edmonton Fleet Maintenance, Fleet Brake, Fort Garry Industries, GCP Canada, London Machinery, Paramount Tire, Peterbilt Stahl, SIKA and Trimac.
The Food Bank
Lehigh Hanson Canada Region (LHC) is happy to lend a helping hand to local food banks throughout our region, contributing a combined $40,000 contribution to organizations located in Calgary (AB), Delta (BC), Edmonton (AB), Ferndale (WA), Fort McMurray (AB), Monroe (WA), Redmond (WA), Regina (SK), Saskatoon (SK), Sechelt (BC), Surrey (BC), Vancouver (BC) and Winnipeg (MB).
Lehigh Hanson Canada Region (LHC) is proud to support STARS in providing life-saving transport and medical aid services across Western Canada.
LHC has made a three-year commitment totaling $60,000 in contributions that will provide the equipment necessary to secure portable oxygen tanks to minimize safety risks and meet CAMTS (Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems) standards for providing the safest patient care possible.
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Lehigh Hanson Canada Region has made a $50,000 contribution to the Canadian Red Cross and the fire relief effort in Fort McMurray, Alberta. As an active member of the Fort McMurray business community, and over 25 employees at our Inland Concrete and Parsons Creek Aggregates Operations, the donation is part of our long-term commitment to support the people of Fort McMurray and surrounding communities.
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UNC-CH Chancellor Holden Thorp and Ernst seemed anxious to stress that this was an academic, non-political award -- as if Tehran these days were crawling with disinterested academics who are in no way co-opted by the regime. Even though Ernst reportedly "cringes" at some of Ahmadinejad's "policies," Thorp decided that this was an "academic honor," not a political one, and so had no objection to Ernst's trip. Ernst himself explained, "it would have looked strange if I declined an academic award."Are Thorp and Ernst hopelessly naive, or do they believe that we are? In any case, they have little cause to worry that anyone will get upset about this in Chapel Hill, where the academic Left holds comfortable sway -- you know, the kind of people who thought it would be a great idea for Ahmadinejad to give an address at Columbia University and to present a Christmas message on British television. But meanwhile, has it even crossed Carl Ernst's mind that his work is useful to the Iranian regime, whatever the nature of this award, and that his traveling to Tehran to accept it is even more useful to them? Has this not occurred to him even after his trip to Tehran earlier this month, during which he made a "strong plea for improved academic and cultural relations between Iran and the United States"?
And would Carl Ernst really even be able to distinguish an academic award from a political one? After all, a genuine academic evaluates arguments on the basis of evidence. He does not work to predetermined conclusions based on ideological or political considerations. Ernst does not do anything like this. Consider (and I am sorry that I must use a personal example here, because the problem of Carl Ernst and the Middle East Studies establishment in American universities in general is far larger than me, and I have nothing to do with it) how he has dealt with my own work: see his "Notes on the Ideological Patrons of an Islamophobe, Robert Spencer."
Take, in the first place, the characterization "Islamophobe." He offers no evidence for it, much less any definition of this spurious, manipulative, politicized coinage. Nothing from my books, nothing from my articles at FrontPage Magazine or elsewhere, nothing from my website Jihad Watch, nothing at all. His use of this word is without substance, designed to propagandize rather than convince, much less to equip one to make one's own judgment.
Note also that in the document, he doesn't offer a single example of anything I say that is inaccurate. Instead, he expects his readers to dismiss my work because Ernst dislikes my publishers -- on political grounds. This is an example of the logical fallacy of appealing to authority: he is suggesting that his own publishers (such as Shambhala) are more prestigious than those of his critics, and that therefore he is to be believed over them. Argumentum ad verecundiam and ad hominem attacks are two sides of the same worthless coin.
Carl Ernst is no academic. He is a political and politicizing propagandist. Now he is also a willing tool of the vicious Iranian mullahcracy. And in Middle East Studies departments in universities all over the country, he is just one of many.
And so, it is time for me to make an announcement of my own: I hereby award Ernst, Chittick and Galston the Jihad Watch Afshin Award, named after the ninth century Persian general Khaydhar ibn Kawus, a.k.a. Afshin, who won great victories for Islamic forces although he himself fought for them only for his own material advantage, and not out of conviction -- he was in fact a proud Persian who had contempt for the Arabs and the religion they had imposed upon Persia. (In awarding this prize I in no way mean to imply that Ernst, Chittick or Galston have any contempt for Arabs or Muslims, or that they traveled to Tehran seeking their own material advantage.)
Thought experiment: would Ernst and Holden Thorp be as understanding about accepting an award from Jihad Watch, even though Ernst doubtless "cringes" at some of my "policies," as they are about Ernst's accepting an award from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
Or are Ahmadinejad's positions, thirst for genocide, Holocaust denial, open Jew-hatred and all, more acceptable to Ernst, Chittick, Galston and Thorp than those of someone who wants to defend the West against Islamic supremacism and its denial of freedom of speech and freedom of conscience, and institutionalized discrimination against women and non-Muslims?


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Chemical Landmark: Kekule at GhentActivity by Tim Reynolds | added on Sep 29, 2011 | Belgium
Sponsor(s): Ghent University, RSC Belgium, RSC UK
On October 28 the work of August Kekule at Ghent University will be marked with the presentation of an RSC Chemical Landmark to Ghent University. The ceremony starts at 16:00 in the Aula of the University of Ghent with a reception afterwards.
From 16:00 a ceremony to mark the inaugration of an International Chemical Landmark commemorating the work of August Kekulé in recognition of his pioneering work at Ghent University (1858-1867) on structural and organic aromatic chemistry.
The event will take place at Ghent University, Belgium with a reception afterwards. RSC president Prof. David Phillips will hand over an RSC plaque commemorating Kekulé's ground-breaking research at Ghent and Dr. Brigitte Van Tiggelen will give a lecture on Kekulé's career in the Aula at Gent University.
Attendance is by invitation only (RSC Belgium members and friends will recieved the invite by email) but there are two options to register for the general public:
- Send an email kekule[at]ugent.be mentioning your name and the number of persons in your party wishing to attend the ceremony and reception.
- Via a dedicated page on the university website ( https://tokyoap2.ugent.be/eventManager/events/kekule ) in English and Flemish.
To obtain more details, including how to register for the event, please contact Ian Carson at RSC Belgium (rscbelgium[at]gmail.com).
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Intra-action is a Baradian term used to replace 'interaction,' which necessitates pre-established bodies that then participate in action with each other. Intra-action understands agency as not an inherent property of an individual or human to be exercised, but as a dynamism of forces (Barad, 2007, p. 141) in which all designated 'things' are constantly exchanging and diffracting, influencing and working inseparably. Intra-action also acknowledges the impossibility of an absolute separation or classically understood objectivity, in which an apparatus (a technology or medium used to measure a property) or a person using an apparatus are not considered to be part of the process that allows for specifically located 'outcomes' or measurement.
synonym: agency, animacy, connectivity antonym: disconnection, inanimacy, objectivity, singularity, vitalism hypernym: phenomenology, connectivity, acknowledgement, respect hyponym: interaction, exchange, movement
References Barad, Karen. (2007). . Durham: Duke University Press.
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To do this, you will meet with Moroccans living in the Netherlands, including first-generation women immigrants and second-generation Moroccan/Dutch elected officials, and with Dutch students and politicians. You will hear lectures from academics and NGO activists on the history of Moroccan migration to the Netherlands and examine Dutch patterns of integration and transnational activism between northern Morocco and the Netherlands.
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The program may also spend some time in Leiden and The Hague. During the excursion, you will stay in guest houses and hotels.
The first excursion is to Marrakech, Nqoub, Merzouga, and Fez. By visiting two historically significant settings, Nqoub and Fez, you will hear different versions of the Moroccan identity, Amazigh and Arab, and have the opportunity to speak to local residents and learn about how migration is viewed in these enclaves.
The program's third excursion is a three-day experience to Beni Mellal city and province, where you will explore the causes of migration while assessing migration's impact on rural communities.
The socioeconomic growth of Beni-Mellal province in the Tadla Azilal plains has been largely determined by remittances from Moroccan emigrants. You will meet with the staff and volunteers of local migrant associations and discuss the dynamic relationship between development and migration. You will also meet with local youth to compare perspectives on migration and youth disenfranchisement.
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DARTMOUTH — Brady Holding drained six 3-pointers on his way to a team-high 20 points but it wasn't nearly enough as visiting Attleboro built a 20-11 first quarter lead and never looked back en route to a 72-57 victory over the Indians Thursday afternoon.
Four Dartmouth players combined for a dozen 3-pointers but Attleboro's domination inside was too much to overcome as the Tribe lost their third straight game to fall to 1-4 on the season.
Junior guard Tim Walsh scored a game-high 22 points and matched Holding in 3-pointers with six to lead the Bombardiers to their second straight win and fourth in five outings.
E.J. Santarpio and Anthony Soto joined Walsh in double figures for the winners with 17 and 11 points, respectively, while Cody Borges and Nick Simonetti each had 12 points for the Indians.
Holding, who was making just his third start of the year (he missed two games because of injury), was in double figures for the third time and ran his 3-point total to a team-leading 11. Borges made it five straight games in twin digits and ran his 3-point total to 10 with four in the loss.
An 18-14 second quarter edge helped the Indians close the gap to 34-29 at the half but seven points by Soto, keyed a third quarter surge that saw the visitors outscore the Indians, 19-12, and take a 53-41 lead into the final eight-minute session.
Dartmouth is back in action Wednesday night when it travels to Attleboro to battle the Bombardiers in the second game of their home-and-home series.
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Clark 2-4-8, Dunn 1-0-2, Burns 0-3-3, Soto 4-3-11, Reardon 4-0-9, Walsh 8-0-22, Santarpio 7-3-17. Totals: 26-13-72.
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Correia 1-1-3, Tavares 2-0-5, Katz 1-0-2, Borges 4-0-12, Dooley 1-0-3, Simonetti 5-2-12, Holding 7-0-20. Totals: 21-3-57.
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3-point goals: A-Walsh 6, Reardon. D-Holding 6, Borges 4, Dooley, Tavares.
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Alaska Attorney General Talis J. Colberg Reaches $12 Million Settlement with Toy Maker Mattel Resolving Investigation Over Toys Recalled for Excessive Lead Paint
October 30, 2008
Today, Alaska Attorney General Talis J. Colberg along with the Attorneys General of 38 other states reached a settlement agreement with Mattel, Inc. and Fisher-Price, Inc., its subsidiary, resolving a 16-month long investigation into the events that resulted in a voluntary recall of the company's toys for excessive lead paint during 2007. The agreement, filed today in Anchorage Superior Court, requires Mattel to make a payment of $12 million by January 30, 2009, to be divided among the participating states. Alaska will receive $195,000 under the settlement.
From August 2, 2007 through October 25, 2007, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission ("CPSC") recalled approximately 2 million Mattel and Fisher-Price toys manufactured in China, alleging that the toys contained excessive lead in accessible surface coatings. At the time of the recalls, the CPSC standard permitted for lead in accessible surface coatings was 600 parts per million. Lead levels taken of the recalled toys during the course of the states' investigation uncovered that levels not only exceeded the federal standard, but in some instances, tested over 10,000 ppm and 50,000 ppm.
The agreement reached by the Attorneys General includes more stringent standards for accessible lead both in surface coatings and substrates, effective for toys manufactured after November 30, 2008. Since the Attorneys General first contacted Mattel in August 2007, Congress has enacted the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act ("CPSIA") which now provides more stringent standards for lead in surface coatings and substrates, starting in February, 2009. Mattel has agreed with the Attorneys General to phase in more stringent standards ahead of the timelines provided by the CPSIA. Mattel has also agreed with the Attorneys General to notify them if it confirms excessive lead in any of its products in violation of state or federal law, or the Consent Judgment, and to work with the Attorneys General to remedy such violations.
The states were led by an Executive Committee, consisting of Assistant Attorneys General in Arizona, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Vermont. California also took part in negotiations, reaching a separate agreement under its Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act.
For questions about the agreement, please contact Assistant Attorney General Julia Coster at (907) 269-5200.
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